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> Indeed, brexit (though America don't call independence day Amexit!)

The US never voted to leave the EU; they were never part of the EU, and openly fought against the French in the 7 Years War. The US voted to leave the British Empire -- and fought a war for it (with some French help later, of course).

Nearest I can tell Brexit is a confluence of UK Conservatives and foreign interests spreading Agi-Prop to A) enrich themselves at the expense of the UK as a whole, B) to split the UK from the EU in a geo-political sense, and C) to, in all likelihood, crush the UK economy.

> Put another way, nobody blamed joining the EU for the demise of way more manufacturing and indeed the coal industry. Yet that is what happened. Cheaper EU coal imports, then eventual erosion of manufacturing bit by bit. But that gets overlooked oddly enough.

Coal was on the way out regardless of European integration. The US was never in the EU and coal still vanished; Donald Trump pandering to the coal industry is not and will not bring it back. Likewise, staying out of the EU would have been, at best, a temporary stay of execution for the UK coal industry.
Wouldn't be too difficult considering others in his alleged age group are dead.
Indeed! Some of us are PAID to shill
Where? Not where it will grow up into utility lines, or where it will fall into utilities or onto a structure.

What type? Small and strong species that will not uproot, snap off or shed branches in a windstorm, and will tolerate heavy loads of ice and/or snow, depending on your climate.
Clinton also went on Epstein's private jet 27 times. He is by far the most connected to him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/nyregion/bill-clinton-jef...

It's weird how many articles say that Epstein was connected to "Clinton and Trump." No: he'd met Trump. He was connected to Clinton.
Of all the complaints I've ever heard of around Electron, "purity" has never been one of them. Bloat and resource consumption are usually the biggest culprits.
I’ve been an Economist reader for almost 15 years now and I couldn’t call them totally independent. They do indeed write some great-quality articles but I wouldn’t call them 100% independent. Just last month I happened to read an abominable shill article about Shell. It was actually in their business-related opinion piece called Schumpeter where Shell the company and its CEO were painted in very, very positive light. Of course that the Economist writer did not receive any direct bribe, but it was mentioned in said article that Shell is about to dole out dividends worth tens of billions of pounds until 2023, and you can bet your posterior that the Economist owners and their friends will in fact get a share of that money, so no need to kill the goose laying the golden eggs.

I also have a more conspiratorial theory in reguards to the Economist, as in it is part-owned by the Exor group, owned by the Agnelli family. Now, in these 15 years I’ve only read 3 (three) multi-page articles detailing the not so kosher business dealings of big international companies/conglomerates. One of them was against Warren Buffet’s way of doing some tax-related tricks post 2010 or so, the other two were both against Italian conglomerates, one run by Berlusconi and the other one against the Ferrero group (the maker of famous Nutella among other things). I suspect that both of these articles were related in one way or another to the Exor group, as in them being printed somehow benefited the Agnelli family. Berlusconi actually sued The Economist but as far as I know he lost.
It could, but it could also be cut off by drug companies refusing to allow re-export when they negotiate prices with the provinces. I'm sure the provinces would take a 1-5% discount for avoiding re-export. Also, this isn't BC, Ontario or Quebec's problem -- the federal government doesn't administer this stuff, the provinces do. Y'all need to sort this out for yourselves.
You're right. We need two things.

One is carbon-sinks. This can be done by permanent new trees. Or by replacing trees and use the old wood or plastics for buildings. Or make carbon based usables and permenantly bury their waste in deep landfils that don't let out co2. Or by new techniques for sequestering carbon from air. Planting trees and letting them die is only temporary.

Second and most important though is getting more heat out of the planet than in. Focusing on carbon is one thing. But reflecting energy to space also works, e.g. by white roofs, or mirrors, or heat conducting materials that send off energy in frequencies not absorbed by clouds and co2/water/methane.
And in fact there have been a number of people trying to blow the cover up. Unfortunately they are the (marginalized) victims themselves.

I guess we're looking for someone more credible to be blowing open these coverups?

Sad state of affairs…
>If we wanted a system that's more equitable, we could create a law that sets the maximum price for medicine in the US at some multiple of what's charged abroad.

Should people in third world countries being excluded from the chance of receiving lifesaving drugs just because they happen to live in a place that isn't as economically successful as the US? Maybe I could be convinced if you pegged the prices to some measure of local purchasing power, but almost any proposal that amounts to poor people not being able to afford medical care in the name of capitalism is verging on immoral in my opinion.

EDIT: It is disappointing that I get downvoted on HN for basically stating the controversial opinion that "people shouldn't die from being poor".
Population is going up. People need a place to live.

All of the downvotes to the parent are justified.
The line isn't drawn between graph/kv and acid compliance. Dgraph claims to be both a graph database and ACID.
How to Charge Your First 5 Customers
The plan you're describing is "make a ton of money building shit and make sure all the right people get their piece of the action." I mean, yes, it's a plan. But it's not really a plan for a city.

I think you're dramatically understating the extent to which pre-automobile city building was a negotiation between local and regional plans, rules, and regulations, just as it is today. And large civil plans and projects were enacted well before the automobile, too. New Haven, Connecticut was one of the first planned cities in the US, and predates the car by centuries. It has a modern grid system. Boston's largest neighborhood, the Back Bay, was created out of a massive land-filling project decades before the invention of the automobile. Much of Paris, France, was built in the 19th century according to modern civil planning principles.

The whole "the roads used to be cowpaths" thing with old cities is really only true when you're talking about really old cities that still have medieval quarters and things like that.

Indeed, some of the oldest cities in the world have been built and rebuilt on top of themselves a number of times over the course of their histories, often according to very complicated plans. That's because the oldest cities in the world today are more often than not several orders of magnitude larger than they have ever been at any point in their history.
You're forgetting that pursuit of facts and truth is not necessarily orthogonal to "activism". Can I be a climate activist journalist while still uncovering facts about people trying to suppress knowledge of global warming and poison the well? I don't see why not.
Report the score and go home is the absolute only job of a true journalist. If it is a controversial issue they would be entirely corrupt not to lay out the details of all sides. That is why news used to have dedicated opinion columns, before all the news went most entirely opinion. I have no idea who Celente is, other than being listed on that wiki page as the source of that term. Your ad hominem attack tells me I'm on the right track though.
Federal Court upholds constitutionality of Arkansas anti-boycott law
Thanks for sharing that information about Differential Programming, I was not aware of its existence. I'm curious if this approach will help solve some problems I am investigating.

Do you have any suggestions for papers or libraries that implement Differential Programming?
Maybe outing people and putting up sex tapes isn’t the same category as sex trafficking?
FDR had both the Great Depression and World War II during his terms, of course.

The raw counts are unlikely to tell the full story, and I suspect Congress's ongoing ceding of power to the executive has reduced the quantity of them in normal practice as well.
Er, no? Drug companies spend on average about $1-2 billion in R&D per new drug[0].

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016762961...
Related but only on morphology: r/neography
> I’m from Europe and would similarly call bs.

Most of Europe has seen zero net economic growth for about 12 years. Simultaneously household debt has skyrocketed across most of developed Europe over the last two decades.

Many of the major economies in Europe have net contracted over the last 12 years, even as their populations have expanded (Britain and France for example). That's a recipe for falling per capita living standards (especially while populations are aging, so you have fewer workers and higher social welfare system costs).

When you adjust for inflation, the majority of countries in Europe have seen their economies contract since 2007-2008.

Here is what it looks like per capita from 2007-2017 (and many of the large economies in Europe are again teetering on recession, including Germany):

https://i.imgur.com/2KwI19f.png

If you look at Britain, their economy is about where it was in 2004 on GDP, while having added 10% more population

For France, they're about where they were in 2003 on GDP. They've added 6% or 7% to their population in that time.

Germany has seen zero net economic growth since 2007-2008.

Italy has seen zero net economic growth since 2004.

Spain has seen zero net economic growth since 2006.

Russia has seen zero net economic growth since 2008 roughly.

The Netherlands has seen zero net economic growth since 2007. Their economy was $913b for 2018, it was $936b in 2008 for comparison. That's prior to an inflation adjustment (a conservative inflation adjustment is that their economy is ~20% smaller versus 2008).

Belgium has seen zero net economic growth since 2007.

Denmark and Finland have seen zero net economic growth since 2007-2008. Denmark's GDP in 2007 was $319b ($353b in 2008), in 2018 it was $350b.

Finland's economy was $255b in 2007 ($283b in 2008). It was $275b in 2018. A conservative inflation adjustment over those ten years would produce a meaningful contraction. Even worse, their economy was $141b in 1990, so they've seen almost no growth for nearly three decades. $141b adjusted from Jan 1991, is ~$268b today, per the Fed.

Poland has seen zero net economic growth since 2008. Their GDP was $533b in 2008, it was $586b in 2018. Even a very small inflation adjustment across ten years means they've seen zero real growth (or worse, a real net contraction).

Portugal has seen zero net economic growth since 2007-2008.

Greece has been set back to where they were in the mid 1990s, so they've lost 25-30 years.

This list keeps going. It consists of most of the large economies in Europe, with only a few exceptions (Sweden has done OK after an inflation adjustment, somewhere close to break-even; the Baltic states have done well). Countries like Slovakia, Czech, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belarus, Slovenia, Croatia, et al. have seen zero growth since 2007-2008 roughly.
> It’s a bit odd that the US is taking this tack instead of just regulating drug prices domestically.

The net result of this drug policy is lower drug prices for US public, under the banner of "stop subsidizing the free-riders". The net result of the tariffs is higher wages for industrial workers, under the banner of "fighting the unfair China".

Both are left-wing outcomes, dressed up as not just acceptable but enticing for the conservative public.

Were there more efficient ways? Yes, we could reign in the pharma and force the 1% to raise wages for the 99%, but that would not be accepted by the conservative Americans, while this approach seems to be accepted.
Here's an Epstein explainer they published in 2015: https://gawker.com/billionaire-pervert-jeffrey-epstein-and-h...
> As a startup, your price point is in the 20k/y ballpark, but GrapheneDB/Neo comes in a lot lower. What would I get for paying that much more?

Should have tackled this in my other post. But, let me approach this question from two angles.

Is it worth paying $20K for any DB or DB support? If it would save you 1/10th of an engineer per year, it becomes immediately worth. That means, can you avoid 5 weeks of one SWE by using a DB designed to better suit your dataset? If the answer is yes (and most cases it is), then absolutely that price is worth. See my blog post about how much money it must be costing big companies building their graph layers.

Second part is, is Dgraph worth paying for compared to Neo or others? Note that the price is for our enterprise features and support. Not for using the DB itself. Many companies run a 6-node or a 12-node distributed/replicated Dgraph cluster and we only learn that much later when they're close to pushing it into production and need support. They don't need to pay for it, the distributed/replicated/transactional architecture of Dgraph is all open source.

How much would it cost if one were to run a distributed/replicated setup of another graph DB? Is it even possible, can it execute and perform well? And, when you add support to that, what's the cost?

I have no doubt, when you consider the factors of scalability, Dgraph comes out much cheaper.
My favorite conlang :) https://wiki.xxiivv.com/#lietal
I don't think vestaboard ever ended up shipping. I was somewhat interested in getting one, but now I'm really glad I didn't put down a deposit. Original estimates were Dec 2018 ship date, now they say Summer 2020.
>For every 10 hours of looking at roads, you'll see 1 guy digging a hole and emplacing an IED or burying wire under the road. Those "side quest" missions save a lot of soldiers.

Is this something that could be helped by all the recent machine learning computer vision advances? Maybe they can delegate side resources to having automated scanning for flaggable behaviours appearing on screen.
The question was done per-household. I think the assumption is that there are not significant amount of households of <16 year olds.
One hopes a journalist isn’t selective about the facts they present. For example only include facts which might contribute to incriminate someone but omit facts which could exonerate someone.
It's very factored in.
I guess there's planning and there's modern planning.

Even the Romans did grids, which is a pretty good system. And it makes sense to keep really noxious things like tanneries or smelly factories or whatever away from, say, schools and places people live, where possible.

But modern planning in the US is hyper-detailed to the point where it stifles the natural evolution of our cities.

And developers? They build what they're allowed to build.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/29/upshot/developer-dirty-wo...
I think people have a massive misperception of how law enforcement & politics, and reporting by the media on such matters really works.

On one hand, most everyone seems to get it that bad behavior and corruption is rife, but on the other hand any specifics ideas will generally be dismissed as conspiracy theories. I sometimes wonder if the widespread strong beliefs that "everything's a conspiracy theory unless it's been reported on" is completely natural, or if it has been partially socially engineered.

This is a good podcast to listen to for an example:

> Common Sense 276 – Past Transgressions

> https://podtail.com/en/podcast/common-sense-with-dan-carlin/...

> Description: Imagine celebrities from the 1960s and 1970s who were involved in sexual conduct with minors in their heyday being called to account for it today. It’s currently happening in Great Britain. Dan has some thoughts.

How many incredibly famous rock stars from the past were sleeping with underage groupies in plain sight of hundreds of people? And what have we heard, beyond a few rumors?

Has no one here witnessed criminal behavior worthy of prison sentences in the workplace? I certainly have, and my career has been nothing special, at all. People underestimate how easy it is to cover things up when money (people's jobs) are on the line. And if that looks to be failing, there's always cold hard cash or other forms of persuasion, and if the stakes are high enough, "suicide" (which will inevitably be classified as a conspiracy theory).

For more examples of broad daylight corruption that never makes the news, I highly recommend listening to the Common Sense podcast, and even sticking one's nose into /r/conspiracy now and then, for those who are able to think unemotionally about such things of course.
That's probably their parents paying their way, and not them trying to get by on their own savings.
Interesting how many of the fixed-wing shootdowns since the Gulf War were shot down by equipment made by the same geopolitical block (either NATO-on-NATO or Soviet-on-Soviet), either in the sense of literal friendly-fire accidents, or two regional combatants both being supplied by the same superpower. Turkish F-16 shot down by Greek Mirage 2000.
British Tornado shot down by U.S. Patriot. A-10 shot down by Iraqi Roland. Georgian Hermes-450 shot down by Russian Mig-29. Russian Tu-22 shot down by Georgian Buk-M1. Ukrainian Su-27 shot down by Russian Su-27. Ukrainian Mig-29 shot down by Buk. That's practically all of the combat jets on the list.
Yes, US consumers pay more for almost every drug per unit, regardless of the nationality of the drug company:

https://i.imgur.com/6QOta9X.png

Full source:

https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/259996/ComparisonUSInt...
> The technical review wasn't technical. [...] The technical content was entirely found in the comment about ABI compatiblity.

That review also had a comment about an implicit limit on the number of objects, which is caused by a limit on the amount of physically contiguous memory the kernel memory allocator can obtain at once, and a comment that the code being reviewed would allow for a large increase of the reference count of a couple of important structures. Both appear to be very technical comments to me.
Therapy. Therapy is a service, and one that in my experience is of dubious value. It is difficult to look at a statement that is essentially "pay for something you don't need" and not think of it as marketing.
Peter Thiel was entirely justified for every one of the actions he took and funded against a magazine that outed him as gay, while he was in Saudi Arabia.
I completely agree with your point. But as someone that lives in the US and is married to a person that requires prescriptions that can cost $30,000+/month each (cystic fibrosis), I'm in a first world country and am being excluded from the chance to receive lifesaving drugs.
I understand what you're getting at, but most Canadians have a negative reaction to talking about profiting off healthcare.

Ensuring access to those who need it is the primary concern. If Americans were suffering an unintended shortage, that'd be one thing... But causing an artificial shortage for Canadians in order to profit off Americans would result in near immediate regulation.
No it's not interesting. You are not "entitled" to travel for holidays, even in a society with a good social security net that ensures the basic needs of its citizens are met.
"VC in the form of non-dilutive revenue-share agreements."

What if the startup can't pay for x amount of time?

"Coupling data and machine learning technology, Clearbanc is quick to make decisions about potential investment"

What does this mean?
I guess the message I got from it sort of was that most of us live in boxes that we've built around ourselves that aren't actually there.

"Working jobs we hate to buy shit we don't need" was a big one for me.

Also "You're not your job. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your f-ing khakis."

"First you have to give up. You have to know, not fear, that someday you're going to die." and the Raymond K Hessel thing from the article. You only have a limited amount of time and there's no point wasting it waiting for "someday".

There's just a very real current of minimalism and intentionality underneath the absurdity.
Why Generics?
>Launched in 2012, Julia is an open-source language that combines the interactivity and syntax of ‘scripting’ languages, such as Python, Matlab and R,......

Julia's syntax reads more like Ruby than any of the three named. And yet no mention of it.
Well, for one thing you linked to the less-impressive XKCD: https://www.xkcd.com/1162/
Also, because corporate culture dictates the rules, sharing salary information is a fire-able offense sometimes subject to legal fines and breach of contract and/or NDA lawsuits in many (most?) US states. That information is intentionally only ever whispered among "connections", because that is what companies want for "better", more merciless control of the labor market.
One of the things I've noticed is that the grand conspiracies often get the "shape" of things right, just the particulars are wrong. "Pizzagate"/QAnon are, at least as of right now, somewhat distantly correct in the sense that, holy cats there maybe really is a bunch of rich and famous people who are connected to a child sex ring.

Of course QAnon et al turn it into some crazy nonsense involving a relatively meaningless hormone and a reality TV star as conquering hero.

Or Bohemian Grove. They're doing Satanic rituals! All those rich and famous people are doing horribly corrupt and satanic! They're conspiring to control our lives with evil magic!

Well, _no_, they're actually just engaging in some _very tacky_ theatre followed by the usual rich-person networking, and they'd rather not have you know that a bunch of important events in government and business maybe started there. I mean, heck, that's _the Masons_ too. It was facebook/linkedin of the analog era. join up, "culture of secrecy", but mostly you meet people for business contacts and whatnot.
I've been wondering about various carbon sequestration methods myself and am glad to see these topics on HN since it is an opportunity to harvest relevant knowledge from the community.

Apologies for tangential topic, but give me a sec and it'll try to tie it back to some other discussions happening here - has anyone here heard of "Cryo Carbon Capture"?

https://sesinnovation.com/faq.html

This seems to involve feeding the exhaust of a power plant into a process which cools the exhaust to the point where CO2 dry ice (and other pollutants) desublimates out of the exhaust and is then extracted for various industrial/commercial applications.

I am curious about this model if it feasible then couldn't this also be used on the exhaust stream of a heater for pyrolysis of fast growing trees, grasses, etc. creating biofuel and biochar?

You can use biofuels to heat the pyrolysis and biochar to sequester carbon in the soil, while also improving it to grow more biomass for sequestration. The cryo-capture handles your CO2 waste streams and further captures carbon in a cold sink (also useful for refrigeration and can maybe act as a "battery" when combined with a Stirling engine?) which also produces CO2 which can be used to enrich biomass grown in greenhouses and has plenty of other commercial uses.

If you add solar and other sustainable power inputs to the cryo-capture process then what you have is basically a farm which creates useful carbon-based products from the atmosphere using plants and basic chemistry... and here is where I hope someone with more knowledge will point out why this isn't already a thing, likely due to some serious inefficiency I'm overlooking.