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Tragic ending though :(
In a world without intellectual property, source available would equal free software.

I think the FSF has tried to squash too many semantic, technical and legal subtleties into the GPL, the words free, libre, etc.
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It's because America invented tech.
No doubt. That is why it is so important to acknowledge and critique the past, to work towards the present and the future being less atrocity-filled.
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Is the next step forbidding dangerous hobbies like mountain climbing? Maybe taking more than one job to support a large family or accumulate college funds for one's children--"you're not getting enough sleep, which increases health care costs that we pay for."
Ultimately everything we eat consumes animal byproducts. But I'm a fairly adventurous eater and I'm not sure that I could get a pitcher plant down...
"Sun mafia"? That's really uncalled for. Why are you angry with those people? What did they do, in your view, that makes them deserve such an insult?
Check out Czech bread. Completely sugarless.
Oclif https://github.com/oclif/oclif

Disclaimer: I work for Heroku but have no association with the development of this tool.
If you're making deals with a government that is undemocratic, you're making a deal with the government, but not with the people. At that point, the deal is probably going to be one that benefits the government, but not the people. Countries do that, when it is in their best interest to do so.

But the US (rightly) gets criticism for doing such things. If it's right to criticize the US for such actions, it's also right to criticize China for them.
I used to host in savvis then IT team pushed me into their datacenter for cost reasons but they are so terrible with changes and support that azure/aws are very attractive to improve my dev speed even if it means i have to do all the ops work. Probably more expensive than colo but i have to use them if i do that but i have more freedom in the cloud (until they figure that out i'm sure).
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I have a feeling most of the addiction came from the food and drink industry. Perhaps the amount of sugar contained in the industry provided foods should be restricted to some sane amount and not a quantity to induce you to eat it. This way, the home cook can control their sugar intake and the home cook cannot produce the number of available goods one eats by just picking it off the shelf at a store.

Higher end restaurants that cook their own food won't be restricted this way either and that's a good thing because one goes to such places for food you don't normally get at home but fast food restaurants get most of their food from factory stores where sugar content can and should be restricted for the same reason grocery store food should--sweetening foods makes you want them more.
than you for f.lux
Or they could mandate remote work. Or tax companies that require employees to commute when it isnt required by the business/role.
On laptop I would reduce the video window to 10% of screen and put it just under the camera and it made a huge difference
No unless second hand sugar is a thing.
Alcohol consumption is by choice by adults, where as sugar consumption is not - children's food are mostly sugary items today in the market. They get addicted by the time they are teenagers, and for many of them (30% or above of all the kids), due to resulting obesity, rest of their lives are spent fixing/fighting it - depression and health issues.
But what do the plugins link against? As far as the plugin creator is concerned the license of the object files of the API could be MIT, closed source, GPL or whatever. He doesn't bundle any Blender code.
I literally laughed out loud reading this - thanks... needed a chuckle and a smile about now
Great point regarding GDP. Vox did a piece[1] that pointed out that with the recent rise of highly economically productive cities in the mainland like Shenzhen, the mainland is getting more emboldened in projecting its control over HK.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQyxG4vTyZ8
And that’s reinforced by advertisement over and over again.

While there are so many fun activities not involving alcohol. Seems like most of team building events nowadays boils down to pretentious dinner plus drinking to celebrate?
I think the demonisation of fat might be partly a linguistic problem. “fat” is a derogatory term for someone who is overweight, but it also happens to describe an important component of food, so the (incorrect) connection forms itself: eating fat = getting fat. This isn't the case in all languages, though I don't know if that actually has meant Germany or wherever cares less about fat content.
No, that is not it.

If that was the explanation, then we would say that America is behind the rest of the world on weights and measures because America invented engineering.

And we would say that America is behind the rest of the world on Health Care because America invented hospitals.

And we would say that America is behind the rest of the world on justice and incarceration because America invented prisons.

A much simpler explanation is that all these things share the same social and political forces, and America is different from the rest of these world on all these things for similar reasons, and those reasons--whatever we may think they are--are not related to whether America "invented tech" or not.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20140960
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I have a joke NAS and I use ZFS for the disks. Unfortunately, at some point I started having problems where deleting a file will take half a minute (each file is only around a gigabyte). I have no idea why performance is killed like this, and nobody I asked on IRC seems to know why this is happening.
No, Scons really is dog-slow. How slow can be discovered by using the Ninja back-end plugin, with Ccache. Then it can be quite pleasant.

Of course if you only ever build from scratch, on one core, compile time will dominate, and you will wonder what the fuss is about.
Sure... if you're willing to pay the true cost of food (which I think we should!), then yes, there are benefits to both sides.
Wow, that is really fast for a bike. Are you allowed to drive these bikes on all bike paths and such? Where I live (Sweden) they are limited to 25 km/h (~16 mph).
How does regulation help with obesity? And if it does, why are Europeans very nearly as fat as Americans?
The statement in the article makes it sound as if providing documentation, support, etc. is a somewhat reliable way to get your work on Blender plugins and — implied — on other free and open-source software funded. I guess that's the reason for the impression that this somehow generalizes the statement to a broader software market.

"Your customers will love you!" even implies that this way of doing business is somehow superior to other licensing models.

I'd say: Your customers might love you, but for most projects this is likely also going to translate to "your customers won't pay you".
It's because politicians can be more easily influenced with cash in the USA than in Europe. The US supreme court hasn't done any favors in this regard either.
$100 billion sounds like a lot, but note that it'll cost $5-10 billion just to bring Caltrain to a downtown station from its current location: https://sf.curbed.com/2018/9/12/17850744/pennsylvania-avenue.... I think everyone will be shocked at how little new infrastructure San Francisco actually gets for the money.

Consider what it'd take to get a transit system comparable to say Chicago's. (The two areas aren't that dissimilar in size and population. Chicagoland has 9.5 million people in 10,500 square miles; the Bay Area has 8 million people in 7,000 square miles.) Chicago has 500 miles of commuter rail plus 100 miles of rapid transit. San Francisco has 70 miles of light rail (Muni), plus ~180 miles of commuter rail (BART + Caltrain). And it's not clear that Muni even counts as a rapid transit line. Most of it isn't grade separated, so it's got an average speed of 8 miles per hour. (The D.C. Metro, a typical heavy-rail system, averages 33 miles per hour including stops.) The LRVs go about 5,000 miles between failures, versus 200,000 miles for a 7000-series D.C. Metro car.

So even to get to Chicago levels (where most people still drive!), you're talking about building a whole new subway system, plus building hundreds of miles of commuter rail across the Bay Area. It's a trillion dollar project, not a $100 billion project.

So what would it take to finance all that? Let's be charitable and say you can do it for $500 billion. California is currently issuing 25-year general obligation bonds at 5% for 25 year maturity. That's $35 billion per year in annual payments, divided by 2.6 million Bay Area households. Or about $13,500 per household per year.

If that sounds unaffordable, let’s hypothesize we just have “rich people” pay for it. The top 5% of households in the San Francisco metro area make an average of $600,000 per year. Applying that to the whole Bay Area, you’re looking at 130,000 households making $78 billion per year total. So the tax for transit would have to be the other 50% of income that California doesn’t already tax those folks.

Okay, surely billionaires have the money. Last year, US billionaires made $470 billion. So we are talking about less than a 10% billionaire’s tax, right? Well the Bay Area is just 3% of the country’s population. Hardly seems fair to give it such an outsized portion of confiscatory billionaire taxes. 3% of 470 is about $15 billion, not close to enough!

Oh, and here's the kicker. Everyone would pay for that new transit, but most people wouldn't be able to use it! In Chicago, only 12% of commuters take public transit, because the system, as extensive as it is, really only is good for getting people into downtown and back out. Even if San Francisco manages to double that, you're talking about everyone paying what would be in the rest of the country a mortgage on a house for a transit system 75% of people can't use.
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What about high-fructose corn syrup soda? You could just say it's a corn-based drink with no 'added sugar'.
Exactly. Another way to say this is that if you have an incomplete build graph or target signatures, you will find out from your mysteriously corrupt build output.
Last year when I wanted to build a 10 disk ZFS server in RAIDZ2 and researched about the data-integrity and fault-tolerance aspects, I found this video of guys literally making hardware failure by conducting electricity into the motherboard attached to a RAIDZ2 array:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxFNBZIAClc

and they could not make any errors. This was pretty brutal. When I saw this video, I decided I never want to use any other filesystem than ZFS ever.
Is it time to start treating regulation like the cancer that it is? Is it time to start calling people who think they know what's best for everyone what they really are, dictators? I hate to break it to you, but life is gonna kill yah one way or the other.
Why is Europe so far behind the rest of the world (except China, Russia et al) on digital freedom and freedom of speech?
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The sad part is that platform economies are mostly owned by US companies, and their internal (inside the platform) markets operate on a global scale. So far we haven't seen much external regulation here.
You have to add in a lot of other ideas though to come close to the basket of ideas associated with "western values". For example: limited government, representative government, scientific inquiry, equality of women, due process, free markets, private property, contract law, and so on.
I wrote a similar guide based on my experiences:

https://austingwalters.com/neural-networks-to-production-fro...

I’ve gone through this guide and other guides before, as I often teach courses like: “introduction to deep learning”

The guide from fast.ai is very good and highly recommend. I also recommend if you want to get into deep learning taking a numerical methods course / guide. Once you understand the basics the hard part is understanding the pitfalls introduced from hardware (and some software) limitations
Kind of like https://sandstorm.io/ ?
Any dish that is a prepared composite will quickly get into gray areas.

“I didn’t add sugar, i just put this highly sweet blended fruit in the dish!”
In what way is it not open source? I don't get why that random question is supposed to be evidence of anything?
You're using "west" as in western aligned? If not Australia and Russia are most definitely not western geographically. I've also never heard of Russia mentioned as western or grouped with other western countries. There's a lot of political tension between Russia and the "west" some I'm surprised to hear you say that.
Can you tell us more about your experiences as a participant in the march?
And the BSDs took it from VMS where ^T dumps a nice little bit of text that shows your CPU usage and memory usage, like such:

$
NODE1::NIKKI 19:56:12 (DCL) CPU=00:00:00.01 PF=611 IO=91 MEM=453
$
Thanks haven't heard of this one before.
The local university research hospital emergency room is busiest by far on Friday and Saturday nights due to alcohol-related incidents.

NIDA puts the overall US national cost of tobacco use at $300 billion and of alcohol use at $249 billion.

It's impossible to become physically dependent on sugar, whereas an alcoholic can die if they quit cold turkey.
America does have a rather extreme case of “not invented here” syndrome; we rarely consider best practices in other countries as worthy, especially if that other country is not an Anglosphere one.

In fact, that “America invented tech” comment is a perfect example of that.
Somewhat related, here's a 6502 compatible CPU made from a bunch of ttl logic chips: https://c74project.com/

It even boots up in a VIC20, and can run at 20x the clock speed of the real 6502.
Lack of affordable housing near work is creating a lot of traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area. A lot of cities are adding more offices than housing.

To eliminate congestion: Either you have to fix housing or add more toll to roads.
Organic is something that is not synthetic (the intricate philosophical details being left as an exercise).

Obviously, and sarcasm apart, the difference is nuanced. Organic Farming revolves around what is apparently natural, and in practice there is just a list farmers must respect.

I've been paraphrasing myself a lot these days, only to avoid saying the same thing many times. But in my humble opinion as a farmer, Organic Farming is a secular kosher for urban people. It has nothing to do with better farming practices, and everything to do with a sense of control over purity - purity in terms of what is closer to the urban conception of what constitutes True Nature.

Better farming practices involves the rational use of pesticides, synthetic or otherwise, used only as a last resort and having always in mind the effects to Nature (soil, water and wildlife) and human beings (farmers and consumers). In Europe all of these considerations are contemplated under an official standard called Integrated Farming - Organic Farming's big sister, as I call it.
Or when you value privacy.
Related: take a look at bcachefs

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs
command line? C/C++. Compiling separately for each environment is the best kind of cross platform for the end user.
Well coal and nuclear tend to take a long time to turn on. Responding to demand is more the role of gas.
I just listened to a Freakonomics episode about the business of the political party duopoly the other day. How federal politicians operate to preserve their institution first and foremost, and that the continued growth of the political industrial complex only serves to profit the parties at the expense of the democracy.

Fundamentally the US needs constitutional amendments to break the duopoly and return elections to being about people instead of parties, but for that to happen you would need a super majority of state legislatures to force an amendment and that is nigh impossible as well given how state governments are modeled off the federal but don't have the safety valve to try to repair the democracy with competitive and diverse elections - a vast majority of states are functionally ruled by one party with supermajority and in perpetuity and would never propose changes that would harm them federally.

The sea between getting a few members of congress or states to support restoring democracy and having the super-majorities required to actually see it done are so vast and the opposition so wealthy, connected, and influential I've never heard anyone propose a legitimate strategy to see it done, because the damage has already in large part been done - even if a super-majority of citizens agree with reform, that has no influence on the behavior of any legislature they elect. You would need to co-opt one of the major parties in ways their charters expressly prohibit and their incumbents will block.
I hate to attack the messenger but businessinsider is an affiliate based site that generates revenue with clickbait titles.
Which I understand, but it takes a damned long time to try and debug sometimes. I’d rather just not.
> They cannot be fixed and will ultimately close down the station

Why can't they be fixed or replaced?
Its hard to start families with 8K in savings.

This is a major blow for the economy that is consumption based.

If people have very little saved and have little assetts by the time they retire - im afraid this is bad news for years 2040-2065. Not that far away...
I feel like there should be a business model where the customer pays a monthly fee for service but the service is "install and maintain solar + battery". As long as it is a similar price to grid connection, basically just force all users who would be defecting onto the new business model. I think customers would protest a lot less in that circumstance.

As for medical devices and whatnot: the grid is already not 100% reliable. The replacement would need to be of comparable reliability, but I don't think the threshold is 100% reliable. If you've got medical devices critical to your continued existence, you need more redundancy than either the grid or solar+battery.

I don't see is a particularly fair model for stuff like this. Just a bunch of bad or worse options. Honestly I think once cost parity is achieved, a lot of these questions will evaporate.
Just dropping by to say thank you for f.lux! I'm able to keep hacking at night because of it.
Why is the default $7k out of curiosity?

I see there is a $23581 diamond that is the best value if my budget is $24k on wards, even if I go to the max allowed of $29500
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I'm personally excited about two transit projects in the bay area - CalTrain electrification and the Dumbarton Rail Corridor.
Here's a pretty good description of how one company does it in their hardware random number generator [1]. Generally along the same lines people have already described, with the addition of testing throughout the process so that you can have some confidence that it is all working.

[1] http://www.entropykey.co.uk/tech/
Europe far behind? Europe is the best place in the world when it comes to freedom of speech, consumer rights and press freedom.
They're not very explicit, but their FAQ indicates that they are buffering random data and they sometimes even turn the generators off. Which would suggest that they're not repeating the same random data to multiple users

Interestingly most clues about how their system work are given in the 'paranormal' section of their FAQ on https://www.random.org/faq/
This is amusing because politicians still try to emulate the US in many respects as do a lot of companies.
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Not the same generation (waaay later) but I too had a PC at home back in the DOS days when computers were not that common. I learned to use the command line before I learned to read and write in my native language.

Anyway, I went through a similar thinkering scene but it was in software, the FOSS scene of the late nineties up to early this decade was very active and there were tons of tools and programs that surpassed retail software of the time.

As for electronics right now, there's some crazy things in the FOSH scene and if I had the money I would get more into that, but when it comes to retail electronic and IoT stuff I'm skeptic: too many corners cut, too many security holes, too much data going into opaque servers, etc. And that's just security and privacy, don't get me started on planed obsolescence and repairability.

And there's still a lot of stuff you can make that have no retail equivalent, from console clones with FPGAs for perfect emulation to car automation with comma.ai
Pretty much. I am rather dumbfounded by some of the political debates I read in social media by Americans when many of these have been pretty much solved here in Europe, with respect to healthcare, education, abortion rights, gun control, etc. E.g. there is living proof that you can keep a country going with free/subsidized healthcare or education for almost all of its population, as evidenced by literally every Western country that is not the US, yet this empirical evidence is brushed away by American detractors with utterly bizarre arguments about economic freedom that don't have a foothold anywhere else in the world. I don't know if detractors are being 1) ignorant of living conditions abroad, 2) not willing to change a system that benefits them personally, 3) fully aware of how things are elsewhere but reject it for ideological reasons.
> go 5 mins outside a densely populated area and your internet/cable options drop below third world standards.

You mention Western states - which ones are you familiar with? In NW Washington, there are counties with functioning fiber co-ops. It's very possible to get fiber to your property in some areas, economically, with functioning latecomers agreements.

I can't say how common it is elsewhere, but you're painting with a VERY broad brush in describing the rural US internet experience.
What is the TLDR?
Leading cause of death for under 45 in the US is traffic fatalities.
More accurately, you're able to stop hacking at night and thus have energy for hacking during the day.
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Are you implying there are zero tech companies in Europe?
Being enranged that companies just made what MIT style licenses allow them to do to start with, and creating derived licenses to work around it.
Unprecedented might be too strong a term. It isn't too difficult to find ups and downs of life expectancy in Western European countries.
I don't think it's so much denying people what to do with their bodies, as much countering all the ways they were being manipulated into overconsumption.

The market and social forces, left unchecked, have resulted in a bleak situation: for instance, I've noticed that the frozen goods aisle in most urban supermarkets has slowly become dominated by ice creams and other deserts, pizzas and french fries, together frequently making up > 3/4 of the area, the rest being frozen vegetables, fish and meat.

I think this trend needs to be countered because I don't believe most people made the conscious choice "I'm mostly eating crap now".
If you have cell service, look into a mvno such as Ubifi. It's made working from home as a software developer possible for me.

https://www.ubifi.net/
You're being downvoted because you seem to just be here to argue. You're not interacting with peoples' responses to you very much, just throwing out a blizzard of new accusations. That's not a conversation, it's just a rant. HN isn't the place for that.
Keep obscure languages (such as Irish) alive via free videogames?