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It's not stupid at all. By giving into the racket, Netflix demonstrated that it's not a technical issue at all, so that argument no longer flies. It's clear that the ISPs are capable of supporting the service, they just don't want to.

The leaker can always visit the SSL site via Tor, which would solve the problem.

They're actually hurting their current customers, those that can't get a text message through to their lost Apple brethren. Shame on them for having traitors in their flock, I guess.

Sure, I'd just say that Go has been extremely stable since before 1.0 (~2 years).

Author's point was that we should not use "not good" languages for the fear that we might be stuck with them for next 20 years. I'd rather be stuck with a language whose designers are very resistant to change vs one that gets features haphazardly bolted on every few years (PHP comes to mind).

Every single thing listed in the article can be added to Go at any point, since it currently has a very minimal feature set. Once something like generics are added, they have to support it until the end of time or risk having an unstable API like Rust did for a while there.

That definitely helps, though you can't use it to introduce new variables with the := syntax:

if buf, err := json.Marshal(make(chan int)); err != nil { fmt.Println("Ehh..", err) return }

In this case, buf will not be available outside of the if statement. Go fmt can already leave your insignificant whitespace as is, I just wish it could also leave the if error != nil statement say in one line instead of formatting it to take three.

I appreciate the inline if-else statements. I'm so tired of having:

if err != nil { return err }

Take up 70% of all lines in a function.

All bought (or they tried) by Facebook. That's the one data point.

You might be surprised to learn that in the trademark law, common words like "paper" or "candy" can be used by multiple companies without them infringing on each other while "Coca-Cola" is way too specific for that.

".. with as much money as the city spends on programs to help them.." - that's pretty much the answer right there.

Amazing how the old is new again. Welcome back, CGI! I hope everyone's aware that this is just a toy and should never be used to do any real work, because most command line tools were never written to be exposed to the internet at large.

That sounds like a pretty good thing.

Other things can improve when you're not stressed and struggling on minimum wage (or not wage at all).

Did you read the article? It is exactly that, a wage for being a swiss national (and alive). The title's a bit sensationalized because.. well.. fucking news can't get people to click on their stories otherwise, but it's technically valid.

Remind me, what year is this again?

And at one point this relationship is better described as "not friends" rather than "friends". It's typically mutual so I don't see a problem here.

Why on earth does every kid need to learn how to build websites?! Their heads are already being stuffed with useless stuff that is of no interest to vast majority of kids. Expose the kids to programming and let them decide, if they want to pursue it further.

I don't know if I'm ok with using 83% (125/150) of all my Monkeysphere slots on "work".

You're reaching.

I find it disconcerting that a significant portion of those invited are simply "too busy" to attend. Wouldn't you WANT human rights activists to stir trouble instead of avoiding it?

Irregardless of that, the reply to OP's comment is representative of the attitudes that are common of HN. Sometimes I feel people just disagree and take apart anything for no other reason than longing for plain acknowledgement.

No, it's only about his choice of HK. Expect more articles from SCMP with very little factual content. Gotta milk those pageviews!

Please quote the what you think is the relevant part from [3]. I can't find any suggestions like that.

Hashing the code wouldn't help. In fact, nothing besides simply not processing any transactions would.

Compare who has more influence and therefore potential for harming the public - two dealers with $200k or a crackhead mayor of a city with 2.6M inhabitants.

Really? I always found it somewhat lacking in this. It has the potential to be so so much faster. Glad to see they're finally working on it.

I see, obviously the math is a bit more involved. I assumed those 8000 were identical twins who were separated at birth. Thank you

> It’s tempting to say that the lonely were born that way—it’d let the rest of us off the hook. And, as it turns out, we’d be about half right, because loneliness is about half heritable. A longitudinal study of more than 8,000 identical Dutch twins found that, if one twin reported feeling lonely and unloved, the other twin would report the same thing 48 percent of the time. This figure held so steady across the pairs of twins—young or old, male or female, notwithstanding different upbringings—that researchers concluded that it had to reflect genetic, not environmental, influence. To understand what it means for a personality trait to have 48 percent heritability, consider that the influence of genes on a purely physical trait is 100 percent. Children get the color of their eyes from their parents, and that is that. But although genes may predispose children toward loneliness, they do not account for everything that makes them grow up lonely. Fifty-two percent of that comes from the world.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the math is wrong. Assume prior for being lonely is 50/50. Now, if 100% of twins reported that they are also lonely, this would be proof that loneliness is genetic. If it was 0%, it would imply some sadistic inverse relationship, but one that'd still be genetic. If it's 50%, the same as the prior, it means no relationship. 48% is pretty close.

I'm the 4am-12pm sorta sleeper variety, but it does, you know, make sense to conduct society's business during daylight hours.

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