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>You're telling me that Rachel Carson was a CIA asset?

Ok. Maybe not her.

> Murrow's withering criticism of McCarthy was somehow a plot by US intelligence?

Of course. When you find weakness of a side, you don't expose it to the public. You let them be the "other side" while you blackmail them for power. McCarthy was not a good politician and he bit more than he could chew. So, there was a power shift that happened internally at that time because of McCarthy's work... but he had to be silenced and curbed because of how he handled things.

>That a German newspaper was coordinating with spooks to expose Mossack Fonseca?

Yes, definitely. If you don't know that CIA was involved in Panama Papers, you know nothing.

>I find that orders of magnitude harder to believe than that they were good people dedicated to the truth.

Oh I belive a lot of people are dedicated to the truth. They just don't end up doing very well when the truth is not good for the establishment. Look at Assange or Snowden... or even McCarthy.
Denis is right, releasing this on streaming at the same time as the theater release will probably kill it and any chance of the 2nd half happening.
Actually those costs will be the same across the EU/EEA but yes if you're coming from somewhere else unless your government will cover the cost you will be paying for it.
You only needed $30k to survive for five years in Sweden?
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$30k covered housing and food for 5 years? Seems like there has to be some other subsidy present you're not mentioning lol
Part of me honestly thinks they're getting torn in being a missionary and mercenary at the same time.
You have to spawn a thread using a method of your choice. Once you've done thar though zig gives you some very nice async primitives that let you reenter functions and do scheduling/event loops easily, and it's agnostic; the calls autoconvert to blocking if you don't have async. There was a recent demo of task sharing in zig and comparing to go and rust: (https://youtu.be/UaF6-5BmX2I&t=1h10m)

I've even plugged zig into another highly concurrent vm and gotten it to be a "good citizen": https://youtu.be/l848TOmI6LI (these constructs are running concurrently in test and CI so I know they are robust)
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The premise is simple, the current trend in the news media is big tech is too powerful and too much influence over the public which is something the news media used to have in total. So stories which portray big tech as the bad guy are par for the course.

Social media alone proved to the world over how much the press can manipulate a story to the point of outright fraud by major news organizations. Well the news media isn't taking that attack sitting down and finds every opportunity it can to reign in big tech, restricting what can they can say and do directly or facilitate through their services to prevent their customers from doing the same.

This article fails on purpose to acknowledge the Tim Cook only killed the show for his network. Another network can make the show if they want. Now if Apple or Tim Cook were getting in touch with other studios and threatening them that would be a real issue but what we have here is not
>It is about the fact that concentration of power and money in the hands of a few tech executives is killing news stories, information about the world (not some comedy show).

as opposed to the old status quo, where stories would get killed by a few non-tech executives. This is just a power struggle between old media and new media. The general public has no reason to give a shit.

To most people canceling a tv show isn't 'crime' and gawker isn't 'news'
Isn't this a bit the opposite of what the article is recommending? It seems the author would like full oop, stateful objects etc. Or maybe I got it wrong...
> why don't we invest in Africa, give them some huge machines and then buy their produce?

Climate change will make most of Africa uninhabitable?
The people doing such bootcamps are either going to try it, hate it and say bye; or they're going to be the type of people who are determined.

To quote the guy:
"People in my cohort don't even understand basic Javascript and I'm not faring much better. I'm nowhere ready for a job. Now I have to find an education elsewhere and probably teach myself because now I don't trust bootcamps.

Also, I will have to pay it back...because I will get a job in tech and I will make at least 50k within 5 years. I'm not going to let the disappointment of Lambda stop me from doing so. It sucks that I will have to pay them even though they won't be the reason I get there and despite their misleading me and other students as to what their program contained."

Similar to the people getting hired at Google, Twilio, it's because they took the Bootcamp and a ton of self-study. The ton factor becomes lower if you go to a brick university that forces challenging material and theory.
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Almost unimaginable... could it really be the case..?
Guix and Nix _are_ source-based distros. They just happen to have a facility for transparently downloading "binary substitutes" for local builds.

The graphs I'm traversing are the build-time dependency graph of all packages. I could also traverse run-time dependency graphs, but then I'd need to actually build all the things, because those are not known up-front unlike Gentoo and Macports.

The reason the toolchain is missing is because it is an "implicit input" as opposed to a "normal" input, so it's invisible/transparent to the query I'm making.
But if nothing came of the 20% work, you could've done 25% more on the core job, doing positive performance things there. I'm pretty sure that's what's meant about it being a career dampener, not that it wouldn't be great to hit on something fantastic and accepted as a new core product with thousands working on it full-time. (IANAG.)
>> The capacity of a sufficiently long road section does not increase with speed

Most roads aren't sufficiently long and there's plenty of other factors and practical road usage is nowhere near this perfect maximum of safe usage but to point out your mathematical error:

For 10 minutes a section of road 1 mile long has traffic pass through it. The cars have 3 second gaps between them.

At 30 mph: 160 cars max throughput
At 60 mph: 180 cars max throughput

In the 30mph example, for the first 2 minutes, 0 cars have completed the 1 mile stretch, for the period 2-10 mins, cars pass the finishing line every 3 seconds. 160 cars complete the 1 mile stretch in 10 mins.

In the 60mph example, only the 1st minute is spent without traffic completing the throughput analysis. For the period 1-10 mins, cars pass the finishing line every 3 seconds. 180 cars complete the 1 mile stretch in 10 mins.
> Personally, I'd still want to take over if needed

There's obviously no way you're getting access to the servers, but Ghost has a fully import / export option already built in. I can also zip up your images / themes etc. for you, so there's no lock-in. Even the domain will continue to be your own nameservers, you'll just point your custom domain to abcd1234.ghosting.dev.

And no, I don't think I'll need to limit the number of domains that point to your installation, but of course you'll want to do that yourself for SEO reasons.

The official Ghost.org do seem high, but I empathize because it does pay the salaries of an international team. But they're so high as to be inaccessible to normal people and companies. An individual writing a blog (especially outside a developed country) or a small company wanting to start a team blog isn't going to pay that much.

Would want to give a portion of revenue to the Ghost non-profit and support development as soon as I get ramen profitable, though, which will probably be happen at 100 to 150 customers.
I don't see the benefit in comparison to Ghosts own SaaS offering. Is it just the unlimited users thing and traffic?
Depending on your team, that can be worth it
Freedom of speech is both a right and a responsibility. You are free to say what you want but you are also responsible for it. If you lie, slander, etc to make a profit then you should pay in some way. Tbh I don’t understand how people like Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson get away with so much. Much of it blatant making things up / lying about people.
Suppose we are 100% confident about the threat. Even then, I fear that it is likely that the EU unilaterally cutting emissions - and most likely limiting their own economic growth - will hurt the EU (particularly relative to China) and only have a minor effect on addressing the threat.

By economic growth I mean actual overall economic growth. E.g. if in some location, powering something by coal is more cost-efficient than powering it by solar but you convert to solar anyway, you are limiting economic growth. I do get that it may actually make economic sense if you count third-party effects - e.g. that replacing coal with solar makes the area a much nicer place to be, increasing the value of the land. But my point is that if you truly believe that cutting emissions is a road to increasing the wealth of your nation, you should be talking about increasing the wealth of your nation and adopting policies to that end and see emissions decrease as a side-effect.

Otherwise, there is a very easy way of reducing emissions - have people emigrate, make them unable to afford housing or afford to have children, shut down manufacturing and other economic activity, destroy infrastructure or allow it to decay.

Given that a lot of people, particularly young people, are struggling in many places in Europe and do not see a particularly bright future to put it mildly, and that China is growing at a rapid pace, unilaterally stunting your already barely-there economic growth just comes off as another act of self-flagellation by Europe.
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Another game from the author:

https://mkremins.itch.io/starfreighter

Though entirely different than this one; it's about procedural generated storylets. Personally, I love this combination of buzzwords.
Average in-state tuition is ~6.5k a year

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In Denmark motorists have reversed burden of proof when it comes to liability for damages. In other words, if a driver of a car is involved in an accident, they have to prove beyond reasonable doubt, that they were not the party at fault or be liable. If that sounds onerous, remember that motor vehicles are mandated to covered by a liability insurance, so it's the insurance company that ends up paying. The insurance company will sometimes sue the driver after, if they think the accident was caused by gross negligence on the driver's part, but this is irrelevant to the party not at fault.

I remember from my brief stint in law school that our professor told us, that there is a good case to be made for changing the law from reverse burden of proof to objective liability, ie. motorist' should always be liable, no ifs, ands, or buts. The reason, he explained, is in the cases where two motorists are in an accident, a lot of resources are wasted in determining liability. Since what always happens is that one insurance company must pay and another one doesn't, and since each insurance company will on average win as many cases as they lose, it would save a lot of money and time to just declare that each driver is 50% liable and be done with it. I also seem to remember that this is how it works in New Zealand, but I could be misremembering.
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> and more importantly, how they got there

That's the most important part, isn't it? Beliefs of humans are path-dependent. Nobody can perfectly rationally re-evaluate all evidence they've encountered and compute a belief to hold. We always start with a belief, and adjust it over time. Some more eagerly than others, some more correctly than others, but it's always an additive shift. Integration of evidence, if you like. That's why when I see someone believing something that's clearly (to me) absurd, I'm mostly interested in how did they get there - something must have convinced them, and I found it useful to discover what it was, because often it's a piece of real evidence I haven't encountered before.
You can say that about gold. The metallurgical / industrial value is no where near $1,800/oz. It's a speculative bubble that's bound to burst sooner or later. Maybe after another 5000 years.
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I feel like D has a lower barrier of entry than rust. It has the familiar patterns most developers a familiar with like garbage collection and inheritance while also giving you the tools to manually take care of the garbage in a safe manner.

As much as I love rust, I can see how as a language, D would be easier to teach devs who come from languages like java, javascript or php.
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Two reasons. Leafy greens are easy to grow hydroponically because they grow quickly. The problem with them is that they have nearly zero calories.

People invest money into growing them hydroponically because they don't keep, or transport well, which makes them incredibly expensive out-of-season. The high margins make it economical. Nobody's going to be growing rice hydroponically, for instance, because rice retails for 75 cents a pound.
Yeah, there's it's not world changing or anything. The problem I want to solve is that the Ghost(Pro) offering gets expensive really quickly - I want to give small teams and small businesses all over the world a way to start a small site or team blog for $25 without worrying about head count or visitor count suddenly costing them a bomb.

Then I want to give individuals a way to start writing on beautiful blogging software for $5 a month. This bit isn't possible, but will be if I can get a few hundred business customers.
Yes you are right the eco-system is not as thriving as Go or Rust but personally I think these two languages are the anomalies rather than the norms perhaps due their godfathers i.e. Google and Mozilla.

Please do not write off D just yet since it's only about 20 years old. Remember when Python at 20, it was playing second fiddle to Perl, and Ruby was hot on its heels due to RoR. But now look how far Python has come despite the transition from Python 2 to 3 fiasco. At least D has passed the growing pain of transitioning from D1 and D2 with minimum damages.
Size is the main thing, plants like corn haven't had much in the way of vertical constraints so until we adapt new shorter breeds of them you can only grow so much per cubic meter and the economics doesn't work out compared to an open field. There's also the economics of how much goes into the non edible parts of the plant, this is much lower in leafy greens. Aside from that they just don't keep as well as more robust crops, so they have to be a lot fresher.
I think you should consider a three-tier pricing plan. $25 is only slightly undercutting ghost.org in dollar terms and also targets the cheapest customers (who are the biggest pain in the ass and tie up the most of your employee resources).

Chasing the bottom-feeder market is at best mildly profitable (unless you scale big), but always highly stressful and requires a very disciplined and thick-skinned team.
The point is that the down side risk is that the price goes down. If that happens then it’s a bad investment - they will have lost money on it. I’m not saying it will go down, I’m saying it could go down. If it does go down their previous investments will also be down too.
What's the only way to generate a truly random string?

Ask a Windows sysadmin to exit VIM.
That license is specifically targeted in favour of small businesses for some reason, omitting individuals etc. This potential FOSS license I am talking about would only target against big tech companies.
> But they're so high as to be inaccessible to normal people and companies. An individual writing a blog (especially outside a developed country) or a small company wanting to start a team blog isn't going to pay that much.

They'd much rather use your reasonably well priced service. \s
Your numbers are way out of date. If you start studying today you can expect to get about $45k in loans plus $20k in subsidies over 5 years, assuming you study full time and pass enough of your courses.
The ability to detect that things are not what they seem? Ability to deal with bureaucracy? The British intellectual passion for indirection and euphemism?
- Price will go down in the future
- Similar farms can be built on Mars.
- Diversity of crops in places where it would be complicated otherwise
Not sure about Sweden, but in Finland there is definitely some subsidised student housing. That said, as a student in the Netherlands I rented a room for 250 euros a month, so I think the 6k a year may not be that far off.
People say this like they think they're correct. If it turned out they were wrong, you can bet they'd be the first to demand the censure of anything that went against their careful constructed narrative
https://www.csn.se/bidrag-och-lan/studiestod/studiemedel.htm... says Swedes can get 655.680 SEK (77.503 USD) for 240 weeks (5 student years?), and 198.720 SEK of it is a stipend (ie. only pay back 456.960 SEK).

Maybe it was less before?
So what?

This is a legitimate question, not a dismissive hand-wave. So what? What does this mean? Is this bad? Why?

Surely all that plastic doesn’t stick around forever—I’m fairly certain I don’t have any PVC pipes in my gut, though it’s been a while since I’ve checked. What are the consequences of eating this much plastic? They certainly aren’t obvious.

I don’t want an article that just throws a bunch of analogies in my face with pictures of various comparably-sized plastic objects. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate the artistic touch, but I’m much more interested in understanding what this means. Where’s the research to go along with this? I expect journalists to dig deeper. Interview some experts; summarize studies of the consequences. Don’t just tell me I eat a lot of plastic—on its own, that’s useless information.
> Zig is a lot more complex than C

Well if you include preprocessor, make, and cmake (which I think is basically standard now), the level of complexity feels "close to parity".
Link to WWF 2019 study: http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/plastic_ingestion_press...

Link to press release for study: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured/plastic-inges...

> The literature was interrogated for several counts of microplastics in staples such as water, shellfish, fish, salt, beer, honey and sugar. This project did not take into account other possible direct ingestion sources such as the honey, fish, sugar (for which data was collated) or rice, pasta, bread, milk, utensils, cutlery, toothpaste, toothbrushes, food packaging and a multitude of other sources that would only add to the amount consumed. As such, there is confidence that based on the literature reviewed and subsequent analysis performed that up to 5 g/week of microplastic particles is potentially ingested by humans. Having said that, it should be stressed that the amount of the microplastics ingested by an individual will depend on a combination of parameters that is highly variable not only pertaining to the characteristics of the microplastics but also to each’s age, size, geographic location, demographics of the location, nature of development and life-style options.

> This study is being reviewed for publication; the full methodology and supplementary data will be available upon acceptance.

I believe the published paper is "Estimation of the mass of microplastics ingested – A pivotal first step towards human health risk
assessment" (2020): https://sci-hub.do/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2020.124004 (Same authors.)

Table 6 in the study has the "5g of plastic/week" number quoted by the article. That number is the "global average rate of microplastics ingested" ("GARMI"). GARMI is calculated as:

GARMI = Average Number of Microplastics Ingested (ANMP) x Average Mass of Individual Microplastic Particle (AMIMP)

ANIMP can be calculated in different ways. It seems the average mass of microplastic particles found in drinking water was higher than the average mass of microplastic particles found in different foods. The study says 90% of ingested plastic particles come from drinking water, so it seems reasonable to use the AMIMP of water particles rather than food particles.

ANMP_drinking_water = 91994 ("the amount of water consumed per person was assumed to be 0.6 L/day" "The figures assumed are well below the World Health Organisation's guidelines of 3 to 4 L/person/day". 0.6 L/day comes from minimum 0.45 L/day of tap water + 0.15 L/day of bottled water. 91,994 is calculated as average of min (9029 particles) and max (174,959). If you only drank tap water, this number would be 42,298.)

AMIMP_aquatic = 2.8g / 1000

ANMP_drinking_water * AMIMP_aquatic = 257g

257 / 52 ~= 5g

Challenging those variables would be where to start. But assuming they're right, probably makes sense to focus on filtering plastics from drinking water.
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This is just the start, but as other commenters have pointed out in this thread this is not just about the nutrition you get from Lettuce and Kale in comparison to other farm products. It is about the reduction of the need for farmland, transport, packaging, water and the use of chemicals. All parts of the problematic stress we put on nature and the environment. The use of greens in human food consumtion is enormous, regardless of the nutrition value they have compared to meat. If we can reduce the "environmental footprint" this consumtion have, it is a win, and not a waste of resources. On the contrary, I would argue.

And as I start off with; this is just the beginning of an interesting development. The road to a more sustainable future is paved with innovation and technology. It's amazing how far vertical farming has come already, in my view.
No your final point isn't true. These people were administered the vaccine by their doctors. The simple fact of the matter is that this vaccine hasn't had rigorous testing like other vaccines hence them finding out new information about after it's been administered
It's a general-purpose programming language, but its primary use case is low-level programming. Anything you'd use C or C++ for today -- OS kernels, command-line applications, games, drivers, embedded software, signal processing, packet filtering, VMs, and applications that require precise control over resources. Zig brings a radical new approach to this niche that reconsiders how low-level programming should be done -- unlike, say, Rust which is an improved C++ -- and is one of the most interesting languages I've seen in a very long time.
If you're able to score affordable housing (~$300/month is not uncommon for student accommodation and if sharing even $150~200 is not unheard of) it's not that much of a stretch. Also big difference between Stockholm (and to some extent Gothenburg) and the rest of the country in living costs.
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It really isn't. It is emphatically not legal to say whatever you want.
That's simply not true. ">X revenue a year" would affect nobody except the largest tech companies. Apart from this, it would strictly benefit existing users, because it means the projects that are properly contributing to the FOSS ecosystem, including importantly its diversity, are getting a fair share of income.