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> Because practically being asleep and unconscious are different things.

Sleeping is a form of unconsciousness, not a different thing. It is different from.ither forms, as those other forms are from eachother.
>What we don't want is for the rock to end up in a state where we can't live on it comfortably.

This is what drives me crazy about climate change deniers and their continued delusional insistence that things are going great. Stopping catastrophic climate change is not some hippy-dippy tree-hugging "gotta save mother earth maaaaan" commune-enthusiast nonsense. It's about pure self-defence of humanity. It's about making sure that WE can still live on this rock. Why the hell can't they see that? What the hell is wrong with them?
* https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/ga/pro_v_georgia/gov.us...

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19899223
Sure, it's good news, just not for the people you're thinking of. Think about people who work in Amazon warehouses despite those conditions. Why do they do that? Because the alternatives are worse. This just removes these jobs and leaves them to face those alternatives.
> (Maybe this is obvious, but for me it was a slightly different take of it.)

Not obvious at all. In fact, it's the first time I've encountered this idea. Thanks a lot for writing this. It makes me view some of the activist actions in a different light.
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They're smart enough to do essentially the same thing, but in a "soft" manner: overwhelm the area with Han Chinese and make it as difficult as possible for the local population to thrive, turning the once majority ethnic group into a almost non-existent minority over many generations (they've also done this in Tibet). The Chinese are calculating their empiric efforts over centuries. It's one of the "benefits" of a totalitarian regime.
I personally think the android ports of nethack and unnethack are probably the gold standard for what porting an old roguleike to touch ui should be.

Everything about them is extrememly intuitive. The movement works perfectly and the context bar and quick popup keyboard make playing almost quicker than on pc for me. Plus, there's the whole, nethack in your pocket bonus.

I've tried ports of angband, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead for android and found angband and DCSS to be totally unplayable. CDDA was playable, but kind of clunky and awkward and not very fun in the end.

Highly recommend anyone into roguelikes give the android port of nethack a go.
They're trying to extradite him based on the legalities not "the humanities" whatever you're trying to mean there..

>Interesting that the Europeans seem to have gone with the latter.

Yeah we've gone the same way on marital rape too.
From the Github changelog, I clicked on the homepage link. Then my laptop's fan became noisy as many particles moved on the screen to form the logo of Uix Kit. As I moved the mouse cursor toward the menu which points to the documentation, the particles moved, and the 3D effect made me feel uneasy.

I cannot understand the motive for these heavy effects. I interpret it as "we prefer shiny effects to usability". And it's a UI framework! I hope I'll never have to work with this and watch these particles several times a day.

I'm sorry for the harsh words, and my point of view may be in the minority. But maybe a part of the public turns away just because of the design of the homepage.
andrew yang 2020. no brainer. Surprised why more candidates are not discussing the automation gorilla in the room.

there are not enough low-skilled, difficult to automate jobs that can sustain the population.
I once made it to Sokoban.. didn't get through it. Been playing on-and-off since 1996. Sometimes I wonder if I live my gaming life as a warning to others.
It's a list of possible remote jobs.

But scroll down to see actual listings: https://getafuckingremotejob.xyz/#job-boards
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It is estimated by psychologists who specialize in ADHD that 5% of the population has ADHD. 4% of children are diagnosed with ADHD. 2% of adults are diagnosed with ADHD.

That smells a lot more like under-diagnosis.
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I am in the same boat with my unease of the situation. Entitlements are already putting the US in crippling debt, however, I am worried that automation will destroy so many jobs that we need a universal basic income.

Which I am personally not advocating. I am unsure of how I feel about it.
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Don't read the clearly partisan sources uncritically, they are generally misleading.

"The north German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein are already operating on 100% net renewable energy, mostly wind. The ‘net’ indicates trading with each other and their neighbours. They do not rely on baseload power stations."

These rather sparsely populated states combined make up for only 4.5 million of Germany's 83 million population. Germany still supplies 50% of its power with fossil fuels, of which coal makes up 35%.

It is also completely misleading to say that these states are 100% "net renewable". They're part of the national grid. Perhaps they're the places where disproportionately many wind turbines are deployed (e.g. on the coast).

Think about it, if Germany knew a way to fix the problem of base load, why haven't they implemented it? It couldn't be a problem of financing, they spent a huge amount of money on subsidizing renewables already.

"In 2014 the state of South Australia had 39% of annual electricity consumption from renewable energy (33% wind + 6% solar) and, as a result, the state’s base-load coal-fired power stations are being shut down as redundant. For several periods the whole state system has operated reliably on a combination of renewables and gas with only small imports from the neighbouring state of Victoria."

Same story, Australia nationally relies on 30% coal to support its base load. To even out peaks from renewables, natural gas is used. The idea that the "base load requirement" is a myth is in itself a myth. If you use the right numbers, they don't add up.
Those are all totally valid points (and I 100% agree) but don't you do the same thing when coding a project?

You have writing docs, writing tests, working on the user auth work flow / any app features, researching features / inspiration, designing a page, writing a bit of CSS, tinkering with the ops side of things (deployment / infra code), thinking about how you're going to generate traffic to it, writing blog posts or making videos surrounding your project idea and the list goes on.

You could bounce around all of that and could think "ok, what's next?" after completing any one of those things but for some reason it's not the same.

Although I guess another difference is games tend to have a lot of immediate rewards, or even more strongly, "potential" rewards. Like in your PvE MMO example. There's always a chance something might drop that will make your character better. Especially useful in games like path of exile (action RPG where your items / loot play a big factor) and even if the items you want don't drop, you're still gaining experience to level up your character which gives you ancillary rewards, and since it's a multiplayer game you could trade them with other people for things you want in return.

Where as with the coding project, there's really no rewards until it's done and even then there's no guarantee. You have to be content with just patting yourself on the back with a "hey good job, you finished writing tests for the user sign up work flow, now move onto X".

The same thing applies to writing to a lesser extent. There's research, coming up with a good example, writing sections / paragraphs, creating associated images, etc.. None of that really has immediate effects until it's fully done and you publish it, and even then, the publishing aspect might not even be the thing that motivates you to write it. Like, I've written 230ish blog posts but I write them with 0 expectations. I write them because they help me materialize what I'm learning or have learned, but sometimes it's difficult to write even if I think to myself that I want to.
> Are corporations generally run as central control, or does it vary wildly?

Corporations want to be centrally controlled, but the control is so poorly organized in most cases it's chaotic at best. And then there are multiple forms of organizations, not every of them works top-down, there are organizations that leave a lot of opportunities for working level employees to propose new ideas and initiatives.
>It turns the kissing of a sleeping lover into a violent sexual assault. Passion and spontaneity become criminalized.

Right...
I think he just meant that the "real internet" is the one where you can go to a website that isn't controlled by the Chinese government?
Oh sure, and especially for custom materials with specific lighting or masking properties, or for tweaking instanced meshes, etc. The standard materials only get you so far.

But post fx like bloom or vignette? I'm okay using a stock shader for that, it's not worth spending the time on building one from scratch. :)
To demand a stake of investment in order to incur privlidge is one thing but rights are another. It still seems beneficial to listen to those with 'skin in the game' so to speak, but how to balance that with greater social good requires the assumption that most people are a net social positive, which many optimists struggle with. Its a tricky problem with no clear answers unless you cling to some dogma.
> Places like Japan keep unemployment low by having many low skill jobs, like mall greeters and whatnot. This may be better than unemployment, but is possibly not the best use of human versatilty..

An interesting aspect is that those jobs are low technical skill, but can require good to very good social skills to be done well.

Without joking, greeting an elderly entering a bank and guiding them to the section they needs to go, explain briefly what they need to do, is can be non trivial.
Ezra Klein (a journalist for Vox) made this analogy on a podcast:

If I go to visit a very close friend, I might take something of value off their shelf as I'm walking out the door, without asking first. There's not necessarily anything wrong with this.

But, I had better be pretty fucking sure that I know my friend as well as I think I do, because if I misjudged, I'm a thief, and liable to be prosecuted by the full force of a law. Not "kind of" a thief—just a thief.
> that law is of very abstract, and ephemeral kind — the very criteria of fault in how USA approaches official crimes

No, it's highly specific, drawing from cases going back to the founding of the Republic.

> most of that law is state level patchwork and case law rather than federal level statutory rules

Statute isn't stronger than case law. They're both law in a common-law system [1]. (Insider trading, for example, isn't defined in federal statute, but it's still commonly penalized.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law
It'll be used by Bezos to control and manipulate policies that benefit him and Amazon.
Flagging this because I can't handle the HN discussion on the nature of rape from first principles.
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I'm not talking about Assange, just the notion that "I didn't get a formal Yes equates to Rape" because human relations are more complicated than that.

You're creating talking points that I never did, then fighting them down to make me sound like some kind of rape apologist. Kindly piss off.
It's not a thing in US law either (at least in the states I'm aware of). "Do you want to press charges" is just a colloquialism that means "do you want the prosecutor to press charges, and will you cooperate as a witness."

In less serious cases the victim's wishes are taken into account. However, the prosecutor is the one who charges the accused, and consent or cooperation from the victim isn't needed. It is hard to convict in cases where an uncooperative victim is the only witness, but it happens in domestic abuse cases all the time.
What does "arguing position 1" amount to, though? Your phrasing here seems to be saying that you're throwing up your hands and giving up. But that's not an "argument".

My guess is that you're actually arguing for inaction, that you're opposed to regulation, and that you're taking your stand with all the people with position 2. If so... why are you surprised to be forced to defend their wrongheadedness?
> tend to shed plugins

There’s a practical side to that - the biggest benefit of vi(m) is that it’s _always_ there, no matter where you’re shelled in to. However, their vi doesn’t have your plugins. So if you get used to using plain-vanilla vi, you won’t be lost when you sit down at (or ssh into) somebody else’s computer.
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That some use the word in its technical sense knowing full well that it will be interpreted to mean something entirely different is troublesome.
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They're claiming he referred to his own actions as terrorism here (in the prologue): https://museum.media.org/eti/

I disagree with that claim and I think it is irresponsible for a lawyer to call what he was doing a "form of terrorism" or "part of a strategy of terrorism". I think it's even more irresponsible for a lawyer to equate what he was doing and his words, a "form of standards terrorism", to unqualified "terrorism".
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I was trying out a Korean facial cleanser with tea tree oil that I stopped using because it was too drying. But I found it was very effective at cleaning grime from my sneakers and as a spot treatment for white shirt stains.
What is it about HN that attracts so many people with communist sympathies? It's absolutely bizarre that nearly every thread with even vaguely economic concerns has people chirping in to mention how evil capitalism is.
Let's put it this way:

If I tell you to take a fiver from my wallet and you do it, that's consensual. If you then later take another fiver out of my wallet without my permission, it's not consensual. If I catch you doing it, I might still be okay with it but that doesn't mean it wasn't non-consensual when you did it.
You're right, I didn't even mention the droughts and famines. I'm Dutch though so perhaps I'm slightly biased or preoccupied :/
>Lots of folks are in favor of a "automation tax." I'm not sure how I feel.

I think it's really important the operators of the horse drawn coaches, put out of work by the train I get to work in the mornings, are properly compensated. How is that to be funded without an automation tax?
And at this point, it must be known if she contracted an STD from him. I'm assuming if she had, there would be additional charges for it. So, we pretty much know he didn't give her one, so it's a little weird to me that this is being discussed as a could have.
I'm not an expert, but regarding your last question, I believe it's an industry-standard practice:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_shipping

And something that Amazon does as well. If you're a third-party seller:

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/201808410

But this more-or-less hidden from the customer if Amazon is the seller.
No, that's not what Frustration Free Packaging is. "FFP" is just easy to open cardboard product packaging, basically no blister packs.

They still put your FFP box into another bigger shipping box.
He sounds like he himself described them as terrorism, and is now getting accused of them being such....
Is this where you try to claim trickle down economics works despite the top 20% of people owning more than 80% of the financial assets?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_Unite...
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Yeah, but it's not a criminal prosecution of a terrorism charge. It's a copyright case.
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And sand from sandblasting of painted metal to remove contaminants. There are tons and tons of very slightly radioactive sand that needs a place to live.
Don't get me wrong. I am as depressed about climate change as anyone. I happen to believe that our chances of avoiding catastrophic climate change are super slim. Yet, we can choose how we live our lives while the drama unfolds. If one believes in impending collapse, ever more reasons to quit working full-time and use the extra days off to sit in a park, enjoy sunlight, play bridge/poker drinking beer/whisky or whatever your poison is. Or whatever your idea of emissions free fun.
Amazon already (for some items, in the UK at least) makes you explicitly choose to have them re-box it in their own packaging, otherwise they just ship it in whatever box it's in. I imagine they'll do the same here, just not feed these items into the box machine in the first place.
I like that he brings up a conversation we as a country need to be having but his ideas are hairbrained or idealist at best.
> or is there a clear reason why that wouldn't work there?

There are Chinese-based alternatives to Wikipedia that are much more popular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_China#Online_encyc....
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I don't know if we can recover. There seems to be a strong trend towards the breakdown of large societal systems, and no appreciable efforts towards reformation. If very basic things like posting the laws of the state on your website receives this kind of response, then what hope do we have of tackling major problems? I used to be much more of an incrementalist, confident that the hard, slogging work of slow political activism could lead to a surprising amount of change over the long term, and I was dismissive of catastrophists who just threw up their arms and declared that everything was futile. But now, half of my life I have just seen the political process in the US grind to a complete halt, with no realistic path towards any major reforms. This kind of stasis is not sustainable in a world that is changing as much as it is, and I fear that the resolution will not be the un-gumming of the political system... it will be the collapse of US society into something unrecognizable.
I laughed when I saw all the redirects to a google search - it fits the tone of the website.

I guess I'm just used to people linking to their Medium articles where they poorly summarize the results of those same google searches. Bonus points for linking to their 10:01 minute long YouTube videos ;)
Agreed, if the contract is null and void, then the right to possession is negated. As such, I would expect the return of my deposit, which I usually pay upon signing the contract. I usually negotiate to pay the first month's rent upon acceptance of the property after the move-in inspection, at which point I'm satisfied to accept tenancy. If the contract becomes null and void after this time, I fully expect to be required to vacate the premises in a timely manner.

If a landlord decided to decline me for those requests, I would equally see that as a giant red flag and would likely consider that I'd dodged a bullet.

I'm a great guest. I treat the home I live in - including the landlord and neighbours with the greatest of respect. If the landlord is unwilling to accommodate such changes to the contract, then I would assume that they're unlikely to treat me with the respect I would afford them. All business relationships are a two way street. If that affordance is not forthcoming, I wouldn't consider that any kind of arrangement I wish to pursue or maintain.
That reminds me of the "Armed Forces Act" that the UK Government has to pass every 5 years to keep a standing army as these were actually prohibited by the Bill of Rights in 1689:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Act
> there are organizations that leave a lot of opportunities for working level employees to propose new ideas and initiatives.

Note that's still central control, just with fatter signalling pipe which can send ideas upstairs, and not just results. Directions and evaluations still come from the top.
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Oh I'm not saying they're not awful, and I don't buy them - just that it seems weird to discuss how we're going to not have kitchens and someone else will cook our food, without mentioning that a lot of people already live like that with ready meals. A microwave needn't have it's own room called a 'kitchen'.

I particularly thought of it because the graph shows the same change across income groups, except that it's time-shifted so that it really got big in the top bracket earliest, in the '70s, then the middle income group in the '80s, and finally the bottom bracket in the '90s.

If ready meals were included, I suspect it would look more level, or at least bring up the lowest income group.
I was with you until you mentioned King Arthur. We might as well wonder if Gilgamesh and Beowulf were real people, at that point - at least they were local tales.
> The PRC party-state will gladly take any Uyghur who will cast off their culture and treat them as a loyal citizen.

If you are Uyghur, you are permanently stamped by it. They will track and watch you with suspicion forever. It will specifically limit your opportunities, the life that is available to you. And since your friends and family are likely Uyghur, in the minds of the authorities that provides all the more reason to be suspicious of you.
I had an argument with my SO about how very few people truly believes in climate change enough to change their lifestyle. It's mostly virtue signalling. This was while planning a flight to London with about 4000 lbs CO2 for the two of us.

In Seattle, you can sit on a chilly day on the porch of a popular restaurant and overhear people lamenting climate change while they sit under a row of 8 large blasting fracked gas heaters.

People don't want to go out of their way to think and change. It's a difficult PR problem due to human nature.

I'm trying to build advanced nuclear fission reactors to fight climate change but unfortunately burning oil is more popular in the polls.
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The article wouldn't apply to drop-shipping situation. Drop-shipping means the upstream provider delivers directly to the downstream consumer, but that means it never goes through Amazon's warehouse and is thus not packaged or re-packaged by Amazon.
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Do not assume there are only two sides to this. There are those of us who are perfectly aware of the effects that humans have on climate change, while not really caring if the planet is destroyed or not.

I am not responsible for the planet and saving it. So please don't try to guilt me into taking responsibility for "saving" the planet. I've already done my part by not having children. It is up to parents and people who care enough about the species to save the planet and humanity. I'll be dead in a decade and not really bothered by this impending doom.

Planets, Nations and species die every day, given the vastness of the universe. It's admirable to try to save something, but the willingness to do so must come from within, free from external collective pressure mixed with shaming and guilt.
According to someone, sure. But it is an expression of human arrogance to think that climate change can be fought just by following this here recipe and that we can look into the future and see that there will be a net benefit to changing to this or that energy source.
The United States, is, in a sense, a communist country, given that most people own a good portion of major companies. However, like every other communist society literally ever, your diminutive share of ownership means little and there's still one guy in charge, except our guys differ by industry and vertical.