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How the hell am I supposed to get rid of my gas-powered leafs now?

Also, aren't all leaf's technically gas powered?
See I eat lunch out so I can use those leftovers for dinner the next day. Gives me and my girlfriend more time to spend together or on our hobbies if we only have to cook every other night.
If you want to learn more about Polynesian voyaging, the book Vaka Moana is a great introduction to the various technologies. Navigation, boat-building, colonization, etc. It's a bit pricy at $70 but you can also find it in a lot of libraries.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/vaka-moana-voyages-of-the-anc...
Plastic is not a great material for the environment and your comment illustrates the crux of the issue for humanity. We tend to optimize for local maxima and not global ones. As other commenters have pointed out pricing in externalities would be a great step forward. Plastic shampoo containers may not be so great in your eyes if their cost became prohibitively expensive.
How can you possibly say HFT is neutral when it's been responsible for multiple flash crashes that hurt the average investor?

Not to mention the practice of front-running and other shady practices that HFT's use to make profit.
Though you can still get a group delay (slower than free space) in vacuum filled RF waveguide. When you break down the single mode, it appears to be zig-zagging through the waveguide (bouncing off the walls), and slows down as cutoff is approached. Like in fiber, the modal dispersion is separate from the material dispersion.

AT&T was going to build out a cross country, single mode, circular waveguide network in the 60’s, but was obsoleted due to fiber. Maybe that’s what the HFT ought to due, or maybe air-line coax.
Wait. This device can be fooled easily: At any point in time, I can look at the LED. If it's off, I press the button exactly 1 second later. If it's on, I do nothing.

What am I missing?
Yeah, I don't know why anyone would tie themselves to public transit in the US if they had a decent job. US public transit is for people too old, too young, or too poor to have a car, and for people commuting into very dense areas that it is impractical (too expensive) to bring a car into.
I often tell foreigners that as an American, NYC is the only "real city" in the US, to me. Dense, walkable, and public transportation.
> It doesn't hurt anybody

Not anybody in particular but it does hurt society as a whole. It's one of those things that make the rich richer for no reason other than them already being rich.
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Prior art existed for a decade.
Ok good we're on the same page then. So if the nursery was permanent and replaced the role of the parent completely, would that be moral?

Or to equate it more fairly, if a parent paid somebody to permanently take care of their children while they they visited them periodically, would that be as moral as putting their parents in a nursing home?
As a homeowner, I don't want home prices to be high.

High home prices mean I can't move my family without incurring a substantial jump in property taxes (even if it's to downsize once the kids move out).

I'd also like my kids to have the option to live here without too much financial difficulty.
> Transparency is not necessary for security, but preventing invalid certificate issuance is.

> CT is a bank alarm that goes off after the bank's been robbed

> There are better solutions

How do you propose to prevent invalid certificate issuance? In particular, how do you propose to observe whether any CA accepted by browsers has issued a certificate to someone other than you for a domain you control, if you presume that there are malicious actors willing and able to compromise certificate authorities? Your threat model is nation-states. Assume someone else is willing to put up the cash, what's your solution that works strictly better than certificate transparency, and in particular (since you called attention to it) prevents invalid certificate issuance rather than just logging it for subsequent audit (and CA trust revocation)?
From time to time you wonder how things end up on hacker news. I think this time its just pure Internet nostalgia, someone giving a somewhat obscure advice away for free, without agenda or commercial interest..
One problem with using the screen of a tablet (when you are using it with a physical keyboard) is you have nothing to stabilize your hand on. I tend to miss things when using my Chromebook touch screen because my hand is a tad shaky when holding it in the air to touch the screen. On the trackpad (or keyboard), my hands or wrists tend to rest on the table surface.
would you rather trade on exchange that adds jitter to your order, or one that doesn't?
One thing I have often found is that data context matters for a lot of modelling work. It's all well and good to throw 1000 inputs named F_1...F_1000 into a model and see what gets spat out but I question how valid that is going to be.

To give a recent example from my workplace: There is an online gas chromatograph hooked up to a reactor - external modelling (of the throw 1000+ variables at the wall and see what sticks variety) showed the percentage of nitrogen, as measured by chromatograph was strongly correlated to something we'd asked them to investigate.

The people doing the modelling who had no experience with basic chemistry latched onto this and started to get really excited they wrote a large report full of recommendations about nitrogen.

When my manager saw this he burst out laughing - nitrogen is an inert gas it plays no role in the reaction what the data was actually showing is that nitrogen content varies in response to the concentration of other gasses (H2, Oxygen and CO/CO2) changing - if you recall air is typically 78% nitrogen. We don't control Nitrogen at all it's value is determined based on the other gasses in the reactor.

I think this demonstrates pretty well how easily people can see something in the data and jump to some conclusions that while well meaning lack a fundamental understanding.

Model explainability is good but input explainability is just as important - important question to ask are often.

-What am I feeding into this model?
-What is the expected behavior of this input? (I don't know is a valid answer here)
-Did the input behave as I expected it to in the model?
-If Not why? (This is the interesting and potentially valuable part)
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> But do they do those things because they must compete with the Californian companies that are required by law?

They do those things because they have to compete with everyone in general. If employees want parental leave and will choose the company that provides parental leave over the company that provides <savings from not providing parental leave> in additional salary, companies will offer parental leave regardless of what California requires. And likewise if employees preferred the additional salary over the parental leave, they would provide that in a place the law allows it, even if that isn't allowed in California. But tech employees frequently prefer the flexibility to the money (because the money is still pretty good regardless).

The exception to this is things like CARB where companies will design a car to meet California's fuel economy requirements, but then that model exists and can be purchased by anyone regardless of whether they live in California. If something has a fixed cost, the law in one place requires it, and that place is important enough to justify paying it to operate there, it gets companies to pay the cost. But that doesn't really apply to variable costs like employee benefits.
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There’s two sides to it: you might decide to take a more aggressive position, but you might also use the headlines as a signal to back off (and stop or scale back trading of securities for the affected underlying, at least temporarily).

One tends to carry more serious consequences when you’re wrong. Accordingly, the ‘take’ path generally has more checks, and more opportunities to abort.
For San Francisco, 71% had housing in the city before becoming homeless, 19% were from CA and only 10% from the rest of the USA. http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/02/san-franciscos-ho...

The homeless rate here is similar to that in New York, but New York has a right to shelter so far fewer sleep on the streets than in San Francisco. It's less that the mild weather makes CA more attractive, more that it lets CA governments ignore the problem.
It's only neutral (at best) if you don't consider opportunity cost. Is the best way for the country/society/humanity to deploy a bunch of smart people with a decade and a half of education truly an attempt to try to cheat the speed of light? If trades took 2x as long to execute as they currently do, what exactly would be the harm?
It's because the hotels are rent seeking and seek to offload as much risk as they can into the legal system.

Edit: This is also why faking loan documents and wire fraud is a crime.
I absolutely understand the sentiment, but if you've ever seen explosive arguments over trivial technological decisions, you'd never want technologists working in an environment where sacrificial compromises are the rule du jour.
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Partly because you don't have to move your hands from typing position. And partly because it is smaller.
I think that the advice that you just gave to the parent post to not spread misinformation should be applied to your post.
In the previous model it was perfectly fine to just tilt up to override that system.
We have the sad proof that in the new model it is not enough given that the lion air pilots tried to do it for 26 times in 13 minutes.
In a 2 months old plane.
Given that 300 people already lost their life I will avoid flying on this plane and I’ll urge everyone to avoid it.
If you are really keen to fly on it then please be my guest, but don’t you dare spread misinformation saying that this plane is perfectly safe and the accidents happened only because of the pilots or of the airline maintenance.
I’m really wondering what are your vested interests in Boeing since you are polluting this thread with lies trying to cancel any Boeing responsibilities.
Perhaps but given AWS is a heavy Xen and KVM shop something like Kata Containers might suit them better.
Yes. As a response to a comment talking about enterprise support contracts as a main source of revenue for Docker, I think enterprise checklist items are entirely valid items to focus on.
I mean sure but it's not a very useful observation. It's something bitter incels point out to justify resentment against women because they can't/won't succeed in "The Patriarchy".

Both Men and Women created the societal structures descibed as "The Patriarchy". The question is more if things like male hyper-competition which women are left out of and which grinds some men into the dust is good for society.
Probably more like aggregate, not rebar. I believe fiberglass is already added when the situation calls for it. Plastic strands could act in a similar fashion and would be practically free.
There should be a 1penny tax on trading of stocks. This nonsense has gotten out of hand.

Many startups look for money though venture capital, and not the stock market, because the stock market is so predatory.

People like Elon Musk have gotten in trouble with the stock market for simple things, like thinking out-loud. I'm pretty sure he hates the stock market, and only by law was he forced to sell stocks.

The stock market has transformed many times. Currently large institutional investors like pension plans buy safe stocks. Originally in the 19th century it mostly a way to buy government bonds. In the 1920s buying stocks was opened up to the 'everyman', a person could buy one share rather cheaply. Then came the depression. In the 1950s the stock-market wasn't that important, economy was doing good. Starting in the 1970s traders started inventing exotic financial tools, to make the stock-market less boring. That's how we got into several crashes, most spectacularly 2008.
I know you’re asking earnestly, but the sad truth is the vast majority of startup founders care about the exit. Usually they also fail, unless it isn’t their main motivation, but the answer to your question is: most people who start companies.
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Wow, this throws me back. I had the same exact experience. Now I'm back down memory lane thinking of that forum drama...

The RuneScape botting scene was so strange. It was a really interesting subculture to be a part of. If you were ever active on JH, we probably have seen each other's posts...
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>Compatibilism(from Wikipedia); They define free will as freedom to act according to one's motives without arbitrary hindrance from other individuals or institutions.

This only works if we radically redefine the term "one's motives". Which isn't different from redefining what 'me' means.

The problem is of course that in a Newtonian universe one's motives is a result of arbitrary past actions outwith our current definition of one's motives. And in a quantum universe one's motives are arbitrary (randomly) generated outwith our current definition of one's motives.
There was a quip back in 1997 that "McDonnell Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money" referring to the restacking of the Boeing management with ex-McDD executives after the merger.

The last true engineering-led Boeing was the 777. Chaotic mess of 787 development or apparent stretch-too-far Max are pure McDD.
To complicate matters even more, people's overall perceptions are the result of distinct experiences across two different mediums, the physical and the digital, each with its own characteristics. I think studies ought to differentiate between the two. The barrier to online speech is substantially lower.
Waste to energy programs, where exhaust is contained and not released into the atmosphere, is a viable means of disposal for many materials. Particularly viable for those which are oil based, like plastic, which are highly pollutive if not contained (see our oceans), take a massive amount of time to naturally decompose, and have relatively high potential energy (because they are petroleum based).

Edit: I notice you said plastic packaging. Which made me thing of the massive amount of plastics in retailed packaging. My answer there would be that reducing is always better than recycling - start shipping with less material and/or more paper based products that naturally decompose in a few days/weeks.
If you want to know how HFT works I recommend the book Flash Boys by Michael Lews or the first 15 minutes of this talk by Brad Katsuyama (the book protagonist) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9hoqFpDjVs.

In short, when you send an order from your computer to buy say 10000 stocks, this order gets split to all the multiple exchanges. When the order hits the first (closest) exchange, HF Traders will pick that up and race you to the rest of the exchanges and try to front run you by buying the stock in lower price if available and make an offer to your bid price that they know is coming.
>How big is Estonia?

Are you saying that it's small enough that you can sway the election by threatening to beat up every voter?

That's a brave claim.

>As far as the political will to come down on people for vote buying or intimidation etc. I'm sure that making things illegal when there is a profit to be made at doing it has always succeeded in driving that illegal thing out of existence without any untoward effect on society whatsoever.

there is ZERO profit to be made in vote buying if you are thrown in prison after purchasing your 9th vote. You'd have to be enormously stupid to even try.

that's why vote buying doesn't exist. that's why it's not like drugs. It's not because you "can't tell people" who you voted for. It's because it's trivial to detect, easy to crack down on and there's nothing to be gained by risking it. The only time when there was something to be gained by doing it, it was because it was COMPLETELY LEGAL.

Let me repeat that: the only time in history it was ever a problem, it was because it was LEGAL.

I want proof that my vote counted because that helps protect against the kind of threats which DON'T disappear just because they're made illegal. I don't need people like you telling me that I'm not responsible enough to get proof because I might sell it.
Second that. The article linked was an excerpt from the work in progress version. Good page turner.
„The bottled water crowd thinks they're immune to these issues around drinking water systems, but in fact the bottled water companies generally get their water from the same public drinking water systems we use, and their standards are in fact lower than those surrounding your tap water (as it's policed by the FDA, not the EPA).„

Excuse my choice of words here, but wtf.
I always thought water in bottled units is held to a higher standard.
This sounds close to a land value tax. If you look around most US cities you will see a lot of land not being used for housing as compared to European cities. Land used for parking, lawns, roads, and vertical space not filled with bedrooms all contribute to higher rents. True, there are zoning laws that restrict these housing uses, but there is also no encouragement from the tax code. Land value taxes encourage more efficient use of valuable space.
Because it's a Korean company.

It's far less common to use email to contact a customer in Korea.
As you can see email is not even a required field in the sign-up page. The customers prefer to receive notifications via SMS (or Kakaotalk nowadays) then email. Actually email is almost meaningless in Korea for contacting method to consumers.

If the company send official release news to sing-up customers on email only, they might complain that the company contact them on email for such an important announcement.

Email is the least serious communication channel in Korea. Even in Business-to-Business situations email is usually used for sending files, not for communications.
> Solid waste is as much pollution as smog has been in large cities. Clean air laws have changed the whole environment in cites like Los Angeles.It's time we start doing the same with solid waste.

As much as smog "has been"? Los Angeles today is still full of SUVs belching smog. The air quality is still insanely awful. Yet the dialog has moved on (maybe because SUVs are for the wealthy?).

Why care about landfills? Air pollution kills people, in addition to hurting them less severely and blocking the views. And on a global scale, climate change is going to hurt everyone on Earth. Landfills in the United States, where they should be properly lined so they don't leak poisons, don't hurt anybody. Plastic in landfills even sequesters carbon.
Owning a car is expensive and a pain in the ass, walking to the station every morning is good for you, you can read/relax on a train whereas driving in traffic is a nightmare.
FYI, in SF there are also multiple churches of different christian denominations. Most of them will welcome you, doing their best to make you feel at home and accepted as part of the community. It works best if you don't treat them like the feared "other".
Yes! But 4-stroke engines have been having a hard time cracking the leaf blower & weed whacker markets. It would also not solve noise.
This requires a lot of discipline and experience managing remote teams. It’s significantly harder in a lot of ways. That doesn’t make it not worthwhile, but I’d argue you’re simply trading one set of problems for another. Whether those new problems are worth more or less is entirely dependent on your individual calculus.
Better to be safe than to be sorry, especially when your life is at stake.
Consultant here. No contracts. Never had any issues.
who's suggesting that property laws are obvious? Property laws exist because property is rivalrous, and the commons are generally abused, for example how the #1 polluter in the US is the US government, how the soviet bloc and china were far worse per capita polluters than the US.

> But this is also true of all laws,

Yes, that's true for all laws. It's funny that no one says it's part of the "social contract" when someone gets choked out and killed by the police for selling bootleg cigarettes on the corner.

I'm also going to point out that the central problem with income tax is that we think it's great because it's "punishes" the wealthy, but the equilibrium state is that due to bracket creep, it winds up screwing over the poor and middle class while the wealthy find escapes. Of note: I remember a year when I paid more in income taxes (as a proportion of my income) having made 30k than Bernie Sanders did.

The general paradigm among the liberal left is that the poor are screwed over by the political power because they are poor. I think it might be worth rethinking that - the poor are and continue to be poor because they don't have political power. The problem is that political power is a zero-sum game, so any solution that gives those in power more power will only make matters worse.
As a hiring manager whose teams are mostly building CRUD applications, I ignore them entirely. Algorithms skills have little bearing on whether someone can architect maintainable and scalable apps, and people who are excited by those sorts of challenges will probably be bored and frustrated doing this work.
I have an anecdote about this book!

I wrote my master's thesis about some cellular automata experiments. This was in 2016, so in the 50th anniversary year of the book. While doing background research I checked my university library's online database and found they had a copy of this book in storage off-site. So I had it retrieved and checked it out. Perfect condition. On the little card on the inside of the cover that shows previous borrowers there was one name and date, some time in the 70's, around the time my dad attended the same university.

While it is possible there were more borrowers of the book that just weren't noted on the card (I myself was registered in a digital system of course), there can't have been many, since there was so little wear and tear. Made me wonder what other "treasures" are lying around libraries around the world, waiting generations between each time someone checks them out.
> Then, consider how misleading the "parts per million" metric is, considering Avogadro's number.

What about Avogadro's number make a PPM metric (i.e. a ratio) misleading??? Because there are a lot of millions in Avogadro's number? How is that relevant to a ratio?
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> being able to work on side projects you can profit from without them being owned by your employer

Is not being able to even legal? I'm pretty sure employer can't put anything like that in the work contract where I live. My spare time is my time. Sure one can sign a non-competing clause, but employer owning your side projects sounds just insane.