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The RE2 mod footage makes me think about and feel like Silent Hill. Things make no sense in a nightmarish way because wetware tries to process them into something that almost individually makes sense yet violently conflicts with other elements that also almost make sense, but combine into an overarching distressing cognitive dissonance which causes unsettlement and terror.

I think this causes much less distress during youth because you've not been exposed to so many complex things with such regularity and over such a long period as you have later on, so you don't really unconsciously think "this is a face; no, wait, a train. wait, the bars on the wheels, they're kinda like where arms should be. are they arms? no this is a train. no ears, no hair, this is not really a head. Of course it's a train, but it's smiling. so it has a mouth, but no limbs, how does it eat? is someone and feeding it with charcoal by entering it from the back where the butt should be? WHERE ARE THE VISCERAS?"

Just regarding the face, it's kind of like the comment says in this video[0], somehow at 3:19 they're ok because they're abstract enough, at 4:02 they're fully entering the unsettling uncanny valley, but at 5:55 they look fine. And here you can fully extrapolate a matching body in your mind, but not with that hellish train, where the extrapolation projects such a body onto the train thing (and the other way around).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBv5z0Y2odE
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Are corporations generally run as central control, or does it vary wildly?

Genuine question as my knowledge of org charts is roughly as simplistic as this cartoon: https://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-org-charts-2011-6?o...
> If we banned all advertising tomorrow, consumers would still get about the same outcomes, especially now that the Internet makes it easy to find products and product information.

And if there's anything which recent history has shown conclusively beyond doubt, it's that people can be relied upon to give each other reliable and accurate information about people and products. Especially online.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_WhatsApp_lynchings

[2] https://www.vox.com/2018/7/19/17594156/whatsapp-limit-forwar...

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5489284/

[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/16/amazon-flooded-with-thousand...
> It's even gotten to a point where baking your own bread might not be cheaper than buying it

Amusingly, there's a book that talks about this specific example [0]. Bread is super cheap to make, but it's also a nuanced thing to do well vs a local bakery.

Oddly, in my experience I've had trouble finding very good sandwich baguettes and similar in a bakery setting (even in NYC - hit me with recommendations). Restaurants that can pull in fresh baked breads daily have much better access to good product it feels like.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Bread-Buy-Butter-Shouldnt-ebook/...
Fact: "Swedish justice" was more or less like Ecuador exchanging some multi billion IMF funding for giving him up -- the kind of made up stuff you stick to someone you want to shut up.
People debate about that all the time, whether there's life, a 'soul', etc.
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you are assuming that the reader is familiar with this specific understanding of "derive". someone not familiar with formal methods wouldn't.
You are ignoring both heating and transportation, each of which creates as much of Germany's CO2 emissions as electricity generation.

Replacing both with domestic non-fossil solutions is near-impossible in the medium term unless nuclear forms a big part of the baseload - heating on those winter nights where the sun doesn't shine but electric heat exchangers work full tilt, and generation for those electric cars charging throughout the winter night.
Anyone in the Montreal area could suggest a name for a good doctor to potentially diagnose and treat ADHD? This has been going on all my life and I am extremely fed up with it, I cannot list one single thing I ever finished 'properly' in my life (35+) and this include important academic and work tasks.. I don't want to 'have' anything , or justify my possible laziness/ineptitude, but I want to have professional making the call. Thanks...
That statement just excuses any authority to do what they want. A despotic dictatorship would be absolutely fine for people to repeat 'accepting the consequences of your actions' so that if anything horrible happens to someone it is not okay to criticise the authority on what they did because they are not 'accepting the consequences of their actions'. This simply excuses anyone in power doing anything to any dissenter.
When you have that much money it isn't possible to donate it all at once.

Fraud in charities is a real thing. There are a lot of "charities" that do some good work, but primary exist for the benefit for the benefit of someone. Often the primary purpose is to hide bribes: the CEO's spouse is a high government official. It is very easy to get mess up in such a charity and end up not doing well with your money.

The other problem is 90B is to much money for any charity to handle at once. Any charitable program that has a lasting (and thus useful) impact will take time. Even if the charity sets up a trust, there is nothing to stop the CEO from raiding that trust in latter years. Several charities started good, but over time have slowly - and legally - morphed into something that is very different from what the founders intended.

Staying in charge of his money is the best way to ensure that it is used well.
>For the first time in human history — not recorded history, but since humans have existed on Earth — carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 415 parts per million, reaching 415.26 parts per million, according to sensors at the Mauna Loa Observatory, a research outpost of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency.

I find the tone of these articles very counterproductive. The article hyperventilates over the number, but fails to treat it as a scientific result - one that's open to question by anyone.

Case in point: like most articles on this topic this one totally ignores the fact that the Mauna Loa station lies just 4 miles from an active volcano. Active volcanos spew CO2 into the atmosphere naturally.

Given these simple facts, how can this observatory's data be trusted? That's an obvious question every single person reading the article should have.

Nevertheless, you have to dig for the answer. Here's an explanation:

> ... The observatory is located on the northern slope of the mountain, 4 miles away from and 2,600 feet lower than the summit, which is 13,675 feet above sea level.

> ...

> Most of the time, the observatory experiences “baseline” conditions and measures clean air which has been over the Pacific Ocean for days or weeks. We know this because the CO2 analyzer usually gives a very steady reading which varies by less than 3/10 of a part per million (ppm) from hour to hour. These are the conditions we use to calculate the monthly averages that go into the famous 50-year graph of atmospheric CO2 concentration.

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/climateqa/mauna-loa-...

But even this article is vague about how interference from volcanoes is scrubbed.

The politicization of the issue of human-induced climate change has wrecked our ability to discuss this as the scientific phenomenon that it s. This leads to the very antithesis of science: facts that can never be questioned.
I believe it is entirely possible, but the food trade culture in the West is the issue. There's an attitude of "my competitors' price their food at this point - they likely know better as they were here first so I should price my food at this point too". My father works in the trade and he's said that food could be price at a fraction of what it's currently priced at - and they'd like make even more money - but it would mean a lot more physical labour; something most food vendors aren't willing to do, as it's a hard enough job already.

I lived in the North of England for a while (one of the cheaper places in the UK), and to go out for lunch would pretty much cost £6-£10 for a 'street-food sized' meal. One day, a street food stall parked up in the middle of a high traffic area and started selling massive burrito sized spring rolls for about £3 a pop with meat and £2 without. Pre-chopped veg, meat fried in massive woks, pancakes rolled fresh. 10 or so staff meant they were basically handing them out as fast as the card machine could take contactless payments (no cash). It was like the whole city damn near shut down. 1000's seemed to congregate to that one spot. People would queue for an hours (thankfully the English are good a queuing); any other alternative for lunch simply didn't make sense. They were open for about 6 months, queues hundreds deep, then all of a sudden they shut up shop overnight just like that.

Coincidentally it turns out the owner was actually a guy a played rugby with. I interrogated him Spanish inquisition style. Basically he saved up enough money to buy 2 commercial fat-fryers, 2 burners and woks, a chest refrigerator and a generator to run them all; all second-hand, all super inexpensive. Lighting, marque, prep stations and the like were all sourced on things like freecycle and gumtree. He bought a permit from the local council to set up shop on the high-street, found a team of part-timers, gave them all course in food safety and he was good to go. No marketing, no branding - just a chalk board that said "Spring Rolls £2 - add meat for £3". All in all it cost him just shy of £8k to start, with which he got a loan for half of that. Apparently a month in and he was turning over £5k gross in a DAY.

He told me he stopped because he had saved up enough money to call himself a millionaire, and didn't want the stress of standing behind a searing hot burner with a 300 deep queue in front of him anymore. He paid off his loans, his kids loans, got an extension on his house and put the rest of his money into some real estate.

I think the demand is there. It's just a case of vendors actually attempting to take the risk and breaking that mould when it comes to price.
For a software developer (or student thereof), the useful parts of the internet are indeed quite US-centric.

Off the top of my head, losing access to any of the following platforms will hamper your professional development: Github, Stack Overflow, cloud services leaders (AWS, GCP, MS Azure, etc.), Coursera, Udacity, Youtube, Khan Academy, Google Search, Google groups, Slack. At best, you'll have to use a VPN, or maybe resort to a domestically developed and probably inferior alternative. At worst, no such alternative exists.
> Maybe he just raped a girl.

If you seriously believe that, than you are either very naive or lying to yourself. It is obvious that influential people who feel threatened by Wikileaks fabricated the whole incident.

How else could it be? Think seriously about it. If you manage to convince yourself that there is a real chance of rape happened, then tell me how you did it. Maybe you can convince me too.
I don't know if they ever proved beyond possible doubt that any particular incident was caused by a software bug, but they did show that there were myriad ways in which the software in question could cause the acceleration problems. (In particular the process which handled reading the accelerator pedal position could crash and leave the throttle value fixed without tripping the watchdog timer, which iirc was doubly bad because in push-to-start vehicles there was no key to turn off.)

Source: http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/toyota-unintende...

More: https://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/2013/10/an-update-on-toy...
I knew a guy who probably spent most of the year camping and only worked enough to fund himself for the rest of the year. He used Dr. Bronners for EVERYTHING. To bathe, for his hair, brushed his teeth with it, washed his dishes, everything. When camping he carried a small bottle of it and it took care of all his needs.
Kahneman actually speaks to this pretty well in his TED talk about the two types of happiness, but the parent comment seemed to be speaking to the first type (the 'reducing stress' happiness, not the 'reflecting' happiness). You're right; I was trying deliberately not to get lost in the weeds on the details but it probably just looks lazy instead.
In general that means they think it's imaginary. Find another doctor.
Access to global object was intentionally restricted in strict mode and modules and now you (JS devs) want it back. That's not what rational people do.
I was in your spot 8 years ago. Long time surfer, skater, wakeboarder whose body started crapping out. This book changed my life: https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Strength-Basic-Barbell-Train....

Strength training with barbells fixed all those aches and pains in my knees and joints that braces and doctors and physical therapy couldn't. When I started squatting, I suddenly stopped being afraid to walk down stairs. My posture improved. I noticed I had way more endurance when riding, and it made ever part of that, from carving to pumping, easier and better and more powerful.

For me personally, resistance training with weights is better than almost any other exercise for managing ADHD. I don't know what it is, but something about lifting keeps me focused and calm for a few days after a workout. Cardio never really did that for me.
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It's popular enough that KFC is cashing in on the trend
> Having sex with someone who is sleeping is definitely (alleged) rape, unless she agreed to it beforehand or something.

I mean, that's a very grey and complicated area. I had an ex who would do that type of thing, and it was never discussed but was absolutely welcome. I suppose after the first time you could argue some type of implicit consent. Or maybe I'm just a Stockholm Syndrome candidate.

I have no idea the dynamics of the Assange case, but the hyper-contractual notion of consent that has come into popularity in the last few years just seems to ignore the humanity of human relations.
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Generally, yes. If you are told what to do by your manager, who is told what to do by their managers, etc. this is central control. The alternative would be to have companies run as markets internally: that is, multiple teams doing the same stuff, competing against each other for internal resources. I've heard there were companies trying that out, but I've never heard of it actually working for anyone.
Part of life is getting to choose how we behave and what actions we model.

In a situation like this, we have a choice. We can be snobby towards junior developers. Or, we can be kind to juniors and push back at the management structures which brought in less than qualified talent.

When we follow the snobby path, we model that that type of toxicity is acceptable for senior developers. We also teach smart juniors that the best way to avoid our considerable wrath is to fly under the radar and avoid asking questions. How does that help anyone? I can point out several situations over my career where less experienced people have asked questions that exposed a gap in my thought processes. And I can point out more situations where relatively basic questions have turned into major teaching opportunities.

Or, we can follow a different path and ‘gripe up’. We can keep open minds about juniors and model kindness and approachability. And, we can tell management about our concerns and seek actual change.

I would rather model leadership than elitism.
"(The main problem seems to be the "without a condom" part)"

Uh, what? You then go on:

"This is obviously serious. He could have transmitted STDs to the complainants. Unprotected sex should be agreed by both."

You think the serious part is the lack of protection, rather than that she was asleep? I'd advise you read up some more on what constitutes rape and what constitues consent.
What is the generally the best language while working on more than one cloud? If I want to deploy VMs into the major three clouds (AWS/GCP/Azure), is Python a good language for automation or am I better off with Java?
One thing I'm wondering, before he fled to the Embassy, he was out on bail, for which supporters of his put up their property for. Given that he skipped bail they would have forfeited that property, now that he's arrested again do they get it back?
You are comparing apples to oranges.

Misleading in order to obtain consent is not the same as getting consent for activity A then undertaking activity B.

In the first instance one can complain that they wouldn't have given consent had they known the truth. In the second instance consent was not given.
I'm pretty shocked how open consumers are to paying more money for a worse product via delivery. Foods travel poorly when steaming in boxes. Hot sandwiches (like burgers) and anything fried are especially notable examples (though most foods become worse in some capacity). Something this deck doesn't mention is that online ordering of pickup is a tiny, no-profit market in comparison. The convenience factor of delivery outweighs the rest for some set of people, for sure.

Big note from the deck though:

> No DSP has been able to prove consistent profitability with their existing business model

Also not mentioned in the slides - a ton of delivery jobs from small neighborhood joints (in the US) are paid under-the-table. This is a cost differentiator that DSPs can't legally compete with.
This hits way too close to home.
it is a weird western media quirk that the first symptom people talk about is sea level rise. I think its an accidental product of all the news reports about melting ice caps and polar bears, so people have scoped the problem as ice melting and water rising in their heads.

this is basically, to a first order approximation, wrong. sea level rise, even in a nasty BAU/RCP8.5 scenario is really a next-century problem. we're talking tens of centimeters.

meanwhile, vast swaths of the euphrates, indo-gangetic, nile and yellow river deltas will suffer droughts and both successive and concurrent crop failures.

the flood of refugees from drought/famine/war into every city around the world will vastly exceed the flood of water at their shoreline (this century).
If you are making claims like this, you might want to source it. Like a Jimmy wales interview link, a wikipedia link to a "sensitive" topic that have been politized (that does not prove anything but still show that you've done some research).

Also generalization is bad. You might want to visit a skeptic association and follow a course about human cognitive bias (it is helpfull, but it won't "cure" you from them, just make you more self-aware).
Only speaking for myself, my opinion turned when Wikileaks announced that Assange’s internet access had been cut off by a “state actor,” which turned out to be the Ecuadorians kicking him off their WiFi. That’s when I realized he’s an attention-seeking wanker.
> And you know, now when I started changing my lifestyle I feel much better about myself

This is self-flagellation and sorry, but it does nothing and has no impact on the bigger picture.
> The second one was never true as far as I know.

I think it was true in the very, very early days of the iPhone, where the only way to switch apps was to go home then tap on the app you wanted, internally it was switching between suspended apps, but to the user it felt like you were closing and opening a new app each time.
Don't go to Party Fowl. It sucks.

You want hot chicken without lines? Either order hattie b's online and pick it up, or go to Slow Burn, Pepperfire, TNT BBQ, 400 Degrees, or Big Shakes

I live in Nashville. Party Fowl is a last resort.
If only we had censorship resistant ledgers..
Actually the storage systems do exist. There are batteries, hydro etc.

And many of the bids for power projects are including batteries as well.
> reached

Sorry to tell you this, but it's been on HN for awhile now. I remember seeing it back when I signed up in 2012. It's always been a good site to get more exposure to certain tech problems.
Accusing anyone who disagrees with you of being a "shill" is hardly discussing the topic in good faith.

And these topics fall off the front page because they get a lot of replies; Hacker News is designed that way. I think it's meant to have a calming effect.
Neko is indeed amazing. But is pretty much dead. Check its successor: https://hashlink.haxe.org/.
Really the abuse of "terrrorism" so blatantly even by the standards of a government should qualify for some pretty damn harsh defamation law to the officials trying to hide behind the state. Those sorts of abuses of power are the kind of thing where we actually do need to be "tough on crime" for if we wish to be remotely free.
There's Munger's talk. Not a book but quite good anyway http://csinvesting.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Worldly-Wi...
Sweden reopens rape case against Julian Assange
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He would never leave willingly if there was an existing extradition request for him. So they waited until he was out, however that came about. he was guaranteed to be arrested on exiting if only for the bail breach. At which point he is in custody and you can serve the extradition request.

Similarly the US will not request extradition for some suspects and wait until they set foot in the US and arrest them then. Saving the need for an extradition battle. If they really want you and you are Russian, they wait until you go on holiday outside russian borders and grab you as you step off the plane.
> Can binge on a video game for hours and hours, with a singular, obsessive focus. Therefore, no attention problem, right? (WRONG!)

Can you elaborate on that? Why is it wrong?

I've thought about this topic a lot in the past. I remember back in the day I had massive gaming sessions (like 10 hours a day for weeks). Games that are competitive and "skillful" too, not just lounging around playing them 1 handed. It required tremendous focus.

But when playing a game, you often have only 1 task happening which is "play the game", there's nothing distracting you and it requires your brain to actively be engaged.

However if you replace gaming with writing a 5,000 word blog post or creating some web app suddenly that focus isn't there. If you can focus during the game, why can't you focus outside of it?
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Damn. The game engine physics might be "cartoon like," but that didn't prepare me for the sheer volume of over-the-top, intricately detailed blood and gore for its own sake. That's the entire point of MK fatalities I guess, and I'm definitely not in the target audience.
Note: Georgia's lawyers called it a "strategy of terrorism". Carl Malamud is not being charged with terrorism. This is a copyright case as it pertains to official state law.

Claiming "terrorism" is a significant detriment to the story.
If we had a perpetual motion machine with zero emissions, we could build machines that carefully filtered the oceans and removed the plastic straws, and the environment would be fine.

That's the thing with energy, and why I'm arguing that aiming for reduction in energy production would be self-destructive for our civilization: with enough surplus energy, you can do near anything. We could remove from the air and the seas all the pollution we emitted so far. We could keep turning air into combustible hydrocarbons all day long and enjoy high-density hydrocarbon fuels that are carbon neutral. There's lots of things that could help which we aren't currently doing, because they don't make economical sense. With more cheap energy, they would.