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What will the headline be 20 years in the future: “20 years after covid, will we ever ....”
In the past they build a continental railroad, cities, industry and inventions for fun, those were at least useful. I’m not sure what we get out of billionaire space flights really, maybe some safety and viability data.

I’m not sure I’ve seen Zuckerberg, Bezos, Branson, et al expressing interest into the next transistor.

Maybe our generation’s robber barons aren’t as interesting as ones of the past?
People make a way. When the Loma Prieta earthquake knocked down highways, neighborhood workers and residents rescued people from the collapsed structures. The same happened in NYC on 9/11 when the WTC fell.
Normally I’d be pretty pissed at a game like this that’s been “coming soon!” for a decade, but I’m not, and here’s why: The developer has not taken people’s money. Unlike things like Star Citizen, whatever decisions are leading to this project’s extended timeline aren’t putting backers at risk of receiving nothing if things go pear shaped. Miegakure’s developer doesn’t seem to have sought to monetize the crap out of the hype he generated in the early 2010s, and as a result I’m cool with him taking as long as he wants (or even walking away, though it would make me quite sad).

[EDIT] I know Star Citizen has started “delivering” recently. I still think the way they raised money and built the game was not a good model for others to follow.
Very interesting article. Thanks for sharing
Spain. I I dropped out of University the first year. I made less money than people with university degrees. If you can, totally worthy.
You give them too much credit. People will come up with their own justifications for what they do, and thus believe they are doing what is just
Are investors in USA as wary of B2C risk as here in Ireland?
My team and I are building something really interesting for homebuyers. Here in Ireland we have a problem with housing demand and the market is pretty hot. People need information around the bidding process like never before. We can provide this. The problems we solve can be seen the world over but Ireland is a particularly good "petri dish" to ensure good PM fit.
We have interest from lenders (B2B revenue) but investors, including our government's investment vehicle, Enterprise Ireland, are quite shy of B2C risk. We have solid plans for getting users but as a result of the reluctance of investors to come in to the first round, we have pivoted to a more B2B start, helping property developers derisk construction finance in a manner so as to help us get users also. Hopefully things work out on our new path - it's looking good.

However, I am curious. When presented with something disruptive as we are creating, with the benefits and obvious help for the consumer as I hope the reader will trust we bring, for the sake of discussion, are US based seed investors shy of B2C risk, even with verifiable interest from B2B revenue partners?

It feels like our second round will break records, but the first is very difficult (or has been before recent pivot at least.)

- We don't have a requirement that we hit say 20% of buyers before we provide benefits to our users. We provide tangible benefits even to one user buying one home.
- We can roll put in a manner so as to maximise the chances of having good user interactions on a per-property basis so as to give a good user experience from the get-go, even if not universally available in a market until user numbers are good
- We have the team we need at this stage
- We require small capital to get rolling and would attract significant grant funding, crowd-funding interest, etc
I used to think that obviously coastal real estate would plummet in value after a few high profile losses. After this pandemic I no longer think it will happen except very, very slowly. But the beaches will be gone for perhaps centuries, the sand will wash away / get covered in water. Sand does not form in a day. I have seen this in areas of Greece where there were earthquakes decades ago. Not even a hint of a beach remains.
I did not mean to imply that costs would drop by exactly 25%, just that you might not see the hit to your profit margin you would expect due to your costs also decreasing with decreasing revenue.
My point is that if a pilot is determined to murder suicide a whole plane because he's suicidal there is little you can do realistically.
JSON schemas are a thing that exists and can be useful, and `jq` probably covers the 80% of use cases for querying JSON.

XSLT can be an amazing tool when used properly and I've wondered about a JS equivalent over the years and started writing one on a couple of occasions. But JSON is just a data structure and not structured markup, and there's no sweet spot for a transformation tool like XSLT - you're more likely to be doing a "find items in JSON, filter() them, then map()/reduce() to output format" task that takes a minute or two in Node and then never gets used again, or doing a complete map from one domain to another where you'd need to do it in JS because of the complexity of processing and ability to handle errors, use third-party tools and even write tests.

An XQuery-esque language allowing selecting bits of JSON file(s) with filtering, grouping and ordering built-in, combined with a way of projecting results that's no worse than JS allows for i.e. not having to put quotes around everything and the like :)
FWIW there's a lot of variability in academic pretentiousness based on the lab and university.
> be treated like an adult and just stay home for 2 weeks

Ah yes, that thing adults routinely do.
I think they are trying to avoid more clients doing migration to AWS and Azure like there's no tomorrow.
The historical ignorance around Covid and other pandemics, and the way people act as though it was some unprecedented event that justifies the unprecedented reaction, is really stunning.
> What are we doing this for?

No longer high on the list of priorities for politicians, so insufficient benefit for risking being seen as the politician that wants to make life easier (regardless that this is not true) for terrorists.
The alloy of high-carbon steel that is used in many high-end knives will absolutely rust if washed in the dishwasher. Stainless steel knives generally won't rust, of course.
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if it were so profitable maybe some things wouldnt be so bloated
> biased news sources

But it's what the people appear to want.

How are you to tell them that they are wrong?

What is the difference between 'Bias' and editorial/opinion?
> mainly security theater

I have often noticed policies are different at each airport. Combined with the shoe/belt/imaging policies, I believe it's meant to be a form of confusion. As in, any given security policy/process can be studied for weaknesses. When the policies are differing/changing there is a component of surprise the attacker has to account for that can be difficult to game. However, this is all in my head as I try to understand my observations. Hoping it's all being done intentionally, when chances are it's just local level enforcement picking and choosing what ever they want to enforce any given day depending on who is in charge on that shift.
I usually pick three specific markets -- food, housing, and healthcare -- and I want to double-check: You believe that we have scarcities of these things? We certainly have artificial scarcities, but those seem like they were created by humans in order to control humans.
I had been working in a call center for 4 years and had not had any growth whatsoever. I was broke, lost, and felt trapped at my job. I would look at job postings on dice and monster but didn’t have any of the skills mentioned and thought I would have to go to college to get a decent position. I didn’t have the money to go back to school so I tried something else. I e-mailed 30-40 tech companies, asking if they had any internships to get my foot in the door. Two companies replied back. First company was a desktop support position and the second company was a marketing internship at a coding bootcamp. I took the unpaid internship at the bootcamp. I realized I didn’t enjoy marketing right away but stuck with it cause it was better than a call center and I wanted to learn how to code. I ended up becoming friends with some of the engineering instructors and that’s when I was introduced to programming. They told me what to focus on, study, and build. So when I wasn’t at work or the internship, I was reading and building. After a while, I got my first job and been writing code for almost 8 years now.

I can’t lie, I got into it because of money but I ended up enjoying building web apps and solving problems.

Things that I enjoy now are the people. So many cool, smart, and helpful devs out there. The flexibility is really nice.

There wasn’t one book or website. Honestly, reading documentation or learning a concept and just practicing that one thing until you completely understand it helps me. There’s just so many resources online now so I’m sure there’s something for everyone.

Edit: wanted to answer more of OP’s questions.
Memory in general is very capricious, but world-changing, emotional events tend to do that. Before 9/11 the most common one I heard people talking about was JFK's assassination.

For me, it's the Challenger disaster, 9/11, Columbia.
Because it's not about actually fixing the climate. It's about signaling superior holiness. See Turchin's work on elite overproduction.
For me, it was through the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC) robotics competition in high school. I happen to know that London has an active FTC ecosystem, so that might be worth mentioning.
SWE working in financial services here. Have some insight into decision making wrt tech.

> How would this IBM mainframe (or even the ancient vSphere 4.0 on blades) deliver any value over K8s and a cloud?

There value is in mitigating risk. The engineers want the new and shiny toys and for all the right reasons (development velocity, etc), but the managers fear change bc change == risk.

> Because cost-wise that would be the same, yet output-wise it wouldn't nearly deliver the value we would have had before.

Likely, you are right, but the budget committee will exercise some financial gymnastics in order to justify the outcome they want, instead of the budget dictating decision making.

> The only ones that are stuck are specialist cases or 'classic' multinationals.

Wrt banks, they are stuck on cultural inertia and risk mitigation.
This season was one of the best pieces of television (or film) that has ever been produced. It’s so good, and so true, it’s hard to watch.

Resonates with my experience growing up in schools with some kids in real poverty. So many that don’t even know that they are trapped in place that they could get out of, if they had one filament of connection to the outside world.
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The US army is only one of the US armed forces. The US is only one of many countries. Many train soldiers very differently than the US does.
> And of course everybody ignores trains, they don't even look at you...like the 300 souls aboard a train don't matter.

China takes train security as seriously as the aeroplane security. At least for the high speed trains.
So I'm probably a good example of the Guardian's target demographic, and I highly value the study of philosophy and literature and other humanities. I fully believe that going to zero carbon is the next big global challenge.

I still would pause if I was writing an article about students trying to save the world from climate change and used that line, unless I was trying to undermine them.

Maybe I'm just out of touch, or maybe too in touch with the older generation who have been turned into deniers. But having e.g. read academic papers that argue that Africa shouldn't introduce carbon fees, because it would be bad for Africa, from someone employed by a fossil fuel company, my suspicions are raised that this is intentionally inflammatory.
> What are we doing this for?

I think we are doing these mostly useless things in order to signal that as a society we're somewhat careful in order to reassure people. I feel our best security defense is that most people are not terrorists?
Asko, without question. I've had three (in three different houses) and they've always been fantastic. Current one is rebadged as a Viking. I would definitely buy another one. First one I actually removed and reinstalled in another house. That one lasted over 10 years and is probably still running.
Maybe, but in the past no government has had access to the tracking data we are freely allowing them to have to us.

I sound like I'm an anti vax conspiracy theorist, and I don't want to put that across, but there is a strong precedent for abuse of power in every government across the globe. A lot of draconian measures ease when the panic is over, but shadows of them seem to remain in place, at least in the U.S. (again, I can't speak for Australia).

EDIT:

Here's an example of how anti Covid measures are being used to stop protests.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/states-are...

Now, hopefully this will be transparent and end when Covid is over, but that's the question. When is Covid officially over?
I always wonder if it's worth it for me (30yo) to learn a new trade, like the physics to advance battery research, when I now know a ton about computers and could rather be a dev or sysadmin for a company doing battery research. Probably I need to make that decision soon if I want to make it ever.
The too many managers one particularly resonated with me. This seems to be a pretty common pattern...

I wonder if there's any good rule of thumb on when it makes sense to add more managers and when not...
I bet a rack of Apple M1 laptops would be more cost-effective, even considering that you don't need the display.
I've been using https://cuelang.org for any configuration / yaml like generation. This link has a GH search with two discussions that talk about Rego: https://github.com/cue-lang/cue/search?q=rego&type=discussio...

I wrote https://github.com/hofstadter-io/hof to use this concept "at scale", i.e. inputting & outputting multiple files & dirs. The main idea was to generate common code across the stack from a single-source-of-truth. Today it inputs CUE only, which has all the things needed to validate the incoming data and also contains the templates, so `hof gen` takes the same args as `cue export`. It uses diff3 so that you can regenerate the output after modifying the input or the generated content, which is something I needed so that when I fill in the generated API handler func, and then change the design a bit, that I can keep the manual work.
It's not misinformation, it's that were looking at Australia from the outside. If you live in the US, pretty much any and all restrictions have been lifted for daily life. You see that there are still Covid cases and deaths, but they have dwindled in comparison to last year and life is pretty much back to how it was Pre-pandemic.

So it's absolutely insane to see that for the same or less daily Covid cases/deaths, Australia is going into lockdowns and imposing draconian restrictions. That's the disconnect between for many of us. At least in the US, any politician even suggesting such measures nowadays would be politically crucified.
If you were to specify an E2-custom instance from Google with so few resources it would only cost $46/month. So either this slice of a mainframe is 4 times more useful, or it's bullshit.
There have been clear excess deaths (mortality rate increases) from all causes combined during waves. Most evaluations of excess deaths that I've seen conclude that Covid deaths are undercounted not over counted.
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This must be a country-specific thing. Almost all dishwashers in Europe use a cold water feed only, so running the hot tap won’t make any difference.

(Source: bought a new one a couple of years ago! I assumed a hot water feed would be more efficient, but very few models had it and they weren’t necessarily cheaper to run. Thinking about it, an electric heater inside the washer that heats exactly the amount needed is going to be way more efficient than getting hot water at a random temperature from a gas combi boiler.)
Yeah, totally feel your pain. I like my car but hate being dependent on it. Definitely looking into walkability/walk score next time I move.

Incidentally I have been looking for a google maps style "walkability" color coded map.
Unlike many here, I never had a computer when I was young. I knew what it was, but had no interested in it. I enjoy sports, handcraft more than video games.

Went to college for EE/ME program, found out I hated the program, but too many Math & Science credits to do another degree from scratch. CS degree was a natural fit. Decades later, I'm still in the business.

Got my first job by applying to a bunch of companies at job fair.

I don't love or hate my job, but I do enjoy it and appreciate it. It allows me to make a good living and support my family, etc.. Most of my work are creative, I generally balk against repetitive work (so no reports, or ops work for me).

I'm lucky in a sense that in my career, I usually get interesting work/projects. If I had to deal with what some of my friends and colleagues deal with, I would seriously consider leaving the business.
All fair, but the USA is so large it basically HAS to be a car based society. Have room, so we use it.

I think smaller mixed use neighborhoods would be great, but there’s literally no way to get there because it seems people don’t want to live on top of each other in biking distance unless they have to.

No scenario are you not shipping broccoli all over the world. Redesigning society seems to only prevent the last mile wastes.

Interesting point that EVs reinforce this.
Keep the drives and sell the hardware on ebay? They command a pretty good price still.
There's an interesting viewpoint that comes through in these comments that seems to imply that the policy and regulatory side of climate isn't "doing", and that engineering or science roles would be more beneficial to make tangible progress. I'd like to challenge that view -- it's my belief that at this point climate is really no longer mainly an engineering or science problem. If we allocated our money and effort correctly, we could tackle a huge part of the problem NOW, with current technology. And this lack of will is ultimately a policy and regulatory problem at heart.

This isn't to say there aren't many engineering challenges or potential engineering solutions. But for the most part I see those as only being necessary if the desire to fix things stays at its (very low) current level.
I think the argument made is regarding tracking. If I understand this architecture correctly, the use of a proxy would mean reddit can't correlate your browsing habits, as they'll be correlating all browsing habits of people using the proxy.
After fighting the move to Jira/Confluence for years, my company finally migrated away from Notion & Clubhouse. I couldn't be happier. Notion was great when we were <5 people, but it feels like a toy compared to Confluence.
Different situation, same behaviour - the trampling of individuals for political gain.

BTW, even the historical example of Russian "and you lynch blacks" to the US in response to human-right criticism is relevant, as exemplified by the export of BLM as a general civil rights movement. The US/UK should still be able to criticise China, but without pretending to be a laudable moral example.
There's Terrapower, which seems like a pretty interesting place to work and a lot of worthwhile technologies. I'd probably go work there myself if I were open to the location.
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They are important in the they maintain safe workplaces and enforce say... wastewater treatment standards.

So in that sense they are important. However, given the trends in climate change, these jobs don't do much to change the trajectory of climate change.

I guess saying they aren't fulfilling is more a personal judgement, but I thought it was boring work.
I think this is dangerous to use for many of the use cases that it would appear useful for, especially for any form of backups. By design, it protects the confidentiality of encrypted files but not the integrity, and in almost every real threat model this is a serious flaw. The authors are not interested in changing this (they have closed various issues asking for it and clearly documented their position) so you should probably not use it unless you understand the issues well enough to be confident that is safe for you or can solve the problem using a second tool for signing (which will also cost you streaming).

I am not any kind of expert in this field, so you are not obligated to listen to me... but I am still right.
That is amazing reasoning. Assuming drunken brawls were a problem, instead of banning alcohol, the solution was the current TSA protocol.
I disagree with their premise.

Humanity has NEVER stopped the propagation of a disease which is airborne, mutates rapidly, and is well-adjusted to human physiology.

SARS wasn't well adapted and not particularly airborne which is why it was reined in. MERS was better adapted and cases STILL pop up NINE YEARS LATER. We mostly stopped mumps, but it didn't mutate rapidly, so it was stopped dead by the vaccine (though there's still 100-200 cases per year in the US alone).

COVID is super-well adapted to infect humans, has changed to mutate around the vaccines, and is very airborne. This alone meant we probably weren't stopping it.

Adding to the problem, they wouldn't admit any airborne transmission until it had been transmitting for MONTHS. This fact in particular is why there was zero chance they were stopping this once it started.
In a related note, I think climate change is such a huge benefit to politicians. They no longer need to prepare for environmental disasters! Everything can be blamed on climate change. A flood happens and you cut the budget so the levees broke? Not my fault -- climate change! Piss-poor forest management leads to wildfires? Not my fault -- climate change! It's the easiest escape hatch ever.
>Rather have the country focus on a mass vaccination drive

Which is a bit difficult in a lot of places due to international demand.

>than trying to do a full China style lockdown.

Tbh the seemingly extreme chinese lockdown ended with them having less overall restriction in the long run from what i've seen.
it's too late to try that here now but i probably would have preferred it.
People are much less impacted by severe limitation on international travel than a severe limitation on social and personal life.
> instead of filling up one sink for washing and one for rinsing?

Most people I know have one sink. Two sinks were found in rich peoples homes.

Personally I really want one of those big commercial sink faucets that's a flexible shower head suspended by a spring BUT turned on by a momentary foot pedal instead of a squeeze valve on the head. The you have both hands free to rinse and scrub while your foot operates the faucet.
You can have a "climate career" doing pretty much any job you would like.

You can be an IT, a dev, a mechanical engineer, an accountant in a startup working on carbon removal [1], you can be a chemist researching new ways of producing cement with less CO2 impact [2], a farmer specializing in multistrata agroforestry [3], a technician installing solar panels etc.

[1]: https://carbonengineering.com/careers/

[2]: https://drawdown.org/solutions/alternative-cement

[3]: https://drawdown.org/solutions/multistrata-agroforestry
Ok then what's the target? Eradication of the virus is not achievable and neither is full vaccination of the entire population. I have yet to hear any hard numbers for removal of "safety" measures from any politician when enacting lockdowns/mandates.

I think you're fooling yourself if you believe there's some hard target.