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At the tiny, tiny scale of risk we are talking about I'm not certain it makes sense to worry. Statistically, the inhabitants of Luxembourg are more at risk of being driven out by hostile forces (they were invaded in WWII, for example) than threatened by a nuclear disaster.

Not to mention that of the 2 major nuclear disasters we've had, half were caused by a less-than-once-in-a-generation tsunami. If something that disastrous hits Luxembourg ... I dunno, the situation would already be pretty grim. And all this is assuming they actually need to be evacuated, which is debatable in itself.

Fun fact, it is possible to build a world-class city in 40 years [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenzhen
Market caps are horribly inflated/underinflated and not a accurate representation of the companies finances and viability due to it being based on total share price. Looking at their equity is. It's also important to view its profit vs. expense ratio because that tells you what the company is doing with its money.
It is not free, Estonians pay for it with raised taxes.

Good for the ones with low income you would think, except of course those with low income that does not use public transport but still has to pay for it.
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>Private ventures can also easily pair up with universities to have the public pay the bill and then get IP protections over the innovation and sell it themselves

Can you elaborate more on how that works? Seems like something that should be illegal.
I wouldn't even pay 25 dollars for a 5 year old phone. Was the battery replaced on it? Is it even possible to replace it?

Besides software support the battery is the major issue with phone longevity. I installed LineageOS on my Nexus 5X and gave it to my brother who was more than happy to have it. He'll likely enjoy it for 2 more years before the battery issues become too much to bare.

I used the Nexus phones for 5-6 years, 5 and 5x, now I have the Pixel 1 which I purchased for the equivalent of 280 USD in Sweden. New, but no longer in production. Still works like a charm. And when it stops getting security updates I can hopefully reinstall it.

There is no OS to revive old iphones. So I just can't understand how anyone would pay 250 USD for a 5 year old iphone.
Sometimes I think if the majority of HN had their way we'd be living in a feudal system again, except with right to rule given to Silicon Valley start-up royalty instead of divine-right nobility.
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On Pixel and Nexus phones, the Google Camera app works properly if you have either microG or Google Play Services installed. If you're using microG, you'll need to install the Google Camera app manually:

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/camera/

The camera quality and features are the same as in the stock ROM.

Google Camera is proprietary, but you can disable its internet access through the app settings (in LineageOS) or a firewall like AFWall+:

https://github.com/ukanth/afwall/

If you're using another camera app, then you'll lose Google Camera's optimized features. This may still be worth it if you prefer to use FOSS software.
Unfortunately I find myself agreeing with the critics/cynics here on this one: people are contorting their brains to let China off the hook for what (if this study is to be believed) is a mostly Chinese problem. I don't think the point about China taking US recycling waste is relevant. They're being paid to take the waste and recycle it, not throw it in the ocean.

I don't think anyone would be doing the same if the Hudson River or the Port of Long Beach were the source of most of the plastic in the ocean.

China is also the world's #1 greenhouse gas emitter on a per GDP basis:

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

Sort by GDP per emissions and China is quite exceptional compared to other large economies and even among developing nations. China just clearly doesn't care at all about the environment, or if the leadership does care they're doing a really poor job of enforcing anything.

It's bizarre to me to hear Western liberals give a free pass to China with its massive and still growing CO2 emissions, internment camps for ethnic minorities, rivers of plastic, and dystopian total surveillance state. I suspect it comes from a knee jerk desire to take the opposite position from Trump and his supporters, but I personally find that to be kind of mindless. Pushing on China is one of the very very few things I agree with them about.
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must surely go to landfills

I'm sure the authorities don't condone it

surely they will dispose of used sheets properly
If you care about distributed bug tracking you might be interested in, or want to contribute to git-bug: https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug

It's aiming to create a fossil-like distributed bugtracker on top of git, with bidirectional importing from e.g. github's and gitlab's APIs.
Criminals are persecuted for their criminality. That's a whole different scenario to what was happening to Mr Groden where a law abiding citizen was being harassed because people in authority felt like it.
What's the uptime, reliability and distribution story for Haskell? If I want to have three nodes sharing common state (either eventually consistent or using a consistency model like raft) how do I implement this with (X) Nines of uptime in Haskell? What's the process restart story for Haskell?
Fun off-topic fact: the Nim forum that this announcement is hosted on is written in Nim and completely open source, give it a go: https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum
Message queues are really cool, but to paraphrase an old joke, "Some people see a distributed systems problem and think, "I know, I'll use a message queue." Now they have otw problems.
Punitive damages came largely out of the Ford Pinto cases because prior to that corporate leaders would just do the calculations, figure out that the limited amount of damage/fines allowed by the law is cheaper than the cost of fixing the issue. Punitive damage is in a way meant to be absurd. The idea that the sky is the limit is meant to make those calculations impossible or very risky and thus compel corporations to fix the issue once they know about it. There are some unintended consequences of course but often times when you see such cases there are usually a history of knowing neglect or willful ignorance. In the other famous punitive damage case involving McDonald's, there was a trail of complaints to McDonald's about how hot they made their coffee (they did this on purpose because people who get coffee in the morning tend to be drivers so extra hot coffee means right temperature when they get to their office). Even then, McDonald's was only found to be partially at fault. Also many of the tobacco cases demonstrated a long history of tobacco companies knowing the health effects of smoking and lied about them.

The way these cases are sometimes reported makes American courts look crazy and leave out a lot of context and history.
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This was a hugely helpful insight for me. First, because I found it much easier to accept "deliberating has a cost, factor that in" than a generalized claim of "stop thinking so much". Second, because thinking more really does help sometimes. "Go with your gut" doesn't sit well with me; every once so often I think about a decision and notice that I've made some major oversight in my first assessment. Aiming for the 'right' amount of thinking, as a function of stakes and urgency and complexity, has been much better for controlling overthinking while still catching those mistakes.
I would say exemplary action would help.

Take 4 or 5 of these criminals, strip them of their fortunes, let the press take many pictures of them handcuffed and going to jail, where they will be for 10 years. Also, force the companies to price the drugs accordingly.

If we repeat this enough, I'm sure the problem will magically solve itself and suddenly the companies will be able to cope with clumsy regulation just fine.
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I’m not especially in favor of commissioning nuclear plants to be built by the existing nuclear industry, because they’re expensive to start with and nuclear industry cost claims have routinely been wildly optimistic.

But this idea that nuclear power plant disasters cause measurable harm anywhere but Chernobyl is just ignoring every bit of epidemiology I’ve ever seen.

And, even at worst-case-Chernobyl, where they took a terrible design and turned off all the safety features, the idea that negative effects last more than decades is ludicrous. The atoms with short half lives are the dangerous-to-human-health atoms; after decades they’re gone.

I’m with you on centralizing power production having socio-political ramifications, but... we’re going to have a grid any which way. Unless we get Shipstone-level inexpensive batteries, we’re still going to have to maintain an electrical grid.

My anti-nuclear friends hate me for it, but I tend to think if we have any hope of limiting carbon forcing in mid-century, we’re going to need nuclear.
Is it me or is Austria most paranoid country in Europe in regards to privacy?

IIRC, dash/helmet cams are also not allowed here due to privacy, which is crazy. A friend of mine was hit by a car while riding his bike and now has to fight the driver in court to get justice since there were no witnesses. A cam would have made a night/day difference.
> I'm sure there is something much better waiting to he invented.

I think that's fair to say. I think that's always fair to say.
The problem with radiation for humans is, that humans live far longer than most species - at least common to the two regions with a reactor blowup. An e.g. 10 year loss of projected lifespan would be considered unacceptable for a human population, but most animals don't live long enough to get significantly impacted.
That's not entirely accurate. Walmart offers DSV (drop ship vendors) which is basically inventory as a service. Walmart pays the third party sellers for storing and shipping the item, but takes on the overhead of customer service and returns. The customer is never made aware of the fact that they bought it from a third party because even the shipping label is customized to match Walmart's labels.
Not if I'm paying my neighbor to take care of it.
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Undoubtedly Apple is making a greater profit on the iPhone. Though I can’t help but wonder how much cheaper Apple’s phones would be if they monetized their customer base as aggressively as Google.

It’s got to be worth something, as Google didn’t grow into a hundred billion dollar company from phone sales. Their fortune is almost entirely built from targeted advertising.
If you paid your neighbor to dispose of your dog's shit and he throws it on the sidewalk you have a pretty good basis for complaining.
> Recycled waste certainly shouldn't be ending up in rivers.

Recycling is a pipe dream. In fact it means shipping tones of garbage to 3rd world country and let them do the grunt work. Out of sight out of mind.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/burning-truth-...

https://www.spiegel.de/international/tomorrow/electronic-was...
I've been in Silicon Valley for ~25 years and held 10 jobs.

I've never seen this before and I would NEVER ever sign something like this.

This sounds like indentured servitude. The manager is lying to you when she says that it's "common". Run away from this company, fast. No job is worth signing an indefinite contract like that.
Maybe you mean something like a simplicial complex? I don't understand how you can do very much with a single simplex (which is a generalization of a triangle and a tetrahedron in the language I'm used to).
Remind me again why a tax funded organization needs to make a profit?
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a more exhausting list of Kernels affected: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/108283 (the link is in the article)
Haswell is now a 6 year-old core, so compiler cost models and vectorization support for AVX2 + FMA have mostly caught up. The state of autovectorization targeting AVX-512 or even NEON on new cores is quite a bit less satisfactory for now.

It's long been the case that compilers generate adequate vector code for five-year old cores. A large part of the wins for hand-vectorization (and assembly) come from targeting cores that haven't even been released yet, or were just made available.

Also, 2/3 is ... significantly worse than I would expect, actually. My experience writing GEMM (I did it professionally for a decade) is that getting to 80% of peak is mechanical, and the remaining 10-15% is where all the real work is.

It's also a mistake to ignore L1 and L2 BLAS; for data that fits in the cache hierarchy, these become important, and you can absolutely squeeze out significant gains from hand optimization. For the HPC community, such small problems are uninteresting, but for everyday consumer computing, you can reap huge benefits here.
Do you mean the potential at the cathode or the anode?
I should clarify that with "cheaper generic drug prices compared to other western countries".

By comparison, the United States has historically had low generic drug prices and high rates of generic drug use (84% in 2013), but has in recent years experienced sharp price increases for some off‐patent products.[1]

[1]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5594322/
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Apparently the deaths are justified because energy.

Are the subsidies and taxes (incentives and penalties) rational in light of the relative harms of each form of energy?

"Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fossil-f...

> The IMF found that direct and indirect subsidies for coal, oil and gas in the U.S. reached $649 billion in 2015. Pentagon spending that same year was $599 billion.

> The study defines “subsidy” very broadly, as many economists do. It accounts for the “differences between actual consumer fuel prices and how much consumers would pay if prices fully reflected supply costs plus the taxes needed to reflect environmental costs” and other damage, including premature deaths from air pollution.

IDK whether they've included the costs of responding to requests for help with natural disasters that are more probable due to climate change caused by these "externalties" / "external costs" of fossil fuels.
Pretty sure if Apple announced a cheap model and subsequently publicly waffled on the pricing multiple times in a short time span, people would pay attention.

It isn't about one pricing delta, it is about repeatedly being "super interesting".
Just do a google search on any manufacturer like “ford raises msrp on”, here’s the first link for this example:

https://www.autoblog.com/2018/06/17/2018-ford-f-150-svt-rapt...
Indeed, I see some wag has already suggested an edit from "Copy that sells" to "Copy that shills".
What you need to preserve it are games sold on GOG and other DRM-free stores.
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Not if you occasionally like to drop your phone into water by accident. Unlike the flagships, the 3A and 3A XL are not IP-rated.
Well...

I mean...

if your neighbor said you could throw it on his lawn?

Yes, it's your fault too. I don't think anyone is saying that it's not the fault of the West for example. But come on man? If you say I can dump my dog's shit on your lawn, then yeah, of course that's where I'm going to dump it.
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I went digging because I was confused about that too, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Parmitano#Expedition_36/3...

> Engineers found that contamination had clogged one of the suit's filters, causing water from the suit's cooling system to back up.

So one of the failure scenarios didn't behave well in zero gravity, I think that's (more) reasonable.
And I don't want to say that Git isn't an improvement over many other version control systems.

But, IMO, the real sea change there is the shift to a DVCS, and not Git's interface. Within the set of DVCS that I've used, I find Git to be easily the most difficult to understand and work with, and the one where I have to spend the most time reading and grokking abstruse explanations of the tool's implementation details in order to figure out how to deal with some edge case.

I don't think that I'm the only one. My sense is that people whose only DVCS is git are much more likely to love it unconditionally than people who came to git after having first spent significant time on some other DVCS. For my part, as another concrete example, I have to spend a lot more time helping junior devs with source control snafus now that I'm at a Git shop than I did when I was at a Hg shop.

In summary, "Sure it's easy to use, you just have to read this lengthy explanation of its implementation details first," isn't really a compelling argument when you know that there are other competing products that are easy to use even if you didn't spend that much time on RTFM first.
It might have that dual purpose, but I’d rather them have to properly fund their retiree healthcare and defined benefit pension expenses than be in the situation that most governments are in where today’s taxpayers get to pay for benefits earned in prior years.

Ideally, they would get rid of those retiree healthcare and defined benefit pension benefits and just pay their employees more in cash, and let them buy annuities if they want. That would make the whole operation far more transparent and get rid of possibilities of corruption and numbers games being played with these deferred pay agreements.
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Ok I can't argue that. It can be warranted when someone doesn't do the reading, however.
> if you are unable to safely use the CLI tool,

Way to suggest only incompetent people lose data like this.

But yes, GUIs do prevent this to a decent extent. Unfortunately git is not a tool for which switching to a GUI before you're comfortable with the CLI is a good idea. SVN is, but not git. I say this from personal experience as a TortoiseGit user. You really gotta learn the command-line first.
I don't mind sharing the niche:edtech. Your guess is a good start but that is just the website part. I m talking more about web app i.e complex dynamic business applications. But yea, finding the gems requires a full time effort. We have a sales and marketing team.
What is the difference? It seems to me that in order to successfully predict how I should handle my bike when riding it not to fall over, I must be using an abstract model of physical reality that I draw conclusions from.
It's a fine sentiment. Tor is another good example of innovation ran by the (US) Navy. Which is to be expected, as navies traditionally were big into crypto.

The military has long history of both doing their own research (logistics & management, and cryptography being good examples), running research institutes with civilian employees (as it seems to be in this case), and contracting out R&D to run-of-the-mill civilian institutions (half of the SV on a good day).

It's worth remembering that the military in typical country is set up with certain similarities to free market economy: it negotiates budget with the "customer" (government), it has several major branches that fiercely compete with each other (typically air force, army, navy; US also rolls with marines as a separate branch), and there are vertical & lateral transfers of employees at times. Lastly, there's always the competing militaris abroad ;-)

Heck, one of common view of the Cold War is that of NATO bankrupting the Soviet block via military arms race.
Drawing Theories Apart is an excellent book on Feynman Diagrams. You don't have to be actively involved in nuclear or hep to understand but the material is not for the faint of heart and a decent background in those areas goes a long way.

https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Theories-Apart-Dispersion-Dia...
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No, the headline is not right.

It isn't "of all the plastic in the sea, most of it comes from 10 rivers"

It's "of 57 rivers, 10 contribute 93% of the plastic of those 57"

> Schmidt and his colleagues dug up published data on the plastic concentration in 57 rivers of various sizes around the world.
...
> The results, published last November in Environmental Science & Technology, show that rivers collectively dump anywhere from 0.47 million to 2.75 million metric tons of plastic into the seas every year, depending on the data used in the models. The 10 rivers that carry 93 percent of that trash are the Yangtze, Yellow, Hai, Pearl, Amur, Mekong, Indus and Ganges Delta in Asia, and the Niger and Nile in Africa. The Yangtze alone dumps up to an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of plastic waste into the Yellow Sea.
Marianna Mazzucato did a nice talk at the Long Now Foundation about this exact point.

http://longnow.org/seminars/02014/mar/24/entrepreneurial-sta...
But there are other games. Games that actually cost money.

It seems strange to me that wealth shaming behaviors are appearing in the free game but not the expensive one. I think I would always have thought spending money in a free game would be lame...
wag: noun, A person who makes jokes; a joker.

Learned a new word today, thanks!
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To put it simply, arrays are not an erlang data structure. Everything is a linked list, so you can have a high performance copy-on-write data structure that can be safely passed between erlang processes (I think)
Fortran gets you both restrict and re-association allowed by default, plus the nice syntax for vector ops. That's about it, though.
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Unfortunately, equating a human life to dollars is always insulting. To that individual, their life could be worth an infinite amount and more than all the money in the world.

So, it's always a messy business trying to compensate someone for their health.
This is actually useful though - it's not a full equivalent of Noveau because it doesn't include video output support of any kind and that tends to be vendor-specific hardware, but people have already got the necessary video out support for a bunch of cheap hardware with ARM Mali GPUs into mainline Linux and this was the missing link for full accelerated graphics support.
We do need to provide meaningful feedback to things that are incorrect, such as the suggestion that nuclear is not tied with wind as the lowest-carbon full-lifecycle energy source we know.

I chose to work in the nuclear industry specifically to help avert climate change. I was like: "I want to help reduce climate change. Aha, nuclear is interesting because it's low-carbon and also not perfected. That's a good challenging problem to work on!"

This doesn't invalidate anything I've said. In fact, it bolsters things I say because it means I know what I'm talking about.
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You could say it's a leaky abstraction...
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Energy saves lives so some risk probably is justified.