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Ideological convictions are not the same as smoking or child porn. Proving that smoking is wrong is easy. Proving that an entire ideology is wrong is not even possible, because "right" and "wrong" in this sense are subjective - they are relative to a specific person with specific interests. You might think "well obviously 'right' is whatever is the best for the most people", but should you really always prioritize the interests of the group as a whole over its constituent parts? For example, should you suppress Tibetian/black/white/Uyghur/etc nationalism because secession movements are against the interests of their host nations? Your condescension is mind-boggling, putting a system of ideas on the same level as satisfying base desires in an antisocial way is ridiculous.
Why are they giving such a big discount? The transaction fees are nowhere near that high. Could it be that they're reselling fraudulent giftcards?
It's not even nearly enough. According to the recent UN report, we need cut global net emissions by 50% in the next 12 years, and get to zero net CO2 by 2050. This is a slow-motion catastrophe and people aren't nearly worried enough to take the steps necessary to avert it.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/un-says-climate-genoc...

https://www.vox.com/2016/10/4/13118594/2-degrees-no-more-fos...
In the end, what does hate speech do other than to defraud an audience into an unjustified view of a subject?

It's a relevant analogy. You're free to dispute it, but we might all benefit if you invest some effort explaining why this and other examples aren't relevant.
The opposition to "identity politics" is a form of identity politics in itself. The reaction to so-called identity politics is merely a defense of the current status quo where the demographic of software developers is predominantly male, as the most obvious example. You could try to argue that this is somehow natural, although the evidence suggests that actually computer science and software was a lot more popular with women until the artificial intervention of certain technology magazines pitching software development as a hobby for men.

For instance see how the rate of women in computer science began to attenuate around 1985: https://jaxenter.com/women-in-computer-science-majors-133646...

Men acting in a misogynistic way defends and reinforces this trend, which is what codes of conduct attempt to alleviate. Calling the opposition to this is a staple of what has been labelled "identity politics", although again it is merely a form of defensive identity politics itself to maintain it as maintaining these behaviours will maintain the downward trend of women participating in computer science.
I use Gmail on my 2014 Acer Chromebook C720 (2GB of RAM). Works fine. Takes a while to load initially but I leave the tab fine and it works fine for searching, reading, composing, working with labels, etc.
Most ppl will take the bus across. Also the goods will be shipped through this route for faster deliveries.
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Statistics say nothing about individuals. I cannot say you won't exercise until you die, but I can say there's a very low probability you will.
Anyone thinking about or considering working on these technologies owes it to themselves to read Charles Mann's The Wizard and the Prophet. Whatever you may think of the author's various statements on Peak Oil etc., the book is a worthwhile meditation on two very different approaches to our current crises.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34959327-the-wizard-and-...
http://www.enterprisesales.nyc/
The New Yorker, as you say, is probably not the place you would expect to find the greatest journalistic minds writing about crypto. It is, however, a place where you can often find smart writing on things that are verging from obscurity into the mainstream, and I think this article does do a decent job of communicating the perspective of a layperson like the author who is new to the crypto world.

Did you read a different motive of the article than that?

Or, did you feel that there was something inaccurate about it? I felt like he did not dismiss Lubin's assertions late in the article about the future of crypto when debating Nouriel Roubini. It seemed pretty balanced to me in just reporting their arguments, and not taking sides, which I think is actually quite rare in mainstream journalism when discussing anything crypto! To me, it didn't seem like there were many assertions made that contradicted the bright future or doom of crypto coming from the prophets or naysayers.
Gmail is slower than Yahoo mail now!
If the L scale is on the slider, and you’re not too much concerned accuracy (the procedure does 5 ‘align scales’ operations before the final ‘read the result’) one linear scale is sufficient, if you use the hairline on the cursor as a kind of memory:

”Example: calculate 0.23 + 0.45

- "Reset" the rule so that all the scales are lined up.

- Move the cursor to 0.23 on the L scale.

- Move the leftmost 0 on the L scale to the hairline.

- Move the cursor to 0.45 on the L scale.

- Reset the rule again so that all the scales are lined up.

- The cursor should now be at 0.68 on the L scale, which is the sum of 0.23 + 0.45.”

(from http://www.antiquark.com/2005/01/slide-rule-tricks.html)
Have a look at “Mossy Earth”.
I can connect you with the founder if needed.
Agreed. Many environmentalists like to argue that curtailment is the “proper” way to handle global warming. If the situation is half as dire as they are claiming it is, then that is simply not good enough.
Great concept. Would you be able to share how you would be able to filter based on mood, personas, etc?

I can think of a few commercial use cases where this could be incredibly useful but would likely based on the methodology you’ve used. Guess I’m interested in how do you define quality and what attributes are you predicting.
> Kepler first formulated his hypothesis: planets had elliptical orbits with two foci, and then set out to prove it mathematically.

He didn't start with that hypothesis, he came to it after multiple tries at fitting other models like an equant (an offset circle with angular speed controlled from the opposite offset, which is actually a good first-order approximation to the Kepler-law motion at small eccentricity).

> Only after repeating his procedures 70 times did he offset his computational errors. With a little less patience, he wouldn’t have proved his theory, and elliptical orbits would have eluded us for longer.

I skimmed the paper, and it seems to be about Kepler fitting an equant instead of an ellipse. Apparently he used an iterative method, stopping after 70 iterations? And his numerical errors seem to be responsible for it not converging faster. That makes more sense to me than my misunderstanding that you were saying he ran through the whole calculation from the start 70 times. I jumped to a conclusion about that part, and I'm sorry.

Julian Barbour's The Discovery of Dynamics explains what Kepler did in detail (it's not the whole topic of the book, but a big chunk of it). A great book -- I didn't really appreciate Kepler before reading it. Both brilliant and very human.
So would you say you hate 'hate'? If you don't hate 'hate' and it's "absolutely binary" then doesn't it follow you love hate? If you do in fact hate 'hate' then it must also mean you hate yourself.

Absolutism like this often leads to logical traps. Even when it doesn't it's still unhealthy. Besides, the only way to exterminate an idea is to exterminate the people that might embrace that idea which in itself sounds pretty wrong.
Some devices will break when you draw advertised levels of power. That's just a fact of life, and isn't something you should try to fix with DRM. It's not a very common thing.

It also doesn't damage the device itself.

The backwards cable is worth noting but not relevant to a system that's fundamentally AC.

Outside of some kind of massive EMP, nothing a wireless charger does should be able to hurt your battery.
Thanks for the recommendation.

But pls don't use the word "space"
I used TF very early on, for versions 0.3 and 0.4. It was unpleasant at best, but very functional.

I've began using it again with 0.11, and with 0.12 on the horizon it's much easier to use than it ever has been in the past. It used to be very difficult to do one-off tasks with Terraform but I've began managing things piecemeal and the community around importing everything into existing TF things are great.

The statefile borking itself from time to time is still an issue, but no more than any other operational tool of this magnitude.

The biggest downside to Terraform currently (0.11) is that you need to get extremely creative in ugly ways to accomplish some tasks. This can been seen very specifically in the AWS Security Group official TF module, which I could not live without, but would not want to write/maintain.
As a runner, I used to pop on a garmin gps device and go for runs to help measure my training. Some days I would measure my heart rate with a chest strap to help my training. Apple watch, while generally not as good, it is good enough, and is something I can just wear all the time and provides the same functionality.

It also has a lot of extra features like unlocking your computer without typing a password, allowing you to respond to text messages without getting out of the shower, etc. It really does provide a lot of value.

Allowing you to ping your phone is also incredible when your toddler likes to grab things and puts them in random places.
But the decline hasn’t been monotonic. There have been several years of the past ten where absolute and per-capita CO2 emissions in the US have increased year-over-year.
Definitely check this book out - by far best advice on sales for founders I've ever seen: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZHCSm5yUAGhdpDH9VFTPS271...
I think you probably don't have kids.

I don't know many parents and children who would be sitting around watching tv with each other. Let alone watching a klan march?

Way too many screens. Way too much choice. Way too much personalization. The scenario itself would only arise in VERY conservative or traditional families. Most other families just don't work like this.

Blame Netflix I guess?
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The dead, at the very least.
At some point they'll want to exchange their profits for real goods and services. They will rely on some exchange service to cash out eventually.
I don't in any way expect that Twitter has reviewed a tweet for content and approves of the content therein. Equally so for Facebook et al.

The platforms ubiquity makes them the Hydes Park / Public Square of the modern age- if anything they should be regulated to be content neutral rather than be encouraged to silence certain viewpoints.
> is it also possible to fix standard assoc arrays?

AFAIK, yes, it's just that nobody has done that yet.

The D runtime was written before there were templates, and it shows.
That's why I teamed up with a cofounder with 30 years of sales experience. He's got a great vision for the product but no way to build it, I built it out in 8 weeks, he enables me to focus on the technical parts while he focuses on sales. Now we have our first test customer and MVP in place but if either he or I were doing this alone neither the MVP or first customer relationships would be in place, instead it would already be a failure.
Replying to you and the GP:

Throwing a spanner into the works, just for fun:

In India (and probably some other countries), cooks often don't measure out ingredients for dishes [1]. They just wing it / use their experience [2] (called andaaz in Hindi/Urdu). And the results are often or mostly good (except with bad cooks, of course).

[1] I guess that approach works for all countries, except individual cases where people blindly follow formulas to the letter.

[2] Of course, they are not flying blind, they use rough (or precise enough) estimates, that are based, again, on their experience, and on just seeing what amounts of what stuff (whether it is pinches, grams, ounces, kilos, pounds, or whatever), makes for a good dish.
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I would say its definitely better for infrastructure building for anyone who does not use AWS..
Don't let the name fool you. Stable coins only appear stable in the short term because the way it works now is taxes and inflation erode your assets slowly enough you don't notice. With Bitcoin and its hard forks that is not so. You got a 21M limit and Austrian Economics in place on the way to the goal line. Rather than someone else printing money you have the right to print your own until the limit is reached. And when people lose access you actually increase the value of your holdings given a supply shortage.
Curious. What will the details look like? Is this for countryside or houses with yard, or condos also?
OK, two points:

1. That point 5 seems to me to be something that in a rational universe, could get enough votes from both sides of the aisle to pass. Of course we live in a universe where neither party wants to give the other party anything they could call "a win". An the Republicans will explicitly not allow anything to come to a vote unless it has the support of the majority of republicans. They could write a bill and bring it to a vote if they wanted to.

2. It appears the real hold up is that they don't want to do anything that would make health care better unless they can first repeal the ACA. You can think about that however you like, I certainly have my opinion.
For an overview of 80+ startups working in carbon removal, check out AirMiners: http://www.airminers.org/explore
There's no need to assume that anyone that questions it hasn't had experiences regarding it. Just the fact that there exists in your response any implication that a lack of experience may change someone's definition of "hate speech" makes it amorphous. There may be a definition, but it being "clear" is questionable. Obviously the answer is to leave it to the courts, but then you have to consider the definitions of "attack" or "intimidate" or "discomfort" and if any amount of these is "violence" and to what extent is it punishable.

So I still don't think it's "clear".
This. We need USDA money going to tree genetics for carbon sequestration. Pat Schnabble at ISU would be amazing at this. He has already isolated genes to thicken cell walls. He also has a novel technique of using time-lapse video to isolate lines that maximize solar uptake by cooperating with neighbors on how they grow. Almost all grain productivity in the past 20 years has been on cooperative solar coverage, not per plant yield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXiV1dTlRSU
Yes, there's a third: that the balance they strike is infinitely perfect and the net benefit is zero in all dimensions.

It struck me as childishly pedantic to address, so
Well,

The other thing with trees is that they aren't permanent carbon sinks in the way that coal underground is.

Wood will eventually rot or burn and release it's carbon.

Human beings have taken carbon in the form of hydrocarbons underground and released is into the C02 - O2 cycle in the air. The main way to solve this would seem to be putting it back into the ground. So, reverse coal-mining? Turning wood into charcoal and burying? These seem like necessary counter-parts to simply growing trees.
Google's blog about it: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/10/google-tackles-new-a...
Charm Industrial [1] was recently mentioned on HN, with a novel approach to BECCS using grass to produce carbon-negative hydrogen. Grasses are the highest-yielding biomass per acre and thus the cheapest CO2 removal option. It also helps if you can make a profitable product from that biomass, like Charm is doing with hydrogen.

Not much info online, but we have a weekly climate newsletter [2], or you can ask me (cofounder)

[1] https://www.charmindustrial.com/about/

[2] https://charmindustrial.us18.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=aaf...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18285698. Speaking up is fine, but if you don't make it substantive enough you start a flamewar like this one.
Thanks: I'll definitely check it out.
> Transmitting money overseas

Curious to know if this will follow AML laws. Imagine you send a USDC coin to a person overseas. It then is sent to a few other people and then someone tries to cash it out in the US again.

Couldn't Coinbase decide that the chain of send/receives is illegal with chain analysis?
i've used both CFN and TF on the same infra so i think i have a reasonable (although dated by 1 yr) perspective on this.

my main gripe with CFN is that when things get into a weird state, it is extremely difficult to do anything about it. You are basically stuck waiting at the hands of the black magic box of AWS to either revert or complete the change set. i found that TF was much more clear about what went wrong when a changeset got into a bad state.

i've also had no problems using AWS services via TF, with the added bonus that it's easy to get heterogeneous cloud deployments working.
Actually back then the "girls" where the computers imagine typing pool that did maths calculations Los Alamos had a large number to do nuke calculations.
While there are people putting out papers that suggest that what we are seeing is the result solar cycles, and perhaps the overlaying of multiple solar maxiuma, eg:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001282521... *

There are many more that refute this however:

- https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14845

- https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2018...

and it seems to me that current climate science is largely in the "it's human produced C02" camp.

You can search yourself for research at https://scholar.google.com.

* though note that ISTR this paper only revises anthropogenic climate change down to 0.6°C which is still pretty high, and sorry, I can't find a free PDF of this paper anywhere.
Not just houses but any kind of building. There is an architectural movement called Mass Timber where the buildings are not just framed in wood but are virtually solid wood. It actually solves a lot of problems around building cavity thermodynamics, by eliminating the cavities. A large scale mass timber building sequesters a huge amount of carbon.
Just because you've taken the foot off the accelerator, doesn't mean that we're going to stop before we drive off a cliff.

I've yet to see a plan for a transition to a carbon-neutral economy, even on a 30-year timeline.
> it took almost 20 years for the underlying infrastructure to get mature enough to get mass consumer adoption.

I don't know if you were on the Internet in 1998. I was. The Web was useful, mature, and had tens of millions of paying customers in 1998. In contrast, all the people I have known to use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies only do it for speculation.

You bring up PayPal and list eBay as a "defunct also-ran." The only reason people started using PayPal was to shop on eBay, and the only way PayPal got anyone to start using them for payments was to bribe people with $20 referral bonuses, which they could only do due to their VC firehose of money, and a huge spambot campaign where they pestered eBay merchants with messages along the lines of "I'd like to bid, but I can only do PayPal." (see The PayPal Wars)

PayPal is a great historical lesson in explaining why BitCoin and other libertarian hash chain schemes will fail as a currency, because PayPal was founded on the same deluded libertarian fantasy:

"“PayPal will give citizens worldwide more direct control over their currencies than they ever had before,” Thiel predicted. “It will be nearly impossible for corrupt governments to steal wealth from their people through their old means because if they try the people will switch to dollars or pounds or yen, in effect dumping the worthless local currency for something more secure.”"

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/who-killed-payp...

The real value of PayPal turned out to be fraud prevention and consumer protection, something that hash chain schemes lack by design.
It's not the charger that has all the issues.
I love that this simulator exists. super stressful
i dig it. would be cool to see buddhist, hindu and islamic emplacements as well. personally i'd like to see something for atheists but i don't know how well that plays into government religious definitions.
Energy is needed to separate CO2 into carbon and oxygen. At the individual molecular scale, this can't be much. How many can I separate at once with my hands?

If we invent a device that helps us to physically separate oxygen from carbon, humans and farm animals could do it. It would be like milling grain, or washing clothes.

Idea: create filters which are big enough for carbon to pass through, but not oxygen. Then "squeeze" a bunch of air through, and wipe away the carbon on one side. Like a cheesecloth made of carbon nanotubes...
Which factors? Who'd buy them at a premium? Wouldn't any auction of >1 bidders stabilize at face value?
Firefox is written in rust, millions of users indeed. But to answer your question, no, I wish I could deploy something written in rust to production. I don’t think there is a problem with the language, just a risk of not being able to find developers to support it. I think a lot of companies are on the sidelines about it still. Given that it’s a difficult language to learn there may be some fear in that area about its future.
The best solution I've seen is a dashboard display with integrated maps, info, etc. BMW does this.
Yep. The only time the camera was stable was on the lunar surface itself.
Nuts. Literally. Breed oaks with acorns so dense they are like rocks.
But you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. And if stoking panic in the easily-panicked is something you ARE okay with forbidding, why is it then ok to stoke hatred in the easily-manipulable?

I guess that wart makes this a world you want nothing to do with, because of slope's slipperiness...
I didn't address all the possible nuances, but for the purposes of being precise: "reforestation at the scale necessary to act as an effective carbon sink is uneconomical".

As you must know, trees accelerate their carbon sequestration as they get larger. Also, fruit and nut agricultural species are frequently not robust enough, fast growing enough, or zone hardy enough to be good candidates for this either.

Yes, trees have economical value. Trees an a AGW-countering scale carbon sink are not. I'm in favor of a carbon tax/credit system in part for this reason.
I've heard of much more successful people trying to teach themself JS and build something that trying to learn laws and defend themself in court.

And yet, yes, I'll argue that dev, in any language, is complicated.

Hell, there is a good part of the population that will consider assembling an ikea desk complicated. Let's not forget we are in the HN bubble here.
It literally says in the article they are identitarians. Therefore my statement about identity politics is correct
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I do think the first encounter people have with logarithms ought to be doing reverse lookups in exponentiation tables, by ocular linear search. It's not convenient at all, but it should give a good grasp of the concept.
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To the extent that speech is dangerous, it's pretty easy to pivot to defending it on 2nd Amendment grounds, in addition to the 1st. (Relevant: https://xkcd.com/504/)
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Every single brand still cares about impressions at some level, even if everyone knows they're broken. C-level likes to see that spend was $100k, we had 12.5MM imps, and drove $600k in revenue.