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>> It’s hard to prove anyone’s credentials when they are fleeing a war.

Not really. There could be simple tests to establish basic knowledge of their expertise. It doesn't need to be a hard test but it would stop the bulk of false applications. After all the scope is not to allow only the most skilled but to stop the peoole with low/no skills.

>> if there is a chance that one person out of a thousand can be at this level, it’s pretty much a no brainer to let everyone in.

I doubt that this guy would fail a 60 seconds interview with basic question about its expertise so there is no need to let everyone in.

Why so you want to let everyone in? Do you expect a big economic return from unskilled immigrants? Is it a moral thing to do? Who would be affected by them? How do you compensante the people affected? I think there are some unanswered questions that need to be addressed before to let everyone in.
I want that and better in games.

While graphics often borders on photorealistic, animation still looks bad. Decades pass and even top of the line mocap still feels way off for me in the context of game environments.
What is the environmental cost of mining that lithium?

How much lithium is there, actually?
This. Plus, can it really be referred to as a "study" with just three test subjects?
I'd also consider the new gen super ultrawides like the Philips 499P9H. 49", 5120x1440. I think that's the way to go
It’s not, and likely never will be.
> Nuclear hype is timeless

The only timeless thing about nuclear is the the waste. Something many future generations can have to be pissed about us.

Nobody was talking about nuclear for years before that new hype started a few months ago and suddenly it's allover the place. Come on...

> Thus we have a public education issue.

No we don't and painting the opposition to the hype as stupid or uneducated only hurts nuclear. It's been a constant mistake by the nuclear lobby throughout their history and it's one more reason why the hype will fail in the end. The lobby can scream as loud as they want it won't be louder as the rapid development in renewables and the unwillingness of the whole world to invest into a dead technology nobody outside the hype wants. The investors jumped off already years ago. Get over it.
Sounds interesting. Is that implemented in kernels? And why wasn't HTTP1.1+ built on top of that?
StumbleUpon.com - It proposed links and webpages to read, and as you liked/disliked them it used to learn what you like in order to propose other, better-fitting stuff.

Apparently it now has "joined" mix.com, where you can only join via Facebook, twitter or google authentication. Thanks but no thanks.
I live-stream code sessions with OpenBroadcasterStudio. I use one monitor for my work and the other to monitor the stream. On the work monitor, I split the window evenly between editor and output (web browser with browser tools), and find the OS shortcuts for arranging the windows to align to the edges and split the screen really helpful for efficient use of the screen space.
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C-thru Axis-49. Velocity sensitive hexagonal midi keyboard. Came out just before Kickstarter, and had early issues since a lot of their preorders fell through. Also shipped with the awful Harmonic Table layout, and needed manual conversion to Wicki-Hayden. But it's an amazing instrument, with everything right under your fingers.
There isn’t a single line in OP’s post that isn’t wrong. He gets the costs wrong, he gets the deployment wrong, he gets efficiencies wrong, he get political stories wrong. If a post is not going to get downvoted, HN should at least have a way to label it as incorrect.
Was Swype really that good?

http://www.wastedtalent.ca/comic/text-what-i-mean-not-what-i...
I looked at some trial 5G gNB; you definitely feel nauseated if u r standing near these units. This will be a concern.
The planet doesn't care about intermittency. It only cares about total emissions.
I still prefer nssm.cc. It has smaller size, more features and doesn't depend on .NET.
On the paper that is true but still the FCC seems to have some concerns

+ https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/wireless-devices-and-he...

+ https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/human-exposure-radio-fr...
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it's probably alright as long as he doesn't tell ISIS the secret recipe for "red iodine" (aka "nuclear nitroglycerin")

I've heard 'red iodine' is a long running troll the intelligence community plays on terrorist groups. They say it works; extremists say it works & you can't fool them out of looking for it!
What's worse, people actually believe such stuff. Then you get people on the media accused of being supporters of $evil-ideology because they scratched their nose the wrong way at a conference.
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Indeed it's not as wide as 2 monitors, but you can split workspace into 2 applications and that's still quite comfortable. E.g. when working on web-development you might have VS-code and browser opened at the same time.
> but ok if you dont care about co2

From all those cheap arguments the lobby has brought up here (and there are not many), this one is the absolutely worse.

There is no group of people who want don't want nuclear but want coal. There is no nuclear vs. coal discussion out there outside the nuclear fans. Coal is going away. The only reason breaking the progress here in Germany is politics and just another lobby. Still there are new coal plants here that have not generated a single watt and go into decommission now. Others follow because we don't have the need for them and they are clogging the power lines for clean renewable power.

This is common knowledge where I come from. So please, stop repeating this very very stupid phrase.
There's a huge barrier to entry for any of the possible applications that most people just don't want to risk. For art, it costs $10 to download photoshop, but it costs an average person $500+ (computer hardware and headset) to get into VR. There's also no well-known VR artists to get people excited about it.

I'm only seeing good things about VR gaming, though. It's definitely becoming more popular there. Lots of people seem excited for the Steam Index.
> (It stopped being opensource a while _before_ the redesign.)

That's actually good. The new Reddit design is a dumpster fire, and something I would not myself want to inflict on other human beings.
It was popular in many parts of Asia and Western Europe.
This has changed over time. Back in the 80s getting a PCB made either involved etching a board yourself and bags of strong chemicals and UV lights (a massive pain), or was expensive and tedious to outsource (and you still had to produce camera-ready transparencies yourself). We always used Vero boards or wire wrap instead. Nowadays you can email off a design and get boards back a week or two later and at a very reasonable cost.
> Naturally, when working with two monitors, you have to turn your head more often. [...] Therefore, while working on 2 monitors may require massages or physical exercises to reduce neck strain, one monitor is lean and mean.

My personal experience is the opposite. With just one screen I tend to sit still in one position for long periods at a time and feel really uncomfortable after a couple hours. With my current 3 monitor setup I not only turn my head frequently but even sit differently depending on which screen currently has main focus and which one is e.g. just showing debug info or logs.
People have done these calculations. They come out in favor of nuclear in terms of area efficiency and price per kilowatt hour. It is just that politically it is a hard sell in a lot of countries.
I was under the impression that they later confirmed his sex as female using the DNA sample
Externally in the pits. No need carrying the weight of a starter or battery when you don’t need them on track.
Rubbish. You can sell it for different prices, you just can't block someone from buying it based on where they live.
Isn't that what people are doing here: Looking for significant overlaps? Consider the NSDAP KdF program and mentally replace the swastika with a hammer and sickle:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_Through_Joy

Obviously NS is not 100% equal to abstract pure socialism, I think we can assume that everyone here knows that.
How about 3 monitors?
It was actually the development of cheap paper that propelled the use of Gutenberg's movable type. So long as either writing or printing was done on very expensive parchment and vellum made from animal hides, there was not much economic advantage from movable type because print runs on a very expensive medium would be short. The cost of materials dominated the labor costs.

About 1350 the price of paper began to fall exponentially in England and Holland. This made movable type economic almost 100 years later.

See Figure 5 on page 10 of "Prices and the Growth of the European Knowledge Economy, 1200-2007" https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:384596/FULLTEXT0...

The Moore's Law of paper prices was to printing as the Moore's Law of silicon integrated circuits is to the internet.
Nice to see some quantification and hints of where the point of diminishing returns is reached. Counting tab/window switching time and neck moves seems like a decent start, tho seems moving the neck or chair is quicker.

It's been obvious since the CRT days that the biggest possible monitor was best. Anything smaller was like trying to navigate through a porthole instead of the broad seascape visible from the bridge.

The ultimate in some SciFi scenes, a large curved desk-monitor surround, though past the point of diminishing returns for most tasks, still seems cool for very complex tasks, or large CAD work...
>How I wish that was true.

>What they actually do is preferring to not burn coal, but when the choice is between blackouts or burning coal for power even the most environmentalist governments in Europe prefer burning coal.

It is true.

Germany has already built its last coal fired power plant and has already mandated the closure of all 84 plants by 2020.

Germany is already shifting to generating by renewables, demand shifting to deal with fluctuations in the cost of power, overproduction and pumped water / batteries to make up the rest of the difference.

>It is a bit strange political situation where those in favor of renewable do not want a full ban of burning coal, gas and oil, while those in favor of nuclear do want it.

It'll happen eventually. Nuclear is in no position to make it happen any quicker than renewables are though.
have you also tried to blind-test standing beside one that's switched off and on?
Because plenty of people say they can "feel" cellphone radiation (so-called electrosensitivity), yet noone has ever been able to show this under controlled scientific conditions. As soon as they don't know if the radiation is there they stop feeling it.
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The website I linked is the federal agency for nuclear safety.

Depends entirely what you mean by "dangerous levels". It is contaminated enough, that mushrooms from the forests are not allowed to be sold as food. Yes, a single serving won't have a significant impact on your health, but it is recommended not to eat much of them. The situation is worse with some wild boar, which eat a lot of those mushrooms and accumulate cesioum over many years.

And perhaps a relevant information: the Bavarian forests are about 600 miles from the Chernobyl site.
Don't care at all, don't see a reason why I should care
People fall into the trap of expecting otherwise, because otherwise is easier. MOOC are often used as a shortcut rather than a legitimate way to learn about a subject.
So you can blast through your data cap in just 10 minutes now?
For this application? Pumped hydro, high temperature thermal in firebrick (a technology used by the steel industry in the 1920s), and hydrogen.

Also, adapt iron/steel production to use direct electrolytic methods, although that's going to require more R&D. The potential for dispatchability of demand is enormous.
Except than China and Australia are doing exactly what you said cannot be done.

Also Canada is complaining that they have a massive surplus of hydroelectricity, that they would like to sell us, but it’s apparently very complicated to get anyone to agree on anything, even if the total infrastructure cost and the energy would be cheaper than a nuclear plant.
When I focus on my secondary monitor for some time, I do move my chair as well.

Only if I will use the second one for longer than a few seconds (like reading documentation on it, or looking at a video)
X made me do it.
Plenty of people will just tell you their password if you ask them nicely (https://www.google.com/amp/s/nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/0...) so I'm pretty sure they'd give up their contact list.
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There are a lot of humans that are OK with that. The average person do not value privacy that much. There are a lot of people willing to trade data/usage patters for a free app.
On the proposition "Pay $5/month or pay $0 but let me track you" a lot of people will choose the 2nd.
I know @Kognise from the Repl.it community -- he's super talented! https://repl.it/@kognise

He once reversed engineered Repl.it'sb API and created a library that creates containers programmatically and run code heedlessly without a browser.
https://repl.it/talk/announcements/Replit-Node-API/11173
Explosion as in a nuclear one? Really isn't possible. The fissile material isn't pure enough.

I believe graphite rods are used as the safety to capture the neutrons in a nuclear fission reactor and effectively kill off the reaction.

Explosion as in Chernobyl level? That was basically water pressure.
Try sleeping for a week with your cell phone on airplane mode and your wifi unplugged. It certainly won't kill you but it causes oxidative stress on your cells. 5G just ups the intensity to 11.
> Canonical Bazaar

As I understand it, The Breezy project is an active fork, and is also reportedly compatible with Git file storage:

https://launchpad.net/brz
This is one of the few things that annoys me about HN, this exact comment is almost always here if the article makes any attempt at creative writing or storytelling. Insulting? Give me a break.

Writing is an art not a science. Good writing should convey emotion. That's not an easy thing to do. That's why I loved this piece. It captured many of my own feelings, feelings I hadn't found a way to communicate even though I've been involved in sustainability for some years now. I associated the characters with people I know in my personal life, I related to the author, and I learned a few things too.

This paragraph is probably my favorite:

> "We work, and at the end of the day, if we think at all, all we have time to think about is that we are cowards, or, before the thought comes, to escape it. Raise your hand if you have never hoped you will die before you have to thoroughly disrupt your own life for the lives of those who will live after you are dead. I do not mean to yell at anyone. Every day, I ask myself, what are you willing to do? And sometimes I feel righteous and strong, but mostly what I feel is fear, and a drive towards self preservation. I can laugh at the prettily arranged soap, or the privately-viewed sunsets, or the Jet Skis, because those are not my drugs..."
Commodore Amiga? It took several years for the PC world to have a similar capable standard machine?
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What you're saying has quite literally no basis in fact.

Counter to it significantly, there's a heap more powerful non-ionizing transmission than things you have locally in very similar bands, like hundreds of kilowatt TV and FM radio transmitters. Any "effect" you would be seeing is placebo or nocebo depending on the state of your "airplane mode" switch.
I've been using 6 x 1920x1200 displays for several years - 5 x 24" plus the laptop's own 15" panel [1] in a corner configuration with 3 in portrait orientation (perfect for reading documents and web pages).

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I'm so used to being able to distribute 'tasks' and workflow to specific monitors that I struggle terribly, to the point of giving up in frustration, when having to use a single display for anything other than casual or single application use.

I use a combination of head movement and rotating the chair depending on task.

The outstanding benefit is to have multiple applications and documents open and readable simultaneously, just as I would with multiple physical reference books.

An added benefit is having the same 'book' (document) open at different 'pages' on different monitors - and not need to flick back and forward between 'pages' or tabs.

This is using GNU/Linux Xorg server with 4 X sessions.

[1] Dell XPS with ExpressCard -> PCIe ViDock extender containing an Nvidia NVS420 driving 4 monitors, the laptop panel, and an HDMI connection, all 1920x1200.
> What happens 50 years from now should matter relatively little for people living there now. Property owners and banks start discounting the resale value of the land and large property investments, but it's gradual process.

You’re missing a lot of the details explained in the article: this isn’t something like a predictable 2% tax but something which fails significantly at unknown intervals when a bad storm hits, or when infrastructure is overwhelmed and goes from functional to unusable all at once. That leads to highly correlated failures on a large scale: everyone in your zip code can’t get insurance, the entire city needs key infrastructure replaced at the same time, etc. and those also affect the desirability of the area and its ability to attract businesses, tourism, etc. That’s a recipe for volatility and in many cases the potential savings on property values are going to be significantly canceled by higher taxes to pay for all of that infrastructure and increased maintenance costs.
>As soon as they don't know if the radiation is there they stop feeling it.

Was this documented during a test or just anecdata?
Woah, it looks great! Reminds me of Kialo (https://www.kialo.com/), but there are only two ways to recursively split an argument there ("agree" / "disagree") vs. three here, and I also like Arguman's layout more. Pass my thanks to your friend, as I've wanted for a long time to see discussions represented in this kind of tree layout.

(Another thing I'd really love to see would be an extension of this: a DAG of arguments, not a tree. This would most likely make sense only when arguments solidified, and could be rearranged and deduplicated to form a graph.)
It doesn't feel as seamless as just glancing to the side. Plus there's some annoying little context switch feeling to it
Grooveshark - one of the first/greatest music streaming services around.

Comprehensive music catalogue, servers never went down, and UI was simplicity incarnate.

Totally illegal business model, so it's not surprising that it didn't survive.

But it was awesome while it lasted.
> Try sleeping for a week with your cell phone on airplane mode and your wifi unplugged.

What is this supposed to do?
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5g would make it cheaper eventually.
A cool monitor for sure, but compared to three 4k monitors (which current gen PCs can usually drive) it is still a big drop in resolution.
So what you're saying is that the single market is also used to siphon jobs out of all but the poorest countries so companies can get away with paying peanuts. And that's supposed to be good?
How did you come to that conclusion? My complain with EU was it's driven too much by social(ist) policies at least compared with the US? At least the money that goes into small agriculture is upsetting.
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Its a good point plus upgrading to 5g will require purchasing new smartphones so it can be quite a costly affair for the consumer.
> See also: "Oil needs to be changed." Not "Oil needs changed."

Correct (I think) alternatives: "Oil needs change", "Oil needs changing".
I'd contest your claim that MOOCs "don't work".

It's true that only a fraction of those who participate in typical MOOCs complete them (8 - 10%), (https://imgur.com/a/HI4IXbt , from "HarvardX and MITx: Four Years of Open Online Courses", https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2889436), but a significant fraction (~15-20%) also explore these courses (i.e., they watch 50% or more of lectures). So this means that the MOOCs are reaching around 20-30% of the participants in some significant manner.

First of all, is the larger drop out rates really a problem? I'd argue that the option to drop out of a course if you feel that it doesn't serve your needs right now is itself valuable. This means that you're free to spend your time in ways that are more useful to you. Also, a large number of those taking the MOOCs are themselves teachers. This means that the high quality of pedagogy that MOOCs can deliver will have cascading effects through educators who use them to upgrade their own skills.

How to improve the effectiveness of MOOCs? There are plenty of things we can do, too many in fact to go into in one post. A few keys areas that I can see are (a) pedagogy (finding great teaching talent and professionally beefing up their performance), (b) affordability (an issue in developing countries primarily), (c) formal accreditation, and (d) a wider selection of courses that form a genuine alternative to the standard university programs. Models that I find incredibly exciting are that of India's IGNOU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi_National_Open_Un...), NPTEL (https://nptel.ac.in/), and Swayam (https://swayam.gov.in/), all of which issue officially recognized certificates. But unfortunately, as with many things that the Government of India does, the intentions are noble but the execution is mediocre. There's clearly room for players who will "full-ass" what IGNOU set out to do.
I think an important point to make is that it isn't that people in the Nordic countries are happier with less as such. It is that they already have, or have access to, the things they need to be relatively happy. If you don't then of course it is a constant struggle to compensate. Unfortunately I think this is rapidly changing.
4G, just like 3G before it will get slower over time. The spectrum is still shared, and the more devices are connected on the 4G bands, the less bandwith there is for each device.

IMHO, 5G is not so much about speed as it is about latency and better handling of devices in high density areas.
Regarding the speed aspect, keep in mind that most smartphones (which are the primary 4G connected devices) are not equipped with modems that can reach the speed limits of 4G. They certainly could, but that would kill battery life. I expect something similar with 5G (although one the promises of 5G is lower power consumption). VoIP over 3G is often terrible. It's better on 4G, but, in my experience, it's often hit and miss. Having improved latency and speed means VoIP (and video calls) are, theoretically, less of a gamble.

(My experience with 3G/4G is a single datapoint and should not be taken too seriously, evidently)

However, cheap 4G is a good option for areas that have decent cell coverage but poor broadband (I refer to the usual copper lines for DSL). 5G can make the situation better, if only by making 4G cheaper. Deploying 5G means that an operator may have to upgrade their backbone ... which is good for 4G users too.
I came in here to say this. Ctrl+f "StumbleUpon".
Probably one of my favorite ideas. Was sad to see it go.
> It's not perfect but

I think it's fine to enjoy a product, but it's also good to recognise when something could be better. Anything can be better.