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The normal industry name for lower quality coal is "brown coal" (the most common type is lignite, which actually has a brown colour), and higher quality coal is "black coal". For coal used for steel making / coking has to be purer so low sulphur black coal is the only option.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14471049
Nuclear power is dead. Stop beating it, it's not even a horse any more. Sure, it emits less radiation than coal, and the thorium/fast breeder/fusion/whatever revolution is just around the corner, and I also feel so manly and strong and competent arguing for it when everyone else has moved on ten years ago, and there's absolutely no risk if you do it right, unlike these Russians who were just too unorganised to follow procedures, oh, yeah, and those Japanese, who we always accused of being incompetent with technology.

No, nuclear power is simply too expensive. In less than a decade, even wind and solar will be cheaper.
But those stocks pay low dividends due to low rates. They are expensive stocks. High capital people can access the near zero rates to invest, the poor only have access to credit cards. At high interest rates it is expensive for both the rich and poor to invest. In low rate environment low capital people are at a disadvantage.
Might as well have bright red flashing letters at the top of the page saying "WE ARE QUACKS." It's possible this product is great, but my immediate reaction to any medical product that positions itself as the underdog fighting against the evil establishment is to run far, far away.
If the employer agrees that everyone should join a union, sure. Public sector unions are an entirely different beast though.
There studies that seem legitimate that have found that a certain amount of prep can boost your score multiple tens of points.

This is problematic if you want it to be a valid measure because it lets people artificially close the gap.

Do you want the student with such a well-rounded education throughout their life that they got a >=99.9% score without needing to study, or the one who caught up by grinding for a few weeks without that same broad underlying fundamental base? If your test can't tell that apart, it's flawed, because access to the right prep is going to become a significant part of what you're measuring, and that access is (for obvious economic reasons) distributed along unequal lines, reinforcing the already-fortunate.

My suspicion, since I doubt we can come up with a test to prep, is that the best answer is either (a) nobody preps or (b) everyone gets access to a lot of prep. The former seems impossible to enforce, plus is the sort of "individual liberty"-constraining thing that the politically dominant swathes of America hate. They want to be able to make their kids the best, they "earned it." The latter would be easier, but isn't without some complications, and of course is time that could be better spent on something other than maximizing a single metric.
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> There are two ways to buy ads on the internet: Google or Facebook.

I decided to check this. A simple google query and the first result[1] show you to be very wrong. Google does have a majority (with the top three spots being google properties totaling just under 72% of the market), but 7 out of 10 is by no means all.

1: https://www.datanyze.com/market-share/advertising-networks/
Alex Epstein --> Wikipedia, Career: 1. Ayn Rand Institute.

Yeah thanks I'll pass.
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Out of curiosity, why would something like this be closed off to people < 18 y/o?
> You know, it's interesting. I've been programming with Python for about 6 years now. I've also picked up Javascript, SQL, bash, and PHP along the way. ... However, need to do something in a different way than Go decides is correct? Well, you can't.
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Pardon me and no offense, but it sounds like you are hitting the 'statically typed language' boundary.. all of the others you mention are fairly loose and dynamic. Go & C, not so much. It sounds like your use of C has been library code, which presumably is more 'data processing' oriented and so doesn't require much structure or control of process/runtime/etc.. which is where you will run into this stuff on the c side..

This is why I moved from c/c++ into dynamic languages to start with.. that said, as I grow more sophisticated and can 'deal' with the typing/lower 'machine' level control, the more I can understand other tools.. even C++! ..

i mention this because each layer of abstraction is there for a reason.. best to view with a fresh pair of eyes imho
CO_2 emissions are the same if it goes up in big black smokes of clouds next to some school, or if it's burned in the best incinerator money can buy, or even if it's thrown in the ocean and slowly degraded by organic means.

The only thing that makes a difference is recycling.
The problem with not doing per capita is that you valuing each person differently arbitrarily basis their nationality...

You can for example combine EU into one entity and say they pollute a lot. Or split china/india/US into 50 countries and say they don't contribute much individually.

In effect favouring being born lucky.. in any random sample of the world population you have 33% chance of being born in just 2 countries . Do these people get fair representatation in any international forum ? It is either 1 vote per country or powerfull ones have all of it.

Landmass also is not effective measure . You will end up with Australia, Canada and Russia driving the agenda

Pop density has more to do with ability to grow food and energy efficiency of food consumption - comparing pop density and talking about over population has to factor that in saying china and india are overcrowded is not a sensible argument(they are over populated but not to extent people think) .

We need fresh perspective on how we see the world , arbitrary national boundaries , Mercator projections and biased schooling makes our world view very distorted

All of the above applies to the US as well . State borders are arbitrary. People in Pop dense centers like california do not get even the 10th of the representatation as say Wyoming.

California could be 8th largest country in terms of economic output and has a pop larger most countries in the world yet people living there do not have a say proportional to their impact in domestic or international politic is that fair ?
When I saw this title, I was expecting to find something about using a computer to detect things like "use after free" errors. However, skimming the paper, it appears to refer to altering the source code to remedy compile-time errors rather than to finding flaws in program logic. The notion of the authors is to repair broken inputs so that they compile correctly despite syntax errors by the programmer.

I don't think this is a particularly useful thing to do. Essentially it is somewhat like making a compiler which accepts broken inputs using heuristics to guess at what the programmer intended to write. That will not result in better programs being written, rather it will result in the programmer not only writing worse code but not even being aware of the flaws in their code.
India consumes only 1/15 as much energy as the US (per capita). To insist that they should further reduce further is simply disingenuous:
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC?contex...
> Go is more versatile and at the same time more mature than anything out there.

This doesn't seem like a very credible statement on the face of it. Is Go more mature and more versatile than Python? Than Java? Than...Scala? Go does seem to share a lot of use cases (and limitations) with Java; and it would be hard to call it more mature.
That's like saying government price caps does not make it easier for people to buy goods. While true, price controls absolutely do have actual affects on economy. Typically supply is reduced from equilibrium and the economy is damaged; in paying low prices people have to wait on long lines. Except for cronies who have political capital to get all the goods they want at a low price. 'Nominal price' is different to 'real price'

The same goes for interest rates. A cap on interest rates does not make it easier for the poor to buy homes and cars; in paying low interest rates people have to pay for much higher prices for homes.

By giving up control of nominal interest rate, it would return to equilibrium and reduce capital inequality.
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> CGo has a very high level of integration

No, no it doesn't. CGo is slow as balls to call into and return from.

Types can't fully be shared.

It's interacted with via comments.

You can't use cgo to control the threading of the Go runtime itself, which is the real problem here.

The behavior you want is to be able to call linux syscalls that operate on threads and not be utterly fucked.
That behavior cannot be accomplished with go nor go+cgo easily.

Threads in cgo are also kinda fucked.
> am I wrong?

Yes. Area doesn't consume energy, people do. Otherwise Russia would be the most eco-friendly country in the world, and something like Luxembourg should be considered an abject failure of environmental policy.
That was one of the driving factors that made me switch to firefox (from chrome): I can use uBlock on mobile now.
Cool! It's too bad about the cuDNN comparison bit people mention (as with dgacmu, I contend that all frameworks now devolve into the low level kernel used), but I'm both impressed by the release and appreciate all the Microsoft folks clearly disclaiming their affiliation.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but not directly in/on TensorFlow).
There is an extraordinarily dangerous subtext to this argument and it isn't very well hidden.

>Wisdom is about using your abilities and knowledge not just for your own selfish ends and for people like you. It’s about using them to help achieve a common good by balancing your own interests with other people’s and with high-order interests through the infusion of positive ethical values.

The author is essentially arguing that "intelligence" should be redefined to include not only practical problem-solving abilities, but a specific set of moral values. He is arguing that it is acceptable to reject an otherwise excellent college candidate because they're a nihilist or an objectivist or a nationalist, so by his standards are "unwise" or "lacking in ethical intelligence".

Right now, America is in the midst of a vast rebellion against the scientific consensus. Millions of Americans reject essential and well-proven scientific theories, in large part because they believe that academia is a highly politicised liberal institution. They don't believe the data and they don't trust the objectivity of the people who collected it. I very much doubt that making college admission contingent on holding a certain set of ethical beliefs will help to challenge that view.

Conservatives are vastly under-represented in academia and have been for many decades. Many conservative students and academics feel that they are actively discriminated against on an institutional level. Whatever your political beliefs, this should be deeply concerning to you, if only because of the ammunition that it hands to the likes of Trump.

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674059092
Yeah, that's fair. The goals of machine learning and neuroscience seem fairly different. Nobody in ML will complain if your neural network has great prediction but isn't supported biologically. OTOH, neuroscientists might take a model that isn't the best in terms of prediction, if it seems to better represents how the brain operates.

There seems to be some interesting interplay, though. For example deepmind recently sponsored this ANN conference where most the speakers were neuroscientists.

https://sites.google.com/site/ncpw15/
>But in your TS example, the code would execute.

Incorrect. It's a type alias so it uses "type typeof" not "value typeof". It doesn't have the problem that the issue you linked to is about.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/play/#src=function%20getOptio...

Observe the JS output contains no `typeof` and that the type `Options` is considered to be the same as `{ num: number, str: string }` if you hover over it.
You're missing the other side of the story. Which is that the current Australian government has also been undermining the renewable energy sector for years forcing projects to be cancelled and talent to leave overseas.

I've never understood given how decent Australia through the CSIRO has been at commercialising innovation why we never invested more in the renewable energy sector.
So I don't think that less ad blockers means higher revenue. Do you believe that the people who go through the effort of installing ad blockers would actually click on ads if the ad blockers were disabled?
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> Bitcoin payments are anonymous, but they are perfectly traceable. Quite the important distinction there.

And I was merely saying Bitcoin has been making untraceable digital payments possible (and practical/easy).

Nowhere was I saying it is impossible to also use Bitcoin for traceable digital payments.
I know this is completely beyond the topic, and only relevant in regards to the website, but, as someone who has been convulsively clicking text while reading articles his whole life, this site design is absolute garbage. When i double click text I do not expect the site to interact. Double click in my world is known for highlighting. Not increasing font size. Sorry, end rant.
Does the extra $$ exceed the cost of owning a car in the 1st place? This might not be as true as you think..
They didn't ignore it. It's just irrelevant to the current topic at hand.

India and quite a number of other countries e.g. China play this game all the time with industries. Look at what Apple went through for example to establish a presence in India.
Kiss Forbes' bullshit goodbye!

https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer

If you use UblockOrigin this is already an option in settings under "3rd-party filters."
Government is the legitimate exercise of force. That's kind of the whole reason it exists.
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Not sure that applies like that. Typescript support is based on the Typescript language server, which uses their open source language server protocol, which is open for other editors to use (and indeed adopted by a bunch of them). So in theory other IDEs could support TS with the same level of VSC as long as they adopted the protocol, without the need for discussion TS functionality.
How does this not get government intervention when Microsoft got it for bundling IE as the only broswer for Windows? This is like being the company in charge of fuel efficiency for car manufacturers while also owning 50% in aramco.
The moderators (and submitters) do that often when the article's title is clickbait but the content is still good.

You'll usually see dang or sctb comment and say something like "we changed the title to a representative sentence found in the first paragraph"
It's walmart,

So obviously it is a totally different universe than the bourgeois internet tech startup reality I inhabit and therefore is scary and uncivilized and prone to a different set of rules.. the laws of the jungle.
Sadly, as much as I would like the content all to be true, 'Quack' is my assessment too. They say they have been selling this in Austria for 11 years but want crowdfunding to take it abroad. Somehow that does not add up.

And in my experience dentists are really pretty open to innovation, especially 3d scanning and machining. Most recently I got a grinding guard and instead of taking an impression my dentist actually used a Danish scanner that pieced together a couple of hundred individual photos.
> The ad networks that aren't Google aren't going to be happy.

Does it matter at all to Google if other ad networks are happy? I don't see any way this could not "go down well" for Google, I don't know about the other folks though, who knows.
Nuclear power is such a mess though.

There's the political logistics of getting the fuel, figuring out how and where to dispose of the fuel, the NIMBY problem with plant locations and the fact that in general its politically very unpopular.
Union : worker :: company : _______.

What would you like to put in the blank? I'm using the term "employer" there but I'm happy to switch to something better.
Nah, walmart finance inc will sell you a nice auto loan no probs.. you'll get a real good deal.. I'll make you an offer you can't refuse
The thing is, you can greatly simplify the tax code and still have progressive tax brackets. Looking up the total amount due in the back of the tax booklet (or more realistically having software calculate the total due) is the easy part of doing one's taxes.

Cut out the various deductions and credits and additions to income etc. to make things simple. Then calculating tax due becomes a simple table lookup or addition of amounts from multiple tables. 3rd grade math. We don't need to set a single universal x% tax rate to make things easy.
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I'm with you. Defining wisdom as out-group altruism makes it a sort of zealous, unconsidered enforcement of the status quo.

I think there probably is a case to be made that semantic intelligence at scale harms a society, but this sciam interview doesn't present a good argument.
> You may want to build reversibility as a layer on top of Bitcoin.

How is that supposed to work? Once the money has been sent to someone's private key, you rely on their cooperation to get it reversed.

To effectively force them to give it up, a trusted third party would have to hold an even larger amount in escrow. But then what if that third party refuses to cooperate? You would need a larger escrow service to hold the escrow service accountable ... or they would have to make their identity public and be personally liable for any losses, putting government regulation back in the loop.

And this is assuming the transaction was made voluntarily in the first place. If someone steals your money they are not going to make the transaction reversible if they can avoid it. Unless you have the clout to convince a majority of miners to do a hard fork, good luck getting your money back.
Would you be so kind as to add (2014) to the end of the title? Since the post starts off by saying JSON-LD was made official "last week", it could mislead readers who don't notice the date in a small font between the title and the body.
It goes through Google, and the whole point of ad blockers (for me) is to block Google's tracking/surveillance crap.

So, it is dead on arrival for me and all the other privacy-minded people that run ad blockers, which is a large and increasing percentage of the population.
Entirely possible. Emojipedia has previously noted that the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was missing the emoji for "Map of Japan", "Crossed Flags" (which is typically depicted as a pair of Japanese flags), and "Chart Increasing With Yen".

http://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-puts-japan-back-on-the-ma...
You can tell, based on the fee, whether it's sufficient for the transaction to be confirmed soon, and if so, accept it immediately. This isn't hard, and I don't believe that you didn't actually understand it. I don't understand what value your replies have added.
I agree about how the site should act, but in my browser (chrome on mac), it does act the right way.
Auto-rickshaws are already ALL electric in some cities. Haridwar for one.
My only wish for TS (which I use on the daily and love) is for some way to export type annotations at runtime. Like I'd love to inspect a class property and see if it is annotated as "this is a date" (in particular for deserializing JSON, which is a constant bugaboo for me). Right now, I just generate two parallel schema definitions, one that typescript uses to provide compile-time type safety, and another that's just a pojo to access at runtime to get more data.
One of the biggest reasons Watson is able to beat the champions so thoroughly is that it has a huge advantage in buzzer reaction timing. If that element were taken out, it would be much closer.
> the proliferation of third-party suppliers which I understand is now a huge part of the auto industry

Yes, it is, even more so now then when I was working in the industry. But that's something different from what I'm talking about. At each of the factories run by those third-party suppliers, the workers are employees of the supplier company. (And many of those factories are also unionized under the UAW.) Similarly, at the assembly plants where finished vehicles are put together from the parts from all of those third-party suppliers, the workers are employees of the auto company (GM or Ford or Toyota or whomever), and (mostly) unionized under the UAW. (AFAIK that's true of all the plants of the US auto companies, but some foreign ones, like Toyota, have US plants that are not unionized.)

What I'm describing is something different: a factory belonging to GM or Ford or whomever, but staffed by workers (and supervisors up to whatever level seems appropriate) who are employees of, say, the Auto Workers' Company (AWC), which is a full-fledged, for-profit corporation that specializes in representing and managing automotive factory workers. That company negotiates a contract with the company that owns the factory and supplies it with raw materials and ships out its finished products, just like any other contract between companies. The contract specifies what jobs the workers are to do and under what conditions, and the factory owner pays the AWC for the services it provides according to whatever payment terms are in the contract. The AWC then pays the workers, since they are its employees.

> It looks to me like people decry unions based on things that are not unique to them, but give companies a free pass.

I don't see companies getting a free pass, but I also think that, to the extent that unions get decried more than companies, it's because unions combine the worst features of companies and democracies:

- Unions have a corporate command structure (they have officers, finances, etc.), but it's subject to democratic rule (members vote on the leadership). Thus, the leadership has a long-term mission (to sustain the viability of the labor pool), but a short-term focus.

- Unions have, or at least try to have, monopoly power. This means that the actual benefits they can provide from collective action (which is what makes it more sensible for them to be corporations) are more than swallowed up in the deadweight losses associated with having the monopoly (which is demanded by the membership for the same reasons people in a democracy demand government benefits).
Good point. It’s from 2014--an oldie but a goodie.
Of course India was allowed to use more coal. Paris is a voluntary agreement.

India, like all countries, can do whatever on earth they want. Just like Trump could've stayed in the agreement, behind the scenes done absolutely nothing for the environment (like he is now) and there would've been a lot less criticism.

The fact he didn't choose this option tells you everything. It was a political decision only.
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I didn't see any efficiencies that exceeded 100%. Are you counting code points rather than bytes in the unicode output size? The code points still have to be serialized as bytes after that is done, but since Twitter limits you by the number of characters, not the number of bytes, this amounts to a sort of compression of data into Twitter. On the wire it would still be an expansion of course.
> But air quality degeneration does have a lot of basis on per capita pollution.

Can you explain to me how this works?