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> I think your advice falls into the "much easier to say (from a great distance) than do" category.

That may be true, but that doesn't change the fact that it's the right thing to do. The parent's language was perhaps a bit more inflammatory than it needed to be, but sometimes you need someone outside the situation to be more objective and remind you -- possibly rudely -- what needed to be done.

I hope I would have the wisdom and fortitude to do the right thing in that situation, but I won't know until and unless I'm put in it.
> If what he thinks he is on to is viable with cars in those tunnels, it's even more viable with trains carrying 1,000 passengers each coming every 3 minutes.

A few reasons off the top of my head:

- flexibility; car infrastructure is much more flexible than train infrastructure

- incremental construction - cars already exist, you're only solving the problem of moving them around (building train infrastructure means building more trains with additional train-supporting infrastructure and more railroads outside of tunnels)

- meshes well with electrification of car transportation

- allows to reduce fossil fuel polution with minimum impact on people's habits - instead of asking someone to start using trains, you just ask them to drive into a tunnel, and for the duration of tunnel transit, the pollution (and fuel costs) magically disappear

- related, it's easier do incremental changes than all-out revolutions

- R&D in efficient boring could be of vital importance to future Mars colony

- last but not least, electric PRT system (aka. "packed-switched" public transport) could be, and probably will, incrementally implemented with self-driving electric cars; this again meshes nicely with that future (benefits of PRT over other forms of public transit are a longer topic)
Yes, it's the way the world works. Homeowners vote against new developments (which decreases the cost of their homes). Everyone with a liquor license lobbies against more liquor licenses. Every grocery store lobbies against more grocery stores. Amusingly this causes big issues between state governments (who wants growth) and cities where most voters/business owners want to limit growth to protect themselves.
I actually didn't experience that issue.
Eh, we (collectively) have a pretty good grip on how code-bases, linear algebra and C++ work, but we still have no idea how minds and intelligence work. And so the best we can do with ML right now is stumble blindly in the dark, poking and prodding things until it 'seems' to give the right answers, some of the time.
Reminds me of this horrifying stack exchange post: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/185507/what-happen...
Motives are irrelevant to being a hero?
You have to ask the question why zoos at all, I know most have been promoting their role in conservation but I'm quite sceptical about that.
The GNU project has already done a comparison of various repository projects[1]. GitHub and SourceForge both get an F, while GitLab gets a C (the lowest passing grade) with GNU Savannah getting an A (which is the second highest).

And, in keeping with the FSFs view on software freedom, the server code actually doesn't need to be free (though it is considered a negative and will prevent a service from getting an A rating). However they _do_ require that the site must be possible to use without any non-free JavaScript.

Here is the full set of criteria that GitHub fails to fulfil to get a C rating:

> Things that prevent GitHub from moving up to the next grade, C:
> * Important site functionality does not work without running nonfree JavaScript. (C0)
> * Specific information may not be available in all countries; see roskomnadzor and export controls for more details. (C2)

That's it.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.htm...
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> Ouch!

Yeah, no kidding. It means someone nefarious (or bored) can easily run up a huge bill by just directing a ton of invalid requests to their API.

Many inexpensive hosting providers provide you with a lot of bandwidth (e.g. Scaleway offers unlimited bandwidth at ~200MBit/s). Assuming you can saturate the link, that's around 64TB per month of traffic. Quite the Firebase bill they'd have.
Maybe someone could use the blockchain to issue some kind of ISBN numbers...
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Many people are hesitant to intervene in something that will likely destroy their own family. This should not be surprising at all. It happens all of the time in family abuse cases.
Can you provide the program online though Coursera for free and charge like $50 for the certificate? that will be more practical and cheaper.
Unfortunately, for the most part of the world, schoolbooks still are written the same way: Pretty long preparation phase, followed by a very short evaluation phase, followed by some politicians deciding whether the book will be the official book for counties/states/countries. The same politicians who would have to answer future students, why they did not intervene when the [then] hero was incarcerated for the same thing she is applauded for in some Utopos.
I would also doubt that it would be worth it even without keeping in mind the risk of loosing the service. Google is usually pretty clever when it comes to TOS Agreements.
I understand your defensiveness over feeling that what I'm sure is a loving and nurturing union between you and your partner is being compared to forms of slavery, and you raise good points why a direct comparison would be overblown. However, I would be more careful with your choice of words here:

> The entire institution of marriage is meant to prevent one spouse from controlling the other by simply making ownership joint.

The way this particular point is phrased makes it sound like this was always the case. However, it is a very recent change in how the laws work, as a direct result of mainly women fighting for their rights. It used to be the case in many countries that only the men can decide to end a marriage, and I'm sure that is still the case in many places.

Maybe the legal framework of modern marriage in California is decent at guaranteeing equality, but that is not something to be assumed to be the general way marriage works, let alone something to be taken for granted. And I'm sure you'll agree that the institution of marriage is important enough that it deserves critical examination.
I like their trucks, and their high-end vechicles. I consider the Mustang high end.

It's their entry line that's lacking. I'm looking for a new car, and would love to buy a Ford.

Actually it's for an aging relative, and don't see much. I don't even want to walk up to that Focus, and I can't get her near it. Now she will listen to me on the impracticality of buying a Cooper Mini, and she will listen to me on what vechicles look nice, but are just too exotic for our future repair budget--basically me with with parts a account. But she won't look at a Ford, except the F150, which she can't even get into.

If anyone from Ford is listening. Buck the trend. Build a vechicle, that a customer can put 400,000 on. Build it like a 80' Toyota. Meaning just use common sence. Replaceable Ball joints, maybe at the most two computers. Nothing exotic. Just a people mover, with a splash of style? No dashboards that look like a sensor waiting to fail. Mechanic friendly. I had a Slick Rick car Salesman tell me no one works on their own vechicles anymore, and they all finance. He was naieve, or just trying to hussle? I know he knew nothing about about how a vechicle is put together, and shouldn't. Just a Salesman. Just a dude who checks his oil at every fill up--still can't figure out why. Maybe it can't be done with government regulations? I don't know.

Go ahead and put in six beverage holders, just make the thing last.

Make the thing last? Toyotas, and Hondas spend years honing that reputation, and are raking it in now. Do the same thing? You hit it out of the park on so many newer vechicles, now go back to the company roots. A vechicle your employees can afford, and want to buy?

(If there's any mechanics here, I would love your recommendations on some 2012 to 2016 vechicles that are good buys, and practical.)
Have you seen what is in the school breakfasts and lunches that are provided to students now? It's sugar cereal, donuts, pastries, and fruit juice. The only thing nutritious is the carton of milk, and three-quarters of them opt for the chocolate milk.

Still, as bad as it is, it's better than nothing - I grew up in a pretty depressed, white-trash area where better than 50% of kids were on free-and-reduced lunch subsidies, and for not a few, breakfast and lunch at school might be the only meals they got some days. But for god's sake, we can do much better than we're doing, and it shouldn't cost any more than the sugar-blasted packaged garbage we're shoveling at kids today. Make a big batch of scrambled eggs, give them a piece of toast with peanut butter (although I supposed peanut allergies have ruined that), oatmeal, something with a little protein or complex carbohydrates in it, a piece of fruit. It's not rocket science.
I'm def not trying to make this personal, your hypothetical 'literal' frame implies I failed.

Maybe pedo rings don't exist, or maybe it's not something some elite have a history of. Maybe I have no good reason to mention that island, or these people. You made it clear you don't know the who what or where on subjects I suggested are pretty basic and related, yet you seem sure you are informed. If you want to know more, you could. It's not something anyone can effectively research in an evening unless you decide to dismiss it.
I'll distinguish between their product (actually very good) and service (unreliable, slow). I consistently wish GitLab were as reliable and fast as GitHub, but I stick with them anyway because I think they are on the right path in business and product.
Funnily, I was working on cloning a particular piece of Firebase functionality, and inquired if they could help me with that (or if they had that particular piece in open source), and got more replies from them for that than apparently this paying user ever got.

Very typical from Google.
Dude, I live in a third world where upgrading specs in a computer is really an after thought. As a developer, you should also think other parts of the world. I'm just saying. Majority of the laptops sold here has an average RAM of 4-8GB.
> Venture Capital investors

Nothing in the entire VC Funded startup scene makes sense when you try to apply basic logic, much less a sane way to operate a sustainable business.

But that's just it: These companies are funded by people who are simply in it to make a profit, (as opposed to people who want to actually achieve something with their efforts). Users become dollar signs, and it's all about how quickly you can get enough new users to monetise the bejeezus out of their attention/personal information/etc, before they dump you for the next new flavour of the week.
And there are also problems if it was "just" hosting[1].

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.htm...
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But rock comes with supporting structure, whereas you need to build those into "sky tunnels". This limits just how much "sky tunnels" you can make in two ways - there's only so much space on the ground you can use, and there's only so much weight it can support. That, and people will get anxious if their sky is totally obstructed by highways in the sky.
If you intend on watching Alien 3, maybe go for the assembly cut - it's like an unofficial director's cut made for the DVD release and fixes a number of issues with the theatrical cut.
Somebody, out there, just made millions by drawing 4 circles in photoshop.
ye, ye, ye KDE and GNOME don't want to use Saas, they prefer self-hosted. Please check prices for self-hosted GitHub.
It's really not. BMI is wildly outdated, and especially doesn't deal well with anybody who has a larger body frame. At the thinnest I've ever been in my life, when you could see every rib hanging out, I was still forty pounds heavier than what BMI charts calculated my weight ought to be.
Are you talking about USD? You are seriously burning money somewhere if so.
Or when you allow for hilarious false positives/negatives. Sometimes birds are birds, sometimes they are cats and cats are birds, sometimes they are dogs. Everything is possible with the right training set and machine learning.
That's probably the purpose of this post — the best way to get support from Google, after all, is still by posting a story on reddit, twitter or HN.

Which is pretty sad.
All of the people I know that had contact with farm animals are the least moved by PETA-like farm cruelty videos. They often shrug and say, "in my farm it's not like that".

On the other hand all of them are against seeing dolphin or whale cruelty even if only a handful of them ever saw any of cetacean (me included).

I know that this is all anecdotal evidence but it the most that I can produce.
One of the very few good news this year...
The GNU project did an evaluation of code hosting providers recently[1]. GitHub got an F (and note that 'server code is free software' is only a requirement for an A grade). GitLab only got a C. There are more severe problems than just "is the server free software".

Also please note that neither GNU nor the FSF really care about new fads. Their main concern is software freedom, and much like the whole convenience-security tradeoff there is a freedom-convenience tradeoff too. The FSF and GNU project do not compromise on freedom.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.htm...
safaribooks. All the books and lots of video series.
Agreed about Manning and Snowden, not so sure about Assange. He seems like a way murkier character.
We've also gone from ~$25/mo to $1000-2000/mo with the pricing change. While it's not the end of the world (we're near shipping replacements for FB stuff anyway), there's also been 3-4 incidents of downtime (> 1 hour) in the last 2 months, with no way to contact anyone except their stupid web form.
Yeah though I'm on the fence regarding orangutans, considering how their natural environment is being quickly destroyed.
Heh. Visual Studio actually does keep track of all the TODOs in all the files in your project. It's the Task List window (View -> Other Windows -> Task List, or ctrl-alt-K).
Same. It looks equal parts CSS error and inexperienced site design. I like the flat rings logo a lot and there are lots of great ways to apply it, but the rest I find off-putting.
Well, like you said, he's only human. And in order to write about his own family's story in a compelling and provocative way, one has to have some journalistic thesis to offer, not just to give a matter-of-fact descriptive account. That requires reaching some conclusions and finding some closure on one's own first.

Don't underestimate the psychological escape velocity required to overcome the pull of that which has been presented to you as normal--and which you believed in some measure to be normal--for much of your life, notwithstanding occasional misgivings and questions. That pull can persist well into middle age, and long after you've realised the problem intellectually. And of course, there are practical questions to consider, such as how such a revelation might tank one's career or credibility as a journalist. That might seem unprincipled, but remember that any moral position is diluted by one's own ongoing deliberations.

Finally, writing about people who are still alive and who may be impacted by your story is an often overlooked source of sensitivity. Imagine how this story might have impacted Alex Tizon's own mother if published while she were still alive.
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> You can also fly. Skies are more 3D than digging and easier to access

And also a huge waste of energy on an ongoing basis. An aircraft has to continuously expend energy on fighting the gravity.

> the problem with digging is that many people live and work and drive right above where you dig.

The FAQ addresses that by noting that below ~2 tunnels height, people wouldn't even notice.
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Yeah lol I was really thinking something is wrong with my browser!
As an aside, are there any plans to improve the GNU rating of GitLab from a C to something higher[1]? While the LibreJS not working problem looks like a bug in how the licence files are tagged (shouldn't be too bad to fix), the way that licenses are presented and bad licensing practices promoted seems like a fairly easy UX thing to fix...

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.htm...
> to look like geniuses when they solve ahead of schedule

No, it is because estimating software tasks is difficult, the penalty for underestimating is that people think you are dishonest/flakey, and there isn't anywhere to get an education in how to do it well. The default advice given to junior engineers is therefore: "take your intuition and triple it." I hate that this is the state of the industry. My interactions around estimation over the past 5 years since uni have literally made me feel nauseated and near fainting on multiple occasions. I would love for Joel or Klamezius or Uncle Bob or someone else to fix it and produce a good course on how to create estimates.
I'm sure they where allowed to use gpg.
Ask HN: What's a good way to choose the team chat for 400 people?
Problem: choosing a team chat that most people are happy with, for 400 people, mostly developers.

I know it's not easy. But please let me know about different ways that you have seen it done.

P.S. : https://xkcd.com/1782/
"There are only two hard things in computer science. #3 will shock you!"
As it stands, income gets higher tax than capital gains. Capital gains are taxed at half the income tax rate. So people who make most of their money on capital gains are 1) very wealthy 2) paying less tax than poorer people who rely on working for a living 3) incentivized to keep their money in investment vehicles and out of circulation.

I'd suggest reversing it and taxing capital gains at the full rate and income tax at half. This is how it's done in Switzerland I believe, if you want a case study. They seem like they're doing okay.
Yes, that's part of the solution indeed.
OK, it'd start with a user frustrated by a problem, then go to brainstorming with colleagues/employees/peers/friends and then go to industry experts and hires with direct experience. ;)

Really the main difference is that someone without money and follow through would've just sat in traffic and complained.
How cute. A car maker trying to ride the flat design wave.
> Would you recommend against using GAE?

I've been burned so hard by them, I'd recommend against using anything Google.
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Why zoos?

Because furtivism, habitat loss, contamination, sixth extinction, education and conservation.

Because some species only survive in zoos today.

Because only 9 of each 10 wild lions in Africa had dissapeared in one human generation lapse time, etc, etc...
Using actual numbers:

Melbourne's light rail E-class trams have a carrying capacity of 64 seated: 146 standing. They can regularly mix with pedestrians. The E class is the "big" one at about 40 seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmBlZ4xpS5Q

Melbournes older, 6 car trains have a crush capacity of ~1526. Seatwise they have ~500-600, with a standard target capacity of about 800 (above that the extra variance/numbers people start to complain about overcrowding).

Seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AfbBVXGJzY

Now, those old trains aren't the newest, and they're single-decker and not the biggest or double-decker like sydney's, and they're not the bestest like some of the asian fully-auto metros.

But, my point being is that by the numbers before we start getting too crowded, our quite average older 6 car trains have point in time comfortable capacity about 2-3 times more than your 8 car subway estimate. Hell, three of our light rail vehicles regularly move the numbers of your 8-car subway.

But wait...

We've not actually accounted for the trips accurately, because if a train runs the full length of its track only carrying its estimated point in time comfortable capacity, the carriages would be quite empty: the total passengers using a train aren't its point-in-time-carrying capacity, but how many get on and off between all the stops along its path. That goes for light rail too. So to find the actual number of people moved by train or light rail, you generally have to multiply the carrying capacity by some additional multiple.

On the other hand, private vehicles generally, in practice have a person per vehicle estimate UNDER 2 (barring geography, time, purpose variances), meaning your estimate is overly optimistic for the cars, and out by about an order of magnitude for the rail vehicles.

I was not being facetious when I made another comment in this thread when I said I was shocked by how inefficient private vehicles were when I actual went down to the intersection and started counting how long it took them to move say 100 people (equivalent of 1 of our trams), nor am I being facetious when I say not only that this is likely a problem with an already known solution, but a problem where The Boring Companies apparent solution is starting with a rough order-of-magnitude efficiency penalty.

I'm honestly a bit...feel like I'm taking crazy pills...that people are talking about the proposal of putting private individual vehicles on rails...in tunnels.
Its beyond me, with all the knowledge we have now, that are still so many believers.
> I bet they also have a "community" support forum or Google Group full of helpless people talking to a virtual wall.

This is Google support summed up perfectly in a single sentence. It really is appalling.
You really can't fire people in Japan. It is virtually impossible. I have heard that many Japanese companies maintain employees that have no job function, though. Some people will quit out of shame, but many won't because getting another job is also nearly impossible (job hopping is not a thing unless you are a temporary/contract worker).

So, whistle blowers get a "vacation" for the rest of their careers. Hard to say if that's better or worse than getting fired.
Because no one needed a git client that was locked to a single platform. And they still don't
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Sorry, bad quantum joke ;)
That makes more sense to me. I imagine one possible side-effect of gut bacteria imbalance could be weight loss for some people, that the side-effects differ for different people.
Why are you assuming that there won't be minivans on the sleds? Or a larger format sled that can accommodate a bus-sized transport or a mid-size truck?

I think in the original video, they showed a pod with a group of commuters.
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Yeah, I'm with you on this. This doesn't even need to be accusatory in the first place, just something like "hey, when I was staying at your house I noticed that your housekeeper was sleeping on a mat in the kitchen: just was wondering what's up with that". The guy could decide based on the answer if it was legit ("that's weird; she has a room... it's the third door on the left on the second floor; I'll check on her and make sure she's ok") or suspicious ("oh, she's strange and I think she likes it there") and if it made sense to press more.

I really _really_ hope I'd confront this "friend" if I were in that situation. It's definitely the right thing to do.
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