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Hungary has managed to significantly move birth rates with incentives: https://ifstudies.org/blog/is-hungary-experiencing-a-policy-....
Hey thanks man. While I haven’t used serverless myself, I’m pretty sure it can do what pruun does and way more. In terms of usage and functionality, I had a very specific breadth in mind for pruun, i.e creating deployment packages. No AWS auth needed, no config — I wanted pruun to require as little buy-in/learning-curve as possible, while still addressing what I've always found to be a pain-point. Also, I felt like coding some shit that wasn't work stuff :P
The interesting thing is that despite what America did to these Filipino soldiers, they still chose to be American and sacrificed the majority of their life to do so. American immigration really is the ultimate test of loyalty. Makes you wonder how many natural-born Americans would still choose to be American if they had to go through the immigration experience first.

Now that's an idea. People aren't born American citizens but as probationary citizens, and they only become full citizens after fulfilling a series of trials. Imagine what kind of society would emerge from the other end.
Please go work in an Amazon Warehouse for some amount of time and let us know your feelings then.
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aren't you doing that by having children anywhere?
It quickly becomes a pyramid scheme based on ever looser credit to ramp ever scarcer housing, if no additional action is taken to address the need for ever more youth to prop up pension obligations. Which then further suppresses family formation.
In Japanese, they don’t translate “55"” normally, instead it becomes a “55 unit” TV. FWIW, as an American, the diagonal is unhelpful, so you need to look up the horizontal and vertical measurements anyway to know what will fit on your shelf.
Considering the lack of red in both El Salvador and Russia, it seems pretty clear that the countries colored in are simply those the researchers chose to study. Nobody believes El Salvador has no slums and nobody is trying to make Russia look good. Exactly one impacted region is depicted in North Korea, in the Kaesong region -- it's easy to see why from the map.
China currently doing birth suppression on their Muslim minorities. https://apnews.com/269b3de1af34e17c1941a514f78d764c

I don't know if this will be successful long term, but they're definitely trying and it seems to be working.
Was it legally obtained? Purchasing an illegally obtained good is still illegal in the US.
You could increase population growth by not screwing millennials at every step of their life. If housing, school, food, cars didn’t cost substantially more in inflation adjusted dollars than it did for their parents, or if their incomes at least caught up to inflation.
Not many, if any.

It's why I browse without JS, and use third-party archiving tools to view content like this site, which is blank without JS.

http://archive.is/KtNNE
I write this near starvation, on my commodore 64. Food and electronic equipment will be cheaper tomorrow, and with the money I save I can purchase that econ 102 book.

Why must I be so rational?
This took me back to one morning early in my career, where I arrived at work following an Easter weekend still heavily under the influence of ecstasy. I hid under my desk from the boss, with Prodigy playing from Winamp into my headphones.

Taxi straight from party to the office. I didn't realize until I was sitting at my desk how fucked I was
Companies have competing constituents:

1) Shareholders
2) Debt-holders and financiers
3) Executives
4) Suppliers
5) Customers
6) Staff

... and may have a charter or mission, or even an established culture which sets guiding principles.

Various forms of legal power (ownership, right to collectively bargain, fiduciary/oversight responsibility, first rights to assets on liquidation), social power, market power (price negotiation), and individual intention (everyone, even bankers make decisions based on something other than just money) form, a kind of dynamic equilibrium.

So a company is going to end up being or doing whatever the combined weighted intentions of those forces imply.

It's not 'shareholders' that can do anything willy nilly. Sometimes customers have all of the power and indirectly dictate everything. Inversely maybe buyers do: Apple is a dictator to many of its suppliers. Sometimes Unions run the show or have incredible influence (auto industry, government), sometimes the debtors. Sometimes the 'CEO' particularly a founder even without 'majority shares' has considerably more influence than anyone else, with the board afraid to replace them.

A non-profit is almost the same minus shareholders.
Why would "reactionaries", which is a term very popular among Marxist types to describe those opposed to radical left causes, try to paint Cancel Culture in negative terms, if it did not have a heavy ideological slant?

>>The use of this term is an effort to distract from the fact that the vast majority of the celebrities who have been “cancelled” have actually victimized others or in other ways taken actions that were offensive or worse.

Criticizing Cancel Culture does not imply that one believes celebrities targeted by it haven't done bad things. It implies that the reaction is disproportionate and being pushed from a place of ideological extremism.

These unfair and disingenuous characterizations of critics is another characteristic of Cancel Culture. It has very hostile/sanctimonious ingroup/out-group dynamics, with a lot of conspiracy theories being attributed to the out-group.
> Autobidder is a real-time

it observes data and makes decisions continuously

> trading and control platform

it makes trades on the power markets as well as controls your battery

> that provides value-based

you can control a model of fundamental economic value embedded in the software, so your decisions can be made not just based on observed market prices, but also your own opinion of what things ought to be worth

> asset management and portfolio optimization,

you view batteries as financial assets and look for ways to optimally manage them to extract the most money, and you can view and manage multiple batteries as a single economic unit

> enabling owners and operators to configure operational strategies that maximize revenue based on their business objectives and risk preferences.

you can choose to have more money with more risk, or less money with less risk
Capitalism is the paper clip maximizer, non-metaphorically.

Science fiction is pretty much always just about things that already happened. “What if we maximized a non-human value?” is just a subconsciously repressed way of asking “Did anyone notice we’ve been maximizing non-human values for a couple hundred years?”
Twitter isn't just one thing, it's composed of many communities of various sizes and closeness.

That's true tautologically in the sense that different people follow different things and interests tend to cluster. But Twitter doesn't have communities that can easily kick people out of their entire group, IE, the only enforcement comes from Twitter's own lax rules.

People model behavior every day on Twitter.

Sure, on average. But determined person, say a troll, is in no way constrained to model anyone's behavior. That's kind of general problem of bullies - most people model the average and bully does what they want, so the average moves towards the bully over time.
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Well, give jac their fair dues. They said "You can see that dynamic at work here on HN on a daily basis." not "Every single post where someone admits a mistake on Hacker News is guaranteed to be capitalized on by outrage seekers"
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Evaporation often happens at night because of the temperature differences.
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> Neoen, who owns the Hornsdale Power Reserve, are close finalising testing that will increase the capacity of the battery from 100MW to 150MW.

Surely the battery capacity is measured in joules or at least megawatt hours, not watts?
I believe this is the special flag that's being used...

https://www.cnet.com/news/nasas-spacex-astronauts-to-bring-b...
It sounds like you're speculating; do you have evidence that he did not voluntarily resign?
>>Is "cancel culture" new? What happened in the past to people who would say inconvenient things (swear words or blasfemies in TV, being homosexual, ...)?

Ostracization/cancellation of the non-conforming doesn't seem to be new. My point is that this kind of behavior is the modern corollary to witch hunts.

The Left Wing manifestation of it seen in modern times is called Cancel Culture, but all of its forms, past and present, have beeh types of mob persection in my opinion.
Please, tell us your story. Hide whatever details you must.
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China's birthrate did decline with the one child policy (1979). But it declined way more in the decade prior to the introduction of the one child policy.

"晚、稀、少" : “late marriage, longer spacing, and fewer children” was a little known policy introduced in 1970 that encouraged late marriage and fewer births, and which had way bigger effects than the compulsory one child policy.
People spend money because they want things more than money. No one spends money because they expect it to be worth less in the future. That's a very narrow economic interpretation.
This is part of the premise for starship troopers (heinlein)
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True, quote tweeting (I think you mean retweet with comment) yourself is another option, however I don't see it as fundamentally different to replies.

If people are liking, retweeting, or replying to the original tweet, it will continue to show up in the feeds of others through the home feed algorithm. Thus, the same forces apply that strongly favor the original over the correction.
Really I'd expect it to be measured in both.

Megawatt hours measures how much energy it can store, megawatts measures how fast it can discharge.
Well if the value of money is going down then the price of everything else goes up (land, stocks, precious metals). The incentive is to convert cash into these alternatives.

Seems to me the same is true for borrowers. Borrowing money to buy land/stocks/etc is still a smart move as long as they keep trending upwards faster than the loan rates. Of course this requires sufficiently low interest rates be available, which is where the reference "our system" comes in I suppose, with a federal reserve maintaining artificially-low rates to drive this wealth transfer from savings to borrowers.

This is just the sideshow of wealth moving around, of course. I don't really buy that that if this game ended it means the death of the entire economy. It's just the part that can be subjected to manipulation. Obviously the point of earning money in the first place is to spend it, not just save or transfer it from one medium to another. Money is just an exchange itself. In deflation, things get cheaper and supply-and-demand curves says more people will buy things.
Filling someone's head with hateful, racist lies is 100% legal so it would not be applicable to the proponents of the bill. Terrorism is another beast.

You will find a lot more people than you would like in a lot of communities are racist. I do not approve of it but preventing it would enter the realm of thought policing and would require a totalitarian police state.
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Finally, someone takes a stand against this bone-headed cleansing of language. The hacker community as I remember it was always pro gay, trans, etc. didn't give a flying f*ck about what was between your legs, just your ability. Especially on the black-hat side. Look at any video of Defcon...

It's time that those of us who are educated and capable of articulating our ideas stop allowing radical tyrannical group-think to change our culture for no good reason. Racism is a problem and has no place in our culture, but changing words doesn't do anything to change that!
This is my pet peeve as well. But not being a native English speaker I figured I won't try to lecture people on this - not my language after all.
Dial is on the base. My kettle lives on a high shelf, because kitchens in Japan are not exactly famous for the countertop acreage. :)

I’ll probably buy this one one I get back to the US, though.

I also like that OXO was a brand founded on accessibility: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OXO_(kitchen_utensils_brand)
> Hypothetically, you could adopt an economic system that would not be affected by deflation,

You need money to expire (or, more specifically, lose nominal value faster than deflation reduces nominal prices) if not spent, then people have an incentive to spend their money as they receive it even though nominal prices are decreasing, because you can't hoard surplus to immediate need money for future purchases at lower prices.
Currently I am liking the look of this proposal a lot! I've been trying to imagine some scenarios where it could be used or abused in a negative way but so far I haven't come up with any.

Could you go into details on how you're thinking this would play out? I'm not sure how a bad actor would exploit a tweet with a mea culpa flag like this on it. But I am not as imaginative as bad actors.
I think heredity plays into this. I’ve gone 10 years without and zero cavities. My maternal grandmother had all her natural teeth at the age of 94. Not everyone gets cavities
>> Autobidder is a real-time

>it observes data and makes decisions continuously

The correct term for this is "online", not "real-time" which has another meaning.
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I checked for red spots in regions in Indian that I am aware of. The big ones mostly are cantonments / areas reserved by military and wild life reserves.
Absolutely. I loved this article because it captured so much of what America is about and should be about.

I hope we find it in ourselves to right our wrongs and stop the wrongs actively being committed against Americans and aspiring Americans. We’re so far from living up to our ideals, but it is hopeful to remember that we can make progress and have made progress in the past.
nope, people actually with money invest them because otherwise the cash is guaranteed to lose value.

having said that, i don’t see why this has to be tied with population growth. we already have way too many people in this planet - lets focus on increasing quality of life, not number of people
Cool, I was looking for the efficiency of the Sabatier process. If people are prepared to use electrolosis with a end to end efficiency of ~ 40%. Using the Sabatier process to produce methane begins to look good to me. Just as green as the methane is produced from carbon dioxide and water. And it is much cheaper to produce pipes and tanks for methane and it should be able to be used in all the current natural gas infrastructure (compared to only 20% of the gas in these lines being able to be replaced with hydrogen). It seems to me anywhere where the gas has to be stored or moved the Sabatier process would win economically.
I had two of those. One was particularly fixated on how the Japanese were going to bury us. They don't call it "the long march through the institutions" for nothing. The idea that one should get into a position of power to teach a select portion of children that, because of their ancestry, they have a sin for which they must work their whole lives to atone for does call for a reaction.

At least with the religious, you can be saved by Jesus or whatever, but for this group, you are always guilty, by virtue of your skin color.
I didn't get to check many out before the guilt of procrastination swept over me, but yours definitely stood out. Love the simplicity and fidelity of it.
The problem is that many of those "cultural and religious practices" would be unconstitutional if they were a fully incorporated territory. For example, only ethnic Samoans are currently allowed to own land.
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Depends where you are, in France typically inches are used almost only for phones & laptop screens. Anything above (like TV) tend to use centimeters.
You're welcome. BTW here's the aircrete dome people: https://www.domegaia.com/

> But what was the reasoning behind your statement that "we have simple, easy solutions to all our physical problems" (even if not all those solutions come from aircrete)?

Thanks for asking! Let me see if I can compress and express the kernel of what I mean.

First, let me specify that, by "physical problems", I mean provisioning food, water, shelter, waste recycling, clothing, transportation, electric power, etc. as contrasted with political, ideological, social, and spiritual problems.

I'm a fan of a school of applied ecology called "Permaculture" (I recently learned of a parallel evolution of the same ideas called "Syntropic" agriculture.) It's been demonstrated in farms and projects all over the world by now. We can transform deserts into forests and meadows.

That accounts for food, water, waste recycling, and clothing, as well as some building material. Also many medicines can be grown in the garden.

If you mine lime, etc., you can make aircrete and that accounts for a tremendous amount of shelter. You also grow wood and bamboo for construction purposes.

If you integrate alcohol fuel production with your food forest you have a carbon-neutral fuel source. That accounts for electric power (along with renewables, solar, wind, hydro, etc.) and your much of your transportation costs. (You still have to mine metal and stuff for the vehicles themselves, of course.) ( http://alcoholcanbeagas.com/sitemap )

To sum up, if we "reboot" agriculture using what we now know about ecology (the science) we can provide for our needs in a way that is ecologically harmonious (and can therefore continue long enough that maybe we can sort out the other problems too, eventually.) Also, it's fun! And you can make money at it. (The Syntropic agriculture founder grows the best cocoa beans in the world, and gets 3x per acre as conventional cocoa farms, with no inputs. He mimics the natural forest.)
Not really. Arlington VA was retroceded, no reason the rest (aside from actual federal buildings and facilities) couldn't be.
I don't believe that would work, because links to the original tweet will still be broken, allowing people to say "X deleted their tweet" without saying that they reposted and said they were wrong.

Motivated actors loooooove this form of lying.
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I assume there is a big difference between secular Jewish Israelis and religious Israelis, so I assume this applies to Arab families as well,

I would assume secular Jews top out at 2-3 kids,
religious Jews top out at like 10 kids
We need immigrants of working age so they can pay taxes to support SSA and Medicare recipients. That's the group who are most conservative and anti-immigration.
Because the people who wrote it think it's better being a bit more inaccessible in the kernel so that regular users don't shoot themselves in the foot thinking they know better than the designers what the values should be. The people who know what they're doing will be able to set the parameters regardless of where they're hiding.
Those are not English units.
As others note, it's trivial with tinc to setup mesh networks, with both direct and indirect routing among peers. It's the basis of CCC's ChaosVPN.[0] Also, it works well as a Tor v3 onion service, and so provides an alternative to OnionCat, which will become unusable when the Tor Project deprecates the v2 onion protocol next year.

0) https://wiki.hamburg.ccc.de/ChaosVPN
The battery has a maximum safe discharge rate. I suspect the performance of a utility-scale power reserve is limited by its discharge rate, not its charge capacity. (This also makes it an apples-to-apples comparison to the peaking power plants it takes the place of.)
If curious see also

2019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20415880
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One hard fought lesson I’ve learned over the years is that copy/paste is often a very good solution. If the downside is that a developer has to manually spray a change to 50 different locations with the same copy/pasted implementation snippet, that’s really fine. Even for 500 or possibly 5000 locations is fine, with a good editor available or other tooling. Testing these changes for correctness is easy.

Meanwhile the cost for getting an abstraction wrong is often far worse. And it’s really easy to get wrong because abstractions by their nature are always built based on yesterday’s data plus good intentions. People are arguing about subjective theories and unmeasured concepts of extensibility, wasting time arguing about Liskov Substitution Principle, SOLID, dependency injection, type system design patterns, etc., but it’s mostly junk that just adds code bloat.

Obviously there are other solutions that don’t require premature abstraction or copy/paste 1000 times (like simple module functions as the core unit of reusability, or a macro system for code injection). But the point is copy/paste gets a bad wrap. It’s simple, straightforward, easy to automate, easy to test, and adds no extra concepts to the code.

“Functional core, imperative shell” is the best advice I’ve found. Ruthlessly avoid object orientation, and when you need it, stick to extremely shallow inheritance. Make everything a module function, and when you write data structures, don’t give them member function logic for their core functions (like search, sort, add items, remove items), rather create functions that accept data structure instances as arguments and perform these operations with no class-like internal state.
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Microsoft already owns both so why not
Usually when a government attempts to change birth rates in the way you are imagining it is pro-natalist because more people magnifies the power of a state and increases the revenue for a government.

The big exception to this is China's one child policy. That had an ultimately minor effect as birth rates were already dropping and stayed low when the policy was lifted.

One of the most infamous pro-natalist examples was Romania under Ceausescu. https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ceausescus-forgotten-children-clos...

Another oppressive pro-natalist policy was pursued by the Islamic government of Iran in the 1980s. It ended in tears though as Iranian women did not see the sense in birthing children to be cannon fodder in the Iran-Iraq war. What followed was the steepest drop in birthrates ever recorded. So the government did influence the birthrate, but not in the intended direction.

France and Hungary have had limited success with more humane pro-natalist policies.

However, there is a proven and highly effective way for governments to reduce birthrates. Educate women. That is actually the main driver of falling birthrates worldwide.
wow, the video says it saved $150M, and they are only investing another $15M? amazing nonetheless, what other car company has market trading software as part of its energy division?