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It would likely frighten me to know how much JBoss and Websphere is still used.

Most of the big banks

Good buying opportunity

What if the FBI had a large part in organizing such a movement? Should they be prosecuted too?

I want to identify the memory hog(s) first so I can determine the next course of action.

Suddenly seeing a black screen with an Apple while I'm in the middle of something important is irritating at best, especially when it happens repeatedly and I haven't pinned down the RC.

I didn't see it mentioned but I had heard that the Haitians deforested most of their more mountainous side of Hispaniola so what little top soil was there was washed away. This is also why there is a torrential flood risk especially during and after tropical storms.

The Cibao on the Dominican side is a really fertile and productive agricultural area.

Haitians are pretty much screwed, especially with friends like the Clinton Foundation, who needs enemies.

They were next on the list recommended by WSB, IIRC.

the powers that rule USA don't realize that soon the only tool left to common people is violence?

A clever way to create a situation to pass mass gun control and limit those pesky civil liberties, no?

Huh? Inflation is very real. The dollars I saved from 20 years ago buy a lot less across the consumer spectrum. Prices don't go up, the money's purchasing power goes down. That is not a "boogeyman", it's theft by the inflation tax.

Technically, Ikea is a Swedish multinational conglomerate whose retail locations are partly associated with a Dutch non-profit "Stichting_INGKA_Foundation" founded by Ikea's founder.

Essentially, Ikea is profitable because it utilizes a tax-avoidance strategy involving the use of a non-profit and so your comment is in my opinion basically true and they are "cheating" a bit. A pretty slick cheat, though.

Also, thank you for shining a light on this as I was ignorant of the whole thing.

円 is also the kanji for "round" and "circle"

Especially since someone can be born in Bosnia/Croatia and be a Serb or vice versa

A famous historical example of this would be Nikola Tesla, no?

Surely you're being sarcastic?

to whoever downvoted me, it's this simple.

You are either:

A platform. That allows all voices to be heard. 1st Amendment protections.

A publisher. That can edit or censor. And can be sued for slander and libel.

Whatever sophistry section 230 discussion is being fogged with, the above should be the way it is, period.

Why is this being downvoted? Because of someone else's tip, I tried tweeting these 7 characters: gtv.org and had my account locked within 3 seconds.

What kind of orwellian shit is that?!? The twitter account itself was used very sparingly to upload content from my PS4, not controversial in the least.

There is very clearly an agenda being applied here. Which is fine with me because this kind of repression is indication of desperation.

Not bad: INTJ 0.197490 INTP 0.138727 INFJ 0.127998 INFP 0.125142 ENTP 0.091211

I consistently score INTP. Another account which I have about 8 years of sometimes voluminous comment history with for non-technical topics produces the same results in the same order. Hmm, maybe I'm turning into an INTJ with age... Kind of makes sense.

Like others, I'm wondering what the "controversiality" value indicates.

I'm pleasantly surprised and slightly uneasy.

Yes and in fact, that might be an easier start to a Paradox Interactive game. My first PI game was Stellaris which I quickly racked up hundreds of hours in and despite several major changes by the devs in mechanics it's still easy to jump back in to. I feel like it's a worthy successor to SMAC with its own uniqueness.

But EUIII, EUIV, CKII, HoI? Considerably steeper learning curve, IMO! I've spent over a hundred hours just trying to take over Ireland (the traditionally newb scenario) in CKII.

I would not suggest jumping from a Civ to any Paradox title except Stellaris. There's enough of Paradox's goofiness in the space combat ("whaa... I slaughtered the enemy, how do I not get their planets... war exhaustion, wtf is that... oh that kind of makes sense") and lots of visual feedback to keep you interested without making you cry too much.

How do these steps integrate with Birdwatch[1], I wonder?

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kya4G6z2pw (7m16s)

One of my starry-eyed dreams if I ever get a sufficient pile of money and power is to start a research foundation that gives smart people somewhere else to go besides the Pentagon or Wall Street.

Have you seen Spot in Singapore parks yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viuR7N6E2LA

Makes me want to work on miniaturizing HERF guns for commercial distribution.

My theory is I offload computation to a larger compute node, e.g. subconscious.

Something I picked up from my 7th grade english teacher, once feeling blocked or otherwise done all you can, go do other stuff and let the subconscious work on it. He meant it in context with creative writing but I think it applies for any other profession that requires problem solving.

Sleep, particularly - I often wake up the next day after struggling with a problem with the obvious solution gleaming in my mind's eye.

Regulation is simply more efficient and effective.

And that efficiency and effectiveness benefit an elite few. If people continue to "wake up" globally, becoming increasingly empowered by technology and democratizing philosophies, they will come to the logical conclusion that they can "vote" with their currency. Companies will definitely fucking pay attention if people stop buying their shit.

For example, I've taken the "buy local as possible" ethic to its logical extreme, realizing for example that I have to make compromises for things like consumer electronics. "The real world", as you say. But I think it's defeatist to just buy the cheapest junk you can afford in complete disregard of its means and origin of manufacture unless that's the only solution.

Just today, I was shopping around where to buy Sid Meier's Memoirs book since I just learned about it today on HN. I could elect the easy, lazy, one-world-ruled-by-Bezos path and click Amazon to save a few cents and get it delivered a day less, or I could go the slightly less convenient but more positive route of Indiebound.

What happens when the LARP, Pokemon and VR worlds all collide? I think this is the future of gaming, at least in places with ample acreage.

What do you use for a chair, if at all? The most ideal scenario I've found so far is an adjustable standing desk with a task chair, then alternate from 1-2 hrs each between standing and sitting.

I was about to mention it. Although it's a bit dated I strongly recommend any one in software to read that. It's a quick read and enjoyable. I think the title is a nod to tireless privacy advocate Daniel Brandt, too.

Sure, but already FB is tainted with an "only old people use that" meme for several years now. Once the boomers start really dying off, I think this is when FB will fade.

Plus, I think society as a whole is beginning to see the toxic ills of social media in general and will push back in a "retro" "back to the basics" kind of movement, embracing old traditions like community, family and friends in meatspace.

Not sure why you're getting downvoted (well, I do, but...) but governments are what enable corporations to be the bad actors they are. They would not get so large, powerful and unwieldy in a free market where corporations have as much or more rights as human beings, i.e. corporate personhood.

Hah. John the Ripper[0] was a pretty useful piece of code back in the day. Now Jack the Ripper... I'd say if stories are true, he and his brain were evil, yes.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Ripper

Hmm it looks like it's still being maintained.

Facebook is not evil in and of itself.

Yea but wasn't it basically a DoD spawn? Since LifeLog failed?

I mean, no need to get around messy privacy laws if you can convince people to voluntarily upload data on every aspect of their daily lives. It's brilliant. Evil, but brilliant.

I disagree, consumers should be able to decide if they want to buy a product or not and do their due diligence investigating the producer.

The countries where labor is cheaper benefit by getting more work and ultimately they uplift themselves.

Now, if it comes out that such labor is abused or managed corruptly and so forth, that is a product I will not knowingly or willingly buy.

I love the web 1.0 design. Gandhi might deploy nuclear weapons!