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I fully agree that standard carbon credits are difficult to prove anything about, and even use trees as examples. Are you sure you read my proposal in full?
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But he has dangled the goal of herd immunity, while gradually upping the percentage of vaccination required to get there. Herd immunity to many people means “eradication” and the media has helped foster that belief.
I thought about that, but it’s the duty of the person bringing it up. I don’t want to spend my time fixing the mistakes of others when it’s outside my direct interest.

My hope was to encourage the parent commenter to add some basic data to their worst.
Oh, yes, that's a real phrase that's ubiquitous in physics. It's the weird progression of sentences, wandering through ideas with no explanation or implication, that makes it sound like gibberish.
Well, the amplitudes would change: all possible universes "exist", but their existence is not binary, it has a complex amplitude. And the norms of the amplitudes of all universes sum to one. So basically if you have three universes, at time t you might have A:0.5, B:0.25, C:0.25, and then at time t+1 you might have A:0.30, B:0.40, C:0.30. Thus the "flow" of time is really just the flow of amplitudes from certain branches to certain others.

The idea that something does not "exist or not exist", but rather "exists at amplitude 0, amplitude 0.5, amplitude -i, etc." is kind of a mind screw, but that's the suggestion.

This being said, there might be a steady state or fixed point where all amplitudes remain constant. Not sure how we could know if there is one or if we're in it, but that would be interesting.
The water in aquifers, streams, rivers and lakes should not be considered something you can hold the right to as private property.

These are public resources, and in many other places you can own the land below a lake or river, but you do not have a right to divert or impound said water, and the Department of Natural Resources will serve you notice and take corrective action (eg: blowing up your dam, seizing your pumps and destroying your pipe/trench) if you do not comply.
But how can it be better for child study to ace the test when they’re homeless rather than they work to help avoid homelessness and maybe not study so much?
> Of course a robot is faster in a known map with perfect state information. They have always been.

Huhwut?

That would be news to an entire field of engineering, thanks. Please apply for your PhD.

Excluding the fact that whole classes of problems are NP-complete and difficult to compute, there are classes of problems like "How do I fit this odd shape through this odd obstruction?" that don't even lend themselves to being computed well.
I wonder how feasible a business model it is to collect all the data from all leaks which make their way to the internet, massage the data a little bit, and sell it as a brand new "hack" of some popular service. You can probably do this a few times a year without a problem.
Seems to work just fine for Israeli farming: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/israel-proves-the...

Percentage of household use is a strange measure to use here - Ivanpah plant produces nearly 400 MW and it’s relatively small plant. We have a lot of desert to go around.

Producing more solar for the regular grid is not very practical because we can’t use all that up during daylight. If you have dedicated use for desalination that is concurrent with peak production of power, you can bring online a lot more production without risking destabilizing your grid. In effect, desalination can be used to balance the excess supply of solar - the more sunlight we get the more water we can produce. Water is relatively easy to store, modulating the demand to match the available excess supply.
> It took nearly a week to fully charge/discharge. At the time they put a positive spin on it by emphasizing "long duration." That's not really an advantage, though. You can just discharge a high-rate-capable battery slower for long duration applications.

If the price is right, long duration is just fine. One week of storage to get through a spell of cloudy weather or poor wind conditions is quite useful. It doesn’t obviate the need for daily storage.
I only skimmed it (I only read the mineralization section completely) - my question is why is blockchain necessary if an auditor is involved? Isn't blockchain supposed to be zero-trust. Why even use a blockchain at all? I'll have to read your post in more detail later, so apologies if you've already answered these questions.

In any case my concern is more around the second scenario I posed in my first post than the first one.
I feel like Millennial doesn't really mean anything. When 9/11 happened, "Millennials" included some early 20s, teenagers, children, and some kids who were too little to grasp the situation. The way the world changed compared to what had been normal is dramatically different for each of these.
same experience.. I run a small ISP. we only take paid clients so no one is a spammer (other than lost passwords). no delivery issues elsewhere. yet Microsoft filter absolutely everything into spam.... emails to support just get a "your request has been denied as not applicable" or some such junk
The average person has no ability to understand lipid nano particles. Many scientists and most doctors do not understand, so how is the average dolt like me going to figure it all out?
I second this, I have been using this in production for years.

It's reliable, and very convenient.
Time for the trillion dollar coin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin
Getting rid of COVID became impossible the moment governments decided to wait with restrictions until there is enough cases.

Now it is a bit too late to think about getting rid of it completely but the pandemic will not be over until people realize you can't lift restrictions until it is really over and that everybody needs to get vaccinated.

Unfortunately, viruses are not politically motivated and are not swayed by fake news.

Rather than bitchin at liberals or conservatives, better read up on what people who really know something about viruses say.

> overselling vaccines

Oh my... it is not overselling. It is dealing with people like children they are. People reverted to the point where you can't have merit-based discussion about vaccines in public, and so simplifying the message is IMO the right strategy.

The point is, vaccines work and the more people vaccinate the less will die and all other finer points are less important.
No, we shouldn’t
Hey @fabianbeiner how can I get in touch with you?
I think two things happen, the first is that yes, the value is in fact growing aggressively each year. The second is that eventually, it will find some tenant that are willing to pay double, by choking everyone to eventually accept that rent is just now more expensive than ever. Once that happens you'll quickly recoup the time where it didn't rent.
If you haven't seen The Edge with Anthony Hopkins, watch it.
Please don't try to shoehorn items like this into HN's (generous) scope of "Anything[...]"; it's still not intended to function as an aggregator for displacing traditional news sources. By all means, if you're interested in these types of news items, there's no dearth of outlets that carry them.

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports[...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Additionally, political topics especially are not something that comments here excel at handling particularly well, anyway.
But federal regulation says it does.

Smurfing is the practice of sending several people out to buy pseudoephedrine just a box or two at a time at a bunch of different stores. These federal id tracking requirements are an attempt to curb that.
Ah, mineral deficiency. This would be the same for people drinking distilled water they bought at the grocery store, so it might not be fair to pin it on desalinated water.

The link title implies all of these things were associated, but the article summary says only ischemic heart disease, and no association for the others, if I read correctly.
> They even went to a hockey game indoors with thousands of people.

> Mostly, he felt frustrated. He’s a journalist—he’s pretty tuned in to the news. He knew breakthrough cases were possible, but he had seen many assurances that they were extremely rare and not that big of a deal.

> He would have worn a mask at the hockey game, for example—even though no one was wearing a mask at the hockey game, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it’s fine for vaccinated people not to wear masks inside.

I honestly don't know what to say. I've been following COVID on and off for the last year and half, and there's no way that I would see going to a hockey match with thousands of people inside without a mask as safe. The CDC says it's safe? Sure, and the WHO said that masks were useless at the beginning of the pandemic. At some point, you have to learn to think for yourself. Big organisms like the CDC and the WHO have others incentives than keeping you perfectly healthy. I don't want to sound too harsh, and I understand the frustration. But please develop a bit of critical thinking. Especially if you're a journalist.
1. It's indeed not a trivial task to time a market crash. However, most recent crashes consisted out of series of crashes. So that fact would give retail investors some time to buy protection in terms of put options for example.

2. The approach you suggested would expose everyday investors to 2 risks: losing part of their savings and restricting their upside by cutting their positions. What could be an alternative way is to keep all their equity positions and write out-of-the-money covered calls, so they could collect the premium. And there are many more ways investors could hedge their risks with options.

Just in case: it was NOT a financial advise :)
The immutable state of the blockchain is fine, in fact it’s better because it’s proof of the fraudulent transaction.

It’s possible to write smart contracts in a way that an auditor, or group of auditors who reach consensus, can forcibly remove tokens and freeze accounts, of course this moves the needle towards centralisation more, (and I’m not interested in arguing the merits of that) - Im merely pointing out that immutability is not absolute in the way you are describing and exceptional circumstances and admin overrides can be coded in to EVM based systems at least.
And the Appalachian mountains are older than just about all animal life.
This really annoys me about North American cities. In Asia, even if a city has incredibly expensive real estate (e.g. Hong Kong or Singapore), you still have oodles of independent stores and restaurants who can afford to be in business because they pay for tiny square footages. Half those stores now sit empty because rents were constantly raised, and many of the ones that had hung on couldn't make it through the pandemic.
The reason this works is the third-party auditor. The blockchain doesn't add any value on top of that.
The percentage required was never a solid number in the first place and the shift is due to our better knowledge of the virus and the new strains that necessitate higher vaccination rate.
The cause and effects can be weird sometimes. Suppose that guy wants a lot for rent but no one can afford it. He either lowers the price (in turn the value of the property) which depreciates the value of the other property owners in the area. Lower values then shakes out eventually in other taxes.

So the other route is we end up subsidizing small businesses to pay more for rent than they can afford (or to your point, should be charged). This means you the local resident are footing the bill either with local taxes or a federal subsidy.

I don’t have an answer here but these things get complicated quickly. Setting an exponential tax on a vacant property (or any property) sounds like an easy way to drive investors out of the market. Then your downtown is dead either way.

Curious other thoughts or maybe a solution to vacant holdings.
> Linux also can't abandon hardware support for some of these weird environments, either.

Can't because why though? I agree it shouldn't abandon them just to get more Rust, but there are other reasons some of the crustier less used platforms go away.
> auditor, or group of auditors who reach consensus

If you are trusting a group of auditors why do you even need blockchain? The method in the OP is interesting, but I don't see the relevance of blockchain at all. Basically it comes down to some magical, incorruptible or comprisable auditor.

That's fine enough, but if you have that, you don't need blockchain to begin with.
Honestly, a lot of people overengineer the scaling thing.

Google really does need a service that can scale to 100M users.

I doubt someone starting a SaaS to make garbage truck software needs to. Or at a minimum, at the time they need that kind of scale, they will have plenty of money to throw at hardware. It's amazing how many users a single maxed DB can handle.
I work for a fairly large app and that certainly is not the case for us.
It all has to pass through a router at some point, and the VPN will have a specific signature especially around connecting to the
VPN server itself. Might have to put your threat hunting hat on to find it though. If my kid really does start getting clever there, then we start talking about CTFs and the wonderful world and compensation of Infosec.

If cellular, I’d roll with family iPhones and app restrictions on the kids’ phones, plus a lot of careful messaging.
They could also have dug a hole adjacent the river to take advantge of the filtering properties of the soil (gravel, sand, clay or whatever it is along this river), reducing algae, contaminants and eliminating fish from the water for free.
the law could be that if the waiter didn't verify the ID

Not to go all lawyer on you, but wouldn't be a good idea to see what the law actually says instead of making up reasons that might or might not exist? In CA the law is not really that onerous and just says it's a misdemeanor to sell to someone under 21. The only severe penalty is serving alcohol to someone who is a minor and already intoxicated (and thus that much more likely to do something stupid). But it's widely understand socially that any drunk person can be refused further alcohol at the discretion of the seller. But many commercial entities have just decided the way to cover themselves is just demand ID from everyone.

https://www.abc.ca.gov/education/licensee-education/laws-and...
You have extremely strong evidence that you have the right chain because artificial network partitions are implausibly expensive to maintain and very cheap to subvert.

The Alpha Centauri example is fair, and that does require a quasi-social process (everyone deciding to ignore the alien chain) to resolve. I say quasi-social because it doesn’t require any coordination or negotiation, but also isn’t fully automatic.
> Possibly, but I’d like to pose a relevant question: had they discovered it and then chosen to keep quiet, how long would it have been before someone else discovered it independently?

>Answer: definitely less than 20 years. So why then should the first group to discover this be given 20 years of exclusivity?

What is absolutely hilarious about your musings here is that you are completely, 100% wrong. You make un-informed guesses and manage to get just about every aspect of the issue completely wrong. Well done.

Would you like to know when it was known that gallium-doped silicon substrate was going to perform well and possibly better than boron-doped substrate? At least the mid-70s. Would you like to know when this patent was issued? 2000. So for almost 25 years everyone KNEW gallium was better. It was literally sitting out there on every periodic table on the planet and for some reason no one produced gallium-doped PV cells at scale or cost. Why is that?

Maybe because the trick was not knowing that gallium is what you wanted to dope the silicon with, but in knowing HOW TO ACTUALLY PULL IT OFF. For more than two decades it was staring everyone in the face. For more than two decades everyone knew what the target was. For more than two decades NO ONE DID IT. That is why the first group to figure out how to manufacture gallium-doped silicon with the proper amount of other components were given exclusivity, because if they had not managed to do it then maybe we would all still be waiting for gallium-doped PV cells.
I have one I got ad a gift years ago that I'd like to get rid of. Is there a good way to get rid of this thing without tossing it or giving my info away?
Indeed it was (/s), that's why not even Servo has been shipped. Stop preaching programming languages without results. Because of their benevolent dictators, Linux (Linus Torvalds), Clojure (Rich Hikey), Zig (Andrew Kelley) and Python (Guido van Rossum), the development process of these has been less democratic, and this is precisely why the results are so good. A good design is not a democratic consensus. Look how Rust and C++ ended up, a big pile of complexity. Even Scala 3 was saved with an intervention from Martin Odersky to clean up the language, with huge backlash from the community.
So don't compile statically while in the dev phase, then switch and sacrifice one gigantic 30-second chunk of your life for release.

Any reason this wouldn't work?
You don’t, and I’m not interested in arguing the merits of that. I was pointing out that there are options on a technical level.
Of all the allegations the justice department has stated, not one of them sounds like they had no idea what they were doing. They intentionally went through Canada, met with third parties for payments, and traveled to the UAE then to Iran to hide their tracks.

If it's all true (seeing as one has plead guilty), that is more than enough evidence for a jury to convict them.
I’ve read opsec material that no matter how many passes you do it can still be read. Hard to know for sure unless you know the stack in and out like the back of your hand.
Stop the spread, slow the spread, the idea was that by doing just 2 weeks of isolation, everything would be manageable. This has really not been achieved anywhere in the world anywhere else other than New Zealand, and at what cost?

>I think you're confusing 'moving goal posts' with constant failure to reach a goal followed by readjustment to new data.

No, I don't think I am. That is a textbook definition of moving the goalposts.
This is all interesting. Some questions that came up as reading.

1. "as long as the auditor is trustworthy only to the extent that they will not sign lies about dust not being present"

If they get the staked eth bounty, isn't there a pretty direct incentive for auditors to falsely report dust plots?

2. What happens with disputes? How do you challenge a false report about one of your dust plots? What if both sides are convinced they're correct & being honest -- maybe the dust farmer entered the wrong GPS coords, or the auditor visited the wrong coords, or wrote it down wrong in their notebook. What mechanism is there for adjudicating that kind of conflict?
Half of US states now using facial recognition to vet unemployment claims
My friend, that’s the definition of moving goalposts. But of course everything changes over time, as it should. Are we still trying to reach herd immunity? What percentage vaccinated would be required for that? Two questions for you to research.

Edit: Do we have enough doses even today to vaccinate everyone, worldwide? I think we do not.
I hope France finds a path forward. Last I read it's sitting on an aging fleet of reactors, and failing to build new ones in a timely manner.

The big German power companies definitely have a lot to answer for. At least there is now an agreed timeline to shut off all the coal plants.
They cause a hassle but are required. The Earth's rotation isn't perfectly constant, so without any adjustment we would keep drifting away from solar time.
Ditto China and rice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BMxx70TXeY
We should simply eliminate the debt ceiling, it is utterly pointless and has been raised whenever expedient.

Following that, we should issue an official statement re-framing the concept of US public debt so all parties understand that repayment is only a conceptual model, not a factual outcome.
The great majority of the world's population lives in countries with per capita emissions less than a third of the US's. Humans "know how."

It doesn't take ground breaking technology for Americans to stop driving Hummers on their office commute. Nor would it take a tech breakthrough for the US government to stop giving fossil fuel companies $20b/year in tax credits and subsidies. Nor any new tech for sunny regions to cover building roofs with solar panels. If we can spend $2 trillion plus in middle eastern wars of dubious value, surely we buy a some solar panels and batteries.

No new tech is needed. A modicum of will is all that is required.
(disclaimer: I work in a Climate&Energy research group)

Ignoring the perverse incentive problem...

... enhanced weathering only works under certain conditions. Randomly spreading some olivine around at a specific GPS location does not effectively sequester CO2 on a useful timescale, for example.

Olivine also needs water, and the reaction is very slow, so almost all olivine proposals end up dumping the material in the shallow ocean (or grinding it small enough, say <2um, so that it stays in the mix layer before it fully reacts with CO2). Grinding energy is not linear, so a bunch of 100um rock (easy to produce) requires a lot less energy than a bunch of 2um rock. Vespa gets around this (they claim) by sticking the rock in the wave/tidal zone to break it apart naturally, and keep it from sinking out of the mix layer.

There are also issues with this from a biological standpoint (e.g. olivine contains some amount of nickel and cadmium), so doing this a gigaton scale would require a lot of research before incentivizing it.

TLDR, there are things one could do on land that might work, but not what is proposed.

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Long story short, I can't see a carbon coin being super successful if it is overly prescriptive on the method of CO2 capture, unless it gets very very lucky and happens to pick the right one.

Since the proposal already requires an auditing methodology (which is basically all the proposal really is, if I am reading it right), it may as well drop the exact technology being audited. At that point, it mimics a normal carbon market, but with printed money, so not clear how it's going to get traction over a fiat currency.
> I am always fascinated when I hear other nerds describe the process of learning Western history as "begin with the Greeks."

Why not start with the written word[1]?

It seems to me for the origins of today's "Western" civilization, one ought to look further northwest than Greece[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_first_wri...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples#Origins
Yes, but that just collapses into a solipsism, and would true of all possible definitions. At some point we must agree that there are conscious beings other than ourselves, which necessarily means that a definition such as I proposed is rational. The possibility of philosophical zombies does not imply that every observed entity is such. If we take it as an axiom that there are other conscious entities than ourselves, then one is still left with needing such a definition.
I get motion sick easily. So I was worried about that but most popular games are designed in a way that there is no movement that would cause me motion sickness. Also they list games’ comfort levels and I avoid anything that is intense.

The biggest issue for me is videos where there is no rating and one slow camera pan or zoom will make me almost throw up.