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For glass bottles, yes. That's been done for a long time, and they're 8 cents a bottle. What's perhaps poorly remembered is that when plastic started to come into use in the 90s, the government decided that reusable plastic bottles should have a pfand of 15 cents, and single use plastic bottles should have a pfand of 25 cents.

This means that bottles that specifically cannot be reused must be held onto and carried back to the store, so that they can be crushed and recycled. The machine you must feed your bottles into to get your 25 cents back crushes them itself. Someone who tosses those bottles into the recycling bin has done nothing better for the environment than someone who returns them to the store.

This seems absurd, but it's the whole point of the 25 cent pfand for single use bottles. People who buy those are supposed to pay the penance of taking them to the store and getting their money back for the sin of buying non reusable bottles.
Agree on all the individual points but owning a stake in Arm would be a lot less messy than potentially moving to whole new ISA (and possibly losing access to lots of Arm patents for example).

I suspect that the calculation is that Nvidia would be a 'good enough' steward of the Arm ISA.
Honestly. It really seems like the Tesla hype bubble has melted people's brains. Now every new company that comes out of nowhere with nothing more than a prototype is hailed as the next leap of innovation.
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the referendum

It's an Initiative Statute, not a Referendum. It rewrites statute law beyond what AB 5 did.
Is it possible for a company to split into a parent company and child company? The child is publicly traded but the parent own 51% of child company's shares so continue to have decision making power.

What are the pros and cons of this approach?
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No, not really. The vast majority of the OS was developed after Android was acquired. It wasn't even a shippable product before then. Source: I have a Sooner, the first ever android phone, abd I wrote software for it.
> Some so presentation-phobic that they won't do that is not going to bring a lot of value to the organization.

I can do presentations, however you are asking me to hold a free 30 minute lecture teaching your employees about something. I'd rather not, basically every company gets excited to hire me anyway and I'd rather spend a few hours doing some comfortable coding over spending a few hours preparing a presentation.
fine, except that Wikipedia editors aren't diverse.
The article has the answer to your question: There was no lens, just a pinhole. The lens and filter system gets integrated "over the next few months". They tested the sensor array, not the lens.
> C will still be used long after you and I and everyone here have returned to dust.

there are also people still riding horses. does not make it relevant in any way.
> The coronavirus may have reached Los Angeles before China announced its outbreak

If by "may" you mean "almost certainly":

1) There were direct flights from Wuhan to California.

(Around 100,000 passengers arrived weekly in the USA from Wuhan and Shanghai, with about half to SFO and LAX. Both Wuhan and Shanghai are international airports.)

2) We know corona was circulating in Wuhan in November, 2019, with the first admitted and identified case Dec. 1. (The patient did not work at the wet market.)

3) Satellite photos show Wuhan hospital parking lots full starting in August, 2019 and cell phone activity dropped to zero in some areas of the bat lab around that time.

It's good to verify corona activity with US records, but the above shows there's a 99% chance it was in the USA in 2019.

Interesting Sept. 2020 followup article on the Wuhan instant hospitals:

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/10/9096889...
Thanks for sharing that, looking forward to the changes.

genuinely curious, why would you get fired?
It's pretty much a rule that if you're writing an article about something visual, you don't include any images.
Thank you so much for that document it's so interesting. Interesting lesson from the exec summary: The real world kite underperformed the model by nearly half, and from the numericals it seems like the main reasons we're that the turning radius was about double that what you were trying to get, and that the tether drag was a significant loss that was not accounted for. The next gen model would be the same span but with a larger area and with a shorter tether, the turning radius would be a lot smaller and it would effectively halve the drag and increase performance by 30% but it would still underperform the initial model by about 20%.

The general big conclusion as I get it is that because of these losses even though the kites are capable of getting more wind per kite, when area is constrained a conventional turbine seems to have better density.

The idea that the kites have lower installation cost offshore does seem interesting to me, but I only skimmed it so maybe that's offset by something else.
Privacy laws are the same nowaday all over EU more or less (the are some national differences). The difference is that the awareness for privacy in Germany has been much higher at least since the early 1990s when a census was declared unconstitutional in supreme court. A long time becfore surveillance capitalism was thing. Germany probably has the biggest share of people opposing Google in all markets they operate in. And still one of the bigger Firefox market shares.
I like to ask the following question: What do we know about reality that we didn't know before the work of these HEP theorists?

This is not rhetorical. There are some works for which there is a concrete positive answer (which might not be simple). But there is much more for which the answer is simply nothing.

I left the field years ago because it was clear that most of the work being done is not physics.
I was wrong on Son having a holding in Nvidia too - seems to have sold it.
> the world will lose out massively by having the ARM ecosystem radically changed to benefit NVIDIA.

if that's the case, then the people who stand to lose from this _should_ be pushing the gov't to standardize and prevent fracturing of ecosystems from happening.
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Yeah, my stay at home costs are not zero, but just being able to scale back to one car (dropping one insurance payment), cancel parking downtown and stop burning so much gas is already a $700/mo saving.

Add in some of the other costs of the “downtown lifestyle” (lunch and coffee; skipped and brewed at home for pennies now) and I’m saving like $15k/yr post tax.

Just on insurance, parking, gas, lunches and coffee I’m saving enough to buy a brand new Aeron chair every month, give or take.

And if this turns permanent, there are a lot of other changes I can make to save even more money and increase my quality of life.

I’d say $1k/yr sounds about right for the extra expenses I’ll incur. That’s not even on my radar with all the other money this saves me and the opportunity it creates.
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But it makes it so much easier to

- Statically check the code, since the static analysis tool knows for certain which value is the size and can check that you're using correctly.

- Initialize the size correctly, since you don't have to enter it twice, or more crucially, remember to change it twice (or create a #define in another part of the file, name it, and document it)

You also make an excellent point yourself about the meaning of 'size'. If this was standardized, it would be the same everywhere, minimizing the risk of ambiguity.
And if you want tools for managing project, what is it?
If you zoom into the picture (in the upper middle parts) there are a lot of transparent circles/torus shapes. I see exact same things (but didn't pay much attention to it) if I look into a bright light source and squint (especially if eyes are moist from tears). These circles also seem to move. What is it?
Having done some speed running (mostly Mirror's Edge), I've clocked 1000's of attempts on some stages. At one point I realised my cam software was taking a screenshot when I pressed record and made it into a seizure inducing compilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqN5C_T8yxU These are only the attempts I recorded...
Citations for what?

Android and Fuchsia source code are public available, just as their code reviews and ongoing work to port ART to Fuchsia.

Anyone skilful to use C without creating CVEs of their own, is surely able to find that information.
It’s not just libraries though. All software needs to build when invoked with “buck build” and it’s dependencies need to be specified in buck’s configuration format. Scala’s build is different enough that it can’t piggyback off Java here.

This requirement is a stumbling block for many languages. For example when compiling Rust, no one actually calls rustc directly, everyone uses cargo. Effectively this meant someone had to reimplement cargo within buck.
France didn't really build new plants either, the existing plants are just as old as Germany's. The one big new project under construction, Flamanville, is already way over budget, more expensive than renewables - even before taking decommissioning into account
Why don't they test these patients for Covid19 antibodies?
Funnily enough, the Airy discs from pinhole diffraction are perfectly resolved when zooming into the blurry romanesco.
There is a lot of problems with split-pants e.g. children now dribble.

It’s not all that big a leap either, there are plenty of gifs of Chinese parents utilizing split-pants to great effect.
this video doesn't make any sense.
It compares the amount of time it takes to type code for a trivial layout. This doesn't make sense for two reasons :

- uikit was shipped with interface builder from day 1. which lets you design trivial interfaces in a wysiwyg way, whithout typing any code at all.

- typing code is never what really takes time. Complex interactions and non-standard UI design is where you spend most of your time.
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Maybe the point of having legislators is to make decisions that improve people’s lives, and so maybe you need someone whose primary loyalty is to the people (or at least, to the people that vote) to synthesize the advice of the experts? Or to put it another way, maybe you need an expert in figuring out what the public wants to synthesize the advice of the other experts?
Yes, it is possible to jave such a system. Semapa, a portuguese company traded in the lisbon stock exchange has such a structure
> long-term commitment for providing any US-owned technology can no longer be believed

only if you are not already under the thumb of the US gov't. Otherwise, it's a non-issue.
This is a premature judgement.

If NVIDIA treats ARM poorly, that benefits alternative ISAs and may ultimately undermine NVIDIAs investment. If NVIDIA treats ARM well, then that benefits the platform as a whole. The reality is going to be somewhere in the middle.

Market equilibrium does not imply maximum benefit for any one interest group. "Consumers" or "end-users" are often conflated with "society".
Look, this might have its use cases for experienced user, but is really dangerous and harmful for the average user. It should not be pushed as a more stable secure version.
i've had this impression after playing with it for a few hours, but you seem to have more experience than that. Care to share your experience ?
Awesome product! Looking forward to using it.
What was the back of the envelope calculation that suggested this would work?
I used to carry about 3-4 shopping bags on my back while cycling back from the supermarket. That was before I discovered pannier bags which are far more effective. You can also get trailers. I also went to my job in the rain and snow. Why did I do this? Because I didn't have a car. It's amazing what is possible when there's no other option.
> bad eating habits

I have much better food at home than whatever shit I can buy at or near the office.
X was Google X, now it's Alphabet X.
Google was Google, now it's Alphabet Google.

Google was the name of the search engine and the company. Now the company name has changed, everything is restructured and Google is an ad platform with a search engine.

"X Development LLC. is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010, which now operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. X has its headquarters about a mile and a half from Alphabet's corporate headquarters, the Googleplex, in Mountain View, California."[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company)
And maybe a "look at this woman who did something" post thrown in for good measure.
> All modern software jobs are mostly about explaining your solution to others

This isn't true in my experience, there are plenty of well paid jobs where you don't have to talk to non-technical people. For example, lets say you are developing infrastructure at Google, how often do you think you talk to non-engineers? Never, everyone in your management chain will be engineers, your product managers are ex-engineers, your users are engineers etc. This is true for directors managing lots of people as well as well.

And even when you develop services much of it is just getting the technical parts right so you can work there as well at Google with very little time spent talking to non-technical people, so senior positions there are mostly about technical stuff.

You could argue that Google and other big companies are a special case, however if we exclude low paid jobs where you just earn half of what you'd do at Google or Facebook then pure technical work like this is a very significant fraction of the market. I'm not sure why I'd work on my presentations skills so I could get hired by a company paying me less.
I understand what parent is saying and this Freiburg example is a good one: there are going to be situations and times (such as the birth of a newborn) where following strictly to the rules (you have a limited amount of trash to dispose) just isn't viable or even possible. Anything that deviates from the norm and established rules, even slightly, is at least frowned upon and at most results in a fine or some other material punishment in Switzerland (I can't speak to Germany).
"you are free to work or leave" isn't actually true, though. It only works if no one has problems, if there is a safety net, or if you simplify the world too far.

People need to eat and have housing. Some folks have to pay child support or risk going to court. Some folks have to pay for medicine or risk dying.

You really aren't free to work or leave until we have the choice to work. An actual choice - as in, me, an able-bodied human, can decide to just stay home and make artwork (without selling). And I wish folks would stop pretending this isn't the case. So long as we have poverty and poor folks that are just-over-poverty, we have people that can be exploited.

That's where we are at, and the laws keep the exploitation from going further: Without those laws, what is to stop folks from doing such things? The market doesn't correct for it - if it did, we'd see better wages now.

A low-wage worker is basically powerless, and can be made more powerless by things like a past felony conviction or court-ordered child support and things like that.
UK is £17.99/month (which is ~€19/month) for Premium (Netflix is £11.99/month for comparison) - YouTube TV not available.
I've never thought of looking at YouTube's front page for suggestions. I think I saw it once, yup, very Idiocracy! I never have subscribed to anything. Some fav channels are MonoNeon[0], Knower[1] and Scary Pockets[2] (music), Chess24 (chess) and the fairly defunct Vi Hart channel (maths/art/?).

It's frequently been asked on here before what peoples' fav channels are. One search:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I think the best channels I learnt about from HN were the magnificent Every Frame A Painting[3] and Captain Disillusion[4], god bless 'em.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMonoNeon/videos

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/LOUISGENEVIEVE/videos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/c/ScaryPockets/videos

[3] https://www.youtube.com/c/everyframeapainting/videos

[4] https://www.youtube.com/c/CaptainDisillusion/videos
Is there a limit to a recursive structure of 51% holding companies? If not, one entity could hold all the decision making power without basically owning equity (in the limit)
> We lived on the bottom floor and mainly relied on wood heat from the backofen in the center of the home to heat the rest, and when we didn't/forget to keep it goin I could literately see my breath while I laid in bed as I lived the furthest away from the source, and as someone born and raised in SoCal it was incredibly terrifying at first.

That is highly unusual for Germany - and most probably you'd be eligible for major reductions in rent paid until the landlord fixes this (depends on the actual temperatures attainable with the heat source).

Anyway, nuclear wouldn't help here: Only a tiny fraction of housing in Germany heats with electricity. It's mostly gas, central heating from power plants (with hot water pipes laid into the neighborhoods), or geothermal.
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> (who said this?)

It's what always pops into my mind when people talk about rockstar developers - don't think I got it from somewhere else but you never know these days.
> The 12 in China don't even compare to the single plant built in France right now, if you do the math.

I have no idea what you're talking about. The 12 reactors under construction in China are equal to 19% of France's entire nuclear base. And those are just what China has under construction over the next four to five years.

In the 20 years it will take France to expand Flamanville, China will have deployed new nuclear capacity greater than the total installed nuclear base in France.
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> Read Me

Well I can't, because apparently my browser (iOS 10) isn't supported.

I wonder what advanced JS features the page is using, that are only available on the latest browsers.</snark>
There was still not that long ago an incredible amount of innovative companies and products in Europe.

But at that time companies were still built for their home markets first and on that regard the USA is big and unified. Since software is mostly winner takes all it means that when the USA companies came to Europe they had already won the USA and could steamroll the local competition

There is for example no way a swedish mapping company could have competed with google maps , which had so much search monopoly money backing it up from the start

The only way Europe could have prevented this is to just ban foreign monopolies, wich is what china did, and why they are now succesfully ‘innovating’.

I read often on this website that europe cannot ‘take risks’ or ‘innovate’ and is ‘riding on american innovation for free’ and I find that a bit insulting, because I fell that as things are geopolitically it’s just not possible for Europeans to compete fairly with Americans
Same here. Just on the really obvious and direct expenses, I got around a 15% raise out of this. There are a lot of other expenses that have gone way down as well and the other expenses that have increased have been... basically line noise. An extra $10 on coffee a month compared to $1200+ in savings isn’t even worth looking at.

And this is still when it’s unknown whether I’ll need to go back to an office full time at some point. If this turns into even 60-80% remote long term, I can start looking at things like selling the second car, moving a little further out instead of paying a premium for a “short” 1 hour commute, etc.

And that’s all without even discussing the time. The extra several hours a day I have to spend with my wife/child/dogs and doing things I love instead of sitting in gridlock are invaluable.
I'm not writing in an emotional way - I'm not angry or upset, or need to cool down, or any of the things I think you are mis-ascribing to me.

I'm writing in a way that proposes or advances an argument or a position. It might not be the same position as the majority hold, but it is my considered and explainable one.

I'm absolutely not saying 'I need to be right' - which is criticism you are levelling. I'm having conversations that explore, or trying to. I learn from being wrong, and I'm happy - HAPPY - to be corrected.

All the best.
This is Ycombinator. A lot of people are trying to rationalize why they're being squeezed by startup companies instead of fighting for their dignity and labor rights.
Have you actually tried that, while living in a urban environment and not in the bush?

Because shit on the floor is also not really hygienic.
As long as those algorithms are consistent over time, then for the purpose of employee stocks, doesn't seem like a big problem.
Yes children dribble. Elimination communication helps you to not let that happen inside.

So why is this not a problem to the Chinese but you make sound like one?
The sheer amount of money looking for opportunities we have in this stage of the long term cycle is really a pity for small / private investors. Not even the worst companies need capital from the public markets...
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Encyclopedias usually have lots of competition, outside of niche areas.

Wikis sort of have this backwards. There's lots of competition in the niches but there's not much competition with Wikipedia itself. The risk is in it being a singular body of knowledge.
Whereas "let's judge an entire city for what some inhabitants thought 45 years ago" is super constructive forward-thinking.
Lol, your baby tells you that it must go and you hold it over toilet. And yes I raised two child like that.
US ? Ethics ? I just choked on my coffee.
That's a terrible example to make your argument.
Each company C_n would own 51% of the company C_{n-1} (with C_1 being the actual company). At every point each company owns a sizable chunk of equity.
Nice. You could even have a fractal structure. I dare a billionaire to make a Mandelbrot set with a bunch of shell companies.
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In psychology papers they repeatedly talk about intrinsic motivation (internal things that you yourself value) being more reliable than extrinsic factors (like money, bigger house, etc) for motivation. I don't think $blogs ideas are that useful given that they're mostly about small, repeatable, extrinsic rewards.

In experiments done on paying people for tasks to see the impact on performance there's data that shows it only works well for large amounts. So I question small external results from the get-go. The other issue is relying on external factors to boost task performance is bad in general because experiments also show that when they're removed your performance drops lower than if you had of started with no external carrots.

In this case: what happens if OP writes something and its a dud? Does he keep writing? What if the next 10 articles are ignored? Compare the same process to someone who loves writing for their own reasons. Maybe they have been reading since they were a kid and have come to appreciate prose. No carrot is needed so they will keep writing long after most quit.