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I see the problem to be that any investment in greenhouse gas reduction now takes away from present consumption or other investments so that future generations can benefit, but it is generally considered that as time goes on people get more wealthy. Furthermore, it'd take significant emissions reductions commitments from the US and China in an international climate agreement to make any progress, while countries like Maldives, Turkey, etc benefit greatly.

Basically the incentives arent necessarily aligned because not all countries will be impacted the same by climate damages. Although, economists consider climate damages to be externalities which are market failures that cause economic inefficiency. I believe that with the right carbon tax, unpaid externalities can be resolved by correcting the price of energy such that the future damages are accounted for. The issue again is no nation can agree to anything on an international scale and steps to decarbonizing must start from the bottom up.
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People die when a civil engineer messes up. Most people don't die from a website.
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General commentary based on your use of the words “enhance” and “near instant”:

Especially in places of higher latency (e.g. Australia), using JavaScript for things like this does not enhance the user experience, but rather increases the delay, because additional round trips are required, especially when it’s over TLS on a different host as in this case.

On a good connection at these latencies (~300ms), these near instant search results you describe take around four seconds to load, rather than under a second and a half as it would be if it just served the final DOM directly—or 100ms if it could serve the whole thing from an edge location. (Having to execute half a megabyte of JavaScript for a search page before it will actually do the search seems fairly absurd too.)

Subsequent searches without a page reload will also often take 2–3 seconds due to the connection having been closed and the DNS TTL being only one minute, so it’s got to resolve that again, open a new TLS connection, et cetera.

I really wish people would actively avoid the fancy JavaScript SPA approach. (And I work on such an SPA.) There’s a place for them, but this is not a good demo of that place.
The consensus per ipcc is that agw is very unlikely to lead to human extinction.
You'd still have to agree on what rules to base your blockchain on. This is a political issue, not a technological one.
Like being in a car going 60 mph and there's a cliff 100 feet away... But we're not talking about braking, we're arguing about by how much we should take our foot off the gas pedal.
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I support the idea of giving targeted raises to select teachers, such as STEM teachers. Finding and keeping STEM teachers in the US is a problem. I say this, because I use to be a STEM teacher. I taught for two years and then left for the tech industry (I joined the statistic). The major factors that drove my decision were money, time, and respect. Within two years in industry, I was making more than I ever could have teaching. I also work less and feel more respected in society too.
I meant the expectation of how much to sleep. It's often claimed that in the past people slept much more, but hunter gatherers actually sleep on average 6.5 hours a night.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170220-the-surprising-trut...
I'm sure there will be several applicants this winter, pitching an idea like that. You've got to sell that shovel before the gold rush is over.
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This has never been more relevant: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=143352
Bottom line, we need a space elevator.
The endless rolling stream of ‘we’ve only got x years left to do something’ from scientists does seem rather suspicious
> Old-world monogamous societies were egalitarian

Not for the women. At what date in your society were women given the right to not be raped within marriage? (In the UK this was 1986, by the way)
Surely you're aware of what is known as inalienable rights? Rights that you cannot sign away no matter what?
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/export?userId=x (make sure to validate they are logged in)

gather data: select * from every table that has userId

pack it into understandable format: every language i have used makes json, xml, csv pretty darn easy

delete: delete from....

backups: i am surprised your hobby project takes backups. perhaps have a table with userIds that were deleted, and when you make your new backup, remove all their data?
How far does this go, though?

For example, on my silly little blog, I've got logging for each http request that records the url hit, the ip address, and a browser user agent. I can trace that session through, and have a pretty good fingerprint of that user from that alone. If that person goes and sends me an email or leaves a comment with some tidbit of information that correlates (name, where they are from, email, what post they were reading, etc), have I now accidentally collected enough information that it violates GPDR?
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I'm aware of the risks involved in going outside and I plan accordingly, that's why I have a life insurance. I wasn't the one who said that was a "scenario that never happenS"
Really how is he supremely unqualified for stating his opinion on this? He is a fucking legendary physicist and when compared to the guy who is quoted in this article he has way more credibility. The article takes pains to refer to Mayer Hillman as a "social scientist" but he is not even that kinda of "scientist" he has a degree in Architecture and has worked as a city planner. He has never worked as a scientist in his life. Look I think climate change is a real issue that needs addressed but we can't let these so called "social scientists" spew bullshit and then wonder why people are losing trust in real science.
>If your business model is based on something that will violate the GDPR

Again, part of the problem is that it's not clear what does and doesn't constitute a violation.
I really like the 1980s translation by Gia Fu Feng with black and white photos by Jane English: https://www.amazon.com/Ching-25th-Anniversary-English-Mandar...
This is called Geoengineering and most proposals mimic some form of natural effect that reduces net energy absorbed by the earth. It actually is significantly cheaper to reduce the physical effects of greenhouse gas emissions than it is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions themselves. Cloud ships which turn seawater into clouds to reflect light back into space before it hits the darker ocean beneath sounds like an interesting plan, but the issue with geoengineering is it does little for ocean acidification.
i m talking about inequality in the sexual marketplace. if you re talking about equality of rights then i dont follow how "suddenly there's fewer people they can feel superior to"
Hi there, a little background on Studentment:

I started to think of Studentment when I was at the career fair in my school. I waited 30 minutes in line only to speak to a company employee for 30 seconds. How was I possibly going to make a connection in that time?

Studentment allows students to book a guaranteed 30 minute phone call with company insiders. Upon booking, they set objectives for the call (pre-interview help, resume critique, etc.), which guide the call. Company insiders set their price and time availability beforehand.
You are absolutely correct. However, it’s still important to vocally disagree with opinions that dismiss the impact of climate change. It could prevent observers from falling into the trap of thinking those old and tired red herrings lead to some undiscovered path that the rest of us have missed.
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Thank you for this. Wish this is the kind of thing that was posted on HN more often.
I'll second that recommendation! One of the better books I've read last year.
Accusing Dyson, of all people, of "believing comforting hypotheses"…

And why jump to the strawman of "denying climate change" right away? Did you actually watch the interview? You might be feeling righteous zeal, but ideological lenses don't do people any good in the long run. That is exactly Dyson's point.
What do we do with these men?
If we want to have any chance of limiting temperature rise to 2 degrees we would need to stop emitting any carbon dioxide at all a lot sooner than that.[1] I'm really pessimistic that we'll manage to do that.

[1] http://trillionthtonne.org/
And again, the entire point being made is that it's damn-near impossible to soundly reason about the GDPR.

This is, again, because the legal text is ambiguous.
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Compiling larger projects, I certainly do not feel that Clang et.al. are fast enough. It takes minutes to compile stuff at work with 32 Xeon threads powering through at full load.

Once it takes seconds, we can talk about "fast enough".
>why is that any more true for the GDPR than any other law?

Because the GDPR is extraordinarily ambiguous.
I now just use the todo app in my phone to keep tasks deferred.

The important difference is I don't let it get longer than 10 items.
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Space-based reflectors on the scale of 600,000 square miles could cost about $800B if we could get transport costs down to $50/kg, it'd cost about $400 Trillion at the current cost.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a3719/42...
I recently fixed my sleep problems by getting some earplugs and learning how to use them properly (there's a technique). I couldn't believe the difference it made.
Tangent, but English-PhD =/=> good writer..
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> [...] You are not creating neutral things in a vacuum; there is no neutral ground in a burning world[1]. That "small thing on the internet" might be reuniting families that were separated by work or politics, or it might be undermining the support structures of an entire industry or community [...]

Your points are well argued - especially regarding the ethical and social implications of what we create, and I agree with them, however we have differing definitions of "small" in this context.

Your arguments apply to things that are maturing and are reasonably big already, but big things have small beginnings... and the internet/web is a fantastic place for nurturing those very very small ideas for basically free, this law appears to threaten those small ideas.
I paddled alot of these: The old wodden "Deltas" width the ridiculous beam width of 75cm as well as a monstrous version made out of composite that was near impossible to trim in windy conditions. I hated those.

I made a few strokes in the famous 2001 model Olimpia that was extremely difficult to trim. Like dancing on a toothpick. I liked the characteristics of that boat though: Very stiff and always straightening itself up. Due to it's shape it had bad directional stability. In situations with wind or a competitor next to you, you had the disadvantage of having to steer alot. Steering slows you down and costs stamina as hell.

Then the Dominator that had a much better directional stability, but would always tilt unless you kept in in balance. I never really liked that.

Now Plastex uses a trapezoid geometry in it's Fighter-line. For me that's the best of both worlds. It combines the characteristics I like from the Olympia and the directional stability of the Dominator. It's a pleasure to drive that boat! Still, it's even less stable in waves than the other ones and I regularly get frightened in churned up water. The Dominator was much more smooth here.

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> The problem with translating any Chinese classics lays in their multi-layered meaning. Old Chinese literature is complicated

I concede that can be troublesome. But, from a different perspective, it’s also kind of liberating.

> understanding Dao De Jing is problematic even for native speakers of Chinese

That being true, it allows you enough room of not being ashamed of your own interpretations, if you find them useful. In that sense, the text is much more alive, talking to you directly, instead of being an unsolvable puzzle that takes you away from it.
I paid a token amount (and my own legal fees) and offered to remove the content to make it go away.

She tried the same stunt on someone else who went to a reporter, and tried to case the in the court of public opinion. She was resoundingly defeated.
We don't have a global political consensus that we should be spending massive amounts of money to reduce global warming at all and, more importantly, who will be paying for that.
You left out the reserve requirements, wiki has a nice chart on how reserves affect expansion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fractional-reserve_bankin...

I've heard people say that the fractional reserve system causes the boom and bust cycle, because when banks lend money, the create the principal not the interest which leads to a shortfall at some point. Not sure if this is right tho.
and yet ironically, one of the goals of acting + writing is to transform this human contact and emotional experience into a form that can be consumed with computers, ipods, televisions and cellphones.
Alternatively, they could say: "It's already too late", but then surely nobody would do anything.

It's better to keep coming up with new goals, so they can say "Do something in the next X years or Y" will happen. Then at least we might be able to prevent something.
Right now, we think about the possibility to integrate with Wordpress or Symfony.

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Did he promise "riches and success" to family and friends? When I read that part I immediately put myself mentally into those shoes and thought the only honest way to raise money from loved ones is to say "I believe in this project, I want it to succeed, I calculate a reasonable probability of success in which case your investment has the potential to be worth $XYZ. HOWEVER, you should be aware that ALL startups are a total crapshoot, and it's also a very reasonable possibility that you will lose all your money so please do not invest anything that you cannot afford to lose."

We don't know whether OP pitched it this way to friends and family, but I sincerely hope he did.
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I’ve always been curious as to what “psychological training” would consist of to prepare for seeing such explicit content day in and day out. Perhaps something similar to military/war psychological practices?
No, they shouldn't.

If some EU yahoo calls me at my mail order product company in Michigan, it's not on me to verify that they're ordering a product legal in the EU and they've paid taxes on it. That's on them. The same applies on the internet, but even more so.
I find that works well for jet lag also (when your body really doesn’t want to be asleep).
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The melting arctic ice sheets cause an influx in cold freshwater in the north atlantic which works to slow the rate of thermohaline circulation, which is responsible for bringing warm sea water (energy) to the poles which accelerates melting. It's a big unknown what exactly will happen, but it's possible that the damages of climate change are less than projected if the thermohaline circulation slows sufficiently to bail out the world until it can start reducing carbon emissions cost effectively.
Laws like GDPR are written in such away that make them open to "legal trolls" in the US we have several of these laws that are routinly used to extort settlements out of small business. These laws are generally viewed as good laws with good intentions but because of their poor wording are open to massive interpretation and thus abuse.

Patent, Copyright and Disability Access laws in the US are to examples commonly Abused laws for this type of behavior

The problem is the legal system in most nations are setup in away that gives the guilty and the wealthy an advantage over the innocent with limited resources

Laws and Legal Systems should be

1. Very Specific and not open to interpenetration

2. Have options for "settlement" as this rewards the guilty, and harms the innocent

3. Have more public resources for people with limited resources. Law firms and Large corporations use Legal Expenses has a weapon in Civil Courts over smaller companies due to the high costs and generally no public resources for Civil access

4. All Civil Cases must have to show Actual Damages not Theoretical Damages

that would be a start
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Climate change seems too much to me like a stick being used to advance an agenda. Whenever a solution is proposed it always dovetails with something the person proposing it would want anyway.

Instapundit - right wing law blogger - used to put up posts that would start "I'll believe Climate Change is a problem when X believes it is" and then link to an article about some celebrity flying 50,000 miles a year or doing something else that put a trillion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. Good for a laugh I suppose but honestly I wonder if there's not some truth there.

Why are the solutions always sold on the basis of "win/win" with the both wins going to the same end of the political spectrum? I understand that it sounds like extortion or blackmail but it seems like if you really want a solution you have to sell it to people who don't agree with your politics not just try and ram it down their throats.
Do we really have to call anything that touches data science a bit AI.. that's almost just clickbait.
>> For those considering exploring some of these steps in their own garage -- the chemistry is dangerous, perhaps HF in particular, as it doesn't hurt, it just kills you a few hours later.

I was hoping that with 50 years of development behind us, the home fabricators could use less complex methods and less hazardous chemicals. In other words, can the folks who lived it help people like this by saying "If we had to do it over, I'd go about it like...."

Any suggestions? If you had to reboot the chip fab business on a budget what would be a more practical approach?
Sorry, it was indeed an off-the-cuff remark in poor taste.
Exact quote from his Wikipedia page: "m]y objections to the global warming propaganda are not so much over the technical facts, about which I do not know much, but it’s rather against the way those people behave and the kind of intolerance to criticism that a lot of them have".

Sounds unqualified to me. Knowing the technical facts seems like it would be important.
Does anyone know why so much water is used to manufacture LCDs ? And why can't it be in close circuit, like using an aero refrigerant tower like the ones of nuclear plants ?
That does not mean that software has no real world consequences. Otherwise, why would people be building software ?

There's a reason companies which are 100% software can be valued in the billions of dollars. Their software has huge, very real consequences.
I like to think of meditation as garbage collection for the brain. If you don't do it at a specific time to suit you, your brain will do it at the only time it's idle (when you're trying to fall asleep)
That really depends on your definition of "work". They certainly spend more clock cycles and produce more heat.

They might have some more comprehensive optimization passes eating extensive cycles, but even rustc debug builds are extremely slow in comparison to the Go standard compiler.
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> You get reported to an authority that will handle the process.

And then the authority will prosecute and fine you. You're screwed either way.
>How much sleep someone needs varies a lot.

From everything I've read (at the medical documents/research, not the lifehack level) it doesn't vary much. It varies only a little with age and the presence (or not) of a gene, but it's the same across such groups (e.g. not some individual organism preference).

Those that sleep less simply damage their body, and will pay for it later and with reduced functioning (compared to enough sleep) -- it's not that they actually "need less". Same for those that sleep more.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12683469

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12603781

Most researchers now believe that the relationship between sleep duration and mortality (link is external) is best described as a U-shaped curve with the right side of the “U” considerably higher. That is, less than 5 1/2 hours of sleep is associated with some degree of increased mortality. However, sleeping beyond 9 or 10 hours per night, is associated with a markedly increased mortality
> My problem is that I cannot pick any random Java library out of Maven and be 100% assured that it will run at all on Android.

You need to stop thinking of the Android SDK as Java, because it isn't. It has Objective-C to C similarities.

It doesn't have API compatibility, or bytecode compatibility or even the same class constructors.

Thinking they're pretending to be the same is going to cause nothing but frustration, and hurt you. It'll irritate and chafe more every time you have to touch that god-awful ecosystem.

> it gets love support like yours instead of the hate Microsoft

No Google does not get my love, I have ranted against their practices for years. This conversation has been about legalities, not ethics.

They suck as a company - but we have ecosystems built around compatible APIs, a legal precedent here would be awful for everyone. (Firefox's new extension API, the entire JS ecosystem, etc.)