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This may sound really simple and dumb, but I think you’re actually on to something. Americans read all of these stories about 1° warming and have NO idea what it means. In fact, since so much global policy-making involves American multinationals, maybe it should be a rule that all climate increases/decreases are written in the context of Fahrenheit, so Americans better understand what scientists are estimating, regardless of whether it is pro- or anti-climate-science.
To me, the biggest roadblock to success is the number of corporate stakeholders.

For this to succeed, the advantages of having that many stakeholders (big budget, large audience) must outweigh the disadvantages (two-dozen different and often conflicting opinions).

I've never seen a large number of corporations collaborate successfully. A strategic partnership between two companies is hard enough. Two dozen? Good luck.

Especially when some of the partners have a vested interest in this failing. (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Stripe.)

My bet is on existing crypto-currencies solving this problem becuse they can focus on a solution without being constrained by corporate interests.

If Libra launches, I predict the following:

1. It will be very, very delayed.
2. Facebook will take sole ownership and shed all the corporate partners.
3. At that point, they will give up on crypto and just build (or buy) a plain old peer-to-peer payment system.

Alternative 3: They will piggy back on an existing crypto currency.
I'm sorry, I'm not at all educated in this subject and I might be misunderstanding what you are saying, but isn't Earth the perfect example to argue against this? We're a life-friendly planet that isn't tidally locked?
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Surprised nothing shows up on https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status for it. What's the point of a status site that doesn't reflect the status?
>I participated in similar communities and would kindly disagree with you.

>The ones who raise this point 99% of the time _are_ up to no good.

In my experience, comments like GPs are working on the idealized assumption that sites/forums have unlimited resources for handling stuff like censorship, off-topic content, etc. Many communities consist of volunteers to moderate the content. We would love to have an unlimited pool of unbiased mods/admin to review every situation on a case-by-case basis. However, there simply isn't enough time or resources to do it. That's how we get heuristics like, "people complaining about censorship are usually up to no good."

I have no experience (other than very minor edits) with Wikipedia. I don't necessarily agree with some of the stuff in TFA - I actually disagree with some of the points. Though I can mostly see where the author is coming from. Moderating can be a tireless and almost thankless job, but people do it to ensure that the communities they enjoy flourish.
This is the 2nd time a Google product has been down in the last month. What is going on there?

Previous one was only 15 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421
What's going on with google lately? First the google cloud outage earlier this month and now this? I wonder if there's some sort of systemic problem they're dealing with
After some sleuthing, it appears the semi-theoretical TPS is closer to 24,000, though the average is around 2k.

[1] https://usa.visa.com/run-your-business/small-business-tools/...
I think you are a few centuries late there - government banks were the Johnny come lates. The weaponization has gone on for quite a while even if you ignore the "required by law" aspects. Also not basic yet - physical currency is the current "most basic".

The reason for government currency systems were because they backed taxes and had more stability than private entities. There is a long history of trickery from back when banknotes were literally issued by private banks.
It's $5 for me. Can you confirm if the price has been updated since you posted or maybe it's because I am from India.
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Also I would like to point out an interesting side effect that the #1 result in google for "Google calendar 404" is down with a "Too many requests" error :D
> First the yellow never realy made headlines.

In Italy, they made headlines for months.
The italian vice-premier went to talk with some random GJ leaders.
Parties from the italian far right and far left went to demonstrate with the GJ.

If it didn't make the news where you live, I'm very surprised.
Having to interview over and over again.
You could look into Turtle graphics and Clojure. This is a modern take on "Logo" - a language designed for children, but the learnings can be applied directly to Clojure/Clojurescript.

http://timothypratley.github.io/power-turtle/ (try in browser)
I mean, technically better than majority-hijackable crypto, but it's still just corporate scrip.

Sixteen Tons is applicable.
Yes, wildly.
I moved off to Radicale years ago:

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I use it with Thunderbird, and DavDroid (now DavX) to handle all my events and contacts (SMS contacts even show up correctly in Hangouts on Android phones)

I realize GCal is rarely ever down, but they do harvest all your data to sell you shit.

Here's a basic Dockerfile for Radicale if you want to try it out:

https://github.com/sumdog/bee2/tree/master/dockerfiles/Radic...
How did we verify the earlier theories?
Aha, this explains why the USG is going for regime change in Iran.
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Re-phrasing and summarizing:

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Chrome OS also uses this model in its Crostini subsystem. In that case it runs LXC containers in a full VM. You can run Docker inside those containers, too.
I'm curious to know if Mars would be considered life-friendly from 12 light years away.
I've had a couple of times where I've been called in to lend a hand on code I wrote 10-15 years earlier. I'm always surprised that it's still going, but perhaps shouldn't be (and may not be in the future). There's sometimes good reasons to upgrade/Greenfield - at some point, in one case, there were structural issues that prevented much more 'refactoring' without heavy work, and 'start over and migrate data' was a more cost effective option.

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I think it depends on what kinds of problems they're interested in solving.

It's not my favorite either, but you'll probably get better traction in Python. Everything from Arduino to algo trading runs in Python. JS if they really like in-browser, but that's it.
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> But also employ staff for the explicit purpose of gradually increasing the quality of codebases which need to continue to churn.

No one ever wants to hear that part.
well even our deep space observations are largely computed. nobody has "seen" these 2 planets at all ;)
It's really not, though.

OK, it's more "real" than an IOU I hand you, because I know that in order to issue their IOU they actually had to deposit an equivalent amount of cash with the Bank of England, but it's not legal tender -- while in practice pretty much anyone should be comfortable using it as a medium of exchange, the only _guaranteed_ use of a Scottish note is to exchange it with the issuer for a Bank of England note (or, in Scotland, coins), which you can then proceed to use to pay your taxes or other bills because they _are_ legal tender (value limits apply to specific denominations south of the border, you need to use pound coins north of the border).

But yes, in practice, real money. Just don't try telling anyone they've _got_ to accept it, because there's no such obligation.
Feminism?
Is that subjective time for the crew or objective time? Is there much of a difference at 8% c?
Daily reminder that coroutines require a context switch.
You’re probably right about the traffic, but there’s no need to be unkind/sarcastic about it. I wish more people thought not to link down services.
The main difference I see is that most of Europe isn't built on grids. It strikes me they cause as many problems as they solve. Most road networks are essentially hierarchical - you have (more or less) arteries, collectors/feeders, and local roads. Local roads should be for local access, and collectors/feeders consolidate access between arteries and local roads.

In the grid, it feels like there is no local road - just arteries (eg Barcelona's diagonals) and .. roads. You can try to downgrade a feeder into a local road using "traffic calming" measures; speed bumps, speed limits, one way systems - but the moment there's any congestion on the intended feeders, people will try to route around it and bring the congestion to the unintended feeders.

The whole "superblock" concept appears simply to reintroduce local roads into a system that was built without them - which isn't actually an issue typical of most European cities.
Show HN: Explore diverse network routes in the US and Canada
We built this proof-of-concept for a customer and enough folks found it interesting that we thought we could share: https://routes.demo.fibermap.com/

If you have bought or sold network capacity you know that physical fiber route diversity (more than one separate route between a location) is important. This demo lets you explore potential diverse fiber routes between any two locations across a large US/Canada network. This public version considers a route diverse only if it shares no common segments and does not consider how the network is currently spliced, lit, configured, etc.

Example network routes and building data from: https://www.zayo.com/solutions/global-network/building-lists...
So this McCLIM widget set looks like something from the 90ies, typical Tcl/Tk like here
http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/demo-alt-uni...

when compared to this

https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/static/media/screensh...

I'm perfectly fine with that and can live with it.
But why oh why the terrible window decorations with beveling, gradients, rounding and shiny bubble buttons which do not fit to that?

Why nothing like

https://sawfish.fandom.com/wiki/Basix

https://sawfish.fandom.com/wiki/Basix2

https://sawfish.fandom.com/wiki/Operational

https://sawfish.fandom.com/wiki/Roman

https://sawfish.fandom.com/wiki/Tufte

https://sawfish.fandom.com/wiki/SawLook

https://sawfish.fandom.com/wiki/Fvwm2Gtk

Those may not look anything fancy, but won't hurt the eyes either.

Apart from that: RESPECT!
Isn't it just getting one instance more of the bad stuff?
Basically the Feds will crack down hard on Facebook and co enabling Iranians and others on sanction lists. It's no joke and it's one of the few things that will result with executives in jail compared to all that should but doesn't.
Is there any kind of energy, (and thus mass) associated with the decreased entropy of structured data files on a data storage device vs random noise? I don't recall the thermodynamics of data storage being covered during my college physics class.
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Just as long as the universe doesn't show us to the aliens, I'm on board.
404 in Canada too.
Divert water from all 3 rivers in Kashmir down south into mainland India.

Abrogate the Indus Water Treaty brokered by World Bank.
Your Samsung washing machine probably runs Linux though. Can you run it on a non-UNIXy OS?

It’s amazing that this OS also has its own compiler and runtime capable of running Quake translated into Lisp.
I think this is just for red dwarf stars, not ones like sol.
Of all the possible defenses of that scene (Deckard is a villain; Deckard literally does not consider her a person at this point in the story; Deckard is trying to break her association with being the rich niece of the inventor of replicants; others), this is the absolute worst.
I hope that their problems will be limited to just outages, and they will not start spilling user information.
Down in the bay area as well
It's amazing how many of these status pages don't actually work in many situations.
I did the same, but I use Sandstorm Oasis to host it (https://sandstorm.io/); saves a lot of time spent sysadmining things.
Yeah, that's what I meant with "some aren't", I was mostly listing stuff to support the idea that `interface{}` itself is ubiquitous and not some super-niche edge case that never shows up in real code.
If there is one thing I learnt is that using a techno-bubble elite speech you can cover up a large number of loopholes, fraud schemes, ... Regulators and prosecutors know payment processors extremely well; once you start using another language they're partially unable to compute.

In this sense the choice of initial validators alarms me. Trust is something that must be earned: it's different because I know the evils of the system I'm using, I don't know the evils of this system and it might be worse.

...worse...

> In light of this, Facebook aims for the project to be fully “permissionless” — rather than permissioned, where membership of the Association is only granted to a select few —after five years and transition to a proof of stake network.

"me looking at the GitHub repository": there's a lot of technical debt that needs to be addressed, where is the design for this stuff? A "we'll fix it" is not enough, certain issues require a lot more work than code development.
Fun fact, this is also why the british pound has the symbol £.
When they say "extra" they mean extra generation, not new capacity. The grid isn't running flat out all the time. The highest output this year was 48GW. At night, it does about 22GW. That leaves plenty spare capacity for charging cars if required.
Because the US can go after every single American company that's part of the association that runs it.
Going to Mars may be routine some day, though!
Sweden has 10 million people, Egypt has 100 million.

Egypt doesn't have the resources or space to grow to a Swedish standard of living.
Combine something like Libra with things like this[1], and we're well on our way to the popular science-fiction trope of multinational corporations having more power than governments.

[1] https://www.seattletimes.com/business/tech-giant-brings-soft...
I guess technically the "server" is responding, so...
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Edited my comment to just say the same thing. Haha What's the point of them then?
Are you talking about the propulsion system where a series of nuclear explosions push the vessel along?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propuls...
Little time dilation at 8%, so not a big difference.
While this article is very clear, I had hoped (based on the title, I guess) for some more information:

How well does it actually work in practice?

How does the authorization part work?

How easy/hard is it for a developer? How about setting up an identify provider in dev?
It has to do with the class of star. This star is so cool that the only way for the planet to be warm enough to support life is for the planet to be really close to the star. I don't really understand tidal locking but I think it happens vastly faster at closer orbits - because there is a stronger gravitational gradiant closer to the parent body.
> Rust, though, suffers from being too clever, making it a language in which you can make concise, powerful solutions, but it can making grokking the code difficult, inefficient and error prone.

Can you explain specifically how Rust is supposedly too clever?
On that page's footer:

> ©2019 Google - Last updated: June 18, 2019 at 3:12:13 PM UTC+1

Looks like it was last updated before the outage.
This is one of the reasons people don't "search" for SEO consultancy. Just look at the replies - everyone tries to sell soemthing immediately.
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In the U.S. we spend the following on tax subsidies each year:
1. Renewable energy: $7.3 billion
2. Energy efficiency: $4.8 billion
3. Fossil fuels: $3.2 billion
4. Nuclear energy: $1.1 billion

The subsidy number you're referring to is calcuated by adding negative externalities related to air pollution and climate change to the numbers. Those estimates don't reflect funds that could have been spent elsewhere and it doesn't reflect funding priority.
Ever since John Giannandrea left Google, seems like Google's product movements have been a little rough. Not sure if it's coincidence.
They're in superposition.
Check out the Dyson Dilemma for a well-reasoned theory as to why it is a high probability that there is no space-faring intelligent life anywhere in our galaxy or even perhaps our super-cluster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfuK8la0y6s
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Step 1) Buy a lot of paper. Too many ideas, concepts, and problems in programming are really really big and we have no idea how to effectively tackle them. Being able to take notes, write down your thoughts, create diagrams and pictures, etc is invaluable in being able to learn. Being able to go back and checkout your thoughts in the past helps a lot.

Step 2) You'll want to check out these videos and pass them along as you feel they are appropriate:
John Cleese on creativity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

Philip Wadler on the beginnings of computer science: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PJ_DbKGFUA

Rich Hickey's Simple Made Easy: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/

Types and why you should care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0arFPIQatCU

80-20 rule and software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXRxsRgLRZ4

Jonathan Blow complains about software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56wra39lwA

I've got a list of videos and other links that is much longer than this. Start paying attention and building your own list. Pass on the links as they become relevant to things your kids encounter.

Step 3) I spent a decade learning effectively every programming language (at some point new languages just become a set of language features that you haven't seen batched together before, but don't otherwise add anything new). You can take it from me, all the programming languages suck. The good news is, though, that you can find a language that clicks well with the way you think about things and approach problem solving. The language that works for you might not work for your kids. Here's a list to try iterating through:
Some Dynamic Scripting (Lua, Python, Javascript, etc);
Some Lisp (Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure);
C;
Some Stack (Forth, Factor);
Some Array (R, J, APL);
Some Down To Earth Functional (Ocaml, ReasonML, F#);
Some Academic Functional (Idris, Haskell, F*);
C#;
Go;
Rust

Step 4) Listen to everyone, but remember that software development is on pretty tenuous ground right now. We've been building bridges for thousands of years, but the math for CS has only been around for about 100 years and we've only been doing programming and software development for decades at most. Everyone who is successful will have some good ideas, but there will be an endless list of edge cases where their ideas are worthless at best. Help your kids take the ideas that work for them and not get hung up on ideas that cause them to get lost and frustrated.
> I'd go a step further and say pet insurance is basically a requirement

No argument here. It's saved me a few times now where sudden very large bills would have been hard to stomach.

> WRT cats, I'd argue that perhaps you just haven't met the right cat.

My original comment was too far on one side. I debated how to say it for a few minutes while writing. I had one cat for almost 17 years and he was awesome. My connection with him was just different than with my dogs. But you're right that it is more different than better or worse.