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I use it mainly for plastics, where it works very well (I managed to break the plastic before the CA bond). However, yesterday I had one fail when I used it in the sink (and thus was wet a lot). I have no idea why water ruined the bond, but I used an epoxy for it and hope it will be okay now.
yeah that's the plan :)
It's possible. The last time I bought an AMD GPU for my personal use was in 2009 or 2010. But I really do work with this stuff every day. In our QA lab, the AMD machines have far more problems than the Nvidia machines do. Valve's VR software works much less consistently; installing modern versions of the drivers on Ubuntu is a huge pain, you have to use 3rd party repos maintained by some random guy; missing features and driver bugs are much more common on AMD (though not unheard of on Nvidia either).

AMD is definitely getting better, and being open source is an enormous point in its favor, but it's still just less usable day-to-day for an end user. I hope this changes.
Can u mention the best/walkable/sociable neighbourhoods for a visiting developer in Sophia and/or Bansko?
Siri, what is marginal utility?
> There's definitely a huge shift to reducing plastic packaging.

On the consumer side. You now no longer see the packaging as it arrives to your house. Do an image search for Pallet Deliveries (I don't want to point fingers) and look at just how much plastic wrap comes on the "reduced waste" packaging, when it's delivered to your supermarket/department store. It's utterly astonishing.
How does it make sense to treat investment income the same as labor income? I've already been taxed on the investment amount, and I get no rebate if I lose my investments.
The individual in the US could choose to not purchase tuna.
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Can u mention the best/walkable/sociable neighbourhoods for a visiting developer in Sophia and/or Bansko?

thanks
>European consumers and lawmakers here have long decried outsize paydays as unfair and vulgar. A few years ago the Dutch capped bonuses for bankers, money managers, and other financial professionals at 20% of their base salaries.

Well, yeah, because they gamble with other people's money. Prop traders still make a big buck here in the Netherlands. (Dutch here)
tldr uk, luxembourg and belgium seem to offer the most competitive rates.
Maybe because the average European is very poor, and the 1% who got money, are investing abroad?

I moved from Brazil to Germany and I was impressed with how the average german is poor, meanwhile there are definitely a great deal of families in Europe that are very rich for centuries, yet, their kids are studying in the US, founding companies in low-tax countries...

Meanwhile the average european in good european countries pay upward 40% taxes. The shitty european countries are worse than 3rd world countries as the youth all move to the strong ones to just be salaryman instead.

To sum up, the problem with lack on entrepreneurship in Europe has nothing to do with culture, but rather, the lack of money in general.

Anyways, I wish there would be better opportunities, because I've always wanted to become an entrepreneur. But without any family to support me, but a family that I need to support, expensive rent prices and so on, it is something that I can only dream that my future siblings will be able to give it a try.

For instance, I'm in Europe to save money, as the exchange rate(vs. Brazilian money) benefits me. So maybe when I'm around 45, in over a decade, I can found my own business, obviously not in Europe.

Life is hard. Maybe when you are privileged, you fail to see how much people work hard even to make ends meet. Or even to see their plans. I believe people in general are very entrepreneurial and take opportunities when they show up -- it's just that there aren't any. It almost sounds as people are implying europeans or ? are a set of stupid people, given that they don't take risks or opportunities. When the reality is different.

For instance, In the US, when you run $1 trillion deficit country without inflation problems due to your currency being a reserve currency, heavily inflating capital and making almost the whole world want to be part of this money extravaganza, draining talent and development from the rest of the globe, it is very easy to say that the Greek have trouble generating wealth...
I have never met any company like this, startup or not. Are you stuck in some scam? There are so many companies offering amazing benefits in Europe's capitals that it's hard to pick one.
Nobody in the comments read the article but all this is claiming is that land waste is a smaller percentage of deep sea plastic waste. It's still the vast majority of coastal waste
No. I figured it was an addiction reference, a la "give me a hit of your addictive attention, even though we've broken up yet again and just can't make this work."

Hit is slang for a dose of illicit drugs.

I think that framing -- or something akin to it -- was a fairly common interpretation. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a hit song.
Your argument is A != B.

My argument is that your argument is not useful when having to choose between A and B.

If A != B is true, then go ahead and evaluate A > B.
> Freelancers (in the UK at least) are required to pass their pay through a limited company, and subject it to payroll tax

I don't believe they are _required_ to do this. Of course, there are certain tax incentives to running a limited company (as well as commercial pressures as a lot of clients will only deal with limited companies) but you can certainly still be a sole trader (I'm one) — you just file your standard self assessment return every year and pay accordingly.
This has actually been being done for a decade at least, you can find instructions online for it, I had the same experience with just about every idea I had when I first joined my university maker space, not only had all my idea been done, half of them had been done specifically _by that makerspace_ just when they were picking fun projects to do off the internet.

The point is to make stuff and enjoy it, you're still an inventor. And the things you _do_ with your projects are half the fun, your photos are really fun and I wouldn't have thought of a lot of them.
It may come as a surprise, but neurotypical people also show stereotypical movements (stereotypy is the term used formally in scientific literature for this behavior).

There is a neural pathway that triggers this to occur in about any human, under the right circumstances - just watch anyone doing something that demands deep focus or concentration combined with fine motor skills.

For example, watch a musician or a someone playing videogame and you can identify motor stereotypical moves in the facial muscles (specially tongue/mouth/jaw).

The stereotypical moves in autistic persons tend to be very characteristic and are easy to spot if you have a trained eye.

So don't worry about moving your toes in patterns or jiggling your leg while you are coding, it is perfectly normal.
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From someone with zero knowledge of this process of breaking up large companies (example: Instagram and Facebook), how would that work exactly? Obviously the company would split and become two entities - but what then? How do the finances work? Each business becomes independently run and cannot affiliate with each other? Are there protections against "freebie" services, for example Facebook providing free services/data sharing to Instagram where it may be a paid feature for other companies?
The smoking gun is that Asians were doing just fine on personal ratings given by Harvard alumni, but were doing poorly specifically on the personal ratings given by Harvard admissions officers.
What do you mean might not even be relevant?

Is there some hidden reason we should be focusing on deep sea plastics only?
As the saying goes, 'everyone has a little red under their collar.'

(In the abstracted, skin-tone neutral sense)
It's really not that older people can't figure out how to use an ATM. It's that people especially those with more money--many of whom are indeed older--sometimes need other services like notaries or non-standard things that you want to discuss with a person.

These are often easier to handle when you can walk into a branch in person. I just had something semi-complicated I needed to do with my brokerage a few months ago and it was very nice to walk into an office and get it taken care of in 10 minutes.

(That said, a lot of the real estate is rather unnecessary. I do have other financial folks who I deal with regularly who I have never met in person.)
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> I was at my previous role for 6 years.

You're fine. Recruiters and hiring managers are scared of people who chronically leave after 6 months, not once a decade.
> CPU architecture between Intel and AMD can't vary much since they both target x86.

Completely and utterly false. The exploits being found exist at a point much lower than the x86 instruction set. ARM processors were also hit with speculative execution exploits.
The ocean is interconnected commons though so nobody really has a whole domain over it.

Banning non-biodegradable nets and lines would be far more sensible and even that would have compliance issues.
I suspect this comment would be much stronger with some sources that show your narrative to be correct—have sources that document the GOP funneled money earmarked for retraining into for-profit colleges?
True, the right has been in outright denial of the facts, but the left has also been in denial about the contribution its policies have to the problem - they after all have been the cheerleaders for globalisation. No one is going to come out of this smelling of roses.
I wouldn't call this a cycle as much as consolidation. People are moving away from certain areas because their culture requires things which do not exist there anymore and other people with different culture then go there for other reasons. These new people cause some local things to start adapting to the new culture growing in that area.

I guess we are talking about farming families moving to Germany and cities looking for jobs because big industry doesn't exist in the villages anymore and they aren't the business type which can adapt to modern farming and way of doing business. Then there's highly educated people who wish to move away from the city and start doing remote work from some nice countryside or business people from the city who want to start a modern farming or tourism industry somewhere. I wouldn't say this is a cycle because this is one cultural transformation which has been going on in transitioning countries for the past 2-3 decades and not something which is happening every 10 years causing people to move back.
Why are per capita statistics more important than total emissions? Are the glaciers going to reform because China also has a billion people? China produces more than double the raw amounts of CO2 than the USA. Though I am willing to shift some of the blame to countries who outsource their manufacturing to China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_di...
Ask HN: What happens after no-deal Brexit?
This isn't necessarily an ideal question for HN, but as an Irish person living in the UK I'm increasingly nervous of the fallout from the inevitable no-deal Brexit on the horizon and I trust the opinion of HN users.

What do you think the consequences of no-deal is going to be? Is it as bad as everyone thinks?

When I think it about it rationally it seems like it's going to be absolutely chaotic and potentially violent in Northern Ireland.
I don't know where you think that failed - I've seen an enormous transition away from plastic bags in the three cities I've lived in
There are entire political philosophies that acknowledge this.

They don't like the safety nets.
I mean one thing does not take away from the other, it's necessary to stop wasting so many fish nets, AND reduce single-use plastics, AND fish less, etc. It's not OR it's AND.

This leads to reasoning like "it's fishing nets the actual issue, I might as well continue throwing a full trash can full of packages every 3 days".

It's not true, fishing nets is actually only 45%, the other 55% we can still work on that's a lot, it's the majority. Another way is to just stop eating fish.

In my local supermarket, if I want to buy 4 peaches they come in a plastic container wrapped in a transparent plastic sheet, not kidding.
In Thailand they plan to put a bit more effort in, over the next 2 years.

> End of this year, Thailand will be free from three types of plastic – microbeads, cap seals and oxo-degradable plastics – and from four other types of single-use plastics by 2022, according to a road map that got the Cabinet’s initial nod on Tuesday.

> The four single-use plastics to be rid of by 2022 are: lightweight plastic bags less than 36 microns thick; styrofoam food containers for takeaways; plastic cups and plastic straws – with the exception of those who still need to use them such as the elderly, patients and children.

I hope Thailand sticks with these plans. Plastics use is huge over here and in my opinion these plans could make a big difference.

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/national/30367931
Identity politics is when someone's identity characteristics (gender, race, etc) are used to assign to them to a characteristic based group instead of an ideological one. Eg, "Irish Engineers Club" instead of "Socialist-Republic Engineers Club" (to use an entirely fictional example).

The master-slave dialectic is when one posits two sides as having a master (dominant, in charge) side and a slave side (subordinate, no control over their own circumstances). Eg, a CEO and low-level workers.
Any successful (profitable) business creates wealth, by definition.

(Technicality: as long as costs aren't being externalized e.g. as environmental pollution, fraud, etc.)

Whether a company is a cooperative or not has zero to do with how much wealth is being produced, only with how it's distributed.

Don't conflate production with distribution -- they're different things and have very little to do with each other.

Wealth production depends on product-market fit, ensuring costs are less than revenue, and business model.

Wealth distribution has nothing to do with that whatsoever -- it's simply the mechanism for profit sharing.
I assumed it would be about RPA - robotic process automation. It reduces time spent in repetitive desktop activities.
I'm with you on this one. I was thinking it would be cool to "bake in" the DB layer of an application and have it run in-process. Then you'd just provide it with block storage and it would handle the rest without having to have a separate server. You could even do compile-time migration and index generation based on your queries. With a distributed actor framework like Akka.NET or Orleans, it could probably be made to scale too.

The only downside is that the only interface to your data is through the application, but there's certainly a use-case for something like that.
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"every one of those straws being used in an American city would end up in a well run landfill"

oh you sweet summer child
Nice. If you add some camera to the leds, using Aruco markers you can easily get the camera pose and adjust the led colors accordingly to draw a predefined image without needing a steady hand.

You probably can turn this into a phone light brush app if you use front camera and screen as a led (the torch usually don't change color), but it still has some challenges with respect to latency (in dark environment cheap camera get slow) and user-friendliness specially if it needs calibration.
Pick two random Indians and there's about a one in three chance that they won't even be able to talk to each other due to not sharing any common languages.

The US has nothing remotely close to India's level of diversity.
Unless you want your standard of living to stagnate, yes you do.
Even if AMD is used just as a leveraging stick against Intel, that's a win for customers.

There's the old story of talking to an Oracle salesman while drinking from an IBM coffee mug - to signal that there's other viable options and get a better deal.
Agreed, in the end I do it because it feels great to make things. I really love soldering and routing PCBs, for some reason, I should make more of those...
That's true, but you appear to imply that it's fundamentally bad.

I disagree with that strongly and it's a huge way the market functions - a new company comes in and reduces costs for consumers, while still making a profit. Old company loses (or changes), while the new company and consumers win. It's how most discount stores work, airlines. Heck we're seeing it lately in equity trading with trade fees dropping to 0. Sure, robinhood did it first to win market share and make more money, but it's still been good for consumers. It's how walmart and then amazon became so dominant (though they also reduced services).

This is in no way an endorsement of anything facebook is doing, btw, Libra scares the bejeesus out of me, but that doesn't mean the incumbents aren't robbing people blind.
It's not just China or India. It's the entirety of Southeast Asia and West Africa for much of the year too (typically starting in the next month or so). I've lived in Southeast Asia for a couple of years of my life and even had to move my family out of Thailand because the pollution is so bad (not just air pollution).

AirVisual [1] shows the impact of these areas pretty dramatically. At times, the air pollution in Africa is so bad that its impact can be felt directly in Brasil.

[1] https://www.airvisual.com/earth?nav
Reminds me of the Flaming Lips stage show where they a huge amount of flexible, LED strips as a backdrop going through all kinds of animations as the show progresses.
Almost certainly. It happens like clockwork that there's a new hip social media thingy for the 13-22 set, almost every year. A lot of them fizzle out at die with barely a whisper. A lot of them get acquihired for piles of money beyond their value, and then stagnate.

Almost none of them cross the divide and become more widely popular.
Because everything he does feels like it has another two-level deep plan behind it.

Kind of like:

Level 1 (Zuck's thinking):

I'll tell them "We're building Thing X to improve Y in the world!" and most will buy it like the gullible sheep they are.

Level 2:

Some will not buy it and think we're really building Thing X to track their online activities (just usual tracking for ads and stuff)

Level 3:

Except what we're really trying to do is collect data so we can match their ThingX profile to their supposedly-private medical records and DNA footprint. But no one will figure it out until it's too late - and we'll be a few billions of dollars richer by then (evil laughter in Zuck's mind).

There may even be a Level 4 for all we know. I'm not sure I'd underestimate Zuck on this sort of thing. It always seems to be worse than we thought it was.
Mondragon is, in my understanding, in some pretty capital intensive businesses.

That said they’re a huge outlier as far as I know. But it can be done.
Just finished it. Simultaneously infuriating and persuasive.
If people are really getting this upset over their straws being replaced we don't stand a chance at the level of consumption change needed to combat climate change
I tried it and would consider it a write-once language, similar to Forth in that respect. It seems good for quick hacks but not for long-term maintainable projects.
Why is it with every AMD sales-related submission I see, the level of discourse in the comments is barely one step above name calling?

My pet theory is that there's just a ton of casual investors who have also become emotionally invested in AMD...
It is guaranteed to not be worse than no injected entropy at all, which is the default and only possible alternative state before the kernel starts, it always gets mixed with what can be gathered.
...Vulkan? Proton? In terms of 3D acceleration libraries and support, its never been better on linux. I actually just switched to manjaro full-time because everything I wanted to play now works on linux, too.
> Nvidia's Linux support absolutely puts AMD to shame

Is this meant seriously? Is it not the exact opposite?
A cool idea would be to increase taxes on the very wealthy and on non-cooperatively owned businesses and use that largess to fund and tax-incentivize cooperatively owned businesses.
Google – polling like it's the 90s
Boeing Engineer Complaint Cites Focus on Profit over Safety on 737 Max
it comes down to standard of living. if you're a developed country you have the luxury to care about the environment. if you are playing catch-up and are also aggressively building/developing the resources you use and the waste you generate are going to have a totally different profile.
Even more accurate "Banks to cut 200k jobs over chatbots"

Software agent aka bot is not a robot.
Robot is physical device. ATM is more robot-like than chatbot.
E-car provider Spark shares its vandalism cases
Putting business logic in the database has been a boon to large companies for decades - while the development process can be trickier, it helps ensure that every team is using the same logic (incl version) to access the data.

With PostgreSQL, you can define business logic in everyday languages, including JavaScript (plv8).
Fascinating reading and looks very useful. I will try to get away from SQL Server for a bit to look at postgresql again.

Thanks
This is true, and the future direction of the corporation may change.

However in the present, given the numerous public statements about their pro-privacy stance, if it turned out to all be a giant fabrication and they were actually data mining in the same way Google does (which Google publicly states), I'm reasonably sure that would be (at the very least) securities fraud.
Best practices to grow a company reputation online
Stevey's Google Platforms Rant [2011] - still a good read
The safest option would have been to use JNI to call Android hardened codecs instead of using their own decoding library in process.
I don't think it's mandatory, but I had clients asking me this otherwise they would not hire.

The reason is, if you work without a company, after a few years they could be forced to convert the freelancer to an employee, which usually neither wants.
Unpopular opinion: I haven't been able to get into the whole hype about this book.

This quote is perfect example of my frustration actually. Maybe I am OCD or something, I dont know. I do not see the humor or anything profound with it. Except it sounds a bit quirky.

Is it suppose to profoundly compare pure happiness versus struggle for progress?

...or take the whole babel fish thing; Why a fish for translation?

ps: I dont mean to target your favorite quote. It was just perfect example :D Sorry to take out my frustration on your comment.