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Some recycling practices I've come across:

Michigan - All soft drinks (and similar beverages) carry a $0.10 fee a the point of sale that you recoup when you recycle them. A few states seem to do $0.05, but at $0.10 people seem to start to care a lot more. Growing up there, almost everyone kept a pile of cans in their garage that they would take in to recycle. Almost all supermarkets had machines that you can deposit your cans/bottles in to get refunds. After parties in college, students are meticulous to recycle the cans because it would mean 10% off the price of the next party.

Cambridge, MA - Single stream recycling. Just throw everything in to the same recycling bin and the city sorts it. Makes it much easier to recycle but I'm sure this is expensive.

Egypt - When I was there, a coca cola from a corner shop came in a glass bottle and cost about $0.25 (USD). But you had to drink it there so they could recycle the bottle. If you wanted to take it with you, you'd pay twice as much. Personally, I loved drinking it out of the glass bottles, which are also very easy to clean, sterilize and reuse.

Miami, FL - Basically no one recycles. I've been in vegan cafes (not to stereotype, but the sorts of places you'd expect to see eco-consciousness) that don't have bottle recycling bins. My apartment building doesn't provide a means to recycle bottles, so if I wanted to do so, I'd need to drop them off somewhere (which I'm pretty sure isn't close by). As a result, I don't recycle plastic.

Interestingly, more and more buildings in Miami are recycling boxes. What I recently learned is that because of online delivery, cardboard boxes have proliferated causing a whole industry of recycling companies for these. People will actually pay you (I think about $100/pallet) for used boxes, so all of the apartment/condo buildings are getting in on the action.

In any case, I wish we would address the root cause of the problem, which is too much packaging. I've had Amazon packages with boxes inside of boxes inside of boxes. Every time I buy cereal, I'm buying a thick bag inside of a box. Our culture has too much packaging.
As I said, lots of people do cryptography implementation work professionally without being cryptography experts. In fact, I think that probably describes most implementors. So you haven't answered my question or supported the claim you made earlier.
> Yep, and it's completely natural for a guy to think a woman might be expressing interest in him given those circumstances. But the emphasis is on "might". He should also indulge a bit of skepticism and feel the situation out.

wat? maybe I'm really off here. but someone telling me I have nice eyes, or look fit, or she likes my outfit, I really would not interpret that as hitting on. Do you only make compliments to women when you're sexually/romantically attracted to them? (I'm genuinely curious). I personally do not, and I would be very upset if those comments were interpreted as trying to hit on someone.
Could be done with water and renewable energy. Recycling water is way easier than plastics.
I think you may be underestimating how many car rides they are removing. They’re great to not deal with parking and traffic, and they’re not taking people away from walking/riding bikes. I scraped bird vs bike share data in Santa Monica for a while and bird did seven times as many rides as the bike share with the same number of devices in the same area (and the bike share was doing roughly the same amount of rides as before bird showed up).
I think what he's getting at is more along the lines of people losing weight and being healthier on any form of diet because before going on any diet, some people are drinking soda by the gallon and eating whatever the body wants, when it wants. Doing that means that for most people, they're consuming far more than 2k calories a day, most from "craving" sources like fat, sugar, and/or other emotionally rewarding food groups.

Going on any sort of diet sort of controls all that, and makes the person more vigilant of what's going into their body. So going from consuming wildly more than 2k calories a day, they might be consuming something closer to what their body actually needs, or less even. Metabolism catches up, and if the person is dieting, then they usually tack on some extra exercise too and that further helps their overall health etc.
The author seems to have a weird axe to grind with the keto diet. The link that is supposed to go to the study just goes to another summary article of the study written by her.

Low carb dieting is based on some pretty solid evidence, and it's going to take more than this to convince me it's a bad idea to remove carbohydrate derived glucose. It also gives me pause when the author says things like "low carb diets cause tumors to grow". Where's the evidence?

Anecdotally, I have a friend that's no longer prediabetic because he switched to a ketogenic diet, and numerous people have told me the diet has improved their overall health.
> Will the governments being dissuaded from influencing ours include allies such as Saudi Arabia, Israel and the UK? Or will it just be Russia, Iran, and China?

It does include some of our erstwhile allies but enforcement is obviously going to be focused on our adversaries.
Which libs _don't_ use that allocation strategy? The fact that you think it's broken only means you don't really know what you're talking about.
When you spend time resolving problems (and then maintaining them over time) that can be solved by installing existing software , does it not feel like you could be working on the actual problem space you are trying to solve (and build a business around?)
qmail cheats a bit because it's so simple, that most people end up using something with messy code on top. Not that I don't think it's a sound engineering decision but when comparing it's code cleanliness with other SMTP stacks it needs to be mentioned.
As an aside, Rust is making significant strides in many of those areas. It hasn’t had the longevity of C++ which already has all of that, but it is getting better.

Things take time and energy.
Basically in both cases the problem is a centralized repo, right? That's not really a problem with signed commits though, is it? E.g. Google's certificate transparency or Keybase. At this point we are arguing over the definition of Git vs private blockchain though. I just don't get the hype. Merkle trees have been around since the 70s.
This article was clearly written by someone who hasn't taken their head out of the sand for at least 1, maybe 2 years.

Maybe I'm wrong, but a great deal of what he/she says doesn't seem to chime as current. Like the issues with mobile apps, no offline capabilities, etc. That's all old news. Over 85% of people have modern browsers that support a modern web that allows for offline capabilities and more.

I currently use Dev.to as an app on my phone (headless Firefox for those curious) and I love it way more than having to choose an app.

In fact it's my most popular 'app' now. On a personal note I definitely prefer mobile web apps over sharing access to my private information for a marginal UI gain.
> ease of transport

Not to mention safety, which contributes to the weight savings.
They're all waiting for Bezos to shell out.
Reading this article it seems that there needs to be fewer types of plastic for certain products so recycling going to be easier. Second there are containers -- like bags of chips, or flower pots that shouldn't be made of plastic at all and instead of biodegradable material.

The whole plastic waste seems like a tragedy of commons -- plastic manufacturers make cheap plastic because they make profit, consumers buy it because it's convenient, as the result we have plastic pollution.

The government needs to step in and set the rules of what can and cannot be made out of plastic, and what kind of products can be made out of which kind of plastic, invest in research of making packaging so it could be easily recycled or reused. In addition the market for secondary plastic is really underdeveloped, even if the plastic gets recycled it's another challenge to have it used by manufacturers to make products.

From my locale, city of Toronto contemplating banning black plastic containers and coffee cup lids -- even though this these things are recyclable, the scanners at recycling plants can't read markings of black plastic.
Keto is a difficult and usually expensive diet to follow properly. I followed it for about two years and lost around 80lbs within the first, all while under doctor supervision. There were certain things I had to adjust within the diet and supplement in order for my doctor to be happy with my blood work. I have no doubt that people are following the diet incorrectly and coincidentally causing harm, but hey, it's probably better than choking down a bunch of exothermic fat burners every day or having an all-fruit diet.
1. All economies run somewhere between a fully unregulated laissez faire economy to a fully managed economy.

2. “Socialism” is present and a fundamental part of (probably) every government on earth, in terms of public education, healthcare, and countless other public services.

3. The US could use some public services it is lacking right now, like national healthcare—our private costs are obscene.

You can frame socialism in terms of reduced shared costs. In my experience, this is an effective pitch to otherwise politically apathetic people.

> on the same issues the major alternatives attempted in the 20th century were actually far, far worse

Actually, I’d take national health care over the current situation in the US any day.

I’d hazard a guess that there are multiple places where most americans could appreciate socialist approaches to running public services.

I’m curious as to what specifically you’re talking about when saying capitalism did far better in every regard in every problem in the 20th century, because you seem emphatic.
"It is, without a doubt, the most fun I've had at an art venue." Same! I so so wish I could have experienced it as a kid.
See upthread.
Yeah the stock old ntpd had a lot of unused code and various security problems over the years. It makes sense OpenBSD would replace it. Just a shame they didn't do it completely. I think that describes a lot of OpenBSD tools; you're trading off some functionality for very good security.

There are better NTP implementations now. Chrony is great, it's the default in Ubuntu now. NTPsec is coming along although I haven't tried to use it myself. Also good ol' ntpd is greatly improved.

https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/
https://www.ntpsec.org/
For anyone who actually plays SC2, or any real time game where human speed is a limitation, it should not be surprising that AI would crush human opponents.

This video demonstrates why:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IKVFZ28ybQs

AI has crushed humans in Go, the most complicated (widely played) board game. I'll be impressed again by AI when it beats us in physical sport.
The thing that really pissed me off is that the claw-grab machines are now based on payout percentages and rather than actually being a game of skill.
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"I just realized how weird that is" quoting the same video.
"Processed food" seems to be used as a proxy for "optimized for consumption". Food made from ingredients picked by someone else to make it tastier (by adding more sugar, salt and fat than you might expect) and carefully prepared to require almost no chewing (liquid food like juices obviously, but most processed meat products are reconstructed from ground up meat, certainly without any bones or tendons).

If you process your food yourself, you're unlikely to have the industrial equipment necessary (and you probably won't dissolve dozens of sugar cubes in a glass of water to make a drink), so food cooked from fresh ingredients is more likely to be healthy.
Special relativity, not general, just to be clear.
This is probably clickbait from a publisher that can't help itself... In terms of content strategy, anti-fad diet articles are a sure winner.
> No. We chose cars. And we will continue to choose cars over mass transit. It will take something drastic to change american culture and our lifestyle.

You can't generalize this to all Americans, as it largely seems to be localized to the Baby Boomer generation, who were responsible for roughly 2/3rds of automobile sales in 2011. There's an Autoweek article[1] that tries to spin this positively, but it basically says that Millennials and Gen-Z are responsible for just 30% of vehicle sales in 2017. Essentially, people ages 18-35 are purchasing less than a third of the vehicles, despite being at a position in their lives where a demand should be at its highest.

Complicating matters, it looks like the market research pointing to millennials essentially purchasing them merely out of pragmatic necessity, to drive to work or cart families around because there are no other options: Makes sense, because that's how the Baby Boomers shaped most of our metro areas. They're less car "owners" and more car hostages. As boomers die off, their economic and political power will wane and we're going to see some pretty dramatic changes to urban and suburban landscapes.

[1] https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/bucking-trends-milleni...
It's important to distinguish between the semantic web and semantic HTML. They are different things.

The criticisms this article levies about the semantic web are pretty much straight on as far as I can tell.

Semantic HTML is pretty straightforward though - it's using HTML to describe content, rather than purely for layout. Some sites do it better than others, but it's certainly not dead or abnormal -- and many static HTML generators are... decent.. ish. Semantic HTML is using stuff like article tags and sections, using actual links instead of just putting a click handler on a div, stuff like that. The stuff that makes it easy to parse and understand a web page.

It's very useful - semantic HTML is the reason that sites like Pocket work, it's the reason why reader mode in Firefox/Safari works. It's the reason why screenreaders on the web work so much better than on native apps (at least as far as my experience on Linux has gone, maybe other people have better apps than me :)) It also (opinion me) makes styling easier, because light descriptive DOM structures tend to be easier to manipulate in CSS than large ones.

The semantic web, to the extent that it's well-defined at all is more about the metadata associated with a webpage. Very different concepts.
i wouldn't sweat it. people design those interviews to make them feel better about themselves rather than as an effective way to gauge someone's aptitude to work there.

you'll notice that none of these places that ask these types of questions allow the candidate to ask them technical questions. it's always a one way street. there's times where i have "failed" interviews of this type when i could guarantee i have "simple" questions that they couldn't answer about software and programming.
> I think what you call "reshaping" is what the standard interpretation calls "collapse".

Yes. But traditionally collapse is from a wave into result of measurement. My point is that it actually is from wave into a wave.

> operator correspoding to the eigen-value

This suspiciously for me sounds like a single value and something of different nature than operator you mentioned earlier.

> It is a (complex-valued) mathematical function "evolving" in parameter space.

I know. I called it probability function because its squared modulus can give you probability of getting measurement of given value.
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You can make decent wrappers in both languages that provide a similar feeling so that you have a good C++ or Rust API over C.

But yes, out of the box, there aren’t simple ways of exposing native interfaces across the language boundaries.
I suspect Dota 2 is a lot easier than Starcraft. I watched a video of that AI, and it was mostly tactical optimizations ("micro" in Starcraft-speak). The AI would position its unit just right, aim perfectly, optimize for maximum damage. The stuff machines are best at.

Dota 2 is tactical, so having perfect micro is enough to win at least simple matches. Starcraft 2 is a different story.
"Home cooked food from raw/simple ingredients?"
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I believe you're looking at the average of the MTA bus system and the DC Metro. This thread is exclusively about the latter.
This is probably why the American Dietetic Association recommends veganism and vegatarism, even for vulnerable groups (pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants, children and young people). Something that health authorities in the germanosphere specifically discourage on the risk of malnutrition. The US has 39% obese while Germany has 23%.
It's exactly this mindset that creates such a huge plastic problem. You aren't wrong, and you shouldn't feel guilty either. People in charge of deciding packaging should be taking their end customer's ideas and habits in mind. Why are all my vegetables and fresh foods packaged on styrofoam trays, wrapped in plastic, and packed home in a plastic bag? At least the plastic bag can be reused, but the rest has zero hope of being reusable. It's also a huge problem to recycle plastics that have food waste on them.

All in all, plastics are really not needed in most of the things we buy.
I shed 3 pounds a week on a keto diet without any exercise. It's simply so much harder to consume as many calories from fats and protein as it is from carbohydrates (think heavy whipping cream vs a can of soda).

Huge proponent of keto, regardless of your protein and fat sources.
They're framing (as we used to call it back in the good old geocities days!). If I wrap Apple's stuff in my livery, leeching their content, I guarantee there will be legal action (C&D).

Also, see up thread where they disclaim right to do the same to them.
What do you consider expensive? I am able to follow the keto diet on around $200 a month, and that's with splurging on things here and there. I've never really understood why people say it is so much more expensive.
"Scientists and dietitians are starting to agree on a recipe for a long, healthy life."

Whenever i read/hear people say things about other peoples options in general my BS alert goes high....

The body is one of the most complex systems we know of and people keep claiming "Ah i am an expert i know how this works" it is pure insanity.

On top of that we are all individuals and we all work differently. I find it likely that we wont find a single truth about the food we eat, and what food gives best human performance.

What we will find is statistics, this food is 90% likely to be good for a human being. Or eventually some sort of functional description that allows us to figure out what food is "good" for what people. Probably based on genetics or some sort of individual testing.
We sound quite similar. I also accidentally ended up working in this space a few months ago and started off incredibly cynical (my first meeting telling everyone there I don't think there are any useful applications relevant to the business whatsoever). Looks like I went one way (getting out and doing something else) and you stuck around :-) I hope you are right and the technology is actually useful for humanity. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think I am.

I conjecture that blockchains have no applications beyond cryptocurrency. I hope someone can give me a very simple counterexample. I've seen blockchains for the music industry, for porn, for university, for bananas in Laos, for weed, for voting, for "supply chain" something or other. I've never seen an application explained simply that makes sense. I am highly skeptical of the field.
As far as C++ code goes, the Lean Prover is really well maintained: https://github.com/leanprover/lean

I'd also say GHC is quite good.

And Pandoc as well.

I don't think I can compute enough variables to consider the "highest" though... so the aforementioned are only examples of what I think are good.
DC busses appear to be more heavily subsidized than the trains are. Am I misreading the stat, or misunderstanding your argument?
ZeroNet really is the perfect platform for this. Web-based, users can submit content, entirely p2p, very nice UI. It's the perfect platform, but nobody knows about it.

If you're interested, you can download and check it out here: https://zeronet.io

You can also check it out without installing anything by visiting my proxy: https://zn.amorgan.xyz

Play is one such ZeroNet site for movies:
http://localhost:43110/zeroplay.bit https://zn.amorgan.xyz/zeroplay.bit

Funnily enough TorrentFreak is mirrored on ZeroNet: http://localhost:43110/1JNqdTGVATFWRLzzYwVu19CuWYus5VmoUS/ https://zn.amorgan.xyz/1JNqdTGVATFWRLzzYwVu19CuWYus5VmoUS/

And a wiki if you're interested in learning more: http://localhost:43110/138R53t3ZW7KDfSfxVpWUsMXgwUnsDNXLP/ https://zn.amorgan.xyz/138R53t3ZW7KDfSfxVpWUsMXgwUnsDNXLP/
This headline is pretty misleading. It makes it sound like they're giving access without the user's consent, but based on some other articles I could find (eg: https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKCN1M02P9) it looks like what's really going on is that users can give access to third party Gmail add-ons. Those add-ons in turn are capable of giving access to someone else, though it is against Google's rules to do so without the user's consent.

This seems a bit like claiming "Google confirms it lets other users read your email" because the ability to forward (or even copy and paste) exists.
Believe it or not, despite the police constantly exploiting people's (legal) stupidity, it should not be a crime.

> Given the evidence at hand, we probably would have convicted him anyway. The video was the clincher.

If the video of his confession, which you know has been edited by the police and prosecutor's office, I would have voted to let him go. You don't know the pressure that was on the guy during that video, you don't know what else the police left out (e.g. one thing is they do is refusing to help someone, or claiming to refuse, until a confession is extracted and signed, then edit out the part where they refused to help, or lied)

What if the person lied and confessed because the police threatened not to call an ambulance for someone ?

Ironically, this may very well be the reason the "goober" wanted a jury trial in the first place, as people do that thinking it will provide more opportunities for the truth to come out.
> Good luck over eating spinach and hard boiled eggs, your stomach will revolt.

Such an image. Gave me a good laugh. :)

Pretty sure my stomach would be fine, though. Other effects would put me off the whole thing much quicker than that.
You generally need at least 4-5 SREs for a high availability large (big 5) scale subsystem in a multinational corp just to cover all of the timezones and make sure you're not frantically calling everyone when someone goes on vacation or has to pick up their kid from the nurse. The salary plus benefits and overhead on that is easily in the millions.
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Japan has attempted to land two tiny rovers on a distant asteroid
Bad spanner. Graph databases with consistency.
"Report: 98 Percent Of U.S. Commuters Favor Public Transportation For Others"

"Expanding mass transit isn't just a good idea, it's a necessity," Holland said. "My drive to work is unbelievable. I spend more than two hours stuck in 12 lanes of traffic. It's about time somebody did something to get some of these other cars off the road."

https://www.theonion.com/report-98-percent-of-u-s-commuters-...
And heaven forbid you break it.
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Go is sometimes played on a reduced size board, like 9 X 9. You can play a game in 45 minutes or less, but YMMV.
And what about Europe?

Or does he also predict that all US based services will be fully compliant with EU law (GDPR, Article 11, Article 13) by then?