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Historically, EU aviation fuel was tax free and applied no VAT. Many US states don't tax jet fuel.

Air traffic causes 2.5% of all CO2 emissions globally. In rich countries about 3%.
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You're demonstrating the very vector into internet dudgeon that I'm talking about.

Yes, commenters do bear some responsibility for the subthreads that come from their comments. These things are pretty predictable, after all. (To be fair, I probably came down on cryptohacks a little too harshly—it's an occupational hazard, especially after hours of cleaning up shit—sorry, cryptohacks. But the principles hold good.)

I don't agree that it's cowardice to go for substantive discussion rather than people screaming at each other and losing their minds off-topically. I'd say it takes some courage to do that. What strikes me as closer to cowardice (not the best way to put it, but we'll go with your word) is defining one side of these bloodbaths-in-a-teacup as virtuous and the other side as "garbage people", instead of facing the truth that they are co-creations.

Btw, I like Graeber. I personally protected his account on HN and made sure he got to say everything he wanted to here. I think his death was a loss for intellectual life—he may not have been a meticulous scholar but his creativity is not the sort of thing that comes along very often. I think making a big deal out of that one lame sentence about Apple is an example of the stupidest sort of internet battle. At the same time, of course he was an ideological writer and of course that paragraph is ideological rhetoric. That it also contains facts doesn't change that; that's what good rhetoricians do.

Nor is there anything wrong with that paragraph in its original context in a book—a genre where the volume knob needs to be turned up quite a bit at times, and generally wielded with a lot of variation. But McLuhan got it right, the medium is the message, and copy-pasting that paragraph into an internet thread on an inflammatory topic is definitely flamebait. We're trying to learn how to avoid that here because the threads it produces are repetitive, and therefore tedious, and therefore turn nasty. That's really all I'm saying—anything else people are adding onto it (such as secret political agendas, positions on Haitian history, or whatever) is imaginary.
The US may not feel so blessed when the Saudis decide they want some of that money back.
Apple Pay does this. Merchants get a token which looks like a credit card number but isn't. If you are using an Apple Credit Card, then the processor (Goldman Sachs) is not allowed to use your purchase data in that way.
Believe it or not, this is exactly what happened. I'm lucky enough to live in a country that didn't went with the lockdown madness (Japan), so I know for a fact an alternative way was possibly. It's sad to read people so brainwashed they defend the ruling class who robbed their liberties (and which didn't followed the rules themselves, as shown in France with ministers going to secret restaurants in Paris[1]).

[1] https://apnews.com/article/paris-europe-coronavirus-pandemic...
This is absurd. That is absolutely tiny connector which produces negligible amount of waste and could easily save the entire device from being dumped in trash.
There is an effort working to establish Phorge as a community-maintained fork but it is not yet in a state for announcement/release. There's still work being done to establish the organization, the fork itself, and the community. Please bear in mind that this is in it's infancy.
This right here is why we will not be moving our Self-Hosted BB to their 'cloud'. I can't afford these kinds of outages and being 'small' we can yell and scream all we want and they won't care. I'd much rather have the control in my hands when something goes wrong. Goodbye BB!
> Private jets are completely irrelevant

Every amount of pollution counts, otherwise we could also claim that a single individual makes 0 difference.
But the faster you go, the more the galaxy is Lorentz contracted from your frame of reference, and therefore the denser the stars are, so dodging gets harder. Also, they're coming at you faster, so you have less time to dodge.
Please see my other comment. The community is still forming around this and working on setting up the proper fork. This project is not yet ready for announcement.
RISCV is an ISA, not a core design much less a complete SoC. The closest comparison would be something like Rocket, or BOOM.
TSLA has far more speculators in the stock than users of the product - which was the criticism levelled at bitcoin by OP

You mentioned TSLA has future earnings, which is true, but it has 12bil of debt of the balance sheet too. Bitcoin has no debt on the balance sheet..

More significantly, TSLA is trading at a normalised P/E ratio of >700. For comparison, FORD is about 14. This says that unequivocally people believe TSLA is far, far, far more valuable that the sum of it's parts. Just like bitcoin.
>We spent decades trying to get rid of cigarettes

We spent decades trying to get rid of carcinogens from cigarettes. What's the problem with cigarettes without carcinogens?
I agree it has probably been a disaster for existing taxi companies in every city. But only in the same way the internet has been a disaster for the phone book companies. Or that Netflix was bad for Blockbuster.

Just because some countries don't value competition - and prefer to cater to existing entrenched lobbying groups - is not compelling evidence to the average American that Uber is bad.
Where are you seeing anything about audits? The link just says that Mozilla can decide to remove people from the TRR program. They aren't sending people to Cloudflare and Comcast's server rooms. It's great that should a violation be disclosed to the public Mozilla might remove them, but unless there's a whistleblower the public will never know what's being done with their browsing history.
Yes you can clearly see the contrast between that thread and this one, starting from the root comments, and that's the point: it's possible to have a factual discussion, and it's possible to start a massive flamewar with exactly the same underlying facts. The burden is on commenters to contribute in ways that are likely to lead to the former, not the latter. Of course you can't know for sure what the effects will be, but you can play the odds. These things are fairly predictable.

(Btw, I've partly answered your other questions in a different comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27776445)

Here are some principles that have emerged over the years here, as supports for the kind of discussion we're hoping for:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Intent doesn't communicate itself on the internet, so the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate. -
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

The value of a comment is the expected value of the subthread it forms the root of. - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Trolling can only be measured by effects, not intent. - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

Scorched earth is not interesting. - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
We're using Smartthings, specifically the old graph API that gives somewhat easy programmatic access. Very interested in what yall are doing with Seam (we spoke for a little bit at the virtual event YC had earlier this year). With Samsung I'm always worried some new VP is going to going to get shuffled in and decide that Smartthings has had its day in the sun.
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That being said, if anyone is interested in participating we have a Zulip up at

https://temp-community-phab.zulipchat.com/

As well as working on the effort on https://we.phorge.it
Methane in plume of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be sign of alien life, study
Do you know anything about the heart rate telemetry they did?

I'm blown away by the description of the helix that slowed down light by 90% so it could interact with the electron beam. Who figured that out? Brilliant.
Afaik, the big (US) money was still prohibited from flowing into crypto? Or did leaks spring in that firewall?
Ucs, the controversial organization, has an interesting analysis of geothermal.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/environmental-impacts-geoth...

The takeaway

> Enhanced geothermal systems, which require energy to drill and pump water into hot rock reservoirs, have life-cycle global warming emission of approximately 0.2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour [11].

> To put this into context, estimates of life-cycle global warming emissions for natural gas generated electricity are between 0.6 and 2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour and estimates for coal-generated electricity are 1.4 and 3.6 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour.

Nothing is really truly zero carbon currently. Solar has manufacturing and maintenance. Nuclear has construction, mining, refinement, containment, etc. It's nice to see the full lifecycle being looked at.

We can't pretend that something essential for the process doesn't matter because we do a classification handwaving. It all counts
> made little impact on the Japanese military

The military capability being broken was not the goal, and it also not what decided the war.

> made little impact on the Japanese military

That would matter if the goal of the bomb or impact had been about 'material' but it wasn't, and its not how the war was decided.

> the Japanese position was hopeless even before the first atomic bomb fell, because the Japanese had lost control of their own air

Again, that doesn't matter. Their position was hopeless literally the second they started the war. They literally started the war knowing they couldn't win.

The bomb was not there for military impact as militarily japan had already been beaten along every possible measure of such things. Japan was surrounded, had no food import its navy and air force were done.

> It doesn't seem like dropping the bombs served any military purpose.

The military purpose was ending the war. And in fact it did exactly that. You can actually go read about the highest level of Japan decision making. This is well researched now. Not a single member of the high highest decision council was for ending the war or even negotiation. Literally nobody. Despite starvation, fire bombings and military defeat.

After first bomb fell the they were starting to have meeting where they discussed the situation and the waste majority of them still were absolutely against ending the war.

After the second bomb the mood shifted, multiple members changed there position and with support from the emperor managed to overrule the still considerable opposition to peace from many of the military leaders.

The idea that this would have been possible without the bomb is simply not historical. Some people claim the Soviet invasion was the deciding factor, but just like losing territory to the East and South, losing territory in the West would not have changed them.

Here are the alternative options:

- Surround Japan for extended period of time

- Full invasion of Japan

The first option would have been essentially a 10+ year genocide of much of Japans population and transforming it back into an agricultural society. The government would simply not have given up, they knew about the starvation that would happen in Japan and they were perfectly willing to endure that.

The second would have cost the US 10s to 100s of men, and the Japanese likely 10x as much.

There were 1000s of civilians suicides even in some of the outer islands, and 10-100s of soldiers who essentially committed suicide by attack. What do you think would happen when a US army went from village to village, city by city threw Japan following a retreating Japanese army and government north right across all of Japan.

The Japanese army was willing to turn every city int Stalingrad. Endless bonsi charges where US soldiers would have to basically mass execute 1000s of Japanese soldiers who had run out of ammo.

So what would your solution have been?
That’s quite a big presumption IMO. Training sets need to be quite large in order to produce reasonable output. My understanding is that these companies provide the model themselves, which seems like it’d be trained on more than one company’s publications. But I get your point, and understand both sides of the argument here.

I think this will end up with a large class action lawsuit for sure, tho I really think it’s a toss up as to who would win it. This conversation was bound to happen eventually and we’re in uncharted territory here.

I think it’s going to hinge on whether machine learning is considered equivalent in abstraction to human learning, which will be quite an interesting legal, technological, and philosophical precedent to set if it goes that way.
> Your complaint is that you think putting liquid into soup would make it disgusting?

Yes, putting Tabasco into pho soup is disgusting. Go try it and see what happens.

> I did not expect that.

Like I said, you clearly do not know what you're talking about. Your culinary experience appears to be limited.

> And similar does not mean identical, I'm fully aware there are differences.

Clearly you are not. This entire time, I've been arguing that they do not occupy the same niche in the world of condiments and you've been telling me that I am wrong.
I just priced out HVAC for a large home in central KY. It worked out to 3 of the highest efficiency American Standard/Trane units (Central Heating and Air) for around 50k or a touch over 70k for Bosch Geothermal. The big caveat for geothermal was the 70k price was guaranteed only if they didn't hit rock when digging. They couldn't give me a guaranteed price if they did hit rock so the choice was obvious. I picked Central Heating and Air.

For horizontal or vertical geothermal loops, the biggest cost is always going to be digging for the loops. Until they make that more affordable, they're going to have a hard time making it more ubiquitous.
They didn't ban or plan to ban encryption, that was just a super misleading headline / article. It wasn't even a proposal or a draft, just research into what are possible options to fight child pornography online. And I'd rather they do their research than implement random stuff.

I've noticed there's a recent trend of grossly mispresenting this stuff in the worst possible light. It seems if any EU whitepaper even just mentions encryption it somehow gets twisted into EU encryption ban being imminent.

I urge people to always read or at least glance at the actual documents when claims about new laws/proposals/etc. seem outrageous.
Enceladus is featured in https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/
This is probably related to the fact that Пе́рвая мо́лния was a carbon copy of Fat Man. Without another nuclear power, there would have been no reason to build so many weapons.
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If the rocket equation still applies (if a practical reactionless drive has not been invented), then you're talking about mass-of-the-galaxy size spaceships to accelerate at 1G for years on end.
Take a look at this, and tell me Twitter is not biased. The rules are to prevent such bullshit.

https://twitter.com/truth_recipe/status/1411234708814323712
For proof of work, I think that's true.

When things start moving to proof of stake, less so.
> There is no reason (other than some sort of puritanism) to get freaked out about girls seeing penises.

This is totally asinine. There are a many reasons why... With just a little thought I'm sure you can think of at least one.
It’s not strange if you’ve worked out that people who are invested are easier to exploit.

There’s a fine line between having to cajole a bunch of disaffected developers into getting work done, and explaining that I can’t give you a raise because it would ruin the company and you really should think about what’s best for the team. Or could you just work late on Friday, or cancel your honeymoon.
No, please, no, make it stop.
Higher power handheld transceivers usually feature a corded microphone to allow increased distance between your head and the antenna.
It's not even the energy that is a problem, it is the mass. The rocket equation is a harsh mistress.
All of your points are valid.

I guess I struggle with the hypocrisy around that fact that if we really want to curb CO2, there is a bigger fish to fry. For example, millions of people travel for pleasure on airplanes. From one point to the otherside of the globe. No one gives a damn about that, but hey! Look, rich people on fancy airplanes.

Even just today, GitHub copilot Twitter thread was full of “Rich people (Microsoft apparently) get to ignore licenses but us poor plebs have to abide by them”

Christ. I feel like I’m witnessing a mob without reason, logic and rational.
Broken digitizer/cracked glass is also fairly easy to repair, and should be included with that. Besides that, I think phones are at a scale where repairability becomes a bit of a moot point.
Regexp for tokenization does work. This entire essay boils down to the fact that you can always postprocess matches and in this case that corresponds to tossing unwanted tokens out.
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I'm looking at it from the buyer's perspective. The big selling point of blockhain transactions is zero trust and no counterparty risk. There is clear counterparty risk in synthetic shares sold on a blockhain.

IOW, the buyer is still stuck relying on the issuer of the "real" shares to honour the blockhain sale, or on the seller not defaulting.

Edit: just to expound further on something I think most people miss: The primary innovation of Bitcoin was that it is provably scarce without relying on any legal framework. That's it, and it's pretty radical. If you start relying on the law to provide value, the blockhain idea tends to become extraneous.
The energy in rocket fuel has to come from somewhere. If it doesn't come from renewables, it's probably from fossil.

For instance, most hydrogen production currently comes from heating up methane and steam for a CH4 + 2x H20 -> 4x H2 + CO2 reaction. So current hydrogen is just gas with extra steps.
I want to agree here because this comment seems to be misunderstood.

In science as cumulative evidence, studies can in fact be harmful. If they are wrong or highly ambiguous, or if they make it hard to uncover errors, then they make it more difficult for future research to be correct.

The reasons include publication bias (rejecting studies with null effects and/or contradicting previous literature), p-hacking and so on.

That's why it is so important to apply rigorous standards everywhere: Transparency, data sharing, peer review, replication, pre-registration. In other words: There is no alternative to open science.
Reading through the whole set, it's interesting seeing the gradual shift from "mostly positive, with gentle-ribbing" comics to "biting, anti-google" comics. Definitely paints a portrait of someone becoming increasingly disillusioned.
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Between meddling from an American executive and Indian government, I would any day prefer Indian government. At least I have the power to vote out the government if I don't like its meddling.
Why "more regulations"? The market is just fine as is it. That feels like one of those things that people just feel obligated to say.
"They said they contacted the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in case the phone or the person who sold it was of interest to them"

Seems enough reason to me to not want your name plastered all over the internet.
This is not only whataboutism but also an ad hominem attack.

I don't know why you think I would excuse the USA's actions, both now and in the past. "Many people want to live in X" is not a strong argument- many people want to live in the US as well... now we've gotten nowhere.

My point above is not that the US is above reproach, but that it isn't disapppearing its citizens for criticizing the government or practicing different religions or being of a specific ethnicity. Etc. To say the two countries are "equally bad" is a pro-ccp propaganda point.
Ignoratio Elenchi: refuting an opponent while actually disproving something not asserted.

Your opponent was elaborating on the original claim that "If any American Government official requesting a removal of anything from social media sites would probably lose their job", then "AOC should also lose her job when she requested removal of Parler"

Your counter argument, "I'm sure AOC's demand was critical in their decision to ban such a vibrant, positive application" is an unfair redirection of what your opponent was asserting.
> neither broad-shouldered Adonises nor voluptuous femme fatales

You have some narrow stereotypes if you think just those bodies look distinctly male or female.

> it only takes an unflattering angle or non-mainstream fashion choice (or even nothing but their own imaginations) for people to start questioning someone's sex.

Let's assume that's true. Are most angles unflattering? Are most fashion choices non mainstream?
Ditto!! I’m hooked on the 8x8 high-fantasy font EagleSpCGA Alt3 from the Ultimate PC Font Pack. I use it everywhere.

Well, almost everywhere. The square font tends to break certain application layouts. So those get an 8x14 IBM VGA font.
They can’t impose a tax on jets that use their airspace?
The consequences don't really change regardless of how you read history.
...and then all the complexity starts. You really want to store many transcodes, and send a transcode appropriate for the combination of device and bandwidth. No point wasting money on bandwidth sending a 4k video to a small smartphone on a dicey mobile connection, after all.

Is the video served from some datacenter in Germany, no matter where the user is? You can cut bandwidth costs and improve latency by caching videos closer to the users, at the cost of handling all of the caching complexity and business arrangements.

If video 6-of-15 in the tutorial series suddenly goes viral, are you on the hook for outlandish bandwidth charges, or does your site hit a quota and just die?

Overall, it's VERY understandable that businesses outsource the complexity of video hosting, based on the engineering complexity alone.
They're still interesting to see as one perspective of their culture. Some are benign, others kind of lean towards propaganda almost.
Landlords can't pass costs to tenants. The rental market is completely supply inelastic. Landlords are already charging the maximum renters are willing to pay.
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This is HN though. This is the same level of conversation at a trade show or over drinks. If you can’t lay out your dispassion bluntly (even if just for effect) here then where can you?

I would not encourage anyone to talk to their boss the way GP is talking. But these are peers talking, and if you don’t think convos like this happen, then you haven’t seen them or you’ve dismissed them. If you haven’t seen them, I can only assume nobody trusts you enough to vent.
Probably the fact that Apple arrests the people building/distributing these machines without punity.
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So from just that you can extract my words must mean he "either knowingly damaging the environment, scamming vulnerable people or wasting energy"?

But I do think you need to be spotless for the term "pure of soul". And no, I don't think he is "either knowingly damaging the environment, scamming vulnerable people or wasting energy". But I also don't think he has a spotless record either.

I don't like this "everything is either black or white" trend.