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But POTUS 5 months ago:

"If you look back years ago in the 1920s and the 1930s, they said global cooling will kill the world. We have to do something. Then they said global warming will kill the world, but then it started getting cooler. So now they just call it climate change because that way they can't miss. Climate change because if it goes higher or lower, whatever the hell happens, there's climate change. It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. Climate change, no matter what happens, you're involved in that. No more global warming, no more global cooling. All of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong. They were made by stupid people that have cost their country's fortunes and given those same countries no chance for success."

https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-...

Very helpful, thanks!

For political reasons he needs it to be more than a very popular private service. He needs it to be an essential public utility.

You are more scandalized about the campaign of a private citizen emailing Twitter to ask that dick pics of his son remove, than about the White House emailing Twitter to have tweets removed?

I know the Trump White House made requests for stuff to be taken down via email, (instead of the Report Tweet button), but I didn't see that President Trump requesting a ToS review for some tweets was this kind of corruption.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752

What did the Biden campaign do that the Trump White House did not?

"In 2020, requests from both the Trump White House and the Biden campaign were received and honored."

The difference is that the Trump White House was the executive office of the federal govt making requests, while Biden was a private citizen.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598828932395978752

What did we learn today about Democrats and Twitter?

So what you're saying is that when a reporter noticed that the monthly job openings number hit a 4 year low, the Reuters service should not have released a short article stating that fact, otherwise they're "salivating over finding something they can spin as negative about the current economy."

Sounds like you're biased in your media assessment.

Thanks for your work. OP maybe didn't read the first two paragraphs of YMNNJ, which clearly states:

> jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.

> If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency.

> Pages like "You might not need jQuery" try to sell the idea that it’s easy to ditch jQuery. ... good reasons to not use jQuery: if you’re writing code that you want to be re-used by others...

Literally the first thing youmightnotneedjquery.com says is:

> jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.

> If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency.

We also need to donate more to FOSS. And find more ways to monetize FOSS. It's tough for many FOSS projects to succeed on a volunteer basis.

Since its purpose is to launch rockets, I assume it lands where it takes off, and might never stray far away.

No one has accepted anything. "Man plans to sue his parents". Plans.

Maybe this answers your question:

> But beside this historical excursion, what are the reasons that I use Free Pascal in my personal projects?

It's hard to take them seriously when they include statements like this on their FAQ: "Of course Ulrich Drepper thinks that dynamic linking is great, but clearly that’s because of his lack of experience and his delusions of grandeur."

tl;dr:

* Netflix had a bug in their code.

* But Express.js should throw an error when multiple route handlers are given identical paths.

* Also, Express.js should use a different data structure to store route handlers. EDIT: HN commentors disagree.

* node.js CPU Flame Graphs (http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-09-17/node-flame-graph...) are awesome!

I cancelled Netflix as a Charter customer because performance was terrible, while Amazon Prime works fine.

Basically the post just says:

1. Rails is slow

2. Dynamic languages are bad

A witty essay from 1908 observes that "success" is a ridiculously vague idea and that "success" books/articles of the day are vague useless drivel. Also, people should stop worshiping rich guys and mainly just try to be good at what they do.

You make a fair point that Chesterton seems to have a certain disdain for making money and business, but it seems like you didn't read the essay very carefully:

> If you acknowledge there is skill in succeeding (with a company, say, or in overcoming a bad habit, or tending your goals and beliefs, perhaps even to train more rigorously for that high jump), and that these things are moral or at least not immoral, the author's argument falls apart.

His thesis or argument is that the books and articles of his day on "success" are mainly rubbish. It is not to say that the word "success" is actually no good, or that trying to succeed at some individual thing is not good. A main point of his is that there are individual skills to succeed at specific things, but not an all-encompassing skill of "success."

I will concede that Chesterton sees people whose main mission in life is to make money as greedy, because he strongly, strongly believes that money doesn't make a person happy.

> We are nothing without good process, and self-help books or the actions they describe are hugely useful with that...

His FIRST criticism is that the books and articles about success are vague (i.e. lacking in specific actions) and ineffective (not actually useful).

> This piece is a deeply anachronistic

You are aware this is an essay from around 1908?

> Chesterton ignores the mind, the problems of concentration, focus, mental health and so forth

Just how friggin' much is he supposed to do in one short essay?

> Yes, he basically dismisses self-improvement and wisdom pertaining to the self as inherently mystical.

There are so many things wrong with that statement that I don't know where to begin. Maybe with the question, Where does he say that?

>Ironic that this chapter fails to get its own point

You're not making your case very well.

The two passages you excerpt are about useless vagueness in "success" books/articles. You are completely missing the point of the passage about "success in jumping," which is that "success" books and articles of the time (around 1908), are vague pump-you-up bullshit that any idiot could write.

Chesterton never argues that all "rich people are avaricious." Chesterton believes money and prestige are not really worth putting a person's main passion and energy into, which is what the Success books (circa 1908) seem to advocate. This essay is mainly a criticism of particular Success books and the Success idea; it is NOT an essay about getting rich or about limiting beliefs. It is also a criticism of the worship of rich and powerful men.

Chesterton never "declare[s] that limitations of the self are simply not worth considering."

You don't seem to realize that the this essay goes much deeper that criticizing how to be successful, but the very idea of "success" itself.

"At least, let us hope that we shall all live to see these absurd books about Success covered with a proper derision and neglect." - G.K Chesterton, 1908.

This works: http://g.msn.com/1me10IE10ENUS/WOL_Win7_64Full

Technically powered by the effort of lifting it.

I looked into this, and apparently flotr2 is forked from flotr. flotr was "inspired by" flot, but uses Prototype instead of jQuery. Note that flotr2 removed the Prototype dependency so:

    flot:   the original       uses jQuery
    flotr:  inspired by flot   uses Prototype
    flotr2: branch of flotr    no dependency