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> A carbon tax would work if you burned the money.

This is very under appreciated. A lot of potential taxes aren't actually collected because people alter behavior to avoid them. For a carbon tax that's the point.

I'll also say the behavior you want to alter is not 'buying carbon based fuels'. The behavior you want to stop is people buying gasoline powered cars and natural gas fired furnaces. Which means what you want is a excise tax on those things not the fuel itself. Because when someone buys a gas powered car they commit then and there to emit 100 tons of CO2. So make the pain point then and there, not in the nebulous future.
Ask HN: Should Technological Means of Fighting Global Warming Be a Priority?
As in, carbon dioxide filtering, making humans more able to survive higher temperatures/worse conditions, engineering cities and stuff for rising sea levels, etc?

Because as much as people talk about changing habits, I strongly doubt it's possible to change society's behaviour enough to 'fix' anything about now. Trying to restrict meat consumption od discourage upcoming countries from following US/European consumerism patterns or asking people to limit driving would probably go down about as well as a lead balloon, and any party that tried to go any further would be rendered irrelevant in elections for the next four decades or so.

Just feels like technology is the only practical way to solve anything here, given how hard any alternatives would be.
> With an open source PhysX library, you can make PhysX work in any environment.

Not if their drivers on other environments dont support it. Consoles are all AMD, and NVIDIA only has 3-4% more market share on PC, while intel has around 70% of the market share. That's a really low number of platforms for a proprietary piece of tech.
This is so over blown. Providing Chinese people with slightly censored search is better than no Google search at all.

Think how fucking much you use google every day, it's easy for you to sit here and yell human rights violation.

FFS Google already censors your search results here in USA, why are you complaining that they will also do it in China.
I did on-call duty for about 5 years, first as a developer and later as a product manager. I reliably got an extra 10-20% of my salary in compensation and did not really mind doing it.

We received a fee per week and a fee for every incident (150% normal hourly wage). There were between 0 and 10 incidents outside of office hours in a week. Most of the time 0 to 1.

Even though it was part of the job and the compensation was fair, the only thing I miss about it now is the money ;)
> Dean argued that [...] China’s surveillance is analogous to the U.S.’s Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants, secret warrants purportedly issued for the purpose of rooting out foreign spies.

So, since Google has made it publicly clear they disagree with the opacity around FISA warrants and have fought to make some transparent, can we expect the same level of public disagreement and fight for China policies?

This is what is frustrating me more than the actual censorship. Businesses that kowtow to Chinese government demands may use this whataboutism to compare to western governments, and they're right about the similarities. But they refuse to publicly even disagree with the practices like they will for western governments. If you do business in the US and your principles are pro freedom and/or pro privacy and publicly denounce US government actions against those, how can I really believe those are your principles if you remain mum in other instances. Does even the inability to disagree w/ certain ideals publicly trump your principles?

Google and other companies need to stop drawing comparisons if they refuse to draw them in the other direction. Google, come out in an official blog post and say you don't like China asking you to censor stuff. Apple, come out and officially say you don't like being forced to use Chinese clouds for your user data. This isn't like asking you to expose an NSL, it's like asking to to oppose the idea. Otherwise, we have to assume you do agree with the practices, or at the least don't disagree.
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The trouble is that 90% of your calls will be due to user error, and the vast majority will be something you just can’t improve, like people misspelling their own names.
Same here. Thirty hours max.
I’m really sorry to hear this story. It makes me feel pretty sad, and worried as a recent parent. I think I have a preference for free speech, but stories like this really make me wonder where the boundaries are. Communities are bound together by common stories. If we cannot control the stories members listen to, the community ceases to function. And I’m starting to wonder whether we are beginning to see this failure writ large around the world right now.
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I absolutely am not disparaging the actual research in machine learning borne from academics studying CS and AI. Rather, I'm referring to the seemingly recent trend by people to insist on severing all ties between statistics and machine learning. And it consistently seems to be made in articles like the one above written by authors who almost seem happy to insist they know nothing, and need to know nothing, regarding statistics.

Perhaps I am being too cynical, but its hard not to see ulterior motives given the ridiculous amounts of hype regarding machine learning, the innumerable boot camps, and to-be data science influencers.
Most of these are all true for F# too.

On 2, most of the syntax is indentation sensitive, but for types you can optionally annotate them with `class`/`struct`/`interface` and the keyword `end` to finalize them.

Pattern matching in F# is more powerful than simple switch/case statements.
I'm surprised no one from Google has made a full-throated defense of this project. Not that I personally agree with it, but there is a case to be made that projects like Dragonfly embody the longstanding US policy of "constructive engagement" with China. It's not hard to imagine Hennessy or Pichai extolling the virtues of compromise and highlighting a handful of key concessions from the Chinese gov't.

Why haven't we heard that? Either 1) Even Google's leadership doesn't believe this has any moral upside, only financial, or 2) They can't so much as admit that they're making concessions to an authoritarian regime, for fear of offending said regime. Both explanations betray remarkable moral cowardice.
I hardly see any of that. I read and write poetry there, connect with other artists, share our work, riff off one another and have a great time doing it. I don't have any adult content filters set. It just depends what part of the site you explore, I suppose.
Much of the detail is irrelevant, though. There are things like languages I never use, and sofware version point-revision.
I don’t think anyone would consider making your children wear a wire to school/friends’ houses “just parenting.” Yet many parents are proud of the digital equivalent. The big bad internet is one thing, private conversations with real-world friends are another.
I agree with all of this. I only mention it because it is one valid option. You would have to find ways to lower the bar to access for your particular community.
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maybe from a philosophical standpoint, but in the end then the Chinese people don't have access to Google.

The options in China are similarly censored. So it isn't like Google would be engaged in something that is an outright negative for the end Chinese user.

Maybe people prefer Google to Baidu/Bing/whatever. So if you are getting the same x results from Baidu, Bing, Google, etc. but you prefer Google's experience/filtering/page rank/whatever, are you hindered in any meaningful way beyond what you were already by using the censored version of them?
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The problem is not your alphabet of customers but the insistence on calling it feature "a". If the same feature has mutually exclusive specs, it is not one but two features and it is exactly product development's task to make that distinction.
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It's certainly common knowledge that sugar is fattening (but many people don't know that carbs are relatively bad too), but carbs are cheap and tasty so hard to quit.
The click through for non-porn ads besides porn is, in my experience, almost non-existant.
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The issue here is that you make (just continuing your hypothetical here) $10k per year for 2 guys doing 7 days per week to maintain their viewership. Not enough to sustain their business, so their content starts moving toward least common denominator stuff.
They say its like facebook, but with... fewer family members and coworkers I guess you could say

I'm being mildly sarcastic in tone when I say this: they're probably there, you just haven't found their profiles yet ;)

Which is kind of the interesting thing about Fetlife, one can't approach someone about being on "that" site without outing themselves for being on "that" site as well-since you're not able to see any profiles without logging in (assuming a friend doesn't login and show them around and they spot your face in a profile pic commenting in a group thread or on someone's photos) where others you can't see at all unless that person has added you to their friends list-you're directed to a generic 404 page.
It's okay to contribute to their oppression, because they're not used to freedom anyway?
The real culprit needs to be called out here. Fuck apple and their puritanical crusade against porn. Anyone who appreciates NSFW content needs to boycott them.
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Of course not. I even against any restrictions on hate and harassing speech. Not that I like it. It is just I think that censorship in any form is worse than any speech it may be trying to censor. So choosing lesser evil out of 2.

note: Censorship above is in the sense of making content decisions for capable adults. Children isnt capable adults.
Influence is irrelevant. A publicly traded company (especially of Alphabet's size) has fiduciary obligations.
How long does this sort of thing take? Its a really neat approach but seems huge
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There are tools available to strip docker images down to a specified file list. By listing only the absolute minimum of files your application needs you can cut the surface down even further. Do you really need bash on the container for example?
Interesting thought experiment but based on my understanding of online community behavior I highly doubt erotica creators would go to a place already entrenched with Qanon believers.

I do think they would jump to “the new tumblr” not owned by Verizon that has its own cool culture. Both consumers and creators like building stuff up.
People keep say astroid mining but I've yet to see a convincing business case...
so oss what is useless in future because of inevitable volumetric future(flex)
> Does anyone have any ideas if Spacex will actually grow the launch market, rather than just dominate.

Total global launch numbers per year has been trending up since mid '00s, when the market was at an all time low. This upward trend predates Spacex and is larger than Spacex. The record number of annual global launches is 120 in 1967. 2018 has had 98 launches so far. There are 172 planned launches for 2019. [0]

> Does anyone have any ideas if Spacex will actually grow the launch market, rather than just dominate. What new things become possible with lower cost access to space.

Spacex is enabling new space projects in two areas. Having the cheapest launches, and having the largest single launch lift capacity. In the future, before Mars, we can expect to see more enabling from Spacex, such as having the cheapest human launches, and having even more lift capacity.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_spaceflight
Why did you word that as if the poster didn't create the content within the blog?
Here is a link to the launch video (cued at T-15s): https://youtu.be/Wq8kS6UoOrQ?t=1179
I'd never heard of it, a web search turns up only a handful of mentions, and it's not even the only thing in crypto to be called 'seal'.
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All of it, because he founded the company. But most people agree none of it would happen without Gwynne Shotwell.
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Isn't Reddit allowed on iOS?
I agree. If something isn't happy-clicky and already works from their existing browser, most won't bother. Perhaps you could develop a simple innovative way to make Tor easy for that community to adopt. Maybe a small number of them try it out at first.
I rather like using the custom tooling. It means that if people are following the prescribed procedure, they will always be using the latest version of a project template or some such rather than duplicating a local copy of what might be a hideously out-of-date template.

With Swift, for example, using Swift Package Manager (SPM) to initialise templates means that the syntax in the newly-created project's files is up-to-date, the Package.swift file follows the appropriate naming conventions for whatever version of SPM it is, and it's much more convenient to do `swift init` than to go clone a github repo manually then rename this or that.

It's basically a command-line version of project templates in Visual Studio or whatever, and people generally like those. Sane defaults are nice, but sane defaults with validation are nicer.

Though I agree that it would be nice to just have a blank template available for those who don't want to use the tooling. There should always be a subsection in the Getting Started section that says "clone this repo, and you're good to go. Be sure to clone the repo again when you want to make another project; don't just copy your existing clone!".
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Additionally, this was the first time that the fairings were recovered and are expected to be reused for a future launch:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1069679948103847939

The fairings currently cost a total of $6MM for each launch, or at least 10% of the physical rocket cost, so this could lead to significant savings for future launches.
Now they can say this is not your father's "military-grade encryption". This is SEAL-grade encryption!
This is risk impact 101. Risk = probability x impact. Even when the probability is small (false accusations), the huge potential impact can result in large overall risk.
The Gs aren't in the range of "danger to human life", at least not for nominal mission profiles (all bets are off if things go wrong, of course). For the foreseeable future you'll likely just have to be willing to deal with "rough rollercoaster ride lasting minutes" if you want to go to space. For a lot of people, that excitement will even be some of the appeal.
It's not OK. Why is it so important to find similarities to justify behavior?
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The modern web hasn't changed from olden times in any significant manner. Yeah, there's not just random cp being shared across open channels, but the internet is a reflection of humanity. Humans love to share their problems and evils through it. Platforms like Tumblr take what you've found some interest in and scope in on it to surround you with it.

I had a 14 yo cousin who started subscribing to /r/incels and a 'pol' attitude and is simply incapable of being a decent human being. All it takes is group-think and idealogy. People will fall into it, and teens are especially targetable.

You two will get through it. Teens have a lot more change to go through.
Who decides what is evil? I don't think it's evil. If I was living in China I would rather have access to a censored Google than no Google at all.
this. If the Xbox app on Windows 10 worked like I was under the impression of based on the announcement (that it'd function like a launcher for your games regardless of storefront purchased from), that'd probably push me away from Steam. Until there is a unified launcher (bonus if it can handle downloads/installs from the various storefronts provided the game/app is purchased) that I don't have to configure heavily to get working, Steam it is for me.
"And so that is why Google won't stop. Because there's no reason to."

I completely disagree, look at what happened to project Maven.
I'm more interested in how I (apparently) avoided it all.

Methinks it's because I got it out of the way early on. I definitely have had my own phases for occult, religion, conspiracies, MLM, alcohol, outrage addiction, counter cultural impulses, protests, etc.

Further, I once thought I'd get into journalism, did student radio & TV, wrote for a bit.

I think seeing how the sausage is made, learning the craft, helps one develop an immunity.

Having a contrarian reading list probably helped. For example, Robert Anton Wilson and stuff like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_SubGenius
I did. And I don't mean to violate rules or to be insulting, but it set off my skepticism side. The comment, to me, did not seem to be from someone who writes English as a first language. The account is two days old, and has made only two pro-China comments. I mean no offense to the poster, but I'll remain skeptical for now.
Something even more buzzwordy/BS-y. Ask Dilbert's boss.