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That part didn’t surprise me. The stations air system works sort of like a diving rebreather. Yes they recycle the co2 but a little gets lost each cycle, so they need to add in new o2. That o2 is precisely monitored. Probably they noticed the leak because the stored o2 was depleting faster than expected.

As for danger, I know when my scuba tanks are leaking. That doesn’t make me abort the dive as long as the leak is slow and understood.

At that point for the astonauts, fatigue was more dangerous than the slow leak.
This was my idea as well. It should make for exciting takeoffs!
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That's fair. It's mid-career and late-career acquaintances for the most part. Many/most of whom are cashing out on real estate. Though I do think it points out a fairly widespread attitude of 1.) The downsides of SF itself have markedly increased and 2.) If you don't feel you have to be in the Bay area for some reason, you may well be better off elsewhere.
Many of us from early on argued that SV had no vision. Yes, there are a lot of people who think they are some kind of "visionaries", and perhaps on some narrow areas of focus they are. But, if it had a real vision it would have foreseen the growth problems and it would have united to solve it.

There is a lot of money sitting at Apple, Google, and the rest. They could have easily use their weight, reach and influence to envision and build an entire tech city community. It's not that hard.

If a few lobbyist in DC can send the country into all kinds of wars, why can't SV companies use their weight to do something that can resolve this problem. It makes perfect business sense to me.

Instead, we get apartments build adjacent to CalTrain to act as sound insulation or they would not get approved. This is ridiculous.

To have a habitable area with a decent quality of life, you need all types of workforce. Teachers, restaurant workers, gardeners, etc. Where are these people going to live? When you see some houses filled with 7-8 occupant because they can't afford rent, you know this is not sustainable.

I've lived in the Bay Area since 1991. These days, for my work, I spend a lot of time working with our remote team in Minsk, Belarus. The thought of coming back each time to SV is distressful if it wasn't for the loved ones back home. There are many tech guys here in Belarus who dream of coming to SV. I remind them their quality of life is far far better than what they would get in SV.

So unless we get some true leadership in SV, that has a vision of making the Bay Are more habitable instead of trying to think about how to colonize Mars, this is going to get worse. The once almost utopian Bay Area is becoming rather dystopian.
> Any serious proposal needs to start from the basis that a drug probably won't work, until proven otherwise.

Also any proposal needs to take into account that drug trials kill something like 1-2% of patients and inflict lifelong damage on a further 5-10% of them.

Yes, even the ones "proven" to be safe (in the very short term) to use on normal healthy people.

We've had "free to choose" medicine before, and time and time again there is a screwup where 50 or so people (sometimes more) get subjected to incredible damage or killed because of a confluence of factors (pregnancy is a factor that is particularly famous for messing with drugs in a thousand different ways, as is alcohol, parasites, and certain types of bacteria. But it is very hard to know beforehand, there's even a few drugs that have different effects on different races)
I've noticed more and more tech startups moving south out of San Fran and towards Los Angeles. They also have California's universities, magnificent ocean, and a much lower cost of living.
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Rent is just the tip of the iceberg, you also have higher taxes, higher entertainment costs, etc. Also, even with a >$200k salary, buying a decent home without a brutal commute can be hard.

If you don't mind living in a rented room or commuting >1hr a day and shop exclusively at amazon and costco, the bay area is a great opportunity to save money.
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Did Putin "post-communist era plundering of Russia’s wealth and resources" or simply rationalize it, in such a fashion that those doing the plundering were under his thumb, and could not challenge the state?
It is a good analogy actually. Zed is not a rando. He is the author of an open source project that you are considering using in this scenario and well known in the community. I've never even met him and know him better than some of my neighbors that I've met. I don't know why you are nitpicking and making such assumptions about the relationship between the neighbors, but whatever, it's an analogy. Open source is a virtual community and Zed wants the equivalent of property rights for his work.

This isn't a straw man. Read the parent:

"No, but the clause in that license is gross. He can sue any of his users at any time if he decides he doesn't want them to be his users anymore."

OP is entitled to his opinion, but he's not giving Zed the benefit of the doubt. He is framing it in a way that makes it seem Zed will exercise this right unreasonably. At least, that's the way I understood what he said.
Anyone who has worked with CSV knows that it is anything but "less harmful"

Edit: I'd seen this page before, but never really appreciated the sheer arrogance of it until now. It's troll bait.
I hope they aren't suggesting that it's all white.

It's not unusual, particularly when discussing race in the US, for people of Indian, Chinese or Korean descent to, somehow, not count. I used to consider it borderline racist. I've since removed the borderline bit.
"Less harmful alternatives" seems in many cases to be "Exotic technologies hardly used by anyone, simply unusable in any serious environment". In some cases, comically wrong: C as a better alternative to C++ ? Did I totally miss the obvious satirical nature of the page ?
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Anyone in retail deals with nightmare customers who use social media to cause them untold pain and misery, and wastes huge amounts of time.

It's no different, except that in the GDPR case you can automate the response, and there's an actual regulator at the other end who can decide that the complaint was frivolous.

Dealing with customers is always nightmarish waste of time. But necessary.

I haven't heard about the examination board case, sounds interesting.

Again, if you don't understand how your customer's data is being used by a third party, then perhaps you shouldn't use that third party. I guess Google Analytics is the poster child for this. By using GA you are inviting Google to insert code into your web pages. This should give you the screaming heebie-jeebies.
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I think the whole reason why cancer deaths aren't receding as fast as we'd like them to is exactly that heart disease deaths, and violent deaths (anything from murder to suicide to a car accident) are receding quickly. Therefore, people live longer, and get cancer with higher probability.
The quotes are fun, but the actual list of "harmful" software is an exercise in self-inflated oft-nostalgic opinion.
It's a theoretical model of how markets work, but substituting the people for omniscient spherical cows because real people make the modelling too difficult to be useful.
> More radically, it might be possible to repeal the 1962 Kefauver-Harris amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, a provision that requires drug developers to prove a medication's efficacy (rather than just its safety) before it can receive FDA approval. Since this more stringent authorization process was enacted, the average number of new drugs greenlighted per year has dropped by more than half, while the death rate from drug toxicity stayed constant. The additional regulation has produced stagnation, in other words, with no upside in terms of improved safety.

If that were to happen, we can expect that the drug market would become like the supplement market: full of pseudo-science and products that do nothing. Right now, supplement makers are prohibited from making specific medical claims; they can say something like "gives you energy," but they can't say "cures cancer." The only reason they don't is because they legally can't. (And even then they sometimes do, and sometimes get away with it.) If they were suddenly allowed to, we would not get a flood of new drugs from the current pharmaceutical companies. We would get a flood of sugar pills from the current supplement companies.

The "since" part of the paragraph is also a bit of non-sequitur. Before and after the 1962 provision, drug companies had to prove safety, so it's not a surprise the death rate from drug toxicity stayed constant. Proving efficacy is about preventing companies from exploiting the public by selling stuff that has no hope of ever working as advertised.

The blind spot of proposals like this is that they assume good-faith actors acting rationally. They completely ignore bad-faith actors willing to sociopathically exploit people.
So this is a list of "harmful things" and "less harmful alternatives", with no explanation given as to how each tech has been classified. To take a random example, why is man less harmful than info?
Let's break it down to something simple:

I have $3, you have $1. Is it fair that I give you $1 so we both have $2? Is that rational?

Now let's say that you work 3 hours a day and I work 1 hour. Now what's fair? You're working three times longer than me, but I had three times as much money to start with. Would fair actually be if I gave you $2 instead? That way our cash is on par with our hourly work. Does that seem rational?

Ok, but what if we had the same job. Build a widget. And due to being good at widget building, I only needed an hour to build my widget while you needed three. Now, the output of our work is the same. Should you be rewarded for simply taking longer? I could build three widgets in the time it took you to build one. Well, if we're paying by output, then shouldn't we go back to a 50/50 split of the money?

But what if widgets make a profit of $1 for each sold? And we each worked three hours building and selling widgets. And you made one and I made three and the all sold. I was more productive. Is it rational for me to split the money with you 50/50 because you don't have the same?

Now. What if I sell widget polish. And you make widgets. You buy polish from me. So now, if we split the money, I sell you a bottle of polish for $1. Now the money is unequal again, so we equal the money. Effectively, I'm just giving you free polish. That's rational? Fair?
Thank you, this really says it! But why is the community still accepting it?
If by toy languages you mean HTML then that's precisely why I dislike those things.

I want my browser to be served marked up text with the occasional embedded hypermedia, that's it.

I don't need fancy layout, I don't need transition effects and I don't need updated data without making another request to the server. If I wanted all those things I'd install an app like I do on my phone.

Of course, that spells doom for advertisers and those that rely on advertising dollars to generate content. But I'd rather pay for content if I think is worth paying for, like the Wall Street Journal for example.
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The most likely snoopers are far far away, probably even a different timezone. If you have local burglars around they'll just break your windows and doors to get things anyway.

(And Bluetooth isn't that bad either?)
Yes, this was a ridiculous article. In addition, the FDA actually has fast-track approval for drugs in areas with no good treatment and any drug showing exceptional efficacy will make it through the approval process very quickly.
As a Pakistani-American, that’s what I was driving at, yes.
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"...using 58 types of Technic custom-made elements", anyone have a information on what those pieces are? They really spent an incedible amount of hours and effort on this. 13k+ man hours...
Don't the English say, "too clever by half"?
Don't know why people are downvoting you. I did my postdoc at a biomedical research institute at a prestigious university, and you're 100% right. The work I was doing was related to using ontologies to label anatomical parts. Forget "staring at the sky and imagining a bear", that would be tremendous progress if the cavemen actually agreed on one common word, "bear"!
Perhaps the letter should be changed to the bank’s local language? What if your name was 細分?
These devices don't have a real-time clock, so TOTP is out of the question. A Yubikey by itself is incapable of doing TOTP, too – it just acts as a hardware authenticator for the actual password generator. HOTP/counter mode doesn't have this requirement.
I’m sure we’ve all seen the various famous examples of this kind of opinion and attitude floating around the Internet over time, but I’m not sure what value they really have. They’re mostly unhelpful aphorisms that don’t really offer any context or argument.
> People who don't check their phones after-hours cannot be trusted to lead projects with demanding clients.

Why not? Requiring off-hour access is admitting project management failure. That’s what on-call is for, and on-call engineers and management should rotate and be paid for on-call duty. For them, it’s working hours. When I’m on call for a client, I bill _for being available_, so basically for keeping the phone on.
Okay, but do you ensure the manufacturer of those cleaning supplies is making them correctly? Do you test the products coming from that facility to ensure they are of sufficent quality before allowing them to be used by your office cleaning firm? And do you vet the ingredients that the manufacturing facility uses to ensure they are pure and safe?

Because the commenter above makes a fantastic point that I hadn't thought about before, the GDPR requires that kind of knowledge and verification of user data. Not just in your company, not just in the companies you work with, but the companies they work with, and the ones that they work with, and so on.

It's akin to requiring the gas station to post legal notices that the computers it uses for the POS system are manufactured by a company which has verified that the parts that it uses were sourced from a place which was able to check that the materials used were mined by a company that treats their employees safely.

(i'm not against something like the GDPR, but I do feel it goes a bit too far in a handful of areas)
Late to reply. Funding is based on the number of children in the school - so if the school can attract more people it will get more money. Obviously this isn't the same as 'your tax' funding your children - but hey we at least play at being socialist. In major cities it is not uncommon to have a choice of schools open to you (I previously lived within 500m of 4 primiary schools) and so the competition to get both the right number of pupils to fund the school, all the while getting the 'best' pupils exists. It just isn't providing the results you are hoping - I'd say as it 'seems' that the funding ends up being used to pay the heads and other senior staff very well: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/0/academies-pros-cons/
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Lost my son at 12 years old in 2013 (Bone Cancer) and lost my sister when she was 15 in 1996 (Brain Cancer). The fight for pediatric cancer research funding is worse. If you have a chemo for kids (All of kids cells are growing which makes it much more difficult to fight cancer) it has less side-effects and is effective for adults. If you have a new adult chemo it doesn't mean nothing for Pediatric. We went over 20+ years without one new Chemo till St. Baldrick's funded chemo for Neroblastoma came out a few years ago.

Bone Cancer does have funding, from dog owners. Bone Cancer my son has hasn't had a change in survival rates in 35 years. Fortuitously people have greater hope for a cure for dogs then sick kids and are putting millions into bone cancer research and we hope that once they finally have something we can start the 10 year process of testing for kids.

We wouldn't have done the trial for bone cancer. Reason is that when your in a trial you have to leave the tumor in the body so they can see the effectiveness. Bone cancer is extremely painful and is only curable through surgery. Why would anyone agree to leaving the painful hard tumor in your kids body???

My son had a 15% chance of surviving 5 years when he was diagnosed with bone cancer (It was in his whole left femur and both lungs, bone cancer for some reason grows in your lungs so you have crazy bone cells growing in your lungs). He made it past 4.5 years, but it grew into both legs, his neck, and hip and had countless surgeries, radiation and chemo and it all sucked. That the funding isn't there is a constant thought in your brain at all times. Heck American Cancer Society (Largest on the planet) gave a penny per dollar raised to pediatric cancer research and then cut funding to kids camps and family resources about 7 years ago so they could focus on adult research. They finally agreed to stop using pictures of kids sick on their fund raising efforts. So yeah it is frustrating.
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The same thing happens on Forbes. Trying to opt out fails after "applying preferences" a few minutes.

It's of course bullshit.
We need a killer app for collaboration. I think VR tech could solve this by building a shared IDE-space for pair programming.
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They allow third party sellers so if it's not a problem now it will become one.
> It's about the bitter ex-customer who decides to take revenge through legal means by exploiting the rights they have under the GDPR to waste your time and money.

Except you can't sue anyone under the GDPR. All you can do as a consumer/bitter ex-customer is file a complaint with your country's privacy watchdog. IF there really is a problem, they will just tell you to fix it, that's all. You only need to worry if you're doing shady things with personal data and don't intend to stop doing them even after being warned, in which case you deserve everything you get.
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Listing FreeBSD, D, Java, C++, and SQL databases as "harmful stuff", and suggesting "hierarchical file systems" and "textual interfaces" as not harmful. What the actual hell?
> But they are not leaving empty houses - they are selling them for millions as the world's would be movers and shakers move in.

Er, not necessarily:

> Last year more Americans left the county of San Francisco than arrived.

Now, granted, that could be a very specific piece of datum and either of the following could still be true:

1) When you include more than just "Americans" the net influx is still positive

2) Even if they're moving out of SF county, maybe they're just moving to, say, Alameda county

But nonetheless that is an interesting tidbit.
What people mean is usually not Silicon Valley, or the Bay Area, as a city but as a phenomenon. The technology industry is likely going to be there for a long time. There is just to much inertia, if not substance, for it to disappear overnight. But the "anomaly" of leaving so much value on the table that companies could quickly grow from nothing to world leading is likely gone. Today you are paying for every such opportunity.

For some reason people tend to think that this means that this will happen somewhere else. Like the opportunities somehow transfers somewhere else. That isn't really what happens. We might never have this sort of situation in our lifetimes, or it might show up somewhere outside of our reach. It is very likely that China has been outperforming the west in this regard over the last 10 years. They might continue to do that or not. It isn't really predictable as far as I know.

Addition: Why do people even visit a discussion forum if a simple opinion is going to offend them? The Internet is full of agreeable material you can read instead. And you can close those tabs without suppressing someone else's opinion. But I guess that is really the point of Hacker News these days.
He's probably referring to Indians. But thinking all Indians are the same ethnicity is just betraying his own biases.
If I'm some generic tech employee and my net income ( and job prospects ) is higher in a highly desirable location than it would be in the generic suburb I moved from than taxes aren't really as big of a concern as some make them out to be.

If you only focus on taxes above all else, then I don't think you will ever be able to enjoy any city.
C is a better alternative to C++ for many applications. If it weren't, it wouldn't still be so widely used.
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>In fact, the former president of the DCB has said that bitcoin mania is “worse” than tulip mania: “At least then you got a tulip.”

How can someone in such a high position say this? Are they unaware of the rarity/scarcity of Bitcoin? Are they unaware that you can send BTC over the internet?

I can see if people were skeptical of using altcoins that print infinity money or sending money to people was a solved problem- But that is not whats going on.

Serious question- why is someone in this position so 'stupid'?
"I bet there is a huge difference."

Not sure there is for me - if I blank off the area outside my glasses things really don't look that different - but I am quite shortsighted... :-)
Sure is: Festival, HTS, Merlin, and a gaggle of wavenet implementations. You'll have to put in some work, it's not turnkey, but you can get some really good results.
Not to mention the size of the box it came in !
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Is it possible to use the Bluetooth dongle with a desktop computer without a cable? Having to carry both on your keyring kind of defeats the purpose, because even Google's own guidelines tell you to store one in a safe place and keep the other one in daily use.
Yes, but we're also moving to open collective for this. Patreon is more for individuals while open collective is for open source collectives.
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Fun little story, I used to be sympathetic to the all software sucks movement and attitude. Then I tried to port `st` (simple terminal) to Mac OS X by separating its core from its X11-dependent code and pulling the globals into a single struct, so that I could wrap it with NSView. When I tried to ask the `st` community if they wanted my changes[1], they replied that these changes were unnecessary, that coupling the core with X11 was perfectly fine, and especially that there's no reason to port it to such an awful non-free OS as Apple's. I now prefer to take a constructive and positive approach to software development, instead of just having a negative or cynical attitude.

[1] https://lists.suckless.org/dev/1408/23366.html
Good grief, everything about this page is just cringeworthy
They could have easily use their weight, reach and influence to envision and build an entire tech city community. It's not that hard.

It’s actually very hard. Most available land has already been built up. Cities are very strict about zoning and not allowing additional development. Tech companies can’t just steamroll the local governments. It’s very much a poor governance situation.

I agree with your conclusion, I just don’t believe Big Tech can fix it so easily.
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