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I have my grandfather's slide rule. I don't often handle it because it has a patina on it from the thousands of calculations he must have carried out on it. It has several rulings on it and a sliding cursor.

Studying it, I realized that, once set, it shows the multiplication of the whole continuum. In other words, a given setting of the rule to some n shows nm for all m. (Actually all mnEk for all m and k.)

Some slide rules are circular or tubular.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomogram
You are illustrating the hypocrisy of arbitrary definitions of hate.

You're literally expressing "hate" towards a group of people.

When called out you call it observing things. Do not those with opposing points of view observe things? So now it's about debating objective observations? Or is it about hate?

How can you not realize this is a perfect encapsulation for the defense of free speech and open debate?
Can you not fathom that many people do not share your specific point of view on what is hate, or your specific observations and may have some of their own? Nah.. you just want to railroad your views over theirs with no opportunity for a rebuttal.
I thought Lyft is working with waymao
Sounds like you've never heard actual hate speech.

Consider that a privilege.
Dynamic Automatic Differentiation of GPU Broadcast Kernels
Microsoft used their unikernel research (Drawbridge) to bring SQL Server into Linux.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/12/how-a...

It is also how they kind of implement secure kernel in the recent versions of Windows 10.
People don’t really want micropayments as it turns out because people get decision fatigue. It’s why Netflix feels good and the iTunes Store video rentals don’t. The latter may have saved you money but you don’t want to keep deciding on whether something’s worth it.
What are the arguments for TF being the better option for a new infrastructure build today?

Given that a) Cloudformation with Custom Resources and Macros is extensible, AWS supported, and free and b) its hard to leverage many of the AWS services while still maintaining provider-neutrality (e.g Serverless Framework 2.0 on AWS runs on top of cloudformation templates now)
Seconded. It would just fall down.
Why the hell would I buy Bitcoin to buy stuff on Amazon through a proxy site that sells my BTC for me instead of just... buying on Amazon like a normal person? BTC will be way slower and more expensive than just using my credit card... Plus Visa will refund me in the case of fraud.

Like I side, speculation is the only thing you buy BTC for (moon!!!111), and the exchanges will prevent you from doing this if you are related to blacklisted accounts.
I was just talking with my uncle a few days ago who has sailed around the Caribbean. He said there are meters-thick piles of what he thought was algae piling up on beaches. From a search:

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/mysterious-masses-se...

So looks like this is Sargassum (brown seaweed). I feel like any large-scale geoengineering to combat carbon will probably involve growing something like this over large areas in the middle of the ocean and then burying it.

This would only be feasible if it scales by the square or cube. I'm thinking a genetically modified plant designed to grow in single stalks or sheets hundreds of miles long so that it can be wound up by some kind of continuous process. It could use a traditional coal power plant modified to burn some small portion (say 1%) of the plant itself.

Sure there are side effects and unintended consequences from this but cut me some slack, it's only my first idea!
Kind of a rookie move IMO. Ask for a pin or something on startup and encrypt the key.
Huh? That's totally out of left field and not even related to the discussion we were having. How can you possibly have any idea what my motives are for this discussion or what my own beliefs are about anything else?
I take your point, but Unix does predate the Vax.
The only way we're going to turn this ship around is by telling people that there's money to be made somewhere else. If you ask a world full of the rich and those who want to be that they have to turn away from money you're not going to have an audience. Telling us to read 5+ books to appropriately educate ourselves on why the system is doomed and how to fix it isn't going to reach the masses, and certainly not those with power, especially when the basic assumption is that they have to lose all their power in order for the scheme to work.
Yeah, that makes absolutely no sense. There are MANY office jobs that pay better than driving a bus. Does he have mental health problems?
> Trees ultimately burn or rot

Not all at once, though, and new trees spring up pretty quick. If you're replacing unforested land with forested land, you're still storing substantial carbon. Cutting down / burning an existing forest to plant trees doesn't work, sure.
@beaner. Come on. Where will you get your Crypto from if you don’t have a bank account and debit card?

The common protocol is that they both link to your bank account (“wallet”).
> A system which makes no distinction between any of these use cases and treats them all the same sounds very appealing to me

It's a bad compromise. If you want the cheapest transfers, you batch them. (This is the logic of Lightning.) If you want the most reliable transfer, you wire it. If you want to be sneaky, you use cash. (There are other reasons to use these modes.)

Batching being cheaper and slower than RTGS is fundamental to payment economics, irrespective of whether in an electronic database, armored car or blockchain. I go into this in a comment from about a year ago [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16154956#16155708
Will steerage accommodations be available?
I don't see the direct correlation there. Organic is a choice you can make about nearly every product these days.

You can eat unhealthy fast food all day and be all organic.
Only if we allow sealioning to take over - global climate change is in the realm of accepted science, its 100% on people claiming the opposite to prove their claims at this point.
Robinhood charges $0 in fees, so nothing. The trend in ETFs is reducing fees, there’s now zero fee ETFs too. Even if you use a discount brokerage that charges 3-4$ per trade the break even point is quite low, so store it as cash until you’re happy with the fee ratio.

How much do you lose in fees when you buy crypto? 1-2%? Plus insane volatility. If you’re low income that volatility is crippling.
Capacity planning for Etsy’s web and API clusters
Batteries, batteries, batteries.

Everyone wants them and needs them, now that they’re being used in home electricity storage. Production is ramping up, but it would seem that battery production will be the main constraint for a few years.

My armchair expertise comes from watching a YouTube video on microgrids...

Mind you the world should be a better place, but there’s quite a few more turns to go.
I think they mean if you are using your own wallet to store your bitcoin, then coinbase and gemini have no control over what you do with it, except not using their own services
This is an interesting figure. Naturally, the sharp decline in the last 100 years or so captures one's attention, and would fit in with globally rising temperatures.

However, one other thing differentiates the older and newer epochs: The variance is much larger for older data. On the one hand it could be that increased variance is due to natural phenomenon (cooler weather?) or random error of less reliable measurements. However if that larger variance is due to systematic error (e.g., different methodologies/sources which were not accounted in the model (e.g., using hierarchical modeling), then there is a possibility that the difference between older and newer data are not that dramatic.
What an interesting (and alarming) figure.
If it's just a side hobby, why should you be getting the benefits of limited liability? The whole point of limited liability is to protect business investment, not hobbies.

And yes, that is the reason that CA charges $800 for LLC registration. Because if $800 is too big of an expense...then you're not running a business.
Another way to look at it is that currently you can put a large number of devices (Android or iPhone) on a Qi compatible charging pad and it will charge. It's enough of a standard that it's being built into cars, which was almost never done with a fixed micro-USB or lightning dock.

All you really need to know is if the phone supports "wireless charging", and if it does it will charge on a Qi pad.

Yes there are variances in compatibility with different charging rates but the same was true of USB and it was never so universal across devices.
>https://gizmodo.com/a-google-engineer-is-publicly-shaming-cr...

That's exactly what I thought of when reading the GP. There is some absolute garbage out there being sold.
> I don't think semiconductors would be better handled by the public sector - even if one could somehow get political support for that, which seems very unlikely in the US.

Again, take a look at the SEMATECH example discussed above. I understand it to be considered a successful undertaking on the whole. For a present-day example along similar lines, see DARPA's Electronics Resurgence Initiative ("ERI").
So, a prompt which changes your client side settings for that site? Perhaps driven either by an API or an automatic action prompted by the browser?

Yes, please.

As it stands today, it's too much work to set site-specific cookie privileges.
> Third, and most importantly, you've just decreased the amount of energy coming to earth. You've not solved the problem, you've changed it.

Probably the most important advantage sunshades have over other kinds of geoengineering megaprojects is that they can be trivially (compared to their construction costs, that is...) turned off. If they turn out to be very harmful in some previously unforeseen way, we can choose to not have them anymore.

That is not so for, for example, seeding lots of nutrients for algae over the continental shelf.
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Yes, I'm sure a Shenzhen technician can replace a glued down iphone battery in no time. The difference is, a 9 year can replace, say, the battery on my Oneplus 2 in about 3 minutes, with the tools that are already in every tool box (no proprietary clover screw BS). I know, because my nephew did that for me recently.
Thank you! Yes, the color is exactly an attempt to attract other people.

And yes, your comment is exactly my point :)

> why someone concerned about security should bother about color

First: why do we have colored phones then? Why someone concerned about talking should bother about color.

Second: how this helps the cause, versus sharing on twitter something like "how cool are colors! it's the first time in the industry someone thinks about colors"

Not saying this to point a finger at you, but trying to explain why it's so incredibly hard to talk about security. Many don't care. And who cares doesn't help. :)
Now they are enforced during annual safety inspection.

People now buy packages where you pay annually and the tinting people will remove your tint, inspect your car, and then re-tint the car on the same day!
That looks to be a clone of a low-end Pickett student slide rule down to the design of the box. I doubt if they were US-made.
> Basically you have to do the exact opposite of what we've been doing with coal and oil for over a century

There's a nugget of a story in the Carboniferous being the result of a civilisation trying, but failing, to sequester carbon by burying trees and plankton.
Does the camera actually work for you? Mine has a tendency to take photos 1 or 2 seconds after I try to capture it, which means I'm often taking photos of the ground. I've also got the problem that many others have reported where audio just stops when listening to music. I feel like I'm constantly fighting with this phone.
When I wrote my comment I remembered that episode too. I even did a quick search for the exact quote, but couldn't find it quickly and gave up. Funny thing that it induced the same remembrance in you. Thanks for digging up the quote.
The launch volume looks infeasibly large in the foreseeable future, but I don't think the station keeping problem is that bad. Any sun shade is basically going to be a solar sail already and steering via LCD panels like IKAROS did should be sufficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
It's a shame that the Nintendo Switch is on this list, because it's the shittiest of the devices to ever have a USB-C port. It's a pure lottery if it will charge with a given charger/cable - Nintendo should have never been allowed to receive USB-C certification for the lousy implementation that they have.
Regarding the wonderfully sci-fi idea of flooding deserts, I raise you the seawater greenhouse company: https://seawatergreenhouse.com/ - which have been at this game for a couple of years now.

I've always been thinking - someone should give these guys money, and lots of it.
3D Secure v2: A new authentication protocol
When you say "use bitcoin", what do you mean?

edit: Perhaps the lesson here is the more useful something is, the less freedom you have in using it. After all, why would regulators care if you can "use bitcoin" when "use" means "play with my private keys".
There's still react-scripts-ts [1] which drops the majority of Babel in the CRA pipeline for solely Typescript. Presumably, it will remain active as it is still a useful alternative if you know you are going to want Typescript from day one. (This Babel-based support is perfect for those unsure and looking to experiment, which is great.)

[1] https://github.com/wmonk/create-react-app-typescript
Pretty sad to see where things are going. Computing started with everything being proprietary, then from the 80s on you saw wide open systems and standards developed. And I think standards are what enabled the rapid growth of the industry and the internet. And now the big players are trying to revert and make everything proprietary again. No standard protocols, hardware that barely can be opened or repaired.
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Absolutism is also dangerous. You're dividing the world into 'good' and 'bad' and giving no quarter to the bad.

That can go sideways. You think any of the monsters of history thought they were the bad guys?
> which later can be exchanged back to 1 USD

Probably this part will change on the fly, same as with Tether scam.
Dual booting exists you know...
I run a windows and linux dual boot setup at home. You're right with regards to AMD gpu's in that they're hassle free since kernel 4.15 (I have a Vega 56).
Modest proposal: The government should appoint a Department of Truth to review and approve all social media posts in a country to eliminate election misinformation.
Trees will only absorb 1 watt of hydrocarbon emissions per square meter, on average, even before considering the cost of burying the woods so the carbon isn't released when it rots.
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ok, good suggestion.

Step 1 - Find a Lawyer:

1a. Ask people you know. For example, if at a company, maybe you can ask the legal dept for a referral for your personal project. Lawyers know lawyers. Even a divorce or real-estate lawyer will know other lawyers in different specialties or reputations of firms. Ask bankers, dentists, any small business people, etc. - they use lawyers too.

1b. Use Google. Call 5 lawyers and setup a meeting to meet them.

Step 2 - Interview them:

Interview them like you interview any potential employee. What is their experience with small IT projects? Are you small potatoes to them? What are their fees? Do they have legal associates to do the grunt work for cheaper than a legal partner (partner will still review and be responsible)? What do they suggest you to do for your side project? Ask why to see if they can explain themselves well. How well do you communicate with them? Do they respond to your emails or telephone calls quickly? Do they have other partners who can cover for them when they go on holidays or are busy with other urgent cases? Can they let you do some of the work such as incorporating and registering a trade name because it is easy (to keep legal fees low)?

Step 3 - Evaluate them:

As they work, get them send you all their documents. Read the legalese and ask more questions. Do they still explain themselves well. How long do they take to do the work? Attention to detail is important. If their work sucks or you don't communicate well with them go find a new lawyer.
Isn't that the plot for The Philadelphia Experiment movie? [1]

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087910/

Edit: yep, tabloid trash story.
>> for only a few billion dollars.

Really? This isn't just a matter of putting a big ball of tin foil out there letting it go. What about the station keeping? How is this big piece of tinfoil going to stay in place? At these sizes, solar pressure and the buildup of static charges become huge issues. It is going to drift. It will need engines, power and fuel. Ion thrust would seem an obvious answer, but electrical/static issues may make a web of ion drives difficult. It will need either new tech or, at least, extensive testing of current tech before any attempt. = a great many billions of dollars. I'd rather see that money spent on solar panels.
This is probably a try-out. 'Motorola' is just one of the phone brands owned by Motorola Mobility, a subsidiary of Lenovo. Motorola Mobility produces mobile phones and slaps whatever label marketing thinks appropriate on it, which in some cases is 'Motorola'.
Google/facebook/twitter et all should just remove algorithmic approach to timelines and stop allowing them to be gained/bought and go straight up user wall/order/ time-based.

The algorithm will always favor manipulation...

honestly, i just wish users would go back to small communities and indy publishers... It's easy for me to find a music forum or jeep forum with people i want to hangout with but on facebook those that can game/manipulate get the most views and its ALWAYS selling controversy...
These interpretations can also be flipped around. One could argue that not supporting capital punishment dehumanizes murder victims and their families. Then some tough on crime politician gets elected and speech against capital punishment is banned.

Remember that whenever you create a tool to silence people, you are building a weapon that can be used against yourself. As recent elections have shown, sane politicians aren't always in power. The only long term solution is to build a system that works even when your enemies are in charge.
Yeah, cameras are where I'm seeing the most difference, and with a) a family and b) a photographer spouse that's pretty compelling. Seeing the comparison between an iPhone 7+ and an X is remarkable.
For anyone who is interested in the Energy Industry in general, including Carbon Capture (CCS), I would recommend "The Energy Gang" podcast as well as "The Interchange".

The guys who run the podcast are not long on CCS as a savior for 1.5 degrees C, but they are incredibly knowledgable about the space and dive into a lot of technical, policy, and economic minutiae that you wouldn't think would exist.

I never exactly knew how much mitigating something like peaker plant composition and more sophisticated demand response can affect existing CO2 emissions. Even things like the opinions of energy executives in the (very silo'd) regional utilities (Dominion Energy, Green Mountain Power, etc) can have a wide-reaching effect on the timeline of policy.

I've listened to the whole run of each of the podcast and it's definitely got me more excited about the space. I'm glad YC is getting more aggressive.
Mobile friendly https://github.com/async-labs/saas
20-25% if you rent or expect the same income.

You can go a little less if you own your home and pay it off.
An elephant in the room not being discussed here are the propaganda networks that are persuading voters and preventing any kind of government action on climate. Disrupting these propaganda businesses is another necessary angle of attack for preventing climate change catastrophe.
Useful archive of papers, but pretty dated at this point.
Tbf, OnePlus is doing exactly the same with their Dash Charging standard - even though the Snapdragon CPUs they use are compatible with the QuickCharge standard, OnePlus decided not to pay the fee to Qualcomm for its use and implemented their own standard instead - which of course only works with their own chargers and cables(!).
Just use a paid service. If you have to spend more than hour setting up your own mail server then you already spent more on labor than a year of Mailgun.
I would strongly suggest investigating the claims of http://www.innovationconcepts.eu/res/literatuurSchuiling/oli... that after mining, milling, and then being spread in the ocean, olivine rocks weather quickly and take out CO2. The estimated costs of large scale CO2 sequestration this way are surprisingly reasonable, and the technology is already available.

Also the various ocean technologies are going to run into the same environmental complaints as the idea of seeding otherwise barren areas of the ocean with missing metals, causing algae blooms that sink to the bottom. See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/iron-dumping-ocea... for a discussion of some of those. (And see https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2014/04/28/iron-fer... for a more laudatory article about this in the general press.) If you can deal with the regulatory concerns, the existing low-tech solution is one of the cheaper ways of removing CO2 that is known.

Speaking personally, I understand the qualms of environmentalists but consider the possibility of local toxic algae blooms to be a less serious environmental disaster than the otherwise certain ocean acidification that will wipe out all shellfish species worldwide. Yeah, nobody wants to accept a bad outcome, but in this case I think it is better than the alternative.
You're being down voted because this is off topic. One, the threat from nuclear waste pales in comparison to that from climate change. Two, making nuclear energy more attractive reduces emissions. This article is about removing carbon from the atmosphere.
You can find all sorts of slide rules on eBay (e.g. K&E). The really good ones can get pricey but they're readily available.
I just read an article today about a named tech company banning marketing accounts associated with said far-right candidate. But I don't think that will stop him from a landslide win. The knife was the opposition's best hope.
Then back to my original point: If no exchanges allow you to deposit BTC, what are you doing with it?

Once you've shamir-secret-split your multi-sig cold-storage private keys, laminated them, placed them in fireproof envelopes and dug them deep in the ground in 5 different continents... what exactly do you DO with your BTC?
Another fiat-world analogy is paying to have the checkbook to be able to send money.
I’ve done that but I never liked the lack of options for foot position. You either have your feet tucked back on the foot pegs or they’re hanging. Neither were optimal for me (maybe partly because I’m tall and having my feet on the pegs felt like i was “tuck g up”.
wasn't it WhatsApp and message forwarding that people had a problem with in Myanmar? Not p2p.
> There might be a bare minimum amount of CO2 allowed, it's fixed.

I'm not sure I understand, are you suggesting an individual "carbon-quota" as a more radical way of slashing emissions than the "incentives" of a carbon tax? Depending on the tax rate, a carbon tax could produce reasonably expeditious results.