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From the refs: Iceland revokes 400-year-old legal right in Westfjords district to kill Basques on sight

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/iceland-revo...

Furthermore, a plaque memorializing his murder is constantly vandalized and stolen (three times in the last twelve years). The current one (if it is still there now a year later) was made bulletproof: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/10/20/this-emmet...

Author's premise is entirely based on a > twenty year old book running at about a 19% accuracy rate for its current-decade predictions: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NcGBmDEe5qXB7dFBF/assessing-...

If the benchmarks from the other front-page post are true, then not releasing a MBP version would have left them in a position where the AS MBA outperforms their entire MBP line.

And also a convenient dig on the origin point of his predecessor's political career

On a thread yesterday I said that Windows' settings and lack of native keyboard remapping (without registry editing) were the most ridiculous things about it.

This pointer not respecting night-shift hits the trifecta hat trick. There's a registry fix, of course, but the first time I saw it, I thought "huh, that's weird". How did this get out without somebody on the release train thinking to themselves the exact same thing?

The settings are what kill me. Are there like three different systems swimming around in there? And the fact that I have to rely on either a third-party tool or registry hacking to make caps lock a ctrl key is just flabbergasting in 2020.

Getting rid of First Past the Post with something like Star Voting (https://www.starvoting.us) would go much further without imposing arbitrary limits.

Also interesting to note which politicians or charitable causes sell your name to which entities.

This also happens to some extent in real life. Often when I say that my email is "your-company-name@my-custom-domain.tld" it's met with a "well, if you're just going to give me a fake address…". At which point I have to explain 1) catch-all email addresses, and 2) yes, you can own your own entire domain name.

By that stat, you have a 1:66M chance per mile, so I think one in a hundred million is at least an order of magnitude too low. Nowhere close to 1:1000, though.

Someone needs to figure out how to make weed grow out of the barrel of a gun.

Please nobody tell the qanon folks about setting up card tables full of literature and harassing passerbys at busy intersections.

Because the premise I was responding to was "It's reasonable to assume that Police has procedures that are followed, or at least that are followed infinitely better than the general public."

I didn't take that as meaning a specific police force, but rather, police in general. I was specifically responding to mytaylorrsrich's comment that people are reacting negatively to the police just because they are police, whereas my point was that they were believing that the police always held themselves to a higher standard just because they were police. I'm not convinced that is the case, and this link is a point of evidence to that effect.

Evidence like this: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/face-mas...

I don't think you can just divide distance by velocity like that, even ignoring relativity as there are the long acceleration and deceleration phases.

This calculator says it would take 80 years when I approximate a solution where max velocity is .1c: https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/space-travel?advanced...

.1c isn't fast enough to cause significant time dilation for the travelers so they end up spending nearly the same 80 years on the ship as well.

I didn't know about the glycerin (the same substance used in e-cigs). This makes me think even more that the e-cigarette industry did a huge marketing fail in not calling them e-hookahs.

It seems like a different scenario with a religious school vs. a public, state-sponsored school. Even with other, secular private schools, I feel the issue is different.

This is probably not true & the tweet was deleted:

https://twitter.com/QTRResearch/status/1308054293254152194

As the bootleggers and baptists phenomenon has shown, the drive for prohibition can come from multiple, disparate sources.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleggers_and_Baptists

Not that I care much at all these days, but were there a checkpoint offered with no PreCheck, I, as a non-PreCheck person, would prefer that one even if it took more time.

I also felt that the N was out of place as its market cap is about 1/3 the next smallest (FB at $0.77B vs. $0.22B). The rest (and MSFT) are all > $1B. NFLX has a lower cap than NVDA, ADBE, and PYPL (and TSLA and BABA).

Not saying that they're trying to do the same thing, but couldn't you also imagine someone saying the same thing about FB before the revelations over the past few years?

I remember holding a similar billionth second party in Soda Hall (Wozniak Lounge) at Berkeley as an undergrad. Never realized how close that was before 9/11.

I don't want to have to write the declares part. I don't want my callers to have to do so, either. I want the nice list of unhandled exceptions the java compiler gives you, but I don't want to have to do anything about it if I'm cool with those exceptions being tossed up a level.

Kinda like if everything was a RuntimeException, but I had a way to figure out what are all the subclasses of RTE that this expression could produce.

Consider how Swift does exceptions. You mark methods as throwing methods, but you don't say what kinds of exceptions can be thrown. If you call a throwing method, you have to write a catch, but in order to figure out what kinds of different things can be thrown, I have to rely on documentation or on examining the source. AFAIK, there's no way to figure out all the different types of exceptions that can be thrown.

I want something in the middle. I want the conciseness of swift, but the info provided by java while I'm writing. I'm no language designer, so I don't even know if that's possible, but it's the kind of pony I want.

I wish that handling/rethrowing wasn't required, but that at dev-time I could just ask, hey, what's every kind of exception that could be thrown out of this expression & then decide which ones I wanted to handle at this level, if any.

They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier.

Differences in temperatures should be referred to as "$UNIT degrees", while specific temperatures are referred to as "degrees $UNIT".

They were pirating them. & then another pirate stole their booty trove.

Here is a paper showing how these tests have 99% sensitivity in the lab, but this drops to 91% when the test is read in the field by a volunteer, and down to 75% when the test is read by the subject themselves:

https://archive.is/20081206110632/http://archfami.ama-assn.o...

Moreover, if it's such that even a trace of a line indicates a high confidence of pregnancy, users may misinterpret a faint result as somehow meaning "kinda" pregnant.