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> single greatest enemy of solving Climate change, literally anywhere in the world, is the Republican Party.

Chomsky refers to it as the most dangerous organization on earth. However, as popular as it is in the US to blame a political party, I don't think it's helpful in most cases, and this problem is no exception.

The other party is not going to stand up to corporate control of government any better than the republican party. We need a fundamental shift in culture and economic incentive to overcome this problem. Real solutions aren't event being discussed.
People take potshots at trains in the Midwest and West all the time. Bored teenagers with .22 rifles, mostly.
It is literally the exact opposite. The ratio of leftist to right professors in university is 12:1, even more pronounced among faculty. 1 out of 5 professors in America identify as Marxist.
Making them more crumpleable is intended to do that.
Sorry, I don't know exactly which program she went with, but she's been down there for a couple years and I think pretty well connected into it.

keywords in google are "peru jungle shaman"

involves taking ayahuasca and other jungle made substances

do your research, i think there is some definitely sketchy outfits, but there are good ones too.
I was in Engineering, then Applied Math, now in computer science.

I don't do well in university style math classes. It takes me a long time working through something to understand what is happening (and why - the why of a thing is one of the first questions I ask when I'm learning something new).

It takes me about twice as long to learn a math concept as my peers (or so it seems). But I'm typically the first to speak up during a lecture.
Our Fortune Telling Genes
Jeff Schmidt's book "Disciplined Minds" is a great read about this kind of thing -- http://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/

Here's some discussion from a review of Disciplined Minds by Brian Martin:

> Jeff Schmidt provides an answer in his book Disciplined Minds: professionals, including teachers, are selected and molded to have politically and intellectually subordinate attitudes, thereby making their creative energies available to the system. In short, "professional education and employment push people to accept a role in which they do not make a significant difference, a politically subordinate role." (p. 2).

> The first step in Schmidt’s argument is the claim that professionals - including police, doctors, lawyers, teachers and many others - think less independently than nonprofessionals. He cites opinion polls taken during the Vietnam war showing that support for the war was greater among those with more higher education.

> Schmidt argues that what really makes an individual a professional is not technical knowledge, but rather "ideological discipline."

> A key to creating docile professionals is professional training. Through their training, budding professionals learn to orient their intellectual effort to tasks assigned to them. Schmidt has a wonderful expression for this: "assignable curiosity." Children are naturally curious about all sorts of things. Along the road to becoming a professional, they learn how to orient this curiosity to tasks assigned by others.

https://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/01BRrt.html

The journalist Lyn Gerry read and recorded most of the chapters in the book, they can be listened to here: https://www.unwelcomeguests.net/Disciplined_Minds
I'm impressed this might change my life for real.. do you connect to random or same people
I fully agree with the premise but many times, it's just way too hard to actually predict the production problems you will have even with your most favourite tech.

Truth is that while working in a corp you can't see the big picture of seeing a project through from start to finish.

For example, I am helping on mostly good faith -- and at about 30% of what I'd normally charge -- a friend to bootstrap their website / platform and even though I use language and tech I very much like and I am the dictator of the backend, 95% of the work is extremely boring and it's just "make this controller, make this API endpoint, wire this object to that other object, integrate this payment provider" etc... Combine with the universally bad deployment experience of basically 99% of the languages out there and things aren't really that glorious even if the tech is much better than what you worked with your entire life beforehand.

What I am saying is -- even for every experienced programmers it's very hard to make an accurate prediction.

But if there's one metric I always use, it's this one: "does the tech stand in my way to productivity and waste my time with details I shouldn't care about?" -- if so, I try to ditch it (not possible with JS but still, there are transpiled languages and frameworks that make things better).
I think that’s more SciencesPo which grooms the political/ruling class. It’s too diffuse in the US to say so.
Pedestrians will also have a shorter walk if roads are straight, won't they? And, unlike cars, which can easily drive a kilometer or two further with no strain, pedestrians and cyclists are sensitive to this.
The article goes into a great deal of detail about how the video was made, the rocket involved, various points of interest throughout the video, etc... You don't think that adds any value?
This thought process led me to consider buying a gas guzzler in the past. The sooner it hurts enough for everyone to “get it” the better. But I didn’t buy a gas guzzler. Instead, I bought a hybrid.
Is going to university to "broaden the mind" a common sentiment? Maybe that's a European thing, because the mindset in the US is that college is a step towards a good career, which unfortunately doesn't seem to hold as much weight these days for a growing number of fields.
It's for driver visibility.
You can always invoice them manually as long as you keep track of whatever your billable items are. If its SMS's then keep track of how many they've sent and there you go. As long as they pay that is, otherwise you are out of pocket.
Sorry, Feminists, Men Are Better at Scrabble
Re-submitting with the right link. I am unable to edit the URL or delete the initial submission
Yeah, I thought it’s known that many successful products are not really engineering based
Please don't cross into personal attack on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I missed the boat here. I unfortunately didn't find a mentor with my first two engineering jobs. Now I'm too experienced to be mentored as a junior, but not good enough to be mid level. I've since been unhappily working support roles, getting even further from writing software. At this point I'm stuck deeply in the support trap.
It's interesting to consider. I'm inclined to agree with b1r6 and would say that autonomy over one's life is only complete if you also have the right to end it.

That said, I do also agree that in some cases, not all, suicide is a symptom of an illness.

I think the way of reconciling these two positions is to make mental healthcare ubiquitous with low barriers to access - and help people to get in to care earlier before things escalate. Additionally, our national policies should seek to minimize the number of 'dead ends' in people's lives without opportunity to move forward or upward.
You act like these people were alone their entire lives. If we're talking about a retirement home, I'm sure it has more to do with all your friends passing in front of you.
Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Sample and Setting
Interestingly, the page <title> is different: "Why Mark Zuckerberg Can't Fix Facebook".
The first 2/3rds of the book are the best. The last act does transcend into more spiritual areas but you can skip it without missing much.
As far as I understand, the parent's point is that QUIC makes your network vulnerable to attacks from spoofed non-QUIC services because you have to allow UDP packets to reach your network - their usual practice is to protect yourself by just dropping all UDP, but as soon as you want a single system to serve QUIC, then you can't do that anymore and need to inspect all these UDP packages even if it's an extreme amount of some amplified DDoS garbage.
I would say it's a lot cleaner IMO. I much prefer function calls/constructors to HTML syntax, since it's so much more concise and readable if you indent properly.
Taking up those subjects which make you uncomfortable is very important. And of course, multidisciplinary.
Whoa! I used ti lean left and professors tilted left, I hadn’t noticed it was so pronounced.

I gotta think they are more idealists than bona fide marxists though; I mean, if they read enough, they must know the drill (they wouldn’t have influence and any countertevolutionary ideas and they are sent off).
I make Cordova, React Native, NativeScript and now Flutter plugins for a living. I’ve been using RN since it was born and I use it every day.

Flutter has a superior developer experience in my opinion.

Dart was a breeze to pick up.
We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments and ignoring multiple requests to stop.
They were not mammals. They were more related to the ancestors of mammals than to the dinosaurs. The article calls them "mammal-like reptiles".

You can see in this graph when their ancestors an our ancestor split. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_mammals#Therapsid... It's the third branching in this graph.

For comparison, see the graph in the same page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_mammals#The_ances... . Here is the split between reptiles/dinosaurs/birds and the ancestors of mammals in the second branching. (You can "glue" the other graphic in the lowest branch of this graphic, but I'm not sure if they have a comparable level of detail.)
That's a lot of negative assumptions you're making. And, IMHO, still not enough to warrant or in line with saying "that's almost the same as not having support at all."
I'm confused.

Are you trying to call me out for negating a personal anecdote with another anecdote?

That's the whole point. To show that they don't mean anything statistically.

It's not rude to point out to someone that their anecdotal "evidence" is meaningless. It's just a fact.
> it's common and pragmatic to take painkillers to treat headaches

In your analogy, isn't the gun the painkiller?
1) longer exposure, "averaging" neighboring pixels

2) noise reduction making it look "plasticky"

3) attempts to increase dynamic range with filters that favor certain color hues

That would be my list of possible explanations as a photographer.
This is a topic that has a lot of noise but there are two relatively easy to explain things to tell people (I am discounting the usual 27% of the population who will never be interested):

1. There is a policy that is simple to explain and has some bipartisan appeal: Fee and Dividend (also known as the Clean Energy Dividend). It puts an increasing price on carbon per ton at the source (e.g., oil well, port of entry, etc.) and distributes 100% of the proceeds to the people. That's it. No tricks, no back-door subsidies. And because it is redistributed it's also not a tax in the usual sense, which helps win over those who are open to climate policy but anti-tax.

2. Things are indeed more dire than even most climate aware folks realize. Watch climate scientist Kevin Anderson break down the numbers -- it's sobering how disconnected our climate discourse is from reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX1r8OAmz9I
>>It takes me about twice as long to learn a math concept as my peers (or so it seems). But I'm typically the first to speak up during a lecture.

This is actually an excellent habit, and you should nurture it as much as you can. It looks like you have done a careful SWOT analysis, and thats the way to go.
> He cites opinion polls taken during the Vietnam war showing that support for the war was greater among those with more higher education.

If support for the war was lower among the less education, does this mean the less educated do not think as independently?
Euclidean Spaces
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18508236.

You went beyond incivility and crossed into harassing another user in this thread. I won't ban you for it because I saw your apology below, but please don't do anything like this on HN again.

A single comment that was half as aggressive as your first one would already have been more than enough, even if it wasn't completely off topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I specifically was referring to scaling to millions of users. I’m a solo app dev consultant and some of the apps I’ve worked on have had big spikes of users. No big deal.

It’s kind of like saying your frontend framework is awesome because it scales to millions of users. Well yeah, they’re all running it on their own machines, so assuming you can deliver the code to them and the backend can handle it, you could scale to quadrillions of users.
Mars InSight Mission
I took a inter-disciplinary arts degree and combined with a semester abroad it completely changed the way I looked at stuff. Maybe if studied engineering it would be different.
That key one is crazy. (i.e. most 'security' using keys seems to be nonexistent) Surely there must be less crime and criminals around than one is led to believe, or this system wouldn't last a day, let alone decades.
I haven’t sat on an empty train in a big city in a long time. If it’s a small city without a lot of economic activity, it makes sense that your trains would run empty.
These are excellent examples of problems which aren't explained by their claims that "All of it’s based off of user interactions data and information".

Which target market, exactly, do they think benefits from a product website which stops you from opening a product link in a new tab? I'd love to see some data which supports that.
I disagree with this in my own case. At my university, I was bombarded by so many different beliefs and worldviews that it forced me to reevaluate my own. My values didn't change much, but I certainly become more accepting of differences.
I was making a tongue in cheek retort about it “clearly” meaning that, since person I was responding to said it clearly meant they were dysfunctional. Probably could have made it more explicit.

I do think that scaling an app to millions of users says basically nothing on its own about the app framework / code quality itself. You’re scaling across as many devices as you have users. There’s no challenge at all there on the mobile dev side.
I dropped out - I’m a fairly successful and happy computer engineer.

Generally anti-college in terms of 13th grade, but I agree this depends entirely on the student.

I was bored to tears with the entry computer science, but really liked anthropology and geolgogy. Seems like they were mind-broadening.
Resubmitted by the OP in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18520109 with the right URL.
There is a huge diversity of thought in university graduates. The extreme rightward shift in conservative mindset in the US over the past two decades means that everybody left of "maybe owning slaves is ok" gets uniformly labeled "liberal" or "leftist" in 2018.
Marxist, so even more in favor of a ruling class above all.
Landing a job you deem [almost] perfect for you is, as many other things, a matter of luck beyond many other factors.

Very uncomfortable truth and something I had to gradually accept over being unemployed for 6 months (in fairness, I had enough money reserves to live very comfortably for 4 of them).

I am not gonna bore you with my story but the bottom line is -- keep trying. As you said, marketing is hard. But very, VERY essential, including in how do you present yourself in interviews. In the end what landed me the job was an injection of optimism I got from a really good massage by my wife and then 8 hours of tight sleep -- I used that optimism to send out several more job applications to leads I deemed highly unlikely to even get a response from. And lo and behold, 3 days later I successfully moved through all phases of the interview process of one of the companies, and I am starting in several days.

Don't let a bad period get to your head, no matter how long it may be. Persistence is basically your #1 advantage.

Good luck to you!
The practice of using image macro memes in the middle of technical discussions needs to stop.
Ask your professor questions, even if it feels weird to you. Go deep! Good professors and people truly interested in their fields of study will want to get into the nitty gritty with you — oftentimes the reason they can’t in class is more practical than anything: Lack of time, presumption of disinterest from students, etc. I have taught classes at universities and I’m always super-excited when students stick around wanting to talk more after class. It’s a sign that you’ve connected.

Maybe take a good literature or philosophy class if your university offers. They won’t help you understand CS (most likely — although some weird parallels can crop up), but they’ll expand your mind. If you let them!
We still often heat by gas

Well, fwiw if we're going to heat with fossil fuels, it is best to "burn on-site". You don't get 98% efficiency in a natural gas power plant.

Until renewables take over the grid, natural gas space heating is probably as good a fuel choice as we've got.
FISA warrants are rarely denied because the intelligence agencies submit drafts to the court who tell them what is needed to get approval. Hence they never submit a warrant application that they aren't already assured will be approved. Anything insufficient is withdrawn before judgment.
Here's one reason to be hopeful that there's a (relatively) easy fix for some of our problems.

https://climitigation.org/olivine-can-reverse-climate-change...

> In this case, we are looking specifically at the rock olivine when it comes in contact with ocean water and the CO2 dissolved in it. What results is a chemical reaction that pulls carbon from the CO2 in the ocean and binds it in a solution that eventually settles into rock on the sea floor. Not only does the olivine remove CO2 from the atmosphere, but the resulting solution is alkaline and has a deacidifying effect on the ocean.
The title is a bit sensational. The bigger picture is in the first paragraph.

> However, it was not the case that university broadened minds. Rather, work seemed to narrow them.

Basically, going to university doesn't make your mind broader, but not going to university does result in a narrower mind.
That was a systemwide thing for Southern Pacific, not specific to the peninsula. It was fairly ugly but was a known low-cost transition to deal with a tightening belt when railroads were still private (and struggling)
It takes me about twice as long to learn a math concept as my peers (or so it seems). But I'm typically the first to speak up during a lecture.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. If you're anything like me, you hold yourself to a higher standard when it comes to understanding a concept. A lot of people I know (I'm in second year math) do way better than me on exams but can't even explain some of the basic concepts in the courses, like:

* what is a basis?

* what does it really mean to diagonalize a matrix?

They've mastered the on-paper calculations but haven't put any thought into the deeper meaning of these concepts. When I try to explain they give me an odd look, as if to ask why anyone would care about these things. Are we raising an entire generation of Clever Hanses? [1]

I think the problem with university is that it's become too closely correlated with economic and social status. Or perhaps it's always been that way, though in the past it was not so much a cause of status but an effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
Here's a podcast episode with Randal Schwartz on Flutter that you might find interesting, as it might shed some light as to how Flutter evolved from the Dartium project and how the Chrome team was involved.

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2018/07/11/flutter-in-p...

You can also skim the transcript (pgs. 3-6)
Transcript here:
I'm a hard liberal, but these days I feel like a conservative. I'm sure I too have been changing in ways, but it's true the buckets have gotten too large and far apart.
https://outline.com/pY7644
Agreed, it was a (probably too subtle) retort to the idea that them abandoning it clearly meant they’re a dysfunctional mess.
Play virtual crypto trading to learn, compete, and share investing ideias
i dont think lisp is as popular...

i actually prefer a java like language than learn prefix calls and conj
> The other item that’s also glossed over is sheer productivity - when dealing with more complex issues, experienced developers are a lot more productive, so your $15/hr can easily turn into 10-20x more hours with the wrong experience choice, in the end costing you more.

When you are the "consulting company", you don't care. You just get to bill more hours.

If you are the client company, you don't care, either. Anyone with half a brain cell in this day and age knows that outsourcing software development is wholesale idiocy. So, if you're doing that, you are either 1) idiots or 2) outsourcing for political reasons or 3) both.
https://system76.com is good.
Wrong. You're misreading
I don't think React Native on the way out, but there has been a public perception wave against it this year with AirBnB and Udacity publicly abandoning it.
Never, it's fantastic. The monkey patching just adds context switching in all the right places, like IO and sleep. I've been using it for the better part of a decade and it always just works. A few C libraries are not compatible, like mysqldb, but there are alternatives and workarounds. The entire standard library works perfectly as far as I can tell.
> Maybe that's a European thing, because the mindset in the US is that college is a step towards a good career,

Really? In the USA, every single time I get into a discussion of the pros and cons of college with friends (or this week family) it starts out "they need to in order to get a good job!" and end with "well... how are they going to become a more well rounded person if they don't go?"

It's like clockwork, the unavoidable striking of midnight when they toss the ROI premise for the broaden the mind premise.
Let's get actual integers into JS! c'mon, I can't actually represent 64 bit IDs properly! This affects a big analytics product you have probably used!
When doing network calls golang will yield in a similar fashion as described in the thread above.

However this is standard library magic and and user code will indeed run in the context of a goroutine which is NxM threading.
Unless your definition of slaves includes all workers under capitalist regimes, this is wrong. Plenty of conservatives don't think slavery is acceptable.
> He cites opinion polls taken during the Vietnam war showing that support for the war was greater among those with more higher education.

ie, people whose peers and children were less likely to be drafted.
Being a Marxist in art school is not being questioning.

Being a Marxist in business school would be, as would being a libertarian in art school.
Yes, we know what it means. If you had applied the adjective to power or a ruling body, then you would have shown to as well.
Hi. Well, firstly, facts/honesty can be brutal. Someone's 'just a fact' can be someone else's flaggable offence, as often seen on here. I was threatened with banning for stating 'just facts' just yesterday. (true story!)

Ah, sure, I see..but even rereading now, it really doesn't seem your anecdata was meant to be meaningless. Too subtle for me, maybe, I'm no expert. Sorry, I'll butt out now.

Edit: Downvoter, could you explain why? Thanks.

Edit2: I looked at your recent comment history, it happens quite a lot that you get downvoted for telling people their ideas have no basis in reality, in a way that I guess doesn't seem rude to you, but seems so to me. We have different levels of 'acceptable abrasiveness' I guess.