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So the function is for 4 of those batteries to run the power supply for 1 minute?
> Oil price being one particularly topical.

The price of oil is set by a cartel...

> Sure, in gluts, $0.50 milk per gallon would be great, but in times of say severe drought, $8/gallon would be devastating to those people for whom food is a large part of their budgets, or most people.

You can't stockpile milk, this argument makes no sense.
Sorry for adding a new set of things to enumerate over. I think there are a bunch of things that it's easy to conflate between, and I want to distinguish them explicitly.

(a) The Copenhagen interpretation of ethics, the idea (roughly stated) that people who interact with a problem are more responsible than people who ignore it

(b) The factual question of whether some people subscribe to CIE (or perhaps deny it, but act as though they subscribe to it)

(c) The normative question of whether CIE is "correct".

(d) Factual questions about which of (1), (2) and (3) funge off against each other under which situations

You seem to be making some claims about (d) and then saying (b) is false and (a) is a strawman, but that doesn't follow.

You're saying pretty explicitly that people who do (3) are okay, possibly conditional on not having interacted with starving people; and people who do (2) are bad. If that's not what you think, please say so. If it is, then the thing you're calling a straw man is something you actually subscribe to.

If you think it's relevant, that there's no business relation, then that is pretty much exactly what CIE is. And fine, go ahead and argue, as others in the thread have done, for (c). Argue that yes, it's important that there's no business relation, and that (3) is better than (2).

But right now you're coming across kind of like:

"Stavrians think it's unethical to floom in your garglies."

"That's a strawman. Of course it's unethical to floom in your garglies."

and it's pretty frustrating.
Because there is nothing in it?
Now here is a dipole array:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duga-3
The benefit would be that - assuming the developer is well aware of this limitation - it would act as a disincentive to push code relying on the experimental feature to production.

It would however introduce a lot of hassle in testing the feature - being unable to work on a particular branch for all of every Tuesday. A better approach might be disabling it for an hour or two daily at 4am local time, or for 5 minutes per-hour, etc.
I don't see that at all. Lawyers in general dress better than most other professions except finance. I've worked in hospitals and never saw the doctors dressing as well as lawyers[1] - some consultants do, but far from the majority doctors. Friends of mine are in architecture, and I don't see that there either. Same with engineering in general - neat casual seems much more par for the course. Academics also don't often fit the bill.

In contrast, the 'neckbeard and star wars t-shirt' is something I've never personally seen working in tech. Neckbeard, yes. I've worked in one waterfall shop and four agile shops, and liaised with techies in enterprise from time to time (zero t-shirts there) - the 'sci-fi geek visible at 100 yards' is a trope, a stereotype. The techies I've worked with have been overwhelmingly male (only one female developer in all that time) and about half of them were family men. That's something the 'computer professional' stereotype actively opposes, instead painting people that are into computers as social losers who can't get a girl.

IT is more accepting of shabbiness in dress than other professions, but I simply don't see the sloganed t-shirt as being the actual standard attire of computer professionals. Instead it seems more to be a shorthand stereotype, just like a white coat and stethoscope signals 'doctor' in the collective mind.

[1] I do have bias here - when I say 'lawyers', I mean ones in business. I haven't had interaction with lawyers dealing in personal matters. I imagine they dress to suit.
I think norway was super smart. They took their oil money and invested in non oil things. Now when oil prices are low they can use the reserve to help pump their economy. I think they are actually doing things right.
Obviously, that's the disruptive feature that makes it worth $10 billion.
Yeah I am mainly in NW and Northern VA. Billboards are not illegal, but they are just regulated better. I was mainly comparing with Pensilvania, Ohio and a few Midwest states I drive through sometimes.
> The problem is all those small dairy farms can't compete with giant industrial farms which use steroids, growth hormones, or antibiotics.

Then ban the steroids, growth hormones, or antibiotics. None of this is a reason to allow the dairy farmers to form a cartel.

What's next, allow the car manufacturers to form a cartel because artisanal hand-made cars can't compete against factory-built cars?
Its hind legs have been amputated.
Yes practice is the key, but don’t just spend your time doing the software equivalent of scales, actually try and build something that is difficult and complex. I have always learnt the most when I am trying to solve real problems rather than toy problems, plus I am more motivated when I know the effort is going to result in something useful.
Anyone who calls the concentration of tech here 'irrational' doesn't understand anything about the benefits of networking. I pay a significant cost to be here because it is the tech capital of the world. That gives me the freedom to move between jobs easily, diversify my skills, and get raises.
It's him self-spamming his own site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pranaya_gh

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pranaya_gh
The Economist has been open about their neoliberal beliefs since the magazine's inception.
Unlikely. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergrounding:

"All low and medium voltage electrical power (<50 kV) in the Netherlands is now supplied underground."

That is a country where, in half the country, with way over half the population, you hit water year round after digging less than a meter.
I'm in arrears on my student loans. I'm one of the millions that is.

The first few lines of this article sums it up completely as to why.

"Between misdirected payments by one of the companies servicing his loan and the abusive collection tactics he encountered when he fell behind ..."

These companies that bought the loans on cheap from the secondary market, make more money from penalties they they do from loan servicing. And they have as many tricks up their sleeves as they can discover to help make that fact true.

They are the true sharks in the whole equation, with guaranteed support from the government and the tax payers.

I recommend that every last student default as things are now. If I were in charge of writing new laws for new student loans, which I am definitely not, I would allow them with three additional conditions. 1. They qualify for personal bankruptcy like any other consumer or investment loan, 2. they could NOT be sold off but would be held in a public trust fund, initially funded by public money, and topped up as needed, and 3. (Scandinavia does this) make repayment a modest surcharge in one's income tax. Make a lot, pay a lot and pay off fast. Make a little, pay a little and maybe never pay it off.
Why am I willingly listening to in store advertising? Some of these tunes are groovy.
Cool, so when are you moving?

(only half kidding) But that is the right answer right? Once they admit they have the flexibility of living anywhere they want then they should exercise that power if the city council votes in ways they don't like right? I get that it is a very complex patina of things that make up change, and when you have lived somewhere 20 years to have it change inexorably makes you feel powerless, but change is the constant.

My experience so far in talking with people is that they somehow want to keep things the way they were when they got there, and can't internalize that this merely put a pin in spectrum of change they experienced, rather than stopped it or changed it. In Sunnyvale, it used to be all orchards so most people are living on what was once productive farmland, and by moving there they helped destroy hundreds of jobs of people who worked at the Del Monte fruit packing plant (now gone). So they were the bad guys, and now we have this new set of people who are asking for a denser, less car centric, sort of existence with a walkable space and good public transit. So who are "we", the current residents, to judge "them" by what they want?

Everyone wants a living and thriving city. And what it takes to be that changes over the years, people lose sight of that though.
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Yeah, with Dropbox software running on your machine, you not only have to trust them not to snoop on you, you have to trust their non-auditable code to be ~perfect~ against exploitation by others.
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Hasn't Google been doing this for a very long time?
And now look at Germany – we got the same results at Japan, but even improved life in every aspect for the average citizen compared to the US.
I've found Richard M. Felder's [1] research in this area useful. He makes a compelling argument [2] that one size does not fit all and describes a taxonomy of learning styles. Understanding my own learning style [3] has helped me optimize the way I go about coming up to speed on new topics.

[1] http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/

[2] http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Pap...

[3] https://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
The downvotes here are really inappropriate. I disagree with most of this comment, but it's well up to the standards of political discourse on HN.
I think it becomes slightly less offensive when it's ancient and the product/service doesn't really exist anymore - it feels like you're walking through a museum instead of looking at an actual advertisement or something, at least to me
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They also complain about how much Norway spends on welfare, without explaining why this would be a bad thing. Okay, their neighbours spend less. So? Maybe their neighbours' welfare systems are inadequate.
Agree with all the other comments, super light on facts and tried to apply an ideological "solution" where there is no issue. Surprised The Economist printed it.

The Norwegians are sitting pretty on top of world's largest sovereign wealth fund, which holds 1.3% of the world's listed stocks. Their oil&gas tech industry is taking a beating, yes, as are every nation and business who depend on the oil&gas industry, but I don't think the Norwegians will starve any time soon. If new revenue from their oil industry stoppe tomorrow they would still be alright.

I don't see how there is a "weakness" in their model or how this calls for privatisation of anything. If anything, their SWF's exposure to QE inflated stock markets is a bigger risk.
No that's what I mean. Assuming you have Composer installed, and are accustomed to a Composer-centric workflow, running a curl command and then a separate phar file (albeit one containing Composer) is an unusual break from that.

I'm guessing the embedded Composer may also ignore any locally-set Composer configuration on the dev's own copy of Composer.

One assumes the Sculpin devs do like/appreciate Composer's functionality, since they embed it, but they've opted not to advocate direct use of its interface at all.

I don't mean to be overly critical, it just struck me as somewhat bizarre.
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I think you're making observations from a biased selection of lawyers. BigLaw corporate lawyers wear suits and ties. But most lawyers aren't that, and most of them wear business casual just like everybody else.

Meanwhile: if you select down to consulting software developers, particularly those working at major (500+ headcount) firms selling to Fortune 500 companies, you're going to find that they don't dress like the stereotypical software developer either. Those consultants are the CS equivalent of BigLaw lawyers.
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I agree with some things in this article and disagree with others.

First, digital has opened up opportunities for hundreds if not thousands of film makers (whether they are amateurs or aspiring professionals). Now, filming in all its myriad forms is within reach of so many people - that's prety amazing and largely down to digital.

However, digital is only now beginning to catch-up with the high resolution possible with physical film. For example, 70mm film is over 50 years old and yet, if you've ever seen it projected on a giant screen (in letterbox format, not imax) you'll know it can show enormous, stunning images. I don't know if 4K digital can match 70mm film resolution, but I'm glad to see digital resolution increasing.

For me, going to the cinema has always been about seeing a film on the big screen. But plenty of cinemas don't have big screens. In fact, many multiplexes show their less popular movies on smaller screens. I always find it disappointing to walk into an auditorium with a small screen: you're paying the same price as those watching a film on a bigger screen in another auditorium, but you're getting a poorer experience.

If you look at the history of cinema-going, you can see there was a great deal of "showmanship" that's completely gone today. For example, how many cinemas have curtains? There's a simple pleasure in seeing the lights go down in the auditorium and the curtains drawing back. I can remember a time when a lot of cinemas would show pre-film trailers or shorts on a smaller-sized screen. Then the curtains would close - there would be a pause - and then they would open again to reveal the screen having grown to full ginormous size. Simple, but awesome!
> I was actually waiting for your reply saying that I had missed the point :-).

Hah!

EDIT: I had a really complicated thing here, but decided to delete it... because I don't think anyone understands any of this "computers" thing properly, including me. Hope you understand :).

EDIT#2: Is there a "flowers for you" emoticon?
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They've been doing this for over a decade. From the article:

> And Google said way back in April 2009, in a rare look at its internal datacenters, that it had not only been using containerized datacenters to boost efficiency since 2005, but had put 12 volt battery packs on its servers so they could ride out failures on local, rather than centralized, stored power. That was a decade ago, just to show you how far ahead Google can sometimes be compared to its rivals.
Because, unless you're something like a utility that just keeps on chugging at a steady state, most large businesses don't just "steady state" - they either grow or die, largely because some other competitor will grow faster and eat their lunch. Think of Yahoo - when they stopped growing it was largely because companies like Google and Facebook did a better job of attracting users.
Agreed, there are very few billboards in northern Virginia; I think Fairfax and Arlington Counties have stringent requirements for them, if not outright bans.

When I lived in Sacramento, on the Cap City Freeway there was a highly visible, gaudy billboard advertising liposuction, fat belly and all. I always wondered about that one ... there's no way the funds from renting that space justified the terrible light it cast on Sacramento for visitors passing through, and there must be other bidders. Also it's not as though this is the norm, I can't think of any similarly awful billboards in the Sacramento area, and the Cap City Freeway itself has few billboards.
First, concentration of economic value in urban centers is a constant since the first cities appeared. That's what they are for. This is not the result of a government ploy. This is not a 10'000 years old conspiracy.

Second, no one is forcing homeowners to tear down their houses or do things they don't want to do with their private property. The debate is not about eminent domain. There are enough landowners willing to sell their piece of land to develop dense housing, enough developers willing to build it, and enough buyers or renters for the housing. The current nimbyism of trying to force your neighbors to conform to your little vision of what they should do or not do with their piece of land goes against the private property rights you advocate for. Let them build what they want to build on their property.
A world without death is a world where flowers never change into fruit, a world where fruit never change into a new plant. Remember there's a theory of the universe ending in heat death, where entropy is maximum, where there is no more change possible. To prevent death is to prevent change, and you bring about a world, in the long term, becomes changeless, like a giant museum, flowers and fruit and plants stay in the same state and never age, caterpillars never turn into butterflies, where squid never mate and reproduce, everyone immersed in their VR, day after day, for eternity. Philosophically, what difference is that to the heat death of the universe then?

The experience after death is exactly the same as the experience before birth. Was it a vile, atrocious thing you weren't born until you were? Death is about returning to that state. The disintegration of your mind is the mirror image of the creation of it. A world where you have left without right, top without bottom, beginning without end is like the universe before the big bang, or the universe after the heat death, where we, you, me, and everything else, is returned to being one.

Lengthening life span? That's a different matter. But I can tell you, you will never stop death from happening. It's perfectly acceptable to accept death will happen, and more isn't always better. ;)
I'm playing Cities: Skylines just fine on a ~2009 computer (Core i5 750, Radeon HD 5850), on Windows. So the difference is in the software.
> and a tool that fetches image from a link and adds a text on it for the user to post it as a picture with a single click.

I'd use that. I end up saving an image to Downloads, uploading to Twitter, then deleting the file pretty regularly.
An additional complication is the role of the billions of glial cells that are present in the brain. Their function of supporting neurons is quite well characterised, but they can also more specifically modulate neuronal function, so their place in a comprehensive connectome model shouldn't be ignored.

Then there is the network of vasculature, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid, interactions with hormones, and just generally all the interfacing with other bodily systems. All this would have to measured and modelled somehow too, in addition to all the billions of neurons.

I agree with the author, there's no way all this is going to solved any time soon.
While there's no doubt that there's a lot of fluff that has built up simply because we can/could afford it, this article doesn't really touch on any of them. Instead it seems to, among other things, bash state-owned corporations that are doing very well and are in no need of reform.

In general, it's a very weak article. Someone opened Wikipedia and saw some numbers that don't agree with how they think economies should be run, and then wrote about that. It's hard to fire employees who are slacking off, especially in government, but there's not a mention of it. But I guess that wasn't on Wikipedia, but the work-week was.

The turn to the left is mostly aa swinging pendulum thing, but I don't dread it, as the Labour party usually has a better grasp of economics than anyone else.

What's happening is a restructuring born of the decline in one sector with a time-delay until the others can absorb the sacked employees. It's not a crisis in government.
> They qualify for personal bankruptcy like any other consumer or investment loan

You can't do this, nobody will pay them back. I'll take 7 years of shit credit for 200k cash, thank you very much.
I'd say that's certainly what we're closest to, but isn't the point to actually experience the transition? If all you have is an imitation, then you're still dead. Though, it might be nice to create duplicates of yourself to get more done in the day.
There is, the new Lego Worlds in Early Access. http://store.steampowered.com/app/332310/
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The student loan system is propping up weak real estate markets in college towns by using guaranteed student funds from student loans to pay for outrageous rents. Many of these communities would not be able to afford their lifestyles (see. Davis, California vs. Woodland, California rental rates) if it was not for the fact they the student loan money is being laundered through attending students, and funneled directly into the local economy through increased rents and cost of services.

At this level it's a scam.

As anecdotal evidence, my father went to Berkeley when there was no student loan structure, and the community was considered a poor real estate investment, since it was commonly known as a 'Student Ghetto'. A term which has since disappeared as rents in Berkeley are among the highest in the East Bay. All on the back of the students financing their housing costs on student loans.

Again, it's a scam.

The students don't get a better education than my father, and while the housing might be nicer, it's debt that they have to pay well into their later years, as opposed to being able to graduate debt free.

My father thinks this is directly attributable to the death of the student free speech movement and other student political enterprises, since being forced to accommodate ones debt takes priority over trying to change the world, or fix the system. In short it becomes a type of indentured servitude, where lower and middle class people are unqualified for good paying jobs without the debt, and with the debt, they are forced into high level debt maintenance, and can't have any other discussions about where society is going, or how it is getting there.
Pretty much sums it up, if you are not growing some business it means your dying, because every business that isn't a state mandated monopoly dies eventually. Older more established companies will have parts growing while other parts are fading, that reinvention cycle is critical to staying relevant. If you're a one product company and your growth slows, and you aren't growing the next thing, it means you're now heading toward non-existence.
Private prisons have the perverse incentives that private companies will push for policies that incarcerate more people:

https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/sep/18/justice-s...
Not sure about universities but both nursing and teaching have several campaigning groups to get more men in.
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