skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It only does that by virtue of being much less efficient and spread over a larger area than traditional desalination plants. At the end of the day unless you're storing that brine or trucking it off somewhere you have to dump it back in the ocean. That "highly concentrated brine" isn't all that concentrated to begin with as it's less than a 50% increase in solutes coming out of the discharge pipe and gets mixed and diluted in the ocean relatively quickly. That article is just a fisherman blaming an unrelated problem on the closest thing around.
I wonder if any of that performance is due to the intrinsic safety requirements, especially the need to select only intrinsically safe components that will never produce enough energy to ignite gasoline vapors under any transient condition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_safety
Did the parent significantly revise their comment? Because in its current incarnation, it doesn't argue against tithing nor that those who tithe are being exploited. It seems like you're responding to the wrong comment. For posterity, here's the original comment at the time that I read it:

> It always surprises me that wealthy churches pretend to take Christ seriously, when Jesus was not very fond of amassing money. I get why the churches do it (of course they don't believe in Christ), but why do the exploited masses believe them?

And here is your response:

> The concept of tithing is absolutely taught in the Bible. If you believe Christ to be the God of the Old Testament then He absolutely taught it. You seem to be under the impression all religious people who give tithing are merely being exploited. I can promise you are wrong there. The mentality of "I've had no such experience with God so everyone who claims they have is a kook" is quite ignorant. Perhaps you could learn something from those who have.
Yeah but unlike a mortgage (secured against one static asset i.e. a house), the article assumes most of this debt will be issued against the strength and quality of a company's various recurring revenue streams (even speculating that different components of this could be financed separately to try and account for the varied risk).

Just need to make sure you don't end up with financers/banks/rating agencies colluding to bundle multiple companies together and sell tranches of the debt (all with a phony A+ rating) to investors/funds...
Note the irony that the scripture you quote was given to the priests, who were benefiting from the tithes and offerings of the nation [akin to the Mormon church giving luxurious homes to their General Authorities and plum book deals through Deseret Book], not the people themselves.

Tithing got re-defined over the years. Consider: https://puremormonism.blogspot.com/2012/12/are-we-paying-too...
These days, your public life is under continuous corporate surveillance.

You may have not noticed, but entire cities are under 24/7 video surveillance. https://ring.com

You may have not noticed, but the ubiquitous mobile phone is morphing into a 24/7 surveillance radar. https://atap.google.com/soli
The BOM is here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eU_76EaB256B_k3UIFOs...

I'm surprised the laser tube is $1000. It's not much different than a light bulb. Sure it is different, but not by that many zeros.
Warm Water Under Antarctica
SpiderMonkey actually had inline caches before V8 shipped if I'm not mistaken; the motivating factor for the behaviour change in V8 was just to improve the cache-hit ratio.
The greater threat is that automakers will be able to geographically limit where you can drive "your" car. They are also going to limit you by time of day as well. "No unauthorized vehicles during this time of day in this geographic swath."

They are going to do every stupid, statist, inhumane, anti-rights thing you can ever imagine. Why? Because they will be able to! Power mongers and the coercive elements of our society can't help themselves. This is a lesson that current generations have forgotten how power mad groups and individuals behave.

As a side note, I had a Garmin GPS that only came with maps for part of the US. Imagine my surprise when driving to Montana my maps suddenly didn't work anymore. This bullshit is real, it is buried in the fine print, and we're all going to suffer if we rely on this bullshit and let it happen to our freedoms and our pocketbooks.
The WHO is regularly publishing situation reports with all kinds of data in there. Maybe you go and have a look those?
I never mentioned ethnicity or "race" in my post. That was your own take. Slavery existed around the world.

Per the former, you'd have to be ignoring the argument that many slave owners made during the slave era up to today with many pro Confederates, who claim slavery was a God given right. This was not fought by many southern churches to my knowledge.

The point of mentioning the crusades was to point out that church powered oppression is a thing that's gone on through history.

I don't really understand your argument here. The point I was making, and others, was that the churches have no historical or current consistent fight against oppression, and have often been the oppressors themselves.

Nothing you said refutes that. It just says you don't care. Which are two different things
The Mormon church tried for years to pretend that their leaders don't make money from the church. That too was confirmed as a lie not too long ago.
Yet another example or reality being stranger than fiction.
The data going over TURN is always encrypted in WebRTC, so relays can never see what you send (at least in all normal implementations).

The handshake can be sent out-of-bound like you say, but if you are not at the same physical place or have some pre-trusted way to transmit them you always need to trust something.

Even if you send it over something that is previously e2e-encrypted like signal or keybase you always need to trust that channel, so unless you actually are at the same physical place to do the handshake over a non-remote channel or have setup the channel earlier I don't think there is a way to do it "truly securely". The same is true for basically all e2e-encrypted systems that don't have a way to establish an out of bounds channel of trust (like for example the web PKI structure or the debian web of trust).

If you were to use existing web PKI (every participant having their own domain) and require all participants to encrypt with their DV/OV/EV validated keys that might work, but that also seems like a lot of work and cost for messaging and sending files.

Also, I'm not sure what threat model you are mitigating by encrypting the payload on an already e2e-encrypted channel since you load third party JS without SRI, don't have a CSP and don't have HSTS. Basically there are a few steps I'd take before worrying about having a minimal server forwarding the handshake. This seems like you have not considered what the threat model for your service actually is.
> at least that's what they tell me.

Assuming the countless anecdotes on /r/exmormon are to be believed, nobody really gets a choice. Your local leaders will browbeat you and try to look over your financials if they don’t feel you are tithing appropriately.
It's the first amendment and separation of church and state. The IRS is fairly certain that if they tried to tax the land chapels are on that the supreme court (even the liberal judges) would say it violates church and state separation. Shutting down a church for failure to pay taxes is the end game the courts won't allow, and so where we are basically falls out from that.

Now if you run a for-profit child care center out of your chapel and don't pay taxes, that is something the IRS has seized a church for.
This seems to suggest, in addition to another case, that nCOV is in the wild in Singapore?
If I were lending, there is no way I would consider recurring revenue to be a reasonable asset. Depending on the business it could go away in a heartbeat at the mention of the company going into administration/receivership. If the software is at all important to the users and it has alternatives, they will jump ship as fast as possible.

My experience in software companies is that there are often a few key developers with full platform and domain knowledge, and they are your bottleneck for onboarding and they are the columns that keep your platform going. Should they leave when the business goes into receivership, and why shouldn't they, there is little guarantee the software will keep running long enough to keep users happy enough, to continue to service that debt.

Not to mention a software business that runs on recurring revenue from users is likely failing because the recurring revenue isn't enough to cover costs, keep the business running and it just makes more debt. I just wouldn't consider it a reasonable assumption that recurring revenue will continue to recur. It's not even a good assumption for a well running business.
> Or is it because it is China that a lots of people prefer to not believe them?

Jesus man this is a modern day authoritarian regime with a fully digitized social credit score and reeducation camps for dissidents. Yes, it is perfectly rational not to trust what Chinese people are saying.

I can't believe how thoroughly the notion of culture has been wiped from the American psyche. People on average think and act differently in other countries, and sometimes those differences are negative.
Yep, ipregistry.co threat data.
> You can do both at the same time

Of course you can. Do you know whom that quote came from?
I thought the same thing. I played basketball on 100s of Saturdays in the 80s/90s and still think about the kind janitors that cleaned multiple buildings on Saturday. Many lost their jobs due to that policy change and it seemed like nobody realized the people lost their job because of it.
Questioning your negative thoughts can reduce anxiety and procrastination
It's weirder with Apple. You can see why Microsoft might do it - it's not in the user's interest, but it is in Microsoft's interest to get more Bing usage. But for Apple, they hardly care how much I use Google.
I'm a big cryptocurrency supporter, and I even wrote a chapter about some possible benefits of tokens in my book[0], but I agree that ICOs are almost always pump-and-dump schemes or straight up scams. This is also acknowledged by many cryptocurrency supporters, and I can't really understand why the SEC would do this.

[0]: https://whycryptocurrencies.com/tokens.html
They usually make less money on the deal. It’s also more tedious work in ways (legal). Debt is sterotyped as more boring work on average.
Meh, straight debt (not convertible) isn't available to risky startups.

The venture debt industry depends on tight relationships with VCs to ensure reasonable repayment rates. In some cases they reduce risk by reselling part of the debt. In all cases, they're themselves leveraged, lending money from limited partners and not just themselves.
Certainly looks like it, two brits, each of whom attended business meetings there, are now confirmed.

I am worrying as I returned to the UK from Singapore a week ago and now have cold-like symptoms. No coughing, no raised temperature, lungs OK so far... but it's a worry.

(--edit-- actually it looks like one Brit, I had thought the new cases were related to a separate traveller, but it looks like it was the same guy)
Looks like it even has a 3rd fence well outside the double fence. And a 4th fence you have to drive through on the road.
Amazon does lending like this (I think). Tech moving into the merchant cash advance market has creating some innovative financings.
I don't know if boycott was the only reason, I wouldn't be surprised to hear they were often vandalized.
I'm not european, so am unfamiliar: would you use a SEPA transfer for, say, a $1000 tv from a small business retailer? What about buying a $3000 used car from an individual?
Current Status Dashboard: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
They don't come with safety glass, but 'safety' glasses, which I recognize as brazing/welding glasses. They are absolutely the wrong color to protect from that blue led laser.
The essay is explicitly talking about the former. Rather than sell a bunch of dilutive equity at Series B, a company with decent recurring revenue could collateralize that revenue stream and sell it.
You can view dot gov analytics here, by the way.

https://analytics.usa.gov/
A Boy and His Atom
I think you'd be surprised how much is still done in Excel at even really big international companies
This is exactly what I do, except I don't save the to do lists. Instead, I simply spin out any ideas and notes I'd taken into a separate new note. I've got around 10,000 notes now that I've never looked at, but I simply like knowing they are there as it seems to provide a nice psycholgoical foundation for the continued evolution of my ideas/thoughts.
I'm out of the loop on this stuff, but are others doing things to prevent the situation Bitcoin had a couple years ago, when it hit $37 per transaction?

That seemed to happen due to a massive price and volume increase, so is hard to design for. At the same time, at peak, it was still doing a tiny fraction of the volume that any of the credit card networks do.
Show HN: My Colleague’s Neocities Site
what are movies and series selling then
> Given the drop off of the infection rate growth relative to its spread earlier it appears that the quarantine measures put in place by China are having some success.

That drop-off rate might also be explained by the information suppression campaign that occurred during the early days of the virus. The origin point might simply be earlier than is acknowledged.
would never make me productive but im glad it works for you.
Those graphs depict Total Cases and Total Deaths. (This presentation of data is sometimes used by startups trying to show their amazing growth off to potential investors.)

If you look at the daily change in amounts of deaths from this data series, it is more of a wobbly straight line:

https://i.imgur.com/gQajRT9.png

I did a linear projection of this data series to see how long it would take for a 1000 a day to be perishing if this trend and I came up with 8/8. Can anyone else replicate this?

I would hope containment would slow these numbers, but it is possible it could go another way. If the data itself is underreported then it could also be worse.
Hate to plug them but their product is pretty good: glowforge. the opposite of open source, it does plug and play for around $2,500 with a smaller work area(12x20) and 40W laser. We prototype enclosure cut outs with ours. Working with wood and acrylic is fun.
> they’re barely getting by, tithing their 10%, but the Mormon church is amassing such wealth yet my friend’s family of five is on food stamps. Something feels off there.

The church has welfare programs to help members and non-members that are need. I've personally recommended such food and rent assistance from the church at a point in my life. I've even had the church cover expenses for mental health counseling.

I've also personally witnessed and helped to deliver food and provide service to those in need. Sometimes people in need receive in aid more than they tithe.

There's also a huge social network of people helping each other out not directly related to church funds.

There is also the Helping Hands program that provides labor and food and other support when there are natural disasters all over the world, including some big ones here in the US.

This is not a situation that's all take and no give. Not only does the church provide a lot of welfare support, but actively encourages members to be Christ-like and serve everyone in need.
Haha, wow, you made me think if there's any EDM or house vinyl and it blows my mind that this exists!

Honestly, I think Porter Robinson is sort of like Baynk in that they're both way better live. The latter especially feels less... 'tropical' live. Good stuff, though.
Contamines comes, in that case, from Contamina which comes from Condominium (roughly co-administered property). But "Contaminated" sounds soooo much cooler right now, doesn't it?
I thought it was $100B in assets and investments, not cash on hand. Did I understand wrong?
I was raised Mormon, no longer believe a bit of it, yet find your characterization does not match my experience at all. I have never felt characterized as "apostate" by family or friends after leaving, and while in the church I never recall any leader or anyone else encouraging not leaving money to family who left the church. I'm sure these things happen to some, just not me.

I found the problems in the church to be more subtle and less obviously cult-like. For example, encouraging you to pay 10% tithing, then squirreling it away in a $100B hedge fund. Propagation of the idea of Joseph Smith as a prophet. Sexism. Belief in God.
Let's leave off the hostilities and spurious accusations please.

Your confiscation point is valid. I don't know that is an equitable solution because private people did pay into the program at one point.

I suppose what I'd like to see is religions limited to some multiple of working annual budget in assets. This avoids an entire set of perverse negative incentives.

Grandfather it in and prevent further investment or collections until the assets come back to the level specified.
Same - I’ve found Schwabs rates to be better than virtually any other option
Don't worry, it's perfectly safe now
Make America Competent Again
Thanks for the link. That's a resource I'll find useful to share in the future.
Churches shouldn't be allowed to amass money. It screws up the economy and politics.
This sounds great. How do you deal with long running projects?
Once a company has substantial money (runway) they’d just move to a better banking provider. Brex seems geared toward start-ups not companies that make money. Weird business model.
You are more likely to clean up your kid's goldfish crackers they spilled in the pews (or not give them goldfish during worship service to begin with) when you take a turn vacuuming the chapel yourself.
Sort of thought the whole point of SaaS businesses with lots of employee frills and perks was to eventually attract the activist investors, leveraged buyouts, asset strippers, and other private equity managed debt, as a way to deploy institutional and pension money. Maybe it was cynical, but the point is to generate a long term trickle of ARR that is greater than the interest payments on a debt financing of control of the company, which at a product level is why you need sticky APIs that get baked into institutional customer infrastructure that will yield 10-15 years of locked-in revenue.

One of said vultures above raises debt from group of funds, buys a SaaS company, installs managers who understand cost optimization with no concept of growth, and hollow it out.
Their nut is paying the interest back to their pension fund creditors, and their yield (after fees, naturally) is the delta between what they can squeeze out of cost reductions and making that nut.

I won't name the companies I think will be those targets, but speculating about privately held security companies as an example, it sounds like there is a clear exit sized at 10-15x revenues for anyone with traction, an API, and an office that has free snacks and a climbing wall.
You're correct it never has. GPS time started 6 Jan 1980 and has ignored every leap second since.
Meh. Moonies, Scientology and Catholic church are loaded too. Also, the IRS makes it too easy to run an Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption. Furthermore, tax exemption does actively promote religion by expressly discriminating in their economic favor. End tax exemption for magical thinking!
Why would having a large savings account be a sin?
One step up from this (if you’re a vim user) is vimwiki.

But it really doesn’t matter what you use, the real benefit comes from having a process/habit of continuous review.
Back then it took ten minutes to load 1kb
I also suspect this is possible.
And it requires 100% online operations. If your internet craps out, so does this device.

Hard pass.
> Our tax code is not perfect but the path forward is to look at it in totality... the minute you try to solve one problem here, you’ll create a dozen there.

Not really. Remove all exemption, deductions, credits, and special treatments.
Watchdog timer on high priority process waits, triggering a temporary Monte-Carlo reshuffle of all process priorities... which will likely clear the deadlock 'eventually' without 'knowing' how it resolved the problem?

Then a running count of 'necessary Monte-Carlo reshuffles' within x time is a flag to research the cause and find a solution, while maintaining a running system?
Should I encrypt, hash or encode?
I do the same thing on my Linux machine, except I also have scripts I wrote for conveniently adding various tasks and notes to my file with automatic formatting which I predefine in another file for various types of tasks. I then have a cron job that regularly reads the file everyday and puts new items into a Postgres database so I can run queries later through a web interface I host from my home on a static IP so I can check tasks when I’m away from my computer. My plan is to eventually allow for myself to push items into the database and have the txt file sync up with the new lines of text automatically when I startup my machine.
That argument doesn't make sense. If TEOTWAWKI happens their investments will become worthless.
same reason they believe trump loves god and america and the common man.
/r/exmormon has a very particular perspective, largely driven by the people who are active there are usually the ones who genuinely had the worst experience.
In general: no. External transfers (ACH) and checks are generally free for within the US.
The 2008 financial crisis was largely created by the perception that the government would take any downside. As long as we don’t have multiple generations of politicians campaigning on a platform of “every family deserves their own SaaS business” and buying up the debt, we’ll be fine.