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As a counterpoint to most of the other “isn’t this good?” comments of this thread, let me say that humanity is, at its best, amazingly capable of invention and creating a wonderful culture.

To have more people is to have more opportunities for those who can contribute to the progress of the world.

We have shown an amazing ability to increase crop yield and, technologically, can feed the world population. That’s a feat carried out by generations of growing societies who were driven to innovate because they needed to. As long as there’s opportunities for people’s creativity there’s no such thing as the “carrying capacity” of the planet.

Yes we need to take better care of each other and the earth. But “less people = good” is not the solution to that.

We need to raise up our future with a commitment to people being able to address the problems around them, and not tell each other “it’d be better if you weren’t born”.
That can be an issue. I think dark themes are primarily intended for environments with lower ambient light and fewer sources of glare, though matte displays make them more usable in other conditions.

What this means is there should be an easily accessible, systemwide toggle e.g. Android's quicksettings that asks apps and websites for the theme the user wants at that moment. This is something I've wanted for years, and I'm surprised I haven't seen more people calling for it.
> Last year I got serious about researching the biology of eating disorders, and I'm convinced now that in 40 years we'll think of anorexia and its cousins more like type I diabetes than a mental disorder.

I needed an absurd long time to realize how food intolerances are
increasing my anxiety and obsessiveness. I never had strong physical
reactions shortly after the eating, but very subtile and delayed -
sometimes even days later - reactions mostly on the mental level, which
made it very hard to connect the food with the reactions.

That changed my thinking about certain kinds of mental disorders quite a bit.
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Why would you take a mortgage, probably the biggest investment in your life, if you don't plan to have kids? Even in places where its actually cheaper to pay mortgage compared to renting there are so many negative aspects to committing to strict payment regime for next 20+ years to a single place, that it doesn't make any logical sense.

In no kids scenario is much better to rent, adapt your place of live to your current situation/market/plans, when retiring just move someplace dirt cheap and awesome.

If you have kids, its a huge value that you can pass to them, if done smartly (if not, it will probably destroy offspring's relationships between them for life).
In retrospect, I think the biggest mistake early kickstarter campaigns made was to promise merchandize unrelated to the primary thing being promised. Such things detract from the main mission, not add to it. Stretch goals should be more of the main thing (longer support for the webcomic, extra content in the videogame, extra episode of a series, etc), not tangential things (shirts, posters, stickers, just about any physical item).

The other thing is that the Patreon model did not exist in the early Kickstarter days, and a lot of things are better suited to the periodic small payments for an indefinite period of time than an up-front campaign.
Warm white refers to some particular average. But how do you find led’s that don’t hide a spike of blue light in that average? Most places where I run into led-lights don’t advertise the spectral distribution.
Yeah, only Safari uses them. The non-Focus Firefox app also has tracking protection built in, if you'd like to have tabs and such.

The main reason that you'd use Safari instead of a different browser is that it has better support for newer standards. Every other iOS browser is powered by an iOS webview, which Apple lets lag behind a bit.
My main fear here is that by fixating on economic growth being bad, we might wind up killing the very engine that gives us technologies to deal with climate change and fix the damage already done. That's why I urge to decompose "economic growth" into pieces, and focus on addressing the parts that are causing trouble.
>Why are we acting like this is a bad thing? Not having a child is the single greatest thing an individual can do to reduce their carbon footprint.

Because we also care about our communities and countries (and local cultures, etc), not just the world or humanity in abstract.
The author talks about the game and how he created it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd_-4lp7hZk
I was using enum34... then one day I wanted to use a Flag and found it wasn't in there

the same author has another library: https://pypi.org/project/aenum/ which includes the latest enum stuff from 3.5 (plus some other things)
Solar Roof and to a lesser extent solar panels is a stupidly inefficient way to generate electricity compared to a PV powerplant.
I think they might mean "double trigger" acceleration, where the options vest automatically on change of control.
I wouldn't. But fortunately for us, our ancestors did.
Thank you for the correction! I’ve not used Py2 in 6 or so years.
I think the way to analyze a language and framework should be: "what does this framework permit the worst developer on the team to do?"

I think the story for Php in this regard has not been a good one historically.

You can put processes like PR review, and add coding standards, but getting things done will always trump those things, especially when you are bootstrapping.

If you can tell me modern PHP is better than the alternatives at preventing bad behavior (or encouraging good behavior) then I'm interested. But, this post didn't move me to change my mind there.
I go out if my way as far as possible to avoid advertised products/services. Especially drugs, like 2 out of 3 ads are from pharmas. I opt for generics whenever it is possible.
It would be incompatible with everything that already exists
I wish I had other options, but the only thing I've ever done in my life is code. I can't even put together IKEA furniture very well, so I'm effectively useless everywhere else.
We are going to need more than just those 3 solutions they mentioned. One of them is demand side management systems, as you mention. These behind the meter (BTM) solutions are going to vary a lot in the scope they address.

You mention using EVs. This will happen in the future, but it is still a ways a way for a few reasons. The primary reasons are because EV adoption is still rather low (adoption is increasing fast and penetration varies by region), and because there is often little monetary incentive, largely because tariffs (electricity rates utilities charge) are not sophisticated. For more sophisticated (and effective) rates to incentivize actions like what you mention, we are going to need more intelligent systems in front of the meter (the transmission and distribution systems that utilities control), and those are often enabled by smart meters (AMI).

For demand side management, think beyond physical batteries. Think virtual. Buildings can act as virtual batteries as they can vary consumption (which is largely enabled by thermal inertia). A lot can be said about energy right now, so I'm not trying to be long-winded...

Also, we're on it! At yize nrg[1], we are lowering HVAC energy costs for large buildings using intelligent agents. We save money by lowering consumption and by doing so at advantageous times, like when prices are higher (based on LMP or tariff). This is demand side management, and we can also offer demand response services back to the utility.
[1]: http://www.yizenrg.com
Suicide is the preferrable option to investing any effort in a world that blocks all paths to fulfillment.

Consider your own choice of death as the only thing left up to you. And even modern medicine would try to take that away from you, leaving you to a solitary life as a cubicle drone.

Time to die.
These solutions make sense to me. To get there, I think we need a price on carbon. Use the revenue to pay a dividend, to make it palatable to the general public. Ratchet it up aggressively over the next five to ten years. Let people trade credits to spark innovation, reforestation, etc.

Basically follow the Behavioral Economics of a 401k plan. Get people to start contributing anything, then get them to commit future raises and bonuses to the plan. The more “out of sight, out of mind” the better.
They're incentivizing domestic production, but at two costs: 1) environmental, from shipping stuff around the world several times (parts into the US to SolarCity, cells out of the US to final assemblers, assembled panels back into the US for final sale and use), and 2) cost to domestic purchasers. Finally there's 3) reduced demand for solar panels due to higher costs, which means we don't produce as much power this way, and instead use other means (generally fossil fuel).

All in all, it's a terrible deal for us.

If we're going to shoot ourselves in the foot on something made abroad, I propose we do it for smartphones. Slap a giant tariff on any cellphone made outside the US, like 1000%. Let's see how Americans like being stuck with their aging smartphones or having to spend $10k for a new one. Oh yeah, make sure the tariff applies to the LCD/OLED screens too, since we can't make those here.
> Sharing CPUs is not the point, as long as you are sharing physical memory with other tenants, you are vulnerable

Not to these vulnerabilities. These are attacking memory that is "in flight" within a processor.
The article is maddeningly unclear.

Are these users still paying a monthly fee? Is Adobe trying to force them to upgrade? Does the software license contain a provision about older versions expiring? If it does, why doesn't Adobe disable the licenses remotely, instead of threatening to sue? (Which is bizarre.) Do users have a reason for not upgrading? Does Adobe CC not auto-update? If not, why not, since isn't that a benefit of a "cloud" subscription? Etc etc.
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I'd like to see data on fertility rates compared across all the socioeconomic space, over time.

I suspect you're not much different than most people: they may want/desire children but due to the ongoing economic climate, are forgoing children. That trend would be a bit more evident if most those in the higher socioeconomic were comparatively either increasing fertility rates or remaining relatively constant over time to those at the lower end of the spectrum. There are of course many other factors to look at but that would be a good start.

If fertility rates across the entire socioeconomic spectrum is at a reasonable decline, then overall (assuming there isn't some huge epidemic we're unaware of), it's probably a good thing. Population saturation points should not be artificially set by our current economic system since it's pretty flawed across the board in most aspects, I can't imagine its a useful constraint for determining genetic diversity and growth for humanity.
This was a very well rounded analysis and I agree with it's points. Even though I like AMP in its general case (making the web less of a hog), it's proprietary nature, lack of accessibility and so on are in fact real dings against it.
The best defense against all these CPU vulns is to stop running malicious code. And that means getting off of shared VMs (and similar) where someone could run malicious code in your stead. Stop running any script your browser gets handed. Isolation was always a great idea, poor man's isolation (VMs, processes, ...) is only useful for isolation against non-malicios accidental interference. You want physical isolation between applications and services.
Just one. I'm in SV and I can often get onsites skipped because I know someone and get a direct referral.
> I think this is really more about women having lives outside the home...

I'm sure this is part of it, but a lot of men also don't want kids. I've broken up with two LTR's in the past 5 years because they were ready for marriage and kids, but I have already seen several male peers go through messy divorces where they were treated very unfairly by the family court system: losing custody, large spousal and child support payments that left them as basically indentured servants for the next decade or two, etc.

I always assumed I'd have kids, but I've changed my mind, at least if I stay in the US. While it's great that women have gained so much equality in the last 50 years, the family court system is still heavily biased against men, remnants from a time when women could not support themselves.
Bug aside, this from-the-outside-in way of creating keyboard shortcuts is a cool feature, that I bet a minority of even Mac powerusers are aware of.

See also "DefaultKeyBinding.dict" for more keyboard behavior possibilities, including stuff like ^W and ^U working in Cocoa text fields.
I wonder why its unethical to test such things on human beings. I'm assuming it's unethical, because there rarely seems to be any damn work on this using humans.

Those rats ran themselves to death, will we humans?
We share about 92% of the genes[0] (on the first google attempt), what changes does that giant 8% contain?

Just pick up people like me, and make us run and give us food.

I doubt we will object if it means there's a possibility that we might help ourselves.

Are they afraid they'll make it worse? Sure that's a possibility, but that's the price to pay. I'm willing to pay that price if it means people after me, who have this wire crossed in their brains will be served better healthcare in the future.

Some experiments might not work, but we've just discovered another way to _not_ make the lightbulb, but the good news is that the lightbulb _will_ be made if we try n times.

[0] https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-and-you/genetics-101/geneti...
I knew about customs free zones for storage and logistics. That you can do that with manufacturing is news!
Thanks.

I wonder whether the original comment about "doom music" is also a reference to the film? I had never heard of it.
Goodnight, sweet prince.

YTMND was a bit before my time, but I can appreciate it's place in early "meme culture". At least Something Awful is still around.
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Technological progress will solve any policy problem. If you make it so that wind, solar, and next generation nuclear power is cheaper than other alternatives and more desirable, the market will progressively switch. Most technological improvements did not wait for a policy to change to induce revolutions in their respective fields. Now everyone is investing in Energy, and there's hardly any need for policy when the market is already full steam in investment mode.
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I always wondered about how he felt about that role. I feel like Carmack could still run one of the best software shops on earth, even if he had to start from scratch. The man invented the concept of "it will be ready when it's done", and has an incredibly positive attitude towards handling difficult (challenging) problems.

If the stars aligned and Carmack decided to get back into making new software-based gaming experiences (especially around the DTX/ATX area), I would be incredibly tempted to investigate opportunities.
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wow, serendipity I guess :)

Definitively I'll check the podcast, thanks a lot!
It is within the rights of any nation to deny asylum to asylum seekers as well as to define the criteria that qualify asylum, otherwise anyone who shows up at the border saying "my country is poor and dangerous and I want to live here" could use asylum as a loophole.
Or maybe the people that will solve this issue aren't alive today but will be part of the next generation. So it's on us to have children, educate them as much as we can, teach them how to be strong critical-thinkers, leaders, or whatever will help the next generation tackle the challenges ahead.

That's not to say that everyone should have children, some people cannot have children for a variety of reasons. But if you have a partner and you both are willing, helping the next generation be equipped for the struggles ahead should be an inspiring challenge to step up to, not to cower away from.
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That last line can be especially true..
Yeam im really digging php these days. Composer and Laravel have made it fuggin awesome! I think more so the frameworks built when php was first picking up steam are a little convoluted and oldschool (im looking at you drupal!... 6 & 7, mostly). The language has come along way since then though, so thanks to the team for all their hard work.
I guess it depends on the definition of 'a few percent' in what they said but I think you're misinterpreting it. They don't seem to be saying it wouldn't lower your emissions, they're claiming it's a small part of your emissions.

The change in that paper is ~2 tons/year, and average use in America is ~16 tons/year so about 1/8th. It depends if you think ~12% is 'a few percent' or not.
Those walkable towns are/were just a smaller version of what we have today: an urban core that most of an area's population lives too far away to reasonably walk to.
Anorexia and bulimia are both OCD spectrum disorders. It's not remotely surprising that they're linked, but, as parent comment suggests, please help those who need it get treatment, even (especially) if it's yourself.
The parent has a point: the fans/consumers of those brands are very willing to overlook the drawbacks, and to accept their marketing claims that are usually overblown, to a greater degree I think that people who are not fans of those brands.
Yeah the "Apple doesn't care about users" line of thinking for one use case or bug here or there is a bit much.

Personally I've introduced bad ... choices because I cared about users a few times. It just was a mistake on my part, and yet the whole time I was thinking "this will be better for the user".
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Such a loaded and polarizing question there.

As an Apple product user and a Tesla-owner hopeful, I see (saw in the case of Jobs) truly innovative people leading these two companies. I would rather take leaders of companies that go against the status quo than those who follow it.

I like that musk doesn’t give a shit about the SEC when he tweets something. It’s the same thing that makes him want to send people to Mars. He’s crazy in a good way.
Why was it shocking? PHP (originally) stood for "Personal Home Page" after all...
If you were trying to turn your scientific community around and make them pay attention to an issue when they hadn't been, isn't "Guys this thing is real" the tone you would take? The lit review is used to show that not enough research $ are being poured to get good science, but you can't convince the $ to flow if people don't think it exists. You don't have to prove the disorder exists to a peer-reviewed standard before they let you try to do exactly that. You can start with anecdotes if you want. These folks started with a meta-analysis of risk factors, which looks fine to me.
I just assumed it was about ytmnd.
Because Javascript is the only thing that runs on the client side.
I'm referring to the higher levels of blue spectrum light in the outer hemisphere compared to more red spectrum nearer to equatorial
How “intense and powerful” are we talking? Does this mean that 30mins daily exposure to an LED-based [10000lm] light-therapy lamp is a bad idea (compared to a non-LED-based light-therapy lamp)?
This subject always confused me. On one hand, we're told to work to continue this trend in the interest of reducing pollution and carbon footprint and quell the dangers of overpopulation. On the other hand, we're told that shrinking birthrates are a problem, and that we must import workers from overseas to make up what we're losing. And, by crazy coincidence, doing so would be great for massive corporations.
Its creators also make it very clear that it is not a blockchain. It’s centralized and lacks the consensus mechanism that’s a hallmark of blockchains (PoW or PoS).
I suppose, but the isn't there more "pros" vs "cons" with a bit smaller population? currently we're sitting close to 7 billion, would (snap) 3.5 billion be enough to sustain economic growth?

I see someone mentioned population growth is the safety net for once people get older the younger generation pays into the older population retirement. There's an issue with that thought, won't it be unsustainable after the population reaches a certain threshold?
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That is an awesome answer, but pedantic. The real question is, again: how do we express the idea to create a REAL market for health "insurance"? It's not about the difference between health "insurance" and other kinds of "insurance." The question is how to express how to create a market for it.
Preserving a great part of the early Internet, back when the Internet was weird and great.
Clever, but incorrect. This is a rhetorical construction which falls apart if you don't overload the word, "reduce."

Climate change is bad because it can end human lives. The lives which it doesn't end may experience significant hardship and unhappiness.

Decreasing the rate of population growth does reduce the number of existing humans, but it doesn't induce that reduction by ending lives. It also doesn't increase the amount of hardship imposed on most humans.

Do you see why climate change and population reduction are not comparable?
If this was the only item, I would agree with you, but it isn't. Finder is buggy and broken since Mavericks (along with some bugs that look like the got rebroke in [edit]10.14[/edit]). Each new version of Mac OS breaks more stuff. This is exacerbated by their hardware failures and constant "only affects a small number of users" line that gets old. Its a constant stream of breaks these days and they need to start looking at the details.
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The flip side of this is that there has to be an acceptable newer replacement with a better security model. For a lot of Windows 7 users, Microsoft have yet to offer that. (I imagine this is going to cause quite a stir if Microsoft try to stick to their published EOL date for Windows 7 next year, given that still nearly half of Windows users are using it.)
I think you underestimate the amount of room most warez take up. And what these distributors will go through to get free space
Blockchain is also a tree, it's just that every branch except one is (usually) abandoned rapidly.

That said, that's just because both use Merkle trees. CT isn't a blockchain.
That's irrelevant, it's an article on phys.org and is expected not to be written like this.
That's fair. I do too subscribe to the abstraction of humanity as a group.

I guess what I'm saying is that even with climate change, survival of humanity is not at stake. We're unlikely to collapse the climate to the point where no humans can survive anywhere on the planet. What's under threat is survival of our technological civilization, of our ways of life, of our grandchildren. The danger is that a lot of people will suffer greatly and die prematurely, and that the future will only contain more suffering.
Debunked. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19915540