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There is no reason at present to believe such things exist or can exist. It also makes the fermi paradox much worse.

Without faster than light travel its possible to legitimately imagine that the size of space is a major barrier to colonizing the galaxy/observable universe. Maybe civilizations don't expend the energy required to expand when trips take thousands of years or most civilizations don't persist for the potentially millions of years required to saturate the galaxy.

Once you posit faster than light travel you have a situation where you have to explain why nobody in sphere bigger than the observable universe decided to saturate the observable universe in the mere centuries required to exponentially expand everywhere.
> Although Blb is not being actively developed as a production system, its authors plan to continue improving the system in their spare time as an educational project.
Shuting down the subway would affect everyone. The poor are stuck on buses and the traffic would make their lives worse.
> There seems to be an obsession in the west with making public transport pay for itself

Not a crazy idea considering how some systems operate in the East - Tokyo, Osaka and Hong Kong systems not only pay for themselves, but churn out profits along the way. Singapore’s MRT is designed to operate at break-even.

The trick is to allow the transportation authority to own and manage its own real estate. This way when a new station or line is built out, the sharp increase in land value is captured by leasing the space above it to a giant mall, office complex or a mixed-use megacomplex like Roppongi Hills.

The US model seems to reward random real estate developers who just happened to own the land near the future station. It also seems to frown upon the idea of concessions or any commercial exploitation - for instance, San Jose or San Francisco Catrain stations receive more foot traffic than many commercial centers in the area, yet choose to wow their visitors with a mediocre coffee stand and a dirty bathroom.
In this utopia, if you want to move into SF for work, then what happens, specifically?

Is it like Vienna, where you go on a wait list?
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Ironically in London the trunk road network maintenance will be paid out of TfLs public transport fare budget, as TfL has a legal duty to maintain the major roads in London but has no government operating grant. Hopefully this will be resolved soon!
All of these things are issues in Australia, though out of control prescribed burns are very uncommon.

Basically all of the northern areas in the Northern Territory are burnt once every two years or so.

One thing to consider is that Indigenous Australians have been doing regular burns for tens of thousands of years. It's pretty well understood how the land burns, how often it needs to be burnt and what good/safe conditions look like.
> Or the radical priests of Latin America.

That (largely) was Liberation Theology.

> Well, there doesn't seem much of that in the US these days.

There's plenty; see, e.g., Cornel West.

It's perhaps less visible than right-wing Christianity because left Christianity tends not to be theocratic in its political activism, which can make it easier to overlook the Christian part and see only the left part.
You may find SOD interesting for your embedded Computer Vision tasks. It is written in pure C and have an API similar to OpenCV.

https://sod.pixlab.io
I believe you’ve just justified my french fry habit!
I think it depends on the context - if you're designing the whole system from bar code to camera, I'm not sure that the color will help. But in that case you can assume close to perfect optics and I'm not sure if you would find an improvement or the opposite over a monochrome setup with better SNR.

On the other hand if you're stuck with things like mobile phone cameras, and can only control the bar code side, then Id imagine you'd see some improvements as you say.

An interesting middle ground would be if you could get the raw image from the sensor before a generic debayer algorithm gets applied.

Good luck, keep up the good work... i've worked commercially on optical barcode systems and it's a super interesting topic (tho looks like my post has been downvoted out of existence so maybe you wont see this).
You know who disagrees with you on that? Karl Marx.
At one point a few years back, while people were being holier-than-thou agile evangelists, Gartner was putting forth well reasoned arguments about having steady slow teams and innovative fast teams. Pretty much arguing an end run around the whole Agile-everything political movement in a way that an Enterprise would be able to benefit from what they know works and also from the Agile development front.
The CDC is saying to avoid romaine lettuce until we learn more about the outbreak, with a promise to update the advice as more information becomes available.

That seems quite an appropriate way to proceed and does not imply that the lettuce itself is the cause.
In the first sentence of the article you linked:

> You can downgrade (If you don’t have Shsh blobs saved) only until Apple is still signing the old software.

Saving SHSH blobs needs to be done in advance, while the iOS version you want to install is still being signed by Apple. With blobs, you used to be able to use a replay attack to force a restore. This doesn't work anymore due to the addition of NONCE, except in very limited and not particularly useful circumstances (you can move to an unsigned iOS version IF you're already Jailbroken AND if SEP is compatible).

If you know a way around this system, please do share. The Jailbreak community will love you for it. :)

Apple does everything in their power to make downgrading iOS impossible outside of a narrow window. I suspect this is also why we haven't seen any actual, definitive speed tests between different iOS versions. The discussion always devolves into "this feels slower" or "I remember my phone used to be like this," because no one can actually install an older version to test with.
> Put a ceiling on rents. Allow no-one to own more than one home and insist they live in the one they own.

Doesn't the latter make the former moot, or is this a limit on rent of spare rooms in owner-occupied housing?
It's especially impressive when you consider that for all the shots in his video where you see him come into a building or ride up and pick up the camera, he has to first go there and set up the camera. Repeating everything like that takes a lot of dedication.
> They were skilled at handling explosives.

The reputation for explosive hacks at MIT go back to the 1800's. It used to be that students had to participate in marching practice. Some wag got the idea to put a layer on the floor of nitrogen triiodide, a mild contact explosive.

So when it came time to bang your feet against the floor during the march...
Was it easy to set up C-Corp through Stripe Atlas, by not being in US? How long did it take?
No, not at all. It is a very blunt tool to say fares should be cheap so that poor people can afford them.

There are much better ways to do this, eg offer discounted trip cards to people on certain social security programs (Medicaid eligibility comes to mind). Price differentiation 101. This should be funded out of social security budgets, not transport budgets IMO.
Growing lettuce in your garden bears very few risks. Buying lettuce from a store also carriers very free risks if you know the source. Plants are significantly less risk than any red meat or white meat.

The way the CDC presents this makes it appear, to the uniformed, that this is a plant borne illness - of which it is not. It's almost certain it is human created through misuse of fecal matter disposal or fertilizer.
Wouldn't bother me too much.
I feel like Google flights would have given you the same data by showing that flying on the day of Thanksgiving is way cheaper. Just a guess, though.
The goldbugs are the worst about this, constantly whining about ”market manipulation" and various conspiracy theories with zero evidence whenever their trades go wrong.
There's a long discussion in Coase's classic "The Problem of Social Cost" about the apportionment of liability between railroads and landowners adjacent to the railways when fires are started by sparks from trains.

http://home.cerge-ei.cz/ortmann/UpcesCourse/Coase%20-%20The%...

Basically Coase says that it's not necessarily the most economically efficient to blame the railroad that created the sparks, and that it depends on other factors (in the super-simple formulation that people sometimes attribute to Coase, this could include who could most cheaply act to mitigate the fires).

I think Coase would agree with you that we can't automatically assume that blaming PG&E and making PG&E pay for all the damages will lead to the most efficient outcomes for California as a whole in the future.
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> [...] in the final 8% a varied elasticity of the walls meant the poop would take shape as separated cubes.

Some bits of the colon walls stretch more than others to mould the poop into a square shape as it goes through. Sounds like they were stretching into a square shape to me.
There is no filter system in the world that will catch all cp. It doesn't exist because current systems rely upon known content. It's image recognition, and image recognition can be bypassed. Either by an image not in the database, or by modifying one that is.
Thank you, that's a good explanation- in the sense that I understand now what the previous comment, by Koshkin meant in responding to mine that there is no "wrong" frame of reference.

>> The location, and speed with which you are travelling is what general relativity calls a "frame of reference", and none of them are "correct" or "incorrect", they're just predictors for what observations will be possible from that frame.

OK, I see- "frame of reference" is a technical term, in General Relativity, that refers to your position in space, and determines what you can observe. Instead, I meant "frame of reference" as a more general "point of view" or "frame of mind" - a set of assumptions that give context to any observations and that inform interpretations of them.

Even going by the technical sense of a frame of reference, though, there are frames of reference that will not permit the cocrrect identification of a process that generates a set of observations- or at the very least, they will tend to favour incorrect interpretations of the observations.

I think that is in keeping with what your comment says about a frame of reference in General Relativity allowing a range of physical observations.
To be fair, humans are animals. But yes, waste from human and non-human animals have contaminated crops throughout history.
Except for that $53 billion dollar light rail extension that was voted for and is funded by tax payers in the three counties it runs in.
I'm especially curious how they plan to do that in the EU.

The GDPR requires that you separate your requests for consent for ads from the consent for stuff which is actually necessary to be provided the service.

If customers don't consent to their data being used for ads, you can't use it for ads, but you also can't blackmail them by not providing the service then.

Also, you as a company are responsible to have the customer understand what they're signing.

If all of these would be done correctly, why would anyone ever sign the consent sheet for you processing their data to show them ads?
All they get out of this, is their personal data at risk of being leaked.
> PG+E is regulated so heavily that any costs they pay will basically just be passed on to consumers.

That assumes they survive. Their market cap is $12b and some cost estimates are nearing that, but their own insurance will cover a lot of the costs... for now.

Endlessly increasing rates works when consumers have no alternatives. But this is in California, solar just gets more and more viable.
The way it is presented gives zero background and conflates the issue. You realize the CDC did this last year as well? Did you hear about it? Probably not.

It's also interesting there is little to no showcase if the turkey issue right before US Thanksgiving: https://www.nola.com/news/2018/11/just-in-time-for-thanksgiv...
I'll add statistics for the 2018 fire season that includes southern and northern California [1] at a combined 55,000 acres versus the northwest (WA, OR) of a similar geographic size [2] and atmospheric conditions to Northern CA at over 100,000 acres in prescribed burns.

[1] https://www.nifc.gov/nicc/sitreprt.pdf (page 6)
[2] https://www.nifc.gov/nicc/
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I think we need to restructure tax incentives related to housing and diversify our policies and finance mechanisms related to housing.

In a nutshell, the vast majority of our policies and programs related to housing are designed to support single family detached housing designed for a nuclear family or rentals that mirror that to a large degree. We created such systems practically overnight at the end of WW2. We have fleshed it out and tweaked it since then, but the underlying assumptions and mental models have remained largely the same. Meanwhile, reality has changed and what worked for the famines that became the parents of the Baby Boomers no longer really works, yet we aren't adapting.

(Source: I was specifically studying housing and housing policy and history in hopes of becoming an urban planner when life got in the way.)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15418719
Link to the creator's Show HN submission
Not exactly a valid comparison. Nippori to Kichijoji requires a change of systems (JR to Keio), and therefore multiple fares -- it would be like MTA+LIRR or MTA+PATH in NYC.
> I just don't see banks and institutions (i.e. Nasdaq and Vanguard) building out crypto capabilities to then not use them

Let me start by saying that I agree there will be a repeat. But, the assertion that companies build some capability to always use them is wrong. What companies did was look into a hype cycle and bought into it as the next "cool thing". After sometime they will forget it even exists. And move on to the next "cool thing".
Fire insurance, like earthquake and flood insurance, does not work because of the scope of damages. Insurance works by pooling risk and taking income from low risk areas to pay for high risk ones. Due to the scope of wildfires, fire insurance is untenable.

The solution to this fire is absolutely to blame pg and e and its custoners (yes this includes me). This is the logical conclusion. The only thing preventing us from doing this is a refusal to count ourselves complicit in this fire.

The solution furthermore is to legislate to remove the barriers to competition that California has set up. Even though I try to do the right thing by buying my electricity from something other than pg and e, I am -- by government sanctioned monopoly -- forced to pay of and e for 'distribution'. I put this in quotes because I am not charged this fee if I buy direct from pg and e. The state allows this non competitive monopoly. When I confronted my congressman, his response to why the state allows this is that the ' pg and e lobby is strong'

If the state cannot preserve a competitive market for energy, then the state needs to seize energy production. Monopoly is not capitalism and it is not the free market and it is not freedom. A state run solution is very non ideal (I say this as a libertarian), but it is the best among all others.

As it is right now, people in England are able to buy shares in my utility and are more incentivized to cut costs and increase profit even to the point of causing harm that will never affect them.
The other way to look at it is that it is a high quality reliable product that can charge a "premium" so to speak. While people in London complain, all lines will have CBTC in the next couple of years (the vast majority already do), running at 30-36trains per hour per direction across rush hour depending on the line. It is very rare for there to be major service issues on more than one or two lines at a time, comparing that to service status in NYC which often has dozens of lines with various issues.

My point really is that "even" £8 isn't that expensive in the grand scheme of things. And that money going into the system allows it to work well.
In NYC specifically, the problem was the city government introduced price caps that made the privately owned lines unprofitable, then refused to raise them. So, of course the trains went out of business. It was set to 5 cents in 1904 and remained there for
over 40 years. Not even the lowest hanging fruit could survive such a thing.
We really need a way to quickly test if a sample of anything is contaminated with these common pathogens prior to raw consumption at home.
And they do pay more. Many thousands of dollars more.
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Personally, I find this quite timely, because I recently wanted to get involved in open source and looked into working with Django. Their ticket tracking system looks far easier to follow and get involved with than many other large projects, but still I find zero tickets marked 'easy pickings' and 'unassigned'.

This may be the wrong response, but my takeaway is that the project is too far along for new contributors, so it's better to try and get involved with smaller, less well known projects where I can contribute.

In part, I'm commenting because I would love for this to not be true, and would be quite excited if someone pointed out flaws in my understanding!
Semis do pay more. They pay many thousands of dollars in road and fuel mileage taxes. Not sure it's 1400x more, but they do pay much more than cars.
I hope you got a chance to read a good HBR article posted earlier on HN:

https://hbr.org/2018/11/5-ways-smart-people-sabotage-their-s...

Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18459389
Just remember there are sensors like the CMV12000 that spew out over 3 billion pixels per second @10bit/pixel and, sufficient light assumed, subpixel motion blur down to iirc about 50% linear overlap or so about. (i.e., only about 50% of the captured pixels have not been captured already.)

Assuming 32 by 32 pixels with a size of 1mm by 1mm, you get a field of view of about 2 by 3 meters or smaller if you want to skip exotic monolithic decoders that integrate de-aliasing into the error correction decoder.
Below about 1.2 sensor pixel per code pixel it stops being fun and you try to find a way to get more magnification.

So, at 150 meters distance, assuming a cube for simplicity, and 5 square meters FOV. We have a cube of 300 m side length. That cube has a surface area of 540 000 m^2, which is just ~100k times the FOV. The 300 frames per second you could get out of the sensor would get this done in about 20 minutes, so yes, it's a lot, but you can reduce to 30% assuming the height difference is approximately known.
Then you can probably get another 10x speed by restricting the angle in which anything interesting could happen, and you get 3% of 20 minutes/1000 seconds. That's half a minute, if you can only tell the scanner that it's about there, with a precision of "between one and two 'o clock, I'm sure".

And that's <10k$ hardware I'm speaking of (not including the cost to get a 2k$ FPGA to extract 2D-barcodes from it's video feed), in 3-digit quantities.

I deem the number plausible.
I mean, unless I'm eating it completely raw (where is hope to practically know the cow by name) then washing the outside before cooking it seems like a complete waste of time.
That might explain cost disease in the public sector, but I don’t know if it’s sufficient to explain cost disease in housing, higher education, or the privatized parts of the health care industry. Unless you want to punt and blame bad government for all those things, which isn't an indefensible position. For example, in health care, the US is very efficient in fields like LASIK (which isn't covered by most public or private insurance) and has occasional counterexamples to cost disease like the Oklahoma City Surgery Center (http://reason.com/blog/2017/01/27/what-happens-when-doctors-... -- warning: libertarian bias).

Still, it’s a very fascinating phenomenon. The US is culturally and constitutionally more robust against tyrannical government, but at the expense of undermining the possibility for effective government. This really gets at the root of some of the discussion about American exceptionalism, too.
> planetary orbits are not ellipses once you take GR effects into account

Super interesting. I'm a physics major (graduated) who didn't take GR, so I didn't know this. Want to learn GR now but very likely won't haha.
Here's one example: https://reason.com/blog/2018/11/20/californians-are-paying-m...
Right, so what was ground breaking about General Relativity, is that it challenged the newtonian axioms (assumptions) that there's a single universal clock, and that all objects within the universe are effectively rigid and exist in something resembling euclidian geometric space, and all move forward through time at the same speed. Newtonian physics explains many things very well, but couldn't explain other phenomenon.

Going from observation, that the speed of light is constant, regardless of how fast the light emitter is travelling relative to you, he made that the unbreakable assumption, and made the shape of spacetime flexible to always satisfy a constant speed of light. This theory was then confirmed when the light of a distant star was observed to bend when travelling through the strong gravitational field of our sun during a total solar eclipse.

Therefore the physics described by General Relativity have greater predictive power.

Quantum physics, can also predict everything in general relativity, but doing so is a lot more complicated than using general relativity. However, Quantum Physics can explain things that happen on small scales that General Relativity cannot. Quantum Physics has greater predictive power, but it's more convoluted. Like Epicycles. Einstein didn't like quantum physics and spent a great deal of time trying to debunk it, but, well, he couldn't.

This is all to point out that one should not confuse predictive power with complexity. Ockham's Razor is a rule of thumb that prefers "simpler" explanations for things. But the predictive power of the two competing theories must be equal for that to apply.
I'd want a revolution like I'd want to have my molecules scrambled by standing in the LHC beam - sure, maybe I'll end up in a superior configuration, but the odds are that if I am at all happy today in even the slightest way, a randomly chosen state will regress me to the mean of complete, brutal dysfunction.
Ever heard of Glossolalia? It's a very effective technique.
It helps to empty your unconscious mind and repressions.

Glossolalia :- https://www.osho.com/meditate/more-meditations/meditation-of...

No-mind meditation :- http://www.oshomeditations.com/no-mind-therapy/

It's a simple method which has tremendous benefits. If used regularly it brings permanent transformation gradually.

Lately, many apps are coming with music and what not which is nothing but the hypnosis. Hypnosis is like a drug, a temporary technique which only has instant effects but not permanent one.
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It's definitely near the top of my list! And may be higher after your comment. :)