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> Urban Mushrooms has already stopped six tonnes of coffee grounds from going to landfill.

As a late 80s kid I remember being told that nutrients sent to Landfill were there forever, essentially lost because landfills are sealed off from the wider ecosystem. I mean some gases get out and I guess some stuff gets eaten by birds, but mostly it's good organic matter locked away forever. So anything which saves organic gunk is good with me.

> Urban Mushrooms currently employs two staff and several apprentices

The impact on youth unemployment, though, seems kind of minimal.
> We'll, that feels pretty wrong...

... to persons who value moral higher than shareholder value. Advertisers will mostly be happy to enter previously untapped markets.

It is cold, but why should Google care? The times when an publicity stunt like "dont't be evil" was required to establish a big user base are over.

If it would in any way raise the revenue of google, i assume google would instantly proclaim another "don't be a dick" COC.
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It'd be a great 1 person-audience magic trick to call up all 3000 of those people and say, "Hi sjcsjc, I found your phone number in Pi".
No, it isn't. I was paying $4100 for a similar property in Dallas in 2016.
While this is true, the tooling and documentation for Dat is quite excellent. So if it's to be a building block, I'd much rather that it have excellent APIs - then leave all the people work to Beaker. It seems like a pretty symbiotic relationship to me.
Ah okay, that makes more sense. Thanks.
The term 'hate speech' is used throughout this thread, is why I mention it like this. I'm just saying that ridiculing someone you do not agree with (strongly), might backfire against your own arguments..
I don’t think these social norms are as settled as you might think. The fallout of these new norms has yet to come, but it is coming.

By fallout, I mean women are starting to realize that men identifying as women isn’t in their best interest. Feminist are already split on this issue.

In the US, the state of Connecticut has biological boys who identify as girls competing in female sports and blowing them away, displacing biological girls on teams and soon in athletic scholarships.

This throws well-intentioned gender based laws into chaos. Title 9 will be challenged as biological men displace biological women in sports at larger scales. The Olympics will be dominated and world records will be shattered by biological men in female gender events.

Then there’s the guy in Canada that spent $50 to change his gender to female and saved $1,400 on his auto insurance.

This era of self identification will end since sincerity is not an objective truth and can’t be measured.

Or, another possibility, all laws attempting to promote equality between sexes and races will be made useless.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.
This has pissed me off in the past. My reviews getting rejected. The problem ultimately is that Amazon NOW has separate functions for reviewing a product and a seller. The product reviews are public, the seller reviews are not. If your review of a product is just bagging on the seller, it will be rejected. Like the one your wrote for the weights.
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What a dumb idea. They have 0 chance of success in China and it will just create bad PR everywhere else.
I suspect that everyone could write a book if they simply committed to some process. Especially when writing of true events. When I started writing “How To Destroy A Tech Startup In Three Easy Steps” I had the emails and Slack messages to work from. I simply copy and pasted all the relevant communications and suddenly I had a manuscript. Then I simply had to add some background information so that the reader would understand the overall context. I suspect anyone could write a story using a technique like that. And most of us have been through some event which is worth recounting.
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they moved it down or reworded it or something

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...
>Why should there be a different standard for Google and other tech companies to not expand into China.

This exactly.

I would even make a stronger case. It's not fair to expect a technology company to fight a major world economic power. This is a failure of US and EU governments. They should pressure China to liberalize their government and provide a level economic playing field (it is insane what China gets away with with respect to the roadblocks it places on Western companies to do business there).
> They do have models that can function off-grid, and even models with attached batteries to handle surge loads and night-time operation, but these models are not as widely installed.

Talking to solar salespeople, they say it's not code to run your house off-grid directly on the panels, without batteries. I'm not sure why; maybe they think handling brownouts is too much of a problem?

We're planning to install an SMA inverter [1] that has a "Secure Power Supply" outlet in the basement that gives best-effort power during a grid outage. This seems to be the only option on the market that gives you some power when the grid is out without needing the very large (quoted at $10k for the smallest size) expense of a battery system.

[1] https://www.sma-america.com/newsroom/current-news/news-detai...
> Question for anyone familiar with Dat: how do I properly secure access to my data? E.g. instead of the Fritter application, what if there was an ecommerce application? I put my home address, paypal/credit card etc data in my own archive that the ecommerce site uses.

No, there isn't a pattern for this kind of thing. There is a "session data" proposal[1] that begins work in this direction.

However, there is an implicit attack vector here - if a phishing website were able to punk you into connecting to the address (and key, presumably) of your wallet - well, then they score all the good stuff. Beaker would need to have a keychain-type thing builtin that would store that dat address and private key.

I think Beaker has a great start and they are grabbing a bunch of great low-hanging fruit. This is the first time I've seen compelling "static" applications. And it marks a return of the read-write browser. (Yes you can figure out how to run a TiddlyWiki locally from Firefox, but Dat lets you create a website right from its start page.)

[1] https://www.datprotocol.com/deps/0006-session-data-extension...
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You don't have that? Damn Monzo needs to get to the states soon!
The Xbox 360 has a Windows NT-kernel and IIRC it runs with a PowerPC-based CPU. Older NT-kernels were available for PowerPC, MIPS and Alpha. Your point is still valid, though.
That’s crazy out of touch. The modem is definitely not the limiting factor. I get better LTE bandwidth than I do on my home fiber.

Latency is an issue, sure but not as much as CPU here.
> Why propane? Because gasoline slowly degrades (polymerization) and needs to be drained, disposed of, and replaced with new (typically every year or so). Propane doesn't degrade over time.

If you have natural gas piped to your home then a natural gas generator is a solid option. Expensive, though.
Illegal? No. The principle is "best interests of shareholders" but that has never meant only profits, especially if the costs of those profits do material damage to the world those shareholders live in, in which case it's not in the best interests.
Are you just asking why anyone should have any ethical standards at all?

Presumably even you think there is some line a tech company shouldn't cross, right?
> Secure, trustless, decentralized consensus. Or in practical terms - a ledger database that everyone can write into without having to trust third parties to maintain correctness.

It's still an unsolved problem.
The way Bitcoin and clones solve it, is by delegating consensus to one level up - i.e. consensus over the right fork (see [1,2,3]).

It's like saying that you agree that Trump is a legitimate president as long as you are a republican.

[1] https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/943468719241682944

[2] https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/964591507457171456

[3] https://twitter.com/nivertech/status/900767515214835712
The results are almost always unusable.

Possibly because of the censorship? If so, Google isn't going to be much better.
And it's IMO a critical piece of game history - ZZT, in part thanks to its level designer, became quite successful and allowed Tim Sweeney to found Epic Megagames, which had a number of successful shareware games afterwards (also thanks to Cliffy B) like Kiloblaster (I remember that one) and Jill of the Jungle, Epic Pinball and Jazz Jackrabbit, until in 1998, a good seven years after ZZT, they made Unreal. And again, part of what made Unreal and later Unreal Tournament popular was its level editor and programming interface - which became available to other game creators in the form of the Unreal Engine, which still is a popular choice a lot of the AAA games of today.

So think again when you hate on emoji :p.

(I wanted to do the ascii smiley face but it doesn't seem to be supported. 2018 everyone).
I’m a heavy vim user and have not had an issue hitting the escape key past the first couple days as long as I don’t look down.
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Vestigial?
Neither US or EU are the world police. They have no rights and should not have any to pressure any country to push their own idea of how things should work in another country, just like how China and others don't demand such and even if they do that doesn't make it less wrong.
> Posture is a controversial subject. While it is undoubtedly important, there is a lot of pseudo-science built around it. Especially when it comes to linking posture and mindset.

I don’t see a lot of exceptions to this rule. Generally, I can judge someone’s state of mind by their posture and body language. The notion that body and mind are not very much connected actually seems more controversial to me if anything. Indeed, in evolutionary time scale, speech has not been the primary mode of communication for very long.

> As for looking down, I found that looking at people feet makes it easier to navigate a crowd, that's the opposite it open areas.

I find it if I look people in the eye I don’t actually have to “navigate” anything.
Sure it had meaning. It was protest against the old Microsoft.

Now that google is big enough to have the sort of financial incentives old Microsoft did, they’re making the same decisions. No it’s not identical, the EU is after them for their anticompetitive behavior, not the US.
There are a couple of recurring themes here:

1. the hyper-moralising over google's business decisions, they're not the only company that modifies its business to access the chinese market nor is the chinese government the only one that demands censorship.

2. google employees' attempts to sabotage the company's business prospects.
Agreements with superpowers: what are smart contracts?
Suppose you had a legal agreement that could ‘understand’ and execute its own terms. Instead of writing a contract on pen and paper, you simply code it, and it makes transactions or sends products according to specified conditions and time frames. This is the world of smart contracts. These pieces of software can automate a good deal of the contracting process. And it’s all thanks to their ultimate ‘superpowers’.
https://skelia.com/articles/smart-contracts-need/
You are correct, but unfortunately people do not use rational thought when discussing emotional issues, especially in today's highly politicized and socially sensitive environment.
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You could have a motor with a weight on the shaft spin one way and then another. You would have some idea of the maximum size of the load that needs to be dumped. A couple of washing machine motors should do it, or an air conditioner that faces outside.
Because Google's search engine isn't censored in the rest of its locations?
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My immediate reaction was "how can the CCP possibly cripple Google so much that Baidu can compete?". Anyone who's lived in China will have passionate views on how terrible Baidu's product is.

If there is any eastward leakage of Google's code, it's certainly not obvious in day-to-day usage of Baidu's search engine.
Spoken like a true boot licker.

It is absolutely the responsibility of every sovereign citizen and every company made up of those citizens to resist objectively evil behavior regardless of the larger apparatus at work.

Saying it “isn’t fair” for google to take the high road is the most asinine childish argument you could possibly put fourth.

It isn’t fair that people are having their human rights curtailed for profit. So that some people in some part of the world get amazing healthcare and amazing lunches, others have to suffer.

ICE was invented recently under Bush in 2003 preceding the Homeland security act. You are wrong to say we democratically voted in ICE. Even if we did vote it in, kidnapping children is evil fullstop and should be protested.

No American is free of using third world slave labor. This is unavoidable and all we can do is bring attention to it.

Your kowtowing to the powerful and buying into their propaganda is insanely stupid, evil and you should be ashamed of yourself.
It probably won't happen for other reasons, but there is a userspace port, so it should be usable from Darwin.
If they had leaks of Google's algorithm, they'd likely have a much more usable product...
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That's the main reason a lot of companies are working on lab-grown meat. If they manage to get it cheaper than cows, the impact will be enormous. In principle it should be possible, since it requires far less resources.

The recent book Clean Meat covers the field in detail. Steaks will be a while, but for ground meat we're a lot closer than I'd expected. Dairy is even easier: no cells, just fats, sugars, and proteins that can be produced by engineered yeast.

(The book also has a chapter on just going vegan, but points out that despite decades of advocacy, people's behavior has barely changed. When people can afford meat, they eat it, and it's been that way for pretty much all of human history.)
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eh.... I think I agree in principle with you, BUT something doesn't sit quite right. I'm currently in China (hence the throwaway account) and I think any level of collaboration with their government on restricting access to free information for the Chinese people should ABSOLUTELY BE CHALLENGED. Not doing so prolongs their government's ability to not reform vs getting caught in middle-income trap from lack of 0 to 1 innovation.
Do debit cards also issue chargebacks? That’s when you disagree with the service you’ve been provided with by a merchant and you call your credit card provider (usually a bank) and issue a chargeback, resulting in a full refund usually (they tend to side with the customer). You can’t abuse it too much but I know people who definitely abuse it for what I’d consider trivial disagreements.
Each country has its own rules and for sure any company wishing to operate there should abide.

Be from North Korea or Cuba etc and then see if PayPal opens an account for you. I don't see PayPal fights for it, they simply abide the law and move on.

You have a company and the gov gives you tons of regulations that most of them are unfair? Your problem, take it or leave it.
I advise Americans to auction empty federal land holdings. having so much of land in state's property is wrong, and very uncapitalist.
Wow, that's weird. It didn't when I posted it :(
> Curious about SPS + A/C

The SPS is rated for 2000W, best-effort. That gets you probably one large window AC. It will run when the grid is down and the sun is shining on your panels, which depending on how your roof is angled and what trees etc there are might or might not be enough?

It will have times when it loses power due to clouds. I believe when that happens the SPS turns itself off and you need to manually re-enable it by flipping a switch in the basement. So might be a lot of hassle.
After that point it works exactly like any other network connection. I'm not sure what you feel needs to be documented here.
The circular thing with dictionaries - that makes sense. I've always seen dictionaries as infinite. Shakespeare invented words. Computational definitions of symbols, mathematics, etc are different.

I don't really see it as circular, more like a spiral. Each layer of computation or math - in 3s. Computer, mind, paper. Or symbol relates to symbol through symbol. Deductive proof techniques, the memory of all existing knowledge filling in the gaps between each sequential step. Layers of definitions stack, those are computer programs.

https://youtu.be/Ad4T-j_bOVc

The internet makes so much of life weird. Memories, words. Everything a reminder, automatic.
Oh. Now that the subject is on the table, how do you pronounce `jpeg` ? Gee-Pug or Jee-Pee-Gee ? (French do the Gee-Pug thing).
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Pickle isn't slow, it's a protocol
Except that my "corporate strategy" doesn't allow installing extensions. So a built-in tool is excellent.
There is also the assumption that you use all lamps/electric devices for 24 hours every single day. But humans tend to sleep and the sun is shining during the day so you end up using your lamps for only 8 hours or even less per day.
And a pain to download :/ (looking at you giphy).
> Urban Mushrooms has already stopped six tonnes of coffee grounds from going to landfill.

What happens to the coffee grounds after the mushrooms are done growing? Not trying to be a smartass. Genuinely curious given this is a core claim.

Regarding landfill, I've wondered if these site will be come super valuable in 100 years type thing. There must be huge mineral wealth someone will mine from these one day. Kinda like us mining old mines tailings now our extraction methods are better.
To me, the takeaway is that there is a ~10x performance difference between the near-worst case memory access pattern (330 cycles) compared to the best using SIMD (41 cycles).

A potential order of magnitude improvement hiding in the memory access patterns of your code makes this worthwhile information for a lot of devs.
After reading the book Ordinary Injustice, I can assure you the US legal system is extremely far from humane. Our system is overworked, biased, and inherently breaking down in th invisible small courts of our country. Fairly enforced laws may seem inhumane, and I am sure there would need to be patches to any such system to refine the morality it reflects, but I am having a hard time imagining it being any less humane. Secondarily, you can simply issue a "fix" contract for 25 million extra. If the other business is operating in good faith, which they obviously were they would be just as willing to have an additional contract to make it right. I am not sure I am a fan of smart contracts or not yet. There can still also be overrides for humanitarian purposes.
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The Property Clause.

https://www.heritage.org/constitution/#!/articles/4/essays/1...
I love one of your sentences most (non ironic): "You need to produce communication that reaches those people, who are interested in VM data centers AND have the power to directly or indirectly make the buying decisions."

Who do you think those people are? ;-)
It's bad to complain about downvotes to one's own posts, but complaining about those to others' posts is sometimes acceptable, especially in cases like this one where the post in question is so obviously correct.
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In French it's called compote de pommes which I would say is correct. It's a compote, not a sauce.

The runny stuff is a sauce. Salad really just means adding salt to it. In Italy they don't use a sauce as such, but rather just add oil, vinegar and salt separately.

But I get what you're doing. You're taking the extreme approach of "etymology never matters". I get it. I'm able to enjoy the etymology of words and the difference between a sauce and a compote and still say "apple sauce" when I'm talking to English speakers.
Building a GUI that consumes a command line interface turns that command-line USER interface into an APPLICATION PROGRAMMING interface, and that's asking for trouble. USER interfaces and PROGRAMMING interfaces are different things, with different, sometimes conflicting purposes and goals. Conflating the two leads to fossilization and confusion for users and application programmers alike. It also causes unnecessary conversion to and from brittle human-readable formats.

I'd go a step further and say that software should first and foremost be libraries exposing carefully designed APIs, then have user facing tools (command line and/or GUIs) built upon that.
Common use cases. People will hear about WireGuard the new OpenVPN, and they'll want to "just set up a quick VPN" with it, to "hide their IP address" or whatever.

Of course it's up to WG to decide if they want to deal with this kind of community education/outreach.
Not sure how deep you're intending to go on "tax law", but from my cursory knowledge I'd wonder if in judging eligibility for tax deductions related to disadvantaged status in society, or disability, we might be influenced by our moral compass, though I know not enough to validate if this wiggle room exists or not. I suppose the question further up is if it should exist, which is another matter entirely.
this is a weak argument, as it can be made for literally any situation.

Israel massacring Palestinians? Hey man, they can do whatever they want, we don't have any right to tell them not to and it doesn't make what they're doing any less wrong!
Absolutely there are lines companies should not cross but that's what we have laws and policy for.
That's why we have GDPR/AML/Anti-Bribery/Anti-Corruption legislation.
We all know they are wrong but we still have laws even if some of practices are accepted locally, small bribes etc.

Contrived example, if a printing company wanted to expand into China they would not be allowed print anti Chinese government documents.
Would we be as up in arms about this or should there be a law saying that until China increases human rightsn EU/US companies can't work there and Chinese companies can't work/sell to EU/US?

Obviously this won't/can't happen given our dependence on cheap Chinese manufacturing and our need for year on year growth.
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Sure they will, but they'll never be able to leave the country, fly or get a train ticket again.
Jay-peg is the most common I hear.
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I think Germans genuinely enjoy paying taxes. One need not look farther than Germany's close neighbors (Italy, Greece) to see that many people do underreport cash revenue.
Allowing more to revert to forest would help moderate CO2 levels. Assuming, that is, we didn't do what we're doing with U.S southeastern forests: converting vast areas into wood pellets, so they can be fed into power plants in Europe.
I'm pretty sure HDMI will support 8k and resolutions beyond that.
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I've had a half dozen jobs since graduating college, and several before then.

I just get to a job and after 6-12 months I've just had enough. By enough I mean, just so much boredom that I cannot tolerate being apart of the organization anymore.

For those that struggle with this or something similar, how do you cope or dont you?
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