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rplst8··on Time to sunburn
You need to look for sunscreens that say "broad spectrum". That is the approved language in the U.S. for UVA protection.

https://time.com/3924609/sunscreen-spf-uva-uvb/

rplst8··on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
It couldn't find anything on collusion, but the question of obstruction is still open... and what exactly were they obstructing investigators from finding? Evidence of collusion maybe? We won't know because they obstructed the investigation.
rplst8··on U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors
About 43 million people in the US hold that debt collectively. That's an average of $23,000 per person. The median is likely much lower as many doctors, lawyers, and other post-grads have $100-300k in debt.

I don't think that it's an arduous sum at all. I came from a working class family and I had nearly twice that amount ~$40,000 when I got out of college in 2001. I set up a payment plan and paid it off with about 5-6% interest.

rplst8··on U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors
Don't forget Russ Feingold. The only original vote against the Patriot Act - and who lost in the 2010 mid-term while the act was extended/reauthorized in 2011.
rplst8··on We Can Do Better Than SQL
> If SQL is based on tables, what about a QL based on relations only.

Try Sparql.

rplst8··on How Did Vim Become So Popular?
Vi users RTFM.
rplst8··on Reddit started banning accounts that voted for content “against their policies”
Freedom of speech is only about whether what you say can be used against you for government persecution (other than admitting to a crime to an officer of the law).

Therefore, I don't think we can say that posts and replies on the websites hosted by private companies can be considered protected speech.

That said, treating upvotes and downvotes in the same way as the text in a post or reply is a pretty bad idea IMHO.

rplst8··on Scientists’ warning on affluence
You had me until "stop using nuclear fission..."
rplst8··on Mac OS X Leopard and Xcode on iPad Pro
Why?
rplst8··on The Coming Chip Wars
You think that people would sell out their countrymen so easily? Maybe one or two, but a whole industry's worth.
rplst8··on Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology
> It's a bit like the story of the engineer who did a 400.000 dollar mistake on his first job.

The primary reason not to fire this person is that if something like this can happen, it's a process failure.

rplst8··on Known anomalies in Unicode character names (2017)
I reread your post and now I understand what you were trying to say.
rplst8··on Known anomalies in Unicode character names (2017)
What would you prefer then?
rplst8··on Closing The Collapse Gap: The USSR was better prepared than the US (2006)
In some ways, this could be considered beneficial. There are multiple layers to our government and can be a check on each others' power.
rplst8··on A man owns the most advanced private air force after buying 46 F/A-18s
Agree. Google NISPOM.
rplst8··on This Video Has X Views
Couldn't this all be solved with a p2p network that hosts restful services?
rplst8··on Coyotes are being seen on the empty streets of San Francisco
The end of humanity would not be the end of life, right now.

However it's only a matter of time until something large collides with Earth and destroys it all.

Like it or not humans are the best chance this planet has to continue life on after a cataclysmic event by hopefully colonizing another planet.

rplst8··on About that Hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19 trial
Right. Like why not give it to those willing to try who can't get a vent in Italy.
rplst8··on Ask HN: Do you ever truly use your revision history?
Yes. Nearly everyday. And the overhead of migration is nearly fixed no matter the size of the history. The expensive part is writing the script to do the export/import.
rplst8··on Nintendo’s iconic logo escaped an “age-up” remake
Man the writing really sucks at Ars Technica these days. Thanks for reminding me why I quit reading after Condé Nast took over.
rplst8··on Judge dismisses Wikimedia case against NSA over Upstream surveillance
Money, and the threat of money are both factors. There are bigger fish than Bloomberg.
rplst8··on The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Rya as a Top-Level Project
This is really good news IMHO. Having more open, RDF-based triplestore implementations is good for the semantic and linked-data space. Rya is based on RDF4J and runs atop Accumulo which are both pretty well supported projects.
rplst8··on The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Rya as a Top-Level Project
Storing information as a triple (subject, predicate, object) is a way of representing knowledge. It closely follows the structure of human language and also has the benefit of being machine readable. In the future, this may allow things like AI to take advantage of knowledge that has been stored in this fashion.

Obviously, a triple store is a database that stores triples, and RDF (the Resource Description Framework) is an open standard maintained by the W3C so...

An RDF triplestore has the advantages of allowing for the storage of knowledge in a semantic way, that brings with it a powerful open standard for representing and querying the data.

rplst8··on Ken Thompson's Unix Password
Trespass is not a crime per se. It's a tortious act. Criminal trespassing is when you commit trespassing when specifically told to leave and you don't or do it again.
rplst8··on Shining some light on the history of OS/2, Win9x and NT
> Whoever really wants to learn more about how it was made, including a lot of details about the humans involved, should read the very good written book "Show Stopper!...

I can't recommend this book enough. It's a very interesting story and gave me an appreciation for what it takes to do big things in the software industry.

rplst8··on The GM strike is really about the switch to electric cars
There might be other revenue streams like battery recycling. Might not replace ICE maintenance jobs completely, but will hopefully provide some cover.
rplst8··on Nuclear Fusion Could Rescue the Planet from Climate Catastrophe
...and the over-engineered solutions are over-engineering outdated, inherently unsafe designs.
rplst8··on America’s New Sex Bureaucracy
It's one thing when there is incontrovertible proof, it's another when it's he said she said.
rplst8··on Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety
Agreed. Why not put automatic vehicle barriers at all grade crossings? Or at least the known dangerous ones.
rplst8··on Tech companies ignore pleas on rail safety
How about people just pay more attention when they drive their 3000 lbs hunk of murder metal?
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