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I've been researching parallel programming languages for my thesis and Julia has been really fun to work with. Alongside Chapel, they really make parallel programs fun to write. Although, in my experience, it's been really hard to make them run as fast as C+OpenMP. Mostly because I got trapped in a lot of performance pitfalls as a newcomer to the language. E.g.: parallel TSP branch-and-bound algorithm where I can't seem to improve the performance - https://github.com/novoselrok/parallel-algorithms/blob/maste...
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There is enough landmass in Northern Canada / Russia to do this on a mass scale. Could you coat the trees in something to greatly reduce their likelihood of burning? Therefore not having to use biochar or some other form of carbon storage.
Wrong. Hate speech, at least in the US, has no formal definition. All it takes for something to be considered hate speech is to call it hate speech.

Incitements of violence are already prohibited by law.
I've worked in a dozen or so Fortune 500 companies IT departments and I've never seen any incompetent enough to connect a BMC/management network to any type of Internet connected firewall, router, or egress gateway.

I've seen many that use flat management networks, which is a bad security practice, but connecting it to the Internet would require a new level of stupidity.
That's just angsting about short term partisan politics. The trends remain positive for the longer term. Don't let whatever Trump says this week blind you to the long term.
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Tilling the soil actually releases quite a bit of CO2, some of the best practices are "no till" methods. But to your point, biochar retorts can and should be used at the source of the biomass, instead of burning fossil fuels to transport the biomass to a dedicated facility.

Many small scale gasifier generators are designed to do just that. The problem with all solid fuels is that material handling is difficult (you need to chip wood to the correct size and shape to have it feed through a machine effectively, this gets more complicated when you're trying to process corn cobs, sugar cane bagasse, and fruit pits also), not to mention that the fuel needs to be the proper dryness to burn without producing excessive tar.

Then there is the problem with the PAH (Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons) that are produced, and their carcinogenic on any of your workers...not to mention any other toxic chemicals that may be produced out of your smoke stack when using mixed fuels.

All this boils down to details that have to be worked out in a mobile unit.
This is short-sighted enough to border on shit-posting.

So the only thing people want to do with WASM is deploy C/C++ to the browser and for raw speed?

There's many other reasons you would want to use WASM...you might want to use languages with better tooling or better suited to the purpose of your code (I'd rather do UIs in Lua than JS 10 times out of 10). Maybe you want a tiny memory footprint so you can run on small devices. The list goes on.
TFA didn't mention drugs, it talks about a family where burglary was a bonding activity. Plenty of crime existed before War on Drugs, and it still exists in places where such strictures don't exist.
The back button wasn't broken, I didn't get a disbale adblock notification, or a pop-up when trying to close the tab. Definitely not 2018 enough /s
Note that is for the cherry blossoms of Kyoto. So I'd say that the graph means next to nothing in terms of global or even national climate trends. This is about a very small city-dominated local climate. Any variation from a norm could have more to do with the heating/cooling of buildings and local traffic rather than global warming. The trend towards the use of glass in new buildings could have as much an impact as global carbon.
Right now the dwell time of the laser is slow like in the order of a second per weed. And there can be hundreds of weeds per square metre. So this needs to improve — and there’s lots of good ways to improve it. However, as the parent says, just leave a few bots out there and you easily compete with human operator cost.
I recommend the book "Collision Course" by Kerryn Higgs for anyone interested in reading the history of this kind of propaganda. It won't immediately provide a path forward, but it will help explain how we've arrived at where we are today in terms of inaction regarding global warming.

> The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually all social problems—poverty, debt, unemployment, and even the environmental degradation caused by the determined pursuit of growth. Meanwhile, warnings by scientists that we live on a finite planet that cannot sustain infinite economic expansion are ignored or even scorned. In Collision Course, Kerryn Higgs examines how society's commitment to growth has marginalized scientific findings on the limits of growth, casting them as bogus predictions of imminent doom.

> Higgs explores the resistance to ideas about limits, tracing the propagandizing of “free enterprise,” the elevation of growth as the central objective of policy makers, the celebration of “the magic of the market,” and the ever-widening influence of corporate-funded think tanks—a parallel academic universe dedicated to the dissemination of neoliberal principles and to the denial of health and environmental dangers from the effects of tobacco to global warming.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/collision-course
Oh I missed that part of your post, if you're asking do bars punish lawyers when there is no evidence of wrong doing? The answer is it doesn't.

But just saying it's off the record and billing out as legal research instead of practicing law doesn't protect you.
It's ridiculous how quickly some are to wave away all of biology in favor of the blank slate theory.

Yes, nurture matters, but so does nature. Declaring this settled science "an attempt to justify hate speech" is laughable.
Maybe have a look at Rootwave — electric weed killing that’s used for invasive grass.
> I suppose the only drawback here is that they're issued from a centralized authority.

That's only true for this type of "vouchers" stablecoins, where coins are redeemable for some physical asset.

There are whole other classes of stablecoins that seek to achieve price stability through decentralized means, either using other cryptocurrencies as collateral[1], or using algorithmic bond-issuance mechanisms[2]. Multicoin did an in-depth article about this back in January[3].

>Despite this, no one on Twitter seemed excited. [...] A cryptocurrency that stays the same value is not very interesting to traders and therefore most of the cryptocurrency community.

That's the thing, the "cryptocurrency community" is currently overwhelmingly comprised of loud investors and ICO marketers. The way smaller and discreet nucleus of researchers, developers and idealists, you don't see replying to Coinbase tweets and hanging out in Reddit.

There's no mainstream usecase for cryptocurrencies as they are now, so the "enthusiastic users" community you see in more established fields doesn't really exist yet.

[1] https://vimeo.com/247715549

[2] https://www.basis.io/basis_whitepaper_en.pdf

[3] https://multicoin.capital/2018/01/17/an-overview-of-stableco...
I think we're agreeing, mostly. The proper formalities and separations need to be maintained, and bad personal behavior is not shielded. I did it correctly when I had a one-man LLC, but you're right many don't.

Misconduct like "vanishing with client money" is a separate personal tort and/or crime (depending on the specifics) and would make it easy to pierce the veil anywhere regardless of formalities and separations.

That said, for more normal situations that aren't about misconduct, different states take different levels of strictness in analyzing the veil piercing question. YMMV.
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Gustaf, without being too facetious, I think a startup to incentivize landowners to use forest land for carbon removal instead of beef would be called "donating to a politician's election campaign." : ). The reason I make the joke is to ask, is looking at technical/business solutions without directly addressing the social and political reasons why global warming has gone on basically unchecked like missing the forest for the trees?
Definitly biased but we have all that in switzerland. Like Organic snacks/fast food on the roadside.

From my experience I can tell this is also the case in Austria and the Netherlands.

I also know people eating exclusively or mostly organic but still a meat heavy diet (I do as well).

I would want to argue it's not a income question but the average life quality is probably just that much higher.

As a reference organic meat in shops is about twice the price. In take aways way less as service is the actual main cost.

Edit:// lowest available meat quality is probably a factor to. All these countries have rather high minimal standards compared to many other countries at least
A nice reference is Clifford Stoll's (author of A Cuckoo's Egg) article in Scientific American 2006:

http://www.uvm.edu/pdodds/files/papers/others/2006/stoll2006...

And a way to make your own sliderule:

https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/assets/media/pdf...

The article has the same IBM ad and says it's from 1953.
> Iron particles [...] Find another solution.

Technically, seeding the ocean with iron particles is a suspension, not a solution. Luckily, the common technique is to use Iron(II) sulfate, which mixed with water does create a solution!
The last time I tried that, I edited an answer that was several years out-of-date with a rewritten, up-to-date one that explained exactly how to do what the question asked, in a well-organized, sequential manner.

My edit was quickly rejected by a user who had no knowledge whatsoever of the technical domain in question, claiming that my edit went against the spirit or intention of the original answer's author. I then submitted mine as a separate answer, where it languishes at the bottom of the page, rarely noticed by users who come looking for the answer (and it's virtually the only hit on Google for the question, has been for years). They all see the outdated, poorly organized one instead.

So my work was a waste of time, shot down by an ignorant, mindless policy wonk whose only goal is to farm reputation points.

I have not contributed to SO since. I have better things to do with my time, like publish my own documentation on readmes on GitHub.
Then we should also get rid of the prohibition on ivory- after all, think of all of those future generations of criminals we're creating by jailing poachers.
Nextcloud was a fork of Owncloud. There are a bunch of blogs that compare the various soltuions if you search for "Nextcloud vs Seafile vs Sparkleshare". I've only set up Nextcloud once, after watching a co-worker deploy it. I appreciated that it is self hosted and supports many cloud storage options. As to which is better suited for your needs, you would want to research all of them.

My preference is Chroot SFTP + the LFTP client. It's the fastest sync I have ever used and trivial to set up both client and server. You can get auto-syncing with inotify or a cron job in this manor.
I really wonder how the full delivery scenario is envisioned. Where do the Drone deliver the package? In front of my home? Do I have to go climb on top of roof? Does it call me or send me and SMS once it's there or do I need to stand outside?
Interesting; I'd seen this before but forgotten about it.

Don't think it works here though - if the pressure of reflected sunlight is counteracting gravity, then I don't see how the statite can be acting as a sunshade. If it were in position for that, the sunlight would be pushing it toward the Earth, no?

If anything this sounds more like the reflectors often proposed for Martian terraforming, which are designed to heat the planet rather than cool it.
I think you might be confusing, say, an intranet at work, with how servers should be set up. My workstation should have pretty broad network access. Servers, largely, shouldn't, unless they have a specific reason for it, and in my experience they'll be blocked from the internet at large.
In all this years reading HN, I don't recall seeing such an - I am afraid, organized - push for a programming language or technology. Seems the MIT people behind Julia, believes that marketing is as important as the technical merits of the language
Err nope.

My Grandfather was a sex offender and my Uncle is a convicted Armed Bank Robber.

The rest of the family has their problems like all families do. Mostly recovering from abuse of the previous two guys.

What is a bigger problem (especially in the UK) is welfare dependence which does become a family thing.
And that's probably why this doesn't happen.

If you have bookkeeping that shows that you're a bad acquisition target you go out of business and are considered a failure. If you don't then you get bought by someone idealistic and you're considered something of a success.
Sure, I've always segregated BMC dedicated ports to a non-connected network. But the BMC can also talk on the regular ethernet ports whenever it feels like it.
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For the IPCC AR5, the Summary for Policymakers of the WG1 report is linked here:

http://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/

The key items are on p. 16: first, that the "likely" range of equilibrium climate sensitivity is 1.5 - 4.5 C (which is the same as the first report in 1990--we have learned nothing in 28 years), and second, the footnote at the bottom of the page: "No best estimate for equilibrium climate sensitivity can now be given because of a lack of agreement on values across assessed lines of evidence and studies".

First, this raises the question: if there is lack of agreement, how did they even come up with the "likely" range? How can they say anything at all? And second, since the climate sensitivity is a key input to the models, how can the models possibly be valid?
$150 from Apple. Brand new iPhone 8 is $600.

You can presumably get a non-OEM replacement for less, but you can also get a used iPhone 8 with original glass for less than $600.
The global rate of extreme poverty has dropped from 29% 20 years ago to less than 9% today. You need a solid argument for how these actions would reverse the incredible drop in poverty and start us in the other direction, not just the usual factually wrong conventional wisdom.
Uber and Lyft have very little moat to protect them if someone else develops self-driving cars first.

They haven't succeeded in their initial goal of exterminating the existing cab companies, and that leaves them in a situation where developing self-driving technology could be a matter of life and death for them. The incumbent cab companies are much better positioned to profit from self-driving cars. They've already got all the infrastructure, expertise and staff it takes to manage fleets of vehicles. The bigger ones already have their own apps (e.g., Curb). If self-driving cars hit the general market first, basically all they have to do to run Uber and Lift out of town is buy some and factor the fact that they aren't paying cab drivers anymore into their prices.

By contrast, most of Uber and Lyft's basic business models right now are predicated on the idea of hiring humans, who in turn manage their own cars. That has deep implications: It means they have zero expertise in fleet management. They don't have any of their own garages for storing cars and handling maintenance. They do have apps, but the most valuable parts of their apps are the parts for managing humans. Incentive mechanisms designed to try and ensure that supply of rides and demand for rides remain relatively stable, for example. Their existing business operations are heavily built around recruiting humans - both riders and drivers. None of that is particularly useful in a world with self-driving cars, and the bits that are - basically just the mechanics of enabling people to hail rides and pay for them - are drastically easy to copy.
Gmail uses a ton of memory though. On a memory constrained device like a Chromebook, you'll want that memory if you're not interacting with Gmail very often.
I'd imagine that whether these drones make it to market or not depends on whether Uber/Amazon can create drones that fly quietly.

That said, road noise is already a thing. I'm not a big fan of road noise either, but cars are helpful enough that we keep them around. Maybe it'll turn out that the same is true for drones.
I'm going to gently suggest that the proliferation of screens, the proliferation of choice, the proliferation of personalization, in and of themselves, demonstrates that the principles of the free market place of ideas is well understood. The kids just choose ideas that perhaps we would not choose. (Or in most cases, ideas that we would definitely not choose.) But this is the essence of the free market of ideas that you subscribe to. That children are not interested in the ideas that we are interested in, does not mean that we need to go and make sure they consume our ideas instead. That's kind of the opposite of a free market.

So kids live in a free market, and they generally choose things we, as parents, don't like. This doesn't, always, make the kids wrong. And it doesn't mean that they are in need of our guidance to see things "correctly". (Which invariably seems to mean, "You're wrong kid, this is what you should believe." And then we wonder why they call us hypocrites when we at the same time talk about a "free market of ideas".)
Ambitiously solving such a hard problem: the convenience of having food brought up to your house. Hot dang! Next up, the drone will drop the food right into your mouth. Premium customers will have the drone chew the food on its way to your house.

I wonder how far we will go in the interest of convenience. There are such hard and pressing problems right now in the world and a company wasting money trying to fill the sky with buzzing drones delivering food to fat lazy assholes is being labeled as ambitious. Is this the near future we want? Do we really _need_ a beehive of buzzing drones because we're so busy we can't just go out and fucking buy food?

Give me a break...
It's mind-boggling that it has to be limited.

I meant that in terms of physical space availability, of which there is a finite amount. Theres only so many conference rooms that can house a visiting guest speaker.
A sudden strike from the wind and they will cut your throat or cut out your eyes. Imagine the paranoia walking on the street.
The Pennsylvania Chronicle isn't a platform. It's a publisher. Readers' letters getting published is the exception, not the norm.

The ideas discussed here would be more like a telecoms provider specifically refusing to do business with someone because they disagree with their politics.
You can actually read the specification here: https://www.wirelesspowerconsortium.com/downloads/download-w...

As of at least 1.2.2 (April 2016) the Qi spec has supported 15 W through an Extended Power Profile

A Baseline Power Profile supporting transfer of up to about 5 W and an Extended Power Profile supporting transfer of up to about 15 W of power using an appropriate Secondary Coil (having a typical outer dimension of around 40 mm).
My proposal is to send up a robot, capture a smallish asteroid, and have it use the material to weave/spin out a shield. The robot sits at the edge and spins and weaves away. More robots would be employed as the shield grows. Honestly, I've not worked out all the details. I'd love to hear what others think. Is this just pie(sheet) in the sky? Or is this the salvation of humankind.
I imagine Uber+Lyft don't consider their driver routing algorithm a significant barrier to entry to the self-driving car market.

They likely expect the first company to come up with true self driving cars to start their own competitive service to Uber+Lyft. To them, it's an existential threat to not invest in their own self driving technology.

I think every self-driving car project is under the impression that the first stable and safe self driving car network is going to have no incentive to lease the technology out.
If he tried, they'd just reject him for being overqualified.
Yes according to the latest IPCC report ( http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/ ) in the 1.5 degree scenario we need to deploy bio-energy combined with carbon capture storage on large scale. Carbon removal tech will become indispensable and is definitely part of "Plan A".

Some scenerios rely more on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, while others rely more on afforestation, which are the two carbon-removal methods most often included in the IPCC reports. Trade-offs with other sustainability objectives occur mostly through increased land, energy, water and investment demand.

There is another scenario were we might not need a lot of bioenergy with carbon capture storage and that would be if we would decorbonise at an incredible fast rate (starting now) and planted a lot of trees. I'm not seeing that happening anytime soon though.
...followed by various arrests for self-documented destruction of property.
"Yet, despite the abundance of evidence showing the role of family in crime, criminologists and policymakers have largely neglected this factor—as the University of Maryland criminologist John Laub told me, it’s because any suggestion of a possible biological or genetic basis for crime could be misconstrued as racism."

How exactly does a family connection imply a biological basis? Did nature defeat nurture when I wasn't looking? or is this just a poorly written sentence implying that connecting the two could then result in ascribing the trait to biology, and so was avoided?
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>Every reply of yours so far has hinged on my definition of terms being arbitrary.

Not quite. I am fully aware that ideas like "privilege" or "dominance/power hierarchies" have well defined meanings. But thought they are well-defined, their applicability in explaining our society is controversial. Proponents of these concepts tend to be ideologically driven. I criticized these concepts because you used them to create a definition of 'hate speech'.

>Maybe you have never examined them because you never needed to interface with them in practice

I have no idea what you're talking about here.

>maybe you do understand them and are just arguing in bad faith to defend a more abstract belief

I disagree. I attempted to be very clear in why I disagree with your point of view and I tried to capture your position fairly. Where is this 'bad faith'?
That's what noise regulations are for.
> it's about the questionable notion that you should only spend time around people who are "smarter" than you

Oh, that I fully agree with. It's a very copy-paste, generic and bland advice that doesn't tell you anything.

It's further made worse by the very obvious observation that everybody is smart in one way and dumb in another. That's what makes communication between humans fun and interesting in the first place.

So yeah, fully agreed.
> Err nope.

This is kind of a flippant dismissal based on the multiple findings backed up by numbers. Yours may be an anecdotal story (and not my place to comment on) but there's no evidence that welfare dependence causes crime. It seems to be more of a political talking point. There may very well be a correlation, but it doesn't imply causation.
exceptional claims require exceptional evidence, Bloomberg has not done so.

The article raises a fair number of solid criticisms regarding BCP to eliminate the described vulnerability.