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I don't think that a computer science degree is bad, just that it's a poor filter. I have one, and while the math background is critical for many things, honestly the skills learned there are pretty limited in terms of what I've do.

If you have a background in any science, or even a good analysis ability in a liberal arts field, you can be trained pretty quickly to be a functional developer. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more given the absurd salaries people are getting paid these days!
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I worked at Videx in the '80s, and designed the 2nd generation 80-column card, and the 2nd-generation keyboard fixer, with macro capability; it had a little 6502 (6504) on it.

Apple ][ (that is how they wrote it then) had an upper-case only keyboard, though some had a switch inside you could flip to enable lower case.

Nice to know somebody remembers them.
> Inflation IS a tax on wealth.

No, it's a “tax” on net holdings of the currency that is inflated.

That's not the same thing, as wealth in non-currency-denominated assets or assets denominated in a different currency aren't “taxed”.
Key paragraph:

Over the past 60 years, the energy efficiency of ever-less expensive logic engines has improved by over one billion fold. No other machine of any kind has come remotely close to matching that throughout history. Consider the implications even from 1980, the Apple II era. A single iPhone at 1980 energy-efficiency would require as much power as a Manhattan office building. Similarly, a single data center at circa 1980 efficiency would require as much power as the entire U.S. grid. But because of efficiency gains, the world today has billions of smartphones and thousands of datacenters.
Love Windy. Use it for surf condition predictions. Better than Surfline!
Well according to later tweets they went so far as to meet with Assange in person while he was holed up in the embassy. That's certainly a step beyond just vocally supporting him on Twitter, at least.
The solution to this is WASM. Where you compile a cross platform library like this, and due to the sandboxing it isn't able to arbitrarily access memory outside its package.
>but lately CBs are also buying bonds.

Monetary policy, and the setting of rates, is accomplished by the buying and selling of bonds in the open market by the Fed. They buy bonds and create money, or sell them to destroy it. This affects the amount of money "available" in the system, which affects interest rates.

Of course, this transmission mechanism isn't perfect.
> each kg of iron fixes 83 tonnes of carbon,

This is the same sort of problem YC has with their proposed solutions, people on YC tend to be overly optimistic with the mindset of everything works 100% of the time with 100% efficiency with 0 unforeseen consequences so let me play devil's advocate with a dose of reality:

In a perfect system. In the ocean most of it will sink. In YC's Sahara project it would still settle and need to be skimmed and processed for release again (which only adds to the energy demands of the project, just the desalination and pumping requires more energy than civilization currently produces...)

> So sequestering a billion tonnes a year would require 3 million tonnes of iron per year. That probably sounds like a “massive amount” to somebody like you

And how many tonnes would you generate mining, transporting, crushing, transporting/deploying that iron?

>but it's about 16 tankships full.

"tankship" doesn't appear to be a specific thing according to Google but a 'bulk carrier' however:

"Most iron ore is carried in Cape-size ships, i.e. larger than 80,000 tonnes deadweight" [1]

and

"brokers should now assume speeds of 12 knots with cargo and 13 knots without for Capesize vessels, with fuel use of about 44 metric tonnes (mt) per day, Bloomberg reports" [2]

12 knots is 13.8094 miles per hour, let's assume each load needs to only be moved 1000 miles, that gives us 132.76 metric tonnes of fuel per 1000 miles. It looks like these ships release CO2, NOx and SOx and also pollute oceans via ballast water and biocides.

"Heavy fuel oil(No.6/Bunker C)" appears to be 0.85kg of carbon per kg of fuel [3].

So we need 4,978.5‬ tonnes of fuel, generating 4,231.725 tonnes of carbon just to ship that processed iron powder 1000 miles by sea and I'm guessing this is the smallest percentage of carbon that will be produced - I suspect the mining, trucking across land and processing will generate far more carbon but I can not find how much CO2 is generated to yield 1 kilogram of pure iron. Just grinding it to a fine enough powder that it actually suspends in the water for a reasonable amount of time and doesn't sink like a rock is going to be a huge power cost.

Of course if you are doing this in the open ocean, realistically you'll need much smaller purpose-built ships to cover a wide area and to disperse the iron in any reasonable amount of time. More smaller ships will be less efficient from a fuel standpoint than the larger ships, building purpose built ships for dispersing it means a lot more steeel/paint/etc being produced etc etc so on and so forth.

Never mind the unintended impact to marine life outside of the algae. What will that iron do to sea temperatures? What sort of toxicity might it cause for other marine life? How much will end up in polar waters possibly causing issues with ice formation or heating ice? What impact will it have on ships in waters that are being seeded?

[1] http://bulkcarrierguide.com/iron-ore.html

[2] https://shipandbunker.com/news/emea/779990-new-guidance-on-c...

[3] https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/co2-emission-fuels-d_1085...
Could you point out the graph that shows that wages haven't improved in the last 40 years?
i always pronounced it as "see-out", since i figured the "c" refers to, well, C. seems in line with cout's docs which mention "the standard C output stream `stdout`"
> Download and run code written by strangers without understanding what it does

Like a web browser does?
These are all truths to heed. I can also recommend the book Cocktail Codex[1] for anyone interested in learning more about making cocktails, it's a very interesting take on the subject.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/160774970X
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> not on income or cap gains

Why does it matter how it is taxed?

If the capital returns 4% and is taxed at a 30% rate, you will have the same effect as if the capital is taxed at a rate of 1.15%.

I think the biggest injustice is that return of capital isn't taxed at the same rate as income from labor.
Someone who earns $100'000 from labor and $50'000 from return on capital should be taxed at the same rate as someone who earns 150'000 from labor.
Informational war is not a espionage, nor sabotage. It similar to sabotage, but, unlike sabotage, it's done from withing territory of attacker. If someone will destroy a factory behind enemy line, then it's sabotage. If someone will launch a rocket from their country to factory in another country, then it's not.

If it done by state military agency, then it's act of war.

If it done by civilians without support of and not directed by state, then it's terrorism.

If it done by civilians, with support of or directed by state, then it's state sponsored terrorism, a war crime.

There is no excuse for not wearing of uniform for warriors at their own country.
GP was asking how you would allow APIs to respond to requests if you are blocking outbound traffic.

I’m assuming if you open a connection for a sync request you’d be fine. What about an async request? I’d imagine a scenario where your API needs to do some processing first, connect to another internal system, and then respond async to the outside system.
> Inflation IS a tax on wealth.

Only for wealth stored as currency. For debts, inflation effectively transfers money from lenders to borrowers by reducing the value of debts. Other things, for example stocks and real estate, are only nominally affected by inflation.
What your describing is not just an economic downturn, because no historical downturn has ever come close to lowering donations sufficiently to starve Wikipedia. Rather, it's an end-of-the-world scenario, and Wikipedia's expenses would require a hell of a lot more than just paying AWS fees....
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694061
It is interesting that the part of "social network" that now defines something as a social network is really the feed. Its a neverending not-river of more. Chatrooms notwithstanding, a newsfeed a la facebook/youtube/reddit/, it's a mix of professional content and user generated. The actual messaging with each other, and sharing with each other is tangent to what they do. Social network is almost a misnomer because most of the interaction is person->ai. For a lurker who doesnt have friends, doesnt comment, and doesnt share; youtube and tumblr are closer to netflix than they are to anything "social." That grouping should be called something like an Autofeed Broadcaster, of which gmail is tangentially like, because people use it to consume mass marketing and newsletters.

Discord feels more like the odd one out because it is a realtime river, not sorted or ranked like reddit. That sort of content rearranging is what makes modern social networks different from forms and chat.
Cranky Uncle: The smartphone game designed to fight climate denial
https://www.getrevue.co/profile/maps if you're into online maps and geography.
Fair point. But assumes Bezos doesn't loophole capital gains taxes to 0, which I could be wrong about but i feel like he does. That effect will also be maxed out to cap gains rates.
> the only reasonable solution for this is a tax on owned capital (not on income or cap gains) and the political chances of this happening are slim

Seems to be a cornerstone policy of multiple presidential candidates in the US at the moment. We have it in the Netherlands. I don't think it's that unlikely.

Not sure how much it helps with inequality in the Netherlands though. If anything I think it stimulates people and businesses to invest, which either means the wealthy people make more money, or they lose it. At the most it creates jobs. People on low salaries aren't really benefited.
Many gene-mutation advocates were using this case to highlight how mass genetic mutation is coming sooner than we think. The aftermath seems to indicate that we have longer than most optimists believe before we can effectively modify human genes.

Now that this attempt was a failure, I imagine it'll affect future research considerably. This rogue attempt had to succeed in order to flip staunch opponents towards supporting human gene modification in some form. Now we just have a case people can point to as why this should never be done.
> I find it disturbing how popular science articles on climate change seem to find it unimportant to convince the reader that human CO2 emissions are causing most of the temperature increases the earth has experienced in recent years.

I understand. You don't want to be convinced. Fair enough. Why not talk about the economic aspect instead? When you pay $3.00 for a gallon of gasoline, the best case scenario is that one third of that gallon is used to propel your car while the remaining two thirds ends up in the atmosphere in the form of wasted heat and emissions.

Have you considered the possibility that oil companies are engaged in a disinformation campaign because they don't want people to stop paying $3.00 for $1.00 worth of movement?
As far as I know they don't do any crawling on their own. It's also not meta: it's just bing and some special cases.
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You would still have to prove to me that the rate of gold mining is the perfect tool to prevent inflation/grow the economy. Who knows if it may have grown faster or slower during that period without the gold standard.
Discovered this Fun fact last night; the systemd resolver since V242, used cloudflare as a fallback DNS. [0] The fallback has been Google and quad9.

In theory (haven't tested it,) this means that even if I give 0 DNS servers on a DHCP request, and I ignore any DNS requests to the gateway (if I wanted a machine totally unable to resolve) I can't do that because a distro choice to use the systemd resolver.

[0] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/master/NEWS#L751
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Indeed. Plus this whole "install the whole python ecosystem for each thing you want to use" is insane.
the authorities should set a bounty of $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of a "Cannonballer"(?) en route. Each year the person who has let to the most captures would get a $3,000 bonus. That would make things interesting.
>Even cars built for autobahn travel will not survive a major crash at that speed.

One can't realistically ask people to only ever do what's safe.

As a species we're built to operate at certain risk level. If you track the risks of business, leisure, travel, etc., through ages and cultures, they do show remarkable stability. As soon as better technology, organization, skills, and so on come along, people start going faster, harder, further, more intensely and such.

You can make superficially reasonable arguments, but you can't change the fact that risk-taking is necessary for gains. This observation is built into our, humans, very nature, and everybody has a natural grasp of it.
> any software which tries to modify the system to inject capabilities not previously present

Isn't that just software?
What historical downturn are you thinking of, and how much did the revenue of any charity lower purely as a result of that downturn (and not, e.g., because the charity's mission was no longer relevant)?
> Non-orthogames do tend to involve certain skills that players need to have or share in order to play (Snakes and Ladders

This confused me for a bit. Snakes and Ladders is an orthogame; one selects a winner based on agreed-upon rules.
90% of modern cars have encrypted ECUs now, which means most data modification involves either fooling the stock system with a piggyback or waiting until the type breed of people who crack to videogame DRM get around to your specific car model. That being said I do think they did a shit job at tuning since it seems the only engine tuning they did was a turbo and piping package with no mention of the engine electronics or fuel system at all.
It's already happening on a small scale and nobody seems to care all that much. It's also not like there's a viable alternative to look up stuff..
Ionic or native?
There just need to be one, with a good write up of the evidence and the evidence be better than "they used the same tools" or "their IP is in Russia". The linked article does not detail them.

I have seen US TLAs blame China on really laughable evidences (and fail to do it properly on the one undeniable attack they did on GitHub)
>The Aryans seem unlikely producers of a holy scripture, since their lives were not what we would call devout.

I wonder where this idea comes from that only devout people can be inspired. People are shocked when they pick up the Old Testament and read about (e.g.) Abraham pretending his wife is his sister so a rival king will take her into his harem. Jesus said: who would love you more, a man whom you forgave a $5 debt, or a man whom you forgave a $500 debt? Obviously the latter!

>Sound had always been sacred to the Aryans—it was far more important to them than the meaning of these hymns—so when they intoned and memorized them, the priests felt possessed by a sacred presence

If you went to a physical therapist and he told you to move your tongue/lips/lungs in certain specific motions, which happened to produce noises, you wouldn't judge the exercise by the semantic content of those noises. Maybe scripture should be thought of like that. Exercises to train certain parts in the brain. Some (like the Vedas) train neurons associated with low-level tongue movements. Others (like the Christian gospels) train neurons associated with higher-level abstract concepts.
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It’s extremely intuitive, it’s part of the ‘us-west-2’ region, but an extension in ‘lax’ and it’s the first availability zone there ‘1a’.

Your suggestion makes no sense, it implies an entirely new region ‘us-west-3’ but with an entirely different naming scheme (no regions have an ‘a’ on the end of them) and the ‘local’ provides zero context about it with no expansion capability.
It's an often-touted claim. In this particular instance I was replying to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20384390
There's no such thing as a "problem of base2". Base 2 is an ineffable fact of the universe, and it is neither virtuous nor problematic. All the problems you are describing are problems of floating-point arithmetic.
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You don’t have to type the name of a package to install it. There are GUI package managers that use click to install. See Anaconda Navigator, for example.
I have to say, this is my new favorite comment of all time. So perfectly ridiculous.
Or a self-driving car?
It seems like a pretty big undertaking to draw in the "knuckledraggers". Knuckledraggers just go blasting down the breakdown lane during rush hour.

It's dangerous -- primarily to them -- but I can't help but admire and respect what they've done.

As to the top speed -- there are areas in the West where you can see tens of miles with absolutely nothing on either side of the road.
> Is corporate IT negligent where it appears to have no disaster recovery plan?

Arguably, yes. Merck isn't a small time start-up. They've been on the Fortune 500 list for 60+ years. They can afford whatever layers of backup and redundancy they need.

> Does anybody have offline backups anymore?

Previous gigs, for large ISPs and related orgs, did. This was on a team-by-team basis, though.
I can't access the link — would love to read that paper. Here is a more detailed and nuanced article showing that it did replicate when the bias was unconscious: https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/being-honest-about-the...

Also I never used the word "smart" once in the article. I talk about learning behavior and work performance instead.
When you're reading the documentation for a software library, do you prefer if it includes examples for common usage or do you prefer a long list of API methods?

Have you ever used the "examples" section of a man page or do you prefer to scroll through the (sometimes long) list of parameters?

In my opinion, code examples are an important tool for teaching real-life usage patterns.
I think that actually supports my core point: income doesn't always map directly to a person's role in society.

Even if the 99% has roughly the same portion of the income that they did in the past they still might have less of the things that actually determine lifestyle such as autonomy.
most likely interagency request. NIXI as an Indian govt operator is subject to RTI queries (Right to Information) and court action.

However NIXI is subject to CERT-IN authority which is clearly part of the anti-botnet collective.
Looking at your methodology critically is crucial to all fields of science though, as is changing your conclusions and interpretations as more findings come forward. Dismissing someone outright for challenging something that has become dogma is anti-scientific even if that dogma is based on facts. If it's actually true, then it will stand up to scrutiny.
> This is a bad idea anyway you slice it.

I do not disagree at all. I am just confused on why this is 'romanticized' and 'published'. If I went and robbed my neighbor of $10k in a record breaking "quick" fashion, would I get journalists at my door looking to publish articles around it?
Then this should have been the comment.

But this article isn't evidence of Google having a liberal orthodoxy. It supports instead the claim that Google is a politically charged workplace, and that diversity advocates working at Google were facing harassment.
>China and india take climate change more seriously

China is adding millions of new drivers to the roads, in fossil-fuel powered vehicles with fossil fuel (and tree) derived tires, annually.

What about the fact that China is actively constructing hundreds of coal power plants? Or the fact their middle-class is rapidly growing which will mean more energy demands (which will mean more fossil fuel consumption) and more consumer goods (more plastics, from fossil fuels)?

>Since the early 2000s, China's middle class has been among the fastest growing in the world, swelling from 29 million in 1999 (2 percent of population) to roughly 531 million in 2013 (39 percent of population).

https://chinapower.csis.org/china-middle-class/

China has hundreds of millions of people that will, presumably, continue to be added to their middle class resulting in more cars, more electricity, more gadgets, more plastics, etc.

Unless China says "no, only the people that have stuff now can have stuff" they're going to consume more fossil fuels, construct more things with concrete, etc.
> I feel like this would be a good argument in favour for small scoped packages like we sometimes see on npm.

Rather, I think this is an argument that this kind of functionality should be in the standard library; perhaps in the equivalent of `*printf` for each language.
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$ pkgman install hip2019pretty-ls
$ su sandboxeduser prettyls

... nobody does that. Sure daemons might run as different user(s), but on ~100% of developer machines, the logged in user launches a shell as themself, and runs programs in that shell as themself.
A classic case of your designers placeholder finding its way past final review
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Do you find it hard to create rewarding relationships?
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Do you think that social networks as they are today answer this want effectively?
Incidentally, this is also the name of one of the best bars I know: http://thegibsonbar.london

The owner is the amazingly talented Marian Beke[1], whom I got to know while living in London and frequenting Nightjar, another fantastic establishment – in the same neighbourhood no less! If you're ever in the area, you should definitely go for a visit.

NB: Beyond being a bit of a drunkard, I have no affiliation with any of the above.

[1]: https://www.diffordsguide.com/people/11764/bar-owner/marian-...
Flatpak offers sandboxing, but I think it's mostly meant for applications, not for development tools (where you often need to access your keys anyways).
I don’t think I’m assuming that. They’ll just be a more rounded person.
It isn't helping that the dateutil-library actually is "python-dateutil". This confused me this weekend as I wanted to pip install dateutil which did not work.
Does anyone know of a way of running something like “little snitch” on Heroku so that you can whitelist outgoing connections?

That seems like a possible way of mitigating this type of issue.
> Capital is a feedback loop

Come off it, it’s not like this isn’t a staple of political economy since the 1800s or so.

A very charitable description of Piketty’s big ted talk of a book is that it suffers from the same flaws of classics like “A monetary history of the United States” by Friedman and Schwartz: it uses empirics as gargoyles, not as structural beams. It seems to be a great argument that’s backed by numbers — but whatever you make of it, the numbers are a distraction.

The cringe of it is that Piketty’s numbers are also fraudulent, as extensively documented by dozens upon dozens of important scholars.
What about all the drivers who take major risks daily by playing with their phones? This makes even legal speeds dangerous, at least these guys were looking ahead and aware of their situation.