kbhn

I went from an S10 to an S22 Ultra and the fingerprint reader is leagues better.

The "Russia is invading our country" narrative is only held by some.

Mainly those that believe in concepts such as 'borders' and 'sovereignty'

You might personally feel that those residents welcomed foreign troops with open arms, but it's not a narrative that Russian forces crossed Ukraine's border to annex territory that didn't belong to it.

You've replied with this article to multiple comments as if it carries any weight. Why do you feel like we're bound to the same dietary behaviors as our ancestors?

It is not just a random preference and it is not something that anyone can just switch off, therefore it is not a matter of morality, as you are trying to portray it

Every declaration you made in this sentence is incorrect.

In this scenario I would argue that deleting a function abruptly without verifying impacts is significantly worse than gradually adding a delay. Usually when function deprecations occur impacted dev teams are notified on a shared distro of what's coming in future releases. Library maintainers at large companies typically don't have the bandwidth to investigate each project that uses their library to determine if deleting a function would detrimentally impact a production environment. What a deletion does do is block the downstream dev team in this hypothetical from deploying to prod as they investigate why their builds are suddenly failing (or crashing in prod!) and refactor an alternative solution. Do you really want to work in an environment where other devs feel empowered to break your builds and sprints ad hoc?

Think about whenever you travel to Austin for conferences, it's oppressively hot and you basically travel from one air conditioned building to the next.

Commentary from someone who only visits Texas in the summer is bound to be one-dimensional.

To me this spells the end of Oracle's supremacy in anything other than selling smaller and smaller volumes of mainframes.

True because average regional temperature has always been a solid predictor of company success, which is why companies like 3M, Cirrus Logic, Dell, Indeed, National Instruments, and Silicon Labs all collapsed after establishing their headquarters in Austin due to talented employees leaving en masse for the beauty of other regions /s

Bitcoin solves a number of problems right now, for example providing an opportunity for the nearly 2 billion people without access to a traditional banking system to securely participate in the world economy with nothing more than an old Nokia phone that can be bought for a few dollars.

This is a fantasy put forth by Bitcoin enthusiasts that's not supported by the facts. The average cost of a bitcoin transaction is currently ~$7.5USD[1]; nobody in the unbanked world is spending the cost of 1-2 Nokias to make day-to-day purchases.

Another example is how it is providing a way for people in hyper-inflationary economies like Venezuela to store value.

This isn't true. Zelle's ability to store actual USD make it the preferred means for storing digital currency safely in Venezuela right now[2]:

"Ecoanalítica, a local consulting firm, estimates that 17% of transactions at retail establishments in Caracas go through [Zelle] and that other Venezuelan cities are seeing similar usage levels. The actual figure may be larger, considering the data do not include smaller shops."

Accusing others of being ill informed or dishonest while yourself pushing forth maximalist narratives that aren't grounded in reality is a bit rich.

[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_transaction_f.... [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/features/2020-11-11/zelle...

Good assets also don't get stolen if 51% of the network becomes compromised by a bad actor.

I believe we should decriminalize offering of bribes

I too would like to erode confidence in our public servants.

It's not a popular opinion to share online due to how ingrained food choices are into our lives (memories, communion, celebratory meals, etc), but if this development concerns you I highly recommend exploring a plant-based diet. I've been meat/dairy free for about a year now and it's been one of the best decisions I've ever made.

Who cares if there's a 30$ fee on a 1000+$ transfer?

Because Bitcoin wasn't originally designed for speculating on cryptocurrencies.

Not sure if I would call it clever

What do you mean it's not clever? Sure, they applied a known weakness of non-constant data rate encoded messages to drone monitoring, but that's never been done before. What have you done that's so impressive that gives you the confidence to scoff at the accomplishment of the talented engineers and developers who created something brand new?

Who said anything about Snowden?

You implicitly implied him.

There are many different professions that are legal in their country of operation that the US will redirect international flights to US controlled locations to arrest you.

Which ones? Please provide sources of researchers who have had their flights redirected with the sole purpose of arresting the individuals.

It seems like you can't accept that the US is a threat to some people's and nations sovereignty.

It seems like you struggle with providing facts and evidence as opposed to conjecture and hypotheticals.

Yes, to a hostile foreign power. The public isn't a place you can reside. Russia is, however.

The US government is why Snowden is in Russia, not Snowden

The US government is not why Snowden is in Russia, Snowden is why Snowden is in Russia. He went to Russia intentionally. He wasn't kidnapped, he chose Russia as a destination specifically due to their reluctance to cooperate with the US.

He didn't go to Russia. His flight was forced to land there...

That's not what happened, please reread his flight history because the facts are well known at this point. He told his superiors at the NSA that he was headed to the mainland USA for medical treatment, but instead flew direct to Hong Kong where he lived for over a month. 30+ days after arriving in HK he fled to Russia, with the intent of fleeing to Cuba the next day.

...when the US revoked his passport mid-flight.

His flight wasn't forced to land mid-flight because Snowden never even boarded the plane that day. His passport was revoked before the Cuba trip, leaving him stranded in the Russian airport.

If you're going to shill for someone who is unwilling to come back to the US to be held accountable (rightly or wrongly) for his actions, please be factually correct about it.

Security researcher is a pretty loose and fear mongering title to describe Snowden's actual role - Taking sensitive government secrets to a hostile foreign power in the name of whistleblowing.

But please, don't let my clarification get in the way of your whataboutism.

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Try getting someone to help you out by, you know, posting something meaningful.

edit: oh well, downvotes from fanboys who will be offended at anything but "AMD IS AMAZEBALLS"

You got downvotes for being wrong.

But their pricing is on par with intel's offerings, so why should I buy the AMD product

This generation AMD is killing the price/performance ratio. Starting off a long winded argument with a factual inaccuracy isn't the best way to get the audience on your side.

None of offerings, per core, really beat my 2011 2500k i5

Funny, I replaced my 2011 2500k i5 with an R5 1600x and the performance difference is incredible (having 3200Mhz DDR4 helps as well).

You are guilty of the same bias that you're accusing the downvoters of.

Unfortunately anyone who takes their security or privacy seriously will be totally unable to use this. Every AMD chip contains a likely backdoored system called AMD Secure Processor

This is fear mongering to the extreme. Intel has the exact same type of system embedded in their processors called Intel Management Engine. You can't escape this problem by buying Intel.

I notice you provided a lot of sources, but none for the claim "a likely backdoored system". Your post reads like something a bad Intel astroturfing shill would say.

Who has Trump committed genocide on?

Genocidal doesn't necessarily mean he's committed genocide; it means that he's prone to (and to some extent, fascinated by) mass acts of killing. The tweets about promising fire and fury on an entire nation of people (North Korea), telling Fox that we need to kill the terrorist families as well, etc. He gets off feeling like he's the most powerful man in the world.

He's a strongman, whose solutions often involve labeling entire categories of people as bad/evil (Muslims, Mexicans, the media). If you haven't noticed this you're either not paying attention or willfully ignorant.

Someone's throwing stones in a glass house.

Still waiting on ~any~ article to back up your assertion from a respected institution.

He's not discouraging people from seeking help; he's encouraging people to be educated about the help they're seeking. For people who are in affectionate relationships, this is an important factor and is worth mentioning.

There's a difference between a lack of affection/physicality because you're depressed and because you're using an SSRI.

I still wanted to be close to people while I was depressed - I just felt useless and unable to do much else. On the SSRI I lost the desire to be affectionate, both around others and when I was by myself. It took around 6-9 months after I came off the SSRI for me to feel like I returned back to a normal state.

Sure, let me quote Harvard[1]:

"It's often said that depression results from a chemical imbalance, but that figure of speech doesn't capture how complex the disease is. Research suggests that depression doesn't spring from simply having too much or too little of certain brain chemicals. Rather, there are many possible causes of depression, including faulty mood regulation by the brain, genetic vulnerability, stressful life events, medications, and medical problems. It's believed that several of these forces interact to bring on depression."

Enjoy your continued confusion as to why your 'advice' is being downvoted.

[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/what-causes-dep...

Most of the times, there's a clear reason for a depression

I'm gonna have to disagree pretty strongly with that assertion without any supporting evidence. In fact, I would argue that rarely is depression caused by a clear reason which has a direct path to resolution. This is the exact perspective that makes those going through depression feel like others are trivializing what they're going through.

That's probably why you're getting downvoted, since it's #1 on your list.

You did yourself a disservice by stopping after the first paragraph.

If you would have recognized his opening paragraph as hyperbole, you would have gone on to read a comprehensive opinion from a former Google HR employee on the ramifications of publishing such a memo. He makes very good points that are worth consideration, or at least reading for the detailed insight into why Google's hand was played and forced to fire him.

You wouldn't trust a bank with an SQL-injection vulnerability or a hospital running on an old version of Windows either but that doesn't mean all banks and hospitals are not trustworthy

I would and do, because that's the reality of things. You're discounting the fact that if my bank has a SQL-injection exploit used against it and my account is drained, the federal government will reimburse me up to $250,000.

That type of peace of mind does not come with Ethereum; in fact it's billed as a feature.

and now they've shat all over it, and lost many potential customers.

Yes, I'm sure people are turning away in droves from the most competitive AMD processor in a decade because they won't open source their version of ME.

/s

Just one, I fucking dare you.

This comment doesn't seem to jive the spirit of Hacker News.

If the poster you're replying to has a valid counter-argument you can expect him to provide it; there's no need to...threaten them to reply? Machismo is one of the least beneficial things you could contribute to this site.

Does YouTube care about getting content to the world? Or just getting as many of their fingers in the pie as possible and abusing the current geo-restricted licensing model while they can?

I'd prefer to give YouTube the benefit of the doubt as they introduce a brand new service. They're an American company, it makes perfect sense for them to start with US customers.