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IMO, Webpack (and React Router [0]) have been in this weird and honestly toxic place, where there was very little regard held for backwards compatibility and gradual deprecation by the core teams at first, so businesses with larger apps became marooned on previous versions as soon as the first major version change... thereby not contributing their expertise and bug reports (they spent that time fighting against the lack of documentation), and thereby making it even more difficult for the core teams to get feedback on people's real-world migration woes.

It's fair to say that there were problems in the earlier APIs, but if that's the case, make changes gradually, even create an RFP process, tease/market your API change proposals to get feedback from people who might say "this is not something we can adopt easily, but you could add this param for backwards compatibility." It'll take longer to get to an API that feels "perfect," but it makes for a stronger culture.

[0] https://github.com/ReactTraining/react-router/blob/master/pa...
It may be an all-stainless chassis, but in a $250 dollar machine, my guess is you're getting a brass boiler.

Edit: nope, you're right. SS boiler apparently
It's odd that they mentioned Norwegian at all. Nothing wrong with Norwegian of course, but the researchers are Swedish, and "jakten" means "the hunt" in Swedish just like Norwegian.
OK, so faster builds—and what else? Why not wait until documentation catches up and spare yourself the trouble?
A carbon tax on beef would have exactly zero impact on my consumption. It would sure reduce it at the low-end of the economic spectrum, but beyond a certain point it won’t make a difference.

I’m against taxing things because they’re bad for us.
> My main gripe with Japanese companies is that they simply don't pay as well as American ones do.

Fair, but Tokyo can be much, much cheaper than SF or NYC (in my personal experience, rent alone is up to a 2-3x difference. Same with dining out - a 1500¥ dinner easily runs you $30-40 with tip in SF).
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> If this were React we would've had a deprecation warning for a few versions.

If this were React, you would have got docs with a release.

Choosing to release before documentation is done, for a tool developers are supposed to use as a black box, which has a lot of strange configuration that is required, is a really strange choice for something with so many breaking changes.
It'd be a belligerent, regressive tax on the bottom 2/3.

There are other prime carbon tax choices that place the tax burden higher up the income scale. We should be starting there.
I find the experience the same. I had to fight and defend my question multiple times and added all sorts of irrelevant details, and in the end, the question was still closed. I eventually found out the answer on my own.
They report them. And then nothing happens because its in the interest of Twitter's business to not do anything about it.

To be fair, I'm sure some will be blocked but the problem with Twitter bots is that the only way to get rid of the problem is to ignore false positives. That will fix the issue but replace it with a different problem, as it clearly won't make for happy users.

I've been using Mastodon quite heavily recently and the "ban first" approach is taken by many instances. They can do that since the network is decentralised. Twitter, on the other hand can't do the same thing.
I'm nowhere near becoming vegetarian or biking everywhere, but I have all but given up beef for this reason. Eating a quarter-pounder is similar to burning a gallon of gas, which is shockingly worse than most other meats. Ars Technica had a good writeup awhile back:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/10/emissions-eschmissio...
Because not all carbon-generative activities also produce methane, which is the real destructive part about beef. Also, some other carbon-generative activities (e.g. driving) are already taxed pretty heavily.
Assuming the spring water company is actually complying with the limits. That would also be worth testing. I wouldn't be particularly surprised if a spring water company was lax with ongoing testing and making sure to test the water once it has been through their whole process and is in bottles.

There was a case with cranberry juice in Australia (I think it was) where school kids tested store bought cranberry juice and found it contained zero vitamin C. Something about the way the juice was processed and bottled destroyed all the vitamin C but no one had ever bothered to test the juice after processing and bottling.
There is a variety of seaweed (Asparagopsis taxiformi) that reduces the methane emissions from cows by 99%:

(warning: autoplay) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/people-and-culture/food/t...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10811-014-0487-z

Would it not be easier for us to require that be included in their feed? Everyone gets the beef they want with a small increase in cost to cover seaweed supply chain costs. This does not solve the water pollution or the animal welfare issues of industrial farming (fingers crossed for "clean meat", or vat grown meat), but its a climate change shim.
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OK sure, do we also put carbon tax on wheat, and other vegetables? ~750 million tons of wheat is produced yearly, vs ~260 million tons of beef. Excepting the case of perennial plants, unused parts of vegetables (e.g. wheat straw) have a hefty carbon footprint. BTW, rice is a case in itself.
This is WONDERFUL! no really. The first step to a world without money . Imagine a powerful govt AI keeping track of your karma and then determining what you can access, get or use. There won't be any shortcuts or cheats. People with a lot of money will be on the same level as people without. The currency of success will be the help we give to each other. The only way this can work is of course a powerfully networked AI that is transparent. So if somebody seems to be at the top of the heap, everybody else can audit his/her behavior data to see how he/she got there. If this system is not transparent, then it is just another tool for the powerful to exploit the weak.
Now go look at Apple laptops... it will make you sad.
As actually stated in the comment you linked to, it is not hardcoded but scales with the instance size to protect against an out-of-memory condition. The lack of it being user configurable is a separate issue, and not a bug but rather a design detail of their managed service.
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Good Godwin.
The article mentions Service Pack 6. You needed to install 6a which fixed up many faults of 6, like e.g. not being able to disable Nagle's algorithm for TCP (not funny when you wanted to send around short TCP messages).
Fair points. I'd add that EJIW has a lot of infrastructure and can still get iron ore from the Upper Penninsula of Michigan on freighters that fit through the draw bridge in Charlevoix and then ship out to the Atlantic if necessary. So it kind of makes sense to stay there. Plus the summers in that area are absolutely incredible.
The article explains the case for this. Meat from cattle is easily substituted, gas for heating your home less-so.
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I'm increasingly convinced that carbon taxes, as well as cap-and-trade schemes, would end up being gamed like any other tax systems. They would create substantial complexity and harm the economy without reducing emissions by as much as expected.

There are some examples in this article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gaming-carbon-mus...
When Japanese friends refer to me as gaijin, I never feel offended. When some teen punk at a metro station in Tokyo shoved me and yelled "GAIJIN" in my ear, somehow it upset me. Go figure.
529 plans are not too dissimilar. Middle-class families can reliably predict that their children will go to college, and make marginal sacrifices to contribute to tax-advantaged investment accounts over 18 years vs. ignoring the reality until their children are seniors in high school and then staring down impossible bills that become crushing debt loads or deferred dreams.
What I do is pick one goal for a period of time and focus on that.

Sometimes that goal is simply getting my job done - get enough sleep, get up early.

Sometimes it's to learn something, read a book, finish a personal project, get a job, win a game. In these cases I'd break down what I need to accomplish these tasks, along with a plan.

Sometimes it requires more information and so the plan becomes to set the timeline.

The biggest issue in this field is that there's a bottomless amount of interesting things to do. So if you do whatever just feels interesting, you bounce from one thing to the next without really getting anything done in depth.
Eating beef, particularly industrial beef, also disproportionally damages the health of the bottom 2/3. Taxing it addresses several issues at once and hastens the day people eat less of it in favor of healthier and more environmentally friendly alternatives. It also raises awareness of just how much industrial farming contributes to greenhouse gases. Most people don't know.
If Jane Kim becomes mayor it will get exponentially worse. The city is incredibly poorly run and dirtier than any other city in America that I’ve been too.
I'd suggest trying pork. I've eaten a lot of pork over the past year. It's a tasty and versatile cut & apparently very good for the environment!
> Just remember, in the US the Supreme Court has ruled that it's legal for news publications to lie to their readers/viewers.

Citation please. If you're talking about the Jane Akre/Steve Wilson lawsuit, that's factually inaccurate.
Ah yes, because all these [1] successfully completed missions were made up for marketing purposes.

[1]: http://www.spacex.com/missions
Meat is at least more complex/interesting in that it can also directly affect things like human health. I see where you're going with this and, yes, reductio ad absurdum it boils down to basic income and carbon taxes, but meat rationing would seem to have a behavior modification component as well that the other two producers you listed don't really have beyond a superficial level.

I have not yet formed an opinion for better or for worse, but thought it key to point out a potential argumentative difference.
>My point is that functionalist accounts of the property of e.g. 'being in pain' are transparently not accounts of anything we can recognize as potentially being a phenomenal property.

To me this is assuming more than we have a right to. It's presupposing an ontological distinction between phenomenal appearances and functional processing. Sure, we have an intuition that says they are distinct as well as explanatory gaps that cause us to question such an identity. But that in itself isn't enough.

>but in the absence of any positive argument to this effect, why assume so?

Depends on what you consider a positive argument. There are certainly many reasons to prefer a functionalist approach, e.g. its the most parsimonious way to cash out the correlations between brain states and phenomenal states, it doesn't suffer from the combination problem, inverted spectrum/valence problems, etc.

>None of Searle's arguments against functionalism rely on the premise that physicalism is false.

It depends on what you mean by physicalism. Often there's an ambiguity between physicalism and materialism, so let me clarify. Physicalism is the idea that brain processes are logically identical to phenomenal properties. To put it another way, there's no possible world where you have physical properties identical to this world that doesn't have consciousness. But physics tells us that physical properties just are sets of physical interactions. Thus physicalism leads directly to substance independence, and so a perfect simulation of a brain would be conscious.

>There isn't any distinction between feeling pain and seeming to feel pain.

I agree, but the point of the "it seems that P" is to cast the problem in a theory-neutral manner. You take functionalism to be a non-starter as an explanation of consciousness, and so you're quick to erase the "it seems that..." from the equation. This wording is necessary to avoid our biases from infecting our language thus biasing the investigation. The point of referencing Chalmers paper was for his exploration of the problem space that was theory-neutral. I disagree with Chalmers' conclusions but he always offers good exposition.
Considering there are almost 100million cattle alive in just the USA right now, I'd say that 60million 200+ years ago are pretty negligible ;)

http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/Catt/Catt-01-31...
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DARPA needs to be unleashed on global warming. Their has to be a means of "scooping" CO2 and other green house gases out of the sky with autonmous solar powered drones and breaking them down, for instance breakdown CO2 to Carbon and Oxygen.

The idea may sound absurd but I believe it threads the needle of the GOPs love for defense spending and opposition to negative economic impacts, with everyone elses desire to save the planet.
> let’s give everyone a meat quota (at some sustainable level) and allow them to trade their quota for cash or buy more

That's not a very good policy. If the point is to reduce carbon emissions and not to get people to eat less meat, then why would you effectively ban technologies that make meat production more carbon efficient?
Some things are more important than well-functioning free markets. The recent wars have actually been relatively small with only a small fraction of the total military deployed at any given time. CRAF is an insurance policy for a potential major future conflict that requires transporting the bulk of the military around the world on short notice. All wars are hypothetical ... until someone starts shooting.
It’s like anything else, if I can get the same service at a better price, why pay more? Voting with my feet worked for me. Pensions cost taxpayers a ton of money. Maybe SF can afford it today, but these are long term commitments for very real (fixed pension) costs. Someday SF will no longer be in this boom - then what?
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Because it allows everybody access to the same quantity, while rewarding those who abstain.
Most newspaper websites let you read N articles for free every month (/week/whatever). The WSJ is the major exception I'm aware of, but IIRC, they do actually show you the content if you click from the google results directly.
It's probably because memory issues are simultaneously one of the simplest, most easily-defined issues to solve and also potentially quite severe.

The more important issues we face are also significantly more difficult to solve with a simple tool, so there's correspondingly fewer solutions to even look at and they're often more disruptive to test than a new language.
Cap-and-trade worked well with acid rain. As with any policy if it is not written well, is poorly enforced, or poorly implemented it will likely fail. It can be implemented well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Rain_Program
From my understanding (which could be complete and total junk science/quackery)... wheat and other vegetables are carbon neutral. CO2 is extracted from the atmosphere, and used to grow the plants. Even unused parts (wheat straw) are a type of carbon "sink" in that the atmospheric carbon is trapped in organic matter which can be "upcycled" into paper products, etc.

I believe this thought process is why corn-ethanol was so hyped, as it was sold as a 'net carbon zero' fuel.

Not looking for a flamewar here, and I would be grateful if you could correct any misunderstandings I may have. I've got an 8th grade science-fair level of education on this one, so I'm more than open to your thoughts!
Beef has a vastly larger carbon footprint per KG than any grain. It's the least environmentally efficient protein source there is. And that's not even factoring in wasteful and excessive use of antibiotics, pollution of water sources etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/21/giving-u...
Also, Model 3 sales estimates for Feb were 2,485: https://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/
Different emissions have different levels of global warming potential. If carbon dioxide has a global warming potential of 1, then Methane has a Global Warming Potential of 28-36 over 100 years [0].

I wouldn't even single out carbon dioxide per se. If you're going to start an emissions tax and do it right, you might as well target all green house gas emissions and base the tax rate off their global warming potential which takes into account both the energy they absorb and their longevity in the atmosphere.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/understanding-global-warmin...
Your argument needs some numbers on it for clarity.

Here is some info for you

http://www.greeneatz.com/foods-carbon-footprint.html
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That's a straw man criticism. Emotions are real. Feelings are real. Being offended is real.

The world just is the way it is. One's reaction is the only thing one has power over.
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Exactly. This is the goal of http://FnProject.io -- power of containers + simplicity of serverless. No managed service yet but there will be, and anyone can run the bits to create a service of their own.

I do agree with Paul about containers having a greater update surface area, but we think this is also solvable and doesn't need to be a responsibility of the developer either.
The examples w3schools have are useful, and MDN has less of them. But maybe that's my subjective experience. Still, I've made lots of use from both of them, and looking past the first hit should not be that difficult, especially for us programmers.

Edit: funny that people downvote this.
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If the tax was placed as a fixed cost per pound of cattle product, regardless if its prime steak or pink goo, it would be a hard tax to game: In the end all meat products are packaged and a weight placed on it.
Most likely but thats not 100%. Unfortunately the specs may not be correct if the manufacturers of the individual input components and materials have not been honest.

For example there is a hospital in Australia (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/lead-levels-in-perth-c...) that has been massively delayed due to lead mysteriously appearing where there should be none and asbestos also appearing where there should be none. From what I know, the sources have turned out to be manufacturers in China either knowingly misrepresenting their products or using contaminated materials in their own manufacturing.

Unfortunately testing is the only way to be sure.
Sure why not. C0₂ emissions per grain calorie are a lot smaller than per meat calorie, so it won't have as much impact on behavior.
Alright - Bad example. Nice SQL query!

Can we then take that raw event data, like this query, and identify users with anomalous usage patterns, automatically alerting administrators of odd activity in a timely manner?

Your answer might be "Yes". If so, I applaud your ingenuity and Redshift's ability to process data in a timely manner. It's pretty awesome, I admit!

But I believe that the best way to answer these kind of questions is to track behavioral analytics in a format that is easier to think about and easy to analyze.

Events are too deep in the weeds, I think. I may be wrong about that - But the tools I build with this will either speak for themselves or fall by the wayside as a failed experiment in history!
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Not to mention that you need to grow the grain to feed the beef if they aren't grass fed cattle.
I remember reading of Babel maintainers releasing betas and asking for feedback but not many helped; most just came to complain after the release.

Webpack 4 has been in beta for a while but not enough people tested it on real projects, evidently.
I dunno if that's what OP meant or not, but either way I'd note the actual malice standard only applies to public officials and public figures, which is defined fairly narrowly.

I certainly don't think that qualifies as a decision that "the news media can lie". In fact, to the extent you can prove the news media was lying in a report about a public figure (that is, the news media published something they knew to be false), that's explicitly covered. That's the opposite of what OP claimed.
If carbon is harmful, I don't see why we should play favorites. The environment doesn't care where the carbon comes from. Put a tax on everything in proportion to its carbon production. Meat, vegetables, electricity bill, airplane tickets, etc. And this includes the disposal as well as production.
Industrial farming is dependent on fertilizers derived from natural gas and diesel to run tractors. No industrially produced crops are carbon neutral.
Not a worry in most other developed countries.
I've never saw cherry blue switches in the office but browns, blacks and reds are common. While switches themselves don't give loud feedback, keys hitting the keyboard frame are loud enough. No one makes a fuss about it. Not to mention that not all open space offices are that silent. Mine isn't. Not that everyone is listening to a music but chatter can be heard all around.
I know that this is tongue in cheek , but shouldn't we give the maintainers time to solve the documentation before we start complaining too much?
The changes they are making seems to make sense to me. They are adopting patterns that the community uses and provide solutions to hacks that have emerged from real needs. Webpack was in my opinion already simple, and it's getting simpler every release. I can't imagine the horrible mess I would have if I went back to gulp.
We have different value systems, but that's okay.

EDIT: > Our value systems aren’t really relevant here - I would love a pension and I’d love it if we all had them, but that ship sailed a long time ago.

Yes, they are. I support pensions for those who have them because I support societal safety nets, which those are a part of. You say the ship has sailed, but it hasn't. If people advocated for these sorts of systems, they would exist. They still can exist. Workers just need to demand them.

> Nope, I’m just not willing to pay for it since paying more for the same services does nothing to better my situation.

I like taxes. With them, I buy civilization. Otherwise, it's going to be a race to the bottom, which you might be fine with, but I am not. Everybody has to be comfortable with their decisions.
Genetic variance based on geography much like the situation with lactose intolerance.
The conversation you are reading is obviously different from the one I'm writing. Talking about the growth rate of a country is not a non-sequitur when the conversation centers on growth rates in general. Comparing or discussing the growth rate of a neighboring country not mentioned by the original poster is not a non-sequitur.

To be clear, the OP suggested that Nigeria's population growing to 752 million people was a realistic expectation. I view it as absurd. To illustrate the absurdity, I showed the population growth of a neighboring country (in the same data set) that displays a truly absurd amount of population growth. I'm calling into question their source but even so I'm not doing so aggressively or in a debating-context. I was just asking a question hoping to gain more insight into the OP's opinions.
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