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I don't know. I've always found Vonnegut to be trite, unfunny, and just not a good writer.

I never got why he was considered so great.

Give me Douglas Adams over Vonnegut any day. Adams is the real Satarist to the Galaxy.
Could you share your impressions?
Really? That's just the ground? Is it mostly a few bigger ones?

I guess 1 ton of rock isn't that much, but this is still a pretty surprising fact.
Is there a demo online?
What is missing is the number of agricultural workers who are being disproportionately affected. They still have to work as essential workers.

It is not so much as masking protocols or social distancing. They car pool or the labour contractor picks them up in a van to take them to the fields. Many live in groups with 2-4 people to a room.

This is reality. Outside the tech bubble. This is why I am disappointed that Agtech and tech sector has done NOTHING to help the most vulnerable. It’s just faffing around, harvesting data and twirling three times after chanting ‘blockchain..blockchain..blockchain’ in agtech. If any, it’s for commodity crops like soy or corn harvested once a year and turned into fodder sludge or ethanol.

But farms that grow food have laborers working there every day. This is surreal and I am beyond heartbroken that nothing is being done to alleviate the problem that is most dangerous.

I posted this elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25320797
That's incredible! Do you have any advice for how to build a network like that?
> who described lively market for books in even minor towns

Yep, this is stronger evidence. I'm more sold.

Respect for learning itself though IMO is fairly weak (though nonzero) evidence. Historians have wildly differing estimates (admittedly with gigantic error bars given the difficulty of studying literacy rates) for the literacy rates of different time periods of Imperial China despite a near-constant "respect for learning."
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It wouldn't be fixed in reality, and nobody would really know how much money exists

Yes, it would be fixed. Each bitcoin is currently divisible to 100 million satoshis and it could be further subdivided if necessary.

Regarding not knowing how much exists, at least with Bitcoin, that's not true. Anyone running a full node has a complete copy of every transaction going back to 2009. And the generation of each and every block that contains newly created bitcoin.

We would know exactly how much money exists if we were on a Bitcoin standard.
Say an engineer is working on Google’s ad platform. In an alternate universe, he is working at Bing, producing code of identical quality. The economic outcome of this identical unit of labor output is dramatically different.

That difference is attributed to the company, not the laborer. Now whether that is because of “monopolistic forces” or because the company is truly “better managed” is up for debate.

So just because your labor is worth $X to your employer doesn’t mean all of it can be attributed to you. It would be inaccurate to believe that they owe you exactly $X, and anything less would be exploitation.
As a user, I honestly prefer Open Street Maps, because it has a much finer level of detail. For instance, it shows playgrounds, which is great if you are a parent.
https://susam.github.io/spcss/

It boggles my mind how people keep forgetting to show what their visitors have come to their page to see. No one gives a fuck about a list of features until you explain what the damn thing is and show it.

I feel like having this sense of conciousness already gives you an edge over millions of landing pages that confuse the visitor. There isn't a better time to start a venture!
Caffeine has a serious effect on me - it makes me jittery and screws up my sleep. I gave up caffeine in the late 80s - to my happiness, actually. I consider it a competitive advantage.
Thanks, I didn't see this
And instead of VMS, written in a proper systems language, we got stuck with UNIX clones and C.
The theft prevention/deterrent seems to work ok, doesn't it?
You mean the Microsoft haters bullshit.

Linkedin was already like that before Microsoft bought it.
Severn Cullis-Suzuki at Rio Summit 1992
Seems like it might vary just as much as poison ivy exposure, and for the same reason (or nearly so, since the plants may also have other irritating chemicals that aren't the same between species). Some people are totally immune to poison ivy and don't get any reaction from physical contact with it, although not too many.
For better or worse, we have already outstripped the ability of the earth to sustain us without massive tech input. If we had to farm like we did a few hundred years ago, civilization would collapse and billions would die.

For better or worse, we are committed to either becoming a multi planetary species able to make planets suit us, including Earth, and collapsing into something worse than the Stone Age given we have used up all the easily accessible mineral and fossil fuel deposits.

So, I think worrying about stuff that can happen centuries later is a waste of time. A few centuries ago people could not imagine we would be able to instantly communicate across the world, cross the Atlantic Ocean in less than a day, or walk on the moon. The best thing we can do is maximize human potential.
> Why was it OK a few years earlier when the emissions regulations were more permissive? Were the people killed by those emissions not worthy for some reason?

Of course not. What changed is that in addition to being wrong, what VW did after the laws were changed was also illegal.

> Why were the new emissions targets the "right" ones? Why not make them half again and save even more lives?

Eventually they will, I hope. Change to a carbon-neutral and clean-air future takes time, and we’re in a transition period right now.

> In reality it's impossible to say that "1200 early deaths" were caused by VW emissions.

I mean sure, 1200 is an estimate based on assumptions you could probably quibble with. We know air pollution kills people and we know VW’s cheating significantly increased air pollution. While acknowledging uncertainty, its still important to reason about how many people VW killed.

> doesn't even show up as a blip in the normal variation of total mortality of any given year.

This argument proves too much, by this reasoning nothing that kills less than 100k people/year is real.

> How many early deaths were caused by California's refusal to allow or perform proper forest manangement?

A lot!! And that’s really bad! But it’s an entirely different problem from this one.
I love how the guy is wearing white gloves, as they of course do in Japan...
> I don't even need to have headphones on to enjoy walking!

I think people like Cal Newport actually proposed taking long walks without listening to anything, and I find this idea reasonable. After 15 to 20 minutes my mind settles into a state of being able to come up with ideas and deep reflections that would usually not be possible when I’m simply sitting indoors being distracted by some digital device.
Nothing will fix social networks, everyone has their own goal and they often don't line up, so you get self promotion and bullshit.
> That claim is still valid. Have you worked with designers?

Yes. I have. I'm telling you that people with zero knowledge of programming can write Hello World in 10 minutes if you teach them. That's why I'm calling your statement elitist nonsense, because it is.

I was asking you what you think a "scripting" language is, not what Wikipedia says it is.
Until not so long ago I was astonished how such big site can be made so poorly. You had to reload five times to get all elements to load (navbar especially). I tried to use mobile app, which... hadn't allowed me to log in.

Now at least this problem with website is fixed. I don't know whether app already works.
I do agree with this, but at the same time - where was their above-baseline growth from COVID actually going to come from? We already used Slack even when we were all working in the same office with occasional remote work, we use it more now and rely on it more but that doesn’t affect their bottom line until we grow our team. I don’t think there’s many teams that wouldn’t have benefited from Slack before COVID and would after.

Whereas with Zoom, we used to use Google Meet (never had much luck with Slack video either), it was pretty rubbish but it was fine to keep the one person WFH in the loop on the standup or do an occasional all remote one. Once it was all remote all the time there was a motivation to move to the best tool in the space. I think that’s why Zoom has insane growth compared to before and Slack doesn’t - you needed Slack anyway, you could get away with worse alternatives for Zoom.

Zoom also has massive growth outside of its enterprise space with family/friends using it to stay connected. Slack doesn’t really get anything much above baseline there either because people already had ways to text large groups. And their free tier/pricing doesn’t work well in that space either compared to competitors, whereas Zoom has an individual pricing plan that does.
I've been seeing this for the better part of a month after changing locations with AT&T Fiber. I thought it was due to my move, but the TLS issue definitely occurs when directly connected to the RG. Even more fun is it only seems to repro with certain sites.

AT&T replaced the RG and I still encounter the same issues.

The TLS issues do not repro when I'm connected to my hotspot.

There also also recent twitter reports on this.
https://twitter.com/vikxin/status/1331334687978000385
Indonesia. The official block list is available here: https://trustpositif.kominfo.go.id/
> Back then, an education was limited to basic math and arithmetic for business, a knowledge of Arabic literature and a study of the Quran, so it's very likely that people were very educated in the cities back then.

My point is that this is still legally mandated as the standard in e.g. Pakistan and Arabic literacy rates (even in cities I think) still aren't very high. Just reading the Pakistani constitution I would've assumed high Arabic literacy rates which isn't the case. I think government decrees are weak evidence in favor of higher literacy rates, but I don't think it's enough to conclude "with near certainty" that literacy rates among the general populace would've been significantly higher as a result.

> Even during Dutch rule, Arabic was used to announce royal decrees, until Malay took over with a sense of national identity.

An analogous situation held in Medieval Japan and Korea with respect to Classical Chinese and IIRC scholars don't think the general population was very literate in Classical Chinese as a result.
No, that's a shithouse solution.

Everyone that doesn't have a fancy IDE now has 6-8 extra useless characters for something that should be syntax.
Strange so see how time alters memory: I could use a VT 100 in my junior CS courses (already old hardware in the 90s).

It appears the one pictured in the article is definitely not the one I can remember!
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At least if you're on a Linux desktop, the GSuite experience is vastly better than the online Office 365 one, as there's no desktop clients. That's a pretty small market segment though.
"You're here to save lives. Great. Do you want to start by banning all alcohol consumption, ban unprotected sex, or by making private vehicle ownership illegal? Banning abortion saves lives too. Also motorcycles."

Except for banning abortion, none of those things has a chance of actually being made illegal any time soon, so no use talking about any of them. And I don't think getting in to an argument about abortion in this thread would be productive.

Let's see what else you've got...

"We should just open them then if nobody is going to go to them. In one breath you say we need to restrict them and in the other breath you say nobody will go."

Except some highly inconsiderate, ignorant, and/or stupid people are still going. It's those we have to worry about. So I'd vote to keep them closed.

"Another amazing feat of physics - like masks. When Covid cases go up it's because people aren't wearing masks. When the CDC and other international organizations record near-zero flu deaths for the year 2020 it's due to mask usage."

You know, it could be both? Because the flu might not be as contagious, and there are other measures being used as well, like increased hand washing, which might be more effective for preventing the flu than preventing COVID-19. And even if all the measures are equally effective, there just might not be as much flu going around this year. Anyway, the fact that flu deaths are also going down, probably due to some of the lockdown, mask, and distancing measures is is even more reason to continue them.
Yep and by my completely speculative estimate, that is likely the case for 90% of people born before the mid-90s. Office has been pretty pervasive in professional work and even academic environments for quite some time. My first exposure to Word/Excel was in high school and its use was continued through college.

I forgot to mention previously all the integration with existing system administration capabilities widely in use at companies (e.g., Active Directory, identity management/permissions/sharing permissions, etc.). It is only becoming more ingrained with Azure AD, M365 Enterprise licensing, etc.

I’m sure I am missing something, but I do not understand why a business - other than very small ones - would choose to use GSuite.
Thank you sharing the demo link from README. By the way, there is a "view demo" badge right at the top of the README that points to the URL you have shared, i.e., https://susam.github.io/spcss/.

However, this comment by @nailer is not the first one that asks about a demo. Others have asked for the demo link too despite the very first badge on the README being a "view demo" badge. That made me think that perhaps the "view demo" badge is not an optimal way to draw the reader's attention to an important link.

I guess, the readers ignore these badge-based links either because they associate badges with status displays (build status, coverage status, etc.), not links or because these badges are overused in many projects which could cause our minds to ignore them as noise.

In any case, I have added a text note to the README now, that says, "Note: A demo page is available [here][Demo URL]", to ensure that it becomes harder to miss the link to the demo page.
> It’s a couple of hundred dollars a year more than Finland or Sweden, but nothing dramatic.

In the sunny day scenario. Why can't you stop cherry-picking?

> And the fees/co-pays are of course not the end of the road. People in Sweden and Finland pay a lot more taxes

It's the end of the road with regards to the topic. point-of-service fees. Taxes are assumed already - you get something obvious in return, you do not need to worry about healthcare for you entire life, even if you've been unemployed for a long time.

> Median after-tax disposable income, according to the OECD, is $14,000-16,000/year more in the US than Finland or Sweden.

Given the US's lack of welfare services this also seem to be a sunny day scenario. Your costs for daycare, education, rents etc are significantly higher and require that kind of disposable income to just save up to. Furthermore, this is only relevant if you think that more disposable income somehow automatically translates to more happiness and quality-of-life, which we know that it doesn't beyond a certain point.
Not much space you have there. But, you have a bed. I suggest trying wrestling! It sounds funny, but it can be a serious workout. I mean the Greco Roman style. You don't have to stand. Your bed can be the limits(boundaries.) It's all about pressure, strain, push, pull. And it can be a lot of fun, and produce laughter.
Second choice, pillow fights. Thats another proven workout, that's fun!
My only suggestion is don't read hegel!
> I guess, the readers are ignoring the these badge-based links either because they associate badges with a status display

This, at least for me.
A very good post, but angel investors can also give you terrible, terrible advice that you should completely ignore. If you are founding a company, take the good advice, sure, but ignore the bad advice. Don't just assume because somebody is an angel investor they have any idea what they are talking about in terms of your product/company.
Thanks for introducing me to rucking. I've recently taken up jogging at the age of 40 but it's having a negative affect on my hip and knees. Rucking sounds like something I could really get into.
There's a web comic about something like this: https://www.powernapcomic.com/. The story is set in a world where the majority of people take a drug that eliminates the need for sleep, but the main character is allergic? to it so suffers a "handicap" for being what we would call normal.
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To downvoters: please show me one scenario where intmax_t is indispensable.
Air polution is one of the top causes of deaths, this is easily and thoroughly researched, effects are not instant but they are measureable in stats on a local level. This is really easy to look up if you want.

The reason why we talk about it so little is that so many own cars and that it's not popular to say that a carowner kills a freigthenly high fraction of a person each year. Whataboutism will always ensue.
I remember Taleb being really harsh on bike riding which he derided as “unnatural”. Though I can imagine his position being too extreme. I don’t think his proposed alternative of weightlifting is very “natural” either.
two suggestions (and one nitpick):

1) add y-axis labels
2) indicate to the user that they can scroll for more content
3) charts with two y-axes!? really!?!
Yeah, that is a good point! Like you mentioned though, it’s a very small market segment and I could see Microsoft spending more resources on Linux interoperability in the future. They have already been doing it with some products and I would be surprised if it’s not on their mid-long term roadmap.
IMO LinkedIn provides decent value as an address book for business contacts and as a way for people (recruiters, investors, potential partners) to find you and get in touch with you as a "semi warm" introduction via mutual contacts.

None of this requires the timeline feed. But as long as you ignore the inspirational posts and pictures of wolfs walking in a line, it provides easy networking for people with little natural propensity to do so (like myself)
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Hello! I just wanted to point out that she addressed your point: https://twitter.com/AkhandBharat365/status/13349035240066088...

I remembered your comment here, so I came back to post this, for what it's worth.

I'm still not entirely sure what to think.
That purported Einstein quotation set off some red flags: “No problem can be solved from the same level of
consciousness that created it."

Seems that he never said it, if this Quora answer is to be believed (and it seems reasonable): https://www.quora.com/Einstein-said-that-you-cannot-solve-a-....
Very cool! How did you get started, knew there could be a market and finally reached your customers?
asn.1 distinguishes between schema and encoding; there are many binary encodings and you can technically devise a custom one that would let you describe the high level structure with an asn.1 grammar and then lay out the actual bits with a custom encoding format so that it matches the pre-existing format you're writing the new serde for). This may work as many formats have this leveled approach. E.g. the lowest level of the spec may tell something about how to encode integers (all integers are 32-bit big endian, or varlen encoded ...), sequences (ength prefixed, or terminated by a sentinel.

Any chances you have some reference to what you saw?
Will Durant The Story of Philosophy is probably the best intro book to philosophy I have read
And they got close to failing anyway.

Apple survived in part by lasting long enough for there to be a consumer market for whom openness was irrelevant but who were willing to pay a huge premium for design.
Hmm, I've kept a pretty steady dose of coffee across years without needing such an increase over time. A day with zero coffee is, indeed, not fun. But we live in the future and coffee is really available everywhere always. And even if the supply chains crash, it'll be a bad week and then I'll be fine...
So your system have two backends, the React backend and the api server? That does not sounds like a good investment.
How is there no better way to track conversions in a standard way by a third party? This whole win relies on the fact that the affiliate manager let out the real policy. She could have just said that there were no conversions, and the author would basically have no recourse?
Not forgotten by the people that read "Show-stopper!"

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Show-stopper-Breakneck-Windows-Genera...
People were hired before LinkedIn and they will be hired long after LinkedIn.

LinkedIn has incredible lock in though, far beyond mere network effects; they have convinced many people that you might miss out big time if you leave. In a society where the only endpoint that matters is your career and productivity as measured within it, missing an opportunity is effectively suicide. In other words, they exploit people’s tendency towards regret minimisation. Leaving is now equivalent to quitting the lottery after having bought the same numbers for the past thirty years. The kicker is that practically all the value LinkedIn provides comes from its users. LinkedIn didn’t win you a job, you did!

Probably best to give it up by not taking it up.
Much like HN, unfortunately. And pretty much any online forum.
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Zoom has most of this as well, one click creating meeting in calendar invite with all your dial in information

Outlook reminders will say click to join zoom meeting.

And the zoom client will have a list of your upcoming meetings
The rocks will amplify the echo though!
Thank you for explaining. The range of knowledge communicated in an understanding manner on HN never ceases to amaze me. Definitely feel I learn something every day!
There is already a disincentive: you don't get your degree until you finish.
Everyone has a personal philosophy, and your path of personal growth is the path by which your personal philosophy is developed.

There are many great interviews with Mike Tyson where he gets highly philosophical. He has some amazing lines, and they just keep hitting hard.

Steve Jobs had great philosophy, arguably laying the foundations upon which Apple was built. Many great entrepreneurs share this pattern.

Einstein and Feynmen are known for their philosophical genius also.

Great philosophy can come from politicians, artists, writers, and even comedians. George Carlin and Patrice O'neal are my favorite. There's great philosophy surrounding sports too. The Last Dance is a great watch.

My only point is, don't marginalize yourself to the field of philosophy. Philosophy is deep thinking, and the ability to articulate and navigate those thoughts. The books under the philosophy section are the thoughts that have nowhere else to be. Great philosophy about computation will be under Computers.

If you're serious about your personal philosophy, then start writing your thoughts down. Then organize them and edit them and pursue them. Pick up books that answer your questions and read the organized thoughts of your role models. Every field has its great philosophers, and more often than not, they're the trail blazers of their field. They will not be found under philosophy.