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Perhaps because other people during the last 70 years worried about the problems, figured out which were serious, and found ways to fix them or mitigate them?

One of the predicted problems was mass starvation. One of the mitigations was the Green Revolution. Quoting Borlaug's Nobel Prize speech (he has been credited with saving the lives of 1 billion people):

> It is true that the tide of the battle against hunger has changed for the better during the past three years. But tides have a way of flowing and then ebbing again. We may be at high tide now, but ebb tide could soon set in if we become complacent and relax our efforts. For we are dealing with two opposing forces, the scientific power of food production and the biologic power of human reproduction. ...

> There can be no permanent progress in the battle against hunger until the agencies that fight for increased food production and those that fight for population control unite in a common effort. Fighting alone, they may win temporary skirmishes, but united they can win a decisive and lasting victory to provide food and other amenities of a progressive civilization for the benefit of all mankind

In context of your comment, the predictions of mass starvation didn't happen. Was that because the predictions were wrong? Yes and no. The predictions were right, but people listened to the predictions and worked to mitigate them ... fully aware that they were only mitigations. Thus, those prediction did not happen ... yet.

It was for the people of the future - you and I included - to work to find the real solution. If we don't worry, the work of people like Borlaug to give us more breathing room to work on a more complete solution seems pointless.
I've just been through exactly what the grandparent alludes to. These clip art sites require signup and a monthly subscription to download the "free" content. This is extremely misleading.

Here's an example: https://www.dreamstime.com/animated-bat-monster-character-sp...
> tetra-pak type containers (don't honestly know what they're made of!).

It's layers of plastic, aluminum and paper glued together. The first two can't be separated, but they claim it's reused somewhere in construction.
> I think we overestimate most people's desire to do anything for the benefit of others.

True, which is why we need a legislation framework to combat this problem. We need to do this together, as one human race (also helping certain other races who have it tough such as other mammals). Which won't happen when a country as important as the USA elects someone who "does not believe in climate change".
This idea was somewhat more formalized in E.T. Jaynes' posthumous book, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science (2003), with the idea that truth in science is a matter of probability -- confirmatory evidence increases our estimate that the theory is likely correct, but individual exceptions (like the proverbial three-legged dog, or in reality the existence of experimental error and the like doesn't mean we throw out a theory when only a few cases disagree with it).
No, this was an example of why it won't work. THAT is essentially also THE reeason why communism doesn't work. When people are not forced to work to survive, they won't work. Those who work will see that people who don't work still get benefits, so why should they work? Soon nobody wants to work, because why should they.

The same is with cutting back on comfort of living. If I cut my comfort, but my neighbor don't and payoff is equal for us both, why should I suffer more than him? This is our basic species morality which we found even in apes [0].

[0] https://www.theemotionmachine.com/what-great-apes-teach-us-a...
Swift is only a candidate in the context of Apple OSes, and yes Apple does position it as such on the Swift documentation.

Outside Apple platforms, maybe Rust, but it still found lacking in tooling and libraries versus what C++ offers, specially in graphics programming, GPGPU, embedded platforms, and IDEs.

Maybe now that Microsoft is looking into it, we might get Visual Rust of some sort.

Julia is more a replacement for Python than anything else.

Then if having a GC around is not a problem for the task being solved, there are plenty of alternatives out there, Java, C#, F#, OCaml, Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, ....
Surely the uncertainty is scary for both sides!
Frightening if you contributed less financially but risk to lose your house, etc.
Frightening if you contributed more financially and risk to lose your house, etc.
Dealers make most of their profits in the service bays, not on the sales floor. It's much better for them to make a few hundred dollars profit selling a car that will (statistically) regularly return to the service bays than to make a thousand or more on a car that will not darken their service bays nearly as often.
Too bad, solar cell don't like much radiation. Add shielding and all mass benefit will be negated.
> So I‘m favoring emissions allowances

The system already exists, isn't it? The so called "cap and trade" https://ec.europa.eu/clima/policies/ets_en

But the cap is too high and the prices are too low. Would you accept it's ok to rebel to force the politicians to lower the cap?

But also, wouldn't a lower cap lead to the "drastic life style changes for people" anyway (at least in the short term while the economy adapts)?
haha, I thought about that but really wasn't sure
Walking is surprisingly not an option in many cities due to crap planning. Also what infuriates me is we are nowhere close to start building massive amounts of bicycle lanes. Even when for last couple years cheap e-scooters proved themselves to be ubiquitous solution, goto option for many cities is outright banning them.
I feel bad just reading this, we failed as civilisation so badly. Apart from short term help, I think these people need education - how could both growing up hungry, living in famine and having children at 13 seem like a good idea is beyond me.
This is what is supposed to happen. UNIX-based terminals are case sensitive.
you might want to check https://www.livecode.com is is a modern day xtalk, it uses a language and model just like HyperCard but it creates standalones for windows, mac, linux, android and iOS.

PS: Disclaimer, I work for them.
Same as Gitlab then[0].

US Sanctions should not affect internet services (so long as they are provided for free)[1], but political pressure appears to be very strong.

Personally I find it quite abhorrent, and would cite this as a reason not to use US based companies in future.

[0]: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/07/19/gcp-move-update/

[1]: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...
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I'm curious to hear what Gitlab has to say about this, or if they will have some kind of official communication specifically on that matter.
You are being disingenuous by using the 1% figure.

Its actually more like 16% of Australians who cannot access banking services which would allow transactions greater than this imposed $10,000 limit, because General Insurance is a requirement of such limits (imposed by the banks).
> way, way better for the environment than [...] ending up in an incinerator and releasing it as CO2.

Not necessarily. Just thinking about total CO2 released, it should be better for the environment to release the energy in the oil you have currently (in plastic form) than burn extra CO2 extracting an equivalent oil from the ground, refining it, transporting it, etc.

The equation might be different if you're getting your energy from non-fossil fuels. In this case, the correct answer is probably to recycle it properly rather than ship it to a third country for an unknown fate.

EDIT: I'm assuming here that your incinerator is a modern one that generates energy and that you're not just burning things because they're inconvenient.
Given that Tesla are currently one of few compelling EVs available in volume, that's an unproven thesis. Get back to me when there's direct competition from BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Genesis etc with comparable products at comparable volumes. I think more than a few Tesla customers would be just as happy to be driving a G70 or C-Class EV.

Don't get me wrong—I think the Model 3 is a (mostly) stellar product and I'd love nothing more than to see Tesla come to dominate American car manufacturing. But for that to happen they'll need to swallow their design egos and offer simpler cars with normal door handles and widely available parts for inexpensive repairs. Until that happens they'll find their growth ceiling very soon.
Communists thought the exactly same thing and see how it turned out.

Greed and lazyness are so innate that you could probably trace them back to lobsters.
Well thanks for the extra info :). Sad news imho :S.
Love to try this out some day, a shame that this isn't in Python 2.

EDIT: Thanks HN, try working in an industry where every new project is in Python 2, and have no intention to move on, before saying "moeve to 3", it doesn't help at all.
Please, please don't use Python 2.
Is there a version of PDFtk based on OpenPDF? PDFtk's original GCJ-compiled iText isn't well supported any more.
Just because you put it in a license, doesn't mean it will hold up in court.

Example: I distribute a flashlight app. It contains an obfuscated bitcoin miner and a MITM that collects your login credentials. My license does not mention ether of these things, but it does say there is no warranty or liability.

What do you think will happen if I am sued in court and/or charged with a crime?
And I'm genuinely impressed that it's that high. I expected the Toyota Camrys and low cost Indian scooters to dwarf EV sales more than that—but I had forgotten about the Chinese manufacturers!
I don't see why you'd need fibre optics for that. Mirrors would work just fine, as in a concentrated solar plant.
From glancing at the code, this is an observer pattern over asyncio and unix sockets. That means you're unable to communicate outside the current machine (short of hacks like ssh socket forwarding), but adding support for tcp endpoints shouldn't be too hard.

I'd be interested to see how well this holds up under load, especially compared to other common event bus patterns.
Someone should do a proper game-theoretical analysis of hangman: you're playing hangman with DEATH, who has chosen an n-letter word according to an optimised strategy to minimise your chances of survival, assuming that you too will be following an optimal strategy. So a word containing very few common letters will probably be chosen with a higher probability that one that contains lots of common letters, so a frequency analysis of a dictionary won't directly help you.
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So far it seems that population will settle at 10bln. That's not something we can't handle even with current tech.
There was already the privacy concerns and complete lack of ethical oversight. Now we have some more ethical reasons not to use them.
As European I tend to speak her Majesty's English.
All do not support typewriter or forms. This makes easier to fill up forms
> normal door handles

The business plan always was to start at the high end with the Roadster, then the deluxe sedan and then the affordable Model 3. The Model 3 has cheaper door handles than the Model S.

Tesla is about building car factories rather than cars. Once you have the robots doing as they are told then you can make whatever you want.

If you had to recycle a Lamborghini and a Dacia Sandero then you would probably end up with near equal piles of raw materials for both vehicles, give or take a bit of steel.

The other input is energy. The cylinder head on the Lamborghini takes a bit more work to make than the lump of iron that comes with the Dacia. But, if you have built out lots of renewable power then you can get those CNC machines and other robots doing overtime.

Tesla with their vertical integration business model are finding customers at their price point and they can't make cars quick enough. Despite the sceptics, it is working.

Personally I think the budget space will be filled with an electric version of a 'Dacia Sandero' but made in China. EVs are more pleasant to be in as there is not the vibration and noise from the engine, or the local cloud of pollution.

Because of this and the realities of driving in city/town areas there really is a need for a vehicle far simpler than a Model 3, something without the bells and whistles. Honda have something in the works that is nearer the brief. They are going with a low range EV that is not going to pretend to do hundreds of miles on a charge. This is for the two car family where car two just needs to do the shopping, pick the kids up and get into congestion charging zones. In China there are plenty of BYD fit for purpose EVs that are budget and will be making their way to Western markets in due course.

The legacy brands in Europe and the USA are stuck with having to do things the old way with existing supply chains. To make an EV all they need is to buy the bits from Bosch and shove them in to final assembly but they aren't doing it.
While I agree with most points, I don't understand bashing bailout for nuclear energy plants. Putting them into the same basket with coal-based energy plants is rather unfair. Nuclear energy is the only practical and CO neutral way of energy production that we have now, right now. We can dream about fully renewable energy, but we are simply not there yet, but global warming is happening now. I think a lot of "pro eco" people missing this, unfortunately.
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- Historically US and Europe have set the global trends. I believe the change must start here. If we lead the way the rest will follow.

- I don't have any (direct) influence on the Chinese government. I am gonna do my part and hope that like-minded people in China will do theirs.

- A fair share of Chinese emissions are actually our emissions anyway. Haven't we outsourced our industry to China? What's the US - China trade "imbalance"?
It doesn't stay there. And microplastic looks very likely to be an asbestos-level menace up and down the food chain, including to humans. The more it breaks down, the worse it is. The only safe way to dispose of plastic is incineration, adding to the carbon dioxide problem. The best way to avoid this is not to make it.
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The timing is fine. Large power plants are already far more efficient than burning gasoline in tiny ICE's. On top of that, fossil fuels are only 65% of electricity generation in the USA. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
I'm an environmental studies major. I've lived without a car for over a decade. Before life got in the way, I wanted to be an urban planner.

The fact that I don't lose sleep over worrying about doomsday scenarios doesn't mean I'm doing nothing about it, a point I've repeatedly addressed in this same thread.

If you have an emergency and dial 911, the person who answers remains calm, cool and collected. If they send police or ambulance to your location due to your emergency, those folks also remain calm, cool and collected.

I'm not in denial here. I just think that not only is it not helpful to run screaming across the stage of life in a panic while flailing my arms like Kermit the frog, it's actively counterproductive.

I wish very much I could get more traction for certain things. Perhaps someday I will.

But I am quite confident that histrionics will play little to no part in any success I manage to achieve.
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And it is estimated world population will grow to 11 billion max.
Please don't use Python 2 for any software that anyone else will ever have to work with or maintain.

Python 2 is very close to being not supported anymore, which means no more security updates, etc.
How do you know all the previous planes have no issues at all? The only way you truly know is the track record and we do need to give the Max or its successor the benefit of doubt at some point. What's the point of having regulations of we don't believe in them anyway and depend on feelings? Of course, the regulations allowed 300+ people to die, but that's a thing to be fixed and improved.
The thing I am woried is that harfbuzz is developed by Iranian developer. It is an integral part of Linux font stack.
The solution is to sterilise everyone except for those who are given a license to have children.
What the flipping heck a digestive biscuit is "ultra processed" its not like chicken nuggets made of mechanically recovered meat or CMOT Dibbler brand beef burgers is it.

I think the previous commenter who thought this was hyperbolic click bait - which is actually counter productive is right.
But why?? What if I’m from the Caribbean?
Afaik it makes perfect sense in a third-world country: There is no social security net so your only security is your children taking care of you when you get old / become unable to work. Probably there is a high chance some of these children will either not grow up to take care of them, or not grow up at all. Solution: hedge your bet by having as many children as possible.
>The gains are small but quickly add up.

Same could also be said for build times not to mention security issues should one of your micro-dependencies be hijacked.
Tell that to the industry I work in (Games, Movies & VFX) where most of the tools & 3D software scripting are still in Python 2.

Not all of us move fast and break things here, unlike the web dev world.
Talyllyn on its eponymous railway in Wales has been in regular service since 1864. The big boys are actually some if the youngest steam engines, built right at the very end of the age of steam in the US.
It would really help the believability of your argument if you gave some proper argumentation for why you think we "are simply not there yet", which is a really big claim that I would say you are almost hilariously wrong about. If you were going to claim a lack of being able to meet spot demands I would be able to follow along with you, but seeing as you're promoting nuclear here that is evidently not the main selling point. So what is?
That's incredibly stupid but I'm not surprised that it exists in Sweden. Nothing should entitle Y to any percent of ownership of the house.
The money comes from them, you know? One way or another, they are in charge of funding, and the way to help them make better decision is to be truthful, not to massage the message (you want to tell me it's really ok to compare a figure of merit for a reaction with the breakeven point for another reaction? * )

So, here's what Zubrin has to say about nuclear fusion and ITER [1]: "While, driven by international rivalry, the world's national fusion programs did advance forcefully between 1960 and 1990, the decision to consolidate all of them into a unified global effort to build the International Experiment Reactor (ITER) has caused nearly all progress to screech to a halt since the 1990s."

Why did this happen? Could it be because laypeople in charge of funding listened to scientists lobbying for a cool (and expensive) magaproject?

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HDSSKHJ/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...

( * ) in all fairness, you only argued that the figure-of-merit it a good metric, which I don't contest.
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Frankly, I think your attitude is precisely what we need to change in order to solve the climate crisis. The solution, the only solution is to change people's perspective such that they see that these things are important.

The kind of "solutions" that involve not changing any of the behaviours that are causing the problems are the ones that are not really solution.
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Are ads really that effective? I'd love for my internet ads to show me stuff I could buy at nice prices. What I get is I bought a mechanical keyboard once and now for two months all ads will be bombarding me with mechanical keyboard offers. Why would I want one if I already got one?
I love how most blockchain related articles I read pass from “baby-talk description of decentralization and distribution” to “PoW, permissionless, PoS, miners and mining” in a single swipe.

If I could understand those terms why did you bother to explain such basic concepts to me in the first place?

If I need to be guided throught those ideas, do you really think I can comprehend what are you talking about with Proof of Work? (Which is never spelled in its full words in the article)

<insert face palm emoji>
Cynical view: maintenance burden will stay roughly similar, because fault rate is not ultimately driven by technology, but by how much the market is willing to bear. In other words, companies under competitive pressure will cheap out on materials and cut corners in the manufacturing process, making their cars as faulty as they can get away with, and unless something changes structurally in the market (e.g. death of used cars market, much less car ownership, much more leasing), the existing fault rate of petroleum-powered cars tells you what the market is willing to accept.
Might want to edit the title to clarify that the article is referring to real estate developers.
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On further reading, it's debatable whether the "maliciousness" is not the community attempting to take away a project from its founder. Similar to how that toxic Twisted dev tried to push responsibility for maintaining their broken branch of Python 2 to the Python core lib dev.

You can fork, but then you're responsible for more than the "fun parts". The project founder might introduce measures to prevent fragmentation due to your bad decisions as part of damage control.
The existence of the Web is indeed a big reason. While everybody seems to compare Hypercard to things like Visual Basic, and yes, you could use it that way to make applications, most people used it to create stacks on a topic (a particular band, or Shakespeare's plays, or Japanese swords) that were basically Web sites before the Web.
https://skarnet.org/software/s6/ is pretty much original daemontools with a couple additions
If people stopped having kids every time there was a famine, there'd be nobody here. History is littered with war, disease, and famine, and yet people have been born throughout it. Maybe it wouldn't have seemed a good idea to have kids during the cold war (impending nuclear apocalypse), the spanish flu, WW2, the dustbowl, the great leap forward, the civil war, various genocides of the past century, etc.

And yet, in most cases, the survivors and descendants are better off, not worse off, than the people of the time.
Well, for a well-known project, they won't miss GitHub visibility benefits.

They can host the git repository anywhere. Self-host an issue tracking system or find a non-US company that does that (and is not required to follow US sanctions due to trade agreements, that'll be hard).

It's an annoyance, for sure.
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