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> Inflation is already almost zero in much of the West.
Not sure about the USA, but real inflation is closer to 7-8 percent in Europe, wage growth falling behind.

"Unbiased private-sector efforts to calculate the real rate of inflation have yielded a rate of around 7% to 13% per year, depending on the locale — many multiples of the official rate of around 1% per year" https://www.businessinsider.com/if-people-knew-the-actual-in...

In my country (Hungary) grocery prices rose an average 38% from last year for example.
> Kind of amusing that this idea is posted here on Hacker News, the center of people seeking jobs and companies that are the definition of growth.

But that's the good kind of growth, you see?

I'm being sarcastic, of course. The ironic (and to me: annoying) thing about the really vocal moralists is that the concept of self-reflection seems to be entirely foreign to them. The problem is always with other people, and those other people just need to change, no matter at what cost.
Why do we need public companies?
I'm thankful for my family and the great support I've gotten from them.

I'm thankful for the healthcare system which has provided a great deal for my brother, even though progress is slow.

I'm thankful for my friends, their interest and enthusiasm.

I'm also thankful for HN and the greater tech community. My parents do not have a higher education and without HN and the surrounding internet I'm not sure I'd have pursued one.

Happy thanksgiving from Sweden!
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>And sometimes its to the benefit of the environment, the employees and its in accordance with the rule of law.

Yes. Sometimes lottery is also the right investment: in the 1/10000000 of cases where you win...
“the only way to get ahead is to strike a deal with some kind of clique at the expense of the client”

Ugh, it makes me sick how true this is, and how much shit I take for refusing to go along with it.
Is it really necessary to include "fuck" in the name? It strikes me as completely unnecessary and alienating to a lot of people.

Try these instead:

- Ignore Black Friday

- Forget Black Friday

- Buy Nothing Black Friday

etc.
The elephant in the room is the continual neglect or the downright (intellectual) hate shown to anyone who had dared mention Malthus in the last 25-30 years (his thoughts had a bit of intellectual resurgence in the 1970s, but that was pretty much it). It seems like in the last 2 or 3 years we have tried and tried to reach his same conclusions in very convoluted ways, ignoring his very existence.

The good thing at least is that some of us have at last reached the conclusion that some sort of planet-wide environmental growth limits have been reached, even that wasn't the case until not that long ago, when any mention of a possible limit was met with "we'll technologically surpass that, we always have".
It would make far more sense to massively increase energy efficiency across all segments. This will further decouple GDP from emissions.
I think almost all responses to drunk driving are weak, including this one. But the response to distracted driving, especially with phones, is even weaker.

If people stared getting banned for life from driving in a province/state, either behavior would change pretty fast or at least we'd be rid of repeat offenders.
See also: Chesterton’s Fence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fen...
wishfully, I read this as a "Book on the Culture". Does anyone know of such a thing, aside from the actual Iain M Banks novels?
The rat study you cite here is certainly far from sufficient evidence to make such bold claims or implicated that indoor lighting can promote cancer development in humans! I think you should edit your statement in the top comment further to make it clear that you are not referring to any solid human data here at all.
If they build up the infrastructure with that famous German engineering I'd just as soon stay away.
“Culture can’t be broken, any more than complexity can be the cause of failure”.

Am I in the minority thinking that “complexity is the cause of failure” may in fact be a useful and actionable statement? Start analyzing where complexity resides, cope with failures caused by inevitable complexity…

Of course, qualifying the sources of unnecessary complexity would be even more helpful, but even merely pointing it out may be more strategically useful than “X and Y caused an error”. (So you’ll fix X and Y; then Z will start causing trouble.)

It’s a tangent, I agree that “culture is broken” does seem like a useless statement.
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I'm very very unconvinced by this, why can't we have a green jobs revolution and sensible environmental protections and growth! These are not exclusive, just caused by a lack of imagination.
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But why phone? Why not something more specifically set up for the purpose, like Google authenticator or 2fa keys?
Can anyone tell me how this is "Privacy-Preserving"? Like how is this different than what the major tech firms like Google, MS, and Apple offer?
I do agree with this, but what of pension plans? At 2% inflation, a fund of $10,000 will deplete to slightly over $6000 (inflation adjusted) in 20 years...
That I have eyes and my hands and my sanity and my family. Honestly that's enough.
I am more curious about the technology that Québec will use to identify groups of people online & offline to determine whether they are historic Anglophones in Québec or other anglophones from rest of Canada. Something like smart card ? It all seems a little bit crazy that how far Québec will go protect French in an English dominated world.
To illustrate the same point differently: if the USA had the same population density as the UK, there would be 2.5 billion people living there, instead of the current 327 million.

Math: 327 million US ppl * 274 UK ppl per sq km / 35 US ppl per sq km.
I think it depends on the quality of sheet metal. I live in a place where it's all mud and salt throughout the winter, and somehow my car doesn't rust even where the paint is scratched. I think it's because of a good-quality galvanized coating under the paint (it's a boring normal non-luxury car made in Korea, if someone's curious).
Great paper! Given the write-ups of old and broken crypto, perhaps a better title would be History of Cryptography?
I've been hearing this for about 10 years now. I don't think the Pro tower will be going ARM any time soon
Peopleware is awesome https://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Tom-De...
Malthus is just the tip of the iceberg. There are so many "forbidden charts" that people can lose their jobs over these days!

Outside of global warming--all we plebes get are Pinker-nuggets on how everything is just fine.
Are you referring to The NY Times? I typically want to send traffic to the original content providers and creators.
Indeed, you can run a lot of new fridges in the developing world on the kWh budget of a heated private swimming pool.
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Personally, I would respect high school students enough to have them write actual lines of code and not drag and drop blocks. The Arduino language and libraries are abstracted enough as to not provide major difficulty.

Those who really have an aptitude for it will be able to implement datastructures and algorithms in it, and those that don't will be able to muddle through copying and pasting enough code to get it running.
The initial purpose of Bitcoin according to its creator was to abolish central banks. The fact that the state uses force to collect taxes in fiat currency means that you have no chance to escape fiat, this new regulation makes sure of that. It means nothing more than Bitcoin has utterly failed in its mission.
How are people in developed countries who have exotic vactions etc. going to tell people in poorer countries that they should do without?
You can think of it as information within other information within still other information...

Simple 2D example (for programmers) -- you have a binary string, which can be looked at as a series of 1's and 0's, or as a series of 8-bit bytes.

Well if we look at it as a series of bytes (think of that as the first "holographic" dimension, because the bytes don't really exist -- that is, all they really are is repeated groupings of 8-bits -- CPU's and programs and memory might work with data of that length and "see" them, but in essence, the string is is just 1's and 0's.

So that's the first "holographic" dimension... bytes. But now, inside of that string are substrings -- discrete runs of shorter information. Let's think of those substrings as "holographic" dimension 2.

From here, there could be even higher "holographic" dimensions, that is, let's say we observe only some substrings relative to a mathematical pattern, f(x).

Well, you can think of f(x) -- and the resulting data it produces as a result of reading specific substrings in a specific order -- as living in a higher dimension, a "higher dimensional" "observer", if you will...

Whenever you see the word "black hole" or "hologram" -- replace that with the word "information", and think about it from that perspective... usually there's something there...

(It's also equally-and-oppositely possible that I'm a crackpot and don't know what I'm talking about -- take this explanation with the proverbial grain of salt... <g>)
I came to say the exact same thing. I say fuck in my life a lot but I feel that here it is not really adding anything, I don't feel shocked when I see it I just feel irritated. A recent blog post that was posted here recently with fuck in the title, I skipped over it immediately. The only time I can think of that using the word fuck actually made me look more favorable on something was https://gofuckingdoit.com/.
I believe they may be referring to the idea that not everything is consumed in the year it’s produced. Infrastructure, for example, is useful years or even decades after it is built (and, presumably, counted in GDP).
cash rules everything around me C.R.E.A.M get the money, so I'm more concerned about the push to abolish cash
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Barely you still have to manually update the nav system. I pace only implemented partial updates recently due to competitive pressures from Tesla. Frankly I’ve heard mostly horror stories about ipace.
then you just run one of their cheapest vms as a proxy/router?
Nothing. In normal the Company selling these have to prevents Germans to buy cryptocoins.
> Inflation is already almost zero in much of the West.

pet theory: Inflation is way way more than zero almost everywhere (prices of services and rents reflect this), but high inflation is masked by increased supply chain efficiencies, cheapening (in some cases worsening) of products and other factors, which keep prices of physical products relatively stable.
If we assume that economic efficiency grows over time even in a non-inflation society, then it seems to me that the zero sum game argument doesn't exactly hold.
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In the not so distant future, energy could become abundant thanks to solar energy. On the other hand, physical resources (rare earths but also the molecules contained in oil) are limited. I think it is more important to seek better recycling, reduce waste than to reduce energy consumption.
I'm not so sure about that. I haven't looked up the legal text, but to me it only sounds like operating some services like crypto exchanges requires a licence.

As a citizen I can interact with a Canadian bank that has no German licence, as long as I don't launder money. The Canadian bank just can't do business activities in Germany (advertisement, opening an office, etc).

Overall this seems like a bigpositive since it gives crypto currencies a more solid place in the German legal framework, taking it out of the niche
Employee burnout is a fact of life for most businesses, but the problem gets especially worse in startups and small enterprises.

1. Make it clear what to expect before they come on board
2. Make sure roles & hierarchies are defined as far as possible
3. Flexible hours and telecommuting might help retain key employees
4. Communication & feedback make sure there’s no nasty surprise brewing
5. Give everyone some decision-making power

It might not be possible to remove all stressors from the workplace, but a few wise decisions and some patience can help slow down or perhaps eliminate employee fatigue and burnout.

Best regards,
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> then a slow die-off until the next book.

I'm curious if you think that it's actually possible for a book (or perhaps more generally, a school of thought) to actually break out of the cycle, or whether it's just the natural order of these sorts of things.

What I mean is, maybe what we get from these sorts of "self-help" pieces of literature/philosophies/whatever is less like a mantra that's one and done, and more like food satisfying a nutritional need, and just as you can't expect to eat a perfect meal and never be hungry for the rest of your life; when you get hungry again, you just need to find the next thing to eat.

I ask because I've gone through a number of these sorts of cycles in my own personal development over the last decade or so, and I'm finding that success tends to lie in seeing things in the latter light.
Using Emacs or VI for Java is something for masochists. Helping them with refactoring support would take away their fun/pain. Doesn't use the Java LSP the Eclipse IDE? Maybe it would just be easier to configure your IDE like emacs.
They have a tiny carbon footprint because they are overwhelmingly poor compared to the West (granted, the US have a particularly large footprint).

So either we tell them that, sorry, but they have to stay dirt poor and also to stay away from their rain forests even if they starve, or the aim is to eradicate poverty on the planet, but in that latter case their resources footprint (this is more general than carbon alone) is bound to increase.

That's why the global population is a key factor in fighting climate change and protecting the environment.
Sorry, You have to go back.
This is true, but people are not staying in Africa.
The title is misleading in that it's not exactly the conclusion the article arrives at.

The article has it quite the other way round: Once energy consumption doesn't grow anymore we either need more efficient means of growth (i.e. less energy consumption per growth unit) or we have to forego growth.

It's pre-Industrial-Age Malthus all over again: Barring paradigm shifts that allow for more efficient production planet Earth can only sustain a maximum number of people (roughly 1 billion around Malthus' lifetime).

However, Malthus' theory has been disproven time and time again precisely because there have always been such paradigm shifts that allowed us to sustain more people with fewer resources, in others words to increase GDP/NRJ as well as NRJ/POP.

If NRJ/POP becomes stagnant either GDP/NRJ will have to grow rapidly or there won't by any GDP growth - and by extension population growth - anymore.

I just don't get the seemingly recurring obsession with artificially limiting growth. Yes, thermodynamically the energy available ultimately is limited but that doesn't mean we should start to behave as if we've already reached thermodynamic equilibrium.

What supporters of artificially limiting GDP growth often don't acknowledge is that placing such a limit also places a hard limit on population growth or even necessitates a reduction in population.

In fiction, one staunch proponent of such an approach is Avengers villain Thanos, who doesn't want to decimate half of the Universe's population for a lark or because he's simply evil but because he's on a mission to free the Universe from growth and overpopulation.

I suggest that instead of obsessing with the NRJ/POP term in the equation we focus on GDP/NRJ instead.
What do you mean "further decouple"? It has never been decoupled in any real sense.
> Inflation is already almost zero in much of the West

I'm not an economist, but the Big Mac Index would suggest otherwise.

> then the only way to add a dollar to your pile is to permanently make someone else a dollar poorer

What's suggested is not to stop the production of wealth, but the rate of growth of production of wealth.
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Separatism shouldn't be a crime, and the government crackdown is completely out of proportion with the terrorism that has occurred.
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According to Riess, however, the supernovae data used by Sarkar’s group are out of date. He says that he and some colleagues, including D’Arcy Kenworthy of Johns Hopkins University, plugged data from a sample of about 1300 supernovae with lower systematic uncertainties into the model used in the latest work. The results, he says, were unambiguous, with the existence of a dipole rejected at more than 4σ and cosmic acceleration confirmed at over 6σ.

More importantly, says Riess, the objections against Sarkar and colleagues’ original statistical analysis still stand, as do the criticisms of neglecting other data. “The evidence for cosmic acceleration and dark energy are much broader than only the supernovae Ia sample, and any scientific case against cosmic acceleration needs to take those into account,” he says.
There are a lot. Most robust community appears to be Home Assistant. It’s not very point and click friendly yet, though. If that matters to you.
Go to founders, have an honest, evidence-based, emotion-free conversation, and ask for co-founder role models & stock that you believe is fair. If you don't like the offer you get, then walk. Be mentally prepared to walk before having this conversation - because, at the end of the day, it's the only leverage nobody can take away from you.
Ask HN: How to get over the idea the stuff ur learning will be irrelevant soon
Think about VC, VB, Delphi, C++Builder, AngularJS , OracleDB ...... It's true there're shining ideas, but I just cannot shake the idea lot of time were / are being wasted without a trace.
Ah, come on. By 2022 all state administrative tasks will be 100% digital for German residents. That will be defined by law. There is nothing to worry!
you still could be a comet, from FAQs:

Comets are 128 bits and have no parents. They can be launched by anyone. They are temporary, disposable identities. Being disposable and essentially unlimited, they will likely not be trusted by default by others on the Urbit OS network, though you shouldn't have any problem until the network grows much larger. They have long, hard-to-memorize names, like ~racmus-mollen-fallyt-linpex-watres-sibbur-modlux-rinmex.
I wonder what this means regarding the transparency of transactions and the anonymity of user ids. Is anyone aware of the new law's implications?
Yes, but those ICE cars were designed by engineers who understood that you only get ~100ks of write endurance with this sort of nonvolatile memory.

Tesla's use case is unique because they stuff enormous firmware images into the on-board NVM and write to it constantly with very heavy logging. Of course your Flash/EMMC will wear out quickly if you constantly write to it while your device is on - that is the short-sighted part.

The board isn't necessarily a problem, but how Tesla chose to use it sounds like a very predictable problem.
Great video. The light produced is so soft and convincing.

Do you know of any consumer version for sale? It feels like there should be a product offering with how little changes need to be made to convert a tv or laptop screen
yes, that is a systemic weakness
This talks about privacy and data ownership, but I can’t tell from the site if the processing is all local (like Snips or Mycroft) or if data still has to be trusted with a remote party. Maybe I missed something.
My father worked at the company back then, designing the rudders. After that, he worked at Airbus until retirement. He always said that his coworkers at Cargolifter where really good engineers and much brighter on average than at Airbus, I always wonder where they might be if they didn't run out of funding / if they would have started the company today, where people are much more willing to invest into risky firms like these.
[1] Familiy, friends, [2] opportunities, [3] yoga + life.

[1] Grateful to always have been provided with anything I needed, wanted, didn't need, didn't want. While it's obviously a huge bonus, it tends to shut off survival instinct, forcing you to find the motivation and grit to keep growing despite the comfort. A nice problem to have.

[2] As most pointed out, grateful that sotware development become one of the most well-paid hobbies ever.

[3] Grateful to have found yoga 4/5 years ago, which helped not only with physical wealth but also mental wealth. It helps you find gratefulness everywhere, and helps you deal with most issues by generally associating them to your ego and thus making it easier to let them go.
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> But Europe has bad memories of that because of outdated tech in eastern Europe going haywire.

Opposition to nuclear plants is much older than Chernobyl's catastrophe; it started at least in the early 70s, with the big protests in Wyhl, Germany.

And frankly, the way some western European states have been dealing with the plants we do have is not reassuring. Maybe the distribution of iodine pills in the German towns bordering Belgium was overkill, but it shows that those nuclear states aren't taking the concerns seriously enough.
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There is so much wrong with this.

> from 1880 to 1975, when energy per capita is strongly growing, the world undergoes just one major economic crisis, in 1929.

> since 1975, after the rate of growth dramatically decreased, there has been a crisis every 5 to 10 years: 1975, 1980, 1991, 2000, 2008, 2012, and it would be no surprise to have a new one in the coming years.

These statements are just totally wrong. There were many more economic crisis between 1880 - 1975 and often those were worse then those since 1975.

These statements are just 100% opposite of every history of economics I have ever seen.

It seems he gets the causation totally backwards.

> and recurring recessions will become something normal in our economic system

Recessions are absolutely not linked to energy supply.
How real is that wealth? Tesla is worth billions, it hasn’t ever had a profitable year.

The more I learn about how money works, the more I think of it as a convenient work of fiction — and worse, one that means fundamentally differently things to normal and super-rich.
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It is the good kind of growth, the dematerialization of the economy is a major factor in the lower energy elasticity in developed countries...
Inflation is not zero. In terms of consumer prices, yes, but inflation goes into the stock exchange and props up values for absolutely no reason. There is no massive increase of productivity across the board so net valuations of companies have no reason to grow that fast as we see now. That is pure inflation propped up by cheap money you can borrow with minimal risk.