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Yes, quite true that me as an average individual basically stands no chance against the law in neither the US or EU, but big companies, powerful individuals, NGOs, the media or even a favorable judge can sway.

Also, consider how much harder it is to change the constitution here compared to China.

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that power is more balanced in the Western world compared to China, and I consider that a good thing.

...but it does have its faults too, e.g. I find it appalling how slow politics, the economy and citizens react to the impending climate disaster. And yet, I'd still pick this world in which we'd have to fight each other over water and oxygen to a world run by totalitarian governments. And I hope I am exaggerating...
I just saw him on Joe Rogan podcast, he is selling another book isn't he?
If you don't turn it on, all the AC unit does is weight you down a bit, no? Googling a bit, the AC-specific parts weight about 20kg. A Prius weights about 1300kg, so the AC is about 2% of its weight. Doesn't seem exactly life changing.

In fact, in a BEV your problem is the 500kg battery, which those solar cars lack. You'd need to reduce it to get solar power to be more viable, but it would be at the cost of getting a lower range when the sun isn't shining directly on it. I'm not sure how many drivers would make that trade.
There is another running joke "Everyone is born equal, then God sort them out".
By the looks of it, Toyota prefers to put a several thousand dollar solar panel gimmick on its cars instead of actually extending the range of its cars' batteries by the same amount.

After all, Toyota has yet to accept that full EVs are the future, even begrudgingly, as others have. Toyota is currently betting on "hybrids".
The problem with reducing everything to whether it's a 'financially sound' decision is that the ultimate endpoint of that is that you live in 5sqm in SF/NYC/London/wherever, or a van in the Google car park, and stash it all away until you're 40 or whatever, because that's the Paperclip Maximizer optimal-strategy.

Ultimately it doesn't matter _that much_. You're going to get old, you're going to lose your health eventually, and then you're gonna die.

I used to think that way, the effects were long-term great (I have a good amount of savings now), but I recognise that there really was no need to be quite so extreme about it.
From your words I understand you don’t see compatible border patrol or border control with “humanity” and nothing said will change your mind.

Are you aware of any country without any border control laws or laws to regulate the movements of people? I am only aware of countries who cannot enforce their own laws, and for sure I am for sure not speaking about international agreements between countries which is a total different topic.
Hey! You can always learn something, especially from people that point out flaws to you!
( @dang is there a reason this users recent comments are dead? I had a quick look through the comment history and all the comments seem to be in good faith).
And a lot of people don't. There's way more cars than there is garage space.
> both YF-22s were lost

> The two YF-23 prototypes were museum exhibits

The 22's were lost, the 23's were museum exhibits, not the same planes.
I spent three hours digging through my build system to figure out why the compiler couldn't find a header file named 'blahblah .h'
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>I think therefore I am therefore my mind is separate from my body.

That wasn't the inference (at that stage) of the process. He contends that he can imagine himself without a body, but firstly even if his senses deceived him he could still be sure that he exists because he thinks. This isn't such a huge leap, considering, for instance, people with phantom limb syndrome or people delusional about how their body really is.
this all incredibly reminds me of being an obnoxious 20yo forum poster who wanted to nitpick controversial topics to show off how deep and smart i was, with no regard for how it might affect other people

extremely embarrassing that rms hasn't grown out of that
Yes, that's a massive issue in New Zealand. We have a programme called Predator Free 2050 aiming to address it. There are some very interesting organisations working on solutions, such as the Cacophony Project (https://cacophony.org.nz/)
Thank you :) We're confident though, because we have a new approach to the problem and to the way people go shopping. Also we have a lot of expertise in the fashion market
This is a success, actually. You know what the problem is and you are doing something about it. One day at a time.

I was drinking to excess in the past few months. Didn’t make it home one night. It’s way more trouble than it is worth and I plan to change my trajectory.
I downloaded the world to check -- the system does use zero-tick repeaters (dust cut type, I think) for a pause functionality, but for the channels, it actually reads slightly faster than the music plays to compensate for delays as the data gets further out.

See my other comment for details:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20960710
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> Your start-up team wouldn't sign an agreement with a VC without consulting an attorney. Why should your employees sign an employment contract without getting outside advice and help?

This is really good point.
"Chinese scientists have published the first report in a scientific journal of an attempt to use CRISPR-edited cells in a patient--a 27-year-old man who is HIV-positive." is the third sentence of the article.

Perhaps the title should have been "Two rogue scientists are checking out CRISPR"
The last one is more likely to happen and things work out better when it isn't an explicit goal.
Thank you for taking the time to respond :)
Very few people have electric cars to begin with, and they're really expensive compared to ICE vehicles so you're already talking about a demographic that's demonstrated a willingness to pay a premium for driving an electric car.

If Tesla offered a "Solar Panel Kit" that made their cars even a few percent more efficient it would sell like hot cakes.
>It'd be more sensible to say that I am, therefore I have the possibility of thought, and the possibility of using thought to identify my own being.

Would it be? You're already positing that "I am" which there isn't a reason to believe if you were deceived about everything your senses tell you. At best, to start with "I am" simply re-raises the common objection to the cogito which is that Descartes assumes the "I" to begin with. It doesn't get you out of that bind.

Nevertheless, there are contemporary defenses of the cogito, e.g. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41501714?seq=1
A "well-formed HTML email" is about as common as a "functioning Communist state". I'm sure they're both great, and I'll let you know when I see one.
I have worked for and been a member of a well know tech coop in the uk btw.

The previous commentator said the government would be involved in setting thease coops up - now may this is not going to be used by the executive for political ends.

I was refereeing the attempt by Tony Benn in the 70's to restructure a uk motorbike manufacturer as a coop.
> but big companies, powerful individuals, NGOs, the media or even a favorable judge can sway

I'm going to agree with your wider point that power does appear to be more balanced in the West than China, at least until such times as a few more unhinged politicians have their way, but I also want to point out that...

The world over, big companies, powerful individuals, and the media, have much closer ties to government than you and I ever will.
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This is the part that is so screwed up about there not being a universal public option in the USA.

A universal public option already exists!, you just have to quit your job, and sell your house, and with a chronic condition remain completely destitute for the rest of your life.

How does that situation benefit anyone? Why not just let people work, have a life, and contribute to society, rather than demanding they remain poor for the grave sin of having medical issues.
Thank you for your response. Same as above for you :)
I tried to create a blogging platform called Readology but I knew that with other commitments (day job, family) I needed a business partner to really get it off the ground.

I couldn't devote all the required time to it so I've stopped it now.

Partner in tow, I am working on something else though.
That's sad.
While understandable if you were overwhelmed with poor half-hearted "stray" PRs, still I doubt that any random developer will sift trough open PRs to add his two cents of knowledge about "invisible" (unpublished) feature to make it complete for acceptation. Seeing blanks-to-be-filled directly in public documentation feels far more motivating for quick ("wiki") edit.
Getting a job at a huge megacorp has shown to be a failure for me.

Why?

At my previous job - a small firm - I spent 8 hours actually working, each day. At my new job I am doing bureaucracy all days long, and very little actual work. Sometimes I come home without actually having had any real work done for the entire day.

I flipped out after maybe 3-4 weeks, because Not Doing Actual Work turns out to be extremely stressful for me. I felt guilty for not achieving anything.

But no one cares. This is "normal" at my new job. I brought it up with my boss and told him how I felt. I also told him that, I can not stay at this job for too long, since it will in the long run be really bad for my career. If I don't write code, I will eventually become bad at it. Weirdly, he said that he understood and thought that more of my coworkers need to realize this, before it's too late for them.

So now I am planning my escape. I am a bit worried that only working for this company like 8-10 months will look bad at my CV... I have not decided how long I should stay.
Please let Apple's shader language die an early death.

Maybe they're on some ego trip to leave their mark in a more visible way than through shaping the shared effort in various places and want to have a big thing to call their own. Or maybe they just want to get some vendor lock-in.

But it's yet another slightly-incompatible, slightly-better slightly-worse alternative to the existing shader languages, and nobody wants to deal with that, just like nobody really wanted to care about Metal. Apple's tight control over their devices will probably force some people to build some kind of compatibility layer into their pipelines, but it won't have to be good, and it won't be the primary target.
Absolutely, couldn't agree more. I just wanted to clarify why the bit-shifting approach was equivalent to the previous comment's multiplication by 36.4.

> This is one of my favorite sites on the internet: https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

Yes - I also enjoyed the book "Hacker's Delight", but haven't got round to reading the second edition yet.
Because they are expanding. They claim their mature locations are making money, which makes sense.
Thank you for taking the time to write your expertise down. Even if the article doesn't get much attention right now, the value of writing down knowledge is often understated.
Very, very much appreciated.
We shouldn't be making like for pets more miserable. We should be explaining to people the damage that cats to to the local ecology and dissuading them from having them. A fun talk I had with my kids.
Thanks for the attention to detail you're bringing to emulation. Looking forward to the articles you're intending to write!
Melbourne's system is great and honestly makes the city just that much more attractive. I know people who live, work and play inside the loop and they basically never leave - wouldn't even think of owning a car. Why would they?

That's how it should be. Public transport should simply be considered a public good deliverable free or nearly free by government, like footpaths or parks or Medicare. It should be considered a basic function of society - and if you want to go private, you pay.
Wow that's amazing! Yeah it's poison and doesn't do you any good. the so-called benefits are a mental illusion.
> Because you don't get to decide whether you think it's worth it or not.

Welcome to Socialism as Bernie Sanders wrongly calls us Swedes.

You pay for a "package" of benefits, you don't use all of them all of the time but on average everyone is happy.
If you think of it, there should be quite a few people alive today who had a grandfather that could've been a schoolmate of Napoleon Bonaparte (who was born in 1769). If you grandfather fathered a child at 80 (which is entirely impossible), and your father got you when he was 80 too, and if you are 90 in 2019, then your grandfather was born in 1769.
"Didn’t make it home one night."
I know what you're talking about man.
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That does not exclude possibility. Say determining the result takes 2^n and determining termination takes n!, you cannot speed up the algorithm using halting.
thanks. do you work for Google?
This! I've been backing up my Ubuntu machine using DejaDup (built in Ubuntu backups), only to realise - when my machine died - that they don't work. This was stupid on my part.
If you can arrange lighting perfectly in your CRT studio, you could take only the difference against the all-off state. You could extract the pixel islands' positions and composite only these smaller chunks afterward.

It could work out, but just not sure if it's worth all the hassle. It seems akin to the way you would do a stop-motion video, I suppose.
I really struggle with this too. Victory, or at least the finish line, is in sight, and most of the hard work is done, but what's left is fiddly and annoying - probably time-consuming and boring too - and I just run out of mojo. My current battle is painting my house: the woodwork, in particular, just gets me down. I should be doing that rather than writing this comment.
Why did you say "No"? Clearly it will only be more expensive if you buy it as a part instead of as a car. Your own line explains it to yourself if you think about it: "There was an interesting business model that consisted of buying brand new cars and breaking them up for parts."
‘Private’ vehicles are subsidised too. You get a a road paved to where you’re going. You get maintenance, bridges, tunnels, intersections, signs, policing, courts, ambulances, fire trucks, lighting, parking (when free).

Cars are a massive transfer of public land to private usage. The cost of this needs to be factored in too.
That’s an extremely specific single example. Can we really usefully generalise from it? Maybe some cities are closer than these two?
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Hebbal lake still exists, and does see migrant birds like painted storks and pelicans every winter. You can see for yourself, and BngBirds visits Hebbal Lake on the first Sunday of every month to see birds. The migrant birds that do visit India in winter come from colder parts of Asia and Europe, not Australia btw.

Yes many lakes are destroyed in Bangalore and there are no sparrows. Its doubtful that mobile towers have anything to do with it though.
Yes, true, but we have to hope that there are always at least two companies/individuals/media outlets, both with close ties to the government, but opposed to each other.
You are right that it is a bit weird and hard to understand why productivity differs so much.

But that labour productivity (eg measured in salaries the market can bear) differs so much is a fact. Whether we like it or not.

That puzzle is mostly about productivity differences for tech workers. For the baristas in the Bay Area relatively standard explanations like the Baumol effect do most of the explanatory work.
Here's a little puzzle that really puts this in perspective:

I put 100 lb. of potatoes in the sun. The potatoes were 99% water by weight. After drying a while, the potatoes were 98% water. How much did they weigh at that point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox
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Sorry to hear this, and hope that you're starting to do better. Glad to hear that it sounds like there are folks in your life to support you.
In some case where leaders are GIVEN their own offices, they are trusted to have one in exchange for their capability in making important decision which requires low level of noise, and holding confidential meeting which requires privacy.

Open office is notorious for the noise and distractions.
For Kerberos, you would need fallback authentication methods always active, in case Kerberos servers went down. But fallback auths are potentially security risks.

For client certificate, the fallback can be long-term certificates, locking up in a safe, that should only be opened when all other ephemeral certificate fail. I think this is less risky.
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I think the big take away is that still today the decision makers don't really understand digital and are still working in the same way that Mad Men did in the 60's

Won't mention the brand but I have in 2019 had in the context of a new website) comments of don't want to much text we will let images lead - which is just not going to work.

This is supposedly the digital native generation who are 20 years younger than me

edited to correct naïve to native
> if i owned where i live i then have to find someone to buy my house before i can leave, which could take weeks or even months

How so? If you're comparing with renting, nothing stops you from like, giving an agent the keys and wandering off.

You don't need to unlock the value unless you plan to buy another place immediately.
Or, you know, don't enslave cats in miserable settings.
> So now I am planning my escape. I am a bit worried that only working for this company like 8-10 months will look bad at my CV.

Don't worry about it. If your entire CV were full of jobs where you've spent < 12 months (contracting aside), it would a red flag. The odd one here or there doesn't matter: everyone has a job that doesn't work out/isn't for them from time to time.

(Also, I too have worked for a megacorp - as a contractor - and it, quite literally, nearly drove me off the rails. I lasted 8 months. Who knew that getting next to nothing done, and being paid for it, could be so stressful? But it really is. You're not wrong about it being bad for your career either. I don't have loads of data, but I have found that developers who've spent too long in that kind of environment don't do so well in our selection process so, if anything, leaving after a short time will only be a positive for your career.)
Same. But I found a loophole in my mind. I make a second phase. By expanding the project scope and targets even more, you are required to finish the first phase bugs and fixes.

The only problem is you now have the second phase only 90% completed. Here comes phase 3 ...
Voluntary prisons? HN can be seriously devoid of reality sometimes
Most recent: Failed to get out of bed this morning at the time I comited to the night before. I wanted to get up at 8, be at work around 9, got in at 10/11.
Fairly recent: I have been doing it like this for three weeks now

My larger failure: I was hired as a contractor/consultant by a major media company earlier this year to help the team develop some cloud based software. I was hired to improve their testing karate. When I started, I was constantly being blocked; all my ideas were rejected and the team kept reverting to they way they had always done it. After 1.5 months the teamleader threw me out. Another team leader was happy take me, there, things were doing great, but I struggled to refactor the mess of TypeScript-AWS-Lambda-Cloud-Crap in a meaningful way.

Not all of it was my fault; the situation there was horrible. But I believe someone more experienced than me, or just someone who doesn't get as emotional as quickly as I do could have handled the situation way better. I feel like a failure.

I am frustrated by the situation, because while it was going on, I felt that I was doing everything right. Not sure what my lesson is.
You're right, and the fare is cheaper, but there are also downsides (usually frequency). Product varies a lot as well, the reasons for choosing an Emirates 5th freedom product are usually different from picking a different (5th freedom) airline on a route.
The article often mentions how the long-lived objects are straining the garbage collector. Wouldn't a generational GC solve this?
I knew the concept but didn't knew the name of it it's positional scarcity

So it's basically, like they say in the article "“pay to get a better place in line”"

It's the most common behaviour in the marketing world and that's why I hate PPC and love SEO

in PPC the more you pay, the more you will appear high in the ads when someone is look for search term related to your niche

In SEO, you need to earn your place. Ofcourse companies often use a spend a lot of money on SEO
but because the way google built their algorithm, if you write high quality content in the right way you can earn your place without paying a dime
Except it's obviously not a wealth issue. Even poor Norwegian people can visit Norway, because they're already there. They probably don't mind poor Swedes much either. Tourist hatred is almost always rooted in xenophobia.

>especially outside the US

Funny of you to assume US is somehow more racist than the rest of the world.
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fair comment. if you increase quotas for number of arrests then the racist cops will just pick random black people to arrest because they're racist, can make something up, and a racist judge will believe them.
Isn't a private prison a private organisation formed by citizens by their own free will? :)

The unions and their membership have a financial conflict of interest when it comes to public public that impacts incarceration rate. Prison unions have, for example, lobbied extensively to keep various drugs criminalized in states where the public was going in another direction.

It's obviously a difficult subject with a lot of concerns to balance, but the posters here are just arguing that the problems of private prisons are not all unique to private prisons-- the employees of public prisons (and their orgs) have some of the same kinds of conflicts of interest.
Two more from The Atlantic:

- How Cats Used Humans to Conquer the World -
-- Ancient DNA from 209 cats over 9,000 years tell the story of their dispersal.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/06/cat-domi...

- The End of Cats: An Interview With the New Zealand Economist Calling to Eliminate All Kitties
-- "The cat lobby here is just as feral, self-centered and as balmy as your gun lobby is"
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-end...
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