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I feel like one of the ultimate goals of space travel is to find other life.

Dangerous assumption. That's like saying the purpose of science is to unify nature. If nature isn't unified, the goal won't make it so.

The most likely outcome is probably that we will become our own aliens. Once we send out colony ships, those people will form their own branches of the evolutionary tree. Over millennia, that will equal aliens. It doesn't really matter that they're our ancestors when they end up looking, talking, and acting completely alien.

This seems far more likely than running across other life in the local group. We're forever imprisoned to our local group, which is something like 0.001% of the observable universe. And for all we know, the total universe could be infinite. This requires strange assumptions, like running into your own doppelgangers, and infinite energy. But we can't know it's not true. And in such a circumstance, we have to face the unsettling half-empty truth that we're simply alone.
> I DON’T LIKE THAT YOU’RE GETTING POLITICAL. WHY DON’T YOU JUST STICK TO CARD GAMES?
Why don’t you stick to seeing how many Hot Wheels cars you can fit up your asshole?

This comment in the FAQ just made my day
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It only becomes remotely intelligible if you include these extra constraints:

- Assume all other houses in the area also appreciated the same amount as the poster's house (say 2x).

- Assume the poster will only consider a move within the same area.

Now if they want to make a "lateral" move, they are looking at $2m houses, not $1m houses, since all other houses they would consider - local to their area - also increased in value.

I feel like they should just get a $1m house (yes, a "downgrade") if that's the case and have fun with their near-$1m profits, but what do I know.
You’re not a beggar, though. You paid for the product! Honestly as long as they don’t break the current version, I’m fine with what I bought. I have 1Password now on MacOS, iOS, Android, Windows — and I guess I can get it on my Linux box now if I want to pay a subscription.
Tell that to Microsoft.
I have been using the product for a month now and I have been pleasantly surprised by the news sources I have found that have good quality news. I have also seen that one news sources doesn't always have the same quality across all their content so this product is helpful in evaluating that too. Definitely recommend it to anyone who wants to get multiple perspectives on an issue and care about understanding news.
You claimed that I was spreading FUD; rather than resort to ad hominem responses, please counter with facts. I'm happy to apologize if I am incorrect, but it appears that your information appears to be out of date:

Telemetry was previously only enabled by default in Nightly and Aurora:

https://blog.theochevalier.fr/telemetry-enabled-by-default-o...

The telemetry data includes a lot more than just update checks. You wouldn't need to send information to Mozilla to get an update or get CA revocation lists.

For example, from the privacy policy[1]:

Firefox features offered by Mozilla or our partners (such as *interaction with Firefox search features* and search partner referrals). [emphasis added]

Many of your comments are about Firefox, development with Rust, etc. I didn't mean to offend you if you are closely aligned with Mozilla. A healthy browser ecosystem (and especially the great new rendering engine from Mozilla) benefit us all.

1. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/
There's some good discussion of how it happened here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/7cwpbq/fearless_concu...

One of the biggest contributors is "custom derive," which cuts out a lot of boilerplate. Another is that Gecko C++ is also pretty old and so doesn't rely on a lot of what is now standard. It's also just a ground-up rewrite, which has the advantage of hindsight.

It's not a trick of moving code around.
Yeah, I saw that was an option, but installing Wine and all its dependencies (~750 MB of space) just to run a legacy Windows app is a non-starter, for obvious reasons.
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I haven't read the paper ($10), but, based on the press release, they seem to be making some very strange assumptions about how things would work out:

...began by estimating the impact of converting all land now used by the livestock industry to cropland for human food. That would increase the amount of agricultural waste—corn stalks, potato waste, and other inedibles now fed to livestock—and eliminate the animals that now eat much of it. Burning the excess waste would add some 2 million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, they estimate. Fertilizer demands would also go up while the supply of animal manure dwindled. That would mean making more artificial fertilizer, adding another 23 million tons of carbon emissions per year.

Converting all the land used by livestock into cropland for human food? That seems highly unlikely, just based on my (admittedly grade school level) understanding of ecology. I'd expect moving humans lower on the food chain to reduce the overall amount of plant matter it takes to sustain them. So Id' expect you could probably let all the pasture land reforest, and then convert a portion of the land used for feed crops to human food, and let the rest reforest as well.

Burning all the by-products also seems drastic. I'm going to assume that an expert in agriculture would have a good reason to not even mention composting. But even without that, and even if other uses couldn't be found, you could at least turn them into a net carbon sink by burying them in a nice anaerobic landfill. And even without that, the apparent that feeding that stuff to cattle makes the carbon somehow disappear is bizarre. The vast majority of that carbon will still end up in the atmosphere, via the animal's lungs.

Their estimate of net fertilizer demands seems like it has just got to be based on some careful selection of the boundaries of the system they're considering. I grew up in corn and soybean country, so, while I'm not a farmer myself, I am well aware that it takes more than just manure to sufficiently fertilize the nation's feed crops. The enormous reduction in artificial fertilizer demand from reduced need for those feed crops has to be included in the formula if you want to get some accurate figures.
> (...) but the branding absolutely sucks.

For one, the new domain name extension (.rip) is not really killing it. Not sure what they were thinking, but hey, that's branding.
This is the exact opposite of that. When you send free goods into an economy, you inhibit demand which in turn inhibits economic growth. When you send money into an economy, in increase demand and it will have the opposite effect.
In the US at least all the rates are marginal. The only "disincentive to work" is completely psychological and made up. If you make more money, you get more money. There is no financial scenario where you make $1 more and lose anything close to $1 in government benefits, tax credits, etc.

I was on unemployment for approximately 6 months in 2008 and every $100 I made only decreased my unemployment benefit by $15-20. Anyone who thinks they can't work because their benefits will go away has such a passing familiarity with their own actual finances UBI or NIT won't help them anyway.
Standalone user here since 1Password 2.0, using it both on iOS and OSX. I feel that it receives pretty frequent updates, and doesn't suffer from feature bloat. It even synchronizes great with Dropbox. What are people's gripes with AgileBits' support of the standalone version?
I clicked on “Games” at the bottom of the page and all I got was [this lousy webmap file](http://edition.cnn.com/EVENTS/1996/year.in.review/serverside...).
It's not just Sweden, it's almost everywhere (in the western world at least).

It's almost entirely down to the effects of unprecedented quantitative easing over the past decade or so.

When you print more money than you've ever printed before, it's only natural that the prices of things will rise as more people can afford to buy things. And even if more people can't afford to buy things, the money goes somewhere so it probably means the rich people get richer. And they'll go out and buy things they know poorer people will always need i.e. property.

It all works well until property gets so expensive that the only people that can afford to buy it are other wealthy people. Eventually someone gets forced in to selling at a loss and the whole house of cards collapses as the wealthy who can afford to buy more property sit on the sidelines and wait / hope for a catastrophic collapse.

Rinse, wash, repeat and yet we still question why the rich get richer... the only way to prevent property getting out of control is by regulating it so that it remains affordable and that speculators are discouraged from entering the market and encouraged to sell. But that won't happen either because most politicians own large amounts of property and they've a vested interest in seeing the price of property rise...
From the context, I'd surmise it's the latter.
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The difference is that those cables only carry low voltage DC. To get line voltage AC on them you'd need a short inside the power brick bridging from one side of the rectifier to the other.

Apple is very careful to isolate those two sides. Knockoff chargers, not so much. See this teardown comparing a genuine Macbook charger with a counterfeit version:

http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-te...

High voltage and low voltage should be separated by a safety gap of at least 4mm (to simplify the UL's creepage and clearance rules). On the circuit board below, the high voltage input section is at the bottom and the low voltage output section is at the top. On the right half of the board, the two sections are separated by a large gap, which is good. On the left, there should be a gap (bridged by the optoisolator). Unfortunately, traces and components pass through this area making the gap dangerously small, under 1 mm. Any moisture or loose solder could bridge this gap sending high voltage to the output.
Nothing will happen. They will say sorry and provide you a credit and tell you not to use the device...like they do now.
I think this general idea, popular though it is, is troubling. At 17 years old, what kid knows what their life passion will be? How can they have a life passion without much life experience or knowledge? Why do we expect people to work a "whole lifetime" doing stuff they don't really want to do?

I think encouraging young people to learn marketable, in demand skills, in order to get a good paying job is solid advice. I wish this advice were coupled with encouraging some frugality, which would free most people up to do what they really want to do, without much concern for finances, by the time they're 30.
It only takes 100 or 200 mA to kill. This is probably not enough current to melt or break any conductors, the chargers are typically designed to deliver 1,000 mA or more. Off-brand chargers are known electrocution hazards and this is not the first case of injury, not even remotely.

Remember that heating follows P = I^2 R law, so it is entirely reasonable that the conductors wouldn't melt before the attached person dies. Current across the heart is not the only way to die from electricity, but it's not really that hard to accidentally get current across the heart anyway. For example, if your arm touches the energized phone case and your leg brushes against a metal pipe in the house, that could easily complete a lethal circuit.
While Atom's Teletype works today. VSC Live Share is still unreleased "vamporware" (a term coined by MSFT). The ripping of Atom, rebranding it as VSC and doing a press release for such vital new feature is I guess pure coincidence, and not a typical tactic they are known for, right?

Edit:

> That's just patently false.

Curious, how can it be patently false when "Visual Studio Code is based on technology from Github’s Atom editor".

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/04/30/microsofts-cross-plat...
Linux is a major platform? It’s probably as hard to write a Linux version as it is to write the other two, but it has at least two orders of magnitude fewer users.
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> I'm a patient person and beggars can't be choosers.

Is it begging when you pay $50 per license for the product?
Collective honor is alive and well in the West. If you have doubts, look at the United States' overreaction to 9/11.
No idea why this is being downvoted. It's plain as day.
The cable probably was carrying mains voltage. Most of the cheap third-party chargers have very poor clearances inside, and tend to skimp on protection. It's not that rare for them to end up with a 5V DC atop a 120/240V AC mains. The phone will often still charge just fine, but the cable is dangerous.

Also, depending on the resistance as little as 10mA can be dangerous. That would mostly be wet or abraded skin, 100mA is a more general value for dangerous currents. But USB can charge at 500mA to 4A or so, depending on the version. It's only the low voltage and high resistance of skin that limits the current.
Am I the only one in here who loves their hosted solutions? We use Teams at work and I use Family for my wife and I.

It's important to me that I have access to certain passwords on my desktop, laptop and phone. These items also need to be accessible to others who should be able to view/edit. There's no way to do with without some sort of cloud solution and so the decision becomes which cloud solution. I used to use Dropbox, but now have no need with Team/Family.

With teams, when a staff member leaves, we can easily remove them from the admin panel, update all passwords in all vaults they had access to and have those changes immediately available to everyone.

A lot of responses here sound incredibly paranoid and almost naive. If you're not syncing passwords between devices/users and you're not putting your information into the cloud then I would argue at some point you may be performing insecure actions to accommodate secrets use/management.

For example, how are you logging in on your phone to a service that requires a user name and password when the password lives only in a standalone system on your desktop? If you're not manually entering the password, you're likely doing something security-wise that isn't ideal.
There are already lots of people who voluntarily want to demolish the house they own to build apartments; why not allow them to do so first, before we start talking about making people do it against their will?
Congrats, and good luck. I'm personally against the idea of UBI because I don't believe it works at a large scale because all it will do is create inflation, but I'm genuinely curious to see me proven wrong. That's the whole point of experimentation, so I fully support this.
Except that we know for a fact that the Greeks themselves preserved, and translated these sources. As part of the active trade, and religious ties with the West.
I reckon we'll master terraforming worlds here in our solar system by the time practical (or impractical) interstellar travel becomes a thing. We can get to Mars, Venus, Titan, etc. Will it ever be possible to get to another star system in a useful amount of time? Terraforming Venus would be sweet; as soon as you do it, I'll come visit!
People see progress happening on something they don’t use (because standalone is basically feature-complete) and just want to gripe. I’ve been a stand-alone user for literally as long as I can remember and have never had a single issue with 1P.
What seems to matter more is that there has been a productive deployment of capital that gives you a reason to buy a new product, and that you have discretionary income after housing cost and other fixed costs are paid.

High housing costs are an incredibly unproductive use of capital unless it leads to building new supply and is therefore effectively a temporary incentive for developers to build more. Landlords on the other hand want there to be an undersupply, and don’t fully align with developer interests.

Prices for consumer goods have decreased for quite a while and people still buy.

And even when computers were improving significantly every year and prices went down people on average still increased their buying of new computers.
A kid got electrocuted trying to charge his phone at a cybercafe in China. There was a good discussion about what circumstances would be necessary for this to happen:

https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeopledie/comments/7aywfl/teen...
Make it a dollar a year, then. Or a cent a year. The point was to install and test the required infrastructure (identity check, payment method and so on...) and then increase the amount.
please counter with facts

I already did. Much of the stuff you mentioned has always been enabled and had nothing to do with telemetry. This is most obvious with the update checks. And yes, you DO need to send information to know which add-ons to update. Probing every installed add-on to see if there's an update amounts to sending over the list of installed add-ons. Let's be forthright about that.

I quoted an article from one of the Telemetry engineers explaining that now LESS data is collected by default.

I think that's a good enough rebuttal to your claim that there has been a change of direction to collect more.
>>> Same with why we tortured. It counterbalances their vulnerability to secrets.

If you study history and interrogation techniques you quickly realize that torture has nothing to do with information. It doesn't work that way. The 24 situation of a terrorist with a secret code in his head that will prevent a nuke going off is so circumscribed that if you think you are entering that situation you should assume that you are mistaken. Torture is about confession. It's about getting someone to say something that you want him to say regardless of whether it is true or not. That's the difference between actual intelligence and "actionable intelligence", the actionable stuff need not be true. If it is enough to justify a warrant or a raid accuracy doesn't matter. This is also why torture is so closely linked to religion. Only a puritan need torture out a confession. It's far easier to forge a signature.

Go through the history. Be it the English rack or American Gitmo, they didn't care about accurate information. What they wanted and got was signatures on documents written almost entirely by the interrogators. (I'll leave aside the other use of torture, as simple punishment, because that's a totally different debate.)
I really don't think so. Sure, the thing about options and vesting becomes a win. But, in order to realize that win, you have to join an early, early stage startup, and slog through it for a number of years, hoping it succeeds. All the while, your early stage startup is either not offering insurance, or they're just getting started with it, which means that month to month you're having a loss.
What's wrong with Typescript? Also, why does it matter to you? Genuinely curious.
What is more costly is allowing that behavior to become tolerated and normal, affect employees' morale, ruin the culture, affect the company's reputation, etc. It can also get the company sued.

Take a look at EEO laws.

You also seem to be forgetting the fact that people don't have to insult or antagonize each other in order to be successful. If anything that is neurotic behavior that is negatively correlated with career success.
Most companies have forgot the power of training. Hiring a junior dev to shadow a mid-level or a senior engineer trumps, almost all the time, the trouble of finding the unicorn candidate.

Companies want to hire a silver bullet and forget all about the perfectly capable people that don't have "15 years of Java/C#/Python/whatever experience".
The shoes don't have to come from Bomet County. Nor does the food, or the electricity, or much of anything else.

The poverty rate is just under 50%, per Wikipedia at least. If all the money is coming from the county (presumably it is), then it's going to be coming from the other 50%, and at a rate higher than neighboring (non-UBI) counties.

It will be in the rational self-interest of that non-impoverished 50% to leave. Labor will be more expensive as fewer people want to do less-desirable work due to no strong need. I don't know how freely workers can move between counties, but obviously I imagine some people in neighboring counties will want to move in for the free paycheck.

Over time, you've chased out the productive people and bolstered the less productive ones, and you're drawing from a smaller and smaller pool to pay for a larger and larger group of people.

I've always felt like UBI is unsustainable, but at least worth debating. I haven't yet seen even proposed what should be done if UBI fails this way, though.
If you have to do this to see the different then the differences are minimal enough not to matter to the average user.
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Landscapes grazed by human protected food animals are not much more "natural" than farmed landscapes. The grazing density of cattle, sheep, and goats is much higher than natural grazers and alters the ecosystems dramatically. This is mostly due to the lack of predators, which would cause the herds to move more often and have lower density. Wilderness landscapes can also have this problem when apex predators are removed and grazers eat and breed in peace. See Yellowstone and the reintroduction of the wolf.
Apple's iCloud Keychain would qualify as a larger player.
Why would the charger cable melt? Is this your intuitive guess here, or are you basing this on your understanding of electrical engineering?

It takes 100 to 200 mA to kill someone. A typical charger would put out 1,000 mA in normal operation. Heating follows P = I^2 R law, so it should be obvious that you can kill someone without melting your USB cable. The problem here is with putting a high voltage through the USB cable, which might damage the cable since it's not designed for such a high voltage, but even the small amount of insulation in a USB cable can be enough that the attached person will die before the cable fails.
For those who are unfamiliar with the project, here are a few small photos of the custom-designed workstation based on an AMD bit-slice processor that the Oberon System ran on originally.

http://www.ethistory.ethz.ch/rueckblicke/departemente/dinfk/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceres_(workstation)

Along with its predecessor Lilith, for running a Modula-2 system.

There was even a Russian clone of the Lilith called Kronos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronos_(computer)

Along with Plan 9, I see this project as a starting point for a deep dive into a world of alternative computing platforms.

(edited for spelling, bit-slice)
The original comment is 1-indexed, though.
It's a major platform amongst hackers, no? That's the core audience here.
Yup. In my guess, UBI is more overhead to run since there are literally more line items on people's tax documents (there's the UBI as well as the progressive tax that is used to pay for it).

But UBI's have the perceived simplicity of "I always get this", which might help encourage more people to pay in, even though the higher earners are losing money.
Obviously broken code generation, in the sense that the code provably does not behave as it should under the spec. Usually as a result of optimization gone wrong.

If you're asking for actual examples - sorry, you're out of luck. The 80's and 90's are a bit too long ago for me to remember details.

If you prefer to believe in the magically flawless compiler fairy, knock yourself out.
To be clear the demand is the same — the price is the issue. UBI and inflation may well be tied tightly together.