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> Landfills are safe and clean and plentiful.

Some landfills are mostly safe. In less well-off countries, where the is not enough funding to properly build and care for the myriad of ever-growing landfills, or without sufficient protection from corruption and greed, they are quite the opposite of safe and plastics play a huge part in it.

We have permanently smouldering dumps near almost every town. Some 20 or more years ago it wasn't much of an issue, as most trash burned reasonably well, and it reduced the volume, so it was practical. It wans't good or clean, but now there is so much plastic that it creates toxic clouds spreading through the town. Burning plastic makes horrendous smoke, and its impractical to extinguish the dump fire both politically and physically.

Recycling has helped a bit, but our landfills are not safe. They are literally poisoning everyone in the area.
"But when El Caudillo died in 1975, Spain miraculously left her troubled past behind her, embarking on a rare, successful transition to democracy that was sealed by a landmark referendum in 1978."

Not that miraculously. More like the CIA financed and trained in France a terrorist attract to kill the person that Franco has selected as successor, Carrero Blanco and then appointing the most stupid person in the regime, Arias Navarro.

The "successful" transition to democracy was initiated by stupid decisions like giving the Sahara territories to Morroco so they can slaughter the native population and occupy it with Morrocan(It should have been given independence instead) and creating the State of Autonomias.

The State of Autonomias was the transition from a highly centralized State, to one of the more decentralized countries on Earth.

It was done this way in order to appease the Independentist that were a minority at the time,(In Catalunia a 6-12%) and now in places like Catalunia and Vasque country are becoming near to a majority(50%).

The electoral system in Spain(chosen in the "succesful" transition to democracy, favored minorities over majorities giving way more representation than they should have.

They made the effective eradication of the use of Spanish, even in places like Basque country(the Spanish language comes from the territory between it and Cantabria) in education and brainwashing of kids propagating hatred against anything spanish.

That was also helped by the terrorist organization ETA that just killed and ostracized those that were not secessionist in Basque country.

In Catalunia kids were taught that Catalonia were a kingdom in the past(never happened), the myth of the Segadors as independentist when they were a movement against the rich or that the war for Sucesion(succession) was a war for Secession in Catalunia.

BTW, this lie is the the linked article.

This is all false and very easy for anyone to check, because Truth doesn't matter because when repeating a lie a thousand times it becomes a truth. And they controlled local TV and education for 40 years.

They even meet each year in front of a guy called Rafael Casanovas as a secession leader when every time he talked always finished with a "Viva España"(long live Spain).

Spanish history is no more violent than that of the rest of European countries, or the UK and US(that have fought or invaded most of the countries on the rest of the world).
Kind of like Mars.
You say they are wrong, but never actually explained what it is, though.

We don't all fall into one of your two buckets, and I relate to nothing you wrote, so I suspect your definition of introversion won't apply to me as much as you'd expect it to.
Yep... I don't really want to interface with morally corrupt people. Fortunately NixOS exists.
Augmented reality is nothing new. (2018)
It really looks like this guy is just a troll at this point.

I have sympathies for the arguments. It's kinda unfortunate that Linux has taken over everything and we don't have real portable code anymore and other Unixes find themselves on the margins. x86, even x86-64 isn't really "clean". Way too much of the software ecosystem is willing to be on the bleeding edge.
I worry we're losing core bits of Unix philosophy / simplicity as things evolve. Etc.

If the arguments were completely untrue, they'd not find any purchase. But this guy is running around kicking the hornet's nest whenever possible.
Unless the app goes out of date and no longer works on current smartphones/tablets, which does happen. I'd rather have the remote; batteries are cheap.
Of course it did, but it was probably spelled differently, like “a merger would enhance our ability to fight regulation”. The regulations being things like “you have to have planes that don’t rapidly fly into the ground for no reason” etc.
> my underlying neurological tendency

And I’m saying for some people, this tendency is not stable. It’s something we observe, and can’t directly control. It’s a real variance in base psychology, and one I embrace as a core piece of my personality.

(Given consciousness is subjective, it’s tremendously difficult to differentiate innate tendencies from reactions to one’s environment.)
Took a quick read. It’s not clear how the time series model (e.g., ARIMA) is selected.
Can you elaborate on the national defense? How is the highway useful with defending the country? Defending from who?

I can only think of highways as secondary runways for planes but I'm unsure as to how much that helps your case.
> that can be difficult for a number of reasons.

Not least of which is that they'd almost certainly need to be paid far, far more than they're making when they do it on their own.

Not that I disagree, though: overall the idea/point you made is a good one.
Doesn't it go flat quickly?
Don't know how quickly it is coming but I think ubi is the right direction for civilization. People are fighting tooth and nail for meaningless bullshit jobs that low key function as a form of government assistance but waste your entire adult life in the process.
It didn't have to be on any pitch decks for safety to be downplayed. Its presence or absence on pitch decks is quite irrelevant.

You can tell how seriously they took human lives by their default reaction a plane crash. It's always "pilot error": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/sd9LGK2S9m/battle_over_blam...
No, they just suffer through a sluggish experience and don't know any better.
If the coffee part is true I will soon be able to fold space like the navigators in Dune.
I'm Hungarian and it's hard to describe the difference. Your examples are good indeed, before wine, blood and red carpet we exclusively use 'vörös', as well as for red headed people, but I'm not sure it is because a different colour (bit darker, saturated red. We also (in a slightly literatury way) say vérvörös, blood-red coloured, I think that's the colour I would associate the word with) or simply because they are almost fixed prefixes.

We also use 'bordó', to mean an even darker red (though for my not particularly "trained" eyes they are practically the same as vörös)
I did mention Failure/Snafu, but there are two problems with it:

1) The state of "how best to handle errors" keeps on changing. It was error_chain, then err-derive, then Failure, now Fehler or Snafu.. I would like to see this space calm down a bit.

2) Failure/Snafu require additional dependencies. For minimal libraries it's really not necessary to pull in so much when a a little boilerplate suffices. [0]

[0]: https://git.sr.ht/~andrewzah/hangeul-rs/tree/master/src/erro...
Not serious at all. Speaking as someone who has drunk coffee every day for decades, the worst that happens when you don't get your coffee fix is a persistent headache - that ends within ten minutes of drinking coffee.
The high carbs work for me too but sweet/sugary foods just makes me hungry so fast that I can't concentrate for long before I'm distracted by it.
Yes. Driving is dangerous. Our society has just deemed its danger acceptable even though we know how many people die because we are so dependent on cars. This is the grim fact of the matter.
We should bring this up with Warren Buffet, isn't he one of the main investors in Coca Cola?

Warren Buffet likes to pretend he is great but we should clearly associate his personal fortune with the plastic pollution that Coca Cola produces in mass.
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> pass by reference

I'm not quite sure why so many people think JS is pass by reference.

Everything in JS is passed by value. In fact, unlike some other languages (Swift, C++, etc), the only thing you _can_ do is pass by value. That some of those values are actually references doesn't really have anything to do with evaluation strategy.
I upvoted this, not because it's good content (it's not), but because you're clearly in need of community support.

Here's my advice to you: stop caring about politics and get a remote job.

Forget all the social justice stuff and poor government regulations. It sucks, but you can't do anything about it unless you have a lot of money, which you don't.

You have good experience and your written english is fine. Be flexible with your working hours. You're about 12 hours offset from the Bay Area, so you might end up working the night shift. If you have an accent that would make it hard for Americans to work with you, that's probably the highest value thing you can improve. Indian accents are notoriously difficult and one of the reasons people in the US don't like Indian outsourcing (even if they won't admit it).

Use the HN job listings, angel, remotejobs, etc. Find yourself good paying work. Understand the situation and figure out how to exploit it. Maybe you can live comfortably on 50k/yr in India? Hiring you in the bay area would be $100k/yr minimum for someone with 7 years of experience of full-stack dev. Exploit the difference. Let companies know that you're willing to travel, that you're steeped in SV culture from the internet, that you're a hard worker, that you have lots of experience, that you're willing to work for half the price of US counterparts, and that you're willing to work on any timezone.

Save your money, invest, continually try to increase your salary. Once you have good cashflow, you might want to stay in India due to the cost of living, but you'll also have the means to relocate globally.

Just to be crystal clear: You're not failing at code or interviews, you're failing at selling yourself, and you're distracted by political issues. This is a skill you can learn and a problem you can fix.
On the other hand, making X behave like Y, where Y is something pilots are very used to, is safer.
Even water bottles should have a deposit.
War puts enormous strain on a country's ability to move things around the country.
It's nice to think this and there certainly are high-achievers who accomplish this, but Piketty's research relates to the economy as a whole and the entire point is that the economy's aggregate return on capital is outpacing economic growth (r > g). This means even if some do obtain wealth, ultimately there's more losers than winners. Outliers mean little in statistics and economics.
Somehow I imagine that the same people who hate macbooks probably also hate fancy restaurants where adding salt is an insult to the chef
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I don't know that much about Guix, other than "super-free Nix with scheme" (and the article wasn't particularly illuminating other than boiling down to "Guix isn't really ready for most users right now"), but it's neat that there's momentum in the declarative OS-space. I hope that both Guix and NixOS keep growing and that more people start switching.

After switching to NixOS, I'd find it very frustrating to go back to an OS with imperative-style package/service management. It's clearly the better way.

A frustrating thing about NixOS--coming from Arch Linux and being used to the AUR--is that adding packages/updating packages can be a bit slow due to the sheer volume of PRs/Issues on the nixpkgs repo. There's always the NUR[1] but it hasn't picked up that much momentum yet (probably because it's kind of hard to search the darn thing). Eitherway, the packages are just Nix expressions and repos are just collections of these expressions, so nothing's preventing a real AUR alternative other than momentum.

It's interesting that Guix uses scheme instead of a home-baked configuration language like NixOS. While I don't find Nix particularly offensive, I don't find it particularly great either. And maybe this is naivity/Nix-inexperience on my part speaking, but I really wish that Nix had a proper type system and was strictly typed.

I guess my pipe dream is "HaskellOS" that's basically NixOS configured with Haskell (just think of xmonad-style configuration for your whole OS). That'd be really nice. And my secondary-pipe dream is a baked in, extremely-comprehensive home-manager[2] so we can bid dotfiles goodbye once and for all and have your entire system-state defined in a single file.

Maybe one day :)

[1] https://github.com/nix-community/NUR

[2] https://github.com/rycee/home-manager
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The usual advice of opening in Private Mode doesn't work anymore as a workaround.

I found though one can search for the link in google, then click on it and it will let you in.
Another problem with retiring early from the military is that they retire you at that point because you’re going to be broken - knees, back, etc.

So you get time and a pension but you’re hobbling around.
this seems pretty straightforward. "introvert" and "extrovert" are grammatical traps that lead to fallacious reasoning, because these are not things that we are.

introversion and extroversion are just groupings of behaviors we each exhibit based on social context. sure, some people tend to skew one way or another statistically, but it's not an intinsic attribute.

(it's more interesting to examine the specific situations in which one exhibits one or the other set of behaviors.)
Fehler is highly opinionated and I'm not sure it's worth it. IIRC the author posted on the /r/rust subreddit and was unable to take criticism at all.

I don't like having to put decorators on functions and manually throw!()'ing. I would rather be explicit about returning Ok(T) or Err(E).
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can someone give me a good argument for not using glass
A this point I’d love to go back to proper cubicles, with 5 ft high walls.

But even those are expensive. I wonder if there are ways to lower the costs.
2 is interesting.

We are expecting a baby, and one of the tests we had to get done early in the pregnancy was NIPT. There was 2-3 companies we could go with, and when we asked for the price they responded some number between >2.7K - I don't really recall - it could even be 8K. When asked for the cash price, they said 250$.

Crazy.
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I can only agree, and they really should add buttons to the bezel or back.

If they run a web server with an API that can be used I’m perfectly happy with that though.
Have you read any of the official product planning documents?
> Job re-training is mostly a myth

Job re-training is more than a myth, it is another Reagan-era privatization scam, designed to funnel public money to private for-profit training centers and trade schools. Gordon Lafer's _The Job Training Charade_ is a great book on the subject.
Coyne, a Darwinist, discusses the Cambrian explosion as not being quite what creationists claim: it would be improbable for such fecundity of life to have occurred in the timeframe observed. This argument is refuted by Prothero [1]. Furthermore, the statistical incongruity seems like a red herring, and has been answered repeatedly [2]. Even if it still does not add up, I would argue that it’s not necessary to thump scriptures as a credible biological reference.

[1] https://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/13-08-07/

[2] https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/341/6152/1344.1.f...
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If Boeing hadn't subscribed to the view that pilots were an inconvenient expense to be slowly dispensed with with ever more "sophisticated" automation like MCAS they also wouldn't be in this situation.

It's uncomfortable to think about but a management fashion that silicon valley helped promulgate killed those 600 people.
I am against UBI, but credit where it's due: it's not easy these days to break into the national political conversation with a single issue platform so far outside the Overton Window as Yang has. This is like the old parties of yore that campaigned on things like a bimetallism or Prohibition.
Everyone agrees with that statement. The hard question is what "can't" means. Companies with a grow fast mentality always insist they could break even, and often present financial metrics indicating they do break even with the proper adjustments for purely growth-related costs. There's no obvious rule for how much you should trust a company's adjustments.
Shouldn't clean code always be maintainable? Or maybe if setting everything up is too cumbersome or the build system is crappy it's not maintainable, hmm.
>Highways were also originally built for national defense with the economic benefits as a secondary force.

That's the standard story. From what I've read though, Eisenhower wanted to build the Interstate Highway System for a number of reasons of which defense was only one--and possibly a fairly minor one. But he knew that playing up the defense angle was a good strategy to get the plan passed.
I think it is, but unfortunately this still holds the train back compared to in a place like Taiwan.
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This time in history is the easiest ever for anyone to be owning the means of production, via the democratization of the stock market.
We have the technology today to operate a “train” of self-driving vehicles in a dedicated self-driving freeway lane.

California high speed rail isn’t scheduled to open until 2033.

By 2033 I bet we’ll have self-driving vehicles capable of last mile transportation, at least in dedicated lanes on the road.
Neat little game, but the controls suck.

I think it'd be a lot easier to control the snake if you had the turning radius start wider and decrease over dozens of frames of constant turning before clamping to the tight one you currently use initially. That way the player could modulate turning a bit to maintain a larger turning radius, as well as make subtle corrections with small taps.
If you've been at the company since the beginning and only took $36k/year (assuming in the US) with no equity and contributed lead engineering input, I'd consider you as part of the "founding team", if not a founder.

I'm aware that founders are generally those on the incorporation docs and everyone else is considered an employee in startup parlance, but I think first employees (especially as described in your case) take proportionally the same risk as the legal founders but get order or two magnitude less upside. It's a totally raw deal. Without knowing more, I'd be looking for 10%+ of founder-class shares if I were you.

Feel free to contact me (see my bio for contact info) if you'd like to discuss more privately. I'm going to be writing up something about this as well. I've seen first employees getting raw deals for years and it's always rubbed me the wrong way, especially as a founder and former "first employee".

edit: I want to point out that I'm aware equity, like many other things in business, is always about what you can negotiate. Post the seed round raise, your negotiating position is weaker than at the beginning, but my thoughts above are about what's "fair". What's fair and what's negotiable are often very different.

patio11 has a great take in the top comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2949323
The US's position as a prestige currency of choice certainly contributes, too. Foreign savers really want dollar safety, so the US has a net capital outflow in the form of Treasuries, which means it must take a net inflow of goods and services. The end result is that American consumers pay less than they should for goods, all because other governments can't or won't provide the safe assets that their citizens desire. These low consumer goods prices are definitely not good for domestic manufacturers.
Wars are won with logistics not guns. Getting troops and supplies across the country would be key to defending it from an invasion.

The interstate highway system was built in part for military purposes and partly designed by the Army:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System
>There are no more frontiers on Earth to discover/explore/develop.

That's not true - we know far less about the oceans than we do about space.

>The expanding frontiers of space represent a fantasy - where there would be contant expansion of human possibility/potential.

That fantasy depends on the common science-fiction metaphor that space is just a bigger, wider ocean and that we just need to recreate the Age of Sail with space ships.

But barring the discovery of a warp drive, "constant expansion" into space is simply not feasible (see the Fermi Paradox.)

>Also a hedge against earth's collapse.

Well, that's already underway, so...
yeah, that is interesting... searching in DuckDuckGo also works
Most of my property tax is on the structures, not the land. That means that undeveloped and underdeveloped land gets less taxation than land that, say, has apartments on it. It's the opposite of the way it should be -- taxes should penalize parking lots and incentivize housing.
> "Not in countries with partially or fully-socialized healthcare."

Even in countries without, the public still end up paying the price in the end. Even if they don't see it manifest in their taxes, the social cost of cola manifests in other ways such as living in an environment where obesity is commonplace (aesthetic impact), having obese friends and family (particularly medical expenses in the family.) When obesity is commonplace, fit labor is in short supply which drives up the cost of everything. Public transit holds fewer people when massively obese cola drinkers are filling up more than one seat. Fewer people walk or cycle around town, opting instead to drive which results in worse traffic and worse air quality. The perceived importance of outdoor facilities like parks, hiking trails, etc all take a hit. All in all, obesity is bad for the economy, bad for the environment, and bad for the aesthetic qualities of society.

When the majority are physically fit, everybody benefits (even those who aren't fit.) When the majority are unfit, everybody is harmed (even those who are fit.)
Love it, agree with it, can't face death, no fucking way. Motivates me to work out every day.
While I’m always a fan of remembering that incentives matter (and believe that some degree citizen attention is a price for a well-functioning government), I would think that a forum full of software engineers could think of other reasons projects go over budget than graft.