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So if recycling makes no sense why do I and everyone else here in Switzerland do it?

We separate paper, cardboard, glass (by color) [1], aluminium and plastics (PET). All of those are free to get rid of. Trash however is not and is charged at a high rate per bag.

Paper and cardboard go to several paper plants which re-use it to produce recycled paper items.[2]

PET is turned back into bottle and other items [3]

Aluminum is reused and saves more than 95% of the original energy required to produce it (as you said) [4]

2/3 of the glass collected is turned into new bottles. [5]

Trash is sent of to an incineration plant which produces electricity and heat [6].

[1]
https://www.buelach.ch/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_2012_07Juli...

[2] http://www.altpapier.ch/

[3] https://www.petrecycling.ch

[4] http://www.swissrecycling.ch/wertstoffe/aluminium/

[5] https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ted/de/index/entsorgung_recycli...

[6] https://docplayer.org/docs-images/50/18262133/images/page_4....
There are ways to take most pressure of your spine, while still allowing you to sanely use a mouse/keyboard (the later has to be split). It's mostly a fitted seat with a semi-fancy headrest, the latter has to be designed to keep your head from rolling to the side. Also you need slightly channeled armrests, which need to be adapted in extend/channel depth depending on how far your hands have to move. If you use a steno keyboard, likely not at all, if you use a graphics tablet, likely much further.

You still might need to move every once in a while though.
No, I have not read Player Piano. But I'll put it on my reading list.
Energy Department teams up with Bill Gates to move mini-nuclear plants to market
"Tesla Semi made it 'across the country alone'" in the title does imply that it was self driving though the article clarifies that in this case 'across the country alone' actually means with only battery power and connections to SuperChargers.
None of this refutes poster's point of the greater value and likely simpler use case for automated trucking versus the consumer transportation market. It just makes them not relevant to this particular article.
> They will embed advertising in movies.

FWIW, native advertising has long been part of film as a medium.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement#Movies_and_t...
To be fair, that'd just as likely be true of a photograph as well. People in the digital age forget how much artistic freedom is granted by staging a photograph and later processing it in the darkroom.
Chloride-bearing deposits on Mars
Axiomatic set theory isn't just for "pedantry" and mechanical reasoning, though that's an important application. It's also like a telescope array that allows us to see ever further into Cantor's paradise and the universe (multiverse?) of mathematics. The upper levels of transfinite set theory are especially breathtaking and somewhat scary [1]. Hugh Woodin spoke a little bit about this in a presentation on the Ultimate L conjecture:

"There's the other possibility: set theory is completely irrelevant to physics... That's almost more interesting because if this conjecture is true, we've argued there's truth here for set theory, and it's a truth that's not about the physical universe. To me that's almost more remarkable, that there could be some conception of truth that transcends truth that we see around us."

The presentation is called The Continuum Hypothesis and the search for Mathematical Infinity [2].

[1] http://cantorsattic.info/Cantor's_Attic

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVF4N1Ix5WI.
Well nobody is “supposed” to give them pin but one should expect long detention, longer confiscation of devices and denying entry into the country.
Perhaps you are mixing up Augustus (Caesar Augustus 63 BC - 14 AD) with Constantine (272-337 AD). Tiberius Caesar Augustus, the adopted son of Augustus, was the Roman ruler when Jesus was born.

Constantine's mother, Helena, converted to Christianity, and that greatly influenced his thinking, whether or not you believe he actually was a Christian himself.
Seems OP thought 'made it alone' means without driver - self driven while it's actually without conventional fuel but just battery power alone. But OP's point is what Otto set out to solve, I guess and now Anthony is starting a church
Very useful! Thank you :)
> “You are proposing that there exists free money to be made by companies willing to invest more in their employees, right?“

No, I did not suggest that.

> “People make multi-decade investments all the time.“

No, that’s a bonkers and ridiculous claim. Some extremely small group of people might make such long-term investments, usually real estate consortiums and mining rights consortiums, but it is an extreme minority of all investment activity, and even more extreme if weighted by dollar value. And even after all that, such investments are still usually made based on net present value calculations with short time horizons, combined with forecasts on the liquidity of the asset (e.g. secondary markets for long-term debt instruments or options or futures for rights-based initiatives).

> “The idea that business people are out there systematically avoiding any and all long term investments is patently false and completely unsupported by any evidence i'm aware of.”

This seems like a statement about what you’re aware of, and not a statement about long-term investing, which it seems by your own admission, you’re not aware of.
What I think will happen is that we will see a different type of decentralization become popular. Common platforms are needed or convenient. Right now these platforms are generally controlled by large companies with something approaching monopolies in various markets. For example, Amazon provides services and a destination that help people sell things. The problem is Amazon is a company that also sells things and is trying to maximize profits. So vendors are competing with the company running their vending platform.

Uber provides a platform for people to make money with their cars and to get around. It has the large network that drivers and riders need. But they are also so dominant that there is very little competition and so they can price things unfairly.

My belief is that A) we do need common platforms but B) the monopoly platforms are unfair and C) decentralized technologies can provide common platforms that aren't controlled by monopolies.

So what I think would make sense would be for drivers or even self-driving car companies to use decentralized protocols to make one large network and platform. That platform is open source and decentralized and used by many competing companies that want to provide transportation services. This allows companies access to a large pool of drivers and riders and a core technology implementation, but does not relinquish control to one company, so we can preserve competition and fairness.
The algorithms are opaque but how's that different from a human's own brain? We don't have a very good view into a judge's own life experiences from which his own decisions are based either. At least with an algorithm we have a chance of seeing how it really works, in principle. All the data is recorded and the code is available.

> The reality is that if the algorithm looks like it’s doing the job that it’s supposed to do, and people aren’t complaining, then there isn’t much incentive to really comb through all those instructions and those layers of abstracted code to work out what is happening.”

If a judge is performing well are you going to run an expensive background audit on him, or open up his brain to try to see how he "really works"?

The difference is that algorithms today are practically run by centralised organisations that control it plus the data, rather than having lots of humans all slightly different making their own decisions in a semi-centralised[^] distributed fashion. But the opaqueness is nothing new.

[^] because most human organisations today are hierarchical, but at least most people have some sense of self-agency.
Our biological instinct when freedom is restricted is to resist the force binding us. Try having a young child watch a long movie or trap a moth in a jar. We all panic or bolt or wig out. Give a thing maximum freedom and the very opposite happens. That's what a ton of money does to humans...although those that are perverse or have extreme addiction or simply have odd personalities, are able to amplify those traits extremely so. This says nothing for those that lose all their money later as that is a separate concept which has nothing to do with financial literacy and conflates negativity with having large sums of money, which is idiotic IMO, like the sour grapes allegory.
> Professional athletes who come into sudden wealth due to becoming professional athletes are also infamous for their financial struggles.

I think this group has similar characteristics to the lottery winners. They become rich suddenly, after having beaten long odds.

You can make the same sorts of arguments about the rationality of professional athletes too. Most people who aspire to become professional athletes don't make it. Continuing to pursue the dream is largely an irrational decision.
Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.

Yes, it has. And the accepted definition of "Open Source" is the OSI Open Source Definition.

I will now prepare for the negative feedback by those who have a vested commercial interest in me being wrong :)

Nice rhetorical trick... set up a strawman of sorts by pre-assuming that anybody who disagrees with you must have "a vested commercial interest in ... being wrong". That really makes it seem like the author of TFA isn't interested in any kind of reasonable / rational discussion on this topic.

Oh well, I'll just add this:

1. Open Source is not a business model. And if you make code Open Source, nothing guarantees that you will be able to make money from it. There are lots of reasons to think that you might, but you're not entitled to any particular profit from your work (this would also be true if it were proprietary / closed source).

2. If somebody else makes money off your project, that doesn't necessarily mean that you can't also make money off of it, and it's not necessarily even the case that your competing with the other player. There are many different bases for competition and different market segments and you may well find that the customers you're selling to are a different segment with different buying criteria. So it's not even guaranteed that this is a zero-sum game.

3. If you don't want to release your code under an Open Source license (as defined by the OSD) then don't. That's fine. Stallman and the FSF hard-liners aside, most of us are OK with the existence of proprietary software (even if we prefer to use/develop F/OSS). But don't call your project Open Source if it isn't. Is that so much to ask?

4. There are plenty of licenses out there that are "source available", "shared source", "shareware", "proprietary", or "almost-but-not-quite-OSS". If one of those licenses matches your goals better than an OSI certified OSS license, then USE IT. Or, make your own new license, with whatever terms you prefer. But, again, if those terms don't conform to the OSD, don't try to pretend you're doing something you're not, by referring to the thing as "Open Source". Just be honest, for crying out loud.
You're not the only one in the comments on this article who has asserted that some pieces in 6/8 have a different pattern of stresses. So I'm totally prepared to hear about it, even if basic music theory doesn't cover those cases.

The point stands that time signatures are not rational numbers (as you acknowledge, the unit of the denumerator can be scaled) so 3/4 and 6/8 aren't part of some equivalence class. They have different meanings which are only sustained by the presence of a cyclical pattern of stressed notes. So if there's some music theory you can link to which elaborates on all the possible different rhythmic patterns of 6/8 vs 3/4, that would provide examples of the distinction we both agree exists.
> drive vehicles, pick fruit, clean houses, and fold shirts

What? That's a weirdly specific and tiny list. How about:

- Nearly any sort of creative work: programming, graphic design, product design, landscaping, architecture, writing marketing copy, technical writing, music.

- Diagnosing any complex system. Machines are terrible at diagnosing themselves. Ever pulled an OBD-II code from a car and then wondered which of a hundred actual problems might be the cause of it? How about finding out which exact part is causing your dishwasher to back up and flood?

- Actually repairing any problems that have been diagnosed. Repairing a car is vastly more complicated than building one from scratch using a neatly laid out set of parts in a predetermined series of steps. Hell, making a robot that can reliably change lightbulbs in homes would be a milestone achievement.

- Construction, or any job that requires using tools to performs a task that isn't defined with absolute precision and sequencing. Similar to repair work.

- Human interaction. Medical care, guided tours, live entertainment (not just the performers, but they people they interact with backstage), police work, HR, public relations, management, child care.

- Any mission-oriented or long-term goal-oriented work, i.e., military strategy, city planning, legislation, social policy, organizational direction.
Traveling is overrated. Often times in modern life it feels as thought traveling is a competition rather than for leisure and pleasure. People are often competing to take pictures and say they have been to as many places as possible. Props to travel companies for propagating the travel craze and selling people on the allure of taking pictures and eating food in another spot on Earth. Count the number of people's profiles on social media that do not say they like traveling.

Okay let's be honest for a second what does most traveling boil down to? You basically use a form of transportation to ping pong from one point of Earth to another to say you visited a piece of land named X or Y, a country let's call it, named by some person or group who is no longer alive and maybe started a war with other humans to solidify the country name and its artificial border lines. We are moving people from A to B back to A every day and in the process destroying our planets climate because people are bored with the lives in the place they inhabit.

We need to find out what is causing the boredom. Understand it and work to solve it so that people can enjoy the places they live. To embrace our shared humanity and environment in front of us everyday if we do not overlook it during the hassle of everyday life.
Definitely. One of the 'elm-like' libraries (like the one I also linked) are a great stepping stone to get started.
An encounter with a grizzly and her cubs
In the embedded tweet [1], Musk clarifies that "alone" means "no escort or any accompanying vehicles". Which seems like a pretty unimpressive feat to me.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1033260379147620352
Interview: Catatonic Schizophrenic
> So if recycling makes no sense why do I and everyone else here in Switzerland do it?

Here near Seattle, it's mandated by law. Do laws require recycling in Switzerland? Each of the recycling facts may be true in small runs of sorted material. It is more difficult to make these true in large runs of unsorted material.

Tangent: Where are the AI that should sort these for us?
Michigan is one of the 10 cent states. But only on carbonated beverages. So there's a bunch of aluminum containers that don't carry a deposit.
The hedonic rush of social media is an unfortunate aspect to modern travel. Vacations and trips have always had the aspect where the traveler plans how to tell friends/family about the trip after the fact. However, I've caught myself mentally planning out a social media post about something I'm seeing right at the moment.

I wonder how we would treat our travels differently if somehow we were not allowed to share anything visual with other people. There's something diminished that happens when it becomes so easy, so low-effort, to capture something about a place you're in. You don't have to observe or be in the moment; you just run from place to place collecting views you can horde in exchange for likes and clicks. It's a mechanization/industrialization of experience.
Set theory basically is the same thing as type theory, these are two schools of formal languages designed to define logics (something which is even more true for this book that seems introductory). I don't really like set theory (imho it's a pain to use rigorously formally) but type theory is cool. If you've already used typed languages in the ML/haskell family you will have a lot of intuition in constructive logic (formal reasoning in type theory is literally the same thing as programming). Shallow applications of type theory are numerous in recent developments of compilers (using types, rust can manage memory correctly and statically; in general types are a good channel between humans and compilers for high level and structured information about what they are writing, leading to tons of systematical optimizations).

So: all kinds of typed programming languages with non trivial features being effects (monads&modalities, linear logic), structuring/interfaces (parametrized modules, type classes, translucent types, ..) or interactive theorem proving.
This is the perfect response. I assume you're being sarcastic, but I can't tell for certain. Even most humans have trouble detecting sarcasm in print - would a sarcasm detector?

Since sarcasm is the biggest weakness of sentiment analysis, I don't have much faith that sentiment analysis tools will produce truthful results when aimed at social media.
I don't think you even need to call them stepping stones. They are perfectly fine libraries in their own regard.

Slamdata had some specific requirements with halogen that everyone may not need.
And although the free monad approach is nice, it certainly is not fundamental or necessarily the best depending on the task to UI construction.
Informative is...one way to describe that video...
I think Elm can learn a lot from Rust before 1.0 here. Rust made some "insane" decisions that should have pissed off the community but did not mostly because of the way the communication was handled. There were obviously some disagreements along the way which caused some valuable community members to jump ship, but overall it was really well handled and the language became better as a result.
Thank you for what you do (and do not).

My guess is recycling doesn't make much of an additional difference. There's a reason it's third in reduce-reuse-recycle. I separate out recyclables mostly out of habit (and garbage service bin for recycling is much larger than than one for garbage) but I wonder whether recycling could be a net negative due to moral exhaustion/fatigue/substitution -- surely there is research on this, and I would love pointers to it.
And that is a problem too.

Still, teachers are not paid enough.
Except Excel is in some ways much better designed -- it automatically recalculate everything if you change a cell, and makes it easy to link to other spreadsheets.
Live graphic view of all flights
Maybe he skimmed it.
Have you ever seen one? They are impossible to formulate with simple tools like curl on the command line. So my original point stands.
> everyone with Rick Steve’s guidebook, they all go look at exact same thing [...] I wonder if there are any other guidebooks

Is this sarcasm? The existence of guidebooks, in itself, ensures that multiple people will do what the guide says. A "better" guidebook will just ruin those "better" experiences too.

In there you have the contradiction of tourism, which really extends to a lot of our modern lifestyle: everybody wants to be first and original, but also to be led safely. The two concepts are fundamentally exclusive; trying to chase them is a fool's errand. Just be yourself and experience what you want to experience, damn the guides. As a famous comedian says closing his show, "drive fast and take chances".
Edit: My original post was irrelevant and not enough karma to delete. Sorry.
You can see many (cheaper) leds flicker out of the corner of your eye. Especially led strips. This drives me nuts around xmas, when streets are decorated with cheap, flickering leds.
Reminds me of this episode from Vice news [0]. They don’t get paid for car maintenance, gas or any other unforeseen expenses while delivering packages.

[0] https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/kzyw4y/amazon-is-imitati...
Not sure why I got downvoted- why shouldn't these people be denied access to a certain geographical area and all its splendors before undergoing some, say, "naturalization" process?
So what? That has nothing to do with real income.
I'll play Sherlock.

I think that's just a controversial view you created and therefore particularly like. It's likely also one you created to explain some preferences of yours (e.g local attachment). Likely instilled from parents.

I think my view on your comment is: true as long as you're a cyborg. Personally, I travel where(and when) no one goes. Unique, remote places. It's scientifically proven that when you experience something completely new your brain it's over clocking . That's what usually drives a good % of people. The rest simply follows. Not really clever marketing.
Not as much because the success of a wildly successful startup happens over a longer period which gives you more time to adjust.
The Chimaera Processor
One word can make you 50% more persuasive
Recently, in the german edition of the Spiegel, there was a similar column[1] saying there was "something really going wrong" when a flight from Berlin to Cologne costs 15€ while the train ticket for the same destinations costs 120€. The same article said that the flights were "absurdly cheap" and that the budget airlines are "displaying the type of capitalism that is disconnected from reality".

Im not joking. The question they asked themselves was not why the Deutsche Bahn [2], receiving billions ins subsidies every year, is unable to compete agains budget airlines, but why the government doesn't forbid such low costs flights. The elitism of the authors really scares me. It almost seems as if they want a minimal ticket fee, making flying a luxury once again.

Ryanair and Easyjet are well run companies that are enabling millions of poor people to see the world, visit family members they haven't seen for decades, leave their countries for better opportunities abroad.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/billig-fluege-der-...

[2] The major german railway company, privatized in 1994, but still fully owned by the government
It's unclear though if functions that are not pure can be considered functional programming, or those are just procedures, and the use of procedural programming.
I disagree that it’s due to boredom, or that it is overrated.

Learning about other cultures and other people’s way of life is incredibly important in an increasingly divided world. I strongly believe that if the average American spent time living with an Islamic family in the Middle East for a week, we might break down a lot of barriers between all the folks that share this rock we live on.

It’s another question as to whether that’s the type of travel people want to do, or whether it’s all collecting Instagram photos because #wanderlust is trendy and accessible right now
Treadmill desks should be the solution, then.