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If Wolfenstein had you playing as a prison guard gassing people but it's OK because they're actually vampires then yes, that would be extremely distasteful. AFAIK that's absolutely nothing at all like what Wolfenstein is, so I'm not sure why you would bring that up.
Now you're just repeating propaganda.

> it's inane...

India is almost as populous as China, but its coal usage is similar to the U.S., i.e. about 25% that of China.

> actively fighting against one (the US)

The U.S. is aggressively reducing coal usage. Here are two charts:

(Fig. 13)
https://energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/can-coal-m...

http://ieefa.org/global-coal-consumption-down-an-additional-...

In the first, the U.S. and China are the only countries reducing coal use in the final years of the chart. In the second, from 2015, it clearly states the U.S. reduced coal consumption by 11%. Double the reduction from Japan or Canada, 3x that of Germany.

And finally, I'm sorry it needs to be specifically pointed out -- but politicians vote on policies. Not lobbyists, not energy companies.
introduced by Chinese but it's interesting noodles (soup) as street fast food ain't THAT popular in China

i don't think noodle dish would first come to mind when thinking about Chinese cuisine
What changed? The fish smells from the head. Justice is not independent and as much corrupt and criminals as politicians, press and law enforcement. As in every other 3rd world country.
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My mother & father have both held the same job for the past 20 years, & intend to retire from those jobs. Secretary at a lawfirm & furniture repair. They're both now enjoying 5 weeks vacation a year. & hey, they've also maintained a great relationship for three decades too
Distributed decision-making works just fine without AI. As Marquet puts it: “move the authority to the information” (as opposed to the converse more typical of the hierarchical organisation). Read “Turn the ship around!”, also a great audiobook.
I don't think this is always true.

Some of the best books and courses I've taken were from people who are experts at what they do. The keyword there is "are", not "were".

There's just an extra level of insight you can get from someone who is in the trenches doing real work, rather than trying to learn from someone who never really did the thing for real but happens to be an "armchair expert".

I think this is especially true for software development material and it's one of the reasons why I continue to do freelance work while creating video courses on the side. If I stopped consulting then I would become rusty in my craft if all I did was come up with course material.

An example of this would be DHH's books. Would you rather learn business from DHH (someone involved in a ridiculously successful business that operates today), or a college professor who likely never ran a really successful business but knows a ton of theory about it but also has 30 years of teaching experience?

I would argue DHH's advice in his books would be more valuable, even if he happens to be a less skilled teacher on paper.
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Sure, Feynmann was pretty special. But the title of the article is "Those who can Do, Can't Teach", which is clearly false given the presence of at least one counterexample. It's possible to make any statement "true" if you don't accept the counterexamples because they are not "statistically representative". :)
Don't forget paying public school teachers more and hiring more of them.

That alone would be a significant equalizer, and far less extreme (and I'd argue far more effective) than just banning private schools outright.

Of course, I'm coming at this with an American background, and it seems like the article is about British education, so maybe there are different factors at play here.
I'm not sure that is the case, twenty five years ago I'd be lucky if my desktop went a whole day without crashing and needing a reboot, that is quite rare now.
The OP told that he stayed tough he had other options with probably better options for short term benefits and that he thinks he is happier on the long term. You asked if he doesn't delude himself into thinking that he is happier. I accepted that people delude themselves (all the time one way or the other) but I asked in which situation the self-delusion is "bigger". In the light of your previous comment I don't fully understand your current answer.

(I'm not saying people should stay in uncomfortable situations. But you should be honest with yourself why you want to leave.)
So instead of actually fixing the hellholes, let's abolish the non-hellholes. Yep, totally just.
His most important legacy is this chart:

http://www.climateoutcome.kiwi.nz/uploads/1/7/4/3/17431675/7...

(we are now at 415ppm, so +22 Fahrenheit expected)

Remember he would have been president if the military (Cheney+Bush) had not taken over.
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I think the biggest problem is getting the requirements right (as much as possible) prior to the actual coding.

Many managers seem to think that they can easily change the requirements in the middle of the project.
I'm looking forward to your Show HN and wish you luck -- you'll need it.
He's talking about FLiBe. Both 7Li and 9Be are fairly light isotopes, so they moderate neutrons, better than carbon in graphite does. Unfortunately both are expensive.

The fluoride cooling salt used by Moltex does not use lithium or beryllium. Instead, it's sodium-zirconium fluoride or sodium-potassium-zirconium fluoride, with no isotope separation required. The atomic mass of these isotopes is high enough that the neutron spectrum remains hard. In fact, Moltex's design adds a bit of hafnium (a strong thermal neutron absorber that is chemically very similar to zirconium) to the coolant salt to shield the walls of the reactor from thermal neutrons.

One issue with fluoride salts in homogenous reactors is that the salt must be kept a bit oxidized, so uranium does not disproportionate into UF3 and U metal. The metal would plate out on surfaces, which is a no-no. Unfortunately, this means the salt must be oxidizing enough that it will dissolve chromium, so ordinary stainless steels cannot be used.

By using a barren coolant salt, Moltex can make the salt reducing enough that chromium is stable (they do this by using a sacrificial anode of zirconium metal.) Their design can use stainless steels that have already been tested and proven for use with the neutron exposures of fast reactors.

The chloride fuel salt in Moltex (and Terrapower) don't have that chemistry issue; uranium is more chemically stable there.
It is unfair to the makers o the Therac to compare them with Theranos.
Why not just cut out 1) all together. Let people get chosen randomly.
I've always loved this idea.

Would love to setup a vertical city farm... I reckon it'd be an awesome job and business.
My exact way of thinking is that you are not entitled to anything, and neither am I.

I run businesses on Elm. I use it because it's the alternative that makes the most business sense (most confidence that I can release things without them breaking, and least chance of failure at runtime). I make money with this tool, and I don't pay to use this tool.

If a better tool came along, I'd use the better tool. So far, Elm is the best alternative in my opinion. Everyone has this freedom to pick and choose their tools.

And what does it mean to strive? Scala was a striving language. And? It's garbage. It tried to be all things to all people, and ended up being an awful tool.

I find it absolutely amazing that so many petulant children in this thread believe they are facing some kind of authoritarian oppression because the language designer said "You know what? Synchronous FFI has almost only been a bad thing. All FFI should be synchronous from now on."
Out of interest, what makes this good advice vs. the advice in the article?
Check out this comment for an explanation of why Ports cannot possibly cover all use cases: https://www.reddit.com/r/elm/comments/99bzf8/elm_or_reasonml...
This is a decently embedded ad for Snap EDA and a pretty good ad for Astralis.

Not hugely informative, but nice. The title over-promises pretty wildly.
>an vague promise to blnot fight unemployment claims

How does unemployment work where you are? Why would a previous employer be involved in the process of you claiming unemployment? The only thing I can think of, and also why they would be inclined to fight it, is if the payments come out of their pocket. If that's the case, then isn't that sort of just severance but with a different name slapped on it?
It's interesting too that democracy is lauded in the west but companies are never run that way.
That was my first thought as well, but the blocking reason reads : "This URL has been categorized under : Criminal Skills / Hacking news".

This sounds targeted : I guess a torrent domain name wildcard would have read something like "pirate downloading".

EDIT : btw, if "hacking news" is a reason enough for blocking a website, I fear for the security skills of future generations of developers.
Why would a government-mandated "pornwall" block torrentfreak?
5G and next generation GPS.
well i was offered two weeks after two years of work (China), though according law it should be two months (month for each year you worked), out of maybe 30 people, me and i think one Israeli girl were the only ones who didn't accept it, then i followed great examples of my role models from Fight Club and American beauty and bumped my severance to two months with promise i will keep my mouth shut and i don't need to come anymore for next two weeks we were supposed, i don't need to keep bridges with such shitty companies
> where anyone can start an easy to use streaming service and they can broadcast anything they want.

Why does this change with 5G as compared to today?
‘Data scientist” is what they call a statistician on the West Coast. — an East Coast statistician
Are corporate bonds a bubble ready to burst?
Is the universe infinite? Debatable.
As it stands, all metrics include a hidden “quality of OpenStreetMap data” feature that may explain significant fractions of the significance of features.

So, I think they should try to compensate for that. How? I wouldn’t know.
Self interest. A lot of power of any sort it creates a power imbalance which creates instability.

Persons within the state or other state actors orchestrate a takeover because they are greedy or fearful and then their hold on power is also tenuous so there is a race to the bottom to stay alive.

Mass surveillance has potential ethical use which is the study of an information ecology. The participants are aware of their observation - their behavior and even thoughts change. Predictive power is lost and adds a multiplier to political instability.

An ideologue takes over and uses the apparatus to kill all those who can be identified as an enemy.

The apparatus is used for personal gain, the theft of industrial secrets, blackmail - becoming systematic and introducing crippling costs to anybody wanting to go into business or politics.
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Sorry if I was being unclear. I have no inside knowledge and just wanted to throw some numbers out there so we didn't continue to talk past each other. If Tesla is paying $120k to fresh CS grads and expecting them to work 60 hour weeks, I'm still not sure I'd say they were "paying peanuts" but it's at least getting there.
Quite true. I hardly see any of the best practices that keep being discussed here.

Small to middle size companies whose main business is totally unrelated to selling software just care that their stuff works somehow. And everything that IT does is a cost center.
I wonder if they are blocking by known ips or just dns?
When you hear "nuclear reactors last for 40 years" you should instead hear "nuclear technology improves at such a slow pace that it's reasonable to talk about 40 year lifespans".

Almost no one cares if your desktop computer can last 40 years. And PV is improving so fast that making it last 40 years would be nearly as pointless.
Ah yes his voting record magically guaranteed a proxy war between Iran and KSA in Yemen and Syria.

The Middle East was a fucked up place before the impact of US foreign policy and it will still be fucked even if the Us goes into full isolationism, dictatorships and theocracies with forced national identities governing non-heterogenous ethnic groups tend to cause that.

It’s the same reason why European empires broke down and why the Balkans are in such a mess.
Yeah that’s not hard at all....

Or you could not buy a phone with an OS supported by an ad targeting company.

I would no more want my phone built by Google than Facebook.
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The company doing the blocking has a helpful notice asking you to call them if you think the block is a mistake.

Has anyone called the Virgin WiFi telephone number listed on the notice to tell them that this block is a mistake?

+44 (0)330 6601028
Now that I think about it, the worst CS teachers I've had were the ones who taught part-time while working in respected positions in industry, or had a strong industry resume behind them.

Previously I had wondered why some of my best CS professors in university didn't go for a private sector job where they could be earning 1.5-2x doing programming instead of teaching it, but now I realize they would've been mediocre programmers instead of great teachers.
Average capacity factor of new utility-scale PV installations in the US southwest is above 30% now, I think. Single axis trackers (rotating on a north-south axis) have become the norm.
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I think you're slightly missing the point.

If student loans can be defaulted, it doesn't matter what the investor thinks or what interest you get or if you're backed up by the government or not.

Even if you study [insert profitable degree], the rational action to do after graduating is to default, since students typically don't have much to lose.
There are no good development tools for C++ because it's an impossibly hard language to parse and process.

For instance, try writing an auto completion tool for C++ and Java. The first one take orders of magnitude more work for a mediocre result.

Using vim is symptom of the problem. The available tooling is so bad or non existent that it's comparable to a text editor.
Why does the page look like a joke?
I totally get the "too senior" thing, but it's not as bad as I feared. Here's my own experience of making the kind of move you're talking about.

Last year I switched from ops manager/factotum in a small agency to a pure dev role in a corp. I get to think about technical stuff most of the time now and it feels okay, despite my fears about the 9-5. Thing is, it took me two years to get to that point. I knew I wanted to move for similar reasons to those you list. And Imagined that I had to head for a job that would value my agency experience which was varied and had a management and client-facing bias. So I felt like I was trapped doing the same sort of stuff. I was good at it, but it wasn't making me happy any more.

I have a technical background (programming language theory) but it felt so long ago as to be irrelevant. And perhaps it was. I managed to get second interviews for engineering roles -- which is what I wanted and I turned a couple down because they weren't quite right.

Then this happened. Back 2 years ago, when I started to look for a change, I also got excited about some new-ish tech (Elm, in this case). I started running a local meetup and going to relevant conferences just to scratch my itch. I got a three month contract using it and took unpaid leave from the agency to give myself the chance to do it. But as soon as I added it to my CV I got a call from a recruiter from a local company who wanted exactly that tech. Now I work there and they sponsor the meetup that I still run.

I admit I hit it lucky in this case with a genuine excitement for an emerging tech, and a local employer who were early adopters. But I think the important thing is that I was doing this alongside job hunting and hadn't even connected the two. I was finding a way to do what excited me, and being committed and passionate about that. Then when the chance came up, making the move was easy and pleasant.
Well, you only live once, so there's that. In the end, if you're not happy with your situation, you might get depressed, alcoholic, legal opiod addicted, on even blow your brains out, and that might be worse for the kids, wife, and mortgage.
I don't quite follow. Please clarify
keep trying until the unfair advantages line up :P
People tend to have a strong urge to avoid responsibility (and therefore making decisions), that's the whole point of having superiors. If everyone's fully responsible for what they do, they don't do their work.

Even an incompetent superior helps here, because at least in theory you can divert responsibility to them. It allows people do their work for the majority of the time when things don't go wrong. If they do go wrong, everyone gets to blame everyone else somehow, maybe the company tanks, but really life goes on.

You may point out problems here and there, but no other obvious alternative (like flat structures) are devoid of problems.

I'd be wary of solutions that take human responsibility completely out of the equation (such as AI). Sometimes a decision not made is actually for the best.
Apologies to offend your sensibilities. I did contribute elsewhere in the thread and did not expect a tree of responses, and do not typically make such comments. To be fair we are an explicitly noodle-focused tech startup in Asia and you are on a tech startup forum reading comments on an explicitly Asian noodle-focused article.
> I think that's a reasonable price for something as unique and transformative as a college experience.

That's begging the question, though. What if it's not as unique and transformative as we hope? What about people who don't finish their degrees? What if you can get unique and transformative for a fraction of the price?
Suppose that there are 1% of people in a field who are considered great at doing and 2% who are great at teaching, then just from expectation without additional knowledge the vast majority of great teachers won't be great at doing.

Also, if the percentage of people who are great at both is higher than 0.02% but lower than 1%, there is a positive correlation between teaching and doing, but it is not a perfect correlation. I suspect this is the case.

Why? Both doing and teaching something well often require clear and systematic thinking. However, there are also disparate skills required for each and only those with time, inclinations, and opportunities to practice both skill sets could become great at both.
Moltex is claiming they can get below $0.04/kWh (for N-th of a kind plants; FOAK would be a bit more expensive.)

They can claim this plausibly for two reasons: first, they can build a MUCH smaller containment building, due to lack of water or other volatiles in the nuclear island. Second, their design isolates the turbines from the nuclear island with a molten salt "thermal battery". This allows some dispatchability in their output, but more importantly it means turbine trips have no effect on reactor stability, which means non-nuclear-grade turbines can be used. This is apparently a very large cost savings.
Democracy isn't democratic either. Why else would concepts like seniority exist in the US Senate? Or sub committees... How is the US Senate in line with the concept of one person one vote? If we want our vote to count more, we should move to Wyoming (which gets two senators the same as California)?

If we have each employee one share each, I'm sure many would simply turn around and see if they can sell it. How can we retain one person one vote in a company? Make shares non transferable? Do we allow proxy voting?
And they're probably legacy employees in both those positions - it's extremely unlikely anyone new entering is going to get the same terms or stability.
Pardon my ignorance but who is DHH?
Too often down votes on HN - for which I'm sure this will be down voted - I find to be false flags. Something that some use more than up votes. So once there's a trend others pile on.
Also, you can find that all the other crap jobs pay 10-20% better, giving you information and leverage to get a better salary, better benefits, more time off, etc.
I'm not sure. I haven't looked into the issue much.

In any case, I would expect web-sockets to work out out the box in a language that is specifically designed to run in the browser.

If that's not working I'm sure that less common parts of the web platform aren't supported either.
Normally I wouldn't care and implement stuff myself and contribute back, but it doesn't seem to be a realistic option in Elm.

I appreciate that what's there is generally of very high quality, but I cannot pretend that there aren't many missing pieces and, more importantly, no clear roadmap
Being sure and being ready to make it are two different things.

People can be deeply sure, and even be able to articulate very well, that X is very bad for them (job, relationship, habit, etc) but still not be able to quit it.
I'd do it just the opposite - folks don't all want to be involved, but want somebody who they respect to do it for them. Freely allow proxies to be assigned, to anybody, not just to 'elected officials'. Those with proxies could reassign the whole wad to another person, and so on.
You could always put them through a meat grinder or dissolve them in acid pre flushing! Just don't use the bath for the dissolving. The tub won't keep the acids contained.
Military people applying their experiences to company leadership are problematic, because they worked with a selection of people that doesn't reflect the general population.

In the general population, not everyone wants to be a leader, not by a long shot.
You can walk away from a spouse without walking away from your kids. That's pretty much what my parents did. My dad and my mom were divorced and basically never spoke to each other or interacted. But they were both involved in our lives in different ways.
Another one that only uses Macs since OS X.
Obama won in a post 9/11 America while being black and having Hussein as his middle name I don’t think a Jewish VP would’ve been harder to sell even to the Republican base.
Is it ok to be reimbursed for giving someone proxy?