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most farmers in India are very poor, they depend on the profit from the crops to do anything in their families. Example, marriage of their kdis, fixing their house etc. Most of them have small patches of land and depend entirely on monsoon rains.
So if the rains fail in a given year OR the supply is too high in the market, farmers don't even break even.

So to protect farmers, Govt of India and the state govts provide lot of subsidies and incentives.
Here is a short list:
1) They don't pay taxes on their income.
2) Get loans at a very low interest rates. Most of the time loans are waived off.
3) They don't pay for the electricity used for farming.
4) They get subsidized prices on the seeds, fertilizers etc.
+1 on this. Developing for Apple means you have to only use their tools. I legit hate XCode as an IDE. I tried to do swift in VScode last year but the language server was very barebones.

In my mind, despite this Apple is successful because they make fantastic hardware. If Apple didn’t have the fastest chips and stellar cameras, they wouldn’t be successful. Developers jump through so many hoops because the customers are there.
this article is misleading. 250M people never participated in nationwide strike. it would be barely in thousands or hundreds.
The plasma you can generate in your microwave is nowhere near 100M degrees.
The low range of plasma temperature is at around ~6K Celsius.
Looking at the old discussion is still worthwhile, as there is little new information since then, even though legal processes completed now.
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The number is from the unions and organizers involved in the strike. The sum of their members lists I would guess.

« The huge mobilisation, which organisers said involved 250 million people »
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/11/27/indi-n27.html
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I live in Germany, in the city. If asked, I guess about 60% of people in my street still need a car. Why do you ask? Because public transport is slow and expensive in lots of instances. Even if you'd be able to cover 60% of your needs without a car, you'd still need a car for quite a lot of cases.

Public transport is certainly better than in some other countries, presumably better than in the US. But it still has to become a lot better the be an actual complete replacement for a car for the majority of people.
Remember Bowie talking about the internet in '99 "I think we're actually on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying.... Its an alien life form, just landed."[1]

Many of us feel the same about programmable money. It seems pretty interesting, unexplored, and has exciting, scary potential. It seems like a great place to build community groups openly, fairly, freely(in the libre sense). It reminds me of being a kid in the 90s dialing up to the internet and discovering peoples homepages and forums, sharing ideas and playing with new ways of organising and working together, playing and having fun. The ethereum dev community is inspiring to me.

But you dont have to agree that it is world changing, thats ok. I think there is value in it and will work to prove you wrong! We're all on the same side in the end.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaHcOs7mhfU
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My original career choice was to be a teacher.

After doing it for a few years, it became clear that teaching as a career was not for me even thought there were aspects of it that I really liked (the material, helping students navigate life, thinking about teaching). Other aspects were not for me (bureaucracy, high maintenance parents, etc).

You might find that while those individual subjects interest you equally, careers in those fields might have different parts to them which you are not suited to (public speaking, grant writing, research).

All that said, I’m not really sure that I’m good at my current career itself but more that the individual things that make it up suit me better. One thing in particular is that I am able to grind at the same task for many days in a row to meet my goal. This has crossover utility in other fields too but has served me well in my current one.
Yep, you had to modify the kernel to set some options so that it would know what device held the initrd (and where on the disk), and then you could dd that to the floppy and dd the initrd after it. At boot time the BIOS would load the kernel from the floopy, Linux would open the fd device, adjust the device to seek to the beginning of the initrd, mount the initrd, then load and execute init.

But the later convention was to create a loopback device tied to a disk image, mkfs.minix it, mount it, copy the kernel and an initrd, and run lilo on the loopback device. Then unmount and decouple the loopback from the disk image and dd that to the floppy. It didn't really take up any extra space and made it easier to update your initrd or kernel.
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There are lots of hoops I would need to jump around if someone would send be US dollars. Those would be frozen in my bank account, I would need to get an official papers (contract or something like this), translate it to the local language, notarize it and prove that those moneys are not from laundering stuff. And even then I might be denied to get those money if those papers were unconvincing.

With Bitcoin it just works with 0 issues. Also I don't need to pay taxes which is good thing as I don't like this government and don't want to fund it.
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It would surprise you to learn that several Indian states have or had communist parties in power, elected through fair and free elections.
Interesting article and it definitely resonates. It's cool when a private thought is given a name and illuminated by someone else. Biggest instance of that for me was the whole ASMR movement.
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Yes, in my personal experience (20+ years of personal and organizational Mac hardware), their build quality has been well in excess of everyone but golden-age Thinkpads.

- They work a long time

- They tolerate travel and other "heavy use" scenarios much better than most other laptops

- I've only rarely had to resort to warranty support or repair, which is 100% not the case with even the higher-end Dell (e.g.) machines I've bought for organizations.
Sleeping feels so fleeting, you close your eyes and poof there go 8 hours(not to say that it isn't beneficial or necessary of course). To work 8 hours, sleep, and then work another 8 hours felt not much different than just working 16 hours with a small break in the middle. So I would stay up for a while to have fun at the expense of the next day...and probably many days thereafter.
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The value is especially apparent when you are in administration, tech like this can deflect lawsuits from the school district. A few false alarms when the cops come and sit on a kid who brought an umbrella to school just prove that the tech works.
I'd like them to make a V2 with proper triggers, the V1 seems to be the best made console out of all of these linux handheld.
Nice idea, but the “rules” change between levels - I imagine that’d be super confusing to the learners. Given this is from a university and it has hopefully gone through some form of user research, the fact this works is quite surprising. (Imagine if you were learning English but what you learned last week no longer works)
For a resident of US and who doesn't have much context in the ground reality, your beautiful articulation of demand of FDI stoppage and others, seems a deliberate attempt a spreading misinformation.

Now even hacker news is not a tool in left idealogy.
When I said "that code was probably broken already" I meant that while the code might currently be working it could suddenly stop working if you upgrade your compiler. Yes, you are free to take that risk, but relying on things not guaranteed by the language is dangerous.
> There was a brief push by the government to encourage funding of things like Solyndra under Obama, but obviously that didn't all pan out.

Obama-era subsidies of clean energy definitely panned out (though solyndra was a failure). Drive from California to Texas some time, and count the windmills. Those were subsidized at about the same time as solyndra.

From what I could tell from reading placards on the sides of the (many) convoys that deliver more on a daily basis, they’re mostly made by GE.

Similarly, rooftop solar was bootstrapped on top of those subsidies (though the Chinese won the panel manufacturing part of that industry, the US did well on battery technology).

Also, this hasn’t been so much a brief push as a sporadic push. The three blade giant windmill design was invented during California’s big wind power push in the early eighties.
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I'm afraid it doesn't. From my understanding, bitcoin and other currencies are just numbers or strings, correct? There are ways to check them on your computer/device to make sure that they are valid, but that is running code locally. With a distributed app, is the code passed around, or is it executed in a distributed way as well? The "forking the official frontend", is that something you just run on your machines or is it run in a distributed manner somehow?
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Is there any reason you wouldn't just run a Mini in a closet? Is it magic just because it's in "the cloud?" A Mini on-prem is far more cost-effective.

The only reason this would make sense is if you needed to actually host something with >99.9% uptime or high bandwidth needs on a Mac.
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in related news: first night frost in the Netherlands this year has resulted in the first skating rink opening. In only one night, thanks to a new system based on nebulisers and isolating occluded air cement.

(translated) article :

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As far as I understand it, that distinction doesn't really make sense with Wayland. The display server / compositor is also the "window manager".

Client applications have their own buffer they draw on, and they negotiate the details of its handling with the compositor which manages the composition of all client buffers (and other data, such as input events) to form the final result.

I suppose it's technically possible to write a protocol that involves a third client process (a "window manager") to draw something around another client's buffer and tell the compositor how to position things, but that sounds like a nightmare to synchronize.
I do this as well, and long have as I’ve worked from home for close to 15 years. The naps are really only 15-20 minutes, typically before I make or get coffee in the afternoon around 3 or 4. I’ve certainly spent more than 15 or 20 minutes staring at some code during a mental block, reading a random internet link, or chatting with a coworker. This is far more healthy (it’s got to be?) and it lets my subconscious work on a problem or just wander for a minute.

I had another tech friend who didn’t drink coffee, but always took a tea nap where he drank some tea, then immediately laid down for 15-20 minutes. By the time the caffeine kicked in, he got up and was ready for the next push of the day.
I am using it as a daily driver. However, it does not survive a day with an average use. I use a second battery or switch it off when not using. Calls can occasionally be missed (Mobian Phosh), but you get a notification immediately and can call back. Desktop Firefox with all plugins is amazing.
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You're confusing throughput & latency here. More channels increases throughput, but doesn't improve latency.

The M1's memory bandwidth is ~68GB/s, which is of course a tiny fraction of AMD Epyc's ~200GB/s per socket.

Epyc's latency isn't even competitive with AMD's own consumer parts, so I'm really not sure why you're surprised that Epyc's latency is also worse than the M1's?
Antibiotic resistance.

Here's my roadmap: Solve gene sequencing (done). Solve protein folding. We just "solved" that, though for what I have in mind, we need more. We need to be able to, from a bacteria's genome, determine enough of the expressed proteins to find what that bacteria is vulnerable to.

Then, last step: Given a bacteria with a particular DNA, from the proteins, find an antibiotic that will kill it.

My vision is for doctors' offices to be able to take a sample, somewhere local be able to do the DNA sequencing, and if there's no known effective antibiotic for it, send the sequence data to a supercomputer at CDC that solves the protein folding problem, and from there derives a new antibiotic that will be effective at killing that bacteria. I'd like the whole process to take no more than hours. Even better if there's somewhere local to the patient that can take the CDC's output and synthesize some of the new antibiotic. (And, of course, the new result goes into the library of known solutions to known bacteria.)
I would also recommend this app called “Intellect,” it is designed to help individuals beat their bad habits and alleviate their personal psychological problems!
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> It's also a pure wayland system, so it's quite unlike what we're used on desktop.

When you say "pure", do you mean "no XWayland"?
I worry about what happens when Pax Americana inevitably ends, as all things do, and if it will come in our lifetimes. I don't think that we have built a geopolitical system that will survive its absence.

Spending our money on a giant military behemoth makes sense in a mutually assured destruction / deterrence sense, but I think that approach only gets you so far. It also creates a gigantic war machine that exists only to find conflicts. The nuclear arsenal strongly deters conflicts from rising above a certain level (as long as rational people are on both sides...), but the rest of the machine gets put to use distressingly often.

You can't just stop funding it tomorrow, and you can't even really reduce its funding without considerable pain and risk, but we must find a way to transition more and more of our military power to economic and cultural diplomacy (which we also have always done, but which has been diminished in recent years).
If it makes you feel better, I'm over twice his age and don't have anywhere near these types of accomplishments either.
I was due to go back to studying and enroll in some courses next Spring, but due to some administrative errors my account is stuck in limbo and I can't do anything with my account. Been thinking I'll just wait this out and consider it a sign from God or something and wait until I can attend physically, since I've yet to see a positive review of any online learning program. Has anyone come out of their COVID college semester happy?
What would happen if she, or like minded people decided to demand eight-hour day in workplaces? (Like the Eight-hour day movement during industrialising Britain and elsewhere)

Is there any way for them to even make demands without being squashed?