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The first time I opend the start menu on Windows 10 after mostly using linux, it included news about Kim Kardashian. Since then, my thoughts have been sealed about Windows.
That’s usually called the zeal of the convert. First generation immigrants are quite adept at it.
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Removing CO2 might be necessary to stop global warming.

But what chance does this sort of ambitious effort have when more and more states don't even want to deal with the ordinary problem of reducing CO2 output?

It seems to me that anyone caring about climate change needs to have a generally pro-science position politically.
Those hairy barbaians like the Huns and visigoths

Doesn't always hold though, very hierarchical religious folks seem to like long beards a lot.
I own maybe $50 worth of Ethereum. It is decentralized though.
i heared this phrase:

"make friends in business, don't make business with friends"

that seems to apply here. in the face it sounds like dry advice, but it hints that the changes in business can hurt friendships. it's a sad reality for those that face it unprepared.

greetings, eMBee.
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Keep in mind by small grant we mean 100-200k towards a million.
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Because they have to since they're stuck using imperial. The imperial system does not make people better, it forces people to use fractions.
My poor textbooks! Welp, I guess there will be some great bargains next year.
Maybe we should go by scientific facts? plants thrive in warmer climate and higher CO2 levels, not in colder climate and at starvation levels of CO2. I suggest you look into the operations of commercial greenhouses, then study the temperature and CO2 records matching the origin and evolution of plants going back to hundreds of millions of years ago.
I don’t think he got it wrong. I said he’s biased. I think you’re too.
i want to state in stronger words than my sibling that the entire value of networks emerges directly from their inherent monopoly
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The maste/slave datastore deprecation burnt us. The migration couldn't be staged and when migrating the db locked up. The issue had to be fixed on googles end and caused us a bit of downtime.

The engineering resources to migrate was also a problem with the whole stack having needed to be updated.
In the 2017 fiscal year, Apple sold 216.76 million iPhones.

Doubling to cover ten years of sales figures; if the Earth has somewhere in the region of half a billion intellectuals, that seems pretty good.

And if you want to slaughter them all because they spent 1-2% of a USA average annual household income on a device you think is a complete measure of their life worth, that seems pretty bad.
The metric pint?
Last time I checked base 10 was quite common for pretty much everything but the imperial system.
That sounds like it would require more coordination than just adopting the kilogram as the primary unit of measure in a short period of time.
I have also read an article that discusses about self-driving cars at https://www.lemberglaw.com/self-driving-autonomous-car-accid.... I think it's always interesting to talk about this future technology. However, for now, I personally think there are still so many aspects and features that should be fixed and perfected by automakers before bringing them to public.
In Ecuador the temperature ranges from ~60 to ~90F, but I'm sure for them is a great relief to know people of New York have a temperature unit that perfectly matches their climate as neatly as going from 0 to 100.
I would like to see some sources for those claims.
Many posts, especially when posted to HN or linked from some other blog, are read by people who're not regulars. Besides, people scan, not always read end to end.
The reason why science sucks goes beyond pay. It's the repeated failure, long-ass hours (I once worked for 150 days straight, pulling >100 hour weeks), only to find out that in the end playing politics was more important than doing a good job at the work.
I think falling demand has a lot less to do with electric cars and more to do with the MPG in cars going up and people finally buying newer cars. Electric car penetration in the US is not high enough to have a massive impact, but MPGs going up and newer models of cars getting on the road can have a massive impact.

When it comes to electric vehicles, the question won't be oil, it will be the supply chain still being very polluting and China having a massive foothold on lithium supplies.
Thank you! this feature should be easy to add since zircleUI can be use with vue-router. I’ll try in some days
Shame their app store is a great meme.
Games playable by API sounds really interesting.
> "It cannot perfectly represent the amount" you say, and then perfectly represent the amount.

Actually, I said "It cannot perfectly represent the amount (1/3)", so I specifically game an example immediately after the statement of exactly what I was talking about, which you then ignored and used an example for a different item to represent erroneously. What's up with that?

> You represent a quarter as the fraction 25/100ths to show how impractical it is, instead of writing 1/4.

No, I represent a quarter as 25/100's to show how it would be accurately represented in metric. 1/4 meter is not pure metric, it's applying a non-metric modifuer to a metric amount. The metric representation of 1/4 meters is 25 centimeters, which is 25/100.

Let me lay it out side by side:

- 1 and 1/2 units
Imperial: 1 foot 6 inches or 18 inches
Metric: 1 meter 50 centimeters or 15 decimeters or 150 centimeters

- 1 and 1/3 units
Imperial: 1 foot four inches or 16 inches
Metric: 1 meter 33 centimetersa and 3 millimeters and... or 133.33... centimeters

- 1 and 1/4 units
Imperial: 1 foot 3 inches or 15 inches.
Metric: 1 meter 25 centimeters or 125 centimeters

That's not to say imperial units are good. They are hard to use for most things because they change across types of things measures, and counting in twelfths when needed is much more painful than in tenths.

But, if we were taught in a 12 base system we would be able to use it easily, and base 12 has more cases where it can be used easily than base 10. Everything else would be the same except than our sense of scale would be a little different and we would have an easier tome subdividing things in many cases.

Metric isn't an optimal system, it's just the optimal system for right now and the world we currently live in. But for a few historical turns of fate, it might have been very different.

> Would it be so hard to build a ruler with thirds measured on it, so you don't need to try and guess 0.333333 from mm readings? Like http://teaching.monster.com/nfs/teaching/attachment_images/0.... but made of metal

Then it's not metric. That's the point. We use these values anyway, yet you have to step outside the metric system to represent them easily. Adding extra marks that don't correspond to the regular intervals is confusing, so it's avoided. That's why most rulers in the united states show metric on one side and imperial on the other.[1]

1: http://cdn.dickblick.com/items/554/27/55427-1012-3ww-l.jpg
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It's not an adventure, but it is a high-risk with a slim chance of a very high payoff endeavor, and men are typically more drawn to that than women, for example there his a huge gender disparity in fishing the Alaskan fisheries or base jumping.
I really like the way you phrased that - following someone's recommendation and it becoming part of your shared experience with that person.

I've felt this in the past, but hadn't heard it put into words like that.
Or get a list of documents sorted by access level or the person you've shared it with. Like a CA you hired 3 years ago to file your taxes no longer needs access to your financial information.
2 points there:

- Almost all manufacturers have admitted to BSing the MPG tests, so the gains in practice probably aren't as good as we think.

- Ideally, that ratio will shift over time to be more on EV and efficiency gains.
In the UK, by law, mapping data access is controlled by the government.

Germany could declare, by law, that 1) AI training datasets and resulting networks are controlled by the government, which grants automatic permission to develop and use to all entities; 2) requires timely and no-appeal compliance with training data and network requests; 3) delaying publication of both for one year to keep the wolves at bay for startups.

They are unlikely to pass a law, and enforcement could never be truly certain or successful, but it would apply to Google if they transit German fiber. Germany could demand sanctions against the United States for refusal to adhere to their laws. It would be awesome.

Maybe someday.

EDIT: Another example, Tesla would be required to divulge to Germany both their training data (all driving data ever collected from a Tesla) and their AI networks (all versions) in order to continue transmitting data to German networks (or else a government with trade agreements, police, lawmakers, and a military is angry at them) with the understanding that it would be made public in one year (stagnate at your peril).
If "mosaic warfare" actually becomes a thing then the F-35 is actually pretty well suited to participate in it. At least better than legacy platforms which are increasingly difficult to upgrade.
Isn't it a little too much for small app?

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/reports/40782/
That’s what happens when you think with your brain as opposed to feel with your heart.
In retrospect, the N900 was such a visionary product. Maybe not as much as the Palm Pre, but close to it IMO.
> Hi, yes it is hard to understand. If you are a child and you see an example of people of all backgrounds working together to do science, including people that look and behave like you do, and your take away from this is "Welp, I clearly am not welcome here." then you need mentoring help from an adult to prop up your self-esteem.

You are grossly misrepresenting the problem here. I grew up in the 90's in a more progressive country than the US and there were plenty of science events that I thought would be cool to attend which were girls only (almost all of them actually, not many events for kids here). My spot on a science competition team was given to a girl since the competition required at least one girl on each team. Also it seems like people taking stock photos loves including girls and women in them. Every time I got to the next level I was surprised over how there were so few girls there, nothing I learned stated that women were not common in STEM as I grew up.

When you go through all of that, is it really that strange you start believing that the odds are stacked against you? And is it strange that when every time you hear "equality" they go on to say "boys need to take a step back in favor of girls", that you read it as boys need not apply? So when almost every job posting is asking for "equality", what you read is "boys need not apply" because that was what it always meant before. I don't care what the exact definition of these terms means, in practice this is what boys hear when they grow up in such an environment. And when you get ghosted by such job postings explicitly encouraging equal representation, then it is very easy to assume that they ghosted you due to your gender.

Anyhow, all of this has lead to nobody taking the shortage of women in STEM seriously, I mean this has been going on for around 30 years and they still can't attract girls to these programs...
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Some restaurants just can't handle the hype. I just read about a family who returned their michelin star [1] for the sake of their own relationships and ultimately their business.

> “It got to the stage where it was difficult juggling family life with working five nights a week later in the evening and also doing breakfast for residents, doing all the prep work, keeping on top of the paperwork and admin,” said Kathryn.

I admire folks like this who have their priorities straight. If they were to scale up, they'd most likely loose the charm that earned them the star to begin with. Charm seems to be exclusive to smaller establishments, in this context.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/nov/16/checkers-restau...
It’s neither intelligent (as in based in some objective rationale) but subjective and capricious. It’s not relatable unless you’re also into the imperial system. And I’m not talking about politics: you will find the same people everywhere.

But I also find unlikely you support the metric system, at least other than for white knighting random strangers that you happen to agree with.
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Looks promising. It would be great if they can offer a scaled down version (something like Lubuntu) which we can install in single board computers (like RaspberryPi).
Oh, what pretentious bullshit.

Here's a screenshot from OS X from a while back:

https://i2.wp.com/512pixels.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1...

Looks amateur and dated right? The thing is, 15 years ago people like you shat all over linux because it didn't look shiny and pretty like OS X. 15 years ago that OS X screenshot was the pinnacle of elegance and polish. If your UI didn't look like that, you were amateur and dated and janky. What Linux desktops needed was shiny buttons and genie effects to be taken seriously.

Now that there are a bunch of perfectly usable linux desktops you need to move the goalposts again because it doesn't meet "common user standards". Meanwhile, you could put a "common user" in front of OS X 10.1 or windows XP and they would get along just fine, just like they did 15 years ago.
I have run exclusively Linux and mostly on laptops for 15 years and it's been about 10 years since I have had problems with packages clashing, except for python pip. (I don't use python though)
"Even mathematicians will tell you that mathematics has a bit of an image problem, particularly in the U.S."

That is something that strikes me constantly and I try to understand. I was amazed the first time I heard the phrase "just do the math" to imply do the menial calculations et cetera. This embodies the negative perception and misunderstanding that a lot of people have in general, but perhaps at a different level entirely in the U.S. What is more surprising is this is despite a math degree opening a lot of opportunities in the U.S. In comparison, in a lot of countries one can easily be stuck between teaching or research (if they are lucky and have the passion), or abandoning their degree.

Consider yourselves lucky to have been exposed early on to math, is not a good approach or feeling to have. I think the demeanor of "you are good at it, or you are just not" is too damaging to the field in general. People that are passionate, innately or via some environmental factor acting as nurtury and "pylon", are perhaps going to persevere, like in other fields.

Nobody told a kid that they should stop drawing, writing, or playing the guitar or piano, because they are bad at it. Math though apparently...
I wouldn't bet we can't find a way to blow the planet up as well... But the comment is about our survival on this planet.
I feel that we should at least mention decentralized technologies in this discussion.

Please consider how systems like cryptocurrency, smart contracts, types of content-oriented networking, etc. may enable open platforms that can be an alternative to the monopoly companies'.
He wasn't blaming his problems on feminism, he was saying he disagreed with them.

I know you are trying to be helpful with your post, but I honestly found it offensive. All I said was that lack of attention from women does actually negatively affect men (contrary to what you were asserting). And from that it seems you decided I fit some selfish, misogynistic stereotype. You assume that I don't listen to women or sympathize with their feelings. You assume that I think attention is a right or something owed to me, when I never said anything even hinting at that. I didn't blame women, or imply that they are doing anything wrong.

I wasn't "complaining on the internet", I was trying to inform you and others about how people actually feel because obviously even men don't all get it.

And I didn't really get the point about how being married reduced your urge for attention. It's almost tautological. Once you have the attention of a woman, attention stops being a concern.
568ml, as god intended. Not some 450ml abomination!

We don't really use pints for measuring anything else these days.
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Geologist here. This is misleading.

Yes, CO2 is what plants eat, but it doesn't tend to be the limiting nutrient very often on Earth today. For the ocean (where 50-85% of photosynthetic oxygen production, and equivalently carbon burial, happens [1]) there are actually maps of this [2], and you may note that CO2 does not appear. On land, it's usually water, nitrogen, or phosphorus [e.g., 3].

Accordingly, there have been many studies on CO2 fertilization, but since it's not the limiting nutrient it doesn't tend to have much of an effect [e.g. 4]. At best there are benefits for some plant species in areas where water is the limiting nutrient, since higher CO2 means plants can keep their stomata closed more [e.g. 5], but even this is a bit of a mixed bag since dry places tend to get hotter and drier under global warming.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoplankton#Oxygen_productio...
[2] https://media.springernature.com/m685/nature-static/assets/v...
[3] https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1469-...
[4] http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2016/12/07/1610156113.shor...
[5] https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.124...
Are they globally “standard?” China uses Mou to measure land area. A pyeong is used in Korea for housing floor area, the British use pints in the pub and stone when weighing themselves. The US uses feet and pounds. We use clocks that have 60 seconds, 60 minutes, 24 hours, weeks, months. If we want to be consistent, “minutes” should perhaps be 100 seconds, for instance. Horses are measured in “hands.”

“Global standard” isn’t necessarily an argument for “good.” Why aren’t imperial units the standard? Who actually decided that metric was the right answer?

And as a previous poster mentioned; why don’t we say a megameter or gigameter when talking about long distances? Because ultimately measurement units are really about human understanding, despite ostensibly being “scientific.” A foot as just as scientific as a meter. NASA went to the moon with imperial units and it worked out just fine. People and countries are entitled to their preferences. We don’t advocate English or Chinese to be the global standard language. Or that all countries use euros or dollars. Weights and measures can be perfectly accurate regardless of the units used; the idea that we should either create or adhere to a global standard is not unlike suggesting everyone speak the same language.
I have such mixed feelings about this piece. On the one hand, I'm extremely grateful for it drawing attention to these types of problems with credit. On the other, I feel like it vastly underestimates the scope of the problem.

For one, it seems to assume the algorithm involved is somehow inferentially perfect, which is curious. A lot of this literature is circular, in that it assumes credit from citation patterns, which are flawed, which then taints the whole thing. For another thing, it seems to assume researchers aren't manipulating the perceptual processes being referenced in the article, which is obviously isn't true (that is, that they're not engaging in dishonest hijacking of the credit system).
These units are terrible for humans too.

Humans are good at base 10.

For this human, the relationships when (for instance) talking about water are great -

1g = 1ml = 1cm^3
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Then on most modern aircrafts, these alarms would be going off all the time. It's more important to know why the computer received incorrect data on the angle of the plane.

Usually there are three or more sensors reading it and the master computer uses the voting mechanism to arrive at the correct reading. So in this case probably the master computer had erred?
I wonder how much is due to people driving less. Totally anecdotal, but thanks to remote work, I've barely had a commute nor needed a car since 2012. I was barely ever driving, and I finally sold my car this spring and have been much happier without it. It seems that my lifestyle is trending, so maybe that's having an impact.
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Hi Jeff,

I'm not sure of the answer, but:

Bob says I'd like to play around with data x on S3, or grab report z on S3. They are used to the Dropbox / drive / box etc model. That's often invite by email or allow *@domain.com permission. But how does this work in S3, how do you invite someone, how do they self provision their credentials without admin involvement etc? For a non aws/s3 user? One thing you can do, make bucket world readable.

Big user base plus more stuff collecting in S3 from various systems seems to drive some risk, not sure how s3 solves for above or if it should (email or domain invite, self provisioning of credentials if not on platform etc). Tie into workdocs somehow? Push into competitor tools?

This issue also comes up in the cross account / org situation. Want to invite someone outside of org to read data etc. Tools to do this, but it takes more work than folks are used to with other approaches. Pretty soon something is world readable.

API side for developers works great.

Be curious if others had use cases that create gravity towards world readable - because s3 by default is not, but a relatively high number of people end up there for some reason. Be interesting to try to give them what they want in addition to lockdown tools.
Two factors not clearly stated, but linked to, in the article:

- Electric buses, which have much higher usage than personal vehicles [1]

- China’s sustained and increasingly stronger push for EVs [2]

China is the largest land vehicles market in the world with 30% of global sales, so its moves have a large impact. [3]

When the initial sales prices of EVs become competitive with ICE cars without subsidy, it is likely that Chinese EV manufacturers will push hard to expand markets in developing countries where cost is a major concern. They should have a cost advantage over established global brands. The flip to electric, for new car sales, could be quite rapid then.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/electric-...

“The numbers are staggering. China had about 99 percent of the 385,000 electric buses on the roads worldwide in 2017, accounting for 17 percent of the country’s entire fleet. Every five weeks, Chinese cities add 9,500 of the zero-emissions transporters—the equivalent of London’s entire working fleet, according Bloomberg New Energy Finance.”

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-14/china-is-...

“The world’s biggest market for electric vehicles wants to get even bigger, so it’s giving automakers what amounts to an ultimatum. Starting in January, all major manufacturers operating in China—from global giants Toyota Motor and General Motors to domestic players BYD and BAIC Motor—have to meet minimum requirements there for producing new-energy vehicles, or NEVs (plug-in hybrids, pure-battery electrics, and fuel-cell autos). A complex government equation requires that a sizable portion of their production or imports must be green in 2019, with escalating goals thereafter.”

[3] http://www.oica.net/wp-content/uploads/Sales-all-vehicles-20...