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Restrict the history of colonization to:

1. Those that postdate farming. Because we obviously can't cream off the local wildlife in Mars as there is none.

2. Those that can survive the loss of their motherland. If the goal is to survive the complete loss of Earth, the Martian colony needs to be completely self-sustaining and cannot have any reliance on the Earth-bound umbilical cord.

The list of lands uninhabited as of about 2000 BC essentially amounts to remote islands in the oceans. Polynesian colonization definitely relied on the sustained contact between these remote islands. A lot of the remote Arctic/Antarctic islands were settled largely to facilitate hunting of sea mammals (seals, whales) and wouldn't exist if that trade ceased. Hell, the Norse colony in Greenland collapsed after it was dropped from Viking trading routes... despite lasting for over 400 years before then.

The closest thing I can think to of an example that meets this criteria is the Pitcairn Islands. But while they did clearly last for a decade without outside contact, much less support, they became dependent on outside support within about 50 years. The carrying capacity of Pitcairn Islands is probably smaller than the minimum self-sustaining band size of human beings.
A google search of past failed predictions of recession shows people ,including experts with PHDs, are generally not good at this. In hindsight they can explain why the economy went into recession but are hopeless at predicting when
Just because a lot of people do it doesn't mean it's the right choice though. Most Republicans seem to disagree from what I can tell.
Yes, sometimes a company needs to get rid of one type of employee or a particular division while staffing up in other places.
How is mars better as a radiation shield? It has no magnetic protection like earth’s van allen belts. Until that exists, Mars will be a desolate place.
Seconding this, it's really annoying (and common) to buy a dedi with a "/48" only to find out that the prefix isn't actually routed to the server.

Incredible how many DCs can't seem to figure this out.
Political advertising on the internet in the UK should at least be made to follow the print advertising rules (imprint+cost accounting), and ideally the TV advertising rules (banned except for PPB)
A government that has laws that require ID and a minimum age to purchase plastic knives? Same government?
> For what it seems the USA election was deeply impacted by a foreign hostile government using Facebook ads

I would still request evidence about the scope of this, because basic evidence suggests strongly that the influence was minuscule.

So I would heavily question "deeply impacted". Perhaps this whole story was just fake news?

I would even be satisfied with any ad from any country having the ability to significantly sway any election.

There are far more probable explanations for the result of the election.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/01/nonfarm-payrolls-january-201... : On a year-over-year basis, though, [wages] still amounted to a 3.2 percent increase, consistent with the past few months and around the highest levels of the recovery.

Higher wages are a good thing.
In the year over year employment by occupation stats, the unemployment rate for Management, professional, and related occupations and Sales and office occupations is a small bit higher but the overall number is still lower because of increased employment in production and service jobs.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t13.htm
> I'd have to see a cumulative flow diagram showing breakdown by age range over time to have a shot at having an intelligent conversation about this

You have a very high standard for having intelligent conversations, then. Sometimes the data you ask is not easily obtainable, behind paywalls, or just not presented uniformly. How about some good old fashioned "good faith"? Let's assume that both parties in this argument are indifferent to being right, but trying to sort out to find the truth of the matter, and they aren't pulling numbers out of their ass, how does that sound?

> I don't think people 'find football' when they get older.

I admit this is probably not the best metric, but a frequent viewer of /r/nfl and the various team based subreddits at least hints that the opposite is true: many people are finding football later in life.

Another thing left out of this conversation all together is the NFL's focus on expanding internationally -- particularly the UK and Mexico. Viewership in London especially continues to rise Y.O.Y, and the NFL has been floating the serious idea of a London based team for a few years now, and I fully expect that to happen within the next couple of years.
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Not yet, but writing one for today's versions of all the tools is something I plan to do within a week. I can ping you if/when I get it up.

I started with older links like this: https://pedrokroger.net/using-sphinx-write-technical-books/

This is inspiring but less useful: https://www.tompurl.com/2012-11-22-writing-a-book-with-vim.h...

This was useful for theming: https://github.com/FriendsOfEpub/eBookTricks
Also, don't forget Microsoft Frontpage...
I can't find anymore where I read that Niklas Luhmann's "Zettelkasten" (slip box or note repository) was filed according to the following rules:

(1) If there's no related note in the box, give it number $last_number+1
(2) If there's a related note in the box, say, number 103, file it 103/A, 103/B, 103/C, etc.
(3) If some subtopic of 103/A comes up, file it 103/A/1, etc.

I did that with Markdown and an iPad app for a while. Now I have an actual paper slip box. It's very time-consuming but gives you space to think. Also it's interesting to see notes spatially over an entire living room once in a while.

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I'm lost in a digression. But it seems rather trivial to use a system like that (maybe with dots -- 10.1.1 etc. -- ) and write a script that reads a list of chapters in the order they're going to be used eventually and assembles a book. Heck, from my system I may be able to sort, scan and have someone at Upwork type it.
Part of me wonders if we are talking ourselves into a recession, the market is definitely spooked about how China's growth slowdown affects the global economy but in terms of wages and unemployment the US economy still has a long ways to go. For instance African American unemployment is at record lows but still around 6%. Many people are working gig economy jobs and part time and would love a full time opportunity. Growth (discounting tax cuts) is low but stable, so is wages.. so is inflation.

If anything is going to trigger a recession I would put my money on corporate debt, so many companies are loaded with debt that will rear it's ugly head the moment any slowdown in growth is on the horizon. That will trigger lower spending, job cuts, and other means that would bring us into recession.
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Agree. I've faced the same issue with clients before. But you can still make very attractive mockups in grayscale to impress.
>Not everything needs to be a contract...

In that case, can the airline decide to simply not run the flight and keep everyone's money? It's a contract because both sides have accepted some number of terms. If it weren't you would forego all sorts of protections. When you (reasonably) want those back... guess what? Disputes are decided on the terms of the (sales) contract. How else would it work?
I find this kind of comment a bit off-putting.

Women deserve a focus.

Other people also deserve a focus. They should also get it.

But for now, this article is about giving women a focus. Talking about giving other people a focus seems to be an attempt to get the focus away from women or denying that they deserve it. It seems a bit like derailing. Given HN's overwhelming male demographics because computers and software are overwhelmingly male, it's a bit harmful to be talking about other people whenever women are mentioned.

For now, just read about women. That's a big chunk of the population. Later, read about other non-women people who also were left out. But give women a chance.
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I used to say that there were two kinds of people: people helpers and problem solvers.

People helpers are good tech support: "I'm sure I can help you. I've done this a thousand times."

Problem solvers are not: "I'm going out of my mind. I've done this a thousand times!"

It's more complicated than that, with people falling somewhere on an X-Y graph, some skewing one way and some the other.

Also, I used to think that all the values were positive. But there are those who not only don't help, they make the situation worse. And those who can't solve the problem, but make that worse, too.

What would be nice is if Google were to have someone who scored more on the "people helper" part. "Yes, this is older and boring but it's what people are used to and we're going to maintain it."
Isn't it more just straight up price discrimination, which is totally legal?

Like, obviously they'd prefer to fill the NY -> SF jet with high ticket price customers, but if there are seats leftover, it's still better to fill them with people making lower cost connections to elsewhere than to have them be empty. And if they need to get those people to Tahoe or wherever anyway, then putting them on that plane may also be preferable to putting the last few NY -> SF ticket on fire sale and undermining the usual higher price.
I wish, gaim/pidgin is still superior in many ways with extensibility, plugins, and encryption capability to anything available. In its heyday, along with trillian and a few others, i could chat on over 17 different networks under a unified interface. It was glorious.
Only if you want them to take no more than 18 months to arrive..

You can most definitely stagger supply ships and launch them at any time, it's just that some will take a bit longer than others to arrive and their various transit times can be taken into account to have them arrive in a staggered fashion.
Depends on the goal. If you plan to make money off of indicators, well... you can't. Any powerful indicator will be gamed by other investors.

If you are setting policy, it takes years for tax-policies to have an effect on the economy. We can change the tax law today, but it won't really come into effect until next year, or the year afterwards.

On the scale of policy changes, a worst-case 2-year lag on an indicator is perfectly acceptable.
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You're not wrong, but I don't think anyone is saying you shouldn't use appropriate data structures.

To me the advice means don't belabor the choice of data structure of its not obvious to you.

If you're writing a quad nested for loop to solve a problem, don't get distracted trying to refractor all the work leading up to that wart... Just get it down first.

Get a passing test first then optimize later if the code is a bottleneck.
And it treats null as undefined as the empty string.
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I was looking for an insurance for my Saas recently, and after an intensive research I found many founders and even my lawyer recommending https://foundershield.com. I went with them and I am very happy with the way they treated me and what offer they provided.
I wasn't trying to say solar was a good solution in this situation. I was giving a cost comparison to highlight how high this seems to be.
You’ll be surprised how much those small automations and time savings pile up. And also if it keeps you in the flow it can make a quantitive difference truly qualitive. I always like to fallback on the “is it worth my time xkcd” https://xkcd.com/1205/
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The second law makes it much worse.

If you take concentrated oxygen and concentrated carbon (soot), you can burn them in a sealed chamber into pure CO2. If you are very careful about extracting the energy, you might get most of it.

But already the entropy has increased, because now the carbon and oxygen have mixed together. Attempting to reverse the reaction will need extra energy to deal with that.

It gets much worse though, if you open up our chamber and vent the gas into the atmosphere. The entropy goes through the roof as the CO2 concentration drops to a few hundred PPM, and the cost of reversing the reaction goes up even more.
It has a runtime with a GC. It's capable of safety, but not the low level performance/predictability of the Rust approach, and is also harder to embed than a Rust approach.

This is not a disqualifer for most use cases, but is for some.
Of course. I shouldn’t comment so early in the morning :(
> It is a similar pitfall that developers step into when they optimize their code before profiling where the bottlenecks are at.

Author here. For reference I've made 5 courses over the last 4 years and have written over a million words. I also have 200+ blog posts and have hundreds of thousands of lines of code written across a bunch of projects.

In other words, I hope I know what my bottlenecks are with my environment. It's not specifically editing text, but it is managing a shit load of words across many hundreds of files and also switching between projects.

With no real prior Vim knowledge (I looked at it once many years ago) it took a solid weekend, and when I say solid, I mean I spent 10 hours both days researching Vim features, watching tutorials, following along with tutorials and slowly introducing a couple of plugins I knew I wanted (based on exact problems I had).

That got me to the point where I had the environment mostly working with a decent enough config file. Then I spent days floundering around like an idiot while I hardcore failed to even do simple things like "move to the 2nd to last word in a sentence and then wrap the last 2 words to a new line". Doing that without arrow keys and no mouse almost killed me initially.

After about a week of immersing myself I got to the point where I didn't feel like I was completely destroyed by a foreign environment. During this week I wrote about 10,000 words and worked on a couple of freelance programming gigs.

In my opinion, it was worth the 20 hours of set up + 20ish hours of not being as productive to set me up for the next 5+ years.

Plus as you mentioned, a side effect is it happens to be a fun too. That's a win win!
Do you have a better indicator of recession?

The yield inversion is ALWAYS within 3-years of a recession. That's pretty darn good in a world where candlesticks and dead cat bounces are your "technical" indicators...

There's even good logic for why the yield inversion is predictive of recessions: because when people buy 10-years (even if the 10-year is a lower-yield than 2-years), it means that people expect the next 2-years to suck.

So its better to lock into a long-term 10-year yield, than to hold onto a better yield for only 2-years.

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Note: The 10-year has NOT inverted yet. But it is only 0.10% away from inverting.
Yep! I tuned in CHU regularly. I originally intended to include it in the app as well but: getting audio was difficult since the telephone time isn’t the same as the broadcast, there is some ugly legalese about recording it IIRC, just the WWV portions were dragging out and I wanted to be done!
Homes can be a good iinvestment even if prices aren’t rising (or at least aren't rising faster than inflation). You have to have shelter, so you have to purchase that some how. If you choose to rent theoretically you need to pay for the raw cost of the real estate you are living, the cost of maintaining and managing that property, and a small profit for the owner. If you own the property you can choose to do much of the maintenance and management yourself, and can keep the profit portion. Sweat equity is a real thing, and there is no other asset type I can think of that allows average people to casually invest thier labor like that.
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Not really a problem. If the passenger decided not to fly the last leg, that seat would go empty but the airline won't lose money on that leg.. it has already been paid for. So there is no real loss to them.
By your own government you mean US or UK?

I have massive issues with UK politics but knowing a few civil servants, they're not (widely) corrupt, and they're not incompetent.

In any department, they will normally be the force for good policy based on evidence, it's politicians who push random expedient ideas. Take grammar schools, the entire department of education knows they don't work and are being forced to push it. Or Brexit, the whole civil service pretty much opposes it, and especially the treasury/trade people in detailed knowledge that it's going to be an economic tire fire.

Finally, regulation != censorship, there's such a thing as a middle ground.
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Albert Heijn, the largest Dutch supermarket chain does not accept Visa or Mastercard debit cards for any sort of payment.
So, when the inverse happens and an airline overbooks a flight and someone gets bumps that should also count as a breach of contract and all airlines should have to pay airfare plus compensation right? And this should apply to volunteers as well.

Then we should also look at departure times, how often has a flight been delayed? Many people count on getting where they are going on time. That should also count as a breach of contract as well.

Edit: To take this to the absurd, you have to pay to make any changes to your ticket at after a certain point in time i.e. name. So when you receive the ticket and it has a gate listed, is that also part of the contract? I am not allowed to change anything printed there without paying, why should they be allowed?

Or do we say that things happen and we allow systems to be lenient?
Reminds me of Programming Sucks: https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
Oh, there's not much, I had originally created it for a CTF challenge of all things (https://github.com/o-o-overflow/chall-www) so it has WorldWebWeb, Bash, and a set of developer tools I managed to scrounge from the internet and from some Cocoa developers who happened to have the disk lying around. I just keep it around because it's fun to show off to people ;)
> the Western Ideal is to win wars by strength and decisive battles.

I think a lot of historians would argue with you on this one, not least how the two world wars were both intended to be quick and decisive, but also since the invention of nuclear weapons what it actually means to "win".
I use latexmk for watching and recompiling a pdf after saving a .tex file and I don't use any plug-ins, only vim's standard syntax hi-lighting.
Basically I'm looking for http://www.webhooks.io/, but not as SaaS :)
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> We don't need to know the winner on election night.

Other contries count the paper votes in one night, why shouldn't the US manage to.

/edit: i don't really see the need for only voting if you only vote every other year.
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I think the most interesting thing about the article isn't the solution. It's the problem: how do you organize a long piece of writing (O(100k) words) into logical units whose length isn't dictated in advance, and which don't force some kind of manual global refactor (e.g. renumbering chapters) every time a change is made.

The author's solution (one big file created with Vim) is reasonable and seems to work well for him. However, it seems to trade modularity/reusability. I'd be interested to hear about a microcontent solution (and the attendant tooling) that doesn't make this tradeoff. Or if I'm wrong about the tradeoff, I'd like to hear why.
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>Understand before you criticize

>One off the top of my head that I run into all the time is in client stubs of service APIs, where a client-side enum representing a string value will break at runtime if the service adds a new string value

please learn to code first before criticizing others, if you pass client side strings as enums in your server side code without validation it's your problem, this has literally nothing to do with enums

UPDATE: I admit it HN, I am wrong, I lost the popularity contest since I have no enough voting powers, I now admit that enums are not necessary and iota are simply equivalent to enums both in type safety and readability, I mean even superior to enums, enums are superficial types injected by badly designed languages like Typescript and Rust as _synatx sugar_ for pedantic people like myself
We have been clear cutting for centuries, we have to learn sooner or later. You know, for when we leave this world polluted to terraform the new one. /s?
Many forested parts of the US were stripped bare 100 years ago. These will become old growth in time.
>And the same holds for the ex-Soviet economies, too: The ex-Soviet economies that have done best are those that have joined the European Union, which most people especially on the American right would not exactly call a free market paradise.

But they did well even before they joined the EU. Arguably they did even better in terms of growth before joining, but it's difficult to fault the EU on this, because the financial crisis will definitely take (some of) the blame.

On the topic of China you could also argue that IP theft is what helped China succeed. We'll never know, but that IP issue and them not opening up their markets will probably bite them soon. There's only so much the EU and US are going to take once China becomes even richer.

>Also, I would add that the optimal level of state intervention probably also depends a lot on how corruption-free your government is:

I definitely agree with this, but I would like to add that I think it's not just strict corruption that's the problem. Heavy lobbying by certain small groups of people (corporations) to the detriment of the general population also plays a role in this. The government officials don't have to be corrupt for this to have a negative impact on regulations.
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The world really doesn’t need another embarrassingly parallel performance benchmark. SPECpizza just doesn’t add much to our understanding of the challenges of parallelization.
Considering many use bikes as a way to save cost, mandatory insurance seems a bit ridiculous.
This brought back memories of tuning in WWV as a young ham in the early 90's. Well done!
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> Blame the older generation who wrote the platforms & tools that gave you a job in the first place.

Sure, why not. Almost all of them write "shit code", by your definition.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/p...

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-33/p...

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-97/p...

Plenty of people claim they can write secure C code, and 99% of them are rookies that have learned the rules but not their own limitations, IMO.
> And if you just want to get work done without concentrating on learning a new skill

Maybe this is a mindset issue, but I'm having a hard time imagining how one would want to just get the work done, without trying to pick up a skill in the process.

Despite the current UX trends of dumbing down software, it's rare you'll use a tool just once in your lifetime.
Most of the Matrix gateways are relying on …libpurple that is the base library of Pidgin :)
Predicting something 2-3 years early is not a "prediction", it's a failure to predict.

I'll suggest better predictors of the health of the economy would be 1) Record domestic manufacturing output, 2) Most energy security in history (US is now a net exporter of oil), and 3) lowest unemployment since 1969. The US Economy is firing on all cylinders and I wouldn't be surprised if a strong economy runs for another 2-5 years. This is not all that unusual, since the US is returning to a historical average GDP growth rate of 3-4% after an abysmal decade of 1-2% growth.