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Chaos theory. Everything we do can potentially alter the universe in very big ways. So, every human action is potentially affecting the climate. Having said that, nobody can predict what actions will lead to what kind of effects. It's simply not possible to predict that. Whoever is saying that is making it up.

There are pollution concerns when we do things at scale. There have been lots of toxins added to the environment ONLY because of large scale use by humans. This is real.

The main idea behind global warming is the CO2 being a greenhouse gas and hence trapping more heat, leading to more vaporization of ocean and releasing water vapor, which is also another greenhouse gas. This has been repeated forever but it is mostly theoretical. It shouldn't be very difficult to experimentally show how much CO2 traps how much of suns radiation and how it changes as CO2 concentration rises and falls... but this has not been done and is not presented, which leads me to believe that this claim is bogus.

If you forget "climate change" and "global warming" and look at what countries say and do from economic lens, things become much more clearer.

It was the late 90s and it seemed that the oil was running out so something had to be done. There were two sides. One was going to develop new technologies which would make existing technologies like solar and wind more efficient. Another was to attack war-torn parts of the world which have oil reserves and take their oil. You know which idea they went with.

The Cleantech idea was taken to China for manufacturing but China just copied the technology and made it better. Now, it is the biggest producer of wind and solar equipment.

Meanwhile, the U.S. came up with fracking, a new technology that made it possible to get oil that was not considered before. While expensive, it opened up the possibility for the U.S. to become energy independent. So, the Middle East, Europe and China got very concerned because the market prices would drop at best, and U.S. could outcompete them altogether at the worst.

So, the Climate Change narrative is mostly run from outside the U.S. at this time, mostly to get the U.S. to stop fracking.

Denmark is running out of their oil reserves by 2047. If you look at Denmark's economy, it may seem very diversified. Well, it is not. They do a lot of things but everything is indirectly subsidized by their oil money. Norway is in a similar situation. Without oil, they're are worse off than Italy and Spain economically, not to mention the shitty weather. So, they'll do everything to try to avoid that.
Of course, I never claimed it was a universal description.

My point was not that we should create only simple music, but rather that we should understand how simple music is created, before jumping into anything more complex than that, or even into a general solution like so many people into procedural generation seem to jump into. You need to understand the craft itself other than just understanding the theory.

Musical styles are not unconstrained. If you want it to produce procedural Carnatic Music, you can replace my description of western music with the equivalent for it, like zozbot234 started doing. Then you'll have a starting point.
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This is super helpful, thanks. I always had the idea that I needed to grok all of Kube to get productive with it

The discoverability is still a problem with it, if no one told you e.g. about k3s you would never guess the name. Good luck :-)
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Yeah it's just a different way of managing a fund or investment company. Just that there is less regulatory oversight for the managing entity (bad for you), and a large part of the tokens is owned by them, so they can bring a lot of new tokens into the market.

The fact that it's a blockchain likely makes it attractive to some people, so maybe it was chosen for marketing/hype reasons. Would it have landed at the hn front page had it been a traditional investment company? Likely not.
Dance/electro/pop/(?) band YACHT released an album that basically started as an AI mashup of there previous albums. It's actually not awful(!), but presumably is heavily reworked.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/yachts-chain-tripping...
>Function programming is elegant and all unless you hit a part of problem fundamentally imperative or if there's a performance problem.

Most functional languages allow you to do imperative stuff. so this is not an issue. They just usually provide an environment where the defaults guide you to functional (immutable by default, option/result types instead of exceptions, making partial application of functions and piping easy, etc.).

A prime example would be F#. You can program pretty much the same as in C# if you need to, but there are a lot of facilities for programming in a more functional style.
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> Oh wow! Thanks for telling us!...

In the US, admitting you did something wrong could open you up to a class action suit where some customers could be eligible for damages due to negligence.

You and others assume the merchant is unscrupulous, but they provided a remedy, so when you then called them out on it and gave them bad PR, you’ve given less incentive for other businesses to provide even that.

You could’ve written your post without specifically mentioning the merchant’s name, if your intent were really only to help others.

Even worse, if the merchant were unscrupulous and your aim were revenge, if it were to turn out that the merchant gets more business because of the PR around your stunt, they might tell other unscrupulous merchants that they should not pay their agents and hope for a windfall from rewarding only one of them with their due.
But philosophy of language is a thing and IMHO, Plato is mostly useless there. What is described in the quoted excerpt as "naturalism" is... simply not a position that any modern linguist (at the very least since Saussure) would take, because it is plainly ridiculous and flies in the face of basically all evidence.

Generally, I don't think that philosophical ideas exist in a vacuum, they are informed by the real world and by science (hence why e.g. quantum mechanics plays such an important role). Plato bases his ideas off of specific premises (that's the whole point of the socratic dialogues), but I find the premises often very flawed. For example, how does Platonism and the idea that there is "an ideal horse" make sense in the context of evolution? It doesn't, IMHO, and cognitive science seems to give much better answers to such question as how we can recognise the concept of "horse".
> We were the first country to legalize porn [...]

When was porn illegal in other countries?
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Yes, plus changing attitudes to homosexuality. Unfortunately, closeted cottagers and people who frequent male prostitutes are stil mentioned alongside pedophiles as if it was the same phenomenon.
The only blockchain that seems to be addressing the energy problem is Chia. Ethereum already has issues with energy usage, even more so, Bitcoin. I think this could work ideally on Chia protocol https://www.chia.net/
How in the hell it took this long for Newton's "unpublished" notes to be unveiled? I mean the guy was one of the most famous scientist/mathematician of all time.
I can justify the reluctance out of religious reasons(?) in 1600 or up until like 1800, but after that, after he has been long dead, what excuse could possibly be to not publish ALL of his works? Is it because someone just bought them all and kept it for himself?
Any history expert want to chime in?
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You seem to be making a universal argument that does not engage with the subject and justifies any kind of abusive employment plactices
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He is simply used so they can create an association with the success of Apple.
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>"In March 2012, Professor Elizabeth Stone of Stony Brook University, an expert on Iraqi archaeology, returning from the first archaeological expedition in Iraq after 20 years, stated that she does not know a single archaeologist who believed that these were batteries."

Sounds great!
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They didn't say it couldn't be used with a super charger, they said it wasn't exclusively used with a super charger.
Who in their right mind still invests money in blockchain based "get the creators rich fast" schemes?

Is this still a viable startup strategy?
pre-mined coins are considered dishonourable, but they are very common in alt-coin space.
> Sure, but I'm a brit. See my past posts.

I am not doubting you being an CIA shill, in fact, I'd give everyone the shadow of a doubt that they are NOT shill. But my point is more towards the fact that I find these boards to be very much influencing people to one specific type of ideology, rather than to provide evidence and have other people having a greater understanding of the matter (which I always assume is what HN is supposed to be).

Incidentally, I find it funny that while on US platforms, people call themselves Brit, whereas no one in the UK calls themselves that.
Every little bit counts. There will always be people who say “it’s not enough” and it may be true. But, the key is to start acting in good faith. Things like this often have a snowball effect and lead up to other changes for good.

Proud to be living in such a society here in DK that cares to make education free/affordable, healthcare free, and invests in social good. Yes, it’s not perfect, but has a lot more to be proud of than to complain.

Now, one thing I wonder is why Denmark doesn’t pounce on the opportunity to set an example and build out electric charging infrastructure backed by its grid of renewable energy. That could boost the economy and save the world at the same time.
Their claim in one section of the white pages is that blockchain provides reliable data serialisation, so keeping track of how many KWh you saved, for example, becomes trustworthy. By this logic though, all financial services and human data aggregators should be running on blockchain instead of a regular old database.
To make it look like it was a password. Only people who depixelate it will notice what the actual string is.

I think this whole pixelation thing is just for making it look nice. I, personally, would just use something like asterisks without any pixelation.
Had an in law that abused and assaulted many people in Ontario area. Including kidnapping and elderly person.

Entire extended family was begging police To arrest him. They absolutely would not do anything.
I personally spent thousands on efforts to assist him.

Some people are just scum.

Oh and he always had some sweet girlfriend that he abused like crazy. Each one would take a couple of years to wake up that he was just using them.
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Indeed you can still bribe the captain for throwing someone else's cargo out, but that wouldn't bring you any benefits, except of some hassle. In the event of cargo being thrown out, you will have to pay your part of the loss, regardless of if it was your crate that was thrown out or someone else's. If it was your crate, you will get its value replaced (minus your part of the lost value ofc). As there is no damage, why would you want to bribe them?
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I get very frustrated at how terribly mathematics is formatted in many Kindle e-books. Some authors succeed in working around the limitations but most don't.
I sometimes write down on paper my banking passphrase (from which the bank makes me select letters at specific position). Afterwards I overwrite it a few times with the alphabet and a few numbers and other random letters. It's totally unreadable.
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Ok, so we are at real use number 3. after "pyramid / get rich quick scheme" and "volatile high risk investment", the "evading the bank system, shady financial transactions and tax evasion" part.
I couldn't disagree more. The democratisation of (the idea of) science had a strong role to play in the proliferation of conspiracy theories and anti-science sentiment in general. I think many people are doing exactly what you say and listening to their instincts. That's a negative development, not a positive one.
"turn a DEC 10 into an fm transmitter" to play digital music (which was on a DECUS tape IIRC)
1. Tormented in dreams. Feeling powerless about other people's behavior during the pandemic. Weekly visit from family without masks and conspiracy bullshit each time. When I wore a mask they started crying and swearing. Now they're all into the anti-vax propaganda. I have been sick twice and I don't trust their behavior at all, but they refuse to listen and trust Fakebook/Youtube garabage instead.

2. End of the pandemic. Starting a new life

3. Wait
Thank you for explaining your POV. In retrospect, my first comment insinuates a lazy approach to filtering. However, I didn't intend so, and it caused a misunderstanding, because we are in agreement. I did not intend to suggest that 'allowing other people to select for you' creates a monoculture, though the lack of information in the sentence and my subsequent replies points to that.

> I guess the only thing left to add is that you can't read everything, but there's a lot you could read. Given this problem, does one be an early adopter for a book or not?

The answer to the explore-exploit dilemma is dependent on the remaining time and your reward function, i.e. goals. I am still in my infancy as an avid reader, therefore I can not give a good enough comment.
Ignoring the blockchain aspect of this for a second, the underlying model her makes me a little hopeful it can tackle some of the more frustrating problems I've experienced in designing energy-efficient buildings, if it ever catches on.

In the building construction industry, there's a huge gap between an optimal energy performing construction and what finally gets built, due to the immense reluctance of clients to deal with the upfront cost or uncertainty associated with newer, high-performing constructions and technologies. It's somewhat mitigated in the commercial sector since commercial clients have incentive to "brand" their buildings as sustainable, but it's depressing as hell in the residential sector. Although it would definitely be harder (albeit, have way more impact) to use the EFFORCE model during new construction versus retrofits.
The ecosystem delivers a lot of pre-packaged essential complexity - e.g. only now Rust is starting to get the mature libraries to handle difficult domain-specific things. It is hard to program from scratch (no pun intended)
Yes of course, there are other occasions where this happens, but I consider in very good evidence against the claim that there is no exceptional ICU load right now.
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Yes - crypto kitties https://www.cryptokitties.co/

I’m not sure it strengthens arguments for blockchain etc but on a tight economic value add it’s true.
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Your suggestion brought to mind the various Earth sandwiches - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51171834 .

Or the "Four Corners Project" from 1976, to place corners on 4 points of land to form a tetrahedron - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-juK0PTbAiI .
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> Each bank got their app and added some obvious features there: pay for utilities, for your phone etc. I want more progress here. I want to be able to see all my fees upfront in a clear format. I want to know my credit score. I want to be able to take this credit score to different organizations. etc. etc.

Brace for impact: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronshevlin/2020/11/30/google-pl...
cnlohr does a lot of cool RF stuff - he has a Youtube channel well worth a follow!
> littered with unsafe blocks

Good points. It's unfortunate that headlines rarely distinguish safe Rust from unsafe, when so much of the advantage of Rust depends on it. You may even get a hostile response for asking about it ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24141493 )
You live in the US?

I start wondering if you've gotten your worldview messed up

That you over estimate how dangerous various ideologies are

Compared with traffic accidents, and possible worse, those who sometimes get elected as presidents in your country.

I'm wondering if the places on the internet you apparently visit, slightly have brought you into a fantasy world now, where you worry for and want to prepare for the wrong things. I'm wondering if you believe you need weapons to defend yourself? Whilst being less interested in climate change and wildfires?

But never mind me and have a nice day
> Don’t bother with man pages.

> If your help text is long, pipe it through a pager.

> Use formatting in your help text.

So reimplement man in a non-standard way? No thanks. Keep --help short and concise and then have a separate man page with all the details. Don't just ignore standards and conventions because not all operating system agree on them.

The languages of the the argument parsing libraries listed (Go, Node, Python, Ruby) is also kinda suspect when many such tools are written in C.

> Use symbols and emoji where it makes things clearer.

Eww. And the example is pretty bad too with a number of meaningless icons.

> By default, don’t output information that’s only understandable by the creators of the software.

Except people with post the default output if they are having problems and having all useful information here saves having to ask for it. Also, don't underestimate your user's abitlity to understand stuff.

> Use a pager (e.g. less) if you are outputting a lot of text.

> A good sensible set of options to use for less

Stop right there. If you going to automatically use a pager, at least use the preferred one the user has specified in their environment. $PAGER is even mentioned later in the environment variable section.
The issue is lowish wage with unhealthy workloads combined with the fact that the people doing the least amount of work get extremely high rewards.

It just shows that the aristocracy is alive and doing well even in this modern world. Unsurprising to anyone that actually paid attention but there are a lot of developers who never realized that they're peasants, still.

there are industries where we can get a decent wage as software developers however, so life is fine for most of us.
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Just because it's possible to power proof of work with renewable energy does not mean it's a good idea. That renewable energy could be used instead to power things that we need, rather than to power what is essentially energy price arbitrage.
I think you will find this essay insightful, specifically the part comparing Bond to Bourne:

http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2015/09/20/bourne-aesthetic/
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What is your point? That they (either Russia or the Soviet Union) engage/d in propaganda?

My comment was that we see Soviet propaganda for what it is, so how do you think you're contradicting or correcting me?
I highly doubt that any modern compiler would generate different code with or without the !!. Not even sure why an old compiler would do that? It's the exact same semantics, surely.
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> Is there a good way to broadcast to Twitch, YouTube, and Reddit simultaneously?

Yes (disc: I dunno about reddit, do they have livestreams? haha I had no idea) restream.io is one service that does this, or you can configure your own nginx-rtmp

> Is it a bad idea to target multiple communities?

Probably, the way you're suggesting. Find your niche and stream on the site they use. You'll look like you're talking to nobody most of the time unless your users gather in one place. Viewers (ok, it's me) don't like it when you answer a question from someone and can't see what the question was. At least factor that in if you go down this path - re-state the question

> How expensive is it to run your own single-tenant stream on your own website?

Almost zero because nobody will watch it

> Is that a bad idea?

Not really but it might be a waste of time

> Are users revolting on Twitch against the ads and RIAA take downs?

Nah everyone else has forgotten and moved on. At the least folks don't care enough for there to be an uproar about it

> Or is it unlikely to ever be unseated?

Twitch unseated? On the heading they're on now, probably. Literally all they need to do is stop ads and push subs and they'll be locked in for generations. A single sub is worth like 2500 ad views and people gift them in 5s, 10s, 20s like it's going out of style.. what are they even doing with this ad focus? The only ads I even see are ads for Amazon Prime shows I've already watched anyway! Who's even paying for these??
I think this points depends heavily on the complexity of the project. If the project is very complex (e.g. P2P, blockchain, distributed messaging, machine learning, ...) then you actually want engineers to think really hard about every line of code they write.

The best, most long-lasting code I ever wrote took a long time to write. Sometimes I have to think about a single small feature for multiple days before I begin to implement. Some foundational structural technical decisions require weeks of thinking and analyzing. It's the best way to guarantee that you don't have to come back to rewrite the code later.

When I was younger, I would refactor some of the foundation logic every few months as I added more changes on top. These days I almost never refactor the foundations. That extra time is totally worth it. It's very hard to come up with a good design.
A central blockchain has not a lot more energy use than a regular database. It's the distributed trustless proof of work kinda blockchain that mindlessly burns up energy.
Well, yes, but that does absolutely nothing in this code, as it is immediately used as the argument to an if statement.