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The Rockefeller Family Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, two Rockefeller family charities/advocacy orgs, have divested from fossil fuels. I don't know where The Rockefeller Foundation itself (which seems separate from the aforementioned funds) stands on fossil fuels, but I don't think you can assume that because it bears the name Rockefeller that it's out to get Tesla.

It's almost as if the poster of this item had also noticed this page from yesterday around the same time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17449927

> The writer Romain Gary was an inveterate fabulist.

So he was writing up his life as well. :)

And amateur fishing sonar screens...

So her headaches should be resolved?

On the other hand, quitting her job might have done that alone ;)

Open explanation requests often get downvotes, you usually have to show how far you understand what was meant, like you finally did above. Humour is also often frowned upon if it's not 105% on topic. It's a picky crowd...

Is it Tuesday?

Or you know, just use the violence of the state, and pass /regulation/, sign /treaties/.

What you need is a rack which fits an android tablet inside an iPad case. Branding and low cost, all in one.

I think the important part is that widespread adoption of this would reduce the amount of new CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. Even if it was more expensive to produce than extracting oil from the ground (itself a process which is becoming more and more expensive, see tar sands), states could mandate that an increasing share of all gasoline sold be made from this process.

We were still running tenfourfox a few years ago, but modern (i.e. complex) web pages became just too hungry for this CPU. Facebook was getting fairly painful to use on there.

The education market is important to recruit future customers though.

> Teams

You don't miss Slack?

100m around a hospital is still a much smaller pond to fish from than the city as a whole.

As opposed to pre taxis?

Absolutely. That'll go in lockstep with upgrading to 16.3 :)

Considering how much of their sales were in the U.S., and knowing the kind of threats the U.S. government had already made to Huawei, it was pretty dumb of them to ignore U.S. government warnings and investigations over what must have been piddly sales by volume (though probably with quite a profit margin, since no one else was selling to Iran). Now it's totally blown up in their face.

Even with China's scale, you don't rebuild a 75,000-person tech company from scratch. Brand awareness is quite important in the consumer electronics sector, and it would take a lot of effort and investment to retake that #4 cellphone vendor position with a new brand.

Absolutely. As the article mentions, this is a big policy goal of Xi Jinping.

So our React site is fairly static, but as it grew we had more and more state to manage across components, and more of it trickling down; in some cases state would come from fairly high up in the structure, and have to be ingested pretty far down the component chain.

So as I read the React docs, I discovered childContext, and I started using it. Some of my coworkers would stick to passing props along 2 or 3 or 4 layers down, because every time I'd point childContext to them, they'd point to the part in the docs where it says it's experimental tech and that it could be removed in the future. I'd point out that the React devs have a very sane code-breaking policy and we'd just cross that road when we'd get there. It's not like we're aggressively updating to the latest release anyway. Some other people would suggest using Redux, but would agree with me that we just didn't manage _that much_ state.

(We also have a React Native app, and as we manage more state in there, we did implement Redux, though it still bothers me as a tech.)

Anyway, fast forward to last month, where I read Abramov explain that Redux actually uses childContext!! So:

1) there's no way they'd just rip it out of React without warning,

2) if childContext works for you, don't worry about the complexity of Redux, just pass down state and a few state-modifying functions in childContext!

The utility generators probably don't worry too much about leaks, since they can just refill with new, abundant hydrogen, too.

It would be amusing to have a hydrogen-cooled hard drive for which you'd have to regularly refill the water tank so that it could generate more hydrogen for itself. :)

Finally some good use for that foreign Apple cash hoard. :)

Vapourdrive

Not learning the lesson multiple times. :)

> can go away in a heartbeat

> within two generations

> The university thought it was getting a donation, along with some vanity conditions, comparable to naming a building or a chair, which it could fudge while spending the money on whatever it wanted.

I think it's clear that the conditions were more than vanity, and were actually qualitative.

Wow, everyone is trying to fingerprint me, even sober journalism sites like the Neiman Lab. Thanks for pointing me to this tool.

> I don't know why I'm saying all this the solution is simple but the problem is hard to acknowledge. The poor and destitute simply need help. We live in a society though that thinks someone else is going to take care of the problems. When we do finally give help it's so conditional and shamed that the hole of guilt someone fell in is practically inescapable.

I really don't understand why this is so controversial in North America. The 'Fuck You All, I've Got Mine' mentality is a sign of a morally dead society.

How do you know it tried to do that?

Have you ever heard of "rhetorical questions?"