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Plants Can Replace Meat–But Will Doing So Help the Environment?
Serious question: how do you avoid “overdoing” it? Or getting to narrow with the scope besides using common sense?
>the dumpster fire that is Planetary Annihilation.

huh? I enjoyed it. Mainly played AI skirmishes with mods though
Genre got rehashed / beaten to dead, the hype's at the successor of the genre, MOBA. No more innovation to take from RTS, unless you implement it as part of other genres/games. Which you could argue MOBA is.
I mean, there's already Visual Code, an Electron IDE pretty much.
I only know a single "developed" country in which you have to indebt yourself to go to college, and that's the US.

Are there any others?
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Hahaha when you don't live in Europe, it's actually doable.
I don’t think it’s unrealistic at all. My wife and I have always lived on one income. Before we had kids, we used the other to pay off our college debt very quickly and build as much savings/retirement as possible. It also taught us to narrow the set of physical goods we valued in life. We are now living very comfortably on one (modest) income with 3 kids.

As far as never going into debt, I think you should interpret that a bit more loosely. Obviously, going to college has huge payoffs in a few short years. That is more of an investment as long as one chose and affordable college. Taking out a loan on a new BMW or Tesla is debt.
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The video effects are beautiful. This could easily be the intro of a successful Netflix series. I watched it completely (4:40 min) because the graphics and all the mumbo-jumbo mesmerized me.
I’m not sure I agree with your conclusion because the cost of switching is almost zero, and none of the parties involved have an incentive for loyalty. Here in DC, the restaurants heavily promote whoever is giving them the best rate and the drivers all work for multiple vendors, to the point that I’ve had orders from one accompanied by a suggestion to switch to a competitor. If anyone starts raising prices business can shift overnight, and there’s a ceiling over which people stop buying or fallback to the non-app delivery guy.
This advice is 50% wrong. You should marry very rich or never get a divorce. For many people marriage works very well as they will tell you proudly.

On the other hand this advice is 50% right if you ever do get a divorce. Those things are so expensive and leave a huge hole behind. If you were the primary money earner you are likely to pay for years.
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>neither I nor my boss are going to find this level of detail useful in a year.

Actually, if you include copious screenshots, you might find it useful forever! You could just change your text, to make your screenshots talk about whatever you wanted to show. Maybe a UX flow observation or suggested change. Maybe you want to show a UI inconsistency. Or you want to showcase a theme change between two major versions or when changing some front-end component. Regardless of why you originally prepared the screenshots, a picture says a thousand words.

If you want to make your writing perennial, try adding screenshots!

If nothing else it will have historical importance.
This is true and the boundary of Palo Alto, Mountain Virw, and Los Altos right at San Antonio and El Camino

Seemed strange to me that Rambus could be in Los Altos (a largely residential town) until I drove past it one day and thought it was in Mountain View.
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You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality
Cities: Skylines, but there's so many paid mods/DLCs for it (just like with Civilization 5/6).

Planet Coaster if you want a decent Rollercoaster Tycoon successor.
* Stop paying so much taxes.

* Use money to make money.

* Never get sick.

* Never get divorced.
Probably because no one has one. At least in Norway the best you can do is reserve one by handing over your name and address, no indication of delivery date, no configurator.
This is still pretty common in the US. Midtown Palo Alto is full of streets with discontinuities and small side streets all bearing he same name.
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Attempted heist at Coinbase was scary good, even though it failed
Hi. On OSX it's actually very easy (at this point in history):

1. download & install Karabiner Elements
(open source: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements)
`brew cask install karabiner-elements`

2. run the program, and install "Anti-RSI App Switch" config from the internet repo (or anything else you prefer):

Menu bar icon -> Preferences -> Complex Modifications -> Add rule -> Import more rules from internet -> search for "rsi" -> Anti-RSI App Switch -> Import (you may have to go through the "Add rule" a few times to enable all parts of the rule, but the internet import happens only once)
Which generation of chemist/scientist since the 1970s did not describe their work as developing “safer” poisons.

Which chemical company has not sold their product primarily with the “safer” headline?

Do you really believe it? Can you not just see that’s the umbrella justification under which all new generations of poison products are developed?

The safe poison is no poison.

Why are we so intent on killing things on the planet?

“Our new product the Silent Spring Spray 9000 sets safety totally aside to give the farmer total apocalypse over all six legged creatures!!!!” said no chemical company or poisons chemist since DDT.
Even in Northern Europe where tuition is free, students often take out loans to support themselves during uni.

Source: I grew up in one of those places, plenty of people will borrow from the government on top of what they are given.
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Ask HN: Efficient DIY/home hardware programming (not spend most time on drivers)
Hello HN,

first time poster here - I recently got interested in HW programming for personal use "IoT"/"home automation" and similar. I find myself spending way too much time on integration/hardware/drivers rather than building logic. Is there any way (kit/company/etc) that would provide this sorted out so I can fast forward boring integration work? I however also want to be able to connect things like own (or somehow decently priced) LED diodes/servos/components.

Thanks!
> I've read several books by authors that started out by self publishing on Amazon. People like Andy Weir, Hugh Howey, Ernest Cline, John Scalzi, and indeed Robert Dugoni.

Scalzi's first novel was Agent to the Stars (1997), which was indeed self-published but via his own website, not Amazon. His breakout novel was Old Man's War (2005) which was published traditionally by Tor.
> The status quo is we keep doing what we are currently doing for decades. The risks of doing that are far greater in my opinion.

Still a hard no.

It's precisely this attitude that got us where we are today. 50 years ago, the response would have been 'the status quo is we're headed towards mass starvation as we become unable to feed the giant post-war population boom using traditional agricultural techniques'.

Now we're faced with the possibility of widespread ecological collapse of marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Species are going extinct at thousands to millions of times the background rate. Even if we merely survive, the loss of genetic diversity will reverberate through millions of years and likely result in heavily degraded, less productive ecosystems that will require heavy human intervention in perpetuity to continue to function. We're basically cutting a huge hole in the boat underneath us, and signing ourselves up to bail out the water ... forever.

Let's be honest: we don't know the long-term ecological consequences of what we do. We didn't know 100 years ago, we didn't know 50 years ago, and we still don't know today. We do not have the ability to determine the long -term negative boomerang effect of mass application of so-called 'targeted' intervention.

> It's chemically identical to what you consume every day.

And how do you know drastically increasing the amount has no effect over the long term? Note that snippets of dsRNA floating around are potent immune system inducers, because it's what viruses create [1]. Does it have a long term pro-inflammatory effect? So let's assume you're correct, the dsRNA degrades quickly before humans eat it.

What about the transient immune responses of all flora and fauna in the sprayed area? What effect on the soil microbiome?

> no genetic modification

Literally modifying the genomes of fauna in the environment en masse in a highly selective way, putting enormous selective pressure in particular species. Do we even have any idea what that selective pressure will do? Will targeted species undergo rapid mutation and speciate? Will the descendant species become both more aggressive and harder to target, due to there being an empty ecological niche? Do those targeted species take on critical ecosystem roles that we're not yet aware of?

Note that this isn't idle speculation - just look at the enormous rise of MDR bacterial infections in hospitals, precisely the result of applying selective pressure for just a couple of generations.

The crux of all our problems is a chronic inability to admit that we don't know, and perhaps cannot safely know, the ecological consequences of our actions. But sure, kill away. If we're lucky, we won't be around when the boomerang hits.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5924774/
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Yes as a native I have heard if this, but Sweden was also a relatively rich and technologically advanced country at the time despite all the slums of Stockholm so I assume there must have been wealthy parts too.
> I don’t think it’s unrealistic at all. My wife and I...

Come on now. It's about what is generally achievable. Imagine living in London on £25K, which is roughly the median. If you find another median salary, are you gonna save it all? Unlikely.
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I think it’s funny that the portfolio page has a quite by Daniel Pink. Pink is like a pop culture, Malcolm Gladwell type. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But it also doesn’t really provide ethos from an established authority.

Picking quotes is interesting, I think, as it gives a sense of the author and what the author values.
The stories in this discussion make it easier for me to understand my grandmother’s refusal to adopt a house number when South Australia assigned them (50s? 60s?). Up into the 90s when she moved into a unit she insisted on using just name of her house, and it appeared to work just fine.

And it’s not like she lived in some grand house; just an ordinary single family house. I walked by it last year and the current owners have a number on the gate (up I had never known what it was); my cousin kept the house name plate that unused to hang there.
I've been doing something like this for the past year or so, I just have a Google doc called "Workflow". If I encounter an error or problem I've never seen before, I write the error down, and then the solution (with links if appropriate). Bold the ones I never solved or had to work around. Put eureaka moments in italics (oh THATS how it works!?). It helped me a lot because I would stumble around before that remembering I had this same error or problem a few weeks or months before, but could not remember how I solved it. I'm much more productive and it's cool seeing a list of all the things I've solved. Also, when multiple days go by without and entry you feel really really good.
The problem is that the massive amount of money generated by the criminal exploitation of the eco-system pretty much isolates these people from the consequences of their actions.

At least until the starving plebs come after them with pitchforks.
I have no relationship with Amazon Publishing, nor am I ever likely to. My experience of publishing with Amazon is entirely restricted to their (now defunct) CreateSpace platform and its successor, Kindle Direct Publishing, alongside publishing works on 3rd party self-publishing platforms and attempting to get those books listed on Amazon.

My personal view, developed over a number of years, is that Amazon is a toxic environment for self-publishing authors:

- Their price modelling is designed to undercut other self-publishing platforms to the point of damaging them. If an author publishes on a 3rd party platform, Amazon will demand that the price point for the book is double the viable price listing on Amazon - so that they can offer the book to readers at a 50% discount (from day 1 of listing). Authors have no control over when the discount is applied, or the level of discount, or for how long it will last. The last time I checked (several years ago, things may have changed since) authors were paid a percentage of the price at which the book was sold, not its original price point.

- Publishing both on Amazon and on a 3rd party platform is not prohibited; however Amazon demand that the list pricing on their platform must be as cheap (or preferably cheaper) than on those other sites (before any discounts are applied). If they find a book listed elsewhere at a cheaper price they will automatically price-match without warning the author. Running a temporary price reduction promotion for a book on another platform can lead to a permanent price reduction for the book on Amazon.

- If an author wants to give away a book for free, this is possible on other platforms, but not on Amazon - unless the author enrolls the book in their KDP Select program, which will allow the author to offer strictly time-limited free giveaway windows ...

- Except an author can only enroll a book on KDP Select if they remove that book from all other platforms and agree to publish exclusively on Amazon. This includes removing the book from profitable venues such as Google Play and Apple Books (which are ideal for iPad/iPhone and Android devices).

- I could go on (but won't).

Many people will disagree with my personal 'toxic environment' view. That's fine. Self-publishing on the Amazon platforms is often enough to meet the needs of many self-published authors, and quite often profitable for them too.

But for me the above points all indicate that Amazon is interested only in killing diversity and creating a readership monopoly, which in the longer run will damage self-publishing and prove to be toxic to both authors and readers alike.
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It depends whether they had permission from the owner of the system. An employee who tampers with passwords may violate the CFAA but if the system owner (MoviePass) authorised it it's fine and dandy, the users have no particular rights there.
Except, they don’t actually give you a way to judge taste. With apples people learn of better tasting variety, but strawberries are unlabeled.
People who give advise are advisors, people who kill are murderers, people who have kids are parents and people who produce or spray poisons are poinsoners. Using the word "poisoner" is not calling some names, it is simply using the correct word for the person that we are discussing.
Also in mature markets where the amount of innovation you can get is tiny compared to the amount of money you need to invest to get it.
LOL the best investing advice everyone in this generation ever got is "buy bitcoin" ... and not one of these clowns said it (before OR after the fact!)
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More than one time I bought organic and there wasn't a big difference. Fruit quality and taste is so random that in the end I buy the cheapest
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'Dark Matter' is physicist code for 'gravitating stuff that we cannot see'.

'Dark Energy' is physicist code for 'anti-gravitating non-stuff vacuum that we cannot see'.
> If you want to sell it above $10, then their commission becomes 70%!

No, that's how much the author earns from each sale. I will say that Amazon's pricing model - divided as it is into geographical regions - is needlessly complicated. It's easy to misunderstand stuff and end up with a less-than-satisfactory overall price for the book.
Yes. It was about $2000. But what was I going to do, just not be there? Took me a bit of work to pay it off but I would have regretted not going so much more.
Organic doesn't mean more flavor.

Tasteless strawberries are around for a few reasons

1) you can't try before you buy. bigger, redder strawberries look better, so sell better, so are grown more, and so on until that's the expectation. if varieties are cultivated for their looks, that means they're not cultivated for their taste or sugar content

2) bigger strawberries are easier/faster to pick, which means they're cheaper to pick

3) people want strawberries in winter, which means for a lot of us that means we're accustomed to buying strawberries that have been shipped thousands of miles and not picked recently.

https://www.npr.org/2012/05/17/152944880/bigger-means-better...
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Agriculture involves preferencing specific species over others. It's intellectually dishonest to think otherwise. Getting the balance right is what we should be striving for. I'd assume you take antibiotics - lot of death caused there. Why is that OK?
A lot of stores in Germany do something else, where they'll use the price per 100g for one brand and price per 1kg for another in order to make it just slightly harder to realize how expensive something is at a glance.
Was the 1966-1982 Stock Market Really That Bad? (2014)
It found a niche in a serious industry (video). Commodore simply got ran over by WinTel. They forgot one big part of their success was low cost and being available in a large number of outlets. They didn’t have a cost successor to the C64. The 900 was not that either.
with Roundup that story was "it only interferes with the shikimate pathway" and now we know that it is not true.

You simply cannot give any guarantee whatsoever that the dsRNA-based poison that you consider safe, really is safe or has unforeseen fatal effects.

You should read more about agriculture and look at the many success stories of farmers who produce in large scale without using poisons. Then you might understand that there is no need for poisons.
>they can switch to a better operational model which would be hopefully profitable.

So they have been burning billions of dollars in the hopes that there might be a business model in the future?

Maybe it's just that VCs were naive to think that taxis and food delivery were good businesses.
>Last time I checked, Amazon was essentially forcing you to sell your 1000 page years of work e-book for $9.99 or less

This still appears to be true. Though TBH, similar pricing dynamics exist with traditional publishers. That's one reason that you have two and three part books rather than 1500 page behemoths.

I get where you're coming from. On the other hand, pre-Amazon your only real option was to convince some publisher to take on your book. Which wasn't easy for a first-time author. J.K. Rowling was "only" rejected 12 times. Tons of other well-known authors have plenty of stories about how long it took to find a publisher.
This article does not age well. Especially the C# stuff...

Also, using Haskell 'very little' will not give you the experience you need to write something like this. Haskell has a (very) steep learning curve and you need to recognize ways to solve problems and to see the elegance (and the warts as well by the way). That takes time and effort; maybe there are people who just get it, I am definitely not one of those people, but the work, for me, was definitely worth it.
I'd like to have videos of the screens of people saying it's fine because here's how it looks on a computer able to run witcher 3 in 4k at 60fps : https://streamable.com/6wnj0
I think he's right. See https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634560

(This is for Kindle sales. Paperback is different.)

But you're also correct that it's complicated across geos.
- adapt a time management technique (i.e. pomodoro) to ensure frequent breaks from typing. Listen to it. Your code can wait. Grab some other objects during the breaks (lacrosse ball)

- get light dumbbells, ranging from 2 to 6 kg, and start doing wrist flexor exercises every day. Slow pace, good form, not too heavy weight, stop when it really hurts.
Food delivery makes more sense the more people do it. Imagine a situation where an entire street of houses orders delivery at the same time. One driver could make a few stops to pick up food and deliver it all at once. Far more efficient than each family driving to a restaurant separately. I wonder how one could structure incentives to encourage that sort of thing.
Are vaccine and antibiotics producers poisoners? I guess we all are, and I can live with that.
Maybe Glial cells are playing a role - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180618222427.h...
It’s not at all: you’re trying to develop a more targeted poison.

You’re a poison maker, by trade.
It's your system, you're free to design it as you wish. The accounts aren't "property" of users, they're instruments you use to provide some service - if you allow your employees to impersonate these accounts, then that's authorised access.

You're generally liable for the consequences of that access - e.g. if Twitter would have their employees take over Trump's account and post "I'm a doo doo head" every five minutes, then that might result in some legal challenges; or if a PayPal employee made payments impersonating your account, then those payments would constitute fraud; but, in general, your employees accessing user accounts and altering data in them is not prohibited by any laws.

[edit] It would be nice if the downvoters could provide some argumentation why they disagree - I can accept that users should have some rights, but according to the current laws they don't. CFAA protects the owner of the system, who gets to decide what access is authorised and what not.
It’s unlikely to have a good outcome for a service that’s already dominant in the market. They fear being commoditised, or even strangled.

Imagine one of those clients becomes really, really good - so much so that it becomes the default way to use the service. The client starts adding features only available in that client. Then the client introduces its own competing service, inside the same client.

The service just becomes a dumb pipe, with all the real value in the client. This is why we want protocols, rather than services, to decouple the client from the service provider.
The big screen on the S and X gets rid of all the clutter in the centre console. Just look at the centre console on the I-Pace, e-Tron, and EQC 400, just a mess of screens and buttons making the interior look and actually be more cramped.

I like the assembly quality on the Magna Steyr built Jaguar but the design is too fussy for me. I prefer my S.
The purpose is to make money selling snake oil, not anything more complicated than that.
So are datacenters. And cows were here first.
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My bullshit detector was already super high at "Time AI". Might as well have gone all in and call it "Time Blockchain AI".
Well in Poland university is free as it is in most post-communist EU, Scandinavia, and some other EU countries.

Yeah you still have to have the money for food and place to live, but you'd need that anyway, and it's not that expansive. Most people get these money from their parents without loaning any money from banks.
Again, you're characterizing me dishonestly, but at least this time you accurately described the situation. You're well aware that you changed the dialogue to make A sound unreasonable, instead of trying to understand why the point made by B could be understood as an unwarranted correction by A. I suggest we leave it at that because we will not agree.
Tesla Model S Explodes After Crash, Injures 3 People
Uber and Lyft Have Admitted to Making Traffic Worse in Some US Cities
one key from the past
and one key from the _future_