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The US has at least a hundred years of oil remaining, and that's without properly exploring for oil off either massive coast using modern technology. That's also ignoring that gasoline is about to get demolished by electric cars, which will slash oil demand in a very dramatic manner. In likely terms, the US has enough oil for multiple centuries once it's no longer heavily used for transportation.

And of course the US is neighbors with another huge oil producer up north that happens to have a small population. Mexico also likely has a lot of oil it's unaware of, near Texas, in the form of shale. Given it only has 500m people, North America is an energy reserves monster.
gotcha. That's helpful.
"Historically the U.S. has avoided drilling much of its reserves preferring to use oil from foreign sources first,"

Historically, shale oil was not economically viable. This has drastically changed the equations because suddenly available supply has shot up, rendering the old calculations moot.

(Note I am not implying anything further other than what I said. There are good aspects to that, there are bad aspects to that, and there will be disagreement about which is which. I'm just saying the old strategy has been obsoleted by practical shale extraction.)
Any plans for the Boulder/Denver area?
An important thing to realize is that you are not paid based on the value you added during the year. You are paid to make sure you do not leave (for a competitor).

I think in the long run, acting in the best interest of the business when you are employed for that business would result in superior income/career than doing otherwise.

Another option is finding possibilities for automation that could apply to other companies with similar problems, and starting a separate company selling such automation services. A consultancy could work, too.
Fair enough. I should've phrased it as "one of the ways to fix..."

I just wanted to say that we can't expect companies to suddenly care for their employees. Basecamp is an exception and a very rare one. Most companies just don't care.
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This was the same thought I had, and to me it speaks to the increasing professionalism of the Influencer space.

I imagine it was somewhat similarly weird when the first film companies were building studios, and the infrastructure for making movies.
It's less true now, but a lot of older blog posts and books (at the time, even the most recently published books) talked about managing via replica sets instead of deployments. That was a major source of confusion for me when I was getting started.
I'm not sure I understand what you're getting at.

Alphabet and Google can't claim to be against censorship while they're profiting from it. They can't have their cake and eat it too.

Clearly the only thing Google and Alphabet are "for" is making more money, so there's really no point pretending they have a moral compass guiding them.
Out of curiosity, how did you go about obtaining permission?
Your comment seems to be to be touching on the ethics of "eradicating" insect pests ("that is not a bar cleared"), rather than the ethics of advancing genetic engineering in general (or specifically of reproduction capabilities).

Having written that first comment: I was merely wondering aloud – without doing a tour du Google myself – whether such genetic intervention would be possible at all.

I cannot see many problems with sterilizing pest animals, as long as we don't define pests so strictly as to include any nuisance. For example, in cities in The Netherlands, feral pigeons are sterilized when population numbers increase too much. The article about the lanternfly also clearly specifies that small populations of lanternflies do not pose a problem. Any intervention would not need to "eradicate" lanternflies from the earth.

Perhaps you are referring to the suggestion of 'improving' the to strategy to produce non-viable offspring.

What is your own opinion on these matters?
Had one or two a week last winter in the house I rent in Atlanta. Nothing like some of the horror stories, but a nuisance nonetheless.
Treat Warnings as Errors. I Mean It. You Need to Do This
I believe he is talking about digitalocean.com. Their smallest offering is $5/mo for 1vCPU, 1GB ram, 25GB ssd, and 1TB transfer.
Not all USB C ports are equal. Some have higher speed potential than others. Some have higher power providing/consumption potential than others. Some carry additional protocols (looking at you, Thunderbolt) that are only available on some ports.

Cables are in an even worse place - if your cable actually lives up to its stated capabilities (and the capabilities are as vastly different as the ports above), it's in the minority.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BensonLeung/posts/LH4PPgVrKVN
Good decision on their part. As laughable as some technical branding sometimes seems, it usually serves a decent purpose in helping people upgrade infrastructure.
Not OP, but this is basically the same dream layout I've sketched for myself!

Unfortunately it would give me the most day-to-day benefit on OSX, which is probably the place I'm least likely to see it implemented...
I live in the furthest, most godforsaken boondocks of Denmark. I see Teslas almost daily.
Of course I do. There's probably nowhere in the country I couldn't reach on a single charge.
Wi-Fi Alliance is naming the not-yet-complete IEEE 802.11ax standard as Wi-Fi 6, with ac being 5, and n being 4. One can guess then a is supposed to 1, b as 2, and g as 3, but this isn't mentioned anywhere I can see.

As far as I can tell, all of these numbers are new. At least this naming is a good deal clearer than HDMI's confusing version and feature mix or USB's Speed names.

What isn't clear is how much control the Wi-Fi Alliance has over the tech industry and how their branding is used, but it looks like they might be able to compel a lot of companies to adopt this new naming. They've got standards for logos on things like your computer or phone, so we'll see if these start getting adopted by major manufacturers.
>> "...a global currency that was untethered from government corruption (printing)..."

This is your friendly weekly reminder that the government does not print money in almost all countries, with a very few interesting exceptions.

Money is instead created by ordinary privately-owned commercial banks, or by consortiums of privately-owned commercial banks aka the owners of central banks [0].

The spirit of the parent's point stands, which is of course that somebody is ripping you off. But that somebody is manifestly not a government.

[0] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...

See the key quote in bold on the first page: "Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the
borrower’s bank account, thereby creating new money."
Global governance is not automatically positive, or equitable. The majority of Brits came to this conclusion in the Brexit vote. China arrived at this conclusion when the ICJ invalidated its Spratly Islands claim. Likely majorities in Greece, Italy and elsewhere are near to the same conclusion - particularly if/when German taxpayers become similarly disenchanted with supporting these countries deficits.
I have a Macbook Air and got the Surface Book 2 and it has been great. Amazing battery life. I can leave it sitting around, come back and pick up where I've left off at. I can also use it as a tablet, I use it the most to watch Netflix and Hulu. I can also download Nextflix shows and movies for offline consumption due to them being apps.
I really struggle with FF's scroll acceleration. I suppose it is just years of using Chrome but the scroll behavior and inertia when I scroll using the trackpad just feels painfully "off". I realize this is something that is kind of petty to complain about all things considered, but the issue is just always there. Perhaps with enough time I would learn to get used to it.

I spent quite a bit of time trying to modify a half dozen settings in FF that were posted on reddit to emulate Chrome's scrolling behavior but none felt exactly right.

Recently I had used the Edge browser on a friend's machine and I felt like the scroll behavior was really fast and responsive as well.
I assume that despite the one mile figure, it will still decrease the amount of fuel burnt. Not having to burn fuel for every stop and go will save a bunch of carbon I bet.
802.11ax is 802.11n's true successor and I hope it will be adopted quickly by everyone. 802.11ac for the 5GHz band was a faux successor, in my opinion, as you couldn't use it in the same scenarios. It came with some higher performance, but with major compromises in reach for a typical home.

Wi-Fi 6/802.11ax should last for a while, so I hope the Wi-Fi Alliance starts focusing on an actual long-range standard that's more of a competitor to LTE but that works in the unlicensed spectrum and for distances of 1km or longer. Then it needs to incentivize smartphone makers or smartphone modem makers to adopt it so that everyone will have it.

This would remove the biggest obstacle towards having a real meshnet.
> the amount of liability is also why startups may find it hard to land clients in the enterprise space.

This is definitely one factor, but I think it's something that enterprises manage on a regular basis. They have many suppliers and different arrangements to cover the risks. The problem is often on the startup side where there is a reticence to do anything that would change the product to suit a particular customer and "compromise the mission" of the startup. End users are important, but aren't the real customers of an enterprise startup.

If you are relying on enterprise customers this will naturally bring a level of tech debt in order to service them. It's better to embrace this than avoid it in many cases. I've seen startups in denial that certain features would be useful to many customers, only to provide them to a subset of customers where they are legally obligated, simply to maintain a facade that they aren't really a traditional enterprise startup (to support recruitment, product management egos, etc.)
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This is just such a sensible change, it's amazing it took everyone this long to come up with it. Figuring out whether something is b, g, n, ac, etc. and then trying to remember which one comes next (ax) is just not going to filter down to the regular consumer like... ever.

I can definitely see perks both in "hey, that's the newer network, it's got a higher version number", and "oh, I guess I do need to buy a new Wi-Fi device, it only supports version 4", etc.
That would be great. I have been brushing up on my CS so that I can apply to Google in Boulder. Love that area.
Oh yes. The reason if this is that for now the language itself is DOM agnostic, it's just a port of an existing one. (https://docs.arangodb.com/3.4/AQL/) .
So, the entire DOM thing is implemented by standard library which is pluggable.
In the future, I might extend the language to make it less DOM agnostic by introducing new keywords for dealing with that. But for now you have to move document object around. Which is not that bad, because you may open as many page as you want in a single query.
It really is the reason. Their CPUs are better than the CPUs that Android phones have access to. You can see this in the benchmarks. Compare Geekbench scores between them:

https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks
https://browser.geekbench.com/android-benchmarks

The fastest iPhone CPU is 44% faster than the fastest Android device CPU.
Dark matter is a supersolid that fills 'empty' space, strongly interacts with ordinary matter and is displaced by ordinary matter. What is referred to geometrically as curved spacetime physically exists in nature as the state of displacement of the supersolid dark matter. The state of displacement of the supersolid dark matter is gravity.

The supersolid dark matter displaced by a galaxy pushes back, causing the stars in the outer arms of the galaxy to orbit the galactic center at the rate in which they do.

Displaced supersolid dark matter is curved spacetime.
This is all I use. I highly recommend it.
Can anyone who's recently transitioned to a Surface from a MacBook Pro / Air testify to the validity of this statement?

Yes, I made the jump a few months ago and am very happy. I would even say the whole Surface range is a glimpse of what Macs would be if Jobs was still alive. WSL is brilliant, totally replaced VMs in my use cases. 3:2 screen as well.
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The statement is if you are "the smartest person in the room", not "the smartest person in the room in one narrow area". If SMEs, PMs and Sales people aren't smarter than you in some other areas, then you are somewhere with incompetent SMEs, PMs and Sales people.
Very nice, though personally the software is still an issue for me. But good that someone trying to give Apple a run for their money.
Isn't hydroponic farming already pretty low on labor costs? (compared to capital & maintenance costs)

Edit: apparently not. The Engadget article is a bit better. "What we found is that the two biggest costs in the indoor farm are labor and electricity"

https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/03/future-indoor-agricultur...

That tray-lifting machine looks expensive.

Are plants other than lettuces suitable for hydroponic farming?
If you want to work at FAANG or Uber/Dropbox/etc then yes you don't want certs. For lower tier companies/smaller ones then it might make a difference.
For watchers and servers I use native nodejs/gulp/webpack (no WSL), apache and for code edition I'm more than happy with Sublime Text with a bunch of plugins.
> Help me understand how you can coherently want scientific research to be free, rather than locked up in paid journals, and at the same time believe that unpaid peer reviewers should respond to every submission with a kind of counter- research project to rebut the findings of those submissions?

Because of that incoherence, it's not what I want. I support paying reviewers for the important work they do. If the research is of a kind that should be available to the public for free, then that's a job for research-funding organizations, who could explicitly pay for that cost (rather than implicitly by granting funds to scientists who then end up working as reviewers for free).
I actually think there are some new models emerging that will help address this - Springboard, for example, has learn at your own pace, but students also have a mentor assigned to them who helps with accountability and goal setting. From my experience the completion rate is substantially higher and students actually learn the skill set. Insight and other data science accelerators are opening up things like this too.
> most companies want to use COTS solutions

This was true 20 years ago too, and yet the demand for developers is as great as ever despite more and more COTS type solutions available each day. I'm not being critical of your viewpoint, rather I'd like to understand what you believe has changed or is changing. Especially, I'm curious what role you believe robotics plays in that.
> That makes it easy for oppressive governments — like Turkey, which has used this technique before — to intercept web addresses requests and either kill them in their tracks to stop sites from loading, or redirect to a fake site.

Or "non-oppressive" governments like the UK.
I have my workstation setup to plug in a single USB-C port that charges my laptop and drives my monitor, headphones, keyboard, mouse and a USB-A hub.

To me USB-C is a god send. I don't understand why people have such negative reactions to it.

Granted, I'm a Linux User so I stay away from both Mac and Windows boxes, and I wouldn't use either a Surface or an MBP due to a lack of Linux support. But I couldn't be more happy with the USB-C and the rest of the hardware of my Lenovo ThinkPad.
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Hi ratiolat, another GitLab PM here. Thanks for the feedback, as jl-gitlab mentioned, we'll work to make that clearer. You can think of Auto DevOps as a CI template that has a job for all devops stages built-in. If you want to experiment with kubernetes first you can easily add a kubernetes cluster from GitLab and experiment using with CI with or without auto devops. More info here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/clusters/
DDG also uses Yandex and Baidu search results in relevant regions:

https://thenextweb.com/apps/2013/09/26/dolphin-browser-goes-...
50mpg as tested by the EPA - https://www.epa.gov/vehicle-and-fuel-emissions-testing . Real world drivers tend to report similar numbers - http://www.fuelly.com/car/toyota/prius

Obviously, you can stomp on the throttle and get worse numbers if you want. But US MPG ratings are reasonably real-world accurate. (And the US fleet number comes from the same testing from the same group using the same metrics -- so they should be fair to compare)
I advise junior developers that there are primarily two difference between a junior and senior developer:

1) A senior developer is unafraid of not knowing things. When we join a new team or company, we're as lost as any junior developer joining them team. We ask as many questions as necessary to get our work done effectively, without shame or fear of looking foolish for not knowing things already. We are good at searching through unfamiliar codebases to figure out how they work.

2) A senior developer (or any productive person) is good at saying no. People will ask for more of your time than you can spare. You can gently but firmly say no, direct people elsewhere (delegate), or ask people to discuss with your manager whether more of your time can be allocated to help them.
Is genre a tag in that system? I have an almost impossible time of putting music I listen to into genres, and much of that music is multi-genre.
And the beauty of being a trader/quant is that once you come up with such an automation, you will capture a lot of the upside as the company will not want to have you leave for a competitor and implement a similar strategy there.
$5/L? Make that $50/L if I was in charge.
I agree that the prevalent culture tends to result in poorly fleshed out products, and your wife is right on this. I should note though, that technically, such a product is not actually an MVP. If customers come to the website and don't get hooked, it means it doesn't have enough features to be Viable.
There was no version of Excel for DOS either. It started on the Mac, then went straight to Windows. IIRC the first couple of versions even came bundled with the Windows runtime.
Their experience was pretty limited... at best. I fear the program they were in was just churning out MBAs / students whose experience was internships and maybe some "work".
So far, dark matter is just the label for an incongruence in the calculation that needs to be falsified.

With regard to the article, it could still be that there are many young smaller black holes, too small or even too short lived for the methods employed here.
As an idealist I'm glad to see the world transition away from fossil fuels in any capacity.

As a "Car Guy" however, there is a small sadness that I won't really get to experience much of the internal combustion engine. I feel like I was born a decade too late and a lot too poor. Similar to some techies who feel the missed the early internet.
Why would you use git on wsl when the project itself has released binaries for Windows?
Looking for biz ideas? :)

In one place where I worked, someone had programmed financial models in Excel. It used to run for a long time, crash often etc. But it was good enough for his team and they used it until I left. That one single Excel file was worth a lot
Take your job seriously.

I often have felt that Jr. Devs I have mentored only live up to the "Jr. Dev" role. They only do as much as they think a Jr. Dev should do and often leave work for a more Sr. Dev instead of at least trying to take a stab at something.

Example: a JR. Dev has trouble implementing some candlestick graphs. Instead of trying to work through the issues and document his thoughts in the code and ask for advice. He just leaves it untouched, for many days, then a week, before someone asks him his progress then says "while I can't quite make it happen" when really nothing has happened.
I am not so sure about that statement. On a recent trip I passed through Cincinnati and I let my car; model 3; do both the speed and steering. I set a respectable follow distance which did of course encourage a few of the more aggressive drivers to dart in front of me. It never put me in a situation I felt I was at risk and more than once braked for something far quicker than I caught on.

as for the steering and lane keeping, even at V8 it was perfectly fine across hundred mile stretches of interstate. where it had difficulty is when the right line vanished for splitting highways or off ramps. still it recovered to the left before fully going to the right. Not 100% but I bet over 90% of my 600 mile commute North was with both traffic aware cruise control and auto steering.

What took me the most to get used to was TACC which many cars have and have had for years. Once I learned it really did stop and move correctly everything fell into place. The steering was my least concern and I quickly understood its limitations. The payoff was, realizing I was drowsy by seeing something in the rear view mirror I did not recall passing and the car kept me and others safe. Needless to say that was a wake up call to take a break.

Is it perfect, no. However I am under no illusion that I will be able to hop in a FSD car of any brand in bad weather and have it take me to the hospital within the next five years and maybe even ten. I really want to see how they overcome snow and near white out conditions that I have driven because at the time I had to
The most interesting self-learning platform I've found is expii.com created by Poh-Shen Lo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po-Shen_Loh It feeds you exercises and judging by your answers determines if you need more practice or not using an Elo rating system https://v1.expii.com/grandmaster though I get the argument of having students pay for certs ergo they actually complete the courses, this other method seems to me to work just as well as paid motivation.
I think that from the optic of someone who is not a physicist (like myself!) it's natural to think "hey... we can't actually know that it's dark matter vs some other unexplained way that gravity works". And in fact there are many physicists working on trying to figure that out, but there is actually a ton of evidence that what we're seeing is in fact particles, and most physicists consider it to be the most likely current theory. I don't think anyone in the physics community treats anything about dark matter as a given either (or hawking radation for that matter). In fact part of being a true scientist is keeping an open mind.
>But when gmail first came out and I snagged an address, the last thing on my mind was "this company could become evil in 15 years, I should set up my own domain and route to it from this new email service."

It was already in my mind when Gmail came out. Some months prior to their launch, I got my own domain. I was already sick of free online providers - be it email, photos, etc. I'd had to move multiple times due to their either disappearing or suddenly asking for money. So even though I always liked Google, and still do, I never allowed myself to believe that things won't change.

Regardless, the past is the past. The key point is not to make the same mistake going forward.
I use T-mobile, but unfortunately have a google voice number. I guess having my calls forwarded from gvoice somehow disables this feature.

As for google voice, I have no idea how many spam calls it's intercepting, but about five a day get through.