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I like the Atwater Kent models 35 and above- they have the same controls as modern radios: a single dial for tuning even if they are TRF receivers.

Norman Rockwell had one:

http://wd4eui.com/Pictures/Antique_Radios/AK35_NRockwell.jpg
Jimmy Carter told people the truth. (And he got promptly voted out, and so subsequent politicians have hidden the ball with the truth.) With respect to the environment, for example, he told people to put on a sweater. Because the truth is that almost all GHGs result from consumer-facing industries where consumers are the primary beneficiaries of pollution being artificially cheap.

Concrete example, since you mention the oil industry: Exxon makes about 22.5 cents when you buy a gallon of gas at $3.00. Meanwhile, an analysis has found that gas should be taxed an extra $4.36-7.62 per gallon to fully reflect the environmental and other harms of driving: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2015/01/the-real-reas.... So when the government doesn't impose that tax, who benefits? Exxon benefits a little because it sells more gas and collects the $0.22 of profit on each gallon. But the consumer saves $4.36-7.62 by avoiding those taxes. Exxon's profits, about $20 billion last year, are a rounding error compared to the trillion+ dollars that consumers would pay in extra taxes to address the negative externalities of driving.

Transportation, heating, agriculture, consumer products--these are the industries responsible for the fast majority of GHGs. And these are also highly competitive, commoditized industries where most cost savings get passed onto consumers. (Facebook makes more profit than Exxon, even though Exxon's revenues are more than five times as much.) That means the savings of making pollution cheap also accrues mostly to consumers. The industries where lack of competition allows corporations to command huge margins--banking, tech, advertising, etc.--are not the ones that are primarily responsible for GHGs.

"Access to healthcare" is similar. Why do people in Sweden have universal healthcare while people in America do not? Is it corporations? No, Sweden's corporate tax rate is quite a bit lower than ours. (It's similar to the current federal rate, but in the U.S. most corporations also pay a state rate. In Delaware, for example, it's an additional 8.7%.) So who benefits by Americans not having universal healthcare? It's middle-class Americans who don't pay the high middle-class taxes that middle-class Europeans pay.

Warren's focus on corporations is a total red herring, intended to make people falsely believe that you can have universal healthcare and a cleaner planet without decreasing your material quality of life. As Jimmy Carter told us, that's not in the cards. How do we know that? Because we can look at other countries who do better on these measures, and see what they do! France has much lower GHG emissions than the U.S. and universal healthcare. How do they do it? They live in houses that are half the size; they drive tiny fuel efficient cars, and have fewer of them per household; they deal with the challenges of nuclear power; their payroll taxes on the middle class are double ours; they take public transmit more often and therefore have significantly longer commutes. But their corporate taxes are even lower than ours!
That makes absolutely no sense. An ex post facto law is a law that criminalizes behavior after the fact. No one is saying the mergers were criminal, nor is breaking up the companies intended to be a legal punishment.
I think the same about most management theory, most of the corporate bs can be categorized as a form of Cargo-Cult.

Look how well they did doing that, let's copy them without understanding the context or anything below the surface of the things.
Okay, this is true and definitely useful as one more option in a so called STHF scenario but ethanol still provides more complications for use and conversion in modern gas engines (especially if you include newer fuel injected motors in cars).Furthermore and much more importantly, biodiesel (slightly different from the SVO of my original comment but close enough)produces about 90%+ more energy than is needed for its production, while ethanol only manages about 25% or so based on data I've seen. That's a major bonus for biosiesel and SVO generators or vehicle engines because in a real catastrophe situation, you'd want the most fuel energy for the least production inputs. Also, modified diesel engines that run biodiesel can also run straight vegetable oil and even animal fats, making them more versatile and easier to maintain than an ethanol motor.
Like IBM with mainframes?
"Superheterodyne" is a contraction of "supersonic heterodyne", where "supersonic" indicates frequencies above the range of human hearing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheterodyne_receiver
The “World Computer” Idea Is Flawed Live Debate
The point is that and AMD GPU is far from useless. The only thing that it DOES lack is the out of the box from major Python/R/whatever libraries. Why? Not because AMD GPU does not work, but because most (perhaps all) of these high-level libraries rely of underlying performance libraries provided by Nvidia.

Despite all the talk about autodiff this or that, the stuff that matters is implemented by hand by Nvidia and Intel engineers and then high level libraries build on top. AMD is simply lagging in providing low-level C libraries and GPU kernels for that.

For example, let me chip in with the libraries I develop, in Clojure, no less. They support BOTH Nvidia GPU AND AMD GPU backends. Most of the stuff is equally good on AMD GPU and Nvidia GPU. With less fuss than in Julia and Python, I'd argue.

Check out Neanderthal, for example: https:neanderthal.uncomplicate.org

Top performance on Intel CPU, Nvidia GPU, AND AMD GPU, from Clojure, with no overhead, faster than Numpy etc. You can even mix all three in the same thread with the same code.

Lots of tutorials are available at https://dragan.rocks

I'm writing two books about that:

Deep Learning for Programmers: An Interactive Tutorial with CUDA, OpenCL, MKL-DNN, Java, and Clojure [1]

and

Numerical Linear Algebra for Programmers: An Interactive Tutorial with GPU, CUDA, OpenCL, MKL, Java, and Clojure [2]

Drafts are available right now at https://aiprobook.com

[1] https://aiprobook.com/deep-learning-for-programmers
[2] https://aiprobook.com/numerical-linear-algebra-for-programme...
Wait, I thought it was a good thing for the owner of a phone to decide how it can be used?
I’m quite proud of it. Not only does it use 100% open source fonts for the rendering, it also renders on pretty much any browser made. The stylesheets are set up so the same HTML + CSS looks good on both desktop and mobile browsers (we use different CSS for mobile, but there’s no nonsense like m.samiam.org). The webfonts have been carefully hinted and subsetted to be of minimal size, and look good on pretty much any browser (I made sure they look good in Chrome + Windows, even on a low DPI display, which has had a lot of font rendering issues).

For example, the http → https redirect is set up so the redirect is not done in browsers which do not support Javascript (and may not support HTTPS); older versions of Internet Explorer which do not support modern TLS encryption also remain on the http website. The stylesheets do not “gracefully degrade” (in the sense I don’t try to have the site look mostly the same in antiques like IE6, IE7, or IE8), but the site is fully compatible with Internet Explorer 9 and above and any other mainstream browser from 2010 on. It is still completely readable (albeit with a different look) in older versions of Internet Explorer and in browsers without any CSS support (and, of course, it also can be read in the Lynx text-only browser).

I have tested it in Internet Explorer 5 and above, Opera 12 (the last version to use the Presto rendering engine before they moved on to WebKit), Dillo (depending on the version, it may need to have CSS disabled), Chrome, Firefox, Safari, you name it. It can be read by pretty much any browser that exists (the Unicode will look a little strange in stuff like Mosaic from 1994, but the site is still readable).
You can use any other key combinations, or even pressing the same key twice.
Damn, and despite this, you're posting on HackerNews. I wanna hear your life story.
But maybe that same competence would prevent them from making self-sabotaging decisions like cancelling a long-standing WFH policy.
I certainly agree with you that it isn't a good model for local law enforcement. The main reason being that there are many areas where we expect police to exercise some discretion. Speed limits being the main one that comes to mind—for whatever reason, speed limits are set at a level that the majority of the population do not follow to the letter, and we consider it unreasonable for police to issue tickets for driving 1mph over the limit. However obviously doing so would be legal and profitable. Also, since nearly everyone breaks this law to some extent, there is a great deal of room for discrimination in enforcement. (Of course one could argue that the proper solution would be to set realistic speed limits that most people will follow, and I would agree with that, but that's not the situation we have now.)

The question is, is this analogous to paying taxes? Perhaps to some extent—there are most likely enough uncollected taxes that discrimination in enforcement could be an issue, for instance. Although I expect that at the current level of enforcement, more investment would reduce that problem rather than exacerbate it. But more generally, do we see 'minor' tax cheating as being analogous to driving 1mph over the speed limit? I'm not so sure. Certainly the consequences should be proportional to the crime: small and accidental underpayments should simply result in having to pay the amount owed. But it seems to me that people (and corporations) should be required to pay all taxes legally owed, so over-enforcement in this area shouldn't be a concern until it got to the level where money was being spent that could be better used elsewhere. (Which obviously isn't the case when you're seeing a marginal profit on enforcement.)

I suppose the logical counter-argument would be that the money could be better spent by the people earning it in the first place—IE that taxes should be lower—and indeed I do expect this is the belief of most people who argue against enforcement.
Ah I see, this makes sense. Thanks. I misunderstood the second paragraph.
The average $25bn grocery-store chain is. Which was my point. The two criteria really just boil down to one criterion—size—because internet presence follows from size.
I cannot speak for the US, but in the UK in the 80s sure we all watched telly, however kids programs were on from 3pm to 5:30pm. After that it was go outside.

I don't think you were having multiple channels with 24hours programming for kids.
That's because this is anti-advice. It's saying figure it out yourself. How does one source such advice? How does one analyze it? It is the same idea as The answer to “Will you mentor me?” is no.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20715136
Please create a facebook account so we can track you^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h help "you" can "control" how we make ads from our abuse of your privacy.

We aren't going to stop tracking you, and "bugs" and "inadvertent" changes may "accidentally" reset your settings.
Only online marketplace? Why not physical too?

Walmart?

Then why not telecom? By the same logic shouldn't Comcast no longer be allowed to own NBCUniversal?

Or for media - would Disney not be allowed to launch their new video platform thing? Does Newscorp also have to be broken up? Certainly they have platforms for distributing media, but also a staggeringly large amount of content being generated.
So much crappy business advice suffers from Survivorship Bias [1]. “Companies A, B, and C did X and succeeded. Companies D, E, and F did not do X and failed. Therefore, X leads to success.” Ignoring how many companies also did X but failed too. The book “Good to Great” contains nothing but Survivorship Bias and is adored by Business Schools.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias (excuse the mobile link)
The Supreme Court has held that this applies to criminal law - you can't change the punishment of a crime or change rules of evidence to convict someone who was acquitted.

You can certainly pass laws to undo a merger or (equivalently) break up a company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calder_v._Bull
You're missing it happen right before your eyes! Every time a lobbyist writes the bills our congress passes, every time the state is defeated by the courts, every rollback of an EPA rule or opening of federal lands to drilling, every time a platform controls the speech of its users- those are all examples of our government's power shrinking!
This is very troubling to me. My employer's revenue is quite to this level yet, but it's within view. We're a LAR/VAR of computer products, so naturally we've got an ecommerce website. A minority of the products available on it are for services we provide. This seems to be saying that we wouldn't be allowed to do business this way anymore.
The super means above hearing range. In a heterodyne receiver (if there was ever such a thing), you would hear the IF frequencies.
It is really not comparable though. Doctors are limited by residency and the match in addition to medical school.
Arithmetic and even exponentiation are doable (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number#Exponential_fun...)

I’ve never seen derivatives or integrals, but https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/112492/integral-of-... claims one can define them.
I had no issues with the one one my daily keychain, which has been there for 2ish years now.
The download page says "Investing in open source", but it also says "Not supported for Linux". I'm going to take a guess that no other open source operating systems are supported either, unless you count Android.

Maybe they have a Linux or FreeBSD version in the works. From what I'm seeing right now, the new Microsoft supports open source, so long as you're on a proprietary platform. Should I be surprised?
Presumably the wording of the bill would require separation in the online marketplace, but not the retail stores. That is, Walmart stores could still favor "their" own brands, while they would be forbidden from doing so online.
Having read the whole thing I don't see what makes him an asshole.

He feels he got fired due to allegations of things he didn't do, because he is (a) white and (b) a man and (c) not apologising for that. And of course, now his enemies are getting him fired from as many jobs as they can.

This is why I just ignore claims of people being on the spectrum. It comes across as just an insult deployed against people for ideological reasons. The guy stood up to student "protests" that were disrupting the university, a problem that seems endemic these days, and of course got fired because university administrators seem to be as extremist as the student population. The guy got angry and wrote a public explanation. Given the history of such firings in academia I'm sure he's correct.

Nothing about that is indicative of a developmental or mental disorder, which is - let us recall - what Asperger's and autism are. After all, by this standard Martin Luther King and many others who made sacrifices for their beliefs would have been considered deeply autistic.
The Sleeping Beauty controversy – a math conundrum
To be fair, large portions of the GOP (current presidents nothwithstanding) has also been advocating for simplified tax schemes that would make a smaller IRS more than capable enough for the job.
That article was idiotic to begin with.
Hoping that companies won't explore every possible avenue for cash just because they have a lot is not a good plan. Google and FB are already aggressively going after advertising dollars.
One does not exclude the other. We can break up these companies and restrict what they are allowed to do in terms of tracking users. That would make it harder for them to misbehave and easier for governments to do something about it if they do.
The only difference is that one of these two things involves giving a whole bunch of private, sensitive data about everyone to anyone who'll pay and the other does not. If that distinction doesn't matter to you then I'd say that this isn't actually about privacy at all.
Key differentiation:

- Brick and Mortar stores buy inventory and choose from what they own to sell inside their stores.

- Online platforms make revenue by being open to anyone to sell their own inventory through.
So, no more "Add Notes" feature? That's what made me use Edge as my main browser on my personal machine. Being able to quickly save a page, add notes by hand using a stylus, is just great.
The point is that legally parents are allowed to make that choice among other things. It doesn't matter if the kids are the direct user. This is the legal framework we live in
> So is the area of a square.

Try to cut that square in half diagonally and things get irrational really fast!

FWIW I thought calculus made a lot of sense and helped make the world make more sense. Algebra is a fancy set of rules to manipulate rather abstract symbols, calculus actually explains how real things work!
Alternative to DNS you say? Like a Location Name System!?!

Well, we're building it! I cannot supply much info right now other than the whitepaper at https://www.qalocate.com/resources/ but I'm really hopeful that we'll have a beta out in the next few months.
It was a quiz game based on information in the Encarta Encyclopedia. You would uncover areas of a castle or something like that, as you gained knowledge and correctly answered questions.

This looks like a video of the gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLmudzYWY94
Looks like black metal band logo. Brutal function.
When they shut these down what do they do long term about the people living in them? Presumably they rented these places as they couldn’t afford anything built to building codes. It sounds like they were forced into a homeless shelter?
Could one get around this by owning large percentages of multiple companies & just directing that they work together & buy services from each other?

In essence something companies already do since they're split up into separate sections/departments/groups.

Maybe they even split services such as HR into a consulting services organization that they all rely on.
We're a nation of laws, so it would apply to all of them too.

Of course, in some of these cases, it only increases the stranglehold. Because now no one else can be a large app distribution platform and an app dev for instance. (Think about it, Steam and Epic would have to really think about the way forward.) Or, famously, for Netflix, no one else can distribute video and create video. So Disney would be forced to license their stuff to Netflix. The only reason Netflix started creating content in the first place was because the creators wouldn't license their content to Netflix. So now Netflix can dump all of that content creation, confident that content creators will be forced to license their offerings to Netflix. Not only that, Netflix can be confident in the knowledge that large content creators would never be allowed to go into distribution.
Well, since I'm here no need for the guesswork. I'm not saying all ex-post theories all bullshit. I think that most ex-post startup thoeries are bullshit.
Why do you say that?
Does it add anything to the conversation?
FYI: I would also add angel.co/jobs

AngelList has the largest amount of remote jobs right now out there

(Disclaimer: work at AngelList)
But it isn't right now and you'd be talking about several orders of magnitude more than is currently being produced.

Current production appears to be something along the lines of 51.8 billion cubic meters [1] of brine each year being produced. Basically 1.5 brine per 1 desalinated water. If we use the YC page I linked above, " create millions of 1 km2 oases" let's assume roughly 2ft deep (61cm) and just 2 million oases... to fill them once you are talking about 1,200,000,000,000 cubic meters of water so 1,800,000,000,000 cubic meters of brine 34.75x as much brine as is currently being produced just to initially fill them, now factor in evaporation and water lost in algae you remove (to go sequester the carbon) and you're probably talking hundreds of times as much brine as currently produced. That's just for 2 million, what if you need 10 million of the pools? 20 million of them?

That's 1800 cubic kilometers of brine just to fill 2 million of the above pools, Lake Ontario is 1,640 cubic kilometers for some reference.

[1] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/01/desal...
We're also refining our understanding of autism as well.

When we refer to the "autism spectrum", most people think of it like two points on a scale. From 0 to 100. You are 30% autistic. Or you're 75% autistic.

That is not the case.

It's why we say "If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism".

Autism more refers to a certain group of developmental delays and processing issues. Being "on the spectrum" means you exhibit one or more of these traits. You can be a high-functioning person with autism who has sensory processing issues. But you can be completely verbal, pick up on social cues, etc.

Or you can miss social cues, have no problem with sensory processing.

Or you can miss cues and have sensory issues.

Autism is complicated. And we're just now really digging into it and discovering what it means.
> According to Gothamist, the condo is listed as a 634-square-foot unit. If the nine sub-units were divided evenly, each living space would measure about 70 square feet.

Since the unit was first divided horizontally before being subdivided, wouldn't each micro apartment have about 140 square feet of floor space?
Until there is a fire. Oakland Ghost Ship says "Hi!" Can we have a substantial prison sentence for the landlord?
Wait? What?

Would this not apply to Walmart and Target too?

If this only applies to digital stores, then yeah, it's total bull. Because Amazon could just build some stores like Target and Walmart.
Right before social media started to take off the academics were arguing if we were already seeing polarization [e.g. 0]. It might be worth considering whether the polarization trend changed with social media before attributing causes and potential solutions.

[0] Abramowitz, A. I., & Saunders, K. L. (2008). Is polarization a myth?. The Journal of Politics, 70(2), 542-555. http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~jcampbel/documents/AbramowitzJO...
How do you visit family without needing to take vacation?

I guess you're blurring the line between "full-time from a stable remote (home/coworking/etc.) office" and full on "digital nomad".

I work full-time remote and I think there's a huge difference between working from a stable office and wandering around working from a camper van or ducking out for personal travel while on the clock? It's hard to imagine that the latter type of employee would be ready to quickly respond to incidents, to sync with their team on short notice, etc.
> People with Asperger’s syndrome... bring serious advantages to the financial markets: ... a strong sense of logic, and an intense belief in fairness and justice.

If that were true they would never accept work in the finance sector. Or would resign in disgust soon after being hired.
Ex post facto only applies to criminal laws (Calder v. Bull). And it generally only applies to punishments for crimes. See how sex offenders had to register even if their crimes were committed before the Adam Walsh bill was passed, because registering as a sex offender is not a punishment.
This seems absolutely insane.

> For those making less than $25,000, the audit rate fell 0.02% (to .69%) from 2017 to 2018.

Frankly, for it to be significantly above 0 seems grossly inefficient. I would assume that average rate of return for public money spent on auditing a millionaire is... a fair bit higher than that spent auditing someone earning 25k.