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> Isn't GMO to create foods that require less pesticides? So wouldn't that be a good thing if there are less chemicals used on our foods, seeping into our soil and water supply?

As mentioned by wonderwonder, Roundup-ready soybeans are the poster child for GMO varieties being create to allow more chemical herbicides. And in this case glyphosate (RoundUp) is being seen more and more widely as a really nasty chemical to allow into the water supply and into nature. It has been linked to honey bee colony collapse, and the general insect collapse, not to mention lymphomas and lukemias.. (As an old Iowa farm boy, I am shocked at the number of relatives and their neighbors that are getting strange lymphomas and lukemias.)

> I never really understood why people are so scared of GMO....

But I do agree that eating a GMO grain is not scary by itself. It is the side effects of the different style of agriculture it allows that concerns me. (see glyphosate, above, and more below).

> I think there should be a GMO open source initiative...

Just Monsanto's poor luck that you can not create an unstable soy bean hybrid. They all breed true. The is the great advantage of selling seed corn, if you just avoid doing the last, stabilizing, cross, you can sell seed corn that will create a healthy plant who's seeds will not produce productive plants. Mother Nature gives you free IP protection. (Monsanto is a nasty company in so many ways.... I don't even want to get into it.)

Another chemical-related factor with GMO varieties is the unintended consequences of evolutionary selective pressure. A common GMO application in maize is to modify the plant to produce a toxin that is poisonous to the root-worm moth and/or the corn-borer moth. So, in this case, less pesticide chemicals. Which is great, but used indescrimanently, in a few generations we will have largely resistant moth populations. The state of Iowa has been very forward-thinking on this front, and requires that some percentage of every field planted to the GMO variety (like 15% or so, I forget the exact number) must be planted to "refuge rows". That is, if you plant a GMO moth-resisant variety, a percentage of the same field must be planted to traditional varieties to create a refuge for the moths so that the population does not develop resistance. Now, since maize does best in large blocks, the fence rows never yield as well anyway. And you always have turn-round rows where machines trample some unlucky plants as well. So plant the already poor-yielding rows to the refuge variety, and the GMO variety more than makes up for the loss. So it still pencils out advantageously.

What concerns me about this scenario is more environmentally naive and myopic regions might allow 100% GMO-toxin varieties, for the moth or other similar scenarios where evolutionary selective pressure can be a fast-acting force. Rolling out a GMO variety of anything requires examining the second- and third-order consequences.

So while I have little fear of eating GMO Doritos, I don't want GMO Doritos to bring on The Invasion of the Super Locusts in 3D with Dolby sound.
Check out Streamlabs OBS (SLOBS), its interface is much more streamlined than regular OBS, though they still have some difficulty walking the line between flexibility and simplicity.
I can think of two things:

1. Women are on average physically weaker (I hope this is not controversial) and therefore are much more likely to die in hand-to-hand combat or just plain not be able to carry the gear soldiers have to carry today, let alone another soldier.

2. After a war of attrition women are crucial to population replacement, due to biological limits on procreation frequency, whereas men have much greater "fanout", and you don't need that many of them, even if you're concerned about inbreeding.

That said, I do think women should be draft-able, for two reasons:

1. Women too can be "strong enough" for combat

2. There are lots of non-combat roles

And to anyone who says there can't be another WW2-style war, I bet people said the same in the aftermath of WW1. And yet, here we are.
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It's almost as if other people disagree about what the best option for their personal viewpoint is.
I'm willing to have a draft if everyone on the draft roll gets veto power over whether or not the war happens. I think your questions boil down to, "what if you were drafted to fight a war that you would have volunteered to fight anyway?"
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I feel like "the human race will literally be wiped out if we don't all pitch in" is a perfect example of a legitimate reason for the draft.

If you benefit from a society, then you have a certain degree of responsibility to that society. I personally don't think the draft is defensible for anything less than an existential threat to the nation, but the popular notion that the government shouldn't be able to make you do anything you don't want to is silly.
> Linux is literally the most used operating system on phone

What makes this such a victory? The fact that Android uses a Linux kernel is totally meaningless to the overwhelming majority of Android users. The bootloaders on their phones are almost always locked down and even if that weren't the case, if their kernels were swapped out with something BSD derived how many people would actually notice?

What is the objective with promoting Linux? Adoption for the sake of adoption? Getting the Linux kernel onto the largest number of CPUs, just to make that number go higher and higher? Is pursuit of some number the real goal, or is the goal actually something to do with user empowerment and liberation/freedom? A billion tivoized smartphones with linux kernels certainly optimizes for that number of CPUs, but from a user liberation/freedom standpoint Linux/Android is virtually moot.

That Android gives the user more freedom than iOS is completely incidental to what kernel it uses. Android could be a platform open to third party app stores and sideloading that ran on a BSD kernel or even something completely different. To the average Android user, their Android phone is actually less open than Microsoft Windows, which also allows third party 'app stores' (e.g. Steam) and 'sideloading' (so normalized on Windows that it doesn't even use a special term like that.) Whether a system will be open to third party developers without any gatekeeper is a matter of company politics, not something that's emergent from what kernel is chosen.

So yeah, pop open the champagne. Linux won and I'm going to need a lot of champagne to enjoy this hollow victory.
Algo (another commenter mentioned it[1]) allows you to set this up to be the default for the VPN, very nice feature. I use it on my phone since I often connect to random wifi APs. More and more of the web is moving to HTTPS but a disturbing amount of unencrypted traffic abounds.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19242119
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He says in the AMA the tool he uses is invite-only after you have over 500ish edits.
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It would make zero sense for HoloLens today. The HoloLens doesn't even have a GPS chip. But Microsoft is building the future of MR in general. It's a space they want to own or at least lead, and their investment in Azure services for HoloLens today are proof of that. Obviously what I've described does not really favour industrial use (though I dispute the idea that this would not be achievable in industrial/enterprise environments.)

Indeed, HoloLens isn't great outdoors, however the current technology is capable of it (despite the HL design.) The visor can be darkened to function more like sunglasses, which solves the contrast problem.

I'm just looking 5-10 years out, in terms of what's going to be needed.
He did say he hasn't written original content in quite a while, and most of his changes are edits.
This. Or even making your own marinara sauce. It’s payoff for the amount of time invested. NYtimes has a good recipe that takes about 20 minutes. The only trick is to find really good canned tomatoes.

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1015987-classic-marinara...
So to me this filters down to:
You care about your privacy and not have your (meta) data gathered up, but you don't care enough about it ensure that you're really protected, you just hope you are by piping your data off somewhere else, even though the place you're piping it to might also be doing the dirty you.

I do understand your point, which is (correct me if i'm wrong) that you trust FSecure/Freedome to be taking care of your privacy correctly and not just reselling your metadata back to your country of origin etc.

Perhaps I am being a pedantic, grumpy old man though. Because now I think about it, even if we all run our own VPSes there's no way to vet the VPS provider doesn't just tap your egress traffic too.
This article is hilarious. Or depressing. Maybe both.

"During the company’s debut on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012 Startup Battlefield competition, rather than giving a traditional pitch, Famo.us CEO Steve Newcomb spent his whole six minutes asking people to imagine what could be done if apps were 3D instead of 2D and demoing a floating periodic table. [...] just days earlier, the team made its first pivot away from what it called BenchRank, a ranking system for people, into an HTML5 development platform."

"When TechCrunch reporter Anthony Ha visited [their offices], [Famo.us's CEO] pointed to some desks that seemed adequate, but insisted they would be replaced soon because they weren’t the right kind of wood."

It is now 2019 and the front page of famous.co has a big video and a pre-order button. One begins to wonder if this is an actual company, or an excuse to get a lot of VC so its CEO and a few lucky employees can afford to have nice places to live in SF.
A society that wouldn't send/draft people to war is one that doesn't care about it's existence.
It's harder to enforce regulation at the same level as for a domestic carrier. How easy is it to track the quality of pilot training, or aircraft maintenance parts half a world away?

Not that much harder, you still need FAA approval to fly in the United States. For instance, Air India has run afoul of the FAA in the past and most Indonesian airlines have been banned from EU airspace at one time or another. Currently VietJet (I think) is working to get FAA approval to fly in the US.

The problem is that it's inappropriate to say "your lack of safety culture is a problem" before there are deaths. Korean Air had to hire submit to a bunch of training by Delta Airlines after a series of wrecks. It's not a particularly uncommon opinion to look at the culture of deference and respect for elders/seniors you see in East Asia as being detrimental to safety. I agree. The Asiana wreck showed this (there were three people in the cockpit, two of whom called for a go around, the other one ignored the calls). KLM showed what happens when you're unwilling to question a senior officer back in the 70s in Tenerife.
You might be surprised to learn that the consumption of most common meat was banned in Japan from 675C to 1872CE:

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-japan-became-hooked-on-m...
Sorry, I actually failed to find a better word than "help", I meant: to offer the best experience to its user. And we humans have wildly different skills and expectations. I still think that user-facing software design needs more psychology on top of good code.
Thanks for your suggestion. Seems good.
$3200 - $3800 for an electric bicycle?

That seems crazy expensive to me. Can someone in EMEA explain if it seems worth the cost?
Safer vpn.
We can build reliable software when we want to. It just has limited scope and/or undergoes more expensive development procedures.

It is easy to build a finite state machine for a dishwasher that is fairly reliable. Likewise, consumer jet code that hits safety considerations is heavily tested and audited...and the FAA cares about it whenever it causes a plane to crash, leading to a lot of regulations on how the code is vetted.
I'm a vegetarian, but I think he's underestimating the cultural significance of meat for a lot of people. As a male, I've seen a fusion between meat and perceived masculinity at many BBQs. It's on par with owning a gun or driving a big truck, etc. It's more than a food, it's often used as bonding ritual for men.

Sure, pockets of New England, California and other liberal towns might widely adopt meat substitutes but I wouldn't be surprised if many other communities don't.

Asking them to give up meat is like asking them to give up part of their identity. I don't think price will change things, only a cultural shift.
This is literally my only (big) complaint about Linux. Video drivers just SUCK.

I have NEVER had a plug and play solution for display from my laptop. I do expect to be able to plug in an HDMI cable and be able to give a presentation. And I expect to be able to do this with an nvidia card. But they have always failed me and I don't understand why this problem still exists (I would actually be interested if someone knows).
If you mean unpaid labor, then that's not how drafts work, but I'll assume you mean forced labor.

I've seen the same argument used regarding taxation.

I'd argue that people have duties and obligations to their government, just as a government has duties and obligations to it's citizens.

So I absolutely believe that the government has a right draft people to defend the country. Drafting people just to wage war to advance our interests I have a lot more qualms about.
What about a society that cares so much about its own existence that people volunteer?
Thanks for the information. But some of them seem a bit expensive.
Been using Ghostifi for about three months now. You’re the sole user of the VPN, and you get root access to the VPS that it’s built on.

You may ask “how is this different than just running my own vps”, and the answer is the ability to redeploy to another region with no downtime and push of a button. I love that feature and use it often.

Because you’re on your own VPS, so far in my experience, I’ve never even noticed I’m connected to a VPN. It’s blazing fast. I cancelled my PIA account and moved over entirely.

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If you never need to coordinate two or more microservices, then sure. But that means you're dealing with a monolith. In the original article, you could combine Orders and Users into a single microservice. That would resolve all the issues that are raised ... except that you might want reference the Users in a different context. At that point, you either have to split Users into their own microservice, or duplicate the User information. Either way, you're backed into consistency issues.

Part of the promise of microservice is that they're small modular independent components that you can connect and combine into higher-level services.

If you need to read information and write information to two or more microservices, then you have transaction issues. If you need to relate information across two microservices, you have reference integrity issues. Just comes with the terrain.
> The majority of the developed world has no mandatory service, and "look at the society" in all of those places, many of which border Switzerland that you mentioned as an exemplar. Are Iceland, the Netherlands, or Canada violent hellholes of tribal insularity?

It seems like many of those countries did have compulsory conscription until very recently. Couldn't find any info on Iceland, but the Netherlands phased it out from 91-96, France from 96-01, etc.

Crucially they had it during the period where the most important social reforms were made, so it may back up OP's point.
This is not Cloud Server.
You can grill impossible burger just fine.
Thanks, will have a look later.
In nyc there are Orthodox Jews who work in medicine and finance and law who will not answer the phone or work on the sabbath. These are people who can make millions a year and are otherwise slaves to their jobs working 80 hour+ weeks. They have backups during the day they are off. The jobs they do are much more intense then tech work
It's not clear that this is a recent phenom. It's a result of voluntary samples, that cant be compared to a previous situation. It may be useful if they repeat the measurements in the same places, but currently it's more like an internet pool.
I feel like the answer is the same why is a Vertu phone $10K. Because people don't really need one, and who can afford it can afford an expensive item.
I think this project looks awesome. I get why you aren't releasing the source code until launch, as I've heard of many interesting Kickstarter projects finding a knockoff on sale before they even ship! So long as you ship it with the source code, you are in good shape. Good luck with the launch!
There are pretty good rules around crew rest and sleep requirements.

And the requirements are different between passenger and cargo operators.
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There is also (perhaps unsurprisingly) a sustained criticism of the meat industry from vegan feminist academia, which links it not only to the idea of meat as something masculine, but also the way we speak of women and meat (or even food in general), from "fine piece" to "chick"/"bird", "cow", "Christmas cake" etc. This is further linked to the exploitation of female animals. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the main proponent of the theory right now.
Because as a general rule the power users already have minimal problems and can fix them pretty easily. So the next concern is people who aren't familiar with the system, i.e. average users.
Was hoping a foldable phone would result in a smaller phone, not a larger one. Sigh...
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Let us reduce this to a simpler question. Can Matter detect i.e. collapse quantum wave? If it is conscious but cannot even detect quantum event, is it really conscious? As this is physical event we can check, we can at least determine that.
I'm amazed at how naive a lot of the comments in this thread are. You can hop over to other corners of HN or Reddit and you have people convinced that WWIII is around the corner, or the rise of China is going to lead to a hot conflict in the Pacific again, or that migration and refugee crises will continue to dominate political discourse and cause other security problems. I don't think it's controversial to state that we've returned to the regular flow of history and Great Power conflict.

But a lot of what I'm seeing here amounts to discounting the importance of this because the "likelihood" of a draft is low, or the usual (wrongheaded) arguments about how because the percentage of people in the military who actually fight is low, so adding women to selective service requirements isn't a big deal. Serious countries don't think like this - especially a country that, allegedly, is supposed to shoulder most of the global security responsibility. You don't get to make hand waivey dismissals and still expect peak performance from these huge complex organizations, nor do we get to put off thinking about it because we think an event like WWIII is "unlikely for a while". On what time horizon does it have to be "likely" for us to have to actually engage with it? 50 years? 20? 10?

I don't think we've thought deeply enough about this at all, and frankly I don't view the prospect of my daughter or sister being drafted into a war as "progress".
I'm surprised to find that you have good luck with that; last time I looked, it was a nightmare for anything that didn't explicitly support portable mode because everything expects to save stuff into the registry.
It's an Nvidia problem. Nvidia's proprietary drivers suck and they're nasty to anybody who tries to develop open source drivers for their cards. AMD and Intel GPUs have been flawless plug-and-play for years now. AMD plays nice with linux developers and you should give them, not Nvidia, your money.
This may be the least insurmountable challenge though: A pair of smart gloves will mostly solve this problem.
I too use ExpressVPN - `expressvpn list` gives you a list of all VPN servers in all countries, not all of them are blocked. Support has been helpful (< 5 minutes reply time in an Australian Saturday night) in ferreting out one that works, even though back then the support person stated that they focus on keeping US servers unblocked.
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1. Set the criteria based on abilities, not gender.

2. WTF? When has that ever been important? What sort of situation will we get into where scores of millions of women will die, where they wouldn't die if there wasn't conscription or volunteering, and where we don't have nuclear Armageddon?

WWII wasn't simply a do-over of WWI.
"I like your expansion upon it :)"

I actually thought about that analogy for a while before, but rather used anarchy/libertarian vs. authorian/dictatorship ...

(basically the same point, only more radical)

Anyway:

"On the software side there a million and a half different ways to do everything, and often an insane amount of "noise"/outdated info that needs filtering through to find what's relevant to your specific needs. Even at the lowest levels of the stack there is no "the one way", and I think all that uncertainty (especially from the beginner perspective) can make it feel like climbing a mountain."

Yes. Even for simple things like a screenshot, there are a million ways. Not a problem in itself, but when you come from windows where this is a "print" command and I did not think there could be a reason to do it differently, but on some distros it is. I run into it a few times, "print" did not work, so googling:
You want to do a screenshot? No problem, just install this via terminal, or this, or type in those commands and there you go..
WTF? I just want a screenshot? How is this not standard?

Now this seems to be mostly solved, on XFCE he even asks me what to do with the just taken screenshot, after I hit print (save, view, ..) Oh in general, I really love XFCE).

But unfortunately:

"Not that this helps users with existing hardware, but

* definitely always google before you buy (model name + "linux" and read the first page or two of results)"

this is not for newbs either. Newbs do not know the difference between gpu and cpu.
And they certainly do not order single components to put together their PC.

Newbs need a company who does that for them. Compose a PC/Laptop which components who are supported and work well together, so what purism does.
But suddenly we are not on the mass market anymore ... and we see the price difference.

So the problem remains complicated, with no easy solution.
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What country was this in, and when?
I see this argument all the time and it's so flatly wrong.

You are describing maybe 10% of the tail in terms of physical performance being on par with their male counterparts. And you're also describing _total wars of exhaustion_, where literally everyone had to fight because otherwise it's extinction. These are not arguments in favor of women in combat roles as policy - they're merely observations that Total War forces everyone to fight. Should we also draft kids because soldiers as young as 12 were fighting at Stalingrad?
If meat substitutes are pure chemical, why do you stop there? I mean why social pressure only against eating meat not against eating plants? Yes, there is a difference between animals and plants, but they both have life, right? Why don't you just eat 100% chemicals?