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> The whole thing was constructed as the location for an animated feature film to be shot in 35 mm, with special gantries to move the cameras around. The problem: the circus orchestra had to be animated in time with the music.

Why didn't you suggest stop-motion animation?
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》After only two weeks, my knowledge graph was utterly unintelligible and distressing. It's called combinatorial explosion.

I've built a few node design tools and this is one of the main problems I've had to deal with, how to keep users from building this forest of wires that won't let them see the trees, I mean, nodes. The only way around is limiting the "depth" of nodes the user can work on, requiring them to organize those in "scenes" and hide everything else that is distracting. Then we get from "graphs are beautiful, behold their complexity" to "graphs are useful".

I'm currently building a concept web for a new search engine, and I want users to explore it without getting lost in the forest. The problem is there once again.
There is open source software that can do online indexing across space/time/entity and cross-domain entity resolution in real-time on petabytes of telemetry data per day? The data never stops flowing and it isn't trivially partitionable in an analytically useful way -- graph-like joins figure prominently. It isn't a problem you can solve simply by throwing hardware at it.

I've been paid to characterize the quality of this type of data from well-known brokers by discerning customers, and in my experience it is all varying degrees of rubbish from which almost no generalizable insights are possible. Even with data that is much higher quality than what you can get from app SDKs and adtech, ground-truthing experiments show that it requires very sophisticated analytics to build something resembling a generalizable model from which insights can be reliably extracted.

I know there is a lot of money in selling data like this but it is essentially a scam, promising insights that aren't really derivable given the data provided. The data quality has also become much worse over time, for a variety of reasons, which is arguably a bigger limitation these days than lack of a suitable platform.
We have plastic ones and I prefer the texture of those to metal. Reusable I mean obviously, not throwaway. Had them for years, we use them maybe three times a month (mainly after getting takeaway and requesting the drink without those awful paper straws) so probably that contributes to longevity. I haven't noticed it getting dirty either but we just run it through the dishwasher like other cutlery.

Takeaway: plastic isn't bad, just don't waste it, like every other resource from planet A...
How many times do we need to learn that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence? Anything new that we consume or use as a tool to consume food with should be regarded as highly safe. Skeptical empiricism is the best way to achieve that.
They can pay $4000 a year for this but not for what the pro union people are asking for?
XSD (XML Schema Definition) is pretty good though, and it makes autocomplete and spotting errors when hand-writing XML files very easy.
Rocket Lab will attempt to recover the first stage of their Electron rocket as it descends back to Earth using a helicopter and a tethered hook, caching the booster in mid-air by hooking onto its parachute.
People get upset because it effectively becomes a regressive tax structure. The end game of taxing carbon has poorer people spending a larger percentage of their income paying taxes...even if they're consuming the same amount of resources as the rich.

So when Exxon gets hit with a carbon tax, what do you think happens? Gas and Oil prices stay the same? Absolutely not! They increase, and consumers end up paying the difference. This doesn't just affect residential energy prices either. Production and distribution prices increase for every good/service consumed. Normal every day citizens end up footing the bill for corporations.
Musk seeks to put in less money in new Twitter deal financing
First, there's a lot of energy in the chemical bonds, so depending on how you're incinerating it, you can get some useful energy out of it. The Hefty Energy Bag program does this - they did a lifecycle analysis on various plastic "end of life" paths from "landfill" to "advanced plastic thermal decomposition" to "burn it in a cement kiln" - with the last one working by far, the best. At last per their analysis. If you're offsetting coal use, which is what would otherwise be burned in the cement kiln (I believe natural gas and hydrogen don't emit enough radiation because of their lack of carbons to be as useful), great.

Second, done properly (insert a lot of observations about combustion temperature here), it ends up as nothing worse than CO2, nitrogen, water, etc at the exhaust stack. Given how horribly bioreactive plastics tend to be, and their tendency to erode into microplastics given half an opportunity, this is roughly the "Flare the methane to CO2 because it's far less bad" end of plastic compared to burying it, which, at some point in the future, stands good odds of being uncovered - perhaps by a group that doesn't understand just how nasty the stuff really is.

If your takeaway is "There don't sound like any great ways to deal with plastic," good. Because there aren't.
>...is genetic. Individuals blessed with high degrees of industriousness and orderliness...namely that most of the variance between individuals is genetic and relatively invulnerable to intervention.

This is a very strange thing to attribute to genetics, certainly not without some reference that supports it-- I could not find any. It seems much more likely to be a product of what you observed in your parents growing up, and perhaps more importantly how you were trained early on in your career.

That statement immediately put me on the defensive to be skeptical of the rest of what the author wrote, which was perhaps justified: the rest of the article was basically the author complaining about organization methods they didn't like and didn't think we're effective even though other people seem to get some value from them. And also that some people seem to brag about their system, which is entirely irrelevant to assessing actual utility. All of this while also coining their own buzz phrases, e.g., "brute linear willfulness".

TLDR: just another person claiming a tool is useless because it's not a tool they like.
It prevents the plastics from entering the environment.

Plastics are a material with no effective bio-degredation process so we should destroy it rather than return it to the environment. Otherwise we're just delaying cleanup.

Incineration destroys these unnatural carbon chains and returns the materials to a state usable by natural life.
I'd say I'm 95% confident that it will be within a year. The code is written, and multiple waves of simulated merges have occurred. The last 2 found small, non-blocking bugs that were fixed, so it's a matter of when, not if at this point.
This reminds me story: during my first (failed) PhD attempt, I had a supervisor working on a knowledge graph system for education. Great! I was doing something very similar, except I had an algorithm for presenting it in a linear way. So I shared my concern that students will not be able to understand and make use of a graph representation. Like almost everything I said in the following years, it was immediately dismissed and I quickly stopped trying to work on this with that guy.

Fast forward 2-3 years later, I ask about a student that was somewhat working on that project with this supervisor, he replied "oh, I stopped working on that, it doesn't work, student are confused by the graph!" In the meantime, I've also read a paper in another field that said users don't understand graph representation.

I still think that graphs can be useful for knowledge management, but it has to stay an implementation details not shown to the user.
I must disagree with the "proprietary junk" assertion you made. While Your statement about AES is correct, Rijndael cipher of which AES is a subset can have bigger keys and block sizes. For marketing reasons they interchange Rijndael with AES since many have never heard of it.
I was on chat with godaddy and they said that any certs that were issued before June 2020 will not be on any of Google's SCTs and that they will need to be re-keyed. I did that with a new cert as ours was expiring in July and that has fixed it for us. So give re-keying a try.
I see knowledge as being a dag where the edges are directional and where the edges actually mean something, meaning multiple types of edges. Generic backlinks are nowhere near sufficient and lead to the sort of combinatorial explosion the author talks about. But when you have "statement" and "statement" necessitates "conclusion", (the edge means "necessitates") then reviewing the graph over time can actually lead toward you paring down the graph and distilling it to the knowledge that is most useful to you.
Virtue signaling only works if people can see you do it. So if you're a restaurant, how many noticeable things can you do to demonstrate you care about the environment without actually changing your business model, profits, or unit economics?
> I'm in a similar but different boat: my brain remembers the conclusion but discards all of the "useless" details used to arrive there. This works fine on a personal level, but when someone challenges your position, you find yourself unable to defend it because all of the supporting details have long since evaporated.

> So PKM might be useful to archive away the details after you reach a conclusion.

100%. I hold the same mindset!
I feel like it's obvious that the goal of the the transition wouldn't just be the transition itself? I'm confused.

There's some difference between "so they can dismiss claims about wastefulness" and "so it isn't wasteful" but that's a pretty small distinction. I don't really care which of those two is a bigger motivator.
On an exchange, but not on a blockchain.

Exchanges are a convenience, and go against the entire concept of a distributed ledger. That part of what makes the whole thing a joke.
But why? What is the engineering challenge in a cheap tube that needs to survive modest collapsing pressure and contact with cold water for an hour?

Maybe wax-coated paper, or a thin foil coating on paper, or some other kind of plant matter pounded into the right shape, or something.
How much does it cost monthly to run that 400w light?
Sounds like currency deflation. There are winners in deflation too.
Something like BOYC couldn't have been build in a traditional centralized manner. 4 founders had the idea of this club and were able to build it up on the back of Ethereum without any permission needed or their own infrastructure. It might not be worth it, but that's something unique that hasn't been possible before.
are you saying menthol cigarettes should be made illegal... but decriminalized, then??
OOP is bad in the way that many magnificently successful things are bad. People only work up the energy to fully critique things when they are so pervasive and ubiquitous. At which point they are entirely associated with their flaws and none of their positive attributes which are all treated as orthodoxy.
PoW will scale up to match, be vigilant about which sources it uses, which sources an enterpriser wants to try to use. Be vigilant about the coal plants coming online, while non-grid connected methane-reducing sources are applauded.

Large scale miners allowed this argument to get out of control because they didn't want people to know their sources of energy (extending their lead in front of other miners), and now this ESG boogeyman has taken an inaccurate life of its own.

At the end of the day, if you really think you have another economical use of energy because proof of work can't possibly be "it", then you still have to thank Proof of Work for making you notice an energy source and use case that everyone else failed to notice for decades.

I think PoW's incentives to grow are something that needs a lot of vigilance to curb, as it will be governments eventually using it in the most economical and polluting way, in order to control the network. But I think enough people can see through the "I just want any other thing to use energy waaah" argument that the private sector ban is never going to happen.
How many Democratic Party meetings have you been to? I’ve been to hundreds. While they pay lip service to supporting racial equality, they won’t actually do anything that would make business suffer, except for the environment. They are a pro-business party not interested in actual economic equality, while Republicans are a pro-business party interested in promoting economic inequality. I don’t mind the pro-business side really, I’m just saying are no elected leftist parties in America.
A mentor who wouldn't give me answers.

When I needed to make SunOS give me tty key stroke input 1 character at a time, he refused to tell me what he already knew and just pointed me at some "areas to look into". Knowing about kernel tty drivers and terminals and line buffering didn't make me a better programmer, but it didn't hurt. Knowing my way around a variety of different documentation at many different levels of the systems I was working on helped make me a better programmer, and my mentor refusing to just answer my questions was a major factor in that. It also forced me to understand much more of the systems I was working on, rather than just how to use some piece of convenient API.
Those metal straws scare me. Every time I see one, I imagine tripping or bumping into something with one in my mouth
I really really need to do this more - usually stay at least 2 or 3 because I am lazy - market is so hot right now I could see one or two hops getting me to a nice spot
There is always nuclear which don't kill birds, don't put their emissions into the air, don't destroy the habitat for animals, and in general has proven to be fairly safe for animals even in the case of catastrophic accidents.

Wind power need to consider endangered birds. Hydro power need to consider migrating fish (many which are currently on the brink of extinction), and now offshore wind need to consider the impact on animals living in the ocean. And we still need to solve the issue of storage for countries depending primarily on a combination of fossil fuels and wind and is located too far north to survive on solar during low wind conditions. We can't just sweep the problems under the rug and present it as the perfect solution without any issues.
What the responses that people are sending to you are trying to point out, is that while this is an honorable rule of thumb, it doesn't scale. You cannot build a society this way, or none of us would be able to function reasonably.

It is unreasonable to build tools for other people to use, that will break the user's expectation of consistent, reliable and safe use.

This is a not an abstract idea, this is a fundamental legal concept in the west.

If everyone using Ethereum was expecting these fees, and are fine with it, then good for them, and no harm no foul. But this approach will not scale to larger communities, and it is unreasonable, cruel, and legally wrong to put the burden of "they should have known how to avoid this" on the larger populace, which is, of course, what crypto evangelizes the ultimate end-goal to be.

This is where comments like soared comes in. "I hope you don't use public transit, electricity, plumbing, or breathe central air." A human being simply cannot function in society if we have to study local EPA data to know whether its safe to breathe along our commute to work, that our electricity will be safe to use with all of our devices, that my car won't explode if I press a button in a different way, and that I won't go bankrupt if I use my crypto card to pay for a meal.

Expecting everyone to research how every tool works before they use it fails Kants categorical imperative, because it is simply impossible for everyone one of us to research every tool we use given a finite lifetime. Hence the responses you are receiving here.
> What I have observed is that in Silicon Valley culture, when compensation becomes your defining identity, you can’t ever be satisfied with yourself if someone else with similar accomplishments makes more money than you.

Sure, sometimes people lose the plot, what does it have to do with passion?

> many of people actually like their jobs

This is blatantly false. Many people have jobs that are occasionally interesting, I would accept this, but no one "likes" working. In what world is giving all your energy to corporate interests to enrich the top of the corporation something to like?

> But a lot of developer jobs especially at big companies are fundamentally boring hence the unstoppable chase of higher TC and the desperate need for hobbies.

Jesus christ, "the desperate need for hobbies", what is wrong with you? You pan people who don't like working, and criticize them for wanting to have hobbies instead of spending all their time doing activities that are only a value-add to their boss's boss? No wonder you are jealous of people who get paid well and have fun in their free time, you have the worst case of Capitalist Stockholm Syndrome I've ever seen
Under what logic does "Remove oil from the ground, process it into something, and then bury that something" count as actual carbon sequestration? You've not removed anything from the atmosphere in any plastic cycle I'm aware of, and you've used an awful lot of energy in the process of going from "ground" to "ground." You'd have been better off, in every possible way, just leaving that oil in the ground in the first place.

Except for the important way, which is corporate profits.
Be prepared to get very frustrated and see your tax dollars at work with the treasurydirect horrific interface and app.

You can't type/paste your password when logging in, you are forced to use some ridiculous keyboard abomination. "Password is not case sensitive" WTF?

Unrelated: Anybody know if I can do $10k personally and another $10k with my LLC? It's a single member LLC (so disregarded entity / passthrough).
You literally said

> So, you argue some value exists in __Bitcoin__ as a political tool to subvert dictatorial influence; what exactly does that do to justify massive compute requiring fees 10-100x greater than the transaction value and associated use of real-world energy?

So yes, you're wrong about Bitcoin having such fees.

> the transactions on these chains having an extremely significant scam rate

Sure, let's re-assert the power of authoritarian regimes over their people because some people don't do their due diligence. Once again, someone argues that completely unrelated individuals should be punished for the bad-decision making of others.
They definitely need a brushing after smoothies, but apart from that I'm not the most worried about bacterial growth inside them. They're not used for cooking, so as long as there isn't significant biomass inside there it doesn't feel too dangerous - bacteria multiplying in food and manufacturing toxins is the thing I'm really careful about. I imagine people routinely get similar exposure to bacteria from many other sources they don't even think about.
We can still build them now. It's a question of whether we're allowed.
Self promotion is off-putting in a thread like this.
Roam user here. My experience is that it's not about the graph as a whole, it's about the neighborhoods. I never look at the graph view and I don't meaningfully use the global structure of the graph for anything, but I find that projects develop local neighborhood graphs that are definitely useful.

The thing Roam-style note taking software accomplish is letting you be productive by organizing bottom-up rather than being forced to decide what notebook/tab/folder any given new thing needs to go in. It's very pragmatic and low-bullshit in that sense. Being able to make references to other nodes (rather than only to other pages) is also very pragmatically useful in my experience (e.g. refer to a TODO I wrote in my weekly TODO list when writing my daily TODO list, so when I check off a daily TODO it's also checked off in the weekly list), and I never saw anything like this in pre-Roam tools like OneNote.

I get that other people operate differently and are obsessively "gardening" their graphs and searching around for connections to make. I don't do any of that. Doesn't seem valuable for me in particular, though maybe if I were a professional writer, I could imagine it being useful.
getting a job where I couldn't shirk programming duties and being forced to program every day for at least a year to meet deadlines
If these chemicals aren't banned in the US, then people are going to use that as evidence that they're not harmful at the amounts you'd get from using a straw. I'd point more to the government if we're trying to assign blame.
Great. Ordered some lunch from a kind of hippie dippie place today and they gave me one of those straws. Oh well, part of a balanced microplastics diet I guess. I'm sure my years of drinking bottled water has been far worse for me.
By “bull in a china shop” does he really mean “the elephant in the corner”?
> The industrial sector accounts for 30% of global emissions and roughly 37% of global energy consumption. This huge share of climate-changing emissions from one sector is an equally huge opportunity for emissions reduction on a global scale.

It's quite literally a rounding error. You're focusing on trivialities compared to actual polluters.

It doesn't really matter whether it's accessible to regular people. Container ships aren't exactly accessible to regular people either.

Eth most definitely doesn't run off AWS. Way too expensive lol.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/decarbonizing-heavy-i...
etherium solves 0 of those problems so it’s a moot point
That's true. But I doubt people would report their bank statement emails as spam. I think something's going wrong with a new update in the backend...
That’s ‘cause he didn’t. Trump defeated himself.
It's amazing how much people care how other people spend their money. It's their money, if they want to spend it on ape pictures so be it. Nothing to see here, move along.
I’ve seen MAAM being used.
I don't really understand how a "$25 NFT with a $3300 transaction fee" can exist. Isn't that a $3325 NFT? The purchaser was willing to pay that.

It seems like the main difference is that the seller didn't receive what the purchaser was willing to pay, creating a rather unique dead-weight loss. Wouldn't it be better if the seller received the additional $3300?