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Ending economic growth is the last thing we need to do, and even if we did, we would fail. This should be obvious on a forum for entrepeneurs, who work to achieve only one thing - economic growth.

What we need to do is to ruthlessly tax externalities that haven’t effectively been considered before, and use the proceeds to transition to an economy with net zero climate gas emissions. Then repay the damage with large-scale CO2 sequestering, multi-gigaton scale.

If economic growth is considered everything we value getting cheaper and more abundant over time, anthropogenic climate gas emissions can be considered a horrendous debt that needs to be repaid. This is achievable! It’s expensive, but doesn’t require a 1950s lifestyle for everyone.
Good move by notion
Nothing in the current capitalist system stops the creation of worker cooperatives. If they are the superior solution what is holding them back? The major critique of worker cooperatives that I have heard is that they are inflexible. They have a large incentive not to change because change would disrupt the jobs of the people who make up the cooperative.
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what prohibits them from quarantining at home in the first place? Is there a difference between not leaving my room for 2 weeks (except to use the bathroom) and staying in a hotel for 2 weeks?
Related: the 'extreme dishwasher loading' facebook group

I learned there you can run your fridge shelves through to get them nice and clean.

Also, engine parts :)
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And as Thomas Sowell said, "The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling."
> Is Bolivar not a currency then?

It doesn't meet the requirements of a good currency. There is hyper inflation and they have redenominated it a few times now and are planning on doing it again.

Is a boat with a huge hole in its hull a good boat? Technically it is probably a boat, but it isn't what one would consider a good and desirable boat and it doesn't allow one to do what one can usually do with boats.

This is the same with BTC. You can call it a currency, but if you use it as a currency it doesn't currently exhibit the properties that one wants from a currency.
Your question is begging the question.

How do you know the person cleaning the toilets doesn't have the potential to be a better manager/developer than you?
CCP recently published a list of demands of the US which shows what they care about.. and getting travel visas and lifting financial bans for their elite was like number 1.
So I'd hardly argue that's the best interest of their country really...

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3142757/ch...
Completely agreed but this is also one of the fields I've heard "that's not my job description" the most in.

Everyone decries the evils of context switching, meetings, interruptions when my headphones are on, etc. People come to this field because they don't like doing people-centric tasks, but people-centric tasks are at the heart of any organization -- especially one operating as a collective.
After RWA snub, EV owner hauls e-scooter to 5th floor kitchen for charging
...capital forces worse than what you already have...

This sounds interesting, if a bit frightening. Could you describe these? What new innovations do the even worse capitalists have planned for us?
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Weird to compare Occupy Wall Street activists to flat-Earthers and climate change deniers in the opening.

If you've heard this guy's name before, it's probably from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievance_studies_affair
>When it's beneficial to claim they're a town square of sorts then suddenly they're a town square.

When did Twitter ever claim to be a "Town Square?" Furthermore, when would it benefit them to claim that?
you forgot number 4, be treated like an adult and just stay home for 2 weeks and not have the government check to see if you're at home like you're on house arrest while not having committed a crime
Do you have the option of just paying for one gym session? Most of the gyms near me have yearly/monthly subscriptions as well as allowing you to pay for a single gym session
The university system has turned into some combination of a credentialing racket, an indoctrination camp, and a country club. The sooner the whole thing collapses under its own weight the better.
How exactly is the SEC "bought and paid for by the banks"?
Except for the SEO issues, everything else sounds like modern web stuff.
Well, true and false are practically unusable concepts outside of (and sometimes even in) courts.

My use of (il-)legitimate ties to the legal framework, which means I don't need to take a normative (=subjective) position - I'm only describing the state of the rules and the mechanisms at play.

You can also use economic terms if you want: Illegitimate manipulation of public opinion doesn't pay (the platforms), advertisements as legitimate manipulation of public opinion pays (the platforms).
In a normal photo, after a resolution change and a lossy compression, you still have the photo.

If you encode some binary data in a fake photo, after a resolution change and a lossy compression, you will only get garbage.
In many universities in eastern europe, Philosophy and Logic is a required subject regardless of your major (and so was some form of PE). At least it was when I briefly studied there a decade ago. I think its great but it requires you not to look at university education as a product sold in exchange for better shot at jobs, but as a form of bettering yourself. This goes very much against how western universities are run (where I also studied).
It would already have a significant impact if people stopped (most likely against their own will) buying anything they don't really need. Brainless consumerism, buying material stuff simply because it makes you feel good for a while should be stopped through global government intervention.

The amount of clothes, electronics, food and such that gets wasted is just enormous on our societies. Only places in the world where people live somewhat ecologically are those where they simply can't afford such waste. So, IMO everything that isn't a basic necessity should be made much more expensive to force people rethink their consumption habits.
I'm not so sure that's why there's less co-ops. It could just be that they have a harder time getting capital. Which makes sense, because they don't prioritize investors like traditional companies.
Billing is very tricky from the metering to the final PDF bill which includes taxes, promotions and whatnot. So this is hard if you want to put limits on a certain dollar amount. You could also put hard stops on resource usage (say, no more than 500 CPU/hr/month)
Alan Sokal is well known for the Sokal Affair, which happened in the 90s, they copied the methodology. The media called it "Sokal Squared", which is a dumb name.
Idaho allows Covid-slammed hospitals to ration care for first time ever
The full photo stream is amazing. I recommend checking it out: https://www.flickr.com/photos/thom_astro/page1
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> many borrowers do not care about the coins they put up as collateral.

Oh, you can use "shitcoin" X as collateral for a loan in "stablecoin" Y? Can the borrower then selectively default if the X/Y exchange rate moves in their favor? In which case this is just a funny-looking option.

> holders of paper gains exiting with debt to avoid taxable events

A similar scheme was used to evade income tax in the UK with "loan forgiveness" for a while, but was ruled unlawful. I suppose the more crypto steps you put in the harder it is to trace.
The fact that they haven't strung up the puppy killers in Bourke Shire says a lot about Australia's COVID mania.
GlassDoor is like asking your grandma.

levels.fyi is widely known to be accurate.
Apple designs the machines that build iPhones.

I am almost certain they have moving parts.
> Why would I care if an app looks the same on Windows, macOS and Linux when I'm not using all those OSes at the same time ?

Sometimes you do switch, and having everything be the same in your editor is nice. I normally work in linux on a desktop and have a windows machine due to corporate policy. Because of COVID, I started working from home on my laptop and VNC'ed into my linux machine to do work. It worked fine until my ISP decided to be shit, so out of frustration I just switched to developing on windows. Since I was using IntelliJ, I just exported my settings from Linux, imported to windows and everything just worked and looked the same.

In theory, I kind of agree with you. But in practice, having a consistent experience across all OS'es is nice. The ship has sailed anyway, nothing looks consistent across different applications on the same platform anyway. Might as well have applications be consistent across different platforms instead.
> Border controls in Australia, are widely popular.

the Nazi treatment of Jews was also widely popular among the Germans at that time.
I don’t know if I want my dishwasher coated with automotive chemicals. But I’ve thought about having a second one in the garage for parts cleaning before sand blasting
Bruh here in Europe there's a thing called welfare state. The gov can pay poor people to compensate.
‘ but since that is inherent to capitalism it can still be said to be part of capitalism without any restraint.’

It certainly seems like your assigning 100% of it.
> the capital is not in theory at risk

The capital is in theory at risk. The DeFi protocol could get hacked. Coinbase could get hacked. Coinbase could steal your money. Coinbase could go bankrupt.

The fact that their marketing leads reasonable people like you to compare Lend to a savings account with no risk, even in theory, is the choking canary of the mess.
Summer and Technical students (or basically anyone with a CERN account) already have access to much more detailed maps, if they care to search around CERN's GIS portal a bit.

Additionally, those who know the right people can get a paper version of the galleries map with all the interesting spots (unlocked entrances, light switches and spots like "zombie cages" or "connor's death") marked.
Deposit insurance kicks in only after the bank has failed, and cannot be used to realise a profit. At least in the real world.
https://reddit.com/.json from an incognito window shows me the exact same posts in the same order as libreddit.
Previously (2020): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782980
The cleaning company or building maintenance you contract. Ideally it would be a company that is also a co-op, but sometimes this isn't possible.

Being a co-op doesn't mean you have to cut yourself off from the outside world.
> They'll eventually come for you too no matter how much you generally agree with them.

Reminds of the Maoism movement in European universities (such as in France) a few decades ago, where people critical of Mao were harassed and treated as fascists. With some universities would make Maoism a de-facto precondition to be accepted as researcher.

This seems to share the same mechanism: very few righteous people having no longer any morale compass due to ideology, and cowardliness of the rest of the herd (including the administration) that refuse to stand for reason and logic.
Is it a harsh truth? It's harsh, that's for sure. It strikes me as unbelievably illiberal and puritanical to suggest that it should be illegal to create content for children which (the speaker considers) is unedifying.

I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like some of these attitudes which are considered progressive nowadays would have made Mary Whitehouse blush. What happened to insisting on a free and pluralistic society?
Some Minecraft mods add items that force the game to keep certain chunks loaded. From the casual "Can't you just" I assume the parent meant those. It is however also possible, but much more complicated, to force the game to keep chunks loaded in Vanilla Minecraft. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx5Wd28AKxQ (the video is a couple years old so the current implementation might be different, but I think the basic principles are still the same).
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Yep. That's why you were downvoted.
Should we be looking forward to a "Mozilla Misinformation Registry" and a web browser that will only show us clean sites?
TikTok is ruining kids brains same way as rock’n’roll did in 50s, MTV did in 90s, and video games did in 2000s
a blackout law keeps an enemy bomber from dropping a bomb on my house. IMO, if you say to a rational person "keep your blinds down or else the nazi's will drop a bomb on your house" they'll say "gee that sounds like a good idea."
While in modern times, if you say "shut down the economy, increase alcoholism, suicides, mental health issues, homelessness, poverty, and inflation to defeat a virus with over a 99% recovery rate that really only effects old and unhealthy people" a rational person would raise their eye brow and say "that sounds suspicious and a great way to cover the fact that the last 12 years of money printing is about to implode"
> So hopefully there's a space in-between: is it still legitimate (or legal) for me as an individual to influence people, or does that count as disinformation? Is it because I don't possess a codex?

Of course, the laws and norms governing individuals are different from the laws and norms governing institutions, companies, parties etc.

> "Society" was actually never asked. In liberal democracies, you don't have to ask permission to publish something. Anyone is allowed to do it.

Right, let me be more precise: Society, through its existing mechanisms of decision-making, decided to draft and ratify laws that ...

> Goodness, can you really be talking about "mainstream" media? I don't see anyone holding them to any standard.

Well, the US model is that of the "marketplace of opinions", so the assumption is that there is mutual holding accountable. But you can also count the times that citizens and politicians critique "the media", and I'd say there is pretty much holding accountable going on! :)
It would be so crazy to discover another planet in the solar system after all these years... space is vast and dark.
> I think it's distracting

I'm confused why the thread got so much upvotes, and a lot of comments made me more confused. Not trying to be rude, but I don't really understand the usefulness ..
I guess its bootstraps for dinner again, boys!
Occupy Wall Street had various efforts to levitate buildings using mental powers.
Planting gardens is fine, but operating life-supporting equipment? I for one have no idea how to do dentistry for example, let alone complicated heart surgery or semiconductor manufacturing. (or solar panel manufacturing for that matter)

I don't particularly trust entrenched interests either, but they still seem better than the alternative. Imagine if the hospital electrical and oxygen grids were made and operated by the electric equivalent of script kiddies who are proud it hasn't fallen over in over 3 days now! Not to mention citywide sewage installations and whatnot.
What is a serverless server?
Do they have to? HN always talks about alternatives in every article. It's a bit of perspective on what another Git forge is doing in case people were curious. I've been both upvoted and downvoted for the comment so someone found it interesting.
I think thinking of code reviews along a scale might be beneficial here, if the two ends of that scale are "code review" and "feature review". A new hire, intern or any competent developer can look at some code, irrespective of context, and conduct a decent "code review", spotting problems in the code and aesthetic issues like you mentioned (spacing, misspelling etc).

A long time hire with experience on the code base would conduct more of a "feature review". Does the code address the problem or feature correctly? Is the code adhering to feature requirements? These are things that are answered towards the "feature review" of this code reviewing scale.

The thing is that code reviews are defined as a single action that encompasses that entire scale, making it so that regardless of experience or knowledge of the codebase, reviews by any developer is given the 'ok' once all issues have been resolved.

And this entire thing only applies to code reviews within organizations. Outside of those its even more of a wild west.
> I have Tutanota to be quite reliable end to end encryption and no ip logging.

They will do IP logging if they receive relevant court requests.

> Also provides ability to send encrypted mail with pre shared passwords. Good client apps too.

The only client app you can use is Tutanota's client/web browser.

Last I used it you couldn't export a whole mailbox (only individual mails and directories), you couldn't have folders more than 1 level deep, and you couldn't import email.

You also can't encrypt emails to Tutanota users without using a temporary mailbox on their server. They could very easily disable encryption to particular users.

You can't use third party clients (thunderbird, mutt mail.app etc), and if you're used to those it's a no-go.

People always question whether or not ProtonMail could give you dodgy js that exfiltrates your password/private keys, the same goes for Tutanota, but in the case of Tutanota, you have no option to use a mail client, ie code not written by them.
Your implied claim is that you can set up a system to offer interest bearing accounts, and not be subject to any sort of regulation.

This is false.

Either you are something like a bank or an insurance company that has its own regulation, or you are regulated by the SEC.

You can't just magically say, "I'm a not a thing at all, you can't regulate me!"

This is the "sovereign citizen" argument applied to the SEC.
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I suppose they could also just sell the electricity futures first, then build the plant, then buy gas as needed. That'd put them at risk of gas prices fluctuating though, might turn off investors.

I assume a random person can't just sell 10 years of electricity futures without some kind of collateral.
>> that the funding and management processes that produced the JWST might learn from past mistakes and evolve toward more efficient use of time and money?

Nope. This is a generational project. At all levels, but more so at the top, the people involved have spent significant blocks of their working lives on this project. Many have begun and ended decade-spanning carriers totally within this one program. It has taken so long that few will be around to contribute to the next. The institutional knowledge will have all retired or moved on by the time we are ready to fund the next epic telescope.

This problem has parallels other programs such as the F-35. Nobody lives/works long enough to see the project from beginning to end. Everyone at the start moves on/up/out. Those present at the end joined in the middle after major decisions were already set in stone. Priorities shift. Deadlines measured in decades start to seem unreal. Everything slips into bloat and delay because so few expect to still be around on D-day. It's a problem with no good solution.
> The original sin is the lack of will to make the Webb nuclear powered.

There is a broader point about space exploration in general here. The science that can be delivered by nuclear powered probes is well beyond that of solar ones. Higher instrument power, better comms, longer life, more predictable power supply. It's just better. There's one place in America that makes the plutonium for RTGs.

Plutonium is the ideal RTG fuel from an engineering point of view. But controlling and securing it jacks up the costs. What we need is lots of research into less-politically-fraught fuels. Americium is looking really promising.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_...
TikTok isn't usually cinematic, it's closer to a video call, which is better vertically because people are vertical.
Is it not possible that downloading every such song from IA would have had higher bandwidth usage than all of this service's streaming so far?
I'm not sure what you mean by whether consciousness "really exists". Clearly you have a subjective experience... How is that not consciousness?

Or are you saying that consciousness is an emergent property of matter arranged in certain ways (i.e. your brain) and has no existence separate from that?

Completely agree free will is a separate argument, and that it doesn't exist.
"Tiktok or working down the mine" is a terrible false dichotomy.
I think you are right in many respects. I would not consider myself one of the accused luddites, but in their defense, this ethos isn't baseless.

First and foremost, the luddites you speak of are programmers or sys admins. They have been using terminals and are still using terminals daily, and they see the benefits that those tools have to offer. Namely, they see composable, interoperable programs that abide by the philosophy that programs "should do one thing well" as the bench mark for real progress. I would say I agree with the merits of this perspective. But I still use VSCode in addition to vim, because I'm not a zealot and there are times when I want to edit something in a very flexible way that VS Code better facilitates.

Both ways of doing things have their merits I suppose. It just hurts a bit to see something simple and powerful be wrapped and rewrapped in progressively less helpful proprietary systems and given a JS front end that lacks all of the focus and freedom that charmed us with the systems to begin with.
> securities maturing in less than 270 days being completely exempt from the act

This is false. Commercial paper (not any security) maturing in less than 270 days is exempt from registration. (Like shares in private companies.)

The other provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, still apply.
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Glad someone finished this. I got 90% of the way there using a lambda to find spot instances but got too busy to finish.
They are more often than not the same people. An example off the top of my head:

Florida governor signs bill barring social media companies from blocking political candidates - May 24, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/05/24/florida...

[Florida governor] applauds fired whistleblower’s Twitter suspension, the latest in an ongoing feud - June 7, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/07/rebekah-j...
Theyre a public company (regulated by the SEC), offering SEC-regulated services. Of course they notified the SEC. The twitter thread that got merged with this thread was pretty clear about it: they notified the SEC, but they also notified other regulatory bodies and had the full expectation that the lending accounts would be regulated by another entity because they are not securities.
My wife sweats how things get loaded in the dishwasher.

My opinion is that provided stuff comes out clean, the proper way to load the dishwasher is up to the person who took the time to do it for everyone in the house.

Is it done? Then it was done properly.
And lo, just 13 days on, there's (yet another) story on HN [1] about Steve Jobs being an arsehole.

"Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs"

The article paints Jobs, in much more detail than the byline above, as an extremely toxic personality.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28422777
The segregationists who set up the Jim Crow laws were Democrats. Gov. George Wallace was a Democrat.
You're right. Developing nations need a different mindset than developed nations and have every right for it to be so.
Alec is a truly amazing obsessed individual, I love his videos. His recent adventures into how oil fueled lamps is tremendous, no detail left behind.