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I'm just pointing out that the physical intuition you have from looking at a pegboard is incomplete. That's not the only way, either. The ozone layer is above all terrain and 99% of the atmosphere, so it receives direct unfiltered sunlight. Neither time of day nor latitude is relevant at this altitude. The only thing that blocks the sun is the rotation of the earth, which as we've observed has different effects in polar regions than in e.g. the equatorial region.

Gosh physical intuition can be misleading! It's almost as if it would be better to take actual measurements of sunlight, like many scientists have done.
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.. but why?
That seems like a valid explanation for the "start" of a hole if there was a continuous stream of _only_ CFCs and chlorine.

Doesn't the ozone gas itself get blown around in the wind also? Wouldn't this mean that ozone would eventually fill the hole back up unless there was a steady stream of CFCs/chlorine to that one spot?
Coyotes really aren't having a tough time in the wild at all. They are thriving. With the demise of wolf populations, they've started taking on apex predator roles, but are still incredibly adaptable. They have no real predators, and the margins in trapping and hunting them has gone down as fur is less popular and fewer areas pay bounties on them.

I know a few people that hunt them, but it's just because they want to keep the coyotes from preying on the deer herd. So that they can prey on the deer herd themselves.
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Was he tracking all of his fans?
Most HNer are actually dumb enough (or "scientific" as they like to call it) to believe that material universe exists in some vacuum with all its unbreakable laws, that it came into existence from nothingness, and believe that their lack of ability to explain what consciousness is is just a mere case of not-enough-science-yet.

I'm not saying be religious but being staunch atheist and materialist is really no better than being bigoted God-worshipper. Don't block yourself from playing with your own hypothesis-space just because it's full of "unscientific" things.
It does have an extradition treaty with the US, perhaps people have forgotten this. It also has a reputation for both "digital nomads" and sex tourism.
>I won't call without your consent

The way you wrote it, it seemed you were going to just call the employee's current manager.

I would NEVER give you consent for that. I don't know what kind of screwed-up industry that would ever be the norm in. Doing this is grounds for a lawsuit because it will most likely result in termination of the employee from his current job.

>if the reference calls go well you'll even likely get a job offer.

That's a big "if". The reference call almost guarantees the person will lose his current job.

As for the grounds for the suit, getting someone fired from their job is pretty good grounds for a lawsuit. There's expectations of privacy that go with job-hunting, and willfully getting someone fired from their job will not sit well with a jury.
Would you please consider sharing more about working remotely? How are you dealing with its psycho-social challenges (the "human" challenges)?
As others have said earlier in the thread – CFC's doesn't pool at the poles. The processes that creates ozone holes require certain conditions (extreme cold and darkness) that only occur by the poles. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion)
"Why has an “ozone hole” appeared over Antarctica when ozone-depleting substances are present throughout the stratosphere?" [PDF]

https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/csd/assessments/ozone/2010/twentyq...
Yes, the Soviets left behind a pretty awful environmental legacy. Emphasising production and growth without regards to the environmental cost is not a unique feature of capitalism.
This analogy is also wrong, exactly for the reason that IP is not a physical thing that can be taken - it can only be copied.

Yes, by leaving $0.40, I would be stealing $0.59 of foregone revenue, but that is because the shop doesn't have that candy bar anymore and can't sell it. In case of IP, even if I pirate it, you can still sell it to other people.

Of course you probably can't sell it to me anymore and that may be lost revenue, but it depends if I would be actually willing and able to buy that IP otherwise. And of course it may cause more competition to appear, which will negatively affect your business.
If you mean in trying to make money as well, have luxuries like in the West and things like that, that has been a global concern since before West and East were met.

Even so, Mexico is next to the states and has some millions of US immigrants and wannabe immigrants, and still -- they have their own culture, morals, etc, and the typical western concerns are not their thing.

So, I was talking more about the cultural and societal aspects. They'll still watch some popular Hollywood movie or have teenagers listening to Cardie B, but they live in their own, different, world, as oblivious to the West as a Oklahoman farmer or a NY gallery owner is oblivious to them and their world.
Just one question: why do we need this? Apart from the intellectual masturbation, this does not make sense whatsoever. Not to mention that writing a Git in a language such as Javascript is just asking for trouble in the long run.
Signed up! Your site doesn't look that bad - I actually like the layout. If you don't mind sharing, what did you use to create the landing page?
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Translation: I snorted a very large amount over a very short space of time but didn't get much of a buzz out of it.

https://erowid.org/chemicals/ketamine/ketamine_dose.shtml says that 100-250mg produces "the K hole" (depends on body weight) so 500mg over a fairly short period sounds like quite the dosage. That you felt only a mild alteration suggests that either you have quite the tolerance for substances or that what you tried was not in fact ketamine. Also, it appears to me that you're deploying clinical language to mask recreational drug use which could be for our benefit or yours, I can't tell which.
As I mentioned before, I've haven't read any of their stuff. All of my questions are 30 years old, and only thought to ask this here because I didn't even know there was any controversy on this subject.

But I guess asking logical questions is frowned upon if someone else disagrees with the establishment and if you even ask the same questions is automatically guilt by association.
If this is true and we found the place where it was being produced, could we be justified in destroying the facility by missile strike in order to save the world?
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I think this question may have already been asked, as one variant or another; but let me give you my situation.

My daily routine involves going to a job I absolutely despise, going home to screaming kids and nagging wife, and then finally going to bed to start it all over again the next day.

I understand that most people have jobs they hate, but you typically have a release when you go home, and that balances things. What if you have no release, and you don't really have any friends because you're new to the area.

How do you cope? I feel like a little bit of me is lost every day, as my mind just spirals out of control. I hate waking up, because I know it will be the same thing over again, day after day.

Most of my career I've been a contractor (software engineering), and the past 5 or so years I've focused more on architecture and start-ups. My most recent job is for a very large corporation, and it's completely not what I normally go for, but it was the only option in the area I live (offering the money I wanted). The wife thinks I should be here at least 1 year, or else it'll look bad on my resume.

Anyone else feel like their life is a prison? I know I have choices, but given our situation, quitting this job just isn't an option right now. I suppose I can look for something new, but this area is very dry when it comes to my kind of work. Remote is an option, but the competition seems fierce (everyone wants remote), and architect roles are typically on-site, unless I go back to development.
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Same here! Here is the article I came across with some further info for reference: https://theloadstar.co.uk/flexport-spreads-wings-deal-wga-ga...
I also use them. It's been solid. Also, I used to have beers with the people working there back when I lived in NZ.
Carrying large tanks of compressed hydrogen on merchant ships isn't safe or practical. Sustainable carbon-neutral liquid bio-fuels are a more likely long term solution. Those can be used with minimal changes to our existing transportation systems once the production cost comes down.
I am developing Crypto analytic tool. It's like the fund, analyze your portfolio, show potential gaps and currency there you can invest. So you need to make an investment decision, the platform only shows information and analytics.
facebook has two kinds of data

- data you give it (birthday, religion, likes)

- data it learns about you. (ad tracking, habits, demographics)

facebook built a developer tool that let app developers ASK USERS for "data you gave it"

users clicked YES when prompted with the question, GIVING the app developers the data. Cambridge Analytica NEVER got to touch "data facebook learned about you."

the way the developer tools were designed, when you gave the app access to your facebook account, it could look at things YOUR FRIENDS had made avaliable to YOU. The app could act as you, and see what you see. You can never see "data facebook learned about your friends."

The issue is, people couldnt trust their friends not to click "SHARE DATA." The issue is IF its inappropriate for apps I install to see data shared with me by my friends. Once facebook learned this ability was being misused, they shut it down, back in 2014.
Why is that our problem?
Since you took the time to reply, so will I. I had no idea there was a controversy, and had never considered asking this until this morning.
I think this is what you were thinking of: http://www.jennyodell.com/museumofcapitalism_freewatch.pdf

Very nice read :)
It is the interesting idea to make this tool as generic as possible! Like a framework for matching different types of events based on some rules + a visual explanation for any chain of matched events. Perhaps I should think about this idea. Thanks!
There isn't a controversy.
Ah - the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sUWC2jfjqI - looks unfortunate. Apparently "At least one armoured vehicle had come loose and rolled backwards".
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You have this completely backwards. Technology is making the lack of strong UBI a potentially bad situation. UBI is simply redistribution of surplus, this would consist of say bread and water in the middle ages, to healthcare today. The lack of UBI does not indicate a lack of technology but a lack collective social conscience.
According to one definition among several possible definitions. Which definition is more useful will depend on the question you're asking.

For example, agnostics are not theists, therefore they are a-theists - according to one possible definition of the term. Similarly, ignostics do not take a position on the existence of gods, therefore they are agnostics - according to one possible defintion of the term. In both case, you could argue that agnostics are not atheists, or that ignostics are different from agnostics. That does not mean that the binary classification theists/atheists or the tripartite classification theists/agnostic/atheist is wrong - it just means that you're asking a more nuanced question that requires a more nuanced terminology.
Yep, a layperson. And I got a shitstorm of comments on here because I didn't think to google anything first, and I had no idea there was any controversy on this subject at all.
Wasn't that debunked? It's useful as a myth - "teach your kids patience", "don't go into the woods alone" - but it doesn't actually turn out to be true.
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Here is a good stackexchange answer about the lab experiments that led to our understanding of ozone depletions: https://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/49777/the-chlo.... Here is a text from Berkley: https://undsci.berkeley.edu/lessons/pdfs/ozone_depletion_com.... There is a myriad of observations that support the lab experiments and models.
Nope, none of this stuff crossed my mind for decades. Learning I should google everything before making a comment.
Feeling you have a lot in common with this Feynman guy? Maybe this will speak to you then:

'The first principle is that you must not fool yourself', etc:

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm
Bit of a hubris comparing oneself with Feynman. And to challenge the established science you have to learn it first, no way around it.
May I ask which classes, and what type of employer? I don't even know if any of my employers bothered verifying that I graduated college.
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I live in one of those "shady" countries and I wish that I was never born.
The question for me is the definition of “winning”. In his perspective animals like sheep are “winning” the meta game because they behave. However, becoming dumbed down just to survive is maybe not much of a “win” either.
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If by "too broad a sense" you mean "incorrectly," then sure.
It's just China doing it. Why is this any mystery? What is mysterious is why the media can't just tell us the truth.
How do you propose to reproduce the earth's atmosphere at scale outside of a simulation?

Am I wrong in suspecting that you have an ulterior motive for trying to sow suspicion regarding ozone depletion even though the answers to all your questions are one search engine query away? Wikipedia's article on ozone depletion explains why the hole is where it is and provides hundreds of citations for your consideration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion#Ozone_hole_and...
(thanks for posting)

... which anyone could have easily read up on, but some people are interested in stirring up trouble not about learning.
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As an engine mechanic, Hanlons Razor comes to mind.

We once had a "thief" in our garage who was stealing expensive welding gasses and getting away with it. Sometimes she would steal whole tanks, other times she would siphon tanks until they were almost dry. We took to naming her Shirley.

After about a month we caught the culprits. The tank theft was due to a manager in another location who was greedily stealing our gas bottles without filing the correct paperwork, to use at his location. The other thief was a gas safety relief system that measures tank temperature and pressure, and preemptively vents the contents if theres an irregularity. One of its 2 post sensors had died and the alarm for it was just being silenced by our cleaning crew.
It costs money to monitor.

But frankly, for the amounts involved [1], there's no reason Montreal or Paris shouldn't have included monitoring and paid for it by penalties on violators.

Edit: After reading some summaries of Montreal compliance, it seems the general thinking is (a) it would be too hard to get agreement on monitoring & penalties in the initial draft & (b) self reported monitoring, in cooperation with UN agencies, tallied against general atmospheric measurements would reveal major discrepancies.

Not sure how this one slipped through the cracks.

[1] E.g. USD$10M/yr for NASA carbon monitoring research http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/05/trump-white-house-qui...
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It's less disgusting than seeing your poor dog smashed to hamburg by a pulp truck in the road, or put down by animal control because it wandered off and got antagonized.
>being truthful doesn't mean you have to constantly spew everything you are thinking, stream of consciousness style. You just don't mislead people.

We're not talking about spewing all your private thoughts to people, we're talking about responding to questions. You take a day off from work to go on an interview, and your boss asks you if you're interviewing. What's your response? People like you apparently spill the truth, and get fired. People like me find some way of lying about it ("I wasn't feeling well", "my kid was sick", etc.) so we don't get terminated before we're actually ready to make a move.

>What he should have done was a) coordinate a time with me when he was off work anyway or b) ask for a day off. He doesn't need to explain why

Wrong. Maybe you wouldn't ask why, but another manager might. You cannot guarantee that all managers are like you. Unless you can guarantee that no boss anywhere on the planet will ask invasive questions in this scenario (following your own advice about asking for a day off, which is exactly what I've done when I went on interviews), then you have no right to expect anyone to be honest. People lie because other people have bad behavior, and those people have greater power. Lying is the proper response to protect yourself.

>If I need to take time off I take it. That didn't even occur to you?

That's exactly what I do too. What makes you think I don't? The problem is if your boss pries, and asks why. I'm not going to tell the truth here, and not I'm sorry if that offends your morality. Luckily, I've had good bosses in recent years who didn't ask, so I didn't have to resort to this, but I can certainly see how someone might have a crappy boss who is nosy and asks improper and invasive questions like this. For those people, lying is the proper response. The boss is obviously bad, which means they obviously need to find a better job, but they're also working on that, and it's unreasonable to demand that they quit their job (or risk being fired) while doing a job search. My most recent job search took about 3 months (though I didn't get really serious until the last ~1.5); it can take some time to find just the right opportunity that you want to jump ship for.
Yeah, it was obvious. Your line of questioning looks a lot like random conspiracy theorists: full of basic lack of scientific rigor. Beyond just Googling facts, making intelligent conversation around complex scientific issues is hard if you don't have a foundation in scientific thinking.

as an example, you posited that CFCs are dense, and thus why would they interact with the ozone layer? That is simple intuitionist thinking - but it ignores a ton of knowledge about how particles mix and disperse in the real world.
You mean along with 88% of the world's population?
Since you mention 'true' ... I can't help but think of Rob Pike's diatribe https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/966896123548872705
Apparently you have a comprehension problem.
I don't care what these people consider legitimate.
They wouldn't need to increase their marginal margins, or increase their margins in existing business ventures. However you'd like to view it.
What other platform?
I think actual concern is vastly overstated. The number of people truly willing to vote over net neutrality despite virtually none of the post-apocalyptic claims made last time around coming true has got to be borderline non-existent.

If someone's ISP starts blocking / heavily throttling Netflix or YouTube for them, I could see it becoming a voting issue. But otherwise? Meh.
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I'm not sure about whether dogs or cows are successful, but their genes surely are.
Count me in, would love to get on a discord server or IRC channel.

edit: sorry, should point out I've been doing the same for a while and have hit some challenges I'd love to discuss.
> it requires generating profit to be able to give some away

Even unprofitable companies give to charities. Uber, for example, does this.
>Couple this with the engineering concept that as a system approaches 100% utilization, catastrophic failure becomes increasingly more likely

Nobody cares for that, since there's nothing really critical behind most job positions -- just cogs in a bigger wheel.

In areas where this matters (e.g. people die), engineers are treated differently (e.g. at NASA).
Now I know I'm old, because the headline refers to CFCs by symptom than by name...

(Wikipedia article about the guy behind them, no one-trick pony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.)
This comment was dead, I guess someone flagged it.

I found the perspective interesting however, and I don't believe the tone is at all offensive (though perhaps it was misinterpreted as such?).
Actually it looks like smallpox only existed since about the time statistics was invented:

"our data clearly show that the VARV lineages eradicated during the 20th century had only been in existence for ∼200 years"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5196022/

"The German Statistik, first introduced by Gottfried Achenwall (1749), originally designated the analysis of data about the state, signifying the "science of state" (then called political arithmetic in English). It acquired the meaning of the collection and classification of data generally in the early 19th century."
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This correlation suggests that as soon as people stopped using their gut feelings smallpox evolved to take advantage.
Very cool. I hadn't come across this before.

News does appear to be one year old, though: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/16/3d-printed-o...
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Sounds interesting, but why did they have to use capital letters in the path names?
You gotta change something and there's really just one option. I'm in a similar situation and recently read about Effort-Reward-Imbalance. Both variables tend towards 0 for me and to fight this darkness and boredom I started my first new project in years, a bookkeeping app of all things boring...
Maybe you do miss development or smaller companies to work for. Better you pull the plug now before you burn out over this.
> somehow the only way people got a hold of this was by looking at the ozone layer.

This is not correct, and we can't attribute changes to ozone that precisely with the wide natural, seasonal variations.

"A U.S. observatory in Hawaii found CFC-11 mixed in with other gases that were characteristic of a source coming from somewhere in eastern Asia"

This was probably from the Earth Systems Research Laboratory, best known for its CO2 monitoring: https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/mlo/
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"Interesting, military only gave ~$1M for such an ambitious project"

I imagine this is just a test. They are blowing the cash with 99% certainty nothing will come out of it. BUT, if headway is made, it could quickly become hundreds of millions.
I agree with the essence of your comment that the efforts of the state to suppress cryptocurrencies (to prevent themselves from losing control) are a miserable failure.

However, the same is not true in the developing world where a number of countries have outright banned all independent cryptocurrencies and will be launching state controlled cryptocurrencies soon. Seems like they don't care much about anyone (coyotes, sheep or raccoons).