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"Eat less meat" is not a good solution since industrialized monocrop agriculture has tons of problems on its own like topsoil erosion and air/water pollution. The problem doesn't lie in any one single food, but in commercial food production in general, be it livestock or agricultural. If you want to help against that, the best option would be to support sustainably raised meat and vegetables from local farms by going to farmers markets or eating out at farm-to-table restaurants. If possible, plant your own vegetables, raise your own chickens or hunt. Avoid buying from the big food producers, like Kraft, Tyson, PepsiCo or ConAgra
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indeed. it seems the reddit-style comments so quickly flagged in other threads are the norm thus far in this thread.
I hope you're right, but I think it's a mistake to think that religion has been the cause rather than the excuse (or justification if I'm being nicer) for actions that were going to happen regardless. Conflicts will still exist, progress will still be impeded, we'll just come up with new reasons to tell ourselves it's okay.
So offer a bonus. Don't make them gamble for it.
Yeah, that's statistically significant according to kissmetrics: https://www.kissmetrics.com/growth-tools/ab-significance-tes...
Even Apple lately seems to be apologizing for bundling so many things into iTunes.

At a Microsoft event this year Apple said they plan to have a more streamlined iTunes in the Windows Store late this year/early next year (to target Windows 10 S users especially), and surely that is a fascinating sign of the times if ever there was one.
Atheism is not an ideology any more than your lack of belief in invisible pink unicorns is. It is the simple absence of belief.

Some atheists do have ideologies that are related to their atheism, many others do not.
If you don't sweat playing it, it ain't a sport.
Considering that the human psyche evolved with a religious component, I wonder if that is a good thing.
Give one example of a communist country that didn't turn totalitarian. Capitalism doesn't imply democracy, but capitalist dictatorships do tend to gravitate in that direction, e.g. Chile.
Their PCI-Express bus hack is amazing.
I wonder what kinds of communities will replace religious communities.

I worry that people may tie their identities to political tribes more and more.

What communities provide a healthy sense of identity and belonging that are not religious or political?
Some of the greatest sportspeople of our generation are not golfers.
Did you also flag the response?
I penny that my kids and I flattened in a machine in a general store in YellowStone Park in the 90s. If my house was on fire that's what I'd go back in to get...
Jesus, I read that and realized no one there understands how forest succession works. You can't go from nothing to giant trees, there's a whole host of stages in between.
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What if, they are paying for something already, and you build a more advanced one? That is to say, it does something the others don't that makes it a little better and easier.
Canada has already made a free trade deal with the EU called CETA, all the more reason to play hard ball with the US during the new NAFTA negotiations.

https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://w...
Religion is dying, but spirituality is growing.

I think the interesting part comes from our (and i say our, as in, the HN demographic) tendencies to hold strict beliefs based only on (and limited by) our own perceptions.

The thing is, it comes at you when it comes at you, and you cant tell someone else why they should believe in something they cant see, feel, experiment with or experience.

I was an atheist, almost militant atheist, for most of my life... then my wife became spiritual, started doing tarot and stuff like that, doing reiki (energy healing) etc, and i was open to it, but didn't really buy into it. Then she started having mediumship abilities... and then I felt totally like it was kinda a crock... but then something ridiculous happened.

My father died before I was born, a few months before... She has supposedly been in contact with him, and i liked that as a form of comfort, but again, im a skeptic. Then she described a scene... she described the interior of a car, sitting in a field, with my mom in the passenger seat, from the view of the drivers seat. The car, after she described it to me, was an impala, and she got that it was a 62 model year... and said it was dark gray with one wheel white and the others black... and it was in a field of yellow and purple flowers, and my mom had a red shirt on and jeans... Ive never heard this story, i couldnt have possibly told her any of it, she doesnt speak to my mother, so she couldnt have gotten it from there... but i asked my mom, if they had an impala at one time, and he response was "yeah, it was a dark gray 62 impala with red interior" ... and i asked about the field, and she knew exactly where it was, and even the mis-matched tire... so, to me, I believe now, that there is more than we realize. Be it supernatural, be it a bug in the programming of a simulation we live in, be it just a natural form of energy we dont understand or cant perecieve... but there is something more...

But i dont tell you that story to convince you, or to justify my own beliefs (i have no need to justify them), but to show you that, until something happens to you that pulls your perspective, your personal perspective, so far out of line with your current beliefs, you will never believe, and you will be certain even... and thats the problem with spirituality or religion... you have to come to it yourself, which is near impossible to do, when the religions themselves are constantly trying to force people to believe...
No, it's a complete lack of hair.

Nudity is not a set of clothing.
Masters from UW-Madison here. Got it in 1987. Back then, I did pay tuition but it was super cheap, like $2400/year. The TA pay (I taught the intro to programming class) was about $16K/year for 2 semesters of teaching. It was just enough to live on.

I've got a kid going into math who wants a PhD. I'd love to see what that looks like for him at various good universities (maybe it's lower in the comments).
Well yes, clearly. That's why I used past tense rather than saying "still uses" and why I didn't mention NT nor CE (I also didn't mention Microsoft BASIC nor Xenix - just so you know they didn't use DOS as a bootloader either :P). I figured the context was obvious given the audience of HN, but clearly not.

Anyhow, my point was just to reinforce the GP's point that it's ok to think about DOS as a bootloader because Microsoft have done exactly this themselves.
Optimism!

When will social progress stop though, when is it complete? There are perhaps a lot of things wrong in the world but it's not clear to me that people can any longer fall back onto blaming various institutions (for opression ... etc.). Yet agitation seems to be increasing, despite the lack of institutional barriers. Indeed it seems to have moved on to targeting social demographics for 'progress' (the white male).

Progressives started off by dismantling the social engineering and traditions of the religious institutions, but that is largely complete. All that remains is to start their own social engineering project.
> Almost all religions make demands on the actions of their adherents

This is a feature, not a bug? Otherwise what's the point?
In an atheistic culture, "social progress" is just a moniker for an increase of liberalistic nihilism and hedonism.

Modern western society has so much to thank Christianity for, it's a real shame if it ends up going this way.
That's really weird. I haven't used nftables, but I'm planning to do so the next time I upgrade my router. https://stosb.com/blog/explaining-my-configs-nftables/ makes it look nearly as pretty as pf. Is there something under the hood that's awful?
Kind of sounds like something that Perl might handle well.

http://search.cpan.org/search?query=csv&mode=all

I've done a bit of work with some of these modules. If you still need some help feel free to contact me...
I am sure you can have hair and still be considered bald.
Value to whom? The site loads faster (so people like it slightly better), it's easier to maintain (less files to serve and keep track of), all for the cost of something the site owners didn't pay for in the first place.
also "Some | None" is a common functional programming idiom.
Certainly the parents are completely blameless.
Agnostic is not an ideology, not caring whether there is a god or not is not an ideology.

Certainty of non-existence of God is Ideology.
At least one of the big hosters even lets you have VMs for free for a couple of days (you get your money back if you cancel). That's more than enough time for an automated process to check out tons of VMs (to add to your botnet) for free.
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While the premises may have been superstitious craziness, the Christian Church in the West developed an astonishingly successful and huge range of social institutions. I believe this infrastructure has been a huge driver of our political and economic dominance in the last 500 years. Even the science that is overthrowing religious superstition would not have been possible without Church supported universities and general education.

Also, as a social service bureaucrat, my job would have been within a religious organization until 1875 or so. And probably better executed than under modern "scientific" paradigms.

I just hope we throw out the baby but keep the bathwater...
Indeed, I learned in school that it was short for "cat URL", since it functions like the standard `cat` command but takes a URL instead of a file or pipe.

Just goes to show that we are very good at coming up with incorrect justifications for things.
How come this story seems to have suddenly dropped off the first 3 pages of HN?
No, it is not that simple. "We just couldn't add more data while doing so" is, by itself, a deal-breaker.
You're assuming targeted hacking. I'm not - lots of people hunt for machines to add to their botnets.
What is the difference between that and me gambling away my salary? It's not like I will get welfare because I gambled away all my money.
Having worked in defense, I generally had stricter rules around phones than around website access. That is really a bit surprising to me.

I guess contractors are all over the map in how they try to make sure to comply with the "rules", though.
> why is metric the standard in scientific practice?

It is merely a historic artifact that became a tradition. With the advent of computers it has lost its objective significance as a "preferred system".

(BTW I find all these "kilo-nano" prefixes to be rather ugly...)
Since you're arguing with definitions, I feel it worthwhile to point out that these definitions do not necessarily contradict each other. Note the use of the word "especially".
Can you actually post the size of the CSVs? Are we talking 1-2GB, 10GB, 100GB, 1TB?

sqlite might actually work fairly well.
I feel conflicted about this.

On one hand, religion is a large source of conflict around the world. Its restrictive norms make life uncomfortable for those who don't align to them.

On the other hand, religion codifies how to live a good life, and people with the same religion often share the same values and beliefs, making inter-community cooperation much easier.

I don't think it's a coincidence that at the same time our country loses its religion, it also loses its sense of community. I think both stem from our changing culture that has no real norms besides "think about yourself, give yourself a good life, and let other people figure out how to do that on their own." It's a shame, in a way.
Today's Non-affiliation is history's Deist.

Affiliation has very little impact on America's general religious behavior or culture. People that just affiliated but only went to church maybe once a year moved to more comfortable to say non-religious?

Church attendance for Protestant Churches is at an all time high. Protestant political power is at an all time high in America.

Trumpism has made the Protestant church morally bankrupt but that hasn't nor will it change the next generation of intrinsically religious people.

This plays into the Protestant/Evangelical narrative of being persecuted and dying breed. They love saying negative its the end of God in America in 20 years since the 70s. Even int he midst of the greatest religious explosion in American History. Just look up George Barna, that guy is a millionaire for twisting the statistics to make religion look like it is dying his whole life. He is the lied a ton and people still listen to him because they love gloom and doom.
He said government site, not government employee. Contractors are sometimes paid very well.
I think that's not completely accurate. In physics and math and probably other hard science disciplines, yeah, you are correct, a masters means "thanks but you're not gonna make it to a PhD".

I have a masters in Computer Science from UW-Madison and I had nothing to do with the PhD track. I just wanted more learning and the CS department was happy to provide it. There was no stigma associated with a masters degree there and it's definitely helped me in my career.
As long as the performance of this new engine isn’t jitty.
See my other reply too, but let me ask : would you call Steve Ballmer bald or not?
It appears a simple solution of allowing hunting to occur would solve the problem. Why is hunting restricted?
Does religion cause the evils of human nature, or is religion merely a means of expression for the evils of human nature?

I see people glad that religion is decreasing, but is there evidence that the evils of human nature are decreasing, or are they merely taking different forms?
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Ah. So, who on Iceland cultivates chaga mushrooms? What ongoing efforts might they have that overlap with the birch foresters? (connecting the dots)
If anything the PS4 is a downgrade from the PS3 here. The PS3 ran everything in a hypervisor.
I hope I'm just being pedantic rather than moving goalposts, I'm all for better assurances. To me the only compiler "not letting the code compile if there is any chance it might crash" is either magical or never compiles a thing.
I suspect it was not age, but more about the desire to mold fresh college grads who never worked anywhere else before. It is easier to get employees to work long hours and adhere to their culture, if they don't know what to compare it to.
I was there in August and found it beautiful. De gustibus non disputandum est.
Quoting a dictionary in an argument is not just bad form but completely incorrect. An English dictionary is not an authoritative source for the meaning of words -- it's a record of the usage of words by English speakers and authors. It is a tool that helps a reader survey the possible meanings of the speaker or author. It does not define the meaning of a text.

You would do well to argue against the authors ideas rather than their words.
can we not say anything about the ones that ruin people’s lives? or is that too unkind? sorry for being unkind to people who abandon their gay kids.
Buried because it is off topic for Hacker News and causes drama.
I welcome the general trend behind this, but I think that we are also losing something valuable with the general de-religioning of the US.

I often volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, and I find that the (majority religious) people there are kind, generous, and overall awesome people. I ascribe a lot of this to their religious convictions. It's also possible though that I'm getting a selection bias of the kindest Christians who are the type that not only go to church but go volunteer with Habitat because the church is doing it- but I do think that the church is a positive influence on them and the community.

I also think that there are relatively few institutions that promote virtuous, pro-social behavior with the effective and long-term viewpoint that a church can. I wish that there were more community organizations starting up that acted in a similar capacity to churches, to come fill in their shoes. Less focus on shaming outgroups and more focus on personal development and community.
Seems a bit convenient to his point of view. Western democracy is much more strongly associated with Greek city-states like Athens and the ancient Greek leagues than Judeo-Christian theology.
2.2 causes us the least pain.
Disagree - I suffered crippling social anxiety and paranoia as a teenager. I was a lonely and isolated child. First time I tried MDMA in a social setting was like stepping into another body where strangers weren't all laughing at me/talking about me behind my back. I was able to effortlessly start conversations with random people and was surprised at the positive response.

That one night was a huge, huge catalyst in overcoming my social anxiety and I can't overstate how long-lasting, life changing and valuable the experience was for me.

MDMA is an extremely powerful substance and I'm excited to see it being taken seriously for therapy.
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Who cares about the ergonomics? It's a _laptop_ -- those always have terrible ergonomics, which is why you should carry a (small) keyboard and (small travel) mouse. Put the laptop on a table and the keyboard on your lap -- that way you won't hurt your neck as much as if you put the laptop on your lap, nor your arms/hands as much as if you put the laptop on a table but don't use an external keyboard.
> until something happens to you that pulls your perspective, your personal perspective, so far out of line with your current beliefs, you will never believe

I would argue that these are the circumstances under which it is most important to push back against claims that are manifestly, self-evidently false according to basic empirical criteria.
Unlike Digiorno.

In all seriousness though Atheism is still a belief system. It makes an assertion without the necessary evidence to fully back it up (which is both true and weirdly ridiculous). On the other hand Agnosticism is in itself removed from a specific belief system. It is an epistemological doctrine of sorts with both religious and non-religious applications.

I find that most people use the word atheism completely wrong and accidentally get caught in stupid semantic debates they themselves are responsible for falling into. If you believe their is no god, then your making some pretty wild jumps.

If you don't think we have sufficient evidence to disprove a God, but would totally bet it all that there isn't, then you should just say your agnostic and explain how that applies if necessary.
Yes that works very well for x86 (of the intel variety) and for GPUS of the Nvidia variety. For other options there isnt much available. Also if you are developing client side software you notice that most popular CPU sku's for consumers dont show up in any cloud, so it is hard to reason about performance without having access to them. As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, would be great if someone built a service where one could rent a box with any cpu ever sold in the last 10 years (same with GPUS).
The ski lodge and state college operate with a monopoly, once youre there you have no other choice of coco vendors. Cash flow has nothing to do with monopoly pricing.
none currently, but we need them desperately.
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Did this thread get flagged? Seems premature.
We are tribal animals, "religion" in America will just be replaced by online made-to-order belief systems, Trumpism, anti-Trumpism, etc. At least religions have some time-tested roots.
I have the same feeling. When I analyse it closer, it looks like everything - religion, ideology, technology - can bring about wonderful things but also cause enormous harm. T pick one of these and say the fault is in it would be a great injustice. Religion is truly powerful - it can be of enormous help in difficult moments, it can give courage to those who work hard to make others' lives better - but in a distorted form it's a preposterous monster eating human lives. Is it the fault of religion (or of ideology, or technology)? No, it's the human nature, or the nature of certain humans to distort everything, to abuse great ideas, to get maximum personal gain without respect for others - this is the real cause things go wrong. It's enough to look at the forces ruling the world today to understand this.
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This is totally bizarre. It must be a joke, right?
It better smell like rocket fuel in the morning.
Ask HN: Is it good time to buy ETH/BTC or am I too late?
I researched a lot about ETH and I'm planning to buy it.

But is it good time to go for Crypto especially ETH?
Do you have the Learners Syndrome?
Yeah I wonder if they'd be willing to negotiate since this is a little different from the usual 99¢ app or whatnot. Sounds like a good service. No ads on faxes/covers, straight pricing, on demand without a subscription... All I'd need.
First OpenBSD and then this, Canada is like the promised land for security minded people!
Irish used Pounds (Punt in Irish language) before and use the Euro now but they still refer to units of money as 'quid' over there
It's worth mentioning that Python refers to null as None.
> But everyone wants to live on an island of asphalt with a sterile, depression patch of grass in front, at least three miles away from the nearest place to buy a cup of coffee (a disposable cup, natch).

... I love how the cliche environmentalists worldview is to reduce these problems to entirely the result personal choice. As if consumers chose petroleum as the most efficient and widespread fuel in the earth's crust, and the combustion engine, then decided they wanted highways and suburbs, etc. Instead of thousands of small choices over a century (or more) based on circumstance, central planning, present needs, etc - things largely out of their control. Combined with other biological human flaws like short term thinking and favouring political populism and emotion when voting/buying.

Not to mention, the widespread adoption of suburbs was not a product of market capitalism or consumerism... it was the result of government zoning and regulatory policy:

https://www.amazon.com/Zoned-Out-Regulation-Transportation-M...

You may be convinced and have deep knowledge of the subject but it's far from common knowledge. Understanding of climate issues is very low and it's not entirely the result of ignorance or malice or compromise because someone loves having a big lawn.

I tried to educate myself on the subject, I love to read, but even I found it difficult to find good books on the subject, specifically books that were balanced and scientific instead of sounding like the ravings of an ideologue.

I've asked on HN for book recommendations on climate change multiple times and each time I've been pointed to websites with dry 150 page reports by non-profit organizations. It's far from easy to know better.
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Products that are clones of other successful products. Which is tens of millions of products. There aren't many industries with single vendors. I think the definition perfectly captures how most people think about innovation.