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> It is on track to end civilization as we know it within two generations.

The reason why so many people don't take climate change seriously is because of extreme hyperbole like this. Climate change is outdoing even the "peak oil" craze of the past. If you think civilization is going to end in 40 years ( 2 generations ), then you leave no room for debate.

> A rational society would think about nothing else.

No. A rational society would think about lots of other things. Zealots think about nothing else.

Climate change is going to create challenges and opportunities. The societies/people better able to adapt will thrive. Others won't.
Could you elaborate on the weird routing in the US please? I ask because my app has a bunch of US users.
It's pretty clear from context that I meant things will change catastrophically for the worse. Extinction unlikely within 60 years, though.
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>I can't even fathom trying to live on 30k.

i have for most of my life lived on less than this. hell i lived on less than this in nyc. it's quite doable if you don't buy new clothes, don't own a car, don't travel, don't eat out, don't go to the movies, etc. you can even afford really bad health insurance. the only real issue is that you can't save enough for retirement (if you're comfortable living this way forever) and you can't save enough to take time off to get more education (votech or higher ed).
You can get physical private LAN! Usually an overkill, but it's possible.

When you order, you can specify extra things you will need. For example, you can ask for a secondary NIC on each server, and to connect up the secondary NICs through a dedicated switch. There are some caveats though:

* more expensive. When your servers have non-standard configurations, Hetzner charges a fixed extra per-server, per-month fee ("Flexipack"). The fees add up.

* The servers need to be in the same rack. If you order them all at once it's fine. But if you order, say, four servers now, and the fifth server a month later, the fifth one will go on a separate rack and won't get the private access to the four.

* Setup takes longer. If you order standard configuration, it will be ready in minutes/hours. When I ordered the extra NICs and switch, it took about a week to complete the order.

* A bit more configuration required. Primary NICs work out of the box. For the secondary NICs to work you need to tweak /etc/network/interfaces and the routing table.
Seems like a decent idea, but it wouldnt be free. The dealers are independent businesses. Also have you ever seen a dealership with a bunch of empty parking spaces? The charging stations will be competing with the dealership's storage space for cars.
I have no idea how to respond to, and no idea what I'm committing to when I click them.

Actually, it's easy. You can say "NO" to everything and still use the service. If the site denies service, they're violating the GDPR.
The man is worth $164 billion.

I think he'll be OK.
Maybe that's true, but parent's point stands.

We don't use honey to deal with poor thieves or people who emotionally abuse their spouses.

Why should we use honey to deal with a rich thief who emotionally abuses an entire labor force?
Ask HN: Do you have the knack?
Watching the Dilbert TV show from the late 90s.

This clip was extremely funny but profound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8vHhgh6oM0

So do you have the knack, or not?
I'd guess it's because someone isn't accessing it from a single thread, or isn't following the lifecycle requirements for storing data in an asynchronous datastore.

You absolutely have to wait for the completion event for a write before issuing another write to the same key for example.
Yes, learn to accept your mortality. Long term the human race will die.

Some think by robots taking over.

Some think by earth getting as warm as it has not been a long time much faster than ever (although live was thriving at that time).

Some think a bit meteor might hit us or a super volcano could erupt and cause 100 years of darkness.

Some think a global nuclear war will end us.

Some think humans will just procreate till they overuse the resources of the planet and people just starve.

And so on. Accidentally I ordered above by most likely end of the human life as we know it.
Your information is still “stored, analyzed, cross-referenced and re-sold” and even though the GDPR doesn’t stop that, you feel better because you “know that’s going on”.

I don’t get it. Have you ever been materially harmed by businesses storing, analyzing, or reselling information regulated by the GDPR?
We can only predict the outcome of the double-slit experiment. We do not know how that outcome comes to be, nor do we know "why" the rules are the rules.
An organization which only chooses to do the right thing in response to righteous anger from the public is never going to be worthy of praise.
I don't know, how is the formula for "you get what you pay for"?
Double the price = half the issues? Still not in Hetzner's favor. I've paid twice the price at other German hosters and had zero problems over many years.

Also I wasn't really complaining I'd like to think - I was just stating facts. I saw like 10 "this is so awesome" replies here, am I not allowed to say I've not been a happy customer?
That's silly. You could also say that humans don't really deserve praise since our motives are ultimately guided by our self interest. We only do things to make ourselves feel good, or make ourselves look better. I think that companies have many paths towards self preservation, and that choosing the paths that lead to a better world deserve praise regardless of motive.
You can both be right. It’s great that they made this move after much criticism, prodding and foot dragging, but... this reaction can also be calculated so that not only they have to carry this load alone but spread it to competitors.
In other words AMZN is willing to do it, but they don’t want to be the only ones “burdened” unlike Costco who did it out of concern and perhaps principle (and competitive advantage by ensuring a more stable workforce) but less as part of manoeuvering.
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>If you think civilization is going to end in 40 years ( 2 generations ), then you leave no room for debate.

And yet, here you are, debating him, while the world gets hotter and the weather more extreme.
Disclosure: I worked for various "startup" companies starting in 1991 through 2005. One got bought by a large company and made me some money, but not a life-changing amount. Some others variously went into "zombie" mode. One got bought by a company that simply milks the existing customer base for support revenue. One failed outright.

That said, when the first company was bought, there was a product that the buying company didn't want to continue to support. Some friends of mine made an agreement to take over that product, and started a company to do so. They never grew the customer base that much - it was a niche product. However, they were able to continue to work together as friends, have decent paychecks with 100% company-paid insurance, and after about 15 years, sold out to a company for enough to allow for comfortable (not rich) retirements. This was all on purpose and was discussed frequently by them - "Do we want to grow, or do we want to enjoy what we're doing, have some free time, less stress, and remain friends?"

I've always thought that was a FINE model for a company, if you can pull it off. I always wanted to work there (did some consulting for them), but they could never grow quite enough to hire me. Ah, well. :)
> He said going with the 8088 set the industry back ten years.

That's what it always felt like as an Amiga user. Not before DOOM there was much I liked on the PC.

Release Amiga 1000: July '85
Release DOOM: December '94
On hn you should always assume comments are in good faith and try to understand them from the best possible interpretation.
As long as it works... and then when you get ill or something else happens suddenly you find out that all that freedom translates into a complete lack of a safety net. Unless you live somewhere in Europe.

Keep in mind that 'flexible contracts' and 'zero hour contracts' already existed before the Gig economy, and that they still came with all the good stuff that comes with employment.

For the US, where a lot of people were already under the perpetual Sword of Damocles waiting to be told they are no longer required the situation is maybe not all that different. But not all of the world is like that.

The better way to run a life that is free and where you get plenty of time to arrange as you wish is to have a consultancy company where you hire yourself out at a high rate during a few months of the year to take it easy during the remainder.
Hard to fix something broken by design.

Using TCP as the main message bus then using layers upon layers of NAT needs to be revisited, routing is the solution.
>“We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,” said Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos in the announcement. “We’re excited about this change and encourage our competitors and other large employers to join us.”

Ha ha. This shouldn't have taken much thinking Jeff. It's a no brainer, no? The more you pay your people, the more they can spend on your stuff.
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"If that weren’t enough, driving alone through such a place can seem like if you were to be buried, would anyone ever know?"

Well this was...unexpectedly dark. Jokes aside, I love how, for a software that gets so much shit for being overly complicated, your config samples look clean as hell. Nice work dude!
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That's always been Bernie's style. He finds a target for hate, and gets votes by stirring up the hate.
I think you are assuming there is a conflict between Amazon's business interest and the interest of employees. Higher compensation is not done out of generosity, nor should it be. If it were it would be charity.

Higher compensation is done out of the desire to attract and retain better workers.

If Amazon started paying unemployed people or giving them gift cards to buy things on Amazon, then it would be charity.
You don't need to speculate. There is a research that shows it does hurt lower skill workers : http://www.nber.org/papers/w12663.pdf
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What whitepapers have you found to contribute to your personal development in your career path? Are there any interesting or foundational examples you'd recommend for those outside of your area of expertise?
It sounds like they really wanted to switch to K8s and rationalized it. The cons of their existing solution are minor and easily addressed with correct use of Ansible, and the massive complexity of K8s is understated.

As an example, they suggest that there's a heavy cognitive load associated with having devs run some Ansible playbooks, and then argue that to avoid that, they just have to introduce an entirely new toolchain via workshops and tutorials. Right.
I often promise myself to have a look at SQLite virtual file system API, for this very purpose, but could not yet find the guts :-)
I don't quite reach that number. According to Landauer's principle the minimum energy required to flip a bit is 0.0172 eV. Times 2^128 is ~10^18 J. The first google result for boiling all oceans puts it around 10^29 J. Even at realistic energy values for current hardware (10 fJ), we are still 5 orders of magnitude short of boiling all oceans.
A while back I read Six Degrees by Mark Lynas, who read 3000 peer-reviewed papers on the effects of climate change and summarized them, one chapter per degree, with extensive references.

My takeaway from that book was that three degrees was pretty terrible but life would go on, but at four degrees modern civilization would have a hard time surviving. Go all the way to six and there won't be many humans left on the planet.

I'm not saying we'll get to four degrees in two generations, but at the rate we're going we'll be well on the way, and enough feedbacks will have kicked in by then to make it inevitable.
Because discount implies inexpensive.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News
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I suppose there has been some 'breakthrough' in their warehouse automation stack? I suppose in the rest of the USA a doubling of wages will definitely get them through an awkward longshoreman period, "well I'm being paid more unexpectedly, I suppose I can't complain about the robots". Once the robots are well established in operations, they can start to cut labor back some more.
Yes, SQL Server hosts the .NET framework runtime but with added security configuration. There are also other applications hosting the framework (like IIS), and you can actually host the framework yourself (both the full and core framework). I was actually playing with the idea of hosting .NET addons in Kodi but it turns out it is too much work for a single developer as a hobby project.
It might be encoded in a way that doesn't lend well to seeking.
This is not really the same thing though, that's not saying "64MB per task should be enough for anybody", actually it's arguably the opposite. In his original announcement he clearly introduces his project has a somewhat limited OS.
Thanks!
Yeah, I suppose so.
What is a little bit of money for a small family - but still a living wage - is going to be a bit more for an individual. Some countries make up the difference by giving parents of children some money each month.

So that the employers do not have to take the family situation of the people they employ into account.

Np. As for the $2400, $15/hour * 40 * 4 is close enough, and that seems to work based on the salaries of a number of people that I am familiar with.

Working two jobs at $7/hour should not be a requirement to make ends meet. And that's another way in which the low minimum wage hurts employment: people working two shifts because they have to.
Why "The Goblin"? Because the TG in the name of the object - 2015 TG387.

It's interesting to see how new objects are named: https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/info/OldDesDoc.html

So... every year in August astronomers discover a lot of "The Goblins ;-)".
> "The worst that adtech could yet come up with was an ugly animated gif and a little flash - which was super easy to block."

Yeah, people use to complain, loudly, about sites that allowed animated gif banner ads.
It was actually 1MB+64kB, due to how real mode segmenting works. The infamous A20 line could be set up to alias that top 64kB to the first 64kB.

The 80286 CPUs did support up to 16 MB of RAM, but they needed to be switched into protected mode to be able to use it. The problem was, that there was no way to switch back, except reset. That might be the reason, why MS DOS never supported this mode.

With 80386, it was possible to run in protected mode AND run real mode binaries in VM86 mode, which is exactly what Windows 3.x used.
Surely there are a few masterpieces where explanations are given in magic-babble.
There are supposed to be all sorts of other GDPR protections, about rights to be forgotten, about being able to access and selectively remove personal data from an online profile, that I have no idea how to activate. Instead all I get, as a user, is a bunch of consent forms, like the stupid cookie warnings, that I have no idea how to respond to, and no idea what I'm committing to when I click them.

This again, is the fault of most websites. GDPR requires opt-in for tracking, etc. A website could just, by default, not do tracking. Then provide the tracking options in the preferences. However, most sites have gotten so data hungry that they can't accept GDPR's privacy-by-default and have to bother you with pop-ups to try to get your consent to track you. Add some dark patterns, like designing these pop-up forms such that they are effectively opt-out.

I can't wait until some organization sues some big fish to send a signal that blanket data collection or using dark patterns to trick people into data collection is not an acceptable modus operandi.

Also, we as consumers of the web can also help to improve things. Contact companies and ask them to switch to opt-in (as required by the GDPR), encourage them to not collect data by default (avoiding popups), exercise your right to remove data and/or see what data is collected. If enough people request this by e-mail, companies will have to set up automated procedures (provide a webpage to see or remove data).
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The laws do need to change first, but that wouldn't change the need to buy the land which will, based on past experiences, involve the city having to come in and force some people out.
You can't saturate 1 Gbit up and down at the same time. It would be either 1 Gbit up or down, or 500 Mbit both.
All the previous poster is saying is that a minimum wage increase would not place that much upwards pressure on inflation, which is true.
Physics has some history of PhD work being recognized. Abrikosov won for his very first paper, if I recall correctly. Wilczek also won for a paper he published as a grad student (albeit with his advisor). And de Broglie essentially won for his thesis, which was only a few pages long.

On the other hand, one need only think of Jocelyn Bell-Burnell to find an instance where a grad student got totally screwed.
But Mercedes is not part of VW group
Not even:

"2.5.6 Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript."

( https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ )
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Yes, the person behind the parent comment.
Yup, and notice not a single person crying about privacy has been materially harmed from companies using their information to target ads or provide better products.
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Wow, can't believe I missed this response.

> Dutch American Friendship Treaty (self employ in the Netherlands)

This was my first thought. I was hoping to move abroad for some time before quitting my remote U.S. job.

> Working Holiday visa Irealnd (one year and have to be within a year of school or in school, but if you get a job that sponsors you can stay)

I'm going to check this one out, thank you. I have a few classes I'd like to take, plus the GI bill to pay for finishing my degree (I have a semester left).

> Ancestry. Got any history in a European country? Start looking at grandparents' birth certs.

My wife's mother was born in Italy (well, Sicily), her family migrated to the U.S. when she was just a few years old.

Thank you!
> "Día de los muertos" sounds so weird to me, like we're talking about a particular group of dead people (say, the dead from a war) instead of the dead in general. I would say "día de muertos" and most Mexicans in Mexico agree.

I'm sure all Mexicans would agree. Saying "día de los muertos" sounds like calling July 4th "day of the independence". Maybe it's a literal translation from "day of the dead", since "dead day" sounds like something else.
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You misunderstood the point.
accept those terms in exchange for free services

Such exchanges are illegal under the GDPR. Consent must be freely given; if access to a service (that doesn't require that data, or that use of the data) is dependent on it, then it's not valid.
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Developing TXR is one of the best things I've done. From the perspective of a user, I'm grateful for its existence.
That would definitely be a good experiment to try. I would have to try a light black on light grey to match the kindle.
http://stytex.de/blog/2018/01/29/deploy-kubernetes-hetzner-c...
My guess is because how big advantage amazon has compared to smaller companies. They have good tax cut. Taking that aside, they also applied tight working time and high kpi, which can't be applied by smaller companies. And it gets better with PR stunt like this.

And CMIIW, I think increased minimum wage will increase goods price and higher skilled worker's wage overall, making those changes useless again.

It's just my 2 cents, with source limited from following recent news.
I cannot tell from the wording of the comment, but this seems like a rebuttal. I agree that solutions should be the first thing that happens as opposed to blaming. However, the comment that I replied to seemed to be stating that the solutions should be left to the first order victims of the exploits (which I am stating is nonsense) and that the DEFCON participants had no place in offering solutions.
Enlighted capitalism:

The more money the masses earn, the more they will spend on products and services, from movie tickets to electronic devices to new automobiles.

The more all of us earn from each other, the more we spend with each other.

The more all of us spend with each other, the more we earn from each other.

Globally, AGGREGATE SPENDING = AGGREGATE INCOME.
That's my point - being allies "in name only" is misleading and dishonest. Anyway, imo, we are close to on the same page and are arguing semantics, so let's stop wasting each other's time (that's really directed at both of us, not a passive-aggressive stab at you).
I think this is a calculated move against Walmart.

Amazon could easily survive in a $15 minimum wage environment, but it'd be a much larger blow to Walmart (which employs many times more low wage workers), which would have to increase prices or reduce profitability.

"Your margin is my opportunity" - Jeff Bezos. This quote also works when thinking about raising your competitors' expenses.
Yep, they were forced to sort out the mess introduced with WinRT, UAP, UWP, by making UWP .NET Standard 2.0 compliant, and now making Forms, WPF and EF 6 runnable on top of .NET Core 3.0.

However given the last Office related announcements, it appears that the reorganization did little to sort out those political issues.
Which it isn't. :-)
Cynicism and skepticism are different beasts with different outcomes. Skepticism asks "Did they do it for X reason? Let's investigate." Cynicism says "They can only have done it for X reason. Let's castigate."

Cynicism is lazy. And generally, it has the effect of disheartening anyone from even trying to do the right thing. That people are cynical is of course understandable, but it's nothing to strive for.
Why are air combat kills so rare? (2017)
A national $15/hour minimum wage isn't going to fly in places like small town Kentucky or West Virginia. Those places don't have good jobs anymore, and the only businesses left are a drive-thru and a Dollar General. They can barely afford a dozen or so people working at minimum wage now, and they can't run a place with half the employees. Their customers can barely afford to shop there and can't take paying more to cover it. The only reasonable option in this scenario is to close.
Humans are tool makers. Tools are present in some of our earliest known ancestors. They shaped us as much as we shaped them, evolutionarily.

The problem we face is that, in general, people are scientifically illiterate — including, crucially, policy makers.

Our way forward almost certainly depends on technological solutions — and at the same time they remain our greatest threat.
There’s no way Bigfoot could be realat least that’s what I thought
And of course, in minimum wage societies money, resource, wealth just fall from the sky and all the people you described have kids, nannies, multiple houses just like that.

We should just ban poverty it will solve everything
This type of thing can be invaluable from a support perspective. For example, the ability to type in a company name and see a list of their OUI is a pretty nice feature I've not seen on other lookup tools like Wireshark's offering.
To be best of my knowledge the Flexipack is no longer required / available.
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