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Back in 2008, pg said:

> Downvoting has always been used to express disagreement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392347

Are we reading different posts? I saw nothing that could be described as "culture war" related in the OP. Are you perhaps talking about lesswrong in general?

Is he happy?

> El Toro — the Spanish word for "lawnmower"

Not even close!

I mean everyone dies and yet life insurance is a thing

Self-checkout machines in supermarkets are famously shit and generally require customers to perform extra work, and yet they are preferred by shops because they can pay one employee to manage 10 machines instead of having 10 employees

TFA recognizes Abiy's personal ambition with regards to this issue in the final section.

This could be good, but as always the second-order ramifications could be troublesome (only big agricultural business would be able to afford to have crops, etc, etc).

"Cadillac Desert" is a good read to see how bonkers the water system can be (and was devised to be) in the US West, because it basically tries to turn the desert into a garden. The only problem is that there's just not enough water to do that.

Another good story in the New York times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groun... (which was discussed in HN, as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306841 )

The rules are quite loose: as long as you make your content available in catalan, they'll be happy to have your site hosted in the TLD

https://http.cat/ is another good one

Luckily Communications will remain being printed:

> The magazines Communications of the ACM, ACM InRoads, interactions, and XRDS: Crossroads will continue in print.

As someone from Europe, I can't understand the inability of mainstream US culture and media to disentangle marriage from long term stable relationships. Take this paragraph from the article:

> More women are deciding to have children and also remain single. Almost half of all babies born in the U.S. were born to unmarried women in 2019, a dramatic increase since 1960, when only 5% of births were to unmarried mothers. And it's not because of divorce; today's unpartnered mothers are also more likely to have never been married.

They go from "single" to "unmarried" back to "unpartnered" without batting an eye. The statistics they cite are about marriage yet they are generalized to all single women. It doesn't make sense.

At least the author of the book is aware of this:

> In the U.S., she says, unmarried adults who decide to live together do it for a much shorter duration than in Europe. [...] "If you just look in the data, marriage is what delivers kids a stable, long-term, two-parent household in this country."

In my opinion looking into what's driving that difference between couples in the US and Europe would be worth a discussion on its own.

If you click "Get access" on their main page it says:

> It seamlessly integrates with your existing database, saving you from complicated setup procedures.

So maybe their advantage over Materialize is that this can work on top of whatever database you already have?

You might have aphantasia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

There's nothing inherently slow about the way you structure a program in Erlang. Most of the problems come from copying values around when sending them across processes.

> It would be like a report that says "25% of financial crime in the US comes from New York City"

Boy do I have the project for you: https://thenewinquiry.com/white-collar-crime-risk-zones/

Amending my own parent comment, since it won't let me edit: I was wrong about this being standard in Paxos/Raft etc. They actually require "f failures with 2f+1 replicas" (meaning that at a minimum a strict majority of replicas need to be available). I blame my morning brain.

You're right, I misspoke in my original comment. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37560124

What usually happens is that a leader won't confirm an operation as successful until such operation has been applied in a quorum of replicas (see: synchronous replication).

In theory, nothing prevents a leader from accepting new writes even if it can't reach a quorum, provided it never allows reading operations that haven't been replicated to a number of replicas.

"f failures with f+1 replicas" is the standard for all non-byzantine fault tolerant systems out there. You will find it in Paxos, Raft, Viewstamped Replication, etc.

It makes sense if you think about it: these systems follow a leader/replica model, and naturally you only need one leader to make progress

Psychology and psychiatry are worlds apart and I think you're confusing one with the other.

Psychiatry fits within what you described: individualized treatment, medication, etc. It's a branch of medicine after all, and it fits within the whole context of medical care as it is conceived currently (that is, brushing aside social context, community, etc)

Psychology is all about context, that's kinda its motto. A good therapist always considers the family, socioeconomic backgrounds, all the things you say it ignores.

The URL is different, so it probably slipped under the dupe radar

There's a great scene in Wender's Tokyo Ga about fake food: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ayCKSFU8-mE

> Indeed, one of the American Revolution’s complaints was that London was too protective of Native American rights, and was limiting its colonies expansion into Native American territories.

I've never heard of this. Do you have some links to read more about it?

Researches used to have secretaries that helped with the extra work. Who, apart from very high level executives, have secretaries any more?

This article would improve by linking to what Zed is supposed to be: https://zed.brimdata.io/docs

There are cinemas like this out there, but they might not advertise well. I know in my city there are two small (state or city owned) cinemas that only show old (anything from 1920 onwards) or rare movies.

Not every country celebrates All Fools' Day on April 1st

Both answers are wrong though?

The project is definitely not dead! Right now it is entirely volunteer-driven, so the amount of work being done depends on the amount of work put in by the overall community. Feel free to drop by our Zulip to catch up on the latest developments: https://ponylang.zulipchat.com/

The text of a story always shows up a bit dimmed, similar to downvoted comments, but the similarity is only aesthetic.