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Both wild and domesticated Honey bees were present in the Americas when European colonists arrived. However, the common honey bee was not among them, and the other (I hesitate to say 'native') species are indeed no longer extant.

If CCD is causing problems for professional beekeepers, those problems don't seem to be reflected in the economy. The price of queen bees hasn't changed.

Queen pricing might not be as strongly correlated to CCD as you might expect. Raising queens is indeed done commercially by specialized beekeepers, but if you're already a beekeeper, it is not hard to do or learn. You can raise dozens at the same time, in a single hive, and this does not stop that hive from producing honey later in the season. It's therefore quite possible that the increased demand in queens after overwintering has simply been met by an increase in the supply.

  caption always "%?%F%{w}%:%{K}%? %{R}%H%{-} %{B}>>%{-} %L=%{k}%-Lw%45>%{G}%n%f %t%{-}%+Lw%=%{-}%-22<%{B}<<%{-} %{R}%Y-%m-%d %0c:%s%{-}"

  -x   Attach to a not detached screen session. (Multi display mode).

Yes, obviously it would be great if X were increased. But doing so would require an increase in server resources or a significant change in the way HN's backend works; neither of these options is free. That is the reason why things are this way.

This is an old debate. See, for example: https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/11

In any case, that's a false dichotomy. Governments are not uniform entities, and there's no point talking about them as if they are. Governments, like people, do some rational and some irrational things.

Console games often look mediocre despite the above because console hardware is far cheaper, and thus simply less powerful, than the hardware in high end gaming PCs, despite the fact that consoles benefit from economies of scale, and are priced at a loss to boot. It is not fair to compare the way a game looks on a $2000 PC to the way it looks on a $400 console.

Linux's /dev/urandom happily gives you not-so-random numbers before the kernel even had the chance to gather entropy. When is that? At system start, booting the computer.

I invite you to read the article, because there's more.

I found this hard to believe, so I ran it through cloc:

  ----------------------------------------------------
  Language      files      blank    comment       code
  ----------------------------------------------------
  C               113      33366      61819     285817
  vim script     1186      22871      32599     145700
  C/C++ Header     63       3175       4626      19735

Not averaged.

For example, the chain of universes may follow an alternating sequence: Mary in universe N kills Hitler in universe N-1 (one layer down). Suppose that this murder has the unfortunate side effect of preventing the birth of the Mary in that universe. The Hitler in universe N-2 therefore survives until 1945, allowing the Mary in that universe to kill Hitler in universe N-3. Ad infinitum.

What we're dealing with here is stability. The average Hitler is half-dead and the average Mary half-born. The stable Hitler is dead half the time (in all odd universes); the stable Mary alive half the time (in all even universes).

In fact, even stability is probably not the correct term. Let's broaden our scope. The Hitler example is just one cycle, of length 2. But there may be many cycles, of arbitrary length, from 2 to 3 or 10 or a million universes long. These cycles that interact will almost certainly do so chaotically. The odds that stability will occur is remote.

I agree with the implicit assumption in your question. When trying to evaluate whether there is a serious problem, in any area, we should rely on data. These stories, heartbreaking as they are, are just anecdotes. Thus, lacking proper data, I can't tell whether there is a systemic problem with police brutality in the US: I can't answer your question. I'm sure such statistics do exist, but since I'm not from the US, it's not exactly something I tend to pick up on.

However, I am somewhat familiar with the dynamics involved with issues like this. There are usually some few exceptions that stand out enough to be picked up in the media, but most don't. I'd guess that there are an order of magnitude more cases that are either not severe enough to be reported on, or too common to be interesting, but are still beyond what a society would consider ideal, were they to come to light.

This is exactly the problem. You read the stories, that is, the exceptional cases. Don't extrapolate from exceptions.

The main security concern (as far as I can tell, and I'm far from an expert) seems to be that the KDF used in the new protocol is not as strong as the one used in the current Sync protocol.

You should read the link posted in the post you replied to, especially the security analysis. It is quite readable and might allay some of your fears.

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/32b1e619bc9e7fbe0eaa

(The cleanup might have introduces some subtle bugs, but a quick test showed no issues. Let me know if you find some!)

Correct.

This creates an incentive to try again and again and again. The costs are minimal (lobbying is cheap when you're a multi-billion dollar industry), the risk of blowback practically non-existant (no one boycots Disney), and the potential rewards are huge.

Therefore, I think you're incorrect when you say these people have not learned anything. Defeating one treaty or proposed law does nothing to prevent them from trying to pass the same reforms at a later point.