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> If that were true, we wouldn't exist. People did grow their own food for thousands of years. If everyone had to grow their own food, we'd be fine. All mechanization did was free up people from agricultural labor to do other jobs, humans predate tractors.

This works when everyone owns many acres of land per person, and is spending their entire life working the fields, doing hard labor, and doing very little else with their life yes. We don't live in that world anymore, though.

I suspect there isn't even enough physical land on the earth to support this inefficient method of farming.

We have significant evidence of how this worked out for people. That world that you are describing, where everyone spent their entire life just trying to barely feed themselves, was a horrible place, for everyone.

This period of time was called "the history of the world before the industrial era". And lots and lots of people died. So no, they were not fine.

> It is a reality for lots of people, and we're pretty happy about it.

By "a lot" do you mean a very small percentage of the total population?

> My tomatoes cost me 2 minutes of time.

What you do with your tiny backyard garden is irrelevant. It is mathmatically impossible for you to be feeding yourself entirely on that, unless you have multiple acres of land, which I doubt is what you are describing. Your anecdote does not overrule physics.
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Not exactly. If, using your Star Trek-style transporter, you instantaneously transported a cubic meter of sun core into empty space, it would radiate a lot of power at first, but by the very fact of radiating all that power, it would quickly cool, especially if you didn't have a good way of keeping it from expanding. But even if you did have some way to contain it, it would still cool pretty fast, since it would no longer be receiving the power input of all the other core stuff around it.
Thank you and others for pointing that out. I can see how a blanket insult that would unintentionally fit many Hacker News users would lead to a pile on. I've been on an iPhone forever but I've stopped considering it and Apple part of my identity. It was such an extreme statement in an otherwise interesting article that I took it as humor to be honest.
> Depends on the valuation models used. There's no accepted standard yet.

Ten years and you still have no accepted standard for valuation. Hmmm.... what does that tell you about the entire space?
I'm the same way, but it has struck me that this is a kind of inverse brand fixation. If I were indifferent to brands, I wouldn't mind that my clothes happen to advertise them, but I do. I think on some level I view highly visible brands as crass, which is to say that a lack of branding is itself a class or status signifier.
Wow, the fact that Larry Wall was a linguist and (along with many others, I'm sure) applied those skills (about the nuances of human languages) to the design of Perl, really shines through in this comment. Thanks.
> While pithy, this reply just seems to ignore basically every point I raised and just reassert your original assertions without offering any reason to believe them.

I said that I didn’t understand your argument, so I asked some questions. And then I expanded my argument with reasoning, but apparently you feel that my reasoning is deficient, but lazily assert that I did not offer “any reason” to believe them. I honestly thought that I did offer reasons.

> In fact I’d say your whole series of comments here are rhetorical gimmick with some bravado like it’s a great philosophical insight while side-stepping the only interesting philosophical question here, which is how do we decide which concepts “actually” exist.

That’s an interesting philosophical question, but we’re having a discussion about programming languages and type systems, and I would say that the philosophical question of “what exists?” is side-stepping the interesting questions about type systems. In order to have a discussion about type systems we need to agree about what exists, and the best way to do that is to simply agree by convention that certain things (like type systems) exist.

Which is what I’d prefer. Same thing with mathematics… if we are talking about vector spaces, I don’t want to have a discussion about what “exist” means, I just want to use the word “exist” as a substitute for mathematical concepts, agree how we use the word in context, and then talk about math.
Good. 99% of it was utter bullshit and any worthwhile research was getting drowned out.

Regardless of whether or not blockchian and cryptocurrencies end up being pivotal technologies in future, one positive fallout is that we are asking "how can we do this better" of some very traditional and established industries.
Another case you could add is for citizens of country A but resident of Country B. For e.g. Indian citizen residing in US or has valid US Visa gets Visa free travel to Mexico and other countries.
Jira is a tool for executing the implementation portion of your software. Notice I did not say implementation phase. Also notice there is a design portion of software.

It's important to distinguish between design and implementation. Creating a plan is not the same thing as executing the plan. All these things can overlap and have feedback in both directions.
My only suggestion is for everyone to use an adblocker and starve such parasitic websites out of existence.
As a former (or perhaps just occasional) style writer who has put a great deal of thought into what peoples decisions about what they wear actually mean, 20 years ago the author's "premium mediocre," used to be called "aspirational products."

These were the keychains, perfumes, and ballcaps with astronomical margins that made the real money on the other side of the business, which was their loss leading spectacle (haute couture, etc.) You can't afford a DeHavilland Beaver airplane, but you can buy this saddle stitched wallet as a symbol to remind you of the image of one.

The aspirational products matter because they give us information about peoples true desires. It's a leading indicator for culture and politics. Even the Cambridge Analytica scandal was started by someone who was able to link peoples political leanings to the brands they chose. (I'd link the article but it's behind the FT paywall.)

When someone gets up in the morning, the things they choose to wear are an expression of what team they think they are on, what tribe they think they are a part of, who they think their main stakeholders are, and what kind of incentives motivate them. In business, that's about all you need to know about someone.

Given this, I get the impression fashion, business and culture are not the main field of the author of this op-ed.
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Presumably there is a considerable amount for reputational damage.
HD650s aren't particularly sensitive.
Sadly, all the european PCB shops seem to have starting prices of 10€ per piece, it's quite annoying to have to wait for chinese vendors but for prototyping 10€ the piece is way to expensive and I can't handle chemicals either.

My latest hope is that Laser4DIY is gonna make progress, being able to laser the PCB entirely would make life so much easier.
A lot of web browser software just isn't very good. I have mentioned how to do better way in my opinion. One principle is that the user can customize everything and it assumes the user know what they are doing and wants it, while the data from the remote server is assumed to be hostile (regardless of whether it is HTTPS or not). There are other principles too, to use. (One feature of Firefox I don't like is when you try to save a webpage it tries to use the title of the document by default; the title does not usually make a very good filename. The filename in the URL is often better.)

However, often HTML/HTTP(S) is just the wrong protocol for many things (I am not so sure it is so good for this Hacker News either!); we have other protocols as well as other file formats, such as plain text over HTTP, plain text over gopher, telnet/SSH for interactive sessions, IRC for chat, NNTP, SMTP, MIDI, and one reason I invented Remote Virtual Table Protocol for exposing data sources.
But it's weird. It's almost never useful at implementation. It's like Chuck and the guy from TLA+ say. The important thing is just asking THE question. Props to ADA Lovelace for basically inventing that.
Damn I knew it was old but seeing the operator area and control switches really sealed the deal. MTA is a living museum!
If it takes three weeks to import an excel sheet either you change your system or your engineers.
tertium non datur.
I’m currently 1 week into recovery from a painful shredded (the surgeon’s words) patellar tendon and repair.

On reading certain passages, my afflicted leg (and only that leg) got tingles and goosebumps and the rest of me just... cringed... in horrified empathy. I feel ill just thinking about OP’s pain, and knowing, as OP does, that this is nothing compared to the pain of certain other maladies makes me wonder how anyone can bear it.
I think that significant swathes of human kind throughout history have assumed that their current state of existence is the peak and final form of humanity. While it is always logically possible that this is the case, it has never yet been true.
I realize it on and off. I go through periods where I binge games (I've always been a handheld fan, so 3DS and now Switch) and then I won't play for weeks, while I do other hobbies. I definitely notice a vast difference between when I'm playing games and when I'm not. When playing, I just want to do one more, one more, and even see the game in my head when not playing, or think about metastrategy. Thankfully, it hasn't impacted my life, but I definitely don't want any kids I might have dealing with that until they're able...Though I'll definitely introduce them to games, just keep it limited.
+1

I’ve been using OSH park for the last few projects. Way easier to get started (they take Eagle files and supply design rule files), quick shipping, amazing support.
We brought a cat inside that was free roaming and an amazing hunter. She was so effective and cruel we couldn't take it. Half eaten lizards, wrens on the wing, a wounded hummingbird. That was it. She's now a fat sleepy lap cat. God bless her.
>They could have simply kept their assets in stable coins, like Dai, Tether, etc..

To turn into dust?

>They could also sell into USD on exchanges that allow you to trade USD (e.g. Kraken).

And trust Kraken then.

>Another option would have been to open a hedging short position on say, Bitmex.

and trust bitmex then.

There are no scalable options to cash out $10m to a bank and sleep well. You could cash out into some "stable coin" only to wake up to it costing $0.04 (hello nubits). Tether is no safer in that matter.
I just wanted to congratulate your team on your website.

We get many an email offering services from your region, and none I've seen were modern nor have the wherewithal to create and share open source projects on Github.
And the industry leader (Kodak) at the time didn't think digital would be useful and delayed R&D. But don't worry they came up with Kodakcoin!
What do you think the typo is there?
This is very cool, and I can see all sorts of use cases where a tool like this could be valuable.

Definitely will try to keep in mind that a tool for fast differentiation of arbitrary functions exists out in the world when starting my next project

Thanks for posting!
True Agile says “people over processes” meaning it’s different for everyone.
It apparently only effected a new software release - so its down to Ericson in this case.
interesting to consider how much an average consumer cares about the "quality" of a new watch they are buying today

unless you're buying a dive computer or ruggedized/solar-powered wrist GPS, you don't need a watch. you have an infinitely more accurate and powerful device in your pocket that fulfills the same function of telling time x 1000000 other applications

time-telling watches are now 100% a status symbol, heirloom, and/or enthusiast good

brand is and will become that much more important as the old school "quality" collectors and wearers die out and are replaced by brand/social signaling watch consumers

same to a lesser extent with clothing - you're sitting in an air conditioned office or car or your home for most of the day, but it's a powerful expression of who you are and what you can afford when you wear your new balenciaga sneakers out to drinks on friday night and pull out your $5 branded bic lighter.

mediocre quality is good enough because our environment is so tame, brand is everything
I agree. Usually the stories I've seen written are very implementation specific rather than an expression of the desired state. I believe its because its easier to think about concrete solutions. This goes for product owners and devs alike.
I'm... not sure you replied to the right comment here? What I'm talking about is writing 2018-style paths (starting with `crate::`, etc) in a 2015-edition crate, so you don't have to switch between two path styles when you switch between crates.
Populism is a precise way of appealing to basic emotions of a population by creating an "us vs them" narrative. You find an enemy, tell the people that the enemy is causing all their troubles and that you're the only cure because you're the only one on the people's side.

With a bit of perspective it's easy to see that this broadly describes socialism - which is the parents point. Socialism and social democracy is not commonly derided as 'populist'.
Sure, sometimes someone with the ability to do so needs to make a call and decide if the issue is to be treated as a bug or a feature request. It does not follow from it that planning and bug tracking are the same thing and are best done with the same tools.

Work tracking is also not the same as bug tracking (or planning!), and it is not obvious that all “work” meaningfully goes into the same queue. A dev lead with a basic grasp of context switching costs and specialised knowledge will instead look at several streams and organise accordingly.

It absolutely makes sense to keep planning separate, if for no other reason than the planning process and details rarely benefit from being exposed directly to the users.
Bug reporting and fixing on the other hand is at its best when it is fully open, and is a valuable resource for users.
People don't really need watches, you got everything you need on your phone, a watch is purely status signalling fashion accessory and as such the quality doesn't matter, just the brand, the design and the price. You might get the same design from a no brand piece and you might get the quality from non status signalling brands but you want get the recognition of your status which is the most important thing you pay for.
I think it is just a matter of what one is most comfortable with.

The HW-solution is a nice challenge, but I am sure, there are simpler ways to solve it.

On a sidenote: I would be surprised if the issue he has is systemic too Android devices in general. I am sure others would have noticed it if was that widespread that it occurred on all devices.
They don't. There's been plenty of information, study and discussion of the other greenhouse gasses, especially methane.

As CO2 is the main contributor it's reasonable it gets most of the focus.

What would you focus on?
If I'll enjoy my current ones less after trying more expensive ones, isn't that a reason not to try them?

I do see a difference between the branded ones I've used (mostly Panasonic and the Samsung AKG one that comes with phones) and the cheaper generic ones I've tried out here and there
> because there was no solution to guarantee that a digital payment is ever truly "done" until Bitcoin was invented.

Except blockchain based currency can't solve the "402 problem" as you call it. They are far to expensive and would never scale to the transaction volume required.

And if you are going to say "oh yeah well Lightning Network will save us!". Lightning Network is the biggest pile of vaporware I've ever heard of. It's been "just around the corner" to save bitcoin for almost as long as bitcoin has been a thing. ...I do love the solution to scaling the blockchain is to not use it--a real ringing endorsement of Satoshi's Glorious Block Chain if I ever heard one!
Did you ever add any of those back to see if you could pinpoint a single food group? Or maybe it's a combination of all of them.
Ha, "Il Fatto Quotidiano" is pretty much the Five Stars party's official newspaper. So I don't know why they would call them populist (unless they decided that it's easier to redefine the value of the term rather than fight against it).

Anyway, Five Stars's proposals are rather extreme, and they're outsiders who don't fit the left/ right division; as such it's easier to recognize and label them as populist than it is with the usual left-wing parties (when their proposals actually are populist, which is not a given).
I was about to comment with the exact same quote.

This is my main issue with the OP; if you're using Jira for tasks like "Implement the upload button" then of course your developers are going to lack context about the broader vision/roadmap. That sort of division of labor encourages "widget factory" thinking. This is not a problem with Jira, it's a problem with the underlying product planning process.

I'm sure plenty of companies have "scrum masters", create Jira tickets called "stories", and think they are "doing Agile", while using a process like that. But that's seems like cargo-cult agile software development to me.

I do agree with the narrower critique that it's hard to present a broader roadmap with Jira; I've found Portfolio to be only OK for managing sequencing of Jira epics without getting bogged down in the details of individual stories.
250k fine, 15m raised... https://decryptmedia.com/2018/11/29/exclusive-airfox-ceo-say...
Just spent this weekend putting together a lightweight Docker image that can run the Ravencoin wallet in full visual mode and as bonus you can create Paper Wallets also in a contained environment.
Why would you do this?
- You can quickly run the full wallet in complete isolation, and no software/dependencies. You just need Docker and docker-compose.
- It's build from sources, so nobody could interfere with the code
- Can run on systems without Graphic cards ( any cloud server can run it )
Here is my
- repo : https://github.com/valentinvieriu/raven-wallet-novnc
- Docker image: https://hub.docker.com/r/valentinvieriu/raven-wallet-novnc/
- And if you find it useful feel free to share some Ravecoins: https://ravencoin.network/address/RKfFZsiM8MpWxtbvyNSE1MHFWA...
Any feedback and contribution is welcomed!
What I see in this article is a point that there's a discrepancy between goals and tasks needed to achieve these goals. If you're using JIRA for both planning features and measuring work hours spent (which many organizations are) then this brings some trouble - in an agile sprint, it makes all sense to plan that you'll do features A, B and C this week and get to D and E next week; however, it may be that by the end of the week you've spent 4 hours each to finish A, B and C and 20 hours on an infrastructure task (that's mostly done but not yet) that's needed not only for A and C but also for the next week's tasks.

The detail level and task breakdown which is appropriate for planning which features you'll prioritize and do for a sprint may not be a good task breakdown for actually assigning sub-tasks for people, looking at their progress/status during a sprint, and mapping particular commits or hours worked to them. JIRA common practices sort of force those things to be the same, which may be considered harmful.
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Say you shoot the deuterium and tritium ions at each other in beams. Making two ions fuse isn't quite the same as hitting a fixed bullseye. Typically, physicists consider a 'cross section' for a reaction between two particles as a function of their relative velocity: a notional area that allows one to compute the probability of a reaction occurring, which may be thousands of times larger or smaller than what we typically think of as the physical size of the particles.

The cross sections for fusion reactions are significantly less than 1000th those of elastically bouncing off, even at the optimal velocities. Fusion reactions release about 1000 times[2] the typical energy needed by the reactants in order to get close enough for there to be any significant probability of reaction. So a one-pass beam system is always going to lose out to elastic scattering.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_cross_section
[2] D + T releases 17.6 MeV of energy; typical fuel temperatures are 15 keV.
I did a planning meeting while working remotely.

The only thing that came out of it was a big word document that looked like the big word docs id write for waterfall back in the day.

I don't think people realise just how little things like JIRA and Trello do for you.

The only thing they can give you is a different view of that same word document.

The second they over clutter themselves with junk in the interface and custom flows the benefit to using them is lost.

Trello is a good example, it used to be pretty decent. Now it takes something like 10 clicks to delete a card.

The rest of their interface is chock full of antipatterns like that.

Someone needs to build something that does one thing well and doesn't try to do every other thing under the sun.
As someone who works in the power utility industry - an industry that has slowly moved from monolithic, often publicly-owned monopolies to a competitive market where lots of functions are contracted out to service providers - I feel that a lot of this is symptomatic of that process.

In the 'old days' when we built lots of large infrastructure projects like the New York subway, various energy megaprojects, the interstate highway system, etc. nearly all technical functions were done in-house at the government or quasi-government agency responsible.

Now we have become 'leaner' and pared down many government agencies to project management only (sometimes just business management - projects is contracted out too), but it's not that easy to manage construction of a subway or a 500 kV transmission line if you don't actually have the base of relevant knowledge internally. Suddenly you have 25-year-olds fresh of out of engineering school being christened 'Senior Project Manager' and put in charge of a large, very complex technical project when 40 years ago, they would have been doing basic design and learning their trade as an engineer under the direction of a phalanx of senior engineers. Then we pat ourselves on the back for 'saving' loads of money by reducing headcount in the public sector when actual total cost of ownership has escalated.

The people actually doing the nuts-and-bolts engineering and construction work have no ownership in the project because the second that contractual completion is declared it's off to the next one.

Right now I am working for a power company that refuses to hire its own project or commissioning engineers, instead contracting management, oversight and quality control of its construction projects to a litany of 3rd parties. Unsurprisingly, it means very few if any people in our company have the expertise to understand what's going on when a project is off the rails. The result is endless delays while senior management wrings their hands and brings in yet more consultants to manage the other consultants.
“I listed the book at $35 for the paperback and $20+ for the ebook. (i.e., $20 or pay what you want above that)”

Jeremy, if you’re reading this and want to share, did you find many buyers that opted to pay above the $20 baseline?

Thanks anyway for the blog post, it’s interesting and useful. Myself, I’ve written a kids sci-fi novel, currently stuck in editing phase, and still figuring out what my publication vector will be.

Good luck!