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The burger is made primarily from Soy. Soy accounts for 2/3 of global protein feed. Humans eating directly from livestock's primary food source is likely to be much more efficient at a global scale.
I guess I've been living in the suburbs too long. Your comment reminded me of the perfect example, the store where my dad worked - a block away from the Minnesota State Capitol building.
Respectfully, I agree with the tone of the parent comment. I think there are circumstances when a little bite in a comment is appropriate. I'm not sure of wvlia5's original intent, but logfromblammo's position seemed a bit shockingly selfish to me, and a shocked/accusatory response seemed to echo my feeling as well.
Sure, but when it comes to power, you can't wish away its existence.

Someone will have it.

So how do you best mitigate the bad effects it can have? Do you let an entity which does not align with your interests have it? Or do you maintain it and work to iteratively improve your exercise of it?

The effect of wishing away power instead of grappling with it and bending it to justice is one of the central reason why many revolutions and movements have failed.
but environmental impact is often an externality that isn't included in the price.

If you ignore that, you get all kinds of obviously wrong things: a cheap gas guzzling car is cleaner than a tesla; natgas for electricity is cleaner than nuclear. etc. And worse, when you start talking about tech that hasn't scaled up yet.. if you go back 10 years, you would get: solar panels are worse than burning coal.

The price is not an indicator of environmental impact.
I'm not sure what you're proposing? Hashing the inputs to the build function and associating that with an image and using that checksum to determine if there's a change? If so, that doesn't seem to solve the problem of reliably identifying inputs to include in the checksum in the first place, which is a big part of the problem. I imagine we could do the build in a container and use the Docker build cache to identify what things need to be rebuilt, but that doesn't seem like it would scale well since afaik there's no good way to share the cache across multiple nodes.
Attending Harvard is actually quite easy. They offer classes, both online and onsite, for anyone who is willing to pay tuition.

These classes are offered under a program called "Harvard Extension School", and they are the same exact classes that students who got accepted the "normal" way, take.

It even gets you a degree.

If what you care about is the education and resources offered by Harvard, they are available for the taking, and they are the same exact classes offered to "regular" students.
I'd like to see all of these features, but within the git repo. Are there solutions where I can use git to sync my issues, boards, etc., then have a local server to display it in my browser?
Lately I've seen WalMart labels on stuff I've ordered from Amazon. Feels kind of surreal.
>Global supply chain

I know you said "supply chain", but do Sears really have much presence outside the US?

I'm asking because I never heard of Sears before coming to the US. Might not be zero (I find there is Sears in Mexico at least), but definitely not strong compared to Walmart, Carrefour, etc.
Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8217664

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8419984

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13495156
I'm not the above poster, but I also use voip.ms. I don't think you'd need any software at all to set up a phone number with voicemail that mails the recordings. If you want to place calls from your provisioned phone number, you'd of course need either a VoIP phone, VoIP software on your computer or mobile, or rely on DISA (dialing in to voip.ms's system then entering a number to dial).

I use a SIP desk phone, have calls forwarded to my mobile, and also get voicemail recordings in mail.

(Going back to the original article -- I can't say if this actually protects you from such tracking. Maybe stalkers could find your actual mobile number by some other means, or for all I know customer-identifying parameters could be used without even knowing the phone number.)
Olympique Lyonnais vs. Strasbourg match en direct
http://www.stirlingrecruit.co.nz/sites/default/files/webform/lyon-strasbourg-en-direct.xml

http://www.stirlingrecruit.co.nz/sites/default/files/webform/st-vs-li.xml

http://www.stirlingrecruit.co.nz/sites/default/files/webform/lio-vs-str.xml

https://formulieren.persgroep.nl/sites/default/files/webform/lyon-vs-strasbourg-direct-07_0.html

https://formulieren.persgroep.nl/sites/default/files/webform/lyon-strasbourg-en-direct3.html

https://formulieren.persgroep.nl/sites/default/files/webform/lyon-strasbourg-en-direct.html

https://formulieren.persgroep.nl/sites/default/files/webform/li-vs-st.html

http://cushy.com/explore/sites/default/files/webform/lyon-vs-strasbourg-direct-07.html

http://cushy.com/explore/sites/default/files/webform/lyon-strasbourg-en-direct3.html

http://cushy.com/explore/sites/default/files/webform/lyon-strasbourg-en-direct.html

http://cushy.com/explore/sites/default/files/webform/li-vs-st.html
On Investing in Companies That Have Flaws
Imagine the company is closing stores in a month and all the executives and management stop going to work tomorrow. Who is closing the stores? Who is handling exiting the staff properly? You don't want police coming and putting chains around your store and staff just having nothing but chaos for a month. You'll end up people not showing up to work. The stores might be open or not. You might end up with looting.

You want an orderly exit, and they're incentivizing the management to help achieve this.

Investors and employees could attempt to sue individual executives for mismanagement of a business, but if you want the government to punish business executives for failing at business you're in the wrong economic system.
Fair enough. My main point is that the fact that Sears once had a rather famous catalog business seems a fairly tenuous competence on which to base "They could have been Amazon." As you suggest, challenged as segments of retail are in general these days, Sears under different management could presumably have taken things in a number of different directions that wouldn't have resulted in it going bankrupt. Whether that meant Target, Home Depot, or some category that doesn't really exist today.
I love the idea, but the saturated fat seems a bit high for a plant based food?
You clearly didn’t read the article. There’s an argument here that this is more efficient.
Does anyone have experience using this with Home Assistant? I've been meaning to try it for a while now.
Have you considered telecommuting? There's got to be a time-zone that may provide optimal alignment with your sleep patterns.
like they'll let you run this on your amazon/google ad-supported home speaker product...
I live in semi-rural England in Kent. In the collection of fields around my house are pigs, sheep and beef cattle. I'm lucky enough that I can buy meat from happy pasture-grazing animals.

On the flip side, I also get to interact with the animals - stroke them, feed them apples etc. It makes me happier that they have a good life, and also sadder as I can see that they're actual creatures with a life.
The US is not in a steady downward spiral. Some years things improve and others they get worse, but it’s individuals that make the decisions shaping history.
Drone chasing drone is probably the most realistic, especially if they could use radar similar to a guided missile. You'd want to be able to recover the drone for evidence, so using a missile, while possible, probably isn't the best.
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I did my first few years of college at a community college and my experience was that the college had to be very strict about attendance and dropping students who didn't show up. Frankly a lot of them were stoners who were only in school because their parents would cut off support if they dropped out.

The professors were underpaid and many of them didn't care -- some did care and were excellent teachers, but a lot of them were bitter about their career outcomes and just went through the motions. My best professors were the ones who had careers outside of the community college and taught part time, including a tenured professor at Stanford and a professional archeologist.

Honestly it's hard for me to recommend community college to people who are driven and dedicated to their educations, because so many of the other people in those institutions are not like that.

If I could go back in time I would gladly borrow an extra $20k to go to a university from the beginning. Over the time scale of a lifetime, or even just a decade, that's not a lot of money.
They had a new version some days ago, but still not commercial-ready.
To rely on anything non trivial provided by libc is always a risk, but here the problem is that collation is not the right tool for the job (implementing data structures were there is to compare elements). In Redis memcmp() is used, because byte-to-byte comparison is a much more stable story. This leaves the user with the problem of finding a suitable representation that is lexicographically sortable by the first bytes in a way that makes sense for the application, and that also contains, in the farest bytes, what the user really wants to return. Not viable for something higher level than Redis I guess.
Do you honestly think that because a legit fake-beef burger exists that suddenly everyone will stop making black bean burgers or other varieties of patty?
Because they can pocket additional money at the low, low cost of other peoples' mental health and integrity. Why wouldn't they fight against Ad Blockers?

Ads are mental warfare and take on various different forms of manipulation. Many ads are often based on emotional manipulation rather than trying to improve your life by informing you about a good or service, they attempt to belittle you or make it seem like you'd be happy if you just bought their product.

Your life is miserable without this product. This product will make you happy. I'm lovin' it.

Tell me what useful information about MetLife this very emotionally manipulative commercial conveys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bdm4NBYxII

Their website URL? That's it. A 3 minute advertisement to emotionally manipulate you and provide you with a website URL.
I agree, but a further point is that not all consumers need to or care about upgrading. I worked on a project before that used an 8 year old version of an in-house dependency. It worked perfectly for us, and out use case did not jam up or limit the team that owned that library. It morphed into something completely different after years of development, and the library team would have been hamstrung if they could not have innovated the ways they did on account of needing every merged commit of the code to continue to support our old legacy use case.

You could think of it in terms of Python 3 and Python 2 for example. Imagine if Python was an in-house library at Bank of America. Tons of teams there still happily use Python 2, and plan to keep on using it for a while even after official support is deprecated from libraries, etc.

If it lived in a monorepo with this deployment policy (that everything had to be in sync on every merged commit), then you could never attain implementation of Python 3.

The same idea plays out at all sorts of scales. It’s not even necessarily part of monorepo tools, it just happens to be a misguided way that a lot of organizations set up their monorepos.
special relativity is also simple, once again its the differential equations that provide a difficult explanation.
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For me the most interresting development is the rise of Law as Code. Lot of things happening in computational law/contract.
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The article has been updated and the current title is 'Court allows Chairman Eddie Lampert another chance to buy Sears, pushing off decision to shut stores'.
Remote coder here, this is my jam. I can get a whole conference room all day and kick back in my local library, which I can lock behind me if I want to jump out to use the bathroom or eat. Granted, this is in Fairbanks, not LA or SF :)

But even living in Boston I never saw the libraries super packed, usually plenty of room in the top-floor old-school reading room at the central branch on Boylston. Maybe not on holidays, but those sucked for cafes too in the city–better to just stay home or not work those days.

Internet can be a crapshoot, but I can do most of my work tethered to cell anyways. I always have that one cafe with awesome WiFi I can go to for downloading OS/IDE updates.
What differentiates this from Apache NiFi?
>"If this was written as a formal NTY article, it would have been five sentences and not particularly memorable."

Maybe an attempt should have been made to do the story justice then. Discuss where these plastic things came from, who got the idea and when? How did their use spread? And the story doesn't even contain any hint of environmental criticism.

It's an incredibly weak article, and you can tell the editors knew that because of the vague headline they created for it, meant to make people curious. If the headline said "The $0.006 'Plastic Grass' in Your Sushi Container Is Doing an Important Job" far fewer people would have clicked on the article because 'it keeps food separate' is self-evident to anybody who's ever seen it. Better yet would be "The $0.006 'Plastic Grass' in Your Sushi Container Is For Keeping Food Separate." The brief digression into the original bamboo leaf form was slightly interesting, but this article should have gone much deeper to justify itself.
Of course if you have two applications communicating with each other that are statically linked with different version of the library you can still have inconsistency problems.
Cruelty means e.g. causing pain. We can kill animals without causing them pain.
"It's never too late"

Well I would agree, but since the UK adopted the US model of university funding, it's too late, and has been for some time.

I'd love to career change into something different. £27k of tuition fees and three years not earning makes it a £150k+ proposition. No matter how bored I've become with tech after 30 years that's a big ask. Open University charges the same fees now or that would have been an easy and obvious route. Just as it was for my aunt who did a OU degree in her seventies "for fun". From what I hear from the kids university isn't as appealing either as they've become ever more commercial.

Friends who are in lower paying careers are even more stuck. The push to get 50% of the population with a degree means even the most lowly jobs and careers often now require a degree.

I guess when I become too much the curmudgeonly old git I'll take early retirement and do some part time gardening, handyman or some such. Shame for the govt about the tax I won't be paying. :)
Perhaps all of these too big to be good utility services- Amazon, Google, Facebook, even Apple should just offer “classic” slimmed down versions of their previous offerings, for a paid subscription in the case of the online services.
Who is not considered a joke by many people on both sides of the aisle?

He seems to be considered highly reputable by many on both sides of the aisle as well. Certainly more reputable than an hacker news commenter making misleading insinuations as to why somebody might want to delete tweets, and overconfident, baseless proclamations of who is and is not considered a joke by the world at large.
I want this for my TV in the form of an HDMI pass-through device that mutes the audio and/or greatly dims the picture while commercials are being played.
If the technology were fetishised, the tech itself would acquire the status of fetish, which isn't the same as the tech being used to ends of fulfilling a fetish (e.g voyeurism). Some brands arguably promote technology fetishism, but fetishism isn't necessarily sexual, for instance the theory of commodity fetishism.
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If you read the ICO guidance and still think it's insanely complicated

Just the scale of the ICO's guidance -- which still primarily covers only general principles without getting much into specific practices and concrete examples -- tells us that this is a complicated issue.
I love a veggie burger but they are always so expensive at the supermarket. Maybe things have changed since I started eating meat again but being a vegetarian was really expensive.
I've always found the impossible burger to taste 'too much' of umami to taste like a burger. This might actually be a good thing (this means it tastes delicious and meaty).
What part of the world is that? In the US it's typical to have 2 16-18 week semesters per year, usually with a job or internship for 10-12 weeks in the summer.
This is the result of poor tactics. If you're not a CS grad, quit the CS grad hiring path.

Get off the job boards and use services like Vettery and Hired, do outreach on LinkedIn with recruiters and startup CTOs/VP Engineering/Engineering Leads, go to more popular tech meetups consistently and network. Every job I've gotten has been through this.
Agreed. One thing I do is book a recurring meeting for myself in Outlook to book out the time. It doesn't completely guarantee people will book a meeting during my gym time but it definitely minimises it.
not 15", but it does already include touch...

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Cannibals did exist in history. I'm not sure how common they were, but presumably such societies would be okay with it. I think it is safe to say today such a society would not be allowed to exist by others.
> But the statement in question reads as "I don't give a fuck what happens to any animal"

What exactly is wrong with that statement, though? I personally do give fucks about certain kinds of animals, but I recognize that my choices as to what animals to care about is entirely subjective and is a result of my upbringing. I have no problem with a person who draws the line at "entirely no fucks given about any animal" (though that seems kinda sad to me).

Which... is also different from caring or not caring about malicious cruelty. And I think you could make a further distinction between being a proponent of cruelty (as in "I enjoy torturing animals in my backyard") and being indifferent to it (as in "I personally think it's gross to torture animals, but don't feel it's my or the law's place to force other people not to do it").

(Before I get labeled a monster, I personally think malicious animal cruelty is likely a sign of mental illness and am fine with legislating it away. Regarding animals used as food, I think ultimately we're finding that healthy, sustainable food production often aligns pretty well with increased animal welfare, but I consider that a bonus, not a hard necessity.)
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just choose what information to get, unless of this dice-rolling and analytics and cookies approach?
you are being downvoted because of a problem with the nature of HN echo chamber being a symptom.
if the voting/karma system was improved we wouldnt have problems with this kind of downvoting
The more people there are who can choose to use nuclear weapons, the greater the chance that someone will actually choose to use them.
But in JS, reflection is pretty much not needed... I don't need to use reflection to see if an object has a quack method, or that I call it with the right types... I just call instance.quack() ... It's up to you as the developer to keep your interfaces and composition in line.

It's actually WAY easier than with C# or Java. Since the use-case of reflection itself is largely unnecessary.
> In the second half of 2019, IBM will open the IBM Q Quantum Computation Center, located in Poughkeepsie, New York to expand IBM’s commercial quantum computing program, which already includes systems at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown, New York.

Does this mean, in true IBM fashion, the older, remote one will be terminated?
There is a gym below my building with a pool in Canary Wharf in London if you are UK based.
Nice! German has funnier problems, though, because a vowel with an umlaut can be represented as that vowel + e, that is, "fuer" is a legit representation of "für". How do you normalize that? Turning to one canonical representation works most of the time, but sometimes you also need letter-to-letter correspondence.
I agree, incredibly creative. Definitely worth the read for anyone who enjoyed 1984, Brave New World, etc. I don’t recall it being boring in the least, perhaps the translation is partly to blame.
Consulting, points! Annoyingly we are limited to using company Amex but can still collect hotel points / air miles which when you are travelling first class can soon add up. Many of my colleagues have there holidays paid for with a few on Marriot platinum.
Seems like this was a thing before drones too, though. Call in a fake bomb threat, leave an empty bag suspiciously lying around, etc. All things that could asymmetrically disrupt the airport.

Granted, the chance to get caught is smaller with drones, but it's still fairly risky. I guess the only defense here are publicized arrests to dissuade the "prankster" category of attacker and the fact that statistically only very few people are crazy enough in the first place to try such an attack.
I didn't mean to imply that it wasn't complicated - any legislation is going to need careful consideration because the wording is paramount. I was objecting more to the rather overheated phrase "insanely complicated," particularly when a counter-example of legislation that isn't "insanely" complicated wasn't given. Insanely complicated compared to what?
Are you claiming that Israel is objectively right in this conflict? If so, can you clarify what you mean by that?
Most saturated fat is pretty healthy. It's probably coconut or palm oil. I would worry more if it had hydrogenated oils/trans fats.
I'm intentionally not answering this as it hides the point I'm trying to make which is that people have fundamental disagreements on various issues and how to deal with this is an open question. That isn't to say your question isn't valid or uninteresting, just that I don't want the debate to go that direction.
This is true. Sears is easy to pick on, but the truth is that Amazon is seemingly the only company that was early to understand ecommerce and how to effectively gain market share by continually innovating and creating customer-centric practices like free shipping on all orders over $25, which was unheard of before that. Just having a lot of money and knowing the internet would be big was table stakes to start an ecommerce site, but certainly not sufficient to guarantee success. If it were Amazon wouldn't be what it is today.
"The We Company": somebody didn't check what that sounds like when spoken in British English. Wait, what? A company that manufactures and or sells wee?!?? (Pee, to our American friends.) It's not as extreme as powergenitalia or expertsexchange but still something of a facepalm.
Amazing chain of data transfer there. Likely with each one obeying their individual terms but the terms being lessened at each step of the line.

AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile --> Zumigo --> Microbilt --> Bail bond company --> Bounty Hunter --> Motherboard
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I remember my dad pointing this out many years ago on ITV in the UK.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_mark
All animals create carbon dioxide clouds around them with this technique called breathing.