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>can't be successfully undercut by one or two companies who have a grip on most music listening behavior.

Well, that was the great claim for Netflix, wasn't it? That the availability of mass amounts of data would allow them to create shows attuned to viewer desires.

How has that worked out? Netflix has some good shows but also at least the usual percentage of stinkers and cookie cutter riffs on a popular concept.

See also targeted advertising and lots of other areas where data is pitched as a magic elixir.
One problem is that fire prevention and safety has trumped energy efficiency.

Can I open my window more than 4” no, someone could fall out.

Can we prop our doors open to get a draft? No.

The reduced external surface area to volume ratio really improves efficiency though.
Not (yet) a Nim user, but another post mentioned that GC is thread-specific, so you can remove all traces of GC-types from your real-time thread(s) in order to avoid deallocations at the wrong times.

A related question is whether you can disable GC on a thread by thread basis.
Hawking radiation is indistinguishable from black body radiation.
Only their desire for VC money, even if that is an obvious side effect, so it's cool. ;)
My hunch is that it is a combination of things.

Looking at netflix, their move to original offerings has essentially transformed them into their own channel + some extra outside junk just to keep the line blurred.

To me, the endgame there is that netflix will cease to have any outside content eventually.

If spotify/tidal follows that path they become a label with their own streaming service. Maybe they don't want to go that route.

Also, I imagine the technology is getting to the point where it wouldn't be unreasonable for labels to start up their own streaming services. If spotify/tidal decides they're going to be their own label, and the current labels decide they're going to start up streaming services, spotify/tidal is at a disadvantage without the back catalogs.

Honestly, I'm amazed spotify is doing as well as they are considering apple, google, and amazon's offerings in the space.
Is Western China really so mountainous to have that large area with relatively no trees?
Congratulations to GitLab and KDE, I think it will work out well for both. GNOME and Freedesktop are both already on their own instances and it’s been pretty good.
Study was performed in 1996, so I suspect this arose when Brita was being heavily advertised to remove contaminants.

This study and others similar to it likely caused Brita to change the wording on their products. IIRC, their filters are advertised as water “taste modifiers” or something to that affect.
If it were a wood chipping forum/chatroom, sure, but it's a programming Q&A... people might need the answer in the future.

If you have the answer but would rather the person not do it, just put a disclaimer on top of your answer.

If the question/answer combo is way too specific that there's no chance someone is going to to benefit from it the future, maybe it should die, like other posters said.
I'm slightly reminded of Sea Dragon[1]. That is, using fairly standard steal construction has the possibility to decrease costs even if it increases the net weight of the vehicle simply because it's so much easier to work with and cheaper than minimum weight high tech alloys. Also, because both are quite big though Elon's ship isn't as huge as Sea Dragon was proposed as being.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_Dragon_(rocket)
What? I am a US Army Reserve officer and I've served my country for the last ten years while working in tech. I've been in the technology industry for 25 years and have been in management and am currently a principal engineer for a large SFBA company. My military service is what I did one weekend a month and has no connection to my tech job, other than providing me with people leadership experience that readily translated into my day job.

I even served in a PSYOP unit for a few of those years. My fellow soldiers were cops, school teachers, software developers, construction workers, and PhD students. Just a bunch of young people that loved their country and wanted to help out while making a little extra money on the weekends.

You will find current and former military at virtually every sizable tech company. We're not here as part of some covert government plan to subvert the industry. We are here because you can't support a family on the $300-500 a month that you get from reserve duty. We're just a slice of the nation and no different than you.
>Anybody capable of being convinced -- which is to say, able to understand science and not ideologically blinded to it -- has needed no subsequent convincing.

I don't think this is an accurate characterization of things. Most people I know believe in climate change, but very few of them could cite any facts or graphs or science that convinced them really. They believe it because people on tv who they trust told them it was true.

I'm not saying this is bad, we should trust experts on topics without expecting every single member of the population to get bogged down in the gritty details. I myself do believe in climate change and vote for democrats. That said, it annoys me when people act like everyone who believes in climate change is a genius who knows science and isn't blinded by ideology while the deniers are cavemen or religious zealots too dumb to get it. Like it or not, it has become a political issue and people on both sides are largely just following their own side, not looking deeply into the findings and methods of scientific studies to decide for themselves if they agree with the researchers.
It's my own preference.
Veritasium made an excellent youtube video explaining how this effect works (before the image was released!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUyH3XhpLTo
This is just your greed for $10m speaking. The cost is vastly, vastly less than that.

source: https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/<BVRVZEWYB30Q.3H...
Apologies for the misattribution.

The situation in practice is that when people want a “standard” way to do CSV, there is in fact a standard they can use, that does cover most sensible things you’ll want to do with CSV, and addresses the most common corner cases (eg delimeter in field) in a fairly sensible way.

You are free yet to make whatever proprietary extensions or otherwise, at the risk of losing compatibility just as you are with any other standard.
> But it is far less appropriate, edging on trolling, for you to categorize every single work relationship as "women being harassed in the workplace".

Try reading my post again, my dude. Maybe go a little slower. Read it backwards to forwards, forwards to backwards, and then try setting aside ideological goggles for a second.

We're talking about a workplace where women are doing something completely and totally bizarre: they're carrying around plants so they don't have to engage with someone. There's no situation in which that isn't totally bizarre--people don't just walk around with potted plants for the fun of it.

So, I say, "Hey, maybe they shouldn't have to deal with this," yet I'm the one who needs to "familiarize yourself." What a deranged cadre of people the lot of you are--you're so desperate to explain away this abuse that you can't even keep the context of a thread only 3 or 4 posts deep.
This will sound rude and I’m sorry but there is no way your entire life is ruined because you decided to get a PhD from one of the top 5 most prestigious institutions in the entire world.
Totally agree. Additionally, those same customers will update their reviews throughout the lifetime of their experience with the product/company/etc. which proves invaluable.
It’s always a lot. Can be kinda low if you’re allowed to do open loop water and a high water table but they’re often banned.
> Ghosted by companies for jobs directly related to my research

This is unexpected. What's going on there?
I'll give the US perspective.

You don't forego anything if you choose not to do a PhD right now. You can always do it at a later age - even in your 40's.

Red flags: You don't love studying. You don't love the process of research. You have loneliness concerns (loneliness is a reality for most PhD students). You don't want to think about sitting in the office reading papers all day. I can assure you - reading journal papers is boring - they're often not written to be read easily.

Don't worry about not being bright and it being a huge intellectual challenge. Many/most students feel they're not bright enough, and whether it will be a huge challenge depends heavily on the topic and your advisor.

Worrying about not being able to do interesting work: While I do think a PhD makes it easier to find interesting work, I think largely that's a separate skill in itself. I would wager that most PhDs do not find particularly interesting industry jobs if they do not learn the skills to find such jobs. Merely going through the motions of acquiring a PhD will not help too much in that regard. And if you do develop those skills, chances are good you'll be able to get interesting jobs with your MSc.

If you have a view that academia is about doing fun problems, the truth is yes and no. The "yes" is obvious. The "no" is that very, very often the reality is papers/conferences are the currency of academia, and the typical professor these days is more interested in optimizing that metric. So there's a good chance you'll end up publishing work that is dubious, or end up doing hacks to get more papers (e.g. republishing the same stuff with minor tweaks).

Definitely do not go into academia with the assumption that people there are more intellectually honest or have more integrity than in industry.
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From the web site :

A volume of 7 cubic miles (11 km^3) of olivine, or around 30 Gigatons, is needed each year. This is less than half the volume of construction materials and less than that of fossil fuel equivalents mined yearly.

That's gigantic, how can they sustain that 30 gigatons a year ?
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In the article they describe them as "Facebook Warriors", does that mean they are exempt from the British Army's basic combat fitness test?
If we can't keep up with our killing machine's actions, maybe we shouldn't have them?
I think it’s because most current futuretech solutions are pipe dreams at best. The scale of the problem is such that we need to learn how to essentially execute a planned terraform of a planet in the near term (as opposed to the current unintentional terraforming), using tech we don’t yet even have scribbled on a the back of a napkin to create massive effects on the planet using processes we don’t fully understand. It’s the equivalent of saying “to fix this we need to invent warp drive and genetically bioengineer human bodies to withstand prolonged periods of 100G acceleration and figure out how to extend human lifetimes to thousands of years, and we need to get it done in the next century.” It’s a fun fairy tale.

The alternative, lifestyle changes, is better understood and the effects of which are easily predicted, but is only effective if done in a unified manner at a scale that current human nature will not allow. We can’t even figure out how to cure hunger and poverty in a world of plenty, good luck getting everyone to make the dramatic changes to even get us to stabilize at mostly broken planet.

The real answer is that beyond a deus ex machina there is no answer and that the inevitable easily and indisputably modeled result of the current situation is dramatic near-term biosphere changes, ecosystems collapse and likely the end of most advanced human civilization within a couple centuries, conservatively.

It must be a weird time to be a climate scientists, with the best computer models that have ever existed essentially returning a result that ends the world within a half dozen generations.
Isn't that kinda what https://thewirecutter.com/ is doing?
I call that "handling back pressure", because I don't know what to call it.

I don't know of any system, stack that handles it directly, natively. Though my sample size is pretty small.
My NHS trust doesn't even use Spine 2. That would require reliable Internet.
You're not wrong, but I think it's a bit unfair to judge him.

"mildly racist and misogynist,"

Maybe by our standards. Quite the opposite by his era.

"made apologies for brutal dictatorships." As did most Argentines when the bastards took over in the late 70s.

"kinda of a coward" From what I hear like most Argentines who turned a blind eye. The Dirty War had few heroes.

"...apparently forgotten fact that you can separate the work from the person."

Agreed! I just don't think that we should be so harsh on Borges, already blind, old man during the dictatorship.How few among us have suffered the infamies that Borges suffered?
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Hold on, it's not clear to me that Aza's and Monica Cello's resignations are connected like this.
From Wikipedia :

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Revenue: 2.535 billion GBP (2018)
I don't think that it has to be a black or white issue. Some people likely cannot be rehabilitated because they are psychopaths, some because they are simply evil, etc. However, that doesn't mean that there are not many people who could be reformed.

For example, John Newton was a slave trader before finding God, becoming an abolitionist, and writing "Amazing Grace".

The Apostle Paul was at least an accessory to murder before his conversion.

I'm sure that there are examples outside of Christianity. That's just my background so its what I know.
Nice project. I always wanted a Python based spreadhshet. One where all the formulas are written in python, with access to all the standard library and more. This project is in javascript, but maybe someone could do it in python one day.
Anyone can upload to Spotify. There's no shortage of music.

I suspect the chicken and egg problem is worse there - in order for it to be valuable it would have to be a Spotify exclusive, but that implies not being on Youtube and therefore not getting critical mass.

Also the production values / return calculation looks more predictable for Netflix, while for music the costs are lower and the variance much, much higher.

And for Netflix people tend to watch shows once, whereas music is more likely to be listened to repeatedly.

Then there's a risk that if they do that the labels retaliate by pulling content.
RIP SE

Reminds me of the company take overs where the key asset is human capital and they all just walk out the door after the deal. Congrats you bought an empty building for billions

Don't think SE is ever going to be profitable if they can't keep key figures happy
Individually, we can also give our money to offset our (and others') carbon emissions.

By donating to cost-effective charities (ones that are experts at doing the offsetting), we can do more good than through other individual actions.

Read the Founders Pledge Climate Change Executive Summary:

https://founderspledge.com/stories/climate-change-executive-...
get a job. you can always go back to do a PhD later, and the workplace will equip you with the skills you'll need as PhD student to take no shit
> Most restaurants are mediocre or worse.

Without knowing you and what you look for in food, and in eating out, your expectations of service, your enjoyment of the aesthetic, your appreciation of arbitrary culture, it’s very hard to give this statement any weight. There are more restaurants on my block in SF than my home town, and of much higher quality. If you find the MAJORITY of restaurants to be mediocre or worse, that reveals a value system incompatible with mine. I’m just looking for a new place to eat, not the next Michelin star restaurant. Abundance of choice is my problem that random choice solves neatly.
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Personally I would rather live in a cave. When you're in a jail cell, you might end up on an operating table because some wealthy someone needs a new liver, and yours was a match. This person did live in exile, but he lived nonetheless. To some life itself is more important.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
The correct approach would be to say something like "Previous experiments reported X, we observed X + Y, therefore the real answer is probably around X + Y/10." But it's very important to state the observation of X + Y, not X + Y/10, otherwise you'll take much too long to update to the correct value!
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From where I sit, it looks like, at least this time round, the general public is pretty well tuned into the flea-ridden dogs that VCs and other investment funds are trying to dump onto the public markets.

So a bunch of these SV darlings crash and burn. To a first approximation, no one cares and it seems a useful lesson at the end of the day.
> My parents kind of had children for selfish reasons and objectively speaking neither of them should have had children.

If you or your sibling regret being born I’m sorry for you.
My wife got lasik 7 years back in her early 20s. Now she just got diagnosed with astigmatism when she was complaining of vision issues. She is back to wearing glasses for some part of the day. Lasik can certainly help the OP but not guaranteed. It's weird how our eyes change shape as we age.
The elephant in the room here is that big tech companies regular break laws, mostly with impunity. In many countries with a sane legal system (not sure if the USA is one of those), it is forbidden by law to arbitrarily discriminate consumers. That is, treat them differently for things they do that are neither an explicit breach of contract, nor illegal behaviour. I don't know enough of US law to say if this applies in the USA also, but companies like these ought to be publicly prosecuted for this elsewhere. The real problem is that big tech companies have vast resources (including economical and political influence) and all kind of (international) legal tricks up their sleeves, shielding them from the legal scrutiny they deserve. However, the clock is ticking. At some point, the net will close around them.
Interesting story, an interview with him here.

https://www.npr.org/2015/05/08/405191537/cop-out
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> The [Saudi-groomed] employee was fired in 2015

> Gordon MacMillan, who joined the social media company's UK office six years ago [2013]

Er, how does that work?
I am not necessarily advocating on the tree solution, as someone else has pointed out, it's terribly inefficient as a carbon capture method. I am more arguing that it's more effective to say "how can we find a better alternative" than "How can we change the way everyone does thing". General population does not behave in a rational manner and its often short sighted, we can't expect societal self discipline as the main solution against climate change.

In the US and EU we are generally conscious about environment on a personal level (lifestyle etc), but the majority of the growing pollution will come from the upcoming superpowers, and they have very little intention of hindering their economic development with very radical environmental policies.

Take air travel for example, there is absolutely no way China and India will slow down their airline industry's growth. We need to start treating this fact as roadblocks, and must find solutions around it.
There's one answer I had to do that with, simply because the title of the question didn't match the body of the question. I kept getting downvotes from people who came to the question via Google and found my answer didn't match their question.
> I'm sure you'd agree it makes no sense numerically to only start capturing carbon without also reducing emissions which have been growing non-stop.

I know this is the accepted dogma, but I can’t say I see it as “numerically” self-evident. The OP seems to argue that %67 of all the CO2 emissions since the dawn of industrialization can be captured in a few decades, solely by planting trees. That sounds like a capture rate “numerically” comparable to the current emissions rate, no...?

(I’m not saying there is a silver bullet, but why do people seem so hellbent on there not being one...?)
>I sorely regret the decision and consider it to have fundamentally ruined my life beyond repair.

Are you sure you would not feel the same way had you gone straight to industry? Musing over those who stayed, got their PhDs, and are in fascinating, high paying jobs?

My suggestion is that you try not to have an external locus of control.

I spent 7 years in grad school, realized a PhD won't get me the job I was seeking, and quit. As a result, everything you say is also true for me, and I don't even have the degree to show for it.

But I also know that grad school was a great time for me, and I did get most of what I wanted out of it. As for my not-so-great industry outcome, I do know I'm not really putting a huge amount of effort to improve it.

The PhD is about the journey. The certificate at the end is just a technicality. Could it be that you valued the certificate more than the journey?
> To force industries to change their ways of doing business, there's not many options beyond carbon taxes.

The absolute best way to fix the problem is to develop new technologies which are cleaner and cheaper and equivalent or better than what they are replacing.

It is absolutely possible to discourage “dirty” production by taxing the externalities to drive production to cleaner methods at a higher cost. The effect of this is to drive up costs and this causes inefficiency, which is an economists way of saying it is harmful (to the economy and therefore to people).

Instead, if a new technology is developed which makes the “dirty” method obsolete which is both cleaner and cheaper, then the economy benefits and the world benefits.

We see this perfectly with the rise of renewables in power generation, and the fall of coal. In the last 5 years renewable share has gone from 13.4 to 17.6%. There is a tipping point ($1/W) which we’ve recently hit which will increase the growth rate. Give it 15 more years and between increased solar efficiency and lower solar deployment costs, combined with grid storage batteries, the grid could be 50% clean energy.

Similarly with EVs you have a product which now that’s it’s gotten to a point where you can make one that is better in every way than an ICE vehicle, manufacturers are racing to switch. You can’t tax your way to an EV future, but you can subsidize the R&D which ultimately allows a superior product to come to market.

If the message was consistently that cleaner products are superior products both in price and performance, you will have 100% agreement that products and production should be clean.

The alternative — that we need to sap trillions of dollars out of the economy to deploy substandard products and infrastructure which will deliver the same or worse service at higher cost, ban scores of products which people use, enjoy, or rely on, and increase taxes on a massive scale, I think that’s not only a losing proposition but that’s where you end up with the disastrous politics we have today.
Sounds cool. I have the reverse issue. Lots of information in Atlassian Confluence tables that I want in Excel.
> Why is it that everybody is so interested in “lifestyle” changes, and so uninterested in things like OP or Project Vesta [1]?

Project Vesta hasn't proved efficacy or ability to scale. It's reminiscent of the "solar roadways" hype from earlier this decade.

Most greenhouse gas emissions come from industry and transportation of goods.

It's less politically expedient to blame entrenched powers for their hand in climate change than it is to blame Joe Nobody for driving instead of walking to work.