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I use an Ad blocker and I kinda regret it sometimes. Most of the time the blocker keeps me from seeing annoying, repetitive ads for things I have zero interest in learning about (trucks, loans, cash back, etc.)

However, I have realized that by blocking all Ads I am missing out on some cultural things, events that I want to know about. Movie information (Avengers, Hellboy, etc.) is one thing that I don't get informed of anymore. I didn't even see the latest Spiderman Homecoming movie in theaters because I had no idea it was even out until it was too late. I'm sure there are other things that I'm missing out on, but it's hard to know what you don't know.

Anyway, I think Ads are not evil or bad but they do need to be targeted better. If the Ad companies can figure out how to tell me about things I care about, or will possibly care about in the near future, then I'm OK with being exposed to them. If anyone should be able to do this it would be Google (they know everything about me). So I turned of uBlock Origin and started using Chrome's built-in blocker. So far it's been terrible; I'm seeing all kinds of Ads for things I just don't care about. I think I'm going back to my blocker. :/
Your view excludes all platforms made before "evergreen browsers" became a thing and will exclude all platforms which the makers of "evergreen browsers" deem too small or unprofitable to support.

So thanks, but no thanks. There is enough of planned obsolescence already, no need to add another weapon to the arsenal.
For a website, that's hard to achieve. You can ship some JS to pre-hash the password, but an attacker that can read unencrypted passwords from the server can probably also modify that JS code to send the original password to them.

If you have clients that run locally (and for which the updates are hopefully signed offline), I do think that approach is sensible.
My company just switched from a regular office building to Regus, presumably for accounting reasons (or to fire the office manager?). I haven't seen it as I'm remote, but I saw the plan and they have 3 people per office.

I don't like open-plan or cubes but I wonder if having three people in one office is any better, and I also wonder how many companies do that when they go with something like Regus.
That's certainly a valid point.

Here's the broader problem: Italy's economy has not expanded since 1992 on an inflation adjusted basis. On a nominal basis it hasn't expanded since 2004. The population has expanded by about three million since 2004. The demographics have worsened in terms of an aging population, much like the rest of the developed world. That adds up to a painful scenario.

Italy's economic growth has been falling on a ten year averaged basis, since ~1960. That isn't super unusual, that's true of a lot of developed economies. The problem is, in the early 2000s it basically hit a zero growth flat-line, and has never picked up off of that. The significant economic contraction periods of 2008-2009, and 2012-2013, were never countered with bursts in post-recession growth as would be more typical. If you don't have a post-recession bounce of outsized growth, things tend to get super bad, super quick, as inevitably another recession will arrive and make the situation worse. Some meaningful growth is practically a requirement to a healthy society, in the sense that it pays for inevitable mistakes that are made politically and socially, including as it pertains to debt or policy mistakes. Without that, you have to operate at a level of perfection at all times.

At some point Italy has to figure out how to grow again. As a population ages, obviously, things only tend to get more expensive in terms of social welfare and having enough active workforce to pay for it all.

Ultimately there are two choices in that scenario: ration resources more tightly, reduce standards of living, and accept that as a new normal; or start growing again.
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agree on all of that.. but space has so much more than Mars in it :)

(also, see my more nuanced reply to teMPOral and others)
One of the causes is a cultural problem with elites being extremely short-termist in their outlook. Italy saw upheavals, revolutions and invasions during almost every generation since Roman times; the overall attitude is that you take your money today because tomorrow it might all be gone. Investing is considered foolish, people don’t like any sort of risk, and we celebrate taking advantage of others rather than helping them becoming the best they can be.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that post-ww2 economic development in Italy was exceptional: powered by the Marshall plan and the need to rebuild a country from scratch after being bombed back into the middle ages, the market boomed. Once that wave was over and public money ran out, the traditional approach came back in fashion and the country stalled.
Really? Do you have any evidence for this claim? Genuinely interested, as it's the first time I hear this.
My understanding of the tax cut deficit increase is ~$1.5tn over 10 years was the Republican's target - so ~150bn minus overhead for interest calculations each year for 10 years is probably what it'll average out to.
Google Carpool has been available in Israel for a while now. I've used it, it works great. The only problem is there aren't enough drivers here (supply). I've also used Moovit Carpool for getting rides, which works basically on the same principle, and it is great. Carpools are as "insecure" as Airbnb and Uber. It's all part of the sharing economy. I've met really interesting people in my carpools. Both companies have support in case of issues etc. I totally recommend trying out this concept. The only challenge seems to be building up a big enough database of drivers.
Is it always online? I thought you just needed to be online when you booted the game, so your singleplayer game wouldn't exit on you if your internet died.
well, even if it didn't, the increasing wealth leads to increased use of resources, as people will spend it on things, long distance flights etc.
Check Veeam.
Article discusses only one side of the debate, and media just publishes it without proper research. It should also mention the efforts taken to overcome the issues of environment, economy or infrastructure.
If you don't have enough money, and can only barely afford to buy something, then yes, very much you will follow it religiously. You will try to buy the most reliable for the cheapest price, because you can't afford the product failing, nor can you afford paying too much, and you don't want to go back to getting food from the food bank so you can spend your grocery money to replace the broken washing machine.

Of course if you're a SV programmer earning 5-10 times the average wage, you don't care about this and buy overpriced shit every day, but many people follow this to the letter.
According to Jon Burton, something like this was actually done for the Amiga game Leander, although not with the intent to damage hardware:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qaq9vlfoGnA
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Sorry, fixed it. I really meant to also include Bihar, Jharkhand.
nothing wrong with the falcon heavy, _nothing_!! its truly great.. just flying it to Mars so soon :)
I've mentioned this in another comment, but I think there is a place for well positioned adverts. In the past I've missed out on cultural events (movie premiers, etc.) that I really wanted to know about simply because I don't watch much broadcast TV and use a pretty aggressive Ad blocker. This is generally a great idea and keeps all the crap from streaming into my head but it also stops the rare gem from enriching my life.
Because I like to work.

People who don't like to work often misunderstand this when looking at the stories of successful people. They think successful people force themselves to work hard in order to be successful. In fact successful people often like their work so much that there's nothing else they'd rather do. I doubt for example that there's anything Jeff Bezos would rather do than run Amazon. I bet it seems to him the way a gigantic Lego creation seems to a 7 year old.
Do you have better issues on which to win the largest amount of votes? People have no concept of how many different competing agendas exist in a country as large. Whatever issue you pick a large majority of the country is bothered about something else. Which is why things devolve to the lowest common denominator.
will energy consumption be less of an economic problem thanks to the break even of solar and coal?
From the Wikipedia article:

Designs for an SZ ligature has been part of typesets from the 1910s until the 1950s, but in the opinion of Herrmann (2011), the long-standing alphabetic equivalence of ß with ss and the abolition of the optional capitalization of ß as SZ (abandoned in 1996⁽¹¹⁾) means that this is no longer a valid option that "Germans would want to use on a regular basis".

¹¹ until 1996, it was recommended to render ß as SS in allcaps except when there was ambiguity, in which case it should be rendered as SZ. The common example for such a case was IN MASZEN (in Maßen "in moderate amounts") vs. IN MASSEN (in Massen "in massive amounts"), where the difference between the spelling in ß vs. ss could actually reverse the conveyed meaning.

Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F contains a concrete example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ABSCHUSZGERAET.jpg
No. It was in a book about the history of the Fresno canal system /irrigation district. I think it had the name of the canal system or district in the title and was written by a local. It was an extremely interesting book.

You might need to get a librarian to help you ID it. Searching online is failing to readily find anything.
Living in Japan, I'm not sure I would say that the slower speeds make things safer (can't say one way or another). However, it definitely changes the way you think about geography.

I spent about 12 years of my adult life living in Ottawa Canada and about 8 years living in Japan (with the balance being in the UK). In Ottawa, I would not think twice about driving 20-30 km to hang out with my friend after work. When all is said and done, it's under an hour of driving for a round trip. But in Japan, 30 km away might as well be on the other side of the moon for me most days. From where I live, the nearest "big" city (of 700K people) is 25 km. To drive there would take over an hour each way. The bus fare is over $20 US, round trip (and takes 3 hours round trip).

I stay in my town. I walk to the izakaya (neighbourhood pub). I walk to the super market. I walk to the hardware store. I walk everywhere -- anything I would want to go to is less than 2 km away.

Not everybody lives the way I do, but enough people do that each town has it's own flavour. It has it's own special foods and shops. I can ride my bike 5 km to the next town over and it's different than the town I live in. I can go another 5 km and that town is also different.

Compared to Canada, it's night an day. In Canada, it would take me 5 km just to get out of my housing subdivision. Walking to the grocery store is a crazy thought unless you just happened to live next to a grocery story. Don't get me wrong -- Ottawa is a great place, but you really need to live in the older areas to get much flavour. The rest is cookie cutter subdivisions, interspersed with malls.

Having said that, I'm not sure if it's reasonable to expect to transplant a non-car culture into NA. The vast majority of my friends in Canada dream of owning a home with enough land that they never have to see their neighbours. They don't wan't a neighbourhood where they walk everywhere. They want a kind of island and they really don't mind driving from island to island. It's not for me, but I can definitely understand the appeal.
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That is the case with most countries including India. It is difficult to have conversations about public debt, fiscal responsibilities without getting mired in some emotional debate.
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Hence theoretically. :)
I also thought that before the iMac Pro was released, but now I'm not so sure.

Most top professionals don't actually upgrade they machines often, because you usually want new everything, and saving a few $1000's every year isn't worth the hassle.
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We took most of our debt during the 1980s, well before the euro. During the 90s we already had to tighten our belt because of the high debt, which we were actually able to reduce, but, instead of investing in the future, we paid lots of money to keep existing industries that had no future here (eg Aluminium smelting, when we have the highest cost of electricity in the EU) and save jobs; for those jobs we couldn't save, we gave early pensions. When the Euro came, Berlusconi his voter base to use it as an excuse to raise prices - making us less competitive - while a very tax evasion friendly policy increased our debt again. In all, we got the the crisis as the most troubled EU economy after Greece - and we're paying the consequences.
Close enough. There is an offline mode in the Steam menus, but you need to be online to initially activate it.
Near limitless clean water is a technological problem that we have already solved via reuse and desalination. The challenge now is to make it far less expensive, which we'll also do in the coming half century or so.

Vast progress in real-world use of desalination is why Israel can exist at all for example. [1]

Large cities in California will likely become supplied mostly by desalination in the near future. San Diego is getting 1/3 of its water from one plant. It can fulfill the water needs of its entire population for about the cost of three, one billion dollar desalination plants. I consider that an extreme bargain. Such plants will get cheaper and more efficient with time.

Indoor agriculture and altering crops to need less water, adjusting them to indoor efficient growing via CRISPR, will also significantly lessen our water demands over time. That'll take decades to bring to meaningful impact, however there's no scenario where we don't do that.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the...
> Also, the gap between rich an poor has never been bigger.

Actually, it has been much bigger in the 19th century. Source: Piketty
Note that deleting your Reddit account doesn't delete your comments.

You can delete your comments manually (but of course only before deleting the account).
Awesome. Thanks. ODROID-HC2 is on top of my list now.
Waiting for my local retailer to catchup!
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I wasn't, thanks!
Yes.

With scientific and engineering advances, we in the "first world" have all the royalty-level of power and energy at our disposal. Washing machine alone is an equivalent of a maid or two. The ability to just sit down whenever and enjoy a play or a concert on TV is something you can do now, while it was utterly impossible for even the most powerful kings. If you couple this with advances in medicine it's safe to say that we live our lives in comfort and safety unheard of ever before, to the point that kings of the past, with all the personnel, seem trivial.

Meanwhile, "Haitan slaves" - or just normal people who didn't have the luck to born where they should - live exactly the same way they lived hundreds and possibly thousands of years ago. They struggle every day just to have something to eat and they die of hunger if they fail. The technology they use is the same as it was a thousand years back.

In effect, the gap between rich and poor only widened in time. And that's comparing low end to a average in first world countries. It gets really ugly when we start comparing low end with top 1% - it's the difference between struggling to just stay alive another day and taking a leisure trip to the ISS (or was it Mir back then?). The difference between having half of your family dead before your thirties and having a healthy life with all your friends well into 80s.

So in short, yes, living conditions of a king and a peasant were worlds apart but it did get markedly worse with time.
That's 150m^2 per person. If everyone lives in skyscrapers then living space isn't much of that, and 150m^2 is (in the best case) enough for one person's food. So it might be that this scenario is impossible for other reasons, but I don't think mere land area is a problem.
Could these genetic changes contribute to the Dutch growth spurt of the 70-80s?

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5544085
I buy on average 50 Workstations a year for my business (FTR Dell 5800 series). Do you know how many get upgraded in their 3 year lifecycle? None. Not a single machine. I also know that others in a similar position are in the same boat. Extensibility in the Workstation market is a canard. The requirement comes from a hand full of enthusiasts at home that feel the need to have a maxed out workstation class pc for editing photos in Lightroom.
I was puzzled by your comment, then did some searching: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/02/06/_14_week_quar...
I still don’t understand the relevance of your argument. No numbers are given on that page for India. Contrast that with this page, and you’ll see that India will increase its population quite significantly until 2030. How can you not see that this is a major problem?

Just because Japan is ageging India won’t be saved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...
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Thanks! I'll have a look at that!
Ask HN: How do you manage your energy?
The idea that more than time, one should learn to manage energy really fascinates me. Though healthy food, sleep habits, exercise, meditation etc are generally advised, I am curious to hear what people on HN think/do.
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Well, given that there are still slaves (maybe even Haitian ones) and the living conditions of the average first world working class person are far better than those of Louis XIV, I'd say yes.
We had a similar problem building an ad network. We ended up logging events into a HDFS using Kafka. Backend for serving was built using Java (Go
Seems fine too). As for serving reports in real time, I don’t think that would be doable. We need up refreshing the reports every 30 minutes. Building these analytics views can be accomplished using Cassandra, Hive or ElephantDB or any other. People have used apache storm also.
You can look up the book Big Data principles by Nathan Marz for discussions on scalable architecture.

Disclosure: I did not code this. I only participated in architecture reviews.
What do you mean the world might be infinite? The Earth isn't. Do you mean the sun, asteroids and other planets in the solar system will provide all the resources and energy we could ever need? Because even that's not infinite on a Kardashev increasing energy scale.

But the real concern is the biosphere, which most certainly is finite and the 7.4 billion humans are very much dependant on it. Maybe we terraform Mars someday, but I doubt that will do much for life on Earth.
You can have meaning or you can have happiness. You cannot have both -- at least not all of the time. This conflict can be seen clearly in a movie like "Office Space", where both the male and female leads are working for happiness (and survival) whereas the work environment expects them to be working for meaning. (How many pieces of flair are you wearing?)

The trick to this discussion is that people on one side of the discussion frankly don't understand folks on the other side. The things they say and do don't make any sense. If you're a meaning person, you read the title of this essay -- "If You’re So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week?" and think if you're successful, why wouldn't you be working 70 hours a week? You're doing what you love, making a difference in the world! It's only those that are unsuccessful, those who work for meaning but aren't very effective, that would spend a lot of time doing nothing.

For both camps, it seems the world is full of people from the other camp, basically ruining things for the rest of us. It would be great if we could convey this critical piece of information to people early on in life. So much time and energy is spent in conflicts with other folks where it's not needed.
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Your Apple ID password is effectively your master password for your keychain. The whole point of a master password is for it to be stored in the brain of the end user.
I wish my bank allowed 16 character passwords!
The block store is related to EBS, which is what AWS's other postgres option, RDS, also uses. An EBS system failure is rare and could potentially take down both services, and EC2 as well.
Six appear to be test points for monitoring memory bus clocks.
Exactly. My father told me a story of when he was stuck in traffic with somebody who was then about the 10th richest person in the world. To make conversation, my father asked him what his plans for the coming year were. The guy listed all sorts of business goals. My father asked if he had anything personally that he was planning. The guy basically replied that those were his personal plans. He made no distinction between work and play.
> Do you have better issues on which to win the largest amount of votes? ... which is why things devolve to the lowest common denominator.

That's what separates a leader from a petty peddler.

Its not the case that one hasn't seen such leadership before. But when politics is a career, why would one bother when they get a win with shallow clickbait issues. Leadership that needs sincerity, lets not do that, pimping up some clickbait issues, hell yeah.

As far as better issues there are plenty -- Better, sustainable basic infrastructure, better governance of resources ...
Impose a tax on fuel that is enough to pay to repair the environmental damage. Then it doesn't really matter if the tax disuades car ownership or not. If it doesn't then you have the money.
You mean if every meter of the planet was covered with skyscrapers? Not sure how that's remotely realistic.

And it sounds incredibly dystopian.
That's sad.
There are tons of other people who are working on RISC-V as well, LowRISC for example. The software should run everywhere.
Atlassian's pricing is a massive pain in the arse if you're neither a small nor a big business. There's a perfect pain point in the middle of their pricing brackets where you jump from $10 per month for 3 users, to $20 per user as soon as you add a 4th (Helpdesk as an example there).
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The rise of cloud storage has totally transformed the "backup" problem. Just by using cloud storage, you get near-realtime offsite backup without thinking about it

Then an unaccountable algorithm closes your Google account, and suddenly all that data is inaccessible. Your cloud storage provider's backups are not your backups.
I think people who use ad blockers, like myself, KNOW all about how advertising works. Oh yes most certainly WE KNOW. That is why some of us choose to block them.

I limit my exposure to marketing as much as I can.
That's patronizing. How about 'I would find that sad if I was in his position'.
Just as a heads up, you seem to be loading an 800KB password strength estimation script on the homepage: https://www.frau-vintage.com/wp-includes/js/zxcvbn.min.js (which unlike the other scripts, is not coming from the CDN and not compressed).
It may be interesting to weigh votes then. The older you get the less worth your vote gets.
Does anyone ever consider the possibility that the quality of the car reflects the quality of the producer? No, it always has to be some conspiracy