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Losing their job is a violent and unpleasant process but a sort of necessary one as a society. I have seen that first hand many times. It forces people to reconsider their career, move to another more promising industry, move to another city or another country. That's how the economy adapts to change and resources are allocated efficiently.

What I have seen often too is bankers wealthy enough to be able to live on their savings for a long time, and therefore not willing to reconsider their career. And as a result staying unemployed for a long time before coming to the conclusion that they need to do something else.

I'm not saying this is fun and that I wouldn't mind going through it myself but this is capitalist's creative destruction at work. Not something you should feel particularly bad about.
Many mushrooms are toxic when raw (even the ones used for food), so you should better stay with fruit and berries.
> Imagine if we were still using certificates signed with DES and MD5 hashes because they were available perpetually.

We don't rely on expiration or revocation for that; we rely on clients and servers refusing to use insecure algorithms.
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I have not used Erlang or Elixir, and wanted to start with Elixir (I want some experience with a functional language, I'm to biased with Java to use Scala as a functional language). However, I read somewhere that Elixir can be successfully used only with Phoenix if you don't know Erlang. As I understood, sooner than later interactions with Erlang libraries is needed, and that requires Erlang knowledge. Can somebody please confirm? That Elixir is basically oriented around Phoenix and Erlang is a requirement?
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You should use the upgrade system provided by Ubuntu ('update-manager'), it knows more about the changes than the standard 'dist-upgrade'. You can also run it to test what changes it will make.

Second, if you are using PPA's you are much more likely to have problems. There's no way to test all the inter-relations between packages that are outside the central archive. If you have packages that have upgraded fundamental packages in Ubuntu's Main archive then it's likely to break.

I mention this because you're talking about multi-media.

In general, it's best to remove PPA software before you launch the upgrade, in fact it's a good opportunity to remove anything from the system that you don't really need: for example for my 16.04 upgrade I removed the C++ environment as I'm not using it.
Having a configurable option to disable a security setting is a pretty bad idea. Users who don't know anything about security will just disable it forever the first time an app tells them to.
This entirely. If you want competitive wages and non-backwards social groups you go to cities. I suspect there will be enclaves out in the suburbs soon as people make their money and switch mid life to more rural living where it's slower and more sustainable
I totally agree, I have a few shortcuts in my GCE dashboard, but I seem to always forget which one is which. For instance logs, DNS and storage have super similar icons.
I was under the impression that neural networks are inspired by the brain. And as we understand how the brain works better, it is obvious that we will be replicating it mechanically.
Its called loan consolidation, take a set of loans that total say 70k and get talked into consolidation before you develop math skills and with deferments to deal with the regular boom bust cycle of layoffs over 20 years and that blows up into 400k easily, I've seen it first hand. Mine are paid off but if I had free education or skipped it, I'd be wealthy. Instead I'm broke but my loans are paid off. But it took an insane effort over 20 years to do it, that could have gone into starting a successful company instead of feeding the federal government for a service that costs $0 in other countries.

My dad didn't have my education or skills, but he got a job working for the federal government and was shielded from the up and down of the economy. His education was paid for, his home loan was 12k. But he had things too easy and now he has dementia lol.
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I've not seen anything which is disappointing, the NeoVim team have done a fantastic job at modernising Vim. I've not followed Vim development very closely but the whole async thing did give me a chuckle when I read about it after years of not accepting async patches. A real shame he made it incompatible with the NeoVim async with no real reason.
>I would have also guessed "Berenstein", but to be fair, I barely knew how to spell when I read through those books.

I didn't know about the Berenstain alternate universe until long after it was a thing, and I this was my first reaction as well. I never really knew how to spell it, and I hadn't see one of those for many years since.

I also think it's one of those easily confused suffices: -ein, -ine, -ien, -een, -urg, -erg, etc.
> It lets you solve each conflict during the merge of each commit separately.

Which is what they're complaining about, compared to just merging and doing it once. Sometimes resolving smaller chunks at a time can be easier, but almost as often it involves a lot of extra effort creating intermediate states for little benefit, and often they don't even make sense.

I much prefer to keep an accurate history, rather than invent one that I think looks neater (the same goes for squashing commits). And honestly I think a lot of what people object to can be mitigated by learning how to use git log properly.
We generally have the mechanisms to implement binding international agreements about these things

Binding? Name one that doesn't involve nuclear weapon proliferation.
I needed to parse a tiny subset of SQL. I did it with ANTLR very quickly. It would take much more time doing it by hand, and I know quite a bit about parsing. For complex language it might be the other way, of course. Actually I never saw a single real programming language without hand-crafted parser. But if you need a tiny DSL, ANTLR is fine.
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That article is false.

> 2013, Germany’s electrical production required a 44 percent rise in coal power.

That's total nonsense.

Actually coal is under a lot of pressure in Germany. It helps a lot that Nuclear power in France is in such a bad shape: Germany can export a lot of surplus electricity during a cold winter to France.
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I agree. That's why capitalists owning automation should pay UBI - because they get to use raw materials.
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I'm not sure what everyone is so afraid of? There will be tensions and a political problem about redistribution if "simple" jobs dry up, sure, but isn't automation a good thing regardless? It means we make more stuff withuot putting in more effort.

Automation and industrialization over the last 150 years already meant we went from 120h weeks on farms to 40h weeks in offices and factories, while living standards increased. Measured in 40h/week jobs per person that means we lost 2 of 3 jobs in the industrialization! The world didn't end.
And now everyone is worried that if we go from 40 to 30h or 20h weeks that will be a disaster?

We can't afford to have a large fraction of the people unemployed and the rest still working 40h weeks in ever fewer jobs of course, but that's a problem societies will hopefully solve.
Yep. Many of the people I went to school with are now back living in the town we grew up in because there are jobs available. Given th choice most of them would stay where they are rather than move to a city.
This is wrong, wrong analyze because it's not about accident. It's about toxic material first. We don't have any other solution than dig a big hole or throw them in the ocean. Maybe our future generation will not die directly with a bomb, explosion but they will suffer for the world that we will give to them. Nuclear was never a long term solution or in any way a good solution.
If you guys are interested in the underlying mechanisms of democracy, this book was pretty good: https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Despite-Itself-System-Shoul...

It goes into detail on aspects of crowd wisdom, accountability, and a feeling of loyalty from the elected to the electorate.
Can you give an example of this? I've been using charles proxy for various tasks a bunch on my iPhone, and so far it seems that all the calls to Apple that I've noticed are HTTPS.
Minor thing, but there is no proxy at work here
Where are your friends and colleagues going, if I may ask?
Not only are you moving the goalposts, but you are again incorrect. Since 1999, Bostrom has authored four books and published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed journals.

There are good arguments to be made against Bostrom's Superintelligence, but malignments and surface analogies aren't appropriate. Please engage the ideas, not the man.
The page background image makes the text completely illegible in several places, for me, in Firefox. It's so awful that I'm not confident it's supposed to look like this: http://i.imgur.com/lDuO3NA.png
Who have more sisters, boys or girls?
That'll be the Casey Review https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-casey-review-...
>But I have a hard time justifying new investment in an era where solar is competitively priced.

Competitively priced is a misnomer. Different regions have vastly differing needs. Renewable power generation is largely solved, storage is the problem now, barring an actual breakthrough from the 1900's tech we essentially still use, the other option is a move to smart metering and the energy regulator in your country deciding when your fridge and airconditioner turns on.

Letting someone else turn your fridge on and off is invisible to most, but when an algorithm decides your AC must turn off in the middle of a heatwave, there's going to be serious political resistance.

To me for all the huge engineering challenges of a storage breakthrough, it still seems much easier than convincing the public to give up control over their household appliances.

This is why nuclear still survives as an option.
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I can confirm that this seems to work, although adding the spoofer somehow messed with the Netflix UI loading so that it loads maybe 1/10 previews and is otherwise all black..

Shame that it still requires spoofing the user agent. I would rather not fiddle around with that whenever I log in or out of Netflix, but would also like to send actual information to show that Firefox is being used..
I wonder what the math is on the 0.1%'s money. If the 0.1% became significantly more generous with their money, how much would that actually benefit everyone else?
> transgender bathroom usage

America seems to care very, very much about that. It's just that you think bigotry is right, so you see people fighting for their rights as making nonsense up.
Here you go [1]. You're looking for the blue part of the bars. Compared to operating and manufacturing the rest of the vehicle it seems rather negligible, i.e. switching to EVs (and plugin hybrids) and then switching the power grid to something Carbon neutral should be your first concern, only then should we think about how to optimise the footprint of batteries.

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-carbon-foot-print-of-manuf...

Edit: As a bonus, here's a map showing how much the grey part of the bar reduces depending on the country you live in:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16K4gNhy_AN8Eg4Ov3z7p...
On your point about storage, if more renewable electricity is generated than is needed in a particular area, it's much cheaper to transport it than to store it.

For example, this happens on a continental scale in Europe where there are interconnectors between countries that form a Europe-wide grid.

The losses for transmission of electricity are about 3.5% per 1,000 km. The losses for storage are at least 15%.
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Read an article a few years ago, where a lot of people claimed that New Zealand used to lie north of Australia. The same conclusion was made: it must be a merge of two parallel universes. Nobody stopped up to think that maybe they're just really bad at geography.
Interesting that your example of warlordism in a "potlach-like" culture is from a feudal society.

The rest you've said is a gross misrepresentation of the giveaway culture shared amongst many more tribes than just the Northwest ones. And of course, white academia will just refuse and say "our written documentation written by genocidal outsiders is way more accurate than what the cultures themselves say about themselves through their own oral traditions".

This must be an interesting book that somehow argues that wars that killed huge numbers of civilians somehow had zero impact. Looking at the criticism of the book it seems to also argue that there were no negative effects of colonialism.

Funny, I wonder if the millions of people killed in North America between 1500 and 1900 would agree with that.
> Any proposal that significantly reduces energy usage almost certainly involves telling a large portion of the world "no, you don't get a washing machine" or similar restrictions on the basic benefits of industrialization.

Probably more like "No you don't get a dryer" though, as a washing machine can use less water ?
A third solution is dispersal. I.e. dilute it to the point where the radiation level is insignificant. A fourth solution is concentration, since a smaller amount of material is easier to deal with a larger amount, and if the concentrated material produces heat, you can harvest more power from it.
> Aside from that... Elixir feels really fun. Maybe it's a silly metric, but that's just my biased opinion.

I'd argue that from a hacker's perspective, this is the most important metric. It's what keep you returning to the language, and what gives it vi(r|t)ality. Don't underestimate fun!
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The most natural state is to remain with your family until you form your own family. I have never understood the stigma attached to adult children living at home.

Admittedly, this might very well be because I have lived in multiple cultures, most of which don't have this antagonistic "kick them out of the house" relationship between parents and adult kids.

The other side of that story is that, yes, if an adult kid has opportunities that might take the kid away from the family home it could make total sense to move out. One example is getting into a really good university on the other side of the country.

I personally believe that the family connection is crucially important and it must remain as intact as possible until the adult children are ready to form their own families. There is no better incubator for future good people than a good family life.
I just started to read more and more, that's why some classics are in my list:

- The Power of Habit - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12609433-the-power-of-hab...

- The Greatest Salesman in the World http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/356896.The_Greatest_Sales...

- Originals http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25614523-originals

- The One Thing http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16256798-the-one-thing
Again, these articles lack a specific plan. I would have thought that there would have been enough time to come up with numbers: how many reactors, over which period of time, costs, hiw to finance it, how to build-up the industry, what is the actual contribution in CO2 reduction, who would build them, ...
I have used both (though Clojure less). I have not built distributed applications in Elixir yet, so I do not focus on those features in this comment. I prefer Elixir because:

1. My brain thinks in terms of editing lines, not s-expressions; I didn't get the hang of paredit, and editing without paredit required really tedious edit operations.

2. Elixir's understanding of types matches Erlang's and the host VM, while Clojure invents its own uni-typed IObj but runs on a typed VM. Interop with Java required adding type annotations. Elixir/Erlang interop seems to be almost entirely pain-free.

3. Elixir has a lot of syntax niceties like triple-quoted strings that automatically remove indents. And pattern matching everywhere.

4. I can feasibly (and in fact, have) audited and built all of my Elixir and Erlang dependencies from git repositories, while doing the same with the Maven dependencies needed for a typical Java project would be almost impossible. I wouldn't even know where to begin with bootstrapping all the necessary Maven plugins.

5. Elixir/Erlang has per-process garbage collection and memory limits, though I haven't taken advantage of these yet.
that sounds like a plan
Out of curiosity — how would you feel about a rural suburb if you could work remotely from it and make the same money that you could make in a big city? What other things would you need the rural suburb to provide if employment wasn't an issue?
America seems to care very, very much about that.

Please don't make sweeping generalizations like this. It's pretty clear that the US has a wide variety of opinions on this and a variety of other issues.
I just recently discovered `hg ci -i` which is a TUI for selecting which changes/hunks to include in the commit. I think it used to be a separate extension but now is part of the main hg distribution. I've tried to use it more now for scenarios where I happened to make multiple modifications to a file while working on a fix/feature and want them in separate commits.
Thanks for the quote and the metaphor. It's a good description of what's wrong with the "AI risk" community. Drives me nuts how much traction they've been able to get, and how many ardent defenders, when they're not doing any intellectual work, just facile speculation. Their dogma seems to infect every conversation on AGI and it's a shame.
Why aren't these designs more widespread?
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By modulating the price, consumers will still have control, but they will voluntarily engage in time shifting usage, or deciding that they can live with a higher temperature during the heat wave.

Modulating price so that demand = supply works very well. For example, when a frost wipes out the orange crop in Florida, the consumer price of oranges rises. People cut back their use of oranges to match automatically.
Not OP but similar experience.

Socialism and associated social justice criteria vs capitalism and profit criteria.

My first job was at a company with socialist background and the same management criteria lingering on (company was privatized by workers who were majority owners after the communist system). It's just like politics on a smaller scale - you see people abuse the system all over the place and the social criteria discourages actual productivity - it's very off putting if you actually want to achieve something and eventually it spiraled down to shit and got sold off.

These days I think as much as money incentives can be perverted at least they have a scenario in which they work (measuring value as close to objective as you can get) - the alternative (determining value trough politics) is much worse.
People I knew when I was younger later went on to get a good education and moved to the U.S.A. for work.

They still have student debt, but with practically no interest adjusted for inflation, and they didn't have to pay for university. They won't be spending their future worrying about their loans.

Grow up in a country with ~30% income tax and ~25% VAT, get universal healthcare and free education, then emigrate and take a job and pay (less) taxes in another country where working actually makes you money.
Great. Now let us push it even more.
I'm not sure who told you that, but it's patently false. Phoenix is just another OTP application, you can build a Phoenix app without knowing Erlang at all. It is a practical reality that you will eventually dig into Erlang to some degree, but I wouldn't say it's a requirement by any means. Perhaps what was meant is that you will need to understand OTP, the Erlang standard library (because Elixir avoids wrapping it as much as possible), and some of the semantics of Erlang interop such as the binaries vs charlists, the use of records instead of structs, etc. For just getting started though, much of that can be avoided, and you can tackle it as the need arises.
AFAIK the danger of Note 7s is mostly due to the small size of these batteries, i.e. how close anode/cathode are times the energy density times the amount of space it has for thermal expansion. In infrastructure sized batteries this isn't really a big issue.
If such a program were to exist, why would the United States not make it available to its own homeless or otherwise impoverished citizens?

Regardless of the beneficiary, how to these people otherwise live. Where do they work and go to school? What do they eat?
Alright, good to know. I had the idea that they were going in the same direction as Chrome.
The cat also has fairly easily understood goals.

If, instead, the cat were trying to turn everything into paperclips it might be harder to combat its efforts because you'd never figure out what it was trying to do beyond causing chaos.
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So increasing emissions. That's very bad.
So now the 2year old will learn that she can do all the mess she wants because she has her own cleaning maid... Just wait for it.
There is certainly a big market for both data analysts and system builders here in Moscow. Most want a person with credentials, e.g. Yandex school of data analisys.
Field is rather on fire with big companies investing a lot of money in it
> Nuclear plants take a decade to build

That very much depends on the country & regulatory environment. If you browse through the ones China has been building [1] it seems to be taking them around 5-7 years from breaking first ground [2] and 5 years or so to add additional reactors to an existing site [3].

You can browse through other countries on that site & Wikipedia to see how long these things take to build. The only ones that take more than a decade are ones where the limiting factor is clearly not nuclear, but the regulatory environment.

1. https://www.iaea.org/PRIS/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails.a...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changjiang_Nuclear_Power_Plant

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuqing_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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Thanks for the link. Like a lot of EU law, that text is so vague as to be meaningless.

Perhaps this counts:

3. The following may be considered to be compatible with the internal market: aid to promote the economic development of areas where the standard of living is abnormally low or where there is serious underemployment ... aid to facilitate the development of certain economic activities or of certain economic areas, where such aid does not adversely affect trading conditions to an extent contrary to the common interest;

Or perhaps it doesn't, given that this is stated as "may be incompatible" not "shall be incompatible".

Though I did get a laugh out of the explicit exception for Germany that can only be removed if the Commission allows.

Like I said - as written this text could be seen as forbidding even very basic things like VAT, as it doesn't apply to all types of goods or applies at different rates and thus "favours certain undertakings".