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Because it's too expensive at the end of the day.

The more wind/solar you build, the more backup from coal/nuclear/wind you will need.

But the way to make us all better off is to make energy cheaper. There is a 1-1 correlation between energy usage and then rich, advanced, safe, clean and flourishing societies.

Wind and solar will only go as far as the political goodwill will take them. They are IMO unfairly promoted and that will incur a cost on their fundamental ability to be a solid enough energy form IMO. They are great as plugins to the existing system but the idea that we should build a smart grid because of their inabilities to provide on demand is not sustainable at the end of the day.

So my basis is based on part speculation, part knowing the limits and true cost of wind and solar and other alternatives.

Only Fusion or Thorium or maybe if we are lucky, fuel cells, will be actual progress which will also be economically viable. But this idea of a giant mix all handles by a smart grid is the not how it's going to play out as the upside of the usual alternatives simply aren't enough to outweigh the downside of cost and complexity they will incur on society.

But it's just my personal opinion of course. Each to their own.
I think the rebranding is happening slowly.

There are really two amateur radio "communities" (though with a fair amount of overlap): the older "ragchewing" generations that didn't grow up with the Internet, and the newer generations that care more about experimenting with shiny new technology.

As the former generation "retires" and new licensees join it will continue to shift.

There have been a record number of new licenses granted in recent years (though that doesn't necessarily translate to actual engagement in the hobby) http://www.arrl.org/news/another-outstanding-year-for-amateu...
I don’t think you strongly believe in the right to privacy.
I believe it's referring to the idea that because settlement of transactions happens instantly on blockchain, there is no lag time between a commitment to make a trade, and the trade itself, which means there is no credit, which means much less liquidity in markets.

I read this whitepaper:
http://perspectives.dtcc.com/articles/steampunk-settlement

In it, they mention that there only needs to be deposited cash of something like $8 billion to enable like $250 billion (I may be getting the exact numbers wrong) worth of trades on the NYSE because they can offset trades against each other as they come in and settle the trades hours after they are entered without needing cash at the moment the trade is placed. If cash was required at the moment of placing the order, much, much more cash would be required than is currently required.
Here we go again, classic what-about-ism from china web army
Think about more than 1 billions pets in the world, think about all the industry, transports, pollution related to them, think about the damages of outdoor/feral cats to the local fauna

If more people have this in mind, imagine how much pollution can be saved
Seems to me like carelessness / incompetence. One of the articles I've read on this topic suggested that in most cases they remove the app.
I'm a friend of the superhuman CEO and have been following this company over the time it's been around, both by talking to him and from interactions with the official channels. Here is my $0.02.

SH started out like any other startup, with the best of intentions and a cool idea but it just didn't take. The issue is that they're on the line to deliver and they haven't had the traction they'd like so I've seen it slide, slowly, over an extended period, into a desperate place that leaves them doing ugly things. You should read Rahul's blog on finding product fit, it tells you much.

Personally, I now think they're in a position where they are trying to mooch everything they can off of users in order to try and build a better product coupled with finding ways to be "unique" that will make them money/attractive. This means they end up in sketchy territory i.e. the pixels, forcing people to reveal how they use gmail in order to sign up, tracking every-single-aspect of how users are using their site, hyped up bullshit etc. I don't know if they're harvesting actual user data.

The fact is, they're between a rock and a hard place. They aren't profitable, and there's no real exit. Whatever features make them unique can be copied in months, if not weeks by any other provider. Why would Google buy them? Also, the feature set, as good as it is, only appeals to a tiny subset of users of email. Other aspects like corporate email not being allowed to be accessed by third party clients etc makes a difference too.

I wish them all well, but by God I would not want to be a part of this thing. It stinks.
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We've heard a lot about flightfox! We're focused employee-first so that we can build a tool that employees their managers for, but that being said, several of our corporate customers have been seeing a similar cost savings because of the ability to set travel policies with Carry.

Just curious, what % of travel at your company is booked through flightfox?
If you don't trust them enough to see your email inbox, you probably shouldn't be considering them as your email provider at all.
Have you done a study?
Congrats to the Timber Team on this one. Ben and Zach were a couple of former colleagues on mine.
If the US government started doing this, there definitely will be lawsuit and most probably the government will be defeated in the court. But in China, things do not work this way. The supreme court of China must follow the demand of the communist party, see: https://www.ft.com/content/60dddd46-dc74-11e6-9d7c-be108f1c1...

It's just pathetic to see this kind of whataboutism keeps coming up on this website. The US and China have very different political systems, the former is democratic republic, the later is authoritarian. It is not a close comparison.
Remember that only 100 companies are responsible for 71% of climate change.

Obsessing with personal lifestyle changes will burn you out and have very little payoff. Sure if public transit or going vegan is easy for ya, then definitely go for it-- but save your energy for political activism imo. Power structures inform lifestyles more than the other way around.
Right, so why not re-purpose as much of an existing, proven platform as you can?
This is the direction I hope the Boring Company goes in. Since underground temperature is so well regulated, subterranean structures may have some good applications as climate change continues to progress.
A BS article for a BS conspiracy blog that reactively attacks any potential point of current climate science.

Just stop, please. Every possible attack they post there just gets overshadowed by the titanic obviousness of climate change.

They attack the collapse of the ice sheets by claiming that Antarctic sea ice coverage increased. Now that's no longer happening. Crickets.

They attack the cause of Antarctic sea ice collapse by claming that temperature flux changes in the Antarctic bed are caused by geothermal activity. Scientists investigate, adjust for this variable, and it's still the fact that the brutal increases in atmospheric and ocean temperature are the cause for the collapse. Crickets.

This isn't how honest science works.
Literally anyone can add an email sig with an image from their own server and do this exact same thing.

It's extremely well-documented and imo not even controversial.

In fact, it's so uncontroversial, I suspect this entire thread of being some sort of "manufactured controversy viral marketing" promotion for superhuman.
iOS too, they ask for the PIN so they can unlock and install etc
You definitely should warm up your engine, but strictly before starting it and not by idling it (i.e. use a block heater). This is because it takes a lot of time for the engine to warm up when idling without any load.
> breaks the link...
We have one in Western Massachusetts (Northfield Mountain) built nearly 50 years ago to pair with the Yankee nuclear power plant in Vermont. Peak run-rate is 1140 megawatts and the hilltop reservoir is ~12k acre feet. Peak spin up takes ~10mins and can run for ~8hrs if the upper lake is full. So capacity is just short of 10 gigawatt hours.

My high school electronics class took a field trip there and I found the scale and design simplicity truly awe inspiring.

https://www.wbur.org/bostonomix/2016/12/02/northfield-mounta...
If your whole argument is based on fatalism, you might as well say so....because right now you assume the conclusion.
>it includes your location

To be specific, it shows your public IP, right? Using a VPN means this will not show your location, correct?
> restore native prairie grasses

And what would be "native" to Minnesota given that (at least) 2C temperature raise is pretty much in the books?
Congrats on the launch Kashish & Tejas!
Maybe the point is that governments everywhere are the enemies of their people. They lock people in cages and murder with impugnity. They commit atrocities to keep us terrified. They terrorize. Either we remove them from power or we will be subjugated forever.
Check out canvas-datagrid: https://github.com/TonyGermaneri/canvas-datagrid

I'm using it to mimic Excel-like display of data, and it's pretty responsive, but I'm not at your scale of 10x/sec.

It also supports cell highlighting with different colors, but, unfortunately, doesn't natively support CSS-type classes on cells.
Also, I've heard the Berkeley Lab jobs require a drug test. Can you speak to that?
I don't understand why or who is downvoting you. I wish they would say why by replying. Nothing you have said is inaccurate in my opinion.
Good point. I confused my idea of good with what’s actually popular.

There’s got to be some reason they do it. Back when hybrid cars were new, Toyota’s design for the Prius was polarizing. But it worked for them, and they established that model as “the” design for hybrid cars for some time.

So differentiation seems to serve a purpose, but I can’t say exactly what that is.
> It will have enough juice for more than 124 miles

Pretty low, even for city standards.
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correction: same origin policy, so it doesn't work
With friends like that, Rahul hardly needs any enemies!
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This feels like promoted content for the paper, which is hidden behind an lead generation form.

The author is debating using distributed ledgers for security trading, which I don't think anyone is seriously considering. Even if they are, the author is narrowly defining such a system and then attacking it based on it's narrow definition, without exploring the option of other financial instruments filling the gaps. I'm critical of blockchains/distributed ledgers/etc. in finance but this article just seems bizarre, until you try to see the original paper and hit a form wall.
Agreed. I don’t understand the mindset of not having kids because of climate change. You’re just removing people who will grow up to better protect the planet while others who won’t continue on.

When I hear things like that, it sounds to me like giving up and preparing for the end.

And at the same time I take that with what seems like numerous different acts of messaging directed towards guilting people into not having families...and I can’t help but wonder if that message is benign or malicious.
Three years in, things are heating up for dbt and Fishtown Analytics
Giving a cat to a friend does not remove a cat from planet Earth, unless that friend likes to eat cat burgers which is unlikely.
Congrats on launching!
A lot of companies aren't set up for long term existence. They want an acquisition in the next 5-10 years.
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I planted a normal grass backyard when I bought this house a few years ago, but since the local clover has just dominated. At first I found it annoying as I couldn't mow it down without bees getting aggressive, but now I just leave it until it starts to get too high. The bees absolutely love it, there's got to be several dozen at any time. Great thing too is once I do chop it back down it re-flowers very quickly.

Since then I've put in a mason bee shelter, and planted more butterfly friendly plants.
Piss is probably preferable to acid.

Throwing acid is not exactly unheard of in HK - often cases against women.

Thankfully there's no indication of that.
Installing KOreader after a jailbreak let’s you read whatever you want. (And connect to OPDS servers)
I am the person who ends up cleaning up after hipster coders, or as I call them "ninja cowboys". They move on to their next high-profile, resume-building gig, and I take their sloppy proof-of-concept that got crammed into production and make it stable. I tend to view $hot_new_stack with a jaundiced eye because of that.
I can't imagine why people would want to entrust their e-mail to a company that's known for disrespecting people's privacy.

cough Gmail cough
There is actually a public gondola that you can take across the canal grande for just a few euros, which is a cool way to at least say you've been in one without getting screwed.
You're right-- the travel industry is built around leverage and highly political. I can't say that we've worked everything out, but we've already started navigating such situations and think they're inevitable.

One theory (though a bit fluffy) is that if we can successfully automate more and more of these processes, our costs can be dramatically lower than "traditional travel agency" competitors / margin higher.

Yes, in theory, we're competing with Carlson-Wagonlit / Amex Concierge. That actually hasn't been hard at the smaller / medium size companies interested in using us (big ones are obviously harder since they have a travel desk, etc.). In actuality, we're currently competing with companies like Concur
& TripActions and the most popular way, employees just spending tons of time planning/booking/expensing travel themselves.

Do you have a background in travel space? Would be cool to chat more
A lot of this really feels like the people who need that would be better off with a personal assistant/secretary that remembers the person's needs and preferences.
Remember that lifestyles is actually what pull those companies production. It's easy to lower your environmental fingerprint to 5% of the average in first-world countries, if most people do this, the change is just massive

No offense, but we are going nowhere with your mentality
Or not?

Children are free to follow suit with whatever life pursuits they desire.

The vast majority of people won't be consciously fighhting the climate and consume vast amounts of resources.

I feel that the excuses for having children when we know the collapse of most ecosystems is essentially inevitable at this point just hide the lack of ethics on the matter.
We thought about this a lot at Boomerang, and decided to do it in a more recipient-friendly way by making read receipts visible & opt-out (and excluding all location information). Our read receipts were well received but we still get a lot of requests for more comprehensive read receipts. It’s tough to balance.
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Genuine question, I wasn't sure after reading the article whether this was the hottest June ever recorded or the hottest of any month ever recorded?
I'm just gonna have to kill the cows and their farts.
Btw it's the coldest ever in NY, CA and Mexico.
At some point when both nations disrespect peoples privacy rights at their borders, it becomes a repression version of the Overton window.
Not having children because of climate change really seems like a terrible idea. More people increase humanity's power to solve problems.
Not sure why you are downvoted. I've been thinking about this as well. One individual change probably can't do much but, what I've been trying to do:
- consume less food
- eat more vegetables
- less red meat
- spend less in eating out or buying drinks out
- if I do buy drinks, I try to get paper cup
- stick with boring phone and mac and don't chase shiny toys
- use less plastic
- drink water vs coffee/tea
- use public transportation
- travel just once a year
- use more efficient language (i.e., Rust)
- if I have a home one day I'll be filling it with plants
Doesn't Edge auto-update though? How easy would it be, as someone in enterprise IT, to keep users on an old version of Edge?
The Vice article is a round-up of a number of others, like this one from the NYT.
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"Every time you reply to an email it includes your location, and almost no one knows this either."

No it doesn't.

If you're talking about leaking client IPs in received headers, some providers (including gmail) have excluded this information for some time.

If you're talking about the timezone in the Date header. Fair enough. Someone can figure out what timezone you're in. Unless you change it to just be UTC or whatever.

Or are you talking about something else?
The Death of the Sidewalk
Because anyone who becomes an SH customer will be giving them access to their gmail account anyway. AFAICT it is a third party enhancement to one proprietary service (gmail) and SAAS, not a general mail program.
> Perhaps the most innovative modification involved fluid mechanics, one of Vrselja’s specialties in graduate school. As the British mathematician John Womersley managed to quantify more than half a century ago, blood does not circulate through our arteries at a uniform rhythm — it circulates in pulses, in concert with the shudder of our hearts. To account for that dynamic, the BMI unit had shipped with an automated “pulse generator,” a device that replicates the heartbeat’s pulsatility in the organs.

> But the pulse generator’s settings proved unsuitable for brains, which have a different flow pattern than the rest of the body. Before Sestan’s team adjusted the settings, the fluid might not completely permeate the vasculature of the organ, leaving parts of the brain essentially untreated. In such tissue, Daniele told me, “you’d end up with this sludgy, white yogurt-ish substance. It was a mess.” Conversely, if the pressure was too high, “the brain could just physically not stand it.” The organ fell apart.

> By that summer, Vrselja and Daniele had fine-tuned the pulse generator and attached a number of custom sensors[...]

It sounds like it was a lot of work getting the pulsation right. If they actually needed pulsation at all that seems like an interesting finding unto itself, since humans and cattle do fine with continuous-flow hearts: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3423277
If statically speaking, preparing for the end is the sanest course of action because it does appear to be the most likely scenario within the next 50 years, why wouldn't it be the right mindset?
Love the idea! Does anyone have a similar list for a more chaparral-type climate like in Southern California?
No, OIDC providers can only be accessed by registered clients so those sites cant use your provider unless they specifically add it. Otherwise you would be able to login with any of those accounts on any site already.
Or just bring a burner phone that you can throw out before leaving.
Xiaomi Subtly Clones Apple's Memoji with 'Mimoji'
Not sure how that's a preference without any further context about how you plan on writing the rest of the client. For all we know, both of those functions return <Board {game} />.
I do not think this is true. I'm pretty sure it's all locally stored aside from "scheduled emails" which are temporarily stored on their services before they are deleted.

Note: I'm not using Superhuman currently, but tried it briefly a few months ago.
From the article:

>Apple devices were not spared scrutiny. Visitors’ iPhones were unlocked and connected via a USB cable to a hand-held device, the journalist said. What the device did could not be determined.
The commie is strong in this one
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For some reason the original concept car actually looks pretty good to me, but the finalized version seems much more amorphous blob.
Just guessing. Probably because it's very similar to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20335816 (228 points, 3 hours ago, 179 comments) dupes and almost-dupes are usually moved downward to keep a more diverse front page and keep the conversation together and avoid duplication of comments. If the other post have a lot of new information, you can add a comment there and email the mods hn@ycombinator.com so they remove the penalty.

> Hacker News is obviously heavily moderated.

I agree with that, but it's not so obvious. (I think that they must add a warning about the heavy moderation at the top of the site with <blink> and <marquee>, but they prefer the clean simple look. :) )
Hey HN!

At the startup I last worked at, we used a Docker/Kubernetes stack for our SaaS product.

We found the lack of environment / concurrent build support a huge bottleneck though, so I developed a tool to make it much easier to deploy kubernetes projects.

I recently open sourced it and launched it, take a look! [1]

The website itself is also using sanic and open source, in case you want an example [2]

Please let me know if you have any feedback! I'd love to know which features are most important to work on next.

[1] https://github.com/distributed-containers-inc/sanic
[2] https://github.com/distributed-containers-inc/sanic-site
That's the point :-)

Dedicated personal assistants are too expensive (or at least, that's the common belief). Our idea is to use a mix of computers + humans to provide a personalized experience.
US police were/are already operating spy planes to monitor large sections of cities for hours on end with higher temporal resolution.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-sur...
When you say it's "perfectly scalable", what are you using as your reference? That is, what other SaaS has $30/month pricing, especially one in a field as crowded as email and work messaging (i.e. Slack). Obviously, SH is far from having, or needing to have, a finished business plan, and it seems likely that the $30/user won't be the default offering or main breadwinner. But that raises the question of why that number is relevant in the first place when assessing SH's viability.
I know relatively very little about win32 but I know enough to say that "getting them on the same UI framework" sounds incredibly complicated to me, and I think would entail basically a complete redoing of the control panel, which is similar to what Microsoft actually did.
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