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Eating lots of soy is not a requirement of a diet without red meat.

Cattle can eat grass, but most of them in North America eat very little grass. They eat a lot of grain that is intensively farmed. That feed farming has a significant impact on the environment through regular agriculture practices. By growing food for humans instead, the impact would be reduced simply because not as much crop is needed.

Red meat does have a good nutrition profile, but a balanced vegetable focused diet does too. People underestimate how much protein and fat can be had from plants. I'm not sure why you think people won't do this if they stop eating red meat. Why isn't that realistic?

I speak as someone who absolutely loves meat and thought much like you do recently. Life without, or with much less meat is fine. I've come to realize I largely eat it out of convenience and comfort.
I want to stop the regime, not document it.

It seems like a lot of people with moderate computer skills are fulfilling this role. My skills and time would be wasted on such an initiative.

I do think it's good advice to contact some people who are already involved, though. They would best know what else needs to be done.
Amazing you are downvoted so much. There are a lot of neo-fascist/alt-right/whatever kool aid drinkers in tech. Ethnostates are just another kind of collectivist totalitarianism and it works about as well as the rest. Those who can flee generally do.
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Always worth considering.

Intelligence agencies put people everywhere.
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I think their choice of ideologies is perfectly relevant to what is rotten.

Historical attempts at socialism in their country are exactly what set up the conditions for the rotten core you speak of to come about.

So if these students had their way, they would simply (albeit indirectly, inadvertently, over time) recreate the same rotten core.

This doesn’t excuse the current regime but it is worthy of attention.

I’m assuming there can be no perfect (reality matches theory) implementation of socialism, but I think that’s a good assumption.

And rather than pay attention only to the symptoms instead of the root causes, I think it’s good to pay attention to both.
So for your examples, I would say yes, yes through its rules and actions the government has clearly shown that it thinks it owns those things. Including our bodies (drug war anyone?). And a business model that pays for organs is not "unjust" but maybe a bad idea for those that would participate, obviously. I mean, the way you phrase that makes it sound like they're going to be kidnapping poor people in the streets to steal their organs if there wasn't a law against selling organs, which doesn't make sense.

> Also I can still give facebook all my personal data. Simply facebook need to get my consent to distribute and sell it and I will forever have some basic control on what data fecebook has on me. The government has little to do in this.

So long as the government doesn't force companies to provide the basic control, that's how it seems like it should work! (:
I can tell you there are plenty on HN, myself included. I mean if you wanna make a bigger impact you can learn Mandarin and maybe go to China to meet some more people. Actually there are plenty of Chinese in SFBA or Seattle already. Have you talked to some of them???
So you're saying that if you gave me $1B I would drop everything and try to solve this. That's correct.

I wouldn't spend 100% of my time on that singular social problem, but yes.

But that has nothing to do with reality on account of you having not given me any money, and me not having enough resources to quit my job and fund such initiatives against one of the largest economic powers in the world.
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Nitpicking, but Assange isn't an American, right?
No, I just misunderstood it. You described hosting it on your laptop. Which, if "other machines host it" to cover your laptop downtime, I would not call it hosting on your laptop anymore lol.

When you mentioned other machines, I assumed you meant that other machines had accessed the content and effectively temporarily seed it, as is the way IPFS works.

If your point was truly that other machines have your content pinned, then what is your point about "hosting it on your laptop"? Seems a bizarre description if your laptop can be closed, but the other machines have the content actually pinned. It's hosted by the other machines, not your laptop.
Have you learned Mandarin?? That seems like a large amount of time to devote to something, only to go to China and immediately get disappeared after contacting a plainclothes cop.
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Their ancestor : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rance_Tidal_Power_Station
Your question is both two ill-defined and specific. 'Best' doesn't mean anything without specifying criteria. And 'sample survey question' doesn't convey any requirements I can guess, so it just reads: what's the best platform for hosting a website?
Then I have no incentive not to steal everything you own while you're out to town. Or your car while you're sleeping.

Financial crimes always boil down to some kind of theft.
I suggest you also read Steinfeld's own correction regarding the 2006 claim that livestock accounts for 18% of GHG emissions:

"The comparison measures direct emissions from transport against both direct and indirect emissions from livestock."

http://news.trust.org/item/20180918083629-d2wf0
Do I still go to jail for stealing your car?
Money is probably the most persuasive tool we have as a society to change behaviour. Yes engineering is vital but it works with economics not in isolation.
I'm not sure I see that, but I'd be willing to consider that possibility if there was any data to back that up instead of hysterical op-eds and articles. I see a lot of those, but not a lot in the way of convincing evidence.

Although, FB in general doesn't seem to help the political discourse, I don't think it's anyone's job to decide what ways of communication and discussion are right for a democracy, because if you control where people can speak and what they can say, it's a short step until you control how they vote.
Honestly, I can't. It makes me feel bad for doing that to others and also for what the world might become for my kids. I wish I was kidding. This sort of thing has kept me up at night.
Treat it as just as any other problems and solve it using the startup thinking? Understand the problem, explore the solution, deliver MVP.

Honestly, most comments here misunderstood the problem to the point the purposed solutions are ridicules. Go talk to Chinese people living near you. Ask them why things are operating like this. Plenty live in SFBA/Seattle as far as I know.
Personally, I think there was nothing golden-age about that time. I stuck with Physics. Monthly breakthroughs, yes. The giants whose shoulders we stand on, walking the earth, yes. But opportunities and platforms were miniscule compared to now. IBM’ers sneered at everyone else. This is the golden age of computing.
I think our collective effort to advance our climate knowledge by testing these hypotheses, despite the existential risks, shows an admirable commitment to science.
Islamophobia is a worldwide phenomenon. Few countries want to take in refugees from Syria, Libya, or Yemen - and there are a lot of such refugees. There are 3.6 million in Turkey: https://data2.unhcr.org/en/situations/syria/location/113 (for a sense of scale for Americans, that's somewhere between the populations of Ohio and Conneticut)
Lol I have formal training in this subject.

Is English a language you rarely use?
"The thing is that they remember all those things while people in the West are oblivious to them."
You are so right. Opium wars is major part of history books.
Every educated Chinese( or not so educated ones) knows this part of history. There is this "they wronged us" mindset right or wrong. A lot of conflicts come from this.
My impression was that they did it to gain new customers. People who didn't use it because they could only use it for prototyping but up to now weren't able to directly use their solution in production. Where production includes internal not-customer-facing tools, for example a custom UI or webpage for engineers or financial analysts where the backend calls into Mathematica as opposed to for example Python and its math libraries.
Here's a good video on why getting Tidal power to work is hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMRiKmgxrh0
> "I wonder what the mechanics of it might be in a democratic society. It was easy to do in USSR: top-down structure allowed state to rule media by orders."

In this case I doubt there is any sort of formal command structure, or in fact any centralized orchestration at all. Rather what we're seeing is an emergent phenomenon, not unlike fish schooling or birds swarming. All the actors involved are taking cues from their peers and otherwise consume more or less the same information from the environment. Combine that with a relatively uniform philosophy or worldview and the appearance of orchestrated activity emerges.
Google was never “wholesome”. Their business model from day one was to collect user information and sell ads.
It's sad that only MPs are allowed to speak in the Swedish parliament. There are quite a few politicians who don't take her seriously here, in her own native country.
Those "inalienable" rights are kind of the issue here: it's telling the businesses and users how they can sell that data and what they can use it for, so it's not a choice by the user on what they do with their data, and more a collective decision with the government.

As for explicitly informing the user about what they do with their data, that part I have no quarrel with.
>It's interesting to me that democide is the number 1 cause of death in the 20th century and everyone ignores that fact.

It's estimated to be the number one cause of non-natural deaths
There may be no way yet to support 7,5 billion people on renewable energy. Then what?

Also not saying everything will become like the Saharah. Just that humans may adapt better than those animals who died in mass extinction events in the past.
I've just skimmed it, but that video appears to be about wave power rather than tidal power?
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Forcing companies to tell users what they're doing with their data so the users can have informed choice isn't really my issue here.

The issue I have is the rules in what can be done with that data. Because those rules make it so that the users don't get to decide what they're OK with being done with their data.

If I'm being really honest here, the GDPR seemed pretty well intentioned, IMHO it just went a little far.
Inherently a problem - it's a great area for tidal energy because there's so much energy in the water flow. Unfortunately that same energy is very good at smashing things.

Tidal and wave energy has really suffered from intermittent funding problems, such as the bankruptcy of Pelamis (Edinburgh and Orkney)
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I'm not seeing much logic in the responses to be honest. We've known for a long time that animal agriculture produces more 100-year carbon equivalent emissions than the whole transportation industry (cars, trains, trucks, boats, planes, ...) combines. It's also the leading cause of deforestation, ocean deadzones, and extinction.

> The 2006 report Livestock's Long Shadow, released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, states that "the livestock sector is a major stressor on many ecosystems and on the planet as a whole. Globally it is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases (GHG) and one of the leading causal factors in the loss of biodiversity, while in developed and emerging countries it is perhaps the leading source of water pollution."

> A 2017 study published in the journal Carbon Balance and Management found animal agriculture's global methane emissions are 11% higher than previous estimates based on data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

> In November 2017, 15,364 world scientists signed a Warning to Humanity calling for, among other things, drastically diminishing our per capita consumption of meat. A similar shift to meat-free diets appears also as the only safe option to feed a growing population without further deforestation, and for different yields scenarios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_meat_p...
Does this mean you favor the end of air travel and high speed rail everywhere by 2025 plus a general strike? That's what Greta is asking for - a complete cessation of carbon emission by that date. Please indicate how you think this will pan out.
It's still almost 2x work for every feature, because you need to implement it, test it for both modes and keep maintaining it for both modes. Usually people do that for Google Crawler. But recently it learned to understand JavaScript, so even that argument is moot nowadays. Your best hope is to wait until browsers decide that JavaScript is harmful and won't enable it by default without EV certificate (like they did with Java applets back in the days). I don't see that happening, but who knows.
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In every society, there are accepted narratives everyone is expected to subscribe to. This doesn’t need to happen by coercion; humans have an innate need to repeat and strengthen the basic narratives that are part of their society.
I didn’t say they weren’t widely reported.

I asked for the best VIDEO evidence from inside, showing the most people and smoking guns

It’s the difference between hearsay and video evidence. Like when people say the IDF harasses people in the West Bank, or cops kill unarmed Black people, and people dispute it one way or the other. But having video reveals exactly WHAT is happening. The more context for the video, the better.
The 6502 runs at around 1MHz so even on that 200Hz would be irrelevant.
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I’m wondering what exactly is the commonly observed effect. Is it that English specifically dominates over any language? Or is it the 2nd language, whatever they may be, that surfaces?
I love the interplay between art and science. During my PhD I was lucky enough to work with an Origami artist (1) to help mathematicallly describe the folded structures he fabricated. One of such shapes was the one described in the article, I'm sure many more use cases will come, over the years.

(1) https://www.mattshlian.com/
How do you feel about a 30 page TOS and privacy policy being necessary to use said app? Something of that length tells me that the company likely wants to get a lot of data from me. Reading it is hardly necessary with the way these are typically written to be as friendly to whatever the company wants to do as possible.

This is why I have never used the Bluetooth features on my QC35s. They're mostly dumb headphones to me since I won't accept their user agreement. This seems counterproductive for the company, unless they simply don't care about user privacy and expect users to roll over.
I think it is the Trump 2020 campaign.

Essentially Trump has figured out he can win the 2020 election by going to war with China.

So it is anti-China all over; from smearing of political opponents to policy to information campaigning.
You are right. Think about publishing that thing in one month, rinse, and repeat. No time for bs, cutesiness.
Does NASA have any choice? It seems like the political environment in which they operate makes it essentially impossible to pursue any kind of sane long-term strategy.
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From your previous comment, you dare to stand in front of a tank, yet you wont put in the effort to learn Mandarin. I dont know about others but that's pretty irony to me.

What's more, you replied without read my comment (or misread?). I said I'm a Chinese in the first sentence. I would like to have conversations with people who are serious about the matter but even on HN where people are rational and logical in most other topics are not showing their best when it comes to topics about China.

Anyway here's one guy who learned chinese: https://www.youtube.com/user/jaredfaa
(he's a bigger influencer on bilibili coz youtube is unfortunately blocked in China)

here's a guy went around the world and passed China without knowing Mandarin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjI1O11S8KY
(one of his several vidoes)

Anyway, ignorance promotes fear. Understand the problem first before propose solutions.
Your advice more or less boils down to "figure it out", which isn't very helpful. ;p

I don't know any Chinese people living near me. I don't know many people here at all. I would definitely like to talk to people close to the issue.
You think compiling a video of real-world malapropisms is somehow the same thing as ... fabricating evidence like this? Seriously?

I mean, Obama and Trump actually said that stuff. Yes, it's misleading, but it's "true" in some kind of abstract sense.

This video of Pelosi was a straight up lie. She didn't say that stuff that way. You get that there's a moral difference here, right?

The fact that people can be fooled with cleverly structure and possibly misleading factual argument is not a license to lie like a sumbitch whenever you want. And that you seem to think so is horrifying.
On iOS, it is purposefully a separate permission to allow photo access and to allow the app to access the location metadata of the photo. There have been too many incidents of accidental location leakage.
Red Hat released info about z/OS mainframes, they're also vulnerable to Meltdown as well as Spectre. ARM also has one new design that's vulnerable to Meltdown, and everyone has Spectre vulnerable designs.
I also saw a measurable drop in my full rebuild times. As I do not run any untrusted code on that machine, I disabled all mitigations. There I use a dedicated browser for work related and NoScript for personal so I felt safe with this trade-off. Beyond javascript desktop machines should only be running trusted code.

You do not need to downgrade your BIOS. You can regain all of your performance on the OS level. You can use this tool on windows[1] or edit the registry. On linux just add this to your grub.cfg.

noibrs noibpb nopti nospectre_v2 nospectre_v1 l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier mds=off mitigations=off

[1] https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
Facebook investor: “Shutting down FB is a rational thing to do”
You ignored the next part of my comment. It's a large amount of time to waste, not effort, just to be disappeared the moment I got to China and revealed my intentions.

I mean no disrespect to Mandarin itself.
The laser magazines, Laser Focus World, and Photonics Spectra, were historically and are today plagued by the “ads in disguise” problem. They have gotten a little better.
I see where you're coming from and I largely agree. In fact if we do go hunting, we will eat meat. Obviously if everyone near me was hunting for meat, the forest would be emptied in no time. But they don't, so the impact is still less than buying beef for example so I think that's acceptable. I also hunt for fish and crustaceans when I dive, which wouldn't be sustainable if everyone else did.

I suppose my desire is partially to exit a commercial food system that I know is unsustainable. That system doesn't look like it will become sustainable any time soon, and I don't want to vote for it with my dollars and contribute to the issue with each meal.

I also don't necessarily do it to feel good. It feels bad at times, otherwise neutral. It feels like doing too little. There's no warm fuzzy feeling from half measures like this. I wish I could do more, but I struggle to figure out how.
It's like coal mining. What politician is going to say "Mechanization and the economics of renewables are taking your jobs", as opposed to "Environmental regulations are taking your jobs"?

The former is worse in every way, with the exception of being true.
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This stereotyping is as old as industrialisation. "Made in Germany" was originally a label forced upon the country by the UK, who wanted customers to chose their superior products over the newcomer's low-quality knockoffs. We all know how that turned out.

It was then repeated with Japan, South Korea, and now China.
Ask HN: What jobs can a software engineer take to tackle climate change?
I'm a software engineer with a diverse background in backend, frontend development.

How do I find jobs related to tackling global warming and climate change in Europe for an English speaker?

Open to ideas and thoughts.
And at $5 a month, has way more features
Thank you.

One would think that an article about a power generation system would at least provide information about nominal power and expected annual energy output.
I don’t care who does it. There are cellphones everywhere today. Millions of detainees, I am sure there are videos somewhere!

I think that the following devices would be REALLY useful not just for human rights but proving what happened in an altercation:

A tiny device that can record video or video, perhaps embedded in the clothing or body of a person.

The stream is ENCRYPTED AND THEN transmitted to local towers or wifi or whatever, and finds its way to some servers. Maybe via a DHT routing.

Anyway, these servers store the encrypted data and the keys are generated by Shamir Secret Sharing so 3 or more parties can come together and decrypt the video.

In countries with rule of law, this could be used to figure out rapes on campus, by having such cameras in every dorm and bedroom. The keys would be obtained during a court case only.

In human rights cases, the keys would be generated by human rights organizations.

So this will eliminate “peeing toms” and “spying” by having warrants for decrypton of a video strean, and curation by trusted agencies what gets shown to the public.
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I've been reading lobsters for a while now, an invite would be appreciated, looks like a nice community.
> Appeal to Authority .... When explaining practices or opinions on some subjects of sofware development, project management, operations, e.t.c, people tend to use somebody elses saying, blogpost, conference talk or other claim as a foundation for justification of their own decision.

I consciously do this these days because other people are gullible.

I consciously know "well this isn't balanced", but there is no need to put a disclaimer on that, it just wastes your time and confuses the recipient.

Appeal to Authority works.
>top-down structure allowed state to rule media by orders.
But democracy is more nuanced than that I believe. At least I've never witnessed ahead-of-time switch in narratives of democratic media.

If you're referring to "western" or american media, it's not democratic, it's primarily corporate, which is top down, ruled by orders. Straying too far outside the narrative/overton window will get you fired
I feel like the article is written from the perspective of an embedded software/hardware appliance developer, or the hobbyist equivalent.

It makes a lot of sense to talk about saving $100 on an RTC board if you only want a clock to for some one-off script you’re writing. Things can be as fiddly as you want in that case—e.g. load the program from disk to memory, then enable the clock using the little switch you built into it and let it tick while the disk is spun down.