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Basketball was introduced to China by missionaries in 1895, so it's been there almost as long as it has in the US.
I recently read this article:

A New Bioreactor Captures as Much Carbon as an Acre of Trees:

https://futurism.com/bioreactor-captures-carbon-acre-trees/

Maybe you can support them to upgrade it?
Maybe they are just trying to provoke some thought. They did not make any grand claims regarding levels of exploitation... Not sure why there is always someone trying to get ahead of drama and signal how woke they are despite there being no drama at all.
It was easier for me to make heads and tails of it after inverting the colors.

Saving you some time in The Gimp, you can look at the logo on the Microsoft Github page, where the colors are inverted compared to the website: https://github.com/kisslinux/
Pedantic maybe, but the 10% is not the Trump tariff, but the EU tariff. As far as I know it predates Trump's election and various trade wars.
I think you might lack some imagination on how things could go bad quickly. (but maybe I am on the paranoid side of things)

Last week, there were reports on water shortage in India because too much ground water is used. At the same time, Himalayan glaciers are melting, so all in all, at some point less water flowing. Global warming will increase droughts and torrential rains (that could further damage crops).

Do you think that 1 billion people will sit tight until they die from thirst or starvation ?

If there is no mass migration, there is also a real danger of war. And India is a nuclear power, as are Pakistan and China. So it could get ugly very fast with repercussions on the whole world, even if your part of the world still feels safe.
In China, if you are not one of the unified mass you have good chance of ending up in reeducation center, work camp or at worst executed and yours organs are sold. Thanks, but I prefer the west.
That's fair, I'm just a little confused because the BeagleBone AI board isn't even trying to compete with the <$100 boards. I know it's meant for very specific industrial uses, but depending on your models and how you have it setup, 1GB of ram isn't very much.

If these are meant to be nodes in a larger system I guess that makes a little more sense, but if they're meant to be more autonomous that 1GB is going to be a real limitation for certain applications.
We're not tigers or bears, so I never really understood this line of thought.
I know this is a joke, but you still need locks in Python
Pretty interesting.. I'm almost tempted to run some test services (web server, etc) in containers on EasyOS in a DO or Vultr VM, etc..
Can someone summarise the prices for the different battery sizes? - because this article just dances all over the place.
Conventional wisdom seems to be that at best electric cars will depreciate at the same rate as ICEs or at worst their values will fall off a cliff, the reality is very different, at least in the short run * obviously this will change as production of newer cars ramps up.

* https://fullycharged.show/blog/surprisingly-positive-news-on...
Seven ayahuasca ceremonies and two bufo ceremonies over the course of 2 years changed my life. I experienced a paradigm shift and healed a lot of repressed trauma, let go of a lot of internal drama. I feel I got to the root of the issue and built a solid foundation upon mindfulness and compassion. Every day I work to train my mind to be one-pointed while keeping my heart open towards all, even those who wish me harm.

Forgiveness for myself and towards others is the most powerful medicine I've ever known. We are all human, yet so many people judge so harshly. I've learned that the energy expended upon blame/shame is not worth it compared to the energy recycled by forgiving and forgetting. I wish more people realized this, this simple truth could transform the whole world.

I've quit smoking weed, drinking, vaping nicotine, eating meat, porn. This is a big deal for me at age 29, I didn't think I'd ever be able to let all these vices go. I've started to wake up at 5am everyday (most days without an alarm). I feel grateful as I brush my now straight teeth (they were crooked 2 years ago). I like how I look and feel, this natural confidence attracts women I thought were 'out of my league' not too long ago.

I spend my mornings working towards my highest aspiration of spreading good by design through my agency/consultancy. Under this umbrella, I have started to improve my skills as a developer to build products/platforms that I feel should exist that don't. I read books/articles by people who have done the things I aspire to do and offer concrete principles to help me keep evolving.

I got rid of my smartphone, don't miss it to be honest. I use my Sony a6000 for photography now. I don't use Facebook at all, use Instagram only to see nature photography (a few interesting people I admire), use reddit and twitter to keep up with my interests (culled most of my feed in both down to high-signal, low-noise).

I'm just happy to be alive. I was morbidly depressed in May 2017. I was feeling like a loser for not getting into YC, for getting laid off, for not having a degree, for not being married like most people my age in my culture, for being a joke to many people I grew up around. I don't care about any of that anymore, I am a victor, not a victim!

I'll shut up now. Hopefully this helps someone out there struggling, we are all in this together.
Slightly OT. Whilst the CD-i was a poor seller and far from the best gaming console of its generation it had the best digital video playback of any platform on the market thanks to its excellent MPEG-1 decoding add-on.

PCs did have MPEG accelerator cards available but these were niche and expensive. The Philips CD-i offered this for less and in a convenient VCR type form factor - pitching itself as a premium Video-CD player with gaming thrown in.

This was important at the time since full motion video games like The 7th Guest and Rebel Assault were very popular. Some of these titles debuted on the CD-i and indeed offered the best experience there, better than even the PC by quite some margin.

I remember my jaw dropping when I played The 7th Guest on my friend's Philips CD-i. It was smooth as silk vs the jerky PC version.

Other titles like Space Ace and of course Burn Cycle were also incredibly impressive. Basically any game with heavy video elements played to the strengths of the CD-i in a pretty big way.

As gaming graphics started to improve FMV games became less popular and with DVD on the horizon the CD-i came to a dead end.
And you should still be minifying your CSS and JS, even if it's just to get out the comments, and it's still better to use file hashes than piss around with versioning.

Doesn't matter how much you dance around it, this wasn't a good architectural decision, nor is it standard industry practice.
the legal mechanism does exist, it's called Jury Nullification
When something's too good to be true ....
We are in an abusive relationship with our phones
Ah that might be it. I think I'll leave it on and skip the article, but thanks for figuring out why I had the issue!
It's difficult to generalize. A 10k luxury car is a high-risk proposition, unlikely to be cost effective. (cost of maintenance, insurance, etc.)
Know for Sure with Property-Based Testing
Funny enough, if you use a USA based VPN server, the option will appear on your account and you'll be able to activate it. It Will stay activr for your account even if you switch back from VPN
https://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

It might depend on if you have deep enough pockets to prove you are not violating copyright.
12,000 steps is about 2 hours of walking, though that is tracked throughout the entire day and not in a single walk. Most pedometer apps I've seen tell you to shoot for 10,000. If you have an Android phone, there is a FOSS app on Fdroid simply called Pedometer.
At least for Germany, it is pretty much impossible to really know the average price of a new car. This is mostly due to so called "Händlerzulassungen", which means the dealer will actually buy the car, register it for a day, and then sell it as officially "used". This is why at least in the official statistic, only 30% of all new cars in Germany are sold to private citizens. Dealers do this because they are then more flexible w.r.t. pricing, and also they often get bonuses for registering a certain amount of cars in a quarter.
You're life is already changing.

Billions of dollars in tax payer relief efforts need to be deployed to clean up the devastation caused by an increasing number of extreme weather events due to climate change.

Crop yields in the US have been on the decline since 2012. Numerous crop failures across the world have accelerated the pace of civil strife all over the world as famines become more severe and common. The result of this strife has led to mass migrations from affected areas and this has directly influenced US policies.

You are not immune, regardless of whether you continue pretending these events are not the result of climate change. You may have the luxury of insulating yourself from the near-term implications, but the world cares nothing of your ignorance and will eventually punish you all the same.

It will be a death of a thousand cuts. Food gets more expensive, perhaps items disappear from grocery shelves more often. Gas and electricity shortages happen occasionally. Migration happens as people can't rebuild because insurance won't cover the repeated damage to their housing. Year by year life will get a little more miserable for most people.
You are not wrong in your reason for why a certain type of person attends a conference: to satisfy ego or some other vanity, you are wrong in assuming all (or even a majority of) people attend conferences for this reason.

Conferences in my view exist for a variety of reasons outside of their most commonly associated purpose of existing to provide educational material that others have noted can be easily found other places online for most, but not all. There certainly exist conferences that are more social and some that are more informational where the information being presented is truly groundbreaking and the first time being conveyed to a wide audience is the conference video and transcription.

Conferences also allow you to engage and connect with your associated programming community in ways you can not have possibly fathomed outside of the conference. Having lunch with the language creators of Go, as an example, at Gophercon. Sitting through a community design discussion for the future of Rails at a Rails Conf with framework developers and language maintainers like Aaron Patterson.

Why the online programming community always seems to downplay the real human element of conferences is beyond me. We aren’t robots. Being around other people with the same interests of you acts in of itself as inspiring. I certainly get pumped for my given interests after I leave a conference for that interest, as most people do.
Mods can we take care of this? I think this person genuinely needs help or this post was made by a troll.

If you view the world this way - you should know it's not productive to the causes you've listed or your mental health. If this isn't a troll post you should seek some kind of help.
What options have we got for low carbon generation?

Onshore and offshore wind, Nuclear (all mentioned), solar, hydro. As far as I'm aware all the good hydro sites in Britain have been used up, so there's only solar that really should have been mentioned.

Off shore wind is probably more expensive that solar, does that really change the parents point?
There's the option for hosts-based blocking, too; unified hosts[1] for example

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
Google has jammed up messaging pretty badly, most by rolling out too many products, and not making one clear choice. I'm going to presume you would use Android Messages, unless you are already using Google Voice or Hangouts. If you use Android Messages, you can receive a message on your phone and respond via the Messages for Web web page (which I have as a Chrome desktop app on Mac).
I generally agree with your sentiment. However, there are a small percentage of talks that are exceptional and that probably wouldn't have gotten the same resonance if they were released as a paper or blog post. I also think this is slowly changing, due to Youtube, podcasts etc.
> For the masses? My family is doing fairly well for people in my generation and I've never ever briefly considered buying a car for more than 10k.

Identify your reasons for that and ask yourself if they're representative of how "the masses" tend to think about their purchases.

(the average used car price in the US is over $20k)
If you really cared about preserving your right to freedom of speech, you'd have your own website. You check your rights at the door the second you log in to a platform you don't own or control.

Twitter isn't a government agency, but a private corporation protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. They have the right to reject any content you contribute without being liable for any user-generated content they publish.

That means they don't owe you a platform. Likewise, you owe them nothing, so why tolerate Twitter's continued existence? Just open up /etc/hosts and set twitter.com's IP to "0.0.0.0". Problem solved.
I wonder if the ISIS fighters themselves suffer from PTSD from taking part in such slaughter. Does strong ideology protect against brain trauma?
Datahike (db with time travel and Datalog queries): version 0.2.0
When I was depressed with cash flow issues, that was certainly a rough place to be. The only advice I have if you're in that situation is to power through it, and accept it's gonna suck for a while. If you're going through hell, keep going (or something like that).
Thank you for your reporting on this, even if it just seems to chronicle the ever accelerating deconstruction of the Constitution. Even if American Constitutionalists were able to walk back these types of clear abuses on the social compact that keeps peace by two steps, it will only be without realizing that five steps were taken towards the progress of disassembling the Constitution.

An old, irrelevant, outdated document the Constitution is, they tell you as part of the psychological manipulation game they play to get people to foolishly abdicate their most fundamental rights through the con job of government's benevolence. But in the end, well beyond the point of way-too-late, people will unfortunately have to come to terms with the reality that freedom, liberty, self-governance, and that the government is no one's friend are not old, irrelevant, and outdated principles; they are universal principles that span time.

Just like many things in humanity have been discovered and crated, then forgotten and taken for granted and driven to being lost and collapsed, and then rediscovered or reinvented; so too, does it seem humanity is on course to bury this experiment with self-governance that was kicked off in 1775, for maybe another 1,000 years, if not permanently. Is there even an opportunity or chance for freedom to rise again when it is suppressed so thoroughly by way of technology and soulless robots and AI? I think not. I hope I am for once wrong. ... War or galvanizing event to rationalize ever more eradication of liberty, incoming, all to the cheers of adoring fans.

In memoriam the people who's voices have been squelched by the tech tyrants. They will not be the last victims of this evil that is descending on us with ominous persistence.
A guess: Rivian is an American company and Amazon wants that juicy DoD cloud contract. Not the best look when there are domestic alternatives
It's clear from the article that these are the former.

A sentence from the beginning of the article:

> Today’s removals mark nearly one year of Twitter’s efforts to identify and remove accounts that are spreading political misinformation for the purposes of changing public sentiment — something that has wide-ranging impact beyond simply being annoyed on social media, including not least democratic processes like voting in elections or referendums.

The list of countries later is also hard to miss.
My point is it's not forced on to developers like some platforms do, hint Epic Games Store. Edit: Not true.

I know a plethora of people who support only Steam on principle alone. Not only have they been kind to the Linux community but they've so far held up their end of the bargain when it comes to Steam. Valve's willingness to uphold free speech (while accepting all the downsides like negative brand attention) also means a lot to me.

They used to be awful for customer service but it's really come around lately.
Last time I checked, Google Chrome doesn’t offer an alternative API that allows efficient ad blocking.

In contrast, Apple has introduced & provided the API for a few years, and popularized the idea of mobile win ad blockers.

I can’t see how Apple is doing ‘pretty much the same as Google’. Can you clarify?
I have no idea. Mockery in full swing. I think this might be a deliberate attempt to distract people from the actual news (Anderson Cooper on CNN, telling us that the US Navy says the UAP videos are genuine): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ZJQ4I7_3M
Personally I think being fair to Snowden would be to give him a pardon and bring him home, a long time ago.
Micropatching Keeps Windows 7 and Server 2008 Secure After Their End-of-Support
We'd probably be happier building our homes by hand.
Bots? Andrew Yang is right, the robots are gunning for our jobs!
Not pedantic, thank you for this info.

I was under the impression this tariff existed because of the trade wars. The bad news is that it is less likely to be removed once Trump is out of office :-(
No, your example is rich people gonna rich people.
The average person in the US or China can't afford to travel the world, go out every day with friends, etc.
Snapchat bought the next Snapchat (2016)
What's the difference between the two cases?
As others have noted: Russia has a history of intimidating, silencing, and secretly killing dissidents. Simply being in Russia means that whatever Snowden is saying, is tacitly "blessed" by the Russian government.
Autodesk and Coal Mining (Twitter Thread with CEO)
If you want a real conversation, you don't start off with your original comment. The original comment was mocking the scale of the changes we face in a completely un-informed way.

So, you might want to consider what kind of discussion you really want?
There's an artifact that looks like a scar on lots of these, e.g. : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1WPsVkdt4qDxjV2itBgw_...
Unity Acquired DeltaDNA
Marketing/Analytics cookies by default are not GDPR compliant
You might find this CNN article about a 16 year old Greta Thunberg speaking with Congress and what all she's doing about climate change interesting.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/20/us/greta-thunberg-profile-wei...

Some quotes that stuck out to me:

In response to a representative asking how to get more kids involved: "Just tell them the truth," she said. "Tell them how it is. Because when I found out how it actually is, it made me furious."

"Adults keep saying we owe it to the young people to give them hope. But I don't want your hope. I want you to panic."

But it also fuels a righteous frustration that she even needs to justify her obsession. "It's not because (climate change) is especially interesting," she said, rolling her eyes. "It's a matter of life and death."
It might fix the problem of loot boxes. If the law applies to games, then it may apply to in-game items as well. Then players would be able to buy in-game items on secondary markets at known prices rather having to gamble for them as they do now.
Amazon is doing exactly this - https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-parado...

>This Note argues that the current framework in antitrust—specifically its pegging competition to “consumer welfare,” defined as short-term price effects—is unequipped to capture the architecture of market power in the modern economy. We cannot cognize the potential harms to competition posed by Amazon’s dominance if we measure competition primarily through price and output. Specifically, current doctrine underappreciates the risk of predatory pricing and how integration across distinct business lines may prove anticompetitive. These concerns are heightened in the context of online platforms for two reasons. First, the economics of platform markets create incentives for a company to pursue growth over profits, a strategy that investors have rewarded. Under these conditions, predatory pricing becomes highly rational—even as existing doctrine treats it as irrational and therefore implausible. Second, because online platforms serve as critical intermediaries, integrating across business lines positions these platforms to control the essential infrastructure on which their rivals depend. This dual role also enables a platform to exploit information collected on companies using its services to undermine them as competitors.

This is also the same approach that Uber is using - charge artificially low prices for rides to undercut other cab companies, and eventually deploy self-driving cars and increase their prices.
It's not just you. Any trademark expert will tell you that you only have to use the symbol once, in the first or most prominent place where you use the trademark.

Also when you use other companies' trademarks, you should have a notice of who the trademark owner is, which this press release does for Sitara but not for the other trademarks used in the piece.
Indeed!

Ref Katharine Hepburn, in "The African queen":

"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we were put in this world to rise above."
Except when the state propaganda is popular, is the pop. All those songs about putin are actually popular in some parts of russia.
>Are there any geoengineering projects that would really work?

For cooling earth dispersing sulfate particles in the upper atmosphere is generally believed to be economically and technologically viable [1]. For more predictable and controllable results we can deploy sun shades made of thin foil into orbit.

Alternatively we can develop the tech to be self sufficient in reasonable luxury on Mars or the Moon. Great for anyone with enough money to go there, and for the slightly less wealthy the tech will be applicable to make your mansion on earth more comfortable

I'll just mention how all three of those plans would benefit from cheap access to space. So if I had a few million from selling my start up and I was worrying about climate change I might start a rocket company. Or maybe produce electric cars to help turn this ship around instead. Maybe both.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratospheric_aerosol_inject...
I like how the answers to your very legitimate question are either:

1) make a decision as a leader of a country / major player in the global economy

2) do small stuff that are very hard to quantify in effectiveness (eg call legislative representative, or go vegan)

3) dramatically change lifestyle

I fail to see how any of those are realistic. Especially 3 has never been shown to be implemented willingly by people, given that if not coordinated, will result in social isolation.
Is unlimited system resource usage ok for you? If not, you should really re-evaluate your premise of performance differences. Fire up sys mon, activity mon, top, or what have you, open both browsers. Firefox wins on every metric by substantial amounts (memory for example wins by an order of magnitude).
Pretty sure that is a defensive design choice of London ever since 2005. It's not just a lack of public toilets. It's also a lack garbage bins and opting for see through plastic bags at smaller stations.

All of these decisions are to protect against bombs to my knowledge.