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The genie is out of the bottle.

We have been talking in circles for the last three decades and nobody has done anything to address the corporations who represent the majority of the greenhouse gas emissions.

And every time I talk to my parents or meet someone new who is my age: "so are you planning to have kids? No? Why not?" I am so tired of living at the end of the world.

At this point the question is not "is it going to get bad?" It is "how bad will it get?" Mass deaths from famine, drought, and plague do not seem out-of the question.
Brits had successfully broken lines using combined arms in 1917 starting at Cambrai. Pershing at Cantigny was much later but the first US example.
How do you know that? It is blackbox paradox, and all we have is what they say. They might report CSAM hashes to law enforcements. Any file can be a threat, hence images are included for scans. Defender also uploads whole files as unencrypted if you don’t opt-out.
This is not what they are talking about. It's always step one to get past to understand what's going on here.

I don't believe DDWFTTW has been achieved on water.
It's not just the Essenes. Jews generally have a long history of handwashing. I've heard some things conjectured with regards to this and the black plague.
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Call centers (in Central America at least) are the most readily available jobs that allow the worker to achieve a middle class lifestlye.

Their entry level positions require only a High School degree and fluent English. And pay more than what a Master Degree could earn in other companies.

For example, in El Salvador they pay twice than other jobs, always comply with overtime and night working hours payment rules, offer English improvement classes, University compensation, and offer private medical insurance as a benefit. This benefits are higher than what most small/mid businesses can offer.

Employees don't have much choice, faced with the decision of turning on a webcam for a $800+ per month job + benefits, or working in another job for minimum wage for $340 per month (and working on site under CCTV)
But then you'd have unilateral coercive power over me. It needs to be a two-way street for either of us to be sure the other isn't a bad actor. I'll happily broadcast my entire (boring) existence so long as everyone else does the same. End the privacy arms race. It's exhausting and frankly immature.
It has to do with the density at it's operating state, which is a lot closer to water than steam. It's the same reason a 1m radius water turbine can produce about 1MW of energy, but an air turbine of equivalent power might have a radius of 50m.
The article says “the current flow was up to 1,000 times stronger”. I don’t know what that means.
Seconded.
I also hate that they shorten proof-of-work algorithm to "algo" (often just referring to the hash function used in the widely used Hashcash PoW).
> What makes you anti-crypto specifically? To me, crypto means cryptography, that enables both digital signatures and encryption. Are you against end-to-end encryption as well, for the same reasons?

This is an unreasonable contortion of the OP’s comment. Conflating cryptocurrency (an industry rife with scams) to cryptography (a branch of discrete mathematics) belies precisely the reason people don’t take cryptocurrency boosters seriously.
search-replace the word for some other term in all the laws at the same time if you feel that's important, although legal terms not 100% mapping with other definitions is not exactly unusual. Or read it as "projectile-firing weapon".
Veritasium did a video on the Blackbird (plus a bet to prove it does indeed work). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyQwgBAaBag
Direct link to the full podcast episode: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/download/afspv4/Peter_and_Jon_MI...
> feel like compiler could use some more strict warnings, too

Warnings in Zig are called 'compiler errors'. Which is to say, Zig doesn't do warnings. If the compiler thinks there is a problem, you must fix it. Usually you've made a mistake, but sometimes you just need to be explicit about what you want to happen. In this particular case I believe there is an issue raised about it, but I couldn't find it on github.

> Zig float literals have type comptime_float, which is essentially the largest type, ie. f128. To use a different type you have to cast it first and I’m not loving the syntax: [...]

> It is also a bit inconsistent, as some functions (like pow) will take a type parameter and allow for comptime params: [...]

Yes, this is an inconsistency in the standard library that hasn't yet been addressed as Zig currently doesn't place a high priority on polishing the standard library.
It's the only responsible path forward when so much of the US population is so deeply dedicated to being irresponsible. The intentionally unvaccinated brought this on themselves (outside of legitimate medical reasons remain unvaccinated, which are very, very limited).

Edit: This is clearly an unpopular view, which is sad for a community that seems to like science so much.

Edit x2: Yikes. It's shocking to see the lack of reason and science on HN these days.

Edit x3: What a bizarre world we're living in. Truly depressing to see this kind of anti-science insanity in this community. It's disgusting. Done wasting my time here with this kind of userbase.

Edit x4: primarily for the mods - and frankly - if you want to ban me, go right ahead. You are allowing an unscientific cancer to spread through HN. You should be ashamed.
I wonder if it might be possible to develop miniaturized low power turbines, say anything under a megawatt range? it's already icebox size, can we make a high efficiency 100kW (133HP) turbine the size of a briefcase? (of course we'll also need some fairly decent sized radiators too).
People would rather have their lifestyles disrupted by global warming.
It's hard for me to believe humanity will get it's act together. Shit will hit the fan and then every man for themselves. Due to luck of the draw some will get hit much harder than others
Well, the difference is that you're within your rights when you vote on whom to admit to your house/town/country. You're not within your rights to round up people already there and gas them. Let's not compare the two.
I have been wondering recently - how secure are URLs? For example Telegram's bot API is authenticated with a token which has to be included in the URL for any request.

What kind of failure modes are there regarding this?
> point of cryptocurrency is precisely to enable bank-like services without bank-like obligations

Crypto has shown some rules are unnecessary or even harmful. They should be repealed, across the board. In other cases, many cases, it's reinforced some rules' necessity. Their scope should be broadened. That's what's going on here.

If the sole value of cryptocurrencies is in evading the rules, it's going to have a tough time.

> the cryptocurrency world does not care about the US Senate

Whether someone cares about the law isn't relevant to lawmaking or enforcement. (This attitude is also counterproductive. It leads to disengagement, which virtually guarantees more-onerous rules than would have been necessary.)

> will just end up being another "I promise I'm not a US person" checkbox when you sign up for cryptocurrency services

This, alone, is insufficient. AML duties aren't discharged by an "I promise I'm not a money launderer or tax evader" checkbox.
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Governments can't control it in a sense that they can't create more of it and can't sensor transactions(sanctions) .

If you think of it as the same idea of gold, the government can't make more it. They can limit transactions to a degree, but they can't really stop one person from handing another person a suitcase full of gold. They can make laws around it, but they will not necessarily be enforced. There is of course oversight over gold, but the government doesn't have as much control as fiat. Namely they can't make an infinite amount just by passing a bill.

The government can make as many laws as they want, whether they are enforced or not is another matter.
That's why individuals should not have the freedom of choice. China's actions against the virus proved rather effective because the government actually has authority there. Western democracy is clearly weak when it comes to dealing with crisis of any kind.
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Interesting, but given that lab meat is just around the corner I don't think it will matter much.

People like meat and will continue to like meat. You can't host a dinner party and serve a vegan meal unless everybody is vegan.
Take solace that we have failed to address climate change as a civilisation.
Carbon tax is a scam. It is exactly what economists not worried about the environment would invent
My 35 year old Miele is also working fine. I had to replace the pump once after 20 years but that was easy, I just ordered it from Miele for a few Euros. End of production for this model was in the 80s by the way.
These are ferroelectric, rather than the more efficient silicon cells used for most solar energy.
> This looks like a lot of fun.

Used it on a //e. It's not. It's painfully slow - slower than the BASIC in ROM.

It also messes with page zero, which makes it impossible to use the ROM routines (which could have made character output not ludicrously slow - it feels like a 1200 bps terminal)
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This didn't happen purely because Western countries became more aware of their impact on the environment. As countries develop, their population growth rate slows. Their technology improves and they can spend energy more efficiently.

In the US's case, there was a large gain from switching from coal to natural gas for power generation. Not because it was better environmentally, but because it was cheaper. It's disingenuous for the US to go "Look at all we've done" when half the country is in firm denial that there's even a problem.
The professor's reasoning is near the start of the video about the bet [1]. Basically they thought the makers of blackbird were fooling themselves (e.g. measuring slower wind at the bottom of the car vs the top of the propeller, or getting pushed above the average wind speed by gusts then selectively reporting).

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCsgoLc_fzI
> None of this was enough to crush the virus. Why? Because systems are made of individuals who will decide whether or not they want to collaborate on solving a problem.

Many of the individuals currently refusing vaccines in the US didn't just decide, there was an active effort made to convince them not to get one:

> Had the US continued to vaccinate in the summer at the same rate as in the spring, the US would be near herd immunity by now. It took a lot of work by powerful people and institutions to prevent that outcome. It didn't just *happen.* It was *done.*

* https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1416215130656882688

> COVID vaccine refusal was not some unprompted, spontaneous reaction among pro-Trump Americans. It was manufactured: first as part of a larger program of denial to cover for Trump's pandemic failures; then after Trump lost, in order to stoke feelings of victimhood and persecution.

* https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1416408864027824131

People think that either (a) COVID itself is a hoax or not that bad, or (b) that the vaccines are a hoax:

* https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57958358

* https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2021/07/23/a...

These beliefs are highly correlated with where you sit on the political spectrum in the US, and probably your primary news sources.
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“Things like limited liability and corporate personhood not only allow for incredible economic growth through financial innovation…”

“Nonsense layered on nonsense layered on nonsense enables people to trade goods and services!”

Because we did not have those natural abilities before these laws.

The past literally happened. But similar to how America decided they were not British anymore, there’s little natural reason to LARP 1900’s capitalists except to kowtow to politically approved assessment of our agency.

Maybe it made sense when the average person could not read or write, but we’re a bit beyond that point.
In Sweden, we went from "städare" (cleaner) to "lokalvårdare" ("premises caretaker"), and thence -- sarcastically! -- to "sanitetstekniker" ("sanitation technician")... in the 1980s, IIRC.
Yep...

Those comments about some economies going carbon negative are making more sense when you see it as a coordination problem with the fairness issue.

Its like, China should grow its carbon consumption by no more than X, and we will go 0 and capture. That is quite possibly a fair way, and still cooperation from all the parties
I've been saying this for years, but I finally get why "Just. Tax. It." doesn't work. The voters. They turn out in droves when it comes to taxes on something as visible as the price they pay at the pump or when it comes to the oil patch in Alberta.

It's politically easier to create import duties or to go into debt and subsidize things. The level of taxation we need to stop a complete catastrophe is higher than people will put up with in most of the world.
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> Prove me wrong, go build a working open-source phone, go provide a image hosting service that does not analyze every single photo you upload.

the market says it has to be either free or elitist/glamorous, superior and idealistic don't work.
I'm at the level where any Bash book/guide/etc that wants my attention needs to prove that it's more useful than Greg's Wiki.

Chances are, it isn't.

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
Both China and India are nuclear powers with massive industrial bases, high technology and advanced militaries. Especially China.

The "hobbit perspective" of ignoring the problem won't work. If China ends up in a lot of pain due to climate change, EVERYONE will feel their pain. They won't lie down and take it, and if that means pushing others down so they can stay up, they'll do it no questions asked.
> You're under the impression the first thing that would go in such a scenario would be the life-saving stuff?

I think once we admit nature to be more important than humans, we will quickly slip on the slope and reduce consumption too far. Politics is largely dumb, so the risk is there. What you call leisure and dispensable is someone else's existence (e.g. the tourism industry). Central redistribution is hard and mostly does not work and gets abused. There are few historical examples in which it worked well and many in which it has failed.
I'd like to give this a try on qemu. Anybody happen to know why this wouldn't work?
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Like many exposed to D&D at a formative age, I too used Appendix N as kind of a jumping off point for exploration and was startled to see what came from where, and how undisguised it was. Go through Vance's Dying Earth and you will find an Excellent Prismatic Spray, ioun stones, having to memorize spells (whose memory vanishes on use), and even that ever-uncomfortable addition: psionics.

Not a single mention of Dave Arneson in it, which pains me. I can forgive the omission of fiction that was inspired by D&D (really, Quag Keep and its greatly lagged sequel are terrible by almost any standard of fiction), but leaving out Arneson verges on the Downright Peculiar.
Fundamental issues:

- Global identity at the individual level doesn’t exist.

— Routing of physical goods is either inflexible and cheap or flexible and expensive.

There are overlay services that add value and cost. At a simple level, you can forward mail at the post office for a limited period. At a more complex level, you can pay someone to open and process your mail.

I think that technology has historically achieved what you’d be looking for by replacing mail.
This has absolutely nothing to do with socialism.
> More people have moved out of poverty than ever before.

Erm, you are answering with this argument to the wrong person. I am the first person to point out this kind of things.

This does not mean you can ignore the erosion of civil liberties.
Yes, `Armagaddon` was the marketing term for it:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/fixed-certificate-issue-caus...

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-...
>almost all EU governments act in direct violation and EU has no real power/wish to stop them.

This would seem to contradict your original post, no?
Since I don't do machine learning I don't know whether your product is good or not, but I automatically appreciate you calling this "machine learning" and not "AI".
> Protonmail should already be illegal in the EU because they operate under swiss mass-surveilance laws and cooperate with US-American law enforcement.

:O
Seriously? Wow, off to research this I go... That's really disappointing as a paying user. I can't believe I wasn't across this.
> If the answer is there should be no AML, KYC and/or reporting by cryptocurrency companies, we have no common ground on this argument.

this hits the nail on the head, imo. its the central argument. i dont think its as unambiguous as you say, though.

payment processors are _right now_ acting as extrajudicial legislators. many LEGAL business, like porn and weed, are restricted from operating on major payment networks.

this is assuming you and your government are on the same side. there are many places in the world where crypto is a boon to the oppressed.

not to detract from your point. crypto has a clear and direct path to cybercrime. just saying its not so clear.
A typical use case for lambdas is passing them as arguments to other functions, which implicitly assigns the lambda to some local variable. Using "def" instead would be unlikely to be cleaner.

Maybe you still want to know how long it takes to create a lambda or import from operator, but if such a function is being called more than a few times (and if not, why are we concerned about performance?), execution time will dominate other factors.
> in theory at least

creating inflation sure helps people as a whole!
Yes, I think if they remove the cdn call it will start to be quite nice
Western countries can use some of the wealth they made by getting us into this situation in the first place [1] to pay for green energy projects in developing countries, so developing countries can develop without having to go the same massive CO2 emitting route that Western countries took.

[1] CO2 stays in the atmosphere for several hundred years or more. The US is the source of 25% of what is in there now, and the EU-28 another 22%.
Before buying the DSLR, I'd recommend at least checking out the 1" sensor size market. These cameras still take excellent quality photos in a wide range of lighting conditions but are so much more compact than having an interchangeable lens system.

I sold my DSLR a couple of years after getting my G9x Mark II. The DSLR was always gathering dust compared to the G9x which with a small belt case could easily be taken anywhere.

That said these cameras are definitely not as flexible as a full SLR nor will you get the same performance. Its a large sensor when compared to a camera or other point and shoots but its still nothing compared to APS-C.
The problem is incentives. Banks are required at least a 10% cash colateral (deposits) to issue new loans. If the funds are automatically invested into stocks/bonds/etfs, then the capital available for banks to issue new (profitable) loans decreases.
NASA could put the song on the next probe and promise to pay based on the number of times the song was streamed.
> So stupidity is tough to fix.

I think there's a lot of people who have a higher bar than that (or lower bar depending on your perspective), but there is good traditional agreement;

You can't fix stupid.

That's one of its defining features.

Regardless, it's sometimes necessary to work year-round on maintenance & repair.

And everyone knows the effort involved polishing a turd and putting lipstick on a pig takes up all the time in between emergency restoration sessions.

This is something you need to get rid of whole-hog.
If you read the technical details, result of the scan is packed with the photo. So, if upload of photo fails, then result of the scan is not uploaded as well.
For the last time. The concept of a living wage is not adapted on an individual basis. The problem of the US wrt a living wage is certainly not that single mothers of 3 children are the standard model, and you know that, hence bad faith. You can't change the subject to your own trolly question if it constitutes "corporate welfare" and expect an answer.
Achieving the effect locally for a few milliseconds has been possible for like 70 years now.

Damn hard to get a license for that nowadays, though, no matter how important your science is.
From TFA:

The guidelines for the unvaccinated (that is, keep masking) haven’t changed, while the immunized are once again being called upon to act. “Asking people to mask up again is triggering a lot of emotional stuff,” Lindsey Leininger, a public-health-policy expert at Dartmouth, told me. “You can’t tell people that those feelings are invalid.”
Great. Are you considering removing your call to google fonts ? It gives way too much data to google for something that is privacy oriented.

Also, do you have a grace period for your burn after reading URL so that it can safely be sent by chats and emails system that visit any link you post ?
I do not know what is more bonkers - the fact that this is being pitched as "checking accounts" or the fact that YC invested in it.
yes "selling the data" is a oversimplification. but "they sell access to your data to other companies, that also have a significant base of user/customer-data, and this let's those other companies correlate your identity/profile" is just not as catchy or understandable.
I still fail to see why people are so vehemently opposed to masks. Yes, they are annoying but is it really that big of a deal? And it's usually not staff that are required to wear them for extended periods that get so upset about them - it's people that have to put one on for a few minutes while shopping. Of all things to be upset about, why is this the hill so many people are determined to die on?
It's not really different or separate from the whole "Free Software/Open source" thing; there's no easy answer.

Though there's enough potential public harm such that looking at "public health" models is not a bad idea. Most places you don't have to pull out your wallet to get a Covid vaccine, you shouldn't have to pull out your wallet to get good password safety, for roughly the same reasons -- the harm from one "infection" can spread quickly.
I wholeheartedly agree. It's by definition an insult and I don't believe an academic measurement of stupidity (or intelligence) is a terribly fruitful endeavor. "My math says you're stupid!" is a place some people may go with this.

I try to think in terms of bias: "what biases do I possess that may cause me to yield an outcome that is negative?" or "what bias does person X have that lead them to those actions or words?"

I feel it promotes empathy, questioning and understanding. Not name calling. At least, it's helped me to figure out some surprising things about myself and others!
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I see your $700K/year, and raise with an offer to do the same job of losing users and starting multiple failed products/services for $650K/year.