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I gradually went freegan. Every dollar I do not spend is one less item pulled off the shelf, one less item restocked from the case, one fewer cases pulled off the pallet, one less pallet delivered from the warehouse, one less order placed to the factory... A little bit less diesel burned by all the trucks and ships delivering it... A little bit less of my biome stripped for the resources.

I live somewhere with an over-abundance of items and food and shelter, so why not reduce my complicity to the processes I don't like, while also reducing the work required for my upkeep?

(Freegan means avoiding the use of currency, instead relying on barter, gift economy, gifts from above, unsubscribing, etc.)
I agree with this statement more than with the title of the article.

Capitalism itself objectively is not bad, but it depends on good will of participants. (On the other hand, attempts at communism or socialism so far try to enforce such good will onto people, with predictable results.)

Cars and heavily car-oriented (sub)urban areas, however, are just avoidable bad design.
This "scientist" has lost his brain
Didn’t even consider reading it given it was theguardian but now that you mention it that’s an additional excellent reason not to click.
> The downside is that Japan's lack of planning makes it kind of ugly and boring.

What? It's the opposite. It makes it interesting. Walking around and discovering places in Japan is very enjoyable.

On the other hand, walking around in a North American city is quite boring unless you're walking somewhere uptown.
> Why can I be forced to use seatbelts and vaccine skeptics are not forced to get the shot?

This is a good question.

While I'm 100% for people getting the vaccine, I personally believe that forcibly vaccinating people is a dangerous precedent to set.

Anti-vaxxers like to argue "body autonomy" against vaccine mandates, which is a distortion because you actually do have body autonomy. No one is forcibly vaccinating you. It's just that choice comes with consequences. And for people who are bad at risk analysis, irrational, prone to suggestion, selfish or some combination of the above, they simply don't like there being negative consequences to their actions.

What I find particularly ironic is there seems to be a strong overlap between "body autonomy" anti-vaxxers and those that would deny a 15 year old rape victim from getting an abortion at 7 weeks.
How to Slow Down the Perception of Time
Joepie91 did some work for me long ago

If he says there is a problem, he didn't invent it. He knows his stuff
For that to be true the base metabolic rate would need to be vastly different between individuals. While it is true that there is significant variation (according to Wikipedia more than 100%), most of that variation (60%) seems to be explained by differences in lean body mass, which is the other side of loosing weight, exercise. From those results I would argue the is little evidence that some people would have to cut dien to almost nothing while others could almost continue eating like before
“I bet with no freedom of press we will stop cutting trees for newspapers, books etc.”
This is how The Guardian sounds.
If you’re still talking about the environment at the end of your first sentence, rail is not “very good”. At best it’s “less bad” for the environment; to that end, it seems like a broad carbon emission tax provides a better balance (and is easier to ramp up on a schedule needed to effect change) than a quilt work of individually targeted taxes against things you don’t value.

Everyone emitting ancient carbon is a problem; tax it all.
The pint we are discussing is teaching in the first years, I agree that you don't want to hire a c++ programmer that does know what "linking" means or a Java developer that does not know what the classpath is, or a JS developer that does not know that he can leak memory too and you should manually cleanup sometimes in JS too.
And 4 year olds will need to show their birth certificate in order to prove they are not in violation of a vaccine requirement.
Love that essay. I read it right around the time I learned Clojure myself.
Another theory (or is it "thesis"?):

To VC's, the 1990's internet was a "grab all you can before it's to late" in the same way the App Store was when it was launched. Using lots of VC money the current players have secured their position as "caretakers" of the internet, a medium that's no longer novel for Klondike like expeditions. All gold has been mined (or is already claimed).
Ask HN: How long before a Search engine siginificantly outdoes Google Search?
>We can kind of almost see the end. We're vaccinating so very fast, our data from the CDC today suggests, you know, that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick, and that it's not just in the clinical trials but it's also in real world data.

https://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/transcript-rachel-maddow-s...
> A game engine consists of three smaller engines […]

Compare with a far more detailed Figure 1.15 [0] from “Game Engine Architecture”.

[0]: https://www.gameenginebook.com/figures.html
If your plan is to start with the least consequential issues, you should reconsider the plan. Start with the important stuff, work down to the nice-to-haves. Nobody gets everything that they want.
> Breaking backwards compatibility is always painful but there's not one actual criticism of ES Modules as a spec here other than its incompatibility with CommonJS

This.

Also, the bulk of the rant is focused on how the author struggles with configuring his pick of JavaScript bundlers and transpilers, and proceeds to come up with excuses to justify not migrating away from CommonJS .

This article was a waste of a perfectly good click.
But unlike seat belt laws, it's not forced. And unlike seat belt laws, it should be, because it affects the health of other people.
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I don't know where you got the conspiracy idea from? You're making a baseless assumption.
Wild claim? How is it wild? It is well established that China’s economy was stagnant for decades until free market reforms. Same with India. There is absolutely nothing wild about this claim as it is common knowledge to anyone who’s followed economic reforms in developing countries.
> immunity from exposure seems to wane even faster than immunity from Vaccination

Really? Link?
In Flanders, 70% of people in hospitals for Covid are vaccinated. What do we make of that contrast ?
I’ve been working with node for roughly 5 years and I’ve never liked the hackieness CJS let people incorporate.

People, especially a few years ago, were trying to get clever with the require calls, were fiddling around with require cache and while with ESM we no longer can “easily” do stuff like dynamic reloads, I genuinely feel it’s for the better.

I strongly agree with privatenumber’s point that import() syntax is the true first class citizen here.
I worked at UBS on the G10 FX options desks in Stamford and Singapore. Remember being very surprised by how my interview and training were incredibly stressful. It was very intentional as well, where my trainer knew the exact reactions he was creating with his behavior.

It was only a couple of weeks in, when I had to react within 60 seconds (USDJPY option expiry, NYC cut) on a position our front book would have lost MM on; with senior sales MDs screaming at me as well. Lo and behold, I was just used to it and could focus and execute based on my training.

My wife calls my thinking on the training - Stockholm syndrome. I still believe those skills were incredibly valuable for me, just perhaps delivered in a more 2021 acceptable approach.
Nothing is also an alternative.

It's impressive how comprehensively consumerism has persuaded people that you have to buy something.
3rd or developing world, which is fb’s main audience.

Maybe by volume, but where do they make their money?
McDonalds is not cheap in my county. I live in Marin County.
I suppose IDEs can be a good productivity tool, but they seem to be a poor teaching tool in a university setting. It's difficult to learn how to drive a car by peering through the smoked glass at the chauffeur.

For first-year classes, I suggest restricting lectures to concepts (linked lists, big-O notation, and so forth) and not coding. Let students learn coding by themselves, by reading an assigned textbook on the language of choice, supplemented by a few one-page handouts on linux, vim/emacs, version control, etc.

Assignments should involve both writing short essays about concepts and writing code. The latter should be expected to work, to be well-documented and, as the class progresses, to be elegant.

In mid-term and final examinations, students should expected to again write essays and code, but this time by hand, on paper, and in a room without computers, books, cell phones, etc.

The goal, it seems to me, is to expose students to fundamental concepts and give them the skills to learn more by themselves. The use of IDEs can come up later, as they start working on larger projects.
How much is it? I couldn’t find it on the web on mobile.
I would hope that only people who really need such a machine would get one, rather than just another tech toy that will end up being a net contribution to waste, plastic waste, and e-waste.

The ethos I was tuning into with my parent comment was more stuff like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Home-Made-Contemporary-Russian-Folk-A...
the point here is that It seems entiterly arbitrary to enforce seat-belts but not enforce vaccine-shots.

in a constitutional state mandates should not be arbitrarys, that's a defining characteristic actually.

so either you have seatbelt laws and vaccine mandates,
or you have no vaccine mandates, but also don't enforce seatbelts.

then if you decide to enforce seatbelts, where do you stop?
smokeing, obesity, extreme sports, going outside without a proper reason ... you needed to outlaw all of these "risky-activities" for the good of society then!
Intel's Pentium Processor (John Crawford, Donald Alpert and Beatrice Fu) [video]
Sure but Delta is now the dominant strain everywhere. Evolutionary pressure still applies.
> It's almost like the existence of vaccines places evolutionary pressure on a mutating virus.

This is true, however, in this case, the vaccines are losing effectiveness against the same strains over time. Which is unsurprising, actually, early reports from China on natural immunity showed that it doesn't last as long as usual. It was hoped that a vaccine would be more targeted but it seems effectiveness fades there also.
The more people start to internalize the truth that "if you ship it you own it" and stop adding dependencies and start removing them, especially if they come with their own wasteful dependencies, then ESM will make sense for everyone. Until then, you're right, devs have to go through unctuous mitigations.
Having travelled it seems the places without capitalism have the most environmental destruction
From the GNU make manual:

If the -j option is given without an argument, make will not limit the number of jobs that can run simultaneously.

> will not limit the number of jobs
Same here, the way it seamlessly wrangles even the most ridiculous combinations of units is insanely useful. Just yesterday I used it to calculate power consumption for a house by timing one of those spinning wheel meter things. Something like "(10 rot / 46 s) / (375 rot / kW*h)" and it gave me straight answer in watts.

I definitely could've worked that out by hand, but it would've taken a minute or a few, mostly on unit conversions. With WA, I can just think in variable relationships and not worry about units at all.

Don't get me wrong, it often returns complete garbage, see all the memes of Siri passing non-math questions to it. It's annoying to figure out or explain to someone because the syntax is very loose and you just kind of need to get a feel for it, but once you do, it's really powerful.
Would 3d printing work there? Isn't there a whole bunch of crystallization hoo-ha around metals and how they are made to make sure they can handle high stresses? e.g. knives being folded many times; rotor blades in jet engines grown from a single piece.
It is a shame that there is a law of economic nature which states that all billionaires must be dead-eyed psychopaths. Imagine if Rupert Murdoch or Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg really wanted to do good. Any one of them could choose to buy up all the media in the USA and pump out 'good' propaganda, aimed squarely removing its utterly corrupt ruling class, and they might succeed. Instead the existing media/political ecosystem is supported and reinforced by the only people who have the resources to change it.

(Yes, yes, I believe in democracy and everything but it's too late for all that now).
A wish to survive future infections?
Natural immunity is more effective than vaccine immunity.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114228

Solidarity? Haha, this is America

My grandparents are all dead, but I don’t think my grandparents who lived through the Great Depression would want me to take the risk of heart inflammation as a young man, so they could potentially live a bit longer. In fact my grandmas would probably take a bullet to spare me health concerns.

Should the young be sacrificed for the old? WTF!?

Given that burning fossil fuels is harmful, I demand that everyone stop burning fossil fuels because it kills some people!
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/vehicle-e...
Eat the SIM card.
I’d like to blog more, and by extension get better at figuring what to blog about.
I use a bullet journal and emacs org-mode for my notes but I feel I would benefit from trying to synthesise some things into blog/posts.

I’ll also be learning more tech to stay relevant and hopefully be an attractive candidate if I ever get bored of what I’m doing now. (I write code every day but not in any well known language)
I’d like to be able to quick jump into contracting if I had to in something like Django/python.

Great question OP.

Personally I like the final 2 months of the year and the Christmas downtime is a great opportunity to reflect on the previous year and set some goals for the next.
I honestly don't see how you get there. To me it seems much more like an argument that newspapers should not be printed on parchment, or in 128pt font. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
> Then we can talk about how the vaccine companies got immunity from being sued if people had any problems down the road from it.

I think this makes sense, given governments were forcing their hand to get it on a fast track process. When you pressure someone to rush something I think it's fair to accept the responsibility for the greater risks rushing it caused, I think that's fair. I would absolutely understand the public suing the government if it turned out that rushing it and forcing everyone to get it early caused issues however.
Why is plastic vilified. Surely compared to fuel, it is an excellent, justified use for hydrocarbons. And as for disposal, isn’t it a simple matter of not doing ridiculous stuff like dumping it into rivers or oceans.
Don’t cannabis plants stink? People have been cultivating them forever.
What about seat belts for children who can't make an informed decision to have a greater risk of death or injury in the name of "freedom"?
In this particular instance "not allowed to publish" _definitely_ wasn't the problem, seeing how much crap had been published simply because it has "SARS-Cov-2" in its title.

The research dynamics around Covid19 are very different from those of some run-off-the-mill treatment that was for the most part developed within the private sector (and might or might not have been met with kindness at the top level management which has been approving the POs)

I can easily imagine various pharma companies individually (and without any kind of collusion!) de-emphasizing a cure in favor of a recurring treatment because each follows their self-interest.[1]

In this case, money has been thrown at them with the explicit project description "develop a cure so that public policy can return to normal" (and as is quite normal, policy makers want it done quickly so they look good. I can live with that.)

[1] It only takes one research facility to work on the same issue without such an incentive to make an entire industry scramble towards having the best cure (because otherwise they'd lose the treatment income _and_ leave the cure to somebody else). Identifying candidates where bean counters optimize for treatments even when a cure is possible, and then investing in such areas, might be public money well spent.
One of the disappointing/hilarious attitudes you see among forigners in Japan: they really love the high quality service they recieve when they are a customer, but they also really hate the work culture.

I'm like, yea, the two are closely connected: the reason you get a high quality service is because of the work culture. You just like receiving the benefits without paying the costs.

I'm ok if you say you can't see yourself workign like that or you're not used to it or whatever. But that's not what I see. What I see is foreginers disparaging the work culture and judging it as morally inferior.
I mean that’s true of things like Unity as well where you can use whatever tools you want so long as you can get it into the formats it supports.

Web dev is theoretically open but in practice runs on Chrome almost exclusively.
Ah.

But this is exactly the argument the lizard people from outer space are making in V. However it turns that the scientists are actually the good guys as their grounded, systematic, critical thinking is key to prevent the free world from being taken over by evil manipulating entities.

People should really rewatch this show.
If you mean me, I run a shop with various machines that produce things as a business.

Irrespective of who you mean, you should perhaps keep your sanctimony closer to your chest, it grates here.
right, that's my point!
Lots of it is, in the 70s the coal industry paid Greenpeace to kill the nuclear industry. Now KSA pays the same people to shutdown the tar sands.
Huh, interesting. That "Hunting of a spider" clip almost follows part of the intro sections in Children of Time 1-to-1. Feels like someone took 'inspiration' in someone else's homework. I wonder if it was BBC or Adrian Tchaikovsky who came first.

Oh, well. It is a really cool clip nonetheless.
If we omit the 2020 US presidential elections, and all the propaganda that was pushed to gaslight the people and downplay the danger posed by the epidemic, and afterwards the desperate attempt to shift the blame away from the way that ball was fumbled and onto a scapegoat, any debate over the origin of covid-19 is clearly a waste of time.
He says a wealth tax will be more effective than a carbon tax at stopping climate change. What planet is he living on? Is reducing the wealth of billionaires supposed to stop Big Plastic from lobbying?

He mentions Bill Gates' personal carbon output without mentioning his investments in nuclear power research and other initiatives?

Also does anyone really think that if North Korea were more prosperous, they would be polluting less than capitalist countries? The problem isn't inherent and unique to capitalism, the problem is reckless selfishness and disregard for externalities that can emerge from cronyism (lobbying under a capitalist system), but also from nationalism and corruption which are not unique to capitalist systems. A system that is socialist internally but with high levels of nationalism will be prone to pollute because they don't care about the global commons.
> For all we know he might have eaten a burger from some poplar chain on the day he died

Again, disingenuous strawmen like these are the problem.

The article specifically speculates on the basis of the condition that killed, the link established by /scientific studies/ afterwards between vaccines and the side effect, and the short duration between death and vaccination.

I’m fully vaccinated myself, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to ignore everything. There are always potential side effects, and it’s good to be aware of them.

Please stop being a radical who tells people to shut up and listen to “the science”, when even scientists are not 100% sure.
Indeed. I had a boss who didn't "know any better" about a lot of things, so he often could only think of one solution to any problem.

My thought when people only have one solution to a problem: If you can only think of one solution, how do you know it's not the worst one?
Nitpick. The principal premise of capitalism is that pursuing self-interest leads to common good. In other words, good will, in the context of capitalism, is self-interest, which is not what you normally mean by good will: usually it implies some degree of selflessness.
Seatbelt laws shouldn't be forced either. But nobody is going to fight seriously over that because it is inconsequential and non-invasive.

They are not a justification for mandatory vaccination, in an emergency, with what is turning out to be an unknown risk and efficacy profile.

> But unlike seat belt laws, it's not forced.

Good. Keep it that way. But speaking from Australia, the truth of that statement is very context-specific. The government will presumably fine me if I attempt to go for a pub lunch without my smartphone, because then there isn't a way to prove to them that I have been vaccinated. This is a bad, indeed a concerning, thing.
I studied computer science in Canada.

I recall being stuck in a room for days working in winter
That was approved in 1998; the Drug Name Maker Upper from that era has presumably retired.
Using WebAssembly to optimize Flutter Web apps
No idea what your nurse was on about, but in my country neither me nor anyone I know was recommended to move their arm. And to my knowledge, there were no clotting incidents at all with Pfizer, only with adenovirus-based vaccines J&J and AstraZeneca (and they were extremely rare, although I still was very happy to get an mRNA vaccine because zero risk is better than very low risk, and they have also turned out to be better in almost every respect).
But they will jump on whatever the next bandwagon is if it gives them a SEO/traffic/SERP advantage.
no, it's not about "least consequential" but about "most unjustified".
as long as you have even more unjustified measures in place, you will have a hard time fighting the less unjustified
> The vaccine isn't 100% effective in stopping transmission? Or stopping you catching the disease? Or dying? Each of these becomes some pseudo-gotcha moment that leads some down an invermectin-taking path with Tucker Carlson or Joe Rogan as the pied piper.

What saddens me the most is that when I got my first jab (european country) I was given a leaflet clearly stating that a) the vaccine works by giving your immune system a workout to get it better prepared to fight the infection, b) the vaccine is not a silver bullet in stopping you from contracting and spreading the disease, c) even with the vaccine we need to continue respecting basic health and safety precautions like wearing masks and social distancing.

The message was clear: the vaccine significantly mitigated the impact of the pandemic, such as the need for lockouts, but the problem doesn't go away.

Consequently, where I am we're seeing vaccination rates close to 80% and pretty much everything went to normal. The infection rates are increasing slightly right now, but it's a far cry from the shitshow that we've endured around the spring of 2020.

This is really concerning be because it seems the world already forgot that this first batch of vaccines were nothing more than an emergency stopgap solution to buy the world some time until it figures out how to put a stop to it. Even though we're no longer seeing emergency response teams piling up dead bodies in makeshift tents, the root problem is still there, completely unaddressed.