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But is the supply actually being limited? Won't a similar amount of fuel be transported via rail or trucks? What is the carbon footprint of transporting X kg of fuel over pipeline vs rail?

It seems to me that the main outcome is that the same amount of fuel is transported with a costlier (environmentally, and financial) vehicle.
Basically everything in your post highlights why crypto is a horrible idea for your average person:

> How do you think bank accounts get hacked? It's much easier to yank a password/credit card number people use daily.

Exactly, and when a credit card number is stolen the consumer is almost never liable, as opposed to crypto where your life savings are gone forever.

> The benefit of private key is you only need to use it once. Then store it away in a safe or _bank_.

As another responder said, you need your private key to sign every transaction. Giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you're talking about wallet keywords, even then if you have an account you still need the ability to sign transactions, and according to crypto enthusiasts the no-middleman, non-reversability of crypto transactions is a feature, not a bug.

> More UX will develop over time as adoption grows. We already have hardware wallets that even babies could use.

This man used a Trezor wallet but was still tricked into entering his wallet keywords into a fake Trezor app and lost his life savings: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/30/trezor-...

> Even in recent modern history people have lost all their savings in a snap be it their house burning down, colleague stealing everything or even your bank going under.

Which is exactly why everyone with a mortgage is required to have home owners insurance, and FDIC insurance exists.

The only way to introduce these kinds of benefits (e.g. to have someone adjudicate allegations of fraud; insurance; etc.) is to introduce middle men, which then defeats the entire purpose of crypto in the first place.
It's basically a myth that apples reviewers are reviewing for security issues. I've worked in the iOS ecosystem since the beginning, undergone hundreds of reviews, and the reviewers are there primarily, almost exclusively, to endure apple gets it's 30% fee. There are automated security tools, to be sure, but apple the costs of hosting and automated tests are basically 0%.

If they charged $5-20 per release, that I would be fine with, and not only cover costs but would generate profit.
> It's important to keep in mind that even when that money is spent, there's no guarantee it'll be spent domestically.

This is literally the comment I was replying to. As far as I can read, the parent comment was about the location of consumption and the effect that has on an economy (which I think is significantly more nuanced than the parent implied)

It’s also 100% worth noting that we have no idea who bought those shares from Jeff (ignoring the fact that his liquidity is mostly from loans against his holdings). The US majorly benefits from foreigners buying shares in our companies and (surprise) that’s one of the major reasons we can support our trade imbalance.

So I’m mostly just confused about your point, I guess?

I think we agree that progressive taxation is probably good, but do we disagree about the effect that non-domestic consumption has on the US economy?
Does Authy actually offer 2FA? It sounds like the security boils down to your encryption passcode used to encrypt the 2FA secret, so you aren't actually using 2FA at the end of the day.

For personal use it probably is a good compromise for services which don't implement 2FA properly (that is to say, services that don't allow you to register multiple 2FA devices.) But realistically you might want to just disable 2FA and rely on your password manager.
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Decisions are trade offs. The cost of resources will become more scarce here. Which means the poor will pay more for their fuel prices. If you believe that no one will be injured, you are looking at level one impacts. Any decision needs to be looked at as a trade off.

Russia, China, India, and Iran must be so happy with the ways we shoot ourselves in the arm. Fracking moved us closer to getting away from the Middle East, but the pipeline cancellation, the fracking fights, and the anti-nuke efforts is forcing us to get closer to them.
Most often, opensource software are not opensourced with a commercial intent. They are created for ideological reasons and / or to highlight their professional skillset.

Some of these opensource projects become popular, and soon the creator(s) become deluged with feature requests and / or support requests for the opensource software. Ofcourse, at some point it becomes economically unviable for a developer to provide quality service for free. So some ask for sponsorship and donations. Some of them create a non-profit foundation to accept donations. Others choose to commercialise their product and offer paid support services or find other revenue streams.

E.g.

(1) Mozilla Foundation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation - dictates the development and commercialisation goals of the popular Firefox browser and Thunderbird Email client. Their main revenue stream is tying up various online services with their software (e.g. search engines).

(2) SQLite - https://sqlite.org/prosupport.html - They sell support at various price tiers and additional features to their software. They also ask companies invested in their software to support them by funding them - https://sqlite.org/consortium.html .

(3) Wordpress - https://wordpress.com/ - also sell their opensource product as a Software-as-a-service .

Some for-profit companies do opensource their project too. Their intention often includes PR, to increase the popularity / user-base of their product, get free work from other developers etc. Sometimes they use and enhance existing opensource projects and thus are obliged to share their work as a opensource too.

E.g.

(1) Apple - https://opensource.apple.com/ - They built many commercial products from permissive opensource software, and release some of their work back as opensource to counter the negative PR that they only leech of free work by others but don't contribute anything back.

(2) Google - https://www.chromium.org/ - They used existing open source web engines to create their browser platform. Thus they were partly obliged to share their code. It also helped to increase their market share as they were initially not a major player.

(3) MySQL - Originally was dual-licensed as free open-source and paid closed-source (everyone contributing to the opensource project had to also consent to their code being used in the closed-source version without any remuneration). This model provided a lot of PR and free labour to the founding company. (Is now owned by Oracle.)
Getting the pipeline route established is a pretty significant upfront cost. Easements, land purchases, agreements with all the various stakeholders are expensive. Even not reusing the existing oil pipeline, being able to repupose the corridor and corridor access points to lay a natural gas pipe or some other linear infrastructure is a pretty big deal.
> they reap the benefit in the meantime

Yeah, but when the CC reward gets cancelled the store still will charge the old prices.

> rising prices benefit retail workers at the expense of those living off savings and investments

That assumes that retail will distribute extra profits to its employees... which many aren't known for, Walmart and McDonald's are infamous for paying such poor wages that its employees are entitled to food stamps ffs (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...).

Maybe, just maybe, the situation will change a bit now that corona has entirely uprooted labor markets, but even then it's a smoke debate - 15$/h is the lowest of the low, even adjusting for inflation would lead to a higher minimum wage!
I think it's important to consider that tech companies are still bending over backwards to get the most talented technical skills. if those ppl want remote they probably will get it now that this forced experiment had proven it can work.
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This kind of reply makes discussions about agile very frustrating for me. Not only does it conflate agile software development, as a set of practices, with the myriad of processes and practices like scrum, but it also deflects perfectly valid criticisms with insinuation that "you're doing it wrong".

Most people would never think of either pretending that the waterfall model is without problems, nor that it can never be successfully applied to any project. Why, then, is it not acceptable to admit that scrum does, indeed, have limitations that stem from the way it reduces the autonomy of the individual team members?

I'm not sure where "the right people on the right team" comes from -- it's certainly not in the agile manifesto -- but it's just the right grade of vague to be less than useful in practice. It's like saying that every problem can be solved in only two steps: 1) determine what you have to do, and 2) do it.

I don't see any reason for denying that scrum, in its most widely-practiced form, complicates or even discourages certain tasks and behaviors that can be beneficial under correct circumstances. It shouldn't be controversial.
You can really add things like sewers after the fact. You either need to add them before or during the addition of more (higher density) housing. Generally, this means that the builder of the new housing is required to foot the bill for that added capacity, which can make it not worth the cost.

The same tends to be true of roads, but with less catastrophic results. In a town where going 2 miles can take 20 minutes, adding a lot more housing without adding road capacity is not a great plan.
I realize that it’s not the most important issue given the current state of the world but I really wish the tech community would stop using the word “sunset” to replace the universally understood word “end”
That hasn't happened on Android. Using a third party store (a la F-Droid) or side loading in Android is very much a niche feature used only by the relatively tech savvy. Why would iOS be different?
This sounds like the original motivation of some ghost towns in China.
Google used to require you to move up to L5 in a certain number of years or you would be looked at askance. But they dropped that recently.
Wow, that story was so much more depressing than the title let on. I was hoping for some sort of work on allocating resources for contact tracing or something.
I don't think they block link tracking clicks. I don't see how they could possibly do that.

(Unless they take what I've discovered and incorporate it into their system. Even then, it wouldn't be 100% coverage. Some tracking links, ie. Mailchimp, can't be avoided.)
I think you misread the question. They didn't ask what this is, they asked what would qualify as collusion and racketeering if this doesn't.
That would be your decision to make.
It is actually easier to have a separate db for each.
Suicide isn’t something that necessarily occurs right after the events in question. After you destabilize someone’s business/career/income it can take a long time for the ripple effects(ex: divorce due to money trouble, the addiction you acquired to cope finally getting out of hand, …) to play out and for someone who’s been enduring a bad situation to eventually succumb to despair. We’ve also deliberately delayed, but not prevented many of the ill effects, for example with the eviction moratorium. It may not be long before all those people with back rent and back electric bills are out on the street. In my estimation we won’t know the effect of this pandemic on suicide rates for a few more years.
I can understand VCs wanting to get return on their investment asap but I can't being blind to the fact you can actually be hurting prospects of the business you are trying to profit from.

From a founder perspective I guess it would be important to skip investors that are not compatible with your vision. I understand it easier to say when you are not actually looking for money to keep your business alive...
Is there really demand for laying fiber between Hardisty Canada and Nebraska?
"notoriously outdated and incompatible with the modern web."

There are a lot of anti-Apple arguments a passionate critic might leverage, but claiming that Safari is "notoriously outdated and incompatible with the modern web" is just foolish. It is laughable nonsense.
You can’t pinpoint probabilities of many things that make the world run everyday, you can’t even pinpoint probabilities of things that happen in your personal life. It’s useful to at least know some mechanics behind these arcane things rather than completely disregarding them because you don’t fully know their distributions.
So you're saying that not only does OpenPGP release unauthenticated plaintext to callers, but it doesn't even implement the feature that takes advantage of it. Good note.

What's crazy about this is that you can get error correction without using insecure 1990s cryptography, simply by forward error correcting your ciphertext. I'm really having a hard time even getting my head around the argument you've managed to devise here.
I've never lived or spent significant summer time in Florida or New York City, but your descriptions of summer weather sounded surprising to me. I looked up weather data, and Jacksonville, Miami, and Tampa all get significantly hotter (4-7 degrees Fahrenheit higher average temperatures in the hottest part of summer), muggier, and cloudier in the summer. Only Miami is consistently windier in the summer than NYC. Is the wind the only difference you're talking about? At least on paper, it looks like I would vastly prefer the summer weather in NYC.
Sigh. A reserve asset doesn't need every transaction for coffee and candy bars to reside in its ledger. It's a foundation that other layers can build upon. The layers can be tailored to different use cases, each with different tradeoffs of security, speed and decentralization.
My reading comprehension is fine. I'm well aware you're an urbanist who hates sprawl and cars and loves density and transit. You need to work on yours, because I never said that you like sprawl (in fact, I said the exact opposite: "You may personally hate sprawl for various reasons"), only that urban growth boundaries raise the cost of housing and that "NIMBYs", if they were motivated by increasing their property values instead of concerns over the character of their neighborhoods, would support policies like urban growth boundaries and upzoning because they result in a reduction in the supply of houses and an increase in the potential land usage value. You argued that they loved a shortage of housing because it increases property values, and I pointed out that the reality is more nuanced.

How are you any different that the someone who doesn't want an apartment building built because it would change the character of the neighborhood? Both of you support policies that increase the cost of housing in the hopes that everyone will live the lifestyle that each of you prefer. You prefer multi-family housing and want people to live in it, and support policies that make it expensive to live in single-family housing. The hypothetical NIMBY (who is, as mentioned previously, not someone who is purely interested in maximizing their house's value) prefers to live in single family homes and wants it to be expensive to live in multi-family housing. I'm sure you'll reply with some handwavy thing about sustainability and externalities, but the NIMBY can similarly bring up crime, noise, congestion, and other issues with dense living. There is no difference other than which housing type the two groups prefer.

I would be less hostile if urbanists like yourself would just admit that they want to force everyone to live their prefered lifestyle instead of hiding behind bogus economical and questionable environmental arguments. If you truly just wanted the option to rent apartments then there would be no need for policies like urban growth boundaries. Removing both the zoning rules and the boundaries would allow for housing that people want to be developed, but what would you do if your neighbors make the "wrong" choice?
According to [1] the cost in 2018 was $5/barrel via pipeline, vs $10-$15/barrel by train. Also, for Alberta boats are not an option since it's a landlocked province. Also, Alberta's oil sands are the world's largest oil reserves after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, so a pipeline would be very economical once it starts running.

Also, quote from [2]:
While long-haul oil and gas pipelines are also more economical and environmentally friendly than other modes of transport like rail or trucking (pipelines create 61 to 77% less greenhouse gas emissions than rail when moving crude over long distances, says one recent study), they also have a safe delivery rate of greater than 99.999%.

This is quoted from Enbridge's website, which is a pipeline company, which may be a bit biased, however I doubt they are lying.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2018/10/11/which-is-...

[2] https://www.enbridge.com/Your-questions/User-submitted/Why-a...
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You are very kind to say that, thanks!

I have no idea whether it works in FreeDOS, and I don't have a monochrome display to test it on. But if you try it, I would be very curious to know if it works! (You can reply to this message and I will get notified.)
I'm not sure what test you have in mind, and I'm guessing that such tests with high false positive bias might exist, for example the antibody tests. It's very difficult to get a genuine false positive with a PCR-based test: whatever you're reading out should have the same sequence as the part of the virus you're sequencing. The only reasonable way to get a false positive is that you contaminate the sample, but I don't think that the possibility of contamination is part of the design in any of the commercially available tests.
> I also lived in NYC for 10 years, the summers there are magical.

Summers in NYC can be quite mild. If memory serves 2016-2019 were all quite mild with only very brief hellish patches. Some earlier summers though were... horrible.

For me, the magical time in NYC is spring and fall, specifically May and September-October. Those are my favourite times in the city. The days are still relatively long. The weather is nice and mild.

But there is something about the oppressive heat radiating off the sidewalk and the buildings and the air is humid and completely still that is just completely draining to me, in the height of a bad summer.
I won once, with a Vampire mage. (about 27 years ago). Not easy. What have other used to win?
Devil's advocate: without regulations and permits, how do we know that what you're building isn't a nuisance etc. etc.?
I'd love to hear his response to this in a court setting.
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I have an iMac Pro that I wanted to hold on to for a long time.

F*ck me, right? :(
There are many assets and securities that are inversely correlated with the stock market like gold or inverse ETFs.
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I don’t know the exact science here. But I’ve been checked for clots. The blood lab simply checks for the level of this protein.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-dimer
Who is saying they want languages to be wiped out by English? Using the most common language seems like a no brainer that doesn’t have to anything to do with wanting to hurt other languages.
Our immune systems are pretty amazing.

It's also good to help them along sometimes.
I don't think I'd want a goon from Something Awful sending me anything - or knowing my physical address.
I'll stick with never. Rents keep dropping. It's almost like it's... pure speculation with no fundamentals. Surely that can't be the case, otherwise rents would keep dropping! Oh no!
One very important limitation is that this study does not take into account problematic variants such as P.1 and B.1.617

> Lastly, it is necessary to emphasize that these findings are based on the prevailing assortment of virus variants in the community during the study. It is not known how well these results will hold if or when some of the newer variants of concern become prominent.

Here in Brazil, I've heard news that the P.1 variant can cause reinfections but is still stopped by vaccines. This would point towards also vaccinating those who were already infected

https://jornal.usp.br/ciencias/primeira-dose-da-coronavac-e-...
Using it as a Wacom is the killer feature of Sidecar imo
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This really does not hold up anymore. The idea that China is magically much cheaper despite the very long transport route is simply no longer the case.

Labor cost of the type of labor you need is already not that different from Europe. Energy can be more expensive. And the supply chain for so many batteries becomes a real issue.

Historically we have seen Tesla move from Japan produced Panasonic cells to Nevada produced cells. And this is pretty much universally considered a fantastic move by Tesla.

It is already the case that pretty much all large battery makers, including LG, SK from Korea, CATL from China, Tesla from the US and multiple new European producers all have announced gigantic investments to build cell plants in Europe.

Tesla is basically moving to a model where the battery factory and the car factory are basically in the same building or next to each other as localization is actually a huge cost driver.

See this map for the amount of localization being done:

https://battery-news.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Uebersich...
> Oil is spilled at a significantly higher rate when transported by rail.

That doesn't seem to be correct. Maybe you mean spill incidence is higher when transported by rail? Table 9: https://imgur.com/a/3uIKVZc -- this makes it very clear that total volume spilled and volume spilled per incident is far greater from pipelines.

FWIW this table is from a paper that is trying to argue that pipelines are safer. But they quantify safety with the metric "how many people get hurt." In making that argument they make statements like: "The majority of incidents occur on road and rail." << duh, people are usually not around when pipelines spill. Also driving is hazardous.

Also rail cars and vehicles are monitored, whereas long pipelines are not so easily monitored; some spills may not even be detected for a long time. Related physics explaining a little bit of why long pipelines are hard to build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msxMRwQyXI8
I drive in Italy and Canada, the signaling is very different. In Italy you would signal left to indicato "entering", then signal right when about to leave.

In Canada you signal before entering, and signal right when you plan to exit right, left when left, nothing when going straight.

This assumption doesn't work for Italy wherte there are roundabouts with 5 or more roads involved.