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Yes, the reef is being destroyed due to ocean warming and acidification, but this is very much partly the fault of Australia.

They're the #2 coal exporter in the world, about three times as much as the US for example. They consume massive amounts of CO2 per person and have made no efforts to decrease this while the rest of the world has. They burn massive amounts of coal and have no interest in changing this; investment in alternative forms of energy actually went down in recent years. This is despite having tons of space for wind turbines and literally perfect conditions for solar.

Australia also destroys its local environment with overfishing, introducing invasive species, clearing vegetation, and polluting the coasts.

If they want to pretend they're a first world country, they need to act like one.
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Wow took the quiz at the end. Switching to plant base diet for 1 yr is only half as effective as not doing a transatlantic flight. In the future I think we’ll agree to not take so many self indulgent vacations to other countries far away or have some sort of global ‘travel credit’ system to keep track
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English-native speakers have a strong affinity for irony in humor, so any sharp combination of that with bleak hopelessness is 'black humor,' aka 'gallows humor,' and will be quite popular with those who enjoy that flavor in their laughter.
This isn't the case. Law, Medical, and MBA's all cost more partly due to expected income.
>>I heard free healthcare will turn me into a communist.
God, if that's the case I would have been campaigning twice as hard to get it in place!
Yeah but supply might dry up if manufacturers had to pay for damages out of their own pockets.
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They don't have to do anything technically - they are free to leave the game Goat Simulator buggy or turn the next one into a kitten petting simulator. But there are consequences for that. As long as they care about quality or at least success providing support and properly setting access permissions and securing their architecture to not do things like trust the client is important.
> I wish I could start a poll here, but does anyone really think there's still time? Really?

Climate change is not a black & white thing; it's a gradient of bad things. No, we're not going to avoid heavy costs (sea level rise, higher disasters, etc.), but we can avoid making those costs even higher.
https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/car-making-mysterious-...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5612099
I wonder if this is less a problem with your skills not keeping up with the industry, and more with your job search practices not keeping up.

I recently helped a friend through a job search, and was shocked by how much the process has changed in the past 3-4 years. Recruiters are inundated with thousands of resumes. So traditional job application practices ("Write a cover letter and email in the resume") or semi-recent practices ("Cast a wide net on Monster, Indeed, LinkedIn...) perhaps no longer have the rate of return that you're expecting.

I read through the book, "What Color is your Parachute: 2018 Edition" to better help my friend, and the book offers full sections on how to do better than just "putting your resume out there." Working personal connections, announcing employment intentions during coding meetups, writing specific emails to companies you respect (independent from whether they're currently hiring for your position) or getting even more creative with getting your info out there... all of the above are practices that might not have been necessary during your last search (they certainly weren't during mine).

Maybe I'm underestimating the massive extent of blatant ageism in the software industry, but I'm quite surprised that someone with your skill set can't yell from a crowded street corner and have six recruiters materialize. That leads me to think it's not a matter of what you're offering, but rather how you're selling.
According to this[1] the half life of methane in the atmosphere is 7 years.

[1]https://phys.org/tags/methane/
I think the manufacturer should be the one paying, not the customer.
I can second this. Self taught programmer and I am weak in all of the above areas. My math skills (only high school math) are also especially weak which has really bitten me in graphics based jobs (simulation) where I have had to calculate view rotations and similar in 3d. I am lucky enough to have made it to the 6 figure club but I probably could have been here a decade ago with the right education. Also imposter syndrome has been a major limiter at times.
Outgoing email from EC2 nodes isn't trusted by recipient domains either. That's why AWS wants you to use SES instead.
Related feedback, you might to launch it well before the year 1st subscription year ends, otherwise customers who bought the setup assuming they won't opt for subscription and would still be able to use the device will left with no option for possibly a long time.
Have a look at https://cloudron.io. They let you run apps on your own hardware - email being one of them
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I have a theory that this is one of the symptoms of the psychological fallacy that many Americans hold with respect to financial health. You've probably all heard the joke about poor and middle class Americans:

"You never meet an American who's not wealthy. They're all just temporarily cash strapped."

It's a joke, but there is some truth to it in that many poor or middle class Americans do think in this manner. So the average American is very well aware of the consequences of debt, and the costs associated with education. But they think the lack of well paying work is a very temporary situation. If you talk to an unemployed or under-employed person, they'll say that they just haven't found work YET. (The key word being "yet". Deep down, at an almost unconscious level, the average American believes they will find that job. Or they wouldn't use the word "yet".)

This is not just an issue with college debt by the way. This same psychological quirk is what generates the abnormally high levels of consumption across nearly every sector of the American economy. It's the reason American's buy homes that are a bit more of a financial stretch than prudence would advise. We buy cars that are more pricey than we can really afford. Clothes, trips, consumer goods etc etc etc. On a sub conscious, or maybe even on a conscious- level, we believe our financial health will always get better over time. And, at least in the past, most of the times we've been right. So we can be forgiven for believing the same thing now.

I'm honestly unsure how we would go about addressing that issue when it rears its head in college financing? Because it is deeply ingrained in us at this point. In my own case, I went to the University of Wisconsin for free. So while I know it's not a popular idea, I really do think we might be well served to look at how we might enable free bachelor's level education for people without requiring them to be freak athletes or super intelligent or whatever.
And it seems to be free for personal use: https://www.forth.com/starting-forth/
What do you think about MFA, password-less SMS or email based login. It seems there are a lot of varying opions on the topic.

This could be an additional topic to add to your guide.
Thanks.
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While this is very cute I'd be interested to know what kind of code it turns into -- I imagine it will either boil down to the same, or will be much slower (but I am happy to be impressed)
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The paper was actually linked from the original article. Good job scientific american!
JMAP returns data in JSON, but with a standardized schema. It's better than the current status quo, where each email provider returns API data in JSON but using their own schema, meaning you need to build different endpoints and methods to work with each email provider. The spec is about to be finalized, so there is no reason why email providers who haven't yet released an API shouldn't be using it.
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Uh, I like it. I'm considering writing a unicode extension proposal for it. I actually do all my task journaling in Shavian and I find it a lot more tedious to write than Quickscript. Quickscript also has more useful loan-consonants (and we could extend the spec easily to grab a few more, since sounds like ñ are much more common in English than in Shaw's day).

So I like it, but I use Shavian mostly because it's well supported. I'm in the camp that says physical writing is dead, so I wnat to get quick/read into Unicode formally.
Similar to Auth0, except you can run it anywhere (dev-box, bare-metal, VPS, Docker, etc). It has all the features that most applications need. Plus, it's free for unlimited users.
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There is no "broad statement": There only is a specific response to a specific comment. I responded to "there is no evidence" - I don't have to show existence of 100% knowledge in the response, only that "no (zero) evidence" is not true. That is not a "broad statement", especially since I myself did not make one, only pointed to studies for the subject. Those studies don't conclude with "no evidence found".
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I've interviewed people with degrees that don't know about many of these questions. In fact I make it a point that if someone puts something like "TCP/IP" or "networking" in the laundry-list of skills/knowledge they have, I ask them a basic question about it -- and a depressingly large amount of time people can't even explain the difference between TCP and UDP.

I've also worked with people who can explain what big-O is and yet they'll write completely inefficient nested loops and N+1 SELECT queries, and then wonder why everything is slow in production even though it works great in dev.

Comp Sci can teach you theory and concepts, but as they say: there's no substitute for experience.
I've seen a couple of articles about this guy recently and they both struck me as weirdly credulous given the apparently complete lack of evidence supporting his theory and the fact that approximately no other scientists seem to find it credible.
Found an interesting technical summary/critique of these ideas https://motls.blogspot.com/2005/03/chapline-black-holes-dont...
> Euro could easily become the new reserve currency.

Surely you cannot be serious here. Europe is one (insert name)-exit away from total implosion. The Euro project was doomed from the very beginning: you cannot have a joint monetary policy without a unified fiscal policy (which never materialized through European consent - after failure of conquest i.e WW2)
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Absolutely amazing. This is one of those instances when analogy is exact (mixing colors) and doesn't dilute the original motif (One way function).
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But then they spend a lot of time being a hardware company, no?
Working with Paul is one of the things I miss most about working at YC. Besides being interesting to talk to about pretty much any topic, I remember analyzing the data on how accurate YC partners were at reviewing applications to YC and Paul being top despite spending the least amount of time reading each one.
Yes, very well put. Data was never the end goal of the Chinese experiment. But for tech companies, data, a side-effect of China's policies, is a valuable resource that other parts of the world are becoming less open to share.

The social experiment is far from benign - it's a systemic propaganda that plays on human vulnerabilities. In addition to suppressing dissension, it also fuels China's ambitions to become The one true superpower. Taming AI is crucial to tame the world. This is a super interesting technical problem for the tech industry where they can simply push the limits to what tech can achieve without worrying about its real-world consequences. They could always go back and it's not us, it was the Chinese government.
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Have you looked at apps by David Smith? Pedometer++, Workouts++, etc. They integrate with Apple's Health app, but don't sync anything on their own. And Apple's health app is encrypted to your device.
How likely is this to be the case over Black Holes?
While I have a cellphone, and can and do use it as a hotspot, I wouldn't exactly say it could provide a fallback connection for a server in my home, because it usually spends a significant part of the day out of WiFi reach of my home.
He isn't sacrificing. The $100 million will shortly be recovered by his investments. This is about as monumental as someone here donating $500.

In any case I can tell him what needs to be done for $0 - consume less

No change will come unless everyone sacrifices.
>While it's certainly more dangerous than working in IT,

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I've come to believe tech is a very dangerous career. Years ago I recall looking out my office window and realizing that everyone I could see in front of me had a (free!) soda on their desk and most of them had diabetes. Heart disease, diabetes, back problems, carpal tunnel, eye strain, obesity - tech is a silent killer. Sitting at a desk for 8+ hours a day will do that.
You're right. There's no reason at all why the concept empowering open source and the free exchange of code can't apply to licenses. After all, software is shared freely by people with the skills to handle it, why can't we do the same with licenses?

Of course, this does kind of require that the people working with license experimentation know enough about law to provably know what they're doing. So perhaps the community might not be as large as might be hoped, as there are limits to what a self-taught not-lawyer can do when it comes to having legal standing.
No postmortem yet?
I'm not very optimistic about the outcome in the coming few decades. But I'm hopeful.

When places like Miami, Norfolk, and Shanghai will be consistently overrun by tides, or when food supplies come under severe pressure, my hope is that there will be some kind of major wake up call and cleanup act. With the major polluters (the US and China in particular) leading the way forward with funding, bespoke technology, and (hopefully) clawbacks on the main polluters.
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This will be the new normal. Society/people have evolved to a point where abstract thought is valuable. Protection of that intangibleness will only increase in time as the risks become greater.
Squeak, Alan Kay's environment for kids, evolved from Smalltalk, would be a very hot prospect if I were in your shoes.
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I’ve been told the same thing by friends who work at Uber.
Congestion pricing is certainly do-able, and it would have the significant advantage of charging all vehicles rather than just TNC's. But it is technologically more complex to install readers everywhere than to tell TNC's to vary the tax they already pay. In other cities downtown congestion pricing has cost a couple hundred million to set up, and it takes some time.
I managed to confuse myself into a Zeno’s paradox situation with how black holes grow.

This is really exotic space. Time dialation immediately outside of the event horizon would make any matter fall so slow that it would take millions of years of time for an observer to see that material cross the horizon.
To me there are these risks to e-mail:

1. e-mail address loss (domain loss, service termination if you don't own the domain, ...)

2. email service loss (server goes down, ...)

3. delivery mechanism compromise (someone gets to read future messages, can be used to hijack online accounts)

4. sending mechanism compromise (partial impersonation, etc.)

5. e-mail archive compromise (someone gets to read old messages)

6. archive loss

You have to think hard about each point:

- how it can happen,

- how would you detect it,

- what it could lead to,

and then prepare for those circumstances via preventive measures, and by having a plan for when it happens.

For example if you register your domains under an account where email that was used for registration comes from one of those domains 3. can easily lead to 1. and you're hosed. You have to have way to restore 2. without access to e-mail addresses that will not work while 2. is happening. You will most probably have no way of detecting 3./4. before bad things start happening. etc. etc.

E-mail is not really something to fuck with, because of how important it is for authentication on the web.

Helm website doesn't work for me, but if you're thinking about an easy way to have a personal email server, and don't have experience, be careful.
Are you and your cannabis using friends white? Colorado actually tracks these numbers and has found for years since legalization that about 50% of "street" level sales are illegal and 50% go through dispensaries. Minorities are significantly more likely to purchase it illegally and whites are significantly more likely to purchase it legally.
I've run public-facing servers on residential connections numerous times. (I did once yesterday just so I could watch my 3D printer from remotely.) If you aren't hogging bandwidth or committing crimes, it's unlikely they will care.

Also IANAL but "services to anyone outside" does not sound like it includes un-firewalled, password-protected, services for personal use. The word used is "anyone outside" not "any machine outside". The resident themself would presumably be an insider regardless of their physical or network location.

Also I think a reverse proxy with end-to-end encryption could solve the problem with no public-facing open ports. That doesn't count as a server in my book.
Title came from the article, and it is rather poor. To summarize the article: 2 properties were searched in connection to a cheat called 'Infamous' that was taken down half a year ago. The cheat was supposedly made by the 5 people in question whos assets have been frozen.

While interesting, I don't think this will become a norm. This is an edge case where these people were pushing this monetized cheating program hard to a lot of people. You have to really disrupt a games online system to warrant targeted investigation like this. As a serious gamer, I wish cheating and cyber attacks were taken much more seriously, but companies don't have the means to investigate and pursue every single infraction.
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I'm surprised that nobody mentioned how big of a target this is for the criminal enterprise. Gaining unauthorized access to someone's account through this portal would be a gold mine, even better than iCloud alone.
> I believe that if I were to suggest this as a honest-to-God way to implement Lisp in Prolog, any decent Lisper would be up in arms and accusing me of cheating.

If you had quote and macros and such working in this manner, just with the f(x, y) style syntax, that would be a valid implementation. There is a convenience to the (f x y) syntax, but the semantics is more important.

We can have infix syntax in Lisp as a separate module that works independently of a given DSL.

Separation of concerns/responsibilities and all that.
It's not "why would California allow Colorado weed to get sold there" it's "will the Feds get involved because it's now an interstate commerce issue".

IDK that the individual states would care where the product is being brought in from (hey, just tax the out of state stuff when it crosses the border!) because it doesn't limit their ability to influence/control the sale and usage in their state. You can exist in a gray area of "states rights" if everything is done in house.

Eventually, the US will likely tip this way. The blue states are on board because they often see it as a criminal justice issue and taxable market. The red states will eventually want to get in on those agriculture jobs as their economies continue to slump (and as the older voters die out, since statistic show that younger generations have fewer issues with it).
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Agreed with you there, to some extent the fraud rate is already "priced in".

What I mean is actually this: Google, Facebook, etc. are opaque about fraud, to the point of misreporting metrics in Facebook's case. Let's say hypothetically that the advertiser had an oracle for whether any individual ad view was fake. I'm pretty sure the advertiser would be paying less. That difference is what I meant by bearing much of the cost.

Google/Facebook's marginal cost for the fraudulent traffic is basically just the cost of infrastructure. The publisher (if there is one) is often the one causing the fraud, so they're not really "bearing the cost."
Lmao my first thought
Duplicate submission with more discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18239521
The discussion in most of these comments gets even weirder when you throw BYU into the mix. Top 100 private school with less than $6000 in tuition and fees. Why isn't everyone clamoring to go there?
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