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We have two options; intentionally iterate away from this society or it will collapse for SOME reason; bigotry, environment catastrophe…

Physical laws do not give a fuck about our philosophy. Accept figurative death, cowards.

Steal from people who intentionally changed the rules to deflate our wealth. The laws and their interpretation are no accident.

What this debate is is deference to the elderly or the youth.

Tacit ageism against the future or well reasoned action against the past.

Gramps; you had a good run. Bye.

Edit: I have an MSc in elastic structures, used to work in high powered switching equipment. I understand rates of change in high energy systems like a planets climate. This is not an emotional argument from a place of ignorance.
My understanding is there were 3 big failings in this for Australia.

1) Selling Telstra. The whole issue never would have happened if the govt still owned. Thanks Mr Howard

2) Forcing local Labor requirement in the tender. This was Labor union movement trying to spread money with the roll-out but made Testra drop out as until this they were always guaranteed to win. Thanks Mr Rudd

3) The 'we dont need fibre well use mixed technology'. That's were it truly became a waste of money and potential. Thanks Abbott & Turnbull.

Such a failure for Australia. And as someone now using Starlink, so glad Musk came along and saved us bad internet people.
The url works in Firefox, it might not in other browsers because they nested bold and underline tags:

<a href="https://web.snapchat.com/"><b><u>web.snapchat.com</u></b></a>

(as the other person mentioned probably because they used a rich text editor).
More than a third (not counting "it depends" respondents)?! I guess I define "fringe" as something other than "mainstream" but your definition may vary.

Is the agreement by the largest anti-abortion organization in the country to deny her healthcare in line with their constituents' beliefs?
Blinking repeatedly at the idea that Okinawa is in the “South Pacific.”
I gave a couple to friends. (I think one of them ended up becoming target practice.)

The rest got thrown out after I moved out.
but elite's aren't really the ones calling the shots. Everytime I investigate some political issue, no matter how disgusting or crazy the idea (housing issues, transportation, prop 13, zoning/building regulations, etc, etc), you'll find huge swaths of the voting population that agree with what's going on. Politicians are mainly just responding to voter demand, as it turns out. If anything, the issue is the voting masses. And, it seems to be like that at all levels of government, from federal, to state to city, all way down to my insane HOA (not technically govt I know).
> War happens when one of two nations assumes that they are more capable of winning than another.

That’s only part of the equation - said country needs to have a desire or need to go to war as well.
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When your caterpillar morphs into a butterfly, harping on how your butterfly is "failing to thrive according to standard, well-established caterpillar metrics used globally for the past thousand years and certified as super duper accurate for caterpillars by many respected institutions." is basically gibberish that says damn near nothing about the state of the butterfly's actual health for which we have zero established metrics, having never seen one before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22028732

I will add a quote that was popular in urban planning circles I used to hang in:

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Not quite, there are two basic strategies either make a high but profitable bid to try and win or make a low bid on the off chance nobody does the first strategy.
The 9 factors:

Move naturally. The world’s longest-lived people do not pump iron, run marathons, or join gyms. Instead, they live in environments that constantly nudge them into moving without thinking about it. They grow gardens and do not have mechanical conveniences for house and yard work.

Purpose. The Okinawans call it Ikigai and the Nicoyans call it plan de vida; for both, it translates to “why I wake up in the morning.” Knowing your sense of purpose is worth up to 7 years of extra life expectancy.

Downshift. Even people in the Blue Zones experience stress. Stress leads to chronic inflammation, associated with every major age-related disease. What the world’s longest-lived people have that others do not are routines to shed that stress. Okinawans take a few moments each day to remember their ancestors; Adventists pray; Ikarians take a nap; and Sardinians do happy hour.

80% Rule. Hara hachi bu—the Okinawan 2500-year old Confucian mantra said before meals reminds them to stop eating when their stomachs are 80% full. The 20% gap between not being hungry and feeling full could be the difference between losing weight or gaining it. People in the Blue Zones eat their smallest meal in the late afternoon or early evening, and then, they do not eat any more the rest of the day.

Plant slant. Beans, including fava, black, soy, and lentils, are the cornerstone of most centenarian diets. Meat—mostly pork—is eaten on average only 5 times per month. Serving sizes are 3 to 4 oz, about the size of a deck of cards.

Wine @ 5. People in all Blue Zones (except Adventists) drink alcohol moderately and regularly. Moderate drinkers outlive nondrinkers. The trick is to drink 1 to 2 glasses per day (preferably Sardinian Cannonau wine), with friends and/or with food. And no, you cannot save up all week and have 14 drinks on Saturday.

Belong. All but 5 of the 263 centenarians interviewed belonged to some faith-based community. Denomination does not seem to matter. Research shows that attending faith-based services 4 times per month will add 4 to 14 years of life expectancy.

Loved ones first. Successful centenarians in the Blue Zones put their families first. This means keeping aging parents and grandparents nearby or in the home (it lowers disease and mortality rates of children in the home too.). They commit to a life partner (which can add up to 3 years of life expectancy) and invest in their children with time and love. (They’ll be more likely to care for aging parents when the time comes.)

Right tribe. The world’s longest lived people chose—or were born into—social circles that supported healthy behaviors, Okinawans created moais—groups of 5 friends that committed to each other for life. Research from the Framingham Studies2 shows that smoking, obesity, happiness, and even loneliness are contagious. So the social networks of long-lived people have favorably shaped their health behaviors.
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> Pay close attention to the attempts to build semiconductor manufacturing in the USA. This will fail for the same reason - the government is paying big money, but for the wrong things. It should be paying the big money when the first production quality wafers are delivered in real products. There's a big fail coming up there because they don't heed the lesson of the railway.

Is that how it is structured in the EU?
As I mentioned elsewhere, words are read as if they are hieroglyphs [1].

[1] https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/

You used monadic interface, instead you may use applicative interface.

liftM2 then become liftA2 and what you exemplify above (if I understand that correctly) will render as (g <$> f <*> (i <$> h <*> j)). It is unusual, because "g" goes before "f", but not much unusual. Note the explicit pure function application in the use of <$> and explicit apply <*>. I would like you and other readers compare that to the implicit apply in the "Are ours smaller than theirs?" paper I provided link above.

That translation shows what APL hides in its implicits.

Let me repeat. APL will certainly help you with computations over arrays but will most probably fail you big time with parsing of something like Ada. Haskell won't fail you in both cases at the expense of slightly more verbose program text.

Tacit programming exposes the need to "normalize" programs, to express them with as less function argument rearragement as possible. In stack based languages this is guided by the dependence on the stack(s) (data, return, control, whatever you invented). In point-free programming in Haskell, this is guided by argument capture and propagation. In K (I mostly studied it), as I understand it, tacit programming is guided by the implicit operations upon the stack of actual operations.

These variants of tacit programming are mostly the same, just some cases are more easily expressible or some operations conveniently assumed to be implicit.
The outcome for citizens is the same as in soviet style communism, except in communism the state enterprises were supposed to serve the commons. In this case they don't even have to pretend to.
They do everything but release a DAMN DARK MODE for Android
A dialect of Lisp. Choose your flavor, though I recommend Clojure.

I would say this counts because the language itself is programmable. The lisp I use can be tailored to exactly how I want to write code, just like my vim setup.

Anyone who's been using CL for the past couple of decades basically has their own dialect on their hands, given all the tools they've built around the standard ones.

I'm not saying this is the best way to collaborate with code that others need to muck with, just as I wouldn't expect anyone to be able to do anything of use in my vim setup. It's for you.
Many if not most philosophies and religions arise precisely to answer this very question. It's possible to live happily and healthily without growth.

People will always work because work needs to be done. Food, shelter, power, all of it requires active work by people. No stealing necessary. The laissez-faire rhetoric of "no growth, nobody to work" is exactly the problem mindset this economist is trying to address.
Right but the world is a bigger place than that of capital, customers, investors, and companies. That's the problem. As an example, there are trees, which is a class of thing that doesn't fit into any of those above categories. And even worse it doesn't really work, it just works maybe amortized over time for people who start far enough ahead.
Ironically, economists know that people aren't obsessed with growth as much as just acting according to their own nature...
People here also can calculate Pearson's coefficient between GDP and energy usage and understand by themselves that this is bullshit and that energy efficiency is less than minor in the grand scheme of things.

And those who did not brush up their math know about the theorical max efficiency of Carnot engines and can evaluate without calculation how much growth must be driven by efficiency increase and how much is driven by energy use increase.
I mean, we did increase oil production by roughly 2-3 percent per year. If Carnot engines efficiency had risen as much as growth in the last 50 years, we would have those infinite energy motors...

And there is probably a lot of other way to reach that conclusion without thinking about it. I don't understand why people don't just think about it.
I only care about price and quality of service. I don’t have any ideological axe to grind about where the profits go. When I was in NZ, their privately owned telco infrastructure serviced my needs very much to my satisfaction.
Why aren't they investing massively into solar power? It's one of the cheapest energy sources currently available, and since a lot of the energy in Texas goes into cooling when the sun is shining, the load should perfectly match the production time.
and that's why most of the Republican party tried to overthrow the election in 2020, including the wife of Clarence Thomas who continued to rule on cases relevant to the overthrow attempt. Spare me the lecturing.

not to mention Mitch McConnell stole a supreme court seat.
You're misunderstanding the argument. Hours worked can remain the same while production and wealth increase. There are many jobs this isn't true of, but there are enough where it is true that that it can drive up housing costs. (A few rich people wouldn't be enough to do that, so there have to be lots of people.)

A better counter to this argument is that national averages are misleading and irrelevant for many people.
I can recommend this timeline of the history in New Zealand:
http://www.wordworx.co.nz/KiwitelcoTimeline.htm
http://www.wordworx.co.nz/Kiwitelcotimeline2.htm
http://www.wordworx.co.nz/Kiwitelcotimeline3.htm

In short; since privatization in the 90s, the spending in R&D went to 1% (median in other countries is 7%). Rising costs, and lagging on implementing DSL in 00s. OECD list it among the most expensive countries to own a landline, and cellphone. Then, lagging in DSL+, and then, lagging in Fibre. Bottom of the OECD list.

This is for a country that in the 50s, 60s, and 70s had an amazing copper infrastructure, and a computer and technology univerisity sector even.
The distribution cost of selling software is far lower than selling a physical product. For example, to manufacture and sell cars, you currently have to worry about supply chain considerations and chip shortages. You don't need to worry about this to sell software to an interested purchaser.
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>>Families will lose their vacation planning that they started 4 months ago.

Excuse my ignorance, but do people really do this? I use Slack for work, and have no desire to use it for personal reasons or with family. Especially when there are free messaging services that have fewer limitations.
NSA just buying up whole telecoms.....
> Using this logic, why don’t more countries attack, say Costa Rica, which doesn’t even have a military?

You might want to read up on the "Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance". Essentially, "the rest of the Americas".

That mostly works because the set of potential aggressors is small. (Nicaragua and Panama). OK, fine, the US might want to, but they're close enough partners that they don't need to.
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> What it is the barrier to perpetual innovation?

Physics and humans shortsightedness.

There are limited resources on Earth and by the looks of it we're stuck here for the long haul.
20-30 Kg is amazing! Even more if you managed to motivate yourself every 2-3 years instead of 5. It'll probably become progressively harder to lose that amount as you age, though.
There are many fibre companies, each with a monopoly in a geographic area. For the largest Chorus the government own non-voting shares and gave them a loan, and for the others I believe the government had a 50% stake originally. That all might have changes over the years.
I grew up in the Loma Linda area as a Seventh-day Adventist (though my family left Adventism when I was a teenager after reading some books that explained why some of its core teachings are unbiblical). My grandparents all lived past 90, and my great-grandfather died at 100.

Epidemiologically speaking, I think SDAs in general live longer because they don't smoke, don't drink, and don't eat meat -- and have a religious community in which doing so is against God's law. It also doesn't hurt that they keep Sabbath, which means everyone who doesn't work in healthcare or emergency services has a mandatory day off, no work allowed.

Smog in the whole Inland Empire area is still pretty bad, especially in the summer. It gets pretty hot in the summer, not very cold in the winter - a lot like LA, but hotter :)
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I feel like I'm starting to get an idea that this agency-obligation construct seems to be a important to the reliability of the analogy for many people. While I don't share the same sensibilities, I'm interested in how it came to be important for people. I get that from a narrative, or a just-world sense, it's easy to see how two comport, but I'm curious how people other people view this and why is it so important? Is it something that "just makes sense" or does it follow from first principles, and if so which ones?

It might help to analogize with some other examples: say for instance I get into a car crash with another driver and am compensated by an insurance agency. It makes no difference to me that the money comes from the insurance account rather than the other person involved. The end result is the same for me - I can repair the damage. Would it seem as though other people are much more concerned in the other driver paying the obligation themselves? Or perhaps there are other reasons?

The more that I think about this, the stranger it gets. It feels like a categorical imperative-type argument to justify their own obligated existence.
They still store the message history, don't they? If you upgrade you will be able to go back further and see those messages.
I don't think you bring the kid with you.
If I have no choice about the ubiquitous surveillance, I'd at least like some positives like stopping the school shootings.

As it is, they're watching, but clearly not doing anything useful.
Or you could use a libre and self-hostable chat platform (like Element on Matrix), and get rich discussion that costs little or nothing to keep around permanently.
You don't need growth in zero-sum areas or areas that would make us face environmental collapse for people to want to survive and see their needs met.

Perishable goods still exist. People will still work to create perishable goods to consume. They will still change cultures and create solutions in areas where the game is not (pseudo-)zero-sum.

You also can't grow everything forever, as real estate is showing. If your concern is people stealing, that's an obvious target.
The shorts "shelf" as they call it has an X in the top right that hides them entirely.
That's why it's wise to build both solar and wind, as they behave antiproportional most of the time. When there's more sun, there is less wind and vice versa.
Well but the ones who aren't loud and don't bring it up constantly, you wouldn't know that about them.
And even today the largest private landowner in California is Catellus Development Corporation, which was one of the companies spun off from the railroads. They were given way more land than necessary to build the tracks.
But the point is that this privileges a small percentage of the population with outsized political sway so the net effect is the same. People acting in their own interests doesn’t make the end result objectively correct or stop us rethinking incentives.
And it’s gotten worse, apparently.

Had to use Word and Excel for a few days, and there’s an obvious latency to almost any action, on a multi core multi GB computer.

Why? It shouldn’t have any delay, period.

I’m slowly forming the opinion that it’s been downhill since the Ribbon revamp. Office 2000 was pretty good, and aggressively snappier than 2016.
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> And there's almost nothing to do about it- that's the way things currently "work" and it seems insurmountable to do anything about it.

A small handful of the super-rich have already pointed out the only thing "we" can do about it: revolution. Inequality that continues for too long leads to overthrow. The rich get eaten, the poor become a rabble, monarchy/autocracy/totalitarianism eventually returns, and the cycle starts over. That's where we're headed. The funny thing is, our social ills might be the cause before our economic ones are.
And yet, even with all of this surveillance, we still have mass shootings every five days.
Oh, they aren't very good Catholics then! Those numbers are much higher amongst practicing Catholics, and their self-reported views on abortion are very mainstream, not on the fringes at all.
In Ontario there was the Dryden Municipal Telephone System and the Thunder Bay Telephone Company (now Tbaytel). DMTS was sold but Tbaytel remains owned by the City of Thunder Bay and provides service to various parts of Northwestern Ontario.

And Terra Nova Tel which provided phone service in parts of Newfoundland was built on the legacy of the former Dominion of Newfoundland Department of Posts and Telephones by Canadian National while the latter was still a federal crown corporation.
I think we can separate innovation from growth.

I think we can agree that we have resource limitations (whether it be livable space or ploughable land).

Modern economies work on the premise of growing markets. Whether creating new markets or taking over old markets. With a steady state or shrinking population, you can value add and you can innovate, but there are no new "China market(s)" to expand into. If growth were not fundamental, then companies would not look to expand beyond their borders (whether local, regional, national or international).

How would companies in modern economies survive if they should predict shrinking markets? Consumerism buys you some time (you need the iPhone umpteenth), at some point a hammer is good enough --with corner-case exceptions.
The best are when people are working in the blown-out remains of something that was once a wonderfully-styled and designed document (if you know what ALT-F9 does, you know the type).

I've spent hours moving over the info into a clean template; it's not worth fighting the blown-out version.
Same dev responsible for http://www.mikktspace.com/ I believe.

Do they still work for Unity?
I believe they were given some amount of land on each side of the track - I think it was a mile but that's a guess.
The issue is that business teaches people how to fish. People can take their own clones from the first clone. If you sell fancy fertilizer eventually people will realize they can get away with regular cheap dry amendments once they realize what they are actually doing with fertilizing.
There should be a program that's easily accessible (not behind lawyer language) that DoD sponsors: We'll buy you a CNC machine, a laptop and a bunch of bar stock on our dime if you produce these parts as per these quality requirements by this date and of this quantity. If we're happy, you can keep the equipment for your next DoD project and you'll get a priority as an experienced vendor (that we invested in).
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32143991.
What about physics prevents perpetual economic growth?

Economic growth isn’t dependent on a certain amount of mass, energy, or entropy.
The latter isn’t a valid argument, because it would suggest the morality of murdering someone depends entirely on how many friends they have

But you’ve hit on my overarching point. The current pro choice argument is largely nonsense because the atheistic position doesn’t have a good answer to the “why is murder wrong” question.

If you don’t consider life sacred, the majority of our legal system unwinds. It gets even worse considering the pro choice cadre is also anti death penalty

The west is only now truly grappling with Nietzsches God is Dead and few realize it
https://archive.ph/7fT1d
In modern (record keeping) times it - might - dissolved due to diet changes.

Nobody disputed that a healthy diet is healthy. And a healthy lifestyle is healthy. Whereby lifestyle is such a broad word that its in fact meaningless.

Maybe the record keeping in Okinawa was correct.

If you look for outliers, you will find outliers.

If you look for correlation, you will find correlation.

Does not mean they are the causation for all the outliers.

So maybe Okinawa just had a lucky streak, which is now over.
I’m very intrigued, as I have a couple ideas for things I could manufacture with my 3D printer + some custom electronics too, but have never invested the time into. Could you by any chance please share what you’re making? Or just a rough idea if you want to protect your niche? Thanks
Nope, but you can probably do something (evil/workable) with common formats like RTF.