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All of the returns described in the post would likely be tax-free. It's crazy that even most angel investors don't know this.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/qsbs-qualified-small-bu...
They're running 72 experiments on 12 acres. That's mostly interesting to me because that's an incredibly small area of land. US corn agriculture is on about 83 million acres of land. Subsaharan African Agriculture also plants about 83 million acres of maize. They see yields that are 1/3 to 1/4 of US agricultural yields. These yield gaps dramatically close when you start using fertilizer and modern agricultural practices. (The One Acre Fund puts out some pretty good data on this, the Burke and Lobell lab at Stanford have a few good papers on this as well.)

In short, I would just ask people to remember that there are quite a few farmers who would love to stop paying for fertilizer if it didn't impact their yields: all of them in fact. It's one of their biggest costs generally. When an organization says "The Farming Systems Trial was started by Bob Rodale, who wanted scientific backing for the recommendations being made to the newly forming National Organic Program in the 1980s" they've incorporated confirmation bias into their heart.

I'm certainly biased, I'm the CTO of a company that's trying to improve agricultural inputs by financing access to smallholders in subsaharan Africa (Apollo Agriculture, we're actually a YC F1 company also,) but it's worth noting that this is research that's quite a bit outside the normal recommendations that ag scientists believe. I also worked at The Climate Corporation before, to put all my potential biases out on the table.
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You can say that about any major piece of tech being used on the internet, right down to the microcode running on your processor having issues. I mean, shit windows had ANOTHER ping of of death style exploit this month. Should we just stop using windows? What about all the linux exploits that exist?
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I love QR codes, mostly because they are in-app now, and not restricted to one app or one company. The convenience is too good.
That’s why we have seasoned geezers on porch saying “Get off my lawn!”
The effects of adulterating the culture of a competition on a micro level work on a macro level as well. Saying it's caused by "pressure to succeed," is kind of dumb. If you want to know why cheating happens, look at the rewards of being seen as a winner vs. likelihood and consequences of being caught, and like cycling, there is an equilibrium change after which it becomes irrational not to cheat to find an edge. People cheat for the same reason they do anything: because it's worth it.

You can see this in business culture, and even in public life, where once a few compromised competitors succeed, it has a cascading effect on the incentives of the entire game. The culture polarizes, with earnest and talented people at the bottom or at the edges, with mediocre performing but skilled liars at the top. When finding these unfair advantages happens at the micro level it's called cheating, but I think when it takes hold, we call it professionalization.
Surely you misheard. I'm sure they didn't say that because they ship a RCE it is someone else's fault. /s
I used to work for a similar agency in the UK.

This commercialization is a direct result of government policy. They remove funding, and tell agencies to make up the difference in sales.

The Tory-LibDem coalition government was the start, and the following governments pushed further for it.
WireGuard is a great example on how to do marketing for developers. It starts with technical elegance, something that speaks to us. Then great transparency and communication with no bullshit. And finally a lot of hard work.

With that in hand, the project will be propagated automatically through organizations where developers have a say in the decision making process.
Which basically is the reasoning behind Prop 13 in CA that people here like to rag on.
Buy vintage. Solid wood cores, from the 50s-70s. That’s as green as you’re gonna get.
Apple is coming out with it's own version soon that should be popular (at least with iOS people):

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/05/18/ios-14-leak-apple-qr-co...
I don't think this is valid. Which other field is there where you can revert changes to a previous version? Certainly not hardware manufacturing.
While the apparent straightness of a curve depends on the choice of coordinates, there's also an invariant notion defined in terms of the connection.

This affects our understanding of forces: Accelerations live in the double tangent bundle, which gets split into a horizontal and vertical part by the connection. The horizontal part is the contribution by inertia, yielding pseudo-forces (including gravity according to GR). The vertical part is due to non-inertial forces.
I agree that’s a problem, however unlike most environmental issues runoff is an inefficiency not a byproduct. Farmers that more efficiently use fertilizer directly have less runoff. So, generally the economic incentives are in close alignment.

The US for example has seen a significant reduction in runoff without that much pushback from farmers. That said, there is a point where with wasted fertilizer costs less than the methods of avoiding runoff, which changes the dynamics.
Brilliant! My dream along the same lines would be for Amazon to buy back boxes and packing material.
> If anything Twitter’s actions had the opposite effect: it made the story spread far more widely than it would have otherwise

[citation needed]. Streisand Effect is real, but we're comparing it to the relative megaphone that is a traditional media source using the accelerant of Twitter to circulate an under-researched story.

Blocking the story on Twitter didn't stop its spread, but perhaps it gave truth some time to get its boots on before letting a lie ride the Twitter train in the good cars for free.
That's depending on what you consider a "performance enhancing substance". With basic food and drinks, we surely all agree that that's not the case. But the line starts to get blurry with supplements. Whey? Creatine? Caffeine? Supplement stores are full of this stuff, and a lot is really just a waste of money and exists to milk the amateur gym bro cash cow. But some of those things help. And eventually you cross the line into forbidden territory.

That line is a clear one. If you take that line, then no, not every athlete takes performance enhancing substances. But if you count, say, caffeine, then yes, most athletes do. And non-athletes too, FWIW.
>I am lumping companies into groups if they haven’t achieve at least 5X markup. I just don’t feel it’s the right thing to do to point out in public that a company lost or is likely to lose 100% of my investment. Loss is part of the game.

If "loss is part of the game" then why not list the companies they've invested in and lost? Especially if this is for "for transparency and accountability"...
Out of all the furniture I've purchased, solid vintage stuff from thrift stores are both top in quality and prices
IIRC the PCIe interface is not compatible with GPUs.
The fact that they are soldered and not replaceable forces manufacturers to actually build quality storage. You can get away with bad SD cards but if the entire device is bricked then you will demand a complete replacement.
Not all drills have a torque limiter. As I understand it, you're more likely to find those on cordless drills than their corded brethren. I've actually never used a corded drill with a torque limiter, but most of cordless ones I've used have had them.
Bidets are awesome, but what system did you come up with for dealing with the cloth wipes?
Likely because some of these companies are still in business, but are struggling right now, or raising another round, or are in the process of finding a buyer.
Personally, I think various quality of life improvements would help a lot. Make running a business simpler!

Your first year in business should not be spent on lawyers and accountants, but in Germany, it's unavoidable. It's a serious barrier to small entrepreneurship.

I run a simple website, and keeping it online takes a surprising amount of time. The law is damn hard to follow, even with the best of intentions. I don't even want to think about hiring people.

Simplifying immigration would also help. I need to renew my freelance visa. I can't get an appointment. Nobody can. I have to go to a government office at 6 AM and queue until 10 AM to get an appointment. It takes 2-3 months to get a visa in general. If you don't speak German, you'd need an interpreter.

There are a few other steps I didn't have to go through, but they're not easier. Everything involves fighting for an appointment 2-4 weeks in the future, then trying to figure out your position in an opaque system. If you're in trouble, good luck emailing or phoning anyone. The immigration authority answers in 3-4 weeks, if at all.

The list goes on and on. I can't imagine building a disruptive business in such an environment. Running a blog is already a pain in the ass.
More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowellism maybe?
For anyone else who doesn’t know what a quine is:

> A quine is a computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output.
I have mostly played in face-to-face tournaments. The first time I played in an online tournament, I was ahead of my opponent. Then, he started inquiring my whereabouts during my moves. I replied out of politeness and lost by timing out. I didn't mind losing this way, but the way he left without saying a word.

Like social media, sometimes the online medium makes people do rude things they wouldn't do in real life.
16:10 FTW. That golden ratio.
> No one should have taken a tabloid seriously

In an ideal world, which we do not live in.

> They're still going to

... and that's what makes the question of the role of Twitter and Facebook in modern society so dang complicated.
The 'small %' and amount of times something can be recycled does depend on the material involved though. So while typical plastics are hard to recycle and a lot of it doen't even get sorted and hence goes straight to landfill, materials like steel and glass do much better. Moreover IIRC recycling steel even needs less energy than producing it from raw materials.
Fair enough if you don't want to talk about it, but the OP had basically just told the person they were ignorant so probably shouldn't be too surprised at a 'fuck off' response
Fine - but what do I say instead then?
> Why would anyone have this? It's just dumb and embarrassing

Anyone doing some form of decent integration testing?

Generally it’s a different database than the one used to develop locally, but the concept is the same.
You've shown your position — ignorance. You don't have to repeat yourself. You would not save that "burning world". I am sorry for all junior developers who is in contact with you and who you "discipline". I am quite grown up and estimate such worldviews as "no more than middle, or terrible mistake".
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1. The idea behind the product is excellent. Since you are already pitching to the privacy-minded crowd, consider adding a fully offline mode with an optional sync to your server storage?

2. This is an UX-centric product, so it could really use a fully-functional signup-free demo, not just a read-only version of it. Being able to play with everything without the friction of needing to sign-up is a huge plus.

3. There are smaller UI issues that somewhat spoil the first impression - https://i.imgur.com/cC4M6Oy.gif - this is Firefox on Windows.

Break a leg.
Hey everyone, OP here. I know this can be a somewhat controversial topic, so I'm keen to hear your perspectives on inclusive language and inclusion in general. Thanks for stumbling upon my post :)
Of course IKEA furniture lacks durability, much of it is made of that awful MDF (particle board).

Simultaneously weak, heavy and extremely vulnerable to water damage, it's only advantage is that it's dimensionally accurate when new and amenable to automated cutting, milling and drilling at the factory. I guess it's good with laminate coatings as well.

Another thing about IKEA is that if you got an old house with wide baseboards and not-quite-square walls, floors and ceilings, it's hard to make stuff like cabinets, bookshelves and counters mount properly. IKEA appears to be optimized for modern construction.

Much better to just get high-quality plywood cabinets, you won't have to worry about destroying it by using normal tools. It's also lighter and you will swear less and be done sooner. Even better, hire a carpenter to install good stuff.
Why would you throw it away? It has a good second hand value. Give it away, or sell it. There's demand.
I imagine that accidental unfair scheduling is to blame here: that the audio processor is keeping things busy in such a way that Firefox isn’t getting its “hey, this tab is closed” message through to kill the event loop. This is definitely a bug in Firefox, and it appears to be consistent across platforms (I’m on Windows, you’re on macOS, someone else is mentioning Android). The patch to fix this is likely to be quite small.
Billy definitely got worse over the last 30 years. We’ve got some from the nineties that are much more wood-like than what they sell today, still going strong.
Is there such a thing as a meta-server where I could join all the servers to get a Twitter-like experience?
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Man i had to laugh so hard. Thank you.
This is a case of a smaller Wikipedia (a country of 10M people, 400k articles or so). I've talked with our local Wikimedia orgs and there are basically two arguments:

1. It would be fairly difficult to implement an infobox that would load all the data properly (e.g. party membership, by-elections, complex elections etc.)
2. Some people would be sad to see their thousands of manual edits being replaced by an automated source of information.
Indeed. It really made my day when I discovered that Lichess uses an open source library that I made (Snabbdom).
But those 94 acres are hours by train from most anywhere. Usually prices decline the further you go from city centers.
This is where environmentalists always say that the consumer should pay more in the supermarkets, ignoring the fact that the supermarkets make the highest margins in the entire chain between seed and consumer. And they have no incentive to pay farmers more, because farmers don't have a lot of places where they can sell their products.

Solve this problem and you can really change the system.
These guys are just like the clowns on Wall Street with their magical mortgage money machine in the 2000s.

Why can’t i turn electricity into money by doing zero work. Incredible to me that this hasn’t imploded yet. Soon, but not yet.
While I'm sure that happens, Lego is also one of the toys that: is typically played with more and for longer; that gets passed from family to family, is passed between generations, or is resold. It is also less prone to breakage or wear, is relatively easy to clean, and (in many cases) has less plastic than other toys.

In many respects, it is the antithesis of what we are talking about since it is not designed to be disposable. That being said, I wouldn't be surprised if many people simply toss Lego. Such is our culture ...
They say crop rotation is their primary defense against pests. My mother’s farm had excellent results with no rotation by mixing in a small amount of tobacco. I’d also be interested to see someone test an omega-balanced cattle feed permaculture using corn and flax, maybe seed hemp too.
This article started slow for me, I almost stopped reading, glad I didn’t. Great read when the discussion got into the CLEVR data sets and hybrid system.

Hybrid AI has been a keen interest after I retired from almost 5 years of work with deep learning. I just took a job on a knowledge graph team and it feels great to be working on a different approach to knowledge representation and reasoning. My personal opinion is that Hybrid AI is the future and I wouldn’t be surprised to see an exponential growth of practical results, similar to what happened with deep learning around 2013.
Given the lack of success of Kik and Telegram, I don't see this being any different.
As someone currently learning Swift, which I am finding to be one of the most excellent language designs I've encountered, this chat is pretty interesting.
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Yes, but its not a strategy to win every game.
It will make you play at slightly higher level.

Also there are moves that if you don't understand will look odd - computer like. That is also how suspicion can be raised.

Anecdotally i remember other cheating story.

In online FPS like Counter Strike some top level players have been caught using aim enhancer (aimbot) that move a mouse towards a target. But they had it set to only move mouse 1px. Otherwise it was too obvious, but 1px adjustment at top level is a great competitive edge.

And still people get caught. And people still cheat. Its infinite cycle.
I guess the biggest difference is that Keptn can act as a control-plane and connect to these tools.
Keptn itself has deployment capabilities built-in (using Helm charts) but can be connected to tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab, Spinnaker, ... as well.
The Keptn quality gates are comparable to Kayenta in Spinnaker I guess. Although in Keptn it is based on SRE best practices (such as service level indicators and service level objectives).

Another key differentiator is that Keptn takes care of operations as well. Being an event-based system Keptn retrieves (cloud) events and triggers other actions in response to them, such as counter action for Prometheus alerts or problem tickets from incident management system.

full disclosure: I am a Keptn contributor and maintainer.
My impression of this is that the successful farmers are ones who cross from producing corn and soy to producing a variety of products which can be directly marketed at consumers (farmers markets, farm shop, veg box deliveries, pick your own etc) at prices which are far in excess of normal market prices. While this segment of the market is lucrative it's obviously limited in scale; most people want their normally weekly food at industrial scale prices.
I have a project where I was going to build a full x86 machine to serve as a domain specific server because the HW interface I need is only available in PCI amd PCIe cards. Wonder if I could hack the drivers to work on one of these.
I feel like it’s more like the guy who invites you to his party but asks you to bring your own drinks and food.

It’s fine up to a certain point, but when they’re living in a villa it starts to feel cheap.
>> In more technical language, the action of Lorentz transformations on photons is fundamentally different from their action on timelike objects.

I don't believe that, and have never heard it before. There are many ways in which light actually behaves just like particles with mass traveling at speed c. It has to or conservation of momentum is violated.
15 years have passed already and there's no woman-challenger in sight.

I was about to comment that Yifan Hou might be close, but turns out she's only ranked in the mid 80s. And she is by all accounts the most dominant currently active woman.
Is growing maize the best use of Subsaharan Africa land if their productivity is ~33% of 'optimized' regions?

Or is it better to sequester carbon that land? The world is not short of maize supply
"Genius", "contrarian" and "patriot" are all characterizations that don't have any basis in reality. What has he ACTUALLY DONE other than talk up a storm that amounts to not much at all? AFIAK, he's just an employee of Peter Thiel.
This seems... reasonable. I’m fine with Apple not turning over my passwords to the executor of my estate when I die. If I wanted them to, I’d put something specific about that in my will.
'My team will be able to program circles around everyone else' (2002)
I'd imagine they'll think the same thing considering my nephews computer is a school provided chromebook. They're growing up with all the things we've slowly slipped into and will see no problems with it.
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What a way to twist following the privacy law and ethics into something bad. Very disingenuous title.
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If 50% takes longer than another 50%, the metric by which estimation is performed is, at least regarding time, flawed.

If a subcontractor were to report, "hey boss, we've gotten 8/10 items done this week, but the remaining two are going to take two weeks because $REASONS. The estimates appear to be flawed, perhaps because $X and $Y.", I suspect the entire project's management would benefit.
One is done by adults, the other are by children (I remember even 7 year old classmates collecting cards with cars on it). These car brands are just part of the culture independent of age.

If you weren't ever laughed at / shamed at in high school, consider yourself lucky, it's not a good feeling.
When I think of brutalism, I think of the Barbican Estate in London as a canonical example - there's a lot of concrete, but also a lot of windows (a whole lot more window area than you would find in other UK residential architecture).

And, it feels absolutely comfortable to be inside.

I value the experience of being inside the building, more than how it looks from the outside. As such, I find it hard to understand when people associate brutalism with ugliness.

First search result, by way of example: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/what-it-s-live-inside-bar...
If there are already subsidies why can’t there be subsidies specifically for adopting organic methods. You could also make the subsidies pay more during the first few years of the transition period.

Milk is very subsidized as well. You could pair local dairies with local farmers participating in similar programs.
Wow! Thanks for posting this link.

My mother gave me some years ago a late 80s/early 90s copy of the “Rodale book of composting,” which was excellent and I recommend. I have been applying the principles in my own home garden but was unaware of the larger context.
Sorry, that's BS. In some sports and some top ranks, maybe there is a lot of money behind. But that's a very narrow view of "elite athlete". I personally know some Olympic finalists in some sports, and they certainly don't see big money. They struggle to actually train full-time over an Olympic cycle (4 years) without having to have some part-time job that puts food on the table and pays for gear, trips to training camps and competitions.
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> It's quite concerning that websites are able to do this.

They've been able to do this for a long time and for valid reasons (think of a PWA audio player, like a podcast app).

Unfortunately this used to get abused very often. I remember seeing bugs in ads that would: stop your Spotify playback (due to how audio apis work on phones), and continue playing in background (again, this is a feature, but often abused). iOS is much better in that regard, with stricter autoplay policies, etc...

What's super concerning is that audio worked even when the page was closed. Once I kill the tab, the entire process should be killed too.

So yeah, it's possible that it's just an FF bug purely because being able to play audio in BG is a valid feature BUT there should be no audio when the tab has been killed. My guess is that from the OS perspective, the tab is still running.

My another guess is that it has something to do with some clever techniques regarding reducing the app size.