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You’re comparing daylight to not spreading a disease? Really?

It’s disingenuous to compare disease research for which there is volumes of direct evidence to daylight research for which is very little research, and the research is indirect - which the SRBR plainly admits, when you read beyond the abstract. This is one way they’re misleading you, by leaving the uncertainty out of the abstracts and conclusions. You’re doing yourself a disservice if care about this at all and you’re really not reading past the abstract. And I know you care about this a little.

How do you arrive at the claim “most” societies agree with SRBR? I’ve seen two of them, SRBR and AASM. Do you have a survey of all the societies that have studied DST? Most scientists agree that the appeal to authority argument is a fallacy.
Has music become a commodity, and if so, should it face price regulation such like other commodities?
Will consumers pay that price is the question?
> in the long term people will stop cornering markets

I'm not at all convinced that is the case.

> if you use a solution with a lot of known downsides for the sole reason that it's the cheapest

I don't think your scenario means people will somehow consider something they didn't consider before. More likely in a disruptive event folks do whatever they can to fill the gap at the lowest price again ...

I think you're expecting efficiencies / consideration here that simply doesn't happen... or maybe already have.
Minnesota state procurement is seriously broken with residents now paying the second highest taxes in the nation (after CA). The only question is whether this should be attributed to incompetence via political appointments or straight up graft.

Check out the MNLARS project, if you’re interested in another excellent example. Pay attention to the insane dollar amounts involved and feel free to make up your own mind if the people in charge of that project were really that dumb or if there is something more sinister going on.
What about trees? In some countries even if you own the land you cannot cut the trees without permission and you'd have to put every cut tree back - which means buying a similar grown tree and paying for moving it. This can easily cost millions.
xwdv started his post by saying that having significant stock was not something restricted to an elite few, and then followed up by giving examples that directly contradict that point. My goal wasn't to comment on the graphics cards themselves, but rather to add support against the pervasive and self-destructive idea that maximizing the value of the shareholders is the sole duty of a corporation.
I can see checked exceptions being a good option for a pre-Java8 world, but they interact horribly with functional interfaces, which are fundamental to a bunch of other newer Java features.

A lot of those are almost philosophical differences, though. A Java feature that is unambiguously bad, but probably impossible to remove, is the different equality semantics between atomic types and their boxed versions.
Yes and no. He doesn't burn bridges, but left of center media elites pull up the drawbridges.

On topics like this, they view college activists as authoritative, objective sources of truth on race. Those activists view Sowell, and TCW, as heretics.
This is already the case in some countries. For eg, the Netherlands revises the retirement age every year, and is currently at 68yrs.

The public suspicion is that they do this to avoid paying pension, most of which has been squandered by the government.
That ship sailed in the 90s with widespread music piracy. The market simply doesn't value digital copies of recorded music that much anymore.

Spotify was an increase in artist revenues as prior to that most people were paying nothing for their music, be it bittorrent in the 00s, cd copying in the 90s, or recording radio to tape in the 80s.
Tips to use the elevator in your building
I want to make the world a better place before I die
> cut, copy, and paste have keyboard shortcuts in Emacs that are used nowhere else

Try `C-w`, `C-k` and `C-y` inside a Bash shell sometime, you might be surprised.

`M-w` is an exception, though.
I'd just go back to torrenting at that price.
Show HN: Reject – HN stories that were prevented to reach the front page
Investing $200K in Bipoc and Women Founders
Million year old plant fossils were found.

The real "so what":
It shows that even without human-induced climate change with lower atmospheric C02, Greenland was completely without ice "just" a million years ago (not enough time for the position of Greenland to significantly shift).

Greenland is 100% definitely going to lose it's ice, given that it's more prone to not having ice than we thought, and unprecedented atmospheric C02. "UVM's Paul Bierman, 'it can quickly melt, pouring enough into the oceans that New York, Miami, Dhaka—pick your city—will go underwater.'"
Relationships should be illegal because there are terrible relationships.

Jobs should be illegal because there are terrible jobs.

Food should be illegal because food poisoning exists.

People are going to do what they want to do, and by making things that are mostly harmless (and with the potential only to harm the person doing it) illegal, you are turning broad swathes of society into criminals. Pair this with racism, classism and selective enforcement and you have the unholy shitshow that is the war on drugs.
Well, among other problems with that idea: neither DC nor Maryland wants it and there is no mechanism to force Maryland to alter its borders against its will.

It is not a power grab to give the citizens of DC the same rights as other Americans, it is correcting an injustice. If your concern is about DC then having too much power, I'd encourage you to look at the actual plan which preserves a core federal district that includes Congress and the Mall.
Your website is rather slow
“I'd like to share some fun facts about this guy, Dan Price”
TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround
I mean....radio was never a money maker for acts. It was to get their name out their to make money elsewhere.

Just kinda how the market is setup. I don't think it is unsustainable for artists.

I fucking hate "exposure", but that is literally what radio/streaming is is.

It is never a substantial revenue stream until you hit big.

And with today's tech, radio had to become streaming.

Paying a penny per stream is highly unsustainable for everyone.

What would you suggest to fix it?

I think the system is pretty decent all things considered. Now, Spotify could definitely be better at hyping and pushing new music/low creators....but other than that I don't think they're the enemy here.
Also, consider the free account. Presumably, the artist still wants to get paid. So now Spotify somehow needs to be able to make back those 2,400 pennies per user from advertisement.
The 'Ian Bell' referred to in this comment should be John Bell (John Stewart Bell).
OK I must have missed that it had comments on the article.

If you're looking for a new subject to cover, M1 seems to be vulnerable to spectre
If you look at the political incumbents on both sides you’ll be sorely disappointed. Many people who end up in positions of leadership in either parties are basically insiders who did their time and climbed the ladder, and who are deeply unpopular.

Candidates who garner a lot of attention are actually viewed as a threat by the incumbents and are usually buried, destroyed, or sidelined. Take Yang, Tulsi and Ron Paul as a few examples.
I actually started looking at Clickhouse a couple weeks ago but got a bit side tracked trying to grok how distributed tables work. It looks promising but there's a bit of a learning curve (seems some of the performance also comes from its use of arrays but best I can tell my use case should just use regular tables)
"We think that the most interesting and thought-provoking discussions in Hacker News get regularly flagged or moderated, so we collect stories that reached the front page but exited earlier (typically due to flagging or manual moderator intervention) or interesting stories with a lot of activity and points that were prevented to reach the front page."
Spotify doesn’t want to take the risk, but there’s probably money on the table from all the small gyms, coffee shops, etc that should be paying commercial rates.
There is also the issue of fraud. Click/Stream farms are already soaking up the artists pool of revenue, and this change would incentivize it more. Justin Bieber recently asked his fans to go to sleep with his new song on repeat, and I'm sure other artists/labels are looking at ways to game the system as well. In my opinion there needs to be a way to pay artists based on first time streams from new accounts.
Would you mind telling a bit more about this? (Where actually it hit you? How does that feel?)
The DC area, in and around Maryland, dominates the US wealthiest districts rankings, I wonder what giving them more power will do...
People acting on emotions rather than actually doing the math and seeing that one penny per stream will make Spotify prices skyrocket and if no one uses Spotify, well, they will be in a worse situation.
I seem to understand that they want "a penny per stream" to go to the actual artists, which sometimes are not the royalty holders. So paying out less to the royalty holders and more to the artists sound like it could work.
This topic came up on the recent Joe Rogan with Elon Musk. Elon said they considered it, but in the end it is just not worth it. He said there is just not enough surface area on a car to contribute a worthwhile amount of electricity.

The numbers quoted for this particular vehicle are very optimistic I think. If you’re lucky, you might get 5 miles a day out of it. What happens if it’s cloudy or rainy for a week? Or you park in a garage? There are so many variables, and the return on investment will be highly variable.

Tesla decided it’s just not worth the extra cost and complexity, for such a small return. I agree the idea sounds nice, but I’m afraid these companies that are doing are this, are mostly just getting a nice PR boost.

There is just no way around the technical limitations of solar panels in the amount of energy they can convert, and the surface area of a car. Vans or RVs that could fold out a larger array when parked might be another story.

I will say, it looks like they have some real innovations in the design and engineering of integrating the panels in the body. Looks pretty cool, so that’s not nothing:)
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Living in Canada legalizing Cannabis has indeed introduced more people to using it. I think you underestimate the stigma attached to using illicit substances, and the barrier this places on regular folk.

> By 2019, more than 5.1 million people nationally, or 16.8% of Canadians aged 15 or older, reported using cannabis in the three months before surveying (Table 1). This was higher than the 14.9% (4.5 million) reporting use, on average, in 2018 (before legalization).

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/82-003-x/2020002/article...

Usage in 2020 was up to around 20% overall:

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/drugs-medica...
Mister Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children (2018)
And what do you expect to happen to Spotify when the musicians leave for someplace that pays them appropriately?
It's just crazy.
Musicians are getting the equivalent of an ad per stream.
As a musician/composer that does it for the love I put it many, many hours on each song. Its frickin' outrageous that people get as good as nothing and it seems as the more successful you are the better the deal you get #pyramid
Also, the CEO of spotify is just horrible.
Though I'd also rather a company eat their own dog food for something like this, so personally that's a tough one. I wouldn't want to find out Microsoft's internal infrastructure is all on AWS.
Killing Spotify would be terrible.

New musicians want their work out there....without Spotify(or similar) it will be back to just blasting out your music for free online everywhere so you can get bug.

Spotify at least gives them some revenue while they increase their fandom.
Also, artist and dev here.
I don't agree.
First, ideas are not copyrighted anyway. Second, you are both vague about those "different ways" of earning. Please expand on that.
It makes me sad to time and time again learn that the low prices of services I love are unsustainable and instead subsidized by treating someone unfairly downstream.

I wish I could be told what the ethical price for something is and I might actually pay it.

And if that price is too high, then maybe that service shouldn't exist in the first place.
I was under the impression that openjdk was independent from Oracle?
I initially dismissed this comment because the article was clearly about the market dynamics of an infrastructure-critical commodity.

But on reflection, I would say that this comment misses the point by less than I'd originally thought.

I would argue in response to it that every market-focused topic should include the key externalities associated with the topic.
Most modern JavaScript I've seen is worse than this.

At least it's not a minified blob built up from dozens of repos whose primary purpose is to make its authors look (feel) productive/prolific.
Just FWIW in much of the rural US you are largely exempt from building codes if you are building your own primary residence. The logic being that if you built it and you live in it and it kills you, well, you only have yourself to blame. This doesn’t apply for many town and city locations, though, as there are often local zoning controls that make you build cookie cutter garbage. But the smaller and and less regulated the area, the more likely you’re allowed to build what you want so long as you do it yourself and don’t sell it to anyone else.
Do you only use shampoo, and what kind? You should really use a mild shampoo and then a high quality conditioner. My hair used to be incredibly oily all the time when I used shampoo or shampoo+conditioner combo, even if I showered every day. Now it takes around 3 days to get greasy and I shower every few days. My skin is much more balanced and healthier (less acne, more even sheen, no dryness issues). I also do the equivalent of conditioner for my body- I use cetaphil on any part that I notice routinely gets dry (the bottoms of my feet, elbows, face, knees, etc.) since I started doing all this, my elbows went from being dry and ashy and scaly to looking just like the rest of my skin. I do use deodorant every day and have a bidet, but I don’t have any scent issues as far as I’m aware (I do ask others to check me, and days where I don’t use deodorant, I can smell myself, so I don’t think it’s a false bias.)
I believe the most successful companies don't discover markets, they create them. Visionaries like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk forge the macro (10x) jump and then ask customers for the micro improvements.

I'm writing an essay about this topic, feel free to take a look the draft if your are interested :)

https://ab0ve.substack.com/p/ec282c2c-95fa-4914-820f-7463cb5...
Most artists work for free. Some of the best artists I know have day jobs.

The promise of fame and fortune is a product of an industry that is based on physical media being the only way to share information. The bit has liberated music for everyone yet we cling to the past.
Minimally, public sector unions should be discussed separately from private sector unions. FDR warned against the former:

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/letter-the-resolut...
I agree, they're easy to copy and reproduce. But more importantly, they are not easy to produce in the first place.

How do you suggest an author (artist, musician, etc) make a living, if it takes them 6 months of normal working hours to produce a book and they get an expected $0 of revenue from that book?
All requests are going through postgrest's http layer [1].

[1] https://postgrest.org/en/v7.0.0/
>Elixir, Ruby, PHP, Node -- if your business has a monolith and can run on one server, guaranteed there is less to worry about when you remove Docker.

For Ruby at least you run into the problem of keeping all the development environments the same. It's not insurmountable by any means but it's a constant nagging annoyance. Especially so once we start talking about working on multiple projects that may be using different versions of Ruby Postgres etc. Being able to do a docker-compose up and have the exact same environment as production is huge.
A small thing to add, not all road salt is the same. Some contain additional additives that allow them to be effective at lower temperatures. From what I recall, the low temperature salt is more expensive though.
IIRC: Molten Salt "solar towers" work well in desert environments.

Your point remains however: Desert solar-power is a different beast than normal solar-power. PV won't work well in a desert, you need to change your methodology entirely.

A "Solar tower" consists of a tower (which is just a standard thermal power-plant: usually a steam engine), and a ton of mirrors that heats the tower to 500C. The hotter the environment, the better a solar tower design gets.
"If you think [single news source] is giving you good news coverage, you are wrong" seems true in general. You need multiple sources if you want to escape bias.

Having comedians in your news diet is quite healthy. A comedian can say things that nobody else would dare to say.
unions are corrupt, wasteful, and the only organization that is structurally aligned with workers despite all those drawbacks. Your boss is not your friend, and you are only one person. you lose.
Just buy your nuclear plant from Russia or China. They don't have a habit of using dependency on their high-tech export to strangle other countries (hell, Russia even supplies its nuclear fuel to Ukraine, even though it could've been a really painful place to apply pressure). Unless you want to manufacture your own fuel from start to finish, you will have almost no issues with the IAEA.
"Just ask BLM leaders Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi.

In a revealing 2015 interview, Cullors said, “Myself and Alicia in particular are trained organizers. We are trained Marxists.” That same year, Tometi was hobnobbing with Venezuela’s Marxist dictator Nicolás Maduro, of whose regime she wrote: “In these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world.”"
I listen to far more than 1000 tracks a month, but quite a few of those are duplicates; though the music changes every month. With that listening pattern, it wouldn't make sense for me to pay for 1p/stream.

If the prices increased enough to offset a 1p/stream, I'd jump ship and buy used CDs again, since that would become more cost effective, even with buying a CD a month or so. There are cheaper substitutes to music listening, even if it would be less convenient to discover new music.
In what social bubble the author lives in?
I have never heard of anyone deifying Stephen Hawking...
> Meanwhile, using `emacs --script fib.elc` to evaluate byte-compiled (fib 40) takes about 32s

Which Emacs version is this?

Any chance you want to try the native-comp branch and post its numbers here as well?
Batteries combined with PV are already cheaper than nuclear, and grids of this scale and in these locations reduce the need for storage in the first place.
I'm not sure I'd call it solid, but it's an interesting take. However, I believe there's a very good reason that the various markets have went to the subscription model- there's a difference mentally between paying to stream all you want for a month and paying for each song, even when its fractions of a penny. Whenever a song you don't like starts playing on your stream, you realize you just paid for it. That's a negative experience, and those stack up.

It doesn't matter if it can save you money in the long run. Remember, we're dealing with the masses here- the same lowest common denominator that caused A&W's 1/3lb hamburger to fail because people thought it was smaller than McDonald's 1/4lb hamburger.
Some people don't absorb b12 via digestion so have to inject it instead
W.r.t. "self-documenting" code: at best, clear code tells you what it does. What it's supposed to do and why will always be left to comments.

I can't count the number of times I've read some code that was very clear that it generally did the correct thing, but clearly wasn't handling some corner case, and it wasn't clear if I had missed something that obviously made the corner case impossible, the author had missed the corner case, or something else was going on.
Other than performance and merchandise, I think Patreon is really the big ticket right now.

I suppose, in reality, this has been the case for around 3 decades now. Unless you have the marketing department, you don't make money from music sales.
It's in the union's interest to keep the company alive too.
I don't blame the scientists/entertainers themselves (though I think they certainly don't mind, or even take advantage of, the celebrity). The problem is the culture.
And the same thing happens here in the UK.

Have you worked for a business in a town, rather than one of the big cities? Or even a lot of the cities.

It's the same everywhere. Most of our businesses are terrible at using tech, view IT as a cost that's to be cut wherever possible and are completely inept.

I helped my last girlfriend automate her excel spreadsheet based job. It basically got rid of weeks or even months of work she was going to have to do manually moving numbers from some CSVs into spreadsheets. The company had something like 10 people doing the same job.

It took me about 2 hours to write that macro. This was a major garden centre chain in the UK, with hundreds of stores, completely clueless about how much money they were wasting on pointless staff busy work.
There are plenty of companies and whole industries people working for contribute negatively, so at least it's fairly neutral.