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>What if human greed could be harnessed as a kind of natural resource, and redirected to mitigate its own effects?

It's called capitalism. People like to rail against capitalism for rewarding greed, and capitalism does have faults, but they forget that it is the only system (so far) that acknowledges the presence of greed and actively harnesses it for the benefit and advancement of everyone. Some alternative systems are so foolishly idealist that they try to pretend that greed (and the hierarchical systems constructed from it) doesn't exist. And of course it's easy to build those make-believe systems if nobody is actively exploiting it.
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You can view inequality and bad health in the US together as a mutually reinforcing expropriation. On an individual level you cannot buy or sell health, but on an aggregate level they blur.

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How does pay work at a given rank in the US military? Looking at a table of pay [1] it lists a range for most ranks. For example, it lists for O-3, Captain, a range of $48560 to $79002. What determines where you are in that range if you are a Captain?

Ranges for consecutive ranks overlap quite a bit. O-4, Major, is $55231 to $92218. If you are promoted from Captain to Major, and were at the high end of Captain pay, I assume you don't drop down to the bottom of Major pay. Do you go to about the same percentile in Major pay that you had in Captain pay?

[1] https://www.federalpay.org/military/army/ranks
Same, I heavily prefer less symbols in my code. I think it might also relate to how I find it much harder to remember long formulas but than remembering the sentence describing the formula. If I could type for example `brw x` instead of `&x` I think I'd like it more - I guess I like it more Python-y?
Climate change is forced terraforming by oil companies pumping methane into the troposphere where it will radiate 84x the heat as CO2 and will convert to CO2 in 10 years.

There is a reason most natural gas wells are also used as cow pastures. Easy to hide from regulators and attribute to livestock.

Oil companies own huge portfolios of renewable energy as well as patents on batteries, turbines and other electric efficiencies.

Methane is being used to heat the planet as a way to change coastlines, upending worldwide real estate markets, and fueling a whole new market just in time for US oil to dominate for another 100 years.

Conspiracy right? I mean, it's not like the oil, steel and auto companies conspired to buy and dismantel the municipal trollies that existed in every major city at the turn of the 20th century.

Or how banks, rating agencies and insurers conspired to steal everyones homes through the largest financial scam in world history and then skate off scott free.

We sure talk a lot about Global Warming 10 years after realizing the Fed and international banking cartels were goose stepping us into slavery.

For which we're all very silent about now. Guess there isn't enough reason to "start the conversation".
can you share some more resources on this? sounds very interesting.
> huge lag between edits and public visibility of said edits from a non-logged-in browser

As the saying goes, "there are 2 great unsolved problems in computer science:, naming objects, cache invalidation, and off by one errors."

In case you haven't noticed, to reduce server pressure, a logged-in user sees comments in real time, but a guest only sees the cached version of the page that only updates slowly. When Hacker News sees an explosive amount of traffic, logging out is a way to help. The last time it happened was when Donald Trump was elected.
>>I am not an OOP convert. I've spent most of my professional life working with classes and objects, but the more time I spend, the less I understand why you'd want to combine code and data so rigidly.

He doesn't want to combine code and data rigidly, so he uses a language without any concept of generics.

I think he doth protest too much, he can write code however he feels like, and Im not going to deny his personal opinions, but the justifications and reasons for those opinions are all just uniformly nonsense.
Donate the money to someone completely independent, and stop talking about it.
Lots of oil and gas CEOs are engineers by trade. And as an industry they seem to value field service in their leadership.

My takeaway is embrace cartels, they're immune to market pressures and they're fundamentally conservative.
if you click the ranks on that site, it lets you calculate based on years of experience.
""soft" real-time (e.g. games, or audio/video) "

Hah. Who sez that audio and video products have 'soft' real time? Go on now.
Given the problems people have with Rust and the borrow checker, I would guess that people will not accurately predict how long an allocation will live (it's a similar issue with profiling---programmers usually guess wrong about where the time is being spent).
Because I have a vested interest in this type of divulge of information, I have to say that this is one of the most fascinating HN comments I've ever read! I have a scrapbook of of unpublished Elvis Polaroids that was found hidden in a cut area of fabric in the trunk of a car! And theres palm trees present! I'm floored by your comment!
>unions got laws passed that violate the rights of employers

lol this is precious
France is evidence that we can readily get to low carbon electric grids using nuclear power and relatively little technology.

Sure, it's expensive, but all the things we'll have to do to have an all-renewable grid are pretty expensive themselves and unproven.

Yes, we should end up with a much smaller mix of nuclear than France had, to help optimize cost. But it is an option available now that we know will work, and I believe that the optimum point is not 0% nuclear. (In western democracies, though, nuclear has become practically impossible. This hasn't stopped a large amount of reactor construction in China, so obviously planners there disagree with your assessment).

Further, nuclear and wind are comparable in CO2 emissions, and PV is a few times worse. So if we really care about minimizing CO2 there will be some nuclear in the mix.

Betting everything on power->gas->power when we have basically no evidence that this will be economical at scale is crazy. Betting on pumped hydro or battery storage is also dubious. We should be pursuing all avenues available to us.

Also, making a pure opportunity cost argument is a little weird as well. The investments are not purely fungible. That's why we should both give extensive resources to ramp PV and resources to ramp nuclear and resources to ramp p->g->p, because they're not the same resources.
Fair enough. I don’t read Twitter.
This is a great example of beating numbers to fit the author's narrative. Take this statement:

> The advantages for athletes are especially large, with an average admit rate for recruited athletes of 86%

Athletes at Harvard are recruited by coaches who look for students who are good athletes and also will be admitted. They know what the admissions committee looks for and won't recruit any student who doesn't have a strong chance of getting in.

I'm sure recruited athletes have an advantage, but saying it's "especially large" because a pool of applicants hand picked by coaches have a high admit rate doesn't make any sense.

For the record, I believe colleges like Harvard should stop giving a boost to legacies and athletes. But we need to a have fact-based discussion about it. Papers like this pretending to be research that are really op eds, don't help anything.
Yeah, fuck fairness. If you want to win you have to break the rules. Fuck society, this is about getting what's mine!
It's definitely not a single thing (e.g. origin) I find untrustworthy, it's the things combined (homemade crypto + Russian origin).
This yurt cost $65k though. That's easily on the same level as small pre-fabs.
Someone having absolute power over you leads to reprehensible behavior, and the most common expression of that power in the modern age is the manager-employee relationship.
I'm not disputing that at all, I'm just saying that that his statement doesn't demonstrate a pervasiveness of anti-union ideology. In fact it's showing some weariness of coming out too strongly against unions because of popular support for them. Such popular support wouldn't exist if anti-union ideology was widely accepted.
I had an international student as a teammate for an engineering class. We had to write a couple papers and we alternated being leads on the paper. The first paper he wrote was quite well written. He didn't have any references so I googled a few line and found the entire first two pages were directly plagiarized. I pushed him to fix it up and somehow he managed.
By that logic you could call FB Messenger encrypted and IRC, but that's not really the encryption we're talking about.
There is a bullish thesis for everything you described.

Trump? Strongly suggesting that the US push yields lower, and the only tool it has to do that is by adding more money into the market. Fueling the nonstop 30-year bull market in treasuries and other government bonds, before fueling the excess capital flows into every other asset.

Iran/Saudis? Epic Oil Boom Town of unprecedented proportions with coastal US and middle america being the primary recipients.

Tech bubbles? A by product of excess money added to the markets, see the 'Trump' entry.

China/Hong Kong? What? You gotta really re-evaluate how relevant that situation actually is. Everyone's had plenty of time to deleverage their exposure to that city, and nobody is going to get involved. The surrounding megacities in Guangzhou have all the output now. HK is 3% of China's GDP and has been functioning as an administrative convenience to circumvent customs duties, for years. Sorry about the people, it has nothing to do with the global markets. China itself is an accounting basket case though, but thats always been the case and not a new issue for your portfolio.

Brexit? Britain's problem more than anybody else, people have had even longer to deleverage exposure there, and its a slow motion train wreck that the whole rest of the EU has already moved on from.

Climate black swans? Well you got me there. The whole point of a black swan is something not being in the model. This is always true and not quantifiable, you either have the appetite or not.
More preventative care—which, like all proactive things the US cannot seem to do—would also lower costs.
That is basic premise of the "The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself". That is where I learned of the concept.
He hasn't given away anything he's still the one spending it.
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Let’s say your boss gives you a 3% cut instead of a raise because you’re company didn't earn as much money. That’s less money you could spend or invest to increase the value of other companies and you’re decrease in pay makes you skeptical. So many people buy when they feel good which is usually when the market is high, and panic when the recession hits because they over extended and are forced to sell low. If you aren't earning as much money, you aren't going to spend as much money. The relationship is as simple as that.
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demand in US is really high. in my country (SEA), 3900x is available almost every big computer shop.
I don't understand how a contractor unionizing gives them any more power over Google. Either which way they are a contractor and have to negotiate a contract. This article seems to imply the workers have an issue with Google, but unionizing just gives them power over HCL. So are they not happy with HCL?
When Norway’s labor movement started it was a desperately poor country, so poor that roughly half its population had recently emigrated to America. Some scholars think that the capitalist class felt it had to concede a little to labor or it would simply all move away. There’s some evidence for this in the way elites started promoting free education during that time.
Well! Do more of the same! Obviously people are generally experiencing better lives, right? (No, actually they are not (US-focused).)

If the metrics are wrong or only partially focused, their meaning is less or non significant. There is ample recent evidence that only a narrow upper class is improving while the increasing lower class is dropping in terms of cost-of-living-adjusted income.
Do you really think there has been no progress making electric cars better? I don't think you've been paying attention.
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The stock market is oftentimes regarded as a leading indicator for the broader economy and is why it’s a strong indicator oftentimes. I’m not quite sure if there’s any causal relationship in any way though.
It absolutely is. The PRC tends to invest in infrastructure projects for the future, and not for today. That's something western politicians do an awful job of with their 4 year election cycles.
Or: sorry if I offend you: A human wrote those words and passed them on as being God? In which case (and once again - no offense): they gave their best thoughts as to what they perceived God was at the time, but didn't really understand much about what we currently are, nor what the real laws of the universe are. I tend to be open minded, but when people mention the process of creation to me and fail to account for Quantum Electrodynamics nor the design and laws of the universe - I don't tend to take them very seriously. You seem to be in the camp of attributing God to being beyond causality: beyond physical or mathematical laws. I disagree with your viewpoint: although I do respect your opinion and I'm glad that you chimed in, I think there's a way to explain existence with having causality, information, and logic tied in and no 'magic' happening behind the scenes. This is the central point I'm trying to bring across in this thread. If I'm confusing the living hell out of you, that's a good thing. This point I make is meant to be very confusing. I'm hoping that you sit down and think about what it is that I'm saying...
> presence of greed and actively harnesses it for the benefit and advancement of everyone.

This is not what capitalism does. Much of capitalism today and in US history is that of a destructive force that hurts the entire population without consequence, enriching mostly the already wealthy.

The improvements and conveniences of modern society are unevenly distributed and brought to the masses at great cost to our society.

Unchecked global climate change due to infinite-growth-greed-capitalism has dramatically decreased the quality of expected life for much of the world's poor.

Capitalism absolutely does not, in theory or practice, make its benefits available to everyone.
I think you should do a little research to get a basic familiarity with what labor laws relating to union action prohibit. You'll find that they blatantly violate the contracting rights of employers.

Snickering at me while being unaware of such a basic fact is deplorable.
A recession is not an economic fact that magically happens when some predetermined values for some set of indicators are reached.

A recession will happen when there is a mix of two things: 1) a big financial/economic issue that affects an important sector of the economy (crisis), 2) widespread panic.

There are already multiple candidates for 1), but what hasn't happened is 2).

Why? That's anybody's guess.

My guess is Trump.

For people to panic, there needs to be sustained media coverage and focus. But now whatever Trump says is more important than anything else for the media.

If you look at the media since Trump became president, the most important issues have been all stuff related to his government, and whenever the media has focused on anything for too long, he's come out with some other thing that the media shifts their attention to.

So we've had lots of small panics, which by now have mostly desensitized the public.

If someone like Trump can continuously interrupt the media, they effectively control it through disruption, and then the media cannot focus for long enough on anything for people to fully panic and cause a full blown recession.
Why even define a malloc() in this environment if it always returns NULL?
Most recessions are preceded by yield inversion, but a yield inversion may or may not lead to a recession. That’s where are the misleading information is coming from.

Edit: Idk why the downvotes. Yield inversions occur much more often than recessions therefore by necessity some yield inversions are preceded by another yield inversion instead of a recession.
It’s just hard to imagine a society with a culture bubbling over with creativity that can simultaneously accomplish feats of thought control like making the massacre at Tiananmen Square disappear down the memory hole. Anything you do to encourage the one aspect ends up discouraging the other one.
I don’t know whether the meditators used in this study were training under Buddhist methods or something else.

Buddhist teaching focuses on three aspects: sila (morality, but not in Abrahimic sense), samadhi (concentration), and panna (wisdom).

Each of these form a feedback loop into each other. Meditation is just one third of that. Meditation without morality and wisdom can turn you into a psychopath. You cannot understand or study meditation without understanding morality and wisdom.
He mentions the Eidophor's only competitor, the GE Talaria, which is also interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talaria_projector
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What percentage of the market is A/V build to actual hard real-time standards, and not expected to run on devices that can't provide it (so no PCs with normal OSes, no smartphones)? For the vast majority, soft real-time is fine, since an occasional deadline-miss results in minor inconvenience, not property damage, injury or death.

I assume some dedicated devices are more or less hard real time, due to running way simpler software stacks on dedicated hardware.
I thought it was gonna be like an experiment I did a while ago, a webapp that can edit and deploy itself. Ended up with prototype[0] but would love to see the possibilities in a more polished version, and thought this submission was it!

- [0] https://github.com/victorb/self-editing-website
So why haven't you tried it out already? It's not like it's an expensive hobby; you can do it anytime, anywhere. In fact, in the time it took you to describe your experience here, you could have been sitting in meditation and discovered for yourself if you do/don't like it.
I invited NOBODY to my house yesterday to discuss this very situation. NOBODY told me there is secret and I should listen to NOBODY. So here I am.
That jibes with my knowledge.

But I've seen some real weird stuff before. ;) Folks using variable-length fields and happily just dumping the contents into eval(), all sorts of awful.
> once innovation is no longer the main differentiator you typically see the “power and money people” take over.

Someone contrasting engineering culture at Tesla and current "old auto", described part of the latter as being fine with someone else making the actual vehicle, and then just slapping a brand on it. Suggesting causality can go the other way too - innovation is still a differentiator, but is deemphasized by a management culture focused elsewhere.
If they do this, it has to be like the FED. Absolutely independent from any political interference. Not allowed to sell data and be rigorous about user data. Also, find an alternative to SSNs for base ID for people.

On the other hand, it must not transform into what the CCP is doing. It has to stay true to being a proxy for credit worthiness —that is all. No handicapping either or dings for "unapproved" ideas, behavior, purchases, etc.
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What you describe is enticing and sounds not so greatly different from my once-every-four-years pattern of weight lifting. The benefits are so obvious and so incredible, but somehow it happens repeatedly that we fall out of practice. Fortunately, it is possible to rejoin. So now I have two goals - return to strength training, and include regular mind "training".
Yes. You can reliably see ISS in urban locations -- it's actually quite cool to do a few times.

It will be a point of light, moving very fast against the background, just as shown in some of the animations in OP. If the geometry is set up so you can see the whole overpass (nearly horizon-to-horizon) it will still last only a couple of minutes.

It will happen around sunset, when the sunlight is shining on ISS, but it's dark (or dusky at least) on the ground. You don't see ISS easily at night because it will be in Earth's shadow.
The abstract of the paper you linked begins with this sentence:

>There is no consensus on whether climate change has yet affected the statistics of tropical cyclones, owing to their large natural variability and the limited period of consistent observations.

Which is exactly what I was pointing out, and exactly what laymen have come to totally disregard in their rush to blame everything on climate change while believing that "this isn't rocket science." Just like denialists and snowy winters, only in reverse.

This is on the scale of rocket science - in fact in some ways it is more difficult than rocket science, because it is fundamentally an empirical and non-experimental science, and it takes decades, if not centuries, to collect enough evidence to refine/reject theory.
Disclaimer. I have unwavering faith in climate change.

But I do wonder why are banks writing mortgages on houses in these kind of areas? Shouldn’t they be more worried about losing their investment over 30 years?
We pay for them in some way or the other... they either are on public assistance or end up in jail. We pay either way.
I'm not sure that this is wholly superior, but given the apparent need for credit agencies and the zero liability for them misreporting information, the extortion, and the functionally zero cost to them when they leak information on more or less every American maybe this is the best option?

OTOH Governments have a tendency to pass laws the make suing them very hard even when they do screw up, so who knows what the ideal solution is?
Yes! Looks like the ISS is passing over me in 30 minutes and I know exactly where to look now.
Historically what has worked better?
It's not. I recommend Mindfulness in Plain English
By Bhante Henepola Gunaratana. It very directly lays out the benefits of Vipassana meditation, and it doesn't really involve any religion.
That’s just a semantic game. If your language returns the result of a query as a generic array of generic dictionaries (or whatever), that isn’t mapping, nor is it object oriented in principle.
Anything with exercises and answers?
Oil will never run out in our lifetime. The green River formation in the us alone has 3 trillion barrels worth of shale oil with half expected to be recoverable. At 100 million barrels of oil usage per day for the globe, it could support the world's oil usage by itself for over 40 years. Factor in all of the other resources, and it will be a long time before we run out.
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You have a preference?
The world sells pink to women so it becomes a women color.

Some women caught on so they got moved to purple.

They will catch on and be moved again.

'Maybe' they are colors women prefer biologically, but I suspect reality is what we make it. Either way it's what the world is, do you want to sell your product?

Men had black, so some men got moved to pink by the the fashion houses. No idea what it is this minute.

By following the world you are at least average, I wouldn't go the the sides of the color adoption life cycle unless your product is living on the extremes, yes this is arguably busy work but by pushing designers to the limits you hope their average is average.