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Can someone explain to my the biggest arguments against the viability of solar energy vs fossil fuel?
This is what I do for my home network. I hadn't realised it had a name (though not at all surprised)
the pricing difference is huge too, AWS's PaaS Elastic Beanstalk took away the "server management" part for the most part but this allows a lot of power when you need it and absolutely no costs when you don't.
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And that's exactly why Common Lisp is fading into obscurity while the "embarrassingly insecure" Clojure community is making the language take over.
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This is why traditional carmakers suck in software
It's worth pointing out that trafficking operations, like drug cartels, take advantage of the legal situation. That's not to say that if borders were fully open impoverished foreigners wouldn't still be exploited by organisations promising wonderful opportunities overseas with an arrangement that is effectively indentured servitude (see: conditions attached to migrant workers in some Middle Eastern countries).

But closed borders and restrictive visa rules mean that people desperate to leave their own country don't have the option of simply saving for a plane ticket, and trafficked people have the fear of punishment for their illegal status hanging over their heads which makes them that little bit more afraid to try to escape their situation.
AndrewDucker’s comment above, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10002117 , does not look like “you’re not buying an extant product” to me. In fact, it looks like the exact opposite of that, more like “we’re finished and can start making these now”.
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> ... the subtle message of They Live...

Is this a joke?
It makes more sense when you remember that it's a video game.
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Oddly enough, the people who define racism in that way tend to be operating from positions of power. It is rare for people who have historically been in positions of weakness to define racism as you do here.
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From the same Wikipedia article:

"Sexual trafficking includes coercing a migrant into a sexual act as a condition of allowing or arranging the migration. […] Trafficked women and children, for instance, are often promised work in the domestic or service industry, but instead are sometimes taken to brothels where they are required to undertake sex work, while their passports and other identification papers confiscated."

Here the closed boarders play a role. When those people won't even try to contact the police because of beeing afraid that they will be put in jail and then sent back, the closed boarders are a good thing for human traffickers, even though it makes getting in and out of a country a bit harder.

Also I could imagine, if the boarders where open, people would be more likely to just try their luck in an other country than getting in touch with some creep promising wonderland for a fee.
Please don't post job advertisements as stories, use the regular "Who's hiring?" thread.
The issue with multiple repositories has nothing do to with the number of commands you have to run. As you say, that's the kind of thing that can easily be automated.

The problems arise when you have to combine code from different repositories into a single deployable product. Most of us don't take Amazon's hard-line stance of making absolutely everything a microservice, so we end up with libraries of reusable code that are referenced by multiple projects. But when you store those libraries in separate repositories, it becomes impossible to describe the state of your deployed code without listing the version of every single dependency. That makes it easy for subtle inconsistencies and bugs to creep in, especially when the dependencies are multiple levels deep and are owned by different teams. If everything lives in the same tree, then a single commit ID reproducibly describes a complete system from top to bottom. And you can atomically make changes that cross module boundaries, which is difficult to do safely with separate repositories.

I don't really follow your comment about merging. Pretty much every version control system since forever has been smart enough to realize that, if I make changes only to foo/src/ and you make changes to bar/src/, our changes don't conflict and can be merged automatically without user intervention. (There might be technical difficulties; for example, if you're using Git, I would imagine that trying to view the list of commits of a small subtree of a gigantic repo might not be terribly efficient. But just like the issue of managing multiple repos, that's something that you can solve with better tool support, if you really need to and are motivated enough.)
I don't necessarily have an enlightened opinion, but when you compare solar vs fossil fuel, most of the time you should compare (solar + battery) vs fuel.

And fossil fuels have a really great energy density. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density
More accurately, it's "Using a TRS-80 Model 100 as a dumb terminal for a Raspberry Pi".
I think the main problem are all the treasures and caches. It's incredibly easy to get a ton of gold by clearing all these and most of the time it doesn't even involve any fighting.
I'm genuinely someone into these kinds of tricks and I invest quite modestly into all sorts of magic toys and tricks. However, I have a question - How are you going to make sure your users will keep coming back to you once they learn your trick? Most of the time, your users are going to be interested in only certain categories of these magic tricks and once they learn them, there is no incentive for them to pay for the following month. If you could add an online shop that sells all kind of magic stuff also, and if your courses complimented them, then it would be a good deal, I guess. Otherwise, your CLV would be very low. Just my thoughts.
Just to reiterate something the article mentions, though the title doesn't make it clear:

Range (the prosecutor) was sacked not for the prosecution itself, but for accusing the minister of justice of interfering with the prosecution.

Range had plenty of material to cover his ass for the prosecution itself, including an expertise that the leaked material was indeed state secret, the fact that the ministry knew about the investigation, and a solid initial suspicion.
Maybe related to your third reason, as previously noted, IT-related book publisher and seller O'Reilly appears (open to correction) not to offer one single book about Pharo or Smalltalk.
I wish there was a way to have ssh automatically ssh-add keys you use... with a expiration date. I've tried to get this to work a few times, but I use a unique key for every login, so I need something to parse ~/.ssh/config to find the right Host def and ssh-add it. The code is obviously in ssh, but it's not exposed to the command line as far as I can tell.
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I don't know why you would say that. This isn't some faceless and inhumane government bureaucracy. It's just other people trying to live their lives in the world without having the more unpleasant members of the privileged class shit on them reflexively.
I did see some of the other ads. Unfortunately I was more upset about your quote and the purpose of this ad. I was personally offended that all the male engineers are bragging about their codes and how important their job is, where as you are talking about how cool your co-workers are. I don't think it is your fault but accept the fact that this ad is in poor taste.
I work on the Developer Infrastructure team at Airbnb — essentially our tools team — and have some experience with both sides of the coin. Airbnb's monolithic vs project-based repository organization is currently split along language lines on the backend: the Java folks prefer a single monorepo (and have one), and the Ruby engineers use project-based repos (and have many).

There are a lot of good points made about the benefits of monorepos, and at Airbnb we enjoy several of them. What hasn't been mentioned is the effort required to do them well: you need specialized build and dependency tools to ensure that you only run builds+tests for the single project that's being changed; engineers have to check out extremely large amounts of data to work on a single subdirectory, or else you need custom tooling to allow them to only check out portions while still contributing to the larger whole; if someone mistakenly breaks a piece of shared code and merges it to master, every project is now broken and engineering work may be stalled unless you have very good debugging tools and testing frameworks to quickly recover from and prevent these kinds of issues.

The upfront costs of doing monorepos well are high, and doing them poorly is in my experience a net productivity loss. For large companies with established business models (and I'd consider Facebook, Google, and Airbnb to be some degree of "large" and with "established business models," although Airbnb is clearly still much smaller and pre-IPO), the tradeoff of allocating some number of engineers to work on in-house tools for a much larger engineering team is usually worthwhile, and monolithic repos start to become an attractive option. I'd caution small companies or early-stage startups against monorepos, though: when you're a twenty-person team, that amount of tools work just isn't worth it. Use open-source tools, and spend the rest of your time shipping product.

TL;DR: Facebook and Google have optimized their workflows for their size; if you're not a Facebook or a Google, your mileage will probably vary.
Sorry, this will be off-topic.

Let's say I am a run of the mill IT guy and I wanted to work my way up into understanding and maybe operating/admin work on cellular networks, how are guys in the US and abroad getting into this so I understand implementation and later policy/regulation stuff like this more intimately?

Years ago I considered after college crap work with ATT and Verzion starting on the bottom ladder just to learn, and every time there is a life crisis I wonder if I can have a just fuck-it moment and try getting into it.

Any tips?
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I've been playing for about 10 years (still about 10k). I usually play on http://www.dragongoserver.net, since it is asynchronous and I sadly don't have much time to play.
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The Generalbundesanwalt (Public Prosecutor General, GBA) is a civil servant bound by his superior's orders. That is why he can always be retired instantly by the Minister of Justice (§54 BBG). So yes, it is extraordinarily stupid for a GBA to against his orders.

In this case, however, I think Range actually wanted to be retired. He has taken so much fire over his apparently incompetent statements relating to NSA spying (among others he confused NSA and NASA on multiple occasions) that he probably wanted to get out of what is otherwise a fairly quiet job. In particular since there is pretty much nothing to gain anymore in this case.
Perhaps I'm mistaken in my reading of the article but the quotes below set a tone for me of an organization that was succeeding where it shouldn't have instead of an organization with huge financial backing delivering products that it was supposed to.

The group they assembled wasn’t a Silicon Valley dream team, more like tech’s version of Bad News Bears: a minor league beat writer, a former state treasurer, and assorted AV nerds from around the league.

BAM began as the in-house IT department for the league’s 30 teams, a small handful of employees originally tasked with building websites for teams and clubs. But over the last 15 years, BAM has emerged as the most talented and reliable name in streaming video, a skill set suddenly in very high demand.
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So… the fact ssh leaks some information you find more worrying then people storing their source code at github? interesting...
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Sorry, actual racism is rooted in the belief that one race is morally and intrinsically superior to another, and that this supposed difference should be reflected in law, the economy, and pretty much every other imaginable facet of society society. Obviously it's possible to take race into account when making efforts to reverse the ill effects of they historically racist nation without subscribing to the anti-egalitarian beliefs that originally defined it
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"The page at xxxxx would like to track the movements of your mouse pointer. Do you wish to allow this action?"

I wonder how many pages are doing this already without their users noticing...
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Facebook uses Mercurial. Mercurial works well for small projects as well.

Mercurial has no clear technical advantage over git though. That might change if Mercurial gets narrow clones (only check out subdirectories) working and git fails to clone (haha) that.
I think a resource comparable to SEP for math is Princeton Companion to Mathematics. It would be indeed great if it were available on the web.
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The EU is "Nazi like"? I think you will have to provide some justification for this claim.
> BAM doesn’t run like a startup — it doesn’t have equity to share with employees, causing it to lose out on talented engineers and developers that want upside beyond a salary.

Is this really true? I imagine a lot of people fit this description, but just as many (talented) people are looking for a stable, well-paying job with interesting challenges (which this definitely seems to provide).
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this is really cool. I'm very tempted to sign up, the only thing holding me back is knowing if I have time for another hobby :)
The first one is always free.

Instacart costs $99 a year, and signing up for the $10 discount offer means signing up for the $99 fee. Note that the site does not disclose the annual cost.

Does "onboarded.com" get a kickback from the services they promote? If so, they're a paid advertiser, but are not disclosing that they are a paid advertiser.

The use of the word "Free" triggers the FTC rule on "Free", which means the full terms must be disclosed.[1]

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Is there more information on the intended application domain (use cases) ? This was unclear for me after reading your referenced document.

Most of your arguments apply to hash referencing and make perfect sense to me. The compatibility with URI is also a good point and not difficult to achieve. I would add that compatibility with URL (http scheme) is also desirable and may be solved by use of a protocol bridge so that the information is accessible to web applications.

I'm also working on a distributed information system for many years now (not full time;). But I use a different referencing system. The reason is because one can't modify the information without invalidating the hash and thus the references. So using hashes as reference make sense for a system containing only immutable information. Your choice of reference is thus very application specific.

The system I'm working on allows to modify and move data without invalidating references and is distributed like the web. A reference is at most 32 byte long in its binary representation, a bit longer in its ASCII representation. Take that http! ;)
It's surprising how British Isles centric this is (if you include Ireland).

LA is the only exception, though the 'city' may be a appendage for places like Mexico City.

Do us Brits(/Irish) run more competitions?
Assuming those are values are actually kilocalories (1 Calorie in food is 1000 calories) then that device would need a battery that can boil 5 litres of water[1] eg 5000 grams of water raised 100 degrees = 500000 calories = 500 kilocalories.

I'm not sure I'd want to stand on that...

[1] 1 calorie can raise 1 gram of water by 1 degree
You are lucky that your country have not endured Soviet occupation like other states in Eastern Europe. Event today the economical and social signs are clearly visible on those states.

This was magnitude worse that British/American influence.
And their editor, and their publication.
No sure if I am missing something here, but that's the idea behind PKI infrastructure: You can share your public keys without putting your identity at risk.

The "server knows who you are" or rather, I "tell the server who I am"

Interesting experiment though.
In the developing world fuel logistics are a major cost. Local solar+battery is quickly cheaper in the long run in areas where infrastructure is lacking. However, access to capital is a major challenge. i.e. the upfront costs means the cheaper system does not get deployed.

It is quite common that a family could afford 1$ of fuel a month for kerosene lamps, but not the 20$ for a solar charged battery led lamp. As the 20$ even if a great investment after 2 years is out of reach.

Solar starts to make a whole lot of sense if there is no or only a primitive grid to hook into. i.e. compare the boom of mobile phone use in Africa.

A KM of high quality copper wire is not cheap, either. To a central powerplant, distribution of fossil fuel to decentralized power plants is very expensive and very wasteful.

The economically developing world has a great problem in accessing capital, not in investing it usefully.
Hi Animats - Thanks for the technical analysis. We don't get any "kickback" or benefits from promoting services. In fact, we don't post specific referral codes or promo codes on the site. I created the site to track services I used in the past.

However, I understand the point you're trying to make. I'll definitely work on making it clear if a service is offering something for "free" and clarify the full terms of the wording.
I think he doesn't have to do that. It's not a comparison he needs to prove for me. Not that I agree, but it shows his feelings, and it probably shows the sentiment of many Greeks.
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Hi Kruk! Thanks for checking out the site. Your feedback is very similar to @anilgulecha's suggestion to add India specific startups. I'll certainly prioritize categorizing startups by location.
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Or changed the promotion values depending on country. I know Hello Fresh offers promotions in Germany (I have some of their promo cards in my living room, undecided if I want to try it out, and it is for €20 off, IIRC - I am at work at the moment). So the info they offer $40 off is kinda wrong for me...
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Goodbye workplace, cafe and hotel wifi?
I don't agree with how you frame the academics as the bad guys. I do agree the system is FUBAR.

There is a tremendous failure on the behalf of universities in the way they hire academics and how they treat them.

Universities preferentially hire world class _researchers_ so that they pull in maximal grant money which they can then leech upwards of 70% in dramatically overstated "lab fees". Then, they force these researchers to go through pointless habilitation exercises and then teach classes which, the vast majority of the time, have nothing to do with the academic's research. A new professor will likely be forced to teach the most advanced classes that are not specialty classes (in physics say Electrodynamics, or Quantum Mechanics) because no one wants to teach the hard subjects that aren't their own field. This means that the new professor, for the first several years, will spend 10+ hours a week studying the concepts themselves to they can adequately teach the class.

Then, in most situations, the academic, on tenure track is simultaneously forced into a support administrative position. They are required to arrange anywhere up to half a dozen business trips a year which entails days of planning, applying for permission, purchasing fare and lodging (of course out of the researcher's own pocket), applying for reimbursement, etc. And god forbid you host a meeting yourself, that has a whole slew of it's own responsibilities. Then of course there's the day to day applying for major grants which you need to do yearly, applying for purchase permission for lab equipment which, depending on your lab can be once every few years (computer labs) to once every few weeks (geophysics for example buying reagents). Also you need to organize and attend anywhere from 1-10 meetings / invited lectures per week.

This person, who has gone into academia because of their passion for a specific aspect of their field now spends the vast majority of each day micromanaging students, studying a topic they don't care about, teaching that topic to a class of students who likely also don't care, filling out redundant and often confusing legalese style paperwork and teaching the exact same skills over and over again to the steadily coming and going research assistants.

And _none of this matters a tic on the resume_. All that people care about is the paper output, which is what the researcher wanted to do in the first place. Is it really a mystery as to why your undergraduate professor seemed pissed off and stressed out?

The problem is universities hiring world class researchers to do administration and teaching when they should be hiring administrators and teachers. Researchers should work at research facilities like Fermilab, CERN, NASA etc. Does it really fucking matter if your Physics 1 professor got a Nobel Prize back in the 60s?

Also most academics I know don't share your perceived opinions of looking down on undergrad students, the general public, grad students, etc. Most of them are just really disappointed that they can't do what they got into the business to do and are used to dealing with people who don't care about them or their passions at all.