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(Disclaimer: I'm kazakh and passively pro-switch)

I'm gonna ignore political aspects of the switch and focus on pseudo-scientific side. (my personal views and thinking)

Except for words and phrases adopted from arabic or sort of persian (also arabic, but 'persianised'), our language is agglutinative and mostly follows vowel harmony. (that might not tell you much, but basically means we don't need any special letters or stacks of letters to hint the spelling - we have kind of built-in elements of style when it comes to phonetics)

After a long period of using arabic alphabet and brief period of latin-based alphabet (yes, we had that until Stalin decided to change horses midstream - for everyone in ussr), we changed our alphabet to cyrillic. (and when I say 'we', I usually mean soviets did that for us)

While doing so, we just took all of 33 letters from russian alphabet and added our own 'custom' letters. This lead to drastic repercussions, because instead of conforming new words and terms to proper lexical and phonetical rules, we adopted everything literally unchanged from or through russian. (no need to remind you that there were no independent science, culture, or literature)

Fast-forward to our days. We have long and clumsy alphabet. We write and spell letters we don't need, sometimes basically speaking two languages at once (it feels like spanglish or franglais, except we don't always have an alternative - it either sounds awkward, doesn't exist, or is so archaic no one knows or cares for it).

My take is giving up and saying well we sucked dick for 100 years so might as well keep doing it is not the answer.

I personally have no idea if there's a way to pay off the technical debt and fix the upstream. Cyrillic is subjectively harder to read or spell because of all the crufty legacy, and the way I see it we don't have a linguistic institution making decisions and defending the language for the sake of the language and its beauty. (god I envy frenchmen and their zealous protection of la Langue).
Typical example of Anti-Humanism. The same idiotic believes people have been peeling for 200s of years. From Malthus to the Nazis to modern Environmentalist moment all the same idiotic believes.

First of all, while climate change can be disruptive, it will absolutely not wipe out humans or anything even close to that. The changes are gradual enough that continues adoption will resolve the waste majority of problems without much issues.

Fossil fuels cause climate change, but the also cause that people went from 30 to 70 years of avg live. Far more people live in China because they have energy from coal. Denying people cheap energy because of climate change will be MORE harmful to them then climate change.

The poorest people on the world who die the earliest are those that don't have access to energy.

Starving our-self of energy is not in efforts to consume less, is a futile effort and will never solve anything.

We should be concerned and adopt solutions and think about the future, but this sort of pessimism is totally unwarranted.

> Hillman doubts that human ingenuity can find a fix and says there is no evidence that greenhouse gases can be safely buried.

The cycle for carbon is understood and we could put carbon into lime stone and put them into the ocean again. Its just an energy problem.
> Elon Musk's PR stunts and Twitter feed are a much more effective method of advertising than the TV and Internet ads other car companies use.

I think there's a bias here. This kind of PR resonates more with "techie" people (as found on HN) than with the rest. For some groups of people, TV ads are probably much more effective.
Huh, interesting. I wonder if that's allowed here, too; the Irish system is a dual public-private system fairly similar to the UK one. I just assumed it wouldn't be allowed because it seems like it'd be an undue burden on the public system.
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Yes, you get a much better random loss protection with RLNC. So if you know that all your losses are bursts you may be able to live with 2022. Essentially the difference between the two algorithms are that with 2022 only a subset of your packets are protected by a redundancy packet (and you have to choose how to protect them), whereas with RLNC you can protect all available packets. If we leave the premise of this post (namely that we want to generate traffic in the same pattern as 2022) RLNC can even protect against longer bursts compared to 2022.

Did that make sense?
Or a peer comment to yours:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16930843

https://web.archive.org/web/20180426113749/https://news.ycom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Edit: Although other problems indeed exist, it does not mean that this particular problem is not important.
Sorry, I was unnecessarily harsh :)
Well, some of them were fun to assemble and play with... for like 10 minutes, to then forget about them forever. That's why I called them "shitty".

The figurines also were kinda shitty, but the ads hyped them and it was entirely a hype/collector thing, not intrinsic value, of course.
I see this as a result of the evolution of data-driven optimisation (as a methodology) in concert with data becoming increasingly more available.

Back in the day of stickers/baseball cards your data granularity was probably down to state/city-level sales by month.

Now in the world of F2P gaming, you have per-minute per-user level of data. You're able to A/B the uplift in sales:
- for introducing slot-machine like sound effects when opening the loot box
- adding flashes when you open the loot box
- giving out fewer lootboxes per hour
- introducing more rare and powerful things in the lootbox

You have "engagement" people who's sole job is to make stuff addictive nowadays, no longer is it a few people's job to dream up something fun to use and collect. It's now a cynical and scientific exercise to ruthlessly optimise IAP.
The article recounts Hillman predicting many problems and suggesting solutions, but not getting them implemented.

If we want to solve environmental problems we have to separate science and engineering from leadership. Scientists' and engineers' training and skills make them effective at collecting data, analyzing it, and making predictions.

They rarely have training to influence people, especially billions of people. JFK's speech advanced us more to the moon than the work of any single scientist or engineer.

Hillman recognizes that we all have to change our behavior. His track record implies he is unskilled at leading others to change their behavior so he conclude's we are doomed.

I don't think looking to scientists or engineers for leadership will help. Data, predictions, implementation plans, yes. Leadership, no.

I believe leadership in the style of Mandela, King, Gandhi, and Havel, suitably adjusted for today's needs, is essential to reduce environmental problems.
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Why does public transit increase travel times?

Well, it doesn't always.

But the journey from Cambridge train station to Coventry train station takes 1h47m by car and 2h16m by train [1], as the train takes a V shaped route via London. Birmingham New Street station to Norwich station takes 3h6m by car, 3h57m by public transport [2]. Kings Lynn to Cromer, 1h7m by car, 2h27m by public transit [3].

And that's going from train station door to train station door in major cities - if you're going to somewhere out-of-town, the public transport penalty can be even greater.

Doesn't mean we shouldn't build public transport, of course. I'm not a car owner, so I rely on public transport to get around. But we also shouldn't deny the downsides of public transport.

[1] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Cambridge+Station+[CBG],+S...
[2] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Birmingham+New+Street+Stat...
[3] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/kings+lynn+train+station,+...
Title is misleading. Keller was at Tesla for two years, but was head of "Autopilot" for less than a year (he took that part over from Lattner, who was head of software for less than 6 months).
I think threads is a big enough of a problem that it can be divided into multiple sub problems where each individual problem deserves a solution. Yes, the resource sharing problem is harder than the part that this solves, but does that really matter?
A good game around it.
That seems reasonable. I imagine colour blindness would also be very useful to detect early.

It sort of argues against the position that genetics determines intelligence though. If intelligence was determined by genetics then you wouldn't think that intervening in a dyslexic child's education a couple of years earlier could make a large difference.
Some differences are:

- The physical card packs have predetermined and known probabilities.

- The 'opening' ceremony is rather benign and not designed to stimulate

- Once printed and distributed no further psychological tweaking mechanisms can be employed to 'hook' the player
But it can be useful. I think of it like BMI. Lots of flaws, but the most effective way of measuring healthy weight in populations.

IQ is similar. Lots of flaws, but how else do you measure intelligence? There are lots of correlations with IQ. Not using intelligence as a measure is silly.

I think it’s just something that uncomfortable, so I like to pretend it doesn’t matter.

If I’m starting a software company, it is useful to have a measure of raw intelligent. Not to he exclusion of other characteristics, and maybe not even the most important. But certainly useful data for planning.

I do think it’s silly to say the totality of intelligence is represented in a single number. But it can be useful. Like credit score. Lots of flaws, but what is a better measure?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329142035.h...
> In other places poor drivers are held responsible for their poor driving

As they should be everywhere. What seems crazy, though, is the belief that every collision is necessarily an instance of a poor driver committing poor driving, with no reference to how a reasonable person would have handled the situation differently.
For some reason I read that and thought you meant watching sport. Do you mean exercise, or specifically competing with others? Seems hard to arrange.
Where people advocate for getting rid of parking just to make it harder to drive, you have a point. But often the argument is that repurposing parking space (e.g. as bus lanes, bike lanes, pedestrian space, or to increase density) is better than the status quo, where a huge amount of infrastructure is dedicated to cars.
kind of like a company behind a share.
The whole point of the article is that we're past the return point, i.e. even if we stopped burning fossil fuels completely now, the temperatures will continue to rise albeit more slowly, so the critical point would be reached later.
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Imagine if you could get your Wacky Packages or Pokemon cards instantly at any time? When I was younger I would have to travel to a shop (which requires begging my parents to take me) just to buy some pokemon cards.

Nowadays, the parent's card is on their app store account and the kid can press a button to receive their instant gratification. It's just too easy...

Combine that with the fact the collecting aspect is attached to an addictive video game.
What about Kinder Surprise? Are they going to make it illegal?
How are you supposed to get repairs then?
> why these things are so addictive

Possible reason: http://psychopathsandlove.com/intermittent-reinforcement/
People have a better understanding of how much they're spending when they use hard currency instead of an electronic charge. IAP just don't feel like spending money the same way handing bills to a retail clerk for some cards does.
More explicitly, my position is this: Ethereum's claims of an upcoming blockchain-powered "Web 3.0" revolution are so overblown that they're indistinguishable from perpetual motion peddlers.

The Ethereum designers don't want to recant their outlandish promises, so they keep proposing increasingly complex bells-and-whistles fixes that sound impressive in a 10,000 word FAQ but won't bring the "global supercomputer" substantially any closer to reality.
Pokemon have had the games and 20 years worth of TV series that are pretty much extended ads.

For IAP: Instant gratification coupled with tons of analytics. Being able to tweak the balance until you get just enough valuable items to continue even if you don't get the item you really badly want. Making it into a weapons race or status race with other players (I once used about $200 on buying boosts in a niche online strategy game because another player pissed me off enough that I "bankrolled" an entire alliance just to see him lose; I subsequently closed my account and never played the game again, as I realized how easy it'd be to keep throwing money at it - it felt worth it for the satisfaction that once, but it'd have been a really bad habit to get into).
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Ha, any suggestions on roles other than programming that are good for night-owls?
Would you please link to the study referencing correlation with reproductive failure?
In some existing languages, yes. But it’s easy to imagine future languages (including future versions of current languages) that disallow creating nurseries outside of a function scope.
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100% Agree. When I hired one for a day and used autopilot it just felt reckless as I felt myself disengaging. The intelligent cruise control is much better.
I'm not sure your analogy sticks. News organisations are purporting to be sources of truth. I don't think that many Github projects are purporting to be sources of audited dependencies.
Bus lanes can be controversial. I cite the bus lane on the M4 motorway in the UK [0], on the stretch that connected Heathrow airport (UK's major air hub) to central London - one of the busiest road sections in the UK. As someone who used this motorway as a single occupancy car driver, it was deeply frustrating to sit for ages in stationary traffic in the remaining two lanes with occasional vehicles (buses, coaches, taxis and motorbikes) going past on the bus lane, sometimes with minutes between them.

Removing the bus lane was specifically mentioned in the 2010 Conservative party conference and was a controversial point on programmes such as Top Gear. It was suspended in 2010, reopened temporarily for the 2012 Olympics and then completely scrapped.

Anecdotally, bus lanes are still widespread on non-motorway roads in UK towns and cities. I have no problems with these lanes, since they seem to have a better ratio of full, frequent buses to cars than on the M4 motorway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_bus_lane
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Who in the hell is charging $1200 to install a serpentine belt? In every car I've seen it's a $20 part and maybe 1-2 hours of labor depending on how annoying the engine design is.
> QT is good if you are willing to pay for the licensing costs for commercial use or you open source your app.

Qt is LGPL, you can use it commercially for free.

It sounds like this is for an internal app they don't plan to distribute, so even the GPL would be fine and not require them to open source it.
It bothered me back then, and I wasn't alone. Here's an article from 1999 in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/24/nyregion/suit-claims-poke...

Obviously the objections to pokemon cards never reached any sort of critical mass as objections to loot boxes seem to be. Maybe that says something about differences between the two industries, or maybe that says something about how society has progressed in the past two decades.
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Many F2P apps prey on people and something should be done.

I was on the train the other day, the girl sitting next to me was playing one of those games where you have to watch an ad to get to the next level.

Just as she was about to level up the train went into a tunnel so the ad wouldn’t play. Within seconds literally she was frantic, eyes staring, pounding the screen with her finger, I almost thought she would crack the glass.

If that’s not addiction I don’t know what is. Makers of these games need to take a good hard look at themselves in the mirror.
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I'm not convinced that the tesla s3 is that far ahead of the Nissan leaf. This reminds me of drop box, and it looks like the competitors have caught up. Don't forget GM has been making cars for a century. It's not that hard for them to make an electric.
These new leaders would a hard time doing their work. Imagine having everybody against you. Almost all industries, media, lobbyists, and most of all - ordinary people who depend on burning fossil fuels (directly in transportation or having someone burn them for most daily-used products). It really seems impossible until some terrible things already start happening.
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First, please be polite.

Second, the Wikipedia article you link to doesn't provide clear information. The number my source cited was from 2016, which is still quite recent. If we're down from 36 million in 2006, that's good news, but it still means that millions still die every year due to starvation and malnutrition.
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You don't see a problem in making "racism," permanently hyperbolic?
Say what? The busiest bus lines in NY run a bus every 2-3 min during rush hours. Many of the streets with bus lanes are ones where multiple lines run.

My pet peeve is Livingston St. in Brooklyn, where 5 different bus lines temporarily converge. At rush hour it's common to see 2-3 buses (each one standing room only) with every traffic light cycle (so every 90 sec or so; a bus every 30 sec). The bus lane is completely unenforced - double parking in the bus lane and general traffic lane is more common than bus lane enforcement. Enforcing it would not only quadruple the commute speed for the hundreds of people per minute on buses, it would also speed up traffic for everyone who has to wait behind buses stopping for passengers; but god forbid placard holders obey the rules that apply to their placards.

Oh, and if you tried to replace those buses with individual cars, even at 4 people per car, it'd take about 2 blocks worth of cars bumper to bumper for each bus. They would not only not fit on the street, they'd stretch for miles down neighboring Flatbush, even if Flatbush weren't already bumper to bumper itself.

The solution to traffic congestion is moving more people per vehicle. Transit does that. The more efficient transit is, the more people take it. You add a bus lane and enforce it, people start taking the bus more. Then it makes economic sense to run more buses to keep those lanes even busier.
The total farmland use hasn't gone up a lot anyway. We have lots and lots of land that could be farmed if we needed it to. Its absolutely not the issue.

Secondly, what evidence do you have that fuel will be more expensive? The shale revolution has made gas cheap and it will stay so for a long time. You can make methanol with gas for example. The proven reserves go up of fossil fuels as well.

There is also no limit on electrical energy, we could build nuclear plants until the cows come home if that is required. France has shown that it possible and that it is not unreasonably expensive.

Even if farmland would somehow be an issue, we could easily do factory farming. The only reason we don't is that its more expensive then using land.
It's all a short internet search away:

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5850/intelligen...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence
It's interesting that lead billing goes to the doctors who injected the drug into a pregnant woman rather than the pharmaceutical company that developed it. "Doctors" cure patients of disease; "drug companies" rip off consumers.
Is there anything of value in a Kinder Surprise? In my experience it's always been a tiny plastic toy with no (even perceived) monetary value. I think the point is to ban things where people are paying money for random items in the hopes that those random items are worth lots of money so they can resell them.
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My mistake, I wanted to say "bipolar disorder".
It is not 'illegal', but it is regulated. Hence the importance of them ruling those three games 'games of chance', as that means they have to comply with the regulation.

https://www.gamingcommission.be/opencms/opencms/jhksweb_en/l...
Thanks for posting this, just added to my digital library. Like many others here, I am a huge fan and his work positively impacts me every day.
The impression I get from statement made here it actually seems to be hugely different. Too much of "should watch out", etc. It's more of a "in case cannot be proven, car is in the wrong". In practice, good luck proving that the bike was doing something weird. As result, they watch out.

I don't understand your comment of "strict liability" btw. It's not black/white situation. However, in general they rule against the car. As result, people on bicycles abuse this (especially in Amsterdam). But there's the benefit of a super huge bicycle usage, so although it's not perfect, it seems worth it.
> [...] Waze, a navigation app that alerts motorists to alternative routes on residential roads, away from the clogged and congested highways.

> Last week City Councilmember David Ryu imploring the city's attorney to take some form of unspecified legal action against the app.

So they want to take legal action against an app that tells people they can use public routes which they didn't know about because the locals along those routes don't like the additional traffic?

Sounds like they're saying "We don't want you to know you can use this road because we don't like having additional traffic". And they want to take legal action to enforce it.

What a joke.
Instead of a separate protocol you can already use a codec with built-in FEC such as OPUS.
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Just rename it to Magic the Gambling for clarity
At what point does a shrub become a tree?
Never into Pokémon or MtG, but aren’t they a ToTALLY different thing from baseball cards?

The purpose of Pokémon and MtG cards are to use them in games/competitions, where the more desirable/expensive cards yield a game advantage.

But baseball cards were(are) primarily used for fans of the players/game, to learn about players (stats),not a game in itself. Sure some cards were more desirable than others, but more for bragging than game advantage.

I think the more comparable to Pokémon and MtG, is fantasy sports leagues where the addiction is rampant.
depending on how complex your url structure is you could have wget download everything from your local cms, then rsync it to your webserver. I have been considering doing this with a side project I am working on.
Same thing is true of football cards here in Europe, to complete 1 sticker book, like for the forthcoming world cup someone calculated will cost something like £1500.

I can't remember the numbers, but there's 32 teams of 11 players (not including subs), there's 8 cards in a pack, of which there are typically 2-3 duplicates, so you need to buy multiples of the same team just to complete one team and then swap with friends at school to complete the others.

And that's the hook that gets ~~kids~~ parents buying, it's the element of peer pressure. My boy is not into football and isn't collecting the cards, he's currently a social outcast as a result. Fortunately, he has a strong character and isn't bothered by it, but peer pressure is the answer to your question IMO.

Edit: typos.