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> China is the biggest pollutant by far: over twice as much CO2 as the USA, and of course they've been poisoning everything with toxic waste for decades.

That's because the US, Europe, Japan, etc sent their polluting manufacturing to china for decades. Go read about the US-China detente in the 60s/70s.

> Why can't governments stop all Chinese imports until the get in line, instead of banning plastic straws?

Because "governments" sent manufacturing/pollution to china decades ago so that the pollution is in china and not in the US, Europe, Japan, etc and they get cheap imports.

> That's the real question no one asks.

No. That is the anti-china talking point peddled all over social media by dedicated group of "people/bots/etc".

Sure, I guess china could stop polluting. But then it would mean that the pollution would be in the US, Europe, Japan, etc like in the 1900s.

Did you know that China has been one of the biggest sources of plastics in the ocean? Do you know why? Because most of the world sends/sent their garbage to china to "recycle".

We can blame "china", but it is we who are producing the garbage and it is we who are consuming so much and creating so much pollution in china. Pollution in china is why london, paris, ny, pittsburgh, LA, etc aren't covered in smog and the rivers aren't filled with toxic slime.
Surprisingly enough, South Korea last week jailed a high ranking Samsung executive for anti union actions.
> It's unconstitutional to make a law about what you can and can't say on the Internet

I don't think that's true. In fact there are various categories of speech that aren't protected and the category of false medical claims appears to be in a grey area.
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The discussion avenue is orthogonal to limiting exposure and influence.

I really don't care that much about the current fanatics, I care about the next ones. (For example, you can have calm respecting discussions with some violent cult leader, but that does not mean that you allow her/him to give "cult devotion 101" lecture series at the local junior school)
Mine is similar, except:

1. The top-up amount is much lower and designed so we run out of money at the end of each month. This way, we spend pragmatically and save more.

2. I take pictures of every receipt.
"Intel i5 desktop chips don’t have hyper-threading (SMT) and haven’t for the 10 years they’ve been available."

That's mostly true, though there have been a few desktop i5 processors with hyperthreads.

Like: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/43546/i...
LCD or OLED?
The current German system is nothing compared to the former East German bottle reuse system. Disclaimer: I grew up in East Germany, and during a summer break when I still was at school I worked in a small local brewery in the bottling facility at various machines for a few weeks, seeing the system in action.

In East Germany we only had very few bottle designs that were used throughout the entire country and all firms filling something in bottles used those designs. You could return a bottle filled with beer in the north of the country by one company and return it in the south and refill it with lemonade.

When I worked in the brewery we had trucks carrying returned glass bottles coming in, several per day. The labels on those bottles did not matter at all, only the form of the bottle did. They were sent through the washing machine, followed by a visual inspection station (today that would be automated, back then somebody had to sit there and watch endless streams of bottles pass in front of a bright white light source).

New bottles were fed into this system maybe 5% of the total nr. of bottles, maximum. The bulk of the bottles we filled had just been collected from all other the "Kreis" (county) that or the previous day.

There was slightly more variety for bottles with spirits, but non-alcoholic beverages and beer all had a handful of generic designs only:

- https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8a/2a/16/8a2a16b9573f33af14e1...

- https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/283478094305_/DDR-Fl...

- https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/TdAAAOSwy6hc0vzC/s-l400.jpg

- https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxNjAw/z/01kAAOSwoptdW8pU/$...

The current German system has all kinds of bottles and LOTS of restrictions. The labels have to match, I cannot return bottles unless the shop sells these exact bottles (including the brand). There were no restrictions in the GDR and only very few designs to deal with. There also were no plastic bottles and cans, or if we had any they were too few for me to even remember. Sure, that last one is confounded by time, there were not that many in the West in the 1980s either.
> Isn't there a quote somewhere along the lines of "full rewrites are suicidal?"

This is just dogma. Often it's the wrong choice, but sometimes engineers have very good reasons to re-write a system. As with all decisions, tailor the solution to the situation - not the other way around.
The Illuminatus! Trilogy is all about #Winning.
This was in France.

Well, there were several factors.

1. It took me time to realize that this was going on.

2. My boss basically wanted to get rid of me because I had done my job too well and everybody knew it. I had taken over some of his previous responsibilities and where he had led the company's flagship project pretty close to the grave, I led the team that turned his failure into success. Problem is, he wanted his name to be the one on the top of the poster. By then, getting me to leave was paramount to asking me to abandon my baby. So yeah, it took me some time to come to terms with this.

3. Generally speaking, in France, there's a notion of "job loyalty" which is very different from anything I've seen in UK/US/Canada. I've elaborated more on the topic over there https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21856307

4. Benefits are very different if you quit or if you're laid off/fired. If you quit, there were no benefits at all at the time (laws have changed since then, I believe). My boss was clearly trying to fire me without benefits. I did not enjoy this prospect.

5. Also, finding a new job takes more time in France than, say, in the US. It's both an economical thing and a cultural thing – interview periods are longer, for instance.

edit Rephrased point 2.
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That sounds exactly like the current German system for beer bottles (although the range of beer bottle shapes has increased, so it's not as efficient anymore).
Also, firing is a cultural failure, pushing people to leave is "better"
As someone whose mother is anti vax and has 3 new children after 20 years of having me, what are your suggestions? I am never condescending and I do my research to have some arguments. I am trying to be as respectful as possible. I have tried so many different approaches. It has not worked. Nowhere close to it. It is not just anti vaxx, it is alternative medicine, alternative education and alternative everything else. She quit her finance job and is studying homeopathy and other types of alt medicine. With 3 young children I would consider it important that they get the best future they can.
In a way, yes. It's fixed now.
Yeah, figuring out a good donation model where people can pay for the free software they use, and corporations can pay from their budget for a reason other than "just out of the goodness of our heart" is one of the biggest problems facing the Free Software movement today.
Adding on to my own last post, here is a link to something that I would describe as an admirable death, a death a woman made "on her own terms".[1] And yet it was most certainly one that was forced on her by "Nature", by her own natural decline, a woman who took her life because her Alzheimer's disease was advancing.

[1] http://deadatnoon.com/
You are out there moving your house, then?

Denialism is fundamentally dishonest.
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There's also some 'magic' potential here to have a proxy that detects whether there's a live network interface or not (including some sanity checking against captive portals), passes through the live sites while recording when there is a connection, and serves from the last recorded versions when there isn't.
An interesting article on Unreal's website with more videos: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/blog/virtual-production-w...
The author forgot one possibility: that the tracker does track, but is triggered by someone at the back of the shop.

Imagine a situation where you have a device telling you that an order has been placed and you have X minutes to complete the next step; you know it will only take a minute to make that pizza, and you’d rather chill for most of the time, no need to rush. So you wait until X minutes are almost over, then click “sure, I’m totally preparing it” - and keep chilling. Next step threshold comes up “yep, it’s all good boss”, and keep chilling. Then you actually make it, but will keep pushing buttons only when the thresholds are close, as to maximise your downtime without raising red flags (even if Delivery is reached too early, it’s the most flexible step so Corporate won’t mind it too much in reports).
I’m quite surprised honestly.
Surely not all of it - https://www.google.com/search?q=cue+the+green+god+ted
>and more as a vehicle for commentary than as internally consistent, fleshed out models.

Fair enough, but TOS was more internally consistent and fleshed out than the anthology series of the time, and taken more seriously than Lost in Space. No one on the Enterprise got turned into a talking carrot, Kirk would never stand for such tomfoolery.

>because the entire plot is the conflicting machinations of factions of Force-using space wizards.

I don't know... without that, you've still got an intergenerational conflict between two rival houses (Skywalkers and Palpatines,) which is standard space opera fare. The Force as religion and politics could still be a driving factor without tangible manifestations of the supernatural, as that already happens in the real world.

You could even go the Babylon 5 route and pull the "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" card and call the Jedi "technomages." They're just doing some weird thing with quantum (mumble) that we don't understand.
This author needs to spend some time looking at ARM, AARCH64, RISC-V etc, as the entire article has a heavy Intel/AMD/PC bias.
Fascism has a specific meaning and should not be abused to indicate a state form which you find disagreeable. There have not been that many true fascist states, Italy under Mussolini and Spain under Franco are examples of such, Germany under the National Socialist party was variation on a fascist state. The Soviet Union under communist rule was not a fascist state although the ideologies have many similarities, the same goes for China under communist rule and the Russian Federation under Putin's oligarchy. Those who use the term fascist to indicate states like the United Kingdom under Boris Johnson or the United States of America under Donald Trump have no idea what fascism actually means. For one, it does not mean 'resistance against immigration from non-western states'.

Here's a good start on what Fascism is, the definition of the doctrine as declared by its originator, Benito Mussolini.

http://www.historyguide.org/europe/duce.html

More can be found in Britannica's article on the subject:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism

In short - and mostly from Britannica's definition, supported by Mussolini's words Fascism is characterised by an extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the rule of elites, and the desire to create a 'Volksgemeinschaft' (German: “people’s community”), in which individual interests would be subordinated to the good of the nation.

Even shorter would be 'a militaristic nationalist dictatorial ideology which subjugates the individual for the (perceived) good of the nation'. It is such a close cousin to Communism and Islamism (and other similarly structured doctrines) that this short characterisation also applies to those ideologies.
Ask HN: Incentivising the smartest people to work on world's pressing problems
Here is the thing I have been pondering about lately a lot after reading discussions such as "Talent is everywhere, an opportunity is not...", there are very big problems to be solved on this planet (equality, sustainable development, peace & justice etc.), yet how do we move around rent-seeking and wasting people talent at organisations that don't really produce anything good (aside of increasing shareholders wealth. I am sure there is impact legacy coming from these people as well but that's another topic, you get the idea).

Now there are plenty of smart, talented and amazing people on these forums. I wonder if anyone thought of creating schemes/systems where the talent shift can happen from pure profit to impact/profit.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
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because, yes, "computers" still contain DMA controllers.

we use them all the time.
Same here. I'm kind of shocked that it was not done by a single 3D CGI whiz in a week or two. It's corporate waste at its finest.

My second impression, watching the lead designer speak, is that his job is more than 50% about bullshiting. I.e. you design something that is passable, and then give an elaborate story, full of emotions and grandiose ideas, that make it easier for the decision makers to OK it - they in turn need the story to justify their decision (esp. if some higher ups question it later). Man, corporate world has so many people doing pseudo-work and playing out their bullshit roles in exchange for a comfortable middle-class life. I'm so glad I'm almost out.
I forgot to mention, I use one, it picks up quite a lot of lint.
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Some SMT on/off benchmark comparisons on a Ryzen 3900x. Confirms your "sometimes 50+% / sometimes nothing" experience.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-3900x-smt-off...
Repetition.

It's really that simple.

(1) Get an understanding of how to make the sounds from native speakers.

(2) Make a list of all the words you know you don't have a good pronunciation of.

(3) Repeat the words to yourself regularly.

That's it.

Some words will come easier than others, and ones you have mastered can be removed from the list.

I find it's best to do them in small blocks. Five at a time, or whatever you can easily hold in memory.
> a new DeLorean

They're still making them?
No, it is not the same at all! We now have a lot of restrictions on what can be returned to what store. They have to sell those exact bottles. For the automated plastic return stations you even have to have the label still on the bottle - if the label doesn't match, even if the actual bottle is exactly the same, the machine does not accept the return. You can't return everything anywhere.

In East Germany it worked for all bottles too, not just for beer bottles. The brewery where I worked also bottled various non-alcoholic drinks, suing the exact same bottles for all. The switch from one liquid to another didn't take long and was quickly performed, just restack different labels, flush the previous liquid, then restart the bottling with little overall delay. The bottles already in the queue remained the same.

German: https://www.n-tv.de/ratgeber/Wo-kann-man-welche-Flasche-zuru... ("Inside the German bottle jungle: Where can you return which bottles?")
We have that in NZ too, I ordered a couple of pizzas last week to test it all out. Man was I disappointed when “the photo of your pizza is unavailable” and then the pizza sat on the step before the delivery for well over 10 mins. What should have been an awesome process ended up leaving me a little pissed off. I’d almost rather just get an alert to say it’s on the way than see it stall half way through each step.
I don't manage money - I just try to live with as little as possible. I have a nice salary at the moment, but it's gonna go down significantly next year as I am relocating, so I want to have loads of savings.
> On a recent trip to the US (San Francisco), I was surprised by how much ATMs charge. The ATM in my hotel was the lowest I found, charging only $4

If you use your bank's ATM, they won't charge you a fee ( aka waive the fee ). If you use another bank's ATM or a non-bank ATM, then it's highway robbery. So the only time I ever use an ATM is if it had my bank's logo on it.

> Compare this to Europe where in most countries ATMs do not have a fee

Wow. Does this apply even if you use another bank's ATM?
I wonder if anyone noticed how people first came up with the architecture of a single bus for data and code and how they then had endless problems due to writing data where code should be and executing data as code. And they plug the problems by forbidding to write data and code in the same place and to read data as code (afaik).

So yeah, should maybe computers be liberated from the single pipeline?
Hornet: High-Speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer [pdf]
Interesting concept, awful name.
> In fact, they kind of ruined it by cleaning it up so much that it looks like just another stock digital creation.

This was what disappointed me the most. They went to all that trouble to be able to take a photograph of a physical object then modified it so much that it ended up looking like a generic render from a Windows forum.

While the XP wallpaper is obviously iconic my personal favourites were the ones with Windows 7. They had many weird and wonderful ones in that collection :)
I had an account with much more 'karma' and stoped commenting. Not sure why it actually matters that i created an account just for this.

Nonetheless, i read the reviews of new york times, german spiegel and others from archive because of my interest or curiosity why it was a bestseller.

My main motivation was to have an real discussion about my thoughts. You can't do that with news articles from 40 years ago.

What and what not the Smithsonian is getting donated, is showing or not showing is an interesting fact, something i wouldn't just ignore but its still not the authority in philosophy books.

Have you read it? Do you have any opinion on it? Because i just read it (just = i finished it 2-3 weeks ago) which made the discussion for me even more interesting.
That's the way republics have worked since Rome and Carthage.

Nowadays the aristocrats just play in hard mode - best weapon is soft soap.
This is how security is counterproductive.

Our security team when asked how quickly the lock should happen replied 3 to 5 seconds. Anything beyond that is a risk.

When asked about a reasonable duration, the CISO said 20 minutes, to cover the "shit I forgot to lock and I am on the road back home".
> Surveillance democracy is a thing, as is surveillance communism/putinism/erdoganism. The difference is that democracies have found a way to manufacture the consent of the majority, while in autocracies it's easier to pin the blame to one person.

Well, is it really, though? I mean, no doubt there is a thing that people call "surveillance democracy", and I would agree that it's actually a distinguishable thing.

But for one, just because something is called "democracy", doesn't make it a democracy, so the question would be: What makes a democracy a democracy, and would a "surveillance democracy" fit those criteria?

But also: Is a "surveillance democracy" even a place where authoritarian control has gotten out of hand yet? Maybe as long as you could still vote the authoritarians out of office, it's not out of hand yet? But then, what if there is actually no real way to achieve this, for whatever reason, and those places are destined for a situation where it is generally accepted that the authoritarians can not be voted out of office, even when people might ultimately change their mind about that whole authoritarianism thing? Maybe then it is out of hand after all? But then, is democracy actually fine if it is unavoidably destined for a place where it is impossible for a majority to elect a new government?

Your analysis so far seems not too far from a line of thought that would conclude that the GDR was a democracy (they had elections, and they even called themselves democratic!)--not sure whether you would agree with that, but the GDR sure was and is not considered a democracy by many.

> most people are on board with UK level surveillance

But are they really? My impression is rather that people simply have no fucking clue what surveillance does or what the risks are. So, while it might well be true that most people don't think of surveillance as a problem right now, that doesn't answer the question of whether people are actually OK with it, as in what their opinion would be once they might be directly confronted with the consequences.

And that was my point: There sure are and have been plenty of places where people are not happy with authoritarianism anymore, and those do not tend to be the places where people just vote the authoritarianism out. Authoritarianism is not compatible with democracy, by its definition: It is kindof fine just as long as there is still enough democracy left to potentially remove the authoritarians, so people don't realize the danger they are in, but it becomes unbearable exatly at the point where that power does not exist anymore, because that is also the point at which the authoritarians don't have to care about public opinion much anymore.
>> Except for the hundreds of thousands of europeans

There are dozens of them! Dozens!

>> CO2 capturing projects like reforestation

Reforestation does diddly squat for CO2 capture. It's beneficial in other aspects, though. Prevents soil erosion. Creates habitat. Just doesn't capture much CO2.

>> doesn't have to be mutually exclusive to make money and switch 100% to renewable energy sources

Seems like that's exactly the point. You can't be 100% "green" without going back to what is essentially pre-industrial living. You can certainly pretend being "green" though, and virtue signal about it. I hate to break it to you, but your e.g. Germans (or Europeans of any other locale which has an actual winter) aren't "eating local all year round" _especially_ if they're "vegan", unless they somehow subsist on a ration of storable root vegetables and grain like people did 150-200 years ago.
> They did most of that back in 2015.[1]

Just in time for the 30th anniversary of back to the future. Nice.
True in regard to where you can return. But beer bottles are still distributed locally if possible, and not sent to whoever put the label on last.
Note that `placardisation` (lmao) is not only a French thing, but is a Northeast Asia thing as well.
This isn’t String.replaceAll(str, match, replace), it’s str.replaceAll(match, replace). A function of the type, not a class.
Is there any paper that advance the state of the art?
Can I mail you feedback if I have any?
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And here we see the problem with this particular way of splitting. Although I agree NeurIPS needs to be split up somehow.