skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, the specimen pose is justified to get a full view of the texture of the wings. If they overlap you'll have a hard time seeing them.

In a field guide or specimen collection, I think it would make a lot of sense to show the whole wing. I don't think it's at the level of gizography and fake gun sounds (now those are a major pet peeve of mine, especially the suppressor misconception).
Unlike the rest of the article, this section doesn't make an explicit summary claim about the truth or untruth of the President's claims. There is no "true but..." header.

If you think some of the facts that they provide -- such as the fact that the accord doesn't mention the word "coal" -- are irrelevant, that's cool. PolitiFact does not draw a conclusion from this fact, and suggesting it does and then blasting it for having done so is pretty frustrating.

I also feel that by cherry-picking this one instance, one misses the larger thrust of TFA. You seem to be frustrated that PolitiFact is saying "yes, but" a lot, but what's wrong with that? If the additional context is not useful to you, that's cool. You're entitled not to care. But to me, it's quite useful, and speaks pretty directly to many of the top-level poster's points.

Trump: The Paris Agreement would result in "lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories and vastly diminished economic production."

PolitiFact: "Take these statistics with a grain of salt." Followed by an explanation of where Trump's claim comes from and why it is weak.

Trump: "China will be allowed to build hundreds of additional coal plants. So, we can't build the plants, but they can, according to this agreement."

PolitiFact: "China has cut its use of coal three years in a row," with a citation.

Trump: "Even if the Paris Agreement were implemented in full, with total compliance from all nations, it is estimated it would only produce a two-tenths of one degree -- think of that; this much -- Celsius reduction in global temperature by the year 2100. Tiny, tiny amount."

PolitiFact: "[The Paris Agreement] shaves 0.2 C of warming if [it's] maintained through 2100, compared with what we assessed would have been the case by extending existing measures (due to expire in 2020) based on earlier international agreements."

IOW Paris gets us 0.2C under the previous agreement, but by pulling out of Paris, we get no agreement, not the previous agreement, which expires. "Needs context."

Trump: "At 1 percent growth, renewable sources of energy can meet some of our domestic demand. But at 3 or 4 percent growth, which I expect, we need all forms of available American energy, or our country will be at grave risk of brownouts and blackouts."

PolitiFact: Nobody seriously expects us to get 3-4% growth.
You're right about your overall point of the common vein, but your statement about Stockton seems a bit uncharitable. I lived in Stockton for 3 years and never noticed all the trucks with confederate flags. Sure, it was 20 years ago but I can't recall even one such truck.
China and India each have over four times the population of the United States. They have to take some collective responsibility for that so their emissions per person should be lower.
Lol.. good luck.
Given we can't actually leave the accord until 2020, Trump's whole speech is nothing but signaling.
Google's stock is up from 735 this time last year to 988 today. They're not fighting with their backs against the wall. They're in the middle of the ring, taking all comers.
The decrease in emissions is due to increased emissions requirements on coal plants (lots of smaller ones have been shutting down) and fracking.

Fracking makes cheap natural gas which drives electric generation investment towards natural gas which emits about 1/2 as much carbon per unit of energy as coal.

Low gas prices means that the investments required to meet coal regulations won't ever pay off. Plants shut down.
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> To some extent it's nice that the callsite must document the behavior visually, but its more forcing a style guide rather than anything that's required to compile & work.

I've always figured that was the reason. It's immediately obvious at the call site that a borrow is happening, and that it is a mutable borrow. Otherwise, if you wanted to know, you'd need to inspect each of the function's signatures that the variable is passed to.

(Compare, perhaps, to C++ references, where it isn't apparent at the call site at all that your variable might change.)
Also a lot of tact. If you just leave a check on somebody's desk, you're calling him a crook, and few crooks enjoy being called crooks; it works better to hire a politician for a speech somewhere, or offer him a seat on a board of directors or a well-paid job with a charity when he leaves office, or put in a word on his children's behalf with the director of an exclusive private school, or something like that...

The Saudis make an absolute art form of this, acting as a patron to the whole of DC. There are some memorable books about this.

There's an old folk belief in the Anglosphere, that the rich are less corruptible than the poor. (In 16th-century England, the legal definition of "an honest man" was one who had an income from land and investments of ten pounds or more: maybe equivalent to $100,000-$400,000 today.) This belief isn't true, at least not most of the time; but the art of deniable bribery gives a hint of where it came from.
Secretive Bilderberg group meetings begin in Virginia
2. I'm pretty sure not having oceanic level rise, and drowning out the most expensive real state in the world is a benefit to us! The notion that somehow the developed world gives $100b (over what time frame? That matters a lot) and gets nothing in return is ridiculous. Manufacturing clean energy stuff is not within grasp of most developing countries. So they have to import tools, expertise and goods... from where?

3. The US gave $31b in foreign aid. Which sounds generous, until you do it per capita. In which case the US slips way off. The closest economic comparison would probably be the EU which gave $87b away. I, like many, consider charitable giving and aid a sign of strength, not a reason to whine about how unfair life is when you're the richest.
Developers are generally oblivious to network latency. It's not just a LAN vs WAN thing either, the LAN will bottleneck if you have to cross the wire 1000 times to full fill a request. n+1 queries aren't necessarily slow because the database has to do disk reads, they're slow because they have to go back and forth across the LAN thousands of times. There are seriously a lot of places out there that think a 10 second wait to load a table with 20 items is perfectly normal.

A common anti-pattern I see in the c# world is a pointless service layer (in a separate process) combined with n+1 crud data lookups. All the service layer brings to the table is a lot of serialization (which can be relatively expensive) and a doubling of network latency.

What's even worse is the commonly implemented solution: caching. The database get's unfairly blamed and a caching layer is added, of course this just adds another layer of network latency, does little for best case performance (data in cache) and worsens the worst case performance. Rant over.

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I can't stop laughing.
After years of laughing at them, mocking them and generally just being a hilarious thorn in their side, he's bought them!

This is just the most fantastic thing I've read today and probably will be all week. Month, for that matter.

I also love his comment "I am the greatest!"

As a customer, yes, yes you are.
>the notion that people in other areas are groaning in the throes of oppression is not really founded in fact

Sure, that's not something I would believe so I don't disagree.

>Large parts of the country have great contempt for the more liberal enclaves on the coast

Wonder why that is?

>who don't want their economies exploited or their dignity insulted

Yet here we are. With their economies being exploited and their dignity being insulted.
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Here is a new working paper on implementing a budget-neutral UBI in the US. We use a suite of open source models.

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/UBI-working-p...
> But, Facebook has an amazing Notes features, which basically acts like a personalized blog.

Promoting this literally proves his argument. No one even needs a web browser anymore! Just download facebook! /s
Perl 6 is a different language, no chance for a replacement. It's also much slower and unusable for professional usage.

cperl is a not a different perl, it's a perl5 replacement, which is faster, more secure, less bugs and more features. types and using a modern perl is optional. 90% of the vm and toolchain is unmaintained by p5p, and taken over by cperl.
No I'm not suggesting that at all. I just don't see how Europeans would gravitate towards alignment with those countries after this news given their human rights histories and current governments.

The only thing I can think is that Europeans are more environmentalists and will simply turn the other cheek on those violations so long as they get their climate change deals. Either that or the notion that they'll be pushed toward China and India is overblown.
not all European countries

the UK, Estonia and Greece meet their obligations here, please don't lump us in with the freeloaders
> I guess if there was an app that decided on a meal schedule and pre-filled an instacart order

relayfoods.com is basically that. We like them
If by "citizen" you mean a "silicon valley yuppie", then sure. But then it's also considerably more than that. I hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of people in this country are struggling as it is. You don't see them or hear from them, but they do vote. This is the direct result.
They are providing additional facts, which may or may not change your point of view. If the additional facts are not interesting to you, that's cool. But consider, maybe the information they provide is interesting to other people? For example, the top-level poster in this thread asked many questions which are explicitly answered in this article.
I'm talking about household food waste.
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Always good to work for a monopoly..
And what fraction of those emissions are directly driven by the manufacture of goods produced for us in the developed western world?
> Tons of smart folks I know are leaving CA for TX or east coast.

That is very true, but CA also has a large in migration of smart folks, leaving the number of smart folks here at a slowly increasing number. Small towns in red states for the most part don't see in migration from smart folks, the best people they have are the children of those residing there, and in my experience the ambitious ones chose to leave.

> omg, this is CA. Have you driven a freeway lately?

CA supports a relatively dense living situation compared to many areas in 'red states'. While CA might not have the best roads, they have the population and economy to support their maintenance. Many areas in red states have decided to stop paving their roads all together, and are crushing them back to gravel, because the cost of maintenance is unable to be supported by the population and density of people using them. We are definitely at "peak road" in red state America.

> CA to the letter.

Yeah, but I can also get a cushy corporate job in California. Most of the people I knew from [small town in a red state] that stayed either inherited a family business, got hooked on drugs, or settled into the life of mid/low paying government work.
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Architect, design, implement, and maintain complex software designs
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You should try to separate out how you understand someone else's interpretation and what the article actually says. They are not the same thing.
Short-term capital gains are taxed as regular income. Long-term capital gains are taxed at a significantly reduced rate (highest income tax bracket (39.6%) pays 20% on long-term capital gains).

See http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/101515...
it is an asset to who holds it, to the US government it is a liability
It'll be interesting to find out how much of the losses are one time expenditures in warehouses and robots vs just operating loss.
If anything, people dropping out of the workforce to live on a subsistence UBI would make it easier for both employers and motivated workers to connect. Employers would know that anyone they're interviewing is already more motivated.
Investigate the software archeology field [1]. There are offerings [2], but they tend to not be well-recognized because most software development management hasn't realized (or willfully denies) how big their technical debt has grown, in the form of poorly-understood code. There is a "map for the territory" cognitive bias working here, where the mere presence of documentation seems to lull most management teams into believing that conveys sufficient understanding. In light of that predominant situation, it is difficult to lobby for more structured and tool-assisted code meta-management.

I don't know if this phenomena you and I are talking about is just my emotion-based but factually-incorrect perception, or an actual trend. I like to think it is an actual trend, because I look at fields like truck driving, and the boundaries of what is required to be known today by even average drivers seems greater than say, the 1930's. But the more specialist drivers have to know far more. Same with nurses, farmers, pipefitters, etc. It seems that while the "table stakes" to get into the entry level of many fields have gone up, certain specialties and career development paths simply didn't exist in the past, and they're far more demanding than the field used to expect of the average entrant. It is like the complexity level exploded across many fields as technology moved us forward, and we're not preparing students for the complex reality of the fields they are entering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_archaeology

[2] https://www.embarcadero.com/solutions/software-archeology
This is a reasonable question, though tangential to the original article so you're going to find some criticism among those who miss the nuance. I assume you're not making an argument against climate change being an issue, but asking a related question.

By my understanding the natural cycles in climate that you refer to occur in hundreds of thousands of years time scales, and we know a reasonable amount about them with regards to Milankovitch cycles, but there are other factors like solar cycles that can influence climate that still add some uncertainty. How we might go about cooling the earth or whether we even need to in response to a natural warming cycle may be entirely different to our response now, because of this difference in time scales.

Over hundreds of thousands of years, populated areas that would be affected by rising sea levels are likely to be rebuilt many times. Any increase in sea levels is likely to be accounted for in this naturally, and such issues may never arise in large enough cities. Other places that cannot be built up will likely be abandoned and eroded by the sea over time, with abandonment not unusual for localities that are deemed no longer habitable or economically feasible.

As far as cooling the earth if it is necessary, I expect that we will be looking toward space exploration to help us here. Any science toward terraforming other planets will help, so colonizing Mars may be a useful near-term goal. I assume technologies to control the heat retained by the planet would be important, either by reflecting solar radiation before it reaches our atmosphere, or by controlling the levels of greenhouse gases. If we had the technology now, we could essentially do the same thing, however we don't, and won't.

The difference in time scale involved here is the main point. Man-made climate change is occuring on a time scale that our current technology has no ability to counter directly, and this has huge ramifications on short time scales economically, and for the quality of life for coming generations. Natural climate change occurs on a much longer time scale, so any economic impacts are likely to be amortized across the duration of the change and will probably end up in the noise, with technology likely to be able to keep up if we are intelligent about managing our own contributions.
Blockers, why do we have blockers everywhere
I was following it very closely and didn't see that. It seems to me that if Microsoft was implementing Netscape's additions, Netscape could have implemented Microsoft's.

One of the facts of the case is that Microsoft got as close to the standards bodies as it could, and part of its marketing was that it was making IE more standards compliant than Netscape. This is actually very common in computer history (the market leader does whatever it wants to innovate, while the losers band together around standards).

In the end, of course, it didn't matter. Microsoft out-programmed Netscape and then Netscape made several disastrous decisions that amounted to browsercide.

As I said, if you've got any evidence, I'm interested. Specifically, what did Microsoft add that was non-standard and that Netscape couldn't have added?

As far as I know, not even ActiveX qualifies. I discussed this with Mitchell Baker, and she clearly said that Mozilla could have implemented ActiveX if they had wanted to.
With TruffleRuby, Graal and Substrate VM all aimed at improving Ruby's speed I wouldn't write-off Ruby purely on performance. JRuby has also recently made great strides in performance.
Do you have kids?

The time and effort services like Blue Apron save in terms of not traveling to the super market, not having to think about what to cook, etc is the product.

My father was an accomplished chef, my wife is a fantastic cook, our kids from 0-6 years sucked up so much time and energy however. Blue Apron was a godsend.

Blue Apron is not cooking by numbers, it's convenience without the guilt/cost of eating out. The whole cooking your own meal part is a little faux feel good marketing.
The fact is the US polluted the living fuck out of the world to get to it's developed status, and then turns around and says "no you cant do that". So a level playing field already makes no sense.

The point of this is to achieve reasonable outcomes, while also allowing developing countries to grow reasonably (and live another billion out of poverty) while helping them with it.

If the developed worlds can't afford another $100b, I really don't know what to say? Especially considering a lot of that comes around to contracts and exported goods from the very same developed countries! They're not about to start printing solar cells in a country that is barely feeding itself!

As for "fly over country"... I really dont know what to say here. The world doesn't work like the simplistic metaphors that are being peddled to them. For example, the 'government budget is like a family budget' is a nonsensical analogy that is false. Or comparing government debt to credit card debt. These analogies stand in to trick the casual reader in to certain points of view (anti tax and anti government spending ones as it turns out).

What to do about this? Well, honestly, outlawing Fox News would probably be a good start.