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I actually have a backhoe, but the diesel injector pump is broken. Its a rosa master rotary injection pump. They go for $800 on ebay rebuilt. Project for the winter in my new shop. Thanks for your advice on the water injector. Do you have any design for injecting the water into the air line? How much water like in GPM or CFS per PSI?
Magit is one of the most powerful pieces of software I use on a daily basis. It's incredibly well designed and I'd be seriously lost without it. That said, I think it's a good thing for MELPA and package.el in general that it's not built-in. It's a killer app, and I can only assume it encourages people to explore more packages.

I also totally agree with the post about contributing. Assignments aren't even the major issue, it's that with magit you can discuss issues, send a PR on GitHub and have a patch included in no-time. As part of Emacs, we'd have to go through mailing-list hell for any discussion and that's before considering the difficulties of actually getting a patch pulled in, at which point most people will have to wait for a new release? As part of MELPA I can update as soon as the PR is merged in.

Strange that people complain about the packaging system — I find it does the job and is super easy to get updates.
We don't actually have to eat large amounts of cheap produce though.

(farm labor is overwhelmingly concentrated in harvesting produce)
> Any reasonably-well designed urban area is teeming with parks of all different shapes and types. In the suburbs, there may be one part per town, largely focused on ball fields, but in an urban area, there are parks all over the place.

I've lived in a couple of US cities now, it's very hit or miss. San Jose, CA? Plenty of neighborhoods without a park of usable size within walking distance, and the intellectual and financial investment in equipment is fairly limited. Boston, MA? Feels like you can't go 3 blocks without hitting a park, and many of them have great equipment.

In theory your statement is true, but the reality covers a spectrum that may or may not be acceptable.
Two of the biggest dark-web markets have been shut down
For those of us who use programmable keyboards, it's not a problem at all.

For everyone else, perhaps it should be seen as an editor problem? There's no reason vim can't see that you type != or =/= and replace it on the fly with ≠.
Prices on pretty much everything increased since 70s. Its just with some assets/localities the prices deviated too far from the trend line..
Capistrano 3: Passing Parameters to Your Task
Make them use base-23 and somehow this will allow them find the secrets of the universe because the question to life, the universe and everything can be solved easily with base-23 math.
If I ever founded a company, we'd be remote only from the start simply so that I wouldn't force people to do silly commutes. I would see any of my employees doing a 2 hour commute as a major failure on my part.
Middle Wallop. Upper Wallop and Lower Wallop -- hopefully not too firmly.
Youngest founder (15 y/o) accepted by Y Combinator launches Slik.ai
I learned this in designing the D programming language. The original syntax for lambdas seemed natural from a compiler point of view, but from a user point of view it was awkward and pretty much unusable. Changing the syntax was a complete transformation in its usage.
"Data science" is a field with so much conceptual churn and fads that interviewing for it is a completely ridiculous notion.
Matthew Butterick’s font Triplicate has true italics and a Code version with programming alternates.

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Intel’s Neural Compute Stick brings machine learning to any PC
> alignment vs indentation is the whole reason we have to have the spaces vs tabs argument.

Indeed, that is one of the things I like about the indentation-only style. Unlike column alignment, you can use either spaces or tabs for indentation and the formatting still comes out fine.
> Congress can pass laws, but not delegate that power to another entity.

Congress can, however, make laws whose explicit terms make their effect contingent on external facts, including the actions of officers in particular executive-branch agencies.
> he just made everyone around him look bad

An example of why this is so subjective. For me, the "best" engineers make everyone around them look better. Like the star athlete that elevates the level of play of their teammates.

One of my best friends in university was top-ranked in our class for every year (although they discontinued the rankings shortly after my class finished). Just a brilliant mind but without any of the social awkwardness you might expect to accompany that. He would literally hold unofficial study tutorials where he taught other students the course material. And it's not like he did this because he thought he was awesome - the other students begged him to because he could explain concepts better than some of our own profs.
Web Browser: FireFox, Chromium, Chrome only as last resort for media compatibility

Email Client: Thunderbird, mutt

Terminal: Gnome Terminal, Terminator

IDE: Netbeans

Basic Text Editor: vim, gVim, gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: Pigin, Hexchat

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: NextCloud web

Video Player: VLC

Music Player: VLC

Photo Viewer: Shotwell I guess
I actually talk a lot about this topic in a very evenhanded manner and I blog about it that way. I recently did a series of 5 posts that were evenhanded. This is the last one and it has links to the earlier four: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aS6PrldE6ZTwWHgiSSgiBWNg...

The problem is that your remarks are not coming across like "men and women are both adults and both need to work at solving this." You are coming across like "Well, individual men have zero responsibility at all for this problem, even when they are obviously being incredibly aggressive and predatory."

If you don't mean to come across that way, you will need to work on how you talk about such things.

Best.
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It seems to me they're focusing on the wrong thing. See here:

“A lot of our leaders are still older white men, and they need to be part of the conversation and advocate for women. But they’re not going to do that as much if they don’t hear the stories and understand what that means.”

This doesn't necessitate adding white men to these groups but rather making sure that leaders of all stripes interact with these groups.
Apple has enormous influence, and Jobs was a very good salesman. Maybe Apple didn't try very hard.
+1 to most of those on your list.

When I lived in Mountain View, my apartment was located on the middle floor. I consider myself a night owl, but my neighbor who lived upstairs liked to practice playing the drums at 5 AM in the morning.
Everyone default seems to be gnome nowadays, I don't understand why. One of the main reason for me to stick with Ubuntu was unity being a great DE.

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Web Browser: Firefox

Email Client: ???

Terminal: Gnome terminal

IDE: VIM + plugins, Visual Studio Code

File manager: 16.0 default

Basic Text Editor: VIM

IRC/Messaging Client: ???

PDF Reader: 16.04 default

Office Suite: LibreOffice, markdown + pandoc -> pdf

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Lyft is now building its own self-driving technology
I would love to know more about her work! Where was that? Which species did they required her to plant, if any at all? Was it measured in any way possibly? Did she enjoy doing this (I presume she did)?
I read about that as well, your system sounds neat.

Re org-mode: It's easy to split out into multiple files using links. I have an index.org in my ~/org directory that links to many topics, each linking to more (or each other). It's effective for creating a personal wiki-like document graph.
I must be one of a few Americans who know it because it's an interesting name, but had no idea Cleese was from there until I read your comment just now. Very interesting.
And in Canada we tried to destroy native language and culture, as well as various immigrant cultures.

My mom went to school before 'multiculturalism' was a thing, and was beaten by the teachers for speaking Ukrainian anywhere on the school grounds. And of course residential schools are a more known and somewhat more extreme example of the attempts to create homogeneous culture in Canada in the mid 20th century.

Nearly every (large) nation on earth has done similar things.
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Wow, that is an epic start! IMO, the best thing you could do, is to meticulously document your projects, for a blog / vlog. The shop build would be a great first project to kick off a Youtube channel, for example. This should put you in contact with others who have similar technical-farming projects. Lots of hacker types in the aquaponics field, as well.

If this was happening anywhere near me, I would be all over it. I am in the complementary situation; I have a ton of ideas about how I want to build up an experimental farm/nursery/farm-tech incubator, but inadequate space and funding. Hope we see your work here in the future.
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Nah, you can do it on Reddit because they use Markdown instead of HN's homegrown comment formatter. In case you ever need to post a proportional font code sample over there, the trick is to use &nbsp; for all the leading spaces, and also add two regular spaces at the end of each line before the last one.
Having spoken to several students as well as looking at their GitHub projects from the galvanize data science program, I am fairly confident they cover those stats subjects in question.

Not to say that a data science boot camp is all you would ever need to know, but I would give them a little more credit in what they teach. That galvanize link is not really their syllabus, they probably keep it vague to force you to sign up to their email list to get the real one.
> I don't think that credit generated by people is capable of creating these cycles alone

For the best history of bills i would read charles kindlebergers mania's panics and crashes for a thorough rundown on every sort of credit boom and bust for the last couple hundred years.

Specifically, pages 56-63 4th edition, deal with bills and their close cousin's call money

In that section there's something on the order of 10 crises mentioned. Def worth a read if you're interested in this sort of stuff (gaining a long term perspective of money).

Hopefully fair use excerpt:

"Drawing on bills of exchange is evidently infectious. Described by Adam Smith as normal business practice, it can easily become overdone"

These were particularly abused in the london crisis of 1866 (where there was a central bank) and the aforementioned 1907 crisis (where there wasn't a central bank).

Again quoting kindleberger "the spectacular failure of the DeNeufvilles in 1763 which produced a panic in hamburg, berlin... was the result of the unraveling of a particularly impressive chain of discounts [bills]. If one house fails, the chain collapses and may bring down good names."

also, i would check out hyman minksy for a completely endogenous model of boom and bust speculation.
The right does their best to cut government revenue via lower taxes, so how do you propose maintaining infrastructure with less income?
I currently have a 4 hour commute each way. On Monday morning, 15 min taxi from home to the airport (medium sized midwest city). 3 hour direct flight to LGA (incl. security and whatnot). 30 min taxi to the office in Manhattan. Stay in a hotel next to the office until Friday then fly back. I do this commute about 4 times per year. The rest of the time I work from home.

It's great.
This not only has a name, it has a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

> As soon as AI successfully solves a problem, the problem is no longer a part of AI.

snip

> Douglas Hofstadter expresses the AI effect concisely by quoting Tesler's Theorem: "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."
You might be interested in Walter Isaacson's The Innovators because it tries to show how collaboration rather than individual genius is at the heart of innovation. Isaacson writes about these ideas rather explicitly.
Regarding your last comment about Gimp, this feature (the multi-window mode) can be disable. Open Gimp > "Windows" > check "Simple-Window mode".
> Code's easy for me (unless "mathy" in appearance like Haskell)

Haskell is not hard to read/understand because it's mathy. It's because of type inference combined with laziness - this leads people to do incredible fits of intellectual masturbation...

Like "hey, the compiler can handle types for us, so lets type the shit out of things, let's even use them to mark side effects, types are fee" ...doesn't matter that types are mainly documentation and by not writing them or making astronaut types you're loosing the main benefit. And "hey, the language is lazy, that extra code containing an infinite loop but so mathy elegant, will never be fully executed so we can have it, it's free, doesn't impact performance"... doesn't matter you need to use 80% of your brainpower better spent otherwise to grok it.

If it would be eager and without type inference it would've evolved into a much more readable and popular language and with a larger community.
Real prices on manufactured goods have tumbled.
The Rise of Pirate Libraries (2016)
> Compulsory redistribution programs like UBI pervert incentives, leading to less individual responsibility over time.

OK yes, but you can't think about incentives like that.

It's not just a matter of GOOD INCENTIVE/BAD INCENTIVE, because the incentives all influence each other. You can't just make a giant list of GOOD INCENTIVEs and then do them all.

In fact, you really can't play very many incentives all at once together, because the more incentive schemes you have the more likely you are to create strange situations that exploit unanticipated interactions between what really are GOOD INCENTIVEs when considered independently.

So, your lionizing of THE SPECTRE OF UTTER POVERTY as an incentive for people taking responsibility for something in their life... I agree with you. That spectre does in fact incent quite a lot of people to take responsibility.

But the problem is, if you accept THE SPECTRE OF UTTER POVERTY into your incentive package, then you also incent INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY, where children are born into homes of people who, despite all those helpful incentives, just sucked at not being poor.

And the problem is INTERGENERATIONAL POVERTY is actually a horrible, horrible incentive when it comes to taking responsibility. Because those kids have very little resources and crime, even though it really pays off like a piddly little amount of money compared to a good job, if kids have like no resources even crime starts to make financial sense.

So you created this world where you have this super strong YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE, THERE IS NO NANNY STATE culture, then what really makes sense for that kid to do is say you know what, I am going to take matters into my own hands. I am responsible for my destiny. I am going to drive these kids over to this house and get a lot of money.

And that's what you incented. You incented people taking responsibility for taking care of their own.

Personally, I'd rather incent that kid to sit in an apartment and play Xbox after school until he's 18. And incent his mom to hang out and smoke as much weed as she wants and use food stamps to buy Frosted Flakes and stay the fuck out of trouble until he does turn 18.

As far as I know that kid could be fucking Elon Musk. For what? 12k218 = $432,000 of tax revenue?

You're saying his moral compass will be so eroded by the presence of his free apartment and lack of consequences for his slacker-ass mom that he will be unable to take responsibility for himself? I doubt it. He'll have plenty of other role models in his life besides his mom. Like Elon Musk and Prince or whoever.
it is important to remember this book smuggling as a symbol that even small nation can resist against huge empire like soviet union. every effort counts, and as a result, we in Lithuania still use our language.
I get really excited about this kind of thing.

At the same time, I'm amazed that we, developers of all people, still use mostly software from the 80's. At least conceptually, if not actual code.

I mean, our tools can be as awesome as we want them to be. An illustrator is at the mercy of others to improve his daily software. We're not.

And yet, we get all fired up when we are able to display thousands of colors, some pseudo GUI feature like menus or divisors by patching fonts or have text appear at the opposite end of the line simultaneously. Madness right? I know.

I'm as guilty as the next guy, my editor is Vim (on the terminal) and I spend ridiculous amounts of time tweaking tmux, bash/zsh and fetishizing over color schemes.

I can't help but feel that by now we should have an OpenGL rendered environment where something like SublimeText's minimap would be easy and Hollywood style interfaces possible, albeit excessive.
Undermining Open Source (by Adrianne Jeffries)
Another way to look at it is consider trees as "income producing assets", and the government pays so much per live tree per year.

Since the benefit of trees is a collective one, it makes sense for the government to tax people to pay the tree owners.
Like folks giving money to open source projects? You should apply for a Mozilla OSS award (https://wiki.mozilla.org/MOSS) -- deadline is July 31!
Replying to myself here. I followed up on footnote 31. Paper here:

"TOWARD ESTIMATING DISPLACED PRIMARY PRODUCTION FROM RECYCLING: A CASE STUDY OF U.S. ALUMINUM"

http://econ.ucsb.edu/~startz/Aluminum.pdf

Absolutely fascinating, and not surprisingly leads down the path to the law of unintended consequences:

"At this point, it would be natural to wonder, “If secondary production doesn’t fully displace primary production, where does the ‘extra’ material go?” ... The common assumption that recycled material displaces primary material of the same type is depicted in the left-most circles in Figure 4. However, two other outcomes are possible that result in partial displacement. ... First, as discussed in the introduction, secondary aluminum may displace production of materials other than primary aluminum. Recycled aluminum may, for instance, displace primary or secondary steel, copper, magnesium, or plastic."

"Second, increased aluminum recycling can also affect overall aluminum demand. For instance, it is possible that increased recycling can lower prices of both primary and secondary material, and thus increase demand for aluminum (similar to the energy efficiency ‘rebound effect’). Note that this market increase is independent of any exogenous growth that may occur simply as a result of global economic forces. Production and consumption data show that both aluminum recycling rates and the size of the aluminum market have been growing rapidly for the last 100 years; it is possible that some of this increase is a result of decreased material prices from increased recycling."

They conclude:

"While the environmental benefits of reuse and recycling come entirely from their potential to displace more impactful primary production processes, alarmingly little is known about actual rates of displacement. ... While this case study is just a first step towards a better understanding of displacement, it does suggest that we are currently systematically overestimating the environmental benefits of reuse and recycling. ... That the current environmental benefits are lower than we think they are does not mean we should stop recycling. Instead, it tells us that recycling currently does not fulfil its environmental potential, and recycling efforts should therefore focus on maximizing displacement rather than simply maximizing collection, reprocessing, and market development for secondary resources."
My thought exactly. The authors seem to have gotten it completely backwards.
Inmates offered reduced sentences for sterilization
This seems like an odd comparison, why can't you just travel those 2 hours once a week on the weekend to visit family?
Batchington Crunnerton

sounds like you found an actor
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"If someone in a low-cost area has a gross income of $30,000, and expenses of $25,000, then someone in a high-cost area with a gross income of $150,000 can take on expenses of $145,000 without being any worse off."

I disagree: $5,000 has a lot more buying power in the low income area than the high-cost area.
I was trying to be precise on what I meant and not using buzzwords or rebrand anything. It was being asked what was the value proposition and for many of us in the space the decentralized infrastructure and its implications is it. Often Ethereum is seen through a Bitcoin lenses in which contracts are just bells and whistles on top and that's not really what Ethereum is about.

Regarding the programming language, please note there is VM and Solidity is but one language (although by far the most popular currently) that compiles to bytecode for this VM. Much more restrictive/secure programming languages can be created for this VM and we'll likely see more work towards this as development continues, it's likely in the future developers will use different languages depending on the usecase they are trying to implement on the blockchain.
Also in regards to the code deployed (the contracts) they can be decentralized, but contrary to popular belief they can also be as centralized as one wants in order to be possible to an update if something goes wrong. However in either case the Infrastructure remains distributed and decentralized.

Regarding the other comments: "if you somehow manage to write it correctly, the DAO might reverse your code by hard forking" and "the only solution they have is to break every contract in the system except the one large enough to perform a 51% attack on the blockchain."

In one sentence it sounds like you're saying the DAO contract somehow reverses 3rd party correct code, and in the other that every contract gets broken (?) except one contract because it's large? and the contract (?) performs a 51% attack on the blockchain (?)

Honestly I don't understand those sentences which is why I didn't address them, I mean you no offense.
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I write pretty copious notes in Markdown and put them in gists. I usually share them with my team whenever I get questions. I just search them with the firefox bar by title/subject, since github formats the markdown when you view it.

I also make Anki clozure cards for key facts to try to keep the skeleton of it in memory. Helps quite a bit to keep some points in active memory. I do the reviews daily.
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It only takes one Genius thread to ruin everything.
It's rather abstract, but in many ways perhaps similar to paying a groundskeeper to take care of the landscaping, or a contractor to maintain a road. Especially if "strings" are later added to the payments, for example if your payment is modulated by an evaluation of the health of your forest.
Resource forests, if you want actual security boundaries. Domains aren't security boundaries.

Having said that, some good old fashioned network segmentation would be a "win", too. Default deny ACLs should be the norm, and hosts sshould only be able to communicate with hosts they actually need to, full stop. (The reactions I get from developers, however, are typically less than pleasant when they learn that environments I administer have such policies, however.)