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Social media companies are self regulating( see: alex jones).

Tech gaints have been fusing their role into in form identical to publicly elected govt. Ultimately becoming indistinguishable from elected govt, except they aren't answerable to general public and can make up rules as they go.
Absolutely right that this is important. Working at a small AI-blockchain incubator over the winter, a large part of my initial brief was to encourage and help the participants learn to be their better selves and identify problematic behaviours, attitudes and assumptions in themselves, and identify and fix the resulting dynamics in their teams. Learning the soft skills necessary was meant to help them not have to deal with this further down the line, and obviate the problem of the asshole founder. That strategy didn't work out due to founder interference, which made me realise now much resistance there still is in some kinds of moneymen and engineers to acknowledging the important psychological and social factors in team success. I'm glad this is acknowledged to be needed in some of the existing better incubators!
Making web text accessible to screen readers using a simple change (2017)
I'd take that with a grain of salt. Apple likes to threaten removal of technologies they have deprecated as a way to increase adoption of their replacements but rarely if ever go from deprecation to removal so aggressively, at least on the Mac.
Investment into traditional generating capacity is not a "poor investment choice." To the contrary, it's a necessary one. For better or worse, a fundamental premise of modern electric grids is that they should be able to meet all needs essentially 100% of the time. Electrical markets are then built on top of that basic guarantee.

With current technology, that means you need sufficient generating capacity from traditional sources to cover nearly 100% of your peak capacity needs--otherwise, on a day where the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining, you can't produce enough electricity.

Current renewables subsidies results in a broken market structure: the market needs conventional generators, but the subsidization of renewables makes it unattractive to build those generators. A "well functioning market economy" does not eliminate incentives to produce products that people need.
Well, I did also say low not just negative.
Apparently the author(s) think that you're safe if people are breaking into your house and stealing your things as long as you're not getting bashed over the head. Such an odd way to look at it. I don't think a lot of people who have had their house broken into feel just as safe afterwards. I do agree with their premise that prison for drug offenses is a terrible idea, but I hate that they lump drugs in with property crime. Property crime is definitely not victimless.
At the instant where there's too much electricity on the grid and too few people using it, that electricity has negative value too. And you can't store it (without paying somebody) till some later instant.
Why you should stop parroting the trite off-the-shelf "Why you should .." title cliche.
Lab grown meat or the eagle is genetically engineered to be a veagle
That must be based on your search history :) I get completions in the following order: search, token, tor, github, 2.0, shops, blockhain
That is nice. It's also almost indistuishable from Java 10. The string interpolation at the end is the last big syntactic nicety Java is missing - at least relative to this example.
So you've made a nice increase and now may have an opportunity to sell out at a premium. Doesn't seem like a terrible outcome.

I know you think you know Tesla's prospects better than the market but this could also be a good, if not life-changing, exit at the high point.
So what? You've paid for the OS you can run it wherever you want.
> I do think it's a good bit simpler and cleaner than it would be in Java.

Is it really? My Java is rusty, but now that Java has type inference it looks nearly exactly like what you'd type in Java (minus `public static void`, `new`, etc.)
Many good things for most parties have come out of China's greater involvement in the world economy, this much is true.

However, there are also several plausible, non-trivial concerns that seem like they should be included in a comprehensive conversation, but are often left out. Mobmobmob mentioned a few specific ones, do you have an opinion on the severity of the risks he mentioned?
I suppose you might go out of your way not to produce artificial intelligences that could outcompete you, since if there isn't life out there, now you've just created it, and they'd wipe you out as soon as possible just in case.

It would still just take one civilization build Skynet by accident or to hold a firm belief in mind-uploading though, and then we're knee-deep in cybermen.
> it is rust and therefore usable from rust and C(++).

They want to provide C bindings (vulkan.h).

> Have there been any previous attempts to do this? Any success?

MoltenVK translates Vulkan into Metal. Looks like gfx-rs has a potential to break these lock-ins one step further with translating Vulkan into DirectX 12. They should also consider making GNM backend for completeness.
Sure: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/08/sarah-jeong-shou...
> Do people genuinely run into cases where they frequently have to be hitting 3+ keys simultaneously to use Emacs? Or is this just one of those "everybody knows" things that's actually completely false?

Search and replace with regular expressions takes 4 keys in the default bindings! The command query-replace-regexp is bound to C-M-%, which means ctrl+alt+shift+5 on most keyboards. (To be fair, you can also replace alt with previously pressing esc, so "esc then ctrl+shift+5".)
Most of this seems to be the standard carbon footprint of any manufactured good e.g. the diesel used by the trucks delivering things, the coal burnt to generate the electricity to heat the factories.

It doesn't seem to be inherent to plastic, though possibly it's impossible to drill for oil/gas without leaking some into the atmosphere. Seems to be a small fraction of the total though.
Most of the equity investors are institutionals that cannot keep the investment in a non-traded stock even if they wanted to. And bond-holders care about the coupon, not about Musk's vision.
Some thoughts as someone who has both done freelancing and now hires freelancers:

Remember why people are hiring you: to make problems go away. People hire contractors (and pay them a lot) because they want work completed, without the drama of an employee. Every email you send, ever line of code you write, make sure you're thinking about "how can I make fewer problems, not more"?

Freelancing is less about the work, and more about the presentation. Doesn't matter how good your code is if you don't answer emails within an hour, send professional invoices on time, and hit deadlines. If being over-communicative doesn't come natural to you, I'd consider finding someone who is good at it and giving them 10-20%. (It'll be well worth it in the end)

Specialize in something people need, and have a good, simple website for it. You aren't "generic iOS" dev, you're now "iOS animations" or "integrate awesome metrics into your iOS" or "upgrade to the newest version of iOS" dev.

Do fun, viral projects. Explicitly say you're looking for work. I got most of my freelancing off projects like http://2014.startupnotes.org/ and https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/

Work with other freelancers, especially with other competencies. It doesn't have to be a formal "company", but you get to share your network and fill in skill gaps. "Oh, you need an illustrator? My friend Tom is awesome, he can do that for you."

Cut ties with bad clients ASAP. There's so many great clients out there, and bad ones will suck up all your time and energy.

Understand why you're doing this. Wanting to make lots of money, wanting to work less, trying new technologies, wanting to finance a startup... all valid, but optimize for what you want out of this.

I'd aim for $120/hr at first. You need to get your foot in the door at some great companies. You can always say you charge $200, but give a discount "because you really like them". Then slowly raise as time goes on. The more work you get, the easier future work is (due to referrals). I know everyone says charge more, and I agree eventually, but early on I think building up a strong network is even more important. It'll lead to higher rates (from other companies) as time goes on.

Charge by the day, not per hour.
The Pacific Ocean, alone, has a greater surface area than all the land masses of Earth, combined.

Water, especially a large deep mass of water like the Pacific, can hold a lot of heat energy.

And we don't know what is happening with the heat transfer and storage cycle; we don't even understand the full operation of heat exchange between ocean and the rest of the planet.

Thermocline is "about" 800 meters of water depth (that's a HUGE heat sink): https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/thermocline.html
Yes its called a grow light they cost about $7 at home depot. It doesn't matter what you grow; weeds will work.
The New Editors of the Internet (2014)
“You only sell hot air?”

“Yes, I’m full of it! And quite dense!”
EU regulators to study need for action on common mobile phone charger
At least we are clear that “Facebook doesn’t sell data, Senator.”
Right, I explicitly mentioned not really believing desalination to be a good example, I was using it more as a fake illustrative example.

In hindsight I should have ended with posing the following question: how do we make a simple guide for factory/etc operators/consultants to recognize such steps in their production line?

Desalination is a bad example, because you need a complete new plant, while it is conceivable that other products have one or more energy dense steps.

What should such instructions look like?

Follow the product through your production line, and at each step measure the energy consumed per part at the step, and the volume per part when efficiently stacked. Also note if the step is automated or needs a human, if it is human, check if it can be automated.

If it is automatable, and the energy density for the step is high enough, calculate the cost for changing the production line, allocating sufficient storage, and possibly automating a certain task, and parallellizing the step such that it can be run during energy flood. Then calculate through the price difference how fast it pays itself back.

Mention the importance of actually measuring the energy consumption, instead of just reading off a machine specification of wattage, and cycle time.

Etc.

Edit:

The banks that wish to invest in cheapening such a step could train consultants and send them to factories interested in good deals. I.e. any potential profit is shared between company and bank, and the bank takes the risk (hence has the motivation to do the calculation properly, and will have best knowledge through experience of suitable step energy densities)
Twitter suspends Ron Paul Institute executive's account and others
Marketplaces don't self-regulate. Providing a level playing field, such as explicitly detailing a fiduciary duty to keep a subscriber's information confidential, is the role of government.
Interesting.

I tell people believing in their abilities made the difference.

Having money helps(well paid 9-5), but knowing that with enough googling and never giving up mentality, you can solve real problems. Sometimes I am shocked at how little is needed to solve problems that the entire world is currently dealing with, but my fully capable friends dont even try.
This boils down to you defining neutrality as political. There is nothing faux about the neutrality of the internet. BGP peering is neutral and free. ISPs charge a fee for access, sure, but that's a choice made at the endpoints, on an individual basis.

What you are arguing is that neutrality is a political choice, and what I am arguing is that that is a bad definition of politics.
I don't know, you can build a racing drone for $200 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MwKdHZ8OlM these go at 100mph and can change directions multiple times in one second.
I would disagree. We live in a 3d world but more often than not we communicate complex concepts for understanding in 2d; writing and drawings
the point is that "just consuming" the electricity is nontrivial. Suppose you've been paid to take some number of megawatt hours of energy. Okay: What do you do with it? At the least useful, you have to safely convert it into heat it without damaging something. More useful would be storing it. If you know how to solve that, yeah, you will make money.
Drug war?
I had to do something similar when I started my consulting business. I was very aggressive about finding work, and it breaks down like this, for every week day:

1. Reach out to 5 contacts in my network. Ask them if their company needs any contracting work. If they don't, can they recommend 3 people who might even remotely need it OR if they ever worked with consultants before and used a firm.

2. If there are leads, follow up with up with them (usually around 3) asap. Get to a conversation in person or over the phone.

3. If there are prospects, promise them a 24 hr turnaround on an estimate and get them a statement-of-work/proposal in that time. Building trust is about doing what you'll say. You'd be surprised at how many people will not follow through on super simple things like this.

4. If there are potential buyers, you should have put in your SoW/proposal that you'll check in within 48 hours. Make sure you check in! Do revisions, get on the phone, do whatever it takes to ensure that they feel special and valued and you want the business to be mutually beneficial.

I was able to close multiple six figure deals with this strategy.

In terms of the money part - stop charging an hourly rate. Do fixed price projects or charge by the week/month. Yeah, it still comes out to a "per hour" amount if you amortize over 40 hours in a week or 160 hours in a month, but sell on the intangible benefits. Your customers don't have to sweat phone calls any longer. And YOU don't have to worry about being on the clock all of the time. Focus on results instead of minutia in billing.

$200 is going to be tough to get with any regularity if you're brand new to consulting. Brennan Dunn is a great dude but in my experience the whole "double your rate" thing doesn't just come out of thin air when you already have a high starting point. Easy to do if you're doing commodity work like CMSs or basic data entry. Not so easy to do if you already have a high salary and you're in a specialization like mobile.

Start with $200. If you only get nos, drop it to $150 or $175. Drop until someone bites, but realize the more potential closes you have because you're reaching too high, the less time you'll spend earning a buck. You can always work up to that with every subsequent deal - maybe start at $125 or $150. Get cash coming in, and then continue to source deals for when this gig ends. Keep turning down folks that won't meet your STARTING_RATE * 1.1 to 1.25, or whatever. Easier to stay in business and keep the lights on that way than just start throwing out what is effectively $400k a year when no one knows who you are.
Note: many bigger gas plants are combined cycle, the exhaust of the gas turbine generates steam in a waste heat boiler for a steam turbine. Often multiple GTs on a single ST.
This website is NSFW.
Could you store electrical energy this way more efficiently than pumped hydroelectric? Like make a capacitor the size of a wastewater storage tank?
Finding the docs took me less time than writing this comment. Here you go: https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil
If can demonstrate guaranteed financing for this deal from outside investors at $420/share, then he just tweeted material news about his company, and he had all the rights to do so.

If he can't prove guaranteed financing for this deal, that's securities fraud and SEC investigation is the next step of this drama. Imagine... well, SNAP CEO tweeting "Some rich folks are going to take us private at $50 per share lmao ayee, cover your shorts". This is a market manipulation.
That WAS the vote. They didn’t care enough to leave Apple over it in sufficient numbers for Apple to change position.
My Australian Cattle Dog is a total hoss, very confident and often scares other dogs just by casting a serious look in their direction. Even though he's a medium sized dog at best, he never cocks his leg when he pees. Given his confidence maybe he just doesn't see the need to lie.
I'm pretty excited, I hope there is a way to 'meet people'. I hate to say, but random people from reddit I added on instagram/facebook are some of my most interesting and beneficial social connections.
I think after you have 2000 or more shareholders there are requirements to publically report the financial performance. I am not sure if this makes the company a "public company".

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/5/500-shareholder-thresho...
The site just didn’t work on Safari Mobile without a huge bloated menu.
Anybody who dealt with upwork knows perfectly well that "guaranteed" ... there is nothing guaranteed with these systems.

And in my experience, the people wanting more control want it because they know that they themselves would, given the chance, betray the trust. If someone demands this happen, you can bet they're looking to exploit you. You don't want to work for these people, you don't want to touch them with a 10-foot pole.
I wish all people around the world the best. But with respect to China, I'm rather concerned that rather than the Chinese population forcing change upon their government, another possible outcome is that the Chinese government forces undesirable and possibly dramatic change upon the rest of the world. To me, this outcome seems not just possible, but extremely likely unless something major changes.
Or https://github.com/notracking/hosts-blocklists that uses a dnsmasq feature to block full domains.
Judging by my Facebook feed Americans are perfectly capable of vicious, polarized discourse without foreign influence.

It's gotten quite bad in the U.S. Common political discourse has devolved into a back and forth of insults, hyperbolic accusations, and sometimes just plain insanity. I agree with you that this will probably be something that will last a while.

If only we could get people to realize that believing something to be true merely because it reinforces a pre-conceived idea or because it's plausibly true is not a path toward finding the truth. How do you have a discussion with someone who believes the political equivalent of a flat Earth?
Code signing is important, but artifact signing is even more important, because that's what you end up trusting at the end of the chain. So not only do you have to sign your code and secure all your code signing keys, your build agent has to have a build signing key to sign builds. If any of this is compromised, there goes your build integrity.
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Singaporeans at least have the right to leave. Chinese people aren't even free to migrate internally.

Singaporean internet access is significantly freer than Chinese. Singapore has freer markets, more rule of law.

They don't have a real democracy, and there are restrictions on speech, but it's absolutely crazy to equate it with China. If China turns into Singapore as it gets richer it'll be a humanitarian miracle.

Unfortunately I share your skepticism. Not because of Singapore as a counterexample, though, but because of China-to-date. They haven't been liberalising, they have been getting less free, more nationalistic and so on. The Party has increased its control on every part of life and all levers of government. I can't see why that trend should reverse.
Lots of very good advice in this thread so I'll take a different approach.

What's your goal? Why are you looking for a $200 rate?

Do you want to make 400k a year?
Do you want to make 160k a year but only work for 20 weeks?
Do you want flexibility in schedule?

As a contractor, you'll spend way more time than you think you will developing contacts and trying to sell the ways you can provide value to a client.

I quit a job when a former employer offered me close to that hourly rate to work on some very specialized software. Worked for about 9 months, then I spent the next 4 trying to look for more incredibly lucrative freelance work. Eventually met a startup who gave me an full-time offer I couldn't refuse so I took it.

I'm much happier not intermittently searching for work and sinking my teeth into helping a company grow.
Something like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasukha_(electronic_warfare...

and something like this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantsir_missile_system

(Not familiar with the western equivalents but the idea is the same.)

A small drone does not have the ability to carry the shielding required to protect itself from interference, which can include jamming GPS and even taking over controls of the drone to capture it.

A larger drone is easy target for AA systems.
I removed everything that seems redundant. Less syntax means less to break, and less for new programmers (who are 10x the volume of existing programmers) to learn:

import 'package:hauberk/src/engine.dart'
import 'package:hauberk/src/content.dart'

content = createContent()
save = content.createHero("blah")

while (true)
watch = Stopwatch()
watch.start()

# Generate a dungeon at each level.
count = 0
for (i = 1; i <= Option.maxDepth; i++)
game = Game(content, save, 1)
for (_ in game.generate())

# Read some bit of game data so the JIT doesn't optimize the whole program away as dead code.
if (game.hero.pos.x >= -1) count++

watch.stop()
print("Generated $count dungeons in ${watch.elapsedMilliseconds}ms")
I don't think UWP with Vulkan is completely impossible.

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Docs/issues/366

It doesn't exist now though for sure, so for all practical purposes UWP locks developers out of using Vulkan.
I think we have to be careful about making companies liable for everything their users upload. While companies like Google and Facebook have the computational capacity to scan everything that they consume, what about startups?

It shouldn't mean companies aren't liable for failing to remove content deemed illegal, but having it be illegal for any single thing to slip between the cracks seems harsh.
The old Elance was great. Miss it a lot.
> My theory is that the government made them legal to appease Southerners after the Civil War.

It didn't; this is indisputable, because they existed and were legal, both in and out of the South, before the Civil War.

You could argue that they were not outlawed at the time chattel slavery was in order to mitigate the imposition on the South being done by the Civil War amendments (13-15), but that's implausible for a number of reasons, but most notably that being punitive was major feature of th Civil War Amendments, the cooling to punitive measures and accommodationist approach to the South didn't take long to appear after they were imposed, but it was a later thing.

> the evidence in terms of the Congressional record of the time

Specific citations would be welcome.