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>But the fact that you were forced to turn up means your freedom has already been compromised.

That is the cost of living in a civilized society where we can settle our conflicts before an impartial judge instead of by the law of the jungle. Anyone can sue you and make you (or your lawyer) show up in court.

>Small debts are also a symptom of a one-sided system. Civilised people usually settle small matters without going to the courts. Courts have to be making things pretty easy for creditors before that becomes a cost-effective way of collecting small debts.

If you make it harder for creditors to collect on small debts, then you will make it harder and more expensive for the poor to get access to credit.
During my childhood, my father's most of the income went into repaying loans. Luckily, we had our own house, so we didn't need to worry about getting homeless. But I remember I rarely got to spend money on any kind of "luxury". By luxury, I mean simple stuff like a icecream cone or a baloon.

The effect it had on me is quite wierd. On one hand, I always wish to earn more so as to not have to go through that phase again, while on the other hand, I never care about spending money. Even now that we have more money, I rarely spend on clothes, fancy food, gadgets or whatever that is not necessity. That phase of borderline poverty has made me frugal for life.
> The "at my desk" hours of the day were 60% reading mathematics papers

Are you even appropriately labeled a software developer if that is how you spend the bulk of your time? I'm not convinced you are. The 40% definitely sounds like software development, but there are plenty of jobs where development is part of a larger job that are not given the software developer label. The farm, for instance, involves writing some software as a minor part of the job. It still gets the farming title, not software development.

And can we really classify a job where you literally spend most of your time learning how to do the job a "degree required" job? Degree required to me at least implies that you need to already know how to do the job before you are hired. The BLS provides this information to indicate what is needed to get a job. Anyone can read up on how to do something while they are already on the job.

> Again, a HUGE "it depends"!

There are always outliers. We have to be observing the typical or average case for this discussion to have any meaning.
That was a great talk. One of the reasons I love the "TED video" culture. It revolves around pointing out why things everyone knows and feels are obvious...actually work. The "why didn't I think of that explanation" feeling. I guess I just love having my instincts and impulses explained and dissected. Understanding self. Higher platitudes.
Thanks! I woke up to realize the site was still on the free AppEngine tier and had used up all the bw. It should be back up now. :D
TDD in 10 minutes
The Internet Archive’s book scanning project is still in full swing. Yes, the indexing and presentation is not at parity, but I prefer a non-profit digital library to be the canonical reference instead of Google.
Twitter’s $70M SoundCloud investment is officially wiped out
Some of us disagree very strongly with the premise of capitalism.
Your reasoning omits that there is also a large amount of energy stored im the oceans. The greenlandic glaciers have already sped up and are calving into the oceans where there is plenty of energy to melt them.
I still have to read the book, but I am a bit worried that it will have a similar fate to Fukuyama's End of History..

It's interesting to compare Pinker and Chomsky. IIRC, in some interview Pinker said that he has much more skeptical view of human nature than Chomsky.. And yet, regarding the humanity as a whole, he seems to be more optimistic than Chomsky, who considers (and rightfully so, I think) global warming and nuclear war as two grave dangers. Although Chomsky also often states that things are somewhat getting better when it comes to human rights and so on.
Check out this YouTube tutorial to see the kinds of things they're doing with those knobs and panels.

The inputs are roughly "An ordered sequence of footage clips" and the output is roughly "A final projection/broadcast/download-ready movie"

https://youtu.be/ojjfhCrjDus
>... constantly bitching about what other people have built."

Exaggerating to the extreme implies you do not have a strong basis for your argument.

If you actually count the number of times he's bitched about something, it's probably like 20 or 30 (can anyone provide a real number?). And even then only 2 are debatable in their value. (also a made up number to demonstrate the lack of solid data on this matter.)

Therefore, I suspect you knew this, and just want to vent or make Linus look bad. I hope you have a better day tomorrow and make a decent follow up comment.
Wow. I almost learned to fly at KONM ... didn't know that the beacon was originally an airmail tower. I will ask my (former) neighbor and original of the current Socorro Civil Air Patrol wing. Thanks for posting this!
Why stop there? What about assembling the computer? In fact, he should be able to make the electronics if he truly knows about computers. Now that I think of it, given a mine, our superhero should be able to find ore needed, and given a field, he should be able to create electricity.

Then we have a true full stack developer. One that shouldn’t feel bad about himself.
It feels like when you're tinkering with hardware a lot more parts of the brain are challenged and thus generate a more fulfilling experience.

I totally agree with this sentiment, but I would add: I know a guy who designs hardware for a living, and he gets a huge kick from of writing a little Python script. The thrill is mostly in developing fledgeling skills far from your main wheelhouse.
HathiTrust too has great content and indexing, it’s just a shame that it’s much slower than Google Books. But between the that and archive.org they’re a fine replacement.
I have no doubt that people could make a 'better' ad within a television format, but that's not what this is. What could be done to improve it given the constraining requirement that the advertiser explicitly wants people who aren't in the target audience to skip the ad after 5s? It needs to be something that people who understand immediately want to watch, people who don't understand but are interesting in Japanese candy don't skip, but also doesn't pique the curiosity of people who don't understand it and aren't interested in Japanese candy. That's a really unusual set of requirements and something that I think would be immensely hard to make a good advert for. As soon as you make something 'better' in the traditional advertising sense people who aren't interested in the product will stop skipping the advert. That means you've failed...
> When half your country frame it as: makers VS takers.

I have never heard of that term before. What does that mean?

> Then "simply need help" would be a significant policy change.

Again, governments are based on policies and rules. "simply need help" is way to abstract.

> Lots of other developed countries have made inroads on poverty. Just look.

Which policies and rules used by other governments do you recommend?
Ask HN: What percentage of HN regulars are Women?
Google search of "Hacker" mostly brings men or their stereotypes and most people stay away because of the negativity around the term. So, I would like to know how many women techies really understood that "Hacker News" has nothing to do with hacking and are regulars to HN.
The key to Superman's arctic Fortress of Solitude is disguised as a yellow aviation arrow.

So, yeah. One of these.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_of_Solitude
I first wondered if OP means that first answer with the obscure and horrible programming analogy then I found the real answer by Suzanne Sadedine which is an amazing read.

That was the creepiest part:

Some fetal cells find their way through the placenta and into the mother's bloodstream. They will grow in her blood and organs, and even in her brain, for the rest of her life, making her a genetic chimera

and this is a wonderful summary of evolution:

In other words, it's just the kind of effect natural selection is renowned for: odd, hackish solutions that work to solve proximate problems
Which universities have multiple semesters of algorithms as standard undergrad curriculum?
Facebook will be helping Nigeria with its upcoming 2019 general elections
IIRC the genesis of the dossier was opposition research by other Republicans. We’re talking about intelligence operatives, they probably never actually know where the money is coming from, and it often flows from different and sometimes competing sources. These organizations run on secrecy and distrust.
I'm not who you were responding to, but I like knowing that the poorest person in the country still gets decent care.
I've never had much luck with that :(
> Haribo candy berries). Yes, its a corn syrup base,

Are you sure? As far as I can see, Haribo's European products at least are made with sugar.

The EU sets a maximum production quota on high fructose corn syrup, I doubt there would be enough for Haribo to use it. (300,000 tonnes per year is the quota.)
they're kinda screwed either way. if they don't appear, they get arrested for skipping court.
As I tried to explain above the wages alone do not matter. Detroit is a dysfunctional city with severe lack of basic services. I strongly doubt any EU citizen no matter how disadvantaged would see an improvement by a hypothetical move to Detroit.

Mexico and Ukraine I cannot comment because I know little about it.
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I've spent 20 years trying to decide what I could have done differently. Usually I conclude that I should have taken out loans. In my defense, I was 16, knew nothing about loans, thought they were scary, and had nobody to advise me otherwise. My single mother was working full-time to support two other kids, and didn't have the bandwidth to help me with school. Besides, that was back in the days before student loans became the foregone conclusion they are now. It only just now occurred to me that I could have blown off the homework, and graduated with lower grades, but there is no way 16-year-old me would ever have considered not doing homework.
This reminds me of the Sun-Earth-L1 Lagrangian point, where we have deployed several spacecrafts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point#Spaceflight_a...

An international effort could easily deploy reflective materials here to reduce solar radiation on Earth. Though I wonder how much it would cost to achieve even a 0.01% reduction in radiation, as well as what material would be most cost-effective to deploy.
Agree re: official Arduinos.

If you still want to use Arduino, I'd highly recommend going for Arduino clones from China. You should be aware that the USB chip is different so you may have driver issues, but I haven't had any issues on Linux. You can get an Uno clone for ~$3.

It's also worth considering moving to the Atmega by itself You can get the chip used in the Uno for $2, set it up on a breadboard, program it with an Arduino as the ISP, still use arduino libs if you want, and eventually move to a custom PCB.
rdiddly meanwhile inching closer to lifelong air-travel boycott
> You don't need to accept outside immigration. Japan and Korea are very nice countries that are almost completely ethnically homogeneous.

You need to accept immigration if you want your economy to grow and be sustainable. Japan is an example of what happens if you don't--just look at the Nikkei 225 after 1990.
Your retirement savings have creditor protections - if you have hospital bills you cannot pay, you can go through bankruptcy or another non-payment strategy with your retirement savings largely intact.

It sucks ruining your credit with a bankruptcy event, but it beats out draining your retirement plans.
Los Angeles’ homelessness crisis
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My first thought was right on top, in various layers: skin, fat, muscle, etc.

Nope. They did the brain, testis, spleen, liver, and kidneys.
I can live without the "content". If the "content" is made by somebody who thinks creating "content" on the internet is a viable substitute for a day job and advertisements are an acceptable way of making money, then I would prefer they rather create no "content" at all.
That should be "One question of an older version of the test they used".
Lack of patience or attention span is not a good sign. Architects need to have more of that, not less.
Loads of people do FPGA development for hobby projects, which isn't "software." FPGAs can dramatically improve problems with latency, jitter, power over software implementations, yet are still quite accessible.
Sorry, I don't follow. Are you extending the metaphor or answering literally? Candy is the fossil fuel-intensive lifestyle and eating vegetables is choosing to cut back.
Nice. Another account created just to attack this thread. They really do have an army of either trolls or heavily invested people (see link above)
If that's the case then maybe we can write a program that scrapes 1% of 100 books every day. After 100 days we will have 100 books!
You should think about how your behavior on HN might impact your reports.
Developers who don't ask WHY
Would melting sea ice lead to a rise in sea level? The ice is floating, so it's displacing the approximately same mass of water as it contains. If it melts the overall water level shouldn't change.
The very real possibility of 98% of life on Earth dying?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
I've seen that one before, and the only thing I get out of it is "I wouldn't buy a used car from this guy".
It's fallen to #2 now. I would bet it's recency bias; that guy is probably there from this Hacker News link, made a follow-up answer, and because Quora (like HN and many forums) tends to put new replies at the top to give them a chance & see how they do with voting, it momentarily showed up as the top answer.
I have had the S8+ for awhile, mostly because I wanted a non Chinese phone (because preinstalled China apps are a nightmare) that works in (read: not 'everything on Google') and out of China (I travel a lot) with a good camera (because I have a kid). It has done the job.

The S9/S9+ seem mostly "meh, more of the same". Slightly better camera, some seeping-out-to-the-masses ML novelties, but basically standard incremental upgrade stuff.

At this point I have had S1 (which I helped launch in the US, even went to Samsung HQ in Korea), S3, S6 and S8+ and they're all fine, if expensive, though the Bixby button is definitely annoying on the S8+. I am open to change I just can't find another brand I trust, HTC is dying and the Chinese ones are all full of shitty spyware and popups.
I don't buy that argument outright. I have a six figure savings account and six fig investments going on in my mid 30s earned on my lonesome in the low-wage midwest, and I've always been taken advantage of here on top of it (low paid even for here). Frugality is my game because I care not about materialism.
I believe one has to have a brain the size of a pea, to be impressed by someone's possessions. I coudln't care less about someone having a Mercedes. The Europeans have the right idea, being a big spender is actually extremely tacky and anti-social in my view.

One of my cars is terrible (2000 Mazda). I waste, but not much. I'm repairing it quite often. A single $500 repair is one (very cheap) car payment on a new one. I'm way ahead keeping the old beast going. I can replace the whole car 3 to 6 times over before I get to the price of a new one.

What I do pay with is inconvenience and my time to drag it into the shop. That's value too, but purely financial costs I'm winning.

Overall in the end, I'm going to pickup a cheap (15K), affordable car to replace it with. Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Hyundai Elantra range of vehicles. At those prices, the financial gain is outweighed by convenience for me. So we all "have a price". At least until more of those Tesla Model 3's have been out a while, I'll spend more than I normally would on one of those beauties. :)

A lot of people say it's not worth fixing a car that's worth less than the repair. I disagree, it's money in vs money out. Same concept as calories in calories out. Obviously, the comment you quoted would be correct when you start dealing with outliers/extremes. There's money pits, then there's real money pits.
Some, maybe. Others live perfectly happily without being alone in their heads. I know a story or two about people for whom just talking with the voices was the way they found themselves again. Sure there are people who can't deal with another constant presence or who have deeper issues to work out, but saying that everyone who's part of a plural system needs institutional help is part of the feedback loop that makes them reject their headmates and so need institutional help finding solitude. The key is finding a way to a stable life, not finding a way to a single life.
Why can't this be presented without requiring JavaScript???
this BBC article disagrees:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150420-why-do-women-have-pe...
A friend is a voice actor. She is listed with an agency.

Contacts are anything from adverts to video games to an interactive display in a science museum to a telephone "press 1" system.
advertising is about telling people about your product. If you don't have a great product, it won't sell, no matter how much ads you put out there.
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Americans really shouldn't be commenting on the credit system of other countries...
Yeah was really not thinking McDonalds. They also have those kiosks all over EU locations.
That's why I try to maintain the same lifestyle no matter how much I do or don't have. Once you adjust your spending habits, it's very difficult to change them. I just think out what makes sense, how far I have to be happy, then build a routine around sensible choices. Half of the time, the sensible choices are the healthiest anyway (like taking lunch to work vs fattening fast food).
Nailed it on the head that rational thinking under stress is hard, so people should get their affairs in order when they get a lull in life where they can step back and setup a healthy (financially & otherwise) routine.
> One that shouldn’t feel bad about himself.

Nobody is suggesting that people who don't know all this stuff should feel bad about themselves, just that striving to understand it is admirable.

Also, the idea that you can continue in the same thought process all the way to mining is a little bit weird. Understanding your CPU, its ISA, your OS, etc. are arguably all potentially relevant for software developers. Knowing how to mine is not.
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Yeah, I totally get this. I have no idea why people want stuff. I have one computer, one phone, one guitar, and so on. If I could own just one set of clothing, I'd be happy with that.

It isn't frugality for me, it's just that I can't stand clutter and really, what I consider. I think I missed whatever the definition of having things means.
> In his 60-plus studies focusing on athletes, for example, Hill has found that the single biggest predictor of success in sports is simply practice.

I mean apart of genetic makeup - if you have wrong genetics no amount of practice will help you.
This article is from 2013. Can someone please edit the title with Suffix (2013)?
China and India have the biggest populations, so based on the articles reasoning they stand to have the biggest problems because of loss of jobs.
A huge part of world's population lives on coastal cities. When cities like Mumbai and Dhaka will start to submerge, you can imagine the havoc that will cause. Also, some countries like maldives will completely submerge. I don't think europeans would be very happy about accepting these people, given the situation that has arisen from Middle eastern migration.

A lot of wildlife requires specific environmental situation. A lot of species won't survive changes in temperature.

Most poor people will have hard time surviving either increased flooding or increased droughts. Where I live(South MH, India), we are already facing drought every other year, and I am preety sure this is going to get worse. Millions live in this area. Where do you think we will move when we don't have water? (clue: look for places with more water)

So in short, huge parts of world either get submerged in sea, suffer from severe droughts/flooding, from desertification, or from the destruction of crops. Without food, water and land, people migrate in large numbers, and thus exert more pressure on those places.

Some experts believe that a war is likely between India and China over water in next decade.

I haven't touched the issue of lack of antibiotics and resurgence of old diseases at all.
Lack of teaching empathy is an education issue. No one should think this situation is fair, anyone with sufficient empathy would find this corruption unacceptable in a civil society because it risks loss of trust in it.

The debt company is gaming the system, but it's also ammoral so we should expect this sort of gaming. And perhaps appreciate it for exposing a bug in the rules of civil society, or what should be civil society.

The question is how do citizens react to this weakness in the system being exposed? Selfish individualism says, doesn't affect me, and that just allows more corruption, classism, and distrust. It illiberalizes society. It damages everyone's ability to trust, be trusted, have predictable and fair outcomes.

Yes the courts should be respected, but not by enacting disproportionate punishment for not showing up. The court still needs to be trusted. Why should only the court system, and the debtee be permitted to set the court date and time? Why not give deference to the accused to set the date and time within a 120 day window? It is more fair. Courts serve the people. And the business serves no one.

I also agree with the ACLU's remedies for adequate notification and burden of proof of debt.
It seems pretty unequivocal:

> Samsung Electronics is to slash production at its OLED panel plant in response to customer Apple's decision to reduce output of the iPhone X following weak demand

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/AC/Samsung-to-slash-OLED-pa...
That's absurd. Just recently in Indiana a law was changed allowing up to 400% interest.

Harder? Fat chance. They'll just get the laws changed to screw people over further. Of course it'll be in the name of "access to credit".
Same with BA. They hired a new CEO from a budget airline so budget that noone had even heard of it in the UK. And now he is determined to turn our once-prestigious flag carrier into a clone of it.
The ice on Antarctica is on land.
Although you are right, note that liquid water expands as it heats. Also, not all ice is floating.
Sure.

It shared the market with a lot more useless health insurance, and whether the useful plans were actually available to any given individual was not necessarily a function of how hardworking and conscientious they were.
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Fail-slow at scale: Evidence of hardware performance degradation in prod systems
AFAIK, the current rate of species extinction is exponentially faster than the previous ones. So "perhaps" might not be a suitable word.