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Your examples are all within a pretty close range of each other. Not to mention all being popular tourist destinations. Throw a trip to Italy in there and it doesn't change much. You've traveled to four different countries: roughly the size of a few states and only a fraction of the size of the US.

A train from New York to Miami, Florida is around 2057 km leaving from Penn Station. From Paris to Zurich and Zurich to Berlin is 1622~ km. Although a tad larger going back to Paris from Berlin, a total of 2676 km.

So for comparable distances and from [Tourist Attraction] --> [Tourist Attraction] things are comparable.

Take a train around all of Germany, Switzerland, and France. The entire countries - and not just the capitals! You've still only covered a small portion of the US [0].

Things don't work when there is large amounts of nothing between areas that need to be connected. This is also why the US has laughably bad internet connections in most of the nation. It isn't worth laying down fiber in towns with populations <5,000 nor is it worth laying down rail.

Size isn't the only issue but it is, in my opinion, the largest issue. Pun not intended.

>Switzerland has a) some of the most challenging topography in the world and b) one of the most extensive, heavily used train systems in the world.

My understanding of it is as coredog64 said in their reply, but also Switzerland is yet-another-tiny-country. It'd be more fair to compare it with a 3rd of New York. Does a third of New York have an extensive, heavily used train system? Yes. It so happens to have one of the most extensive rail systems out of any state in the US even! Why? My guess is the size: it's a smaller state with more concentrated populations.

New York (State): 141,300 km²
Switzerland: 41,285 km²

Does anyone have information on how extensive and heavily used public transport is in, say... Russia? Then we'd at least be closer to any size comparisons. I'm only familiar with Moskva and Sankt-Peterburg (Moscow and Saint Petersburg) which is the capital and the second largest city, so I'd expect them to be well connected - so that isn't exactly saying much. Looking at the rail map on Wiki [1] doesn't tell you which are public transport lines and which are freight lines. So it's hard to get a good idea.

[0] http://i.imgur.com/uwOnbWY.png

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/Russia_R...
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> Furthermore, you need to plaster a vast area in the desert with solar plants, which brings along all sorts of concentrated security risks.

I mean, most of the same security risks appear in oil pipelines and extraction.
> becoming harder to shut-down as they can spin up instances more easily and get going from a new location more quickly

I don't think this is going to work in their favour - spammers already have the tools they need - the real killer is blacklisted IP's/ranges.

If you're legit, you can jump through some hoops if you inherit a blacklisted IP.

If you're a spammer, all you can do is try to get an IP that isn't blacklisted.
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"I'd also like to say NVMe is mind blowingly fast on the desktop I've got and something sorely lacking from Apple's offering adding another downside to the current Mac desktops."

I see that folks are putting nvme cards into their older mac pros:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/pcie-m-2-nvme-on-macpro...

Is there a recipe that allows one to boot from an nvme add-in card on an older mac pro ? (in my case, early 2009)
In my experience these systems are not poorly written - the process around these systems is huge, with reviews and reviews, and lots of testing
I wish this article was less long winded, but I fully agree with the point. So long as we push the narrative that "You're poor because you just don't try as hard as privileged kids" is not fixing the problem.

To fix the problem we need to address it as a group, and not shove blame on individuals. As a privileged person I can clearly see my world would be better if others had less poverty.

So what's the action item here? I wish there was a "latent voter momentum" website where I could pre-vote in this direction when laws and candidates come up.
So just to be clear, you are not supposed to do two way data binding in a way that would violate strict mode. Strict mode is a debug mode to help you catch the errors that should not be there, whether it's on or off.

My preferred way to handle stuff like this is to have authoritative data in Vuex (e.g.: a user object), and have a `formData` object attached to the Vue instance. The `formData` will get modified directly with an `<input v-model="formData.first_name">`, etc. and when the form's submit event fires is when I tell Vuex to update the authoritative object.

The nice advantage of this method is that you can easily reset the form to its initial values without having to store a copy of the original object. You also don't update the authoritative object one field at a time, but all at once. Lastly, it lets you do whole form validation (do the passwords match? Did the user provide either a phone number or an email address, etc.)
This should be a library or an API, otherwise I don't really see a use for this. Also seems overly aggressive, and there should be some options on what to keep. I see a need to remove JavaScript from HTML but keep events for example.
That's some pretty strong hate for the GPL without reasoning to back it up. As a fan of the GPL/AGPL, care to elaborate?
> The benefit with these systems, though, is that they are very old.

See, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Foreign trade was not a big component of the US economy until well after. Are unions the sole reason for high wages? No. But being able to negotiate as a collective instead of individually does drive wages up.
This is just a slightly more obfuscated "binary options" betting scam.

A Gold subscription lets users borrow up to double the money in their account to trade on margin with leverage

Gamble alright.
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Heavily downvoted, but this does seem to be the message of the article?
And the delivery bot followed on foot by a human.
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Is it common now to call email "mail?" I don't know anything about this area (never even heard of mailgun or sendgrid) and wondered if this was some kind of service for sending actual mail.
100% this. Last time I had work ask me to install slack or email on my personal device, I politely declined, but suggested they provide me with another mobile device specifically for that purpose. They didn't do that; but if they had done, I would have most likely kept it off of me after work hours.
This is one article that can be greatly improved by adding "fucking" before every instance of "sun". I would also appreciate a number of citations, since it's hard for me to take things at face value after this modern fake news panic thing
"seems more dangerous" probably only works for so long... Surely people would get used to the "dangerous" streets and realize they aren't as dangerous as they seem.
And the vast area is still very small compared to agriculture. And it can be done in chunks. The electrical grid is concentrated by its very nature, but we still manage just fine.

(Solar is also one of the few truly distributed power sources, but I expect most power in the future will come from vast solar farms due to the ease of automation.)
There are a lot more sneaky ways such as http://diracdeltas.github.io/sniffly/ that are often combined
In cultures where e.g. drunk driving is considered an awful thing to do, people mostly self-regulate - there's some policing necessary, but it's not like the police are trying to stop something everyone wants to do. There's no reason it would be impossible to create a culture in which speeding is treated similarly.

There's quite a few countries in which people avoid speeding, even when there's no cameras around.
It definitely has some part. I don't think the reason really matters. It's a variety of things including personality that somehow eek out of the niche field into the mainstream that causes a singular person to become associated with an entire movement.
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Leverage is the ability to use credit or partial collateral (i.e., non-secured or non-fully-secured assets) to purchase other assets.
I actually thought of having creating a bookmark utility for command line, because I have a lot of commands I use. I could create them as aliases, but I also want the ability to keep track of them and have a description what they do, browse and grep, change parameters and etc.
More and more people are turning to Molten Salt Nuclear Reactors, like Liquid Fluoride Thorium Breeders, If Kirk Sorensen and others are right this will revolutionize energy (and probably not just energy but mining, water desalination etc.) as we know it unlike wind or solar ever could. Natural gas and coal should die once and for all as they are as dirty as it gets. I strongly believe we are ready for truly nuclear future.
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I would expect that they also make money on borrowing for gambling. How do you know that they don't?
Also, it's quite depressing when you need to change the motherboard especially if you are obsessed with cable management and invested so much time ensuring great air flow.
True, and this is a issue today as well. Which is why I think that proposing a solution that compounds this issue even further should not be taken lightly.

Edit: put differently, why should we adopt a new solution that is even more exposed to the already known risks?
You should have put up a demo site where users can try out the comment engine. Requiring the installation on a user's laptop/desktop is just too much friction, not to mention mobile users who don't have the luxury of running go scripts.
Thank you, just quitting and crossing your fingers hoping you'll maybe get a new job at some point in the next 1-100 months is not an option for anyone with actual responsibilities.
except for the the exported pdf and ad removal and git you've basically described Pinboard.in I'm pretty sure it searches the content not just the title, tags, and comment you left. It saves a copy of the page so that the site disappearing doesn't mean you've lost the info. It's not downloadable but i don't know why i'd want to backup their backup anyway. It suggests tags / keywords (probably by harvesting the plethora of other people bookmarking things) .

and it's got an API so you could make a command line client.
At least often, yes, but you will also need approval to even get that far. Etrade for instance has several levels of approval.

I note that Etrade at least implements it less as "margin approval" and more as "advanced mode"; to do any sort of options trades, even the ones that don't require margin themselves, requires you to activate the "margin feature" on your account.
"The sense of scale is entirely lacking."

Agree and it extends to risks. Better to kill 100K people per year with coal, than possibly maybe hundreds might die (but almost certainly zero actually will) in a nuclear accident. Your diet and your car are far more likely to kill you than global warming.
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This really is not a big technical problem. You simply don't output the power. This is trivial with any kind of decent power-optimizing inverter setup commonly available today. Solar PV isn't spinning a turbine that needs to find a load. If you disconnect a solar panel, it doesn't damage itself, it just sits there.

But I'm sure we'd eventually find uses for this extra energy. Like producing ammonia for agriculture.
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Btw, Lionel Bart, composer and lyricist of the musical Oliver!, also did not do musical notation. He hummed the tunes to a fellow musician who transcribed them. I've no idea how much 'filling in' the other musician did in terms of harmony, arrangement and so on. But here's another question: if Bart had formally learnt to read music, or Goodwin had written his songs down, would they still have been able to compose them?
The same reason you would ever want to identify an actor. Possibly he is abusing your system and taking advantage of his relative anonymity.
Casino have truly insane margin on the money you play with them (and equally truly insane revenues).

When they lend you money, they know exactly how much of that will go back to their hands soon (and they have a ton of cash flow to cover).

Robinhood is effectively lending money with little guarantee to take anything back and no source of income.
> Why are half the comments here saying 'They must be wrong' - seemingly based on nothing more than a strong belief that NASA must be wrong.

Nothing more than a strong believe?

Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof and the paper doesn't have too much quality regarding the data.
> If you see a toxic culture, leave.

This is easier said than done when your own self-worth and ability to see your own value is diminished due to stress, when you have a mortgage and financial obligations and a family to take care of. Not many people are financially independent enough to just quit a job the moment they feel it's become "toxic".
Lol, Sacca has invested in some really "tremendous plays"
You can get pretty far without knowing that. A big chunk of Go's audience seems to be Python programmers who want something that isn't quite so slow, and you can probably do a whole career in Python without ever knowing what a pointer is.
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Oww - those transitions are painful.
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Reminds me of Owning Mahowny
Slightly OT, but not too long ago I read that it is not uncommon for viruses to remove other known, competing, malware. Does anyone know if anyone has ever made a virus who's only purpose is to remove other malware? Perhaps the same aggressive approach used by Janit0r is needed to stop the spread of worms, kill off botnets etc.?
About "reasonable flying time" - are there any options available to use solar panels? Most importantly are solar panels good enough to power the unit?
Seems similar to frame.io, is that right?
I highly recommend the documentary "Alive Inside" which deals with giving dementia and Alzheimer's patients the music they loved all their life and the profound effects it can have on quality of life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaB5Egej0TQ
how to make it work offline? i would appreciate APK as well
A large solar field makes for a pretty diffuse target. You might be able to target the connection to the grid, but that's no worse than it is today (and would be easily repaired).

And I don't think our current electrical grid has a major problem that even a slight attention to infrastructure couldn't fix.
This is why SkyNet went rogue...
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"I don't have any children, why do I have to pay property tax to fund my towns schools? I'm being ripped off!"

It is possible to have compassion without "a social network of interpersonal support". An example of this is recognizing the importance of costs (like schools) from which I receive no direct benefit (if I do not have children in those schools).

Yes its not as helpful as active volunteering. But the general mindset of "This is everyone's problem" is much more globally beneficial than always thinking "It's not my problem".
Why do people that work in finance hate the idea of personal investing? Is it because you are losing out on somebody paying you for your market insight?

Investment is always good. The only person losing out with apps like this are investment advisors like you.
There's no single "why". Everyone has a different reason for wanting to be successful. Maybe they want to better support their family, maybe they want to prove something to themselves, maybe they want to fix some specific problem that plagued them in the past.

I think it's pretty cynical and condescending to assume that people are just mindlessly wandering about their careers. People usually have some reason, even if it's one you don't think is a good reason.

Regardless, my point is that the "why" is personal and is not something you can address for a general audience in an online article. It's not something someone else can or should tell you.
> You could also float them in the ocean, no?

Yes, offshore wind and solar farms do exist.
Suicide means an end to all pain and consequences for your actions though (or at least consequences you will have to deal with yourself, as you will no longer exist), and dropping everything and just walking away means you will still have to deal with the consequences of walking away, and the pain of picking up the pieces afterward.
Pinboard.in doesn't "autotag" but it suggests tags and you can click them to have them added to the form you're saving. it's quick and easy.
They don't charge commission.

They do receive payments for order flow.

If you don't pay back your margin they'll come after you like any other debt collector. There's nothing special about it.
I'm not sure if my professor was being nice or not as savvy as you describe because the course was taught with a printed out book by him and another professor but all he charged for the entire book (plus homework problems) was 40 bucks USD. This was back in 2006 so I don't know what he's charging now (assuming he's not retired by now). By comparison, the average new book at the university book store was around 80 USD (at the lowest).
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No. These are services to send emails without overhead of maintaining your own service.
The washer makes an XHR to /ajax/paste to do the 'washing'.

Seems like this could be done in JavaScript without an XHR, and not send your info to them.

However, https://www.htmlwasher.com/privacy/:

"The Operator may collect the personal data, such as, without limitation, (i) name; (ii) age; (iii) sex; (iv) address; (v) homepage URL address; (vi) telephone number; (vii) email address; (viii) bank account number; as well as (ix) any information relating and relevant to the Services, including, without limitation, opening and administering the Account, or getting feedback for improving the Services."

" In the event that the Operator is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your personal data may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction."
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The nice thing about fusion neutrons is you get to control the isotopes, you have no control over fission waste isotopes.

Some fission isotopes are really icky to deal with, as everyone has heard...

On the other hand if you don't like dealing with cobalt-60 waste at your fusion plant, simply stop using cobalt alloys in your reactor vessel.

It turns out to be "not that big of a deal" to design a fusion plant where neutron activation isn't important. The quotes are because nothing is easy in fusion but as a problem its pretty low on the list.
>since it's hard for me to take things at face value after this modern fake news panic thing

A part of me is glad to see more people becoming increasingly skeptical. A part of me is sad to see that people think that the problem is only a modern one.
Nearer to the end than the beginning, perhaps.

I always get a chuckle when some hopeful naif writes like they're going to retire at 50 and be done. Most everyone I know who's tried that "gets bored" and goes back to work or starts consulting after a half year trying to find their feet. Those are also the ones who when asked what happened tell you they've got plenty of good years left and are now planning on retiring at 70.

47 is still building steam in my experience.
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Electronic stability control has been mandated by the NHTSA since 2012 (they required at least 55% of 2009 models sold to be equipped with it, 75% of 2010 models, and 95% of 2011 models)

Also in 2007 about half of all new cars sold were equipped with it.

The NHTSA and the Insurance Institute for Highway safety estimate that stability control could prevent 1/3 of fatal accidents.

If a substantial portion of cars started to be equipped with it around 2005 (they did), it's a likely explanation for a decline in traffic fatalities since then.
Is there a bridge for using MapD with Spark interface or somehow combining them? This can be interesting for the clusters with a lot of GPUs and a lot of data to do data manipulations.
Surprised that the article is not accessible from UK:

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So now Amazon (or whoever is in control of the device) not only has access to voice recordings of everything that goes on in peoples homes, but also video. What could possibly go wrong?
This is a big reason for sure. As you can see in this post, those IP addresses can be hit or miss depending on the provider. At Postmark, we don't really believe in dedicated IPs for all customers. We think that our customer base should not include any bad actors, and instead manually approve every customer to ensure our entire CIDR ranges are clean. The benefit is not just clean IPs, but clean IPs that have an incredible transactional-only reputation with the ISPs. This is how we are able to delivery so fast to the inbox. We only really believe in dedicated IPs for higher volume senders, especially since reputation is moving toward the domain more and more. I wrote about this six years ago, and it is even more true today (https://postmarkapp.com/blog/the-false-promises-of-dedicated...).

At the same time, if you are willing to install and manage Postal on your own servers, it's not that hard to maintain your own IP with a great reputation. You just need a good hosting provider (probably not AWS), you need to set up your infrastructure like DKIM, SPF, DMARC, rDNS, and Return Paths, and most importantly you need to maintain good engagement (low bounces, high opens). At a glance, Postal looks like a nice option if you want to do it on your own for cheap. You just might lack the stability, support, maintenance, and performance that goes behind an ESP.
They've created a home internet-enabled camera, and decided to market it as... an AI fashion critic?
Are there any of these types actually created yet?
Someone just suggested to build it in plain JS, is this complete madness?
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It's what I said people should do. Kind of like 2nd Amendment taken against 3rd-party devices that nobody will do anything about. It might also generate demand for more secure devices on consumer side or liability on supplier side for same. Good to see someone is doing it. There were quite a few other people wanting to see these bricked on last HN thread about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12771067
This seems like a solution looking for a problem. I guess an always-on internet microphone wasn't a big enough invasion of privacy, we need a camera too.
I always assumed it was because passing by copy was useful in highly concurrrent environments. It's essentially pseudo-immutability, if you will.
Is this the most thinly veiled spying device of all time?
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On first glance I'm not sure if it's stupid or really smart. I guess it depends on how well it works among other things.