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0. It's not Whataboutism, though. I don't point to an entirely different problem and say, what about that. I say, if we want to tackle climate change, we ought to target the most effective and cost efficient reductions in order to get the most results with the least cost. And there I say that aviation is just a small part of the problem, so, say, even entirely dismantling aviation would not solve the problem.

1. Yes, as I said immediately following the part you quoted: > though maybe 5% of global greenhouse effect
Even the facades in Paris were planned to the point that there were regulations on color and material and design [1]. Regulations were eventually loosened up somewhat.

[1] https://www.unjourdeplusaparis.com/en/paris-reportage/reconn...
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It makes sense that adding energy to the system can lead to higher temperatures and more extreme cases of winds and precipitation.

It makes less sense that it should lead to extreme cold.

Indeed, the Lancet study did say that the number of deaths from cold were on the way down.

Also, if examining the data further, most deaths are NOT in extremely cold countries, but rather in South East Asia and Africa.

I remember spending some time in a tropical country about 10 years ago, and when I was there, there was a few nights of "extreme" weather, where nighttime temperatures fell all the way to +14C (plus!). The government declared a state of emergency, and distributed blankets to the poorest people, to prevent oo many deaths.

Clearly, the main problem is poverty, not extreme weather.
You’re missing an essential detail, how Australians view the government, Australians don’t believe that the the government is sufficiently competent to be tyrannical, except in small local cases against the powerless

edit: we don't believe those in government with the inclination towards tyranny are sufficiently competent. There are individuals, in government in Australia, in the same house even if they're are not quite at the centre of power, who are good admirable competent people. And there are those whose fantasies bend towards tyranny. They are not the same people. And then there is the great morass along for the ride and the cushy pension.
Ya, reading this article makes me think this person has never actually used a taxi (at least not one outside of Manhattan, which has probably the best cab system in the world). This guy certainly hasn’t tried catching a cab at midnight in San Francisco where they’ll reject you if you’re not going the right direction, insist their credit card machine is broken, and otherwise be insanely difficult to use. Every comment in this thread has started “I don’t like Uber, but…” and it’s absolutely true, Uber has problems but the service and the app have been a game changer. And his taking exception with the drunk driving study is a bit infuriating, he insinuated the data is compromised, but doesn’t offer any evidence. I can only speak anecdotally, but within my social circle Uber has absolutely decreased the likelihood of someone driving drunk, and if it even contributed to 1% less driving fatalities, that’s and enormous achievement.
That is very modest considering his wealth, and within the reach of many middle-class and even working-class people.
If you’re saving for some purpose more than five years out, putting the money into a productive asset (most commonly stock of one or more companies) will beat inflation handily over time.

It’s still using the power of compound interest; it’s just not using a passbook savings account.
I completely agree with the article and I still think that if you read Millionaire Next Door and it helps you get a perspective on living below your means and investing regularly, that could still be really useful.

I feel similarly about FIRE - retiring early is one of the most unappealing goals that I can think of and the FI part of it is an outright lie - but if you read something on a FIRE blog and it helps you manage your money a bit better, I'm all for it.
Did anybody else have trouble understanding this thing?
Not a language per se, but I'm on a Qt based distro this summer, and I was pleasantly surprised to see what's new in 6.0. Qt is ancient, ubiquitous. We use it everyday without realizing it. But now it's got its own IDE, UI editor. And supports a Vulkan rendering backend ;)
-Oh, I don't really blame our forbearers as such, they'd just spent a few years seeing the world being chewed up and now had to start rebuilding fast, I can see how 'Let's just dump this stuff out where it will affect no-one in our lifetime' made sense.

As for the silver lining, the restricted zones are probably way too small - in my local case, it is only a matter of a couple of square kilometers .

(The main concern probably not being that the catch is dangerous to eat, but rather that whatever fishing gear you use may recover to the surface with all sorts of exciting litter attached to it.)
The language on the site definitely suggests this is aimed at education. The HN title however, is more ambiguous and suggests it could be used in a professional context.
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I definitely have been living on a budget, having been literally born into poverty and never quite able to move up a level. It's been with me my entire life and I assume it'll continue to be so for the rest of it. Kroger's a rich people store; there are plenty of stores that aren't that have been actually driven out of business by Wal*Mart.
Purely by result I don't think you couldn't make out a difference if they did that or not.

Easy to see that the war on terror dominated security policies for the last two decades in many countries, not only the five eyes. Officials build their image on that, being tough on X.

Problem is that there isn't any effective opposition because people are afraid of everything these days.
Being thrifty, not having the latest iPhone, not driving a Tesla and not having 3 meals delivered to your door is not fun.

People rather say the millionaire next door dream is dead than admit they don't have the discipline to put off instant gratification.
Many of these criticisms can -- and indeed already have -- been extended to plenty of western democracies including the US.

Chomsky and many others have been warning that corporate and political interests are infringing on the (increasingly centralised) media and other institutions for several decades. Questions around the strength of democratic institutions are raised regularly, with the various Trump sagas being a prominent recent example. Australia has been the test-run (or the canary in the coalmine, depending on your view) for privacy-destroying legislation -- following the footsteps and wishes of the NSA, of course. Declines in public education and communication infrastructure, widespread political apathy? Join the club.
I dunno. My GF rents a house for $950/mo, granted it's the smaller cottage on a $2M property. The owner of the property is a 26 year old optometrist. The guy next door has a $1.5M mansion and runs a septic tank company with two trucks and a bunch of stinkin hoses. (He also doesn't believe in covid and he's afraid to come over since we got vaxed because he thinks spike proteins are gonna sterilize him). The bartender at my local place has upwards of $100k in the bank in savings, and his mom owns a $2M house. I'm still not a millionaire (inching my way there) but a million dollars isn't what it used to be.

OTOH, my brother in LA owns a condo and can't find a new place to move into for love or money. Shit's always bleak at the LA Times, but, they don't get to other parts of the country much.
Use the stock market, not the bank.
Which social platform will die next?
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When one cares about that level of performance, then only straight Assembly.
Compressing Deep Reinforcement Learning Policies into Symbolic Expressions [pdf]
The model described in the book does work. Spend less than you make, invest the excess in long term assets that have compounding interest rates above the inflation rate. It does produce millionaires. It also requires tremendous discipline over a long period of time. The math is relatively simple, the behavior is not.

While the millionaire described in the story had $8 million in assets, you will find almost no one "next door" with 10 to 100 million or a 1 billion. That level of wealth requires a return on investment that can't be achieved using the earn and save model. It usually requires creating/controlling an assets that can grow in value many orders of magnitude faster than the stock market (real estate, businesses, intellectual property).
What's your favorite type of website to design and why?
I'm not from the US, so this comes from curiosity and lack of knowledge of the system:

Doesn't that suck for everyone?

In Germany, there is a (apparently) large generation gap of countryside doctors. The old ones retire, but no one young shows up to replace them, even though they are very well paid. But what 30 year old would want to live and work in a village of 5000?

Is that scenario not applicable in the US, or are the jobs you mentioned simply still considered a better deal.
As I said here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28140897

I feel articles like these are our personal propaganda. "Lets blame someone else, while our own war criminals roam free".

Tony Blair, Bush, Clinton ... they went into several wars without any approval of UN, made huge destruction, civilian deaths and suffering... and nothing, they live happily ever after ...
is there an online community to discuss specifically these things? Which countries do you have in mind?
Australian have temporary immigration, becomming permanent is actually quite hard compared to europe where you can basically just walk in there.

Also, I consider it a chance to be able to go to school as well, it doesn't mean exams are easy.

Immigration is the same. It gives, and it takes.

Because australia is an island with a pretty good legal filter for immigrants, they get less social tensions.

Also because they have plenty of space and money, right now they can welcome immigrants way more easily.

And finally because immigration from asia is a good part of the immigration source, which also makes things easier culturally.

The situations is different in every part of the world.

Immigration is not a single variable universal phenomenom.

Today if you talk about the challenge that diversity can bring, you are labelled with pretty harshed words. But nothing is free.

Source: I've been an immigrant a lot.
I think the strongest point in the story is his final quote. "I'm happy there. I'd move if I thought I'd be happier someplace else."

If more people would realize that happiness can be had on $3000/mo of household income, even if they bring in $10000/mo of income, more people would be both happier and wealthier.
Here in Norway awnings that extend automatically to shield the window from the sun are an off the shelf item, they also retract automatically if the wind gets too strong.
> I feel like the subtext here is that Signal thinks people's phones are going to be increasingly compromised

They will, just now it's the supposed "good actors" that are doing it. See Apple's recent photo scanning announcement. I have no doubt governments will start "encouraging" even more phone monitoring software.
Has Banksy been on an East Anglian seaside 'spraycation'?
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Something tells me this author went to an expensive school to study journalism and went on a trip abroad (or 2), and now doesn't know how to pay back all those student loans. Building wealth is still very much possible, there are many different communities online (FIRE, Dave Ramsey, and so on) where people are doing it, it just involves living a lifestyle that's abnormal for today's standards because consumerism has properly messed up our baseline.
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Off-topic: this discussion reminds me a bit of what happened about five years ago when I offered to host a reddit AMA about anesthesia and anesthesiology and related subjects (I was board-certified in 1980).

The moderator asked me for proof that I was who I was, so I had to spend a couple days digging through my files to find my medical school diploma, board-certification document, medical licenses, etc., then scan and email them to reddit.

I did all that, and they said it wasn't sufficient proof: I needed to take a selfie with the documents and my driver's license to "prove" my bona fides.

At that point I said WTF? and bagged it.

No good deed goes unpunished.
Does this mean no concentration camps for the non-vaccinated? Or that the media has totally given up any touch with reality in favor of fear mongering?
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N/

Seems like we're doing fine.
( Not disagreeing ) If you want to lose weight, just eat less. It is simple calories-in minus calories-out. It is really simple..
Considering 60% of the federal budget is social spending, I’m not sure I buy that socialism never took root.
Thank you for this.

We are heading the road of China and Russia where people try to get out because they don't want to live there anymore. No place for privacy or diverse opinions.
The problem with the browser is that it is too bloated. Even if you manage to get performance with wasm you are still high up on a huge dependency tree that you'll never be able to climb down from.

As electricity prices go up we need to get closer to the metal, OpenGL might not be good but it's the best tool we have and probably will ever have. Vulkan might replace the middleware but the OpenGL API will survive.

As for the metaverse it does not depend on one implementation, but a bunch of file formats and network protocols, I'm pretty sure this protocol will prevail: http://github.com/tinspin/fuse
Combine the rule of 72 (compound interest) with a historical 10% return from the S&P and I don't see how it couldn't work. All it takes is a bit of willpower, and the desire to "get rich slow"...
A recruiter contacted me to work as a freelander in the Stockholm office of Klarna, where I needed to work the first two months onsite. Travel and accomodation had to be payed by me upfront with just a small raise in the rate because expense reports are too much work for this fintech company.
My theory is that these career evangelists have spent too much of their careers doing just that: evangelizing. They haven't actually been writing code or building software. They've just been telling everyone how they think they should be building software.

I have arrived at the same conclusions as you wrt. static vs dynamic typing. A sufficiently powerful static type system entirely subsumes dynamic typing, and there is quite literally nothing you can accomplish with dynamic typing that you cannot accomplish with such a static type system. After writing software using both dynamically and statically typed languages, this is the conclusion I have arrived at, and it feels like a no-brainer to me.

This is so much of a no-brainer to me that I can't help but be biased when someone disagrees. I want to think that I am open to having my mind changed, but I have yet to see any evidence that sways me.

I do think perhaps a lack of external demand for code quality and correctness might sometimes be at fault. When all you need to do is write the code for the happy path correctly, maybe you just feel static types get in the way. I've converted several javascript projects to typescript, and in every single one of those projects, the conversion exposed multiple(in the tens or sometimes hundreds) cases of incorrect handling of null/undefined or just type mismatches.

I know this has to do with culture and the specific company and engineering discipline, but what I'm trying to get at is that I think a lot of people out there are writing code this way: just hack away until it works, and fix it if it ever crashes. When this is all you want, maybe proving correctness to the compiler is too bothersome. But I don't and won't work this way.
Slavery is “you can’t improve your car”?

Did I get that right?
opnsense has auto updates, and they are pretty painless. highly recommend it.
For the first couple of years it's possible. I'm not sure it's going to work past year 3 or maybe 4.
Fragrance Maker Dares to Sniff ‘What Life Smells Like’
My Indigo2 made a fantastic desktop for quite some time, and then went off to London to become a CPAN Testers machine until it finally expired of old age and hard use.
UTM – Run Vms in iOS Devices
Ok, this is a spectrum.

How far along the spectrum does the emergency need to get to justify a lockdown?

For example

- The Black Plague which killed 30%~ of Europe. At what point would a lockdown be justified?

- Germany just invaded my northern border. Again. Am I allowed to force my residents to turn their lights off to avoid bombing?

Rights aren't universal, and no serious person argues this. There is always an emergency that's bad enough.

The question is 'what is bad enough' and this has no scientific answer. The answer is up to the government of the day, and the population who can decide whether to turf that government.
start with very low income and only have a small number of years in industry.

15k -> 30k -> 60k -> 120k
Neal Conan, longtime host of NPR's 'Talk Of The Nation,' dies at 71
Unfortunately, looks like they choose to start using Electron in Linux and Windows so probably here too.[1][2]

I downloaded and tried the demo and it is one of the better Electron apps I've used even in beta. It's performant and the new UI is pretty nice. Watchtower especially is nicely integrated.

[1] https://dteare.medium.com/behind-the-scenes-of-1password-for...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/1Password/comments/o0f3r9/introduci...
Travel bans are one of the most visible actions politicians can take and this is all about politicians doing visible things for populist reasons.
What was the justification in banning citizens from leaving?
The connection here is that sybil-proofing is a (the?) major bottleneck to cryptoeconomic UBI schemes.
You are not disagreeing with me. You are just bringing up issues that Western countries have had and saying "don't report about Russian crimes, report about this.". But those things have been reported on and discussed in Western culture since those things happened many times. So no, BBC, a news service, shouldn't rehash a thirty year old argument (Clinton? Really?) when instead of talking about Russian war crimes.
No, that means first do your own, and then start bitching about others, because other way I do not see how are we better then those criminals in article.

Yes, I know, they are in our turf so now we need to bitch about them. What is the famous quote?, ah yes, "as we need to protect our economic interests" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
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Tech people in my experience are highly susceptible to survivorship bias combined with a level of delusional Randian optimism to gird themselves against the truth that they are pawns in a sadistic machine.
maybe im way out there but...

if you live/sell in a country that respects software copyright/license, then you can sue them or get a cease and desist for using it against your license (say prohibiting commercial derivative or violating your copyright without authorization)

and your software, if popular or lucrative, its going to get ripped off anyways like in the real app store (just look at the many clones of many apps), or just plain pirated like the myriad apps (photoshop, word et all) have since basically forever

am i way off-base?
if it were to be called "Release Engineering" and the pay was the same, would it matter?
How does JavaScript VM implements Object property access?
That’s like saying SSN (or other gov issued ID) solves poverty.
I had to work for a week on my gaming PC and used virtualbox to run Linux in a VM with i3. It was really sad, I hope to never do it again.

No matter what terminal emulator I used, there was too much lag compared to the real thing. I couldn't use kitty/alacritty since there was no hardware accleration. When I'm looking through code in (neo)vim, I normally fold everything and then scroll by holding j/k. I set my repeat delay very low, and my repeat rate extremly high so that I can just quickly scroll through code. This was completely unusuable in a VM. I had to switch to ctrl+f/b/d/u and it drove me nuts.

Maybe there was some way to get better hardware accleration, if I had two graphics card, maybe I could have devoted one to the VM and gotten better performance. Or maybe virtualbox is bad vs vmware or whatever else is out there.

I'm sure if I had to use it long term, I could come up with some usable workflow, but I still think using it natively is a significantly better experience.
Related article: https://medium.com/hci-design-at-uw/there-is-no-blue-in-kore... (2019)

Somewhat similar exercise by XKCD: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ (2010)
Funnily enough I’ve been trying for years to make my right wing friends to read Chomsky.
The real enemy is a vastly far different entity than our childish concepts of right or left.
To kill C++, Rust needs to grown an ecosystem for game engines, GPGPU shading languages (Metal/HLSL/CUDA), OS GUI stacks (Qt/WinUI) and composition engines,...

It might happen, in a couple of decades though.
That is true, in theory easier than gain weight, where you have to do more than less.
The writer obviously does not understand the benefit of curved sensors. They will make the lenses cheaper and smaller - they will not change the way photographs look.
Thomas Stanley was a marketing by professor who made a name for himself teaching others how to sell to the rich.

The Millionaire Next Door was largely written to dissuade people of the notion the hyper consumerism and associated advertising was an effective strategy for reaching a majority of upper wealth households.

Wealthy households are generally frugal compared to their level of net worth. This is particularly true for wealthy households at the lower end of the scale (e.g., the millionaire teacher who got that way by investing 15% of their net income consistently over 30-40 years).

Immigrants and business owners do have an advantage, and he goes into detail about how living in less wealthy neighborhoods is a wealth building advantage, but his main argument is that thrift, savings, and simple math are the main drivers of wealth.
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I think OLED followed that timeline (actually, more than only one decade), and we have OLED everywhere today. It could take a while, but don't discount its potential to come to mass market. And FWIW, nuclear fusion and battery breakthroughs are also finally starting to see some new progress, though that also took more than one decade.
At some point the question is - "is it really worth it?" Sure, if you save 10-20% on a regular basis, you're just being prudent. But if you go out of your way to save 50-80% of your income and lower your quality of life significantly, just so you can have more money in your investment account, or so you can not go to work (but still live that same extremely restrictive lifestyle)... it really doesn't seem worth it to me. But some people obviously disagree.
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