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> Plantation trees are used to make paper in New Zealand and Australia.

Same for Brazil and Uruguay - they go for certain kinds of eucalyptus trees. How do I know, not having visited either country?

My wife is a chemical process engineer, and Finland has a large pulp and paper industry. The technology universities feed process and design engineers there. (To a point where some universities' chemistry departments have been neatly coupled with local pulping industry.)

Eucalyptus family has some surprisingly fast-growing varieties. Also, according to the industry, their fibre competes in quality and properties with Scandinavian birchwood. This kind of fibre is particularly wanted for high-quality printing paper.

It takes 40-50 years for a birch to grow from seedling to a pulpable "product". With plantation eucalyptus, this time frame is compressed to 15-20 years. You can crunch the numbers.

The irony in this is that in in order to make space for eucalyptus plantations, the industry had to cut something down first. And due to the time frames involved, they need to constantly make space for new plantations so they can provide a reliable future supply.

The thing they cut down? Rain forest. (Among other things. But certainly enough of it to warrant concern.)

Final note: you can't grow eucalyptus in Scandinavia. According to Brazilian process engineers, eucalyptus can withstand one or two sub-zero temperature nights a year. Call it two max. Not two hundred.
Yes it did. I visited in 2012. I put some photos online here http://cd.pn/pn2012/

That covers the trip from Mangareva to Pitcairn and back.

I loved it on Pitcairn. The island is small but very hilly so there's more walking around and things to see than I expected. The people were friendly and welcoming.

I went there via a yacht from Mangareva that was chartered through an island run travel agency. I stayed for about three weeks. There's definitely a feeling of isolation once the yacht left knowing that there's no way to leave until it comes back. I also had to adjust to no mobile phone and power only on half the day. I was constantly checking my pocket for the first few days to check mail and messages only to realise I didn't have a phone!

I stayed with an island couple - accomodation fee covers food, etc. They were great. They have a shop on the island that gets stocked through the three monthly supply ship. Most of the food comes from island gardens, food growing wild and fishing. I fished a lot!

There are artifacts from the Bounty and other shipwrecks around the island. Cannons, anchors, etc. There's a museum with more artifacts and island history. The church holds an original bible from the Bounty.

There were a number of island events while I was there for birthdays and a market day where islanders sell there unwanted goods to other islanders or visitors. I was surprised at the number of visitors to the island. Lots of yachties ticking off their bucket list. And a surprising number of solo sailors visiting. I met a lot of interesting people.

My perception may be coloured by the fact that I'm related to many people there through my grandmother who was born on the island in the early 1900s. I went there to learn about where she lived and my family ancestral history.
This is about ego and pride, not America. You could swap out 'America' with any title or organisation and it would still be equally asinine.
I disagree. It is _vital_ for cloud providers to keep Intel's feet to the fire. Things got so bad a few years back, Google started porting its entire software stack to ppc64le, which is far less convenient as a platform than amd64. I think we will totally see EPYC deployment in data centers if AMDs benchmarks hold up. You may not even know they're there, but I can guarantee they'll see a significant traction.
A surprising number of Americans think chocolate milk comes from brown cows
Well, the Silk Road and its replacements have been orders of magnitude larger than the "ransomware industry". And there's arguably no moral requirement to obey immoral laws. So overall, cryptocurrencies have been a huge win for freedom.
Deprecation only?

I thought support for legacy add-ons would be removed in FF 57.
It's not trying to be a description of the theology, but of the practice.

In that respect it's quite accurate.
Airbnb puts €5M into fund for local projects in Europe
The origin of Polynesian sweet potatoes being from an old visit to South America is the most plausible origin story, but the lack of anthropological evidence is also a powerful dissuading factor. There's no oral stories of either the Polynesians or the South Americans of such a voyage taking place, like there was for the Viking colonization of Vinland (recalled in the Icelandic sagas).
We are in the process of delegitimizing cars, weapons are already taboo and illegal in liberal cities, Congress keeps trying to open phones to law enforcement, HN is enamored of European-style privacy laws that make it an onerous legal liability to have the capability for audio recording (or any other data collection), and drones were heavily curtailed by the FAA with widespread public support.

We already have currency, and it works much better than any cryptocurrency. The specific problem cryptocurrency solves is vulnerability to law enforcement (i.e. central control).

I would also be concerned if someone started selling weapons whose defining feature was their resistance to homicide investigators.
Isn't hemp one of the most ecologically sound materials to make paper from?

random link
http://www.hemphasis.net/Paper/paper_files/hempvtree.htm

And one of the reasons marijuana was originally prohibited in the US was due to lobbying from wood-based paper companies.
Brain drain is effectively a form of arbitrage in the labour market. You end up with a single market on the supply side and multiple markets on the demand side. All the highly skilled individuals on the supply side gravitate towards the high end on the demand side. The cheaper developers that a US company could hire in Canada are of the same skill level that they could hire in the US by lowering their hiring bar. There's nothing to gain by opening an office in Toronto that isn't equally valid in lower cost areas of the US (e.g. Florida).

Side note: Silicon Valley is not the center of the world. Neither is Toronto, for that matter. Toronto is in the same timezone as New York. Plenty of larger US software companies based on the West Coast have an office in New York. IBM's HQ is even in a NYC suburb. Detroit and Boston are other good candidates for satellite offices with less legal/tax related headaches compared to Toronto or Montreal.
That's what the Investor State Dispute Settlements[1] are for.

[1] see also: "Structural Adjustment Programs"
Mango seems interesting, thanks for that.
I got thrown into a tight spot at work, where I'm building a lease calculator for the accountants, I need to build the whole thing as a self-contained application, due on Monday.
Long story is that it wasn't as easy as I thought, and I ended up having to replicate Journal entries, a trial balance and financial statements. Even though Mongo doesn't have transactions, I found a good way to make my journals balance. I'm using aggregating framework to post journals to TB and FS.

The last part I was worried about is the self-contained bit, so I'm going to give CouchDB a try, and use Mango to prevent redoing everything
How to Hack a New Brain for Your Old Game Boy with Raspberry Pi
I was working nightshift in an area with a lot of timber wolves. For three nights after sunset one wolf would sit just in the range of my lights and watch me. Dayshift would see the rest of the wolf packs tracks behind my machine each morning. Each night when I would drive home that single wolf would lead me out of the work site by walking ahead of my truck (The roads are rough, you have to drive slow). The most interesting thing that I noticed was: (besides how surprisingly large a timberwolf is) the wolf always walked in the shallowest snow. It is hard to explain why it was interesting, the wolf just seemed very aware and thought out in the way it moved.

I have also spent time with Lynx at a close proximity, both times they purred and acted like a house cat. Before hissing and slowly walking away.
That is a good idea, thanks!
My point is that they should regulate the extractive pricing between operators before they regulate the pricing operators have to give to end customers.

Now those operators that have been competitive will suffer. Those that have been extractive towards their own customers and their competitors will benefit.
Did they use 27 as a radix when they went for bigger numbers?

For example and Oksapmin might have say "four score and seven years ago", using their 27-numeral vocabulary to supply words for "four", "seven" and "twenty", but in this case the (closest thing to) a radix is 20, not 27.
PGE was introduced in the P6.
I get why they did it, I just don't get how they sold it to either people or corporate backers. The former may have been financially incentivized enough to override their ideology, but I would have thought the later would be dead against it. Or are there not a lot of half union shops?
China rises as a biotech powerhouse, developing drugs to treat the world
So do memristors exist or not?
Wiki claims they are still 'hypothetical'.
Now do ArangoDB vs MongoDB. Given Arango's clustering tools recently, it should be a fair comparison.
But that 100 tons of water will convert a large amount of CO2 to O2 as the trees grow. Rocks don't capture any CO2.
I think the leason is to have a viable business with earnings.
Not a parent, as the following suggestion will probably make obvious, but why don't people just shave their kids' head when it happens? It's what I would do if it happened to me rather than do that nonsense every morning for weeks on end.
You're quoting a guy from 40 years ago (1976) and making a slippery slope argument. Here is some more information on the Brady Campaign:

"In November 2008, Brady president Helmke, a former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, endorsed the American Hunters and Shooters Association saying, 'I see our issues as complementary to theirs.' He said, 'The Brady Campaign is not just East Coast liberal Democrats.'"

Most people who want to see more gun control are not out to ban all guns. Many of them own guns.
You don't want to use raw technological power to achieve your aims. The political process is actually alive and well. It's just that there happen to be too many people insisting on their wrong opinions, at least in regard to drug policy.

Note that societies have actually come a long way in the last decade or two, current setbacks notwithstanding. With all the noise the certainly not perfect US political system produces, it's easy to overlook how many things actually work quite well, both in the US and in other democratic countries.

Other crimes that cryptocurrencies may be useful for are obviously tax evasion, and any sort of money landing from all sorts of schemes. I really don't see a reason why we should rethink the basic principle of fair taxation, or, in general, why we should abandon the current system based on law for one where might is right.
0b1001011000 years ago? Anybody?
I meant fabless companies and ODMs, why on earth would a foundry refuse business?
You emit a topic from the lambda function, your handlers can be hosted anywhere and can access anything they need. I think you misunderstood
Oh America, don't ever change
> What you're missing is that positional numeral systems developed relatively late--in recorded history,

Mesoamericans were carving base-20 long count dates at least as early as they were writing words, actually. The oldest complete date is 36 BCE. This was a true number system, including a glyph for zero.
I'm curious where the list of users to survey came from. For the company, this should be easy, but for a guy making a cover letter, probably much more difficult.
If not, then neither is the post I'm responding to.
Having FB and Linkedin accounts with your real name is already making it easy.
put a math problem in a box and put it behind a login. this is more annoying than anything.
The only things you need to assume are that they're alive and their mode of reproduction is obligately sexual. As far as the prediction is concerned, humans are totally irrelevant.
Anyone can clean an office. It's a bad example for outsourcing. There's also security arguments to be made for in-house, respected people since janitors are great position for subversion.
Does a startup have to be majorly disruptive? Does it have to be (one of) the first in its market?
Nice try. Lying to the feds is already a crime punishable by up to 5 years in jail if I'm not mistaken.
I would be cautious with sympathy mainly because the guy probably committed more crimes than were mentioned. The dead giveaway is when he mentions the others who were in solitary for killing a guard "but there's some evidence they didn't do it." How naive can readers be? They very likely did do it, and a whole lot more.

There are some people who have done heinous things and who deserve a lifetime behind bars. Whether that time there is humane is of very little concern versus ensuring that they can never do harm to anyone else ever again. Despite what everyone thinks, US prisons are extremely humane. If you want to experience hell on earth, try Third World prisons. If a quick bullet to the back of the head is more your style, I recommend China.
> It's time to revisit the whole system, top down, and make it less about punishment and more about making sure it doesn't happen again. And it should be done with data.

I think the current system is actually less about punishment and more about oppression of certain social classes, namely non-whites and lower-class whites. It is a means of controlling social undesirables.
They are both right. Something's can't be dumbed down enough to explain to everyone, but you can always explain the concepts. An example could be comparing an interface to a chocolate cookie recipe, when explaining it to your grandmother.

She'll still have no idea what an interface actually is, but she'll have a good grasp of the concept.
Right, but that would also be the majority. It boils down to your fundamental values. Do you want to live in a society with minority elites that are wealthy and powerful, but also hard working and smart, but eventually degrades to lazy and complacent once their heir takes over. Or do you prefer a more uniform distribution, with smaller extremes, even though it limits how high you can go and restricts you closer to the middle at all times.

These desires are at odds. Statistically, the majority would likely always prefer the latter, since the former assumes a poor majority and a rich minority.

There's some values that gets closer to a combination of these, such as going with the former, but banning inheritance (or indirect form of it). Effectively reseting the playing field every once in a while. Or focusing on increasing the minimum, but keeping the distribution like in the former. Like with universal minimum income for example.
In the case of FB, the question to me is whether or not the introduction of FB changes the dynamic.

If, say, phone and SMS-based activities simply shifted to FB, without any significant change in scope, scale, speed, use, or outcomes ... there's a case to be made for "the medium changed, but the behaviour didn't".

If the behaviour itself changes, in scope, scale, speed, use, adoption by specific groups, or outcomes, then that out becomes far smaller.

Put another way, if there's some extant potential, say a charge differential, or a water reservoir at elevation, and you provide a conductor or remove the barrier keeping it from flowing -- I'd call that a causal relationship.

Or are you saying that a dam failure resulting in a valley being flooded out is simple a realisation of the existing potential and polarisation of high and low elevations?

I'm not buying that.

Media enables. And if costs are reduced, it enables that which was simply not previously possible.
Postgres 10 added support logical replication. It makes horizontal scaling fairly painless.
Summer Fridays Are All the Rage This Year
We're still talking ~2,000 years ago, which I consider recorded history (basically, the distinction between history and prehistory is roughly ~6,000 years ago). Certainly much, much newer than language.
Nice landing page
Google has something along these lines that not many folks seem to know about:

https://play.google.com/store/newsstand and https://newsstand.google.com/
Philip Roth’s Newark
That's a religious position as long as you only focus on the benefits and don't account for the costs. And I say that as someone absolutely committed to that future.
You have submitted almost 40 posts today, 20 in the last hour. Are these all really worthy of submission?
Same science holds for price of wine.

The more general truth is quality does not correlate with cost.

Google Rory Sutherlands TED talk
How often do your docs suggest tests that you think are not worthwhile? I'm young, but have never had a physician want to run tests on me where I thought they were a bad idea. If anything they normally say "that's not a big deal, we don't need to do anything for that."

The only exceptions have been dentists and dermatologists - where I'm largely paying out of pocket anyway.
Intel has way bigger problems to deal with in the shift from CPU to GPU computation that's been happening these past few years, which is really starting to ramp now with the increasing advent of neural networks being practically used. I think AMD is in a much better position longer term not just aside from it hitting the mark with its upcoming CPU architecture release, but really because it has an additionally strong GPU department along side that.

We've pretty much reached the limit in terms of single core CPU performance, though I'm sure quantum breakthroughs will happen at some point. For now though, the next 5-10 years will be centered around increasing core counts and minimizing overhead resulting from that in CPUs along with GPUs. Assuming AMD can execute, they are perfectly poised within both industries against Intel and Nvidia. I posit that the lines will become more and more blurred as time goes in relation to "CPU" versus "GPU", with something akin to AMD's APU offerings or Intel's Iris integrated graphics.

I wonder what Nvidia will do in terms of direction whether going further all in on pure GPU offerings or look to potentiallly acquire/be acquired. Something with ARM maybe?

Whatever happens, you're definitely right that these are exciting times right now.
Having been a contractor for a short while (~1 year) and having worked with many different contractors over the years I've never seen a situation where management has been like "this part of the codebase is too much of a mess for us to handle, we need to hire a contractor to sort it out". Does that ever happen? Surely a contractor would be even less prepared than a permie to handle such a situation because they won't be familiar with the codebase?

In my experience contractors are mainly hired for development of new projects or features when they'd like to get some more hands on deck to speed up development. Or because the company would like to hire a permie but can't for whatever reason (not sure they will have enough work in the long run, can't find the right person etc.).

Also I've never seen a contractor that who's day-to-day functions were any different from that of a permanent employee. Where are these companies that let permies play ping pong for hours but have the contractors chained to their desk churning out features and reducing technical debt?
Came to say the same thing. It looks promising, but I think it's missing quite a few pieces - e.g. I looked at Google acquisitions and there should be way more companies listed.
Oops wrong post.
Hmm. I'm in Norway this week, but I live in Montana. We have Moose in our yard at home. There are stuffed Moose in the museums here (labeled "Moose"). They're the same animal.

I grew up in Scotland where we have Red Deer. Those animals are roughy the same thing as a North American Elk.
Compared to whom? You do realize that the vast, vast majority of people in prison are there because they did something pretty terrible. Oh, but they're all innocent if you ask them about what they did.
Isn't that the entire point of democracy though? If enough people hold the "wrong" opinion it becomes the right one?
Imagine two girls with long, beautiful blond hair which has never in their life been cut...
I haven't heard that before, but it certainly does appear that Elon Musk will take us to Mars. So maybe there is something to that after all.
Now is the time to apply for Startup Battlefield Africa
What books do you recommend to get started with automated trading? :)
Both posts were civil. I guess we'll have to put it down to cultural differences.
maybe they should simply skip 4.0
> Mangarevans combined base-10 representation with a binary system. They had number words for 1 to 10, and then for 10 multiplied by several powers of 2

Because base-10 seems to originate from two handfuls of fingers, I wonder why they didn't end up with a base-5 representation with a binary system?

> takau (K) means 10; paua (P) means 20; tataua (T) is 40; and varu (V) stands for 80

By using their numeral for five (say, F) to mean 5 in this scheme, they could have gotten rid of their numerals for 6 to 9. So 157 would be VTPKF2 instead of VTPK7.
When my kids have lice I shave my own head, but I haven't been able to convince my daughter to do the same.

She's got pretty long and thick hair so washing and combing it is a b#tch!
Same science holds for price of wine.
The more general truth is quality does not correlate with cost.
Google Rory Sutherlands TED talk
I've been thinking about marketing myself as "Code Janitor", actually :)
The eggs (nits) are to small to comb out, that's already the case. That's why you need to repeat this for two weeks, to comb out the new lice before they start breeding.
You can try Pi-Hole which stops the ad and tracking DNS requests from getting through.
So then to track that argument down to an absurdity - The objections you raise could equally be applied to language, or mathematics.
Thank you for the reminder. The emphasis on civility is one of the reasons I like this site so much and I am ashamed I let myself lose control like that.
> that open federation was doomed to outside abuse.

Could you expand on this? I haven't heard of this problem before and I'm curious to know more.
Elon Musk Email to Tesla Employees Is Master Class in Emotional Intelligence
Again, I'm much less concerned about their suffering and much more concerned that they are never allowed to offend in the manner that got them into prison in the first place. The bleeding hearts on here overlook the reality that many people are extremely dangerous and need to remain locked up. Maybe not in solitary all the time, but solitary is the exceptional case--the place where they put you when you have threatened or harmed guards, other prisoners, etc.