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One interesting question: say we tried that MIT economist's plan where you have a hefty carbon tax but give the entire thing back as a tax rebate[1]. That'd get a direct deposit/check arriving (hopefully frequently) and send a message that the faster you lower your emissions, the more other people are giving you free money. People don't like paying taxes but they allow love to get the better side of a deal.

1. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/28/196355493/econ...
> then despite what they claim, they should be held legally responsible.

I fully agree with this. There is a great deal of distrust in contemporary society, because those who hold the power do everything they can to avoid being held responsible. And because they hold the power, they are able to do it. If these parasites want a civilisation to be parasitical off, they will need to shape up.

However, it needs to be careful legal responsibility. Otherwise you just end up with the Google problem. Google will arbitrarily shut down an account for no apparent reason and no clear possibility of appeal or even explanation. So aside from being responsible for the bad actors they choose not to exclude, they should also be responsible for the actors they unfairly or disproportionately exclude. Probably it means their current business models become unviable, but that's fine.
As soon as I have time it will be CalyxOS on my current Pixel 2. Once I got to update, no idea when, to a Pixel 5 I'm going to try Graphene OS. Oh, and Linux on my private laptop. I don't think you can do anything else to avoid FAANG's eyes. And MS's. Which sucks, I still remember when the only thing tp worry about was malware, not being spied upon by OEMs. Oh, and being spied upon by three letter agencies and their counterparts, but there is not much you can do about that either way.
India seems to be one of the countries with most to lose from climate change. If the wheat growing belt migrates north sufficiently - as it may - India will have enormous problems feeding itself.
Unless I'm misunderstanding something; I think this article is saying that the amendment being discussed in the post you linked failed to pass?

So I guess now we're back to the previous previous discussion where the EFF was decrying the bill as a privacy disaster: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28045227
"Some KPIs are positive"? I had no idea HN was this backwards. More people have moved out of poverty than ever before. Quality of life is improving in so many places, just not around /you/. Amazingly cynical point of view.
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> Racial identity is a social, legal, and political construct that consists of our own perceptions of our race, and how other people see us.

This seems a pretty US-centric conception. I for one wouldn't know how to assign a "racial identity" to myself, and most of my acquitances would surely say the same thing. I doubt that this study holds much meaning outside the USA.

Now if it was about genetic ancestry it would make some sense (and not really be surprising). But if it is about "self-reported identity" I guess it's only finding the correlation of that with actual genetically transmitted features.
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Excellent, thank you! I came across it first time on Twitter. Great to know it's been discussed here, and--WOW--from 12 years ago. Thanks a lot! ;p ;) xx

I had trouble tracking down the document in the CIA's FOIA archive. FYI, searches like:

site:cia.gov intext:"simple sabotage" filetype:pdf

failed

but

cia.gov intext:"simple sabotage" filetype:pdf

succeeded with the gutenberg link, thank gawd ;p :) xx
Does anyone have numbers on how the backend compares to CC65 for performance on the 6502?
This! People really don't understand that we have plenty of authoritarianism already and it's that authoritarianism is what got us here.

If Musk could have invented something to solve climate change, you think we would still be spending so much time trying to get off the planet?
the previous best output for this type of solar cell was nowhere near the state of the art. they found a more efficient structure that narrows the gap. the advantage of this type of solar cell is that it’s potentially much easier to produce, but before now it’s efficiency has been very low compared to the state of the art.
OTOH, everyone dreams of building a successful SaaS, because they want to milk that model themselves.
The video says "free of endless infringements" while showing what looks like a pile of pistol permit paperwork.

The idea that the ATF is gonna shrug their shoulders and go "welp, not a firearm" seems... iffy.
> Since they don't have access to their users' email content because of encryption.

Regular emails (i.e. without home-brewn encryption that Protonmail provided - and I'm yet to receive such email from any of my contacts who use Protonmail), or any inbound email received from third-party servers are of course not encrypted and Protonmail has pretty easy access to their contents.
My current mantra regarding privacy both offline and online:

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him" - Cardinal Richelieu

Imagine terabytes of data?!
The prop is spun by the wheel, not the wind. The tailwind provide push.

Think of the wheels as a power bank: It convert and temporarily store linear force to rotational force.
As long as it accumulated enough power to counter the rolling resistance, headwind drag, gravity, gearing loss, etc; the excess rotational force can be used to spin the prop. Which in turn generate additional push to be converted and stored.

Within this "loop", the vehicle got two linear input, tailwind and propeller.
This will allow continuous acceleration once the vehicle goes faster than tailwind up to the point where the additional force from the prop is completely negated.
So if they want to be xenophobic, what's the problem? It's their country and they can do whatever they want with it.
That's not even Apple role to fight child abuses. That's the governements role
Or maybe award less than half points for a draw?
The funny thing is that they often are blocking the well known sites but don’t block less known and potentially shady sites. I always notice this when I try to download a software I need. Popular sites are blocked but very questionable sites are open.
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I'd say that's a damn good track record for technology that's been around for almost 80 years.

If the 60s had turned into "everyone develops or buys a nuke", we'd be living in a very different world today (if at all).
Even with 100+ pounds (50+ kg)?
Being overweight for any length of time can ruin you appetite and metabolism. Being overweight usually causes insulin resistance at some point, and develop into metabolic syndrome. Also continuous overeating down regulates the production of leptin which is produced when the stomach is full. Competitive eater have this issue, as when they eat they don't feel full so they are able to eat much more,
Mozilla seems to repeatedly suffer this[1]. I wonder what solution they use for expiry monitoring.

1: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3393446/mozilla-issues...
Chinese emissions are primarily because of a choice to exploit its thermal coal reserves for power generation instead of going nuclear. Probably was cheaper and faster to go that way - but it was definitely a choice.
So you built a financial product to convince people to forgo FDIC insurance on their primary checking account? What an evil premise for a company. That's despicable. I'm sure almost none of your customers will understand their inherent cost of repeatedly moving money in and out of a volatile asset, not to mention that this concept would ruin the economy if widely adopted, because the FDIC was invented for a reason. I hope the SEC destroys you.
> Notice the .app extension? Did you ever wonder why programs are called apps now?

Programs were called apps long before NeXTSTEP existed.
If you are really aggressive, you only need to keep money in your checking account between your payday and the due dates of your rent, utility etc. Everything else can be invested instantly on your payday.

If that amount of money is significant to you and you think you are missing out, you should stay away from the stock market. You are basically on the verge of bankruptcy, especially if you live in a country without proper social security (e.g. the US).

I like the idea if you are saving for something you do not really need, e.g. your second yearly vacation or some vehicle.
> The government can't rifle through your physical photos to search for [bad thing], at least for the moment.

I mean they can, it just takes effort making it not worthwhile. This will make it easy and omnipresent.
Another possible explanation for the downward trend in insurance is that insurance companies understand the worsening climate better than consumers. (They raise the premium to protect their bottom line in a world of more extremes, and consumers don't think they will need that level of hedge because they extrapolate badly.)
Except it does. Because as written it includes miners in that group. Miners have no possible way of having the full identity of the parties involved in every transaction they verify and it would be impossible to comply with this reporting. That effectively outlaws it.
Scanning on their cloud storage is different from scanning on users devices. The latter is opening a door to mass surveillance that wasn't even there before. That is the problem, not the scanning itself.
> Free of endless infringements

Woof. America...
Hospitals in the South are running out of space or staff
This is a brokerage account, not a checking account.

Deceptive post.
Pork is one of the most taste-neutral foods you can get. It's all in the spice imo. Sausages can be quite dry as well. So apart from texture, many meat-alternatives aren't so off :) I've rarely seen anything that promises to replace beef, though.
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Understandable that it doesn't take much wind for a vehicle well under a pound. But what about one that weighs well over 100 pounds?
I reported this to Amazon who said that wasn’t “meant to happen”

The simple fact that third party sellers can contact buyers by email is enabling this crap.

All Amazon has to do is build some messaging system so all communication between sellers and buyers happen on Amazon instead of by email. In case of abuse, it could be reported easily.
When you hold your breath, it's not decreased oxygen that triggers the burning sensation in your lungs and the desperate need for air; it's elevated CO2. So it's pretty easy to perceive if you're at all aware of the signs.
Do you mean a NeXTSTEP version for non NeXT hardware because there was a Windows version?
Yes, unsure what they mean. For context it was developed in part by a guy from AFRL (Air Force Research Laboratory[0]); maybe it's a commercialization of some of the miniaturized railgun/coilgun tech from the secret programs that were 'abandoned'? I'm thinking that's maybe what they mean by free of infringements; as in patent infringements, but I don't know. Your guess seems plausible too.

[0]: https://www.afrl.af.mil/
As a counterpoint to the nay-sayers, I personally see value here and would opt for this were it offered to me by my bank, for example. This is not for people who live paycheck to paycheck, of course. However, for people who often have (a sometimes large) surplus in their checking account that they don't have the time/effort to move and invest elsewhere, this would be great.

I would love to be able to set a "surplus" threshold as part of this solution, say $5k (just an example - it should be set by the user), such that any amount above that in the account is invested, while the rest is kept in cash. That would solve the "emergency" funds issue for some people.

I think framing this is a checking account is what people are having trouble with. It really seems like an investment account with easy liquidity. If you add a section that is kept in cash, then it's checking + investment with automatic rebalancing.
> it's not more difficult to determine the majority vote among 400 million people

Democracy is not majority voting.
The difference with hong kong is the surveillance is one sided, goverment can surveil their citizen but the citizen can't surveil the goverment.

The surveillance/transparency has to be on both side.

Government can't just do whatever they want if they also being surveilled.
I find it extremely counterintuitive, especially this part:

In 2012, Blackbird also demonstrated sailing directly upwind with twice the speed of the wind.[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird_(wind-powered_vehi...
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Putting the Checking account into a fund/security and then selling the fund/security for ATM withdrawals, or individual expenses etc will be a headache come tax time. How does your product simplify this?

From your description, it sounds like this is not FDIC insured?
I've also wished for Silphium to somehow be revived.

...Okay, that's mostly because it was also known as "laser", and I want to plant it with some rocket (arugula) and tell people I have a rocket laser garden. Maybe serve them some rocket laser salad.
..but then they still have your home address in their archive of PII. Which is bad enough (wasn't Dominos or New York Pizza hacked the other day with PII getting leaked?).

I barely ever read spam (and receive it mainly on one of my older e-mail addresses but it does end up in the spam filter). I barely ever receive spam on my phone number. I won't say never, cause it has happened, but probably like twice a year or so. And I use my real phone number and real e-mail address everywhere. Which, in case of using an alias, isn't clever. But in your case, they still got the address.
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It might sound harsh but we're lucky that large scale pandemic like this had comparatively lower death rate, the scenario might've been completely different if it was more fatal. So, I think people will wake up if there are harsher consequences in large of chunk of population in their personal lives than covid (this is pretty horrific that we as humans with all our knowledge and technology can't prevent this without immediate danger).

I know that there are going to be some people even in that case to deny climate change, but that would be significantly smaller minority compared to what it is right now in case of covid (at least I think so).

> I believe that our best chance is to do as much as we cand right now and to induce a sense of climate awareness into the younger generations. Bring them up believing, well, actually knowing, that the climate must be respected and protected constantly.

Yes, I completely agree on this one.
Still, it is so sad to see companies who could avoid their employees commuting and polluting, fighting to get their employees back to the office!
This shows how overall businesses and people don’t really care for climate change.
Not sure which country you live in, but if you can get a speed queen branded washer / dryer, you'll likely never have to replace them. They're repairable.
There is unfortunately still a lot of scope to game such a system.

A country can sign up to the carbon pricing scheme, but then subsidise disadvantaged industries by almost the same amount as the carbon taxes they pay. See the EU carbon trading scheme for example - companies are given (for free) credits representing the carbon they emitted in past years.

A multi-country carbon taxation scheme gives every country a strong incentive to either collect the tax badly on their own companies, or make policies to effectively reimburse companies the tax collected.

It's probably still the best approach despite this shortcoming.
"gunpowder age is ended" seems a bit premature

as a tech demonstrator is great, but we're a few technology generation away from replacing the good old rifle, both because of power density (40+ shots per charge so you're going to ferry a few of these and battery pack are heavy) and capacitor (2 seconds/round isn't stellar)

given the coil/power constraint I think the natural evolution of this tech is probably going to remain a niche application for slow firing and high powered applications, not a tout-court gunpowder replacement; railguns seems to be a better candidate for rifle replacement.
Surely everything is suspicious until proven otherwise?

Although if something is 100% without a doubt not suspicious, that's also somewhat suspicious.
Isn't it funny how the "government-disinclined" that don't want to wear masks generally support Florida laws that makes it illegal for businesses to mandate masks?
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For those like me, who didn't get this at first.

It's about improving output from ferroelectric solar cells, a specific type of solar cells, which are easier to build than regular ones made of silicon. But they usually aren't as effective as the silicon ones.
This. If we tax CO2, we can apply tariffs for CO2 intensive goods produced elsewhere. A tax here can lower emissions overseas as well.
Did you read the amendment? It explicitly exempts miners, the devs, and pure wallets
I've been following this discussion in Washington and on Hacker News. I'm moderately anti-crypto--I don't buy the pitch but am open to being wrong and believe folks should be free to do what they want with it.

I've also been struck by the proliferation of bank-like services without bank-like obligations. This stretches from fractional-reserve and maturity-transforming services like Tether to exchanges/dealers like Binance and ersatz money transmitters like BitPay.

We need AML (edit: anti-money laundering) and tax reporting at those nexuses. If the answer is there should be no AML, KYC (edit: know-your-customer rules) and/or reporting by cryptocurrency companies, we have no common ground on this argument. To date, this is what I have most-commonly heard. If that's what the Senate is hearing, it's unsurprising they consider the debate closed. If the argument is a reasonable tweak to who has to report, or what or the form in which it must be reported, policy makers are listening. (Wyden's amendment is a result of reasonable concerns expressed by miners.)
see also https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41872/preorders-for-th...

20lb. ouch

Stick a couple prongs off the front hooked tot he capacitor bank, and it could be dangerous.
For some definitions of best nuclear war is the best way of reducing the population. I think improving education and empowering women is the (or one of the) ethically most defensible ways of reducing population growth.
Your theory is that Giannandrea is intentionally using a technically inferior technology because it makes more money? How?
AFAIK, ML image classification is used for checking user-generated content on social networks, forums, etc. Cloud storage, email and IM providers will continue using hashes (either exact or perceptual) to lower false positives.
This Red widget is 1000x better than older Red widget designs. Even though Green widgets are still much better.
I know lots of people who are tech savvy, care about privacy, but use a gmail address nevertheless.

I have my own contradictions. I think the disappearance of payments in cash is a problem, it is not good to give the state too much control on a society. But I hardly use any cash myself.

Convenience is unfortunately a big factor.
Hey, at least we'll be able to "solve" the "problem" of sexts between youths by having a bunch of middle aged men rifle through them.
Would love to see this too!
"It is an effective deterrent" to using this one specific platform to distribute CSAM. The problem with this solution is the exact same problem with the tired old "solution" to E2E encryption that gets trotted out every couple of months. If you add monitoring to the tool that criminals are using -- especially, especially if the company loudly and publicly announces that they are adding monitoring! -- you will, at best, catch a few of the very dumbest possible criminals, while the rest move on to one of countless available non-monitored tools.
This should be the top answer -- it is a phishing/spam site, whether due to being hacked or poor moderation policies.

No outrage to see here, please move along
Not correct. When enough images to trigger a match are detected apple employees verify the visual derivative to make sure it matches before an alert is generated. They would need to collude.
I wrote a B compiler: https://github.com/aap/b
it generates the original threaded code and has a runtime for amd64, mips32 and riscv64. should get the pdp-11 one working too sometime...
Documented the original pdp-7 and pdp-11 implementations here: http://squoze.net/B/
If you value privacy you won't use a company laptop for personal business.
I'd say next in line would be stuff oppressive governments don't like. Winnie the Puuh might be front runner along with men standing shirtless in front of tanks.
How does being required to track data about taxation challenge the existence of the builders you mention?

I can see how it might for the companies - people who use crypto for tax and authority avoidance seem likely to stop using any service that complies with this law.

I don't see how this bill threatens any human's existence.
France Télévisions did something similar with a bubble in Tokyo Bay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hBiFwe-HSU

https://www.newscaststudio.com/2021/07/27/france-televisions...
>Probably doing MITM SSL inspection.

Probably not, judging by the gp's use of the term "end to end encrypted". Nearly every site uses HTTPS, so if they were really doing MITM, either everything would be broken (because the root certs aren't installed), or everything works. My guess is that his employer's network has some sort of network filter installed, and "end to end encrypted" is a classification category for sites that is blocked for whatever reason.
Here's another take:

Step 1: a propeller is like a wall or (straight on, no wing stuff) sail moving forwards forever. When the wind pushes on a propeller it's like it's pushing against a sail or wall, but instead of moving forward it turns in place. Virtually, it's still like a wall moving forward. So it converts linear push to a rotational motion.

Step 2: Wheels are the opposite for solid surfaces: they couple rotational motion to linear motion on the ground.

Step 3: the propeller on the vehicle is connected to the wheels. The gearing makes the "virtual wall" of the propeller move backwards as the vehicle moves forwards. This cancels out the forward motion of the vehicle from the point of view of the air.

So from the point of view of the wind, the propeller is like a wall or sail that isn't moving with the vehicle. It's stuck stationary on the ground, or moving slower.

The reason why the wind can't push a vehicle faster than the wind is that once you get to wind speed, there is no more speed difference to impart a force on the vehicle. Here, even when the vehicle is at wind speed, there is still a difference between the (slower) virtual speed of the propeller and the wind. So it still gets pushed, and can further accelerate.

TL;DR the vehicle uses the wheels and propeller to make itself appear to be running slower relative to the wind, and so it can continue to accelerate when its real speed has reached the wind speed.

Another way to visualize it is: instead of a traditional propeller, imagine it like a water wheel, or an impeller, with vanes the air hits. As the vehicle moves forward, the vanes move backwards. With the vehicle at wind speed, the vanes moving backwards cancel out some of its speed, so that there is still a relative difference between the wind speed and the vane speed, so there is still a force exerted.