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Mine is _very_ modest compared to some of the excellent ones posted thus far, but it has certainly worked for me.

"No seconds" rule i.e. don't take a second helping of food. I have lost 10 lbs since last month and hope to get to my ideal weight losing another 20 lbs.

It is actually surprisingly easy to get this habit going and maintain it.
The article talks about how globalization caused automation to replace millions of factory workers. Factory jobs, aren't the greatest, especially before the 1970s, and in many parts of the world, are still awful. Similarly, If we could replace every mining job with robots we'd remove a lot of human abuse in many parts of the world.
Robots don't come for government jobs?
For me, I've actually used the self control app for a similar experience to Focus. https://selfcontrolapp.com/
The author alludes to the fact that the overwhelming majority of reals have an infinite number of decimal places that constitute an algorithmically random sequence[1]

Sure, plenty of real numbers have finite (0.1, 0.01, ...) or non-random (0.111..., 0.0111..., ...) sequences of decimal places, but there are only a countable infinity of these, whereas there is an uncountable infinity of the other, "random," kind.

Usually we almost exclusively deal in the only-countably-infinite subset of the reals which are not random and it's counterintuitive that these comprise a tiny tiny archipelago of order in a huge engulfing ocean of randomness, but such is the case.

Gregory Chaitin's "How real are real numbers?"[2] has some relatively straightforward further reading on this if you're interested.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmically_random_sequenc...

2: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418
I was thinking the same thing. Co-working is on the rise, as are small rental office units with shared assets. Maybe they could turn a mall into a Googleplex for small business, with a game area, food court, pub/bar, gym, grocery/drug stores. I think a creative person with good business sense could pull it off.
Giant batteries aren't great for the environment because they involve heavy mining.
I don't get it. If scooters are so great, then why doesn't everyone just buy their own? Seem much simpler than checking them in and out of special built bike racks.
This sounds exactly like the ridesharing model. Drown the market in money, kill off your competitors by undercutting on price, then jack up prices to make a business.

The problem, like ridesharing, is once you start raising prices, you just lost all of your customers to a new competitor that hasn't spent all of their money.

I don't see how this model can possibly work. The barrier to switching is almost 0 to the user - you can already see that by looking at the Uber & Lyft tags on every car you get in. Installing another app isn't as hard as swapping insurance providers or mobile platforms.
Card swiping/virtual terminals are given at the discretion of the payment processors. Credit limits are at the discretion of the issuer, and are the ceiling of what they consider worth the risk. It sounds like the issuers, once again, had too high of a ceiling and then people defaulted. Very little to do with cryptocurrency.
Out of curiosity -- what timeframe are you using to calculate that figure (4-5 cents a kWh)? (I bought a solar system just under a year ago).
That's extremely speculative and impossible to quantify. There are plenty of counter examples where companies have impressive uptimes and don't resort to such extreme testing. Then again, attributing the outage to these chaos services is also extremely speculative at this point.
I’m very very pro nuclear, but you’re sort of bullshitting here. No pollution? Most people would consider nuclear waste to be polluting, and nothing is perfect, sometimes you get a Fukushima. It also pollutes down the line when you’remining Uranium and processing fuel, and for now even with perfect safety that’s unavoidable.

It’s still a much better choice than anything else, and it pollutes less, and modern designs can be very safe. We’d actually be safer, since we could replace older, unsafe designs with modern ones. We still need a political solution to the waste problem though, and I have no idea how that can be done.
Failed attempts. The regulatory framework in the US and Europe is still pretty good at protecting patients.
To nitpick: to say that "in practice" you won't select a rational is understating the case. Being uncountable, the set of irrationals is infinitely larger. The chance of selecting a rational "randomly" is zero as far (heh) as zero has any practical meaning.
> For me, there's nothing worse than being this tiny little cog in the machine that comes into work from 9-5 and produces something so microscopic that you question your importance at all

See, I'm the opposite. I couldn't care less about the importance of my work. I work for one reason and one reason only: to fund my life. I just want to put in my eight hours a day, draw a paycheck, and then go home and have fun.

And I honestly like the idea of being anonymous. I just want to blend into the background and not be noticed, and I couldn't care less about climbing the ladder because my career is the least important thing in my life.

> Most of my friends that work at larger public tech companies — it just feels like they're constantly doing unimportant things, going to conferences just for the sake of it, getting into work late and leaving early.

Honestly, that sounds like paradise to me. I'm pretty satisfied with my current job, but if I wasn't I'd definitely be asking you for the names of some of those companies.
OK. I had thought you brought it up because you couldn't land any funding despite being able to generate great returns. Actually your example is orthogonal to startups that can't raise money for their big plans.

My original point was just that VC's don't write enough checks. thanks for the exchange.
Out of curiosity, where did the idea of student debts being likely to be forgiven come from?
AFAIK, the students loan were specifically designed to not be easily shed; point in case, they don't get discharged through personal bankruptcy.
I had not heard Behind the Shock Machine, thank you.
Wow, the Segway Minilite is only $300.
https://www.amazon.com/Segway-miniLITE-Balancing-Transporter...

Fill the sidewalks with these and you could have your own startup!
There's no trick to this. You need just the most basic training. Go running a few nights a week, and actually track your run. Stick RunKeeper or something on your phone, and you will notice a pretty drastic difference in a few weeks.

I started doing this about four years ago, as I felt similar to how you describe. Trying to run 3km just about killed me. But you keep at it. A couple of months later, I managed my first 10km run, which I did in just under an hour, and somehow I felt great afterwards.

Then do strength training. Nothing weird; nothing complicated. Just do squats with a barbell. Start with just the bar — it's 20kg alone.

And don't fall into the same trap that everyone does of being self conscious at a gym. Nobody cares about you in a gym, unless you try something stupid and dangerous like trying to bench more than you can manage.
Once you pay $39 you have to Github OAuth to receive the book. Currently, there are no other authentication options.

Just an FYI as I didn't know that before I had paid.
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It doesn’t help to capture all of that energy if we can’t store and transmit it efficiently.
I fixed my washing machine with it. There was a tear in the rubber round the door causing it to leak. Put some sugru on, carefully flush with the door lining, it is still there a year later. Saved quite an expensive repair.
> Car keys deposited at the door into a machine that won't release them until you pass a breathalyzer.

So, basically, "don't bother coming here because you can't leave"?

You'd need to make sure it was either accessible by public transit, or that there's cheap and effective semi-public transit like Lyft or taxi cabs - and it has to be cheap and effective for two trips, since you'll have to come back to pick up your car in the morning.
Can this tool be useful for you?
I see you there, Ubuntu desktop :)

Interesting he's using a mbp box as a monitor stand.

On to a more serious note: is this kind of computing work sped up with GPUs?
I was in Cleveland over the weekend and got a quick tour from the director of small business development. They turned one of their Arcades (malls) into a small business incubator. It made for a quirky shopping experience. There was a peanut cookie shop next to a handmade bow-tie store. Parts of it felt like walking through Etsy.
The tour concluded with several business that had spun off into their own locations. It seemed like a great use of a historic space that from the sound of it was full of run down tourist trap stores.
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That may be, but legislation didn't pass in one of the houses, and he doesn't deserve death threats. Nobody who isn't actively being violent deserves them.
I would call it a smoothie, not a shake. To me a shake is a smoothie with ice cream in it.
I finish my warm shower with 10 seconds of cold. It's energizing and you won't need coffee.
This is correct. It's not the government's job to provide you a job, it's a personal responsibility to find one, if you want one. If you seek one, the government might provide some minor worker abuse and discrimination protections, but this in no way implies you have entitlement to a job or even income.
OK, sure. As long as we don't have to toggle number bases...
They're dockless.
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I'm guessing they meant battery production, which requires the mining of rare-earth elements: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element#Environment...
My contribution to 3D art.

https://imgur.com/a/FuHb1UG
Presumably after being in production for years, the very smart, competent developers would admit their error (if indeed they should have used a generational GC), right? Hubris? I'm trying to square these remarks with your cut-and-dry portrayal of the issue.
> but the scooters function in large part as as a replacement for cars.

I've been playing with the scooters, and they replace long walks and short bike rides for me. My car usage is unchanged.
Nuclear is expensive in the US NOW because of insane amounts of regulation, constant law-suits and the fact that almost no new plants were build in the last 30 years.

Back before 3 Mile Island a nuclear plant was cheaper to produce then coal plant and had 2x the amount of live time with 10x cheaper fuel cost.

> France is going to need to address its expensive, aging nuclear generators at some point. By then, of course, solar will be much cheaper than it is today, and there will be more HVDC transmission lines shuttling power between EU countries.

France has the lowest electricity prices in Europe had them for quite a long time.

Nuclear is not expensive if you are building many of them, just like everything else.

One of the major problems with nuclear is that it is extremely national and most western nations don't have a demand for scale.
Woah. Haven't read the Wall St. journal in a while. Had no idea it had become so fact-free and one sided. That basically read like a Fox News bulletin

*Just noticed it was on the opinion page, thankfully. But still.
This is really bad logic. This is the same thing as saying, "If cars are really that great, then why doesn't everyone buy their own? Seems much simpler than using Lyft"
> Was there ever a stage in your development where you might have done something like that?

I'm still willing to write worse! As a temporary hack with a JIRA issue tracking it, to unblock work, and with the intention of fixing it quickly, but still willing nonetheless.

Meanwhile the code blocks on this website lose their scrollbar and pop atop everything if you hover over them, making it near impossible to scroll right through some kind of abuse of JavaScript. Why?!? Shall I snark about incompetence too? I can't even rationalize this one to myself as a means of unblocking development like I can with the packaging hack!
I'm not as familiar w/ the principles, but is there convergence behind the principles of these chips and the neuromorphic chips proposed by Carver Mead?
Same as cars and Uber. You dont need to take care of them, you don't need to take them with you when you travel. Renting a high end scooter a couple of times might make more sense than buying a cheap one.
JB Weld is an epoxy. It starts out as a (2-part) liquid, and sets to a hard solid. It's good for fixing cracks or breaks in rigid objects. You want to avoid getting it on your skin.

Sugru is a putty. It's squishy, kind of like clay, and air-cures to a sort of rubbery flexible solid. It's good for repairs to things that are flexible (It's great for repairing and ending stain relief to cables) and also for adding "bumpers" to things or even molding small objects (like hooks). It's also safe to touch uncured Sugru with your bare hands. This makes it a lot easier to work with, in general.

The big downside to Sugru is that it's expensive, it goes bad after a few months (but storing it in the fridge extends the lifetime to a couple of years), and once you open a packet, the whole packet will cure within 24 hours. You pretty much always end up with some waste. If they could somehow make it 2-part so you could make the exact amount you need, or store it in a tube or something so it wouldn't go bad so easily, it would be great.
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it seems the ethereum blockchain is not immune to human lies. Aka the oracle problem, provenance problem.
What is the advantage of this over Blender? Blender has been my go-to for modeling, sculpting, video editing, and so much more. I'm not trying to bash this, I'm just curious.
Yes. How insane of Microsoft to mutate global mutable state that Debian's packaging system blithely lets you mutate.
I have no evidence to back this up, but I'm guessing many of the these complications come from the discount LASIK centers that offer very cheap surgery prices.

I can't understand why anyone would have eye surgery at some place that advertises $600/eye on the radio.

I paid $4200 for my LASIK surgery after researching it thoroughly, verifying that it was appropriate for my vision problems and deciding to go with a research hospital that had the latest technology at the time. After my eyes healed in the first few days, I've had zero side-effects and it's been almost 10 years now.

I highly recommend the surgery, but I always tell people not to go for the cheapest option.
You’d also remove the way for lots of people to make a living.

The unemployed only know that making a living in a lousy industry is better than not making any living at all.
In Debian, bash is an essential package. You can assume it's always installed.
Ask HN: Ask for earnest money with offer?
My co-founder and I have been running a small software company by ourselves in a low cost of living area for several years. We are in discussions with a larger company in the same industry who says they are preparing a formal offer. We are expecting it to be high 6-figures, low 7-figures, which could be enough for us to accept, depending on specifics. We will be working with a lawyer, but want to keep the fees manageable.

I have seen stories where the bigger company takes months in due diligence to inspects financials, code, etc. then walks away and builds their own version, instead of following through with an acquisition.

What can be done to minimize this risk? We were thinking a non-refundable earnest deposit, maybe 5-10% of the purchase price. Has anyone come across this on either side of a deal? I like to think it would discourage window shoppers, but for a larger company this amount it is still relatively cheap for market research and insight into a competitor. If they walked away it would not prevent their competition, but would at least give us something for our time spent on the deal.
Invest heavily in retraining programs, tax concentrated wealth (of individuals and companies) more deeply, and prevent mergers of already huge companies - especially mergers from the same industry.
> Rare Species Protection

I can't think of a part of meatspace more removed from the special properties of a blockchain. That's honestly dumber than blockchain iced tea or KodakCoin.
You sound like you might have recently read Nonviolent Communication by Rosenberg. If you haven't you sound like you're in a place where you might really enjoy it and find it useful.
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Do guaranteed minimum income. Give everybody a computer and lots of free time. If 0.001% of those people become hobbyist software developers it will pay for the program in a year. And we will probably get AI in two.
Coal still makes up about a third of US electrical generation. It’s declining, but it will take a long time to disappear.
I wouldn't want to use a GPS tracked scooter. The company might sell my location data or get hacked. Better to buy a non-GPS tracked scooter of my own.
I'm frustrated that everyone here seems to be hung up over an argument about the definition of computable numbers and some nattering about Cantor, when the real meat of the abstract seems to be this:

> This alternative classical mechanics is non-deterministic, despite the use of deterministic equations, in a way similar to quantum theory.

Wait, what? What does "a way similar to quantum theory" mean? Is he able to derive quantum postulates from information theory here, or is this just handwaving becuase "uncertainty" emerges like it did for Heisenberg?

Not expert enough to read the paper. Anyone?
Actually, sugar seems to have originally been used more as a medicine than a food:

>"There are records of knowledge of sugar among the ancient Greeks and Romans, but only as an imported medicine, and not as a food. For example, the Greek physician Dioscorides in the 1st century (AD) wrote: "There is a kind of coalesced honey called sakcharon [i.e. sugar] found in reeds in India and Eudaimon Arabia [i.e. Yemen[17]] similar in consistency to salt and brittle enough to be broken between the teeth like salt. It is good dissolved in water for the intestines and stomach, and [can be] taken as a drink to help [relieve] a painful bladder and kidneys."[18] Pliny the Elder, a 1st-century (AD) Roman, also described sugar as medicinal: "Sugar is made in Arabia as well, but Indian sugar is better. It is a kind of honey found in cane, white as gum, and it crunches between the teeth. It comes in lumps the size of a hazelnut. Sugar is used only for medical purposes."[19]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sugar

And one of the mechanisms proposed for smoking addiction/withdrawal is that smoking spikes your blood sugar, while abstaining crashes it. Ie, a smoking habit may actually be an indirect sugar habit, although somewhat more addictive since you don't have the delayed reward due to digestion/absorption. Eg:

http://whyquit.com/joel/Joel_03_21_blood_sugar.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7455580

EDIT:

I guess I should add I'm not in favor of any regulatory approach beyond the FDA's original purpose of making sure the label is complete and accurate.
I'm curious to know why other storage methods aren't taking off more. I would have assumed that the long-term costs of something like hauling something heavy up a hill (which could easily be a manmade earthworks in flat areas) would be quite a bit lower, on account of the equipment in question having a longer life span than batteries.
Sure, and if they manage to fix a valuation of $1.5B or even $2B, it will drive a lot more press. Are they then going to go out in July and hoover up a bunch more cash?

I understand that when a capital-intensive business sees an opportunity to grab some cash, it can make a lot of sense. There's more constraints than the scooters for them - finding the right locations, setting up bird squads, ensuring there's a kind of natural circle of travel rather than a tide of commuting. And, of course, marketing all of that at the right time. Some of that $$$ can solve, but it doesn't feel like they're at the point they can just step on the gas.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13579226 is one example. In addition to the article, HN is in near-unanimous agreement on this issue from the contribution of many H1B visa holders. I've seen it pop up many times.
>then jack up prices to make a business

Of course this hasn't happened in the rideshare market yet - it's cheaper than ever before. I've found Uber Express prices to be almost unbelievably cheap recently.

Seems like there's at least some non-zero chance that these prices remain low until autonomous vehicles make them permanent and sustainable.
I eat a primarily vegetarian diet, and my advice is to make a big pot of vegetable stew on Sunday. I quite literally just put a bunch of veggies, rice, potatoes, whatever in a pot with onions, garlic, salt and pepper. It freezes great, and I can get about 2 weeks of lunches from it.
The ironic comments on this post about net neutrality
Honest question: Would it be possible for a software company, especially one of Microsoft's magnitude, to produce a bug that would be "not ok" in your book.
Is there any kind of technical problem a software package could cause that would make you react in a way that wasn't "oh, that's ok, everybody makes mistakes."

I mean, breaking other installed software and potentially making the system unbootable is obviously not severe enough. What would be?
I think it’s pretty patronizing to make this choice for other people. IMO, there’s only one person whose moral right it is to decide whether a life is worthwhile. And that’s the person whose life it is.
By the same argument there should be more alcoholics in deregulated alcohol markets in Europe. And I think there are, but is it a significant difference?
You are assuming that sucrose is the only component that causes any sort of problems.
I did a KSH DER codec once too! It started out as an attempt to decode OIDs that were all over a codebase, and we had no tools to decode them, and I wanted to see if they were correct (indeed, they were not all correct). Then I extended that script a bit to other types. 'Twas a fun little side project.

With an FFI (which Bash has) one could do this much more easily than it was then (about 15 years ago, I think).
Totally, I actually had a physical scheduled for last week, before realizing I scheduled it for a date I was going to be out of town. So unfortunately I had to reschedule for August. But anyway, there is a decent amount of people who are following this plan, and if you are interested, you can find a lot of anecdotal experiences (including people reporting on their blood testing, etc) by googling "Starch Solution" or "Dr McDougall Starch Solution". There is also an active Facebook group.

There is a book called "The Starch Solution" which I haven't read yet, nor have I done a whole of reading of research studies yet. But, I do know that McDougall and some of his colleagues believe that diabetes is actually caused by higher fat intake, and that this plan has been used by lots of people to cure their diabetes. Sounds so counterintuitive, and like I said, I haven't read/understood the science behind that claim yet.

Edit: here is a resource where Dr. McDougall explains his stance on diabetes and blood glucose. https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2009nl/dec/diabetes.htm
And have a one to two decade lifespan, at best. After which you have to dispose of them.