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> My guess is nothing will change until we have some good alternatives to fossil fuel

Not even necessarily then. Fission is a good alternative, and it could've been massively deployed decades ago. (Just think of how many billions of tons of emissions could've been avoided.)
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17521994.
Survivorship Bias and Growth
Ethereum has the massive advantage of having nurtured a certain culture and community around it. that's why, regardless of all else, there is a list of really interesting experiments taking place on Ethereum and applications that could cement its future.
Short Answer: No, but very comfortable.

Long Answer: Full retirement is hard, Healthcare is a pain in the US. You cant really "save" for it in the US, it can swallow all your savings, so you'll always need some job or another to cover healthcare and catastrophic needs. That said, you can very easily down-shift once you have a house, savings, etc.

Longer Answer: Could have, if I wanted to -- but you always give something up in exchange. These jobs will take everything you give them (time, health, life) and give back a decent percentage (income.) But you cannot easily dial up or down the work, it comes in chunks and you have to complete it.
My life was increasingly unhinged at 27 and I decided to jump off the treadmill after seeing a colleague continue to work through his mother's terminal illness and death. Inertia and greed are a toxic combination. Numerous colleagues were on drugs, uppers, anti-depressants, etc. One died from stress (heart attack in his 30s.)

I chose to get married, have two kids. I switched to a pure tech job (now an ML product owner at a Series A pure tech firm.) We have dinner together almost every single day. Weekends are completely ours. We go to the park most warm days. We take 3 to 4 vacations a year, many with my mom as well. There is a decent amount of work but I can choose when to do it (unlike Wall St.) and the work is longer term and I can dial it up/down as family requires. I sit outside and read during lunch. I turn off the markets when i step out of work.

Many of my colleagues were easy millionaires by ~30 and multi-mullionaires if they stuck till their mid 30s and were focused. Many others blew through their bonuses (or snorted it away) and ended up with nothing and just live bonus to bonus. It also depends on the job (business/deal side vs quant side vs tech -- the money is a waterfall across the 3 sections.) As with all industries, you get ripped off if you dont fight for your share of the pie. Plenty of people avoid conflict and life comfortable lives and nothing more. I also saw several C++ programmer/manager earn double digit millions of dollars over several years, one earned over 100MM USD over the course of his time at the hedge fund (public records, check out AIG-FP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIG_bonus_payments_controversy)

I think I did well and hopefully dont have to worry about poverty anymore. You either get lucky (early FB employee, hot product at xyz.com) or you have to give up something. I havent seen someone truthfully say they got both money and family and happiness all together.
China is growing faster than the US, and it is has an economy that is already at the same size, so it is quite natural that they need to borrow more.
As well as the many IDEs and editors that support these comment tags, Ruby on Rails (and I'm sure other frameworks also) provides direct support for these.

rails notes

Will return you a little text report that you can use in your CI or anywhere else that groks text.
A foreign currency, controlled by a foe.

The EU should do everything in its power to end the unfair dollar hegemony.
China’s GDP is probably inflated, but not by that much. However, considering that any rise in real estate prices is considered GDP growth, a lot of the current GDP can be attributed to the current property bubble.
Your browser should be completely able to render the first webpage ever created, from the early 1990s: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
A few years later, after some discussion, they revisited it as "normal person minus consequences plus audience equals total fuckwad".[1]

The post is worth the quick read; I like the suggestion that the solution is more clearly implicit this way.

[1] https://www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/2013/02/18/the-coroll...
That's about $580 US. The average monthly payment on a NEW car in the US is around $500 [0][1]. Add in parking (even "free" parking isn't), depreciation, gasoline, insurance, and registration fees and that's pretty darn close to $580.

From my perspective, living the DC suburbs, I would love to have an all-access app for multi-mode transport. I own two cars (one for me, one for wife). I walk to work, so my car only gets driven on the weekends, and only if my wife and I are doing different things. It's a VERY expensive way to maintain my weekend "freedom". Lyft/Uber would fill much of the gap, except I frequently go camping 2-4 hours away. If Lyft had a "long term borrow" plan, I could get rid of my $400/month car payment and all associated costs.

[0]https://www.thebalance.com/average-monthly-car-payment-41376...
[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2016/06...
> Well don't leave us in suspense, why isn't PDF a suitable replacement?

I'm pretty sure the team at Gov.uk wrote a pretty decent article on this topic.
I've used some SAP-based solutions a few times and the closest experience I can relate it to is late 90s MS Access applications: Everything takes ages. Things that should be easy and quick (e.g. viewing a related record or item) are often difficult and take time. Every form of search function doesn't really work, even with perfect input data. Searching doesn't work if your input is slightly off (e.g. names in wrong order or a typo). Searching takes much longer than makes sense in any sensible manner.

Of course, user's experiences don't matter when selling or supporting a software like this. I don't think it's part of the decision maker's conscious that usability (in the sense of being able to accomplish tasks efficiently) for a software that will be used by a larger part of the corporate workforce might be important not only for the employees using it, but also for the company. These systems can eat up so much work time of employees and create so many issues within a company and in customer or supplier relations...
If the US decided to spend trillions of dollars a year building skyscrapers in Alaska it could be 'growing' at 7% a year too.

http://www.businessinsider.fr/us/china-ghost-cities-satellit...
It'd be 400 for a family of 2, 1000 for a family of 5. Could be 300, or 400 per person I just pulled an arbitrary # out of my arse. It does assume more electric use, maybe not 100% electric, but maybe 100 mpg with electric assist.

People are more apt to buy into an 'unlimited' plan. Road trips would cost extra (because you're gaining unlimited full-multi-day access to a vehicle), maybe something like $30/day + gas.
That 2 different projects with same goal, why would they have to be compatible?
There's a book now though, see https://pragprog.com/book/swdddf/domain-modeling-made-functi...
Love and Sex in Japan
I find irony in the fact that this is a YouTube video with no text transcript, massively reducing its accessibility to both those with disabilities and those who aren't in an environment where they can sit and watch a 20-minute video.

Does YouTube have the ability for authors to attach or display a text version of their video?
As always, use something like camelcamelcamel to do price history comparisons for you before buying anything on Prime Day or Cyber Monday (or any other time for that matter).
They are probably running at big loss. As per the contract, resellers have to pay the retail price 2.20€ per ticket. So they start running at a loss after around 22 tickets per month. And that's just for the public transportation.

The 55€/month is only for Helsinki area residents and subsidized from municipal taxes. Without the subsidy it's over 130€/month.
Weird. This is a totally different 'project' of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KODAKCoin .
I can see for dynamic information PDF definitely has limitations but a lot of what I get from gov.uk I feel is better in PDF. The web pages are fine for navigation and overviews but for hard information I much prefer a PDF.

A PDF document can be dated and versioned, you download a report from April 2010 and you can keep that as a document. You can then download a newer one if you want, the older version is still available and largely immutable. Archiving a dynamic web page is a lot harder.
I work with big consultancies, and they don't charge >2000€ a day for SAP developers, I know that for sure ;)
The Verge article links to an incorrect Twitter handle, it should be @youtubeartifact (and not youtubeartifacts with an 's'). [0]

There's a great tutorial/article here [1] on datamoshing / I- and P-frame hacking. Searching for 'datamosh' or 'datamoshing' on YouTube will return many good results.

Finally, I also recommend checking out a great glitching iOS app (which does photo & video), Glitch Wizard [2].

[0] https://twitter.com/youtubeartifact

[1] http://forum.glitchet.com/t/tutorial-make-video-glitch-art-h...

[2] http://glitchwizard.com/
No. The beta amyloid protein is the primary 'cause' of Alzheimer's. It builds up in the brain and kills neurons and synapses. Tens of billions of dollars have been spent developing drugs to reduce the amount of amyloid in the brain to try and combat Alzheimer's, none of which has led to an effective treatment.

This newer theory is that the cause of the amyloid build-up is an immune response to the herpes virus increasingly infiltrating the brain (as you get older the blood/brain barrier that protects your brain from infections weakens) so a possible treatment is to try and reduce the levels of herpes infection rather than attacking the amyloid protein which is your body's immune response to the herpes infection.

The APOE4 gene is infamous for increasing amyloid production and being a major risk factor for early-onset Alzheimers and so carriers of the gene are often used in studies to see the effect of treatments. (@subcosmos below has a good explanation of what this gene actually does)
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"Unit tests also have the advantage of being cheap to set up and cheap to run".

They are not cheap to develop and maintain however. And given enough developers a certain percentage of them will completely distort the design of the code to enable unit testing making the code itself much more complex.
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> The problem with HTML is that it's not a stable format.

Not a stable format as in still gets updated? Very few formats are stable by that yardstick, and PDF certainly is not one: https://www.iso.org/standard/63534.html

> Will a browser in 2028 be able to render those pages correctly ?

Correctly as in "in a way which can be consumed", most certainly. A modern browser can consume and render 20 years old websites just fine.

> If the content needs to be available for a longer time PDF/A would be a much better choice than HTML.

It really is not. PDF is a very complex format and an absolute bear to manipulate and extract data from.
The Verge article should have linked to https://twitter.com/youtubeartifact (with no 's' at the end)
If the US decide to spend trillions building skyscrapers its cities, then housing might be affordable
and it's also supposed to be hashed in each "legitimate" transaction. while network resources are so scarce as to stir rampant speculation. idk - the only thing about EOS that i have noticed is how overtly it screams of greed. the people that jumped in on that bandwagon did so for no other reason but hoping it would make them rich (cos Daniel Larimer said "you can run Ethereum on a single EOS smart contract", lol).
If all parties agree, yes. But that likely is not the case - e.g., an app developer would likely want to have maximum freedom in what data they send over the wire, while a user would want to minimize the amount of data transmitted (for simple cost reasons) and also control which personal and/or sensitive information is transmitted.

Encryption where the user does not control either of the endpoints stacks the odds in favor of developers and against users.

I agree however, that the situation for the web (e.g. everything that lives inside a browser) is still pretty good thanks to the ability to add custom root CAs and general user the browser's debugging and inspection tools.

However, if you try to find out what exactly a mobile app, a game console or an IoT device is doing, you soon find yourself out of luck even if you're the owner of those things.
I don't necessarily think he has a problem with code correctness after QA. I think he has a problem with code correctness before QA.

You can build a factory that has a Great QA process that finds all faults and corrects them. But, inside the factory you still want to minimize the amount of defects for QA to find. Either way you still need QA, but it's easy to get into the habit of improving QA vs improving the initial process.

PS: One exercise I did for a while was every time I found a non syntax bug in a function I just wrote (aka bug at run-time) I would start over and rewrite it. It's painful, but 'Build' wait let's look at this again if I hit run and it does not work that's going to be painful. So is this actually correct? Anyway, doing that showed me how important it was to just focus on the code (and what it means) to exclusion of everything else.
That's now how any of this works. That's certainly not how inflation works.

At some point, particularly given the last 40 years of evidence to the contrary, people need to simply accept that monetary expansion does not "cause" inflation [1]. Inflation is not a monetary phenomenon at all. Inflation is a price level [2] phenomenon largely driven by trade imbalances. Inflation is about market power, or what some call pricing power. The common case here, btw, is when your external partners from whom you need to import critical goods get even a little bit pricing power then you will get inflation. China is seeking to own all its externals and deliberately suppress any such pricing power not driven by its own banks.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-22/the-great...

[2] http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=10554
If adipose cells could be used for this purpose, a small amount of liposuctioned fat would be adequate.

And if pounds are needed, well... let's just say there should be plenty of eager donors for those who don't have enough.
In July 2012 the credit rating for many Euro countries was low and the borrowing costs very high.

Mario Draghi, the President of the Central European Bank (who can emit so many Euros as they wish with typing something in a computer) made a statement (1) that he will defend the Euro.

The next day the debt problem was solved.

'The markets' know that governments that emit debt in their own currency, are not depending of ratings or people buying bonds because they control the currency.

The European case is complicated because the Euro is kind of a foreign currency for the Euroarea, but the China case is obvious.

(1). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9428894/...
> SillyValley(TM)

It's actually "silly con valley" which is even more accurate.
Please don't take offence but honestly I think the "uncoolness" is being demonstrated by you in these twitter threads and is an example of behavior that came about post-social media.

You and Rasmus twist Ev's words to somehow be about oppression instead of what he clearly meant: the early internet was inhabited by geeks and he (a geek) liked that. It's also clear that he's talking more about spammers than abusers. Of course with scale both will ramp up.

Secondly we see the presentation of a hard left view as the only valid way of thinking. Pro-gun people showing up to a forum about gun control is in no way abuse, it's the internet fulfilling its promise of giving everyone a voice (even if you don't agree with them).

Yes, there have always been trolls, spammers, jerks, loudmouths... What social media seems to have created is a unique culture of grievance hunting, virtue signalling and a worship of victimhood.

Again, please don't take this as a personal attack, it's just an observation from someone who's been on the internet for a really long time.
Nobody with any credibility has predicted collapse. Recession or crash, yes, but not collapse. China is subject to economic cycles just like every other country is.

The “they keep predicting economic collapse” is a huge red herring used by pro Chinese media to discredit western media who never made such claims out of a few fringe elements like Gordon Chang.
While I like to hate on Amazon as much as the next person, I think the case could be made that sales tactics like this are common at nearly all major retailers.

Either the consumer is savvy and spent the requisite time considering their purchase, or they haven't. Retailers will always attempt to capitalize on this.
I think the person you're replying to was asking how to Model 3 in general is allowed to be sold and driven without crash test results available, not how the specific vehicle in the article is allowed to be re-sold after an accident.
It often isn’t clear that spending Y more won’t fix it, or that spending Z on a new project will - by the time you’re anywhere near half a billion euros into a project you’ve already worked around an incredible amount of unforeseen issues, lost cultural knowledge about them once they’re fixed, and there’s every chance that those issues (or more) will show up again if you start from scratch.
There are two probabilities in question: The first, of course, is the probability of victory. The second is the probability that the first probability is correct.

Consider: If someone offered to give you $2 every time a fair coin toss came up heads, or take $0.50 every time it came up tails, you'd be foolish not to take that bet a million times as you can because you know that the coin has exactly a 50% chance of coming up heads.

However, if it was an unfair coin, you'd want to know the degree to which it was unfair, and you'd have to measure it. How much do you trust those measurements? You might say that you're 90% sure that the coin has a 40-60% chance of coming up heads, or give a probability of 2% that a $1.04 to $0.96 wager would be profitable while a $1.03 to $0.97 wager would be unprofitable.

Hillary had a 95% chance to win the election. But on top of the fact that 1 in 20 times she'd lose that election if that really was the probability, the 95% number was uncertain because the measurements were difficult to pin down - maybe she'd have lost 1 in 40 times, or maybe she'd have lost 1 in 5 times. All we know now is that she lost, and that many of the assumptions and measurements the pollsters had to make concerning factors like voter turnout, nationalism, corruption, foreign interference, debate results, and fundraising turned out to be inaccurate.

With unfair coin measurements, you can get very accurate numbers with just a handful tests. When predicting election results or World Cup games, you're much less likely to make an accurate estimate. The confidence is an estimate of how likely that estimate is to be accurate.
I'd like to see version controlled text files used for important legal documents and many other government docs. Allow the presentation layer to be handled on the end points. Maybe something like markdown will be sufficient.

I always look up to the fixed width font model used by IETF RFCs. They are extremely readable and searchable and last for a long time.
Voice chat rooms(servers) for open source
I want to join a server that uses voice chat more than text
Vimsical.com got Open Sourced
Vimsical is fine-grained version control system mainly built to record coding tutorials.

demo: https://vimsical.com/vims/5969777d-8dae-48a6-8b6c-838928b59382

code: https://github.com/vimsical/vimsical
AI Thought Leaders on Capitol Hill
> A PDF document can be dated and versioned, you download a report from April 2010 and you can keep that as a document. You can then download a newer one if you want, the older version is still available and largely immutable. Archiving a dynamic web page is a lot harder.

How is it any let alone a lot harder? Save a timestamped copy of the file. Save it as a web archive if you fear assets depletion. Hell, pretty much every platform lets you save pages as PDFs natively, good luck doing the opposite.
I love the idea of an x-height axis as demonstrated in Dunbar. Different x-heights can be used for really interesting effects in different design contexts.
I agree that this organization pushing the data makes it suspect, in the sense that given finite time resource I'd probably not bother to review this study for methodological consistencies and instead wait on confirmation or refutation from secondary sources.

It appears that they are just parroting back data from BP [1], which unfortunately just passes the buck to another organization with suspect motivations. Their methodology refers to the IPCC recommendations, so if followed should at least be consistent with other attempts to measure CO2 output, but without more detail of the inputs to the model it's difficult to be sure.

[1] https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stat...
I was talking about the Euro, not the Dollar.
I don't think there was ever a scientific consensus among people who actually studied Rapa Nui and anthropology that Rapa Nui had an ecological collapse before the arrival of Europeans. (The introduction of Europeans and sheep grazing did contribute to a subsequent ecological collapse, but the indications are that Rapa Nui was considered very fertile when Europeans first arrive).

The loudest proponent of this theory is Jared Diamond, whose credibility among anthropologists is somewhere between non-existent and negative. Given the popularity of his books Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse (the latter of which is particularly egregious in cherry-picking evidence and making stuff up to support his hypothesis), I suspect that's where your evidence came from. The centerpieces of ecological self-destruction--Maya, Rapa Nui, and Norse Greenland--are all not supported by the available evidence. (The cause of Mayan collapse is not agreed-upon, but the climate thesis is problematic since the more marginal sites lasted far longer than the less marginal; Rapa Nui, as noted above, didn't collapse in the suggested timeframe; and Norse Greenland died out when it was dropped from trade routes, not when the environment changed).
Despite having the highest state income taxes in the country. Where does it all go?
I could be wrong but I wonder if they want to leave the loopholes open a bit to see where they get exploited and then slowly roll out updates. Not that they’re intentionally creating bugs but perhaps seeing how they get exploited and where so that the authors are doing the work for them rather than internal engineers.
I bet Unisys MCP deployments still matter to more than 5 people.

Plus the point was to talk about safe systems programming languages in general.

Or should we ignore history just because UNIX won on the server?