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> This is utterly ridiculous. I live in the UK and have been renting for many years, I've lived at 15+ addresses and not at a single one could I have powered the car from home. Not one.

Oh boy. I just picture someone from the early 20th century riding a horse and complaining about not being able to tank a car for the lack of gas stations.
This is your own agenda and I am pretty sure implementing these solutions does not cost you much personally.

What cost have you chosen to bear ? Do you exclusively use public transport ? Have you banned planes from your life ? Home delivery (the last mile is the one that creates the more pollution) ? What share of your revenue do you give to plant trees ?

> You need to send signals like this to the market well in advance so they can invest and plan ahead.

We are talking about billion dollars of investment at stake. You need years to train engineers, develop new technologies, ...

The role of politics is not only to implement policies but also to signal where we are heading so that a decentralized solution can be achieved.
>The most realistic, and highest success chance scenario is that North Korea will coordinate attack with China.

The most realistic scenario is that the nukes are not used to initiate an attack. They are there for defense, not to start a war.
What are leaders for if they can't lead ? Should their job not be to convince people of what needs to be done ? They do a very good job by the way when it comes to pushing for liberalism.
Not dealing with global warming will also lead to "the kind of economic impact such drastic action would entail would likely run into millions of deaths, many of them far away in poorer nations"
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I would just like to say thank you for creating mosh, I don't know if I could live without it anymore.
my limited experience there is from reading hundreds of applications. The cover letter definitely made the biggest difference in our process (small remote company, no HR department, no headhunters or agents).

You mention things like “representative of my skills”, which I’m sure these were. I would however stress out the importance of representing the match to the employer. A good cover letter makes it obvious. And yes there’s an overlap between skills and match, but they are still different.
> PRC can either fire and also lose a few cities, or not fire and be ignored.

CCP leadership has never cared if they lost half their population. It would be a bonus - less mouths to feed.

And in fact about a quarter of China's population died in the Cultural Revolution, which was planned.

> MAD works because everyone knows that starting or joining a nuclear firefight is literally suicide.

No, MAD is a placebo for the ignorant public. Moscow has it's own ABM ring, and Reagan thought that not physically defending the US was stupid, hence SDI.

Islam also doesn't care about MAD.
That also have 3GB RAM and eMMC, or am I missing something?
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Plot twist. America hacked North Korea’s nuclear defense system, and launched their nukes at Beijing from North Korean soil, to frame North Korea.

To all outside observers, this looks like North Korea did it. But Beijing is now turned to glass, and the Chinese command is transferred to the military division in Chengdu. The world is tense, as it awaits China’s retaliation.

However, China doesn’t fall for the bait. They begin their investigations in earnest, and discover the true mastermind behind the nuclear attack: The United States.

World War 3 begins. China launches 1000 ICBM missiles at the United States. Thus ending all known life as we know it on American soil. The American military counterattacks and launches all their nukes at China. Both sides are turned to glass.

The world gasps at what just happened. Russia now proceeds to take over the world. Well played.
Well yeah, the site being overwhelmed made it unreachable. Or to put it another way, it disappeared.
Sure, right now. But do they know why? Will their customers still be around for the PS6?

Your comment is so shortsighted I can't tell if it is a parody.
As someone that works on software that includes functions to try to figure out where you can place electric car chargers - it absolutely is very hard. The grid just isn't ready for it.

It can be done, but will require massive investment in infrastructure.

There are also problems such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve and other things that can be mitigated with ADR to an extent, but it's absolutely not easy
The issue is that hardware decoding is a hodgepodge of various vendor-specific interfaces. Projects like VA-API try to put a nice frontend onto them so applications don't have to care about the hardware, but ultimately that just means twice the work needs to be done to add support for new hardware, and to maintain existing hardware.

If kernel developers writing drivers for hardware video acceleration were to build to a standard set of kernel interfaces, then userspace would just have one interface to work with, simplifying things and reducing overall effort.
That urge is what I meant by "overwhelmingly archaic feelings". I hesitated to write this as I am a completely nonviolent person, but at one point, I felt the urge to take out my cheap Swiss pocket knife in preparation to kill a dog which approached the family, in case he attacked. As another commenter has mentioned, this is just something evolution has strongly selected for.
At least this is only banning new cars at the moment. But electric cars don't have a guaranteed real-world range of over 350 miles, the same as a tank of fuel, cost the same as petrol models, and charge as quickly as you can fill it with petrol. If the latter was solved petrol stations could be converted to charging points in cities, reducing the need for on-street charging points.

And the charging requirements for all those cars, requires a massive investment in the national grid, practically doubling capacity if we ever get all 25 million registered vehicles electric. Twice as many power stations than we currently have, twice as many wind turbines and so on.
If you open a big enough codebase you'll find not a recipe book. It will look like an interconnected wiki with hyperlinks represented as navigation points between method and classes.
So, write your code as a wiki book maybe?
Real story: NSA's data sharing with DEA et al in the course of illegal and unconstitutional parellel construction has showed said agencies just how much data they are missing out on... and now they want in.
It's surprising to me that PS3 emulation (RPCS3) is so much further along than Xbox360 emulation (Xenia). Is it just a matter of one platform getting more attention?
Over here I’m dying to port ArchMac to aarch64, which should be reasonably quick... if I had access to Apple Silicon hardware.

Being a lonely maintainer means I’m a bit (a lot) late on package versions and some areas are hacking, but it works on Big Sur already. But then again I’m also most probably the sole user and only target audience given the popularity of alternatives.
Then humanity is clearly headed off a cliff in that landscape.

Which, by the way, has been signaled to everyone for decades now. Just our political processes have not allowed those signals to reach "the economy" and we seem to be unable to act on anything that isn't felt by the economy. Which, I might add, is not a god-given fact, but rather a political choice.

Anyway, we will have a cliff. And it will have been announced. And people will suffer when our consensus finding process drives us all over this cliff.
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I keep reading that it's difficult to emulate but the current Rpcs3 is doing great work at such a high pace

https://youtu.be/MhLteF_xVi0
Notice that we're talking about de-identified patient data here. There is a utility/privacy trade-off when using data containing private information: on the one hand, the patient's personal information must absolutely be protected, on the other hand, many processes could benefit from the information in such a data collection even without the knowledge of which data point belongs to which individual.

If de-identification is done right, it would be a bit of a stretch to talk about "surveillance" because that's the whole point of de-identification: remove any information from the records that allows a third-party to identify the underlying person from whom the data originated. Note especially that this includes inference attacks, i.e., not only should any occurrences of names be removed/masked but also any information that would allow an informed attacker to re-infer that information, i.e., cross-link the patient data back to a specific person.

The big elephant in the room, however, is the "If" at the beginning of the previous paragraph. As far as I see it, the problem lies not in wanting to establish some functionality that actually uses the collected information but whether appropriate privacy prerequisites have been put in place prior to that.
I’m sure you didn’t intend anything by it, but you might not want to use the phrase “final solution” in your marketing given that Nazis are a prominent banned-from-Twitter group.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Solution
There are some other answers already regarding whether or not these rules apply to on-duty Police officers but I think you're missing the point.

There seems to be a broad based perception these days that the Police don't obey the rules regarding use of force and they are not proscuted when they break them.

This might mean that the original statement: "the police can legally ... kick the shit out of you" is technically innacurate but it is functionally accurate. The Police do not appear to large swathes of the general public to be at risk of prosecution for beating the shit out of suspects (which basically means anyone they want to).
Watching 4K and 8K Videos on YT where people just walk through the streets. Just search on YouTube for "4K Tokyo" or "8K Germany"
1990: do you want to fix global warming, it'll take 1% of gdp. -- nah
2000: It's now 3% -- nah
2010: It's now 5% -- nah
2020: It's now 7% -- it's too expensive to fix now

We need to tax pollution the amount it costs to clean up that pollution, that's all. You can fly as much as you want if you pay the costs.

I suggest a £1 tax on non EV cars, that doubles each month
Agreed. If the government was serious about starting a program for reducing emissions from internal combustion engines, it could start by gradually increasing the gasoline tax until it became prohibitively expensive to buy an internal combustion engine car in 2030. In your analogy, the diet would start on day 1 with an objective reduction in sweets, even if not 100% quite yet.

BTW, I'm not saying that the government should increase the tax, I'm just saying that a concrete action in the present would go a long way towards building credibility.
They also only looked at a single election where Republicans outperformed polls across the board. If you look at the 2016 election, 538 was more bullish on Republicans than betting markets, and came out ahead.
Most people get a measly 2 days of leisure time per week and you want to ban them from being able to use cars/leave the city on their 2 free days?

Good luck I guess?
If charging is as much of a hassle as you claim then hybrids would be the worst of both worlds: you would get under-powered ICE car with a small and yet unnecessary batter that would never be charged because, as you just described, charging is not a hassle.

You have 10 years to enjoy your oil hungry, polluting ICE car and then you can buy ICE car in 2030 and have it for 10 more years since the ban only extends to new car sales.

And then let's hope that 20 years is enough time to put chargers everywhere. Somehow we manage to put several connectors to the grid in every house and apartment, connect street lamps and parking meters which suggests that it's a solved problem. We just need to do it and 20 years seems like enough time.
> stuff like removing one change from staging

I click on the file and click on "unstage". I don't know why people insist on using the command line for their dvcs. Is it even possible to selectively unstage or reset only a part of a file without a GUI?
Perhaps we should stop letting individuals appropriate public space for storage of their private property, and charge market rate for the land used by parking, thereby encouraging people who are not car dependent to buy houses such as yours instead of demanding a public handout for vehicle storage?

(The High Cost Of Free Parking explores this issue in depth)
I know it was a pain to code for initially but once the tooling got better was it really that bad? The Cell still seems like an awesome piece of kit.

Had the PS4 been a PS3 with a new GPU and a clocked up Cell with an extra PPE would that have been a bad thing?
I also want to buy an EV, maybe a Tesla, but unfortunately, having long trips are nearly impossible, since the supercharger network is not adequate enough yet. I just can not afford having 2 hour breaks every 400 kilometers just to charge my car.
This is underrated. After a 23 day outage I will never, ever, under any circumstances choose a Sony product. They're irredeemable. It astonishes me they were able to continue selling consoles. In the same way that I will never forgive Microsoft for their hostility I will also never forgive Sony for their utter incompetence.
Cities went from horse-drawn carriages to automobiles because the incentives made it attractive to do it. The same can be done for for electric vehicles, it’s just a matter of putting the horse in front of the cart.
Pretty soon, Apple will tell you what the name of your app will be and what it should be about. Oh and nothing older than X years will be allowed to run. Tighten the screws until users repurchase hardware. Take that, hackintoshes and virtualized desktops. Verboten!
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No, there’s 6 weeks to go and there’s still no trade agreement in place, nothing material has happened in the last 4 years. Any business that imports/exports has no clue what will happen on 1st Jan.

But yea I can get a blue passport now. What a great thing to waste years on.
Brexit is a direct result of global warming. Wars caused by drought, cause migration, cause racism.
I think his point is that we should have got electric cars a long time ago.
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Here’s the thing about a CO2 molecule :

I stood there for ages shouting at it,

Then I tried to reason with it,

Then I explained to it about in intricacies of human politics (you cannot have sudden cliff-edges in policies!)

Then I told it I had to send signals to the market

And the darn thing just sat there and continued to cause problems.
Just look at the volatility. Bitcoin is insanely volatile. That's not a sign of a stable investment. Gold is better, but not a lot, because like Bitcoin, it doesn't represent intrinsic economic value, it only represents people's trust in it, and that can change. Not as dramatically as Bitcoin, because gold is much more established, but in the end, it's still just a shiny metal.

ETF and land represent real production value. Land most directly of course, and that's about the most stable as you can get: even if literally the entire economy collapsed, at least you still have land you can farm.

ETFs are a bit indirect; to be more direct, you'd have to buy shares of the individual companies represented in them, but for most people that's a lot of work. ETFs get you the same thing. Their composition might change, but only slowly and tied to a whole bunch of criteria. And in the end, they do represent the economic value of real companies that produce things.
My opinion is that the main driver behind the rise of far-right movement is the refugee crisis, caused by the US-led destructive interventions to Syria and Libya, which got amplified by questionable refugee policy, effectively promoting human-trafficking business.

The almighty Russian meddling can only tip public opinion a bit in the desired direction, but can not create it from nothing.

To not repeat myself, I will simply link my old comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23743786
I don't know, I think the Surface pro keyboard is surprisingly good all things considered. I agree the trackpad doesn't feel great, but it is accurate and usable enough and the typing experience is certainly no worse than any other similarly sized laptop I've used and better than many. For a removable keyboard I think they've done a great job.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25101766
We have private companies softlanding (almost) inert ICBMs on barges in the middle of the sea. I dont think this military capacity comes as a surprise to anyone... ;-)
Given that the alternative is not having a car at all (unless hydrogen takes off), surely people can adjust?
I think you’re being a bit unfair here. The UK has made good progress in moving away from fossil fuels in recent years.

As of June this year, the UK was generating more power from renewables than from fossil fuels. A decade ago hardly any power was being generated from renewables. The UK has gone months without burning coal this year, and plans to decommission the last three coal power plants in the next five years.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52973089

These aren’t empty promises, this is solid progress.
Hm, in that post Rachel mentions that 1213486160 is going on her list of magic numbers... I wonder if this list has ever been made public anywhere? I'd very much like to see it...
Absolutely correct. And this is probably the "great filter". Unless we do something now we are headed down a very bad road. Our only option is going to be geo-engineering which is a risky business
As someone who uses Azure I have done many an Azure yak shave!
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It's definitely fascinating, feeling these outdated instincts in our modern world.
The key difference here is the existence of South Korea. Sure, if the US were to waltz in alone, they'd be treated as the invaders they are. But every North Korean has been fed a steady diet of "Korea is one!" since birth and they're all well aware that their kinsmen in the South are materially better off in every conceivable way -- so when said kinsmen lead the invasion and form the new government, they're not going to get violently rejected in the same way.

The fall of East Germany is instructive: while that imploded internally instead of being triggered from the outside, there was absolutely zero violent resistance to West Germany coming in and essentially taking over. North Korea isn't going to be same level of cakewalk, but it's closer to this end of the spectrum than Afghanistan or Iraq.
This is hilariously impractical. Have you seen curbside chargers? There's some up the road from me and by no means does it look simple to install them, not to mention that you'd have to do it along _every_ single residential street _everywhere_ and we don't have the electrical capacity to do it anyway!

If it really is so simple, why when I live in London do I not see entire streets filled with chargers? Surely you'd think that'd be in place by now given the time frames?

I think it's hand-wavey to say 'oh you can just charge at low current'. And if you've ever seen a petrol station near a motorway here you'll realise the idea of parking your car for x * 10 mins to charge would simply not work, there'd be multiple mile tailbacks.

Overall the govt treats this issue like it's a smaller problem than it really is.
There is a HN article about using iron for industrial heat. The only downside is that transportation is expensive. If it can be electrolyzed on site it's going to be a game changer.
I firmly believe that it's downright impossible to give a great experience with the same UI using touch/keyboard+mouse. You're just bound to have ugly tradeoffs in usability xor visuals.

It also seems to me like an ergonomic nightmare. I'm curious to hear if people who use their iPads like laptops (with a keyboard and trackpad) feel like they want to reach for the screen. I'd imagine it's a last resort.
Some counter points:

- You don't need to sink an aircraft carrier to mission kill it. Even one hit to the deck will probably neutralize it's ability to launch/recover aircraft.

- Submarines and satellites are/will be enough to locate surface naval fleets.

- Once you've located your target, you can simply overwhelm it's defenses with massive missile barrage. Whether the missiles are ballistic, hypersonic, or traditional sea skimming AShm doesn't matter. The economics are in the attackers favor. Defenders must target each incoming with multiple anti missiles, and can only carry so many. The enemy will simply win by sheer numbers as they have no practical carrying capacity.

It seems pretty clear that carriers would need to be far, far away from any near peer adversary in a shooting war. At least until enemy subs and satellites are out of the picture. Even then you risk ballistic missile attack from the Chinese interior if your location is somehow discovered.
I recently got a Tesla while living in London with no off street parking. I had the same basic concerns, and only went ahead because I knew I'd be moving somewhere with off street parking within a few months.

But it actually turned out to be a complete non issue. My usage pattern (short occasional trips around town to shops etc and regular long trips to Bristol and back) could be handled entirely by stopping off for 15 mins at a supercharger when I went passed one. A bit more frequent than ordinary refuelling but not much more. It's reasonable to assume that 10 years from now fast charging will be at least somewhat more effective and a lot more ubiquitous.

I didn't have to touch any of the other charging infrastructure in London but there is a lot of it.

If we had been staying long term we would have used the 7kw chargers being built into lampposts all over the place[1]. The council will add one in if you have a car and ask for one, but there was already one within my usual parking area.

The lamppost thing seems to be London focused for now, but they're extremely straightforward installations and news like this is going to see them pop up everywhere.

[1] https://www.ubitricity.co.uk/residential_charging/
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But can't you then also say, an attack with a carrier group is gambling with mutually assured destruction?
This approach depends very much on culture. For example, US culture is very much, get to the point, start with the conclusion. German culture requires you to outline how you got to the conclusion.

Interesting book on this topic: The culture map, by Erin Meyer. (https://www.amazon.com/Culture-Map-INTL-ED-Decoding/dp/16103...)

It has a whole chapter on this topic: 3 - Why versus How, the art of persuasion in the multicultural world.