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Neighbor does not live in the US but in a country with strict employment law and higher operating costs. I don't know the details of how a McDonalds franchise works, I have only eaten in one twice in >40 years alive, the last time being 25 years ago, but I imagine a fairly large chunk of those profits go to the MCD HQ, some go toward paying off the loan required to buy into the franchise which is personal debt not McDs debt, and by the looks of my neighbor some goes toward the staff eating the stock. I have no doubt fast food places make money, they are everywhere, but the hours are terrible and the lifestyle sucks.
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Presumably he is working on other things in the meantime.
I got depressed by reading the Wikipedia article...
While I never got on terms with orgmode, I cannot praise vimwiki high enough. It's intuitive and simple enough to not have very steep learning curve.

I use it with taskwiki [1] extension, which stores all the tasks in the awesome Taskwarrior [2] CLI task manager. With this, I have my tasks in my text files, searchable just a command away on the CLI or my mobile phone via the Android app.

[1] https://taskwarrior.org/
[2] https://github.com/tbabej/taskwiki
Mad Max is not a post nuclear world.
Are there any universities that are taking advantage of the blooming of online content in their traditional programs and combining it with small-group / individual study sessions?

Even if just internally (e.g. film Complex Analysis 101 one year, that stuff doesn't change, and not need to lecture it again), but still give the assignments and personal feedback. Perhaps do a weekly new video'd 'feedback for everyone' for the course based on homework understanding. It certainly is not done in universities in the country I'm in.

It seems an ideal opportunity to do more with less.
Ok, so I think I understand how MobX works. What I don't understand is how this is different from just having a global handler updateStore that runs a forceUpdate() on the root component. You set todo.done = true somewhere down the line and run updateStore. It will re-render everything and change wherever todo.done is used.
Nuclear war is the one where "everybody dies" is the best case scenario.
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This looks like Org mode for Vim, very exciting! I like the ability to export to an HTML page. It might be useful to export as doku/mediawiki, markdown, or other types of formatting.
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Please explain to me -- how could 50 measly “Hiroshima-size nuclear weapons” (in TFA) have an effect multiple factors of ten worse than Krakatoa, with ca 200 MT...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa#1883_eruption

Edit: Also, all the fire bombed cities in WW II should at least be in the neighborhood of a large fraction of 100 small nuclear devices. Then we have this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires#Oil_fire_smo...
So that seems a pretty risky investment to me. Only a few percent profit for the risk of eating a giant monthly bill.
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Wood floor and sometimes concrete. I don't drop it from my hand, usually from a pocket or lap, though.
Healthcare IT is one of the most backwards areas of IT to work in, I think, in large part because of the legal red tape around everything clinical. So you get a lot of people that say no automatically.

Additionally, I think you get a lot of people that don't really have an "IT mindset." I don't know about where you work but in my neck of the woods we have so many people in programmer positions that can't even write a three line script. They're great at clinical stuff because they came from there (e.g. nursing) but have no technical background...
What kind of videos? Do you have a link perhaps where I could test this?
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So if you like to program, programming is passive income?

I don't think that's how it works.
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No, I am not. I am talking about my filter being actual people, not mainstream media. Once I know of something, I go out and look for more information. And I keep very informed of local events, reading everything put out by my city -- council meetings minutes, announcements, planning committee documents, etc.

I can see where the misunderstanding may have come from -- I could have explained it better originally.
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Counterpoint: it's been shown again and again that continued exposure to outlets deliberately cherry-picking the worst aspects of humanity (commercial news outlets) has a pretty negative effect on worldviews.

And that in turn leads to negative outcomes.

More authoritarianism, more withdrawal into closed communities, more willingness to vote for leaders who will solve the "terrible state" of the country / world by any means necessary, more enthusiasm for punishment over empathy, more othering of whichever ethic/social group that's currently being blamed for Everything Being Bad.

If you're trying to gain an accurate understanding of the world, starting with sources with an extremely strong incentive to bias the hell out of your worldview is probably not the best way to do it.

And if you're just trying to understand and mentally experience the worst humanity has to offer, then history books have plenty of really horrible shit in them, generally far worse than the 21st century so far (thankfully).
Hmm, no I think you're playing with words.

I understand that you wouldn't work to make money, but you would still work in the sense of undertaking an effortful activity.

So again, you would work, albeit not for money. Lest you continue with the (frankly rude) accusations, this is precisely what I would do as well. I just disagree with the notion that these hobbies don't constitute work (in the sense of 'not rest/leisure').

For all your railing against puritan work ethic, you have a very puritanical definition of work.
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I think stock market is passive income. Literally 5 minutes to set up an account, and it can provide income for life without touching it. I consider that 5 minutes small enough to not count, but not sure what the hard limit is ;)

If you make an iPhone game.. spend 1000 hours.. then it makes you a few $100 per year for a few years, I don't think thats passive income. It is just income that is very delayed from when the work was done for it.
So you are saying that if Google finds, indexes and caches my private information without my explicit permission or knowledge, it is okay for that data to be available to everyone indefinitely?

Well I disagree vehemently, especially in cases where a third party, such as a for-profit corporation violates a fiduciary relationship without my knowledge, sells that data, and Google mines and makes that data available. That's just wrong!
Does the whole world really look like that in Fury Road? I haven't seen it, but in the original I don't recall any suggestion that it's global, or even that there was a nuclear war. It was just collapse of society in Australia, which is mostly desert or semi-arid climate.
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Where do you get your news digest from?
As a layman who got into nutrition for weight training purposes I want to ask you: why have I seen an uptick in the use of "inflammation" more broadly in nutrition from an year or so ago?

You may be well aware of the whole broscience that runs in fitness forums and it's very hard sometimes to find good and scientifically accurate sources and until now I've been lumping most of those "inflammation" articles together with the "toxins" ones, mostly a very broad umbrella term that had no real meaning.

But reading your comment and seeing this article from Harvard made me reconsider it so, again, what is this thing about "inflammation" regarding diet? It really just feels like an umbrella term...
> scenes from that film that will stay with me the rest of my life

I bet that's the most persistent thing you remember from that teacher. Effective education! And probably tipped you away from the idea that a nuclear war might be winnable, and towards disarmament.

Our teacher showed us https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_Darkness for similar reasons, I think.
They very much do provide real technological advantage. They can be smarter than traditional public transit, allow you to be more flexible, reduce waiting times, allow you to get from A to B without changing trains / buses, get rid of stops, eliminate the last couple of hundred meters that you may have to walk today, etc.
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Crushing cost and income instability. I know very few people my age (35) or younger who've held a single job for longer than maybe 3-5 years, most of the time its even shorter than that. Our parents could count on a job being stable for decades at a time and with regular raises. When you don't know where you will be working 2 years from now its hard to predict where you will be living 30 years from now. Makes signing a mortgage kind of a dumb idea.
Hackers, Very Well written article, we have been facing this pain point and we went on to create a wonderful system which handles everything for a project in a simple intutive way. I have shared the screenshot here for the hackers. Lot of positive feedback, looking forward to hear your sincere comments and take it forward.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzeajADUUAE87oa.jpg
>But if we instead use a glass box, we can then observe the cat along the way.

The use of the word observe is what makes me think this is a troll. Collapsing the waveform through observation is such a common phrasing, it seems silly to assume the author wouldn't have come across it.
Why are Linux changelogs so unbelievably shitty? I read it and I have no idea what changed. But, hey, at least I know who fucking changed it, right?
Re: “I just felt unhappy at the lack of structure and not knowing what my purpose in life was. My skills were deteriorating and I was finding it difficult to interact with other people intellectually,” says Keith, now in his mid-thirties. “There’s a higher reason why we all go to work.”

So as automation / AI creates a larger and larger class of the permanently unemployed, what does this statement mean to them? And to us (i.e., fellow citizens, unemployed or not).

This was THE BIGGEST issue of the election that never was. We're extremely unprepared. Again.
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Nothing about this makes any sense. The cat is an analogy, the box is an analogy. Everything about that thought experiment is an analogy.

The moon is still there, even if noone looks up into the night sky. The cat is either alive or dead because it is constantly "observed." That's why there's no differnce between a glass box and a metal box. Observation in the quantum mechanical sense doesn't mean that the author has to eyeball an object. It means that the object interacts with its environment (e.g. the particles of the cat interact with each other and the particles in the air).

The analogy with statistics, that quantum mechanics is simply the evolution of "what we know" is not correct either. A superposition is much more than that. When a particle is in superposition of two states, it can interact with itself as if it was in one state and as if there was another particle in the other one (but there has never been a second particle).

If you simply assume that you "don't know" in which state it was and that it would still behave classically, you would not be able to explain the double-slit experiment. You also wouldn't be able to explain why light is slower in a dielectric. Also, physics would be way easier.

P.S.: What the hell are those little snow flakes on that website. At first I thought I was seeing stars and that I was about to pass out...
Agree ... I think we have a small group here who is interested
I've used go-bindata[1] for embedding things like shell scripts and data files into my applications, it's a fantastic tool!

[1] https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata
A bit unrelated, but there's a possibility that quantum mechanics are not exactly probabilistic and that they're actually deterministic, while still being compatible with observed quantum phenomena. This video explains it well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ
The first one no, but the other 3 are set after a nuclear holocaust.
So disingenuously humor the client for a day or two before shooting their idea. Honestly, if I was your client and this happened a few times, I would start to wonder why you lack the expertise to immediately know ideas won't work.
Sabra's nutrition label seems to indicate no added sugar: http://i.imgur.com/1BstN2i.png
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I assume a worldwide nuclear war would be an extinction level event. Perhaps roaches will inherit the earth, but I doubt humans will.
Using web dev tools / inspector during a screen cast demo, either to modify a style or to show a site/app's responsive behavior. Simple, I know, but it comes off as some form of wizardry to many clients.
But some problems are very tough to solve in some languages. Like in Java, it's very hard to avoid allocating everything on the heap. In C++/Rust it's trivial so you can get that performance boost without crude hacks.
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Somethings very fishy here.. The US alone detonated over 1000 nukes, yet nuclear winter is nowhere to be seen.. (thankfully)
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Why not. Dedicated cloud option. We prefer to run our LB version on it, but why not. If you'll need it - we try to help.
I assume that if they go out in urban areas, they'll raise a lot more dust and cause fire that raise more dust.

Also it's not 50, it's 100. 50 bombs for India and Pakistan each.
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Looks like Go is becoming java ;)
I'd also recommend using TeamViewer.

I use this on my Ubuntu machine all the time to setup remote meetings to people around the world.
Forgive me in my ignorance of how antibacterials work, but wouldn't an equally plausible explanation be that these bacteria's simply haven't developed characteristics that modern antibacterial drugs target?
I'm confused why you are bringing up a basic income. I might also bring up a basic job guarantee, open borders or other random political proposals, but that's just derailing the conversation.

I agree that Hostess probably didn't offer equity. However, if it did, do you think more than a tiny number of workers would have chosen equity over cash?

Workers don't get upside if the stock does well for the same reason they don't get downside when the stock tanks. They are more risk averse and have a stronger desire for liquidity; as a result they are paid cash which satisfies their preferences.

Out of all the things that make you unhappy, which things do you think wouldn't have happened if private equity allowed Hostess to die? From what I can tell, 100% of the workers would have been laid off, the pension still would have gone bankrupt and the union would no longer exist.
In the West work is a proxy for purpose, value and citizen. But, as you said, that's about to change. Drastically. An unprecedented disruption. So then what? And if not, then what?
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So it seems nuclear winter occurs not from the bombs but from the smoke from all the fires they would cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter
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I would stay far from Facebook products. Never know when you have been sued or forbidden to use they products. Haha these all boils down to freedom end of the day for me. I would not ever choose Facebook, Google or Twitter products for anything. They business is simply censorship packaged in fancy boxes.
I think the UK government has always realised that any level of nuclear war was not survivable let alone "winnable" - estimates from the 1950s suggested that it would only take 3 H-bomb strikes to cause a total breakdown in the UK (and some UK diplomat had a drunken debate with Khrushchev over that very point).
> There is a link right in your comment, right click it to download the text file

Go to the file. Then try to save it. Don't argue with a scenario that I'm not talking about.

HN adds that link, but not all links come from HN. I know this is asking a lot, but, maybe, just for the sake of argument, try to pretend like you were given the URL somewhere else that doesn't automatically hyperlink and that I didn't just make this up. Hell, pretend that you got it on a piece of paper and actually had to type it in like a caveman. Now save it.

> There is usually a link to whatever file you want to download.

If I understand correctly, what you're saying is that in some cases you just cannot save the file, and that in all other cases you just cannot save the file while looking at the file without knowing that you need to go...somewhere nebulously else? That's what I said too. I'm glad we're on the same page now.
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This is just a product advert loosely dressed as a research article. It also has serious problems with the way how all the projects on GitHub are treated as equal.

The reason why ~3/4 GitHub projects only have 1 contributor is because a lot of people use Github for personal projects and/or as a portfolio for recruitment. So lumping them in together with all the open source projects that do have a community massively skews the results to the point of rendering them meaningless.

If we're going to talk about "at risk" projects hosted on GitHub then I'd be far more interested to know about the size of communities for any project that has multiple contributors. Or better yet, the truck factor for a subset of projects picked based on their appearance in the wild.
...But it still can't match org.

Maybe in 10 years?
You're lucky. We always try to explain that CSV is a mostly-clean format while XLS and XLSX are a mess.

Yet, most of the time customers insist on XLS export, and we are happy if they at least acccept XLSX instead.
> a 2TB HDD will have a faster average seek time than an 8TB HDD due to physical design. Any performance gains of only partially filling a drive would probably be offset by the slower overall drive.

I'm skeptical here. So your minimum seek time goes up on the 8TB because it's harder to align. But your maximum seek time should drop tremendously because the drive arm only has to move along the outer fifth of the drive. And your throughput should be great because of the doubled linear density combined with using only the outer edge.
I rember when doom came out we had just had some £4k pc's delivered with 20 inch screens (for Oracle Work) Playing doom in a darkened office was quite spooky
Water shortages is a weird topic. The article focuses on finite underground aquifers, but how much world water consumption depends on that (I actually would like to know)?

From what I gather many (most?) cities have water "systems". Dirty water is flushed, evaporation and human processes clean it, then we drink it on the other end. It's a continuous renewable cycle. We are reusing the same molecules, not consuming a limited resources. In many cities, water is nearly unlimited. The system just has to be able to cycle enough for the pipes to be full at any given moment.

Some places like California have too much demand, for the rate at which their water cycles, so they have to be careful. But places like NYC or Chicago have nearly unending supplies of sewage to process.

The amount of water on earth today is the same as 4 billion years ago. It doesn't disappear, it just gets dirty.

The water problem is actually an energy problem. There is more than enough water on earth for probably a trillion people. The problem is it's salty, and desalination is extremely energy intensive. If we figure out cheap renewables, or fusion, or just have to pay a greater percentage of our salaries for water, we're really not going to run out.

I know tfa talks about nuclear holocaust but I wanted to discuss regular water issues/fears.
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"I can’t possibly be the first person to notice that Schrödinger’s cat experiment does not change a bit if the box in which the cat resides is made of glass."

Nor are you the first one to have missed the role of the observer in a quantum-mechanical thought experiment: you change the experiment UTTERLY by observing the cat.

There's a very detailed writeup of some similar thoughts in the Fenyman Lectures, focused on the particular case of the electron double-slit experiment and the observational consequences of trying to "see" the electrons passing through one slit vs the other using different wavelengths of photons.
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If someone recognizes an impractical or suboptimal idea, I prefer it to be called out immediately for discussion so we can move past it to a better idea.

It helps if clients think like Darwin:

"I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved, as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it."
I think that, often, there's confusion between someone's position and their interest.[0] It's easy to think that if they asked for "MD5", they must want "MD5", right?..

An easy illustration of this is someone with a runny nose asking you for a "Kleenex". You have tissues of another brand, so you tell them you don't have a Kleenex. This is being an asshole who hasn't done any Physics but watches too much Big Bang Theory and wants to be "like logical/analytic". That kind of stuff is only cool when Paul Dirac does it, whom the asshole knows nothing of. Of course we laugh because "nobody" would act like that..

"MD5" is "Kleenex". The runny nose is their concern for security. "Tissue" is "something to clean that runny nose.. or shine their shoes". They might want the tissue to do something else than clean their nose, because they have a handkerchief for that.. So our assumption they want to use it to clear their nose is wrong.

If their only options are "no password-hashing" and "that crypto thingy, what was it? DM5, MD5 or something?", choosing MD5 is actually a sane decision and request.

The underlying interest here is "security", communicated with a request for "MD5" (position) which makes them seem clueless to someone with a broader view and who must, in my opinion, recognize their request for what it is.

One could ask for the specific reason they chose MD5 and not something else? They may be unaware of other options, or give constraints they were trying to satisfy with that choice.

Someone who says the site must be in PHP might mean they want a "dynamic site". Someone who specifies "Bootstrap" might mean "responsive", etc.

We clear assumptions by asking questions, and noses by blowing them.

[0]: http://web.mit.edu/negotiation/www/NBivsp.html
Sure! Here is a gist: https://gist.github.com/JBlaak/8d9fdebb2a28a0b9026a71bced7cc...

Every request will have the `accept` and `X-Requested-With` headers and prefixed with some route prefix using the request and the base decorators. As you can see in consumer.js you use async/await to consume results generated by the methods.
>Is that so? If americans want to live like that, why don’t american cities look like european cities already?

Because cities are expensive infrastructure that takes many decades to change after it has been built. Unless an earthquake or other natural disaster or war takes a city down, change at the level of changing the roads, moving whole neighborhoods, etc is very slow.
Seems this position is already gone;
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/EU_investing

For non-EU/US residents I got a recommendation for http://int.tddirectinvesting.com/
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