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So these people were expecting a private company to spend thousand of dollars on construction costs because their house didn't get hooked up back when the cables were put in the ground for the first time? I don't understand why they ever expected to get a free connection in the first place.

Internet isn't considered a public service (yet) and there are no government goals to connect every household. ISPs won't get any subsidy for connecting up these people so it's only logical that they need to pay the construction costs themselves.

Governments should make broadband Internet a public service but the companies involved will never cooperate. The only way everyone can get a decent connection is when the government takes over the responsibility for providing Internet access. But that requires money which requires tax increases which will anger the people so that will never happen.
isn't that exactly the same risk for any other kind of investment? if it works out, you get paid, if it fails you loose your money
The problem (here in France) is that the number of farmers is going down hard (with suicides every day). They are currently crushed by regulations, labor costs, undercuts by products from other countries with different labor costs and regulations and the supermarkets that make big margin on their back. So your solution is good, but it is not currently applicable here in France.
Could you clarify what are you getting at when you say "actionable to permanent in two hours"?

A few of the things I like about HN is are:

* there are experts in many fields lurking that sometimes jump in on discussions and offer valuable opinions

* the site rules, moderation, and downvotes encourage people to think before they write and have respectful discussions - I notice a lot of people bring their A-game here when they comment

I'm always so surprised when users edit their comment to complain that they are accumulating downvotes. Karma is just a counter that got decremented a bunch of times. It says that people did not like what you wrote - process the feedback, move on, and try to do better next time!

I've found that when I have an opinion I know others will consider odious, if I'm gentle with my approach and give some rationale, I don't get too harshly downvoted. A handful of "I DISAGREE, JERK" downvotes never hurt anyone.
And yet in the US there is at least one supermarket chain running entirely on the premise that people do care. Whole Foods. Afaik they're pretty successful too.

The worst part is that unlike in Europe, I can actually taste the difference in the US.
It already captured 5,3% of food revenue in Germany and growing (4,7% in 2015). Source http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/dm-gegen-alnatu...
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This. It appears as if Google's higher ups still haven't gotten the memo.
Understand the principles behind things. Most stuff is reinventing the wheels of implementation of a much smaller base of theories.
Swearing may be honest, because you speak what you think. At the same time it may be like a fire hose. I would prefer more distilled thoughts.

One of my previous superiors sweared a lot, but when there was something to clarify the conversation took another route. I could ask him a question and then he would freeze and not even a sound would come out of his mouth. The silence could take such a while that I would start to think that maybe he haven't heared me. Then he would slowly and steadly respond - usually not needing to stop midsentence to reformulate (as I usually do). Those calm responses usually did not contain swearing. There where a few colleagues that would just not stop talking until he would respond and then he would tell them to shut up.
How do these impact the insect world?
Depends on how we define "organic". If it can include pesticides, that's a bit depressing.

There's a way to avoid pesticides altogether: grow local apples that thrive in the local environment. Some will get eaten by worms, some will rot… Select them out. You don't always need those pesticides.
Frankly there is very little reason if the costs are similar to that of the Apollo program. It's just too expensive for any reasonable return compared to sending robot probes.

However if the costs can be cut by a couple of orders of magnitude, that picture changes considerably. All of a sudden the scientific payback in terms of geological insight into the history of the Earth/Moon system or resource extraction such as water and fuel become a lot more attractive. With SpaceX and Blue Origin working hard to do exactly that, it's quite possible we might return to the moon in a decade or two.
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> global soil deterioration

I learned something new and important today. For some reason, I thought this was a solved problem since Haber–Bosch process was invented. Apparently it isn't so.
It feels a little like you are replying to what you imagined the article was about rather than reading the actual article.

Please correct me if that's unfair but it does cover some of the things you're railing against.
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It's not a simple issue. A proper argument would require a few hours.
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Well, you can't start a fire in the atmosphere. So either you have one inside, or (more likely) you'd use induction heating to do the forging.

Concrete requires some rather specific calcium chemistry. But basalt is quite a good building material on its own, especially if you adopt Inca building techniques of mortarless flat-surface construction. Then all you'd need to do is construct interior insulating airtight shells to live in.

There's plenty of iron on the red planet, and from the red dust comes oxygen. Nitrogen will be harder to obtain.
> being able to feed less humans

European agriculture's biggest problem is overproduction. The European Union has to impose artificial limits and even pay farmers to leave the terrains uncultivated once in a while.

It even distributes some surplus to the poor (in Italy this is done mainly through Caritas - a catholic organization) and we still end up throwing away large quantities of food.

Maybe it's time to move away from the "children in Africa are hungry" justification. That's not why we pour record amounts of pesticides in apple orchards all over Trentino.
I agree with you, another problem is that 'how EU works' is still changing and evolving a lot. The Treaty of Lisbon is 'only' 10 years old
On that medium, yes.
By email, no. Every tweet I post is not an invitation to the world to send me promotional emails.
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> I'm wondering who at Google is responsible for AMP. Who created AMP's random specs (no external CSS but external fonts files, preference for four selected font providers, no JS but their JS, probable ranking preference of Google cached AMP sites, etc.).

A bunch of people, but Malte Ubl is one of the main people and has the best tech talks on why they picked the techniques and hacks they did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfekj564rs0

I'd recommend watching that for how it works than asking @amphtml questions.

Node people: I did a node specific presentation at LNUG you might like:

https://mikemaccana.github.io/quick-wins-with-node-and-amp/#...

I use AMP on CertSimple but appreciate that AMP favors 'speed achieved using specific techniques' rather than speed per se. There's the RealPolitik element where we as site owners have to do what Google say.
Cool! Have been collecting music for ever!
Yes!

If the government can provide effective healthcare that should at least in theory be a great boon to social mobility and entrepreneurship as that means people can much more easily move to a new job. Tying healthcare to employers is antithetical to that.

I suspect the real issue doing that in the US is simply because it's so varied. You've got several individual demographics within America that are bigger than Sweden's entire population - all with different cultures and even histories. Having a more homogeneous culture is advantageous in that respect. Maybe it's not surprising that SK has seen similar results.
Please don't use the word "chemical" like it is something unnatural or harmful. Water is a chemical. The active ingredients of natural fertilizer are chemicals.
I don't see how the existence of one frontier of exploration precludes pursuing other frontiers of exploration. Has there ever been a period in which humanity chose to dedicate itself to one particular field of endeavor at the exclusion of others? If that's not what you're suggesting, what exactly is this comment supposed to mean?
> but it is not currently applicable here in France.

You point out a serious policy problem. Couldn't we apply that solution if we changed that policy?
For a number of years in Norway it used to be the case that you didn't need to show any ID or similar when buying a prepaid sim. Thus it was popular among criminals, and the related scratch cards circulated as virtually as cash. The police raised a stink about this situation, and soon enough you need ID to get them.
I didn't say "they can't have healthcare". I'm talking about employment.

> I'd rather have a less strong economy

There are plenty of countries/citizens that can't dictate what they want.

Do competing developing countries have this choice? Why not?
Code interception and breaking. Cutting undersea cables. Parallel construction. Carefully managed release to manipulate public opinion.

It's nice to have an inside view on an intelligence coup - albeit from 100 years ago.
I think you should ask the Greeks how voluntary the EU is these days.

I am actually not opposed to the EU, I am just making the point of how little wars or personalities matter in the end.
I quite like it for recipes as well.
It was done for UML kernel 2.6 with patches: http://web.archive.org/web/20100126181646/http://uml.jfdi.or... .

But today, it's impossible:

http://marc.info/?l=user-mode-linux-user&m=140187124116532&w...

> > So, is it possible to run linux (>3.12) with valgrind? If yes, how to do it?

> No.

> A long time ago it was possible after applying a patch to both UML and valgrind.
No they don't, not right away. You need that damn 3-years hiatus with zero yield before you can start over.
"just fine with irradiating large fields full of plants"

Are you referring to UV/cosmic radiation?
That’s not true. Holidays are paid in France, that’s the point of holidays. You can take unpaid holidays if you need more time, though.
I think a good, free, open and multi-platform product that can help.
However, I recently tried it again (after a couple years) for a professional project, and it's nowhere near Photoshop in terms of usability.
I was expecting the software to have improved, hearing so many great things about it, but I was very disappointed...
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I think precision agriculture using data (multispectral satellite imagery, ground sensor data, etc) to minimise fertiliser/pesticide input for maximum yield will be able cut down their use a lot further
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The reason why GMO is bad is probably not because of the "Modified" part. It's because they're optimised to withstand heavy pesticide use. Pesticides are bad.

Also, that freedom thing: GMO are generally sterile, so you have to buy seeds every year from Monsanto. Great business model for Monsanto, not so much for the farmer.
For mass producing food, GMOs can be good. They increase yield. Then again, at the same time, look at all the food we throw away in the western world. Do we actually need to increase crop yield in the developed world?

You may call it a luxury product, but I will personally pick true organic food any day of the week. Pesticides are bad and unhealthy. Organic food is even already somewhat being exposed to pesticides through historical pollution. I only have one life.

Given the amount of lobbying multinational companies are able to do and the fact most politicians can be bought for a relative pittance, you have to be a fool to believe you aren't being exposed to harmful pesticides year round. Just look at the whole Monsanto / glyphosate / roundup discussion.

If the alternative is losing a billion dollar a year business, how much would a multinational company be willing to pay to politicians and scientists (above or under the table) to make sure a certain substance doesn't get banned? A lot, I would reckon. Tens of millions easily, hundreds if required.
Is (or: in what way is) Parrot comparable to Smartling, https://www.smartling.com/, a commercial SaaS offering for localizations/translations of all kinds of content?

At my current project, we're integrating with Smartling for both content in a CMS as for web application internationalization (including translation, localization). Smartling provides a nice (and well-documented) API as well to submit, retrieve and manage translation projects... and a number of 'connectors' for some big CMS applications for synchronizing content and translations hence and forth. Your project looks like a worthy competitor (while being self-hosted)... nice job!
I understand the point you're trying to make. Likely you understand the distinction your parent intends as well, and this is a commonly understood way to discuss the topic. Do you have a preferred alternative to suggest that conveys the same intent, preferably one that is also widely understood?
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I'm not aware of any definition of organic farming that excludes the use of pesticides. There is also Biodynamic farming, which does avoids pesticides and artificial fertilizer.
It is a meta study, but in this field I would take a hard look at the selected studies before I trust those results (I did not take a hard look, so I can't say). A 37% decrease of something that ruins drinking water is surely better than nothing, but only an incremental improvement. It can easily be offset by agriculture growth within the next decades.
For me, the answer is side projects. I keep playing with new ideas, and use new techs by the way.

It not only allows me to discover the tech, it's also especially important because I refuse to make first contact with a tech by implementing it directly in a production project meant to stay around for years. The most projects I've used a new tech in before introducing it in my main project, the more comfortable I am that I did not do gross mistakes.

For me, it's not the amount of time using a new tech that matters, it's the amount of projects I used it in (because each time, I can try a different architecture).
That's very speculative, and seems to give undue credit to "revolutionary narrative"...
> Farming lobby in Europe

For my perspective in France, here the farming lobby is inexistant/inefficient, since farmers had to big pretty big actions all over France just to raise the price of milk. So I think it's not the farming lobby, but the fertilizers and pesticides lobby.
wow ... that's surprisingly cool - the videos are not as degenerated as I would have expected
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You can't be sure that you are going to sell a good product, but you definitively know when you are going to ship a bad product. And a lot of "startups" are just selling bad products.
I think it's very much a cultural thing.

Much of the social system in the US is informal. For example in the American South, things like the Salvation Army are huge and lots of small churches have homeless programs, food drives, and facilities that push for employment skills. Of course that ties a lot of dogma into social help, but it's there.

Sweden, having a much smaller government with fewer conflicting factions is able to have more efficient government. The average American who supports these other social systems doesn't trust that the government can do an effective job of providing them (and maybe for good reason).

I very much agree with you, but that informal/formal distinction is important.
Users were all registered by default to an email account at their ISP. All of them could send emails back and forth to people inside and outside their ISP. When they started to suck, they registered new addresses on specialized email providers, and they kept their contact list with them, so emails could still be used. Because emails was pretty much the first way of communicating and because of how common it is it won't disappear soon.
Illinois isn't the moon.
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> The worst part is that unlike in Europe, I can actually taste the difference in the US.

Yeah, I've heard about the taste thing from friends who visited US. And it makes me wonder - given that a sizeable part of the food we eat[0] is made by the same megacorps (Nestle, Unilever, etc.), where exactly does this difference come from? Is this about local ingredients? Slightly different manufacturing methods? Differences in legal landscape causing those?

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[0] - the tastier part; doesn't necessarily mean the healthier part
It seems that people use it to help audience focus. You would black the screen between slides. Probably you could emulate it by including blank slides in-between.

There is of course other opinion, that it can be more distracting, but it depends on material and speaker: http://www.mrmediatraining.com/2011/03/29/powerpoint-why-you...
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In an alternative interpretation. G+ and AMP are both attempts by google to maintain relevance when faced with obsolescence due to becoming infrastructure rather than product.
If you hate this as much as I do, don't listen to Sweet and Tender Hooligan by The Smiths. It's a great song, but the last minute or so is horror.
To be honest, yours is probably the far better statement.
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Could you clarify what are you getting at when you say "actionable to permanent in two hours"?

Likely this is a reference to how long a comment is editable by the author. After two hours, a comment can no longer be edited or deleted.
I spent most of my early childhood (0-7) on an "allotment" it measured 90 rods by 10 feet, or some other useless unit of measurement.

Next to the allotment is a standard farmers field. It was earmarked for housing about 10 years ago, and it was abandoned as an crop growing device there and then.

There are two obvious features of this field:

1) its much lower than the allotment
2) it only grows algae.

The soil in the field is now basically sand. Most of the organic matter having dried out and blow away.

There are no worms, because there is nothing for them to eat. Even if there were, they would have been killed by the pesticides long ago.

Basically modern farming techniques sacrifice soil quality for current yield.

Decent soil is needed to retain moisture. Decent soil requires much less in organic fertilisers, which greatly reduces phosphate run-offs.

Now, this is where my thoughts get controversial:

modern farming requires empty soils. Empty, poor quality soil does not retain water. This leads to run off, flooding and droughts. I would also suggest that it contributes directly to global warming, as bare soil retains its heat much better than dense vegetation.

For the water retention, thats easy to prove, for temperatures, much harder
Can somebody explain this to me like you'd explain it to your grandmother?
Focus on the fundamentals. How do you find the write tools and libraries? How do you translate requirements into projects? How can you communicate with other people effectively? How can you learn what you need to know when you need to know it? How do you recognize sunk costs? What makes good code good code, regardless of language? What compromises should you make, and when? How do you ask the right questions?
To be honest, it isn't and I don't.

That sounds rather blunt, but most organisations that aren't startups don't change technology quickly if at all. C++ has served me well for two decades; I probably ought to adopt C++14 but on the other hand my current job requires that the codebase build with a 2008 compiler.

I'm also extremely skeptical of the extent to which AI and VR are new, as opposed to incremental improvements to technology which takes it over an adoption barrier. Have you seen the 80s VR headsets? SHRDLU? The "AI winter"?

If you're worried about this stuff then it's helpful to develop a level of knowledge about it that's slightly higher than Wired but lower than actual implementation detail, in order to talk about it in interviews. You can then pick this stuff up as you go. Machine learning in particular is maths-heavy, matrix algebra in particular, and that's never going to go obsolete.

I also agree with the commentators who are saying that you should ignore the latest flash-in-the-pan frameworks unless you really have to to get frontend gigs.
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Asking this question might help - how could I have learnt what I have learnt already in very less time. Writing down steps or rules could help narrow down to current scenario.
That’s a nice meta study, but not a single one of those crops is grown in Germany.
There's a push by some GNOME community people to get a good story going for using Rust with GNOME tech, which could be applied to GIMP, being based also on GObject and GTK+. Hopefully that will work out.
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> Sweden, having a much smaller government with fewer conflicting factions

Lol. In contrast to the US, Sweden has a somewhat functioning democracy with more than 2 mainstream parties.
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Yes.

Spamming job specs to me on linkedin is good though. No need to be super kind or anything and it has to be tangially related to what I've done or am doing.

The guys/girls who send me super informal spam out of nowhere for PHP webdev roles when I have a decade of sysadmin experience.. I'm talking to you.

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If you're going to go for candidates in a personable way then make sure you read their bio and include the reasons why you think they're a good fit.

Just calling out of nowhere is rude as it impacts my day, especially as recruiters like to call during working hours.
I for one would happily read it. Do you know of any?
My current strategy has a bit of complexity and might take an entire blog post to explain clearly. The high level view is this:

Skills vary both in how much the market values them and in their durability. There's often a trade-off between these two characteristics. For example, half a year's worth of study in a foreign language or pure math is only somewhat valuable to the market but that value doesn't tend to decrease over the years. Learning AngularJS in 2013, on the other hand, was so highly valued by the job market that it was a great way for junior programmers with no degree to break into a software engineering career.

I believe it's best to generally focus most learning efforts on durable skills, but occasionally when there's an opening, to flop and focus 100% on an ephemeral skill that's highly valued and appears likely to be even more highly valued in the near future. After capitalizing on the opportunity, return to mostly focusing on durable skills.