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I was part of securing the world against y2k.
At the scale this is happening, How is this different from the 'big one' predictions that talks about the San Andreas Fault earthquake possibility or the yellowstone volcano one even?

I guess beyond a particular point humanity is still at the mercy of nature isn't it? As bad as the reversals sound, making it a government thing seems like overfitting.
more information from last summer here. Reference to a geospatial model used for a couple of the glaciers plus historical / modern photos showing physical changes in glaciers.

https://www.nps.gov/glac/learn/nature/melting-glaciers.htm
You don't know what earth's temperature was back then. And you're comparing the "estimated average" 20,000 BCE to 1800 to "the recorded temperatures" of 1800~ with a raw graph? And "coincidentally" earth's temperature changes dramatically after 1850s?

God, no wonder why some people believe strange things.
Indoctrination has always been fairly solid in the US through the public schools systems, its only natural the budgets continue to increase and they get better and better at it.

As a elementary school kid in the late 80's early 90's our school had everything from guest speaks, to posters, to t-shirts for everything from:

-hold in the o-zone layer
-D.A.R.E.
-AIDs
-nuclear bomb test drills

It seemed one day over night the O-zone layer posters went away and now it was global warming. And sure all of that may make sense in terms of maybe a science class, but this was more of a general lets not teach and indoctrinate. Plus the AIDs stuff always seemed weird, teaching about sex/needles to kids as young as 6. I wouldn't be surprised if that all went away as well for the new topic de jure. I think DARE was also finally pulled from schools and had all kinds of other scandals surrounding the programs that were exposed.
Also UK minimum wage is £8.21 for folks 25 and older
Ahh, maybe in CA. In Ohio you have to pay income taxes where you work and where you live. If they are different places then there are usually some kind of weird commuter credits that never actually offset the difference.
Another study from 2010 seems to have given 2080 https://www.usgs.gov/centers/norock/science/retreat-glaciers...

It seems we may have quite a bit of understanding to gain regarding glaciers. I'm not sure if the 2010 study is more reasonable (I'm no expert) but I think enough time has elapsed in the 2003 study to say that the estimations in it didn't pan out based on the observed values in 2015.
"Yes Mr. President, as you can see from this report, we are clearly going to need a much bigger budget!"
The smugness is definitely one sided.
It is quite hard to attain Carnot irrevers sability, so the losses are indeed worse than the Carnot case.
One trouble with e-cigs that prevents them from being an unmitigated win is that their aggressive marketing targeted towards children is highly effective at getting new users addicted to nicotine. This is a reversal of the trend of long term gradual decline in the use of tobacco-derived products (in developed economies, anyway).

On the face of it this seems unrelated to lung cancer rates, but there's concern in the public health community that some percentage of these users will graduate to smoking tobacco over time.

I don't think we really know whether those concerns will be borne out, or whether they'll counteract adults switching in time to save themselves.
Don't forget about xanim
Only in certain circumstances, though.
“Nursing care is expensive. Very expensive. No one wants to pay for it, ”

My estimate would be that you probably need around 1 person for 5 people or less to do the job some justice. Plus doctors and other personnel. This would be freakishly expensive.
I would assume that due to the flanges not being connected at the corners, there's probably a margin of flex incorporated into the design to accommodate inconsistent plug design. Insert a plug slightly too large (maybe from manufacturing tolerances), and each "wall" of the port is intended to flex outwards ever so slightly.
These fires were predicted ten years ago and they were not caused by arson according to the authorities but due to extreme heat and dry conditions.
A former employer was threatened by Oracle because some downloads for the (only free for noncommercial use) VirtualBox Extension Pack came from an IP block owned by the organization. Home users are probably safe, but Oracle's harassment engine has incredible reach.
Even though I trust scientist in this field I also believe it became increasingly politicized and not all papers are equally welcomed.

As far as I can tell there is still a lot of work and debate around how much people contribute to climate change and what are the future previsions. It is important to let the ability for researcher to publish research that goes against the consensus.
Until I have a viable alternative that gives me snapshotting (so I can make consistent backups), that advice is worthless to me.
> USB ports look ridiculous

So we take features away for the same of something that only the people not using the device can see?
There _is_ a reason apple has removed them, I'm not certain blunt aesthetics is the reason however.
Yes, using an ad-blocker list is exactly what I was planning. Would then blacklist from the index any sites that serve ads. Would prolly also at a minimum, heavily penalize affiliate links.
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Interesting. Honestly that feels alien to me, and it might be for a number of reasons, including inadequate networking, not "selling" myself well enough, or being too much of a team player to not stand out as the 5X-er or 10X-er who you just have to hire to solve those tech issues that will double your business or whatever.

To counter this, my experiment at the moment is in freelancing at moonlight, but where the client is non-technical and so getting a non-tech to non-tech referral means the client couldn't whiteboard me* if they wanted to, no more than I can white board my dentist. They will base their decision on the trust of the referral, and the fact they can try me out first / easily fire me anyway.

My question to you, is what sort of companies let you skip the hoop jumps? Would Google / Netflix etc allow this, or are they too standardized? I can see a startup allowing this or even needing it as an early employee is much more than just an algo remembering machine. What about a medium size co?

* I just noticed how similar "whiteboarding" and "waterboarding" sound. :-/
Let us consider the ethics of filtering out the news channels at the building level and injecting 24-7 Bob Ross Joy of Painting reruns in their stead.
I have the new Roomba (i7) and you can use the app to draw boxes on your floor layout to tell it not to go places.

This is good for me because I try to avoid things that need batteries that must be changed.
> there is a reason why Apple hates them and keeps reducing their number.

Because dongles are sexy?
That's why I keep all my DNS configuration in DNSControl and push the results to Gandi (and NameDotCom, and Route53, and GoogleDNS, and AzureDNS)

https://github.com/StackExchange/dnscontrol

(Terraform users have a similar benefit)
Causal or just correlation?

It's easy to imagine spurious correlation. Eg Italian Catholic populations may be more right wing than British Protestant populations.

But that doesn't mean it's Italian genes making then right wing.
Do you think they are describing "2 sides" there?
wow, how about..

1) NO taxes till $40k-50k for a family
2) Free healthcare
3) Not so crazy tution fees

all these are doable.. just like raising minimum wage..
That’s what they said about Bitcoin last year
But suddenly having 10% less workers is not a shockingly small amount I think.

I believe it is more about general "efficiency" or milking of the workers. How to get the most while spending the least.
Which is a working principle, but does have dark side effects, when we are talking about human ressources.
But why tie it to a wage, instead of something like UBI?
BTW here is a link to our site and our Facebook group for discussion and news about CBD.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/487353305221125/

https://trupotency.com/
I thought it might be (mildly) interesting to keep track of how the npm node_modules folder grows over time. So I made this website. Source code: https://github.com/vnglst/size-of-npm/
Might be viable if tied to a generous UBI.
To hide the flange you need to make the hole really tight. That sounds like something which would make plugging the cable harder. Looking at USB and HDMI ports around me, all have a bit of space around the connector. But I notice that HDMI plugs don't have the flange.
I read the original report, it sounded like they knew that that magnitude of disaster was really unlikely, but they wanted to tell a story of "this is how bad it could be." It was akin to describing the outcome of a large asteroid impact.
Yes it's like a new phase of evolution!
Boiling of LN2 results in a gas, which would then be used to drive a conventional turbine, with a "hot" (comparatively) and cold end, hence, a Carnot process.

Condensation of the (now gaseous) nitrogen within the turbine would all but certainly result in significant cavitation effects, as well as create a very low-pressure zone on the exhaust side of the turbine, which would probably not be conducive to normal operation.

Heat of vapourisation is not free, and would have to be supplied, somehow.
If you don't have one of those, the little dental picks that come with floss on one side do a great job.

I've lost bits of wooden toothpicks in headphone jacks before; would not recommend.
The possibility to run py-spy on an already running Python program in production is pretty awesome. Do you think Scalene could do this?
Human life in general causes danger, costs, polluting and is selfish.

Meanwhile I find "well designed city" environment bad to my mental health. Who (or what?) is it "well designed" for?
ZFS is not really GPL-incompatible either, but it doesn't matter. Between FUD and Oracle's litigiousness, the end result is that there is no way to overcome the impression that it is GPL-incompatible.

But it is a problem that you can't reliably have out-of-tree modules.

Also, Linus is wrong: there's no reason that the ZoL project can't keep the ZFS module in working order, with some lag relative to updates to the Linux mainline, so as long as you stay on supported kernels and the ZoL project remains alive, then of course you can use ZFS. And you should use ZFS because it's awesome.
Your estimate matches closely to HHS findings and recommendations: https://aspe.hhs.gov/basic-report/state-initiated-nursing-ho...

Also, it is as expensive as you assume:

"This report, authorized by the Chairman of the Virginia Senate Committee on Education and Health, studies the provisions of Senate Bill 1125 of the 2001 Session of the General Assembly. Senate Bill 1125 requires Virginia nursing homes to implement minimum nursing staff standards of 5.2 hours per resident day (hprd). For Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs), the Bill requires minimum ratios of 1:5 residents (day), 1:5 (evening), and 1:10 (night) or a total of 4.0 hprd, and minimum licensed nurse-to-resident ratios of 1:15 (day), 1:20 (evening), and 1:30 (night) or a total of 1.2 hprd. These minimum standards exceed those of all other states as well as those recommended by advocacy and research organizations. The fiscal impact on the Medicaid program is estimated to be an additional $91.2 million from the general fund annually."
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Whatever's currently third and would thus become second if suicides vanished overnight?
You know, a lot of basic economic models rely on underlying assumptions like conditions of perfect competition or zero transaction costs which people tend to forget about when trying to apply those models to the real world.

If you a see a piece of research that seems to contradict some elementary principle of economics, it's possible that the researchers somehow forgot all about it or never learned it and that the paper somehow passed out of peer review without anyone pointing out its glaring deficiencies, but it's more likely that that an elementary understanding of economics is insufficient to explain real world phenomena.

You can see a parallel to this in the climate science debate, where people object to scientific assertions on the grounds that the sun is very much hotter than burning fossil fuels or 'climate is always changing' and human activity is too nebulous to possibly have an impact. Often deliberately simplistic arguments are used to mislead the slightly-educated and discourage them from becoming better informed.
Exactly, you don't need to twist the facts to maintain the degree of urgency. Just needs the right framing.

"This glacier likely won't survive long enough for your kids/grandkids to see themselves"
your data is _not_ valuable per se. it only becomes valuable when aggregated.
Perhaps they were depending on snapshotting and were not prepared for some kind of hardware failure taking out the entire storage system.
That looks like a very interesting article.

I'll save that and read it later.
ethics

Something that Google definitely needs to do more research on.
> The most undeniable evidence for climate change would be if people are making a ton of money from accurately anticipating its results. I’d invest heavily in such a fund, if it existed.

Rather than shorting, another option might be to buy undeveloped land that should appreciate as climate change predictions come true. For example, the land in the Canadian territories might be an option if you believe thawing will occur. Or possibly further south in the northern US.

If your model says rain patterns will change, invest in desert real estate in those areas set to get the most rain.
You see that change in the dotted to solid line down in the end?

Do you know why that is?

That's the difference between temperature averaged over thousands of years and then suddenly measuring year over year.

If you think that's a reasonable way of showing temperature changes, then I guess we have very different standards for what we consider evidence.
A lesson from history shows this not to be the case: hand-wrought nails were such a precious and militarily significant commodity in Roman England, that when the legion left, they painstakingly concealed their hoard to prevent the locals gaining access to them.

Fast forward to the 1860s, and nail production is automated to the extent that wire nails can be produced by the tens of millions with almost no human intervention.

The worker who forges nails by hand and the inventor who automates their production are undoubtedly orders of magnitude apart in productivity.
Have you ever seen a Macbook ad with a dongle in?
> Does anyone actually think this is a profitable market?

Can a eScooter business be run in a profitable way? I think yes.

Are these companies going to ever make back money for their investors? Probably not.

> Electric scooters are expensive, repair and charging is expensive

The retail price for these Scooters is $400-800, depending on the exact hardware. I assume these companies are not paying retail prices but have a sweet deal with some Chinese manufacturer, maybe paying $500-ish for a mid-tier model. Really not that expensive.

In Europe most firms are charging 1 Euro to start the eScooter and then additional 15ct per minute. In my opinion this is more than enough to make a decent profit. There are profitable car sharing companies here that let you rent a car for effectively 25-35cents per hour - that is including gas. So somehow, these car sharing companies that have huge upfront costs for purchasing the cars (30-40x more than a eScooter), high maintenance costs, annual registration fees, insurance costs etc. are turning a profit despite charing only a few cents more than the eScooter companies.
Merging into the mainline kernel is not what the person he is replying to was even asking for. All they were asking is for Linux to stop putting APIs behind DRM that prevents non-GPL modules like ZFS from using them. That doesn't mean ZFS must be bundled with Linux.

I think everyone is in agreement that ZFS can't be included in the mainline kernel. The question is just if users should be able to install and use it themselves or not.
I'd imagine that is net cash per month. But they would still be building equity.
most useful is obviously https://www.quora.com/
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The problem with most of these is you have to bring the system down to do maintenance. You can do a scrub on zfs while it's up.
I'd only say Mass is a skeptic of the shrillest, dumbest climate change predictions: the kind you get in the local alt-weekly, rather than the kind you get in actual scientific papers.

Here's his most recent summary of his views, specifically how they apply locally: https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-science-based-appro...
Conservatives: a group famous for being easily persuaded by the opposition.
% change in real mean wealth. https://psmag.com/economics/wealth-inequality-and-the-great-...
We're just generally bad at estimating though, right? It's not just for climate change. Both nuclear fusion and the depletion of fossil fuels have been a good 50 years off now, for pretty much my entire three-decade lifetime.

The estimates might well be genuine at the time of publication, but our response to them will make the estimates inaccurate. Maybe all we're managing is to maintain equilibrium rather than positive progress.

I don't assume intentional dishonesty here because the risk of being completely discredited is way too high.
They are on their own. The team doing managed Kafka does offer some tools for data / schema migrations, but there is nothing for other storages.

Generally they actually don't raise this as a pain point, teams tend to be quite self sufficient in this regard and rely on things like https://flywaydb.org/ to deal with it.

From our PoV, at this point this type of feature would be in the high cost / low impact quadrant. Not because it doesn't make sense, on the contrary. It's just that it falls at a later stage of maturity than we're at organisationally. As I mentioned, Adevinta is an extreme case of sprawl. To invest productively in "a fully managed relational db with data/schema migrations" we'd need a certain degree of consensus on which db should we support. We don't have that luxury. Even more: we'd also need some form of consensus on "this is how you deploy and release software" which there isn't either (do you do proper CD? is there a manual judgement? are there deployments to a PRE/Staging env? ..). This heterogeneity greatly limits our impact (sprawl reduces the potential surface of impact for any decision we make) so we focus on areas where we can avoid this problem (e.g. everyone buys cloud, containers...). But also, as I said above, data/schema migrations is actually not a pain point teams complain about frequently.
Warnings of impending problems serve a real purpose even if they miss the mark. We absolutely want folks thinking about environmental responsibility, and the consequences of their choices. Unfortunately, some of the more doom and gloom predictions can send young people down the wrong path.

I remember listening to 10 in 2010 and imagining that I would never make it to 40. Well here we are in 2020, and somewhere along the way, I had to learn to stop letting the grim predictions of others dictate my life decisions.

I do not think we should stop caring about the future of civil and environmental issues, but we also need become financially secure, get married, and raise a family without worry of what may come.
It's really fucking clear-cut from a risk management point of view.
You were told by who?

That's bad advice. BCrypt and pbkdf2 have a work-factor that accomplishes the same thing built in. The work-factor is added to the start of the resultant hash allowing different work-factors to be intermingled. This allows you to scale your work factor up over time as hardware power increases (or to mitigate weaknesses found in the underlying algorithm).

So, no, don't hack your own version of the work-factor instead of using bcrypt's solution. Your hack-version won't be standard compliant (between different BCrypt libs) or self-documenting. It also isn't increasing security, but is adding more potential sources of bugs.
But he wouldn't get Uber's permission. It's against their terms of service to record passengers.
I thought you were going to point out this line:

> Lester Freundlich, an attorney for the MTA, told Berman in an email Wednesday that his subway map was “clearly a derivative work of MTA’s current version of the Vignelli subway map.”

The MTA's attorney literally calls his map a "derivative work" which is something that's protected by Fair Use. When I read that in the article, I immediately thought that the artist's response should have been, "Thanks for clarifying that it's clearly a derivative work; so you'll drop the claim now?"

EDIT: For anyone reading this without additional context, I should clarify, derivative works are protected as long as they're transformative, which this seems pretty clearly enough so to count. So, it's less a point that being a derivative work itself means it's protected, than the point that being a derivative work doesn't mean it's not protected like the MTA's attorney seemed to imply.