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"what do we as a society really need in order for everyone to remain alive for another day?"

We need everybody in that supply chain to work a full week to create the surplus that the rest of us live off.

Therefore the biggest problem is the answer to a simple question: "why exactly should those people work beyond Tuesday when they have all supplied themselves?".

As society improves its productivity we grow ever more dependent upon a shrinking set of highly skilled people working far longer than they strictly need to.

What are we actually offering them so they will continue to work longer?

I doubt "produce more adverts and PR" is the answer.
Maybe the author resides in CA? Not sure how you could also omit the Prius or how the other automakers are addressing sourcing concerns. It is a shame because the start of the article was engrossing.

Going forward, I image that MDS is much less of a concern than the power grid and clean energy generation
If you're worried that this legislation makes cryptocurrencies unable to fight government oppression, they were never able to fight government oppression to begin with.

If you still think they can fight government oppression, and if you believe government oppression is the reason for cryptocurrencies, there is nothing to worry about for this legislation.
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That would be a 1000x decrease in inefficiency. Very, very impressive but not even remotely as impossible as a 1000x increase assuming that you start with more than 0.1%.

I'd expect the headline to resolve to some perspective where the numbers do make sense, in some very special, limited way, assuming that they didn't just roll dice to decide how many orders of magnitude to falsely claim.

Unfortunately, there's a huge crowd out there that combines, in a surprising way, radical science scepticism with radical science optimism. The "science said man cannot fly, then came the Wright Brothers" crowd who refuse all painful achievable improvements based on their hope for some convenient miracle. These headlines are dangerous.
Diminishing returns. Example try doing Golf, tennis, etc. IMHO you wont be any better at it in 10 years vs 20 years. Most likely you will be worse. This is why 16 year olds win Wimbledon. Experience matters in the beginning, but if you took your animations from year 10 to year 20 - you wouldn't see a difference. EG. Try looking at Rembrandts over time. Do they get better? No.

OTOH there are huge differences in a lawyer with 10 vs 20 years experience. Because experience matters.
I think it's time to seriously think about putting the same amount of effort into non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI) development as we put into the vaccines. As inspiration, note that parts of the US are have environments that can support malaria; malaria can spread very aggressively when conditions are favorable [1]; and that malaria used to be a major public health threat in the US. It is not anymore, despite the fact that there is no vaccine, because of NPI's. It was initially beaten back using NPI's and has been controlled using NPI's ever since [2].

What if we had an affordable, comfortable mask that worked so well that you have no practical chance of contracting an airborne virus while wearing it? I get that current N95 and surgical masks are not that, but I don't see why it would be impossible to create one within the physical laws of the universe, especially if you put power and air supplies on the table. Scuba gear and air-supplied biohazard suits seem to be existence proofs, the question is whether they can be made practical.

If everyone had such a mask, we would have a new strategy available for controlling delta and any other variant that emerges in the future: everyone could mask up full-time when outside the house _for a limited amount of time_ until transmission drops to a low level. From that point, local outbreaks could be controlled by local bouts of masking, plus aggressive testing and contact tracing.

I get that anti-masking would be an obstacle, but part of the difficulty has been messaging risk and uncertainty to people who start from a skeptical place. A mask that _positively_ protects the wearer, and that can remove the need for restrictions within a finite, predictable time, would be an easier sell, especially after the strategy is seen to work once or twice.

1: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...

2: https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/history/elimination_us.htm...
Too much of a good thing... I can picture a scenario, admittedly science fiction for now, when carbon capture is so lucrative it's removed to an extent plants don't have enough of it. Not to say carbon capture is bad, just that humans + greed = unintended consequences, every time.
Just to be clear, you’re saying “I would not undergo temporary embarrassment to avert mass agonising death” and you think that’s incredibly reasonable?
You get no argument from me. I just really enjoyed the pun.
Glad to remember it and see others enjoying the old stories. I, like others, read "Build Your Own NeXT" with an eye opened for "casting magnesium!" rather than "run a VM with a time-honored OS."

Given the recent anniversary, maybe it would be apt to add a vintage looking sticker with red inked "This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!"?

https://home.cern/science/computing/birth-web/short-history-...
It presents the contents of your disk in a manner congruent to how the human brain deals with physical objects: each file or folder can be found in exactly one place, and its on-screen location remains the same unless changed, just like real objects.

Apple was the only computer company taking advantage of human psychology in such a deep way to make computers easier to use. To some extent they still are, but for decades the Macintosh was pretty much the only computer truly approachable by normies. Mac OS X compromises that approachability in a few fundamental ways (and it's getting worse with the iOS-ization of everything).
Any examples? At least the Council has people with mandate from the countries...
You could conceivably reverse-engineer the hardware if you got the support of places like MIT, and then it's fair game from there.
Bear in mind, everyone, that the Summary for Policymakers is very much a political document because it must be agreed on by the political representatives of each country.
A good amount of emissions from China go into the goods produced for western countries (such as the U.S.). The pollution has been outsourced and externalized.
It would be great if we could deal with excess CO2 at the source, but if we can't then we have to work other aspects of the problem.
Read me is quite thin…
I just straight-out don't believe that. Maybe this is by some incredibly narrow definition of CO2 production, whereby if the produce of a factory is first shipped to a harbor by a Chinese company before leaving China, it counts as 'internal'?
The developed world is already below replacement. Heck even China is below replacement. Maybe you should be preaching your message in Africa instead?
But this is a different scenario: Iran and Venezuela were ostensibly repressive long before cryptocurrencies became viable mechanisms for exfiltrating wealth from either country. And besides, the introduction of cryptocurrencies doesn’t seem to have helped much in terms of making either country less repressive (much less eliminating basic privation in either).

To whit: what bulwark, precisely, are cryptocurrencies providing here?
Actually, dnd is a stylized, simplified form of wargaming that gained popularity in the early 20th century, replacing formulas with dice rolls.
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Then I don't know what you mean by "definition".

I showed several examples of definitions for frame dragging, including ones where re-use would, IMO, constitute "a minor form of plagiarism".

Is your view that re-use of those definitions cannot be plagiarism? If so, why not?
The other ironic thing about bikes is all the technology that enabled cars was invented for bikes. Chains, inner tubes, spokes the quality of the steel.
Gerald Sussman[0] (of SICP fame) gave an interesting talk[1] on mechanical watches awhile back.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Jay_Sussman
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQN8Yf1g70
The second thing, at 90% of the effect is to educate girls. I didn't realize that this would help with global warming at all, but it seems an excellent use of money regardless.
Cyclone seems to be written in ARM assembly to emulate it directly, while Emu68 is a JIT.
Cash and anonymous digital transactions also benefit the lower end as well.

Many poor families, including immigrants, get through life daily with an underground, cash only, economy.

It's not just a tool of the rich and wealthy.

Taxation on assets and income is THEFT.
Yeah, if I were McD, I'd want to throw this failure of a company under the bus - the issue no longer merely a meme, it's gotten attention of the press.

Mcdonald's in other countries have no problems with ice cream outages of this scale.
I don't want to sound unsympathetic, because the situation really does suck for cryptocurrency devs, but it's not obvious to me that they should get to unilaterally decide how it works. The bill defines a broker as "any person who (for consideration) is responsible for regularly providing any service effectuating transfers of digital assets on behalf of another person", and it seems reasonable that anyone who's transferring assets on behalf of someone else should know who that someone else is.

More broadly, if you've ever wondered how industries can go to Congress with a straight face and argue for crazy regulatory exemptions, this is what it feels like from the other side. I like crypto devs a lot more than I like, say, Exxon, but I still don't think we should have carveouts just to protect their business model.
i mean this is verifiably wrong:

try this place in salem, really nice stuff and great prices. "Reserve" is their top-of-the-plant pickings that go for $160 oz. Not a big difference between their bulk (75-100) and reserve.

https://www.greencrosscanna.com/commercial-street
The idea is intriguing, but I think the gist of it lies in your point about this "not being for everyone." This essentially makes a super common financial decision... "for everyone," in the sense that if you weren't sophisticated enough to set up a proper investment vehicle, or properly allocate all the money in your checking account, you don't need to worry about that anymore. However, I think the set of those folks and the set of folks you consider that this prob. "wouldn't be for" is probably pretty large. It's just an assumption, but I'd hazard a guess that most folks who don't set up more sophisticated investment vehicles are also folks who simply can't afford to, or who'd struggle with a checking account which suddenly could have less money than the day before. If you are not in that camp, I think you're very likely well versed enough to know you have a lot of options on what to do with your money should your checking account balance exceed your needs for a daily/monthly use.

Also, I think the point with the bailout is a bit disingenuous on their part. True, if your account is not FDIC insured, then the government wouldn't need to bail YOU out. However, if we experience a similar crisis like we did in 2008, they will bail EVERYONE ELSE out. You just happen to be the sucker who will have paid into it but not been covered. If the argument were for eliminating FDIC insurance altogether, I'd be super onboard.
You can post process that from RAW if you want to. I generally want people to not fuck around with my images before I get to do it though if I'm honest.
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Psionics really came into its own as a mechanism with the Dark Sun world.

Instead of being an oddball power which you had to luck into, and which a lot of house rules just ignored, everyone had some psionic ability. There were specialized psionicists as well, but it was just a world where sentient beings (being D&D there were some racial exceptions) had psionic power.
does anyone know if there has been studies showing rise in child sexual exploitation that would warrant something so drastic? I would have imagined it would be lower as society progresses but i do not know. I dont see enough people asking if giving up our personal privacy is really warranted or if we are being mislead. People should be asking for hard proof.
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Agreed, and it's unclear why folks aren't speaking up about this more. There's something about the political environment today that makes questioning the pandemic a topic that's off limits to many otherwise sane people.
That seems too dismissive of the part that’s counter-intuitive, and I think this is legitimately counter-intuitive, which is why physics professors are losing bets.

The fan on the boat is blowing air forward from behind the sail, and by it’s very presence on the boat, it applies a force to the boat that is trying to move the boat in reverse. Without the sail, the boat does move in reverse. It’s surprising that one can seemingly recover more force to push the boat forward than was already used to push the boat in reverse. IIRC Myth Busters confirmed the result but didn’t come to a detailed conclusion as to why, which could involve the shape of the hull, directions of the hull & sail relative to the fan direction, or some aerodynamics of the air blocked by the sail.

In any case, I think it’s quite different from putting the fan in the water facing backwards to propel forward.
China is currently building 13 reactors at the same time. More than any other country.

> https://pris.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstruction...
Ah. How could I not think of that? Silly me!
Yes the two worlds are and always will be kept separate. I could have worded that better before.

I have a desktop (not laptop) for my own stuff and a laptop for company stuff and a dock and KVM setup for it.

I am not using the company laptop for personal stuff.
People called applications apps long before the iPhone or NeXT. The term "killer app" was coined in the early 1980s to mean an application that was so must-have it would sell computers on its own. Typically this was a spreadsheet; VisiCalc was the Apple II's killer app, and Lotus 1-2-3 was the killer app for the IBM PC.
go to greencross in bend, they have the exact prices i'm referring to. Dont go to the stores that purchase from bulk retailers, shops that have their own farms typically have higher quality and lower prices.
Though those last four words were left out of the HN submission's title.

Which may not be in accordance with the submission guidelines.
The epidemiologist said there is a low probability that a “super variant” may emerge and vaccines don’t work against it. While it’s hard to predict these things, he added, it’s a non-zero probability, which means it cannot be ruled out.

Having been interviewed, and then later seeing the interview in print, on a couple of occasions, I always wonder how conversations like the quote really happened. Here's how I hear it in my head:

Dr. Brilliant: "...and while there could be a 'super variant', there is an extremely low probability of that happening, so while..."

Interviewer: "So what you're saying is that it could happen?"

Dr. Brilliant: "well, yes, there's a non-zero possibility, but that doesn't mean..."

Print article: "Dr. sez possibility of super-killer-hide-yer-daughters-variant has 'non-zero probability' and we should all be very scared!"
Wrong. Based on the data, we’re on track for catastrophic warming regards of what we do.

Or are you a denier?
Small children. I've really enjoyed (what little I got of) my kid's company over the last year, with him doing school and me working, both from home. But then, he turned 18 this spring.
You’re avoiding answering the question.
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Why is everyone pushing vaccination so hard if they do not protect against variants or breakthrough infections? As the virulence increases, the physics of breaking out and stopping it are asymptotically approaching zero. We are being played like fools!
I'm a big fan of Hamilton watches. I like the simple design and the one I have is amazingly accurate, like within seconds of NTP over weeks when the weather and temperature are ideal. They definitely don't break the bank.
I tried some store bought tempeh once in a teriyaki recipe and wasn't terribly impressed. It was kind of like undercooked beans and had that grassy soybean taste.

Sounds like I'll have to try it again later with a better recipe or better tempeh.
It's great to see corporations contributing to OSM. There's only a couple top contenders for mapping data, and the best way to compete with them is to collaborate on a shared resource.
Could you please share an example or two where custody of funds is not clearly defined?

I'm not in finance, and to me this sounds weird. Unclear custody looks to me as an obvious opportunity to plainly steal someone's funds.
Who cares about the price of a house in San Francisco when your income makes it a struggle to buy weekly food.

If you're talking about buying a house anywhere, you're already outside the "I'm poor" status.
The mirrors are extremely heavy and solar sails are exclusively used above our atmosphere, in space, where more flux from the sun is received.

The flux even at earth orbit is a measly 47e-7 Newtons per square meter. That's 0.00016905632 pounds per square inch.

You still stand by what you just stated?

It's not feasible to do below clouds, in an environment with constant friction, air or water resistance.

The only reason you can do it in space is because that tiny slow acceleration can accumulate over a long period of time. This precludes frictional losses that would normally be incurred within atmospheres.
I have it along with manuals and the update. I used it for years for various personal finance tracking (runs in a Windows XP VM on macOS). This is Lotus Improv, nothing to do with Quantix.
An interesting idea but this is a massive PR battle you'd have to win. At least 50% of the poplulation will scream at the idea of mandatory government-issued masks (even if they were billed as "super masks that protect you from all harm"). I suspect if you put it to a vote right now, more than 50% of the population would agree with the following phrase:

"I feel that being vaccinated is good enough criteria to stop wearing a mask or social distance"

The problem is that the goalposts keep shifting with this pandemic. Biden said earlier that if you got vaccinated you wouldn't need a mask any more. That was true for maybe 1 month here in Maryland. Goalposts have since shifted. What is the endgame? Nobody seems to know. It's just a nebulous incoherent mixture of random arguments involving protecting the unvaccinated, preventing hospitals from being overwhelmed, protecting children and immunocompromised, preventing covid from mutating, etc. Heavy handed public health policies aren't free. You might accomplish some public health goal, but at the cost of increased social discord, decreased citizen morale, increased mistrust of the government, increased illwill toward the government, or other factors which could have far worse long term consequences.
AFIAK, Protonmail private keys are kept client-side. They are decrypted by the password inside the browser UI.
This blog post has some pretty neat photos of the island:
https://jeobox.com/3668/this-tiny-island-in-the-middle-of-no...

But yeah, the island does have a dark past.
I have very fond memories of my time there, I joined not too long out of high school in the late 80's. I transitioned from QA to development while learning C, learning how to program a few different assemblies, putting together a TSR (!) library. It was a great little company that changed my life. I still use VI keybindings because everyone internally used the Aztec version of VI :-)

It was very cool that they built a mini Unix toolset as part of the compiler suite so you had kinda-sorta unix on DOS, Mac OS MPW shell, Amiga....

It was a rare privilege for a 20 year old in the 80s to see code that beautiful and tight.
I’m going to assume for the sake of discussion that you aren’t trolling. Do you have links to some papers explaining why you think this?
> But they're making it easier for governments to come along and force them to do more. Or even for themselves, but I tend to think they're less of an issue.

It is as easy as always been. Only problem is that this might give them new ideas. As the most of the politics are probably non-tech people, they don’t know what is possible.

For tech person, functionality like this (on-device scanning and flagging) is super trivial to add. Antivirus engines have existed decades.
I m confused, you said i was excluding unattached sw devs, but now you say that these are the people who will benefit most. I also don't understand how RW will affect non-remote blue collar workers in any negative way
Imagine taking a photo or have in your gallery a photo a dear leader doesn't want to spread. Ten minutes later there's a knock at your door.
Service-Level agreement? Point of Sale? Piece of Shit? Point of Service? Not sure what you're talking about here, tbh.
Again why are they there in the first place? Also how many eyes are on KaiOS anymore? How sure are we of its sandboxing and all other security/privacy aspects?
I think there are two reason why you should care how your bank invests money. 1) For society, because the government has to bailout your bank if they take risky bets. 2) As a customers, because you don't have any choice about how much risk/returns you get (which might be fine, if low risk/low reward is what you are after).
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It's a very controversial topic, and downvoting to indicate disagreement is allowed. Seeing so many downvotes under these circumstances is not that surprising, is it?
Xiaomi gained market share by pricing its phones competitively, but cut corners by only releasing security updates quarterly (instead of monthly).

https://www.mi.com/global/service/support/security-update-1....

The only exception is Xiaomi's Android One "A" line, which is now discontinued.
> Even if I like the cause.

What cause is that? To make IGN more money? Because everything else is only marketing by now.
You bring up some very good points, thank you. I agree we want to be careful to not call this a checking account, and I think we need to work on our wording here.

"passive index investing and instant cash access are fundamentally opposed": I agree, this is the case right now, but we want to change that, because there isn't any fundamental reason for this.

Yes, people will owe tax, but remember that only your gains are getting taxed. So if you get a tax bill, it's because you made money. That is still a net-positive. There are also a lot of things you can do to reduce (though not eliminate) the tax burdon, such as carefully selection what investments to sell, predicting money flow (e.g. not investing a paycheck if rent is due a day later), tax loss harvesting, etc.
No that is a wrong analogy. The correct analogy to not participating in the vote would be: I would say "there shouldn't be any pizza party vote, because the options all suck, and I do not want any pizza, everybody go home".

If more than 50% of people in the room say that, the pizza party vote is illegitimate.
Imagine taking a photo or have in your gallery a photo a dear leader doesn't want to spread. Ten minutes later you heard a knocking at your door.
When COVID isn't alarmist enough anymore, time to switch topics.