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Could the title be updated to indicate whether we are talking about smoking, or other means of ingestion? Smoke inhalation was already known to be bad, regardless of what the smoke was made from.

Perhaps it was not government sponsored, but rather an attack by one or more local extremists, of some sort.

A $10 PCB is so much simpler than poison. Easier to acquire, safer (for the attacker) to store and deliver, harder to recognize as a weapon (think wifi router case). And perhaps most importantly, you can include a remote kill switch in case you need to abort the op or temporarily evade an inspection.

Wow, this actually is quite horrifying. Makes me want to go full cyborg.

> nobody at the company could come up with a way to bypass the use of that form

Yeah, that's a big red flag. Sounds like the system is programming the people.

Inspect -> delete <head>, delete #main-nav.

There, now I can read it.

The former, because it is both risque and clever. The latter is just rude and unrelated, and will be forgotten with the rest of the mental trash.

It is the one minority that we all inevitably become. "Respect your elders" has all kinds of reason behind it.

What are you more likely to remember a week from now: Meatpistol or Metapistol? Reminds me of the resistor color code mnemonic, something I memorized for life the first time I heard it.

Yes, this is similar to how I would like to handle issues: just an issues directory full of yaml-markdown files. That way, issues are a part of the same history as the code. They can be specific to a branch, they can diverge as different solutions are attempted in parallel, and they can be deleted and retrieved after resolution.

> The days of pure/basic research are dead, especially with funding from the public sector drying up.

I have been wondering, could pure research work well with a crowd-funding model? In addition to applying for a grant, the PI would post a similar or identical application to Kickstarter & co. Stretch goals could be used to commission media-rich presentations that are true to the research, rather than leaving the original scientist-oriented study to be interpreted by rushed journalists.

One of the authors, Thomas Piketty, wrote Capital in the 21st Century, a fascinating book about the mechanics that drive wealth concentration. He explores the limits of wealth concentration, as a positive feedback loop that inevitably destabilizes, often violently. I don't want to spoil it, but it isn't all just analysis and observation, he does also make recommendations.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18736925-capital-in-the-...

Can you fake a reasonably indistinguishable 404 response for content that exists, but should not be publicly discoverable?

In the validation function docs [1], there is an example of HTTP errors being thrown, I'm just not sure if there is something like a `throw({notFound: null})` option.

[1] http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/validation.html

Perhaps our civilization is not yet ready for direct contact with the Culture. Hopefully, someone and her drone are working on the problem.

With all due respect, I am concerned that people are over-sexualizing things, as a form of moral panic. My solution is to dispassionately discuss the problem, so that it can be de-escalated.

Kudos to the mod team for their handling of the larger affair over the past week, it is truly unfortunate what we are all dealing with right now.

(10 minutes later) Ok, I can see that the original comment should have included my follow up point, in order to avoid creating the "tripping hazard" that set the stage for Door's response.

Right now, I do not feel safe discussing this subject. That is why I am asking how to safely discuss it.

What if my grievance is with the people / culture at work?

As a white man, I have concerns that my ethnic / gender group is being persecuted. How should I raise these issues for discussion, in a professional environment?

You know why I don't complement women's outfits in public? Because I am terrified to do so!

I used to have conversations like that with a female roommate, and since then, have developed some interesting ideas about human-born artwork.

It sounds to me like the phenomenon you are describing is a form of dysfunctionality that is not universal to all men. It is incorrect, specifically sexist, to insist that all men can only see woman for their sexual potential. Please stop, you are doing us all (including women!) a great disservice.

Commenting on someone's bathing suit is not inherently sexual, because we do it in non-sexual contexts; for example, I complemented my nephiew's new swim trunks earlier this summer.

A particular complement might be sexual, but we shouldn't assume that. For all we know, the guy is gay, and we are now discriminating against that.

Furthermore, commenting directly on the awesomeness of someone else's body is also not inherently sexual. Have you never admired a female athlete, the way you admire a male athelete?

How is it sexual?

Well, this is an issue that I would never have dared to tackle, myself, mainly because I do not have the political skill to do it safely. So, I offer a thank-you and a salute to the less inhibited guy who rose up and drew the first bullet. Now that I have had a chance to read this and observe the public reaction, my own views have developed further.

I was already of the opinion that the various -ism movements each represent a form of discrimination themselves, towards the inverse set of people that they represent. That starts to become a problem when there are people in the intersection of many inverse sets of -isms. This time, let's not create another -ism; let's not make "counterminorityism" just another thing to bash people over the head with.

Instead, it is time to design a continuous reintegration process for our network of distinctive identity groups, to ensure that they do not become incompatible over time. We need a social/psychological framework for identifying and rectifying arbitrary imbalances of resources and social power, because that is a common theme in the root causes of all of the -isms. We need to acknowledge our culture's memes [1] as an increasingly powerful force, worthy of serious study and possibly even regulation or open engineering; take a close look at the psychological manipulation of advertising, to see why this is needed.

This true unification, for lack of a more specific word, would likely be every bit as disruptive to current social and economic structures as the decline of slavery; most powerful organizations would prefer to play meaningless games with the -isms, perhaps even play one minority off of another [2] to prevent a unification. It is something that we will have to develop from the ground up, and develop over time, with collaboration from all fields and all identities. As you can see, at this point, my (our?) feelings and thoughts on the matter are still rough, unpolished, in a state of growth. We need to start seriously thinking about these things, lest we find ourselves on the losing side of a new -ism.

[1] Ideas, beliefs and themes that persist in our collective psyche, not animated gifs.

[2] We are all in a minority. If you aren't, then that is your minority, and you get no love, no assistance, because of what you are. Welcome to the minorities.

Oh yes, we're living the dream already. But the poor natives of the various environments, just can't convince us universalists to follow their customs, share in their libraries, unpack our stuff into the designated locations.

I mean, I'm fine with doing that for my favorite OS, but I'm not going to learn the details of everyone else's OS, not when I can ride above it all on a magic abstraction layer.

Well, I can downvote comments in different threads, but not in any threads that I am participating in. The down arrow is simply absent from those comments.

Ah, my bad. In that case, the performance concern might not apply, but the cultural concerns probably still do, to a lesser degree.

I have recently discovered that on HN, you can either downvote or reply, but not both.

As a dev who has used both React and a couple of native desktop UI libs, I get a fair bit of pushback on the whole Electron / app-in-browser idea. The primary concern seems to be performance, although I'm picking up an undercurrent of fear that the web stack could swallow the native realms, even if it is technically inferior, just because of the sheer inertia behind it.

In a way, Electron is a threat to the culture of the pure-native devs. Everything they know gets subsumed and disappears below the browser, and a horde of outsider devs come rushing into the native app space, with little awareness of the nuances of specific platforms and their communities.

But filters block light, reducing the effectiveness of the telescope. Also, you need to set them up before the photos are taken. I am suggesting a way to process existing grayscale photos, where the operator may have decided that filters weren't worth diminishing the captured light, or the increase in communications bandwidth.

Fusion, of course. It actually is right around the corner now, this time.

AR, but with high enough quality to offer a superset of VR's features.

That was already a thing, for a while. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0

Can't tell if they are "honest" people who closed shop when they realized how bad their idea was, or if they just threw smoke and went dark.