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"Mostly with vegetables"... Like... What? Beans? Rice? That's another global health crisis waiting to happen. The vegetables you'd have to eat in amounts that could sustain people who don't just sit in front of their desk all day, are anything but healthy. Lentils/beans are among the most harmful things you can stuff into yourself, pretty much only outperformed by grains.

I don't know why vegetarians are always so full of themselves. Why don't they just understand that without eating harmful amounts of lentils, or heavy artificial supplementation (protein powders, etc. Yeah toast to your health, there is almost nothing worse than protein powder), all you can do is "survive" with your vegetarian diet. Yeah, humans can survive on a vegetarian diet, but that's about it.

What we need is artificial meat, that comes out of a lab and is virtually indistinguishable from normal meat, except that an animal didn't produce it. And we are already very close to that. What it lacks is mass production and an improved environmental footprint.
Issue is that we are not going to. Just like we are not going to solve global warming by individuals making better carbon choices or even nations as other nations will just do whatever they want. We are only going to win these battles by creating cheaper better alternatives.

India and China are not going just stop using coal in the middle of their economic expansion. People are just not going to stop eating meat, especially as many 3rd world nations are just reaching the point they can afford it.

Only way we can come out ahead on this is scientifically devised cheaper and better alternatives.
Paris' business district, "La Défense", is an excellent exemple of just that :) It's one giant "slate" constructed above the roads, between the skyscrappers. You don't see the cars and it's a nice place, really feels like how the future ought to be.
For Rails, there's Ahoy: https://github.com/ankane/ahoy
Most people would disown their own children before they stop eating meat.
> But multiple sources say that a large percentage of those tokens had been unilaterally distributed by CEO Juan Batiz-Benet to himself and early employees for less than a penny each, and that he has continued to make such distributions in the years since.

> Sources also say that no tokens were distributed to shareholders and that it often was difficult to get questions answered.

I think this highlights where it's really difficult to be a young founder. Giving your investors news you know they won't want to hear isn't a fun conversation but it's necessary. And the longer you avoid those difficult conversations the harder it is to recover the relationship and the closer you get to running afoul of your duties.
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I'm doing a Ph.D. in salmon farming, it's an exciting field for sure. Just to address some common misconceptions:

* The feed used for norwegian salmon is about 70-80% plant based, so the fish is a net producer of marine protein. The majority is soy, and the industry is trying to transition to sustainable feed ingredients such as insects (see Protix) and micro algae for EPA/DHA (See veramaris)

* The farmed salmon does not contain any contaminents over allowed limits and they do frequent tests (see https://sjomatdata.hi.no/#/seafood/1577)

* The indsutry is beginning to transition from traditional net-pen farming to offshore, land-based and into cell-based and plant-based production, thus also getting production closer to market and spread over areas that may be less susceptible to pollution.
It's a lot of fun until the company gets acquired and you get $80k for your 4 years of hard work, and the founders get $50M.

Source: happened to me with a YC startup.
Probably because this kind of comment fits better on reddit than here.
They don’t work. You will have gastro intestinal issues on plant only diets. All those vegan you tubers are cheating for a reason.
The problem is, as far as I can tell you can't really buy them anymore. At least from consumer sites, maybe they still sell large orders to enterprise customers. But it seems like WD is finally discontinuing the HGST name.
Working ridiculous hours at a startup (I can barely remember anything from 2016) really drove home to me that time is way way way way way more valuable than money. Use it wisely (unfortunately wisdom is hard to get before the time has been wasted). Took a few years to get out of startups but I'm out (ish) now and I'm way more picky about how much time I'll work on something these days.
So what you're saying is that it's okay for Windows Modern photo app to take 3 seconds to boot up and show an image on the monitor? And it's okay for the image to be blurry and misplaced in the first couple of frame, then corrected in the next couple of frames. And it's okay that it crashes once in a while too, and it's okay for it to be frames behind when resizing, because all of those things is simply the result of features and layers of abstraction that have some little purpose whatever that purpose might be. And you're okay with your software suffering for it?

To me, it's completely unacceptable and not the userexperience I want to give. Where do you draw the line is the question, but I personally want to provide the best experience possible.

The quality of software these days are extremly bad, buggy, big, and slow. And I'm not okay with it, despite how many reasons there might be. And the reasons for it is usually massive amounts of code, frameworks, and layers up layers upon layers of abstractions.

So you want your software to check updates? Well find a way that doesn't make the start-up time or user-experience suffer for it- otherwise don't implement it. That would be my answer to that. I know standards like that can be hard achive in a business, but those are the goals I want to become better at achiving. And to me, that's what handmade is about; giving me the confidence to build my own systems, making them more responsive, and provide a BETTER user experience. Maybe with less features, yes. But at least the features that are there will be extremly good!
Billionaires are not necessary for capitalism.
This is IMHO the really fun part (already posted on an earlier thread):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24178631

Interestingly enough, going to that URL with an unsupported browser (QTWeb) I got:

Your browser is out-of-date

You need to update your browser to use the site.

Update to the latest version of Internet Explorer
The Future of Visibility
To most of the country, yes it’s a bit offensive. If people feel very strongly, they should move to the respective country they strongly believe about. My parents did it, twice.
Not while the "president" bans independent journalists from asking questions.
> very generous floor of the wealth tax

> and it seems to me applicable to a very narrow case

The floor of the wealth tax doesn't really refute the central argument, because it just means that it impacts anyone who owns a business worth over $50 million. This is a LOT of businesses in the US!

> and even in that case doesn't have drastic consequences.

That level of liquidation and lost ownership will have potentially disastrous ripple effects on the economy, because for a lot of companies, the theoretical market value — upon which one's theoretical net worth ("wealth") is calculated — is based in large part on that individual maintaining ownership and control of the company. Once a founder starts liquidating large portions of their wealth and divesting their ownership, it's difficult to predict what that could do to the value of the company, and consequently the value of pension funds and portfolios that rely on the stability of the corporate value, and ultimately impacts the employees of those very corporations.
None dare call it herd immunity.
I'm not currently in a high cost city, nor am I planning on moving soon, but if the right conditions presented themselves I'd consider spending a few years in Alaska. I'm absolutely sick of hot climate, so the polar opposite would at least be interesting. It also looks absolutely beautiful and could provide an idyllic sort of solitude. Not sure if I would want to live there long term though.
Then also make the airlines price seats to pay for externalities. I bet people won't be flying as much if the seat cost $5000 instead of $500 to pay for damage to environment. Don't single out ag. Tech and transportation are just as bad. At least with agriculture, it produces food.
Maybe because the country that benefits them more doesn’t really want them, either?
It sounds like cost is the primary factor, but diversity can also help mitigate the risk of unknown bugs.

Lets say you found that HPE SSDs were super reliable over your test period so you decided to put everything on a bunch of new drives.

Then this hits, and 100% of your drives fail at the same time: https://www.pcmag.com/news/time-to-patch-hpe-ssds-will-fail-...

While these stats are a great analysis of random failures -- that's only one type of risk.
For which X is entrely inappropriate and needs a completely different approach.
what are your thoughts on using ui-frameworks like material/ant etc. I checked the github and it looks like you have written all components including css by yourself.
How does someone find "their purpose in life"?
What do you consider Indonesia and the Philippines?
I have mixed emotions as someone who had to support IE6 for years. It’s great that we no longer have to support whatever IE quirks still exist, but super sad that we’re down to what? 3 browser engines now?
I have a feeling Jim Collins is thinking of something like the old Evel Knievel toy [0], where you put the motorcycle on a platform with a high-resistance crank, you turn the crank, and at some level of RPMs of an internal wheel, the motorcycle shoots forward.

Collins is a few years older than me, believe me the ad made an indelible impression at the time.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-H5g9WEqCc
Probably not an advisable strategy because there are many ways it would adversely affect certain groups, but as a thought experiment, what if a pre-requisite for future COVID stimulus checks in the U.S. (individuals or businesses) was taking a covid test or antibody test?
It's a problem of success though, right?

Assuming that you are incredibly successful, you may need to contribute a bunch of money (mostly from interest, not principal) back to the common good.

I really don't see Mark Zuckerberg (as an example) deciding not to create Facebook because if he was incredibly successful he'd have to pay a wealth tax. It just doesn't strike me as likely at all.

This is (sadly) Paul Graham taking a valid argument and turning it into a reductio-ad-absurdam.
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>I was watching an Aussie rules football game the other day and they're allowing fans back in the stands

What other day? Victoria is totally locked down. Melburnians can't leave 5k from their homes, and they may only go outside for 1 hour per day for solo exercise or collecting essentials, or be subject to arrest.
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It does echo a bad Nicholas Sparks novel (they're all bad). But when the cliché is writ large in real life, it's touching, no? Secretly hoping for _something_ to magically rescue us from the emotional difficulties of our lives ... of course. Likelihood of it happening: (1.0 e -42).
Well we also don't open up about mistakes as often as successes. I'll share mine which is a mixture of both.

The article is basically a rehash of my experience in a start up as the first engineer for a technical founder. I spent the next 6 years growing the company, my skills, and my experiences. I was constantly provided more salary and stock options until I had so many options I could not reasonably exercise them without taking on massive risk. I had to consistently request the status of the option pool to even know what percentage I was granted. When I left the company I effectively had 3 months (Nov 2019 - Feb 2020) to make a decision. I'm personally glad I was conservative and did not exercise them given the outcome of COVID in the US.

I don't regret taking that job at all as it helped me become a very skilled technology professional despite not having a prestigious educational background. It opened new doors which would have otherwise been closed until I had an equal opportunity to prove myself at scale. I do regret the extra hours worked which led to burn out and health issues as well as not being more bullish on salary until later in my career.
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> The corporate shifts at WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal in recent days signal that the technological shift you’ve been reading about for years is finally taking concrete form, accelerated by the pandemic.

Echoes of the collapse of Blockbuster. For those familiar with Clayton Christensen's overlapping s-curves [1], the only remaining questions were the timing of the transition and whether any of the leaders in the old ecosystem could navigate the disruption; the pandemic pulled the rug out from under old Hollywood.

I'm curious how the social aspects unfold if/when the pandemic subsides. The summer blockbuster directly targeted teenaged boys and their dates (indirectly). Will a new public space emerge as an alternative meeting place for teenagers or will the smartphone be the main platform for teenage courtship moving forward?

Is the first date now an anachronism or maybe I'm the anachronism that missed this already long established shift.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Is there a single democratic country that was able to respond like this?
Indonesia and the Philippines are island nations. Their population is 273 million and 110 million respectively.
That they've eradicated coronavirus in Wuhan? The photos are pretty self-evident. If there was a government cover-up and people were still getting sick then we wouldn't see people putting themselves at risk to go to a music festival.

>AFAIK they have kicked out all non-Chinese journalists so that they have sole control over the truth.

I'm not able to find a source to confirm that, but I do see some news articles from earlier this year abiut China revoking press credentials for journalists from 3 US news outlets. AFAICT from searching, journalists from other countries and news outlets are not affected.
It seems we have learned very little. How quickly people forget that China’s extraordinary lies and distortions were in large part responsible for this pandemic in the first place.
Isn't that explicitly prohibited by the GDPR?
I did more digging, looks like it's with the corp:

> In CY 2018, Mozilla Corporation generated $435.702 million from royalties, subscriptions and advertising revenue compared to $542 million in CY 2017. 2017 was an outlier, due in part to changes in the search revenue deal that was negotiated that year. Despite the year-over-year change, Mozilla remains in a strong financial position with cash reserves to support continued innovation, partnerships and diversification of the Firefox product lines to fuel its organizational mission.

However, as noted earlier, the corp does pay for the foundation's advocacy:

> A portion of search revenue combined with grants and donations is used to fuel the advocacy and movement building work of the Mozilla Foundation and its broad network of supporters of Mozilla’s mission.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2018/
every file storage system has to deal with child porn eg dropbox, google drive, amazon, fb, etc etc. the advantage is they can easily convert files to hashes and delete and remove content at scale + work with law enforcement to find and arrest distributors.

can filecoin do that? obviously not. the whole point of being decentralized is that that kind of action is not possible. why wouldn't that be incredibly beneficial to any distributor of any type of illegal content that would otherwise be removed from the centralized storage systems?
How does that affect what I wrote?

Actually, that's not exactly what the story contained. It said that John was the legal name, but it didn't say that Jake wasn't the legal name. That happens all the time, John Jake Johnson, for example.
Not 2015, but definitely 2016-2018.
That might be true, but the caloric consumption of the population is changing. People are transitioning from staple based diets (rice, wheat, etc.) to more complex diets (non native fruits/vegetables, meat). As poor countries gain wealth they want the food to match.
I would guess that most of Bezos' wealth is stilled tied to the stock price of Amazon, and thus actually represents an endorsement of his actions at least a bit more than if it were all in cash.
I think the only reason tech billionaires stay tech billionaires is because they don't act out of compassion.
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The branded 'reach.at/yourname' link is handy to share in social media bio, email signatures and inside conversations. Let me share some examples:

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Some of our features include:

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Please try it out and share your conversational contact page link here.
We would love to check them out.
This is for the UK:

https://www.mcsuk.org/goodfishguide/search

The app page has links to Android and iOS apps, and a PDF (although the latter is dense and highly coloured, not ideal to print).

This being for the UK, they also have a fish finger guide.
No they aren’t. Organic for the most part is a myth. What they do is either spray with a pesticide that can be classified as organic (often nicotine derived) or create an island of organic surrounded by a conventional buffer. Often both.
Given enough resources to refine the process and a few years, I don't see how in the long run it cant become more efficient than farming.
For a non-trivial amount of people, it seems like a serious confrontation with death does it. For others, tuning out the distractions might offer some space for new things to come into their day-to-day lives that make them question as to why they haven't done it sooner.
Pretty sure journalists from around the world have free reign to examine any of Florida or Texas’s claims. Can you say the same about Wuhan?
I know a lot of HNWI and they all complain about tax burden regularly and never mention anything even resembling 'relative position'. IMO the relative status thing is a myth perpetuated by people with a political axe to grind. Most people who keep working past a high level of net worth just like working... don't forget there's a lot of moral value and personal inspiration in building a second or third company that 'changes the world'.
What negative subtext did you pick up on? I didn't catch any.
You can always bluff. I don’t think people do this enough! I mean a shit job is still a BATNA, and you simply don’t tell the next guy you hate the job. Which is as good as you loving your job and “just dipping my toe in the market” from a negotiation point of view.
Is this individual tracking legal in the United States?
I would guess that the distribution today is at least somewhat bimodal based on whether someone pays for a live TV package whether cable, satellite, or streaming. Any of those probably cost at least $60/month (in no small part because of sports).

I expect that typical other streaming spend (Netflix, a la carte rentals, maybe a premium Print add-on or HBO, etc.) probably don't add up to more than $30-40 a month or so.
Don't most of these individuals hold bulk of their wealth in corporations? They are probably not sleeping on a few billion dollars :)

When they have to pay this tax, they will have to dilute the company which in turn affects their control and hold, possibly even the direction of the company over time. So yes - corporations will eventually feel the heat.
Yeah an interesting way of looking at things... Let's just multiply into the trillions and see what's left. I mean once you get to a trillion, you need to ration your food and cut the ones that are not sustainable, right?

Ever thought about cutting the amount of people living on the planet to reasonable levels? But that would be obviously immoral, right? (Note: You wouldn't even have to kill anyone, the human lifespan will do that for you if you prevent people having more than one child on average)
> there have been no domestically transmitted cases in Wuhan or Hubei province since mid-May.

I'm somewhat suspicious of this when New Zealand wasn't able to keep it to zero. China might be able/willing to impose stricter policies, but New Zealand is an island.
SDL2 sets this on windows by default, which is likely what's doing it:

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-lates...

Compositing is required for any sort of antialiasing, especially including window borders, so it's difficult to turn off without having a lot of artifacts. And it also solves vsync which a lot of raw X11 applications can't possibly render correctly with.
> BATNA

Best alternative to a negotiated agreement [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_alternative_to_a_negotiat...
Not at the moment, but we're actively developing a teams/enterprise version of this that allows for self-hosted/on-prem.
The local storage is mainly for performance. It's to prevent a round-trip to the database to figure out the session again. The session id will be the same regardless and it can function without local storage. But I do see your point. I may consider removing it just to be safe.
Scribbling with a pen on a book you bought would be a copyright violation if it would qualify under the definition of recasting, transforming or adapting the book. It must be substantial and original. A full translation, scribbled on the side, would be a pretty obvious violation regardless if you made further copies. Similar if you bought the movie rights to distribute you still need additional permissions to add translations or to cut it into new versions. There has also been cases where a broadcasting station got sued because they added commercial breaks without having copyright permission to create new adaptations (the author had a very public opinion against commercial breaks).

The memory issue has been well discussed and handled in the past. The law has an explicit exception made with this in mind where legal owners of the software has a right to both copy and adapt software if it is an essential step towards utilization of the program. licensees however does not have this right and are restricted to the terms under the license. Naturally this is designed more towards the world of proprietary software where such distinction is more clear.