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> Or do vegans often ponder the "ingredients" in everyday objects?

I have met many vegans that adhere to various levels of "strictness", (2nd-hand leather goods, isinglass filtered beers, etc. etc.), but even for the very most relaxed, non-adherent vegans, at a very minimum being acutely aware of the non-vegan nature of many/most non-edible products is definitely a consistent theme. This seems like basic 101 of pondering becoming a vegan. Of course they consider the ingredients of soaps, plastics, etc.

> Vegans for ethical reasons seem to only not want to consume a single part of the animal, but consume the rest, which is a pretty large portion, by weight.

Everything is anecdotal, so perhaps vegans you've met do think like this, but in my experience the opposite has been true. Some have been lovely people, some have been a little closer to the negative stereotype of vegans that's propagated on the internet, but they have been at least universally well-versed in the ingredients of their own consumption.

> Do vegans know how we produce organic fertilizers?

Yes.
Would you please explain why?
Not an SVM. Just weighted linear regression.
I think your points highlights the contrast between how the US thinks of corporate stewardship (shareholders get complete discretion) with how many German companies do (stakeholders all contribute to board-level decision-making).

In the US it seems entirely reasonable that an owner should be able to undermine the long-term viability of something they own, but in Germany other stakeholders - the larger community the company exists in, the employees of the company -- get a seat at the table to determine the company's course.

I'm not advocating for either, just an interesting distinction.
I dealt with Apple Care recently for about 2 months of daily phone calls, store visits, and chats.

My MacBook had initially started restarting when it encountered any significant load. I got the logic board replaced and instead it started sometimes not waking from sleep correctly, producing "MCA data" kernel panics.

In the end, it got narrowed to the fact that I had an external monitor attached whilst closing the lid of the MacBook. This issue had been introduced earlier than my initial repair, but had only started happening for me post-repair because the repairer had taken the liberty of updating my software and exposed me to the bug that Apple had introduced.
Didn't really think I'd need to point it out, but I was being deliberately ironic to point out how much of a shitshow we've created.

While it obviously appears that marijuana will become increasingly legalized and taxed, I'm really not optimistic about wealthy, private prison & police interests agreeably "pivot"ing into new revenue streams.

I'll wager our prison system will still be a complete shitshow in 10 years from now. My most pragmatic hope is that they'll change in 50 years.
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> if everyone stopped eating those animals, the prices of these products would presumably make their use uneconomical

If everyone stopped eating animals, the prices of a lot of plant agriculture might become uneconomical. My mistake for bringing in the organic/not distinction, since almost all non-organic fertilizers use some amount of animal products too. It's just that organic ones almost certainly use animal products.

(Very) broadly speaking, you can grow grains and legumes at scale without soil amendments from animals, though IDK about cost. You cannot grow fruits and vegetables at scale without soil amendments from animal products.

Like Diogenes living on handouts in Athens and decrying the materialist way of life, you can enjoy an economical vegan diet only if the world around you is not.
Yes, because it has a blacklist: it has a list of non-vegan ingredients and assumes everything else passes.

If it had a whitelist, it might tell you that spinach is not vegan instead. With both, it might tell you that both spinach and ham are ?.
I thought it was kind of unrealistic as well. The reasons were that now you have to store fuel for the return trip of just an "empty can", as well as (possibly) even more launch trajectory restrictions to ensure it can reach the landing site.
I don't think we have a ton of evidence either way, but:

1. Private exercise of of investment options usually occurs within the context of brokerages, hedge funds, and companies exercising their own stocks, no? For the first two, they have to be large enough to have lots of clients, and the last one is limited to one stock. I'd see the brokerages/hedge funds as a form of federation so that it doesn't make sense to distinguish it from exchanges on the centralization/decentralization spectrum, and stuff internal to a company doesn't really occur on the open market in the same way so I'm not sure it's relevant at all.

2. Percentage of trades isn't the only metric: ease of trades is also relevant. I could find a Bitcoiner on Craigslist and give him cash at a coffee shop for coins. Doing this with most traditional financial instruments would be difficult if not simply illegal. Coins for cash at a coffee shop isn't probably the most common use case, but it's certainly easy and possible, and that's relevant.
I don't disagree. I'd probably describe such pricing as "directly expensable pricing" and try to get it on a credit card subscription to avoid an invoicing process. With enterprise, or even small and medium businesses, invoice processes often involve discounts for timely payments and 90 day cycle times if the company thinks they can get away with it.

In terms of presentation for B2B, I think "high value" in the elevator pitch is better than "low cost." Low cost tends not to distinguish between value and price. And low price is a risk factor because low priced services tend to make the service provider less financially stable...and service provider stability is valuable for an enterprise.
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This was my experience as well. I don't know how anyone is able to use it; it brought my 2017 MacBook pro to its knees every time I would start writing a HN comment. I uninstalled it after about 5 minutes.
> But why though?

Because that's generally what really drives adoption, investors willing to fund innovation that adds value.

> All the existing models I know of for making money off developing a blockchain involve some form of centralization.

Lets be creative! Build a 'siphon' into the blockchain to capture small bits of each transaction and re-sell that to generate income? Or treat it as a traditional open source project and position yourself as the best implementation because you designed it.

There are also different types of centralization that don't necessarily involve interfering with the blockchain. You can decentralize the ledger but centralize the transaction entry. Or centralize the reporting (anyone can make entries but only the authority can verify them, subject to auditing).
And then layer in techniques for performance and accessibility best practices. Those are complexity modifiers beyond just slinging code out of an AI.
Well, there is Hyperloop. There there is the idea (or is it a promise) 'to take all of us to mars and save from earth!'

The only real things they have done are making Electric cars and Rockets popular.

More PR than hard tech if you ask me...
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Yes, but the perturbation principle applies beyond text classification. It also has special message for image data, as well as a general method for general numeric data.
Falcon Heavy is just a toe in the door of super heavy launch. BFR will have 31 engines at liftoff compared to Falcon Heavy's 27. BFR will be about twice the thrust of Falcon Heavy, and most importantly BFR is not just a launch vehicle (which gives SpaceX a big edge in deploying megaconstellations of low-latency internet satellites), but the upper stage part will be a spacecraft capable of reentering the Earth's atmosphere with a payload and crew like Shuttle but also capable of being refueled and landing on (and taking off from) distant worlds. Falcon Heavy really helps provide this necessary interim step, and will help build a manifest of large payloads that BFR will be able to take over.

SpaceX is increasingly serious about BFR, their next-gen rocket which is like an enormous, fully reusable hybrid of Shuttle and Falcon 9 using soot-free and higher performing methane (which can also be made on Mars in a fairly straightforward process) instead of kerosene.

Musk mentioned BFR multiple times in the pre-launch press conference yesterday:
https://soundcloud.com/geekwire/elon-musk-discusses-the-laun...

They're cancelling lunar Dragon+FH to focus on BFR which is making more progress than they expected. They plan to start flight testing the upper stage/spaceship portion of it by next year according to Elon in the prelaunch press conference.

Falcon Heavy was originally supposed to fly about as often as Falcon 9, but they upgraded Falcon 9 so much that now they barely need Falcon Heavy, as amazing as Falcon Heavy is.

Super excited about all this.
First off, congrats on launching!

Second off, some website feedback:

- I'm part of your target audience (freelance consultant), yet struggled to figure out what this is/why I benefit from it. I'd change both the banner company and overall content hierarchy, as follows:

Banner: Replace headline with some form of the copy of the second section: "Convert website visitors into sales calls, when they are hot, not a week later." That's a bit too wordy for the headline, but tells me both the benefit, and why it's different than a demo request form.

Second section: How it works, framed as a benefit. Some headline like "5 mins to converting more leads". You lead with a benefit in the banner, now let me know how I can get that benefit.

Third section: Sell benefits listed under the "How it helps" sub-header. Convince me that I want/need this.

Fourth section: Testimonial — at this point I understand what it is and why it will help my business, now it's time to show me others trust you, so I can too.

Fifth section: some CTA to signup. You could include the letter to leads "Hi, we are SalezTalk..." if you like.

- I would throw out the features section entirely, or bury it on another page. It confused me — what the heck does it mean by scheduler? Mini-CRM? I thought this was a simple way to setup sales calls?

- I would also throw out the section where you say SalezTalk is for target-segment X (freelancers, solopreneurs, etc). This might be personal preference, but I find these sections condescending. Tell me the benefits, and I'll tell you if it solves a problem I have.

- Raise your prices, significantly. Running your own business, there is little difference between $59/yr and $19/year — both are going to be some of my lowest software costs. I'd make the cheapest plan $59/yr, and the more expensive one something like $179.

Anywho, congrats again!
He's basically playing factorio in real-life :)
Count me as one; the activities of Tesla and SpaceX played a huge role in my personal reflections on the direction of my career.
Good point! I think you'd have to implement a lock of some sort, and check for it in application logic-- that way both can be updated simultaneously... not ideal!
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>MTA executives are naturally defensive about the criticism. They argue that, unlike in the ’70s, the current problems are a result of their own success — the subways are more popular than ever and therefore more crowded.

Aren't these the same people that got caught destroying data so that people could not check the efficiency of management?
I was looking into ReasonML a few weeks back because the promise of whatr it offered was so great. Write in one language, and run on the server and on the client, but allow the server to be compiled natively for speed. This really appealed to me, especially because there are some times that I really wish I had some utilities I had written on the back-end available on the front end.

Unfortunately, what you appear to have currently is that a lot of the tools and utilities you would want to use in ReasonML are written in either JS of Ocaml, and reply on the interop when you target that platform. Want an ORM? There's a couple, but they are all targeted at Ocaml, so you either compile to native and link or try to port the Ocaml source of it to ReasonML (maybe automatically?) and maintain it. Want a web router/framework? There's a lot written in JS, but you'll be configuring and writing some JS most likely to get it to work, and no compiling that natively. This is a recurring theme. Most robust larger packages are in one language or another, which causes problems for anyone wanting to leverage the inherent advantages of both target formats.

What it seems to come down to is that Reason needs a whole lot more software written in Reason so it's more flexible. Being able to use Ocaml and JS packages is a feature and liberating, nut having to use Ocaml or JS packages ends up putting constraints on your project. ReasonML has a lot of promise, but at least for what I was excited about, it can't deliver. Yet.
You could ICO as an alternative to IPO I would guess as long as you meet the same requirements. In this case the ICO token would be your stock. So ICOs have the potential to disrupt wall street stock recording and transactions. Essentially remove wall street entirely if you want. Is that good or bad? Exchanges have stop loss and other braking mechanisms/regulations.. Are those desirable?
Time management is extremely easy in our current system, and I agree with you on DST. Remove the "daylight" time and stick to the timezone's currently/typically used that are defined mostly by longitude (political lines notwithstanding).
Would you agree that the median and mode of outcomes is $0, with the mean being somewhat higher?

As a "financial vehicle" options have nonzero value, but that doesn't imply one should expect a payoff, especially given very limited bites at the apple.
You don't do that, just use barcode https://world.openfoodfacts.org/ they also have app in play store with scanner function. It is no brainer to build with existing barcode libraries.
You mean like a chain letter? Usually, incorrect "facts" aren't incentivizing enough on their own to keep sharing them, which is why most of those viral memes spread quickly and die out quickly.

I was thinking more in terms of a long-term commitment that provides enough benefits on its own to offset the time and effort spent by each participant on spreading it to others.
They changed their filtration system and all forms of Guinness worldwide are now vegan.
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>> tires... vegan?

> No.

Tires are rather hard to eat in general, so I guess that alone makes them unsuitable for a vegan diet. But I suspect that's not the real reason. What is the actual rationale then?
The great thing about HN used to be that people didn't denigrate others when they built things but actually gave useful feedback.
No, GPS doesn't track UTC, it would be a huge pain to do that.

GPS tracks TAI, because TAI is an Atomic Time, it doesn't care about how the Earth moves in space. Some of the metadata transmitted alongside the GPS signal tells a device how to turn GPS time into UTC at the current moment in case you want to display that, but it's orthogonal to the main purpose of GPS which is to figure out where you are, for which you want a nice steady time system like TAI, not a civil system like UTC.

The way UTC works is, moment by moment it goes at the same speed as TAI, but every six months it might jump back or forward one second, to try to keep it roughly lined up with UT1. This is a compromise to give TAI's simplicity and reliability (atomic clocks are easy) but without gradually shifting away from UT1 over decades.

Why? Well, UT1 reflects the thing humans think "days" are about, the uneven wobbly spin of Earth, the big round thing we're almost all stuck to. If the Earth spins a little more slowly or quickly than expected, that's reflected in UT1 but doesn't affect TAI at all.
If your goal is to climb Everest, each step gets you closer to your target; it is not a hopeless endeavour just because you cannot reach the summit in a single leap.
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The build instructions say that it will create ext/js/generated, but I'm only seeing ext/js, with a few .js files, but no "generated" directory.
According to the website they're linking to, ham can also be an ingredient.

Although technically I couldn't find a reference to 'HAM', but rather 'HAM (CURED WITH HONEY, SALT, SUGAR, WATER, DEXTROSE, LACTIC ACID STARTER CULTURE, SODIUM ASCORBATE, SODIUM NITRITE)' [0]

[0]:https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/82389
> It's an online appointment scheduling software, btw.

Oh, I thought it couldn't be appointmind, because on that website you literally say "We take care of software installation, updates and data backup.", granted right after saying "Monthly terminable".

I think your pricing model, customer flow, and messaging is incredibly confusing; and I don't think I would necessarily know whether or not ongoing updates are free of charge from your website.

I think the problem lies entirely in your marketing and presentation.
Honest question, why would Paul need to do that if he took control of the government?

I mean, "I can't" is an honest answer here, since its unrecoverable and many people won't care enough to try to verify their votes.
js_of_ocaml[1] is an ocaml to JavaScript compiler that can actually handle the entire ocaml language (because it compiles ocaml bytecode to JavaScript). Sounds like it’s more what you’re looking for than Bucklescript (the ocaml to JavaScript compiler Reason uses by default.) Since Reason is just an alternate syntax for ocaml, you can use it with js_of_ocaml as well.

[1]: https://github.com/ocsigen/js_of_ocaml
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BMW latest iDrive does it quite well. Paired with the Heads-up Display and you can see directions on the windshield glass without having to take your attention off the road. I always use my car's nav over phone nav.
I did the same and I'm not really regretting it. It's somehow sad, that I'm now missing the conversations and plannings of my family and somebody always has to send me something on another way, but I'm okay with it.

I'm feeling much better, since my phone stopped distracting me all the time and I lost the permanent need to look at my phone. Of course I'm using Telegram as an alternative, but the app is not running in the background and I have to open it myself if I want to check messages.

So in the end, I've exchanged communication to productivity and I don't regret it.

I don't like the open end of the article. It does not point out, if the author thinks to use WhatsApp again. It just talks about how we sell our data to use a service.
You can sort HN by date, and few URLs are updated every day. So you can push a new bloom filter every day and a different list of updates every 5m. Then just check your URL against both of them.
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I’m a vegetarian and I have all kinds of leather items. Shoes, motorcycle jacket, probably a belt or two. Because leather, when taken care of, lasts a long time, and I haven’t always been a vegetarian. But it would be incredibly stupid to get rid of them just for the sake of appearance.

And not every vegetarian is such based on morality. I wouldn’t be surprised if the “...but i eat fish/chicken” vegetarians wear leather.
Show HN: A threaded or a flat discussion, which is easier to followithuse?
A threaded discussion like HN, and a flat discussion like GitHub.

Based on your experience, which one is easier to use? easier to follow?
This is so true. And for your last point there is veganic farming that excludes animal products in the process. It’s awesome and growing.

People love to think of vegans as naive children but most people don’t think anything about their food and the vegans I know do actual research on what happens and how to live better.
Hey author here,

I think I failed to explain about this in the article. OCaml and ReasonML is the SAME language with different syntax. You don't need to worry whether the library is written in OCaml or ReasonML as long as your build tool support both ReasonML and OCaml.
I was sad when I learned they've launched half as much as Falcon-1 for (rumored?) almost twice more money spent some 15 years later.

On the other hand, a good demonstration of composites - and yes, electropumps are a good opportunity which now is on the list of "already done".
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Hi RodgerTheGreat.

The aim here is not to train someone for a software job but to help a person with zero programming knowledge get a basic understanding of programming concepts from where he/she can choose his path ahead if they wish to change career path or just want to learn something for fun. The aim is to increase programming literacy among the Indian masses.

and This was a hackathon project, so consider the time constraint as well.

Cheers!
I _think_ I'm aware of some of these things you're referring to (raiden network, etc), but I wonder if you could list some of this research ... I'm trying to keep up with the latest developments.
Same here. I'm not American, or working in the Aerospace industry... but watching Musk has had a spurring effect for me. He's a constant reminder that the impossible is possible and that you should keep trying even if it turns out it's impossible.

I'm stressed out because I need to get my thesis done soon, but he's worried because he needs to perfectly launch a Tesla Roadster into Solar orbit, and vertically land three first-stages so he can do it again.
It isn't hard to create a live ubuntu stick if you like Ubuntu, no?

The live-boot CDs have always worked well for me (when I need them, for me that's rarely) I can only imagine a USB that you can boot from would be good as well?
Not directly related to the article, but this documentary about life in Antarctica is truly amazing: http://frozensouth.weebly.com/ (it's called "Antarctica - A Year On Ice")
to me it was having to carry the fuel for the landing burn. Also, an empty booster is very fragile, they're basically metal balloons. I figured the landing legs, extra support needed, and the required fuel would make it infeasible in the end.
> Because that's generally what really drives adoption, investors willing to fund innovation that adds value.

I mean, why use blockchain for this when there are appropriate centralized, trusted tools for solving centralized trusted problems.

> Build a 'siphon' into the blockchain to capture small bits of each transaction and re-sell that to generate income?

That's a centralized siphon (and why would anyone pay you to use this blockchain?).

> There are also different types of centralization that don't necessarily involve interfering with the blockchain. You can decentralize the ledger but centralize the transaction entry. Or centralize the reporting (anyone can make entries but only the authority can verify them, subject to auditing).

Verification is definitely a key part of blockchain--if you don't have decentralized verification you have a datomic-style log with a decentralized cache. If you centralize that I'd say you don't have a decentralized blockchain any more (this is basically Ripple, or if you're talking about non-coin type logs, git changelogs with signed commits where you only accept commits from entities you trust).
Shame the mic is so hot, it's really hard to listen to.
No issues with speed or anything, chromium, linux.