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I think you must have forgotten a “not” or otherwise made a typo that reversed the meaning of your comment.

“Recently, several times I’ve run into people tell me that temps in the U.S. are rising and I’ve wondered why they make such a claim.”

As written, your comment sounds like you don’t understand why someone would say temperatures are rising, and ascribe it to confirmation bias rather than climate change.
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"Everyone knows that the earth has warmed and cooled since it existed"

This is where things get wrong. Previously warming and cooling has happened over thousands of years. What we see now is something different. A couple hundred years is "instant" in this context.

https://xkcd.com/1732/
Please do not use HN for ideological battle. This site is for intellectual curiosity, and the two aren't compatible.

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Look at the temperature chart for the last 10,000 years, the greenland core ice temperature, GISP2 for example, and you'll see a completely different picture.

Everything looks extreme when looked at a very small scale...
Thank you HN
About a couple of years ago, I submitted a thread here called "Ask HN: I'm depressed, what should I do?" [0].

I was in a very dark place personally and professionally. I had turned to my family and friends without success, and posted here looking for a moral boost.

I would like to thank all the people that have responded with kindness.

I just wanted to say that your words helped, that I think about this thread often, and that your effort did actually help someone from a tough spot.

Update on my situation:

By the time that I got an offer I could live with, I had sent over 250 applications and done around 20 interviews.

I started with 33k€ a year (translates to a little less than 2000€ per month), now I'm at 38k€.

I rented a place downtown, and started working out (lost 18kg and counting), I'm going to run a marathon in 3 months!!!

Overall, I'm not exactly where I want to be, but -for once- I can see myself getting there.

I'm hopeful for the future, and I would like to thank the many people that helped me to get here.

Just to sum up, be kind when you can, it can change someone's life.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13134183
> appeal to authority is still a logical fallacy

The data are publicly available and the papers relatively accessible. The dismissal isn’t because climate deniers reject the mainstream. It’s because they reject the mainstream without trying to understand it.
But what if you built out all the meta data but did it wrong, then you'd have to migrate from one complex model to another which is usually more difficult then migrating from a simple one to a complex one.
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I don't know man, the human body is an incredible machine... I think it's more six of one, half dozen of the other. The one truth you can count on is: there's gonna be tradeoffs.
> And indeed, the "climate-change denial" campaign is basically a clone of that.

It is interesting to note that not only is the campaign a clone, but it is in part headed by the same people [1] who were involved in the tobacco business.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchants_of_Doubt
In India, the recent explosion in 4G availability has lead to a dramatic increase in first time internet users. But unlike earlier generation of users, these users have never accessed internet via a desktop - they only use a mobile, usually Android-based - nearly 80% of internet usage is via mobile now. That may account for the low usage as normal users cannot easily change dns settings on Android or iOS for that matter.

Australia is a puzzle though.
> We talk about “science,” yet hold up an Inconvenient Truth as some sort of inflatable prophesy, as if Al Gore were Moses holding the Ten Commandments.

Oh please. Inconvenient Truth was released 12 years ago. Of course the science is outdated, and in this year 2018, the only people who bring up Inconvenient Truth are those people who have no interest in what scientists have been doing in the past 12 years and instead try to refute an imagined straw man.

So much for respecting the other side of debate.
That's a bit of a cop-out, though. How much software development isn't either implementing the actual features or making the software easier to modify?

This one is a bit like the TDD advocacy that says you shouldn't need to do much design work up-front because you can let the tests drive the design along with everything else.*

*Except for the part where you refactor your code, which by definition shouldn't be changing its behaviour and therefore can't be driven by adding tests to your test suite, where exactly the same design issues will immediately arise.
I appreciate that you care about stabilizing the climate and have personally taken actions that contribute to that goal. I also appreciate that you're politically conservative but consider climate an important issue. I lament that the partisan polarization around this issue means we're missing ideas for solutions from half the country's population. Not every good idea about slowing/countering climate change is going to align with pre-existing strains of thought among left-leaning voters and politicians. I wish that there were more conservative politicians and voters pushing ideas for solutions that align with their backgrounds.

That said, I don't think that it's necessary or sufficient to deal with climate change by making individual lifestyle changes, without prompting from legislation. The problem of emissions is a collective action problem. Trying to fix it one person at a time is like trying to fix 20th century air quality in the Los Angeles Basin without legislation. If residents of LA supported mandatory catalytic converters on new cars, but didn't individually retrofit their own cars (or stop driving), that's not because they were un-serious about the problem. It's because they recognized that one-person-at-a-time solutions weren't going to work.
You proved my point. Democrats think they are doing something by voting, and the politicians make the voters feel good by tossing them a bone once in a while (banning straws lol) but nothing is changing. Btw I’m not a republican and don’t vote republican. I’m a cherry picking voter.
I think part of that is a sign of our time, everything is either black or white, the good guys against the villains, "whoever disagrees with me is a bastard, no discussion, no debate, let's aim at the throat".

At the moment the right is taking the blunt of these insults. Whoever disagree with the current feminist campaign is a misogynist bigot, a traditional patriarchy advocate. Whoever disagrees with the black lives matter movement is a racist. Whoever voted for Trump is an ignorant fascist. Whoever posts a comment agreeing with something Trump does is an alt-right, russian troll. Whoever voted for Brexit is an old uneducated racist.

This is why I kind of agree with hn's policy of banning political debate. It very quickly ends up with name calling and we all have better things to do of our time.
Poker is an extremely interesting game that I have been diving head first into ever since I cam home from college and had a bit of disposable income.

Besides the fact that it's a very fun game that bizarrely mirrors the real world economy in many ways, it's a great way to make new friends in a town. Unlike a lot of other games, poker is all about communication. It really fosters connections when you play with the same people a bunch.

If you're interested in getting into poker, avoid the casino cash games at all costs. Casinos take a rake or the pot - aka, transaction fees (oh wow, so you're expected winnings are the growth of the economy minus transaction fees? How economic!). If you're starting to play poker you'll want to see as many hands as cheaply as possible. Try free bar poker or local cash games and try to make your money last as long as possible. This means folding a lot of hands

It's interesting, because there is one thing that professional poker players love and hate a lot: gamblers. A gambler will go all in on an extremely stupid bet, such as a 45/55 heads up. Your EV is to lose with such bets but gamblers will play them anyway. And hell, once about every two times they'll win.
As I said, in theory, it should be very hard to get out of Schengen with a stolen car. But of course corrupt officials can help.
Registering a car with a stolen VIN should not be possible within the EU. Of course "should not".
Not this exact quote. But something like this is a theme in many of his books, often applied to himself, and to other people who've moved to western countries (or, into western-derived cultures).

It's also close to a theme of Among the Believers etc, where (to paraphrase crudely!) he comes to view non-arab muslims as being in some sense immigrants to an Arab-centred culture, with some of the same feelings of loss.
> Is there no possibility that manufacturer defects or a solar anomaly that could cause unexpected problems?

There sure is. At least two of the systems (positioning and water cooling) are active systems that could fail.

> but should we be so confident without actually having done something like this thousands of times?

"we" are confident enough that we rely on it to protect a > 1 billion USD probe. What's the use in adding a lot of ifs and maybes to some piece of marketing/explanation?

If it fails, adding some ifs and maybes to a marketing video won't really change anything.
> It was infuriating.

What part? The Unifi controller software is not for "a device", it's for multiple devices, imagine having to manage SSIDs / auth for primary+guest Wifi network across just 5 access points. I don't think anyone would enjoy logging into 5 separate AP UIs. Add your Unifi gateway + switches to that and the need to have a unified control plane is pretty obvious.

If you want self-contained, that's a separate product line, usually prefixed with "Edge". What's "infuriating" about having two product lines I don't understand. Honda makes motorcycles, boat engines, cars and jets and nobody gets pissed about it.
I think you replied to this comment by accident, because what you said means nothing in reply to what I said.

If I was replying in good faith, I would start by answering:

> Why is the US government preparing for climate change if it is not happening

> Why are worldwide temperatures increasing, with seemingly more and more 'once in a decade' weather phenomenons happening way more frequently?

> Why do you believe 'gender denialists' are anything even on slightly the same scale as climate denialists. What leads you to this absolutely and patently absurd conclusion? Could it be the news you consume? Who funds this news? Do they have a vested interest?
Congrats! Now pay it forward by finding someone feeling blue near you and helping them out.
> The western bias is towards being the first to discover an unknown restaurant with great food that just hasn't had time to build a reputation, but that's not how a typical Chinese person would approach the restaurant problem.

"I found it before it was cool" is a comparatively small thing in the US. The crowded restaurants aren't Chili's or On the Border, as trends have changed, but Instagram, Yelp, etc, drive huge crowds to a certain group of winners. The whole "influencer" thing is a marketing industry desire to capitalize on followers, a concept that is very accurately named.
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Pointless attempt to tie a political view to a tragedy, please don't do this. There have been massacres, bombings, dramatic suicides, etc long before the Reagan administration and none of them have claimed "If I would have only had 20% more compensation I wouldn't have violently murdered these 20 people."

P.S. It's godspeed, not "God speed".
^ This is the right answer. Find another, better paying day job. That shouldn’t be super hard if you’re in the US. Do not steal time from your family, you will 100% regret it eventually, guaranteed.
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Thanks for sharing. Feeling the same, but didn't switch yet.
> you'll end up with a product only the fringe wants to use.

Is that a problem? I mean, my first thought when I hear this is, "yeah, broad adoption is totally necessary." But, then I think about it more.

- Is it a problem for indie developers to build games that appeal to niche audiences?

- Is it a problem for software developers to build CLI tools or advanced software that solves very specific problems at the expense of user friendliness?

- Is it a problem for communities to be built around specific problems and for them to adopt very specific, focused codes of conduct or moderation?

Maybe it's OK to have a bunch of small, separate decentralized networks instead of one big decentralized one? With something like Facebook, sure, the point is to have everyone in one place. But one of the big points of systems like Mastodon is that small communities are better than big ones. Small communities are easier to moderate, more flexible to adapt to novel situations, and faster to pivot when things go wrong. Having niche adoption in that scenario could be kind of a feature, in the same way that having niche adoption for a game probably means you're getting something more focused and custom tailored to the people who want it.

It might be that not every social network needs to appeal to the overwhelming public at large. It mind end up being completely acceptable to have a social network that's very specific to one or two communities.

In that scenario, the death of Facebook might not be, "here's a replacement, everyone get off." It might be death from a thousand cuts; "here's a dozen replacements, there's probably at least one you like more."
This comment breaks the HN guidelines by introducing extraneous flamebait and taking the thread into tedious flamewar. Please don't do that on HN.

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Back in the 90s one of these really screwed me up when I was trying to find my way to a new and super out-of-the-way neighborhood using my trusty Thomas Guide, which at the time was the gold standard for maps in Southern California. I’d got lost and was scrutinizing the map street by street to find my way again. The moment I realized I’d “passed” the trap street I went back to make sure I didn’t get lost again. Did this three times before I decided it was a bug on the map, not knowing about trap streets at the time. I still get stressed thinking about that trip.
> Why such vitriol against "climate deniers?"

Climate deniers are either dishonest people spreading lies aimed at sacrificing the future of humanity for short-term personal gain or people following them in the destruction of humanity out of tribal allegiance.

There is literally no conceivable level of verbal vitriol that isn't far better than they deserve; the only reason for any restraint in that dimension is tactical, and even there excessive restraint i can be counterproductive; rational debate few of emotional charge may be a Vulcan ideal, but it is not, empirically, ideal in most broad human contexts. It's m it is important to be able to engage rationally in seeking the truth, but as long as that's not what everyone else does, it's going to remain less than ideal for spreadin the truth and mobilizing action based on it.
Passports are also handled through the mail / online. For the first one I had to get the photo counter signed by a ‘respected member of the community’ who’d known me for 2 years (teacher, doctor, ...)

Opening a bank account now requires showing a passport or driving license (or ID card if you are from an EU country which has one.)

The proof of age cards aren’t official ID and few people had them, probably fewer since driving licenses got photos 15 or so years ago. Can drink/smoke from 18 and most places don’t ask for ID to buy unless you look very young. Would occasionaly get asked when my birthday was when still a teenager.
... which only works due to the low density of corona.

In a thick atmosphere like earth, heat radiation comes from all sides, so no chance at radiating off very much heat.
Probably not the part about protestors having their doors kicked in and being rounded up and put into holding centers, I imagine. This is probably the most important thing people should know about.
>Yes I agree. It's hard work. You'd think a trillion dollar personal computing company like Apple would put in that work.

As a whole I think software dev culture has tilted a little too far in the direction of developer convenience. It’s our job to make the lives of our users easier, but it’s also very easy to fall into the trap of settling for “good enough”, which leads to the production of software that in reality is just barely hanging on the edge of “good enough”. To hit the moon you need to shoot for the stars so to speak, and as of late we’ve barely even been shooting for the mountaintops.
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I suppose that for the people actively denying climate change it doesn't matter, actually: it's probably more effective to deny whatever is easiest to deny at any given time.

They must only practise the denial because making changes to reduce even a potential climate change does cost money, takes away privileges and benefits gained earlier, and threatens to change their way of living. And they don't want that.

If scientists were saying that there's a slight chance for an irreversible climate change to take place in the next 30-100 years, and it would be wise to do X, Y, and Z now in order to prevent or at least lessen the change, and X, Y, and Z can be done at a minimal cost (or paid by "someone else"), and X, Y, and Z will not change their lives except to ensure they won't be affected much by the potential climate change, then I could imagine no sane person would object to X, Y, and Z nor try to deny the possibility of the climate change itself.

Those who are anti-change are just willing to bet on the possibility that nothing drastic will eventually happen in order to spare themselves from changing their lives now, against a deadlier option that would spare the lives of future generations sometimes later. To do that, they must challenge the basic premises of the climate change itself. The most effective way to do that is to pick the lowest hanging fruit in the tree of facts and concoct reasons why the facts aren't actually true. Surely, proving one thing undeniably and absolutely correct would just cause them to pick another fact.

They're not interested in why climate change is not happening in particular as long as they can keep arguing so that they can execute their agenda of not having to change anything in their lives.
Well I guess the whole essence of HN is now lost... no room for some "random" startup dude to do anything that can be trusted.
The reason the old Mac Finder worked was its ruthless consistency. The new macOS finder occasionally opens windows with a toolbar or with the wrong view or in the wrong location or the wrong size. As soon as that happens the illusion is broken.
Kinda a light read, but interesting.
yes https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/12/using-headless-mode-in-fir...
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> https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/sounding-rockets/strong...

It explains the temporal heating behavior at some scales. But it doesn't give a mechanism of heating. It could be electron beam target heating. But it could also be mediated by plasma waves.

The electron beams need acceleration and the most common suggestion is x-point magnetic reconnection providing up and down voltage gradients due to changing magnetic field. But the amount of electrons needed is unphysically large; the entire electron contents of the relevant volume of the corona.

There are plasma wave models that don't require unphysically large parameters.

These two (and a couple other) options aren't clarified by the observation of heating profiles. With the launch of Parker Solar Probe and the DKIST (diffraction limited solar telescope) the two models above will finally be testable. Spectroscopy of ion species by DKIST will tell what kind of heating is happening and Solar Probe will be there to measure the input from the corona.
That's because you're comparing a abstract, idealized self-driving cars to real-world human drivers
We have pictures and first person accounts of the Holocaust. With human-causes global warming, we have hyperbole and predictions that fail to happen again and again. “Climate Denial” isn’t the same as Holocaust denial, it’s more akin to blasphemy. Replace “global warming” with “God” and the debate would be identical: each side tries to prove there case, but not a single person who has already picked a side will be convinced otherwise. However normally, it’s ok for people to have disagreements, but when one side attempts to impose Sharia then the debate hits a fever pitch because it affects the core of our very way of life.
Vert.x is a framework for developing server applications using an event loop (think Node.js but for the JVM, with the ability to fallback to normal threads). If you've heard of Spring Boot or Spark, it's a lighter/faster alternative to those (which are generally based off of heavier webservers like Tomcat or Jetty).

Graal compiles JVM bytecode to native code, so that's the critical factor for your CLI app use case. You'd only need Vert.x if you were writing a server.
Does this second person live in the cockpit 24/7? This guy got in an unoccupied plane.
Manufacturing defects are part of engineering - they're good at this and there will be multiple scans done of the shield before it's sent up (x-rays etc) to check for defects.

But I'm also curious about what happens in the event of a solar flare or similar - from an engineering standpoint, what's their safety margin? Solar density goes up two hundred percent?
Yes but the more that people make personal changes and influence those around them so it’s on the front of our minds, the more likely we are to normalize it and get legislation passed.
Sorry that I modded you down, but where is the cite for the claim 10 foot sea rise by XXXX year?
Perhaps I should have said ineffectual, not useless, but netflix's drm has never stopped pirates from ripping its videos.
Honestly, I wouldn't dismiss the technical capabilities of the Turkish government.
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lol haven't you ever heard of "from each according to his means to each according to his needs"
The irony is that the phrase "climate change" was actually pushed initially by a Republican advisor (Frank Luntz) as it was considered less frightening to the public than "global warming".

The other irony is that this phrase was used a lot of few years back when many were claiming there was no warming going on by cherry picking the 1998 El Nino spike as a starting point for temperature graphs. Then the argument was - there is no warming, so the alarmists have stopped using the term "global warming". Of course with recent warming this particular cherry picked argument has fallen apart, but for some reason the meme persists.

I don't think the people who use the phrase even think about what they are saying. It is just part of the Gish Gallop that gets thrown out where number of words makes up for lack of solid argument (initial post that used this phrase up above being a perfect example of this)
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> but nothing is changing

Since 1995 Republicans have controlled both the house and senate almost exclusively[1]. Could this have something to do with it?

Also I'm not saying be a democrat, but exercise your vote for the party that doesn't encourage climate denial at all levels. And I think some of the democrat policies on climate change went above and beyond 'banning straws lol'.

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