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Yes, I think vegetarianism as an individual response to climate change is largely an anesthetic. I think individual responses in general are done as anesthetic (you feel pressure to act, and so you do something within your purview to relieve that pressure). I have lost faith in the ideal of collective individualism's ability to move the needle on these issues based on my read of the previous 60 years of history. I also think its disingenuous and irresponsible to put the onus on individuals. I think that for collective action at the scale required to address what is happening to our global climate can only happen through government mandated changes to manufacturing and setting carbon standards at the point and process of production. If we want to deal with this, the answer is that meat needs to be much more expensive, and that expense needs to be borne by the producers. All products and consumption need to represent their real impact on climate. Arguing for individual vegetarianism is nibbling around the edge at best (see below) and a analgesic at worst. The pain of there being a problem needs to be persistent and long lasting for us to address the much more central issues at hand.

In the 1970's the US rate of vegetarianism was around 1%. In 2008, the rate was around 3%. In 2015, still around 3%. There is some 2018 data that says 4% (1). These surveys have margins of error, but lets be charitable and say they are spot on. Based on these data, we could expect to see a 20% adoption of vegetarianism by the year 2210. We could expect to see a 50% adoption by around 2600.

Simply put, individual action is not enough to make even a bug-splat on a windshields difference to this issue. Individuals who make personal decisions to eat less meat may be the shock troops and I do believe those are also the ones going above and beyond to make additional change happen. However, its not adequate. Its not enough. And I am arguing that advocating for solving or addressing this issue through individual change is counter-productive, because even being ridiculously charitable regarding rates of adoption, it simple wont be enough to even nudge the needle on climate change.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarianism_by_country#:~:te....
I think there's probably some middle ground here. Like say the national economy is 100% on Bitcoin and then as long as they have a balanced trade with other countries (i.e. no long term trade deficit/surplus) they can deal with those obligations in fiat currency. But I'm just guessing here.
I am confused how reading a news story in a certain window of time could serve as evidence or probable cause or reasonable suspicion of anything. Seems utterly bizarre.
Wait it's not actually word salad, it makes sense. I was out and about and wasn't able to spend time reading it before dashing off my flippant jokey reply below, so I only read it now. So despite the Saturday Spliff, blamazon is pretty coherent. Can you describe what doesn't make sense to you?
I think if Bitcoin price turns around and keeps increasing (big if), we are going to see a large scale game theory at play. The countries that have opted in will be in a much better place so that would create a race to get in.

The next 5-10 years will be very interesting times to live through, especially after record USD printing.
"""No matter how many times it comes up, I can't build you a perpetual motion machine. I know it can't be done--and, more to the point, have explained why multiple times--and I would rather not the entire team continually have giant meetings attending to discuss how to build it anyway. It doesn't motivate me that you have found a customer for it, or that you have come up with a million ways it will make the world a better place: we have an actual engine that we are trying to ship here, and your insistence upon wasting my time and energy requiring me to explain over and over again why your perpetual motion machine is, at least, something that our team isn't going to come up with, is so far past distracting as to potentially be active sabotage when you convince our users that they should wait for it to be implemented, or get our marketing department hyped about the possible new markets it will open up for us.

Yes: I "only" know why it doesn't work... something I would hope would have extreme value, as I am not simply telling you "you are dumb" and refusing to discuss it, even if you don't understand the math or physics involved and thereby can't tell the difference; and I don't have something else for you that does anything similar: if I had any hope this was possible, I assure you I would be dedicating quite a lot of our resources towards figuring out how to pull it off. I will even admit that maybe, just maybe, you are correct, and what you want somehow can be done because everyone who has ever studied this before is wrong... but it isn't going to anyone on our team--not me, and especially not you, who figures this out--so let's spend our time talking about things that aren't a waste of our time and money. Am I a "negative Nancy"? Sure... if that's what you want to call someone who uses their time effectively."""

-- someone who has often been in the situation of having to have this conversation about the same scant handful of "obvious" ideas over and over again, often times for years (essentially, until the project is scrapped)
Can I just say that the Ftxui source code is beautifully laid out, and is much more readable than I am used to seeing in Free Software projects? This library has absolutely exemplary presentation. [Edit: I see it uses clang-format. More projects should use that.]

Overuse of shared_ptr (what we call "Java Disease") is probably forgiveable in a UI toolkit. Even protected data members, often frowned upon in O-O circles, are probably OK, here. A note to the author (and, you know, everybody): the "#ifndef xxxx/#define xxxx" two-step is no longer necessary or useful; "#pragma once" is supported everywhere now.
Presumably because PLCN wanted to land in LA as well. That's the implication in the text AIUI.
> For microphones, it depends on the laptop.

For raw mic quality in a perfectly silent environment, sure. But background noise rejection is a matter of ratios. The closer the mic is to your face the louder your voice is in comparison to any background noise. The computer can do some computational noise reduction, but that always ends up being a bit like virtual backgrounds; fine, but clearly insufficient.

Personally I use a XLR mic on a boom arm, because I can be a bit extra in these things. But among my colleagues the Airpod Pros are probably the best normal person mics anyone uses. I've never heard any background noise from the people wearing them, even those I know happen to share an office with their significant other and someone who literally had a baby on their lap while they were talking to me.
It is my hope that this article keeps the 1Password team steered away from in-browser solutions. I’ve seen a couple of experiments of them trying it, and I’d much rather keep the awesome and extremely trustable methods that they have used up til now.

Anyone else remember when they essentially pushed OSX to get better at security by having a tunnel of protected memory? (It’s been a minute and I know I won’t be able to find the article, so please excuse me if the details are wrong)
Measuring the Health of the Stock Market by Watching Dividends – May 2021
This says it all. I've done it for half my career.

The good part is that your pay is anchored on value. With full time jobs, they pay you as little as they can get away with. With freelancing, the work is usually not going to be finished without you, so the budget is a lot higher.

I'd say about 70% of the effort is in chasing payments and landing (better) clients, though. You're not really a software developer anymore, more like a salesperson.
I have an expensive microphone and picked "use original audio" in Zoom, which says that it takes more bandwidth and compute resources for the receivers. Of course, you could just not click that if people complained.

I haven't heard anyone complain. Rather, everyone else also bought expensive microphones and enabled original audio, and the results are excellent.

(Unsolicited tip: some sort of noise gate is really nice so that when you unmute, it doesn't raise the noise floor for the call. I ended up using Krisp, which seems to work quite well. Yeah, it's a subscription service for something your audio interface could theoretically do, and they market it as AI but it's not really AI and that's kind of scummy, but it doesn't take up any space on my desk, and it's not that expensive, so whatever. Sometimes it works too well -- people will apologize for their dog barking, or a fire truck driving by, and it's just met with confusion because that all got filtered out.)
Running a Wiki on Org-Mode
The original versions of Game Maker were how I got into computer programming, many years ago :) It taught me about these magical things called arguments/parameters, and 'steps' (run loops), and objects. The first game I ever made was a Mario clone but you were an ant who stomped on other bugs in a garden, and I made it with Game Maker.
Very odd article. On the one hand, the author complains "To deem his punishment censorship — even though it is on a private platform that is not the public square — is exactly what he cynically hopes we will do." On the other, she describes the same thing as "the decision to live or die online" - which is way more extreme than censorship.

Trump is cynically hoping you'll call him getting censored censorship, when it clearly is. NYT author is calling the decision to ban someone from Facebook deciding whether they live or die online, which it clearly is not. Huh?

Also there are many words that are hyphenated when I think they should not be. I began to wonder if they were encoding some secret message.
So now Twitter is trying to set the rules for speech world-wide. No company should believe themselves to be the sole arbiters of what should be and not be allowed in local jurisdictions's speech.

This is overreach. This isn't giving speech to people under dictatorships, this is being the diktator. They, unelected, undeferring, are dictating the rules, regardless of local laws, mores and so on.

If they continue setting the rules for speech world-wide from their world-view-only, I think we can expect to see more Nigerias, Irans and Chinas when it comes to Twitter --and I would not blame them. Arguably, they are interfering with the sovereignty of these places.
Ten years ago people who like this sort of pannational rule setting would have been claiming "Imperialism" but it's okay because they are the imperialists.
It likely means they got this data more easily from a third party, like an analytics or ads provider.
>a really good tap won't even have a perceptible loss if they're doing it right

I'm curious, how does one "do it right"? Is there a technical explainer somewhere on how this works (in theory)?
This story is not that far from Steve Jobs'. Steve was also abandoned by his parents; although via a more legit adoption, and it also played a role in how he fueled his success.
They'd need root access to do half of those things. The other half are bad but not life-shattering.
Again you are completely missing the point. It's not about "do you have the IT skill" it's about "you have a major problem (connectivity) - can you find some way to solve it"
This Technical Communications textbook is one of the best set of instructions and recommendations on how to clearly communicate in written and verbal modes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1319245005/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_...

I always recommend it to researchers and anyone who has to write documents (most folks in tech).
My experiences with PICO-8 led me in the direction of making my own fantasy console...which then turned into a more thorough examination of computing itself.

I reached the conclusion that what I want is actually a lot of small source mediums that would cooperate well together and be bundled in arbitrary fashion as a single runtime engine, vs the "familiar computer platform but less" model that is intrinsic to the PICO-8 approach, which puts a lot of pressure on the platform to address all needs.

So I started working on that problem instead. What I have now is a binary format that might suffice as a common source document type. It's binary because it let me declare more precise meanings for the bits instead of offloading those meanings to a character parser, but it's also text-like because it doesn't enforce a lot of structure, it has notions of "lines" and "strings".

I'm now just about to where I can test it on media I might want to write and work in and see how well it edits.
We already know that the US monitors internet traffic on a global scale, so it’s a bit rich of them trying to police the rest of the world on this.
> If you must use your phone, set it steady and level, in portrait orientation.

This may be good advice for Zoom, but is bad advice for Microsoft Teams.

When Teams displays your portrait-shaped video in on a computer, it crops the top and bottom to make it fit in the grid view, which has landscape rectangles. So what you're left with is a zoomed-in picture of your nose (or thereabouts).

> Video and audio quality need only be adequate...microphone in your laptop are sufficient

This one's questionable. I've got an external microphone and that the difference is huge. I would suggest people try to record themselves using a voice recorder app (there are websites that do this) and play it back just to test.

Good audio is probably more important than anything else IMO. Sure, some interviewers will have hangups about whether your home is tidy or whether you're dressed well, and these biases might unfairly change their assessment of your skills. But being unintelligible causes actual misunderstandings and slows communication.
singlemode fiber splitters come in various ratios of light passed to light split off to your own thing. You fusion splice it in place. It's basically just a prism in a box. If you want to tap a circuit such as between two datacenters at the most fundamental (OSI layer 1) level, before the dark fiber is ever handed off to the customer, you would put in place a tap that passes 90% of the light and keeps 10% of it, splits it off, then feed that into your own local amplifier if needed before passing the tap to your interception/storage equipment, if the received signal level from the 10% is too low.

the general principle is actually not much different from some things you do in ordinary DWDM system engineering (where you want to give an analysis port to a spectrum analyzer) or the various types of splitters that exist for GPON network builds.

there are also lots of ways to hand-wave away the loss from a tap to a carrier customer, like "oh yeah there's some dirty patch panels over there" or "that segment of fiber was fusion spliced in an emergency repair at 3am eight years ago after it got taken out by a truck, there may be some slightly higher loss on some strands". And even more so for an inter-city fiber link that's way under 80 km (more like 30-40km, tops), where the optical link budget POP-to-POP isn't in question, and well within the reach of ordinary optics even when considering old or dirty fiber in between. The ISP customers might not look too hard at it.

google "fiber plc splitter" for some manufacturer info and datasheets.
Hmm - at first, I thought it was this:

https://mercurylang.org/

Seems like a google search might have been good before picking an name ?
XOR is modular addition on single bits!
They basically have those. For example the NexDock. It's basically a laptop with no guts designed to be driven by USB C smartphone, probably could work with anything really.

I hate my MBP too.
Twitter has never entirely prevented anybody from accessing it (afaik - I first encountered the platform in ~2010 so correct me if I'm wrong). Tweets and media from non-protected accounts can be viewed without needing an account at all, so everybody can see the discussion happening; the criticism of Twitter is over whether or not everybody can participate (and even then, even people with suspended accounts will often create new ones and jump back in).

On the other hand not only is my government actively trying to make it a criminal offence to participate in discussions on Twitter, they have already mobilised the ISPs to block actual access to the platform itself (some people are currently circumventing that with VPNs, but we all know that they (especially the free ones) are not bulletproof).

The abuse of state power should be obvious, especially to the people on here who claim to care about censorship, but they seem to be too caught up in scoring a petty point against a platform they don't like. As I've said elsewhere, I wonder if they think of us Nigerians as real people at all.
Surprised I don't see SVGOMG mentioned yet:

https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/

I play with the settings when I care about SVG size. I don't know what real developers do, but I got a skewed version of cowbell.svg down to about 937 bytes.
I'm not saying there's a reason to mention curl. I'm saying the explanation given makes no sense.
How do you add multiple domains in LastPass? I couldn’t figure out how to do it.
Yes look if they have one quick connectivity hick-up or things genuinely go badly in a one-off way, there's ways to handle that (eg reschedule.)

But if people have consistently shitty wifi and they don't bother to mitigate that even for an interview, that's a different story. A professional understands that success takes some prep - and if you have one hour to convey to someone that you're qualified for a job you want, but you don't line up basic things like good connectivity -- it's the same as not bothering to find a clean shirt to wear to a real interview.
Judith: Here! I've got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can't actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody's fault, not even the Romans', but that he can have the _right_ to have babies.

https://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/user/ayshames/Python/LORETT...
Why doesn't Spain just block twitter if they don't like an American company messing about in their politics?

If anything it shows just how reliant these politicians have become on a foreign company for their political ranting/culture waring.
Quanta Magazine nails it yet again. The connection to turbulence is also very interesting.

Only question is what the C ^ x,y notation is about, as they only explained one axis. Anyone know?
Can you describe how it would "burn through all potential buyers"? How is this not a problem in the stock market, for example?
I don't want to be down on the man at all either, but unfortunately what you just said very much follows from a combination of a deprived upbringing lacking in the education necessary for understanding the technology a young boy glorifies inevitably as a status symbol and a harsh socio economic dividing line, in combination with the obviously profound torment he must have felt and endured and focused into a controllable energy that was the stigma of his unfortunate circumstances of birth.
Doesn't this do exactly what it's not designed to do - i.e make multinationals leave G7 countries and shop for lower taxing countries?

Sounds like it's almost a tarrif, and we've got ample evidence that the country that imposes a tarrif on itself is the country that ends up paying for it in the long run
Like cosmic ray bitflips, I’ll believe it when I can see it.
OP/Author here. I think the takeaway there was my admission that I used to be a TWWP, but by not being TWWP, I was able to become part of the solution. I am glad you liked the article otherwise :)
>>An internet company in a 10-story building would love this scheme, though, because they could generate billions in revenue but be taxed at the same rate as a local neighborhood of people who owned their homes for a few decades.

That's irrelevant, because the ultimate owners of the corporation - the shareholders - will always be in demand of land. Real estate explains most of the growth in wealth inequality in the US over the last 60 years:

https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/a-26-year-old-mit-gra...
I must admit, the fact that you were able to spin this limerick without resorting to using that word is admirable.
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That’s fine as long as my job is willing to pay me in a constant amount of bitcoin and everything else I need to buy can be bought with bitcoin. If my salary is still in dollars, then what I can purchase for a day’s wages will vary hugely.
I've always been the "that won't work" person in whatever organization i've worked in for the last 35 years (fortunately for most organizations, I've been self-employed for the last 25 years). I think this article is needlessly negative. I view my "that won't work" contributions as the reason why it did work (eventually).

As others have noted, it's important that "that won't work" is accompanied by actual reasons (and reasoning). But it is often important to have a nattering nabob of negativity, especially with a younger cohort full of positivity and possibility and not a lot of battles fought. Most of the time, it can be made to work, but often that requires the injection of a voice mostly full of objections, problems, issues, overlooked items.
80 people? It's a voice, but doesn't seem representative of the overall sentiment
The deadweight loss is different than the overhead cost. What you're describing is the overhead cost, which indeed is much lower for a land value tax.

The land tax has zero deadweight loss, because what it's taxing is pure economic rent, rather than production of value:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

Any tax imposed on anything except scarce natural resources will be penalizing the creation of wealth, and impose deadweight losses.
When I was an undergraduate, I suggested some ideas to my classmates that would now be called "static analysis". About 1/4 of them would reflexively respond with "That won't work: halting problem". They were vaguely aware that someone infinitely more clever than us had proved the impossibility of something having to do with code analyzing code, and so they considered the whole topic off limits forever.
Because if I'm Apple and sitting on billions of dollars I get to buy out my supply chain and I pay 0 tax for all components and transitions in the chain - and your random manufacturer X has to pay Qualcomm and gets taxed, who pays TSMC and gets taxed, who pay their suppliers and get taxed, etc. Then multiply this by every component at every step. This is a terrible incentive system for breeding huge vertically integrated monopolies even faster than we currently do.