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>There is literally no way to stop it

All people have to do is put their arms behind their backs, stop working, and demand it happen from the most powerful people in the world. I assure you that this isn't as bad as having humanity go extinct from climate change. Admittedly, getting enough people to do that is the real challenge, especially in the face of capital trying to tell them the exact opposite.

If an asteroid was about to direct hit in say 2029. Would society just argue on the internet and die? For how advanced we are, I really think we're an extremely weak society. Existential threats are taken very lightly.
Will not matter if zoning laws do change, though I to agree they need to and posted something similar.

What will happen is in many of these same areas they will force rent control upon builders and existing landlords which will do the same work that zoning and political games did before.

California will require a state wide referendum to fix their government created housing problem.
You're dead too, buddy.
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Greg Bear's The Forge of God explores exactly this issue, as does the sequel Anvil of Stars.
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Co2 into fuel [1]

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/07/carbon-engineering-and-harva...
I find it a little ironic that green activists from 40 years ago are the ones who indirectly caused so much harm.

I've started thinking that people with good intentions are often the most terrible because they will never question their methods (or results) as their goal is holy and justifies all.
According to the INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard, Atlanta is ranked at 71 while Dublin is worse at 52.

How long were you in Dublin?

http://inrix.com/scorecard/
I find "merit"/"performance" based raises for like 2 or 3% to be insulting.

You think I wasn't already doing my best, but what's going to motivate me to really give you my best is the promise of a 2% raise, if I successfully navigate the insane beurocracy to fill out my paperwork the right way to game the system and have my manager cooperate?

You don't just think I take no pride in my work and don't care about the project/mission itself, you also think I'm cheap/desperate.
Democracy for whomst?

If it's just for long-term landowners, that's a form of democracy, but we tend to not view it very favorably these days.
I have a hard time thinking of the 20x improvement in Egypt or the 100x improvement in China (or similar gains elsewhere) as "marginal improvements". We're talking orders of magnitude improvements in standard of living over the course of a couple of generations.

I don't know what you're expecting. Someone snaps their fingers and everything is magically "fair"?
As referenced from "Facebook Under Oath: You Have No Expectation of Privacy", https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/opinion/facebook-court-pr...

A very interesting dialog between a US District court judge and a Facebook lawyer on how Facebook feels about privacy.

It seems that when pressed, Facebook says that as soon as you have shared anything to anyone, even if you have your sharing settings tightly controlled, you have no expectation of privacy with regard to that information.
The majority is not always right, but the majority almost always gets its way.

Let’s say you’re right. Even if you overthrow the majority they won’t like it. What are you advocating? That there’s a shortcut via authoritarianism because the majority can’t be trusted?

Democracy has no shortcuts. Convince the majority you are right or live with the majority opinion.
"Since March 2018, federal prosecutors have seized more than $100 million in cash, real estate, and other assets from Lacey and Larkin. The strategy is simple: No money? No lawyers. QED.

The asset freezes raise all kinds of thorny constitutional questions. Generally speaking, federal prosecutors are permitted to freeze a defendant’s assets based on probable cause alone, even before the defendant has a chance to challenge the government’s case in court. But regular forfeiture rules do not apply in cases involving forums for speech—newspapers, films, books, magazines, websites. The US Supreme Court has decreed that when the government seizes these expressive materials, or the proceeds derived from them, it must immediately hold an evidentiary hearing to determine whether the seizure is valid.

But the Backpage defendants have a problem: So far, they can’t get a court to hear their claims. Since last summer, the Justice Department appears to have been playing a clever shell game. They’ve brought cases against the Backpage defendants in two federal districts—civil seizures in Los Angeles, criminal matters in Phoenix—and they’re making the defendants spend what money they have left chasing Uncle Sam from place to place. So far, judges in both districts have agreed with the government’s suggestion that they should defer to each other, effectively denying the defendants a forum to challenge the asset freezes. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments in the case in July."

This kind of tactic definitely rubs me the wrong way. I am not saying that backpage should exist.

But I don't buy into ends justify the means arguments for the way the government is going about it.
Gotta hide that inflation somewhere! /s

that's a shadow /s
Through a high tax on the unimproved value of the land:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Ah, my bad then. I remember Top Gear or some-such show attempting this experiment and having stationary gym bikers charge their EV.

It didn't do too well.
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Nope. Causal effects of insolation fluctuations on greenhouse gases/global average temperature exist, but they're dwarfed by the causal relationships (in both directions) between global avg. temperature and greenhouse gases: https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2568

P.s. this is the most incredible climate study I know of. This is a topological statistical analysis that doesn't rely on any specific climate model to draw its conclusions about the strengths of causal relationships. So there can be no quibbling about the model being wrong. That simply doesn't matter with this awesome application of dynamical systems theory, it needs no model.
It will depend on what you're used to, but AFAIK, virtually every city in the US has a noise complain/non-emergency police number/311/whatever where these type of complains are some of the most reported issues.
I was under the impression predictions had to be conservative because the modeling error is so large. Its not at as if they know whats going to happen and are being coy about it.
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The typically socialised decommissioning costs, far in excess of estimates, of nuclear usually seem to more than cancel out any cost competitiveness.

I was quite pro-nuclear in the 80s and 90s...
He's a critical free thinker, so it's ok.
Is this a joke? Most of her inventions are purposefully designed to fail, and they do that extremely well (I believe she is very talented both as an entertainer and a builder). But as far as I know she has zero experience building long-lasting products that stand the test of time.

I'm not saying she can't do it or won't figure it out - but your comment honestly seems more like an argument to the contrary to me.
> You're all dead. And you have no idea.

Such panic. Seriously. We'll be fine. We'll grow to 20 billion before the population declines. Humanity will adapt. The planet has been through far worse extinction events. This one isn't even remotely impressive compared to the others.

Humanity will be fine. And every single generation will keep whining about "WOE IS US, THE END IS NEAR!" for all eternity.

I believe in climate change, I also think it's pointless to worry about. We can't stop it. We can deal with it. And we'll get damn good at it in the process.
The people who can afford to pay higher rents are generally the most productive. They have important skills that employers are willing to pay high salaries for. They also pay more taxes and spend more money. If I ran a city, I would want more of those highly skilled workers in my city.
I think you underestimate owner costs of turnover. Risking an empty apartment for even a few weeks can erase your yield for the whole year. Landlords, then, are only likely to hike rent aggressively if it's worth that risk, in other words, when the market price is dramatically higher than the current rent rate.
There is few American victims, though.
Yes but photosynthesis doesn’t generate energy but the opposite: it takes in energy from the sun in order to reverse the reaction
"You can print more dollars" only as long as market participants trust that you're not going to print too many dollars - as soon as you try to do anything of the sort, your status as "safety deposit box of the world" goes away. That's not much of a privilege!
What did Plaid do that Yodlee/Envestnet didnt? Was there some sort of collective amnesia, where everyone pretended this wasnt a solved problem, and to fund it being reinvented?

What does Plaid do better? Is it just a more modern stable variant, or does the end user experience something more akin to "one plaid account for all my plaid connected services." Do I have to type my bank account number in twice if I sign up for two services that utilize plaid?
Right, except they don't. It's higher than rural areas, but that doesn't mean it's in line with the general cost of living in the area.

I promise you, if you go to any major world city there are people living there who are poor and barely scraping by.
I am unfortunately involved in a magento2 deployment. Sqreen blocked a critical zero day sql before the official patch was out. Keep up the good work!
If every job creator is an outlier, and you throw away all outliers, then there should be zero jobs in existence. Clearly your methodology is flawed.
They can have more than one business reason. And the PR side of things has been critical of late.
Shouldn't we just be moving to something drastic like a massive sun shade project ASAP?

Slowly on the scale of individual people, but a quick snap on geological time scales, a process of change was initiated in the global economic system by the widespread climactic shifts. a series of events moved the global system towards a phase change which sealed Homo sapiens' fate. No one can pinpoint the exact minute, hour, or day, but at a certain point, global civilization lost the necessary level of coordination to mount the necessary sun shade project. Just as the ancient empires lost the ability to coordinate their own defense and trade in the Bronze Age Collapse, the world lost the ability to avert the next Permian-Triassic level event.

Intimations of war and shifting alliances were punctuated with alleged sabotage and contested destruction of satellites and the closing of the nascent space infrastructure. No one country felt safe letting the other country control the sunlight and the sky. Acrimony only increased when the first nuclear submarine was lost to the loss of buoyancy amidst the first spontaneous mass methane clathrate release. We luckily averted prematurely ending ourselves in nuclear fire and ash, but future generations might look back at it as a lost chance at quick mercy. Eventually, the petty geopolitical squabbles faded and almost everyone universally believed the science, but it wasn't until it was several years too late.
I know. I just didn't see why you were bringing channels into it. It's not as if it's some loophole involving channels that's the issue here.
I mean, just the noise from the events in Davis Square can be heard from half a mile away, so most decibel meters would flag that as "pretty loud".
Well I'm not saying the Amish are "successful" in any sense of morality or human flourishing; I'm making no claim on that. I'm just saying they multiply fast. Not a judgment, just an observation.

I agree the pathway would definitely change. You'd see pushback. It's not like the Amish will be 300 million in their exact current format.

So let's say that does happen and the Amish start getting targeted for "embrace, extend, extinguish", or some variation of semi-forced immigration and assimilation.

Amish aren't homogenous. Some of them would be taken by this, assimilate, and drop birth rates. Some would not. Whatever characteristics made that last part not assimilate would then get replicated into a larger and larger population share. And the process continues.

We may see several phases of this, but at the conclusion of the process, the evolutionary logic leads to a certain result: A population who are absolutely, totally immune to any influence that would assimilate them into a negative-birthrate culture. And that population will rapidly expand until it hits physical limits.

The reason I think this is inevitable is because evolution is relentlessly adaptable, while the countermeasures are fairly static. It's like a new antibiotic. Even if it works really well, the bacteria's evolutionary process will just keep trying and trying until it finds a new replication pathway. The replicators can adapt forever while the force that is stopping them cannot.
I might have worded myself poorly. Using ownership concept for this new purpose is beautiful engineering.
Looks like those downvoting your comment do not understand the reference.

Simone's 'claim to fame' was originally on the r/ShittyRobots subreddit, where she posted examples of her robots that performed tasks in a humorous ("shitty") manner, but obviously required exceptional engineering and design skills to create. She is quite famous there.
Exactly. There's a lack of seriousness in those who:

* hold that technology will fix everything, but

* oppose a carbon tax, which would give a market incentive to technology aimed at fixing this

It's not even consistent with market principles. We have the income tax, a massive distortion in the economy. We could replace much of this with a carbon tax.
My (maybe incorrect) understanding is the Global++ isn't just developing hacking utilities, it's outright distributing decompiled and modified versions of the same app.
> voting exclusively on how credible a politician is on tackling global warming

This is really the only important thing that we can do. Except maybe not flying in an airplane, there is little the average person can do in their daily life to inhibit climate change. Whether due to preventive policies or due to resource shortages our lives will change in the near future. Expecting individuals to shame themselves when the society at large encourages the opposite is counter-productive.

It is not to say that anyone is wrong to choose to live more frugally. More importantly, we need to recognize that any hope we have must come from the top down. We have more research and more solutions than we've ever had for any problem, but we don't have someone to pull the trigger.
We've been running into the issue where our redis instance(s) randomly dies. I haven't been able to pin point the problem (nodejs+redis). Would love to hear your thoughts on some gotchas to look out for.
The oft-quoted opening of David Wallace-Wells's "The Uninhabitable Earth" comes to mind. Reviews have generally only included his first sentence: "It is worse, much worse, than you think."

Here is his entire opening paragraph:

> It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn't happening at all, and comes to us bundled with several others in an anthology of comforting delusions: that global warming is an Arctic saga, unfolding remotely; that it is strictly a matter of sea level and coastlines, not an enveloping crisis sparing no place and leaving no life undeformed; that it is a crisis of the "natural" world, not the human one; that those two are distinct, and that we live today somehow outside or beyond or at the very least defended against nature, not inescapably within and literally overwhelmed by it; that wealth can be a shield against the ravages of warming; that the burning of fossil fuels is the price of continued economic growth; that growth, and the technology it produces, will allow us to engineer our way out of environmental disaster; that there is any analogue to the scale or scope of this threat, in the long span of human history, that might give us confidence in staring it down.
Plaid's execution is much better than yodlees.

Dwolla isn't even in the same business as either.
We leverage merchant level data that's provided by the networks as an input into our auto categorization system, which uses Google Places API and some simple machine learning. We then overlay randomly sampled manual inspections to ensure quality
Nice! I am also working on developing an extension for Redis and tried creating FlameGraphs as well but am not able to get them to work properly. Could you please share the commands you executed for the Flame Graphs? Would be greatly appreciated!

Already tried using '-fno-omit-frame-pointer' and '-O0'

# $CMD is a command starting a redis-server and creating traffic

perf record --freq=10000 --all-cpus -g -- $CMD

perf script --input=perf.data | ./stackcollapse-perf.pl > out.perf-folded

./flamegraph.pl out.perf-folded > perf-redis.svg
I'm blown away by the website itself. It looks like you guys really know what you're doing (or at least place product first, which opens up a lot of doors)! I wish I could invest.

How has your experience been going through Y Combinator?

EDIT: I just looked at Crunchbase and it says Sqreen went through an $14M Series A and YC was involved in both seed and Series A rounds (which I'm guessing is why it looks more polished). I'm guessing this is the Series A launch then (?)
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I had another comment focused more on the historical state: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20182159

The tl;dr is that market forces led to early electric cars being slow and expensive- they were luxury vehicles primarily targeted at women, because they didn't have to be manually started. The cost was about equal before the model T, and speed could have been equal without any design compromises. The cost of fuel was also about equal.

The main reasons they weren't adopted was the lack of charging at home and secondarily the lack of good speed control. Not a big issue at low power, but once you can hit 40+ mph it's cumbersome and dangerous to be throwing switches to accelerate.
I agree with some of your points but I think you're misguided on a couple.

>because people won’t move if their rent stays “affordable,”

This is the issue rent control is trying to solve. There will always be rich people that can afford to live in the city, and they basically raise the bar on what developers and landlords think people can afford. They stay comfy while the rest basically pour all their paycheck into rent, forgo savings, and feel stuck. What about the rest of the people that work in the city with median income (or lower) jobs? They get pushed out further and further from city centres. In turn, that creates enormous strain on public transit and traffic congestion becomes unbearable.

That being said I don't believe rent control is the proper solution, but it's the only one most people agree on right now. I'd like to hear about more solutions if there are any.
People are already being displaced from their countries by climate. Economies that relied on the stability of their rainfall for their agriculture are declining. They're building camps for them at the border here in the US.
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I'd love to see an explanation of the runtime state/evaluation process of a Coq proof.
The failure of our species is a failure to adequately recognize that we are part of that ecosystem, and we will go down with it.
To be fair, there's no reason to assume we will be fine either. Our timeline is pretty short and humanity has hardly ever had to face a climate event on the scale that people expect will happen: some kind of massive ice-age event and/or rising seas taking out coastal land, where a majority of humans live. Not to mention there's billions more people on earth than there were for any similar previous events (they weren't similar, we didn't have cars).

Healthy skepticism is great, but personally I'd rather not our entire species die off because a majority of people assume we will be fine!
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Since they own the planes can they move stock around rather than packaged parcels, doing the boxing at the remote end?

If they could do this then they could pack so much more stuff on the planes than a commercial parcels company could.
As a side note, don't think writing a second edition makes the process any easier. I recently finished the second edition of my book on technical blogging and I'm left with the distinct feeling of having "changed little" while objectively having spent more time writing this than the first edition.

Still, in the end, you get to hold your baby.

As Winston Churchill said, "Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
I don't know the youtube economics of it, but she has 6000 patrons paying $3 - $5/month to support doing things like this.
https://www.patreon.com/simonegiertz/overview
"This one isn't even remotely impressive compared to the others."

This one is provoked by your mindset and it is going to make life unsustainable for everyone you know. It is called science bitch.

"I believe in climate change"

Do you also believe in gravity ?
> If an asteroid was about to direct hit in say 2029. Would society just argue on the internet and die?

I think many people would deny the asteroid exists and populists would claim it's a lie to put more money in the pockets of Big NASA government bureaucrats.

We might well die.

I think too many people are assuming that climate change will get worked out because previous threats to humanity have. As they say in investing, past performance does not predict future results.