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That's a principle already present in extant designs from at least the 1960s, see MSF processes (https://blog-en.condorchem.com/evaporation-systems-water-des...). Reverse-osmosis is still far more energy efficient.

The major use of evaporative distillation (based on a few minutes of research, though some general familiarity) is in chemical processing, including but not limited to petroleum distillation. There's well over a century of history and R&D here (the first commercial petroleum distillation occurred in the 1830s, though larger-scale plants date from the 1870s and onward, as kerosene was used for lighting). Optimising for energy use and production volumes, controlability, predictability, safety/risk, etc., has been going on for a while.

Keep in mind that in evaporative desalination you need to both heat the input supply and cool the output, and that processing is rate-limited at both ends. So yes, you could pre-heat the inflow via a condensing jacket, but heat in must equal heat out, and if there's an insufficiency in cooling from native inflow, you'll need an additional cooling working fluid.

Other options include partial vacuum on the salty side, overpressure on the pure side (reducing and increasing boiling and condensation points, respectively), though PV = nRT (Boyle's Law) says that that isn't free either.

And better minds than mine have looked at this for a while.

The issues of input purity and filtration (a major problem with RO desal) is another major factor -- you don't want to just dump raw seawater over your osmosis membrane, but need to pre-filter that through other materials (I'm largely assuming gravel, sand, and possibly clay filters), which will foul with time and require replacement, as well as increase the water-handling energy costs (filtration isn't free).

Reverse osmosis has also seen energy recovery research, e.g., https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4...

Possibly interesting reading:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=energy+recovery+evaporative+desali...

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=energy%20recovery%20eva...
The types are definitely isomorphic, but the difference between them is not "pointless". You could have Either<IOError, Either<IOError, Result>> and want to preserve the information about which step led to an IOError outcome.
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With or without GPU passthrough?
Examining the product market fit of the Mac Pro
The factoids grade RO at 3.5-6 and MED at 15-20 [kWh/m^3]
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"should be fa[i]rly easy to find"

Nope. It's just not that easy. Why do you think the biggest companies on the planet struggle so mightily to reliably and un-controversially figure out what content to block.
I thought India had any form of crypto currency banned?

It is however true what you are saying. But I can easily believe that these companies would exploit those countries even more than "traditional" banking systems ever could.
> Assuming a uniform distribution, the probability is 1/365 for any person#. Those probabilities add up linearly if the people are guaranteed to have different birthdays (union/OR). Otherwise the probability of NOT having someone with the same birthday goes down exponentially as a an exponential power of the fraction 364/365 (intersection of complement/AND NOT)

Why would we assume a uniform distribution of birthdays? For example, birthdays occurring on the 31st of a month are probably less likely to occur on average given that every month does not have 31 days. This is just one example and doesn't even go into seasonality of conception cycles.
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> cheap in terms of reputation risk

Also in terms of the reputation of Facebook: any issue with moderation failures and Facebook can easily says that it's the contractor's fault
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I wanted to coin a term for this. Failure oriented programming. State what it MUST NOT be, then the happy path will emerge.
Companies seem to try to abuse patent, trademarks, and copyrights as much as they can anyway. The best of-course would be if NDAs, patents, and copyrights all disappeared overnight. Trademarks are generally fine but they can be abused.
RO is also a thermodynamic process, though based on pressure rather than heat differentials. That's also subject to energy recovery, see: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4...
I live in East Wall, Dublin -- beside the Facebook moderator (The Beckett) building.

I wonder if this is true for them as well or if it's just N. America -- we've better employment protections and minimum wage in Ireland compared to the US.
I think there’s no technological barrier there, but cultural choice: if there’s no good economic reason to go to space (ie That has a high enough rate of return within a short enough period of time), we may just die out before doing any of that stuff. I think about that every time someone argues human spaceflight is worthless. I don’t think they’re wrong in the short-term, but the societal consequences are the same as if the entire species just decides to stop having children entirely because there’s no good economic reason to do so.

Especially thinking about this near the anniversary of Apollo. What if that was the greatest extent of human travel in space? To me, that’s so sad.

https://m.xkcd.com/893/
“The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”
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All the devs would leave
That's why I mentioned an appeals process for requesting human review.

As long as this exists and actually leads to human review, I'd much rather wait a while for my videos to be posted if it means easing the burden on 15.000 people having to watch highly damaging content.
That is a great book, but it doesn't introduce the language at all.
...and the universe will still end one day, meaning the outcome is, ultimately, identical. Why is this so difficult to understand?
Godbolt shows that Clang is a lot more aggressive with use of "cmov" -- conditional move instructions.

When the Spectre and Meltdown family of security debacles surfaced, cmov was promoted as a way to choke off speculative execution. But that suggests, also, that cmov would be bad for performance in places where cross-process security isn't a concern.

Did something important change, or did I misunderstand? Maybe only cmov memory -> register blocks speculation?
Handoff requires a very specific set of Bluetooth hardware iirc, and it would need to be entirely passed through. So most likely no. And I believe that some of the iCloud services (specifically those entangled with iMessage/FaceTime) will require a valid SN (you can “generate” one by brute force though). It’ll also require that you give it two interfaces, one Ethernet and one wireless (and it’ll sometimes need to start a small wireless network for things like Airdrop).
Could be. I’m not that familiar.
I don't think anyone would have an issue if there was a giant watermark that said "CONCEPT" across ones that are no where near being represented in the final product...

I'm struggling to think of a diplomatic way to express how naive I feel this statement is, so I'll just leave it at that.

The online community doesn't even need real reasons to be angry, they'll make them up at they have to. It's somewhat ridiculous to suggest they aren't capable of ignoring a "CONCEPT" watermark to get riled up about "broken promises".
most people don't understand the difference between a civil offence and a criminal offence (which is what i would use the term "illegal" to describe).

Violating a contract is not "illegal", but is a civil offense, and requires the other party to sue you to recover damages. Copyright infringement is also not "illegal", but is a civil offense (however, i do believe that a lot of copyright lobbies want to change copyright violations to be a criminal offence, so they won't need to sue, but instead use public prosecution to recover their damages).
> in the AMD case, hardware is already on the market so a bunch of regular people ran the benchmark.

That only raises mor doubts regarding the validity. What's the meaning of that magic value? Is it the average? The median? Are there any outliers? Was any outlier removed?
I saw an actual giant Galton board in the Museum of Maths in New York. It was very satisfying
Neither is accepting money for products/services in countries where not everyone has a bank account or a credit card.

Check out M-Pesa or EcoCash. These are largely solved problems from a technical point of view.

International money transfers between entities not on the SWIFT network is still not a solved problem, or more specifically, the solutions that do exists are expensive and slow (and SWIFT transfers can be quite expensive)
But 4 months from July 31 is Dec 1.
I think that part of it is that gibson differentiate between their CNC'ed low-price products and their hand-made high-price products far more visibly.

They both have the same stratification, with fender's base of cheap but usable being MIM and MIUSA products, and the expensive 'pro' being custom shop.

But with a fender guitar you need to be able to see that it's a MIM/MIUSA or CS, usually by recognising finish options or by reading small text on the headstock, whereas with gibson the differentiation between a CNC'ed les paul and a CS les paul are blindingly obvious from lack of fretboard or body bindings, overall design in some cases, and other things that can told visually from a distance.

This effect essentially makes the low-end gibson offerings a 'faux pas' to use, everyone will instantly dismiss you as a 'pro', whereas a MIM strat or tele will 'blend in' and only if you're famous enough for people to write magazine columns about is anyone really going to care, and by that point you've probably moved up to a CS option.
> I hope some day there's a 'sane' option for people who just want good performance, good security for home use cases

That used to be the Apple AirPort range...

Personally I eventually just ended up getting the router at the big box store with the biggest numbers. And it worked out fine. I get a wireless iperf result of 900 Mbit while in the same room, 300+ out in the living room. No stability issues (even with flakey chinese IoT crap on there). No intrusive features. It seems like the luck of the draw with consumer brands though. http://www.aterm.jp/product/atermstation/product/warpstar/wg...
This sounds a lot like NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), which focuses on writing (regardless of quality) a certain number of words each day.
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For the wage mentioned in the article, I'm surprised they don't have trouble finding people to do the job.

>Speagle helps to take care of his parents, who have health problems, and was afraid to quit Cognizant. “It was tough to find a job down here in this market,” he said.

Tougher than watching graphic PTSD-inducing videos every day? It sounds like the job absolutely sucks but these contractors need to have a little bit of personal responsibility for their own mental health. I suspect they do but the article gives the impression they are all trapped there with no way out.

Tampa is a major call center hub so I imagine contractor positions are opening up all the time given general churn rates.
Blaming the free market does not seem to make sense here.

Soundproofing simply was left out of the code because the buildings of old were sturdy and massive enough to implicitly take care of most of the noise problems. Now new materials and standards are lean enough to conduct sound very well. Oops.

Buyers also got wise in the last decade. Now anyone buys or rents the first thing - after location, location, location - is checking how noisy it is.

If all housing would have been built by committee, it's just as likely that it'd have taken a lot of time for the committee to change its ways.
Are you suggesting that multiple teams of skilled scientists from various parts of the world all forgot to account for historical CO2 levels when they created their models? Really?

CO2 levels has been higher than current levels before, like back in the Triassic. Incidentally, very few humans would like to live in such a climate. It's also worth mentioning that the Triassic was preceeded by one of the worst extinction events that ever affected the planet. An extinction event caused by very high temperatures and increases in CO2 levels.

Sure, life will survive. Probably humans as a species too. The planet won't be the same as now though.
I thought the same thing -- that once content is moderated, it should be trivial to block exactly the same content from being posted and moderated again. What a waste.
> Especially screams should be farely easy to detect

I guess it depends how reliably it could determine between ordinary screaming (especially with children who scream at just about anything that makes them happy or unhappy), and 'terrible things are happening' screaming. Even most humans would probably struggle to tell the difference just based on a short audio clip of a scream, which is what your algo would have to work with.
> But as the weeks went on, the video continued to reappear in his queue (..) They kept reposting it again and again and again.

Seems like it should be pretty "easy" to spot similar videos and audio (even after some modifications) given how great dataset all those moderators are providing.

I'm pretty sure there are some pretty smart folks working at fb, so it would mean that given accuracy standards it's still cheaper for them to hire humans to do the job.
Your feeling is spot on. They definitely burst to a higher speed at the beginning of a transfer. What’s really amazing is that they’re proud of it! https://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/what-is-powerbo...
I don't think the “only Nixon can go to China” was ever meant to be prescriptive. Using it as a voting tactic would basically always mean voting for the candidate opposed to your ideas.

It's also doubtful that it is even empirically correct: Nixon may have gone to China, but Obama went to Iran and Cuba, and also made the most progress on health care since medicare and medicaid. All that was required of Trump was not to destroy that progress, which is strictly easier than expecting any progress from him.
>I have yet to see a valid use that does not hinder whistle-blowing

The legal system isn't static. If your company is breaking the law and you report it to authorities, your NDA will be unenforceable.
(Sqreen Ruby engineer) You're right about the basic premise, (but not about the details, we don't monitor syscalls): since we stand within the application we have context of the operations performed and can pinpoint whether some query fragment is a) executable and b) coming from a user, and therefore reliably conclude the action is malicious.
"Conditions at the Phoenix site have not improved significantly since I visited. Last week, some employees were sent home after an infestation of bed bugs was discovered in the office — the second time bed bugs have been found there this year. Employees who contacted me worried that the infestation would spread to their own homes, and said managers told them Cognizant would not pay to clean their homes."

This is utterly nightmarish, given how costly to one's life bedbugs are. (clearing out a home, including the replacing of all mattesses/couches, and bagging or hot-cleaning all clothing, sheets, towels, rugs...)

"A manager saw that she was not feeling well, and brought a trash can to her desk so she could vomit in it. So she did."

This particular manager put their employees in danger of catching illness, especially given what appears to be the open office floorplan where airborne sicknesses can travel the entire room. I'm shocked and apalled, and this is the stuff I'm comfortable quoting from the article to be shocked and apalled by. The other stuff has convinced me to help inform friends and family to get off facebook rather than passively clean myself of it only.
We should have a tool to create VMs on macOS as well. There is the new API but non of the FOSS tools using it. I am wondering why.
The last mile tech itself is largely irrelevant; Verizon FiOS is utter garbage where I live, and Comcast is reliable and fast. I know that’s heresy around here, but it’s not like Verizon is exactly any better than Comcast.
I too would do this.
The consortium of companies owning the currency decide the amount they want to create, they decide who gets refund and why

Don't forget the amount of support they will provide. Looking at major tech companies and their histories in providing customer support I see a rather bleak picture here.

This goes also for all those new fangled disruptive app banks. Guess how much success an N26 (new German app bank) customer had to contact support after 80'000 Euro went missing from his account. Spoiler: Until it was a massive story in the press, not much.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N26_(bank)#Controversy
I’d be more interested in seeing this adjusted for school quality and class rank/gpa don’t think you can compare without that
We got a laptop at work. It's an Acer gaming thing which we bought becuase it was the cheapest thing we could find with a GPU in it. It also has an RGB keyboard (which is terrible, half the keys stick). The default setting is to flash a key when you press it, which then fades out over a second or two.

See the problem? Whenever you typed a password, you would see all the letters you typed lit up on the keyboard conveniently in brightness order...
> It needs to be possible to hire people that you trust not to disclose all your secrets, and your customer's secrets

I disagree, it needs to be possible for whistle-blowers to operate freely. It should also be possible to disclose to the whole world new and superior techniques and technologies that a company tries to hide.

> This is what privacy regulations are all about

I am pretty sure that this is a separate thing to NDAs. Nevertheless I believe that the solution should be technical rather than legal, with things like end to end encryption and public key cryptography.
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can this handle 'xcodebuild' ?
Seems like looking at this from a class perspective only complicates things further?Poor people often have secrets and can be pretty vulnerable to attack if they're disclosed.
Don't forget Fibers - coming to a JVM near you soon!
This is eye opening.

Banking in many African economies came from an unexpected place: basic non-smart cell phones and the ability to transfer relatively small amounts of money quickly, reliably, and without a bank account.

I can see Facebook leveraging its foothold in such economies and providing the same service.

Wow.
No. But, in the absence of NDAs and other agreements for both employees and external partners, you'd see a great deal more limits on sharing information both within and without companies to a strictly need to know basis. Certainly those limits exist today to a degree because NDAs basically just allow for consequences. But if you can't keep someone from turning around and sharing anything you tell them other than through some sort of mutual trust, you'll be less inclined to share it.
It's knowledge workers vs unskilled labour.
I'd say that's down to poor maintenance and management from the complex owners, not a fundamental issue with communal spaces themselves. I've had the same issues you've described with a local park, until the council hired a security/maintenance man to clean and fix the park, and move on any teenagers who the park was not designed for. The place went from being in a state of disuse and disrepair, to a great spot for young kids and parents to socialise. All it takes is a few people to ruin something, but likewise it only takes a few people to stop that from happening.
Unless the changeover happens all at once, there'd still be some cultural and knowledge transfer. It may not be the same company, but I don't think it's an entirely different company.
AFAIK Content reviewers in the Dublin office work for Facebook as perm employees (are not contractors), and mostly deal with escalated cases from offsite contractors.
>Couldn't violence (both towards animals and humans) be detected in an automated fashion?

Even if it could (and parallel posters argue it cannot), there is a meta-problem: "Who is allowed to post violent content?". Violence is contextual, and also legality of posting it is contextual. Same goes for other objectionable materials (nudity, extreme ideologies etc.).

Point in case, if all users were subject to the same criteria, the big names in media would quickly get banned. And/or would enter war path with Facebook, accusing it of heavy-handed censorship against the freedom of the press.

Same for reportage of popular events with any degree of nudity. A news piece about a Femen protest, a Pride event, a World Naked Bike Ride, maybe even the No Pants Subway Ride would cause a ban.

Likewise, anybody documenting & discussing historical events, and anybody documenting & discussing present-day uprising, revolutions, civil wars, persecutions, etc., would quickly get banned, essentially sweeping a lot of abuse under the rug. Probably even discussion & documentation of domestic violence would have this problem.

As a lighter aside, cartoonish violence (video games & movies) could also easily fall prey to automated violence take-downs.

All in all, Facebook really really wants to give certain users (mostly press & historians) broad, sweeping exceptions to the general rules.
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Of course it should be renamed to libdivergence. But joking aside, is "crurl" even a word after all?
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