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Fresh Kills landfill could hold about 3 gigatons of biochar at 1.5 g/cm3, assuming an average depth is 100 m. So we need 300 of those.

There are some deep canyons in the Rockies where there are very high bridges and little meaningful waterway below. I'll bet you could fit a lot more than 1 Fresh Kills in some of them.

Coal trains run those tracks. American coal cars empty from the bottom. When the coal trains are empty in Wisconsin, Chicago, etc, they have to go back to the mines anyway. They can dump the biochar in a ravine en route. just need to remove a few ties and install the coal emptier.

Wood or coal, the corn trains and timber trains deliver to similar places. Build biomass energy facilities in those rail transportation hubs. Omaha, Kansas City, Fargo, the Twin Cities.

Of course it would make more sense to just leave the coal in the ground. But humans don't do well with static equilibrium.

And you can add it to the food price: this hamburger was made from stover-fed beef. And twice the animal's feedstock in biomass was burned in biomass plants, and the biochar was sequestered.

Omaha Steaks could sell 2x, 3x, 4x, and 10x beef.

It'll raise the price of beef.
It can accommodate it profitably. But any such undertaking is a long term investment, and Verizon doesn't operate in such categories. They want to rip profits faster.

Also, they have internal conflict of interests. I.e. their execs are all about wireless, and simply don't care about landline business. Splitting it in two could actually help, since then they'll care about improving.

> It's not like anybody else is chomping at the bit to build fiber in those places.

Verizon stopped building out fiber everywhere. Only when they have a contract, they do it (very reluctantly). Some areas are indeed less profitable because of population density and other such factors. But others are not.
> I still think the word 'shitposting' makes you sound like a loudmouth with a poor grasp of English.

Not my creation, welcome to the youth of the usa (30 and below). Try googling it.

As to "wrong post", i could swear your post originally called the author of the article out of touch. Either i am misremembering or you edited it. (And i just checked, HN does not mark edited posts.)

Further, the author does spend a lot of time on trump, but this part condenses to "americans like shitposting and trump exploits that":

> This is a (dark) joy. All the madness you feel, you can now let it out and it’s okay. The very point of Trump is to validate the pleasure of spouting shit, the joy of pure emotion, often anger, without any sense.
"If you know ggplot2"... but you need to make a lot of plots to get the hang of ggplot2. The "+" syntax (not sure what the proper name for that is) alone is completely foreign and intimidating.

If you want to make great graphs in R, you will need to learn ggplot2. If you just want to learn R, why not keep it simple at first?
If they do so without reasonable evidence or to distract from an unrelated topic of discussion, then I would agree. And I'm sure it happens, but it would be interesting (and potentially enlightening) if you could provide a recent citation from an influential left-wing commentator.

(What I won't accept, however, is a technical wiggling between "he's a racist person" versus "he has made racist statements". I agree that this distinction sometimes matters, but generally it does not. For example, I don't think Trump is a racist person at heart, but he does make statements that legitimize the charge of being racist. When the latter is true, the former is irrelevant.)
Cable companies. DOCSIS 3 makes DSL look like dial-up.

But there's evidence that Verizon made deals with cable companies to bundle wireless services, so Verizon could keep caring less about rotting infrastructure.
NVIDIA could never have gotten an x86 license, as they would have required a ton of licensing from AMD, too. Plus it would violate the cross licensing agreement between Intel, AMD, and VIA.
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Anyone know of good survival/prepper guides. Ones written by reputable authors/experts, well researched, and practical?

I'm not particularly paranoid (I suppose that's what paranoid people say...), but I do think there's a certain fragility to our civilisation that we're happy to overlook.
"...run-of-the-mill sites."

Highly doubtful. Someone running ads on their site doesn't make them suddenly complicit and knowledgeable about the creepiest corners of ad-tech. This is _exactly_ why knowledgeable regulators should make this illegal - this is a situation where the people on both ends are unaware of an explicit MITM attack happening between them.
In both companies consumer support is much different than business support. Dell Inspiron support is shit. Dell Latitude support is great. The same for HP, Lenovo, Asus, etc. The exception is Apple where consumer and business lines of support are the same.
It sort of plays to a very simplified layman's understanding of structural metals as following some sort of uni-dimensional good/better/best scale with titanium being on the best end of the spectrum. (And, hence, "titanium" being used in all sorts of product names, such as clothing, which have absolutely to do with metal except insofar as the production equipment has metal parts--though probably not many titanium ones.)
I use Trello. Here's what it looks like:
https://i.imgur.com/9JgaDf9.png

I don't work in software development so have been experimenting with "agile concepts" to see what works best for me.
I could see it being monopolistic, though it would be debatable.

They don't follow the golden rule. They do X to other companies, while actively preventing other companies from doing X to them. If X is okay, then it should be a two way street. If X is not okay, then it should be a zero way street. Either of those positions I could be happy with. In no case of good behavior is X a one way street.
I'm always coaching my team "What is your passion?" because I believe if you work in your passion you don't work a day of your life. To me my goal should be to help my team find that passion, sometimes that is beyond the confines of my group.

What if the passion is beyond the confines of the job? Some of us work for the money, and despite that we do a great job.

It sounds like you're a great manager, but honestly, as an experienced developer, I'd rather my manager not try to align my passions with my work. That's my job.
of all the flavours you could have had, you choose salty !
For fun case of "I get an error but you don't", here's a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-defaults/+bug/... - around 5 years of GCC versions which ignore the explicit `(void) write(...)` and still report an error.
Plenty of empty tankers leaving US shores, I'm sure the captains wouldn't mind having a heavier ship, and it shouldn't hurt the fuel efficiency much at all. But, mechanically, how to empty it into the sea? Put conveyers on deck and dump it over the side as you go?
Success from this approach varies depending on the company. Years back, Verizon was trying to charge me their full early termination fee despite being multiple years out of contract – I'd get transferred to a “supervisor” who'd promise to call me back, nothing ever happened. Rinse, lather, repeat.

I dug up an executive office contact and ended up talking to someone who fixed my last bill in about 10 minutes. While doing so, he volunteered that nobody in the first-level call centers had the authority to actually do what I was asking, including the supervisors, but policy prevented them from saying that. I still remember the sense of surprise I got from how open he was about their horrible customer service being the official policy rather than an aberration.
Next time I write a Go program, I'm hacking the compiler locally so it stops whining about this "problem".
Global Foundries was AMD's chip fabrication business. ATI never had any, and mostly (always?) had their chips made by TSMC. So what were ATI's "huge chunk" of assets that Global Foundries took with them?
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I wasn't confused by it. The lawsuit was mentioned as "for document theft" in the article. I thought he was clearly adding his interpretation of motive. Maybe it's just you?
Any papers you can link to about this?
The science historian, James Burke, had a sobering walkthrough of the consequences of a large-scale failure of technology in the first episode of the first of his classic "Connections" series: "The Trigger Effect"

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnwpsp_veetle-connections-s...

(Even more sobering is that, nearly 40 years after this series was filmed, we have a new layer of technological dependence: telecoms networks and data services. This would greatly amplify a lot of the things that Burke describes.)
I deeply do not understand this, nor (apparently) the original statement, but you've convinced me that it was maybe an impenetrably weird off-topic comment rather than an actual personal attack. Since we don't want to ban people based on misunderstandings, I've unbanned your account.

If it's true that you're not posting personal attacks but merely things that look like them, it would be a good idea to make the distinction clearer in the future.
So the cause could be that there are a lot of depressed men that smoke cannabis to try to escape their depression instead of taking medication?

Maybe it shows a tendency for women to seek professional help where men do not? Especially in cases regarding depression or other "non-physical" illnesses?
My billing address is my post box. Some companies refuse to ship to post boxes (probably due to concerns over fraud) and then my shipping address is of course different to my billing address.
Why not? I still don't see why it was an inherently bad idea. There's a lot of overlap in the CPU and GPU business.

What happened was that Intel got its game back and then both, Intel and AMD, missed the mobile train. On the ATI side, they were outcompeted by Nvidia. Bad luck, and bad strategy.
Actually a pretty good write up of something that got a lot of hype but didn't receive meaty context in the other coverage I've read.
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Verizon's wireline unit is making low single digit operating profit margins with its existing footprint. I'm pretty sure expansion into less favorable markets would push that into the red. There is a reason Google only enters carefully-vetted markets that waive the usual roadblocks to fiber buildout--it's the only way to make money in the industry.

And Verizon is a public company. Investors are pushing it to ditch wireline entirely. If the wireline unit was spun off, would those same investors suddenly be eager to give the divested company billions to build a bunch of marginally profitable infrastructure?
> I think the generalized concern is, we're living in "an increasingly technology-dependent society", and if technology is suddenly taken away from us, we'll collapse into anarchy.

Is that actually inaccurate though? From everything I've read, our food/water supply is entirely dependent on oil and electricity, so it's hard to imagine how there wouldn't be mass deaths if that system suddenly got disrupted for an extended period of time.

Obviously there are ways of getting food and water outside of the commercial system, which is partly what the prepper movement is about.
Just use the stover. And slaughterhouse cities like Omaha and Kansas City and Chicago also import their fuel and receive timber.

Let's take Omaha. Omaha Steaks could sell carbon-negative beef if the USDA inspectors can certify that 2x the carbon went into biomass energy plants. It would create demand for 3x, 4x, and 10x beef.
I had a similar experience with Lenovo. I was unable to use my device for nearly six months, during which I went through about four returns. They kept sending my laptop back broken! They sent it with a range of issues - initially, they failed to fix the intermittent display flickering, afterwards, it came back with a keyboard containing dead keys, dead LED indicator lights, and missing screws. In the end, I called and told them they were going to pay me for the laptop and we'd part ways.

I will never buy Lenovo again.

I have amazing small/medium business support from Dell on my monitors. If I see a dead pixel, slight backlight fade, or any other issue, I can call Dell and have a new monitor sent overnight to my door.
I think you may be underestimating just how Old the World is.
Plus Yahoo! bought Flurry recently, which gave them additional mobile ad units.
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You think Dell or HP would ever have sidelined Intel? AMD was going to get shafted, no matter what.
By default it is pretty bad. But if you install powertop and tlp you should be good. I get pretty good battery life on my Thinkpad this way.

http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-man...
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Make sure you also checkout TLP since you have a Thinkpad.
There is just the simple fact that such an "EMP" attack without a nuclear attack would still be an act of total war, with many people in any developed nation being killed if it worked. If you're willing to do that, and you have this technology... why not be willing to just bomb, or nuke? It's not like cities won't burn either way, and nukes (as you and others have stated) would do more damage.

The only reason these preppers focus on it, is because it's one of the few extreme scenarios they can imagine which they could reasonably survive. A nuclear holocaust isn't something you prepare for, it's something that you hope to either avoid, or be in the hypocenter of. Some kind of mythical "infrastructure killer" that doesn't actually physically alter that infrastructure too much... that you can imagine yourself seeing the other side of I think.
I should make a bot that trawls HN for the phrases "anti-white racism" and "reverse racism" and replies with the following:

"When people say that reverse racism (AKA anti-white racism) does not exist, they are using the word 'racism' to mean 'a socioeconomic power structure that systematically disadvantages people of a particular race'. By this definition of racism, they are absolutely correct. There is no systematic oppression or disenfranchisement of white people in America.

However, many people (especially those less familiar with modern feminist discourse) understand the word 'racism' to mean 'an instance of a person or group treating another person or group poorly because of their race'. By this definition, anti-white racism does exist. White people are certainly sometimes treated poorly because of their whiteness.

Arguments over the existence of 'reverse racism' almost always occur between people who do not agree on the definition of the word 'racism'. Before you respond to this post about reverse racism, please consider the possibility that the person to whom you are responding is neither crazy nor stupid. Instead, they may simply be using a different definition of 'racism' than the one to which you subscribe. If you interpret their post with a different definition of 'racism' than your own, do you suddenly find it to be much more reasonable? If so, you may have been missing the point.

It is always best to agree upon shared terminology before engaging in debate."
> So, we have no evidence that you know anything about programming language design and implementation, because you've never taken a test on it?

I wouldn't be offended if I applied for a compiler job and I was asked questions about compilers. In fact I was, when I applied for a job at Microsoft a long time ago.

I don't understand how someone can master a subject and yet be unable to answer questions about it.
“Supporting language X” isn't the same as “can be called from language X if you manually use the FFI”. At the very least, the bindings should come out of the box.
FWIW, I have a number of friends at Verizon Labs doing some pretty cool work with Scala and Haskell.
Out of curiosity, was it a Thinkpad, or some other Lenovo? I've had a fantastic experience (though I did shell out the $100 up front for 3 years of NBD On-site support)
>I'm not going to cite a source

Then don't make a claim.
Called "native ads" in the mobile space, which are all over Yahoo!'s mobile apps (see Yahoo! Weather for a simple, relevant example), and offered to other publishers through their Yahoo! Gemini platform.

So not only does Yahoo! run the currently "hot" ad unit (they also do rewarded video), they own it.
Mail is and has certainly been a priority at Yahoo. All employees have to dogfood it. Ads are included in corp mail and POP3/IMAP access is disabled. You have to use the web and mobile clients.

When layoffs were announced Mail was spared and actually grew.

I don't know why it hasn't improved. It's not for lack of trying.
Consider Back to Basics:

https://www.amazon.com/Back-Basics-Complete-Traditional-Skil...

It's sort of a homesteading guide, starting with what sort of land is suitable and discussing the construction of buildings and farming and various crafts. It has a lot of information that would be handy in a world where energy is no longer incredibly abundant.

A 2 year prep isn't going to mean shit if the oil stops flowing.
The open source drivers/cards were solid for a good while on my old computer but I bought a new one in May and I got actual hardware level PCI errors with two different AMD cards on the Intel X99 chipset (within seconds of booting I would start getting error correction messages in my dmesg and the computer would hang within hours). I managed to stop the errors with kernel flags (pcie_aspm=off or pci=nommconf, either seemed to stop them) but my system was still completely unstable as the drivers/cards eventually went nuts regardless.

I bought an nVidia card and didn't have to touch anything and it's completely stable (in the same exact PCI slot).

I might try AMD again in a year or two as I prefer their model of actually supporting and writing open source drivers in contrast to the scummy nVidia whose cards now require a signed firmware that they won't release to the open source community after we got the reverse engineered open source drivers (well, they did release one now for the 9xx series after they released the 10xx series).
> Elasticity is how much you can deform (stretch) an object, before the deformation is no longer reversible. Think of a rubber band, you can stretch it a little, and it returns to its original shape. Stretch it a lot, and it breaks down and does not return to its original shape.
> Plasticity is how much you can deform an object before it breaks. This is the snapping point in the rubber band, where it completely breaks.

These both are completely false.

Elasticity is the idealistic property of a solid material to get back to it's original shape after a deformation force is retracted. (property of most solid metals where stress is much below the yield point)

Plasticity is the idealistic property of a solid material to stay in the deformed shape after a deformation force is retracted. (Plasticine)
Exactly, there's a reason that Xbox and PlayStation are both using AMD chips. What those systems needed was a lot more GPU power than CPU power, so AMD was well positioned to do that.

It's not a massive money maker for them, but I think that it positioned them well to push open standards like FreeSync, and Mantle/Vulcan. AMD is also fighting back by trying to develop open standards, knowing that proprietary ones wouldn't ever get any traction.
In this case, it certainly does only apply to the government. You can't force another person or entity to host your content - they're allowed to set whatever conditions they want to.
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Who paid for the research?
I there is more success than 1980s A.I. A whole lot hoopla then. Fear Japan would whomp us. And then never went anywhere. In the 1980s it was LISP machines, expert systems, and logical programming languages. Now it is deep learning and self driving cars.
Thanks for doing this research, and for posting this...it's a very important field right now, considering that many countries/states are legalising Cannabis. I live in Canada and cannabis is in the process of being legalised.

I haven't read the full-text, but how well have you figured out the causation? The study seems to show that in women suicidal ideation causes cannabis use. In men it seems to be the other way around (cannabis use causes suicide ideation). However I'm wondering if even in men the desire to use cannabis is influenced by some kind of mental instability, which would have caused suicidal ideation even in the absence of cannabis. Perhaps you address this in the full-text.

Also, I'd suggest paying the $3k open-access fee to make this article available to everyone. It's a small price to pay for increased exposure, more citations, etc.
> It's only a problem when the government censors because there's only one government, and they have enforcers who can use deadly force.

I would add that it's also because the government can censor people when it otherwise wouldn't be involved - a person hosting a blog with a third party, for example. Ordinarily, only that third party gets to decide whether or not to provide a platform for your data.
Bindings are included: https://github.com/ers35/modserver/tree/master/src/api

The Python module does not require one to use an FFI: https://github.com/ers35/modserver/blob/master/src/example/p...

More idiomatic wrappers can be written later, but the FFI based bindings have to come first.

I updated the readme to make this more clear.
From my experience using AMD cards, the linux drivers have some serious issues, to the point where on-board intel graphics would give me much more stability. With AMD cards I would get excessive screen tearing just from dragging or resizing windows in a desktop environment. The advantage of AMD is that their open source drivers are acceptable, where nvidia's open source drivers are not great.

In terms of stability, the proprietary nvidia drivers are simply the best, and gave me significantly less issues. For my daily workstation I even ended up replacing my (expensive) AMD card for an nvidia one because the desktop environment felt like it was running less than 10 fps, and it triggered me to no end.

Even if AMD gets equal or even better performance than nvidia in gaming environments, I am not willing to compromise the desktop for that.

If you don't mind using the closed-souce nvidia driver, I strongly suggest nvidia.
Except 'Traversable Semigroup Isomorphism' is based on math, and is timeless.
Well for starters I believe it still relies on Kernel 2.6, I think they forked the kernel then never kept it up to date, I could be wrong about this but it certainly was the case up until recently at least. Looking at OpenVZ's website it also seems to only official support RHEL 5/6 as stable host options which were behind their time at point of release and now in 2016 really are very, _very_ old dogs.

LXC and Docker, especially when combined with a virtualisation layer and SELinux are modern, stable, well maintained options that are not only easy to configure and manage but do not require custom kernel patches etc...
> indirect throw/longjump but leaving out a return statement

Hopefully a modern language would have a divergence type.
Neil Strauss wrote a good one, that's pretty amusing too. EMERGENCY: This book will save your life. https://amzn.com/0060898771
They weren't at the time, someone was marking all the early submissions then putting a link to a two day old thread. It looked like someone was picking what source would make the front page.
It's the same story as college dropout entrepreneurs, who became very successful and made million dollars. But, how many college dropouts are out there who are barely earning their livelihoods?