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I havent heard 7000. I'm not sure where you got the direct contradiction?

Here's one saying 131 uses [1].

Cotton isnt actually all that green though. And as the article points out plastic bags can be very light weight so aren't that bad. If I were choosing a boogie man, plastic bags wouldn't be top of the list. But I wouldn't be using a reusable cotton bag either.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Edit: This is actually linked to from the article.
Can you proof that they would have gone under without "letting go" of 20k people? The usual reason is "we need to look better to the stock market" and that's simply not a valid reason. The reality is that there's a big margin between "we are growing 20% per year!" and "we all go bust!" that most companies exist in. Sure, you won't be Wall Streets darling, if all you do is make a small profit every year, but if that's your main goal that's your problem, not something your employees should have to pay for.
Or there might have been a catastrophe that killed off almost everything. In which case the organisms that survived might not have been very widespread before the catastrophe, or typical of what existed before the catastrophe.

If a large asteroid hit the Earth today it might be only a few subterranean extremophile microorganisms that survive. Asteroids were more frequent during the early history of the solar system.
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This is why I love the appstore and forced sandboxing. I hope adobe will finally use the appstore for once. Glas that office is using it. No more buggy updater apps
Very nice, reminds me of the sequoia graphs for filesystems.

Is there any way to generate the graph from Cloudformation? or is it a manual thing for the moment
if all development servers for all frameworks just did that on first run of a project it'd be so much easier.
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Thanks, unfortunately none of these are the article I remember. I've spent hours searching for it but no luck so far. It was a blog post by somebody :(
“Given New York’s lax enforcement record, the Freakonomics podcast described running over pedestrians there as “the perfect crime.””

I was driving in Oakland when the car in front of me didn’t slow down for a pedestrian in the crosswalk. The pedestrian disappeared in front of the car. I stopped my car, got out, found the struck young woman trembling and bleeding in the street.

The speed limit was 30 miles per hour. I don’t think the driver was going quite that fast — maybe 20, 25 at most.

The woman driving the car was elderly. It’s tough to gauge her age — pushing late 70s, maybe 80? She said she didn’t notice the girl in the crosswalk.

I was upset. I stayed the entire time, talked with the cops at length, gave a statement. I wanted to see the lady’s license taken away. Or a ticket at least. Or heck, even a talking to about if maybe she’s no longer fit to drive.

The cops let the old lady drive away. No ticket. No talk. I was stunned. Surely if you hit someone with your car at that speed, in fucking crosswalk, you at the very least need to prove to the DMV that you’re safe to drive. Especially if you’re an elderly person. But nope. They said they had no grounds with which to take any action at all.

Still bothers me. I hope that lady hasn’t killed anyone.
Seems like a pretty good overview, but I'm not surprised at all that in the end it's COPY TO/FROM that won out by a good margin.

Listing all the columns in order seems a bit superfluous and error prone, though. I'd recommend creating the list of columns to be inserted (or copied; copy_from has a 'columns' arg) and slicing the input hash with the same list (dict comprehension in Py).
But in exchange you get to go anywhere in America. You aunt in San Jose you haven't seen in months because it's a day's horse-ride. Well you can pop over for lunch, and be home for dinner. You can go see Yosemite and Tahoe in the same day. Your groceries will be 10 mins away.

No. If someone invented cars today, he'd be considered a hero. We'd talk about him in history books.
Because it’s easier to posit than to achieve it. If someone knew how to do that, they would already be doing it.
Would also like this with asyncpg. psycopg2 is kind of obsolete today.
That's about a low as you get... I wonder why did they even bother with that?

The very point of a train crash, or any crash, is to seriously total the equipment and see debris flying, and also the theoretical possibility of a memorably injury, isn't it?

What does anyone get out of a couple of locomotives playing bumper cars, with fireworks to give it at least some dazzle to go with it?
> If life originated on some other planet and made it to Earth, why did only the DNA-based lifeform(s) make it here?

The problem is that we can't see through survivor bias. Maybe life has lots of possible configurations and only DNA-based life was highly successful on Earth. It's also possible that non-DNA-based life exists, we just haven't noticed it because it is too small, too slow, or too something-else that we missed it.
Having needed something like this recently, I would recommend utilising 48V-12V convertors designed for servers. Telecoms equipment has long been 48V (actually -48V) but some datacenters are moving that way too for internal distribution.

There are some automotive designs for 48-12V conversation, but these are not really available as modules as automotive is large volume and high integration. Using discrete components gets expensive fast at these power levels, a Renesas 2KW reference design I saw needed a 4 layer, 6oz PCB which would have cost ~$500 to prototype in China.

The Vicor BCM series can do 48V->12V 150A out in a very nice self contained module, with excellent EMI shielding, and takes cables directly, although definitely needs a heatsink! http://www.vicorpower.com/products?productType=cfg&productKe...
You won't have to buy certs from LetsEncrypt, they're provided free. So you'd have to have an external DNS that allows you to provision DNS records for mymesh.example.com and request a wildcard certificate for that domain.

The script is automated and will ensure that the certificate is always up to date.

Inside the mesh you would need:

* Have an internal DNS that resolves myserver.mymesh.example.com to an internal IP address

* Distribute the private key and certificate to the internal servers of your mesh.

* Have the browsers/clients of your mesh use the DNS names instead of raw IP addresses. So users would have to learn to go to https://myserver.mymesh.example.com instead of https://a.b.c.d

What you will need to do is have an internal DNS server that resolves "myserver.mymesh.example.com" to an internal IP address. The server would use the *.mymesh.example.com private key and cert.
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>You could buy products and services with Bitcoin.

love this, author is fully aware how bitcoin adoption has backpeddled after the core devs refused to lift the limit of the block size
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There is no implication that "he isn't fine with his gender". The implication is that the speaker doesn't know, and it doesn't matter enough to find out or make a judgement call.

Personally I still use he/she most of the time unless I have a reason not to, but I also try to get into the habit of assuming less, not least because online in particular it is increasingly noticeable how often we assume someone's gender even in situations we have no reason to.

It's not unsurprising that some choose to carry that over into discussing people they don't know the preference of when it doesn't otherwise matter.

One reason to do so may be to explicitly normalise the usage so it doesn't imply a value judgement e.g based on appearance.
Food shortages, ecosystem mayhem, huge disease toll: the promise of gene drives from an improvising rush-it-for-profit "science" that still e.g. can't eradicate the common cold and misses tons of basics (until recently they thought "junk dna" was useless) but is confident to play the sorcerer's apprentice...
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How about different chirality? Different chiral forms would have the same advantages.
> The fact that all known life shares a common genetic structure implies a common ancestor. The lack of competing genetic codes could be interpreted to imply that life only started on earth once, or that it only made it to earth once.

The more I read about DNA and RNA, the more it seems to me they're somewhat fundamentally grounded in chemistry - you can't just make codons mean arbitrary things by messing with the replication mechanisms. There's less path dependence, and more of "one optimal way of doing things".

That said, I think it's reasonable to assume we all have common lineage[0] - it's arguably a winner-takes-all scenario, as there's a huge first-mover advantage for the first self-replicating family of things that got loose on the world.

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[0] - causally, not genetically; the history of life is not a tree structure due to constant lateral gene transfer that bacteria and archaea engage in.
>Seriously, since when did anyone ever understood the impact of anything?

When the impact was low and localized, and the methods to affect change crude. I.e. for the most part of human history.

Now we have surgical methods to edit genes etc, but combined with the knowledge and understanding of a Wild West quack doctor (and their profit motive).
Or, you'd rather hang to this sweet "job for life no matter what" contract nevertheless.
Thanks! Still watching it, but I gotta say this YouTuber plays it rather fast and loose. One of his first points (that finally comes after a good 20min of pushing his own ego and going through the 'offial' story) is that a small yield 'nucular' explosion would have been detected. Fusion explosions can go down to kilojoule range, fission - undergoing explosive chain reaction accidentally - may be in tens of tons of TNT range. There's some recent paper that describes the first smaller explosion of Chernobyl as such a small yield nuclear explosion.

When someone just claims (s) he is thorough I immediately get suspicious.

That being said, the central thesis might hold up and I still have to watch the rest.
It never was, with increasing numbers of humans. Things like agriculture and animal husbandry were spread together with the population across vast distances and changed the landscape, the flora and the fauna.

> Now we have surgical methods to edit genes etc

I refer back to the comment you replied to... in any case., I don't see how understanding is the main point. We actually understand quite a bit, far more important are the incentive systems that often force us to do stuff against what we actually know. I'm pretty sure companies in the past and present that used landscape (rivers etc.) as garbage dumps knew that that wasn't good, so understanding does not seem to help nearly as much as some think.
Disagreement is not ignorance. The fact that a Linguistics 101 book contains a politically motivated viewpoint is unsurprising. That viewpoint is not factual.

I have a relative who drops the R. He was raised around people (family and city) without that error, so clearly it didn't come about due to accent or dialect. Well, he invented his own, which is what a speech problem is. He was thus taken to speech therapy. Sadly the problem was not easy to fix. The speech therapist told his mother to not worry too much, because he sounded like he came from Boston.

It does impact communication ability. Nearly everybody can clearly understand the speech of the national news anchors, particularly those of the 1970s and 1980s. Just the other day I met somebody with a thick native Florida accent, and communication was impeded. This matters.

Getting back to reading, the more your speech differs from simple phonetics the more trouble you will have. Typical Russians learn to read a year or two before typical English speakers, and typical English speakers learn to read a year or two before typical Chinese speakers. If your speech is far from phonetic, your situation is closer to Chinese. That delays reading.
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So to summarise, firefox for android will stop existing and you will not commit to saying that whatever you replace it with will have addons.

You imply that this doesn't mean that it will not, but also not that it will. What you will say about it is that addons are hard.

Taken together, those statements don't exactly foreshadow good news.
> You're being a tad over dramatic :)

You don’t know me, and trying to frame me as something or other is a technique to dismiss my statements. Ad hominem is not an argument, although it works because human brains are vulnerable to fallacies.

If you are curious about why I used strong words you may ask :)

And, I appreciate the conversation and your clarification.
The only way to change things is to fight back legally. I've done so and if I'm pretty much the only one to bother the government or the press then nothing will happen.

My absolute frustration, and reason I'm close to giving up, is I see people posting warning of bad things to come, politically, ecologically, technically, but they do nothing. One person alone usually can't change much. A few can but even getting a few to do anything is nearly impossible. If everyone just wrote a single letter a year to their mp/representative/whatever, even just phoned up a business about excessive packaging, things would start to move.

It's in your hands basically.
It wouldn't harm to point that out to the relevant Java maintainer. This function really is horrible and should never have been published. (spoiler-free version. read it all, it's good)
> Your groceries will be 10 mins away.

I doubt your groceries would be more than 10 minutes away even if no cars had been invented. Zoning practices would change to allow more shops distributed across residential areas. That would make more sense than requiring people to ride an hour on horseback.

But yes, the supermarket would be much less 'super' with a much smaller selection of goods.
I live in a small city of about 400,000 and only have about 10 neighbours. I guess Americans are just friendlier.
Images of Gomez Addams come to mind....
It was 50 cents to attend and many tens of thousands of people did so. Definitely not limited to the upper classes.
I suspect it's not incidental so much as part of a PR drive around the new moon mission.
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I'm not convinced, historically they appear to get those journalist warrants easily enough, and those don't appear particularly limited in scope in regards to what can be seized etc.

This circumvention seems to be mostly added convenience. The only novel bit is the allowance for modifying data, but I doubt it matters much in practice as the AFP will likely just take physical devices and at best hand it back wiped.
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The "vast distances" were just some places humans could establish cities. 90% of the planet country was untouched for the better part of history, or had very minor alterations (a village and some crops in an area of 100s of square kilometers). Heck, most of the "most advanced" populations didn't even know about other huge continents (Australia, Asia, Americas).

Today a modified plant or insect can travel all over the globe, take plane rides, and so on...
>Do people really enjoy twitter? I mean literally 99% of the time, it looks like it's just people trying to be clever. I

I mean literally 99% of the time you don't see 0.01% of what goes on on Twitter anyway, much less put any effort into it, given your apparent distaste for it.

So yes, chances are people really do enjoy twitter and you're just virtue signaling your elitism here. If everyone you're following is "just trying to be clever," then consider following other people.
Perhaps I shouldn't speak for Scott Sumner, but I feel pretty sure he wouldn't recognize your opinion of what he supposedly thinks.

If you make your comment at econlib, he's not unlikely to respond.
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Ahh, the developer version of standing in front of the tanks at Tiananmen Square.
I'm normally exceptionally thick skinned but reading this has left me offended on so many levels that I'm unable to formulate a high quality response. And yet I'm emotionally compelled to express my outrage anyway. I'll just say that some things are more important than human lives.
At that price point, you could probably get more performance out of a server with 2-4 sockets.
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Looks like an old Deltic - so about 2.4MW max:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_55

NB The Deltic engines were pretty interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic
However, if you're going to automatically install a daemon, you can and should make that daemon check whether the originating app still exists, and automatically uninstall itself if not.

(Better still, reconsider whether you really need a daemon in the first place...)
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Just put Ctrl on Caps and then ctrl+c and +v is on par or or even better. Don't know anyone who is using the original control. Even better: create a tap/hold key with Esc/Ctrl on Caps. Then you have a superior keyboard experience because the alt keys are better positioned and usable. On Macs you have just Cmd as the only sane/reachable modifier key compared to crtl and alt on Windows/Linux. However you could also somehow get this setup on a Mac with fiddling with Karabiner. But here again Windows' Autohotkey is superior.

Re choppy scrolling, I have a Windows precision touchpad on my notebook and it's super close to a MBP but what is even much better than a MBP touchpad: get a Logitech mouse with a free wheel eg the G502, best scrolling experience and buttersmooth.

I thought also there is nothing else than macOS but there is even more good stuff outside. eg window management on Windows or linux eg with i3 there is just 100x better. on macos it's a joke to nonexistent.
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they've been able to identify and block these 5 years ago
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Aren't Japanese cities often talked about as an example of good public transport (particularly trains) and reasonably dense areas with low housing prices?
The API was crippled, not changed. There is a fairly lengthy explanation of how it is bad and why by the author of uBlock Origin: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss...
sounds interesting.

newbie here. haven't used Roku.

does it support:

casting from android phones?

netflix, prime, youtube?

BT headphones / speakers?

recording ?
I’m most successful when I’m able to force myself into a non-brain intensive activity before attempting any additional work.

It could be a short workout or yoga session, a walk, a dance class.

Then, timeboxed (with a timer!) work session.
> “Craft using an inertial mass reduction device”

My internal cynic would guess that it's a joint public-private promotional stunt for Mass Effect. The whole backstory of this sci-fi was that they found a substance that could do exactly that.

"Oh look, US Navy has a patent for eezo-powered drive!"
> The "vast distances" were just some places humans could establish cities.

The "vast distances" were the whole planet and an ever increasing population, even before the explosion in numbers later. See the reports about the impact the Mongols or the plague, both killing large parts of the populations back then, with great impact on the environment. Humans always had a large impact on their environment especially after inventing agriculture.
This was the origin of many of the British building societies and savings banks. Often known as "friendly societies".
with Airtel, doesn't Amazon Prime free subscription end after 12months ?
Let's also pass laws prohibiting doctors from giving them out like candy because someone has the sniffles.
Interesting!

What’s next? Stinger missile demonstrations as art.
No conspiracy required when a lot of people are acting according to a common view. People see the real advantages of owning a car and the freedom it brings, and that activity builds industries and has an impact on policies.

Of course, GM really did conspire to put the trolleys out of business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...

However, this is the kind of thing organizations (companies, government agencies, non profits) do when they get to a certain size or have accomplished initial goals and are looking to conquer that next frontier. Just look at the overreach of the SV titans, for example.

For better or worse, we have a car based society now, and pining for the good old days is backwards looking. The next thing should preserve the immense freedom and flexibility that cars brought. Prescribing a top down solution that gives even more power to the state at the expense of the people is a non starter.
The fact that you won't commit to saying your core advantage on Android will stay has to mean to me, as a user, that I need to be finding an alternative that does have it.
The simplest reason is that the ribosome evolved very early on (and is probably the best preserved remnant of whatever the earlier "RNA world" looked like) and it was always easier to leverage that machinery than to evolve another whole system from scratch. Once you have a world populated by any form of proto-life that can self-reproduce, even with crappy fidelity, it's basically game-over for any of the other semi-closed metabolic pathways that might have been competitors up until that point - they're now just food. There's no opportunity for another system to arise because all the raw materials are being scooped up by the new superpredator on the scene - the ribosome & whatever associated machinery it drags along. The competition now heats up between different ribosome-equipped complexes - improve metabolism, increase independence, increase reproduction rate, improve reproductive fidelity, etc.
I think I'll just file this one under "interesting but probably not worth thinking about"