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You should not overstate how Earth ecosystem is "delicately balanced". Large deserts where vegetation used to be. Ice ages (and inter-ice periods) really messed up northern fauna: all megafauna went extinct, wooly rhinos, mammoths, sabertooth tigers, etc. Without them the ecosystem is incomplete and disbalanced.
Irrelevant to the topic of innovation. I strongly dislike how gun rights, black lives matter, anti-police, etc. people have tried to warp many conversations on HN to this topic. I get it, USA has issues, stop trying to force the discussion everywhere.
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I don't see how it even matters from a technical standpoint.
The China diagram should have a large one way blue arrow coming from the West.
As an advertiser, I would love to advertise on DDG, but to do so, I have to use Bing which means 99% of my ad spend does NOT go to DDG. I don't care about tracking - just want to reach a great audience that is using DDG. Will it ever happen (DDG native ads)?
I had a big name health insurance company through a company policy which actually mandated that I pay a certain minimum for drugs purchased at the pharmacy. If I used the card and bought a generic which would normally cost say $9, I'd pay $20. Use the card, pay more than retail.
the problem is exactly that. some group in an ivory tower refuses to (or can't?) move. most of posix is like that. Linux "standard" for gui stuff is still some definition from IBM to normalize DOS apps (reason why F10 open menus, copy paste with ctrl+ins, shift+ins, etc).

then people that can't work together with others (eg Jobs) does retarded things like /localLibrary which benefit nobody, not even themselves. just throw everything up. then if those folks succeed despite that, it becomes the new immutable thing to follow, like gnome is doing with following blindly apple ui specs.

edit: i never tried to contribute to any larger standard. i did develop against most of them, cursed at their anachronistic ways and coded around it praising consistency. so i am pretty sure i am part of the problem described above. I'm not saying the fine people in those ivory towers are the problem. I'm glad we have that little help for world consistency. it's just not enough.
Reminds me of that episode of Black Mirror.
I think you're illustrating quite well how people don't get China. Just because you don't like certain things doesn't mean it won't be overshadowed by other realities. The US is dysfunctional in many ways too, but are still a leader in some areas.
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I used to think that this was a really weird missing feature in Github. Then someone introduced me to true Gitflow using forked repos have used it with all teams since. With a forked repo someone with read access can post a PR to the originating repository without the ability to merge.

Does no one else use this methodology on their teams?
You do know that cocaine in the US is still considered a Schedule II drug, meaning research is currently being conducted on its use in medical scenarios, whereas marijuana is a Schedule I and forbidden from authorized study? Ketamine may be known as a party drug, but it's also being tested in the treatment of PTSD. Research isn't always conducted in a lab, and some people are willing to be guinea pigs for a variety of personal reasons.

I didn't mention alcohol and those authors to make light of addiction, but to elaborate that even socially acceptable drugs can carry with them negative long-term outcomes. If you think for a minute that you'll achieve in your entire lifetime what O. Henry and F. Scott Fitzgerald did in <45 years - during the early 20th century when dietary input care standards were extremely lacking ("The Jungle") and medical science was barely out of primitive conditions (e.g. soap) - then by all means, lets see how much of an impact you've had on society at large. These were high performers who achieved heights that you can not begin to conceptualize with the outlook you've constructed.

It's like you totally ignored my caveats that every individual has individual tolerances, personality traits, or genetic factors which render drugs a risk-bearing proposition! You've made the very, very common mistake of assuming that without alcohol those writers would have been as uninhibited or determined to perform their art. It's like the "deal with the devil" that artists understand and fear - if doing something results in success, then along with it comes a lot of baggage to continue down that path.

You've done nothing but try and re-inforce that drugs such as alcohol lead to inevitable ruin, and completely glossed over the achievements those individuals did. Do you honestly think that O. Henry went to the bottle because it was his muse, or can you fathom the concept that the bottle was the way he coped with his insecurities as a pathway to actually doing something constructive with his life?

Wise up. Don't believe that you can cite Wikipedia and some friends who got divorced and use that to go toe-to-toe with somebody who has seen both the bright skies and pits of hell that is called life. What if you're part of the problem holding back our species?
As someone shipping proprietary applications on Linux, the lack of binary compat is still not fun at all. In a previous gig, we ended up with 20 odd build slaves ({x86, x86_64} * Common RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian), and making binaries for each, rather than trying to make LSB based binaries.
It looks like same happens with dental amalgam fillings too (which also contains mercury):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw94F94FZqA

Most say it's safe (the FDA too) and that video just shows water vapor because mercury vapor wouldn't rise like that due to it's weight, but I'm not sure what to believe.

http://quackfiles.blogspot.hu/2005/04/smoking-teeth-truth-ge...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_amalgam_controversy
> Sure, you could say people made up these Bible stories if you want

Occam's razor would suggest this is the best approach
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I would think so too, but I would not be surprised if there is some sort of industry wide collusion to not try and change the situation. The key is separating out the risks that are truly higher from those that are not. If they are applying this as a blanket policy on all claimants it suggests that collusion is the culprit.
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The IP flow diagram was quite confusing. How does that make a system?
I wonder how many of those engineers have horror stories about women who can only talk about <insert bland, socially approved topic here> and refuse to discuss anything interesting, like engineering or video games.
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Ha, you western guys just talk like us. I never think highly of Chinese innovation, there's just pirate. It's much more easier to protect your innovation in west, therefore easier to publish your innovation.
Is there anything else in the modern world where we still uses mercury in this large amount of quantity?

If so why?
Things happen, even in the most craziest places. And China isn't really that crazy of a place. It is only a matter of efficiency and stability.
There's also CSP[0] which has taken off recently in the past 5 years (fastest growing[1] segment at ~4GW total vs ~177GW for PV) which is overshadowed by most compared to PV mind-share, but is better suited for projects that require more energy/load requirements.

I also can see CSP being more attractive to locales with existing grids and who can probably attract financing easier for a +100 MW plant to one institution vs 100k+ people having to be sold on such to install PV on their house/property. There's definitely a market for both and they will all chip away at fossil fuels rapidly coming from different sides of the market for energy.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power

[1]: http://www.examiner.com/article/market-growth-for-pv-solar-v...
Seriously, NO!! If anyone ever reads this do NOT use a shopvac. You will make the problem 10000x worse. Mercury is only an acute health hazard if vaporized. A shopvac will instantly vaporize it. You will turn an expensive and irritating headache into a medical and possibly life-threatening emergency.
Have you ever noticed that society tends to focus on the criminals who get caught, and rarely the ones who got away? A lifetime relationship with illicit substances is the same. Because of the taboo, nobody in their right mind who is successful, maintains life and family, and appears normal to the world would ever disclose what they do in their personal life and subject themselves to moralistic judgment. As in journalism, there are significant reasons to keep your confidential sources private.
Uhhh, at that point doesn't it make sense to just tear it down and rebuild?
As an American living in China, I agree with you 100%.
A few points:

- I would not consider Taobao a clone.

- The US has its advantages but also its disadvantages. Funding (e.g. SBIR grants) is very corrupt in the US (corrupt in the Latin sense, meaning not necessary meaning bribes but personal relationships. I could tell stories, Lordy Lord).

- "true rule of law" The true rule of law is a question of money in the states. For the average citizen the law has become more a risk than an asset.

http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/...
To be clear, Apple is not blocking any ads. They are providing browser hooks to let people create ad blockers, just like (say) Google does on desktop Chrome. The difference is important.
In the end he is using the $50k expense as an argument for renting instead of buying.

I am wondering, if you were to rent, would your landlord actually cover this? Sounds like that would be equally hard as claiming it on insurance or previous owner of house. I can imagine the response being something along "our janitor was qualified to clean it up and you shouldn't have called haz team" or simply that the leak wasn't their fault. On the other hand you can easily bail out and just rent another place, unless the queue to get a rental is 3years+ in your city.
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They're losing trust, control, and piece of mind. Like if a bully comes up to you and pretends to punch you in the face every day: you can't just say "oh, I'm not hitting you" and think what you're doing is ok. It forces people to be cynical and defensive, and people don't want to be cynical and defensive.
How would you write it?
Venture capital or a bank loan in china for your biz requires guangxi galore, they are not at an advantage over the USA.

Rule of law is very strong in the U.S.; but ya you need to afford a lawyer. In contrast, a lawyer cannot help you much in China if the government has already made up its mind. The level of dysfunctions in either system differ by an order of magnitude.
Cynical and false.

http://www.iii.org/sites/default/files/paper_HurricaneAndrew...

Katrina: $47.6 billion paid out. Andrew: $25.0 billion paid out. Ike: $13.1 billion paid out. (Constant 2011 dollars.)

See discussion of "wind pool" in the document, by the way: the way Florida works is by having a semi-governmental organization insure wind damage and letting private insurance companies sell "we'll insure any risk as long as it isn't wind damage" policies.
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_...

http://systemd-free.org/
>Natural gas will stick around until utility scale batteries ramp up, to where peaking plants are too expensive compared to utility scale batteries.

There's another possibility which is that there will be an overbuild of solar and wind caused by a clean energy boom (ZIRP already did this to oil; where is that ROI-hungry risk capital going to look for returns next?).

The market will then figure out ways of putting the large irregular surpluses of electricity to use. For example, generating fuel as mentioned below, or running adjustable output aluminum smelting plants.

I think the opportunities opened up by periodic bouts of practically free electricity which have already started to occur have been vastly understated. People just look at the other side of the equation - probably because oil/utility companies have tried to keep us fixated upon it.

I think the most optimistic part of all of this, though, is the implications for democracy and peace. When the age of oil finally expires (and it is nearing a close) there won't be any way to put a chokehold on supplies of energy with raw military power.

This is probably the only thing, in fact, that could actually lead to lasting peace in the middle east, which has been plagued by the resource curse for a century or so.
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> What you are saying only holds up until about 40 years ago. The 2500 years before that contradicts what you are saying.

A tautology.

> It does not. More ideal money drives out less ideal money.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law

> You don't have to look far to see that what you are saying is ridiculous. Argentina, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

You're confusing inflation with hyper inflation, a common mistake.

> At the same time, if you took a long view and were going to put away $100,000 in US dollars or $100,000 in gold and you would come back in 100 years to get it, which would you do?

As I already told you the purpose of money is not to save it, I would not store 100k liquid as cash; cash does not exist to save, it exists to trade. Save assets, not money. Money is a tool, inflation only bothers those who don't understand how the tool works and try and use it inappropriately.
So you're saying working in-person leads to "ambient paranoia and discomfort" and "resentment"?
You shouldn't neglect everything that doesn't seem related. These can affect the overall climate for innovation, imo.
Ice?
So you can talk about how Chinese govt disliking people, how China doesn't have "true laws" and link them to innovation while my comment on to US laws is dismissed as irrelevant?

Yeah, I get it. Talk about bad things about US and get downvotes. Talks about bad things about China and get upvotes.
"I want to be able to fork existing cell phone designs."

Right. That's the problem. He wants to steal someone else's technology and resell it. What he means by "innovate" is "add some tiny feature to someone else's thing."
How many elevators were failing today? how many were fixed today? and how many have been monitored in real-time to get fixed as they fail? Likewise, statistical models can be monitored and fixed automatically, and, of course, even so they will fail from time to time like elevators do.
The US government is a massive bureaucracy, which is bad for efficiency, but they also control the bureaucracy, which gives them an advantage in cutting through red tape, and they can get an economy of scale that an individual can't.
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Perhaps not related, but doesn't water shrink when it transitions from ice to liquid water? I know it increases in density (thus ice floats).
Don't think so. The data and how it's represented is the code. ML is the compiler.
Because Nielsen gives them numbers they like. I'm sure the real data proves to advertisers exactly how few people really watch TV ads rather than skip/change channels/mute etc.
You can buy Vangard market index ETFs. VOO is their S&P500 ETF and BND is their bond ETF. Maintaining a 60/40 split of VOO/BND is hard to beat over long time frames. Substitute VYM for VOO for more cash flow at the expense of higher volatility.
This is actually a good thing. You might have found it bothersome, but what it was doing was intelligently trying to reason whether a device would cause problems in your machine. It did not make the correct decision, but the infrastructure is there.

I would file a bug on systemd mentioning this behavior. But I like the fact that that my usb wifi card will not screw my system.
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You're replying to someone who explained to you that that question is, in many quarters, a question about socioeconomic status, and your reply is "I don't understand why it's rude, it's not a question about socioeconomic status." Yes, it is about socioeconomic status. You may not think it should be, you may not like that it is, but it is, otherwise people would not take it as such. The reasons are historical and cultural, and if you study the (American, though not exclusively) relationship between work and sociological sense of self of the 20th century you are surely more than capable of divining the details, but it exists, and your further confusion about rudeness will probably continue until you accept that the measuring tools of rudeness are not yours to calibrate.
PR, influence, beta testing, 3rd party devs patching bugs for you for free ...
I think it would be hard to give an answer without a more specific question, this just seems like a kind of nonspecific gripe.
Two words: "surge pricing".
Well, there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Zenith_Telescope

(I'm not sure how much Mercury the telescope uses.)
Serious question: lots of people claiming innovations in China. What are these innovations in the past 20 years? Where are these innovations sold? Because walking around the busy streets of Europe or America or Japan, I sure don't see any Chinese brands or products that would be remotely popular. sure there are made in China stuff ( although nowadays it's made in Vietnam or India or Philippines).
That's claptrap. Comments on 99.9% of websites are a pointless cesspool. If someone wants to scream racism or misogyny at other people, they can fire up Wordpress and make their own crappy blog. No one has some moral duty to give the diseased gums of humanity somewhere to spew their garbage thoughts, and ginning up some argument about comments being a space for telling truth to power is prima facie ridiculous to anyone who's spent 20 minutes on the internet.
That came dangerously close to being a literal "no true Scotsman" dismissal of the GP's example...
Access to clean water has improved.
Infant mortality has dropped.
Infectious disease rates have dropped.

Nope. It's because poor people are getting access to better infrastructure, better healthcare, better education, and better job opportunities.
As the first person in the world to put comments directly under news stories (japantoday.com), I am appalled by the excuses that sites give to stop their comment sections. For example, the Daily Beast said they were stopping comments because of the trolls, yet there were plenty of good commenters on there. What about them? This trend seems partly driven by an unwillingness to deal with the work of removing actual trolls, which is not actually all that difficult, and the arrogance of some journalists who simply don't want their opinions to be questioned. I try my best to avoid those sites now -- they don't want you to engage.

I've always found that the commenters are the core of the community and they will come back time and time again to discuss the issues and add extra context and meaning. They give sites life. Life is messy, but we deal with it. These sites seem to think they can offload the work to Facebook, but all they are doing is losing their community, the people, and the spark. They should know that Facebook doesn't care about their community -- it only cares about Facebook, and will screw them as soon as it can.
USA does not put citizens in reeducation camps for tweeting about their dislike for their leader. China will have you murdered if you agitate enough. The discrepancies in the two countries in how they handle dissent could not be farther apart.

I wish USA's police did not kill so many people. But Obama does not have dissidents executed for their thought crimes. You should be happy you can post open dissent about the USA on a public internet forum. In many countries, such as China, this is a dangerous move.
MakerBot's problem is that their hardware technology is obsolete. They made a mediocre extruder-type printer years ago, and they still make a mediocre extruder-type printer. Meanwhile, the other players are going to better technologies.
The line they use isn't "what percentage of people can't afford a TV". It's more along the lines of "what percentage of people can afford adequate food and clean water".
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Tomas Lindahl, uncle of Erik Lindahl, head GROMACS honcho...

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Forked repos is absolutely one way to accomplish preventing merge privileges (since it removes all push access). At least for us, our workflow and tooling is much simpler if all developers work on the same repository.

Even in the case of forked repos, I think PullApprove can still have some benefits. Ex. Someone forks and makes a pull request, but it needs to be reviewed by two key developers before it should be merged. PullApprove could help to formalize that process, requiring that both of those developers mark it as "approved"...

Does that example apply to your workflow? Or is there anything else about your process that a service like PullApprove could formalize? I'm looking forward to hearing more about how other teams deal with some of these issues...
Thanks. I will definitely test this.
Exactly, If they are all combined they might as well Merge into one company.
> What's the point of buying insurance then

Unfortunately, just like for many things, government makes it mandatory to buy insurance for many of your properties. So the scam can go on and on forever.
For society you need reliability, you just don't stop freezers just because sun goes down, or there is period of storms or night. You would need atleast 14 times the hour capacity just to smooth the daily curve. [In winter there is less sunlight hours and maximum sun light is mid-day.]
The cost is more than 0.1$ per watt hour of capacity, just for battery, and not for any power electronics going with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechargeable_battery

So this alone would increase your cost estimates by 150$

And for society you probably want a weeks worth of electricity stored in some form or other to deal with weather differences, and not summer winter difference. So minimal goal would be 24*7. Or just more than 150 hours.

Or that another 1500$ of cost not included in your estimations.
Now a big thing to realize, in electricity markets where networks are required to take in solar and wind from other players, its not the producer of electricity that bears the cost of that large storage its the utility that buys the electricity from market.

Right now it works somewhere along the lines. Lets make 40% efficient fossil fuel plants instead of 60% efficient slowly starting fossil fuel plants, so that we can turn them on and off for covering the difference between intermitted sources and consumption.
So in reality renewable plants end up just becoming fuel saving devices for fossil fuel plants while reducing fuel efficiency of said plants when they actually are turned on .
In long run I believe nuclear is way to go if we want to stop global warming. The intermittency problem goes away with it and you can run a grid with 100% nuclear with very little storage because production isn't intermittent, and with modern plants you can vary electricity production between 50 and 100%

Global warming is accumulating effect, the emissions are just rate of change, and not the temperature difference, and we need to aim pretty close to zero emissions to stop it. [Yes nature takes some of it off from circulation but a lot less than people think because naysayers compare our emissions to winter, summer cycle of plants that cancels itself in yearly basis.]
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