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You read that entire article and this is what you took away?

The situation is far more complex than that. Japan is facing a very real crisis, and the causes are not limited to its adoption of capitalism following WWII.
Right; I'm of a similar opinion on that part. Philosophers have always thought we needed a philosopher king; military types want a General for president; businesspeople want a merchant king. Conversely, team leads think everybody on the team should know what they do.

We need a leader that can lead. Can enable the team to progress. Without asking them all to understand the details of the goals (business plan; budget negotiations etc).
Ooh, that's interesting. Commodities trading makes use of contract specifications which can include the physical location of delivery [1] - futures for delivery of aluminium to Singapore can be a different price to those for delivery to New Orleans. Perhaps the contract specifications for space commodities will name, not particular places, or even orbits, but delta-V zones. So, the asteroids and the earth-moon L2 point might be in the same band, because it doesn't take much energy to move between them, but the surface of the moon and low earth orbit would be different, because, despite having similar delta-Vs when coming from the asteroids, they are expensive to move between - at least, according to the map [2].

[1] https://www.lme.com/Metals/Non-ferrous/Aluminium-Premiums

[2] https://i.imgur.com/WGOy3qT.png
This might seem a stupid comment, and it probably is, but looking at the most difficult languages list at the bottom (Arabic,Chinese,Japanese,Korean) the first thought that came to mind by looking at the pattern was "the US (largest English speaking country) have been at war with countries speaking two of these languages, might be at war soon with a country speaking another one and surely are not best friends with the country speaking the remaining one".

This could be pure correlation without any cause-effect, but I still wonder how easy would be for any country to go to war with another one when most citizens of both countries spend years communicating each other. The usual propaganda which depicts others as demons in order to fuel hatred and "sell" the war to the public would be a lot more difficult.
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And RStudio is an incredible IDE that can help ease that transition.

My boss is an incredibly smart guy, but he worked in consulting for 15+ years and sometimes cannot view data from outside of an Excel perspective. It can be frustrating to have him think that every problem is a vlookup and pivot table from being solved. I think it's easy to become a bit myopic with Excel. It's like if the only tool you have is a hammer, then every problem looks like a nail.
Bricklink.com is your friend in that department.
That's surely half of it. The other half is culture, correlated with language if not directly influenced by it.
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That would be a cruel joke, given that bitcoin is essential to very few people.
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"We are all still living on 30 year old package management systems and we need a modern approach.... Trying Nix it is just impractical, but I liked the idea."

There's a causal connection between those two things....
That’s a terrible reason.

Add : bringing in a fully autonomous individual motivated by the hope+belief+expectation that they will be there when you grow old?

Small chance, considering that the human trait which they need to be subscribed to is empathy, self-lessness and family.

A lot of which will be learnt from their own parents. Namely you.
The live example is broken right now
Containers are orthogonal to what the parent poster was talking about. Reproduceable builds are a build system problem, not a package distribution or package interoperability problem.

Even with containers, being able to reproducibly rebuild the containerized application from its sources if desired is still a challenge.
Not surprising when half the shit people fund was dog shit to begin with. Half of the time I read about start ups with the most trivial ideas ever and wonder how dumb and blind people are to throw millions at them
I disagree. There is no predetermined purpose to our existence. We are biologically predispositioned towards propagation of the species, but that's only because such a thing is self-reinforcing.
What the article does not really go into is how designers iterate on game ideas introduced by previous games, taking the parts that were interesting, and changing the rules that are detrimental to the enjoyment of the game.

Take Werewolves, for example[0]. This is a classic roleplaying game, considered one of the originators of the "social deduction" genre. It pits villagers against werewolves hiding among them, where either all villagers end up eaten by the remaining werewolves, or all werewolves are lynched by the remaining villagers. See link for a full description, but the important bit here is that:

- the villagers can only win by determining who the werewolves are, but there are no in-game reasons to suspect anyone of being a werewolf; it is 100% based on roleplaying.

- the game is played out through a process of elimination, removing two players per turn (one suspected werewolf, one werewolf snack). If the group is ten people, that means some people will be watching from the sidelines most of the time.

Both of these issues can be big hurdles to enjoying the game.

Resistance is a "second generation" social deduction game, which removed player elimination[1]. Players are resistance fighters trying to topple an oppressive regime, with a few double agents among them trying to sabotage their efforts. Each turn, players decide together which two or three members will go on missions. If the saboteurs bluff themselves into being sent, they must try to sabotage the mission while deflecting suspicions that it is because of their doing. Meanwhile, the resistance has to figure out who the saboteurs are, to avoid sending them on missions. Which side wins depends on how many missions succeed or fail.

More recently, the lack of in-game discussion starters was solved in Deception: Murder in Hong Kong, where players are investigators trying to solve an ongoing murder case, and one or two of them are secretly the murderer(s)[2]. It adds a clue system that is a bit hard to explain here, but in practice immediately provokes discussion while still maintaining the social deduction aspect[3].

So over two "generations" of game design, two major flaws were eliminated from an otherwise very innovative game genre. And this kind of stuff happens everywhere: all kinds of new, innovative mechanics to solve specific problems are shared and remixed.

[0] https://www.werewolves.com/werewolf-game/

[1] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41114/resistance

[2] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/156129/deception-murder-...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDWvHrt6kG0
Perl 6 feels like what happens when your answer to all bike-shedding questions is "both!" and your answer to the follow-up question "how will we tell them apart?" is "we'll add a secret codeword."

Still, I have to love the fun some Perl coders feel in their language.
I was asked to complete a screening test on CoderPad earlier this year and got rejected because, from what I could tell, my edits didn't sync with their backend for some reason. Of course I couldn't prove it so I can't blame the company. It sucks because I came up with what I thought was a pretty good solution to the problem. Make a copy and attach it in a notification email to your interviewer!

Anyway, just one more reason to be weary of these types of tools.
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Most big internet wins started as little ideas. Its about the market and timing? More than how shiny the idea is. If there's a customer for it, then it can make money.
Bad analogy with the quadcopter, plug a few cheap parts together and load the open source flight controller software and you are ready to fly. Much harder to build/compile a phone atm, I haven't even seen where this is possible without an inordinate amount of time and expertise.
Find it amazing that people send their money to smart contracts that not even reveal their source code like it is stated for Genaro or Coinlancer.
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His opinion, plus 4 billion years of evolution.
> The amount of farming land destroyed for plants is far worse than grazing land however.

What do you mean by "destroyed" and "grazing land"?

The only way I can understand your comment to make sense is to assume that you believe corn, soy, and wheat fields to be destroyed by farming activities, but grazing land to not be destroyed.

It's true that crop fields are often devoid of ecological diversity, require significant artificial fertilization and watering, and do contribute to topsoil loss. And some cows graze on huge ranches with little human management, walking through federal land in the open West among the sagebrush, evoking images of ancient herds of buffalo and a pristine ecological paradise: simply replace the buffalo with beef cattle, and skim a little off the top of that ecological system, rather than plowing it all under and growing row crops, right? Wrong.

In reality, the vast majority of cows are, if not raised entirely, finished on feed lots: Small plots of mud and dust that cannot support a tenth of the plant life which would be required to grow the cattle that tread on them. The cows are fed grains like corn, hay, and alfalfa, soybean meal, and protein concentrates, which are grown off-site. A human with a tractor and fertilizer is able to get a lot more calories per acre with which to grow cattle than a cow grazing in and 'managing' its own field of grass with all the agricultural knowledge in its cow brain and the limited tools - its mouth and hooves - available to it. More at [1].

Furthermore, a cattle grazing operation - insofar is far from an ecological paradise. The cows destroy natural habitats, and human breeding of this herd and culling of its outputs is far, far greater than what a natural ecosystem would produce. More at [2].

[1]: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/12/feedlots-...

[2]: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/gra...
Haha! :D That's a funny way to put it. Very nice wording! :D
A big problem in the REC markets is lack of price transparency. I worked for a startup a while back building a trading platform to try to get major players together at a regular interval to agree upon pricing that could then be executed upon and published publicly. The idea didn't pan out; despite having a lot of the biggest traders in the game on board, there just wasn't enough trading to make a company viable. I believe that this is due in part by two things. 1 - the large variance in regulations. You can't just trade a REC for a REC. If there was national consensus then it would open up much more liquidity. 2 - most RECs are pre bought/sold as a means of project finance. A company building a wind farm will pre sell years in advance to help fund the hardware. On the other side utilities will pre buy all the credits to cover their needs. There is relatively low day trading, making a technology solution difficult.

Currently most large scale traders pick up the phone and call brokers like the good old days of the stock market. So to answer your question, yes you need to request a quote from each. There are also bloomberg streams for pricing and some brokering companies publish indexes that they believe reflect the current pricing.
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Young women being evacuated are also like a dog whistle for rapists.

Think about it. In a total mobilization, what caliber of conscript is getting assigned to guarding the kids? Who is going to be working at the orphanage or refugee center? I wouldn’t want my wife, sister or daughter in the custody the dregs of rear echelon conscripts in any Army.

I’m not sure what the scope of the study was, but look at what happened to women in the immediate aftermath of the war in postwar Germany.
Even if they were powering their data-centers directly from renewable sources, bypassing the grid, it would still be a form of philanthropy to whatever degree it raises their cost beyond burning coal and dumping the pollution on someone else.

Since global warming is a global problem (and other forms of pollution from burning coal or gas can travel long distances) it doesn't matter where the carbon is saved, it's basically equivalent, so they're just being pragmatic in their philanthropy.

This could be thought of as a subset of their wider goal to be carbon neutral (which again, could be described as philanthropic in nature), presumably funding the roll out of renewable energy seemed like a cost effective way to work towards that goal.
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I think they choose red..violet color spectrum as a base for easy..hard axis. Doesn’t explain light red though. Anyway, it is unusual and very hard to read.
Match.com - 'been together for 12 years; married for 7. Would have never met her in person; we lived on opposite sides of the city; into completely different things. 1st date was generic Starbucks coffee by her house; 2nd date landed on 4th of July - went to Niagara Falls with my parents and her mother. Everyone had dinner together. I know a lot of guys don't introduce parents until much later but it worked out in this case.

She took the obligatory programming classes in college but ended up with a degree in Phycology. Didn't do much with it, ended up being an office manager for a decade or so. Went back to school to be a Dental Hygienist and has been doing that for about 2 years now. Top of her class both times.

We bicker all the time; you couldn't find 2 more different people but I'm not sure I could ever be with someone else :)
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Interesting. I wonder whether the word "seek" instead of "obtain" or "utilize" is a loophole.
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I’ve recently switched to a mostly-vegetarian diet and have been enjoying Beyond Meat and Gardein products. The only thing that worries me is the “closed source” nature of such products. Tasty plant based protein is a tough problem to solve and people are doing that these days with a lot of hard work and investment but i think for something as basic as food the process of making them should be more open.

I know that the companies need to make money and the investors need to get their returns but maybe we should have more oversight/openness in how these products are made.
Historically that's kind of true, but we also count Japan, South Korea, and several Arabic-speaking countries (e.g., Kuwait) among our closest allies...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_non-NATO_ally
Looks like a good piece of work. It might be interesting to read more about your experience of writing the ray tracer.
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If you want security: don't put your life into a device that you carry with you. Better still: don't put it in any device.
That's where your assumptions are wrong - to all of us outside US, meaning almost 95% of the human race, US is not much better than China these days. China actually has a leader that looks and behaves 'normally' from a glance, and US has... Trump. I don't think you realize how much he is damaging any leftover of US credibility.

I can actually create tons of statistics where US would come out as much worse country - ie nr of foreign unlawful invasions, nr of foreign civilians killed per year, nr of babies killed by army, prison population and so on and on and... on - what is China actually doing these days? Building roads in Africa.

And totalitarianism is simple - either its there or its not. 50 shades of grey are still grey at the end ;)
Tell HN: Give the “why” behind your feedback, else you'll warp team's behavior
There was a time when I was constantly given feedback to the tune of "this isn't good enough, change it to [manager's opinion]". I've worked in tech marketing, where this is extremely common.

I'd ask why, but often the reason wasn't well articulated, or it wasn't articulated "customer-first". This in turn led me to change my behavior so that I was doing things to get my manager's approval, and not because I wanted to communicate clearly/better with our customers.

That was incredibly frustrating... the realization that you're doing something so that the manager approves of it, or lets it go live. And I never knew if I was right or wrong, it would all depend on the manager's opinion at the time of reckoning. I suspect the larger impact of this seeping into a company's culture can be catastrophic, since many teams' north-star becomes "what will he/she think?", versus doing better for their customers.

After I started managing people, I made the same mistake. But at least I can recognize it now, and make an honest attempt to explain the "why" behind any feedback I'm giving.

If I can't give a "why" for a subjective opinion or feedback, then I think harder about it, and try to understand why I "feel" that ways. I think this helps those reporting to me grow, and gets them to think about how the customer will perceive our marketing communication.

So yeah, if you're managing people, please give the "why".

Edit: grammar.
Wow. This article really resonated with me. I was "Jamie" until 2 months ago.

I choose my jobs very carefully. So when this company had a reputation of hiring the best, I was beyond excited. The interview process was great. I really liked interacting with the (future) manager.

And....things went downhill in the very first month. In the first team meeting VP announced that the manager was moving on. All the while I could see it was not mutual agreement between the manager and VP. But, I thought that was not my problem.

A meeting was set with the new manager and there it dawned to me that I was in huge trouble. The new guy wanted me to do a presentation in front of the VP and other C-level executives. "But I am not aware of the project requirements" I said. He summarily ignored my objections.

On landing in front of the VP and C-level people I was criticised for not knowing the project requirements. While the old manager tried to help me, the new guy kept his mouth shut.

Later the new manager offered me a half ass apology. That proved to be the last straw and I became the person who just wanted to code.
Also Great Britain and Australia. From whom we are 'separated by a common language'
> An certainly not a soul

OK we agree on the basics - that consciousness is not due to some mystical external factor but that it is contained within a brain.

However, your description of consciousness is a particular combination of electrical fields (NB that those chemicals are acting by changing how electricity is transmitted)...
Most of the better games are played more often than once...

Explaining rules is a bit like installing software: you do it once, then you run the software as often as you like. If you have to do that every time, maybe the problem is that you're not using the same computer twice.
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> I want a system where the folder is the application and deleting the folder is the way you remove applications.

ROX has been doing that for like 15 years. http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/AppDirs.html
http://a.co/a8yEzzt A Manga Guide to Statistics. No I'm not being snarky, it's a great read and I highly recommend it. Sampling, why it works and the philosophy behind statistics are all a bit unintuitive and so a light read is perfect for helping you develop that intuition.
Voice recognition is terrifying
Piano wire for memory??? Wow the things we take for granted these days.
I've found Offworld Trading Company to be basically the eurogame of video games. There is some player elimination, but only in the endgame.
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Don't the Garmin watches still have USB access to the file system?

The old ones did, and even the newest Garmin Edge series cycling computers let you do this. They run (mostly) the same firmware as the (high-end) watches, so I'd be surprised if they don't.
Some of us. Some never reproduce. Still it takes a village to raise a child, so I guess all serve their purpose in reproduction.
Not to disagree, but raw tonnage of food product is only one measure of food value. Nutritional composition and density is at least as important if not more so.

Meat and wheat serve different nutritional roles.
I doubt it is, sounds like another hipster hysteria...
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I think you are just overlooking a lot of data points to get proper context. We have been at war a few times with a nation and their colony that speak our own language, the UK and Canada; two nations that spoke a language fairly close to ours, Mexico and Spain; and have pretty much always been allies with a nation just as close to us linguistically as Spanish, France.

In modern times we are currently just as allied to Turkey, Korea and Japan as we are to our western allies, and to a lesser degree with Saudi Arabia, who are all far more similar linguistically to our enemies than to the vast majority of Americans.
GraphQL is really badly named. It is just REST vNext and it confuses a lot of folks on what it means and how to use it.
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Yea I would say culture is the bigger influence here. Living in Asia felt like traveling to another planet in a lot of ways.

Still, getting to know “the other” and understanding they feel fear and love and have hopes and dreams just like me is incredibly humanizing, whether it’s the doped up homeless guy in your area, the Bernie lover in the office, your neighbor with an NRA bumper sticker, or a successful business owner. Learn to speak their language and come from curiosity and contribution and you’ll have friends and influence across the spectrum.
I would be more interested in learning how to write a transpiler...

As long as I can compile a language in C, it removes a lot of work.
There's no way to use TPM as a store for these signing keys because they are needed too early in the process?

Yes, I expect as a general solution for your customers it might be overkill, but as this is basically the cutting edge of public domain research on these topics it would nice to know what's possible for customers who would take the risks.

Understood, I have more reading to do in to how the EFI shim/flasher works.
Love CoderPad and I think Vincent does the SaaS thing very well. It’s a product with a strong value proposition, a reasonable pricing model with free tier to get you hooked, and puts enough features and attention to UX in to stay valuable and ahead of competition. Furthermore, Vincent has done a good job of judiciously injecting his personality into the marketing and communications about the product, which shows he understands his market well.

If I ever aim to build a strong, low-overhead SaaS business, I would definitely look to CoderPad for inspiration on execution.
What's the alternative?[0]

Remember that burning desire to spend time with random elderly people when you were 14?

Yeah, neither do I.

[0]I actually know of one, since I'm Russian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur_and_His_Squad

The problem I see with that is it's artificial.

Again, remember that burning desire to spend time with random elderly people when you were 14?

People did it to essentially earn social points and feel good about themselves, when you're a child - to get adults to praise you in exchange for some liberties, like breaking a curfew a bit.

My point is, I don't think Capitalism is the problem here.

I don't have that much trouble believing boy scouts could have been the American "Timur and his squad" in 1940.