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The anti-US ideology is strong here, and it's a losing battle speaking reason to ideologues. The ideology is rooted in something I am sympathetic to, even though I am very pro-US.

Many here and elsewhere on the internet are either not from the US, or - if they are US citizens - do not personally identify with the power-elite that they feel controls the nation, or with the majority of citizens that comprise the national populace. The US being the most powerful and influential nation on Earth can be intimidating to these outsiders, which in them fuels an innate anti-US bias.

This bias means that negative things the US does are maximized while the positive things are minimized in a weighted judgement of the US's moral worthiness.

Substitute any other country as the most powerful in the world and they would suffer this bias as well. If Belgium were to become a superpower, its good actions would be outweighed by its bad actions in the minds of international observers. Whether dealing with individuals or countries, being skeptical of those more powerful than us is an innate human reflex.

That said, because this reflexive anti-US ideology is biased against the US, it can be frustrating for patriotic citizens and the USA's many global supporters.

I believe that the price of being the most powerful nation is that you just need to be extra careful in your actions, similar to how the biggest people need to take extra care to not intimidate others.

Outsiders should also take this analysis to heart when making judgements about the US. Recognizing how biases and reflexive thinking colour our perception is very important in order to avoid developing a skewed vision of reality.
Your earlier question - one you presented as being in the minds of most people - was:

"If we are right this time, why worry about it? If we are wrong this time -- as we have been for the past 70 years -- why worry about it?"

If I understand you correctly, your response to your own question is that you do indeed do something (eg, lack of car), but you don't worry, or more specifically, you don't worry to the point of losing sleep about it.

Is that a correct interpretation of what you wrote?

If so, I think we are working on different meanings of 'worry', which the OP used. I was thinking more along the lines of "to annoy, bother, vex", not "to cause mental distress or trouble" (using the definitions from https://www.etymonline.com/word/worry ).

That is, more along the lines of "concerned", and "alarmed", and not along the lines of the excessive worry that could be part of a generalized anxiety disorder causing a lack of sleep.

I believe it is possible to be both "worried" and "calm, cool and collected." For example, quoting from an interview with a paramedic at https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/01/03/6760393... :

> When people are acutely sick or injured, pain medication is important," Dahlke says. "But it's not the first thing we're going to worry about. We're going to worry about life threats. You're not necessarily going to die from pain, and we're going to do what satisfies the need in the moment to get you into the ambulance and to the hospital and to a higher level of care."

I assumed that OP meant that sort of worry - the kind which implies paying close attention to a real problem and trying to resolve it - and not some 'histrionic' concern.
More nutrients is a big benefit, but there's also more fiber and lower glycemic index.
Which of those ingredients are bad, and why?
Yep.

Our last nuclear plant cost right around 30 billion. (And the cost overruns still haven't stopped with Vogtie. In the end it will cost more.) Now even if you get rid of any and all regulations, you're still talking about 2 to 5 billion to build one of these things. And it's transitional in nature. It will be shut off when the renewables take over.

So that's the problem. Energy investors can take this enormous risk on nuclear, that will be going away, but they don't really know when? So the gamble is, will I make my money back before the renewables do my plant in?

Or

Those same investors can just slap up windmills everywhere and start making their money back right away, and continue generating income on each windmill for the life of the equipment.

Even energy investors like Pickens have switched over to the "slap up a windmill" strategy. (Or in his case, I guess it's more of a "slap up so many that no one else can compete with you" strategy.) Point is, Pickens is old, stodgy, conservative, has a preference for big energy projects, and is not prone to rash action. If you can't even convince guys like that to back nuclear in actual deed instead of screed, you really are just not being realistic about the challenges faced by nuclear investors. It's not just regulation, it's all the other energy options that offer far better returns.

If we want nuclear, the American tax payer will have to foot the bill for it, and that's just not terribly likely to happen.
It is a Hindu religious practice of taking the life of a Hindu widow after her Husband dies( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice) ). The central idea is to prevent remarriage with other caste men and preserve the purity of caste system.
In an industry where win95 appears to be the norm (if not VAX!) but not complaining when don't see flashy libraries or tools support.
It does feel good , when some claim support however.
I would say it was closer to access and access forms than to VB. It was more UI centric where you just added snippets of scripts for button clicks and other actions. Access forms where like this but had wiring to the Access Database that was the real difference between the two. Hypercard was UI focused and access was data focused but both had the concept of layout the form and add snippets of glue. I would put Macromedia Director in this class of applications as well.
So why haven't all websites cut off these countries?

Why haven't the ISPs cut off these countries?

Github has acted because github is under the control of a giant corporation, Microsoft or otherwise.

So there's a line that runs precisely from Microsoft acquisition to cutting off countries from the world's largest open source repository. It's a direct outcome of the Microsoft acquisition.
Currently animals raised for meat consumption get B12 injections too. What vegan do is just making the loop more efficient by taking the "injection" themselves.
Maybe, this was not the best source, but there are articles disputing that the population decreases happened before the first contact with European explorers in 1722.

http://islandheritage.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/...

I don't think it does challenge the idea that the deforestation led to the collapse, but maybe it was not the only cause.
Not paying a middleman a percentage of the transaction would have some value to it.
How are private repos handled in this situation? From what I remember private repos go public if you fail to pay for them after a month.
The issue is that __cmp__ wasn't "only one". For one thing, you generally want equality independent of ordering, so defining an explicit __eq__ that just handles equality is a decent idea. Otherwise either you define both cmp and eq, or you have your cmp including stuff like isinstance checks, in some cases, and having to decide if your custom class is more, or less, than a string (as masklinn notes below). Note: there's literally only bad answers here. Does cmp raise an exception? Yikes. Is MyCustomObject less than "hello world", or more, or does it depend on the internal state of MyCustomObject? Yikes, why do I have to choose? MyCustomObject isn't like "hello world".

So you want eq, seperate from cmp. Then you still need a way to define ordering, so either write them all for weird cases, or just pick one and have total_ordering do the legwork.
Sure but the original intention makes no difference to the user base, particularly those who've put in a lot of time and effort for little reward other than community kudos.

I suppose there's a deeper problem of the difficulty of ethical profitability over the long term. We seem to see this same pattern again and again with startups that seem to grow out of their good intentions, particularly with social media or otherwise community driven websites.
The op asked about Sati not smrti.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice)
The problem is that they'd require a payment method to rent the server somewhere else or to use a non-US company that doesn't offer a generous free plan. The most prominent payment providers (Visa, MasterCard, PayPal) are all US-based.

> (and is not required to follow US sanctions due to trade agreements, that'll be hard).

I really don't know much about sanctions against Syria and Crimea, but Iranian developers could use every country that hasn't withdrawn from the Iran deal: EU, UK (separate signature, regardless of Brexit), Russia, China.
This! I have had the same realization last year.

I started cooking my own meals for the last year and my energy level is way up. Another thing that had a good effect is reducing a lot sugar and carbo hydrates (bread). I have grown up in France too and we are used to eating way too much bread.

Still, I havent figured out how to keep eating as healthy as home when I travel for a long time.

I had thought of targeting vegetarian restaurants as a proxy for healthy food.
I'm curious.. why is this very suddenly an issue? Haven't countries like Iran and Syria been under embargo for years? Have more restrictive laws around sanctions been passed in recent weeks?
Voting is important at the end, when a movement has made its case and a majority of people agrees.

But before that being vocal, determined, and incessant is what matters [1]. At first, nobody knows about you, then, nobody believes you. The climate change discourse is still not past that second stage.

[1]: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
It would be nice for him to stick to topics he's an expert in. Though considering he's a "word" guy, he does know how to manipulate language to achieve his goals.
From my perspective the biggest thread to western lifestyle is the reliance on cheap labor in Asia (production) and Africa (mining). Their minimum livable pay might rise due to food shortages, need for AC etc. That could have a major ripple effect on many product and service prices. But maybe we will have even better automation by then so we can trade opex for capex.

But I only have shallow knowledge of the major supply chains, maybe someone with a deeper understanding can chime in.
More like, going again - the Big Boys were taken out of service in the late 1950's, early 1960's.

This one was sitting in a train museum in California for 50 years before the Union Pacific got it back; they them spent several years restoring it to running condition.

The UP has a some information about this train on their website: https://www.up.com/heritage/steam/4014/index.htm
I do know the context and sure there is a contribution but not necessarily at the same level.
Going on most nuclear plants, and current renewables including decommissioning costs for each, I would bet heavily you could build wind and solar out to the same capacity before, and cheaper than the nuclear plant. Leaving change from the nuclear option's budget for storage, maybe pumped hydro.
Airbnb host ordered to pay £100k of unlawful profits after letting council flat
Our Phones Are Designed to Be Addicting, but Can We Take Back Control
A check would likely be the same deal as cash. But there's no incentive to keep that amount of money sitting around in a checking account.

I don't think a dealership would try to under report the transaction for tax evasion purposes. There's too much risk. The customer will get a receipt for the real amount they paid, and it's also very possible the customer will report the transaction on their taxes as a business write off.
I did not read the article. So maybe it covers this. But how is that different to living in New Orleans or Florida or a bunch of South America. It’s 90 with 80% humidity there all the time and people have lived there for hundreds of years without air conditioning.
>Rust can pretend to replace everything that is done with C++.

Do you mean in term of "you can't replace decades of base code in a single day", or do you mean that there are – according to you – scope where C++ is definitely better than Rust?
I have a maltipoo(wifes choice) that was especially difficult to train, and hard headed. I thought it was because he was not especially bright, but turns out to be the opposite. I tell him get me a ball, he runs off and returns with a ball. I tell him get me his rope, same thing. In the morning he jumps on me and wants to go outside, when I want to snooze a bit, I say "go lay down", no pointing no body language to read he goes and lays at my feet for a while longer.

Watched the attached video of chaser, and totally agree with one point made- play is the way to teach an animal, not food. Dogs love exercise, and training with food is a great way to make your dog obese, which will make exercise more difficult and its overall happiness reduced. My dogs are 10x happier when they hear "you wanna go for a walk?" than "do you want a treat?"
By participating in the sanctions, Github is allowing itself to be an arm of Donald Trump's white supremacist, Christian supremacist political campaign.

The only acceptable response for tech companies to this kind of stuff is to refuse to comply.

Sanctions are acts of violence that directly harm the people who are the victims of the regimes the US takes issue with. Now, another generation of young tech workers will be materially harmed by US warmongering.

When Github first launched there were concerns about centralization. We can see now how Linus made a wise decision to design git as a decentralized system.

Fortunately, for any teams hiring Iranian, Syrian, or Crimean workers, commits and branches can be synced with an easy to configure git peer via ssh.

The morally bankrupt US war posturing is bad enough, but it really irritates me when it starts to impact the day to day lives of people who are just trying to live their lives peacefully and write code or contribute to open source.
Your food is shipped (often by air), you go on holidays by plane, you drive cars etc, stopping that _is_ going backwards.

I'm not entirely saying I agree with people just flying around for the sake of it, but let's be honest, putting an end to most transport doesn't exactly seem like progress, let's also think of it this way, the problem is caused by the burning of fossil fuels, not traveling.

"companies still require employees to be on-site mostly for historical cultural reasons."

If you're a Doctor, truck driver, pilot, builder, fisherman etc, then how do you work remotely? The majority of the workforce can't just work remotely because knowledge workers can. Besides, data-centers also have a large environmental cost, remote work creates it's own mess.

I'm also a knowledge worker, but I just choose to live in the city close to my office and ride to work so I have a very small / no carboon footprint from transport.

I've also worked remote full-time, it wasn't for me, I think it has it's own set of issues.
> Yes, because web dev is the hot tech stuff now, nobody wants to work in a boring sector, so they are not willing to change anything, cycle continues.

Change what? You're asking for...what exactly? People to provide support for a deprecated platform? That just encourages those companies you're complaining about to continue to use python2 and further splits the ecosystem. No!
> (...) some cynical narrative on HN

...that Numberwang has just fallen victim of, for sure...
I find the 'ro' in his katakana completely illegible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKFgLQVX86U

I guess they can't all be winners.
Did I miss or there isn't a section that covers modern build systems? I would have loved to get an intro to that.
There is overpopulation. We just had earth day and looking at a graph about population growth is a very clear hint.

It is true that this is nothing we can change, but the source of the problem shouldn't be ignored.

Of course we can eat as much meat as we want. It just doesn't scale to 7 billion people.

So yes, there is overpopulation, we just cannot do anything about it. But don't dismiss the fact.
Are you sure ?

Quoted from GitHub CEO Nat Friedman on Twitter:

> The restrictions are based on place of residence and location, not on nationality or heritage. If someone was flagged in error, they can fill out a form to get the restrictions lifted on their account within hours.
You need a garage, and a circuit with 60A capacity. Most houses built today have 200A total capacity, older homes are 100A. At some point the electric grid will need updated.
Use a self hosted gogs installation (https://gogs.io/) under your own domain and root server outside US jurisdiction.
In my experience (granted; anecdotal, limited, etc.) people who enter a job that is mostly coding (job title notwithstanding) and who come from an academic background often tend to write seriously unmaintanable, borderline illegible code.

I think this is because they are not used to having other people read and work with their code, especially if they have just graduated and never worked in industry. This is potentially justifiable in an academic setting where stream-of-consciousness type programming is acceptable for a barebones proof of concept, but attempting to work with 1000+ LOC functions with non-descriptive variable names etc. is not only not acceptable in modern software, it is ungracious to your coworkers.

Unfortunately this can sometimes be coupled with a good dose of hubris ("I have a PhD and you don't!"), and efforts to provide constructive criticism are often met with anger/apathy/belittling/ignorance. Their pride, which may be well be deserved within the narrow field of their academic work, unfortunately doesn't mean that they automatically know how to write maintainable software and also potentially hinders them learning how to. This is perhaps why there is a trend to dismiss "academic candidates".

That being said, some of the best software engineers I have ever worked with hold doctorates - and people worth working with will usually admit their limitations anyway. This is not limited to those with an academic background in general, as accepting our faults is the first step in adressing them.
There aren't many examples of Unification, but there are examples, maybe this wouldn't be considered one of them.

My home country for instance is the "United Kingdom" which is made of up of countries/territories that unified many hundreds of years ago.

There's other examples such as the formation of Italy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_unification

However, if it's not annexation it's probably better described as "ceding"; an American example: France ceded Louisiana to the United States by the treaty of Paris, of April 30, 1803. Spain made a cession of East and West Florida by the treaty of February 22, 1819.

Cessions have been severally made of a part of their territory by New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia.
Python 2.7 is still maintained, and the last version came out in March IIRC, so there's that.

Lots of big players still use Python 2 (Google being the most prominent), and untold smaller players.

Besides, Windows XP and PHP are also in use, as are 50+ year old COBOL systems, so there's that.

Unless you come in and do the port yourself, many systems are not getting ported anytime soon. RedHat and co will continue to release 2.7 patches for the foreseeable future, long after 2020.
I am not sure about vegan diet but I have many friends who have been vegetarians(include dairy products in their food) their whole life and are healthy. Have never heard of a link between being vegetarian and vitamin deficiency. I presume as long as we eat a wide variety of vegetables and lentils, it should be fine. NHS seems to support the case as well:

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/vegetarian-and-vegan-d...

I believe cutting back on meat would still be a significant improvement over the current situation.
If my electricity is nuclear, hydro, or wind then what Carbon is my ac inefficient at?
When we run out of land for landfills, incineration will be the next best option. It's just... we have a lot of land for landfills.
Poor America, always shouting it’s under attack, is that because it’s war machine is the second largest money spinner on earth. Its drooling for your hard earned American tax payer dollars. Its for your security, you know that.
Ask HN: Why do you enjoy working with Clojure?
What didn't you like about it? That is, what could be improved?

If you know other languages that you actively use in production, how does clojure stack up/compare against those languages?
> While I agree with you overall I've been sliding more and more into fear and despondency.

I've gone through that stage too. Then I came out and decided I'm gonna do what I can, however little the impact might be. I am not hopeful or optimistic. I don't expect to succeed or fail. I am just gonna work on it.
We could, but then we should also tax everything else (e.g. glass bottles) based on objective criteria as there is no reason to single out plastic.

Perhaps these criteria could be based on the ease and cost of recycling, with a huge penalty if not recyclable and a bonus if biodegradable/compostable.
But that's _literally_ how a bunch of countries split from other countries. In a different context, we might celebrate it and call it "gaining independence" or "reuniting with their motherland".
They definitely do profile you for personalised advertising. They identify you because you have to give the card when you pay, and unless you always pay with cash your name comes by.
I think that a pretty good argument against this view is to note that the fault rate has been steadily decreasing over time. This suggests that minimizing the fault rate is a strong competitive advantage, and the limiting factor is therefore not what the market will bear, but what is technically possible right now (without sacrificing other things that matter for competitiveness). Should a new technology arise that will increase reliability and durability, it will be rapidly adopted and push fault rates down across the board.
Our "underlying perceptions" for most things concerned with society are nigh completely incompatible with that of Shakespare and most certainly Machiavelli.

Sure we can still understand thinkers of old in a limited capacity, but that's not due to us thinking like them or even experiencing the world like them as our experience is coloured by the concepts we use. We can understand them because of the continuity of society, the constant translation of the old into the new.

Capitalism can only exist now because of how much those underlying assumptions have changed.
Isn't that how Texas became part of the US?
As far as I've seen there's no proof of Iran actively developing nuclear weapons, and they've denied doing so.

Crimea is under illegal occupation by Russia, shouldn't that mean that the whole of Russia is sanctioned and not Crimea, which still belongs to the Ukraine?
>Oh please. The EOL on python2 has been massively pre announced.

Which is neither here, nor there. Pre-announcing doesn't give any reason or motive (or funding) for porting large codebases. Many businesses stuck with 2.x will fund 2.x maintenance if the core devs don't do it, and port on their own schedule not on whatever was "pre announced".
Wasn't it here on HN that people have posted about the ritual "hazing" of new engineers on their first code review where literally thousands of "code issues" are flagged to be fixed? While that sounds kinda funny and I would probably roll my eyes at this if it happened to me, some people have taken it personally and quit over it, apparently.

That said, poignant and brief code reviews are the best and I love that education is listed as the first goal of Google's code reviews.