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It was something that came up in many user interviews. After launching it though, there has been lower interest towards it than expected.
>I do remember when news media outlets owned by the very wealthy claimed the French wealth tax failed because Gerard Depardieu left.

Why are you listening to news media outlets? You just have to look at the reality of the situation. Wealth taxes failed. They had consequences that outweighed the benefits.

>A simple example of what?

A "simple" tax that had popular support and planning but failed miserably.

If you want an example of a wealth tax that didn't work, just throw a dart at Europe and google when it was repealed in that country.

>This was not a wealth tax it was a transaction tax on securities.

Sure. Its comically the same exact tax (down to the %) that Bernie Sanders (a serious politician) is proposing though... but I suppose we're getting a bit off topic with that one.
Most importantly, we have no information advantage in adjudicating this matter. We can only wait for further news from Google or the employee.
BeOS and Haiku OS would give your latency claims a run for its money. The node based architecture allows piping and chaining as well. Disclaimer - I wrote a media (audio/video) editor for Haiku.
Brilliant!

On a different note - GOV.UK in my opinion is one of the most well-designed, practical, and useful public/government sites on the planet.

The rest of the countries needs to take a note on how to design government sites/services
>But instead it seems as if disinformation is spinning current events to change perception about the Executive's new policy. Sadly, even after it's fact-checked - people won't remember the fact that it was bogus nor will they count it as a strike against the source that reported it.

What might help us remember is to name and shame the people responsible. Ted Cruz claimed to have heard this from multiple people including the leader of the union who you quoted denying it.
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> with no backup required.

Not true.

> The kWh costs 30 cents in Germany, but 15 cents in France.

International comparisons are useless without comparison of pricing structure. That includes for example the tax regime, fees mandated, etc.
Apple the corporation religiously and sometimes aggressively portray themselves as virtuous, safe, and honest, but this behaviour suggests those qualities are marketing tools.
I wish we would stop talking about science as a singular authority. Science is what you get if you follow the scientific method.

The scientific method is practiced by imperfect people with biases and external motivators. That is why thorough peer review is required (and sadly lacking).
Way more than a dollar. If you really want to cost a company a pretty penny, click on the ad after searching for an "intent" to do something rather than the exact brand. Some of those Adwords cost many tens of dollars.
Would a world where we took initiative to reduce civilian air travel in preference of trains and boats also lead to the military no longer producing fighter jets?
An exchange has 1000 BTC in deposits and holds 100% of the deposits as reserves. The exchange makes a loan for 500 BTC. The 500 BTC come from the reserves. Now somebody has 500 BTC. The depositors still have 1000 BTC, except that the deposits are now backed by 500 BTC, instead of 1000 BTC (hence the name "fractional reserve"). The supply of bitcoins has gone up by 500 BTC.
Anti-trust is meant to protect competition against monopolies, not everything against anything evil. At least that's how I've understood it.

It'd be hard to argue that Kape is even close to becoming a monopoly.
Why is nuclear considered in contrast to solar and wind? Nuclear energy will allow humanity to move off of petrochemical energy sources much more quickly and given the looming ecological catastrophe the costs of nuclear energy are very reasonable.
At $40/MWh, you just triple it down and still come out ahead.

I doubt that article is correct.
Master grandstander, playing to the gallery.

You aren't even the person I originally replied to.

You went straight for an ad-hominem ("snowflake", "selfish", "jerk")

Troll, nothing more. Just pure troll :-)
Because things that existed 40 years ago are useful, already have software written for it, are compatible in sometimes unforeseen ways (a DEC dot-matrix graph can be printed as is on a Sixel-compatible terminal!) and have been battle tested for ages.

There is a reason the Unix way of bytestream-based shell and pipes is still useful and present these days to the point that That Other OS is now embedding Linux in it.

Also, these ancient terminals often had some interesting typography options that are encoded in the ANSI standard that most modern terminals don't bother (line attributes that generate wider and taller cells are one such example).

These formats may be more desirable than more modern and complete ones such as PostScript for other reasons. I wouldn't advise implementing a terminal capable of rendering PostScript graphics because it's one more way to infiltrate malware in your computer by rendering untrusted inputs (There are a lot of RCE opportunities in exploiting vulnerable decoders).
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The costs of the status quo are also beared upon by us and future generations. Instead of the waste product being contained in a controlled environment, it is dispersed into the atmosphere and breathed in by millions of Germans, where it will continue to warm the world for future generations to attempt to right our wrongs before its too late. Even if emissions stopped globally today, temperatures would continue to rise due to greenhouse effect just from what is already present in the atmosphere. I fear for a world where climate change advances faster than our ability to adapt our foodstocks to it, that world is not as far away as you might think, especially with the left's resistance toward species saving technologies such as nuclear power and genetically modified organisms.
> A hundered thousand years of safe storage is not part of the calculation of the energy price.

It's completely unnecessary to do that. So many people have this misconception.

If you combine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor you burn up everything, leaving very little waste.
Your response is omitting some serious caveats such that you have totally twisted the argument.

First of all the reason people are staying home thanks to pandemic unemployment is due to the fact that they were being paid so poorly before with no hope of career advancement that the meager 600$ a week was a leg up. Now that people have gotten a taste of what it feels like to not be constantly treading water, they are not going back to those low paying jobs. This is something the government should have gotten ahead of years ago in the sense of raising minimum wages and adding benefits but have constantly been blocked by anti-government forces. The minimum wage should be close to 23$ today yet we can't even have a discussion on 15$.

Luckily the people are starting to wake up. While government aid has ended in many states people are still not going back to work. There are numerous strikes that are beginning right now or are about to begin and I think this will continue for the foreseeable future. All of this is a response to people who think like you and have been at the reigns for decades.

>We let pretty much everyone in that wants to go and will give them money to do so...that is a terrible way to run the system.

You mean give them loans that are not dischargeable in bankruptcy very different from Europe. Furthermore you point on letting everyone in is 100% false. Are you an American? Its starting to sound like you are not. For example my alma mater which is a third tier technical school has only a ~50% admission rate. Many colleges are less than that. Also consider that only ~30% (going on 40% thanks to the pandemic) of Americans have a Bachelors degree or higher. This system is restricted by who can afford to go or who is willing to bear the burden of years of loans.
> The Belarusian directorate for fighting organised crime said in a statement that "subscribers to extremist Telegram channels and chats will be held criminally liable ... as members of an extremist group."

Of course, the nifty thing about this, from the perspective of a government in existential panic mode, is how easy it is to label a group as "extremist."

Want to stage a terrorist action? Extremist! Want to change the government? Extremist! Want to hold a demonstration that could draw a million angry people into the streets? Extremist! Want to complain about the ineptitude and moral decay of your elected officials? Extremist! Want to post some thoughts about current events to a news discussion site? Extremist!
As an european this feel very US-centristic to me. "Green new deal" is something in the US right?

When I visited the states, I was kind of shocked how bad the public transport system was. It's hard to be a tourist in a city like LA for example.

It also feels like it gotta suck to be in that traffic every day which I am sure many are. So many cities seems completely built to for everyone to have a car. There is no walking distance anywhere.

Ofc I rented a carto travel around since there was no other option available. While I really enjoyed the large straight roads of the US it just amazed me that there was so bad sidewalks, little to no bicycle paths and bad public transportation systems.

What I don't get is how the US will ever get to zero emissions. I have a hard time believing that
People respond to incentives, and "fast-to-react" is easier to measure than "wisely proactive" in at least two ways. First, the risk is no longer theoretical; the damage was measured. Second, the fix is easy to measure: spend $X dollars on Y firm on date Z. This is all nice, easy to understand evidence of a manager doing their job.

Alternatively, you have staff pointing out a possible flaw. That staff's time was already allocated; their noticing a flaw is a) taking time away from their allocation, and b) tacitly critical of decisions made above their pay grade. And even if they are right, the manager won't get credit for prevention, and in fact will get punished for "wasting" resources in an ad hoc way, rather than what they were acquired for.

It is depressing in the extreme to work for such an organization, and you were right to quit, because over time these perverse incentives will start to shape you whether you like it or not. The very idea of owning your work, of caring about real-world outcomes, becomes anathema as a matter of survival. You have to exist, along with your org, in a checking-the-boxes, don't-notice-what-you-aren't-paid-to-notice, mode. It's safe and comfortable for the body; it is deadly to the soul.
That's overlooking the order of events - first the decision was made to invade Iraq, then the WMD claim was invented, then the public was convinced of the claim, and then Iraq was invaded. If you only consider the last two steps, then it would look like the second to last event was first. Sadly, public demand was a consequence, not a cause.
> The AIRS has 19,000 parts. In 1989 a single accelerometer used in the AIRS (there are three) cost $300,000 and took six months to manufacture.

What it would cost to build an equivalent-performance accelerometer today?
As an european this feel very US-centristic to me. "Green new deal" is something in the US right?

When I visited the states, I was kind of shocked how bad the public transport system was. It's hard to be a tourist in a city like LA for example.

It also feels like it gotta suck to be in that traffic every day which I am sure many are. So many cities seems completely built to for everyone to have a car. There is no walking distance anywhere.

Ofc I rented a carto travel around since there was no other option available. While I really enjoyed the large straight roads of the US it just amazed me that there was so bad sidewalks, little to no bicycle paths and bad public transportation systems.

What I don't get is how the US will ever get to zero emissions. I have a hard time believing that when there is literally no other option than using a car.
> It's sad, is what it is.

With graphics being everywhere in 2021, I wouldn't call this situation "sad," I'd think a lot more critically about why.

To start with, fixed-width text is significantly easier to work with than graphics.

Nothing's stopping anyone from writing a CI tool that outputs to HTML with embedded images. The bigger question is why it's uncommon.
Voting for Democrats also does pretty much nothing evident from the current stalemate on the 3.5T plan.
Where I live, which is admittedly not Germany, nighttime sometimes exceeds 4 months..I don't think solar is gonna get me through the winter!

Oh and with temperatures well below 0, I need to heat my house somehow!
If you'll forgive me for latching onto one piece of information here:

> and no other airline is impacted

Yeah, so... why is that? Other airlines have similar mandates. Is Southwest just uniquely anti-mandate? Did they have a particularly large population of pilots who weren't vaccinated before the mandate even took effect?

If anything, I'd say that the uniqueness of Southwest's problems is evidence against a sick-out and points to a problem in Southwest's business model or logistics.
Russia and China score extremely well, and the US is the second worst?

Is it fine when the ruling class can get away with moving money?

Who funded this?
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy"

An OS facilitates communication between programs running on a computer. Unix lets those programs communicate by sending characters of text to each other. You could just as easily imagine an OS that lets them communicate by sending images, audio/video, 3d models, etc. An OS can be way more than what you think it is. To detox your brain from this unix worldview, spend some time in a VM and play around with amigaOS or opengenera. Those were actual coherent OSes with an actual view of what a computer should be and how it should behave. Unix isn't.

> reimagining of the whole standard application package which seems a much larger project than "merely" an OS.

By OS, I don't mean kernel. I mean the base set of software that lets you interact with your computer and do interesting stuff with it.
> Perhaps this LAX -> SJC flight happens to pass through Florida too?

The route, no. The aircraft, very possibly. An aircraft that flew from MIA to LAX last night might be the one intended to fly the LAX to SJC flight today. The flight crew aren't glued to the plane.
Yes, when you're doing general brand terms that's true, but when you have a specific product in mind that's no longer the case.
Not specifically. I regret not job hopping to increase money.
Can't a nuclear energy plant run continuously? (Genuinely asking.)
There is always a way but never enough political and actual capital to do this. You could build your own airports, buy other airlines but you run the risk of losing the spot if you don't actually use it.

The cost would be so high tickets could double if it was even possible.
Reading the comments I think it’s important to not read too much into the exact number on the clock. It’s similar to how nothing really happens on your exact birthday. Instead see it as a discussion starter and way to highlight the issue for more people. The clock does provoke a bit, which is good in this case.
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If we go beyond ASCII, Unicode specifies 2x2 mosaics since ever (they were present in DEC terminals) and 2x3 mosaics (from Teletext and the TRS-80) since version 13. Some more enlightened terminals (such as VTE) implement those symbols without the need of font support.

Or you can use Braille to get 2x4 mosaics, but they usually look terrible.
> Propaganda can't tell you why you're poor if you're not poor.

Not true. You'd be surprised how many kids in comfortable middle class families think they are poor because they aren't living the luxury jetset lifestyle they see promoted by influencers on instagram.
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It's only helpful if it's actionable. I don't have anything actionable.
By that logic, we need to start killing people immediately, because not doing that means we will have our success taken away by someone who does.

Is that perhaps a non sequitur?
Please take a look at HN Guidelines, especially:

"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Perhaps, but wind power also tends to peak at night.
Too bad it says fixed location. This would be great for my parents that want to have unlimited internet while driving in an RV.
You might be mistaken if you think that there are just easy, safe places to bike for pleasure let alone as a principle form of transportation in most parts of the country. I live in a place now where it isn't perfect, but where I grew up (and had little agency to affect my locale!) it just didn't exist.
Meh. While Shellenberger is spot on on a lot of topics (I also have an issue with short-sighted, technology averse degrowthers who prioritize the impact on local birds over supporting building permits for battery car factories, wind farms and nuclear), only the tiny minority of his intellectual readers will actually get the subtlety of his point.

All the urban tank drivers will just take from books and titles like this that even respected climate scientists and environmental activists say it's all just not so bad...
To risk oversimplifying: the really harmful stuff has very short half-lives, and the stuff with long half-lives isn't especially harmful.
I was talking about this with my wife just today. The minimum wage is ticking up, not as a result of legislation, but because there's real competition for workers now. Very positive thing.
My 486 (nominally 40MHz) had one of those jumper blocks, and it was right near the front corner of the motherboard. Right behind the floppy-drive opening in the case, which had the drives mounted in these little removable sleds. And I didn't use my floppy drive much, and besides, the floppy cable didn't seem to mind being hot-plugged as long as you weren't accessing the disk at the time and unplugged the power connector first.

So during a long download, I didn't need all 40 MHz screaming along (and heating up the chip to the point that it needed a cooling fan -- a COOLING FAN, can you imagine a CPU running so fast it couldn't cool itself on ambient air?), so I decided to see if the clock generator jumpers were hot-pluggable.

Lo and behold, they were! I could reach in and seamlessly downclock the CPU to 8MHz (which was just one jumper-cap different than the 40MHz setting), which was still plenty to service the UART FIFO interrupt. Unplug the CPU fan too, which made the machine silent. Turn the monitor off, kick back in my chair, and take a catnap. The Telemate terminal software would play a little tune when a download finished, which would wake me up, I'd turn the monitor back on, open a DOS prompt, start unzipping the file, and then reach in and clock the CPU back up so the pkunzip process would finish in a timely manner.

It would do 50MHz but the upper half of RAM would disappear, so there weren't a lot of workloads appropriate for that configuration....
I am calling out my ignorance here, but are there not reactor types that don't require enriched uranium? Sodium-cooled, Molten Salt, etc. I'm curious about the current state of reactor technology and if it addresses your concern.
Well, let's thank that one pilot who is obviously flying for refusing to fly to stick up for his beliefs.

Wait a minute...
If they release CAD files for the laptop enclosure and pinouts for the keyboard ribbon cable, one could theoretically 3D print or CNC an alternate top cover that can accommodate a keyboard with the desired layout, such as those of old ThinkPads and Latitudes/Precisions.
A nuclear power station is not exactly a university or an art gallery.
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I'm not talking about architecture btw but the levels below it.

I have 3 years of work experience and I feel that I still hack things together till they work. Its the same as when I started programming. What did change is that I do it much faster and with fewer mistakes.

I read Clean Code, Refactoring, DDD and others. My impression is they just provide patterns to apply in existing design/code, they don't provide guidance in creating the design in the first place.

I looked for online courses but none looks promising.

Did anyone experience the same issue and found helpful resources?
In cold and hot places, you cannot easily buffer heating and AC for hours.
Exactly my point in posting it. Thank you for finally putting into words what I was thinking while reading extreme reactions in the comments.
> I don't buy the "people don't care" argument.

A lot of very informed people do really sincerely not care. A coworker of mine (IT professional) literally told me that the fact that his phone is constantly tracking him and that he could show me his whereabouts during the last week/month on google maps was a feature.

A lot of people really, truly don’t care. Is as baffling to me as it is to you.
When is it offline? A few days (or weeks) every 12-24 months?

I don't think it's a major problem with a network of nuclear plants, you can plan the fuel replacement and have a steady power supply (nationwide). You can control when the downtime happens, unlike in other power sources.
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I can't see your original comment because it's flagged, but I'll assume it's some sort of anti-vax flag hanging from a Southwest plane.

So... so what? The explanation from Southwest's CEO makes sense and matches up against a ton of publicly available data.

On the other hand there's evidence of at least one pissed off pilot (who, none-the-less, showed up to work?)

But, again, all that other data still exists.

So. Either there's a vast conspiracy that involves NOAA, the FAA, airport admin, air traffic controllers, Southwest, the pilot's union, etc. Or else one dude flew a flag and also there was a massive scheduling failure and the two are unrelated.

I genuinely couldn't have asked for a better exemplar of my original post: seeing a ton of verifiable data vs. a single anecdote and choosing to implicitly believe in a vast conspiracy because the anecdote touches one's feels the right way.
Because landed space capsules can be kinda hazardous?
Most of all:

Smart software engineers would not be dedicated to figuring out ways to get people to click on buttons or how to get people into virtual food fights for profit!

I can't even imagine what progress might look like if all those brains were put to better use.
They must be shutdown to be refueled regularly, but it can be planned for.
Yeah. Typical dev hyperbole.

In a similar vein, a fairly mid-level dev was recently trying to convince me that "Rob Pike is a clueless idiot who knows nothing about language design".