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> If you have a serious suggestion for how to improve something, make that suggestion and don't try to legitimize it by spewing insults as a smoke screen for a half=baked thesis.

Thank you for saying this. I've been quite frustrated before and since the election about this. It seems that the left has (and has been doing it for a while) created a "these are the good people" vs the bad people mentality. I want rational people who make decisions based on evidence. Not something that "jim posted a meme on fb.. that's evidence that the meme is real"
Sure, a small sports car is less practical than a big one. But sports cars exist, so that is irrelevant to the whole question; clearly there are some people who don't want a big, ugly car.

By analogy, Asus (and several other brands) now makes laptops that look almost exactly like a MacBook Pro — unibody aluminium enclosure, glass screens and everything — at a tiny fraction of the price. So why won't anyone create a Porsche 911 replica that is as good-looking and as good to drive, only without the insanely high price?
I do think it's an important idea that fossil fuels should be seen as a stepping stone. They're not useful forever, but using them for too long is bad for all of us, and not being able to use them without a comparable alternative is an equally awful situation.
There is moderation. Have you tried browsing with showdead turned on? HN is pretty good at killing bad comments early on. Also downvoting almost all joke comments prevents meme threads from taking space.
So... Wyoming exports most of the electricity it generates, this doesn't apply to exported electricity, and electricity is fungible: in other words, this is just meaningless culture-war posturing, then?
Factor is cool, but never really took off or got much attention. The creator, Slava has moved on to other things (Swift compiler I think). I posted something on another concatenative language (kitten) on here recently and the author jumped on and the conversation was good (Factor was brought up as well).
Why would you make a car that has less space inside while it takes same amount of outside space?

https://www.google.pl/search?q=ferrari+lusso&source=lnms&tbm...

The only reason would be, because some people would pay to have less space. There are not a lot of people like that.
>let forests retake "all the land,"

I agree, a hands-off approach is insufficient. We would need to actively manage those forests (which is just as unnatural an activity btw), using intelligent design to improve upon the carbon density possible solely from blind natural processes.

Big industrial thermodynamic sinks don't scale (and imo never will), simply because they can't economically compete with conventional energy consuming factories. An approach is needed that sequesters carbon while also producing sufficiently valuable goods to society (ie probably not rocks). Food is one possibility, and can avoid carbon futility since in perennial systems the annual food yield is a small percentage of the total carbon stored in the biome.
I wonder what Trump's concessions would be for this plant. He criticized apple directly in his campaign, and this plant would be a big win for him.
Not really. There is no right to privacy at the U.S. border, so any "upholding" or "stand your ground" is, actually, being a smart aleck / unnecessary antagonization.
Gillette, WY is never going to be a ski resort town. There are no mountains near there to develop.

Most of the state is flat and dry.
I have a new answer for the Fermi paradox. Any sufficiently advanced civilization will develop an extreme "leave no trace" view for ecological reasons.

They refill coal mines, plant trees where there were once cities, and silence radio emissions so that everything appears to be in its "natural" state.
Until recently I didn't know TSA stole stuff. This is just awful. Way to make an already bad reputation even worse
The Fiero had several issues but the biggest one was the poorly-protected passenger compartment. If the car got rear-ended, it would likely explode due to how hot the engine ran and there was no suitable firewall to protect the passengers. General Motors, being the jerks that they are, blamed every single fire, including ones that happened at GM proving grounds, on improper owner maintenance.
> who knows what else the user is protecting with that password

How does it even matter when the password field is never even read? There are better alternatives. Chrome could just give a security error when the password is actually accessed. Or alternatively it could prevent the page from storing any data locally or sending any data to any server if the password field is non-empty. Just because a password field exists that doesn't mean the page is insecure.
I have seen a Honda car that looks quite similar to the Miata as well

That would be the S2000. It was a bit upmarket from the Miata and remained on the market longer (10 years) than anything else that tried to compete head to head with the Miata.
SF responds to parents in algebra dispute
This post is from Maxime, the creator of Airbnb's Airflow framework for distributed acyclic graph (DAG) computation.

> Like data scientists, data engineers write code, are highly analytical and are interested in data visualization. Unlike data scientists, and inspired by our more mature parent the software engineer, data engineers build tools, infrastructure, frameworks and services. In fact, it’s arguable that data engineers are much closer to a software engineer than they are to a data scientist.

The way that data engineering is emerging as a role just like data scientists did, I think we'll soon see a split between traditional software engineers and data engineers.
>Wages,however, lagged far behind those in the Western democracies.

Eastern Communist states were essentially reduced to rubble after WW2. This did make building to the same economic level as an entirely untouched America, or even West Germany (which was deluged with aid and given preferential trading terms), something of a challenge.
> questioning whether U.S. consumers will be willing to pay much higher prices for equipment of equal quality

There's also the threat of substantially increased tariffs that could make a panel manufactured by a <$3/hour worker cost as much or more than a panel manufactured by a >$10/hour American worker.
Nobody said anything about killing people. I merely proposed an invasion as last escalation step (escalating it to the national level already failed).

Of course if it comes to that we will have a clean war where only the worst assets are targeted without taking a human life. It is quite similar in design to clean coal.
Because what is displayed to the scanner agent is totally and definitely all the device will capture and retain...promise :D
No, he got paid to speak about the importance of family and the evils of gay marriage.
How about components that you need twice on the page? Are you going to just include them and their JS twice? Or perhaps build an elaborate server-side module system, one in which components required multiple times are only included once at the end of the page with a script.
+1 For Huffington Post nonsense. That is your first problem. Stop reading that garbage.
RSA signatures are valuable in TLS because the installed base uses RSA, not because you need RSA to solve the problem RSA solves in TLS. There are better ECC constructions for signing and verifying.
It outsold the Corvette every year it was produced.
Will this also apply to data URIs? Thinking of the recent data URI phishing exploits [1]

[1]: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/01/gmail-phishing-data-u...
And ... where does it say learn maths?
So I get where you're going with this, but the businesses are still competing with one another in a free market.

So yes, you're right that if all the avocado farmers in California decided to engage in price fixing because they know that more money exists and that they can get it, they probably can. But it presupposes highly monopolistic behavior that doesn't seem very likely to work for most markets. Especially if it's easy to become an entrepreneur.

The business, after all, makes a profit as long as their price is above their cost. So unless their costs go up, competition keeps prices down.

Now, I think you're half right -- prices will go up, but it's not because of gouging by middlemen or traditional inflation. It will be because as people drop out of the labor market, the really undesirable jobs will become more costly to fill.

But that strikes me as a much more fair free market than what we have now. Yes, you will have to pay more to have your garbage picked up in front of your house. Why? Because as it turns out, you would much rather be doing whatever you do than deal with a thousand people's garbage. Maybe they should be getting paid more than you, in a voluntary free market.

So I imagine it will be sort-of inflation, but almost better described as a rebalancing of the economy. Jobs that humans can do much more easily than robots will get higher salaries. Jobs that are enjoyable get lower salaries. Overall, salary spread across jobs becomes much smaller.

But I don't think it's necessarily likely to be some kind of overall inflation, it's a redistribution of wealth accomplished by simultaneous direct transfer of wealth through the UBI, in addition to a redistribution of power accomplished by allowing "Nothing" to be an option that employers have to compete against.
You apparently haven't if you can't see that the newest body model (and there are 2016 Celicas on the dealer lots right down the street from me, $35,000) is a Viper without bubbly-ass wheel wells.
Speaking as someone with an economics degree, I do not believe economics defines "fair" allocations of wealth / income.

Market failures or inefficiencies, the impact of taxes and subsidies, positive/negative externalities are things. Job training may have enough positive externalities such that it would be efficient to subsidize it, but not because of a concept of fairness to someone. Economic actors should be rational enough to seek it out themselves if it maximizes their net benefit.
There's a number of reasons. Those cars are expensive to manufacture and making an affordable car that looks like that is extremely difficult. You'd have to cut costs elsewhere compared to a more "boring" looking car.

Additionally part of why those cars look cool is that they are very low to the ground and generally sacrifice visibility (especially rearward) for aesthetics and aerodynamics. People buying mid range cars want something more practical, even in a sports car.

The last thing I would point out is that modern affordable sports cars do have more complex body panels, lights, bigger wheels, etc compared to affordable sports cars of the past. Body construction techniques make their way from exotics down to affordable cars over time much like engine technology. But the exotics will always be ahead. That's one of the things you can do if you are targeting a $100k+ price point.
I'll start. Yes it's OK.
Are you saying this is not doable in the context of a formal retraining program?

What you describe is similar to the transition between being in construction to being an electrician, a transition which I know a lot of working class people have done. I particularly once knew a man who had been, professionally: a construction worker, a truck driver, a security guard, a plumber, an electrician, a factory worker, a caretaker for the elderly and a private corporate driver. Yes, it is harder than going from C# enterprise developer to JS front end developer. It is more on the scale of going from electrical engineering into software. But it is viable. "Just learn to code", for example, isn't.

We should be, as a society, providing lots of help for people to accomplish similar transitions, rather than saying "oh, sucks to be you, anyone without masters level education is useless to our modern economy" or "oh well, we will prop your failing industry, even though it is killing us all, because otherwise you won't ever be able to get a job". There are blue collar jobs that will be around for a decade or two at least. Also, I am in favor of safety nets and UBI and free college education, but that doesn't preclude offering people structured paths back into useful work they can realistically take.
http://www.Netlify.com gives a free tier away with static HTML hosting + ssl + cdn as well.
FT-86 is the Celica.
Because it is insecure. Sure, that form doesn't actually do anything, but why not help and train visitors to expect security and know how to spot it?

w3schools is for web developers who are learning. Maybe they'll see that the page is marked Insecure and the lesson they'll get from it is that they need to secure their logins.
The fact that someone is paying you to do these jobs shows that the things you do do have a lot value to someone (your boss, the company's customers etc.). So your existing job is far from being meaningless.

Instead of crying for a UBI you should better cry for people not to buy software that does "trivial stuff". If people were willing to spend a lot of money on software that does highly not-trivial stuff, there probably were a large demand for people that are able and willing to work on such things.

Markets are a democracy - everybody votes with his wallet.
No. Violence is wrong. Period. Nazi's are horrible people, violent people. Being violent lowers yourself to their level.

Go high when they go low.
I'd like to propose a different yet slightly related stream of thought.

One month last year, I decided to restrict my usage of lights (house lights, digital screens, ect.). What I would do when I came home from work around 6pm was do one last clense of my emails and then shut everything off. I would turn off all the lights in my house and light candles instead.

It was amazing how my sleep patterns changed. By just having candle light in the house from 6pm to 7am, I was able to easily and calmly fall asleep by 9pm after spending a few hours cooking dinner and reading books. My sleep changed to a point where I would slightly wake up at 4am and then gently fall back asleep for another couple of hours.

My productivity levels during the day were better thanks to the deep sleep I got.

Just thought I would share that experience here for those who don't have the luxury of shutting off the internet for a month, but can do a retreat every night to bring yourself back to a natural, calm state of mind.
> I happily picked up the actual language very quickly. It was the surrounding ecosystem of compilers, build tools, debugging tools, libraries, standard patterns and best practises that was too deep for me to become proficient in.

Yes, those take a while. It's even harder if the new language is outside of paradigms you are familiar with. Eg Prolog or Haskell would be that for most people.
I've met someone who spun a sign for a living... he was a huge stoner... I love weed, but he clearly smoked too much of it while his brain was still developing and he could barely hold a conversation... Now... maybe he was self-medicating or whatever... but the point was he failed out of high school, failed out of a few jobs... and then ended up spinning a sign because he really had no meaningful skill to contribute to society. (And I think he failed at showing up to work so he lost that job eventually...)

I suspect most people who are in really shit jobs are there because they have issues... they can't show up on time, they don't follow employment rules, or they have something just wrong with them (they are sex-offenders, or have untreated behavioral issues or whatever)... not the sort of people who should be empowered to just sit around. I will go so far as to say nobody who really has potential ends up spinning a sign for very long... they use the job to cover their rent, and they find a way to get a better job.

Anyway I don't want to come off as against a UBI, I but I've never met someone who benefited by sitting around doing nothing. I think it's bad for people to be lazy -- like fundamentally brain-rotting to sit around being idle. I like the idea of a UBI that's tied to doing something... anything... getting outside and picking up trash in the road ditches even... or getting vocational training (which we should find a way to make free)... or getting mental health treatment... Prove you have a regular paycheck, or prove you are clocking in 30 hours at some "just move your body" type of approved activity every week to qualify.
Not sure why your garden beds are raised. Like if your not supplementing light and stacking your garden system it's always going to be more cost efficient for me to just dig a hole in the ground line it with plastic and garden in that(that is if the soil is terrible!) . Also if you were serious about water usage and reducing it why bother with soil at all? Aquaculture on such a small scale hardly seems worth it as protein can be taken from plants. Coming from both small and large scale farming I feel like your system has a lot of unnecessary aspects that don't really solve any problems, it's a nice idea but not very practical.
Why is this even a discussion? Have we lost all sense of what the Enlightenment brought?

Yes, it's funny. Yes. it's a crime.

So laugh and charge the guy with assault. End of story.
Freedom of speech is for the speech you don't like, or it's for no speech at all.
Thanks for the reply. I'd guess you're always going to get side combustion of existing products in the air, you could probably say "methane combustion produces heavy metals" too in that case as there's a chance that there'll be an atom of a heavy metal floating around the intake air. But it's needs to be noted and practical effects considered.

>gas turbines burning methane are comparatively low in pollutants //

Do they ever burn just methane or do they burn natural gas [that's been somewhat purified]?

I did have a search before posting and found citations claiming natural gas gave significant particulate reduction, as your second citation mentions, ergo the question of whether burning methane made any - it seems primarily to be a factor of burner efficiency, though there's research showing production of fullerenes and nanotubes that probably feeds in here too.

Looking further I found [1] which gives good info, in particular whilst gas:oil is 7:2704 in production of particulates by weight that citation notes that the PM2.5 [small particulates] as opposed to PM10 particulates may be significantly more damaging due to their penetration further in to the respitory system.

[1] http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publicat...
Neural Net Learns to Play Atari “Montezuma Revenge”
Clearly not. To quote - "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".

The correct solution to someone spouting Nazi ideology is to explain why they are wrong and then ignore them. I'm sure anti-abortion folks would love to punch me for "supporting killing babies". What is wrong, and how wrong it is, is a matter of perspective.

Did we think that we'd long got past the point where everyone had agreed that the Nazi ideology was terrible? Yes. Looks like we celebrated too soon. Time to educate a few more idiots.
There are also cars like the Stingray Corvette, which have dramatic visual designs and are still attainable by middle class individuals who have done pretty well, if they want. If you debadge a red Corvette Grand Sport and take it to LA, people will very likely mistake it for a "lambo" or a Ferrari.
Same here. I travel (lots) with laptops and lots of loose electronic gear (boards, cables, JTAG probes). I'm actually surprised how never once have I been harassed or put through any special screening. I've noticed them taking some extra time looking at the stuff in the X-ray machine, but that's all. This is on international as well as domestic flights.
"Could you explain why you mean by "fall flat"? Do you mean that the businesses that currently employ the service workers would close because they would be unable to find anyone to work for them? It seems likely that they'd need to increase the wages paid for unrewarding positions,"

No.

Coffee Shops etc. already run on pretty low margins -> they'd be out of business. Any business wherein labour is a significant input cost and where wages are low enough that people would quite - would shut down - and that's a lot of businesses.

"So more art gets created, the lifestyle is less materialic "

That's a choice we can make today - we don't need massive government intervention to make that decision for us.

It also means a significantly reduced output:

The value of the 'art' getting created is significantly lower than the 'service' they provide making coffee - or else that art would be getting created.

It's easy to prove: if their are were 'worth something' to you and I, we'd be buying it. We're not. But we will however hire them to make coffee for us.

"Would I be right to guess that you are not currently working a poorly paid job you hate in the service industry while trying to find time to pursue the art you love? I don't mean that last question as an actual attack, but I do wonder if your self-interest might be different than that of the majority of your neighbors."

I don't care what my neighbours 'aspirations' are.

It is not their right to take my money to pursue their aspirations.

If they want to make art that nobody wants to buy, that's fine by me, but I should not have to pay for their rent so they can do that.

They can serve coffee, get a better job, make better art that people want to buy - it's entirely their choice, they are entirely capable.

They can have whatever lifestyle they want to build for themselves.

If they are handicapped, or ill, that's another story, but otherwise, their life is their job, not mine.
For the very little it's worth, I consider myself "far left" and I'm beyond burned out on the garbage strategies and candidates from the party of which I'm affiliated. There are enough problems in the world that we don't need people inventing dragons.
If you answer yes you probably are a nazi.
I acknowledge your disagreement and provide a counter.
While this picture captures a single moment, you suggest people should have a grin over the whole ceremony ?

I hope your logic process when choosing your voting preferences is more sound that this statement.
Yet district officials have stood firmly behind a policy that keeps all students together in math through middle school, eliminating the tracking of students into classes based on their level of academic ability, which often separates white, Asian and wealthy students from their low-income, Latino and black peers.

To bypass the district’s policy, some public school parents have been paying for outside algebra courses to prepare their children to take a placement test that would allow them to enroll in geometry freshman year. But the courses are expensive, and not everyone can afford them.

So, to "fix" a racial issue the district created an economic issue. These people teach children and don't get logical outcomes of their actions.
CBP are known to be resoundingly pro-Trump. It was a great example of perverting their authority to discriminate against views they don't like.

The next step will be to mark NGOs as having 'foreign influence'. Pretty soon RT'ing Amnesty International or the EFF will exclude you from government or sub-contractor employment. Just look at what happens in Russia.
Some 15 years ago I implemented a rule to avoid going down the interesting-links-in-emails rabbit hole: I could only open URLs that I listed the day before. The list could be as long as it needed to be, the stupid links from emails could also make the list, but there was no clicking on stuff that I didn't put on the day before.

The stupid links immediately lost their fake relevance and urgency, so even if they were on the list, the next day I largely ignored those. (Also, this being in 2001, when I ran out of stuff to do on the internet (whoah!), I started inventing new stuff for the next day's list, like "what does McDonald's sell in India".)
I suppose you're right.