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What are some cool things you're working on?
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You know, of all places where Big Brother would be a real thing, Australia was not in my list. I always think a country that use the C word as a term of endearment would know how to take things slow.
For drug-sniffing dogs, generally all that is needed or expected is the dog will indicate where and when its handler wants an indication. For bomb-sniffing dogs you are hoping for a more precise outcome which is much harder to train for and achieve.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/05/supreme-c...
I initially thought he was claiming the inverse, that mask proponents were extremists. From the perspective of 2019, that wouldn't be an unreasonable assumption, but here we are. Today people are advocating using the force of the state, in other words violence against those who do not share their views on mask mandates.
PRO-TIP: when unloading the dishwasher start from the bottom and work your way up. Doing so prevents an accidental, upside-down cup or bowl from spilling water on your clean dishes beneath.
Probably not within the municipal budget of Miami, but Florida has a lot of clout in National Politics dues to the electoral college. Florida is the second largest net recipient of Federal tax dollars (after VA (proximity to DC)). If the cost of hurricane mitigation is less than the cost damages to coastal real estate in Florida then it would still be a good move on balance.
You can add battery research to your list.
> Am reading through the comments and I have to say westerners really think all news is about them.

As a westerner, I've discovered that we forget that we are less than 20% of the global population. Bringing that up in conversation can surprise people.
I agree fully re: expiration dates. IIRC the patriot act had an expiration date and it took nearly two decades for it to actually expire because it kept being reauthorized. It finally did expire last year and was not reauthorized and I suspect that is because we've actually already slipped far enough down the slope to no longer need that particular set of rules.

So I support the expiration date idea. I just wish there was a way to implement it such that it actually had the desired effect.
We have to wear a sign of obedience on our faces anywhere we go for more than a year now. In some countries periodic anal swabs are mandatory and even diplomatic status is not an excuse to skip one. Not taking about mandatory periodic injection of an unknown substance combined with regular mandatory DNA material harvesting.

Are we still concerned with shoes at airports?
"We use a lot of dogs to let cops search and seize whatever they want." FTFY

https://reason.com/video/2014/09/16/dog/

https://reason.com/2021/05/13/the-police-dog-who-cried-drugs...
pretty soon we'll have Environmental software developer
So one thing that really surprised me is the little pocket on the soap tray. I started adding some liquid soap there as part of the loading and saw a big improvement on cleaning result.

The idea is during the first pre cleaning cycle the soap will start working so you add the detergent on dish time.

https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04
The article is describing a cult, so the language is going to be quite abstract and obtuse.
I doubt more than 20% of American adults would be useful in a serious casualty situation.

And 99% of those would fear lawsuit.
Saving the world and making a living are not guaranteed to align well. So I'd argue that it makes sense to first work to become financially independent, then spending that freedom in pursuit of making a difference, without being influenced by which path has paying jobs at any given time.
Let’s hope you’re wrong and that this article isn’t trying to put the cart before the horse.

We need the next generation who are climate-aware-from-birth to go hard into it with both feet and don’t look back. Better for everyone if they do.
I've noticed that this is happening on any divisive subject, no matter what. Abortion, LGBTI rights, politics, sports, it doesn't matter there is always a bunch real people involved backed by an army of bots.

There are some people mapping this out manually, I'm surprised that the likes of Twitter don't take a harder stand against this because it likely is going to ruin the platform long term (if that hasn't already happened).

One example:

https://twitter.com/galactic_potato/status/14352650994770002...
Google Sheets seems to be by far the #1 endpoint on Zapier.

Lean automation is asking to grow a little fat at the middle so that it’s easier to view and control data flows.
other hot take: soil restoration, reforesting and ocean deacidification. We need to reduce carbon emission, but also restore natural carbon sequestration processes in a way that supports ecology.
For the record I didn’t say “a year of forced military training.”

What if its a 20 year community involvement?
Totally agree that conflict resolution is a key component of marriage. I suggest couples therapy as it provided me (and others) with a larger toolbox to address conflicts in general. Of course, if a couple can satisfactorily figure things out themselves, then no need! But that's not the picture that OP painted.
From Covid or with covid (edit: I’m merely asking which stat you’re citing. Source?)? Ie the disease killed them or they tested positive while dying from something else?
Yes of course. But some will be more competitve by having less weigth-per-axle. So after one replacement-generation of trucks, roads will be in better shape because trucks are less prone to damage them on average. And in general, trucking goods needs to be more expensive anyways to make less pollution transport options like ships and trains more competitive.

Consumers can also be made whole by removing vehicle taxes on cars or subsidizing other modes of transport that consumers use from those trucking price increases.
This is going to be a very valuable post/discussion for me as I am looking to make a career switch into this field. Thanks for starting the discussion!
Most investors would cite a lack of opportunities, though. More young people doing more things means more investment opportunities.
Wonder if the companies responsible for the exaggeration of impending doom will make some position for them.

Also wonder if the companies will ever change because zoomers care so much.

It's not about saving the planet, its a way for more control over us. Usher in the bait and switch of a new era. Millennial had the war on terror. Zoomers, the war on climate change.
Indeed. A lot of companies are talking about environmentalism and sustainability, but a lot of that is just people figuring out how to market what they already do.
Oh I totally agree. My only point would be, I think older people tend to over-estimate coef1 and under-estimate coef3. In other words, since aging has an effect on speed of skill acquisition, people over 30 might be more likely to blame that for the fact that their struggling and give up on something they could pick up quite decently with a bit more practice.

Also, when you talk about "related practice at an earlier age", I also think this is nothing to scoff at. As I have gotten older I've often found that a very real route to solving novel problems is to figure out how to apply something tangentially related that I already know.
Or you can pay a fee and bypass the lines, not remove your clothing, whiz through the diplomatic lane at JFK. I think most of the screening is less about security and more about selling convenience.
Specifically if there was an "Eichmann" for climate change it would be

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Nordhaus

whose work delayed a response to the climate crisis for at least twenty years.
Staked Ethereum is an entirely different sort of thing. You're not loaning money, you're earning it with the equivalent of mining.

Personally I've never seen the SEC consider loans as securities before, so it seems reasonable to ask for their reasoning.
Considering billionaires are going to space for fun, I think there's enough capital.
It's a federated protocol. You can run your own instance that allows slurs and federate with whoever agrees. That's a non-issue.
While I agree that this configuration needs more memory, mainframes are primarily used for very high throughput jobs. "Lots of memory to sit idle" isn't really a priority.

That aside, samepage sharing has been a thing in virtualization for more than a decade. If you have 800 VMs running RHEL8 for POWER, a significant amount of the memory load is kept in identical pages, which lowers the burden of oversubscription. The recommended workload is unlikely to be 1000 unicorn/pet VMs, and more likely to be a large number of VMs running the same base OS, and some of the same workloads.

Synchronous interrupt locking is also a solved problem.
Your last sentence seems contradictory, can you elaborate?
Pretty neat. Royal family is the glue.
Just pay the government a $100 bribe^W 'application processing fee' for Precheck or Global Entry, and no more taking off your shoes. Or taking out your laptops or liquids, or having a government employee look you over in the nudie scanner. Also, shorter, faster lines.

But all this is actually necessary and not security theater. We promise.
From the effort we put in now, almost seems like a dead end career unless you are in the military. It’s been regulated into impracticality.
> They’re also practicing what they preach: 33% of survey respondents say they participate in sustainability activities “daily” and 27% report weekly sustainability practices.

I wonder what those activities/practices might be.
The Howey test doesn't apply here. If it's not securitized and it's not tradable, it's not a security. You can't trade a lending account...you can either hold it, or liquidate it.

FINRA is an obvious choice. They already regulate securities lending, they already regulate margin accounts, they already regulate interactions with FDIC-regulated bank accounts.
Stopped reading at "WHO"
How about nuclear energy? Germany's decision to do without a few years back was overreaction to Fukushima. Renewables plus batteries great, nuclear is a good base and fallback.
I look forward to being able to play the game. It's in an unusual position of being on my list of games I've been following for about a decade now, but without being released, cancelled, experiencing notable delays (as far as 'dead time' is concerned) or having a significant change in purpose or scope.

Marc has just been working away, methodically, patiently, making the game that he wants to make.
Was it irrational to call critics of the post 9/11 world anti-American?
Bout to be a lot of happy vintage arcade game collectors ;)
Have to start sucking the CO2 we've already overloaded the atmosphere and oceans with if those efforts are to provide meaningful value. Otherwise, you're dressing wounds on a the victim who is bleeding out from an artery.
The grass is always greener on the other side. Who knows how you’d feel about your choice if you were struggling financially in a more meaningful career?
> My biggest challenge over the years was remembering what to do in each place as the security people at the airports had a tendency to get upset if you didn't do it their preferred way.

Exactly this. I'm sure to the security people, it feels obvious since it's what they do every day for hours consistently, but I agree that the inconsistency is very frustrating.
> I'm sorry that supply and demand is a difficult concept for you.

So your strategy for discourse is to demean and make condescending assumptions?

As I and at least another have pointed out, you beg the question. Supply and demand based valuation is not an arbiter of fair value, it is simple a mechanism for determining value that some people consider an optimal self-correcting "algorithm". I do not.

There are plenty of people with the skills to become doctors and who would do it not to "enrich myself", but because they would like it, or want to help other people, or like the social status of doing something not everyone can do, and they would do it for no more pay than a grade school teacher or a janitor job that entailed the same amount of work/effort/stress. Sure, if one job was more stressful, or more dangerous, our more distasteful (e.g. cleaning toilets), there would be adjustments in compensation, hours or something else to make up for it.

You will counter that the "free" labor market does just that: automatically arrive at fair adjustments. It does not. Because it is centered on supply & demand of skills -- people with rarer skills can coerce more money out of society. Their price will be bid up naturally at auction.

I counter that that is the wrong auction. Imagine an inverted auction: people (with the same inborn skills) bid for the jobs they want to do. So on the auction block is 40 hours a week as a surgeon (for the first N years your job is to be trained, you are paid the same before and after training), and 40 hours per week cleaning toilets, and 40 hours per week working in the fields (please, at least out of respect for the people who feed us, watch at least 10 short videos on United Farm Worker's feed: https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/media). Whoever bids the lowest wins -- just like bids for government contracts. I'll bet anything that the result will be bids to be doctor will be lower than farm worker which will be lower than cleaning toilets -- i.e. the toilet cleaner will have the highest salary.

To me this latter auction is the true arbiter of fair pay. The more desirable jobs (intellectually, creatively or spiritually stimulating, higher social status) will pay less, and the more undesirable jobs (dangerous, dirty and/or demeaning) will pay more.

We have plenty of people with the skills for "brain" jobs. But capitalism and its naturally resulting symptom, the Mathew Effect, ensure that a lot of smart people never see the light of day. So we would do fine without people who will only do work to enrich themselves. Especially when we have a culture that exalts the common good, and gives social status to givers, as opposed to our current culture that worships takers. Those who have the skills to be a surgeon but won't do it unless they are paid 100 times what a farm worker makes can go ahead and pick lettuce. Fine by me.
Yes, they launched a new generation of hardware.
> Do kids used to watch MTV for hours daily in 90s?

Not MTV exclusively, but yes I knew kids (in elementary school!) that watched TV for hours every day (although I didn’t grow up with that habit).

Pretty sure the same hours-a-day thing was true for video games as well, although in my view at least that’s not totally passive and was sometimes social (kids playing against each other in person).
There's no chance that people with pet allergies are the reason bomb sniffing dogs aren't more widely used.
I don't believe that's up to the government. The government regulates the lowest allowable wage, anything above that should be between the employer and the employee.
Nah that was just taken from the history books. It was our totalitarian response that was from the dystopian novel.
Are you implying that the WHO's statements in the first few months of 2020 removes the credibility of the claim that the pandemic did not to be this bad? I'm with you that it should have been sooner than March 11, 2020 to declare COVID-19 as a pandemic, but the response of almost every country in the world in following year was lackluster at best to prevent widespread mutation opportunities.
Those are definately the most important technologies, but how are those going to get done without lawyers, and other boring not-saving-the-world-directly jobs, jobs that could generally be called "bureaucracy" if you wanted to make them seem bad for some reason.

As long as these young people vote out the climate change deniers, and society get serious about not rewarding people who generate externalities there will be jobs aplenty, that will be taken by people who just want the money. If they don't then it won't matter what they do.
Is it possible this sort of disingenuous attitude is an act? It seemed to work for Uber and Airbnb. They skirted by on legal technicalities until they had enough VC-funded legal firepower to tip the scales in their favour.
If everyone has a gun, then either you teach this skill to everyone including the bad guys[0], or you don’t teach it to everyone and now a lot of normal people with guns are indistinguishable from bad guys with guns.

[0] because if you actually knew they were bad guys before you gave them such training you could stop them before they fire a single shot
Imagery: Anyone can build their own AI
I can relate to this. Keep your eye open for new opportunities and eventually you may find something that both pays well and contributes to solving the climate problem.

The good news is that more people are finding ways of doing meaningful work while also turning a profit. An obvious example is working at a place like Tesla, but there are an increasing number of lower-profile for-profit companies that need tech + data talent to execute.
TikTok Serves Up Sex and Drug Videos to Minors
I thought the shoes being taken off wasn't arbitrary. I thought it was because of the shoe bomber(Richard Reed)
> Can the borrower then selectively default if the X/Y exchange rate moves in their favor?

They very much can. For that reason though, the loans are always over collateralized so defaulting involves leaving some money on the table. That money could be less than hypothetical tax payments though..not sure.
Will never be cost competitive. Enough sunlight ("fusion at a distance") hits the Earth in 30 minutes to power humanity for a year. Batteries, solar, and wind will get cheaper while nuclear still can't be built cost effectively (if even at all, considering cost overruns and construction disfunction). HVDC transmission can be laid on ocean floors and buried underground to avoid natural disasters and NIMBY, you can push ~1-1.5GW over a pair of 5" HVDC conductors.

Grid operators will balance variable supply with variable demand, and storage will grow as battery costs come down as manufacturing for battery cells scales up to meet EV demands.
So much security that not sense.

I attend college football games. Everyone goes through security. Outside security we pack up in masses of humanity outside the gates waiting to get through the inevitably slow security.

It would be far more effective to do something at the gates dude to the density of humanity there where there is no security ... than in the stadium where people are actually more spread out.

If someone did want to do something at such a sporting event, nothing is stopping them from doing it at the gates where there is a reliable and unsecured mass of humanity, and I don't think anyone is bothering with that ...

I used to wheel my grandfather into games on a wheelchair... they didn't check anything, just waved you through. A wheel chair sized bomb would be easy to bring in, but you don't even have to bring it in.

We have secure ID schemes that I believe most if not all of the 9/11 attackers would have qualified to get ...

In the US we don't have mass terrorist events that any of this would prevent.

Why do we keep subjecting non-terrorists to these systems?

What are we doing this for?
Hasn't this been the obvious answer for almost two years now?

The disease transmits to a huge pool of animals where it can mutate and transmit back. That alone is a problem too big for people to solve.
The recent mask study in Bangladesh comes to mind. I hazily remember it finding mask effectiveness at about 10-15%, which caused the press to proclaim that masks work. However against an exponentially growing virus this reduction amounts to a brief delay in transmission.

Happy to be corrected by someone who has looked at that study more deeply.
I'm not sure that's true? Certainly some of those who are hated at the top are aware of their own manipulative cynicism? Do we really think the media moguls in charge of created biased news sources believe they're acting in anything other than self interest?
I think it'd be pretty easy politically, at least from a conservative (i.e. not Republican) standpoint. Argue that DHS is government waste and can't stop shit (point to the numerous studies done over the years of them being able to stop all kinds of shit from going through). Let things go back to the way they were: airports hiring private firms to do security.

This would never happen in today's climate though since both parties are pro-big government.
"ECS Fargate service to a desired task count of 1"

This qualifies as "serverless" now?
You are mentioning the "Hyper Protect" instances. They are not directly comparable to the garden variety t3a.nano.

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/hyper-protect-virtual-servers

The fact there is a market for them is a quite notable.
More often than not [at least where I happen to live in the US] I actually see kitchen sinks with only one basin (and often too small). One basin isn't really enough to efficiently clean dishes without it being a big hassle.

I suspect that this is a multifaceted consequence of dishwashers becoming so commonplace, people cooking less and less, and constant attempts by owners to cut minor costs at the expense of tenants' standard of living.
No, you're thinking of Hexbear. Chapos didn't go to Lemmygrad.
At the end of the day, censorship requires sole trust, and sole trust breeds corruption. Every. Single. Time. This hasn't, and will not change. But I don't think that's a good enough argument for censorship and big-state advocates, even though it really should be.
"They won't be mainframes, because as the author does correctly point out, mainframes are unmatched at large-scale, high throughput, resilient, stateful, transaction-heavy workloads."

So like DynamoDB, Document DB, SQS, Service bus, and vast majority of managed cloud services?

Thats literally the entire reason to use cloud - to offload management of statefull services.

If I wanted just to run stateless docker containers, I can set that up myself on bare metal in a day.
i optimize my code cycles to environmental standards. Best CO2/LOC ratio in 5 years
You're wasting your time.

COVID deaths could be entirely amongst 97 year old obese smokers with stage 4 cancer and half the country would still give the same obtuse responses, call you granny-killer, tell you you're selfish for not wanting to wear a mask, say "pandemic" like it's a mic drop, etc etc etc. You'll be stuck in a COVID version of the "This amp goes to 11" conversation.

It turns out that shocking people with a million volts of raw terror does in fact blow a fuse in many people's brains (go figure) causing them to lose all cognitive abilities.