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> Externalities: even though I've read about various ways to store/dispose of nuclear waste long-term, I've yet to hear of a solution that seems clearly safe -- especially compared to the alternative of not producing nuclear waste in the first place.

Nuclear waste used to be my main reason for not liking nuclear power. The thing is, if you're gonna argue that way, what about CO2? It stays in the atmosphere for far longer, unless we find some good way to actually put it underground again, which atm wejust don't.

The benefit of nuclear waste is that there's far less of it, so putting it underground is actually viable.

And it's not even like renewables don't have their own environmental problems; just look at how many bats and birds are killed by wind turbines.
Any relation to Fairchild Republic/Aircraft?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...
Most people who choose to have children don't do so to enable society structures to persist though. I could argue that by not having kids I'm saving the planet from the effects of over population?
imagine relying on google to maintain a product in 2020
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Most e-ink displays only refresh sections. So if you type a letter, it really only draws the letter. If you scroll however, the whole screen needs to be updated.
Iran then appparently arrested the person who they thought filmed this video: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-51114945
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I'd love to hear your views, regardless of whether you can find arcfide's.
> which is to say, whatever caricature they regard as Bay Area thinking, since there's no single such thing

Yes.

And it is exactly what I said

> if people _believe_ "it's what people in Bay Are would think"

That kind of "tension towards conformity" is still very present, at least it seems to me, even though they are conforming to an idealized and/or caricatural way of life.

And my understanding of the original comment is that it was mocking the "bay area billionaire wannabes".

> Usually they do so angrily or sarcastically, since people get defensive when they think they're going against a dominant view.

This wasn't the case though.

My point is that my last comment costed me some downvotes and a minus on the karma, but it wasn't angry or sarcastic or against a dominant view, it was only an analysis on someone else's comment.

No big deal, probably someone disagreed with it and downvoted the comment, but that's not what a downvote should be used for - AFAIK.
I would support equalization of funding subject to purchasing power parity.

That's a bit of a red herring to the conversation, and I'm a bit confused why that is the filter you choose to engage rather than policy for ensuring proper nutrition, UBI, or any other economic impact, or why my non-response intra-sentence to your comment online is a purity test for said support.

But taking a step back, even if parents are individually genetically biased towards their brood, that doesn't impact that part of a society's very essence and existence is to ensure children grow to adulthood. Eusociality and all that.
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> most specialties will earn less than software engineers

Nah. The average salary of a software engineer is about $104k per year (remember, <10% of IT people work at FAANGs).

The average earnings of doctors according to Medscape is around $290k, and even primary care doctors earn $237k per year on average. [1]

> Only [1/10th of docs] will have a chance at out earning someone at FAANG.

And FAANG is a similarly small highly-paid fraction of the software workforce as well, so it is comparing like-for-like again. And average pay for those medical specialties according to [1] is $350k to $500k per year, which I bet beats the average pay of even FAANG individual contributors pretty handsomely...

[1]https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-compensation-overvie...
They want to force you to interact with them. It gives them the chance to sell you even if the property isn't what you want--they'll always offer to help you find another property, or they "have another listing that'll be just perfect" for you. Its a sales tactic.

Or the OP is looking at unimproved land/lots which don't have addresses. I'm currently looking at properties for a future vacation home and at least here the electric company assigns addresses--so if the lot doesn't have electrical service it won't have a real street address. You're lucky if the realtor lists the tax ID so you can look it up in the county database.
'...AND to purchase plane tickets for all of them'

But not be willing to pay a few quid for all of them to sit together, yet expect other passengers to move in order for them to do so...
Great Article!

You know, arguably (and I'm sure historians will differ on this!), but arguably, this is sort of like the Swedish version of Prohibition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...) -- except with Coffee, and except occuring in 1794, some 126 years or so before Prohibition...

Ya know what I want to see?

Somewhere, somewhere in obscure Swedish history, there has to be a version of the U.S.'s Boston Tea Party (1773) -- except occuring with, and solely on behalf of, you guessed it: Coffee...

<g>

(Oh yeah, and to any detractors out there in the HN Community without a sense of humor, feel free to downvote! I have enough HN Karma, I can take it! Hey, I thought it was funny! <g>)

Hmm... Maybe there should be a political party, U.S. and/or Swedish... "The Coffee Party"... (ok, that was overstepping my bounds, yes, that would deserve a downvote! <g>)
Its because you have no clue how the Japanese system works. You are assumed guilty at the time of arrest, you can be detained forever without legal support and the police will urge you everyday to confess. This is not the western style system.
As long as seats are allocated by boarding class and boarding class is reflecting ticket price, no substantially better boarding / disembark pattern will be implemented
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Just the other day I met a guy who told me he wouldn't consider learning and using Go because Google will cancel it eventually

What a reputation issue they're developing. Even if their tech is pretty good, there's a growing number of people who won't even consider it (myself included)
Why is the manufacturer even involved in this? I thought all updates come straight from google? I have zero sympathy for Google at this point. It is one thing that the drivers are not all free and open source but Google should at least require that Google has access to the drivers or software it needs to keep devices up to date. If a vendor doesn’t do that, don’t do business with that vendor.
Yes; there is some discussion of attacks in https://github.com/trojan-gfw/trojan/issues/14.

Personally, I'd be very careful telling people to rely on my software for avoiding the Chinese surveillance - traffic analysis is terrifyingly powerful.
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Better to go for "them" to cover twice (or more in case of multiple) as many situations.
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Granted this works only for active radar-guided missiles, but those can easily be detected by their radar shining right at you. Maybe all the missiles in sci-fi are radar-guided?
You'll have to be more specific with what you mean by "machines". In what ways would machines be different from non-machines?
I have a Chromebook Pixel (2013) and they stopped issuing updates a couple of years ago (os or security).

That’s essentially bricking for me because I don’t want to log into anything secure on a potentially vulnerable device.
Fair enough. I'll try to tie it back to the mono-culture question.

The primary reason why the hellscape was bad, and remained bad for so long, was because we had a single "winner" of the browser wars. Microsoft won and they immediately tried to strangle the web for years. There were no alternative browsers for a long time to provide some kind of competition which might improve the matter. Sure, we could just test on IE and only support IE, but it was still an awful browser and MS wanted it that way.

The point is that the bad "technical" level situation was sustained by the browser political mono-culture. I'm somewhat positive now about the current situation with MS getting more involved because it will add more diversity to our current political browser situation. This should translate into better results for everyone on all levels, technical, user, privacy (I hope), etc.

So maybe from a pure browser engine point of view there is the same or less diversity, but this situation is very different from the early 2000s one.
There used to be cheap linux notebooks, that what I used to buy, then Chromebooks appeared and replaced entirely cheap linux laptops. I stupidly hoped that it would be good enough, or easily convertible to straight Linux; it isn't. In fact the main problem is that Google Docs doesn't properly support OpenDocument format, making it crippled for me even as a basic desktop (it's only useful as a browser and nothing else).
Not all properties are in MLS, and even when they are intended to go in it, there will be some lag time.

How much lag depends on your area. MLS isn’t well coordinated.
A precise integer value is only guaranteed to be representable losslessly in a double if it is up to `64 - 1 (sign) - 11 (exponent) = 52` bits in magnitude.

This should be fairly obvious with knowledge about how floating point numbers are represented internally IMO.

Edit: Be more precise about what can be represented.
I guess it depends if they've done something funny when producing it? I've had the odd PC motherboard and laptop that won't work right with drivers from the manufacturer (intel/amd/nvidia), they need the specific gigabyte or asus provided driver package. Usually a sound problem. This might explain the wide range of bluetooth complaints.

My dell xps 13" touchpad drivers didn't work from synaptics, it had to be from dell. Something else needed realtek driver direct from their website, windows updates version were broken.
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Yes, but the work I would do probably wouldn't resemble closely what I do now.

If I have the comfort of being able to carefully choose rather than having to find anything to pay bills then I would try hard to find something that would allow me to enrich my community.

I've always wanted to work in assisting illiterate adults in learning to read but I have no teaching degree (doesn't pay well enough to support my family) and I don't have the luxury of time to seek those kinds of positions.
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I assumed it was the second strike. So after the first missile, an observer would have started recording and managed to catch the second.
The tone and the emotional message of your post though is not at all in the spirit of Dharmic traditions.

What is "stealing" in a world where everything is one and the conscious universe is trying to understand itself in the best way? Why would it assign negative connotation to copying information, if that information is in fact truthful!?
Again, this is just how I remember things, but I think many people weren't convinced that something like chernobyl could still happen with "modern technology" (whatever people imagined that to be) and it was mostly fukushima that proved to them that the danger hadn't gone away over the years thanks to some abstract notion of "technological progress".

That's what I mean by "single event". Of course, the informed person would not have made a decission based on just that one incident, but it's what I suspect large parts of society did.
Once they started selling $2k+ versions, yeh I kind of do think expect that actually.
Easy, one just had to have a business and apply to it.

They even had contests for apps. I did apply to one at Vodafone when the Sharp GX20 was released, to show off the device capabilities.

https://www.gamedev.net/forums/topic/166989-vodafone-javatm-...

> Vodafone is pleased to annouce the Vodafone Java(tm) Games Challenge 2003 - a competition for J2ME games developers. The top three winners will receive: - A Sharp-GX20 - The new Vodafone live! handset with QVGA screen resolution - A commercial contract with Vodafone to deploy the winning games onto Vodafone live! in several countries Vodafone live! currently attracts 1.5 million customers across 13 countries. Register at www.via.vodafone.com and submit your games by August, 1st !

And while they had lots of trash, the gatekeeping kept it lower than current store offerings full of copy-cats.
Need advice for restarting my career
I have a bachelor degree in Software-Engineering, worked for 2 years as an IT-Consultant in a company which produces product configurators. The whole software is based on an own language, own IDE, completely own environment, specialised for customers like machine engineering companies which can enter their products in their configurator via different methods (e.g. wysiwyg mouse handling), so easy to use for somebody who doesn't know how to write code.
Then I worked 2 years for another company which customises ERP Software, regular software development with VB.Net, VBA, MS SQL.
After this I worked part time as freelancer for a project in which I worked before from my first company, so again the company-own stack. Here and there I had smaller projects, but nothing complicated.
After a while I quitted all that projects and started to work as a dive instructor in Thailand.

Now after 1,5 years I want to relocate and work abroad as a software developer, but my skill set is limited through my jobs before. I would say I am a fast learner, but I don't know where to start. Most of the job offers demand couple years of experience in that stacks. I would love to find smaller projects which use the current web technologies. Of course I don't expect to get paid like in my jobs before if I don't have any projects done before with the needed skill set. On the other hand, the jobs i found on upwork are mostly underpaid, right?! I even thought about to contribute to os projects on github, to build up a portfolio, but I don't know what. Always when I start somewhere I think that this doesn't help me in my ongoing job search. Also it´s hard for me to work on something when i am not using the particular software by myself.

tl;dr
Fast learning software developer with limited skill set and no portfolio, needs advice on how to restart career. Perfect would be a junior position with small payment, as long as i learn something new and fill up my portfolio with it... realistic?
Of course it is already here. I think this is in fact the core problem of Medicare and why costs are going up and up with no end in sight.

In the same vein, all that a UBI / UBH would do is shift around allocation of actually-limited resources while causing inefficiency, waste and accounting headaches for everybody. What's more, you'll be shifting those limited resources away from the most materially productive segment of society - the middle class - and onto the underclass, who is not going to all of a suddenly take over the burden of mass production, since that requires many years of education and training. So what I'm saying is you'll start to get goods shortages too.

The whole system is an intricate jigsaw puzzle with a billion moving pieces. People keep suggesting we fix it by hitting it with a hammer and setting parts of it on fire.
Yep that was pretty skeevey, I’m glad they were held to account and stopped that, but it’s actually nothing to do with the point about not treating individual third parties differently.
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The hardware in the XBox One is also weaker than the PS4 to compensate for the added expense.

RDR2’s performance/resolution is particularly brutal on XB1 judging by the Digital Foundry video that compares all the systems.
> I have a Chromebook. It was listed on the models that would support Android app, this support never came (it's still "planned", 2 years later...)

You should be eligible for a refund, file a complaint with consumer protection. In most places it is illegal to mislead customers and market products with planned features that you do not deliver on in a reasonable timeframe.
Yes - the system (you + the book) know Chinese.

Let me ask you another question - when I throw a ball at you your subconcious brain has to solve a differential equation to know how to use muscles to catch that ball.

Do you know how to catch a ball if you don't know the math but still can catch it?
This problem is being worked on but it is by no means solved!

This paper [0] is a pretty decent survey on the field and [1] is an excellent article on the topic at a high level, written by a team currently working in the space (synthesising smart contracts).

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.02353.pdf

[1] https://medium.com/@vidiborskiy/software-writes-software-pro...
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In London this also happens frequently.

Often the "location" of the property is shown on a map. A lot of the time, this is often quite inaccurate.

The cynical might observe that this often happens to suggest that the property is not immediately next to a train station/sewage works/night club etc.

I don't know why the bother - I am going to find out that the property is not actually in the much-more-desirable location 250 metres away when I go see it. I'll immediately see it is next to the crematorium or whatever and immediately nope-out. It just wastes everyone's time.
But are ants Turing complete ?
A Wii without Wiimote is basically a Gamecube. Even as a Nintendo fan who absolutely hate Wiimote, you gotta recognise it, especially when playing with non-gamer. Casual are enjoying playing it with Wiimote, and it became a reason for those people to buy it.
Apparently yes! This seems to be the missing link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Camera_and_Instrumen...
There is lots of Uranium in the sea and we use it very inefficiently at the moment, so potentially Uranium based power can be sustainable almost indefinitely.

I recommend reading this chapter from "Sustainable Energy - without the hot air" by David JC MacKay if you want to know more (with calculations!). It is an excellent book for reading about the facts of energy generation.

See: https://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_162.shtml
This is too broad a brush.

Giving Fairchild credit for Google (because, I suppose, one of the founders of Kleiner Perkins worked there) is like giving DE Shaw credit for Amazon.

(Actually, I would argue the DE Shaw - Amazon case is stronger!)

I wish they would draw a more direct tree. People who directly founded companies. Is it Intel, Sequoia and Kleiner?
You could! And it is important to note that limited antinatalism is not unreasonable, so long as it is remembered that replacement rate!=overpopulation unless already above carrying capacity.
We’re already way beyond our planet’s capabilities for providing for human life at first-world standards of living.

Maybe not encouraging more children isn’t a bad thing.
It always seemed dumb to me that Kinect wasn’t combined with Windows Mixed Reality to produce full body VR on the XBox.

Maybe we’ll see it next year with the next gen.
It kinda makes sense, kids are smaller so they don't need as much space. We should sort passengers by size in general.
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For those who want to read the original journalism and not a blog's re-hash of someone else's hard work:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2020/01/15/the-f...
I’m implying that people don’t blow up their own jets, this isn’t something that’s worth combatting.
For insurance fraud you’re better off setting the aircraft on fire on the ground or ditching the aircraft in water. Odds are that you’ll end up like Theodore Wright if you start doing that though.

> What if it was planted?

Many (most?) FBOs offer paid security checks if that’s something you’re concerned about. I see no reason for why these should be mandatory.

> What if it's smuggling?

Customs issue, separate from the security checks. Normally customs just does spot checks, it’d be super unusual to check everything.
So they'll just convert the lower altitude resorts to more "summer" activities like hiking and mountain biking.
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Congratulations! You're one of today's lucky 10,000.

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This is super cool, I love seeing the history of modules. I recently published my first module on https://Paper-Minis.com . Its specifically for First Time DM's (or d&d players who want to run a one-shot for the group) It needs zero prep and includes minis, maps, puzzles. My experienced DM friends like not needing to go through hours to run a oneshot, and its great way to bring new groups into the fold. I wondered how many people want to become a DM or run a one-shot but can't break in, and thats why I made this :)
I'm quite surprised no serious "programming font" to this days didn't come with something improving camelCase readability: making ligature for each lowerUPPER combination with slightly wider center gap and narrower first character (so that sum was still in monospace grid) would FMPoW tremendously boost readability and would be remedy for camelCase haters.

I've searched for it lately and the only what resembled this was interesting POC of "mixed" (semi-proportional monospaced) font [1], but with simple kerning pairs, not ligatures, but with extra trickery for "uppercase prefixes" (`_UUUl... `→`_UU·Ul...`). I wonder if in-word camelcase boundaries would be doable as well, so that `decodeURIComponent` would be rendered as `decode·URI·Component`.

[1] https://twitter.com/Tricertops/status/951551714078941185
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Well I think it is more "this feature requires kernel 4.x, but the drivers for this manufacturer's hardware do not support 4.x, so we cannot offer this feature without losing sound/WiFi/touchpad/etc"

The chromebooks do update themselves all the time but I gues there is some more fundamental stuff that requires more low-level changes.
Apparently there were two missiles fired, this video could have been of the second one with the person starting to film after having seen or heard the launch or impact from the first one.
> But you can be legally compelled to perform certain actions, and held in contempt if you fail to do so.

I anal but isn’t this basically slavery/forced indenture? Could a court of law compel Apple to write some software? If so, can a court of law require George RR Martin to write a novel and send him to prison if he declines?
>Main takeaway, very interesting analogy. Ant colonies are great examples of complex systems with emergent large-scale behavior. Indeed the same could be said about networks of neurons. Interesting to think of an ant colony as the sum of oscillations of signals.

Or perhaps like a Fourier decomposition of a complex waveform. Whereby each ant essentially becomes a constituent "wave" in a complex signal.
I've seen quite a lot of errors stemming up from assumptions about floating point numbers. Not sure there is a good way of handling this in the end, except exert caution. Even basic assumptions like f + 1 > f will have this issue.
> Is there a certificate to get into that club?

There is and the large majority fails at it, as proven by the CVE database, in spite the rigorous process to contribute code to the Linux kernel for example.
he wasn't faced with that choice at all.
...and have to mention the best intelligent Ant movie - Phase IV - trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcs3_b3VXSU