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If we ever do clean up the CO2 produced from consumption of oil the energy cost will be greater than the power gained from the initial consumption. I.e. Every watt of energy paid with oil must be paid with another form of energy plus interest.
My one highly peculiar meditation experience after experimenting with it for a few times was coming out of it with a TOTAL lack of fear of death, which lasted for a few days. What I discovered is that everyone has a "baseline" fear of death, but even THAT was removed in my case (making it possible for me to perceive it).

EDIT: Link to the guided meditation which brought me to this experience, which I put up on Soundcloud a while back: https://soundcloud.com/peter-marreck-fb/sets/meditation
In Europe they went after the large engines with a heavy tax cudgel.

The result was turbo-diesels and direct injection, which produce deadly particulates, not to mention ever fiddlier motors.
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Yes, I think you are perceiving "rules" where their aren't any. Applying for a job is similar to dating in many ways. Metaphorically speaking, this guy chose ask a girl out by singing under her window instead of "applying" through the dating site.
Half a ton of Lithium-ion for comparison is 50-100kWh of storage. Which actually isn't that crazy. A Tesla per person per year, give or take.

Depending on the lifetime of the batteries, it's probably not far from what it would actually take to switch over to renewable energy while bringing the rest of the world up to a western standard of life.

But you're absolutely right that it's nonsensical to harvest carbon from the atmosphere while you're still pumping it in. That's product design driven by PR, not engineering.

And that points to the rest of it being bullshit as well.
Even if this doesn't happen this time, it -will- happen in the foreseeable future. While there may not be the technology and infrastructure in place that would be needed for mass adoption of EVs by just about everyone, if there's a legislative timeline in place, then it will get done. Look at the history of F1 - every time new rules have been put in place (limitation on engines, hybrids, etc) there's been a lot of moaning about how "impossible" the new rules are to live by, and every time the engineers come up with the goods; the recent fuel capacity and flow limits in F1 were initially difficult, and now they've led to engines with around 50% thermal efficiency - far ahead of road car engines.

I really hope that they do this, as we can't go on using fossil fuels forever. If there was a realistic affordable alternative for me to my current vehicle (a Renault Trafic van), then I'd take it. But there isn't at any price at the moment, let alone what I can afford. But there will be if this sort of legislation passes.
I'm not sure, I skimmed the entire thing and still don't know.
Solar power whether employed by plants or machines. I'd vote on plant absorption myself.
This is an excellent book from the pen and paper era, that is more than modern (functional programming is popular now): https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Functional-Programming-C...
The BBC also did a good story on Fraunhofer's E-Puzzler being used to piece together shredded Stasi documents:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19344978
No, I think we agree. The level of proficiency you are describing can be attained by a kid in six months to a year. Going past that to become a human chess database is a waste of time.

Example: I taught my kids to ask themselves "Is there a better move?" before making a move. I also taught them to apply that idea to non-chess situations. And they do.
There are two (main) kinds of asbestos, what you write is true for one of those two, the other kind you should not be exposed to at all if it is airborne, it is super dangerous (the other is dangerous as well but not nearly as much).

Never ever grind/saw/sand/drill anything made with asbestos in it, just take it apart gently while wearing respiration gear and pack it in plastic, then deliver to a facility set up to handle it (where I live that is the municipality).

If you're dealing with sprayed on asbestos then let a professional company do the demolition, it is not worth lungcancer to save a few bucks and those people will have all the right equipment and will be able to remove it without releasing it into the environment.
I stand corrected. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcGYEXJqun8 also changed my mind a bit.
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Coloured people, women in wheel chairs, and men who have babies.

As far as I can tell.
Like I told a previous poster, I think you are perceiving rules where there aren't any. Just because there is a dating web site doesn't mean that is the only way to ask someone on a date.
> It is about as independent as a contracting relationship could possibly be

I completely agree that is really independent. And that is what leaves one of the sides completely unprotected. At one side you have Uber that has a big business (that can mean a lot of investors around the glove), lots of money and lots of drivers. It can decide unilaterally to increase/reduce prices as it is better for them. At the other side you have a lot of drivers competing for a small part of the pie. They cannot change anything else than stop working for Uber, and that has a negligible impact on the big company. The only way to compensate for that is for drivers to create an alliance that allows them to actually be able to have negotiation power. And THAT is what the government does with regulations and taxes. They are representing the citizens that want a better quality service, they are representing the citizens that want to drive for Uber and have a fair pay.

Isn't reasonable to let consenting adult citizens to enter into a long term agreement to provide companies, employees and consumers with fair negotiated norms? Why is Uber allowed to bring capital from as many investors as they want while the drivers should not be allowed to organize themselves?
No one cares about the private lives of people behind nicknames unless they drag their issues into the project, which is what happened here.
Is the internet killing our brains?
Me too. Lets get downvoted together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnBFblnKUvc
Have a look at the PDFs. I guess it is designed to help you rethink the situations in which the software you write will be used, how it will be used and by whom.
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I've been wanting to start a new project for a while, but I'm totally out of viable ideas.

I would like to create a SaaS of some sort, that could eventually allow me to make $1000/mo.

Is there someone smarter that me that could suggest something cool?
Title is not clear but this is Microsoft saying they are committed to designing for accessibility in mind. I believe they added a new section called the Inclusive Design Toolkit.

Linking to the PDFs or something would be a lot more straightforward than linking to their general design page.

The PDFs make some good points about how designing for accessibility has secondary, wider reaching impact.

It's nice to see at the very least that Microsoft cares enough to make this.
https://github.com/luser-dr00g/xpost

I'm not sure how complete it is though.
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It's about building awareness. I read the title and was expecting to see something actionable like Web Content Accessibility Guidelines https://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php which explains and then how to test a product against it. The only guidelines seem to be Universal Windows Platform that seems more about writing for the Windows ecosystem.
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> Your legal name

The UK for one doesn't have the concept of a legal name. As an adult you can call yourself anything you like, as often as you like.

You can complete a deed poll document to change your name on official documents, but it doesn't 'make legal' your new name, it just officially states that your new name supercedes your old name.

https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll/overview

“I [old name] of [your address] have given up my name [old name] and have adopted for all purposes the name [new name].

"If the individual changing their name so wishes, evidence of a change of name (forename and/or surname) may be provided by a procedure known as deed poll."
I remember seeing a demo of PDB at the British Telecom Software Engineering Centre at Glasgow running on a Sun workstation around 1993.

I contacted Arthur van Hoff (who went on to Java fame) a few years ago and he put me in touch with Tim Niblett who still has some source code, but if I recall correctly, didn't feel that he had the authority to release it.

https://twitter.com/avh/status/62644685486825473

I believe that PDB came out of the Turing Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Institute which sadly closed in 1994.

It would be great to resurrect it, but we only seem to have the binaries.
Mostly, yes... You don't necessarilly need to turn CO2 back to hydrocarbon, there may be less expensive ways to capture and store that carbon. Still, you're correct that the costs will be gigantic.
If every German needs to replace their non-electric car at some point, isn't that actually a great victory for ze lobbyists?
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Despite using Windows regularly and doing my development on it, I have serious problem with Microsoft approach.
They literally tried to ignore many people who uses low dpi right now. I know people are going to adopt better monitor in somewhere along the line. But whole world is not just silicone valley and as far as I can see in third world countries (which is where Microsoft rules) 99% uses very low DPI monitors for desktop and laptop. That's because for a long time manufacturers produced and sold low dpi monitor.

Changing your underlying technology ( as far as I know they adopted DirectWrite as replacements for ClearText) with out caring about your users experience (and ironically making it worse that what it was) does not mean anything other than ignoring and don't caring about your user base.

Font rendering in Windows 10 is ridiculous. It is in worst possible shape. (In UWP and modern app).
At the other hand, Ubuntu, Fedora (with freetype tweak) font rendering is fabulous.

I hated that guy, Steve Ballmer. He didn't know basic rule of management. You as manager cannot force people to use something you want. You should provide them better experience overall.

I know there are some technical issues there about ClearText (which was not that good -far from freetype-, but much better than DirectWrite).
We are talking about biggest and most successful software company in history of mankind. There is got to be better way than ignoring your userbase. I am sure they can provide better font rendering for UWP in low DPI monitors.

Let be honest nobody cared about windows modern apps before integrating them into Windows core itself. Right now every time i open settings app my eyes hurt.

P.S. I do realize most people in HN have high DPI monitor, but if you can just try to use UWP app in 14 inch monitor with 1366x768 resolution (which is more than common in third world countries), and compare it to ClearText.

P.S 2. this is not only for third world countries. As far as I know gamers tend to buy large screen but with 1080p resolution. I tested on it, font rendering on anything less than 200 DPI is fucking nightmare. And doesn't matter how much smoother UWPs animation's are. Or how much their design are cool. When text is ridiculously awful, it doesn't worth using.

www.sven.de/dpi

P.S 3 This is one of the saddest experience I had as SE. Microsoft knew they had desktop users locked in, and because of that they didn't care. Imagine a world which Microsoft had serious competitor in desktop/laptop OS space. I am sure they wouldn't dare to mess with user experience in such way. I am really happy with recent increase in Apple's iMac's and MacBook's.
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Assuming dwaxe replies claiming to not be a robot, how would we go about verifying? :P
Did you find this new group of friends before or after you left college? How did you find them? For many people, it's quite hard to find friends once out of university.
I... think it's a set of standards around universal access? Or maybe a new program/initiative for creating more accessible technology in general? A public confirmation that they care about accessibility?

I'm going with the first one after downloading and skimming the inclusive design guidelines pdf listed.

However, I'm still confused. I don't know how much confidence I have in Microsoft being able to design universally accessible interfaces if this marketing vomit of a website does everything within its power to obscure what it's trying to actually say.
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You know you're in for a perfectly rational discussion when someone uses the phrase "cis gendered white men" to discredit them.
>> The promise was that, as in the article, you 'Say what you want, not how you want it done.'

That is the promise of declarative programming, in general. Prolog is a logic programming language that is also declarative. Its primary "promise", insofar as it makes any promises, is to allow the use of first-order logic as a programming language. In that, it delivers in spades, more so than any other language (and even other logic programming languages are largely based on Horn clauses).

The reason Prolog is held up as an example of declarative programming is because it's one of the best realisations of that paradigm- or in any case it's one of the few such languages one can do actual programming in (as opposed to, say, xml or html).

Prolog's name however stands for "PROgrammation en LOgique", not "PROgrammation DEclarative".

In that sense it's pretty unfair to blame Prolog for not being a perfect declarative language, or for not keeping any other promises it never made.
Thanks for the feedback! Our idea is to help newbies get in touch with the right people to help them along, not just automatically shout impersonal words ;-)
But clearly that still needs work. May I ask, did you install it or only look at the site?
Thanks again!
Yes, maybe you even burn more fossil fuel because of transmission loss. But one might still gain on better filtering of dust/particulates in the exhaust which is a major problem in German inner cities.

(I'm not advocating the use of coal energy to power electric cars, just mentioning that there are more aspects.)
You fail to show that it has any value.

> disconnect from the material and ultimately release yourself from your ultimate
> possession (your body) is an interesting spiritual practice

Humans have done that to each other since the very beginning, usually to others but also to themselves. Why you would see that as something of value would surely be interesting for us to read here, also what the difference is between doing it to yourself compared to doing it to others.

I would like to point out though, as a mere materialist but with Eastern Bloc communist upbringing instead of a capitalist one actually, I won't see a reasoning that is based on some state changes happening inside the person's brain as a useful justification, unless that has a (demonstrable) influence beyond that person.

It's not that I'm greatly concerned about what people do to themselves, just that you say we fail to see the value, which is very different and goes far beyond arguing for letting people do what they want if it only affects themselves.
>I've worked on this problem before

I suppose it helps if you're already familiar with the problem domain. Nevertheless, it's very cool indeed.
> The stupidity with wich we argue for retaining useless jobs is baffling.

What do you mean by 'retaining useless jobs'? We aren't talking about subsidizing carriage makers or wheelwrights here. We're talking about jobs that will be lost as a direct result of legislation, not market obsolescence.
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It's worth noting that Minetest is available on Ubuntu (and possibly Debian?) via apt (apt-get). Not sure how dated it may be, but it's still playable and useful.
Here I am again to complain about bad focus support. The biggest travesty is people pushing the diversity narrative without... being inclusive.

The page has javascript, so I know they can put in javascript that targets the keyboard and helps users know where the hell they are focused. The focus outlines on those damn buttons is way too non-obvious.
Rather odd that the course omits decision trees.
Straight from border control's mouth: you can't look for work on a B2. I got razzed about this a couple of times when entering the US as a foreign national.
More stupid regulations and micromanagement. If you want people to cut down on co2, tax that. Don't dictate what the solutions should look like, that's what the Soviets did and they turned out well.
Epic Systems is certainly up there ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems ).
This is a document to increase awareness about accessibility and provide guidelines, yet the landing page fails to convey the intention of the document.

Accessibility is about lowering barriers to people and making things actually easier, not about making a message difficult to understand with marketing gibberish.

Why can't a landing page, especially one about accessibility, be concise and straight to the point?
"Human beings have been at the center of design practices for a long time."

What does this sentence even mean? Who else would be at the center? Cats?
of course, that's why everyone's talking about solar powered sequestering processes. oil is ultimately a solar battery, too.
Judging from the fact that Windows 10 still uses icons from 1995, I am surprised to learn that Microsoft even has a design department.
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> "Every watt of energy paid with oil must be paid with another form of energy plus interest."

Luckily we have an energy source that can easily pay back that energy debt, the sun.
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That's known as "churnalism", and it's disturbingly widespread in mainstream journalism; it's by no means limited to gaming.
I'm really sorry to hear that.

Suggestion: put everything in an encrypted file (I think .7z is good, AFAIK .zip is very bad), send that to lots of people. If anything happens to you, it should be manageable to get the passphrase to somebody.

PS. HN is using HTTPS
They represent their research better than I can. Just search for the names followed by "2016" and pick your favorite source...

The basic idea is that we are well beyond reasonable co2 levels and that geological time is just catching up. But again, I'm no substitute for these well regarded scientists so it's best to read their research. There's a science based show named radio ecoshock if you're interested.
I don't think I want to live in your world, or at least not in your Valley.
Inclusive Design Toolkit (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/design/practice#toolkit) consists of a downloadable manual and activities. The manual is an overview of the inclusive design problem. The activities are more like a guideline to researching possible design solutions.

I didn't find there any ready to use design recipes.
> The stupidity with wich we argue for retaining useless jobs is baffling.

You are calling it an argument in defence of the status quo yet from the article it is merely a statement of fact. And it is a vital fact that could in couple of ways have ramifications on the local economy.
Is it possible to put bigger hard drive in it? 16GB is very limiting.
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Yes, this is stupid. But many voters will be attracted by simplistic statements.

And as a factory worker you are likely much more scared of having to leave your job and learn something completely new… compared to, e.g. the random HN reading IT freelancer.

So the stupid sentence, I'm sure, will resonate well with many citizens (unfortunately).

Of course, there better approach would be to show the potential benefits and job opportunities. But why put in the effort of simple fear-mongering will do?
Of course. After all he is seriously suggesting that:

There are genes that are present in every rich person across the planet but absent in every poor one.

That the human genome is so poorly understood, there's plenty room for that hidden in it.

That these genes evolved in the last 15k years (because before agriculture, wealth was limited to what you could carry and everyone was a generalist and so there was no selective pressure)

That they did not evolve at a single site like every other gene (because then we would find all the rich people on earth clustered in one spot with no poor people around with a density spreading outward) so...

The genes appeared coincidentally in every civilization and society independently the same time. In the last 15k years. With very mild or no selective pressure.

And this was discovered by one person (Gregory Clark) with no background in genetics and in opposition to near universal criticism while, coincidentally, telling a story that comforts the rich.

But at least it's not eugenics.
The amount of doublespeak in this document is absolutely off the charts.

Disability equals Mismatched Human Interactions - really?

http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/0/D/B0D4BF87-09CE-4...

Why not just accept that some people have disabilities and it's everybody's responsibility to help these people out to the best of our abilities? It's the moral thing to do.

Why bend and squish words into different definitions?
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