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He's proposing to make companies and central banks factor in environmental costs and climate change into their decisions. As opposed to the current model where the board is required to act exclusively in the financial interest of shareholders. He then proposed maybe incentivizing and paying for carbon removal. What exactly is so evil and nihilist about it?
The Arachnids are bombing Earth. (Starship Troopers)
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/dotnvSqB2faF3kHcs/...
Why does Depop, A Little Market, Trunkt etc not get blamed for "selling out"? Because at the end of the day, people start businesses to make money. In fact, it is a tried and true model to create a start with the specific purpose of getting acquired.
Rise of J2Cl: Java web development after GWT
Makes total sense - the core is the part of the apple everyone throws away.
>Was this an example of you giving me the benefit of the doubt?

Hah, good point, it was not. I told you I have that affliction sometimes as well. That's the problem when a discussion becomes emotional, it usually ceases to be a discussion.
BCBS does not sell health insurance though. The companies I listed are health insurance companies, which would be subject to the ACA.
Even a diesel bus on rails is much more efficient than a diesel bus on roads. It's also much easier to electrify than a fleet of buses, an much more ecological when you do (because no significant battery). Thus, anything on rails is a win.
Eurostar runs direct trains from London to Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 3.5 and 4 hours respectively.

You can't really compare to a similar route in the US because there are hardly any and hardly anybody uses them. The train routes in EU are busy and frequently full, just like planes. Obviously booking ahead is cheaper, how else could you do it?

Top tip, plan a head and read up a little bit on seat61:

https://www.seat61.com/trains-and-routes/london-to-amsterdam...

Top tip 2:

Overnight trains is one of the best ways to see Europe as a backpacker on the cheap. The routes are often scenic and the cost is frequently cheaper than anything else since you don't have to pay for accommodations.

Buses are a thing too. And they are not greyhound bad, but definitely not as good as trains.
As an American who doesn't drive, the experience of trains in the EU compared to the US is just delightful. Yes, there are super cheap flights and I used them often for longer haul trips but the trains were always amazing- I've done trips including Mariupol to Lviv, Budapest to Berlin, and Berlin to Munich and always had a great experience. The Romania-Chisinau line is quite old but part of its charm. I see a lot of people talking about the expense compared to the cheap flights- those are solid and I've used them a lot but after you factor in the waiting time at airports, the unexpected fees in case your bag is a kilo too heavy, the uber to and from a far away airport, etc. it's really not that much of a difference. There is no comparison to trains in the U.S. (e.g. I took one for 3 days from DC to LA; while I enjoyed it, it was a slough with no real food facilities for the passengers not in sleeper cars, old chairs, etc.). I hope there will be more investment, especially in the Baltics.
Oh yeah well aware that it was the first restricted Boltzmann Machine. It minimizes energy, but that’s just harmony with a sign change. When Smolensky Hinton and Rummelhart collaborated, they decided to call it “goodness of fit.” So neural networks still optimize for harmony by another name. I think that’s so cool. The original Smolensky paper is worth reading. Good ideas.
Buses on the northeast corridor will certainly be cheaper. Trains (especially Acela) are competing with flying given the huge amount of business travel.
> Why is there no discussion about further alternatives in your replies? Cooperative ownership structures are prevalent and successful by multiple metrics. Do you wish to limit the conversation to only those defensible by your preconceptions?

Sure, no, I don't like false dilemmas and am only pointing out that everything you're talking about is aspirational. It means, it doesn't currently exist in the US in any reliable fashion so a current employee that isn't a labor rights activist cannot assume they'll encounter those environments.

I'm a fan of things I've seen in developed countries, such as the employee union having a board seat by law, which also relies on such union existing, this thread isn't about those structures.

In the present, in the US, the dichotomy you summarized is what I perceive.
Is it though? Or is it the fact that airlines are able to externalize their environmental costs, and are generally both under-taxed and subsidized.

[edit] I'm not saying that rail isn't subsidized - it usually is, and often heavily, to be clear. It's the environmental impact that's the thrust of my claim.
It isn’t really. Even Russia itself does not believe that the current rate is “real”. If it was Russia would have used its rubles to buy euros/dollars to pay its debt instead of defaulting by trying to pay with the rubble. Basically it is currently up artificially due to Russia buying rubbles with dollars/euros/gold/etc (and 20% interest rate) and them themselves pushing it the other way by trying to buy dollars/euros with rubbles would be counterproductive.
I've bought handmade things on Etsy that are a) very high quality and b) obscure/weird enough that I wouldn't know where else to go for them.

Enabling this sort of thing is Etsy's pitch. I have no particular loyalty to their brand, but in the past they've done a great job living up to that promise for me, and I have to assume others have had similar experiences. If they get filled up by Chinesium
knockoffs and the quality sellers are driven off, Etsy's product will no longer hold any value for us, and they will lose our business.

So yes, "let them fail". But before you accuse us of blind, unearned devotion to a brand, you might consider that there is---or once was---a good reason to prefer Etsy over other options.
Ah. Yes, I had in my mind a sloppy, incorrect meaning of “premine”.

My point remains the same for questioning the intent of the founders. We have no idea what Satoshi might do with the power he has in the form of early blocks.
You can! When you do that, you essentially get a "Health Share" organization, wherein you pay cash for health care and they reimburse you. Google the term to see which ones are out there. They are typically much, much, much cheaper than traditional insurance.

The biggest drawbacks to such an approach are that you have to deal with the quirks and rules of your organization -- read the terms carefully -- and that you have to deal with the paperwork from the medical system yourself. That doesn't sound so awful until you experience it. You can find reasonable primary care as a cash patient -- direct primary care is everywhere now, and almost certainly what you want: a monthly payment for someone on call to deal with your issues.
Urgent care is generally reasonable, too, being an up front single bill at a fixed price per type of issue. But Lord have mercy on you if you need to visit a hospital. The paperwork is stunning. A couple years ago, I went in for some observation and antibiotics for a couple of days, and came out with a dozen bills, all of which have to be called on, paid, negotiated, and some of which are possibly fake.
Love it! Very clever.
> Jira Cloud is incredibly slow

I haven’t used Jira Cloud in any great depth, but I did play around with it as part of trialling the free plan and was amused that you could quite easily come across warnings to backup your installation and consult your system administrator before proceeding…how exactly do I do that for a cloud service? Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

At my last job we used Bitbucket Cloud and that was awful. Dog slow, ridiculously low threshold for being unable to render diffs, and constant incidents. We used to joke that they could make the “Bitbucket is experiencing an incident” banner a permanent fixture on the page and it would be right more often than it was wrong.

We’re still using on-prem Jira at my current job, but we just migrated away from on-prem Bitbucket to GitHub, as Bitbucket was becoming infeasible and the cloud offering is a bad joke.
> Unlike the stimulus, much of which went to businesses and governments.

However, business and governments didn't drive up the price of macaroni. However, the $4500 the government gave my family probably did.
Two of reason why it's cheaper to ship parts into Third world country, then produce in Third world country and ship it again across the world into "First world country" is the lack of employee and environmental protections.
The desire to save a few bucks is not a conspiracy.
Looks like there's some more info here: https://lotharek.pl/productdetail.php?id=135
The core CPI is broken out because energy and food have high short term volatility, so core usually better represents longer-term factors, but as long as the war & sanctions continue and (especially for food) for some time after food and energy are going to be problematic, so the core breakout is probably at a low point in relevance.
Your argument is nonsense. Of all the possible ones, you had to pick this one?

"Who would buy [new thing from new people], when there's [thing] from old people with experience?"

If everyone thought that way, there'd be no progress. Why did people buy IBM-PC clones? Why did people buy AMD chips, instead of intel? Why did Microsoft release the xbox, when there's Nintendo and Sony?

But sure, it's about "same price and same specs". That's obviously not going to happen, though!

So what if they sell a low-end GPU at an actually reasonable price? The market's ripe for the taking! Low-end cards are utter trash and a rip-off, because there's no incentive for the big ones to produce any good ones!

And what does it matter anyway, that they have experience writing drivers for specific games? The vast majority of games out there do not fall into this category ... and that's hundreds of millions of games.

The vast majority of people don't play the latest and greatest, also not on "the best possible graphics settings". They don't need that. It's a niche for those customers who are willing to pay the price for hardware that offers nothing beyond "nicer visuals".

That's not a majority, at all. There is no majority of people requiring drivers adapted for specific games. There is no majority of games benefitting from such drivers, either, but there's a huge market for reasonably fast, reasonably priced lower-end cards!
Imagine a scenario where overnight, all US companies stop offering health insurance. In this scenario, all those employees who used to have health care would now have to pay for it themselves (or do without it). So they're all going to be expecting an immediate raise to compensate for this increased expense, and if not they'll almost certainly be looking for a new job that pays a lot more (after all, it's not like they need their old job for the insurance any more..)

If you're a company, unless you were already planning to do some mass layoffs, you're going to give most of them that raise because the alternative is having a bunch of people quit. And if you don't increase your offers for new hires, you probably won't be hiring anyone either.
I've never seen this personally (living in DC area since 2014). At best, flights were on par and you still had to transport from airport to destination vs being likely in the city center (as noted elsewhere in this thread already) and deal with all the other airport time. Bus is definitely cheaper today though with highly variable experience along the way.
In the sense that matters for this discussion, zero g is the same as falling--both are weightless conditions. So the GP is correct and my original comment was in error; "zero g" can't be what is making the difference.
Atlassian Q2 revenue was up 37% y/y.

Those sort of growth rates are incredible for a company this size.

They can easily afford their timber treehouse.
the OD part wasn't with respect to LSD but towards drugs in general. I've known people who got started with psychedelics, then moved on to molly (not real MDMA, like the dangerous synthetic street shit), and onto other stuff after that. It makes people more susceptible to drug culture

I can't imagine anyone physically ODing on LSD if it's legit. But there's two risks: adverse mental reactions and adverse physical reactions if the shit you take isn't real
To give a +1 here, I think Against the Grain makes a nice companion to Debt from what I assume are separate ends of the left-right spectrum within libertarianism, or at least I guess so from Against the Grain having a positive review from the Cato Institute on the cover.

They both construct convincing narratives from looking at the history that deconstruct the "just so" stories of economists. From AtG you see how most of 'civilization' throughout history has been experienced by most people as slavery and warfare and living standards actually improved, or at least didn't become much worse, for many with things like the fall of Rome.

Debt is fascinating because it shows just how new and novel the current inescapable logic of capitalism actually is. Adam Smith's fanciful notion of a fully formed civilization of shopkeepers who adopt coinage to streamline barter is shown to be complete nonsense and with it the foundations of much of "assumed" thought about how people and markets organise themselves.
Buffet was my idol growing up but Thiel has good critiques.
But carbon emissions still go down, paid for by one party. What’s the issue?
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Hmm I would classify shrooms as medication. What happens if a doctor prescribes it, is it now suddenly medication to you?
I don't think so actually. The prices of the labels on Etsy match the USPS prices for volume labels exactly.
This info is classified by default usually. And the memo reads as if astrophysicists were asking the government to confirm or deny this specific bit of info for their research.
For the Change Data Capture functionality, I mentioned that there's a tradeoff between performance and security in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30994062).

For Broadcast, we can scale by adding additional nodes to the cluster but up to a point. The current architecture works because every node is aware of all other nodes in the cluster, but this strategy becomes untenable after a certain point. The good news is that we're nowhere near that point and we'll optimize and develop other strategies to circumvent this eventual limitation. We'll also need to carefully manage and process the inflow and outflow of messages on each node to make sure we're not delaying message delivery or using more memory than absolutely necessary.

For Presence, it syncs the joins and leaves from node to node every 1.5 seconds (default) and there will be a point where this work will take longer than that interval. Fortunately, the underlying ORSWOT CRDT implementation can be refactored to make syncing more efficient.
I did, my parents house (built in the 90s) is on the other side of the highway.

When I visit I often do runs around the factory which gives a good impression of the size of the area: Its a 10k run.

They did some landscaping around the factory to offset the alterations, the factory also has 3 large wind turbines and a battery storage farm made from used EV batteries.
> That's certainly the intuition most people would have about this

Actually, though, it's wrong. See my responses to others elsewhere in this thread.
> They probably would. I've had a lot of jobs that heavily emphasize how much is paid for benefits, and often it's used as justification for why raises weren't offered that year.

Sounds like an excuse to me, and if they're this bitter about paying for benefits, something tells me they'd be just as bitter towards giving substantial raises across the board for, essentially, no reason.
No, trust me, it's an autocracy and there are no feedback mechanisms left. They were steadily dismantled over the years, and now something as innocent as calling for peace in a public place would get you arrested, instantly. Latest addition is a law that gets you 15 years in prison for "critiquing the use of Russian armed forces". And another one, also prison time, for "spreading fake information" about them, where fake is anything that doesn't come from the government itself. I wish I was making this up.

And the highest level in the government where there are people that were fairly elected is the municipal deputies in large cities, like Moscow and St Petersburg. They manage municipal districts, which are the smallest administrative subdivisions of these cities. Anything higher is kind of a sealed system, you can never get in there, and the only way out is to die, it seems.

edit: I googled that phrase. No, not really possible either. He's surrounded by either loyalists or "I get paid so I don't care" kind of people, and it would take the balls the size of the earth to do this. It's been discussed many, many times. I remember watching a video that detailed why an assassination would be extremely unlikely but I can't find it now.

edit2: here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLa6w7V7bYQ
It was quite similar in France. It was a step before privatisation, true, but the final step would have been the re-nationalisation of the infrastructure and maintenance branch, in a usual “privatise the profits and socialise the losses” that the European Commission seems to so love. Because efficiencies, or something.
Why not in the USA? Would it be to expensive?
In around the 150-800 km span, high speed rail reigns supreme over all other modes of transport. Above that, airplanes start making more sense, but for any trips in that span HSR should really be the default.
Might have more to do with them moving their HQ from UK to US.

This would allow them access to more investors.
Well, to be fair they blamed the previous administration on Putin as well.
It is not uncommon for paperwork to be delayed when switching insurers. I've had it happen at previous employers. The normal course of action in this circumstance is that you pay the bill after your insurance paperwork is sorted out.

If you go to the hospital and didn't know that your insurance expired, you probably won't even see a bill for a month, after the hospital gets the denied claim from your previous insurer. At which point, you'll give them the updated information, and they'll file the claim with the new insurer.
Thoughtworks keeps a "technology radar" that I have found very interesting. I won't post the "whys" but it's worth looking for upcoming components and tech that they are seeing used more in consulting. https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar/techniques
They are either included in your insurance (if you are employed and have public health insurance), or you'd have to add them to the insurance at extra cost, if you have private health insurance (for example freelancer).
Medicare not only covers the most at risk of our population, but is also by far the cheapest per capita beside medicaid. Yes, American health care is expensive, but medicare is the cheapest way to deliver it.
> Just because sometimes there were benevolent companies that decided to contribute to their communities doesn't mean relying on that is a stable or desired outcome.

You are always going to rely on a few people, to do the right thing, which will become the wrong thing as life goes on, which will require a few more people, to do the right thing again, ad infinitum.

That's just how this human thing works.

Sometimes it's laws, other times it's breaking laws. Other times something else. It varies, there is no right answer forevermore, sorry.

You can't solve hard problems of coordinating, pleasing and doing right by many people with conflicting interests by 'requiring' it.

That's just childish thinking, sorry.
From Chechnya to Syria to Ukraine – General Alexander Dvornikov
> All soviet/communists spent significant resources for espionage, etc.

Do you seriously believe that western countries don't?

Seriously?

None of them play fair. Not one. It makes no sense to do so!

Stop eating the propaganda.
That can be a reasonable strategy if you're sure you'll be able to service that debt and if you can take on the debt before the interest rates go up significantly. There will likely be a nasty recession coming which is why you want to make sure you're in a position to service the debt even if you were to lose your job.

Also, you'll probably want to keep some of your powder dry so that if 30 year TBills start paying, say, 7% or more that you're in a position to buy some of those. People who bought 30 year TBills in the early 80s when they were paying in the mid-teens did really well. Maybe we'll see that kind of opportunity again.
While i agree with your overall point, i think that VS Code is one of the better (only?) examples of really good web technology based software. It's snappy, reliable and has very few bugs.

If you want bad examples of similar software, have a look at Brackets (https://brackets.io/index.html) and Atom (https://atom.io/).

Maybe things have improved in the past years, but last i checked Atom in particular was horrendously slow.
On Linux yes, absolutely.
A good taxonomy and attempt to make terminology common. Even if it
doesn't gel structurally the set of attack/threat trees is a good
first checklist for any open source project wanting to think about
opsec/infosec.

One wonders if the FSF, OSI are on to this and doing much to
facilitate good practice for new projects, like best practice git
setup, vetting of maintainers, multi-party authentication for builds,
secure endpoints/host hardening. Or will we just leave it to the
"many-eyes" (fingers crossed) system?

Otherwise developers might start to assume the veneer of "security"
offered by Microsoft's GitHub in some way underwrites project
integrity (when one should probably trust it about as far as you can
comfortably spit out a rat), and most of the weaknesses will happen in
the surrounding infrastructure/workflow anyway.
100k per seat annually? Just to be clear, you’re saying that said software would cost roughly $100k/year/user? Is there any pure software product in the world priced that aggressively?
And use what else.

Their competition is equally bad and offers far less features for larger programs.
Hn is like Gab though, the users feel aligned with the management ideologically so they don't mind being censored by them.
Money circulates.
Note that if you travel from The Netherlands to Spain you might be traversing 6 different railway electrification systems that vary in critical stuff like voltages (and by more than a factor 10!) and possibly Hz, and some are AC and some are DC (not kidding). Also there will be at least 2 incompatible track gauges involved. And I bet other stuff like communications and routing systems are incompatible and safety critical too.

As a result, such a trip would take a long time, even if high-speed rail is a possibility for part of the trip; it's not possible for a simple train to go even most of the way; you'll need to change trains multiple times not just due to logistical issues, but simply to be on a train that can even use the rail you need to traverse.

If we can't fix that (and that's a really hard and expensive problem), we're never going to get a fast connection from the netherlands to spain.

And I'm sure you can find even worse scenarios (say, tack on denmark and germany to that route for 2 more technologically incompatible systems!). Baltic states still use a soviet-derived system, and much of eastern Europe a yet different one.
> FAANG was created by the TV personality Jim Cramer to talk about high growth tech stocks. At the time Netflix was doubling every year. It was based purely on finance.

That, and FAAG had less of a ring to it.

Edit: Dammit, the GP made the same observation. Oh well, I'm keeping it.