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>Sillicon valley is more then google and apple

It is... but the top tier companies pay dramatically more than the next tier down. Like, we're talking 30-50% difference once you count total comp.

(it's interesting, base salary is somewhat comparable... but stock and bonus are a big part of comp if you work at a FAANG company, and those... largely don't exist at third-tier companies.)

The top-tier employers also do a lot to bring up salary pressure on the lower tiers; if the FAANG companies didn't pay so much, the most desirable people wouldn't leave the lower paying companies, wouldn't make room for someone less desirable, etc... That's how I got my start; I didn't go to college, but I did work my way up through those smaller companies, into larger companies that paid better and better.
You might want to take a look at types of calculations that theory is applied to. It's used to model macro economic effects which has very little to do with what people imagine this means.
just that some cars and their usage patterns won't matter for the kind of energy consumption required by residential heating, industrial processes and shipping. Those are the real things, where we need to setup logistics and economics and absolutely nothing is done. (Reasonable) Electric vehicles are nice and good and phasing out reasonable (think 50-60mpg) cars for them is an inevitable thing (at least in cities), but it's just the tip of the iceberg
I saw math paper about systems, which can remain stable for unlimited time. As far as I remember, infinity number of solutions exist for 1D, and 2D worlds. Only 3 solutions found for 3D world (named 1, 2, and 42). None found for 4D world, so, if infinite time given, 4D world will collapse into 3D world.

I can't find this paper again yet. (I'm quite busy: revolution, ongoing war, problems with health, my father died, politics, delivery for 1+y long project in less than 2 weeks, etc.)

This paper complimented view I already had in my head (everything is particle, surrounded by spherical wave, and propelled by vibrations/noise), because now I know that Universe is very simple thing in general. Nothing complex can survive in infinite time. This mean that on lower level only extremely stable (simple) systems can survive, because time is very fast on level below. On our level, we can find temporary complex systems (we live at one of them, and we itself are another example). On level above, it unlikely that we will find a complex system, chances are very low, thus what is see around us should continue for very long time and space.
No, they didn't. Their original proposition was that you could buy and sell tether from them at exactly 1 USD.

What happened was that website for doing that was only ever available for very short periods and instead tether was traded on exchanges. Poloniex/bitfinex etc are exchanges, not the promised single source of tether. Exchange trading with a market set price and a bid/offer spread is not the same as a direct purchase website from the creator. It means the price moves. The original promise was for a fixed price set buy the sole supplier.
Solidarity for May Day.
Yes, we already have a prototype C++ generator as a command-line tool, so mixing that with some boilerplate to build a plugin will be something we do soon.

And yes, the same thing would also work nicely if hosted as a web-service
Wait, how does FB have my sent emails? I'd think sent emails were one of the few things they don't have access to
EVs used for commuting will eventually be plugged in during the day at the workplaces (in cities where the grid usually has more capacity), not only overnight at homes. Large part of renewables is wind, which is available overnight, too. Most EV users will surely accept trading, say, 30% of maximal EV range which they don't need every day, for cheap electricity plan.

As long as we stay in optimal operating envelope for batteries (no full charge/discharge with large currents, no temperature extremes), there is no downside for battery life.
True. But how much HVO100 can you personally produce?

Solar is easy to produce locally, even on your own roof. Also electric cars typically turn around 85% of the energy into forward motion. Because it's local there's minimal distribution costs. Additionally grid size installations are competing with coal, natural gas, and similar sources quite well on price.

Gas cars are around 15% efficient, and diesels are only slightly higher. Anything like gas has substantial costs in distribution, and of course you have to drive to/from gas stations (instead of just charging at home/work.

So even if HVO100 is 100% renewable, it's not going to be cost efficient, or energy efficient.... so why bother?
i don't think it's "uselessness" as much as aesthetics. form over function is always the primary consideration. there is no demand for pants with pockets and the rest follows. as a dude i've started preferring jeans with comically useless small pockets because i always carry the only things i need(smartphone has a wallet stuck onto it) in my hands
Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19785841
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You could have the same (only existing?) process than other content platforms like YouTube, Github, etc. In practice, most people are fair and post the content with the right license, but anyone can send a DMCA request.

An annual transparency report is probably mandatory with that process, like these ones :

https://github.blog/2019-01-23-2018-transparency-report/

https://transparency.facebook.com
That you can doesn't mean you do. Both wind and solar uses ex coal as backup and with only 1% of the worlds energy consumption being covered by those its safe to say that currently evs are powered by fossil fuel. Also look up capacity factor. We arent even close to be able to use solar and wind for anything big scale, although actually creating these giant farms are extremely big scale because the energy density is so low.
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TLDR: the study referenced is inherently flawed. Among others:

* It used outdated NEDC tests instead of WLTP numbers. (Diesel) car makers are known to have cheated NEDC tests for decades, using corrected WLTP numbers changes the whole story.

* It exaggerated the CO2 emissions for production of batteries, Tesla's Gigafactory emits 2.6x less CO2 per kWh than assumed.

* It assumed a battery lifespan of just 150k km. Tesla's rated battery lifespan is over 2M km, so taking 300k as very conservative number changes the calculation significantly.

* It assumed an energy mix of today, instead of an increasing share of renewable energy in the future.

Using corrected data, the Tesla emits actually 63% less CO2 instead of 11-28% more.
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how do you interact with anyone presenting at/participating in CCC? does everyone just meet on day of? i have a hard time reading any of their material and there's never any links on who to ask questions to. OR do they just like it that way
That's the problem. Generally there are selective pressures against excessively selfish behavior but since climate change is relatively slow and distributed I'm not sure if that will apply in this case.

Maybe in this case selection pressure applies to entire species or planets and is one of the reasons we haven't detected any signs of intelligent life outside the solar system?
Drive-by poster here but I was wondering if you had spent any time looking into what IO scheduler you're using on Linux?

Some time ago I encountered issues similar to what you mention in your posts. I solved it selecting the "Deadline" IO scheduler when I built my kernel.

Hopefully this helps you solve the issue :)

~K
Indeed. I spent 10 or 15 minutes trying to figure out if they are selling a physical device, like a usb 'key' or are just selling 2 factor authentication with mobile phones. And I'm still none the wiser. It's pages upon pages of buzzwords and nonsense.
Won't that affect the battery lifetime? Or this new batteries can be smart about this? I am thinking that replacing an used battery will contribute negatively to the environment.
I've been making music as an amateur for a long time now. I can't claim any of my work is amazing but the tracks I'm the most happy with were all composed pretty quickly in a moment of inspiration.
There'll actually be many ways of using it.. Javascript in a browser is just one of those ways. The real API is written in C++ and we'll be offering a C binding in many languages, which you'll use in a pretty similar way to how you'd use the openGL API to run a shader. We'll publish that C API soon-ish, hopefully within a few months.
I imagine if someone built Instagram for ancient Greek art and analysed it they could rediscover things like the Golden Ratio. And those Doric columns... all the same.

And with photography much of it isn't mimicry per se so much as the fact that humans find a lot of similar things interesting even if they pay no attention to other people's artwork at all. Even if entirely uninterested in other people's travel shots, people often find the rowing boat trip they took with their partner interesting enough to record a picture of their partner taken from said rowing boat, and so we end up with a lot of shots of partners sitting in the prow which can't really not be compositionally similar to other shots of other partners sitting in other boats on other rivers.
Depends pretty much on the platform.

On Apple, Windows, embedded platforms and game consoles, it is pretty much "File->New Project" on the respective OS IDEs.

Then you just vendor the libraries on some company wide repository and use the IDE respective features to link to them.

Then most CI/CD systems understand the respective project files.

Naturally you can also go old style Makefiles, CMake or whatever is the build tool of the day.

It depends on the company's approach to their development stack.
Wow, this comment just got me thinking. If I've got good at taking well composed photos, according to common photography techniques, might they have less of that time-machine, memory-jogging quality? I'd like to have both - maybe I need two sets for photos!
I don’t think there ever was an idea in economics that totally free and unregulated markets was a good thing. The most hard core free market proponents always said state should focus on the (minimal) sets of rules to let the market maintain fair competition between participants. That includes anti-monopoly and anti-cartel regulations.
Sounds about right. Extending this, and considering employer-provided health insurance as effectivly a tax on your income, and suddenly the US is heavily taxed.

I'm sure this analysis[0] has plenty of critique waiting to pounce, but it's something to consider.

[0] https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/04/08/us-workers-a...
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Most embedded systems do not support dynamic linking.

Plus unless you are doing plugins, dynamic linking is an attack vector.
Well ok, maybe I should have said "theoretically risk free", I meant more in the economic sense. You are right of course, I guess in practice there's no 100% safe way to store billions worth of assets anywhere.

Though.. I can imagine there's a lot safer options than some small polish bank.

Maybe they could become a bank themselves to contain some of the external risks.
Here’s a YouTube Top Gear review of the three wheeled Renault Robin, https://youtu.be/QQh56geU0X8. It’s quite funny.
> economies of scale

This economy isn't new. Public transport, much of it electrified already, is the very definition of economy of scale. It will trade some comfort and convenience for increased efficiency and lower cost (not to mention some hefty side benefits like less congestion and reclaiming some land in cities). It could also free up city traffic and allow reclaiming some of the land. It's also not very popular with people who can afford an EV today which leads me to believe this is only about comfort and convenience at the budget you can afford. For some people this leads to an EV, for others to an ICE.
A lack of diversity in tech is fuelling the IT skills shortage
That's why you add new laws to prohibit things you find damaging to society.
> I'd like to make a slightly different response than "I don't want my company to be responsible for my social well-being": I think part of what you're saying is less that your (pure) social life is derived from work than that work itself is a social experience and that helps productivity/morale.

You are absolutely correct, thank you for helping me phrase it.
At least in the UK that'd get you one of these responses from the police...

"You haven't lost anything, there's nothing to investigate."

"That's a civil matter. You need to get a solicitor."

"Go away or we'll charge you with wasting police time."
If the extra cost is labor it's fine, but not if it's material cost. People have been know to melt down coins and sell the metal when the intrinsic value of the coin exceeds its face value. This practice is illegal most places, but avoiding the situation altogether is probably better!
Did you read the article till the end or look up the background of the person who wrote it? The message is not about the slides.
This was supposed to be the benefit of HMOs. There would be single-pricing, and all carriers are aware of this pricing beforehand.

What I think we need, however, is a model that doesn't depend on single-pricing to work, because the real world isn't single-buyer.

People tried to solve it by creating healthcare savings accounts, but the solution itself is very complex, and the end user is often in situations where they don't have the ability to negotiate (e.g. emergency health care). So in practice, the financial benefits seem to accrue with low-care patients, not low-cost-of-service patients, meaning it doesn't affect the system in the right way.

Ultimately, I think the only way to fix it is to start adding negative pricing pressure in small ways to the system, not trying to tackle the whole problem at once.

For example, waive deductibles for treatments which are billed below average (mean? median? in any case, this has to be independent of list price). That creates a financial incentive for insured patients to both seek out billing information, and to lower it.

What's great about that (for insurers) is that you're specifically altering behavior of your most cost-conscious customers, who tend to be your lowest margin customers, without mucking about with the profit margins on your most valuable customers.
i don't think comparing your photo with the best photographer in the world is necessarily a bad thing, it shows you what you haven't learnt yet and how composition/lighting changes things.

if you translate that into FOMO somehow i think that's on your broken code/way of living rather than anything else.
Per capita per year, the US consumes 13.0 MWh of electricity and 436.6 gallons of gasoline. With ~132k BTU of energy per gallon, that's 16.9 MWh.

Let's say electric cars are 50% more efficient in terms of energy consumption; that's still a 65% increase in the amount of electricity production required. As we move to EVs and renewables, this extra energy is going to come from keeping fossil fuel plants online that would have otherwise been shut down.

Counting the energy use of EVs as potentially from renewable sources is just feel good and ignores reality. The marginal electrical consumption caused by Teslas coming off the line today will not come from renewable sources over the lifetime of the vehicle, even if you assume a very healthy exponential ramp from today.

You're refuting one bad argument with another, which unfortunately is pretty much par for the course for discussions on energy policy.

Even with this, the shift is still well worth doing, not least of which because the distributed storage it offers is likely the only way we'll be able to hit 100% renewables down the track.
i read that it's 2% conviction rate in the UK. that has to be the most discouraging thing. Get privacy invaded for a 1/50 shot of a conviction and then the sentences aren't huge this is so messed up
I did a search for Flamingo and there were no flamingos...
> In an attempt to appear unique, everyone ends up doing the same thing.

Time and again it is said about people subscribing to various subcultures or styles: "they think they are unique but they all are the same!" However I have never once heard or seen anyone in any such group actually claim to be unique.
Not only that, but a rapist could use the threat of police investigation for something like recreational drug use to scare a victim into never going to the police in the first place.
In my opinion, you should include "POWERFUL QUERY TOOL" into the community edition, and then sell the ability to have private spaces including support in the priced plan.

Right now, it doesn't seem very fair or legit given the headline "The intelligent, open knowledge base". If the raw data is accessible but the tool to query it is not accessible to most web users, it doesn't make it "open".
Holders of Tether can play the same game, but they don't have the same advantage. Because of the knowledge imbalance, Tether has zero risk in this game. Any other player has the risk that they might lose money on a trade for whatever reason.

I agree the spread might be tiny though. Though if Tether puts itself in a bad light every now and again it could force the spread a bit wider.
The trick is to spin it better.

It's not "reducing police power", it's "even better training, tools and techniques for our hard-working police officers".
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I think some of FIRE's basic mental models provide a useful perspective to help make some decisions, but like many things in life, it's not great to focus on one perspective myopically, to the exclusion of everything else.

While accumulating and investing savings it is reasonably useful to keep in mind your savings ratio:

savings_ratio := (income - expenses) / income

If you choose to focus on growing investments, make decisions to maximise the savings ratio, subject to other constraints. You can try to reduce expenses, or increase income. Or both. Sometimes you can find win-win decisions that increase your savings ratio while also giving you some other benefit (e.g. start riding a bicycle to work instead of commuting on public transport -- this saves money and can be more enjoyable, provided conditions for cycling aren't too foul and you live close enough).

Focusing on maximising savings ratio assumes that your expenses while saving will be similar to your expenses once retired. This may or may not be true -- for example, maybe you have high-paying work in a higher cost of living area, but you can move to a lower cost of living area when you no longer need a reliable day job.

Once retired, we want our investment income to cover our expected expenses:

cash_flow_in + cash_flow_out >= 0

cash_flow_in = capital_invested * (expected_nominal_return - inflation) * (1 - effective_tax_rate)

cash_flow_out = expected_annual_expenses_when_retired

We can calculate our progress by the ratio cash_flow_in / -cash_flow_out .

For example, let's plug some numbers in:

expected_annual_expenses_when_retired = -20,000 USD / yr

capital_invested = 200,000 USD
expected_nominal_return = 6% (say we're 100% invested in the US stock market)
inflation = 2%
effective_tax_rate = 5% (complete guess, i don't live in the US)

So

expected_investment_income = 200,000 * (0.06 - 0.02) * (1 - 0.05) = 7600 USD / yr

In this example, our progress to covering our expected annual retirement expenses with net real investment returns is 7600 / 20000 = 38% .

There are calculators to estimate the time until retirement. Here's a simple one: https://networthify.com/calculator/earlyretirement?income=70...

All that said, real life is unpredicable and complicated, it might be good to leave a bit of margin in there to handle unpredictable events such as stock market crashes, large one-off expenses to repair a house, contingency for emergency medical expenses, etc. It's arguably not a great idea to be 100% invested in stocks at the moment, let alone US stocks.

Potentially useful resources:

http://www.efficientfrontier.com/
https://www.bogleheads.org/
>My point is that conditioning children to think of art in this formulaic way can only be attributed to ignorance or malice.

I can believe that that this is your contention.

>There is no need to test for reading comprehension using a banal interpretation of poetry.

You say things as if they were obviously true.

>For evidence of the significance of art in the human experience, check the historical record.

OK.

I'm not sure what this red herring is supposed to do for your argument.
Always love the car analogies.

They're really both interfaces, for petrol you get energy and CO2 emissions for a given quantity. However you don't know that the CO2 emissions are net - the fuel might have been produced via some synthetic process driven by renewables. Unlikely, but as an interface you can't really know the details of the implementation behind the scenes.
A bit of a sideline, but I'm inclined to agree that simply counting renewable energy produced as carbon neutral isn't right. I'm not even thinking of the emissions incurred in constructing e.g. solar plants. Energy is a liquid market, any consumption takes up a part of the total production of the relevant area, and it's the average emissions in that area we should be concerned with, IMO.

It's probably not quite so cut-and dried. A gigafactory building solar to produce it's own energy certainly seems like it should get a steep discount in emissions. But where do we draw the line? I buy wind power. Does that mean it no longer matters how much power I use? That doesn't seem reasonable, either.
Well then, serious question - not just passive-aggressive snark - why does this happen?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/nov/23/enormous-pop-up...

And other articles too. People inside the USA, travelling ( sometimes for days) to queue (sometimes for days) for a dentist. Why are there organistations in the US whose purpose for existence is to travel around, providing free dental care to any and all comers? Like a medical mission to a country suffering enormous poverty.
Is it just me or does anyone else not think in absolutes for cars, nuclear, renewables etc.

Yes, fossil fuels should be phased out, however we should still continue research to make Diesel and Petrol more efficient and clean.
A large proportion of the world still can't afford a car let alone an electric one, those that do buy secondhand imports from the Western world (5-10 years old).

Equally logistics will be reliant on ICE for many years to come, so focusing on efficiency and reducing those emissions.

Stop bashing either technology and focus on improving them together!
Keep in mind that her encounter with "pouls" was spoken, not written. The "poux" warning probably came with a written note.

Regardless, @bambax said she should have known that, in a spoken context [lə pu] is the pulse and [lɛ pu] is lice. I argue that it isn't surpising that the author didn't have that knowledge. Lice exceedingly rare in adult life (if common for school kids). Pulse is specialized vocabulary.
>The ROC and the PRC _are_ independent countries.

You know that's not true.

>They don't say they are, but clearly they are.

So why don't they say that?

>The PRC already basically (that qualifier probably isn't necessary) is an ally of the United States.

And what is the United States' position on the independence of Taiwan?

>It's dangerous double-speak and needs to stop.

Sometimes language can reflect reality, and the reality is that Taiwan is quasi-independent.
Because every CEO is saying "it's okay that privacy is gone! It's no big deal!" I know that one day I'm suddenly going to feel the consequences of their policies and learn by experience that privacy was a big deal after all.
Which tools do you use? I have been looking for something that does this.