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I get where you’re coming from. It has begun to annoy me that we’re always supposed to show massive sympathy for it and perform “omg, me too, you’re so valid!” responses to someone saying they have it. If you don’t feel confident in your skills maybe you should... do something about it instead of putting it down to some syndrome that implies you’re actually already great and you just need to believe in yourself?
> It can't be priced below the cost of extraction

"Cost of extraction" is a fuzzy term. If it costs $100 to set up a well that lasts 10 years and $1 to pump 1 barrel of oil a year, then is the economic cost is around $11 per barrel (loosely estimated) and the marginal cost $1 per barrel.

This is how an existing well can price below the economic cost of extraction but above the marginal cost. It doesn't make sense to compete with them by setting up new pumps. But pumps last a long time, and there are a lot of pumps out there.
People are making this too big an issue. It's about Indian Kashmir. Currently rest of the country can't buy land there, can't invest etc. How's that good for integration.

With 370 gone. Rest of India will be able to invest in Kashmir (Indian Kashmir).

Edit:

I gathered more information. This is quite beneficial for Kashmiris. Like really beneficial. Some of their new rights

- RTI (Right to Information)

- State elections every 5 years

- Reservations for minorities

- Special oversight and power of President in case of emergency

Not to mention biggest benefit would be investment from everywhere that will flourish the people.
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Where and how do "non-central" banks print money?
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This happened when China stopped "manipulating their currency", am I correct? And wasn't that a goal of the USA for a while?
* It means Ladakh will be directly ruled by central government, it may have local body election but not separate state government.
* Central government anticipated large scale protest from state politicians and hence did preemptive house arrest.
* Because these two articles gave State J&K government extraordinary power compared to other Indian states, which had made prevented them integration and assimilation into India. Think of this as sort of relationship between Hong kong and China.
We’re doing a bang-up job of fixing those “way worse systemic things”. How’s that working out?
The typical way automation takes job, is not by replacing them but by increasing the efficiency of the task being done, therefore needing less workers to do the same job.

>would you trust a robot to look after your aging parents without hurting them?

Physical robots are not there yet, but you can already get an improved efficiency by camera monitoring. Using computer vision and pose tracking you don't have to always be present, you only need to be able to dispatch someone if a problem is detected.
I only speak of what I know (which may not be correct)

* What does it mean for Lakadh to not have a legislature? Does it mean that this province cannot have elect local leaders?

> I think this means that they will not have legislative power in the government (aka similar to USVI or Puerto Rico in the US)

* Why are the prominent politicians under house arrest? What is their offence?

> I believe this is mostly to silence them to not agitate people. Also, these articles are widely misused and politicians amassed a lot of land since no outsiders can hold land in the area.

* Why were these two articles repealed?

> This is partly for political as well as some economical. Since no one can own a property or land in Jammy & Kashmir other than its residents, economy growth is much smaller in Kasmir than the rest of India and it helps boost Kasmir's economy. The political reason might be that the BJP government wants more power in the area.
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> Where and how do "non-central" banks print money?

"If you borrow £100 from the bank, and it credits your account with the amount, ‘new money’ has been created. It didn’t exist until it was credited to your account.

This also means as you pay off the loan, the electronic money your bank created is 'deleted' – it no longer exists. You haven’t got richer or poorer. You might have less money in your bank account but your debts have gone down too. So essentially, banks create money, not wealth.

Banks create around 80% of money in the economy as electronic deposits in this way. In comparison, banknotes and coins only make up three percent. Finally, most banks have accounts with us at the Bank of England, allowing them to transfer money back and forth. This is called electronic central bank money, or reserves."

TL; DR Through borrowing. The process is regulated, but not centrally controlled.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/knowledgebank/how-is-money-c...
I don't downvote for saying the truth, but I do downvote for complaining about downvoting (not in this case because it's compensated by your complaint about the paywall).

In any case, many people certainly do take trains to save the planet. Also because of convenience, but there are multiple reasons why people can choose the train.

I take the train because I find train travel to be much more comfortable than car travel. I can read in the train, and don't have to pay attention to the road.

But especially for longer distances, even with ridiculously cheap budget flights, I do everything I can to avoid taking a plane for travel within Europe. I took the Eurostar to London, take the Thalys to Paris, and this year even took a Thalys to the south of France. My wife, who went to Cannes with a friend, took a 9 hour train trip on the way there, and only took a plane because the return trip would have been 17 hours by train. (My trip was only 5 hours because in the summer there's 1 direct Thalys per week from Amsterdam to southern France; I'd like it if they increased that frequency.)

My brother takes the train to all corners of Europe, almost never taking a plane.

Of course not everybody here cares about the environment; there are still plenty of short-distance low-budget flights. But a lot of people care enough to accept slightly longer journeys and more expense in order to not add to more air travel.
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If you're a doctor deciding whether to recommend a risky surgical procedure, you certainly don't want to jump the gun when reliable information hasn't yet come in. It surely will do in due course, if you're patient.

But if you're a manager giving out raises to your team, taking no action (i.e. giving no raises) might seem a worse choice than using the unreliable data - and there's no expectation reliable data will arrive if you wait.
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Yes, it can be done, but lots of people don't like that because it invariably concludes that some societies are better than others and the best ones are the western capitalist democracies.

The most obvious first principle is that a better value system should keep you alive. Being alive is foundational.

From that you can derive other principles, like value systems should result in the production of food, clean water, protection against wild animals and invaders, disease, etc.

From that you can derive yet more principles, like the value of efficient resource allocation, stable governance and so on.

And judged by basic things like "is this set of cultural values good at keeping people alive and healthy" you can quickly conclude that some are better than others, objectively so.

To deny this is to argue that wishing to be alive rather than dead is merely an aesthetic preference - an absurd starting point, lacking any intellectual merit.
I think you can use google yourself, but I honestly hope that we can conduct a conversation with a certain expectation of common knowledge. I hope I don't have to provide links that gravity exists when I tell you that when I throw a rock it will hit the floor.

None of these claims are new or controversial. They have been researched and proven to death by now.
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I think the distinction is that many people are familiar with green energy being subsidised and surprised that oil & gas (often large, established, wealthy, and profitable companies) are too (at least in terms of tax breaks).
The issue is with the manner in which this was done. How do you think cutting off the entirety of Kashmir from internet, and making tourists/pilgrims evacuate the valley looks like?

This just resembles a coup. The people of Kashmir are unable to voice their opinions.
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It's funny, these discussions go around and around in circles on HN.

Really, we should all just reference Popper's Paradox of Tolerance[1].

A just, tolerant society should tolerate anything other than intolerance. Yes, this isn't as simple as "freedom of speech", but it makes a lot of sense.

Popper's words argue this as well as anyone:

Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
> Do bikes and scooters not get stolen in europe? Literally everyone I know in the US who bikes in a city has gotten 1 or multiple bikes stolen.

Depends on the place. In Munich, it's rare - Berlin however, commonplace. My personal advice, get a decent lock and a GPS tracer embedded in the frame if it's an expensive bike.
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The report is about land use, not CC mitigation in general.

Also, the beef problem is conceivably solvable. It’s the lowest-hanging fruit around.
The worry is that oil companies are making investments now for 10, 20 or 30 years into the future and not taking into account the realities of making a return. There are all sorts of long term capital costs for setting up oil fields, refineries, pipelines and so on, and then marginal costs for each barrel thereafter. Under a scenario of total road transport electrification, demand would be drastically reduced, meaning the capital costs would have to be substantially written off. Investors would lose their shirts, which would cause a lot of financial problems, not least that pension funds still seem to be thinking these are safe stocks, that the oil industry is in the same position as it was 50 years ago. It would also be catastrophic for the environment, because you’d have a glut of supply which producers would then be trying to sell below the actual cost of production, but anywhere above the marginal cost. It’s vital these investments are properly priced, and that any investor who can’t take the hit doesn’t get involved.
"Taking care of internal matters" is a great new euphemism.
Well renewable plastic and generally speaking polymers are far off. A lot of oil will still be used. Hydrocarbons have way more uses.
I'm from Europe. It's not to save the planet, it's all a matter of incentives.
Here is an article with a long list of literal fossil fuel subsidies that are largely ignored when discussing the economic environment for fossil fuels vs. non-CO2 energy sources.

(The article also discusses some of the indirect subsidies that you're describing as a 'tired trope', but the main theme is economic stimulus that directly supports extraction, exploration, distribution, transport and consumption of fossil fuels).

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/10/6/1642845...
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For oil the cost of extraction isnt as simple as you seem to imply. The diversity of what oil can be used for and the value of those things, far exceed to the cost of extracting it. No other material is as valuable and diverse as oil.
I would say it’s only worth learning Perl 5 if you work in a shop that has a lot of old Perl code, otherwise Python is probably the most sensible option to learn (as much as it pains me to say) if you haven’t got a job yet. It will also help you with tools like ansible.
Go might also have a future where Perl once thrived since you can compile your dependencies into the program. Dependencies sort of sucks with all scripting languages.
Flying is cheaper and faster, but not necessarily more convenient. To find cheap flights you often have to get to inconveniently located airports (the great exception being London Stansted) at odd hours, often having to change transport on the way, and lose a lot of time due to checkin and security (which are in themselves massive inconveniences). And even when paying for a better ticket the flight is often too cramped to do anything effectively. All in all, you’d often not save all that much time by flying, and the time actually spent in transit is mostly wasted, whereas a train ride affords you the opportunity to work, read or watch movies.

Some people manage to read or watch movies at least on the flight itself but personally my head hits the pillow before the plane even leaves the runway. I’m not sure what soporific magic is at play here. Anyway, I avoid flying as much as possible as a consequence.
How is that ideological ? You sound like every meat lover who just can't stop eating his steak
Pedophiles don't make the choice to be pedophiles - would you allow their pedophilia activism? What's the difference?
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> If a company becomes a public platform important for the public discourse or for the function of journalism, regulation and laws can limit what a company can do.

Only if there are good arguments for this to be necessary. You didn't mention any. Just being "big" is no reason to get rid of the "free market". Are they abusing their market dominance? Is this a natural monopoly? Are strong network effects in play, as with Facebook? The best argument for a market failure I can think of is high initial investment. Yeah, I'm not convinced gov needs to write rules for Cloudflare specifically.

> With the announcmenet they are causing the political discourse after the massacre to be about free speech

As it should. Simplified, slaughtering = hate guns*. There is no way to get rid of guns in the US any time soon, so most talk about it is a wasted opportunity cost. The hateful and divisive rhetoric, on the other hand, seems to be sharply on the rise, with even the president making it permissible and using it to his one's ends. This seems like a way more promising attempt to stop the probably upcoming civil war.
> Humans "naturally" ate whatever was available and edible, in northernly latitude they certainly ate ridiculous amounts of meat what with most of the food available outside of high summer being hunted or fished. Humans are not a vegetarian species, and their survival on a strictly vegetarian diet is non-trivial.

For the most part of our existense we didn't eat much or any meat. Only when humans invented the farming of livestock we started our journey to the (over) consumption of meat.

Our teeth, nails and inability to easily digest raw meat and other physical properties are also a testament to the fact that we were not designed to hunt and eat meat as much as we think we do.
"If the yuan is devalued, ceteris paribus, an investor holding yuan would prefer to hold anything else."

If you didn't sell your CNY at yesterday's price, why would you want to sell at today's (lower) price?
> The diversity of what oil can be used for and the value of those things, far exceed to the cost of extracting it

This is a statement about demand, not cost.

Nobody is saying oil is going to zero. And the cost curve for oil production varies greatly from well to well. Many wells are already extracting at total costs above price.
Yes. We already have retirement complexes where eg chairs have sensors which alert someone nearby if someone is sat down for too long. Net result, you have less need for someone to 'check in' on people (but then you need to find another way to give people social contact). It's about using human labour more efficiently, not replacing humans.
And using that word makes the title interesting! It's not just that it's paintings of Westerners, but that it's paintings from the perspective of people to whom they were exotic and unfamiliar.
> I’m no longer sure I agree with them.

the problem is that the alternative is, basically, a white-list of approved ideas.

Who makes this white-list? That's the issue with wholesale censorship.

A system like that will get gamed as soon as the political winds change one way or another.
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Tomorrow I will be traveling all the way from southern Germany to northern Netherlands. 6 hour drive.
If I go by train it's 220€ with return.
If I fly from a nearby airport to a nearby airport (so with limited train use) it's 700€ to 900€ with return.
If I rent a car it's 120€ plus 90€ petrol, return journey.
> A tart is a baked dish consisting of a filling over a pastry base with an open top not covered with pastry.

Thank you for the information on Brazilian puns, however I cannot let someone call an empanada a "tart", a tart must be open, whereas an empanada must be covered.
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> If you didn't sell your CNY at yesterday's price, why would you want to sell at today's (lower) price?

Minorly, because tomorrow's price might be lower. Majorly, because even taking into account the price drop, the present value of the currency-swapped yield on investments in a foreign currency are greater than those prospects at home.
It does not matter, per billion invested in fossils you produce millions of kwh during decades.

Per billion invested in Renovables you can produce at most 10% of the kwh and for just a few years even months, till it's necessary costly maintenance
Unfortunately the majority of beef we eat does not come from grass fed cattle.
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He mentions using new metaprogramming techniques enabled by C++ 14/17 to choose optimal tuning parameters during compile time. What is the main upshot of this? Are their benchmarks showing they improve performance? Due they improve maintainability? Possibly both?
It's no more easily solvable than transportation or travel habits or any number of other sources of GHG. I think you underestimate how hard it will be to force people to change their eating habits significantly, but it's a change that needs to be made, just like a lot of other changes.
Well for one, this whole "agile" concept of changing things midstream can't be helping. No one says once a bridge is 20% built. Hmm... You know what, more height to avoid noise and smog problems in fact seems to be a better focus than high vehicular weight. Let's start making those adjustments and expect to stick to our time, cost, and quality estimates.

Outside of a few niche areas, calling what's going on in software "engineering" seems laughable to me, and I never refer to myself with that term.
You are right that no one knows the exact money supply. But banks printing money is a misconception. Private lenders "create" money by fostering trust - I have $N in the bank, even they also loaned 90% * $N to other people. Effectively the same money is counted many times. But they don't have the right to print money the way a central bank does. They can only re-loan money that was deposited by others ("inside money") whereas the central bank creates money truly at will ("outside money").
Aside from that, there's an important difference between expressing an opinion, and creating an atmosphere and culture of hate and/or violence.

There are things you're not allowed to say because they endanger lives, like threatening people, blackmailing people, or slandering people. Spreading intolerance and hatred directed at specific demographic groups has also been shown to endanger those people, so banning that is absolutely defensible.
You can overdo it, but just my personal experience is that focus on work at work, even with urgency, never brings those.

Where anxiety and stress can come in for me is letting unsolvable, abstract-ish things hound me for a long time: "I have made a big mistake in life N years ago", etc.

Where I think urgency is hurting is breadth: I focus only on the easiest solution and long term view goes out the window so I need to intersperse walking or similar to let my mind wander to strange, stupid or potentially good ideas. Just my 2c, YMMV.
You also have to have an iPhone and apple account. If you don’t have a “required device” they only support interaction through snail mail. They will terminate accounts that fail to maintain a Required Device and Apple account (in good standing).
> new wind and solar energy projects combined with battery-powered electric vehicles

Less than 0.3% of electricity in the US is generated by oil (in 2018). The proper comparison for wind/solar for grid energy would be against natural gas/nuclear/hydropower.