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According to Wikipedia, Earth atmosphere weights about 5e18 kg. A m^3 of air is alightly above 1,2 kg under normal conditions.

Suppose that on average each person from the most resourceful 1 billion people on Earth installs a device for air cleaning. The machine sucks air in, removes CO2 and releases the clean air. The device works using renewable energy, so by itself it doesn't contribute additional CO2 to the atmosphere. Suppose we want to remove 10% of CO2 from air, or in other words we want to pass 10% of Earth atmosphere through such cleaning devices. The year has about 365 * 24 * 3600 seconds, so to have those 10% in 10 years each device has to process 5e18 / 1e9 / 365 / 24 / 3600 / 10 / 10 = 1.6 m^3 of air per second.

This is not a small number, yet it's not immediately obvious why this isn't possible. For example, energy requirements can be small, because the device effectively doesn't change the bulk of the air. 10 years isn't that much comparing with the speed of raising air temperature. Cost of such a device could be perhaps smaller than a modest car. We still have option to deploy more devices, to separately clean ocean water etc. This is largely technical and not political solution.

What's wrong with this approach?
What a condescending comment.
I think some more granularity in permissions wrt how extensions may change websites would be useful too.

For example, it would be easy for Google/Mozilla/etc to compile a list of HTML tags and attributes that can never be used to inject javascript. Lots of "HTML sanitization" libraries do this, for instance. Then, we could get permissions like "remove content", "inject non-interactive content" and "inject interactive content". An ad blocker, for instance, should work with no network access whatsoever and should never need to inject code. So I can totally lock it down to not being able to do anything except replace ads by empty <div> tags.

I think there's an opportunity for browser builders here with more granular permissions in other areas too (eg "network access but only to domains x and y", which ofc only makes sense if you can't also inject arbitrary interactive content but ok). No user is of course ever going to read those, or understand which combination of permissions make sense, but a Google reviewer can. Then the reviewer doesn't need to review anymore whether the code does something bad, but only whether the requested permissions would _allow_ the code to do something bad an whether the permissions make sense for what the extension is supposed to be doing.

Eg LastPass ought to work just fine with only "access to *.lastpass.com" plus "inject only non-interactive content".

This could be particularly powerful if browser designers would create a way for extensions to show possibly-interactive content on the top/left/side/bottom of the page (in a popover bar for instance) that is clearly not part of the page DOM. Then, LastPass can remove their "click to auto-fill" icons inside user/pass forms and replace them by a "That looks like a login form. Do you want to auto-login?" popover bar with an ok button. The UX is still great, security is greatly improved.

I don't pretend to be smarter than the teams that build browsers, so I may be missing something. Nevertheless right now I think that this, combined with the feature announced in this post where extensions can be locked down to specific websites, will remove the need for nearly any "can change anything on any website and do anything with it" extensions (which are pretty much the norm right now). Gmail extension? Website-specific. Pinterest "pin it" button? Non-interactive (make the injected button just be a selector and show the final "pin selected images" action in a popover bar). HN-Submit? Non-interactive. And so on.
And if we are reminiscing Nero, these track (and others like it) might bring up some memories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDWAmgwQvOk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovnD-yI68U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u39ZqQYOHM
Yes, but from what others have said, if you are getting an MBA for the salary increase and not just to learn, getting an MBA from a non top tier school isn't really worth it if you are already in a high paying field.
I think multiple endings make a lot of sense for a show like Black Mirror, where the existence of multiple endings could help drive home the point the writer is trying to make.

It probably also makes for more engaging children's programming, where story is less important than keeping the audience active and engaged.
Well, maybe if you stopped using the roads, or the airways, or the financial system, or doctors and hospitals, or anything else that is either funded by or functions efficiently and safely because of government regulations, it might be a fair deal.

But since you can't live within a country without taking advantage of the benefits the government provides, such as rule of law and a living space that's relatively safe and has legal recourse for problems, good luck getting them to stop "stealing" from you. I guess you could move out to remote wilderness region, or some country with basically no government oversight. Somehow I doubt you'll be happier there, nor that you'll be able to make nearly as much money there as you would in a country with a strong government, even if none of the money us taxed at all.

Taxes are the price we pay to support civilization, and as such it's an investment in our own current and future well-being, financial and otherwise. It's the implicit agreement you accept by continuing to live here. You can either lobby for a change, or attempt to move somewhere with different laws, but it's not theft, and acting like it is is willful ignorance of the reality we live in.
Quite a lot, but still incomparable to doing it from scratch. FAB require very unique equipment, not used in any other industry. Like water filtration plants that can make ultra pure deionised water in tenths of cubic metres per hour, process gas recycling plants, industry specific automation equipment, etc

Even a nineties tech level, a FAB still costs a megaton of money.

The most unique proposition here is that a prospect of getting an actual FAB with a lot of automation, and not a laboratory coaxed into manufacturing role is within the grasp. You can't have that anywhere else in the world.
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Greylisting (e.g., greymilter) has long existed, but lacks a strong and reliable notification / remedy mechanism. It seems reasonably effective and non-noxious.
Basically something like rapgenius but for papers?
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No, the difference between outright tax fraud and loopholes is that one is knowingly against the rules and the other one is taking advantage of the rules.

On some level it feels like punishing the poor for trying to emulate the wealthy,

Let's get things straight: they're being punished for breaking the law, or more specifically, for fraud. The fact that they want to emulate the wealthy is irrelevant.
...on land depopulated by Nero's fire. So, if the Colosseum as a symbol of Rome and an iconic circle isn't poetic enough for you, there is also the metaphor of destruction/fire leading to creation as in "CD burning."
I think the vision of creating an open set of processes and standard cells that every foundry could offer is a good one, but they aren't particularly motivated to sign up.

I am not confident it will motivate the foundry that this will get any additional customers or will (as a process) be able to fill extra capacity.

That said I tried briefly to get some folks together to buy the old Atmel Fab building as a working fab post Microchip acquisition (as I recall it was a 1u fab) but people were talking 10's of millions which wasn't what I was thinking especially since I believe the plan of record is (or was) to just scrap it anyway.
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Ok, so tax private individuals on net instead of gross then.
The MBA programs of the 70s and 80s had business experience as one of the requirements, with GRE and undergraduate degree as the remainder. Since the 90s a lot of programs have completely dropped the business experience requirement. Quite a few have gone to integrated 5 year (BBA + MBA). Makes it easier to expand an expensive program from a cadre of rich, impressionable undergrads rather than a workforce who understand value for money.
The issue, as I understand it, is that the SS7 telephone network is completely insecure assuming that you have the ability to connect to it. Shady gateway providers will allow you the privilege, and once you're in, you can do just about anything.

There is precious little within SS7 to prevent or respond to spoofing. It's a major nightmare for telephone companies.
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It wouldn't really need to be mandatory, just something that cell providers and reputable businesses provided. Then phone companies could start rejecting anything that didn't provide it.
Forgot about advertisements? They are literally everywhere. On clothes, on cars, at the bottom of your shopping cart, at the gas station, on the plane, even in the baggage screening bins.
their potential-fraud-detection department was similarly bad. ("You used your debit card at an AM/PM in Washington State!!!!" Yes, I know, it is about 900 feet from my house; I go there regularly.)

A year ago I had an awful experience with this.

We were on vacation at Big Bend National Park, which is hours away from everything in southwest Texas. When trying to pay for breakfast, our card was denied. I tried to call the card company to tell them that it was OK, but couldn't get through - there was no cell service. Outside the restaurant was a pay phone (remember them?) that I was able to use to call their 800 number.

I learned then that they'd actually flagged my card as stolen, so I could no longer use it at all, and to get it turned back on I needed to receive the code they were sending by SMS and read it back to them. The thing was, we were in a dead cell area, we couldn't get the SMS. And Big Bend is mind-bogglingly huge - 1,252 of square miles of mostly desert (there's a whole mountain ranged entirely contained within the park). As far as I could tell, I didn't have enough gas to drive out of the park to get to cell service to achieve this (the park is so big that it's got its own gas station in the middle, and I'd intended to use this - but without my card, how can I?).

It seemed a perfect trap, there was no way we were going to be able to get out. What eventually saved us was that the hotel manager overheard me shouting at the card people, and came out to give me a map, with the places inside the park that can get SMS text highlighted. Using that I was able to fulfill their requirement.

They never were able to tell me why they flagged the card in the first place. They told me that they advise all card holders to warn them when they plan to go out of state. But I live in Texas, and I was in Texas when the charge triggered. They just shrugged that off.
This works as long as you're not talking to the scammers who themselves made the fraudulent transactions (which would be why they knew the times, locations and amounts involved).

A bit of a stretch perhaps :)
Same here. It was straightforward, until I wanted to just make a simple "bank account" concept (you receive credits for completing certain tasks, and then you can spend credits for other purposes). Maybe there is a reasonable way to do it and I just didn't know the language well enough, but because it's English, I found it difficult to even know what else to try, besides arranging my sentence structures to look more like the examples.

It does make reading the source of an IF game really intuitive though. You can basically hand your (structurally finished) game to a writer and they can edit/extend it.
> if you forget it you need a new card

That's not true- you can reset you PIN if you go to a physical Wells Fargo location, I've done it.
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The point of the article was that they no longer have the resources to prosecute those people as a result of budget cuts.

However, those people are not getting away with expensing them, because the IRS has no statute of limitations on going after these sorts of issues (income tax returns which are fraudulent are not subject to a statute of limitations, which means that the related crimes aren't either). Basically, it's a timing issue of when they get punished for the tax evasion, though at some point the backlog gets big enough that they might have to triage out the smaller cases.
If I have expenses that cost me $150K this year but I only make $100K I often have to pay taxes. Some expenses are deductible in certain cases, but even then it isn't equivalent.

All I'm saying is that both should be treated equally, which ever option that ends up being.
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The other player at the moment happens to be Amazon. So any competition is a good thing.
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When people ask what happens when govt debt and deficits skyrocket?

This.
There will be more crime. Or at least, laws will be enforced disproportionately on vulnerable because its the vulnerable who don't have the resources to fight them.
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What I find interesting is that tablet use increased slightly from 51% to 53% over 2 years, while tablet sales across the industry are on a decline [1] with the exception of a few companies such as Apple and Huawei.

This wasn't addressed in the Pew survey, but (purely speculation here), I wonder if it's being driven by an increase in older people using tablets rather than laptops/desktops, due to the larger screen sizes tablets offer over a smartphone with similar capabilities.

Anecdotally, I've started to see older people (in their mid-40s to 60s) bring iPads to meetings instead of laptops to take notes, email, and browse the web.

[1] https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS44191918
("You used your debit card at an AM/PM in Washington State!!!!" Yes, I know, it is about 900 feet from my house; I go there regularly.)

Bank of America has an interesting optional feature where they geolocate the transaction, and if it's a certain distance away from your cell phone, it triggers the fraud process.

I think if more banks did this, it could cut down on a certain percentage of these problems.

The downside is that you have to trust your bank enough to let it track your phone 24/7. And having recently gone through the privacy notices of several of my bank apps and web sites, I'm not entirely sure that's a good idea, either.
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What about how Kavanaugh presents himself makes you believe he's an entitled preppy douchebag?
You just linked the parent thread. It did come up in a conversation about xv6: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17592560
Wow, any background info on that?
I found 'Gödel’s Proof' fascinating—surprisingly more so than GEB, which I'd anticipated loving for years before dipping into it (I didn't finish, but the primary reason was loss of interest). It was one of the first things I came across that gave me the sense of something like 'mathematical system architecture'.
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May I recommend also supporting hex encoding the WASM? I think you'll find that while your file size is larger, it's actually significantly smaller once gzipped.

Edit: Just tested this on https://public.tableau.com/vizql/v_public-release1809140800/...

runtimeweb.wasm 2,484,043
runtimewebwasm.b64 3,355,640
runtimwebwasm.hex 4,968,086
runtimewebwasm.b64.gz 974,065
runtimewebwasm.hex.gz 701,052
runtimewebwasm.b64.br 718,918
runtimewebwasm.hex.br 466,221

So with gzip -9, hex encoding is 72% of the size, with brotli (defaults) size is 65% of the size.
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>I can count on one hand how many former clients out of hundreds that had done "absolutely nothing wrong"

I think the person you're replying to means "violated the tax code in a minor and non-malicious way" whereas you mean "literally did not violate the tax code at all".
You have to understand the asset being traded and the environment. Kraken fees are around 0.1-0.2%. So the Market maker is making 0.4-0.6% if there is demand on USDT after this "dip". That's relatively little profit given the low volume.

So the market maker must be pretty certain that USDT is fine. Otherwise he'll demand a premium to offset the risk of holding USDT.

If anything the argument the OP gave suggests that traders have full faith in USDT.
I just read "I Am a Strange Loop" and he the author a pretty nice job of explaining this -- Unfortunately, I could never get through GEB so I do not know if the explanation in there.
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How do you determine baseline load of the test machine in order to qualify the correctness of the benchmark?

Assuming the compiling, and testing is done in the cloud how do you ensure the target platform (processor) doesn't change, and that you aren't being subjected to neighbors who are stealing RAM bandwidth, or CPU cache resources from your VM and impacting the results?
The problem here seem to be inadequate laws around public access. Since this kind of publicity makes one look petty and small minded one can only assume like a lot of SV billionaires he is a libertarian with 'religious' views on property.

Most other countries have well established laws regarding public access, some things are not for sale. Without the laws or a 'public oriented' justice system a wealthy person can keep on litigating for decades. In the interim the local community do not have access or informal sporadic access and will not have the time or resources to persevere for decades.

Because this is connected to property rights few in the political or justice system will touch an issue that would ideally be fixed in days in a proper democracy. The community now chastened may have a new perspective on absolute property rights come elections but they will find few mainstream candidates support their position. In many ways like the justice system, democracy too will fail them.
Most likely because majority of senate and congress-people want to always have option to hire cold calling companies to send their emergency message, be it some senator accused of using gov founds to sponsor his mistress or simply to get advantage in upcoming political race.
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