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iand··on In the foundations of physics we haven't seen progress for the past four decades
This is very far from accepted and is thoroughly refuted here

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288698728_Evidence_...

iand··on Our Software Dependency Problem
This is probably a prelude to a deeper discussion of the module notary service that the Go project intends to run. First announced in this post from the end of last year: https://blog.golang.org/modules2019
iand··on Physicists investigate why matter and antimatter are not mirror images
They want to test whether antimatter falls up in a gravitational field.
iand··on Show HN: Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads
The alternative is a paid reader with no ads.
iand··on Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling
How does one account muting another suppress their speech? Everyone else still sees the tweet.
iand··on When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health
Please read my comment again and pay attention to the language I used. I'm expressing an opinion, not writing a thesis.
iand··on When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health
This seems unlikely in evolutionary terms. It's more likely that eating times were unpredictable for most of our history and that our bodies have evolved to prepare for digestion based on external stimuli such as sight and smell of food.
iand··on Say Hello to Full Employment
Ugh! We should be striving for ways to create a zero employment society.
iand··on The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written
The sophistication is to do all this while remaining completelt undetected in a highly secure environment. Iran didn't find Stuxnet, it was stumbled over by Kaspersky Lab.
iand··on Emissions of banned, ozone-depleting chemical CFC-11 have climbed 25% since 2012
Did you read the original paper linked in the Wikipedia article you cited? https://www.researchgate.net/publication/246650409_Large_Los...
iand··on Is It Time to Give Up on a Single Diagnostic Label for Autism?
The difference is that autism cannot be eliminated via psychiatric methods. It's a neurological condition.
iand··on Telegram removed from the App Store for 'inappropriate content'
Here are some of the online services that I subscribe to, delivered over the web: Github, AWS, pinboard.in, spotify, ancestry.com

Content/news is a terrible example since there is an oversupply of poor quality content driven by providers who believe content supports their advertising revenue rather than the other way round.

iand··on UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful
From http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/world/emerging-role-for-th...

> Spying on allies for economic advantage is a crucial new assignment for the C.I.A. now that American foreign policy is focused on commercial interests abroad. President Clinton made economic intelligence a high priority of his Administration, specifically information to protect and defend American competitiveness, technology and financial security in a world where an economic crisis can spread across global markets in minutes.

Or, more recently, from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/25907502

>US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has alleged the National Security Agency engaged in industrial espionage. >In an interview with Germany's ARD TV channel, the former NSA contractor said the agency would spy on big German companies that competed with US firms.

And the US spying on trade talk negotiations from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/26/germany-eu-us-...

>Der Spiegel said files obtained by whistleblower Edward Snowden showed that the NSA spied on the EU in New York after it moved to new rooms in autumn 2012 and that the NSA runs a bugging programme in more than 80 embassies and consulates worldwide called the "Special Collection Service", which has "little or nothing to do with warding off terrorists"

Other countries too, such as France, from http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1993/Espionage-Takes-Toll-On-Ai...

> Gone are the Cold War days when one Soviet agent reportedly tried to stick a gyroscope in his pocket during one trade fair. But a Russian spy official and a former chief of French intelligence said in recent interviews that that their agents were involved in industrial espionage.

iand··on UK mass digital surveillance regime ruled unlawful
What about https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/01/gchq-europe-...

On your second point, industrial espionage is, I suspect, a large factor in determining which countries should be spied on. Does anyone really think that Boeing doesn't get competitor info from US agencies?

iand··on Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing (2015)
Hopefully that was sarcasm and you knew that Roy Fielding co-wrote the first version of Apache
iand··on Does Brexit end not with a bang but a whimper?
Varoufakis resigned the day after the referendum, before the Greek government accepted the bailout.
iand··on Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
2. Don't ever store large values of cryptocurrency on an exchange. Keep them offline in paper or hardware wallets.
iand··on Uber London loses licence to operate
It's in the article.
iand··on Is Trump mulling Peter Thiel for a top intelligence advisory post?
> Anarchists believe in no laws.

This is incorrect. Anarchists believe in no rulers. Laws can be agreed between consenting parties.

iand··on An adventure in trying to optimize math.Atan2 with Go assembly
I don't think that is correct. Do you have a link to more information about it.

When writing benchmarks in Go you always need to take steps to circumvent the optimizer detecting functions with no side effects. Assigning the result of a benchmark to a public package level variable is usually enough.

iand··on “We are working on getting Sublime Text 3.0 final ready to launch”
Stupid little things mostly (I've not tried Atom but used VS Code for a while):

- sublime allows projects to have multiple different folders of files, vs code forces you to use a single folder

- large file support is unparalleled (excluding less etc)

- reliability, in nearly a decade(?) of using sublime I've never lost edits in a file or corrupted one

- it's general purpose so I can open anything, whereas vs code/atom seem more IDE-like (I know they can open anything, it's just my impression)

iand··on The future of MDN: a focus on web docs
rfc-editor.org is an IETF-run service and is the official permanent home for RFCs now. See https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7990
iand··on The future of MDN: a focus on web docs
The problem has been that historically W3Schools has been inaccurate. MDN set out to fix that and be the best source. I don't know why W3Schools has so much SEO juice.
iand··on Mass Extinction and the Structure of the Milky Way (2013)
I think that's just a side effect of the compressed scales used by the animation. If they didn't do that then you would not be able to see the wave effect as clearly.
iand··on There is no pass by reference in Go
A map is a tiny struct containing a pointer to the bucket storage. It's always cheap to pass a map value.
iand··on Reproducing Go binaries byte by byte
I don't know of a list but people have been aware of the potential for decades: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
iand··on We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2
If this is true then I presume you are devoting all your waking hours to preventing it?
iand··on We Just Breached the 410 PPM Threshold for CO2
Those structural engineers benefit from the millions of repeatable experiments in engineering over the past few centuries. It is an extremely well understood subject. Climate science, by comparison, has no repeatable experiments on the scale of a planetary atmosphere and is in its infancy. No-one knows with certainty the impact of 400ppm vs 410ppm so they have to rely on speculative models, so it's right to treat climate science as less reliable than structural engineering.
iand··on Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
Yes. I use the bookmark toolbars in ff and chrome with icons and no text for common pages (like this http://imgur.com/a/uZBB8).

My only other use is for groups of pages that I'm referring to or want to come back to as part of a project. I usually delete them after a few weeks.

For long term bookmarks I use pinboard.in

iand··on Introducing Twitter Lite
Or just use mobile.twitter.com in a desktop browser.
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