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I was really hyped when I first saw it, downloaded immediately, but was left somewhat underwhelmed by instability and lack of touted features...Most useful stuff is said to be coming shortly, but I'm not sure if some of it is at all possible (e.g. Slack support like others pointed out). In any case, this would be an absolutely amazing app and I chipped in, but have doubts...
> Bitcoin might theoretically be based on distributed trust, but in practice, that's just not true.

I'll grant that Bitcoin is not perfectly centralized. But I challenge you to find a more decentralized digital currency on the planet.

A digital currency doesn't need to be 100% decentralized to be very useful as a digital medium of exchange.
The article is bellyaching about not being able to memorize 10 digit numbers, and that apparently westerners are afflicted with this curse.

I think that's just laziness. If you need to memorize a number it just takes a few minutes of work, and then some reinforcement later.
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For the record, this is also an assumption that the "coding interviews are bogus" crowd makes too.
Desperate ones. But starting the year before last we finally got some wage pressure, which means the situation is going to improve slightly for a few moments before recession.
The whole article is over dramatic. It takes until half way through to get to the answer: numbers sound like words or the url is from their phone number.

But that would be a really short article, I guess...
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This is the primary fallacy in this domain: Getting to zero emissions will not bring atmospheric CO2 down by 100 ppm for at least 50,000 to 75,000 years. Full stop.

This is scientific fact BTW.

I’ll go further than that: If we erased humanity and all we have built from planet earth on Monday —Captain Kirk beams everything into space and we all die— it would still be 50,000 to 75,000 years before CO2 levels drop by 100 ppm.

Again, scientific facts. No doubt at all that what I just said is true. Irrefutable.

In this very real context the only solutions will be found in technology that can consume CO2 in large quantities and hold on to it for as long as possible.

Here’s another scientific truth: We already have this technology. It is easy to deploy world-wide and we know it to be effective.

Even with that, this is a problem that will require generations to resolve; with a time scale in the thousands of years being likely.

This is an issue that has been politicized so far —on both ends of the belief scale— that most everyone is focusing on nonsense politically-driven non-solutions rather than having true science-based conversations.
the legally & contractually defined compensation

So nothing. My only option is to choose a different airline, except it is very difficult since I only have one choice unless I fly 1000 miles out of the way the next monopolized hub city where I still have no power. Airlines have almost all the leverage, so they can delay my flight, taking an hour, 10 hours, or a day of my time and there is no compensation.

At 40 of the 100 largest U.S. airports, a single airline controls a majority of the market, as measured by the number of seats for sale, up from 34 airports a decade earlier.

At 93 of the top 100, one or two airlines control a majority of the seats, an increase from 78 airports, according to AP’s analysis of data from Diio, an airline-schedule tracking service.

https://www.denverpost.com/2015/07/17/airline-consolidation-...
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I recently started going to church again and I've been enjoying it. While I still have issues with it (as do many who go), I think mainstream culture has thrown out the baby with the bathwater when it comes to religion as it does provide a good framework for finding meaning in your life.

I don't think I'm alone either - Jordan Peterson's rise to popularity is testament to people craving the kind of moral wisdom that is contained in the bible. I've also come to like the idea of original sin; we all make mistakes and as long as you recognize them as mistakes, you can still be a good person by trying to do right.
Rosling was such a strong communicator that few people are left unimpressed by him. But his message was never one of complacency. His concern was that if people didn't realize that things were getting better they wouldn't think they could be.

I can see his point. I agree with you about housing. But if we conclude that things are getting worse it is hard to gather hope. There has never been more affordable quality housing as today. Everything of concern is better from financing and construction to communication.

So why is affordability down in these regions? Because the powerful has convinced us that there can be no other way. And we are, just as Rosling didn't want us to be, ignorant enough to believe them.
> Because it always takes more energy than just not burning the carbon in the first place. "Always" in the exact, scientific, ironclad sense of the word "always".

So what?

You're implicitly checking if energy is "lost", for some definition of energy loss. But that's not what's discussed here. Nobody's proposing a perpetuum mobile, we're just talking about environment. The question is, is it better to not burn in the first place or burn and then clean up? And the answer, perhaps surprisingly, is not obvious.
Back in uni, I wanted to be a motorcycle designer. I managed to get into Honda Japan's internship program, which was essentially a 3 day long interview process. They give you some design specs on the first day and then lock you in a room with 10 other kids to draw motorcycles non stop for three days. 4 years of effort all came down to these three days, and I couldn't draw anything on the first day. My mind went blank. I stayed up all night to catch up on the drawing. That was my first failure.

The lack of sleep meant I couldn't focus much during the second day. I pushed through and kept drawing. My next failure that night was to again forgo any sleep just to keep pushing out designs. On the third day, I was so exhausted by the lack of sleep, all the stress I piled on myself after all those years of expectations, My mind went numb during the morning's final prep. I was so tired, I didn't even know what the hell I was talking about during the final presentation, I interrupted the judges, I talked back, I argued. Naturally, I failed to progress to the next stage.

That failure was the beginning of a series of failures over the next several years.

I broke up with my fiancee to 'focus on my studies/career'.

I couldn't get a product/industrial design job because I was so focused on motorcycles during my studies that I was fairly terrible at most other products. Desperate for any job, I become a web designer for a company on the other side of the country. The job lasted six months.

I wasted money moving again to another city to search for better opportunities but found little. After another six months, I was out of savings and my family wouldn't lend me anymore money. I gave up, I contemplated suicide for a while, but finally moved back home to work for a relative.

About a year in, I got together with a couple of friends to set up our own design agency. One of them, talked the big talk but spent all his time playing games. Tried to rush work out the day before the deadline. The other worked really hard but wasn't particularly talented and decided to go back to his old job. I went back to work for my relative again.

After several years, found a small dev shop willing to take me in for not very much money. Spent two years there.

I'm in a better place now but those six years were terrible and whenever I look back at it, I've always felt that first failure at Honda just set a lot of things in motion. I was burnt out and depressed but I wouldn't admit it, so it just kept getting worst.

I have much gratitude for that relative who put up with me the whole time and gave me the opportunity, namely time to heal and a place to rest, to turn things around.
I don't know if that's necessarily obvious. You say all that with a great deal of finality - a Marxist scholar would say that's due to the shift in means of production, and a postmodernist would say it's all become that way because of relativity.
Would you really want a future Feynman to be spending high school rushing between violin lessons, lacrosse practice, model UN and volunteering at the homeless shelter to pad up his college application resume?
Imagine you are CEO of a construction engineering company that is traded publicly and whose business is cyclical (or earnings fluctuate widely according to variations in the economy or the cycle of the seasons).

Alright, now imagine the Stock Market sells off on fears of an upcoming recession. What do you do? Well, you may cut investments in that new plant you were planning on building or put a freeze on hiring.

Now imagine, that your competitors, suppliers, and customers hear about this. This type of stuff starts to feed on itself then forecasts are lowered. This becomes self-reinforcing.

This is a simple example of how a sell-off in stocks can cause a recession.
I really dont think that lack of growth of the quantity of goods produced for a few quarters is really so big of a deal

This is how recession and depression are defined, when gdp simply isnt growing a fraction of a percent quarter over quarter. Is this really a proxy to give insight into everything effecting the general population? The words recession and depression are loaded with so much more than what they actually track, I think just saying them slows down the business spending and lending facilities more than the actual trend of printing slightly lower gdp numbers per quarter.
Good question! I think you can come up with different models for how to define a threshold, and I'm not done reading the paper the article is based on. But implicit in any discussion of a threshold is the idea that the threshold has to be explicit. You can't realistically hold a lottery for ostensible fairness maximization without publicly defining your baseline for lottery eligibility.
After scanning the documentation, it's an even higher-level Keras which is good, but in order to make smart use of it, you really need to know all the DL tricks, which makes the push toward nontechnical users misleading.
The most significant regulatory change following the Colgan crash was the added requirement that all airline (Part 21) first officers possess an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate prior to hiring. Previously, only captains (as pilots-in-command) were required to hold that certificate, which requires a minimum 1500 hours of flight experience. [1]

In practical terms, this wasn't a big change (insurance underwriters already required it), but 1500 hours is a significant hurdle at at time when the US is facing a shortage of pilots.

[1] https://www.flyingmag.com/news/faa-finalizes-atp-rule-first-...
I've seen some people remap j/k to these for text documents, which I think makes sense.

It's also worth learning the sentence and paragraph text objects (s and p).
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Lol, ignore atmosphere. EVERY mars lander has used massive aerobraking with a combination of shields and chutes. 99+% of thier speed was shed passively, without rockets. That Final touchdown is a drop in the deltav bucket. Check any deltav map.

Earth-moon surface = 2.66km/s

Earth-mars surface, with aerobraking = 1.06km/s +0.1 to .5 for final hover/touchdown depending on payload.
That's what they already do, airlines will cancel your flight for any reason whatsoever: overbooking, finding a first class passenger who pays more, choosing not to have enough personnel on duty, etc. Until your plane with you on it is actually airborne, you have no idea whether or not you will be allowed to fly, so there is nothing unfair about not turning up for (what might be) your flight.

Maybe if a ticket actually held some sort guarantee for getting a seat on an airplane things would be different...
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I disagree. Users may not care about security in the same way that technical people do, but they do
expect the data on their phones to be private (nudes, in particular). I think the reason why the current situation is generally accepted, is because nobody has exploited one of these vulnerabilities to extract user data on a large scale, yet.
Absolutely, if your career consists of taking IQ tests.
I'm not really sure HN is really comparable to Mensa but at any rate it doesn't invalidate what the parent is saying. If an article was talking about, say, programmers in general while only sampling HN users it would probably suffer from a heavy bias as well.
I wish you had used "task" 19143203 instead ;)
> As part of that new mandate, it has established a monthly transaction limit for remittances whilst collecting taxes of up to 15% of the transaction amount.

Holy cow 15% is quite insane in terms of comparisons to other countries.

> World Bank statistics point to average remittance fees worldwide ranging from 5.2% to 9.4%.
Hence religion.
Exactly right. When you're saving time is absolutely critical, particularly for something like writing. Even tiny automations that save what appear to be small amounts of time can lead to large increases in productivity by not distracting you.
The problem isn't that we miss out on some specific genius. The real issue with our system is that we have "Feynmans" working as waiters and driving taxis (and some other countries don't have that system and are maximising their talent).

It is interesting to critique this idea for introducing chance. Pitch this idea to a poor person, pitch this idea to a rich person...that is your answer. It is hard to understand if you grew up with opportunity but for poor people this randomness represents a tremendous improvement. From a system that is designed to crush them, to one in which everyone has the same chance.
I think before you can declare any indicator a success or failure, you need to put into context what decision you are trying to make off the indicator.

If you are trying to decide wether to dump all your stocks into treasury bills in the next 90 days, but before an actual recessionary drop, then yes it's a poor indicator (and likely there is no indicator to answer this question).

But if you're looking at a long term allocation of your assets, or a corporation trying to plan investments long term then maybe it's relevant.

It's hard to look at the long run GDP rate (from the50's on) and think we're going to return to past rates until we fix our inequality problem. They've been inversely related for multiple decades now.
Just to clarify, by "your own kernel" you mean one you've written from scratch?
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Semantics aside, I subscribe to the innocent until proven guilty school of thought.
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It feels good to learn something at the intro/hobby level. It provides an easy dopamine hit.

In order to become an expert in the population it requires a mastery that is hard. It requires a few orders of magnitude more effort with less and less reward as you become more and more competent.

Collectors of basic intro knowledge could be looking for something they enjoy but there are a large portion of people who do it because it feels good to learn. This is a trap for smarter people and I'm sure everyone knows the career academic with a multitude of academic degrees or a friend with a new hobby every month.

I think everyone should try to be a in the top 1-10% of some pursuit at some point in their lives to see the amount of effort and planning it takes to be at the top of something. You don't have to stay at the top. It makes you appreciate the people at the top of things more because you more easily recognize the effort it takes to be great. Too much of society is focused on the natural ability or luck involved to be at the top. It could be argued that a PHD is this, but I believe that its sort of forced because there are economic and structural motivations that are available that aren't the same as only having a personal motiviation.
Disgusting... Take down the app right away.
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It's not required prior to hiring; it's prior to flying your first revenue flight. The distinction is somewhat important as it's not as easy to get an ATP (any more) with the introduction of the ATP-CTP requirement.

Though I have no need for an ATP, I considered getting one under the old (quite easy) rules.
> It can also be extremely expensive, both in data storage and in the energy required to maintain it. Bitcoin has the most expensive consensus algorithm the world has ever seen, by far.

When Bruce complains that Bitcoin's consensus is expensive he really compliments Bitcoin's security and resistance to attacks on immutability.

He's spot on that private blockchains and most public blockchains are nothing but hype, that opinion is not news though.
> which also points out that the optimization didn’t seem to have mattered much (depending on the CPU).

OK, this reason makes more sense to me. Thanks.
The idea of intrinsic vs extrinsic validation is called "Locus of Control"[0]. A great book that explores that concept in a little more depth (while still accessible) is Non-violent Communication [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
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They both have to worry about customers though. I'm afraid to take either Uber or Lyft, due to the fact my credit card may be randomly charged a $250 or more "damage fee". It is ridiculous that they just take the driver's word for it without something like dashcam evidence as proof.
>The scale of modern problems are just so large it seems like the only winning move is not to play at all, over and over again.

This is a bit of a drive-by comment and I apologize for that, but I've spent a lot of time thinking about "only-winning-move-is-not-to-play" games, and wanted to share what I've learned.

OWMINTP games seem imposing and impossible when we talk about them, but often their solution comes from outside the game. And the great thing is that often these games don't constitute the whole of our lives, which means we can focus on other games. Eventually OWMINTP games can get solved from the outside, which is great, because we live outside.

Anyway: unasked for, and kind of off-topic, but I wanted to share.
I know Twilio has Some Whatsapp APIs that could be useful for this.

(I’m not affiliated with them btw)
I've concluded that the question we are trying to answer is "What's the meaning of life?", but there is no reason for us to assume that that question is the ultimate question. Most probably, there are more important questions we are not yet aware of, and one can find meaning in the search of such questions.
IQ is actually one of the most correlated things to future income prediction. I think only parent income predicts it better.
Is there a TLDR version to tide me over in the meantime?
> The pure Go code was already faster than the assembly on some CPUs. For the other CPUs where the assembly was faster, we'd rather just fix the compiler to optimize better.

Yeah, it makes more sense to me than the reason (perhaps it was not intended to be the reason but I read it as such) provided on that page. Thanks for clearing it up.
I've had a difficult time finding meaning in the same things as others do. If I spot inconsistencies, I lose faith and get the opposite reaction than those who are receiving something from it.

It's when I let go of the search for meaning that I find something like contentedness. I often find myself falling back into the hunt, but sometimes thinking about the vastness of space and time, the interwoven causality of the external and 'my' internal mind, there is some release.

Hope that helps partner. Maybe I'll see you on down the trail temp1928384.
Globalization is working precisely as intended, and it was inevitable. The question is what comes next, and what will its bias and imperfections be, and does it inhibit warfare?

It's an unsolved problem how any closed system, whether it's a nation with restricted trade, or a planet with unrestricted trade, transitions off a consumption based economy. Even in the U.S. it's 80% who live paycheck to paycheck, some live right at their means, some are massively in debt, some engage in way more conspicuous consumption because they can and the like the social reward and have no concern of the future. It wouldn't take even half of those people to bring down the current economic order if they were to instantly start saving what they should, rather than consume. And it would likewise be terrible for the whole system if there were a significant recession, because there's simply no savings slack available to tolerate it.
In my first job out of college, I had no training or experience in customer service. I was horrible at it without knowing what I was doing wrong.

For example, our system allowed for different ship-to's per order, but one vendor's receiving system wasn't able to handle multiple ship-to's. I should have referred them to my supervisor to negotiate something, but instead said, "you'll just have to change your system." They got irate. That and a few other "people skills" issues that needed tuning got me FIRED. I was devastated.

I had taken a "communications" course in college, but it was horrible in hindsight. The author and instructor should have been fired...uh, mentored, I mean. They should have made us read, "How to Win Friends and Influence People". Colleges have something against that book because it's not based on empirical data and doesn't try to sell the idea of using good logic. Instead it deals more with the "squishy" side of human nature. Humans are social creatures above all else.
Why is any "crack" in the "dam" of meritocracy likely to become a flood? I don't necessarily disagree, but I don't see any specific evidence justifying that claim.

Hypothetically a threshold-based admission lottery would cast more sunlight on the admissions process since:

1. you'd cease having nonpublic, ill-defined measures for admission above the baseline; and

2. you'd have to publish the threshold in any realistically accountable system.

We can argue about whether or not such a system would be (willingly) embraced by universities, but I don't see how the system itself destroys meritocracy. It seems more accurate to say it simply denies meritocracy can be meaningfully measured above a certain baseline of qualification. That only obliviates meritocratic differences above your defined baseline.

Is your contention that the baseline itself would simply shift the uncertainty "downwards" to maintain the status quo?
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Yes you could probably file a civil claim for breach of contract and/or deceptive trade practices alleging the underlying contract requires arbitration and the party is refusing to participate.

It’s compounded by the facts as the litigates previously sued and Uber moved to have the class action litigation compelled to arbitration individually, wherein there were representations Uber made to the court (which now appear to be lies) and a court order of arbitration Uber also appears to be violating.

A clever enough lawyer may even circumvent any waiver of class action provision on the same legal arguments for all such litigants with similar claims.
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> Do you need to throw it in the trash can after wiping your butt?

Yes, and in my experience they're usually the kind with a lid.

It look me a long time to learn that you weren't supposed to flush TP in China, since people don't put signs about it in their homes.