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> Anything delivered by Costco doesn't come in plastic bags, but reused boxes. Order from Costco, then, as they seem to have fixed it already.

Personally I think people should avoid grocery delivery unless they really need it. In any case, many people don't have access to Costcos.

> Landfills are bad, and we should strive to have less of them, not more.

Landfills are a practical solution for waste production levels we have now. Striving to have less of them is the right thing to do but it's not happening tomorrow.

> If these recyclables come from the US, shouldn't the US strive to send less of them?

Sure, one solution is to take responsibility for long-term management of our wasteful consumption and put them in landfills stateside instead of shipping them around the world. Then we can reduce our waste over time and, hopefully, find ways to clean up these landfills.
Completely disagree here. Even by your definition, a bag used for groceries is being given a new life if its reused as a trash bag!

The biggest saving on waste comes from a single re-use. If every plastic bag was used twice we'd need half as many. (If course a third re-use is better, only need 1/3 as many etc.)
> Landfills are bad, and we should strive to have less of them, not more.

They are not as bad as is generally thought. Landfills are essentially big compost piles, and the heat generated from decaying organic material breaks down almost everything, including most plastics. The few things that are left, such as metals, are actually valuable enough to extract in a lot of cases. The primary thing to worry about is lead contamination but this is less of an issue now that lead has been removed from most consumer products. Compare that to recycling, which is extremely energy intensive and has its own impacts on climate change, while landfills can actually generate a net positive amount of energy.
I'd agree with this 10-15 years ago. But in the past decade the single use bags most places use are too thin and fragile, carrying most simple things puncture a hole in them. Walmart bags basically have holes in them from just opening them up.
...yes. Reddit is a social media website. HN is a small, niche social media website.
He's also alluding to the US president's age, which many consider too old. Even with the gaffes he is renowned for, there are questions about his mental capacity, especially considering the stress of the job. So the idea is something like he can read what is written, but has a hard time when there is no script.

I think much of the population agrees that many of our politicians are too old and that we live in a Gerontocracy. To the extent this is felt outside of the US, for others and their countries, I do not know.
To me, this kind of thought is mostly equivalent to creationists who say Evolution "is just a theory". When scientific findings contradict our strongly held beliefs, we often choose our beliefs.

That said, it's important to separate Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.

Microeconomics is a solid Hard Science which has helped us understand many important things. Macroeconomics, OTOH, is a very difficult field, in part because the object under study is aware of the findings, and adjusts to it.
Renault Zoe is relatively low-tech, and it has failed EuroNCAP.
I have certainly pirated things, but I never made a real habit or practice of it. Mostly it was because I found there was no way to get what I wanted legally or conveniently, usually because of bullshit "windowing" practices.

As an example: at my house, my wife and I mostly only watch things together. We don't spend a lot of time in front of the TV, and so the time we DO spend that way is intentional, and pulls from a list of stuff we BOTH like.

Our tastes are not in perfect accord, though, so there are a few things she watches when I'm working late, and there are some movies I save for when she's out of town or otherwise occupied. One of those was the critically acclaimed Sicario.

Well, when I sat down to watch it when she was camping with a pal, I discovered that it was no longer available to rent online. Or buy. It had been "windowed" out for some reason.

Fuck. That.

20 minutes later, I had it. I wanted to pay for it, but there was no option to do so.

Come to think of it, the same thing happened 20 years ago or so with Battlestar Galactica. For some reason, the rightsholder wasn't releasing the prior season on DVD or digitally until substantially AFTER the new season started airing. This meant that for latecomers like us, it was more or less impossible to "catch up" before the last season started, which is crazy. Again, we WOULD have paid, but they weren't taking money, so we got the content anyway so we could watch the current season in sync with everyone else.

I do wish we still had the "long tail" that Netflix initially offered, but digital delivery leaves rightsholders with, well, too many rights. Right of first sale meant Netflix could rent a given DVD or BluRay in perpetuity, and the copyright owner couldn't do anything about it. With digital delivery, that's no longer true, and it creates crazy situations like the above.
You need to do a lot more reading if you think equality of opportunity and equality of output are the same. Saying that everyone should have equal rights and treatment under the law is a far cry from saying that everyone deserves the same outcomes in life.

I assume that you're conflating equal opportunity( via rights and treatment under the law) with equal starting points, but they are far from the same things. Equal starting points are going to be impossible, literally a pipe dream without creating some form of dystopian nightmare that prevents people from having children, and instead farms genetically equal embryos who are then raised by the state. Which will also necessitate monoculture and risk humanity due to the lack in individual variation.
> As a person in long term recovery from alcohol and drug addiction

What has this got to do with anything? Dysthymia isn't an addiction or "horrible circumstances". It isn't even particularly severe, it's just moderately meh all the time. Most people don't seek treatment because they assume it's just part of their personality: "I'm just a negative person" or "I just don't like making friends" etc.

You don't have a clue what you are talking about. Studies that say that dysthymia remission is 50% define remission as "receiving 'Tools to handle life'". It's about coping, not about treatment.

One who has dysthymia may never have long term responses like a person without it, there is no reason to expect it, and we have very little idea how to treat it long term. The best we can do is improve the person's response to dysthymic feelings.

Just because you recovered from alcoholism doesn't immediately translate to dysthymia. They call it "permanent depression" for a reason.
"Solutions brought to you by the government" tend to do the opposite of what they intended. I shall remain skeptical.
and you don't need bandwidth for netflix?
Grow your base and recruit potential volunteers, speakers, advocates, and mentors. Social media can be a powerful community building tool for nonprofits.it also happens becuase of facebook status try at https://dislyke.com/fb-status/
I like that you described some of the underlying APIs you used and picked something to try and do well, and it seems like you did. I also like macOS native software.

I do struggle to understand the value proposition though. I've been using Bear for outlining, admittedly smallish lists. It's macOS native, supports things like pasting in images, video, markdown, checkboxes, etc.. and is supported by a tiny subscription fee or free. I've never run into performance problems.

Some people just want to work on massive outlines with either text or links and nothing else, move those list items around frequently, and to those people $30 might be cheap. As a product it seems tricky to me, but I'd love to hear from anyone who's the perfect customer, and how this hits the mark for you. As in, what the hell do you plan day-to-day?

Also I quite like the icon, and the nature of it being incredibly simple. In a sense, it reminds me of the first version of IA Writer.
It's almost like there is a severe logical flaw in the common USian approach of just banning singular things, and then hoping that "the market" will fill in a constructive solution.
The free/proprietary distinction is only irrelevant for small-ish projects, on the order of a few months, where "good" is a one-dimensional measure in terms of features the application has: The risk of the software maintaining company being bankrupt in this timespan is low.
A typical mid-level employee at a company might be very happy with such tools, especially because they are usually new & shiny too.

Now imagine you are part of a team that wants to solve BIG problem, over a LONG timescale.
Suddenly the picture becomes more nuanced as software features aren't the only thing that matters anymore.
Would you really want to make the success of your project dependent on a third-party software company whose objectives aren't aligned with yours and that can take the tools you use away from you on a whim?
FOSS makes a very strong point there. The interface may not make you cry and melt your eyes with shiny buttons, but you can be sure that years down the road the software will still be there and you can read your old files no matter what, as the file formats are open. You can depend on the software, and,.more importantly, you can assess and proactively mitigate the failure modes in advance!
(E.g. the tex files from the 90s that you can find on some researchers website can still be compiled today; I imagine the entire research community would be significantly hindered if they would have to deal with the zoo of formats of proprietary software, rtf, doc, docx etc. In this sense FOSS can even act as the catalyst for establishing a standard, as is the case for tex files in domains of science.)

Though I agree that for image editing specifically, typically projects are probably not longer than you few months, so in this you case I imagine you could go without issues with the flow of new and proprietary software.
>"This law is a huge inconvenience for most people in the state. How can I tell? Because from my experience, the overwhelming majority of people choose not to walk around with a bag full of reusable bags."

Wow. Excellent analysis! Haha. Figure. It. Out. You're an adult. I keep a bag of bags in my car, and for when I walk to the grocery store, I have another bag of bags. So far my life hasn't changed much.
It could actually be the skin, it's designed to block rays, it might also have a different x-ray opacity, and that can be judged from the whole picture in particular where there's several layers of melanin, or there's transitions from melanin to very little like on hands and feet. Eyelids too, if they're retracted. And at the perimeter, the profile, different angle for the ray.

And the intention is for melanin to block x-rays too, block all rays, not just UV but deeper. Well it has a spectrum, that cannot be denied. And if you're taking all the pixels in an image, there might be aggregate effects as I described. You get a few million pixels, let AI use every part of the buffalo of the information of the picture, and you can get skin color through x-rays.

The question is what this says about Africans with light-skin strictly because of albinism, ie lack of pigmentation, but otherwise totally African.
The question is about incrementality. in those same hours you played CoD, do you think (assuming the endpoint as you suggest is being a softeng) you could have learned more by practicing softeng (even if for half the time)
envy: "a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck"

So it's just a feeling. What you do with it (actions) is up to you, most people don't act upon those feelings in any noticeable way.

But if we are being honest with ourselves constant feelings of envy often do lead to a deteriorating relationship (usually in the form of the person feeling envious choosing to distance himself from whomever he's feeling envious of), simply for the fact that feeling envious feels like crap - and when you are feeling envious of a person you actually care about it feels double crap (you feel envious and guilty at the same time).
What I wish for is that governments hadn't sat on their hands when ordinary people were being scammed into these things in the first place. The entire cryptocurrency ecosystem represents a massive failure to regulate, and a massive victory of technical flim-flam salesmen in bamboozling the governments in the world into being afraid to regulate in case they strangled something valuable, when in fact they were allowing normal folks to get ripped off massively.

If "regular people" are losing money, it's because "regular people" have been duped and regulators have been duped. It's sad they're losing money, but it's also entirely predictable.

But do you know what? After years of being told I'm just a jealous idiot who doesn't understand cryptocurrency or blockchains by the oh-so-smart 'investors' in this space, I'm going to enjoy a bit of shadenfreude here, whatever you think of that.

If the whole space collapses I will celebrate - hopefully fewer regular people will be duped in future.
I don't think they tried very hard at all. I see no meaningful use of modern explanation tools.

There are lots of known ways in which people of different races are different physiologically. Probably even more unknown ways.

There could also be differences in imaging technology used in different communities, as others have suggested. I'd be a bit surprised if something like that could create such a strong signal but it's on the table.
Does Dynalist support OPML? Nice thing about OPML is you can be in all camps at once. Or use Dynalist as iOS solution. I'm still looking for best outliner to recommend for Bike files on iOS until I get my act together and make iOS version of Bike.
> privacy and security

This is where I'm confused. What are the actual advantages that cryptocurrency provides that are superior to the Fed and similar central banks? So far, in practice, they seem to lack quite a lot, in terms of actual security. And, in terms of privacy, I don't understand how crypto provides any real-world advantages to most people that banks don't provide, unless you want to operate outside the law. What am I missing here?
> volatile assets

It's backed by a multi-collateral set of assets. If they drop below the vault threshold for over-collateralization, they will be automatically auctioned off.
Esther Duflo won the Nobel prize for implementations of randomized controlled trials in a very non-wicked way. Experimental economics is a mature and active field.
Yeah, I think it's mostly that, but also as I just commented in another thread:

> economics is a psuedoscience like all social sciences and astrology. They've predicted absolutely nothing of value. It's just people studying these things prior to them becoming scientific, like people did with alchemy and whatnot before chemistry.
The point of stablecoins isn't to be interesting, it's to be stable. Be as boring as possible, please.
How is the government (a publicly elected body that is subject to being held to account by that same public) telling when you can spend you money somehow worse than a private company (without any accountability) deciding their shitcoin is no longer allowed to trade or that they don't fancy pegging it properly anymore?
I was with you at the beginning but let's be clear that algorithmic stablecoins are indeed scams. It's quite possible to create a perpetual motion machine, if you just forget friction exists, or entropy, or some other subtle law of physics. In the same way, algorithmic stablecoins let you sell nothing for something just by making the process complicated enough.
Have a look at Apple Arcade.
Any chance you’ll be releasing this on SetApp too (like TaskPaper)?
Anything that is not fast fashion is welcomed. Fast fashion is morally corrupt and preys on younger generation to fit in with the latest trends. I bought 30 black t-shirts and 15 black tracksuit bottoms and never have to make the decision of what to wear.
Canada would essentially lock down financial system access for members of an unpopular demonstration.

Sanctions are literally "your money no longer exists". Or it does, but we refuse to allow you to transact with it. Financial access is a hugely powerful diplomatic/political tool.
"cotton bags should be used 131 times"

And? Most of the reusable bags in my house are 3-5 years old. We even have a couple that we brought with us when we moved home 11 years ago. Using them hundreds of times is the whole point.
Except that it doesn't.

Tough brown paper and cardboard is made from the trashiest of trashy recycled paper material.

All you're doing by eliminating paper bags or cardboard is reducing the number of times that a tree will benefit anyone from the time it is cut to the time it is either land-filled or burned.

If you want to see a larger fraction of paper and pulp products "go around again" then you need to do things that increases the market size of the low end products that get made with the source materials that can't be made into anything else.
you can't halt Ethereum, the only central authority is the dao
Certainly you can find cases of government overreach if you look hard enough but they aren't common. The USD is backed by faith in the US Government, and it would be financial suicide for the wealthy to destroy that faith by just randomly locking people out of their bank accounts.

Meanwhile people get "locked out" or just lose their crypto far more regularly. Lost passwords, crashed drives, hacked online wallets, rug pulls, crashing values, fake "pegs", misplaced decimals during transactions, etc. 20% if bitcoin is forever inaccessible, and that percent will only go up, never down.

The "you can be locked out of your fiat" cohort are the climate deniers of the financial world "If the earth is warming why was there a record low temperature somewhere yesterday?". "Your fiat isn't safe - just look how those donations to the truckers in Canada were reversed!"
But "dead weight", "fairness", and the desirability of time stability (weighed against other considerations) are all judgement calls.
But that excuse justifies much more than digital piracy. You don't "have to pay for" a car if you can steal one.
Correct comments should not be downvoted.
There is a sort of murky Autism spectrum label called PDA or Persistent Demand Avoidance. I came across it trying to work out something with my son. It’s not officially recognized, but it does present a novel variation which has its own unique obstacles. Worth looking up perhaps.
I can't find any evidence that all laws hit everyone in society equally.

An obvious case of this is minimum square footage laws on residential housing. They seem to show up in many areas across the south east United States. Setting a minimum square footage of 1500 sq. ft. clearly does not impact the millionaire building a 6500 sq. ft. home with a pool and a 4 car detached garage. But someone trying to purchase their first home does get impacted by it, as they probably don't need 3 bedrooms but can't find housing with anything less.
Nice. A quick way that I've used is a google slide setup with colored text boxes, but you don't get a nice data array back like you do here.

I noticed that "Export results" only outputs the first unnamed group if the user doesn't name all the groups. Looks like it try's to use the empty string as a key multiple times. You could instead have it be {[{name: "mygroup", values: []}]} or something where it doesn't matter if you have duplicate or empty group names. Or show an error message to the user on empty/duplicates. Can't trust participants to always complete the task correctly.
You're right. It was legalized although you can't legally purchase it. I'll correct the piece.

> But you can’t purchase weed without a prescription or sell it without a license until state regulators write rules for recreational use of the drug.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/new-york-has-legaliz...
> You can still use a heat pump that takes the heat from the exhaust air to warm the fresh air

Unless I'm misunderstanding part of this proposed setup, I'm pretty sure this doesn't work. The higher efficiency of heat pumps comes from the fact that the outdoors is an effectively infinite (for the purposes of a house) source of temperature differential. You can only move as much heat as exists, so you can't use a heat pump to multiply a finite heat source.
Serverless Debugger: Debug Real AWS Lambda Functions
Do you litter your entire house or allow others to do so?

How you deal with it is make it explicit that memes (or at least off-topic memes) are not allowed (and even excessive usage of on-topic meme is frowned upon), heavily enforce that rule and invite people who want to meme to join a meme server.

At least that's how it's done in a ~10K member server and it has worked well so far. Plus it avoids lowering the discussion level to meme-level.
My gym has a dispenser of plastic bags for wet swim trunks, "made from recycled ocean plastic waste". (They're thin and easily torn, but if I'm careful, I can reuse the same one for a month or two before it wears out.)

The same material could probably be used to make sturdier shopping bags if they increased the thickness and added handles. Exceptions to these anti-plastic bag ordinances should be added for this type of recycled bag, to encourage its use.

Similarly, make an exception for recycled paper bags. Just banning all disposable bags seems overly broad and counter-productive.
(Wow I tripped over my phone keyboard writing these two comments. lol)
OP probably only has 5-6 drives at most (more likely 3x 10TB), which should draw 15W-20W each _at most_, and that's at 100% utilization not reading a small file.

Also, OP included a Usenet subscription in their costs so they might not be torrenting at all.
I don't hate crypto per-se. Nor am I particularly gloating about it. However I hope that the silver lining here is that this will be yet another in my evergrowing list of examples to share when I advise people not to get involved in crypto. It's not a safe environment and the people getting hurt don't deserve to get hurt. The only weapon I have to help more people not get hurt is to use these cautionary tales to help inform them of the risk. The track record of crypto indicates that right now many governments are better at the whole monetary policy thing than any blockchain.

Will blockchains fix these problems and mitigate the worst facets of human nature? Maybe, but I have no reason to believe they will right now and every argument that they will is rooted in a faith based statement about the inevitability of technilogical progress. A faith I don't subscribe to and therefore is unconvincing to me.
That part of the YAML 1.2 spec is in conflict with reality, though. The base of YAML 1.1 documents is large enough that a backwards-incompatible change to default behavior is for practical purposes impossible.

YAML 1.1 was released in 2005, and 1.2 in 2009 -- only four years later. But here we are, in 2022, and YAML 1.1 is still the default (in many cases, only) version supported. That's why the "Norway problem" persists -- it's not possible for the parser to know whether the author of an un-versioned YAML document containing "a: no" intended it to parse the same as {"a": false} or {"a": "no"}.

Python (PyYAML) doesn't support 1.2 yet: https://github.com/yaml/pyyaml/issues/116

Ruby (Psych) ditto -- I can't even find a tracking issue to enable it.

Go (go-yaml) is a mixture of YAML 1.1 and 1.2, depending on the author's preferences.

Also, as a rough guideline, you can't have a backwards-incompatible revision of a versioned spec declare that it's the new default version, because that breaks all existing users.