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They're not assholes because they live/vacation on the shore, they're assholes because they've arranged for a different set of rules to apply to them. Offshore petroleum extraction equipment has been a common sight offshore in other regions of USA for decades. That equipment is much uglier, and has more disturbing associated traffic, than wind generators. I don't own any shoreline property, but if I claimed some right to regulate what can be done in sight of the property I do own, the only result would be well-deserved derision.
I'm with you on everything except for this part:

> Higher sea level is not a problem, it gives more water to create lakes and fill aquifers in places like Sahara, Iran, and central Asia.

Higher sea level is absolutely a problem, as it disproportionately takes away the most valuable, economically productive, and inhabited land, and causes huge refugee crises. There's no shortage of seawater. Everything you mentioned could be done now (if we had enough power for desalination anyway). Higher sea levels don't make it appreciably easier, but they sure make everything else way worse.
People have been talking about finance for a long time. See

https://www.amazon.com/Money-Game-Adam-Smith/dp/0394721039

from the 1960s. Certainly the stock market was a popular topic in the go-go years from 1995 to 2000 as well. I don't know if the environment has changed or if you have changed.
For logic gates there is a "setup" and "hold" time (logic level prior to gate flip, then hold that level) for an operation to be successfully performed and transmitted to the next stage. It should be in the chip's datasheet (if you wanted a precise and specific number). If you don't care about logic transmission and just want "flip" then look at the rise/fall time.
I don't either. Hence my use of scare quotes.
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Oh my. We need more common sense development practices bundled as new idea. Reminds me of the old saying "If you want to be a guru read some 20 year old papers and republish them as novelty.".

This probably works for systems where it's easy to have meaningful metrics. There are plenty of scenarios where metrics are not that easy unless you come up with some bullshit metrics.
As many features w3clan has, some of which mentioned here :- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12341180 also has One very important feature and that is "Multi Author" option.

Yes, w3clan has option to add as many author as one want for his/her course or tutorial or documentation. So, if your course or tutorial or documentation needs multi-author option, you can do that too with w3clan.
Even photovoltaics is more economically feasible in western countries today, because construction work has become so expensive. Wind turbines are even cheaper.

And you totally ignore hydropower, which is better than any other energy form in price and following demand. It just needs lots of political will.
The government has created a moat for the current pen through regulation, particularly the extensive testing needed to bring it to market as a medical device whom people's lives depend on it delivering the right dosage with a low failure rate.

This creates something of a small granted monopoly.

It makes sense for the government to step in when something goes wrong.

There are lots of theoretical arguments for a freer market that may drain that moat and allow competitors to quickly react to gouging but the reality is that consumers don't have a great way to test things like epipens and a market trial and error approach seems a little barbaric.
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Black Mirror was fantastic. I wish there were more episodes.
Here's a better direct link to osdev.org info: http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
NASA’s ‘act of desperation’ demonstrates continued cyber deficiencies
>> Some combination of green energy sources plus probably very large scale terraforming.

The Achilles heel in all of this is how to make green energy affordable. If you want to really make impact, making these technologies affordable for lower income and the poor is the best way to reduce energy consumption.

Unfortunately, a lot of these technologies are still way way way out of reach of these people to take part in. Last time I checked, getting a small solar array on my house would cost in the neighborhood of $20K just get it installed. With a ten year ROI, this isn't feasible for me to do right now, and our state just ended their solar tax deductions with no signs of it ever coming back - giving me even less incentive to do this.

I'm all for less consumption and green technologies, but most are not affordable, and the long ROI isn't worth it right now.
If I was to invest in any of these it would be

http://www.aptonomy.com/

I have often thought about this myself. There are som really interesting problems to tackle (like drone clustering and continued surveillance and tracking of intruders using a series of drones (as they run out of energy)

Their challenge is going to be legislative more than anything else but things are working in their direction.
"If you are at a board meeting and a VC says “you should do less email marketing and more content marketing”, would you go see your VP Marketing after the meeting and tell them to cut email and double down on content? I sure hope not."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA wheeeze

I've seen so many founders come back from board meetings pale faced and interpreting the gospel of VC as this exact next step
I wonder if they did something like use a HackRF or BladeRF to spoof the GPS signal to make the car believe it hadn't moved?
Nuclear reactors aren't economical, don't scale well, can't be deployed everywhere and it takes forever to build them.

Even if everyone would agree to convert everything to nuclear reactors now it would probably take a decade before the first goes online and several decades until enough of them are online. That's far too long.

In that same period you can easily get far more energy quicker with decentralized renewables.
Thing is, IMF "advice" that you have to take is most often given along with loan package, where the recipient country is already in shambles - typically due to policies of their own.

I see IMF as a convenient externalization of responsibility by national politicians and people who voted for them and their disastrous policies. If the bottom falls out of your country, it's not necessarily someone's nefarious plot.
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Russia (or Soviet Union ) would never accepted the landing if they suspected it was an hoax.
Bad Air is a Big Problem-- that's an opportunity.

> http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140812-calif...
It should be made clear that this requires AWS KMS, and for automatic decryption, EC2 (so that the instances can be associated with an IAM role that has key decryption permission).
Tangent. This "middle income" designation seems to have us stuck in the same rut that we were in when using "third world". It didn't initially mean 3rd place, but ended up being understood as such, and thus bestowed undeserved stereotypes. Well, byusing the term middle income we are locking ourselves into a paradigm were we are fighting to keep a middle class and take for granted the lower and upper class. We should instead be approaching the issues in a more nuanced manner, one in which we work so that no one is without their basic human needs being met and income inequality is reduced such that there is no group of 55 people that have as much wealth as the bottom 50% of global population.
You can be sure that Wellpoint has also negotiated a good rate on Epi-pens. This price-gouging affects people who don't have prescription drug coverage or those who are enrolled in HSA plans that force you to pay for the first few thousand dollars worth of prescriptions at retail prices. And there are a lot of people being funnelled into HSAs by their employers.
"Igloo" is an English word. It doesn't have the exact same meaning as the Inuit word it's derived from. And snow is a type of ice.
How about taking the lead?
They totally can. Main point is that we free up all engineering hours otherwise spent on optimizing performance.
The context of course was portability to different compilers, not architectures.
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Of course, it's a team effort. And the country that touts itself as a world/team leader on every other front, seems to be leading us all to an apocalypse.
Last I saw stats, something like 57% of the U.S. is officially living in poverty. Trying to afford anything more than the necessities of life isn't going to happen on an individual basis for them, so it'll need to be a state/federal level effort to provide them with that.
There's definitely an element of being locally acclimatized. I remember spending some time in the desert, finally got used to the hot temperature when December rolled around. I was freezing all the time and finally checked the thermostat, 19 C.
Truisms.
How far away are we from developing a scalable air filter for CO2? I found this.. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531346/can-sucking-co2-ou...
* burgles.

I tend to ignore these types of news articles, of the format: "[Pokemon Go/AirBnB/Uber/New Thing] used in crime!". Crime remains the same, the landscape and tools change. Crime rates have been dropping for decades, and continue to fall, new technologies are not bringing in a new crimewave, although you wouldn't know it from reading some news sources.
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Two weeks from now: "August was hottest month ever recorded, according to NASA."
> And nobody's ever going to trust your ...

I guess that could be said for a number of things that people successfully do?

Edit: for one great example of someone who didn't get discouraged by naysayers, check caddyserver.
I quite like text based protocols like this, beanstalkd and memcache. Very straight forward to write clients. Each interaction is stateless, and writing clients is trivial.

Thats not to say a HTTP interface is that much more difficult to add these days.
No, it sounds like balanced opinions are always better than radical opinions. Radicals are almost always wrong and always unproductive.

And to answer your other question, environmental NGOs have plenty to do with atmospheric research. They publicize it some of it. They fund some of it. They use some of it as a political lever.
Ancient Egyptian works to be published together in English for first time
Easily detect frustrated users when launching a new feature
We've got a really good storage medium for energy.

Liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons.

They can be synthesised, in a carbon-neutral fashion.

Other storage methods, including batteries, molten salt (thermal), and CAES are likely to also be used. But there are some things for which bulk liquid fuel still wins.

There's over 50 years of research into it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/28nqoz/electri...
The OSDev wiki is the best think to hit the internet since sliced bread (with cats faces pushed through them?) but it's far from a tutorial. It's a wiki.

While it is one of the best repositories of knowledge on the subject of low level development, it's not a step by step guide.

In the same way I don't recommend that people read Wikipedia to learn about human history I'd also not recommend reading osdev to learn about low level development.

It at it's heart is organized as a reference, not a text book.

I wish that someone would go through and accumulate all the knowledge, put it into a series based textbook with chapters, throw in some example code and VMs for many architectures, and sell it to me because I'd pay. I'd also push for those at my university to construct a class around the book as it would be one of the most fascinating and knowledge packed classes I'd think you could take. (Hint hint, nudge nudge writers and professors!)

But yes to date NOTHING beats osdev.
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Can't wait till we've proliferated wealth back in far enough that we don't need VCs, maybe then the high st bank will become relevant again. Oh wait, pipe dream. Guess I'll go back to enjoying Fred Wilson then. :)
Seems to me that less testing is necessary for an established product.

Are there patents involved?
>It’s believed that hackers were able to breach the owners’ Tesla accounts and then use iPhone or Android apps to access and drive the cars away.

So, now a compromised password could cost you a Tesla? Seems like the stakes are too damn high! What happened to the good 'ol days when they would at least need to manufacture (or procure) a dealer key to drive your car away?
GPS jammers are widely available, here's an article about a truck driver in New Jersey who got caught with one 3 years ago: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/man_fined_32000_for...
Requiring access to your social accounts is laughable. Unless it's directly tied to your job, it's a signal to quickly and politely end the relationship.
Cadence is an EDA company. They have a lot of other software they sell.
Consider myself properly chided. Still, I don't think the case was "considered completely ok". From what I can tell from newspapers of the time, the case was dismissed when the governmental occupation ended.
A long ways. Even building a solution big enough to match the yearly production of CO2 would be a gargantuan feat of engineering. It takes a prohibitively large amount of energy to capture and process that much gas.
First, there's no evidence that the carbon tax would have to be so high to be effective - $7-20/ton[1], probably increasing over time. US emissions per person is the world highest at 16.5 tons -- that's several hundred dollars per year, not day.

Second, the revenue from the carbon tax should be fed back to the people by lowering other taxes. It should be net-zero on the government budget. The point is to create a clear and simple incentive across the board to switch to low-carbon behaviour, not to raise revenues.

Third, nobody promised this would be a quick fix, but nothing is at the moment. But re-jiggering the economy to give a clear incentive is a good start, and even at $7/ton, reducing carbon becomes a multi-billion dollar industry overnight.

1: http://www.carbontax.org/blog/2008/10/18/a-question-of-balan...
Riddle me this, how would a Map be implemented if Null was stripped from Java?

map.getOrThrow(key)
map.getOrDefault(key, defaultValue)
Reading your commend made me thing that state regulations is like parents not letting kids solve its own problems.
I planted palm trees and bananas in my London garden to reflect that :)
The time isn't the problem. It's living with a felony on your record that is a problem.
Why did you name your website "Warcraft 3 clan"?
It would also trigger a famine and lead to extremely bad air quality.
Did you read the article? It's a police blog - and has a list of things to consider doing when letting a place on AirBnB et al. Doesn't at all appear to be what you think it is. Certainly not just a 'new article'.
What technology are you 'hefted' to?
Turned 30 in April.

Stopped giving a shit some time around age 19.

Got good job, a few good friends, girlfriend.

Seems to be working out.
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>So, now a compromised password could cost you a Tesla? Seems like the stakes are too damn high! What happened to the good 'ol days when they would at least need to manufacture (or procure) a dealer key to drive your car away?

Still more effort and more rare than a screwdriver and a knife/wireclippers. Not that modern cars can be easily hotwired - but the "good 'ol days" definitely had a lower bar for theft...
This post is factually wrong. GM acquired a ready to go R&D lab and leapfrogged everyone else in the process. The rest of the automotive industry is now playing catchup.
I was a node developer back when it hadn't been packaged yet (yes, I'm a hipster). I left a few years ago for many reasons, including the fact that I think the community sucks.

I agree with everything you say, and I want to add to it. People compare node to things like Go, PHP, Python, etc, which is a mistake. As someone who had to write a fairly complex native module for node that a lot of people still use (5000 downloads this month, according to npm), nodeJS is a framework not a language.

Node is not in control of the underlying code that implements the ES spec. Node is a bunch of C/C++ middleware wrapping V8 and implementing various server and process utilities. That is all it is.

Why is this important? Because it biases the community towards piling on feature after feature and moving at an insane pace, sometimes in ways that are outside of the community's control. Node is biased against stability, because they feel the need to keep up with V8. Counter this with Go, which has been frozen as a language for 8 releases now, with each release fine tuning the stability of the compiler/language, runtime, and libs.

That native module that I mentioned earlier, I have a bunch of open requests to make it work with nodeJS 6 (no idea what this is), which is the fourth breaking V8 interface change I've had to deal with. The native module clocks in at >2000 lines of C++. I implemented the same library in Go and it clocks in at 500 lines. I've only had to modify the Go version of this library once, and it was to take advantage of a new feature (i.e. I didn't have to update it).

Node's continual quest for features is going to keep it in the niche web development space it has come to dominate. There is simply no way I would architect a system with such an unstable platform.
It seems like we've heard this before, haven't we?
This is the same reason why Workq is intended to be standalone. It takes so much expertise and time to implement this in a distributed nature.

I spent 80% of time on Workq just writing tests for it and there is still so much to account for even as a standalone system.

On the bright side, projects like etcd & consul (I believe the author of Raft is helping out there) are getting better and better and can be embedded.
Nuclear power have all types of problems for competing on the energy market. From its several sizes available: from incredibly big to absolutely huge, to its bad PR problem and NIMBY, to expensive waste treatment, to any company that runs them getting bankrupt sooner of later.

Solar and wind are are here now. And they get in all form-factors, including single-home sized. Besides, photovoltaics are way behind in the Moore's law, and still have a lot to improve.

Today, pushing nuclear energy is almost guaranteed to get you no result, while solar will probably get you the biggest improvement you can get.
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Please do this. Anyone remember pop-up ads? Notice how every web browser has an integrated pop-up blocker? They were a thing of the past. So now, apparently advertisers think we somehow actually wanted pop-up ads all along and implemented them with CSS overlays.

We seriously need to band together and stop this shit. It is absolutely infuriating. Who in the world wants to visit a website and then be stopped with a huge ad to join your stupid fucking mailing list? And I'm sure they point to their 2% conversion rate as proof that it works. What they don't know is the other 98% of people cannot fucking STAND it.
Yeah. It's odd how often otherwise-serious businesspeople have this weird "recency bias" for feedback, even from non-board members.
Hot climates were extremely limited in potential without A/C.

This includes the American south, much of the midwest, Tokyo, China's larger cities (especially toward the south), Indonesia, the Middle East, and Australia.

Developing regions, especially in Africa, Central and South America, the Philippines, and Australasia also tend to strongly favour aircond. It's not just a comfort thing -- computer and office equipment, and even paper, are difficult to maintain in hot and humid environments.

These are also the latitudes and climates in which the bulk of the world's population, much of it still underdeveloped, still lives. If the story of "an advanced Western standard of living for all" is to be borne out, A/C will be a large part of it.
I thought the consensus at this point was that "windmill" basically meant "wind turbine", at least colloquially, in the same way that a "battery" really should be called a "cell".
You're absolutely right, and that's another reason why this is considered important: race is a modern way of viewing the world. The Romans were colonialists, but their kind of supremacy was based on culture and civic behaviour rather than skin colour. You could become civis romanus, and be accepted.
I disagree. There are advanced cultures in the world without this ambition you speak of (I'm looking at you, Holland), where convenient life in a local environment that is all accessible by bike, eating lots of fish, and caring less about immense wealth and impressions and more about quality of life.. it is attainable.
Yes sorry, I had just woken up and was on mobile. Couldn't gather my whits to find the link. Now that I've got a cup of joe in me I'm much more chipper and ready for this!

Yes that's the link. They walk you through everything! Top to bottom. It's a great starter that will teach you what OS development actually involves. It's like a hand holding experience through a forest of strange practices, you'll love it when you get a chance.
No I'm not, and I don't see how that is relevant. You claimed that it was hard to find stocks that moved 10% in a day. I show that this is not the case.
That's true. I believe I make enough to manage a decent-to-nice apartment on my own, so I won't have to have a roommate to make rent. Right now, I'm just saving up and paying off student loans and my credit card and casually looking at apartments near the city and my work.