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Or temporarily delete it even, while you're under scrutiny.
>1. Poor countries are allowed to increase their carbon emissions because their current emissions are already low per person, and requiring then to lower emissions would basically be telling then they're not allowed to become developed countries. They will not sign on.

China's current emissions is at 7.7 T/capita. India's current emissions is at 1.9 T/capita. A fair and equitable solution would be to impose a hard limit at, let's say, 8 or 10 T/capita for everyone, no exceptions. This way everyone plays by the same rules.

If you offered these terms to China and India, I'm pretty sure their leaders will take it, despite the harshness of it.
I didn't mean to give the impression that I didn't consider JS to be object-oriented, although I realize now I wasn't quite as clear as I originally intended. When I said "at least partially OO", I meant that I wouldn't agree with an assertion that said JS isn't OO at all, not that it's only partially OO. After all, Rust doesn't have classes, and my original point was that I think Rust is somewhat OO.

Similarly, I wasn't saying that Java isn't OO either; I was attempting to make the point that I could see plausible arguments saying that either Python or Java is "more OO" than the other. Personally, I consider Java to be more OO than Python, but I'm not sure I could make a compelling counterargument to the idea that Python is more OO due to everything being an object.

As for Ruby, I'm not sure I understand what you're saying; Ruby lets you just write top-level functions and variables just like you can in Python. I also think you might have misinterpreted my giving examples as being "rules"; I certainly can't come up with any objective rules to determine whether a language is OO or not. I must not have made myself very clear, but the main idea behind what I was trying to convey is that I don't think anything is "completely" object-oriented and that plenty of languages fall somewhere on the spectrum of OO languages.
What the fuck is a 'handle' ?
Ya, do they want exact dates? F*ck if I know. I have trouble remember what dates I'm in the states when asked on my tax return, or when I was in California when asked on my state tax return.

I could try to figure it out via my passport stamps, I guess, at least for those countries that actually still stamp.
It's a move to eliminate a dependency that provides no extra security (and likely weakens security).

The dependency they want to eliminate (OpenSSL) ALREADY relies on the "different prng that could have bugs and could be used wrong."

The only thing they would gain is not having to handle platform-dependent issues reading from system's prng (which is only really different on Windows?).
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It's kind of crazy to hear that the first mainstream browser to have a built-in adblocker turned on by default is going to be Google Chrome.
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> Ran out of space just before listing Pakistan. Oh well.

I know jokes aren't allowed on HN, but this is great :)
And if you don't have minimum wage/hiring/firing laws, that would help with the illegal immigrants problem, as there would be no incentive to hire an illegal immigrant (it's only the headache of in case you are caught).
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One of the most despised things, for me? In Edge, Cortana popping up, when I go to the driver download site for my laptop, "Can I interest you in a coupon?".

"No, you can't. Fuck off." Excuse the language.
I have hippie friends that just travel. He works remote part time as a frontend dev, she makes jewelery. The have one kid and another one on its way.

They often wonder why so many people don't visit any other countries, to see how other people live, gain understanding, experience and love.
That's nobody's business. Maybe s/he likes to travel. Especially if you're in EU where there are practically no borders west of Russia, you can visit dozens of countries without sweat.
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Sounds like a great deal
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All treaties must be approved by the Senate. Was this treaty approved?
Actually I've found Twitter to be the best news aggregator and breaking news platform of all. 140 char tweets make it easy to compare tweets with other sources very quickly. The algorithmic TLs though contribute more to fake news as well as users who haven't quite learned how to curate their own feeds. What's happened to critical thinking skills? Oh well, Twitter works well for me.
Straight question: do you have a good link for the main technical differences between ethereum and bitcoin?
"The law, in its majesty, forbids the poor and the rich equally from sleeping under bridges."
First hour of the day for me is waking up and getting ready to go to work.

Second hour is commuting to work.

Third hour is just catching up on all my email, handling emergencies, talking to colleagues, attending meetings, and figuring out what I'm going to actually do for the rest of the day.

Then, if I'm lucky, I might actually get to concentrate on a project, but by then those first three critical hours are gone.
But is HN 'social media'?
Why is that relevant?

Either the US has poor energy efficiency (GDP output per energy input) or the US has energy sources that are highly carbon intensive. Both are bad.
Or giving the passport numbers of every passport you've ever held. I have the last two, but no idea of any before that.
For those of you who read the side effects on the Wikipedia page, the article addresses 'em:

> Unlike treatment for African sleeping sickness, which involves multiple, higher doses of suramin over a period of time and frequently results in a number of adverse side effects ranging from nausea and diarrhea to low blood pressure and kidney problems, researchers said the single, low dose of suramin used in the ASD trial produced no serious side effects beyond a passing skin rash.
http://i.imgur.com/zd9R7cJ.png
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I agree, and we will continue to see those jobs grow. I don't see this as us moving away from green jobs and a reduced carbon footprint. This is about us signing away our competitiveness because someone thinks it makes things fair. We will continue to produce more renewable energy and continue to make it more economic. Other countries are free to continue as well, but we shouldn't give them money so they can invest in industries that will attempt to undercut domestic firms in the global marketplace.
NATO is a great example. The US funded about 22% of the NATO budget last year, which seems about consistent with its size relative to the other members: http://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pictures/stock...
What kind of speeds do you get with that setup?
I'm a programmer and my facebook account has been created only for testing apps. I don't even really know facebook is for.
Your comment reminded me of something I read recently:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3036677/New-m...
> These other countries who you are saying need to "Develop" are not behind the "Developed" countries in any metric other then quality of life statistics

That little figure happens to be kinda important. In fact, I'll go out on a limb and state that most people consider their quality of life to be somewhat more important than abstract ideas about global economic policy.

"Fairness" had nothing to do with how we got here. Or, to flip it around, why would any country (let alone the ones the U.S. has abused for various reasons, artificially retarding their growth) agree to a model that dooms their citizens to a pre-industrial life?

This is no different than the arguments for flat taxes because progressive income tax is "unfair".
But those are excellent examples of the use of generics. They allow you write code that can operates on a generic object, not know what type it is, but know that you can read from it.
Your core group of friends may use Messenger for IM and FB events for meeting up. You can still probably catch up but it will take a _lot_ more effort.
I posted this both because it is a fascinating subject, and because this is a remarkable model for pedagogical video. It's hard to believe the resources and ingenuity that went into every aspect of the American war effort, including something as small (and also, obviously vitally important) as teaching soldiers how guns work.
Or "than nuclear plants emit during normal operations". I would have liked to see a comparison about how much radioactivity is released per kWh by a coal plant versus a nuclear plant, if you divide Chernobyl and Fukushima by the total amount of nuclear energy produced in the same timespan.
When you put it that way, it sounds surprising, but of course Google won't block their own ads, so you could say "the first mainstream browser to block other companies' ads by default" and it would sound less strange.

Not that I'm against it! This is a big move from the biggest browser that will push its competitors to do the same and change the web, likely for the better. Brave is pushing a similar agenda from behind the front lines.
The headline here does not really seem to reflect the content of the article:

>The State Department said earlier the tighter vetting would apply to visa applicants "who have been determined to warrant additional scrutiny in connection with terrorism or other national security-related visa ineligibilities."

This sounds like it authorizes them to ask for social media handles (usernames) for up to 5 years into the past.

This doesn't mean everybody coming into the country has to turn over all of their social media logins and passwords.

Still ridiculous.
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Yep. When my wife was pregnant and then with an infant, Blue Apron was a huge help.
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I am one of the people on the DevOps team and am happy to talk about it. My email is also in my profile :)
Did anyone else start reading the text at the top, only to scroll down a bit and realize it's a two-column article? This seems like a very strange layout for a web page.
This guy is a disaster. 2018 needs to come soon, and folks better show up and vote in some democrats to tie this idiot up until the next presidential election.
Climate change isn't a moon shot. We know how to fix it. Tax carbon emissions and provide tax benefits and subsidies to convert energy infrastructure to solar, wind, and nuclear power, and to convert the automobile fleet to run on electricity.

None of the technology required for this is magical. It's all developed and proven and deployed. It's on the market right now. It just needs to be scaled and we need to get over the adoption hurdle. Once that happens it gets exponentially cheaper. Compare the price of a flat panel display today to one 20 years ago and now look at the price history curves for solar panels and batteries.

Once we get over the adoption curve this stuff will be cheaper than fossil fuels. That's how industrial scaling works.

You might have been able to make your argument 20 years ago. The situation with fossil fuels vs. alternatives today is a lot closer to the situation with CFCs at the time of the Montreal accord. Back then conservatives cried about how we were no longer going to have refrigeration or air conditioning and today they're crying about how doing something about climate change means going back to pre-industrial times. It's total nonsense. EVs are better than internal combustion cars.
Do you have a screenshot? The examples I see aren't even images, they're text that I can select and copy.
Only a dominant player could pull it off. Detecting ad blockers is kinda hard, but sniffing user agents is easy. If Edge blocked ads by default some sites might choose to block Edge users entirely.
My impression is that starvation is already an unlikely occurrence in western countries.
at what point is outrage not "faux outrage" for you? serious question
What stops rent rising to absorb the surplus, as it currently does?
You bring up a point where facebook net helped someone.

But the longer term risks of facebook net far outweigh the help for your friend in Africa.

I don't believe one company should have control over the internet. In fact, I really really don't believe this. Attempting to be the sole gatekeeper of information in the modern world is in my estimation something that should not be allowed. Anywhere. Ever. I guess I can't blame facebook for trying to do this. But I recoil in moral disgust at the implications.
For decision making, hopefully you're looking at more than the past two days.
Why should that matter? All that matters is the environmental damage is reversed. That requires reducing emissions until we produce technology that can massively pull carbon out of the air.

Continuing to insanely pollute the environment in the name of "fairness" is a great way to destroy the world.
By the way, for those who are curious, here's a list of fruit trees that they planted at the new Apple campus:

http://www.cityfarmer.org/treesapple.jpg

(Edit: the list is from several years ago, so no idea if this is a complete list and/or accurate -- I've seen other lists that include a few more trees than are listed here.)
Well that ignores if that business is part of a duopoly or monopoly then it doesn't matter what is right or smart :)
Yeah, they've just known since the 70s, sure they will get right on that.
Why do large, once-successful companies fail? (2012)
It's not. If you are getting zero (or virtually zero) pay, you are a founder, not an employee. Founders usually get equal split.
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Building on your "lots of places" comment:

I've got memories of an experiment we did in undergraduate physics labs, which involved a directional array of Geiger tubes. Pointing them at the view through the window gave a low count, but pointing them at the concrete structure of the building gave an elevated count. My understanding at the time was that it was due to naturally occurring uranium and thorium in the raw materials of the concrete.

Given that fly ash is a common component of concrete [1], I wonder how much of the elevated radiation from concrete can be put down to the concentrating effects of coal combustion that you mentioned in one of your comments?

[1] http://www.cementaustralia.com.au/wps/wcm/connect/website/bu...
Well, and being able to get at your bookmarks from anywhere, and being able to attach searchable descriptions/tags to the bookmarks so you can find it even if the page title or URL isn't memorable.
Not only have they argued that but they have repeatedly carried it out. Do they really believe what they're saying? That I'm more skeptical of. http://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/trump-budget-con...
"For best results: Spend 20% of your energy on your work and 80% of your energy on recovery and self-improvement."

My manager wants me to spend at least 120% of an 8 hour day on work, and in addition to learn new technologies on "my own time" (not really my own if it's used for work). Then he'll get on my case for not being fast enough or good enough.

Recovery? That's lunch, dinner, and maybe 6 hours of sleep, if I'm lucky.
Responding to your main point: a drug mis-interaction is not really something people consider minor, and interactions are possible in every area of medicine, not just diabetes. While it's true that fatally low blood sugar is more likely for a diabetic than worst case scenarios are for some other diseases, developing a new diabetic treatment isn't riskier than developing insulin. Everyone involved in the drug pipeline knows what hypoglycemia is and that it can happen unpredictably.

I am concerned what might happen if the state of diabetes treatment advances and medical staff do not become significantly more educated, though.

Responses to the anecdote:

You didn't mention giving your father sugar. For others reading: tilt the patient so you can put things in the side of their mouth, and put in some sugar or soda (or something else that uses sweeteners with carbs/calories and is not fatty/fibery.)

Options for payment in this case were: negotiate discount or write-off with hospital, if insurance non-coverage was due to out-of-network negotiate insurance contribution as paid in full, to seek a medical malpractice settlement. But I understand how it is hard to get these kinds of things done, especially as a third party.
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Really? And you sure, once money is on the table, magically the priorities onto who is getting the money wouldn't change?
That's some weird set of numbers you got there. But I got a better one: http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/02/daily-c....
I don't care about "popup ads". I already use adblockers so I never see them.

What I want to really see is blocking those popup "sign up for newsletter" modal.
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What's overblown in my opinion is the treatment of "functional" or "object-oriented" programming as a feature of languages and not programs (though certain languages definitely make it easier).

I've never found a better explanation of the real ontological differences between these paradigms than this section at the end of chapter 3 of SICP: https://sarabander.github.io/sicp/html/3_002e5.xhtml#g_t3_00...

> We can model the world as a collection of separate, time-bound, interacting objects with state, or we can model the world as a single, timeless, stateless unity. Each view has powerful advantages, but neither view alone is completely satisfactory. A grand unification has yet to emerge.
Are you sure it's random? I think there have been reasonably regular cycles through history?
e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
But improving efficiency reduces cost, which can sometimes actually increase overall use.

If we're going to see reductions in emissions for economic reasons, we need emissions to cost something.
How does leaving the agreement help to pressure China?
New home construction, hopefully subsidized-affordable home construction.
Gee look, media leaving out key information in order to get a rise out of people and more clicks. This in a nutshell is why I try to avoid following US politics these days (I guess my bad for clicking on it this time heh).

Very interesting how Reuters doesn't mention this only affects 0.5% of people who apply and whose regular information is deemed to warrant further investigation. Doesn't sound as sensationalistic when you leave that little detail out.
I agree. Also the covfefe thing was such a blatant distraction and the left took the bait with pride.
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The amount of freedom and mobility granted by UBI might be enough to incentivize people to move if the rents started rising, increasing competition. Then landlords would either have to bear the extra cost of finding new tenants or lowering rent to competitive rates. Outside of price fixing, rent gouging at least partially relies on people being unable to afford to move.
In cyberspace, such barriers are basically imaginary. "Network effect" originally referred to physical phone lines, i.e., hardware that can't be modified/upgraded remotely. Within the internet itself, there is no such limiting factor.

No, that's wrong.

Network effects refer to Metcalfe's Law[1]:

Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2). First formulated in this form by George Gilder in 1993, and attributed to Robert Metcalfe in regard to Ethernet, Metcalfe's law was originally presented, c. 1980, not in terms of users, but rather of "compatible communicating devices" (for example, fax machines, telephones, etc.).[2] Only later with the globalization of the Internet did this law carry over to users and networks as its original intent was to describe Ethernet purchases and connections. The law is also very much related to economics and business management, especially with competitive companies looking to merge with one another.

This (the value of the network being because your friends are there) is exactly the value of FB.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law
Your background knowledge is impressive,

This sounds a bit obnoxious, actually. I should have said something like "Your clarification is very helpful, and your points are perfectly valid."
I never suggested it does or doesn't. It's just a bad agreement for the world compared to one that gets China to actually curb their emissions.
I've never tried BA, but I have heard the ads for them on lots of podcasts. You can triangulate the sections they want/require the podcast to use exact wording, and their argument for using the service doesn't appeal to me. Now, much of this is personal preference but here are comments about things I learned about the service from the ads:

1) recipes aren't repeated for at least a year. Boo! If I found something I like, I'd want to reorder it. (I'm not the kind of person who is always looking for something new).

2) 'regenerative farming practices' might be appealing to me, but the lack of specificity makes me think this is only done in a fad-ish sense.

3) $10 per person per meal...and I am doing the cooking? Sounds expensive.

4) 'less food waste' that's great but it sounds like it is at the expense of lots of packaging waste. And as you get experience, you find no need for much food waste anyway. Leftover ingredients can often be added to other dishes even if the recipe wouldn't necessarily call for it and you're not using super specialty flavors (see #6).

5) They used to refer to using 'local farms' in the ads. Local to them maybe, but not me likely. And I doubt packing the ingredients up and shipping them individually to me is more efficient than the standard food supply channels which are very efficient.

6) fancy sounding ingredients (always mentioned in the ads) don't impress me.

It's not all bad IMO though. The 'training wheels for cooks' argument is appealing to me in that it might get more folks used to cooking.
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