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Normally the US govt is too afraid of Chinese imports to criticize China (look at history of Taiwan). Trump of court is a wildcard on Twitter but his administration policies and diplomacy aren't nearly as radical. But we do have the tariff issue at the moment, which might have some background connections.

Weird that he's not tweeting about it though. Maybe because a standoff lacks the immediacy of specific punctuated incidents.

And ultimately it's an issue between one and a half foreign countries that doesn't really impact US interests so much compared to much larger issues with China.
Quite. I suspect many, like myself, mainly know Maigret from the television series starring Rowan Atkinson (yes!).
What? The commenter volunteered they could provide first hand details... Isn't that better than second hand news sources?
The Cassandra article is both right and wrong, the story is complicated, but the point about lowered interest rates goes like this:

* higher interest rates are disliked by private capital because they a) cause competition for capital b) require higher taxes to fund interest payments c) induce higher "erosion" of large collections of capital

* lower interest rates are liked by private capital for precisely the complementary reasons a) interest is not competition for capital b) require lower taxes c) induce less "erosion"

Higher interest rates in an idealized sense are perhaps better, but in our current environment, it is generally not feasible to raise them, absent a convincing story for growth to match.

Funding the future is hard, and the balance between entitlement and resource governance is hard, but in the US, in the game between individual capital-oriented private interests and generic public interests, public interests generally lose. This is by far the largest contributing factor to pension "decimation."

Finally, small point- for individuals, using macro-reported inflation is, to a first approximation, a mistake. What matters to an individual are changes in actual cost of living, which are historically extremely localized.
Only those that use the widely debunked 'Security through obscurity" model. So most of it unfortunately.
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The TLA namespace is badly overloaded enough, but it's got nothing on the TLA namespace.
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Yes? China has an active foreign influence mission.
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I took their "Elaborate?" as a request to hear a HN user's perspective on the situation. Any old account off Google will do if you want a broad overview, but one from the kind of people who visit HN might have some valuable insight that's useful to the community.
No, this canard gets raised in every traffic thread. The real reason why “induced demand” exists is because roads in urban areas are usually so under built that any reasonably good road is crushed by extra users once it is built. If governments actually kept sufficient roads available then there would not be induced demand.
Alternatively, the government should charge all road users a sufficiently high toll to keep the roads moving.
The extra calculation doesn't change the theoretical asymptotic time complexity because O((k+1)f(n)) = O((k)f(n)) = O(f(n)). In a real computer most of the calculation time will be spent dealing with cache misses and reading from memory, especially in a linked list which is very easy to code in a cache-unfriendly manner. So it is basically free.
When the West intervenes in these matters they get called colonialists. When they don't intervene, people wonder why they don't do anything.
Conversion to or from electrical power is one option, but an elevated water storage (tower or simply up hill) reduces the need for larger water pumps. It means you don't have to run your well during dark hours. So it saves on electric use rather than provide actual electricity.
strange that you would call a pair of wires carrying DC a "transmission line".

what makes you think identical lengths of identical cable with the same resistance R powering identical loads R_L will dissipate more heat when carrying DC than AC?

the total resistance of the pair of wires R and the load R_L form voltage divider

in the DC case: P_cable=RI^2

in the AC case: P_cable=R*(I_RMS)^2

they should dissipate the same heat, you may want to brush up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_mean_square

>For alternating electric current, RMS is equal to the value of the direct current that would produce the same average power dissipation in a resistive load.

and

>Because of their usefulness in carrying out power calculations, listed voltages for power outlets (e.g., 120 V in the USA, or 230 V in Europe) are almost always quoted in RMS values, and not peak values.

The only association with higher resistance losses would be when using low voltages but high currents... and even then the resistance losses would be equally high with low voltage high current AC since the fraction of energy dissipated in the cable versus the load is the same in both cases I^2 R / R_L
"We can remember it for you wholesale" is the original short story, I think. Philip K. Dick's works taken as a whole, are mind-boggling. At some point, I want to work through Ubik.

Stanislaw Lem, the great Polish sci-fi author of works like Solaris, called Western sci-fi "A Hopeless Case with exceptions" - one of the very very few exceptions was Philip K. Dick. There's also a nice essay on Philip K. Dick specifically. [1], [2]

[1] https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/backissues/5/lem5art.htm
[2] http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?253191
But where would you even start discovery? I guess no one with a remotely useful idea wants to share it ...I did a bit of Googling after the article came out last year and apart from a few research papers and that Wired article about Joan Ginther, not much comes up.

I'm surprised he is openly talking about everything, but I suppose many others have caught up and there's not much to lose ...
"[...] casino security, who were constantly on the lookout for card counting". Why this is something "forbidden", this isn't cheating, am I missing something? Anyway, how security can detect that someone counts cards? I assume gamblers are not doing that aloud.
You don't see a thousand years of different history to change zoning rules and incentives now. Significant change will take many years, even decades, but that's all the more reason to start as soon as possible.

> "medium density small towns" in Europe

Don't make excuses here. We chose poorly, and we're suffering for it, and so is the environment. Yes, there are historical reasons for why we have sprawliness and car dominance, but nobody made us do it. Don't deny people's agency.

> It's absurd to imply that the only difference between a place like rural Oklahoma and rural Bavaria is "zoning rules" and "property taxes"...

It's a pretty good thing I didn't do that, then. Perhaps you should try replying to the comment I made, rather than the one you invented.
Weeks? Everything has been on hold for 3 years at this point.
Not sure where you live, but every job I have had that's a full employment job has had me fill out a W2 tax form as one of the first papers I sign. If I'm not asked to sign one, I'm going to get suspicious about my employment status immediately.
Two girls, one umbrella.
How about we just abolish fractional reserve banking? Fractional reserve system causes credit to grow with booming population but causes deflation when population/production declines.

The root cause of all economic problems are man made. Lets fix the root cause because its totally in our control.
Posting signs would also mean dedicating police resources to enforcement, which tends to be a pretty unpopular use of public services. The proper option would be for Waze to work with LA/LADOT to mark roads, but it seems like they are either unable or actively hostile to resolving the core issue of overloading streets.
If your goal is "increase useful lifespan" the list of of fitness goals is nearly inexhaustible. You're optimizing too early, and your target goal is too abstract. Consider grabbing some more near-term goals (ones that will also contribute to "increase useful lifespan") and pursue those.

To share a personal example: signing up for a long race gave me concrete goals with a deadline, I could measure my progress in distance and time, and by the time I completed the race I began to enjoy running for the sake of running. Now I have an enjoyable hobby that also contributes to "increased useful lifespan".
I know it's currently happening in GTA Online. They haven't fixed it yet.
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>they wanted the lower house prices associated with living on main roads, but then tried to redirect traffic elsewhere?

If it works, why not? Buy a lower priced house due to traffic. Get politicians to change traffic. Sell house at higher value now that traffic conditions or better (or otherwise enjoy the now higher valued house). Are we to suggest that it is wrong to encourage politicians to act in a way that benefits an individual?
I think 1. is not too bad with some kind of index fund. Even during the recessions the value will not vanish - and historically it recovers eventually.

My current worry is the holding company - e.g. what if Merrill Lynch goes bankrupt? There is a very small amount that is FDIC insured but the rest could go poof.

A mattress might work better for this use case, but I figure if it comes down to that we'll have bigger problems.
This is interesting and admirable to see on Quillete, as their audience is not generally welcoming to the thesis. It's a good look for them.
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This canard is also used to justify taking taxes meant for road improvement and spending them on dubious public transport schemes. For some reason they are rarely invested in well run commuter buses, for instance.
Well, yes and no, the only way this gets done is through improvements and replacements.

You can't convince large numbers of people to give up burgers (which are a cultural staple), AC in the summer, cars, and tourism, all the while coal plants still fire away. Plus it all starts to feel like shaming, which tends not to end well.

But vertical farming, cows that fart less (yes, this is a thing), housing insulation improvements, solar panels, trains, and really good public transit can all feel like replacing bad things with better things.

You can't fight human nature, but you can plant a lot of trees.
I think the point is that residents of formerly quiet side streets are not happy about living on a Waze-induced thoroughfare... and understandably so, in my opinion.
> The car (and several other appliances of modernity) literally built much of the rural (and urban) American south and American west.

This is silly. That you needed a car to reach small towns from elsewhere doesn't mean you had to design the town itself to require a car for intra-city transportation.
Turning them into biochar is a slightly simpler proposal. Biochar is stable for a pretty long time. But of course the process of unburning all the coal we burned so far is not very viable.
It is forbidden by casinos because it is in their best interest to keep winning players away. Even if the house still gets their cut, it can create a bad image for players that are losing.
> Were people not happy before we took flights so often and ate meat for every meal?

Not doing something because you can't and not doing something out of choice are two different things.

It's much harder (and annoying g) not eating cake when one sits right in front of you vs when it's not in the house and its 1am.
Are most people able to take the money out of their pension early by just accepting some penalties? That could mean a sort of run on pension funds if people get spooked and pensions are under funded.
Not sure if it's 100% the case here, but a lot of bots respond to popular threads from legitimate people, either countering or supporting their position.

Less about the credibility of the account, and more about creating a lot of buzz or, well, counter-buzz around another thread.
> To understand the current period, I recommend that you understand the workings of the 1935-45 period closely, which is the last time similar forces were at work to produce a similar dynamic.

Christ nobody wants to live in 1935-1945. That period set the All-time record for violent death

https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-yea...
The casino can track the count too and see if a good player is adjusting their play accordingly
Nobody has to subscribe to them, they just search for relevant terms and reply to anyone talking about the protests.
Bear in mind that Hong Kong was part of the UK until relatively recently.

I'm not a fan of our government at all, but I'm pleasantly surprised at how they've managed to stay out of this situation (publicly, at least).
There's a simple reason for carbon taxes: it's a public goods problem.

Changing my own lifestyle will have significant costs, of some sort, and will have no noticeable impact on the climate. There's only a real impact if lots of other people do it too. But if they do, I can get the same benefit by freeloading on them and keeping my life unchanged. Either way, I'm better off not changing.

Nevertheless, I prefer a good climate to an unchanged lifestyle. It's just that if it's an individual decision for each of us, we're all better off as freeloaders.

A carbon tax removes the freeloader option.
I'm 46 and I've never worked anywhere that had a pension plan, so I guess they're not all that successful. I have worked at companies where some employees were in a defined benefit plan, but I always came too late and got in the 401K pool. There is a distinct difference in those two groups of employees: One group were lifers who were fiercely loyal to the company, and the second group, my group, was like WTF ever, we don't care. Then what happened is that the corporation merged with another and they fucked all those pension plan people out of their pensions. So you see? It did them no good to be such assholes to everyone, including to me. In the end, they got nothing (or very little) for their loyalty. Thus endeth that lesson. You can't trust corporations, they stab you in the back.

It also happened to my mother at MetLife in the early '90s. MetLife had a pension plan until UnitedHealth took them over and then it got reduced to pennies on the dollar. She still gets like $100 a month from whatever settlement, but it's not what was originally promised, not even close. 20 years of work right there.

My Dad has a union pension which he still collects and it is halfway decent owing to the fact that the union went out of its way to run off as many people as they could before they were eligible to retire. It's hazing--they fuck with anyone getting close to retirement age, trying to force them to leave the union. Unfortunately for them, my Dad is an extremely mean SOB and fought them right back, physically, at times. In fact, so few people collected on that pension that the union was legally required to up the payouts. Think about that.

My whole take on pensions is that they are bullshit. They promised the world and the unwise were far too trusting and then they all got screwed one way or another and someone else raided that pension fund, banksters of a certain ethnic relation, probably.
I can flag, I can appeal, but it doesn’t change the attitude of the community. Apparently, SO community is trained for years to close vote every question they don’t understand.

Once I was really motivated to reopen a question. It was an interesting question, it had 2 well written answers, one of them mine. Also it was from a new user account.

I’ve spent hours trying to get or reopened, wrote questions on meta, wrote many more messages in chats, edited the question so I’m 100% sure it fits the site.

It got reopened, then closed within days, with the exact same reason “too broad”. https://stackoverflow.com/q/57323981

This discouraged me from answering questions on that site. I don’t do web development, I don’t program Java, JS or Python. But the majority of SO community are web developers. The questions I find good and interesting, they find too broad and unclear what’s asked.
I guess you have to move up to the trillionaires, then. Because they own half of everything.

I favor large inflation, which bankrupts the trillionaire while the working Joe keeps earning 'new money' and does ok.
Thanks Luke, for releasing the home plans and such a detailed explanation on why it didn't work.
Technically yes, but to call it "intermittent fasting" you have to both pay attention at the clock and follow a certain low carb, high fat diet to avoid crashing when you are in a fasted state.
Also mind that the 16:8 window is the minimum you can do. Advancing the fasting window yields different benefits as more as it goes on.
"So there are bots that have been posting "porn" for a bunch of years. And now they post political messages."

The article says accounts like this can be purchased cheaply from resellers.

"How does that influence anybody?"

I think the most effective use is in replies to other tweets.
All the replies to a tweet are shown if you look at a tweet. You might look at the profile of some user who makes a tweet, but perhaps won't take such a deep look at their profile to see the earlier porn tweets.

High number of tweets, high number of followers, long time on the site would indicate 'actual person' rather than bot, or so you'd think without scrolling down far enough to see it filled with spam posts.
Well, info on the internet is different than a memory. And perhaps books, speech recording etc are the antidote anyway to tampered memories - making an argument to strengthen First Amendment protections.

More powerful than personal memory, though, might be common knowledge. As they said at Epsilon Theory (using Harvey Weinstein as an example),

Even if everyone in the world believes a certain piece of private information, no one will alter their behavior. Behavior changes ONLY when we believe that everyone else believes the information.
I thought I would understand what virtue signalling was by the end of this article if there was enough context clues, but I still have no idea what this is supposed to mean. I get the impression the author believes the reader should already know what they are talking about.
This did not age very well.

https://lwn.net/Articles/774734/

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/797303/bbf4f485aadbe9ec/
So for cars we have clear rules like on intersection who has the priority, on an incline, etc . It seems that in this case there are no rules, the SpaceX was following the rules but ESA thinks it was to risky or SpaceX are incompetent and could not do anything and couldn't even produce a response in time.
Who should manage them?
The studies show it doesn't affect testosterone levels because the phytoestrogens in soy for the most part don't react with estrogen receptors to trigger a response from your body (at least not when going through normal digestive mechanisms). The amount of phytoestrogens you consume has no causal relation to the amount of estrogen in your hormone system.
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sure 3-phase would work towards the future, and saves a conductor too, I'm trying to save all consumer equipment (since they universally use 2-phase AC) AND the energy buffer capacitors / inductors in the inverter.
The questions are; are you being accused of have poor communication skills by your boss?

Or are you just trying to improve your skill set?

If the just trying to improve look up effective communication, including topic like pathos, logos, and ethos, reading your audience, and non-verbal communication. You could also look at groups like toastmasters.

If you are being accused of poor communication by your employer or direct supervisor it’s time to look for a new job. As that this accusation is from certain management playbook techniques as was to deny employees promotions as it threatens the managers own career trajectory. As that you have done something intentional or not that makes them look bad or they need an excuse to justify a poor performance review.
I wonder how online casinos deal with card counters.
> get conscious of the epycal change

What does epycal mean? (Or what word did you mean?) Google failed me.
Yet my argument exactly is that the logical abstraction you were talking about is a relatively simple pattern, and what is beyond it less important.

The author is right that what we do for NLP is not enough for reasoning. But it does not mean that we are too far from it.

Even in your variation of the room experiment, if the person in it could reply something along the lines of "here is what I think is a part of solution", which you simply had to feed back to eventually get the whole thing, would you claim it is a weak abstraction?
Yes, compared to Safari. The Safari engineering is very impressive! I think there is quite a bit more to come on the Firefox side though, so hopefully they'll close the gap.
No, you'll just have a free learn-french-in-3-seconds course by Google, which will bundle a set of preferences (like cheeseburger, detergent, or designer bag brand) from advertisers who are paying this. At this point all that remains of "you" is a bag of meat.
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At well above the cost of lead acid batteries. And the Tesla battery pack is very difficult to recycle. Recycle companies will pay for old lead acid batteries. They are of value even when dead.

I disagree with the 1000 cycles concept. Modern battery controllers are very good at preserving oldschool batteries. I don't see every off-grid house replacing their batteries every few years, just as I don't see automotive or marine batteries die so quickly.
Never had this problem. At worst some pages manage to spin up my fans.
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"Is this considered professional journalism nowadays?". No, it's just how that site uses English. They probably think it's funny or something. It's trivial to find an alternative sites for the story.
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No need to apologize. I'm not familiar with the Starlink-44's structural design and profile but from promo images that I have seen it would make sense to still consider turning around on xyz axis to reduce impact risk a bit.
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>Then there are the people who do it to escape from themselves — they don’t like who they are or who they’ve become, and they want a fresh start in a place where no one knows their name. They don’t do much planning. They don’t concern themselves with the ramifications. They just disappear and don’t look back. Experts call this “pseudocide.”

I wish them the best of luck against the nannys of the world screaming after them to "get back here and fit your life into my database schema!"
No new drawings in this article to help me revise my mental picture, though.
No, simple caloric restriction does not trigger autophagy, insulin sensitivity and other fasting related benefits.
> Hong Kong racing uses a parimutuel system.

I was surprised to see this word.

It’s from French pari mutuel that can be translated « mutual bet »

The official horse racing agency in France is called PMU (for Pari Mutuel Urbain, or urban mutual bet)

It’s fun how words move from a language to another.
UPSes can be used as an example. Higher end UPSes usually output a proper sine wave, where as cheaper ones do not.

https://superuser.com/a/912689

It probably isn't going to damage any modern equipment, but some equipment may randomly shut off or not work correctly.
Bringing an end to hypervisor vs. bare metal debate
Just wondering why can't Tor & the internet be used to transmit the source signal? Seems like a perfect candidate - the FM transmitter gets the source signal off a Tor Hidden Service - if it's seized there's no way to locate where the hidden service is actually hosted.
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