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If only the land were taxed then people can simply move from overpriced single family homes into denser construction to amortize the land tax over multiple units.
It is not religious. For now it is a fact that death is permanent.
>I suspect people cynically demanding that CEOs be put in jail haven’t really dug into the facts of this or other FCPA cases. Holding the CEO liable for employee misdeeds is like holding teachers responsible for teenagers getting into fights or having sex.

Or, you know, like putting in jail the person directly responsible both for the deeds and the culture that promoted them...
High-density urban living is far better for the environment than rural. People usually live in less space, and with far less outside surfaces, reducing energy usage for heating and cooling. Distance to work, shopping, and other destinations is shorter, and use of public transport is far higher. Far less land is wasted on manicured single-family lawns rarely used. Density also allows sharing of rarely used manufactured goods between a neighbors or via renting (power tools, washing machines, even cars).
We're back to "that's where all the well paying jobs are"; given that they spent £750k on the land before even building the house, they probably can't maintain that lifestyle with a non-London job, and commuting in from greater distance is pretty gruelling.
No, you're wrong.
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That's great. What about the countries you're shipping your plastic waste to?
Even chalk is inefficient though. One of the best math classes I had was taught on a projector with a wind-up transparent overlay. He'd use colored markers on the transparent sheet, and then wind up a little when he reached the bottom. If there was questions he could "rewind" to the point in question as nothing was ever erased. He then took the transparency roll to his office where it was available, in scroll-like form, during office hours.
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Check out Azure Cosmos DB, it's multi-model and multi-API, and gives you the scalability, performance, availability, and consistency guarantees that few others do.
The cost of trains in the UK is ridiculous. My employer once paid £320 for a return ticket from Manchester to London.
>If you actually read the facts section of the SEC submission linked from the article, it’s a real snooze fest. There were issues here and there, people were fired, several rounds of compliance programs were instituted, etc. But little to substantiate the prosecution narrative recounted as fact by the NYT. There is a reason Wal-Mart spent a billion dollars investigating this case but the government agreed to settle for less than $300 million—once prosecutors dug in, there wasn’t much of a story there.

Of course. What do we think Walmart level players are? Amateurs? Those kind of jobs never leave much paper trail or proof...

As the PM in one of the most corrupt governments in a small country used to say, to brush off allegations of bribery and other corruption against members of government, "Let he who has proof take it to the prosecutors"...

As in "yeah, good luck trying to prove what we did"...

(Only 2 decades later, when that party had declined, and their influence wasn't as strong, would several top officials, ex ministers etc, end up in jail for those things. Had it still be going strong, there would not be anything done...)
When recruiters barely take a look at you because you didn't go to Stanford or some elite uni.

Job interviews with too many interview rounds.
That is a beautiful interface. I'm really impressed with this.
My belief is that every company listed there, plus quite a few more, can be wholesale replaced by a single generalized platform that distills and incorporates patterns from each. Probably something more in the idealized spirit of what the internet was originally intended to be.

Of course, when you boil raw sewage the end result isn't usually potable water.

Nevermind that overcoming the network effects of existing platforms is also nothing short of a herculean feat. Definitely possible, though.
FYI, here is the rationale section on that subject:

We did not include special instruction set support for overflow checks on integer arithmetic operations in the base instruction set, as many overflow checks can be cheaply implemented using RISC-V branches. Overflow checking for unsigned addition requires only a single additional branch instruction after the addition: add t0, t1, t2; bltu t0, t1, overflow.

For signed addition, if one operand’s sign is known, overflow checking requires only a single branch after the addition: addi t0, t1, +imm; blt t0, t1, overflow. This covers the common case of addition with an immediate operand.

For general signed addition, three additional instructions after the addition are required, leveraging the observation that the sum should be less than one of the operands if and only if the other operand is negative.

add t0, t1, t2
slti t3, t2, 0
slt t4, t0, t1
bne t3, t4, overflow

In RV64, checks of 32-bit signed additions can be optimized further by comparing the results of ADD and ADDW on the operands.
Culture wars. It’s ridiculous what people start opposing once the other side starts liking it. See, for example, those rednecks manipulating their trucks in the US South to spew as much soot as possible.
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It depends on the type of plastic. Materials such as ABS (which is what most plastic parts on a car are made of) are going to take a long time to break down in the sun. After 15 years in the sun it may look a bit faded, but structurally will be fine.

(I'm talking about unpainted plastic of course)
I'd expect them to keep a record of what their customers purchased, this seems like basic bookkeeping to me.
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> Has anyone seen what it costs to get around on the tube?

I recently visited London for the first time in 10 years. Obviously it’s not the same as a visitor as it is as a resident, but the public transport and the tube in particular, was fantastic. It was easy, I could use PayWay, it adjusted my fees to a daily maximum and got me everywhere quickly (except for the outages on Sundays).
It might be imperfect, but I’m envious.
Ask HN: Is Kubernetes a New Cloud?
It seems K8S is gaining real traction and every system is integrating with it or on its way. It’s also a good way to avoid cloud vendor lock-in. Is it safe to say that it's another Cloud?
More technical details at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45370-1
there is a lot more to making chalk than I realized. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/c3/19/ae/06e559e...
> occasionally on the roughest roads some drips of molten iron fell off the back of carts while being transported

I agree.

When I studied ancient history (and Pompeii) in school we were taught that the 'ruts' were a feature of Roman roads, not a bug. Carts were specifically designed to have axle width match these ruts, and were consistent throughout the Empire [0]. I think this is a low quality article that misconstrues a research paper as actual fact.

I am going to Pompeii in September so I'll try and have a look at these iron patches anyway.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rut_(roads)
Let's call it our plastic habit, or convenience. We do tend to forget reusable bags at home, and then have to take groceries home in a plastic bag. We do prefer plastic straws over reusable ones out of metal or other materials, because they have a number of benefits. We are used to furniture that's durable and easy to clean. Etc.

It's convenient to use plastics. Either lawmakers make it more inconvenient, or someone invent a comparable alternative that's biodegrading or unproblematic. Else, I think nothing will change.
Nicely written though I think you could shave some bytes off it.

For example in your `error_failed_allocation` function you don't need to jump to the `error_die` function - just fall-through..

https://github.com/jeaye/toybox/blob/5a1978e134db6d70b30cac4...
You prevent vandalism to these boxes the same as you prevent vandalism of anything else on the street: You really don't. Most folks won't do that sort of thing.

As far as reselling items: Prevention is simple. Make a safety net, make sure folks have housing, and make sure there is medically backed addiction help out there. It won't solve all of it, but it surely raises the bar as folks won't be so desperate to rob a bunch of tiny pantries instead of a store. Other sorts of prevention just punishes people struggling, both the one selling and the one buying.

Edit: Also, stores selling illegal goods should be prevented now. SUrely we have the tools if not the manpower.
I think the numbers in reality are a bit worse. I recently lost my wallet, noticed about a minute later and went back - it was already gone. Later someone found it in a trash can, emptied of all money. This happened in Switzerland, which is at the top of this list, and I've heard similar stories before.
Aren’t there far cheaper options for regular commuters? Here in Berlin, a single one-way ticket is €2.60, but a monthly is around €80. That’s less than a euro per ride for the average person that commutes by subway and uses it for some other trip every second day.

Trains are, unfortunately, rather expensive, at least compared to flying and to taking a car you already own. I believe fuel and vehicle taxes should increase to the point where they pay for most if not all of road construction costs. Contrary to popular opinion, large parts of those costs are currently financed from general taxation.

Because tracks and stations make up the bulk of the cost of train rides, increases in ridership have low marginal costs. Any move to get people to use trains would therefore tend to lower per-trip costs.
> The impact of plastic bottles is probably lower than for alternatives like glass. Glass is heavier and causes more CO2 emissions because of the increased energy use for transporting them.

I'm curious about this, any chance you have references?
It's reasonably clear that this separation exists by looking at the hardware build quality too. The general consumer range of Lenovo laptops is absolute garbage.

The biggest problem comes from people recommending Lenovo laptops, without stressing specifically that it's ThinkPads that are being recommended, and not any Lenovo laptop generally.

If you've used either range of laptop extensively, it's very obvious that they're built to very different specs, with very different goals. There doesn't appear to be much (if any) cross team work going on there.
Do you know what the background is?

Imagine two cities with a lot of rough sleepers. City A offers shelter spaces, soup kitchens, free medical treatment and so on. City B offers one-way bus tickets to other cities† and orders the cops to hassle anyone they see begging or sleeping in public.

A year later, which city do you think will have more rough sleepers?

Florida have decided they're City B.

†They'll say they're helping the rough sleepers reunite with their families, but we all know what's really going on.
In the context of running Linux, I suspect the parent was alluding to that nvidia only provide binary blob drivers rather than open drivers.
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My point is that we need "right to repair", there should not be a monopoly on who can fix something or who can create parts, A second point is that waiting 5 days for someone to look at your hardware and tell you if it can or can't be fixed is also a problem. At least you don't wait 1 week for a response, then a week for parts to arrive and then a few days for the thing to be fixed.

I am not sure why you felt the need to respond in such a way, you can respond with the scenario I did not consider and explain why your opinion is the correrct one.
Yes it's funny when he writes "If you find the previous step too much work, write a shell script that copies the directory and removes the old content for you.". I can already see the next thought: "Well I have this script processing all my directories... may as well use it to do simple string replacement too, that way I can insert a link to the latest blog post", etc. Basically just PHP but with a more complicated custom setup.
I didn't find confirmation but I assume being certified with 14.04 and 16.04 means they're still certified with 18.04. Assuming that's the case they've certified pretty much their whole range.
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The HTML of an entire page might not be, but if you're only writing the _article_ and embedding it in a header/footer/nav it's really not too bad.

Paragraphs, lists, citations and tables are fairly manageable. Arguably, though, those things are exactly what Markdown excels at.
Many people cannot imagine live without phones. Computers at home on the other hand are not perceived as a necessity. And at work typically there is a spare PC or some other way to survive while the computer is under repair.
If something is that important then you really should have a backup, even if it's something like a VM that can be spun up quickly in the cloud, or an older machine that's still better than nothing. It makes sense not to rely entirely on the manufacturer's ability to investigate, draw a conclusion, and issue a replacement in a time frame that's guaranteed to be reasonable for you.
You forgot "I can't believe it's not butter" mechanical properties so it lends itself well to almost every sort of manufacturing process you can think of (well, maybe not forging).
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" Nothing in the world is the way it oughta be. It’s harsh…and cruel…but
that’s why there’s us…champions. It doesn’t matter where we come from,
what we’ve done, or suffered. Or even if we make a difference. We live
as though the world were as it should be, to show it what it can
be. You’re not a part of that yet. I hope you will be. "

-- Angel, Season 4, Episode 1, “Deep Down“
Yes! Or even worse: you have to create an account first to get to the shipping calculation, only to find out they don't ship to your country or charge exorbitant shipping fees...
Tuning TCP stacks similar to QUIC almost matches QUICs performance (2019)
I'm aware of that - hence the form of my previous comment.

"This time it's different" though.

The difference being: this here is radically less complex and unlikely to become much more.

All this complexity in frameworks was always added in a vicious cycle, namely:

1. Developer looks at a component - they see complexity.

2. They don't know how much of it is due to the business logic being complex and how much is introduced by the framework, which has to deal with the limitations of the platform, so they assume it's the latter.

3. To deal with this they create yet another abstraction and an associated convention, which makes one problem better and a good few others worse.

4. Other developers see the examples and figure that this new method indeed solves that one problem, so they adopt it.

5. The result is ever increasing complexity.

Enter Svelte(and similar technologies): it's not a framework, but a compiler - it doesn't have to play by the same rules, so it (eventually) avoids framework-related complexity.

It's noticeable in the way how Svelte 3 ditched setState() altogether and replaced it with simple variable assignment.
It depends on what is meant by "the most likely case".

Considering that we have no knowledge or data on these objects we in fact cannot assign a statistical likelihood on what it is.

On the other hand, we know of objects flying around the solar system: comets and asteroids. We therefore assume that it should be something similar and that's what would surprise us the least.
The articles in The Guardian have little to do with fact and instead are primarily a vehicle for environmental / moral hand-wringing and virtue signalling by their readers.

If the effort put into generating all this angst was directed to more concrete action other than getting feel-good bans on token issues like plastic drinking straws we and the world would be a lot better off.

How about some articles on generating real change in the way the packaging industry works? No, didn't think so.

Apologies for the rant.
The 2015 is the last model with the decent keyboard, so that's not the problem here.
Zombies aren't the only magic in Game of Thrones. They're fantasy novels.

If it weren't for the zombies, the political story would just be about people fighting each other for advantage. The zombies add a tension between that and a common cause, since the threat faces them all; much like the world we live in today.
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that's clever, but how does it work?
@coldtea’s advise is still sound.

If you pour cold tea on your only laptop at 7pm just before a gig, buying and setting up a new laptop could prove difficult.
Interesting, and a sigh that the area of the Windows tax may be ending.

Windows is now an ad delivery platform. That probably sounded like a great plan to MS management, but consumer Windows is now on its way to shovelware status. Microsoft will end up paying hardware makers to include it.
I've been in that position; for most situations, I can't imagine it being efficient for the data scientists to move over to Python themselves, if they don't have experience (or interest) in software engineering.
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I can confirm that "everything works" is true for at least my T460. For Ubuntu 18.04 you even get BIOS updates via software updates. Battery life is also very good. With Ubuntu now again on Gnome I cannot complain. Under Ubuntu 16.04 I had occasionally problems where I needed to restart the network manager to see new wifi networks (wifi itself was always stable!), but this minor thing is also no issue anymore.

Recently my CPU broke down and I was "lucky" to try out the on-site warranty to replace my mainboard, which was not perfect (took a few days compared to the advertised "next business day"), but better compared to sending your stuff somewhere or searching your repair shop.

Also note that I do not use any nvidia graphics or 3d games. Just have not tried it and I know this could be a weak point. Videos etc work flawlessly though.

It is also no "free hardware" (bios etc). For an alternative in that regard I recommend to have a look into the nice Librem line from Purism: https://puri.sm/products/
I'd be interested in a version that included SAS. Is SAS ever used outside of academia?
> The articles in The Guardian have little to do with fact

That's a very strong claim that I don't believe is made in good faith.
Each time one of these articles is written, they forget some essentials:

1. homo sapiens sapiens evolved to collaborate with about 150 people

2. enterprises are the shared mythology to enable larger scale collaboration

3. part of that shared mythology is "corporate culture": a paraphrase for management culture

Then people go on to conclude one of two extremes:

a) Agile is the problem

b) The way Agile was implemented is the problem

Agile isn't the solution or the problem because it doesn't deal with issues of scale. Large scale collaboration is difficult because people think and act in local tribes: sales vs IT, business vs developers, etc.

We're not seeing a crisis in methodologies. We're seeing a leadership crisis. Some of these real problems include:

- failing to trust: let a person to do their job and give them the autonomy required to succeed

- failing to plan: thinking in terms of quarterly budgets over multi-year plans

- failing to support employees and instead shifting blame when things inevitably fail

- failing to invest: minimal raises, mass layoffs, outsourcing...

- failing to lead: having no vision, hiring silver bullet transformation coaches

- failing to understand the market: not understanding what the core business or core demographic is, how to grow, how to do it sustainably (economically or ecologically)

- failing morality: despite "corporate values", following the absolute minimum requirement of the law, lobbying to lower legal standards, sometimes to disastrous effect

Not all of these apply to all companies, but too many do.
The CEO should be jailed for bribes in Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Russia etc.
The CEO should be jailed for Walmart hiring "illegals" with fake Social Security cards in California. (example)
The CEO of this 500 BILLION company, with 2.2 Million employees, should be jailed for not making a store in Ohio wheelchair friendly.
The CEO should be jailed for signing off on the gazillion pages long financial statement that took 100 lawyers and accountants to prepare.

etc etc etc. Unless the CEO knew or directed them to do so, he is one person with 24 hour days like all of us. And Walmart has thousands and thousands of top level managers to manage all aspects of his business.
calling the cops and charging him with trespassing next time, might be a better way to do this ;)
I’m not sure it helps or hinders lock in, compared to the alternative of managing some Linux VMs. If you have a bunch of Linux VMs and run free software you aren’t locked in. Kubernetes might make it easier to manage and administer things but that is a controversial topic, with some people saying it adds complexity and requires even more refined sysadmin skills than running stuff straight on the machines.

For a personal project I’m using a cheap VMs and just the Debian package manager to install what I need, plus a list of steps I could turn into a shell script if required. I’m not worried about being locked in.
Probably true, but I think CCTV reduces civil intervention. Would be an interesting study to conduct.
But the Reddit poster uses the Mac for his job in the music industry. So I'd say it is a necessity.
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Not really sci-fy, but my 5 year old daughter enjoyed reading Thing Explainer and What if? from Randall Munroe of xkcd.com fame.

What if? is more speculative of the two, and you can read a few of the stories/speculations on https://what-if.xkcd.com/ :-)
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All the theories you mentioned mesh nicely if you combine them with alien probes. :)

Just try it
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Most of these pain points go away if you purchase the iGPU only version. I own a Thinkpad T470 and Ubuntu works like a charm.

The only issue I still have is that the Gnome interface (Ubuntu 17.04+) does not support factorial scaling, meaning that I am stuck between 100% (which is way to small on a 14 inch screen) and 200% (which is way too big).

Ubuntu 16.10 still supports factorial scaling though, which means I am stuck with it until a better version comes along.
> If your work isn't ready for people to try out yet, please don't do a Show HN. Once it's ready, come back and do it then.

> Blog posts, sign-up pages, and fundraisers can't be tried out, so they can't be Show HNs.
> more like a very loose, fluffy agglomeration of dust, it might just have enough surface area for us to see it (and to be hit by enough sunlight to get a push), while also having a low enough mass to produce the observed acceleration

Wouldn't that be a great cloud to surround your spaceship with. If you have some way to generate artificial gravity, this would be a really advanced alien stealth technology.
Here's the blog in question [1], entirely written in HTML and a bit of CSS on the fly. That is, the body is written by hand and mangled into the blog using a few definitions in a JSON-like data file. Apparently the result isn't too bad as some posts have been featured here. (Some of the posts are rather extensive and are exceeding simple notes.)

[1] https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/