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> It's just not profitable to be Green yet, and maybe that won't change until companies have to pay for the second order effects of their products.

It will be as soon as plastic recycling becomes economically attractive. I think it'll take a ban on new plastic production and consequent shortage for that to happen. Until then, I'm sure there's a few of these dodgy "recycling" businesses that put plastic in landfills with the intent of mining it for resources again in a possible future.
GP is probably talking about the Jones Act, which was intended to affect transport of goods. If it applies to cruise ships that's surely an unintended effect. Only ships owned and crewed 100% by Americans could (and can) go from one American port to another, IIRC.
The opposite. If they buy every long term bond that means that companies (and the Treasury too), can put them up for any price, let's say zero coupon payment, that's a zero yield bond.

No, to drive up rates would mean to restrict the buyers from buying (either via restricting the money supply - that means a combination of raising the overnight repo rate [FFR - Federal Funds Rate], raising reserve requirements, decreasing interest payment on reserves).

But such a move means slowing down regular lending, VISA/MasterCard and the banks would have to increase consumer facing prices of credit, etc. It would slow down wage growth.

And we are not seeing wage growth, we're not seeing inflation.

To stimulate spending/consumption all the Fed can do is absorb more and more risk (buy bonds/assets - quantitative easing, keepr rates low, encourage lending, encourage the starting of new projects).

Why people are not starting new projects?

Well, for example look at NIMBYs, look at how Congress doesn't want to force mandate better EPA regulations, look at how municipal fiber plans were stopped thanks to Comcast lobbying, etc.

Basically a lot of money goes into "rent" instead of innovation. (Asset bubbles.)
It always works for me in Firefox.
Pizza boxes are listed as recyclable on my city's website. The rules vary a lot.
> And all passport holders have a de-facto global UID (but not everyone has a passport and bi-nationals may have several)

In India, passport numbers change (for the same person) whenever they're reissued (renewal, lost, etc.). That's a good thing, IMO.
You only realize how much plastic waste we are generating, when you start separating your own plastic waste.
I’ve always seen that hyphenated: “rabbit-chasing dog”.
How about allowing only plastic that can be recycled and banning everything else? This is also going to open a market for companies that create ways to recycle unappealing plastic types (but beware for shady companies that pretend to recycle and actually dump.)
> Perl (cpan), Python (pip or conda), Ruby (gem), and Rust (cargo) all behave as NPM does

Wrong.

None of them have chosen the "micro-package" way of NPM.

None of them have an average size of "3-10" line of code per package, which NPM has for many MANY packages. Cargo, pip have many packages but "reasonnable size" packages. ( > 100 lines ).

The Micro-package philosophy that NPM chose, meaning every single line of code can have its own package, increase by several factor the number of dependencies required to create anything in JS.

A simple hello world in react already have ~100 dependencies

https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-create-app

Some core utility bundler/packer/etc overpasses 2000 dependencies

https://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/webpack

This is madness.

It is a simple evidence that bigger the dependency tree is, higher the chance of "one element" malicious / corrupted is.

Maybe the NPM developpers / users should reflect on what lead to this situation instead of closing their eyes and sing "everything is fine".
>I was also researching AI in Forth, implementing ideas from LISP examples and doing expert systems and neural nets and mixing them and building robots. In the software I added a layer for an inference engine for English language descriptions of rule sets and a layer for the rules. I wrote a learning email report and conversation engine AI program and had it running for a few months. My boss could not distinguish it from me. That was my idea of AI, smart enough to do my job for me and get paid at my salary while I took a vacation.

Is the author exaggerating here, or did they actually succeed at writing something that could pass whatever Turing test level his boss could offer?

If it's the latter, what then-current knowledge would they likely have sourced?
What JS needs a standard library(s). Developed and manintained by MS/Google or preferably a foundation. No reason every library have a 10 level deep dependencies.
Sorry. When I noticed it, it was too late :)
He doesn't have to. He can use the same argument to prove that a formal logical proof exists.
It probably depends on where you live and the (lack of) appropriate infrastructure.
I think you're falling into exactly the same inaccuracy that you're trying to combat. The issue is not that everyone below the top 20% of performance over-estimate their performance, it's that over-estimating performance is strongly correlated to incompetence. Your summary makes it sound like someone who is of average competence is over-estimating their performance to the same extent as those with the worst performance, which is untrue. In fact when we talk about the DK effect almost no one is talking about the average person who thinks they're smarter than 65% of other people because that effect is almost impossible to qualitatively observe.
What gains? That line wouldn't take much resources or time to figure out and test. Now you have yet another dependency that could be injected with bad code in the future...
Yes! Quite a few, anyway.
How do they define a death by suicide in Belgium? Is that comparable to how they define it in the US?
It's unfortunate the way that sexual relationships are intertwined with finances. Gone are the days where women have little/no earning opportunities.

People should be allowed to keep finances separated unless explicitly deciding otherwise.
Having integrations with ERP systems in the education space would be a great way to save students the trouble to enter all the enrollment data like classes, etc.
The issue is that there are simply too many different systems across the globe, lot of them without anything resembling an API. Ellucian Banner looks interesting, will check it out further, thanks
I looked at Clojure back in 2010, and from from 2012 I've managed to work with it full time. Love it!

The only Java-esque thing you need to decipher are the potential stack traces. But that's becoming easier with each new release, and it's actually quite easy to find the Clojure-namespace (= file) and line number you need to focus on, just by scrolling through the usually not too long stack trace.
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https://connectedthings.store/gb/

We don't have the Things Node yet, but we do have the Things Uno (EU) which is a really handy dev board for experiments.
There is not even a link to the source code on the npm page for it. I installed it and inspected the source code, but I doubt everyone does this when installing a dependency.
Thank you! This answers my original question. I guess all things considered, it's still not too bad. Two functions is better than 6+, and it looks like they'll be a lot harder to get wrong.
We must not hate the laws that protect our privacy. IMHO.
But I'm agree with the fact it can demand more works to be compliant than just block EU.
That's not how selective breeding works. There's no rule where it takes one generation per gene. With a large population you can find individuals who gain many generic improvements in one generation. With sexual reproduction you can combine advantageous gene lines. Finally, note that we're starting with a huge amount of diversity so we don't need to create new genes, just select the best ones we already have.
I tried out a bunch of Scheme implementations recently in search of one that could build standalone binaries and had a moderately sane take on HTTP requests for a pet project of mine:

https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2019/06/20/2310

That said, I would probably go with Clojure for other solutions, since the JVM gives it a lot of reach and flexibility for real-world applications.
Hot food in a sealed container is a recipe for soggy steamy food...

You'd need to design sealed packaging with vents before it could really work out.
Sure, the language is not complex enough, let's bolt another language on top of it.

The spaceship operator is exactly an attempt to make the language more accessible, but of course is being dismissed here as anything c++.
pay them a decent salary and things like this will never happen
It's sad that LTSC isn't that compatible with tablets.
Vaccines are already safe, to the best of our testing.

Google is a private service, and in theory could censor anything they wanted.

Anti-vaccine isn't just a joke, but a serious threat to the survivability of the human race.
That's... Not how any of this works.
Then you turn the AC or fan on...
> Java and Python are doing this sensibly.

IMO this is because Java and python are driven by open “community processes” where anyone can influence the language. C++ standards are influenced by full members of some kind of iso national bodies, from what I remember.
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As a thought experiment:

Assume Rubygems chose to operate in that way, where all gems must be owned by a group rather than an individual user.

Then, assume that the most flexible option is for each gem to be owned by a unique group: that way even if two gems are maintained by the same users right now, they use two distinct groups in case that ownership changes in the future.

We might as well just name the “group” the same as the gem name, since only one gem is managed by each group. So now the “purescript” group maintains “purescript”, the “pry” group maintains “pry”, etc.

As syntactic sugar for users, since the group name and gem name will always match, why make them type both? Let’s have all the commands support just referencing the gem name. If somebody wants to fork a gem and release it, their group and gem get a new name.

I think there’s a pretty compelling case that package managers should support group ACLing on publishing (giving multiple humans the first-class right to publish using individual creds to a group namespace, with the ability to add/remove users from the group over time. But once you’ve done that, the distinction between explicit group-name-in-package-path and changing-name-to-fork (so the difference between fork-group/orig-name and orig-name_fork-group) seems to shrink.
Risk prediction is really tricky. We think the best predictor of risk is a previous suicide attempt, or a previous self harm attempt.

About half of people who die by suicide have a history of self harm, and in the year after attending A&E for self harm people are at 30* to 50* the risk of dying by suicide.

We need the short term intervention to save life, and we need an intense package of community support for the next few months addressing the full range of bio-psycho-social needs of the patient.

We're not getting this right in the UK at the moment. I can't speak about the US.
Do you mean A Tour of C++? That's an excellent introduction by Bjarne himself, but does not talk about some things such as the Boost library.
Both are required.
I asked because none of the things you've mentioned are "standard". Except for the savings rate maybe.

Aggressive career progression - in a recession, it's often harder for senior people to find a job. Especially for managers (how many companies are looking for senior technical managers in your area?). Not advancing might be a valid preparation strategy.

No specialization - Again, there's something to be said for specializing in core IT areas which aren't booming. For instance storage technologies, networking, distributed systems, databases and data engineering. Heck, even being a top expert on something like JVM garbage collection. These areas are more mature and have a lower risk of oversaturation. Yet both big and small companies always need people with expertise in these fields.
Another comparison would be those trait controllers they had in Westworld. The writers/engineers could move sliders on a flexible sheet for different character traits.

In depressive episodes the sliders for "optimism", "motivation", "thrill seeking", "social behavior" would be significantly lower than they are normally.

But the idea that those traits are not constant goes much against our cultural programming, I think.
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Couldn't one satisfy the argument simply by believing that God is real, regardless of whether he does or not?
In 10 years? I guess, not. Maybe 20 or 30? The world will have a different set of problems 10 years from now. A different set of verticals, regulations to work with. A different amount of platforms or hardware (quantum computers, more accessible VR/AR).

Take for example the current situation with agri-tech (vertical), it's pretty boring because it doesn't pay as much as putting different colored boxes in web pages for advertisers. With that vertical, you also have to take in localization for a region. Agri-tech vertical is nowhere near "tech-saturated" in other parts of the world. Random thought: it wouldn't be far-fetched to say agri-tech would pay a ton more if global warming went crazier in 10-20 years.

In 10 years, we can get better tooling, but if regional regulations/laws hamper new tech, we'll see tech-startups develop for that specific region. Things like data privacy laws in other countries would lessen usage of public clouds and more in-house data centers. Trade-wars also spawn events like Github/Google blocking developers based in other countries, etc. So you'll see more startups taking advantage of that by developing localized tooling leveraging regulations and laws.

Take for example, Alibaba. 10 years ago (~2009), you wouldn't know about that company unless you're from China. Now they're the Amazon/Google for a closed-economy of more than a billion people, more than twice the population of US. Grab, Paytm, Line are just getting started. So we'll probably saturate in 20-30 years? We might see more or less of these companies though, depending on the different set of problems/laws we'll see in 10 years.
Wouldn't you slap this on top of a steam boiler to get the best of both worlds, though?
It can take a huge amount of time, but actually, that bit I won't outsource yet. We do it all in house.

A friend of mine with a similar business in a different field tried outsourcing that a few years ago and it didn't work well, I didn't really understand why until I started.

We sometimes pre-configure gateways and devices for customers, so we need to pull them off the shelf and work on them first, then pack all the other stuff they ordered into the box and ship it. It's invaluable having the stock close to hand.

My solution - hire someone to help with the logistics.
Why less meat?
I am not aware of any claim that the devil is the largest evil that could be imagined. Further, such a definition would not make sense in for example traditional Christianity where evil is defined as a privation on good, not something that exists in itself.

Having God and the devil as evenly matched but opposite powers is not something you would find in theology. Learn the basics of it before thinking you have created a proper critique.
Yeah we always do. Mining is incredibly cyclical boom/bust In Australia for this reason.

Also it’s just as difficult to leave it in the ground. Any decent mining operation takes at minimum 2-3 from construction to production so you still need to take that into account (unless you lock down some offtake agreements to hedge the risk)
There are no guarantees but they're not really needed. Australia isn't like the US, we don't have a large population of unbanked people. Banks are usually free, either because you have enough money to make the minimum deposit or because you're low enough income to qualify for a free account. The documents required to open an account [0] are also very basic necessities you'll need to live in general.

And I think practically, there aren't going to be issues here. Where are you storing >$10k if not in a bank? I think the kinds of people paranoid enough to do that aren't going to go around making >$10k financial transactions.

[0]: https://www.commbank.com.au/guidance/consumer-finance/what-d...
If people start migrating away from those regions en masse, is there a chance it will trigger a war?
True, though it is combined (in the article) with a maximum power consumption: "those that require as little as 100 watts, [such as] a lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle"

The original paper says "unmanned vehicles" (no aerial) and has a reference [0] to "unmanned undersea vehicles".

[0] https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/07/15/1903001116#ref...
Same experience with AS. Cycling, chiro, stretching and keto diet have made a huge difference. If I drop any of them things go south real quick.
> Tradesmen are often paid in cash

Tradies here are stereotyped by (not all) unscrupulous operators that use cash to do jobs 'off the books' in under-quoting their true income or offering a discount to customers for unlawfully not charging the GST.

Bank transactions provide the tax office an audit trail. NB: The 'blackeconomy@...' feedback email hints at the purpose.
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The weaknesses in these proofs are in the premises.

For example:

> Whatever is changing is being changed by another

Asian philosophers would have pointed out that self causation seems to be true. Most things that appear persistent cause themselves to change state. They even had the concepts of two things changing or creating each other at the same time "dependent co-arising". "conditioned existence". Thing might exist conditionally. When condition arises thing starts to exist, when it goes away it ceases to to exist.
Perhaps a silly question, but what would be the real-life benefits trying to convert a Java team to Clojure in 2019?
I'm curious - what makes people operate a BT tracker?
We, humans, can jump start a runaway process to reach these pollution levels in a worst case.
Those nations possessing a sufficient pool of well trained nuclear engineering talent will be those most likely to survive the coming climatic and geopolitical extremes.
Even in Europe, with the draconian GDPR rules, credit reference agencies managed to write themselves a loophole in the law ('fraud prevention' is an excuse to hold data forever, against the will of the holder, and without their permission, or even ability to see it).

Bit sad really, considering "all banks deny me a loan, and I don't know why" is just the time you want to see the details of your credit report and correct errors.
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Meat production is generally much more resource-intensive than vegetarian protein sources.
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Border Collies were supposedly bred for intelligence and obedience.
Farming is a significant contributor to energy use and emissions.

Meat is significantly less efficient to produce than a balanced vegetarian diet.
Don't worry about chasing down large multinationals who owe billions in tax revenue, best to just crack down on pot dealers and bricklayers paying for stuff in cash.
The work “exploit” is used several times but none of the code seems to exploit anything. Also, “malicious code” usually has a different meaning than something that intentionally makes the program crash during the installation process.
Wolves. You would get wolves.
LiveCode is pretty nice. If you want something fast & crossplatform it is kind of hard to beat. I find the language awful (far too verbose for my taste) but I would say most people here would have that going in 1 to a few days to be productive. The forum is active and people answer fast when stuck.
Meat production requires a lot more energy for the same amount of nutrition than plant based foods. That's an unavoidable effect of the animals eating plants (or even worse: other animals (e.g. tuna fish eating other fish)) as only a small fraction, about 10% of the energy absorbed by the plants can be converted into meat.

By eating vegetarian you cut one or maybe several factors of ~ 0.1 out of the equation. I'm not vegetarian but have reduced my meat consumption by a lot while not having the feeling that I miss anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level#Biomass_transfer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_efficiency#Ten_perc...
Great correction, thanks!
I actually meant that it reminded me of ye olde-VB (because it's ancient in its own right).
Who is lobbying for this? Who wants this legislation to pass, and why? (American here, not sure how things work in Australia, but these are questions I often ask in my own country)
That won't harm them much.

That'll pay the entire engineering department's salary from it, something they were going to pay for anyway.
He didn't. There were some people who claimed otherwise but without any piece of evidence whatsoever.
I thought I got hit by this, and then realized that it's text.txt with an X and not test.txt with an S.
Maybe it’s useful and I appreciate the effort going into this. But consider you have a legacy c++ system in a large bank. The argument “we can extend this with a subset of python” can win over “when do we rewrite this in java or nodejs” which are the real conversations that have been taking place over the last decade.
They could just, not get married.
Because 15% (7 Gt CO₂/year) of our greenhouse gas emissions are from livestock, and meat is a substantial chunk of that. [1]

[1] http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623/icode/
TL;DR:

20% energy density increase by replacing the graphite powder.

(Rant excerpt: Holy shit, this article is fluffy)
Another way to help is to slowly cut out fast fashion brands. The amount of waste that is produced from stores such as HM and Zara has heavily impacted our environment.
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Yeah, that was one of the main reasons I stopped using it. They’re doing async now (which was another), but having let as a contrib macro and not in core still puts me off a bit.

I wrote my entire blog engine on it - https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy/tree/master/sushy - and then ported it back to Python 3
The bar for interviews gets higher every year in accordance with the population of devs and study resources as well. A question that was hard 5 years ago is today’s easy - medium question.
That's a really great app which has been around for a long time. I tried to make some things a little different.

For example emphasising on the three different types of data (class, homework, grading) with each having it's own view, but still showing all of them in the calendar to have a summary of what's going on.
Sharing your calendar with Google Calendar, Outlook or similar also allows you to select which type of data you wanna share.

Or being able to set a repeat of any item, not just a class. So you can create for example a repeating quiz grading over several weeks.

There are more, smaller differences like you can enter extra-curricular events that to not belong to any course. Or have an attendance tracking where you can skip single classes and see an overview of skipped ones..
> Clojurescript is probably the best AltJS alternative today (compared to Elm, Purescript, ReasonML, Scalajs, Kotlinjs, GHCJS, etc.).

Do you mind expanding on this? I’m moving away from Elm and I’ve been considering Clojurescript, ReasonML, and Purescript.
It’s clear now that Stack Overflow was a bait-and-switch play:

1. get the high quality content through gamification of writing answers and moderating the site with points and badges

2. once a critical mass of content was captured and the competition eliminated, tell the original creators they were no longer welcome

3. profit with a new, ad-friendly userbase