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> Just fix the bugs and leave the rest to the application developers.

Some dev flat out[0] refuse (and I am not debating if it's right or wrong) to package their app for every distro (even major ones: ubuntu, debian, arch, rhel/fedora) so it's up to distro maintainers to package them so users are always at the end of a line of other people packaging the apps (either through distro packages or sandboxed one click installer).

[0] Words are too strong and user CJefferson https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24384206 is right to call me out on that.
I agree, sorry about that. Poor choice of words. I had a very specific example in mind but there's obviously a whole gamut of reasons for not packaging. My position is that we can't nor should we expect dev to package their apps for the distro we use. Also it's no like app devs and distro/os devs/maintainers are living in hermetic boxes and their code/apps never interacting or evolving. Not editing out for context.
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It's not. People used to believe we couldn't go to the moon. They just didn't see other models, or benefited from old models.

Even more than economic growth is growth in standard of living, quality of life, health, and other things that population growth is now causing to decline, however much it helped before. Plenty of human populations have lived peacefully, stably, and abundantly without economic growth. Plenty have grown to overshoot and collapse.

In Thailand, for example, Mechai Viravaidya helped lead a nation go from 7 children per woman to below replacement level. Think the opposite of the One Child policy -- instead of forced abortions and sterilizations, all voluntary, fun teaching kids about condoms and making them available everywhere. It increased stability, peace, and abundance. Here's his TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/mechai_viravaidya_how_mr_condom_ma... "Thailand's 'Mr. Condom,' Mechai Viravaidya, retells the country's bold plan to raise its standard of living, starting in the 1970s. First step: population control. And that means a lot of frank, funny -- and very effective -- talk about condoms."
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Taking littering: how littered is your home? Your work place? What about a Comercial Center? In an anarchy society, the littering is limited to your own property. Yes, you can live like a pig, as long as you don't litter properties of others. If you throw trash in other people property, you don't face a fine, but you will be expelled from the property and face a trial.

In our current society, littering is a problem in public spaces: streets, rivers, sea, etc. In other words: is a problem created by the government.

The main mistake of non-anarchist people is to believe that there are no rules in anarchy, or that it equates chaos or extreme individualism. But there are: the rules that people gives to themselves. An example: religions form anarchic structures. You can join and leave a religion at will, but they have a tight set of rules their members should follow. A power structure exists, but you can accept or leave it.

You might argue that a religion has a government, and thus it isn't "anarchy" according to the definition. But as I said, you can accept or reject the rules, and live under other religion rules, create your own religion or without religion at all. Anarchy equates to "stateless society based on voluntary associations".
I bought my first house at 24 which is apparently rare nowadays. I sold it and made some money. If I had taken my down payment and invested it in a bunch of AMD stock or something I would have made triple the money. But I don’t regret it - there is something so satisfying about owning the place you live. It’s like a sense of self-efficacy and control over your life that is not the same when you rent. I would recommend any young person to go ahead and buy a house as soon as they have the money for a down payment. There is a lot more benefit than just the financial side of things. I grew up a lot in that house. The freedom of owning your place also comes with the reality that anything that happens to it is on you. The house was the biggest personal responsibility I had ever taken on and it was a great overall life experience.
Antifa shooting of Trump supporter in Portland was an assaination
No, that's commonly made up thing coming form bitcoin where "balances" don't exist and the state of the ledger is defined by chain of past transactions. It is a design decision not a fundamental rule. It does not apply to the XRPL where each closed ledger has to follow all rules and contains all information to make forward progress. For example if a balance would be made up it would guaranteed violate a rule now (in the current ledger) there is no need to know the past transactions because if you add balances that would change the sum of all balances which obviously violates the rules. So form that point on each following ledger would be obviously and known in real time to be invalid. In reality ofc that cant happen because the software would simply not include a transaction that causes the invalid state.
If for any reason there would actually be something considered "wrong" in the past it would not have any effect. The system is the code itself all participants agreed on running the same code and agreed on that what the code deems valid is valid and unchangeable forever. A bug can be fixed but what it caused in the past cant be. So the whole validation thing is useless it was validated already by the rules (the code) that was running back then. Validating it again with a bug fixed version of the code is useless. Just like if you would find an error in the bitcoin blockchain that validated fine with the version from that time. So what? it doesn't matter it cant be changed and if someone sends you bitcoins he only has because of a bug how does that matter if it don't change anything in the presets? You don't have to trust that no mistakes where made in the past you only need to trust that the past cant be changed to rely on the system in the presets.

Here's an example how you can validate the current state without knowing the past.

Imagine there are 100 coins made form something that does not exist beside in these coins.
Someone wants to pay something to you using 2 of these coins. Do you need to know where he got them from and where the person before got them from and so on?
If you know there are only 100 in total. (state is public)
And no way to change that. (rules/code is known)
And you know that if you take the 2 no one can force you to give it back. (transactions are irreversible)
Then no, you don't need to know the past transactions at all. Maybe they where stolen in the past a thousand times also lost and found by someone else many times. Does it matter? Not at all.
Thank you for your work. Can I suggest to add a ToC? (I know this is framed as a daily challenge but it will help to see contents at a glance, even naming the chapters).
> "Germany spearheaded the decline in emissions in the European Union."

Yes, but this is possible because Germany's emissions are amongst the highest in the EU to begin with.

Although Germany is making progress and can be commended for it's investment in renewables, more than 30% of it's electricity is still produced from coal (hard coal and worse, lignite), which results in one of the highest grid carbon intensities amongst it's European peers.

Building new nuclear is one thing (there are valid economic and environmental arguments against this), but Germany's decision to close existing nuclear plants, some with many years of life remaining, was a political and emotional one rather than rational and scientific.

Keeping existing nuclear plants operating would have allowed more time to develop and expand renewables, enabling coal plants to be closed earlier and reducing CO2 emissions faster.
Sure, I also pretended that IRC users were all US based... I could have taken a figure of 3b. instead of 3m.

Also was careful to state "stats are lazy and blunt"
> I need to point out that he was burned at the stake for advocating cosmic pluralism

I need to point out that he wasn't. His heresy trial had nothing to do with his cosmic beliefs. He was convicted for teaching religious beliefs, as a Catholic, that were contrary to Catholic dogma. The church punishment for this was excommunication but the secular punishment was execution, so he got burned.
> The backlash here is justified. The companies should allow people who need more time to handle things time off with benefits but no pay or reduced hours (work a 30 hour week) with a pay cut and full benefits for the duration of the pandemic. This way nobody loses.

I can agree with this.

> That being said, these companies brought these problems onto themselves, by allowing internal message gripe boards and the policy that "all voices and opinions are valid."

So... In essence, your policy is that only people _you_ (or someone in the company) select have valid opinions? What if you're not in this category? Would you advocate it then? What if someone told you "Your opinion is invalid, nobody cares what you have to say?"
To me this seems like the perception of time is more based on uniqueness of experiences. When you're young everything was new and therefore was interesting and mattered more. When you're older you slip into a routine and days begin to blur by.

Maybe it's just because of the pandemic, but if I look at the last 6 months of my life right now I don't really remember too much. Mainly sitting at my desk and programming. Then one time my parents came to visit. Comparing that to the average month of college, of course I would perceive that time as longer as longer than my recent 6 months.
I don't think you get to claim simplicity for the theory that results in an exponential explosion of entities. Simplicity isn't just about descriptive simplicity.
Don't worry, in Portland now there's also rioter immunity
You can install Chromium from a third party source just like you could before.

New distribution releases always add and remove packages. Chromium has been removed (as a deb). It's is no longer packaged as a deb because it's a rolling release upstream and it was too much work to backport featureful rolling release to debs.
A question I'm asking myself is: "What would it take for anarchism to work?"

(See also: "What would it take for capitalism to work for everyone?")

Some ideas to consider:

1. @visakanv on assholes:

> Assholes make up about 1% of most groups, cause about 75% of the damage, and ruin everybody’s experience. [1]

2. Dale Pendell on a long-term formulation of anarchism he calls "Horizon Anarchism":

> I want to see the president, when it comes time to sign a bill, even if the bill may be necessary, to recognize—instead of being proud of every piece of legislation that’s passed—to recognize that it represents a failure of our collective social nature. And, instead of giving away all these pens with fanfare, he should light a stick of incense and say, “My fellow Americans, it is with deep regret that I must announce to you that, because we could not solve this problem on our own, we have had to enact another piece of legislation. Let us pray we can recover our senses and repeal it as soon as possible.” [2]

3. Another question to ask is "Why are some people willing to cooperate, but not others?"

Theories of developmental stages give us useful models to understand the prerequisites. What cultural, psychological, and physical needs must be meet?

I've found a good starting point in this area in Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux [3], which draws heavily on Ken Wilber's integral theory and other research on developmental stages that came before it [4].

[1] http://www.visakanv.com/blog/assholes/

[2] https://psychedelicsalon.com/podcast-055-horizon-anarchism/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcS04BI2sbk

[4] https://reinventingorganizationswiki.com/Developmental_Persp...
Oh god, I’ve thought long and hard about this over the years and my conclusion is that there’s no good advice that applies to everyone - whether you should own or rent depends heavily on what you value, how long you plan to stay put, and what alternatives you have when it comes to what to do with your money.

Renting gives you flexibility and keeps any cash you might have free, but it also is a sunk cost with each passing month. It’s pretty simple math.

Owning a place ties up cash in the form of a down payment, and a lot of people underestimate the true cost of maintenance and repairs over time on both new and old buildings. But the ability to build equity over time and the amount of control it gives you over your living situation makes it an obvious choice for me. If you can get into a multi-family or income generating property, your returns are obviously higher. I’d always look at appreciation potential as a bonus if it happens, it’s never a reason to buy.

I think the truest and most important thing to keep in mind is that money is made and lost when buying real estate, not selling it. Educate yourself, be picky, take your time, be realistic about costs, and do your very best to buy well.
Regarding humans being organized very loosely until agriculture personally I wouldn't consider that as a plus.

We're on HN, just think about the pace of human development before agriculture and after. We were pretty much doing the same thing for half a million years and then in 10000 years: rockets in space! ;-)
Apple doesn't help prop up an authoritarian regime? CCP gonna CCP, but at least Apple's hands are clean. It's not any individual Chinese citizen's fault, but they unfortunately have to deal with the consequences of an illiberal, ruthless regime.
Disruption requires inefficiencies/skirtable regulations in the existing system. In this case the system is capitalism itself.

As long as software development and user acquisition requires capital, software doesn’t seem all that different from other capital intensive activities.

IMO this will change when

1. Regulations and/or cultural norms inhibit user-hostile behavior.

Or

2. capitalism itself changes
Offtopic: I’m curious to see how Substack fares and if we will have the same “Substack sucks” attitude from viewers that we’ve seen with Medium. Both it and Reddit are YC ventures and it seems like YC hasn’t moderated away people disparaging how awful Reddit has become in attempting to monetize/ROI it’s audience.
Medium is very popular among people who are trying to be Thought Leaders but actually have no original thoughts to share
> There are no fixed solutions for organizing society.

Quite. But who says it is for anyone to organise 'society'?

You're missing the point of anarchism, I think. The only person you need to 'organise' and take responsibility for, is yourself. Most people look to government (not themselves) to take responsibility. And that is the problem.
"There is no consensus among scholars, therefore human rights don't exist."
I'm wondering how feasible it would be to make a system with 3 pumps, and holders for ion-selective probes (pH, ORP etc). In an automated process, flood with sample; measure; evacutate; flood with water to clean; evacuate; flood with KCL to store.

Probably too expensive to be practical.

For temp compensation: I'm not sure the best approach. Temp dependence is loose, so you can get away with a reasonable temperature error for most applications. I went with on-circuit air temp sensor, with the ability in the drivers to feed in an offboard value. This is a reasonable approximation in many cases, but as you point out, for heated tanks, large ones, in-ground ones, or open bodies of water etc, you need to measure water temp directly.
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>I see this when dispersed camping, simple things like cleaning up at the campsite before leaving. Most people don’t have a problem with it but there are small groups who don’t care about anything. Those small groups tend to ruin it for everyone.

As I understand it, an anarchist camping group (for lack of a better name) could still collectively agree on and enforce rules - in many ways still a "managed" campground, just with more shared ownership
Taking your point even further, you can raise the cost basis of your house by all the improvements you made to the house while you lived there. If you added a $50k pool to a $400k home, your cost basis is now $450k.

Further, you can deduct all the sales commissions (real estate 6% fees) from the profits as well.
I disagree.

Systemd did things differently, sometimes annoyingly, but the intention was still to allow you to control your own system. It also ate other projects (e.g. udev) and sprouted features (resolved, timedated, etc.) making it difficult to untangle, but it was/is still possible to do so.

The biggest complaints I see about snap as currently implemented are related to making arbitrary outbound network connections, automatic updates that you can't disable, and inability to mirror or vendor snaps or an entire archive / repo.

These don't seem similar to me at all. Systemd is opinionated, perhaps in a non-unix-philosophy way, but still preserves users' freedom. Snapd does not.

If you have a system with snapd, your system is doing things that you can't disable without replacing the system wholesale. The Microsoft-levels of telemetry and lack of control seem to me clearly worse in every way than anything that was ever wrong with systemd.

I don't actually believe that snapd is irredeemable, and think that these things will eventually be fixed, either as they progress on their roadmap, or as a response to user outrage. But I don't really understand how it got shipped in such a state. In particular, the non-disableable silent updates seem to me like a complete non-starter for a server operating system. How are you supposed to schedule maintenance? What were they thinking?
It depends what you buy, and where, and how well you keep up with the property. I sold my first house in 5 days.
> Those are examples of how, unless you place explicit constraints on people's ability to amass power and abuse it, people will amass power and abuse it.

They will always do this? What is the source of this knowledge? And I ask that in the literal sense, not rhetorically.
Mint and Pop come to mind if you want to stay in the Ubuntu ecosystem without snaps.

Debian is even more stable and retains apt as a package manager, but you will have older packages for stability and have to customize it a little.

If you can venture out of the Ubuntu space, I have found Manjaro to be an excellent experience in the few months I used it earlier this year. It has very fresh packages since it is Arch-based, but also uses an LTS kernel and has some measures in place on its own repositories for stability's sake. I can't attest to the effectiveness of the latter since I've never had stability issues on Arch, but Manjaro is certainly wonderful out of the box and a very pleasant experience in my opinion.
Snaps are SLOW, chromium, and several other apps I tried, they start sloooowly.

It is clearly a NO GO Canonical, you can't ship slower apps (that start in 3-5 seconds), that out of snap (or in Windows), start in less than a seconds.

snapped Chromium takes 3-5 seconds in its first start in a 16GB ram, corei 5, ssd based machine. WHAT?

In the same hardware the .deb Chromium takes maybe half a second to load and be fully responsive.

The occurs with LOTS of software, and yeah, the start time of an app IS a thing.

If something takes more than half a second to start, and you know it is A LOT faster, you end up pissed off,

What have they done with MY hardware and why?

If Canonical start to annoy me with many more packages forced to snap like chromium, I'll be jumping to whatever distro lets me start MY apps in less than a second, as it is usual in 2020.

And if this unfinished, unpollished crap starts to show off in Ubuntu server in its current sorry state, I cannot express how fast I will be ditching LTS for Debian or anything "not snapped".

You NEED to make this thing to start A LOT FASTER,

and stop making "end user assumptions" about what you could mess up behind scenes in the system (yeah, you could end stomping actually useful things like sleeping in notebooks).
Reiterating the other comment: this is not true of LVT. LVT cannot be passed on to renters. Essentially every other tax can be and is passed to consumers. No economist disputes LVT’s inability to be passed on.
> The companies should allow people who need more time to handle things time off with benefits but no pay or reduced hours

So how do you feel about maternity leave for pregnant women?
+1, SSB is basically Git with the constraint that each commit only has one child (no branches) and instead of a tree you can publish arbitrary JSON. Shallow clones are completely possible, it's just that the reference implementation demands the full chain for verification.
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>No, you can't. Ubuntu has started replacing apt packages with snaps. So if you want to install those packages (such as Chromium) you now have to use the snap.

You can almost always install via deb if you want instead.
The Little Manual of API design

You can read it in an hour or two. It cover a lot of things that you should consider
Switched to Debian because of all this useless Ubuntu crap. Never looked back.
Yep between the salt tax deduction cap, incredibly low interest rates, recently lowered limit of $750k for how much home value qualifies for the mortgage interest deduction, and recently raised standard deductions, for a married couple (and maybe also for a single person but I haven’t calculated that in detail) the tax benefits of owning a house are very close to 0.

Which is probably a good thing, there’s no need to give the huge breaks we have been the past few decades to people wealthy enough to buy a house. But what a bizarrely complicated way to go about enacting this change instead of just eliminating the mortgage interest deduction altogether.
This idea of appreciation being a bonus is the most important concept in real estate ownership.

Make the math work without appreciation, and you are doing it right.
> it is better for most people to make it a (small) part of a wider financial investment plan.

Theoretically, you are right.

Realistically, most people don't have enough left to invest a substantial amount of money in another market once their primary residence has been taken care of. Last time I checked, over 60% of the net worth of the average American homeowner consisted of their home, with their 401k's taking up a significant share of the remainder. I guess that's one reason why RDPD was so popular: it told people that they could become a "rich dad" by just continuing to do what they -- and everyone else -- were doing.
What do you do if you've been using Chromium as your default browser, though? (…and are concerned about privacy, so you don't want to install Chrome.) Yes, as you say elsewhere, Chromium is not the default browser on Ubuntu. But what do defaults mean, anyway? Ubuntu switches the default music player every other year, too, and at some point people will just stick to the app they like better.

I had always been under the impression that distribution defaults are suggestions for novice users. We've never had a situation before where a distribution like Ubuntu didn't properly support common alternatives to the default app.
Drag? It would be like dragging an anchor once you start moving horizontally. Also, wind.
Is it not a good thing if there are no structures in place for those people to abuse to oppress others? We've seen states captured by murderous lunatics time and time again. It seems having structures in place for those kinds of people to abuse has worked very poorly.