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Cutting it in that manner is definitely not good because it doesn't regenerate when done so, for complicating ecological reasons. It is the regeneration stage of forestation which is remarkably good at capturing CO2.

Logging could be done in an ecological manner enabling and even stimulating natural regeneration but the industry culture has been powerfully opposed to ecological concern and campaigns that have struggled against its practices for many decades past[1]

Despite potentially offering insightful, fit and adventurous outdoor employment opportunities for humanity, global logging industry has politically lobbied to maintain a brutal strategy of maximum impact and immediate return towards its resource.

These practices are developed and carried out wherever profitable, by well established Western logging companies and professionals. Wildlife is poisoned and culled before work begins to simplify operations - the nature of the whole area is eliminated by design :

" Clearfelling, as the name suggests, first involves the complete felling of a forest by chainsaws and skidders. Then, the whole area is torched, the firing started by helicopters dropping incendiary devices made of jellied petroleum, commonly known as napalm. The resultant fire is of such ferocity it produces mushroom clouds visible from considerable distances. In consequence, every autumn, the island's otherwise most beautiful season, china-blue skies are frequently nicotine-scummed, an inescapable reminder that clearfelling means the total destruction of ancient and unique forests."[2]

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=eg+greenpeace+logging&tbs=cd...

[2] https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2007/may/1348543148/rich...
Likely because only "men's sizes" have a semblance of a standard. So called "women's sizes" is an absolute chaos. Some companies' small is another company's large, and so on.
No, because I have literally less than zero trust that Tesla will actually deliver a truly driverless car. It's just not happening, not in 10, not in 20 and not in 30 years either. I do however want a fully adaptive cruise control with lane keeping, and having tried the Deimler solution I'd be perfectly happy with it, it works fantastically well, and it is an option on any AMG on the market. The main benefit of a Tesla for me is 1) cheap cost of ownership 2) decent performance 3) gadgets like being able to pre-cool or pre-warm my car before getting in, you can't get this on a petrol Merc in the EU.
Big fan of cruises, but only on ships with 200 or fewer passengers (Wind Star, Viking River Cruises and their ilk).

I think it's kinda sad that we don't have many cruises along our wonderful American rivers and coasts. You have to go to Mexico or the Caribbean or Hawaii or Alaska. My understanding is that they are cost-prohibitive because of a federal law requiring that any ship making a second stop in another US port is required to pay basically union pay scale to all workers.
> Is there a publicly available "do-not-scan" host list (govt, etc)?

Sounds like a great way to broadcast your box is interesting.

Sometimes obscurity is a good thing.
Sorry if it was unclear - i am referring to the payment part of WeChat. Has that ever been open to non-Chinese?

Anyways it feels weird being the only who pays cash. Many places cannot provide change for a 100 yuan note (20 usd).
“In 2018, we replaced 22 miles of track, reprofiled 231.6 miles of track to reduce railway noise, overhauled a critical track section near the West Oakland and 12th Street Stations, and replaced five miles of 34.5 kV electrical cable system in downtown Oakland to provide reliable power for trains. All these improvements will collectively create a more reliable, quieter, smoother and safer experience for our riders.”

https://www.bart.gov/better-bart
That is indeed exactly the underpinning of the technique, not that you can tell from the wiki article.
The way I understand it it's effectively it's a good way to identify trick questions and the people who correctly identify the "trick" (by saying that other people would fall for it and reply differently) are more likely to be right overall and it's reflected in the percentage difference.

Wouldn't you get the same result simply by saying "let's just consider the answers from people who said others would respond differently because they're more likely to be right"? That's more intuitive to me and I believe it's effectively the same operation.
How about don't.

Europe is in huge decline right now. Asset prices are artificially inflated, bond yields are negative and the export surplus can only be maintained because the Central Bank is devaluing the currency by printing money like there is no tomorrow. The house of cards will fall as soon as some major trade partner introduces tariffs.

The demand for credit is especially weak which shows you that nobody really wants to invest, because the future outcome is presumed to be worse than paying negative interest to the ECB.

Bedsides that there are major societal turmoils on the horizon. Crime is rampant, the quality of life for the middle class quickly decreasing and there is a huge demographic decline going on for some time now. Large youth unemployment in the periphery and a real estate bubble with stagnating wages in the center which boils away the middle class only shows you what the future will bring.

In the best case this will be like another Japan. In the worst case there will be civil war.
Just a thing, we Brazilians see ourselves as westerns. Amazonia Soil is only rich at the surface, and it remains rich because of its fauna and flora. Because of that, the deforestation is very warming, it’s difficult to recover it.
The wisdom of crowds is a truly fascinating thing... the fact that people don't really need to know what they're talking about as long as there's enough of them really blows my mind.
Definitelely! There is no need for growth anymore, there is need for quality and sustainability. But the dominant financial and economics systems we have cam work only with growth.
Sowe have to keep growing all the time so that the finance industry can keep increasing numbers on paper.
Practically every position is nuanced. We all have complex reasons for why we believe things.

Would you say that your attitude describes typical de-regulation as a policy? I have a hard time believing that it's a nuanced view if instead of trotting out specific examples that you care about and will specifically address, you say "de-regulation" so your constituency cheers. (Not you, specifically)...

While most political positions are at least coming from a place of truth, what I think of when I hear de-regulation is not "some regulation is overreach and should really be peeled back because it's not fair xyz, here's what's not fair", it's the "government has no business injecting itself between me and the money I could make by introducing untold externalities into a free market system."

Good regulation is hard to come by, I think, because we don't like to maintain things. We see a problem, let's make a rule. Now the rule is a problem. Let's remove the rule. How about you decide if the problem would exist in the same or another form without the rule and try to adjust it to match the new problems?
To my knowledge, EU citizens are still allowed to buy those ETFs, but EU brokers are not allowed to sell them. This means you can open an account at a non-EU broker (e.g. in Switzerland) and still buy them. This is perfectly legal, although it is a bit more work taxwise.
As i said before im not disputing that it is possible to make responsive design keep same aspect ratio always. Im just pointing out that in reality you can not control all parts of your work. Design as i said can be done by people you have no influence over. And they might have very relevant reasons for making it the way they do.

Obviously the ideal situation isnt to crop images, but if the people using the system is aware they can select images that do not have esential information in the edges.
I thought I was clear about there being also valid use cases? I'm not disputing your examples.
Because they won't make it if not enough people are interested?

I've long dreamed of a water cooled suit, but it would have too many disadvantages :D
What utility does the individual gain from his video going ‘viral’?
I'm reminded of a CEO who, when our small consultancy was acquired by the Wal-Mart of our industry, insisted that the acquisition would benefit us all because we'd have "more cool projects." He never said anything like "you will all be paid more"!
ECS Fargate is an option for fully managed container runtime/scheduling on AWS today. We're looking into using this for deploying applications. Anyone here had experience with it?
You can’t “immerse yourself in a new place” as a tourist. If you’re not working somewhere, dealing with the housing market there, have family there—you know nothing about the place and the experience of the people. You’re just getting a slightly different superficial tourist experience.
Polish person here.

Actually that argument was only ever used to make the miners - a very powerful group in Poland - vote for whichever political party was in charge at the moment.

The coal industry overall is not a source of growth, but a liability, costing the taxpayers around €2bln annually.

A looming energy crisis and increasing costs of emissions, finally made the current government give in, put their cronies where they wanted them and approve a lot of new offshore wind investments + create a subsidy program for solar power to the tune of €230mln.

I talked with some people from Silesia and even the miners see the writing on the wall - currently 20% of the coal used in Poland is imported, so miners as a group don't have as much leverage as they used to.
Well by its size and stated run time were looking at 10-15W of power into the peltier device, that gives us a generous 2W of thermal cooling.

it might provide a cool feeling on your neck but its going to be purely psychological.
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Thanks, I read the article multiple times and couldn't really understand why someone would give the wrong answer and then assume that most people would give the right answer (I didn't know Pennsylvania wasn't the capital of Philadelphia).
> Capitalism can solve many of these problems
Do you really think so? I would say that capitalism and the economic models that support it are one of the main factors we are in this situation.
How would this be a hindrance? If you read it, it helps. If you don’t read it, it’s not going to hinder anything.
Ah, wonderful! I remember there was some proposal to let # specify a part of a bitmap some years ago but it didn't take off, but that SVG supports it (in a better way) is great!

Edit: The thing I was thinking of was Media Fragments, apparently that has some browser support at least, but not for images? Hrm. You could put a PNG inside an SVG but that seems silly.
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I've had multiple people try to explain to me why morals are necessary for society, as if I'm arguing against them. I'm not even advocating for shoplifting (though perhaps I could have phrased it better), but I think a lot of people may have intentionally misread my overall point.

We are in agreement that a common sense of morality is necessary for the proper functioning of society. My issue is precisely that powerful people in our society often do not share our sense of morality, they do not live by it, and they are not adequately punished for it. They use our system of ethics against us, and that is what I find frustrating.
503'ing here for me, so here's an cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Also, I've been part of the group looking at LoRa at Lancaster University for some time, and am currently working on part of a commercial deployment too. Here are a few papers published on the topic by Dr. Martin Bor, and occasionally myself (all the top ones are LoRa): https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=WhN1gGwAAAAJ&hl=...
Man, i wish they had included isb power or power outlets on the new cars.
They did not expect updates or little fixes for software bought on a disk. What mostly broke that are necessary security updates for exploits, and newer platforms (Windows 7+ and Mac OS a little bit, but mostly mobile platforms) becoming unstable due to system updates. Most users still do not expect or want updates of any kind, they are pushed due to externalities (occasionally in the users best interest, e.g. security, and occasionally not, e.g. random corporately motivated redesigns)
> illegal

I thought these companies/programs include disclaimers buried in the ToS, which makes this not illegal?

At least in the case of this Comscore company, I'm assuming that disclaimer is the only reason they're not in jail for CFAA violations.
I probably wouldn't have, had there been no package conflicts.

As for security risk on the yearly update: all the services are only locally accessible. None are exposed to anyone but me. I do apply CentOS updates daily, though.

My only risk in an attacker on my LAN, and I think I have that locked down well.
I am not sure. i do not usually share this. to be fair it is not common.
Threats 'from all sides' for Latin America's original languages
It's an absurd argument. You don't need to emulate the industrial age western countries went through to develop a country now that we have better ways to do it. It's no excuse for unsustainable logging and pollution.
With intermitent fasting 16/8 and weight lifting 3x a week, you can get fit and look amazing in a just a couple if months. Just try it, it works!
What's the deal.with Docker swarm? It's MADE by Docker and seems like it could handle a bunch of biz use cases?
I was responding directly to a comment referring to Staff Google engineers. So in response to your goalpost moving question, I guess the percent would be (total number of staff engineers or higher at Google) / (your random estimate of the total engineering population)
The trash can Mac Pro and butterfly keyboards are perfect examples of solutions looking for problems.

But I don't think making the iPad's operating system usable is an attempt to somehow position the devices as "PC killers." For use cases where a tablet is sufficient to produce a particular work product, a more usable OS only enhances its effectiveness. This has no bearing on the huge number of use cases where a tablet is insufficient.

I agree with the author that Apple would be barking up the wrong tree trying to switch the Macs to ARM processors. Macs are already comparatively a low-volume market and segmenting that market would not do them any favors in the face of increasing competition from Microsoft and Linux implementations.
Presumably the fact that they video the machine shortly before using it means that they’re relying on the fact that the hardware randomness is low. They implied that it wasn’t 100% effective, simply effective enough to make their odds better than the house’s. In cryptography, `/dev/random` is preferred to urandom since it blocks when one doesn’t have enough randomness. The machine doesn’t have randomness sourced from user input between the videoing and the attack, so all it has is relatively-low-entropy randomness (at least, within a small timeframe) such as ambient heat. I could definitely believe that this is very hard to defend against without a dedicated hardware randomness source or blocking when entropy is low.
> They could call it "The American Dollar".

Yes, that is what I was suggesting—that the US Mint just mint USD as tokens into a blockchain's Central Bank account, instead of as greenbacks into a Central Bank's physical vaults. They're dollars either way.

> It is hard to forsee a practical difference between a government sponsored crypto and a regular currency.

I mean, yes, that's the point of stablecoins.

> It is meaningless to have a trustless distributed currency that is pegged to a large, untrustworthy centrally controlled currency.

No, it's not.

A stablecoin is "a regular currency"—i.e. fiat money—and also a cryptocurrency—i.e. something that you can move around on a blockchain in fancy ways using smart contracts, with everything staying provable and deterministic such that mutually-distrusting parties (i.e. private citizens of countries that are at war with one-another) are forced to agree on what happened.

> Its only purpose is to skirt around the edges of financial law. Governments do not support that.

Have you been paying attention to what has been happening in the cryptocurrency space for the last two years? A whole infrastructure is being established to allow governments to regulate and control crypto instruments, like security tokens. Crypto companies (or, at least, the ones everyone's investing in now) are no longer attempting to work despite governments; instead, they're now attempting to take advantage of the properties blockchains give you (e.g. "money you can't sweep under the rug"; "contracts that execute automatically and can be proven to have executed"; etc.) while still allowing governments to butt into transactions.

Essentially, the modern business-investor's interpretation of a blockchain is that it's just the same kind of thing as a securities exchange: a government-regulated platform making novel types of trades liquid by decreasing the costs of those trades. A blockchain is just a securities exchange with lower barriers-to-entry for developers of new types of tradable securities.
> Sorry, I don’t have a philosophical axe to grind.

Of course not, you're a mindful person!

> I wasn’t presenting a philosophy.

You made statements of philosophical relevance, which were answered in kind.

> In the context of the quote, omniscience is a valid term.

Sure, in the context of psychobabble, any word can mean anything you want. If you asked Deepak Chopra about quantum mechanics, you would get a "wealth" of meaningless drivel that may nevertheless sound highly profound to the uninitiated.

> For example, a child may say “I’m no good at maths”. Yet you spend some time helping them patiently, and in time they gain some confidence, maybe even some mastery, and that particular once firmly-held notion is proven to be false, an obscuration.

A child that says they're "no good at math" is probably telling the truth. Let's suppose the child really wasn't good at math. They haven't had any practice, why should they be good at math? After all this practice, they may become good at math, but the child wasn't good at maths before. Their earlier self-assessment hasn't been proven false. It was true at the time and forever will have been true.

> The first level being the thought “I’m no good at maths” and the second level being the firmly-held belief that it’s an immutable fact.

The statement "I'm no good at maths" doesn't actually imply such a "firmly-held belief". A statement like "I'm no good at math and I never will be no matter what I do" would. Perhaps a child might make such a statement. They're not really in the position to know, but the possibility exists that it is a more or less immutable fact. Dyscalculia is a thing, you know.

See, if I didn't make this distinction, you might get away with having said something that sounds profound. It really isn't!

> Beyond all this, the identity you ascribe to me (“kook”, “my philosophy”) is all your creation.

I never called you a kook and I don't think you're kook. I think you're an ordinary person that, like many people, found some appeal in mindfulness. I'm not saying that mindfulness doesn't work or that subjectively it doesn't have benefits that outweigh the drawbacks.

However, the foundational teachings behind it are ultimately meaningless. They sound profound, but if you nail them down and try to get them to actually say something with a concrete meaning, they tend to fall apart. They are left intentionally vague to let your preconceived notions fill in the gaps. It's very persuasive.

In any event, you can't entirely divorce the foundation from the practice. That's the point of the article.

> I appreciate now that you don’t like Buddhism.

It's not that I don't like it. I'd like to like it! Nevertheless, I find it misguided. It deserves scrutiny like any belief system.

> That doesn’t automatically mean that I came here to argue with you about that.

I don't expect you to. Nevertheless, I appeal to maintain your critical thinking. Don't do too much non-thinking. You can do that when you're dead.
"They make zero effort to recruit the brightest minds in the industry." is true? Could you explain in detail how you know this to be true?
Perhaps, but it sounds like they are set to make a killing on maintenance.
On this note - anyone familiar with a similar implementation, preferably one like Outline.com that copies the whole content, but in a local.. none web-based format?

I'm writing a Rust library that for Archival purposes I want to immutably refer to source content. So in short, I need to download it and store it immutably. Yet, don't want to grab all the html, UI images, ads, etc - I just want the content. I've found Outline.com amazing, but the tool I'm writing is "distributed", so I don't want to depend on a service.

Anyone familiar with local tooling for these types of services? TLDR, Outline, etc?
Well, my copyright comment was targetted at a distinct case (like "redistributing the summary" on another website or in a book)

Though, just by copying & summarizing with your current implementation, there would be NO ONE to sue you, since you are just grabbing it and displaying it in the browser (sure, depending on the jurisdiction, one may rate this simple step already as some type of copyright issue)

In reality, this will not happen. (Except in North Korea ;-)

My comment regarding copyright was really about grabbing, summarizing and re-distributing it on another webpage, like a news aggregator.
Great advice if you’re already a millionaire.
There's a basic weapon that many people seem to forget: ignore what doesn't matter. That useless trendy language/tool/methodology that sometimes fills half of HN front page? Don't even click the link, of course don't go to the comments page, much less write a comment because someone's wrong in the Internet.

A community with strong ideas about how you should write? Don't even go there.

Respect people, other than that, write with your own voice and ignore everybody.
> now just feed global warming with unnecessary air conditioning?

Modern society would not exist without air conditioning, it is completely necessary to sustain our current civilization.

I'll concede that adding air conditioning capacity will increase global warming, but the above point still stands. Without A/C, our civilization is not sustainable.
I'm assuming it was leather soles, not wood. Wood sounds like a terrible sole material.
I actually commented[1] similar to this. I may end up eventually writing one, though I have no idea what is involved. What are your use cases? Are you aware of anything even close? I could definitely use jumping off points for implementation, as I've got no idea how to write something like this.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20547875
My opinion: meaning comes from religion and philosophy, not a job. Do a reasonably good job at work and take your career seriously, but don’t think it’s something that it’s not.
Even Brazil can't achieve a military occupation of the rainforest. It's enourmous, and by definition trackless jungle. Not to mention how ludicrous the idea of armed international environmentalism is. What would most likely happen is its destruction, Vietnam-style. The defenders would burn it in their retreat like Napoleon's defeat at Moscow.
The twins were separated at birth.
My wife is a clinical psychologist focusing on the mental health impact of high-pressure jobs. She had me build this “Burnout Calculator” based on a self-evaluation protocol they use in their practice. Leaving it here in case it’s helpful for anyone: https://azimuthpsych.com/burnout-calculator