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"Hard"? Or just "expensive" and "not easily automated away"?

Because there's a difference.

In this case though, I struggle even to see how that applies. The examples given are literally cases of identical text content between pirated and real works. We've had text figured out for a while now, it's not like it'd take image recognition software to see that the diff between the two books literally amounts to two words for the bogus author's name.
There are, IIRC, treaties regarding lunar occupation that, again IIRC, China never signed.

It will be an interesting race.
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This!
People always forget about indirect cost when talking about cheap nuclear energy (risk factors aside). Nobody has never build a profitable nuclear power plant without substantial government subsidies (way higher than for all renewable energy sources). Operators need government help for security, fuel supply, waste handling and much more. There is no insurance company on earth which will cover a nuclear power plant without state guarantees (ask yourself: Wouldn't a profit oriented insurance company cover these risks, of these were really as low and controllable as people say here?).
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Remember, whatever the charging time at a residential socket is in the US, the charging time at a European socket will be half of that. (If the socket is properly used)

(US uses 110V residential, 220V industrial; Europe uses 220V/230V/240V residential, 400V industrial; Additionally usually british and German wall sockets, at least, offer up to 16 or 24A, which, again, is more than US sockets. If the socket delivers more power, you can charge faster)
The conflict inside Google runs pretty deep. On the one hand they see no problem in blatantly infringing on copyrights left, right and center, on the other they police their own rules as if they're the law of the land.
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Well, there was a PHD thesis written on it that concisely answered the problem.
I believe it is easy to hire people with the Engineering visa. I was looking into it recently, as I was considering hiring someone, but it looks like I don't need to at the moment, so I haven't looked at the details closely. My understanding is that the main issue you might have is a small capital requirement and/or income to show that you can support the employee. I've talked with people who have sponsored foreign English teachers and they have told me that they had absolutely no difficulty (though this was several years ago -- things might have changed).

I haven't actually read the fine article yet, but I'm not really sure what would attract people to doing start ups in Japan. Hiring locals is difficult because of the way the job system works -- people don't change jobs every few years. It's quite a bit cheaper to live here than many other places in the world, but it is culturally very different. I spent 5 years here teaching English amongst many young (mostly American) colleagues. I wouldn't bring people over here unless you are prepared to help them out a lot when they inevitably get in trouble (shuddering recalling the experience of having to help my colleague who punched a police officer). It's a big commitment. Also, unless you have a lot of experience with Japanese culture yourself, it can be a bit tricky to handle all of the business issues. For my business, I write code and leave all the business issue to my Japanese wife (even though I am quite fluent in Japanese). Without her and my accountant, I would be lost.

But, of course, Japan is an amazing place if you are the kind of person who fits in here. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
Hmm I would love an electric car and the i8 is beautiful after seeing it local car dealer and drooling

but the price is incredible at north of €120K! you can buy an apartment/home here for that lol, and it wont depreciate as much

So in meantime i will continue to drive my decade old gaz guzling m-sports x5, i now wonder if should hold onto it another 10 years and keep in my garage, decades from now it could be a collectors item for those who want/nostalgic fpr v8 petrol muscle cars.
No matter how much money you throw at the problem, you won't be able to solve it entirely in cities. European cities aren't really built with cars in mind and most buildings don't come with garages. So all the cars currently parking in streets, can't be charged at all.

In order for electric cars to become a good alternative, they need to be chargeable in <5min at least.
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Also, gas stations make almost 0 profit with selling gas even today (at least here in Germany), so they’ll probably end up as midnight stores with obscene prices.
Interesting, I guess there are some regional differences then, as well. This is what I learned in elementary school in the 90s (in NRW): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Deutsche_normalschrift_a...

For what it's worth I still try to use it whenever I write by hand (which is rare in the first place), but often revert to print because I can't usually decipher my cursive a day later.
Depends on how broad your definition of subsidy is.
Oil and gas companies operating in the UK are some of the largest direct contributors to the UK exchequer, and so the tax breaks they're able to claim for certain activities are also relatively large.
(with the government indirectly getting those tax breaks back and more by taxing domestically-sold fuel at high rates by world standards)

Renewables, by contrast, make up ~7% of the UK's electricity generation and <1% of its fleet of road vehicles, so even the relatively generous subsidy schemes don't make that much of dent in the UK budget.
In my experience, it's not unusual, though not common, for people (usually parties) to refuse to testify in a civil case based on the 5th amendment. The other side can ask the court to draw an adverse inference from this. I know an aggressive litigator who sometimes has his clients do this. He says "you won't win your case with your adverse inference."

That may be true, but the 5th amendment seems like a risky civil strategy to me. Usually the other side won't be entirely dependent on your testimony to prove their case. There can be other evidence out there that you might want to explain with your testimony, or you may otherwise wish to make your case with testimony.

It's worth knowing that in a civil case the 5th amendment is much less powerful and has risks as well as benefits.
> “We didn’t tell the shop-floor workers what to do,” McGrath says. “We put them in McLaren overalls and let them play with the system. They saw for themselves what had to change.” The Maidenhead team developed a seven-step process that began before the changeover, mirroring McLaren’s cycle of simulation, pre-planning, debriefing and continuous improvement. Changeover times fell by 60 percent, dropping from an average of 39 minutes to 15, equating to an extra 20 million tubes by the end of the year. “We used to see changeovers as down time,” Glover says. “McLaren sees pit stops as an opportunity to win the race.”

It seems like it boils down to this. Which means it's a management issue, in a way.
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I like Mathematica quite a bit (the Front End/Kernel makes a lot of sense), but I don't really like Wolfram after he left Physics. The way he downplays Reduce, Macsyma (Maxima), the pioneering work that was Veltman's Schoonschip and then FORM... He doesn't even mention the folks at Maple. Computer Algebra was a well established field way before Mathematica appeared in 1988[1]. He's smart and very good at selling his product, that's fine, and for a long time his company has had the resources to hire a lot of good people and you can tell/take advantage of it when using Mathematica. But honestly, I think we could do without.

Personally, I find more interesting David R. Stoutmeyer, who made the first CAS for microcomputers in the late 70s, muMath for CP/M, and then the tiny PICOMATH-80 for the TRS-80. He went on to write Derive, that was much loved in the early 90s, because it was very good and you could afford it while Mathematica has always been expensive and for some years (until version 2.2 really) you needed either a souped- up Macintosh or a workstation to run it. Then Texas Instruments hired him in order to develop the Derive-based TI-92/89 (Derive was written in Lisp, its version for those in C BTW) and ended up buying Soft Warehouse and shutting Derive for good... which is just sad and nobody cares.

I'd like to ask for some love for Reduce, now open sourced and hosted at SourceForge -not cool any more, but it lives there-. It still makes a few calculations easier than Mathematica.

[1] See for instance this very interesting review of the early Mathematica: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/mma.review.pdf
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Since you're a programmer I think you'll like 'Hooked' by Nir Eyal (with Ryan Hoover) about building habit-forming products. It's very accessible, actionable and basically compressed my 4-year UX design college education into a couple hundred pages.

@cdvonstinkpot great suggestion! Huge fan of Seth Godin.
Golden Hammer.

Doctors have medical background, so they tend to see things through that lens and solve problems with the medical tools they have on hand.

Cops tend to apply law & order solutions to the problems they see, because that is what they know.

Scientists tend to ...

Engineers tend to ...

It's hard for us to remove ourselves from what we know and have spent so many years studying, and look at problems with fresh eyes.
Very interesting read, even as a German. Thanks.

I did not know international media would portrait it so... wrong.
In that case, I don't think we're really talking about the idea. What we're talking about is that the idea has been validated through a lot of hard work. Ideas are still cheap; what's valuable is knowledge.
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I don't think he's being overly pedantic -- these kinds of things are difficult to talk about because we bring different definitions to the table. I tried to use "rational" in the context of the original article, which perhaps I failed to do so. The interviewer notes the contemporary critique of Enlightenment rationality, which Saul seems to share. So when I critique this kind of rationality, I mean a type of faculty that is in a different category from emotions and faith, that is separated from Saul's description of the other faculties of humanity.

I think Eli and I are caught in what Wittgenstein might call a "language game." We seem to be using the same word but we're really meaning two different things. It'd be like if I thought basketball was a game involving kicking a ball into a net (soccer) and Eli thought it was a game involving throwing a ball into a net (basketball). While in that case we do have one objective definition of basketball, we don't necessarily have one universally accepted definition for "rationality."

I'm kind of reaching my limit here in terms of knowledge of philosophy; I've perhaps confused things by framing my descriptions using two contradictory definitions of rationality: that of the Enlightenment idea of rational (which I critique) vs St. Maximos the Confessor's idea of rational (which I advocate). I think that Eli is arguing from a Kantian sense, in terms of actions being rational up to a subjective idea of an ultimate good. Luckily for us, I've found a paper that discusses these three topics and will hopefully clear up the miscommunication we've had: http://www.academia.edu/10973797/A_Byzantine_Critique_of_Enl...

Edit: I initially said that Eli and I are perhaps in agreement, but assuming he's arguing from the Kantian sense then we aren't.
His autobiography, which he read on BBC Radio Four, was fascinating. Especially hos description of his addiction to drugs and his recovery.

[1] sadly not still available. It's proba ly around from other sources. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b062jsmz
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> Fukushima was an unsafe design

Fukushima was a standard design. Built by European and US companies in the same style as dozens of plants in Germany.

This is not "Fukushima was unsafe". If you say "Fukushima was unsafe", then half of Germany’s reactors are unsafe.

Shutting them down was the only option.

> making a few permanent wildlife reserves in the irradiated areas isn't a global catastrophe

You are talking about Japan. A country with one of the highest population densities worldwide. Declaring a whole province – and one with lots of history – off-limits is not going to happen. Currently they’ve been digging out the ground in half of the province.

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EDIT: Some more info:

Fukushima was a Boiling Water Generator built by General Electrics. Reactors of the exact same design are Krümmel (Germany), Brunsbüttel (Germany), Philippsburg (Germany), Isar (Germany). Krümmel and Brunsbüttel had constant issues, including the town next to it having the highest cancer rate on the planet.

The same design used by Fukushima is described in Wikipedia as "the second most common type of electricity-generating nuclear reactor".

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_water_reactor

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunsb%C3%BCttel_Nuclear_Power...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%BCmmel_Nuclear_Power_Pla...

- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuk%C3%A4miecluster_Elbmarsch

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Powe...
> This article reads like the author has misinterpreted his own personal preferences as some gospel truth that should apply to everyone

First paragraph:

"Here are some personal perspectives gained after 10+ years traveling and working between the Bay Area and Tokyo. YMMV!"
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I was under the impression that this is what psychology/psychiatry is supposed to do by charter.

Most professionals I know in the field take the attitude that a patient's psychological state should only be corrected if that patient feels they are an impediment to their own goals. This also goes along with the popular alcoholics anonymous mantra "we can't help you till you want to help yourself" (I'm not advocating AA just that it's a popular approach).

Of course this doesn't apply to people who have behavior disorders or are violent and end up committed.
There are no storage or transmission problems. Build hydro-pump-storage plants, and you fixed the storage issues.

Build power lines from everywhere to everywhere, and refit transformer stations to be up to the load of users producing more than using, and you fix that, too. (Incidentally, in Germany we’re having a huge debate about a huge powerline currently, NIMBY is one of the worst things that happened)
A friend of mine who lived in Africa tells the story about how there was a ferry needed to cross a river. There was always this beggar there asking for money. One day, my friend didn't have the money to get across, so he asked the beggar if he could help. The beggar was very pleased to be able to help someone out.
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We were certainly taught cursive, but I don't know a single person who still uses it other than me. Their writing is (for the most part) slow and legible, mine is fast and almost unreadable. More so when I use a fountain pen.

Still, it's moot - as the article author said - because I haven't had to handwrite more than my own name in the last 6 months.
The toll from fossil fuels is however much easier to deal with. The worst case scenario for a nuclear reactor failure in Germany, is that there is no Germany afterwards.
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I'm kinda late, I guess, but I thought I'd add my 4¢:

It's not experience, so much as accomodating the repetetivity of software development. Just like getting a better chair or a more comfortable keyboard, one day you find a font that strains your eyes and brain less than the last one, and you switch, and your eyes last longer.

Speaking of which, my absolute first reaction after I loaded that screenshot was "ouch, blur!" - to me, the combination of font, color scheme and antialiasing is making the text quite hard to read. Now, your eyes might be good enough to counteract that, and your screen might be lit differently from mine perhaps as well, making this reaction moot. On the other hand, if you look at some of the sharper screenshots in this thread (curl -s https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10140728 | grep -o '<a href="https\?:&#x2F;&#x2F;[^"]\+"' | sed $'s/^.\{9\}//;s/.$//;s/\&#x2F;/\//g;/imgur\|png/s/[^$]\+/\033[7m&\033[0m/'), and your eyes go "...oooh.", then you might be blind to the blurriness of your font. You might adjust this by changing the font, your editor color scheme, or learning about FreeType (ahaha) and how to adjust hinting.

All of this is just technical blathering though; I'm not questioning your choice of font for the choice's sake, or criticising it. I'm just saying, in case you don't realize, I thought it was blurry with my eyes, on my system. :P

As for actually going about making changes and adjustments, this is usually done in the traditional manner - spending an afternoon avoiding the todo list and for example getting horribly distracted with color scheme designers or font comparison utilities or text editor build systems... ;)
Yes it has turned into The Hacienda at this stage. It has its roots in Temporary Autonomous Zones / Pirate Utopias, but has since seen the attention of the gentrifiers.

The Hacienda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ha%C3%A7ienda

Gentrification:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification
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Another enlightening point is that there is a significant loss in the optic fibers:

> The whole process was horribly inefficient, with a success rate of 6.4 × 10−9, mostly because photons kept getting lost in the fiber optic cables. But, over the course of nine days, the setup managed to successfully entangle the nitrogen vacancies 245 times.
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This is in the Indian context, the developer and the client are both in India.

I wanted some professional input regarding current market rates in making websites. I am just starting out and I don't have much experience with current freelancing/contract rates of making websites. Hence the post.

I have been offered a contract of building a website with the following
features:

- Search a directory of content which is obtained from excel sheets

- Create shareable links of search results

- Two dynamic pages to render the search results in interactive way

- Two static pages

- Feedback/Review on search results, which only the owners can see

- Design layout for the website

- Hosting a blog for the website owners

- Hosting an end-user forum

I am looking to know how much would you, or a company that you know, would charge for a website described above. I am planning to do this as a fixed-rate project.

I'll be very glad to get some inputs.
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There are sure to be several ways we could categorize different types of addictions and the people they affect. It does seem, however, that much of the underlying machinery is consistent.

For me, there were signs of compulsive behavior very early on - from food to reading novels nonstop - and I knew after the first time I experienced a 'buzz' as a child (probably an antihistamine) that this could cause me even more trouble.

Would I have sought escapes out less if my family and social lives had been better, or would I have been drawn in no matter what? I have no idea. Regardless, I did manage to learn with time that 'finding a path', as you say, led me to deeper experiences that not only reduced my desire to escape, but made even the escapes richer and more enjoyable. Of course, the pendulum swings, but it is good to know there are other ways one can live-- which is not always clear to younger people, simply because they haven't proven it to themselves yet.

One of the worst ways we fail young people seeking meaning is by giving them incomplete, conflicting and downright false ideas about what to value. I suspect this in large part because we haven't quite properly reached consensus on this as a species. In any case, I certainly believe we can do better.
I'm sure that the people behind Chernobyl and Fukushima were no less convinced that the design was safe and operated perfectly fine, than you are convinced that modern reactors are safely designed and operated correctly.
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Yes. Perfectly working coal produces more radiation than perfectly working nuclear.

When coal has a major incident, though, it still produces the same pollutants as if it's working correctly.

When nuclear has incidents, like the plants of Brunsbüttel and Krümmel that frequently had leaks, you end up with the highest leukemia quote worldwide [1].

Krümmel had major issues, with nuclear fuel being found in the area around the reactor, outside, on the ground, with the power plant leaking coolant frequently, and more incidents. [1]

Mismanagement with Nuclear can lead to far more problems than mismanagement with coal.

More Info and Links:
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leukämiecluster_Elbmarsch (Sadly, only German article available).

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%BCmmel_Nuclear_Power_Pla...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunsb%C3%BCttel_Nuclear_Power...
I would honestly prefer to watch an F1 competition where we get to watch all the back-room engineering and support infrastructure than the actual F1 car on the track itself. I've always been a fair-weather F1 watcher, but I'd really dig seeing more of what goes on behind the scenes as part of the battles between engineering teams.
> Take out the AI for color processing and you really have just a nifty publishing workflow that has built-in imagemagick support.

If that's the case - why don't we have any open source content management systems that will do what The Grid does already?
This was my first thought - I can't imagine how someone could feasibly start a company here without being at least somewhat bilingual.

I've seen people found and run successful companies with only moderate Japanese ability, but only when they'd already lived here a long time and had lots of contacts. (And folks in that position will have their own opinions about the startup climate...)
Well I read some and had the impression they were going for speed or low cycle count. Indeed, most surely still work (there doesn't seem to be anything that is processor-specific). Unfortunately my asm is rustier than I thought and I find it quite demanding to read and fully understand them.
And still, we have with Nuclear issues like this:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leuk%C3%A4miecluster_Elbmarsch
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My Nissan LEAF takes a hair over 4 hours to charge from basically flat to full using the commonly available 6.6kW EVSEs.

6.6kW adds about 25 miles of range per hour of charging.

It's only the slow trickle charger that takes a long time (in fact can be over 24 hours).
Very interesting. It is based on a technology of semantics or is it a neural network where each neuron represents a concept?
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I highly agree that Tokyo is a great place to live and work. As long as you can fit in with the culture. I would also strongly agree with the other points.

We have a small slack channel with a few startup members here however its not very active. Join us there and also at tech crawl tokyo later this month to meet some more of us.

http://techtokyo.herokuapp.com/
https://techcrawl.doorkeeper.jp/
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