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> any effort put on the 3% is only useful to distract from the 80%

How is it a distraction to address the percentage (however small) that we can have as individuals while the larger problems are solved through legislation/technological advancements? They are not mutually exclusive. It's not like people/organizations/governments can only think about/propose/implement one change at a time. It's like making the argument that nobody can do any work on smaller bug fixes while the main code branch is being compiled. Both contribute to the success of the whole, but neither are mutually exclusive given enough manpower (which the world undoubtably has). You can certainly work on hobby projects at home without it taking away from your work in the office.

when we are at a tipping point for climate change and every bit of reduction in greenhouse gases matters, plus the fact that most of the contributors aren't easily affected at an individual level, there is no reason to not address both simultaneously. How most individual humans currently live is unsustainable, period. If we actually want to ensure the continued survival as a species on this planet, we are going to have to change our individual habits at some point. There is no amount of carbon capture/tax that can undo or prevent the destruction of the planets natural resources. You have to address the underlying unsustainability, not just treat the symptom.
But ya. Usually i dun run things with the -vvv flag.
> Because violent felonies such as homicide proximity is the requisite factor in victimhood

This doesn't stand up. Crime statistics are measured after the crimes happen; whatever effect might be due to proximity has already taken place.

Consider: in your example you say two places have equal per-capita homicide rates but one is 20x denser. It follows that the denser area will have 20x more people "in proximity" to any given homicide, and therefore that P(victim|proximity) must be 20x lower compared to the rural place.

The way you've done the math only makes sense if everyone "in proximity" of a homicide was equally likely to be a victim, but given equal per-capita rates that can't be the case.
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Fifteen cents is roughly the cost of a small informational pamphlet (likely more if printed with color and laminated but I have taken some artistic liberty in my previous comment), and prison is just one solution to a wider class of social impairments of which sociopathy is just one instance. Other instances of solutions share the quality of being unpleasant but necessary things any civilized society devotes energy to by learned necessity and include a functioning constitution, military, legislature, courts, police, and more. I thought this was clear but on rereading I see maybe I have failed; thanks for asking.
> once company took off, they had to "share the technology" with some state companies that then produced the same thing cheaper and knocked the original company out.

Without knowing the details, this sounds more efficient and potentially fairer for the society. It allows for information and innovation to flow in the industry, rather than a single company making absurd amount of money only because they can keep it secret.

It doesn't mean wealth is automatically better distributed, but it could help.
Part of the kiosks being cheaper is copyright; Redbox can buy retail discs if they have to, so they have a lot more leverage in licensing.
If a country's population does not reproduce, tautologically, it will die off.

This is true in a sense, if you think of a country being defined genetically instead of culturally. But assimilating immigrants into a culture is often considered racist too these days. So in a practical sense you are correct even if your basic premise is wrong.
I wish our infosec department would just trust the vendor reputation service and realize that gTLDs have been around for years now.
I was watching on my phone and looking at the overall image texture.
Turns out without that meta-whining I’d be sitting at the bottom of the thread, and you wouldn’t have seen it. 30 minutes after making the edit it shot up 8 points.
This is a much deeper question, and answer than appears at the surface.

Consumer tech is designed to be addictive, and it's marketing aimed at unconscious insecurities.

Realizing that, and exerting self control can be tricky, especially for people with plenty of disposable income.

Tips:

1. Acknowledge the addiction - first step to recovery

2. Research best practices to overcome the addiction. Just like any other, quitting cold turkey is probably impractical. Set achievable, meaningful goals and knock them off one by one

3. Get busy - find something that is meaningfully uplifting and immerse yourself in it - the busier you are, the less likely you're drawn to (old) addictions. Translation: replace bad addictions with good ones
Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) depicts a galaxy of countless highly advanced civilizations in the far future - and describes its "net" as "the net of a million lies". However, it also depicts every message with an AI's best judgement of its reliability - for example:

>From: Sandor Arbitration Intelligence at the Zoo [A known military corporation of the High Beyond. If this is a masquerade, somebody is living dangerously.]

More examples here: https://hur.st/afutd.html (spoilers if you read more than the From lines)
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I could explain this. Internally all those coordinates are stored as double (not long double). The precision of a double is max 15-17 digits. Usually it's very inprecise though. But not too imprecise, because tiny errors could lead to very costly mistakes. my biggest did cost ~40.000, wrong after the third digit. 30cm. You might remember the financial stories on microdiffs with improper arith. That why one of the most important lessons I told my students was precision and it's limits. Esp. when zooming in.

CAD/GIS system round to the default vsprint %f precision which is 6. They could use a zoom dependent number but nobody would do that, they would laugh at you. It's not a delusion, it's industry practise. If you have better precision, you stick to it.
Around 2013 I wasted a whole year trying to understand OOP. C2Wiki anyone? OOP multiplies delivery times by 50 with pointless data bureaucracy and people wonder why 80% of programming projects are never delivered.

If you are forced to use OOP, just use one method for every class. This is the function object pattern and you get Liskov Substitution and all the great SOLID principles for free.

Dependency injection? How about using the service locator.

I think objects make sense as data containers, where data is centralized within the app and you just have all the data access methods in one place but for everyday design ... it's the wrong abstraction. A majority of daily code deals with data transformations and workflows and functions are the best fit for that.
Well, don’t buy bagels and donuts and coffee. I don’t do lunch and I also skip breakfast on odd days. I’m also constantly in motion, like, right now, I’m doing leg lifts that are imperceptible to the the human eye - I call them hummingbirds. You really should stop cultivating mass, and start harvesting.
Because we are constantly conditioned to consume. Advertisements are everywhere. Popular culture always glorifies hyper consumption lifestyle.
What is this roaming thing and why is it so expensive? Does it connect to a different internet?

Seriously, though; we all use the same (couple of different brands of) phones to connect to the same (couple of different brands of) station hardware to get through to the same global network. A small difference in the choice of stations shouldn't make a large difference in the amount of cost reflected.
This. Also on the front page is Bucky Fuller. And the KLF was mentioned in the Katy Perry/Dark Horse comments.
Now all we need is Stewart Brand(1) and John Cunningham Lilly(2). Both are heroes of mine.

(1) Whole Earth Catalog / Co-Evolution Quarterly/Whole Earth Review (and the delicious Gossip columns).

(2) Programming and Meta-Programming in the Human Bio-Computer (and the prescient intro in later editions about the work having a curious history on par with...x...destroyer of young brains, mind and fetuses).
This is splitting hairs - had a discussion with a German speaking friend and there its translated to something like use or make the most out of the day.
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That's a much better article
I always have a problem (me-my problem, not the other party's) when ome missuses the language, written or spoken, to spin something around and says A --> means B, "because language is a living thing and meanings change" to suit their message, but not the truth. The parent message was flagged, thus I didn't have a chance to read it, but from the above comments and your comments I get it that.

> English is not stagnant

No it's not, but potato means potato, and cancer means cancer. How you read it or speak it is your thing. And one of Quality's definitions is: "compliance to specifications".

I would like to believe that the audience here is mostly high quality audience, I have to admit that language barriers exist that would make some people seem less eloquent, but by your definition we'll end up having "Idiocracy" (what humour, food, health, etc. may become).
I agree that safety is paramount here. This is why other countries like Canada have implemented newer technology like GPS flight tracking and digital messaging between pilots and controllers. Improvements like this makes flights safer. In the US, they try to mitigate the dangers of the aging air traffic control system by spacing the planes out further. As the American Airline CEO has said:

>“Today to fly from DFW to Philadelphia is about 30 minutes longer than it was in 1979,” Parker said, “simply because we have an [air traffic control] system that hasn’t kept pace with the rest of the world.”

https://www.dallasnews.com/business/american-airlines/2017/0...

This wired article also has some more background on the US air traffic control system:

https://www.wired.com/2015/02/air-traffic-control/

The US is the last major country to still have government act as the regulator and provider of air traffic control. This is an inherent conflict of interest for the regulator that other countries avoid. By having political control of air traffic control, it also means air traffic control is routinely held hostage to government shutdowns and budget impasses which can also impact safety. For example:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/how-shutdo...

Doing a google search on air traffic safety brought up this paper which examined the air traffic control systems of the US and Australia, Germany, New Zealand, and Switzerland:

>…An analysis was made to determine the effect privatization had on operating cost and air MIC safety involving the privatized ATC systems of Australia, Germany, New Zealand, and Switzerland. The study showed reduced operating cost and increased safety would result from corporate structuring of the ATC system. It was concluded that corporate style policy regarding personnel management and equipment procurement procedures would increase efficiency, which would reduce operating cost and increase ATC flight safety.

https://commons.erau.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1521&co...

Considering that every other major country has separated the regulation and provision of air traffic control, those who are opposed to it should cite some evidence why the US should be different in this regard.
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Pretty soon the internet will be the place for bots to meet and manipulate one another. I'm sure this is happening to some extent already.

The Democrat bots are triggering the Republican bots, and the Russian bots are fighting the Chinese bots for mindshare. Googlebot cannot save us.
This might be strange to HN readers, but in large parts of the world, going to the police for protection or justice isn't the default. The police is often corrupt and complicit with the perpetrators, especially if they happen to be from a privileged class or social strata.
Honestly after his last tweet about how we shouldn’t bother trying to regulate guns he’s a tough sell for me
Well it would have been nice if he stated his interpretation of the Liskov Substitution Principle. The way i understood it best was here [1].

A subclass should behave in a way that it never cause problems when it is used instead of the base class.

In concrete terms:

* No new exceptions are allowed to be thrown, unless they are subtypes of the exception thrown by the base class

* Preconditions cannot be strengthend by the subtype

* Postconditions cannot be weakened by the subtype

For me it is really the focus of using inheritance only if you want substitutability. Otherwise go with composition.

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[1] https://youtu.be/8ZJ8BVlDIQ4?t=1762
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The venerable master Qc Na was walking with his student, Anton. Hoping to prompt the master into a discussion, Anton said "Master, I have heard that objects are a very good thing - is this true?" Qc Na looked pityingly at his student and replied, "Foolish pupil - objects are merely a poor man's closures."
Chastised, Anton took his leave from his master and returned to his cell, intent on studying closures. He carefully read the entire "Lambda: The Ultimate..." series of papers and its cousins, and implemented a small Scheme interpreter with a closure-based object system. He learned much, and looked forward to informing his master of his progress.

On his next walk with Qc Na, Anton attempted to impress his master by saying "Master, I have diligently studied the matter, and now understand that objects are truly a poor man's closures." Qc Na responded by hitting Anton with his stick, saying "When will you learn? Closures are a poor man's object." At that moment, Anton became enlightened.
Iunno, appliances (via energy star?) get more efficient all the time.

Not sure why they couldn’t become more adaptive too. A kWh isn’t a kWh, but energystar treats them that way.
IANAL, but I don't believe that a smear campaign against her would be illegal in the US. I mean, she's arguably a public figure, so a libel case wouldn't stand.

Indeed, it would have been a better article if she had focused on how common this stuff is. And just used her own experience as the lead.
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Human beings are weird in that "failure to integrate into society" and "failure to pass on your genes" don't necessarily overlap.

In fact, failure to integrate into a social order often increases your chances of passing on your genes.
There's a spec for english? Ooops i didnt get the memo.
I also hate it when ppl say "cheaters". So?
Thats the current consensus thats all. We'll go back to calling them cheats when we feel like it again.
Absolutely not, I heavily dislike SmartID and similar proprietary spyware as well. A TOTP HW token would be in my opinion more secure. The reason banks use it though is the convenience, having some identity tied to the apps is just a bonus for them.
The canonical German translation is "pflücke den Tag", which is exactly "pluck the day", as suggested in the article.
Way too complicated and certainly would be gamed. And it only filters out for lazy people, not intelligent or informed people. In any case why wouldn't you make the questions about the office that the candidate is running for and what they would be responsible for? That seems like the most relevant knowledge to a vote.
Woah thanks for your shares!!! I really, really appreciate it. Could you give me what kind of things to study to actually experience the problem myself? Or is it a real hard job to get?
pragma's are now in [[ ]] brackets, not normal #pragma anymore? that doesn't look backcompat to me.
Is the Golf Tour Channel the same as the Golf Channel??
And inflammable means flammable...
They do and it isn't, because nobody will pay for it because there is no individual benefit. Or even an individual way to verify that it is happening.

The US Navy have some rather nice CO2-to-jetfuel technology. It just costs more than getting it from oil.
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Agreed that the tooling is good. I just think not having to inspect multiple processes and message queues is better.

Whenever I've really needed concurrency and robustness, I like OS processes better. Not as lightweight, but I can keep the logic in each component mostly sequential, use the best language for each component, use the tried-and-true OS tools for monitoring, and moving a component to run on a different box is trivial.
> a world where it only costs $5 to instantly stream almost any movie ever created directly to your TV

Wait, where is this world you speak of?

I have a Netflix streaming subscription and it's way inferior in terms of selection to when I used their DVD mailing service ten years ago.

But it sounds like you're renting individual titles. I am a bit of a movie buff into old and slightly obscure titles so I went to Google Play and tried three of my old favorites from the 1990s off the top of my head. None of them were available. (I didn't even try the truly obscure stuff.)

On the other side of the market, Avengers: Infinity War is $10 to rent on Google Play!

Where is this place I can go where they have everything and it's all $5?
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Russian social network Vkontakte tried to resist. The founder and CEO got fired, and the company was taken over by Kremlin associates.
I think that "Idiocracy" idea is highly elitist. I'd for us to all be reading in search of lost time in the evenings. But hey playing fortnite n instagramming are the current consensus right? Who am i to say fortnite n instagram are low quality past times for idiots?
Probably on par with other developed nations. It's also an increasing problem in America which is not necessarily fashionable to admit.
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Anyone else think about going to the bathroom? But seriously Go projects are always fun to go through. Go code is usually very legible so even if you dont write much Go code it doesnt hurt to look at how Go developers write code.
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First off, Louis Rossman has made his fair share of stupid mistakes on camera and I am sure he's had his own work returned to his shop in the past. It is important to note is that he is cherry picking the worst cases of incompetence from across the country since he has many fans willing to send their Macs to him. Apple's Genius Bar services over 18 million users per year. There are bound to be some stinkers. https://www.cultofmac.com/185762/did-you-know-apples-genius-...
I heard a funny story from a senior guy at one of the big Bay Area tech companies (that has "unlimited" vacation) a little while back. They apparently hired a new PR person who quit after about six months because she couldn't deal with the fact that the CEO took vacations and he really took vacations in the "I'm on vacation. Handle whatever it is without me." sort of sense. It was just so alien that it completely stressed her out.
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Yeah. We (in the US) can't even start making the changes needed to save the planet until Trump is gone. Unfortunately, climate change is politically beneficial for Trump and the GOP as climate change is displacing millions of people in Central America, which can be used to frighten, polarize, and energize rural voters.

And even if we win the Presidency, the steps needed to fight climate change will be very painful for all of the people whose dirty jobs are eliminated. It will take a policy proposal like the Green New Deal, which accounts for that pain with corresponding social safety net programs and occupational retraining programs. But cleaning up this mess would require long term Democratic control, and that's unlikely given the expected pain.
Unfortunately when you let people develop on your data, you get what happened with FB and Cambridge Analytica. You saw how FB got into trouble for literally no fault of theirs? The data was literally accessed using a legit API.
Bear with me -- I often wonder whether, for subjects which transcend cultural differences, Wikipedia should only allow non-English pages where English-native pages do not exist. My reason is that I suspect that the English-native versions of pages will tend to be the highest quality due to editor volume/attention, etc, and I do not want non-English speaking communities to be disadvantaged by lower quality Wikipedia content. So, the suggestion would be intense focus on automatic translation of English pages, rather than creation of parallel pages in n languages.
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There may be a clever way to subvert scponly and the nologin related commands with this.

Still piecing it together but maybe
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>Writing out umm instead of thinking it and saying u when you mean "you" aren't the artifacts of different nationalities and the way they communicate. They are the artifacts of lower quality English language communities like facebook.

That's just wrong. I don't know what to tell you.

I'm from Ghana, if you took 10 random online posts from friends without names and showed them to me, I could easily tell you which ones are my Ghanian friends and which ones are my American friends.

In general, different countries have different cultures about everything from emoticons to grammar online. It's telling that you didn't realize this.
> Any centralized identity system solves a problem we don't have.

You already have one, SSN and similar absolutely count and allow aggregate different data. Not to mention that you're absolutely forgetting about the fact that humans don't have a lot of entropy, k-anonymous data is not what we have by-default. You are wrong about a centralized system "providing a way to aggregate data" it just makes it easier. I live in a country that actually gives citizens access to a centralized identity system and I'd say it has solved much more than you're giving credit for.
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here's the thing, these are both valid interpretations on the larger context of the poem which is destiny and uncertainty.

it sure means live in the moment as don't worry too much about the future, but it's not an ode to full carelessness and hedonism, the next phrase specifically don't say 'don't believe in the future' but to minimally rely on it.

it's the Epicurean sentiment of future being partly in control of destiny and in part of fate, being a result of both our actions of today and randomness in the form of actions of everything else living and inanimate.

the 'minimally rely on tomorrow' qualify the 'carpe diem' into something between enjoy the moment and take the opportunity you see.

the reference to 'not worry about the future' but still 'prepare the vine for tomorrow' in the prior paragraph is clear enough about it, while being random life goes on. there's a strong theme of not believing to being able to control the future as introduction to the specific passage, which comes intentionally with the ambiguous term to broaden it into multiple meaning. carpe as harvest suggest that the author wanted to include both the 'enjoy the moment' and 'take the opportunities in it' meanings.
I mean, it sounds like she built a step by step strategy to destroy Monsanto’s reputation, so it seems disingenuous to be shocked when they respond in kind.