I remember myself back in elementary school making games with this. I'd paint up a scene, stamp some art and then cover the stamp. I'd then have my friend guess as to where the stamp was in the scene and we'd undo or "oh no" the cover away... great memories!
Over the more recent years, whenever I'd get sick and experience fever dreams, JavaScript paradigms would be what I'd get lost in i.e. asynchronous calls, callbacks, single-threaded nature, etc.
This comes from someone who enjoys the language, too. Weird stuff...
One of my only two attempts of an Ask HN was this specifically [0] and I've wondered this still. With subdomains, top level domains being at the top and being able to drill down into subdomains and then folders feels a lot more intuitive. Could a browser add-on be made to experiment this?
This part resonated with me and took me back to when I was picking up PHP on my own and breaking apart a Wordpress installation, file by file, line by line, method by method. Has some good "first principle" vibes to it.
As soon as I read the title, I felt joy! I had followed this guide when I had began programming early on and had a great experience. I recognize it by its name alone!
I really like the idea of wave energy, on-coast or off. While I have not looked too much into it (downsides, maintenance, scalability, ROI, etc.) it does feel intuitive.
A day-dream, for example: could platforms or vessels mesh together with such technology[0] to be self-sufficient? Each vessel could link together with it's neighbor and, with the rising and falling of natural waves, they could all generate electricity for the entire network or individual nodes.
China has blocked millions of “discredited” travellers from buying plane or train tickets as part of the country’s controversial “social credit” system aimed at improving the behaviour of citizens. - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/01/china-bans-23m...
Except these lists have been historically difficult to contest or even figure out if you've been added to one.
>You should know that the government’s summary likely will not include all of its reasons for your placement on the list, and in some cases the government will choose not to provide any summary at all. The government also will not provide you any of the evidence it relied upon in deciding to place you on the list, and it may also withhold information in its possession that undercuts its basis for putting you on the list. Finally, the government does not provide a live hearing at which you could testify or give you an opportunity to cross-examine witnesses against you.
Which is the core problem with the no fly list. Most times people don’t even know they’re on it till they try to fly, and even then they don’t know why.
I believe the request was made due to the protestors causing problems on the flights:
On an American Airlines flight from Dallas, a large contingent of Trump supporters got in an angry yelling match with other passengers after one of the president’s supporters projected “Trump 2020” on the cabin ceiling and walls.
It's far too early to discuss "precedent" when there's literally no precedent for a lame-duck President inciting an insurrection against the legislature for certifying his loss in this country.
I'll get concerned the second time it happens. But these are extraordinary circumstances.
Is there honestly a struggle to tell the difference between a private company and a government? banning rioters from a plane doesn't seem unreasonable. they are not a protected class.
Also, false equivalencies are stubborn... A powerful political figure (the effing outgoing prez) whips up a crowd to invade Congress (not just any federal property) while a critical session is in progress, with armed nut jobs announcing they're here to kill lawmakers and the veep. I don't see anything coming nearly close in recent memory. Professional whataboutists are even out there claiming this was an antifa false flag...
What we are seeing here now in US is nothing new in China. Censorship, cancel culture, and now high tech terrarium. It's all following the same culture revolution path. You only need to replace landlord with who ever you want to beat here. In the end, the farmers who supported culture revolution are the final victims. Million and million people died. It seems like human can't never learned a lesson from history. And it's a shame now US is more like China, not China becomes like US if you compares now vs 20 years ago.
I'm not familiar with this term, maybe it comes from a phrase that is difficult to translate? I searched Google for "high tech terrarium" but the links were all about gardening and farming.
A private business can choose to do business with anyone they choose or to not do business with you. It would be different if the government was making these sorts of decisions.
U.S. federal law protects individuals from discrimination or harassment based on the following nine protected classes: sex, race, age, disability, color, creed, national origin, religion, or genetic information (added in 2008).
When did you become the official judge of who is a terrorist? What happens when you're walking to the store one day, a protest passes by, and you no longer can fly ever again because you were identified on camera in a protest? "But I was just talking to the store!" Sorry, you cannot defend yourself against this because there no longer is any due process. You were on camera and that's the entire process. That part of your life that involves flying is now over regardless of your (non-existent) level of involvement in the protest.
You really should be careful what you wish for because at this rate, you're probably going to get it and much more of it than you ever imagined.
Edit: the no-fly list as a DHS entity, which I just learned about, is absolute horseshit. I assumed no-fly lists were per airline and I stand corrected.
Terrorism is an over-applied label that is used to stoke FUD and expand executive power; yep I agree with that and I don’t use the term lightly.
Joining an organized movement to overturn a legal democratic election, breaking into the capitol, armed, and bludgeoning an officer to death is terrorism and a private company has every right to deny these people the privilege of flying on their airlines.
The no-fly list is an important element of suppressing terrorism, foreign and domestic. It exists to prevent precisely this sort of situation - very few of these people were from within driving distance of Washington (or each other).
Whether it could do with more oversight is an independent question, with no shortage of people to ask it.
The most extreme elements of the Trump movement basically proved themselves to be not much different than Al Qaeda on Wednesday. Given that, it seems perfectly appropriate to not allow them onto airplanes.
> Is that some kind of sick joke? Al Qaeda burns people to death in metal cages.
Hate groups in the US have a long history of committing heinous murders and lynchings. Here's one such example which seems on par with your description of burnings in metal cages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington
I don't doubt that there are members of hate groups in the US today that would commit such acts and that many of them are among Trump's most avid supporters; probably even among those that broke into the Capitol Wednesday. Let's please not pretend like that kind of violence isn't possible in Trump's America.
You have got to be kidding me - some people shoving riot police is comparable to burning people alive in metal cages? The people in the front are not even hitting the police, they are just pushing.
> Hate groups in the US
Why are we switching to other groups suddenly?
> I don't doubt
So basically you are making up imaginary things, then assuming people will do them?
> Trump's own personal legacy
A story about his father is somehow relevant?
Look, I will say it again, what they did at the capitol was abhorrent. But your comparison with Al Qaeda is indescribably worse. I'm utterly stunned to be having this conversation with you - it's like I'm living in some kind of alternate reality world.
Aee you serious? Do you have even the remotest idea just how disgusting your comparison is?
Well, based on the tone of this reply I really doubt there's much more to be gained by continuing this thread. But I'll leave you with a few parting thoughts anyway...
> You have got to be kidding me - some people shoving riot police is comparable to burning people alive in metal cages?
I didn't make that comparison and I don't think most people would have interpreted my remarks as having done that. You're putting words in my mouth. You made this statement in your previous post:
"The Trump riot was basically people taking stupid selfies. They were very violent to the building. But I've not seen any violence toward other people."
The linked video of rioters shoving police was intended to show you that it was terribly wrong and somewhat careless to think that what happened was the same as "taking stupid selfies."
> Why are we switching to other groups suddenly?
My point was that it's reasonable to say that these are not "other groups." It's already been shown I think pretty widely by many reputable news organizations that some of Trump's most ardent supporters are members of hard core white supremacist groups. The link to the article about Jesse Washington's lynching was intended to show you that it's also reasonable to think that such groups are capable of violence that is on the same level as burning people in metal cages. That kind of violence exists in the US's own history of hate motivated crimes. The rioters that broke into capitol had erected a make shift gallows outside of the building. They were also heard chanting and saying things like "Hang Mike Pence" and "Heads on a Pike." Just let that sink in for a bit. What do you think would have happened if, say, they had run across AOC in the hallways given that she's been consistently demonized for the past two years? They were carrying signs saying "Nancy Pelosi is Satan." What would have happened if they had found her? Why is anyone still giving these people the benefit of the doubt?
> A story about his father is somehow relevant?
Yes, because it appears that Trump's father may have been a member of the KKK.
> Look, I will say it again, what they did at the capitol was abhorrent. But your comparison with Al Qaeda is indescribably worse.
Worse than what? The attack on the capitol? If that's what you meant, that's not a very serious comment.
> I'm utterly stunned to be having this conversation with you - it's like I'm living in some kind of alternate reality world. Aee you serious? Do you have even the remotest idea just how disgusting your comparison is?
Yes, I'm quite serious. Don't think that throwing insults at me is going to change my mind.
With all that being said, I think this conversation has outgrown its usefulness and I won't be making any further replies.
I've worked with Split.io at a client, they had libraries for our frontend and our backends. Their interface was also neat and would allow you to separate out your feature flags per environment, per user or user group, or through any other custom condition. They'd also provide statistics for A/B testing, but I never got that far with them to try it out.
Theirs was dynamic in that you could change the rules and at a given interval the connected user's app would refresh and react accordingly. It was pretty complex, I suppose, but I'd roll out my own and go to something like them if I had a lot more conditions or targets.
