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>even where standards exist and are enforced to require replanting - this has practically resulted in dense monoculture plantations not sustainable forest habitat.

This comment is not accurate with current industry practices, or frankly practices in the BC forest industry over last 30 years. The comment suggests that cut blocks are not re-planted? While this was the practice in up to the late '60s, things have changed. There was a massive investment (and resultant industry) focused on silviculture. Historic cut blocks were planted, and subsequently managed (brushed, thinned, fill planted) up to the the mid 90s. I would suggest that the historic backlog was significantly reduced by 1990. Today, it is at an equilibrium, with periodic deficits resulting from fire or the massive pine beetle infestation in the province.

Cut blocks are not planted with a single species, but with a mix of species. Trees are grown from seeds taken from the same area and elevation as the areas harvested.

I am not in the forest industry, however I paid for school and my student loans by planting trees (1988-1993). I am an engineer and earlier in my career I was heavily involved in habitat (aquatic and riparian) rehabilitation resulting from past forestry practices. They were horrific. The industry has adapted and continues to adapt. It ain't perfect, but to base an opinion on one side of a long standing heated debate -- as presented in the article -- is uninformed.

As with most thing, the truth lies somewhere in between.
Has anyone asked why the funds were there in the first place?

It’s so easy to agree with and complain about things taken away. The pattern of left leaning hacker news contributors begin blaming political parties is again seen here.

It seems we should look into whether the funds should have been allocated there in the first place. Is it ok to re-evaluate?

Were the students aware that grants, like anything in life, are never guaranteed? This seems a lesson universities would overlook.
Disagree. Think about what makes a share liquid: lots of potential buyers (i.e. people perceiving it as a safe investment).
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I'm not sure this is true as presented. I agree less and less people run their own sites. But I don't know if this is because customers prefer platforms for cyber security reasons, or if it's also a value proposition for sellers (e.g. not having the headache of keeping a site running so you can focus on selling).

For hobbyist materials, eBay is still great. For bespoke goods, Etsy is unbeatable and you can even build relationships with the sellers.
Was there no labs / project component that you needed to do lab reports or academic paper-style writeups for? I did joint Maths-Physics which was mostly theoretical and still had a fair amount of (technical) writing to do as part of my degree.
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This is quite big. These tests usually go for $1k+; recently there was a startup selling those for $600 (upselling to 1500 for meaningful reports), but this is even cheaper.

For comparison, 23andme tests provide 50 times less data.

With cheap tests like that, much more people will figure out their chances of getting cancer or hereditary diseases.
Well, you said attention and money were the new desire
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And by comparison a 'real' air conditioner would be more like 30 watts of cooling at that power level.
A bit late to the discussion, but does it really change that much if, instead of "my country", I say "Spain"?

In this case Spain hasn't done anything wrong (the data gathering for the id cards was done before entering the EU and complies with EU's regulations[0]). Other EU countries gather less or more data according to their specific legislations.

The country in question here is the UK and, to a lesser extent, the US. Specifics about other EU countries are, IMHO, irrelevant.

[0] Another question, for a different discussion, is if they should record all that data.
The Fed sets interest rates based on inflation and unemployment (the dual mandate). And what has changed from 20-30 years ago is not that the Fed is extra dovish. If so you would see historically high and accelerating inflation, and incredibly hot job market. So it's not the Fed that has change it's the environment. Due to fundamental changes in the global economy we are living in a world of incredibly low natural interest rates.
> How do you even measure the value of being able to choose which anchor with which viewpoints gets which timeslot, or which story goes on the front page? Or being able to just not report on stories (like media consolidation) that they're not interested in people knowing about?

The value of that should be zero, because the rational response of individuals in the situation you describe (which is basically the situation as it is now) should be to simply stop watching and listening because the media have proven themselves untrustworthy.
I recently purchased a product sold on Amazon, but deliberately purchased it from the manufacturer, via their Shopify site, to support them more.

Six days later, it arrived.

From an Amazon warehouse. In an Amazon box. Sporting a bright white ASIN sticker.

Hmmmmmmm.
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Solid looks interesting. Does anyone have hands on experience? Any thoughts?
Katamari Damacy calls those things "Breakwater Block".
But we do have our "toilet paper made from virgin pulp". In fact, I'd wager that it's better than other countries I lived in. ;)

Brazil already have a rich and sustainable wood industry for decades. Extraction mostly in the southeast, in states like Espirito Santo, south of Bahia, Parana. Mostly eucalyptus and pinus. It is a 70-billion industry that is still growing, and is sustainable.

The extraction from Amazon happens on old trees in a non-sustainable way. Mostly trees affected by CITES, and probably exported illegally from Brazil.

This is not something that will change or economy in a scalable way. This will not generate jobs, and will be a compromise, because those trees take decades to grow.

There are laws in place and all we have to do is follow them, and the industry will keep up.

We just have a president that desperately wants to lax all regulations to appeal to his base, and that includes even stuff like traffic regulation.

So, yes, you are in a position to judge Brazil and Brazilians over this. We are not some small country full of poor people, but apparently we're in a fast track to become one. :(
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I walked away from commercial banking almost 2 decades ago and never regretted it once. Credit unions are great.
Not sure who you mean by younger. I'm pushing 40, and I've been aware my entire working life that social security would not be there for our generation when we reach retirement age, but we would still be expected to pay into the system to support our elders and/or their elected officials. The only way we're likely to get any kind of return on that investment is if we become disabled.
How are these C level operations?
They don't as effectively as teams that colocate. Maybe the trend is more of a fad, like open work spaces?
>For example, the main thing that makes affordable housing unprofitable is that artificial scarcity created by zoning rules puts the creation cost above the price threshold for what's considered affordable housing. So you have to fix that, but once you do, any ordinary bank will fund those now-profitable construction projects.

So, I agree with this, of course, but there's still an argument for subsidizing the 'affordable' projects first. - this argument is that even in the above case (where, I agree, eventually cheap (compared to cost of construction) projects will be constructed,) more expensive housing (larger, more luxurious) will be constructed first because it's more profitable, and building companies and homeowners will do all they can to keep less expensive units out of the market as long as they can (I mean, builders will switch once they can't sell any more luxury units, but homeowners won't, and more homeowners means more anti-building pressure.)

I think there's an argument to be made, in this case where the housing market has been so distorted for so long, for moving utilitarian, smaller-unit high-density construction projects to the front of the line. Luxury housing needs a lot less subsidies, but if you don't put something in to prevent your housing subsidies from going to luxury housing, your housing subsidies will go to luxury housing.

(removing restrictions on density isn't a subsidy, you say? tell that to the people who's houses will be worth less if we build enough of the small condos to satisfy small condo demand. If we do build enough housing, the average Californian will lose a lot of money due to the decrease in real-estate prices. Sure, it's not a a government subsidy, but changing the rules so that one group gains and another loses is going to be opposed by the losers.)
If the eBook is broken on Kindle, then it'll be up to the publisher (Riverhead Books) to fix it, not Amazon.

Though as the bookseller Amazon should (in theory) offer refunds to people who bought the defective eBook?
Saying that k8s is complicated is like saying your OS is complicated and will disappear. It's ridiculous.

Kubernetes is a network OS for scale. It's far easier to run an application on a cluster of hundreds to thousands of computers using kubernetes as the orchestrator than to use something home grown.

If you don't have a scaling/cluster problem, then k8s is not for you. If you on the other hand have application spanning a hundred computers, it's probably worth it for you.
It's hard to see Shopify resolving the issues at hand. The costs associated with mom n pop e-commerce are ultimately too high (eg investments in SEO). The same could be said for similar platforms like SquareSpace or Wix that offer e-commerce.

I have a side project that monitors mom n pop sites -- take for example vintage clothing store sites in New York City. The landscape has become a ghost town, with hundreds of previous sites now abandoned. They've largely moved to platforms like Etsy or Instagram.
True, but the optics of this move are worse than some other alternative. A state representative was also quoted in the article saying that putting the education fund in the sweep was not necessary. Pretty sure they can reappropriate funding from somewhere else if they tried to (and it's not like their scholarships are particularly large, $3k to $4k a year scholarships given to a limited number of people will not break the bank).
Sometimes vacation makes it worse because it makes you realize just how much your job makes you unhappy.
As if giving the money to Wall Street to manage doesn't give them immense political power.
You can get a privacy screen for the laptop.
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Anyone run their own Linux/BSD/Unix BGP? I heard bird is pretty good:

https://bird.network.cz/

What about non-free?
No. Neither elevation of horizontal lines or alignment of strokes are called radicals.

To clarify: Radicals are common kanji elements, which are used in dictionaries for looking up kanji. A common misconception is that every repeated element is a radical.

In either case, this is not what the parent post is talking about.
Mom and pop are drop shipping these days, it's much cheaper but less fun (and less work) for them.
Unless you think mind skills/IQ are determined by just 3 or 4 genes you will be very sad at the rate of genomic shift by selective breeding. Elsewhere people are claiming hundreds of genes. That is looking at hundreds of generations to remove the weaker version even assumong you have only a bad dominant version and a good recessive version. One generation to eliminate all the bad dominant copies for one gene. And at the cost of reduced genetic and mental variability which seems likely to reduce population fitness.

however, the current picture of vertabrate development makes it seems like such a simple genetic model for mind skill traits is hopelessly unlikely. You have weird crap like receptors being used for different functions in different areas of the brain. And they migrate / gene activate at different times of development in response to genetic expression partially determined by environmental conditions. Its a big ugly undocumented hack. I tend to assume we are all SWE but if you are not, there is human created code so unmaintainable the cost to fix/understand is easily 10x the cost to create. Evolution i guess has no reason to make it easier on gene engineers. Unless you hope the human brain ends up being kike particle physics with a few elegant math laws that make the apparent complexity simple.
I really don’t think this is true anymore, with regard to the people that are capable of being levered up (ie the top 30% in USA)
One thing Tim Ferriss likes to talk about is how a difficult writing class he took lead to improved grades in all of his other classes, and he think it's attributed to the clarity in which he cultivated, and evaluated thoughts.
Looking at this chart https://www.stlouisfed.org/~/media/Publications/Regional-Eco... it looks like something has changed at the Fed from 15 years ago. I'm not sure one can fully blame the enviromnment.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/publications/regional-economist/j...

Edit: they had started to reduce the size of the balance sheet [1], but who knows how long will it take [2].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/16649a54-b38a-11e8-bbc3-ccd7de085...
[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-19/the-fed-s...
Puts you at odds with humanity unfortunately.
I feel like this page was designed to be ironically bad to mask the fact that it's actually just bad. Why make it so difficult to understand what's going on? Is this glitch page somehow part of the actual WC3 project?
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> As one such, the only meaning I can find in life is "it's about other people, and sentient creatures. Treat them well"

Unless that reduces to what you want for its own sake (e.g., you want to treat all sentient creatures well for its own sake, or you want something else for its own sake that follows from treating all sentient creatures well), then it sounds like you have a religion, whether or not it involves a deity.

Example: lots of people enjoy and want to be nice to dogs -- and not because anyone told them it's good/moral to be nice to dogs, or that society would work better for everyone if everyone is nice to dogs and everyone has to do their part, etc. That seems like wants separate from religion or philosophy.

Unless Edie Brickell was right, about religion being the smile on a dog. Then maybe we simply want religion.
Something I think that has helped me avoid burnout is to stop at 16.00 (or whenever your regular working day ends) and leave work, physically and mentally.

On the weekends, I don't think about work ever (unless something happens to the system and I'm on-call, which very rarely happens. I realise I'm lucky in this regard.)

I just can't work more than 6-7 hours on a given day. Working more won't make me more productive, on the other hand I'll waste more time on reddit since I can't stay focused and I can "catch up" my pre-noon procrastination later.

A part of this, of course, is to insist on not working outside work hours from the beginning of joining a company. In doing so, your colleagues will learn to know not to disturb you outside of work unless it's really necessary.

I feel like that's the mistake the author of this article is committing: not doing anything else than work. Everyone needs time off to recoup no matter what business they're in.
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Sure there are other factors that affect long term rates. But if the Fed came out tomorrow and said "We promise to keep interest rates at 0 for the next 10 years" long term rates would drop considerably wouldn't you agree?
They probably even used an affiliate link when they fulfilled the order.
I was raised as liberal Republican (pro gay-mariiage in the 80s, marijuana legalization in the 90s, etc.), and it's been very disheartening to learn I have to call myself an American conservative because I strive toward the principle of individual freedom (i.e. liberty, from which the term 'liberal' is etymologically derived). I can tolerate anything but violence.
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Yes this is a significant source of my time suck too. I try to automate as much IAM perms as I can via terraform, which has allowed me to speed up our deployment velocity.
Due to commingling counterfeiters don’t need to sell to customers as Amazon will simply substitute real products with fake ones. Effectively, any Amazon seller becomes a counterfeit channel and the counterfeiters get access to sell the real products to minimize returns and thus issues with credit cards etc.

This is obviously a horrible deal for the legit producer who also gets saddled with a terrible reputation.
Nice phrase. The Ship Minds will do it.
If you were offering a long period of healthy dividends for a good price, I wouldn't care if I could sell it.
A lot of people prefer tesla but not for that reason.
Sounds like communism to me
After looking at that site I expect that if I could find the author's full name and googled it, the results would be full of posts at metal detecting forums.

The whole site appears to be really bad advice-- instructing you to bury large metal containers of your valuable stuff on land that isn't yours. It is the stuff of detectorists fantasies.
The Golf has been a compact car in the USA since the day it was delivered to our shores in the 70's.

Are compact cars tiny? That is debatable.
Compared to a 1961 Lincon Continental with suicide doors it is very tiny.
It's more like a heart attack. There's plenty of blood, but the circulation to the heart itself (the people, ie demand side) has stopped. The doctor is pumping ever more blood into the patient without fixing the clogging to the heart itself.

Helicopter money which deletes loans (meaning it would not punish people who did not borrow) would be a far better strategy in this case, and lead to both inflation and deleveraging at the same time, something which is impossible with other methods.
For quite some time, stores did retain the ability to run offline carbon-copy based credit card transactions. I've definitely seen this occur more recently than one would imagine, at least within the past decade.

I don't know if this is still a thing, as cards are no longer coming with the raised characters required to take an imprint. But perhaps the imprint is no longer necessary, and simply writing the information suffices.

There are (obviously) more avenues for fraud without online verification, but the techniques of fraudsters are no longer optimized for running physical cards either.

The more significant thing that we've lost is a cashier/manager being able to exercise some level of intelligent oversight to judge whether a transaction is likely to be fraudulent. But then again, perhaps a store being cleaned out of its entire inventory of eg Tide because of a long term power outage isn't that big of a deal either.
You could say that about any book. You could get the same lesson from A Song of Ice and Fire, etc.

Not saying the bible isn’t worth reading, but rather that your point kind of rings empty. As humans we can find meaning anywhere.
If there are 200 mind trait affecting genes you are saying a 2^200 search is fine.
I Recently read a biography of Churchhill and he was an interesting combination of humility and arrogance.

His success at leading England during the Second World War largely rested on learning from his numerous past failures. He knew enough at that point to surround himself with people who would stand up to him when he was wrong.

If you look into all the “great” leaders - folks you mentioned - you’ll find plenty of instances where their arrogance led them astray.

Arrogance in and of itself is not what enabled those folks to facilitate great or important work.

Lastly, nobody does it alone.
Logged areas can burn more severely: https://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_gtr208e...
Note that for mobile apps, paid upgrades aren’t really an option for developers due to the way the app stores work. Also, developers constantly need to update apps to be compatible with new OS releases. Only the subscription model aligns with this.
It would be so amazing to live near a river with water clean enough to do this :(
I believe so yes. The curvature of a surface is independent of which "side" you are measuring from.
I'm in the same demo, and I wasn't aware of ellipses being seen as an habit of old people.

Biden's (or likely, his team's) usage is atypical; ellipses are usually only used when you're citing somebody, to indicate unintelligible segments or sentences that are not crucial to the thought being relayed, and when you're voicing some degree of surprise, doubt or reticence about the forthcoming sentence (e.g. "She thought I was ready... maybe I wasn't.")

(If they ever come for my semicolon, I'll take up arms.)
There are ethical reasons - of course, but we should also consider safety; which will be a tough one for CRISPR for heritable conditions. What if a modification goes sour in the second generation? What if it leads to mid life cancer? It might be a long time before we know if this is genuinely safe.
> Think about what makes a share liquid: lots of potential buyers

You don't need lots of potential buyers for liquidity, only one for what you're trying to sell. It's why very low volume secondary markets can function and provide liquidity.

A lot of people will also obviously invest into things even when they do not consider them safe investments. If the potential return is thought to be high enough, large numbers of people will routinely invest into unsafe investments with full awareness that it's at least somewhat dangerous (whether stocks, crypto, real-estate, schemes, etc).
There is no "outside" or "inside" when you're talking about Gaussian (intrinsic) curvature. "Outside" or "inside" are about how the object is embedded in space, but Gaussian curvature is independent of how (or even if) the object is embedded in space.
Even if that became the case, it wasn't the reason why combustion engines took over.
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Hello folks,

Recently, I developed a genuine interest in information theory and communication systems, I gave "An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise" a try (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486240614) and I really enjoyed it. I'd like to dig deeper into these topics but I don't know what a good introductory resource (book, course, videos ... etc) about communication systems engineering would be. I am not planning on becoming an expert on this topic, but I'd like to develop a solid engineering understanding of it, just for my own curiosity.

Thank you!

EDIT: grammar and context (text/course/videos ... etc.)
I would argue that treating someone well doesn’t require a lifetime of book study.

Rather it requires the opposite, to see the person fully as what they are _right now_, and to respond accordingly without a trace of ideology. To do anything else is to be engaging with your idea of the person, and your own idea of what is “good”, rather than what actually is.
As anyone who has worked at a university or a research lab has said always!