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TFA made me think of Dr. Mehmet Oz' interview of Dr. Jordan Peterson [1] from last year (2018). I've transcribed part of the interview below:

Dr. Jordan Peterson:

> "I've always been obsessed with totalitarianism and authoritarian governments whether they're on the Right or the Left for years--decades really. I spent almost all of my free time thinking about what happened in Nazi Germany and in Russia during the Soviet era; but also when Mao was [in] China--there were other places as well. [I was] trying to understand how it was that we could have got off the rails so absolutely terribly. I started studying that at the collectivist level, looking for political or economic reasons. But as I investigated further those levels of analysis [...] weren't providing the answers that I wanted--I think partly because I was really interested in the notion that there's something to learn from what happened, say in Nazi Germany: but there's something to learn at an individual level. That's my estimation. I don't think that there were innocent masses of people led astray by a single malevolent leader. I don't think the fundamental motivations for what happened in Nazi Germany were economic and I don't think they were in the Soviet Union either. As I read more and more about the situation, I realized that the proclivity of individuals to avoid responsibility and to lie, especially about their own lives and about their own experience, were really the reasons that those systems went so far astray."

> "[...] The lessons there for me were psychological and that taught me an awful lot about the role of the individual: people like Viktor Frankl, for example, who wrote Man's Search for Meaning, a perennial classic and a great book--insisted that a large part of the reason that Germany went off the rails so badly was because individual Germans were so willing to falsify their own experience. Alexander Solzhenitsyn who wrote the Gulag Archipelago, the best document on what happened in the Soviet Union, also made exactly the same argument."

> "So I got interested in the psychological causes of catastrophic governance and that taught me a lot. It taught me about responsibility. About the responsibility of the sovereign individual. We have an idea in our [Western] culture, it's a very powerful idea: that each of us is of intrinsic value. But associated with that value is a responsibility: we have a responsibility for our own integrity and for that of our families but also of the state."

This begs the question: are Chinese business men and women willing to falsify their own experience at the expense of the {environment,personal integrity} to make a buck and/or survive?

The business culture of dishonesty (borrowing from HN user docker_up) can't persist forever.

[1] https://youtu.be/AscPHmLWo-M?t=322
i know, hence the /s

it was a jab at Terraform’s behavior
He's wearing a hoodie, shady people wear hoodies! Sad times.
The author is correct in saying that China fired the first shots in the trade war with effectively shutting out major US companies with its protectionism, while China's expansion into the US went on unrestrained. If this process continued on unchecked, China would definitely replace the US as the world power. China is an authoritarian state, with core values that are at odds with the US. Therefore, the stakes could not be higher, and now could very well be the last time that the US has enough leverage over China to actually come out on top.
The best is a house near an airport. I just look out my back window. So far the interesting ones have been the An-225, the Piaggio P.180 Avanti, the E-4B, the F-35A, the F-22, the V-22, the CH-47, the A-10, the B-25, the B-2, powered parachutes, Air Force One, Trump Force One, and all the teen series fighters. We didn't see it fly, but the YAL-1 also seems to have visited.

When I lived in previous houses: the Goodyear blimp, the Space Shuttle (up and down)

I bet you never get the Space Shuttle in Frankfurt.
> Uh, isn't that what tablet mode in win8/10 is for?

It's also what i3wm is for. And the latest versions of GNOME ought to be finally usable on touch-enabled tablet- and 2-in-1 PC's. I expect Linux with GNOME to deliver a significantly improved experience compared w/ either ChromeOS, or Windows in its own "tablet mode". Especially so given the recent work by Purism on GNOME-for-mobile, which included quite a few general improvements.
You really don't find being pat down by a security officer of your own gender to contribute to a sense of romance and idealism??
Something like crostini for the iPad would be amazing. I picked up a Lenovo Yoga 630 not too long ago, was planning to see if I could blow away ChromeOS and get Linux running on it, but discovered instead that I could spin up containers.

Crostini completely changed my mind around Chromebooks/ChromeOS as passive, consumption oriented, disposable hardware. I could have the best of both worlds - a nice shiny UI for surfing and Netflix, and a terminal with everything I'd need to get things done. All while not having to turn on dev-mode (wonky) and still playing within Google's ChromeOS confines.

Something like that on iOS would be wild. ChromeOS has the advantage in that it's fundamentally Linux, but the idea of having something like a little BSD container complete with shell and filesystem access would be pretty great.
Litmus tests for using blockchain vs. relational database
When should a business use blockchain despite its inefficiency? Honestly, I can't think of any reason to not just use a traditional relational database instead.

Instead of anecdotes I'm interested in any literature exploring this issue, ideally outlining specific features of a use-case that would make it a good fit for blockchain.

Here's an example, but it's far too vague IMO: https://dcicblog.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06/Smith.pdf (clickable version in comments)
Paper/cellulose straws are inferior and maddening to use. Yes, I need to use a straw.
So absolutely nothing was coming from upstream? Or, at least, it seemed local trash was dominating the area and perhaps staying put?

Perhaps when it gets too full of local trash, some of it gets moved to the ocean?
> keep the knowledge of how to make them in the domestic area.

To what products does this logic not apply? What do you consider "domestic"? This sounds like an argument against the whole idea of trade in the abstract[1].

The basis of the theory of trade, frankly the whole point of trading at all, is that some people can make or get stuff more cheaply than other people, and that by "trading" those items with people who need them for stuff we want we all win.

I mean, fine. If you don't believe macroeconomics, I guess I can't do anything to convince you. Just recognize that, well, you sound absolutely crazy. This is flat earth scale nuttery.

[1] It's not, of course. And the "domestic" is the giveaway. You don't like foreigners getting uppity, and you're willing to comparatively impoverish yourself to keep them down. I, for one, am horrified at the oppressive antics of the PRC but still think that the last few decades of growth are a good trade relative to the literal famine of the 60's.
(Correction, 3 introduction points and the client picks the rendezvous point -- so even a compromised introduction point is useless because the node used for communication is different for all communications.)
Clickable: https://dcicblog.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2017/06...
No 1 thing the iPad needs to do is coding. Its got such a long battery life, I would have loved to use it to make code edits on the go. That's pretty much my main grip with it at the moment.
Sounds more like Japanese meets blacksploitation; a very narrow Netflix category.
"Terrifyingly dirty"? The simple way they clean the gutters with the fountains on the corners is amazing to me as an American.

Layers of dirt on beautiful buildings? They're several hundred years old.

Felt quite unsafe even in good neighborhoods? I spent all last week there, on foot, at all hours alone and never once felt unsafe. It occurs to me now that maybe that's my male privilege so apologies if that's not the case for you but Paris is the greatest city in the world as far as I'm concerned.
Dr Oz[1]? That quack? Please. He's an astrologer not a doctor.

1: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2018/06/07/a-...
First they take our jobs, now they take our women?

I’m kidding and I know it’s offensive but really they’ll just be sending a bunch of single Indian dudes over here now so what do you expect will happen?
> One solution which I favor is nationalization of US oil companies.

Can you explain your reasoning behind this? It makes no sense to me.

This is fundamentally an economic issue. People will stop burning carbon when it's less expensive to do something else. If you nationalize the industry only to shut it down, that causes the cost of burning oil to increase (the intended effect), but then the higher prices spur foreign suppliers to increase production which blunts the effect. Meanwhile you suffer a massive domestic loss as you not only have to pay higher oil prices, you have to pay them to foreign suppliers like Russia and Saudi Arabia rather than domestic companies.

By contrast, a carbon tax reduces demand and makes production less profitable world-wide, so everyone reduces production (not just domestic producers), and the money from the higher prices goes to your own government which can either use it to subsidize alternatives or return it to citizens to mitigate the impact of the higher costs.
Having been an expat traveled to over 25 countries, I can confidently say our natural world is fucked. Modern industrialism has given the third world too much manufacturing power. And they aren’t aware of the consequences and don’t care, because “fuckit I want kids toys and double ply toilet paper for my family too, not just the Westerners”
Why assume that Japanese culture is neither venerable nor attractive enough to withstand the phenomenon you’re describing?
Do you think it's an accident China does not screen their export goods for safety? Nobody thought about it somehow for decades?

Organized crime runs all the way through the system in many places, not just China.
I've been chasing infrastructure-as-code for a while, but I keep getting blocked by Terraform missing provider APIs (GCP Cloud Function Runtimes outside Nodejs, most recently), Kubernetes complexity, and generally being too lazy to sit down and bang out something in code that I can quickly iterate on with a console or quick CLI commands. I've had some wins with Serverless Framework, but outside that I've yet to see the payoff from the time I have put towards it. Am I defective?
I totally agree that they should have left a note on the issue tracker - even if they thought it would go unread. However I think you're being a little unfair on this one point.

>there was no interest in helping out the project.

They saw that people were filing issues and making pull requests and that those people were getting total radio silence. I can understand how someone might think "well, people are already trying to 'help the project' and the maintainer isn't even acknowledging it, so it's a waste of time".

And while again I totally understand and agree that they should have tried to contact you, you've known about the removal for like 9 months and you apparently never reached out to them either? Like, a couple words in reply to a bugzilla or an IRC message does not amount to picking a fight with a company.
If you install Linux, it's not exactly a "simplified desktop experience".
I submitted this PR long time ago: https://github.com/dagwieers/dstat/pull/50 that fixed an important installation issue, and it took the author 5 months to look at it and simply close it without providing any hints how to fix the problem in some other way. So I was discouraged to contribute further to the project.
Even according to a source that wants to agree with you, 57% of Forbes 400 started with less than $1 million: http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/ufe/legacy_url/410/Born....
AsapScience video on the subject: https://youtu.be/TbW_1MtC2So
The operator cab. The conductors are stationed towards the middle.
If your hypothesis was true -- that the pilots eyes are always obscured from the ground by the plane's fuselage -- it would also be impossible for the pilot to see any part of the ground from the cockpit. This is easily debunked with a Google image search of photos taken by pilots looking out cockpit windows.
There are reusable silicone, glass, metal, etc straws if you absolutely must use a straw.

I used to have a collapsible silicone cup. Downvote me for that too.
If it was a little cheaper, I would probably pick it up for my nephew. But at the current price point it’s just way too expensive. Vague promises of future content are not enough to justify the price IMO.
Usually if something is made in America it is a product of very high quality (except for food). This must be a deeper cultural thing and not just regulatory culture.
Visa is not a right, it's a privilege.

Please be aware, entering the United States is a privilege, not a right. https://help.cbp.gov/app/answers/detail/a_id/757/~/friend%2C....
> One thing that really struck me was how similar the interface was to today's Excel or Google Sheets.

UIs typically recapitulate neoteny: from the beginning, competitive spreadsheets needed to be UI-compatible with Visicalc (even today Excel accepts most Visicalc controls, and has, I have been told by Frankston+, VisiCalc-compatible bugs). Notably, spreadsheets or spreadsheet-like interfaces that don't confirm people's assumptions struggle in the market (e.g. Apple Numbers).

+ Bob Frankston who was the implementor of Visicalc, and later worked at Microsoft, though not on Excel. You can thank him that Windows had TCP rather than some proprietary system...for the same path-dependency / network reasons.
Not just too big, they are outside of the US sphere of influence, while Japan is a client state really.

We should still shame reprehensible behavior.
How can you watch out for something like this?
How do you know any of that? There's no photos on the site to indicate how polished it is, no mention of being able to run homebrew on it.
Is that including or not including debug info and symbols?
China is going to have 450 million sick old people in 10 years. I don't think their domination was ever inevitable.
When I took Into to Econ I totally hated it, the stupid supply vs demand curves, M1, etc. etc. My wife had a PhD in Econ and after casually discussing this topic with her many years I'm now convinced that the fact the Economics departments should be under the business schools and the fact that its called Economics is a historical mistake: It's an empirical science of human behavior. It should be grouped with other science departments.

I wonder how many careers would have changed if intro course would have been thought a la Freakonomics, having students write simulations to tackle interesting, real-world problems ("under perfect competition do you think gas prices in the city or on the highway would be higher?"). Or something like this: https://www.citylab.com/design/2014/12/an-immersive-game-sho....

It seems Prof. Chetty is on this track. Godspeed.
...and you'd likely elect a populist in 4 years that would wrench open the spigots. Dramatically. Live. On cable news.

I'm fully in favor of "keep it in the ground." But nationalization isn't necessarily the right way. In fact: if someone sufficiently wealthy were able to buy up certain strategic assets, they'd be able to resist public pressure to reopen them. For instance, if you had bought Arch Coal at its nadir when it went bankrupt for about $1.4 billion, you would've had control over 16% of America's coal supply. From what I can tell, billions of tons of coal. You could shut it down for pennies on the dollar versus any carbon sequestration scheme.

Or buy up and close down export terminals (and revitalize the property around them if in urban areas, making back your money easily while crippling the profitability of coal mining in the US).

If it was nationalized, it could as likely go the way of Venezuela, which has (until recently) actually extremely subsidized petroleum consumption.

IMHO, government power should be used to tax these things what they're polluting (the stick), develop regulations while strongly subsidizing clean alternatives (the carrot). Nationalizing the oil industry and jacking up prices is just going to make people mad at you while enabling a successor to completely undo your work.
Bricklin didn't invent spreadsheets, they had existed for hundreds of years. He wasn't even the first to use a digital computer to implement one. He was, however, in the right place at the right time to put spreadsheets in the hands of many more people in a much more convenient and powerful form.

See: http://www.dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html
Depends. It's entirely possible to have a simplified Linux desktop experience (after all, that's what Chrome OS is…)
Seems like an unjust way to retract a privilege, then.
Huawei Executive Accused by U.S. Startup of Involvement in Trade-Secrets Theft
John Walker Lindh: What happens when you release a 'traitor'?
Free credit checks - make sure you didn't get an unknown credit card / loan / mortgage opened. You could also be cautious and report that passport as stolen, so it gets reissued with different numbers.
Fwiw, I was expecting your quote to include a number >50%. Not that this wouldn’t be catastrophic, but most does mean more than 50% :).

Edit: though now I’m curious by percentage of animals (presumably 40% of species may be, or even is likely, more than 40% of animals, because of power-law-style distributions).
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Just not working at a large enough scale.

Infrastructure as code becomes progressively more important as you add resources until you're at the point where terraform does the job of a whole team of administrators who would be spending all day clicking through UIs.
You have on hackernews a study from Exxon from 1978 that correctly predicted carbon in the atmosphere and global warming because of it correctly for today. I have started taking most of the studies numbers as conservative numbers as sadly because of billions spend by the oil industry on destroying research and science reputation related to global warming and carbon the researchers publish the most conservative numbers.
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Why is there such a disconnect between climate reality and climate action?
What is the alternative?

All of the “developed” nations need immigration to prevent the social systems from completely falling apart. Our entire financial system is based on increasing population growth and the young paying to support the old. There aren’t enough young people. Without immigration, pensions, healthcare, social safety nets, property values… it all implodes. We go back to 1930 where old people just die in the street.
That's some really mendacious stuff given how expensive having that family gets to be these days.
If you haven't already, I'd highly recommend reading 1984. I'm sure you read it in high school or whatever, but actually read it as an adult.
I think you have it backwards. The question we should be asking is, how can the rest of the world march as slowly toward Malthusian hell as Japan?
> And perhaps there should be tariffs on Chinese goods

Someone other than Trump will have to do it though, otherwise the motives are all wrong
Is there any proof of that spyware claim?
There are legitimate uses for these, and for a second I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt- and then I read their descriptions.

> The 50000mW 532nm Green Beam Light Separate Crystal Attacking Head Laser Pointer Pen is a versatile tool designed with a variety of functions. With 50000mW high power, it produces a super bright green beam light full of energy that can be used to light a cigarette, cut the paper even plastic into pieces, shoot the bird, and more. Moreover, advanced separate crystal design makes it more stable and durable during long hours of continuous running. And its attacking head is ultra solid even in the harshest environment. Don't hesitate to get one now!

They're taking a tool and turning it into a ridiculous toy. I can already see someone trying to "light a cigarette" they're holding in their mouth and blinding themselves in the process.

That being said a lot of them do come with goggles.
Someday folks will rediscover the potential of Puppet for these use cases. Until then, I'm content to watch countless alternative implementations come and go.
You should pay attention to the upcoming WWDC on June 3rd. The rumors I've heard were that the iOS update would specifically address 2. and 3. on your wishlist.
New poster child for not doing product naming and ergonomics by committee.
Bank ATMs were the first computing killer app, allowing people access to cash outside normal banking hours.
Hmm, why? As I said, the cemetery has not been in use for a very long time now. Long enough that the corpses have probably rotten away completely, and nobody knows the people who laid there anymore. So I don't think anybody is going there for grieving.

The Wikipedia article itself mentions jogging as one of the uses, so I'm not making it up (at the same time it mentions "with due respect", and personally I also don't think jogging is "disrespectful"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_Nordfriedhof_(Munich)#Pr...
Doesn't seem that different to the US, to me
I'm pretty sure Australia has done this for 40+ years.
This company seems well aware they aren't a match for Nintendo. Based on the comments, Hacker News does not seem very aware.

Much like how Teenage Engineering's OP-1 is not competitively priced. This is another example of an insightfully designed, well built product for adults. Older millenials looking for a sentimental package so they can feel like it's their 8th birthday again. They are reunboxing a gameboy color.

Their goal isn't to revitalize the dying, Nintendo/Smartphone dominated scene of handheld gaming. Just a small company releasing a niche product in a low quantity for a low risk profit.

No different than a craft brew or a local farmers market.
Have you paid attention to what your thoughts are at night?

I've had similar issues before and I've noticed that if I think about work, projects, my day, etc. I could go on for a long time without falling asleep. I began to notice that if I think about generally fiction/stories, I can fall asleep much more quickly. In my case I think about plots of movies I've recently watched (or a long time ago), whether it's Avengers or Dragon Ball etc. Perhaps you could give that a try.
You've basically described the prisoner's dilemma. However, there are stable strategies where cooperation benefit all parties.
No, it’s more complicated than that. The BLS does a robust survey. They also track discouraged workers who have left the labor force. https://www.bls.gov/home.htm
A Prolog dialect uKanren implement in monte: https://github.com/monte-language/mt-uKanren/blob/master/uKa...
>immigrants form enclaves that are durable and do not readily assimilate. That's not generally what happens in the US

I’ve spent some time in Michigan or Minnesota and haven’t taken away the same conclusions. Maybe we could agree or disagree on “generally”.
Talk of "efforts to protect what natural habitats are left" does not seem to relate to warming from CO2 emissions. Except, that is, that if you're concerned about protecting habitats, you should be concerned about some of the boondoggles destroying them that are justified by "global warming" alarmism - such as replacing natural forests with monocultures of trees that are converted to pellets and shipped long distances to be burned in place of coal. See https://www.draxbiomass.com

Also, "one-third" is not "most".
Or a Surface Pro / Surface Go.