skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so. Your point wasn't complicated and I agree with a version of it, but your tone (there and here) is negative/insulting/inflammatory. Debate on social topics is frequently hostile, due to human nature, and often those pining for "debate" (using language that tells an opinion that those on one side of the topic are unintellectual and afraid of debate) are really just wanting to express their emotions as an outlet - i.e. they want the negativity part, not the debate part, or perhaps both. As I said, I think that negativity is why such things are more often flagged on HN than many other platforms.
Save the soil by burning a lot of oil.

Save the soil by spoiling the elephant corridor and building the ashram.

Save the soil by selling the soil on his website. Fraud Jaggi.

Btw, he hates someone calling him Jaggi.
$500 billion..and to think bezos + musk + one google fonder can fund this alone. crazy

but it would probably cost way more than $500 billion
As someone that lives on a farm, I was thinking the same, you're getting a reasonable second hand ute "paddock basher" at that price.

At the same time I love seeing this and where its going. I always think of Luke on his uncles farm in star wars and that farm work will increasing change more to fixing the machines doing the job, than the job itself. And I suspect ongoing electric powered will suit farmers more than anyone as they have the space and lack of neighbours to create power themselves.
That document appears to be an academic exercise into how the UK could reach absolute zero emissions, not net zero but actually completely zero, and doing it using current tech.

This is not anyone's policy nor realistic.

(edit: putting further comments here as I am rate limited and unable to reply -

The paper itself says on page 4 that it is going over and above the climate commitments in law in the UK, and is about absolute zero emissions. It even says the paper is an appeal for public discussion and then goes on to set out what it means by Absolute Zero and how that differs from the current law.

This is not a policy document.

Heathrow's decision to cut flights is due to ongoing covid-related staffing problems, not environmental concerns.)
Is this available on Android? If no, anything similar?
>Cities evolve organically, over decades and centuries. An up-front design like this will never come to be.

Is it really different from what the communists did, except with a more modern design?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning_in_communist_...
It's crazy how they openly admit they're targeting the exception available to PA Arabs yet are fine with the one available to haredi Jews.

I realize it's completely in line with Israel's laws, but imagine if there was a change in US law with a loophole that kept Christian churches tax exempt but closed that loophole for Jewish synagogues. The outrage would be immense. Yet in this story the line is a non-issue, seemingly thrown in to show an added "bonus" of making things worse for PA Arabs.
You don't have to take the benefits away. Just tax ad 50% of land value per year for every residence over 1.1th that anyone owns a stake in. Also treat anyone who doesn't live in the region as if they already have 1 house.

Then there'll be plenty of stock.
Who cares about inflation if your rent/mortgage is 3 or 4 times higher?
That's not a a86 thing; it's to avoid generating a modrm byte that can be decoded as a return instruction[0] for ROP gadgets.

$ zasm -Mx86 -='add al al;add al dl;add dl al'
000000 - 02 C0 00 D0 02 D0 |...... |
$ hex C3 | ndisasm -au -
00000000 C3 ret

0: C2, C3, CA, or CB, so modrm (ax/cx) (dx/bx)
and yet, without any evidence, huawei is being blamed for "spying".... smh
Still is, yup. I have some cash in my pocket right now. I might even buy a sandwich with it later.
That's applicable for the US too.
> You would think that it would be beneficial for everyone to have people stick in a job role for a long time, gain lots of experience, become very good at it

The most standard analysis would tell you that this will cause whatever work they're doing to be done better.

But that's only beneficial if that's the most valuable thing for them to be doing. Having worthless work done well is not obviously better than having valuable work done poorly.
Amazon is such a dumpster fire lately, but where else to go in Canada?
> humanitarian disaster in the Red sea that needs less than $20M more to start offloading the oil

The Safer is at a Yemeni port [1], with recent UN safekeeping attempts having been inhibited by the Houthis. The environmental damage and economic cost will be borne almost entirely by western Yemen. Houthi territory.

TL; DR This is irrelevant to Riyadh’s global standing.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSO_Safer
Thanks - I was actually more confused by the comments as I'm a total beginner to .NET (just interested to learn). This sounds like a more simple/distilled advice in my context.
The conspiratorial answers here are emotionally satisfying, but ultimately wrong. The reason chip makers and OS vendors are adding this is customer demand, by which I mean enterprises. Companies want remote attestation and guaranteed-immutable OS images on their networks, and I honestly can't say I blame them. In a perfect world they could have it and we could somehow firewall it away from the consumer space entirely, but that's not going to happen.
I agree with this. I'm just saying in my opinion, with our current tech, VR and the Metaverse isn't something to be ignored. AR can definitely be bigger but it's important to remember that thousands of knowledge workers have begun their career never interacting with another person in a workplace.

While there used to always be soft pressure to structure your life in the real world, with work and school online, folks who otherwise would be pressured to interact offline might now find interaction online to be just as fulfilling. Or at least equally fulfilling for things like work while saving quality, offline time for friends.
Google launched Carbon language recently. Here is a tutorial, syntax with examples to get you started.
I mused on a very similar concept a few years back, without writing more than a brief treatment. I complicated it a bit for myself by also considering the idea of a periodic delay line loop that has some of the properties of a reblog - a way to circulate ideas repeatedly and add those of others to your own, making the page fresh even when unattended.

But I think the basic idea is fine.
Me too! Wonderful film
It is very easy to track crypto spending. All the information is there on the blockchain for anybody to peruse. The blockchain may not have personal identifications, but you only need to catch a person spending bitcoin once in order to match them to a blockchain wallet.

So if the Israeli government's goal is to track citizen's spending, they will love crypto.
What does a "cryptography currency" bring to the table in regards to this problem that cash hasn't? The fact that it hasn't been banned... yet?

Cash is way less traceable than most cryptocurrencies.
From the 2nd page of the document:

> UK FIRES is a research programme sponsored by the UK Government, aiming to support a 20% cut in the UK’s true emissions by 2050 by placing Resource Efficiency at the heart of the UK’s Future Industrial Strategy.

UK Heathrow recently tried to impose a 50% cut in daily passenger air traffic, from 200,000 to 100,000, https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/emirates-statement-on-...
Reminds me somewhat of a human ant colony. Surprised it isn't underground, but then ecological concerns seem not to be a priority.
Check out Biotech! Lots of software development and machine learning going on with very, very minimal marketing activity involved compared to tech, finance, etc.
This is one of the most trash patterns in software development, because it trains you to ignore in-app notifications altogether, so you end up having a feature that theoretically could've been useful made utterly useless by the fact the real signal is spammed out by a million tedious marketing things.

I don't know if these patterns were pioneered by Chinese software companies, but from at least 5 years ago they were already doing this in pretty much every mobile app. Infuriatingly, my online banking app did it too, so you couldn't even just log on to check your account balance without having a half dozen pop-ups and flashing icons and weird mini-apps trying to get you to click on something almost, but not quite entirely unlike a banking product.

Nowadays I even see it on ordinary western e-commerce websites like Booking.com, or (most recently, post-redesign) the account management page of my mobile provider. I have no idea what the product managers responsible for this are thinking, because it just makes using the app an exercise in disappointment. If I click on a notification I want to get something that genuinely is important to me, not some kind of alert from a half-assed feature I never wanted in the first place.
the mazda3 used to be terrible for rusting but they changed something in 2007, a collegue mazda3 was from 2006 and it rusted so much thast it had almost no resale value, my gf mazda3 from 2008 sill looks new...

p.s. I live in a place were salt used to be applied aggressively in the winter. Nowadays they use more sand and only use salt when the road conditions really requires it. but it's a recent development (3 years at best)
Repurposing a dead spider to build an actuator
I think that was what I wanted to say. Thank you for putting it more clearly.

(In my mind, European craft production results in pricey cars, whereas large volumes only make sense for cheaper stuff.)
Inventing something new and obtuse looks better on a resume.
I based my guesstimate off a rate of 200k EUR (OP says he's in Germany), or 170k GBP. Income tax and NI come up to 65k according to govt website (assuming you're not paying extras like student loan repayment etc). That's an effective rate of 38%.

The article you link is about marginal rates, and these are indeed all over the place, buy that's a different story.

Tax calculator: https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/estimate-paye-take-home-pay/y...
While I disagree with the author's opinion, it was very informative for me.
I used to be like that. The thing that really changed my mentality was spending a few years consulting. Doing that put my brain in CEO/Owner mode instead of "worker bee" mode. The paradigm shift is one you can never go back from. Now, regardless of whether I'm in regular job or a contract job I only work for myself and only make decisions related to my work for my own benefit. Now I can leave a job/contract with zero emotional baggage, even though I sometimes make friendships that live longer than the job/contract.

Even if I'm an "employee" in my mind I'm the owner of a one-man company that sells IAM/development services. Sometimes I have to dump one customer to service another that's going to pay me more money or let me work fewer hours. Work ethic and my personal reputation matters to me, but I don't care one whit if my employer goes belly up.
Actually “Hacker” “News” has been a point of ridicule for quite a while now outside of the bubble here, so arguing that it’s an opinion forge plays right into its notoriety.
Bitcoin is much better in that it's pseudonymous (instead of 100% associated to your real identity) and cannot be censored (instead of your government being able to freeze your funds, only allow transferring from/to X, up to Y amount, etc).
Helium has revenues of $6.5k/month after $365M investment from A16Z
I know the “kids these days” thing is a trope, but I can’t help but think there’s something to it. The younger generations are far more neurotic and anxious.

Yes, every generation laments how things are different but I really can’t help but think the Internet and Social Media are legitimate new factors which are fundamentally different from the kinds of concerns past generations brought up about the youths. (Things like Rock n’ Roll, letting kids watch too much TV, spanking vs. not spanking, that sort of thing).
Yeah. It's horrible. I'm on there because that's where my audience is for now, but I despise both the platform and company to a degree that's hard to express in words.

It's weird. You'd think that inspiring customer loyalty by building a good product would be considered good business, but even as I'm typing that, I'm realizing how comically naive it sounds. Meta and its ilk are 100% about lock-in (and, to no small degree, addiction); you ultimately realize you're not using them because you want to, but because you have to. (Unless, of course, you're willing to sacrifice being able to share your work with friends and build a following. Some people are. I'm not.)

I've found that blocking every user that displays video ads, and reporting the ad as "offensive", does seem to cut down on garbage after a while.
A Twitter reply that really resonated with me:

"Marketing is a zero sum game. You only compete against the marketing of your competition. If no one would market, the result would be pretty much the same. You kind of need it, but it doesn't realy CREATE value." (https://twitter.com/ViconDev/status/1551683678446690306)

Marketing creates "value" for the people doing the marketing. It doesn't create value for the intended consumers. At best they buy something they hadn't heard of and hadn't realized they wanted/needed. At worst, you're manipulating people into giving you cash in exchange for something they wouldn't have otherwise bought.

A lot of the takes I see here are from the perspective of the company, and I absolutely agree that if you run a company, you need marketing if you're going to compete. It's just a shame it has to be that way. If marketing (and especially advertising) didn't exist, we'd have the same situation we have now, except that people wouldn't pointlessly stretch their finances to buy things they don't need.
Not mentioned in the article - but it begs the question, could this have something to do with Microsoft's insistence that everyone, even Pro users in the next update, use a Microsoft Account with Windows 11? If Pluton (or Pluton 2, someday) could be tied to a Microsoft Account, wouldn't that be something.
It's not paid off, but ya I have a home in a small town that I love with my family.
Interesting.. I'm not sure I could accept an offer to work there, ethically. It would be like working at a tobacco company. Certainly wouldn't sleep well if I did. Granted, they're not exactly throwing offers at me so maybe it's mutual.
My old apartment used to have gig fiber, was super cheap too 80 bucks a month.
You're right -- the traceable transaction ledger that most cryptocurrencies generate is exactly what this law is intended to force people towards, to ease the burden on law enforcement. Combined with basic know-your-customer laws, they're quite useful for tracking down illegal transactions.
i'd just use the web client for discord.
In Israel, checks are basically legally-enforced IOUs and are thus nearly the same as cash. Once a check is written in a particular amount, that check can be transferred to another party. If the check bounces, that party can take the person who wrote the check to court and begin legal proceedings to enforce a recovery of the funds in the amount listed on the check. Israel has a state institution, Hotza'ah LePo'al, which enforces the collection and payment of debt through means like garnishing wages and cancelling passports.

To evade taxes, one merely needs to trade in such IOUs without actually cashing them out.
If the current CTO is fired, the next CTO will pay more attention to reliability. This was clearly an organizational failure. Blame free retrospectives have a purpose, but if there is no accountability at the top level, there can simply be repeated failures regardless of the "lessons learned."
This is an interesting aspect I haven't seen really resolved well in modern life.

People are not good/bad. They are agents of change and some things they do will be perceived differently than other things they do.

Example, Picasso was not very nice to women in his life. And yet people celebrate his art.

Admire a person's actions without admiring the person as a whole. I would not disavow a person - but actions I disagree with.

For an employer, it has to be weighed up whether an employees actions are worthwhile on the whole.
Any law will need provisions to prevent corrupt practices. Whether that is easy or difficult should be taken into account, but in this case I don't see the difficulty, because

a) Like Japan's lease law[1], it would be possible (and preferable) to limit lease periods

b) As I pointed out at the start, someone else can buy the land at at a very low price.

> However, if someone bids on the land for that price you must sell.

So even if you follow that avoidance strategy, I'm going to buy your land on the cheap. Perhaps I'll have to raise the tax in the meantime without the comparable rent coming in because of the lease agreement you set, but I get your buildings at the end so that's basically become a mortgage.

Of course, that possibility could be removed by a rule like having a period where a lease is in the offing where prospective buyers can buy and cancel the lease, punishing those setting low rates.

Still, I think this a digression, it's hardly a steel man, which would be more interesting. We may as well say that income tax is rubbish because people can lie to the tax man about their income.

[1] https://resources.realestate.co.jp/buy/leasehold-rights-in-j...
Shameless generates attention. surprise, surprise. Does that mean we should start watching the kardashians so we learn to be more shameless, generate more attention so we become vastly more successful attention whores? Don’t we have other, more pressing matters to deal with?
when will hackernews grow up? silly love affairs with boring billionaires
OP never said that advertising is not marketing. Read OP’s next sentence. The point is that marketing is not only advertising.
india does the same thing....
there is an entire world of unregulated cash economy which does not care about indirect taxes.

>plumbers, movers, painters, etc

unless you are quite big, you are not required to get registered with the tax department and as such, you dont collect taxes on your sales from customers.
> But essentially every advertisement I’ve ever seen is so far removed from “providing information” that characterizing them as such is a joke.

I would say this is more what you notice. A huge amount of advertising is about brand awareness. Logos on sports teams etc Awareness is often not telling people anything, only trying to become part of someone's consideration set when they price compare 3 car insurances type thing. Or much of the comparison sites are paid ads essentially but they do it in a way that provides good information. Or if you watch Marques Brownlee type youtubers, a bunch of what they do is an ad but their brand is to give honest opinions while paid. Or how many ads simply show a product and a price type display?

Absolutely some ads are manipulating, but I suspect if you consciously look around you'll see many if not most are not manipulating, and your conscious brain seems to remember the ones you dislike hence to view it is the vast majority.

Anyway feel free to hate marketing :) I would really like to see less outdoor ads and better regulation in general but at the risk of being a bit specific to your wording I felt I needed to show another side to that view.
a spammer can automate the spamming via tools like autohotkeys, rather than modding a client. It's slightly more resource intensive, but not by much imho.

Preventing spam is more a task for server-side detection and filtering. Gmail's been doing it very well for decades, and i can't see why similar methods won't work for messaging. And adding a rate-limit server-side is another defence. The least useful option of banning modded clients for chats is a bad trade-off for most users whilst providing very little actual protection.
Yep. He hates it to the core. Yet he is a Jaggi. Once a Jaggi, always a Jaggi.

He wants everyone to address him as Sadhguru... Whatever that means it anyways!!

Shame to the guru word!
This is just another bot-riddled echo chamber, with disagreements over trivialities instead of what actually matters in the world
Carbon accounting is simply a way to build in a price signal to activity that produces an unwanted externality.

Imagine if it were free and legal to dump garbage in your local park. That is how air pollution is currently treated in the US.

In jurisdictions with sensible climate policy, you pay to dump waste into the atmosphere and those dollars are used to reduce GHG emissions elsewhere.
> driven by a religious public that uses single-use plastic to help comply with religious dietary law

Say what now? As someone who knows this religious dietary law quite well, I have never heard of this ever.

In addition you have to pay for each bag in the supermarket in Israel, those disposable bags are not free, so I really doubt they are wasting them that way. https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/decrease_of_74_percen...
What "city of the future" has the US built? We can barely get decent public transit in most cities? But we're certainly headed to the dark ages...
Modern forensics techniques make Bitcoin's pseudonymous nature more or less irrelevant.

Worse, anti-censorship only extends within Bitcoin itself. The moment Bitcoin has to touch traditional financial networks it becomes more easily censorable.
The main reason for this is taxes. It is the same reason why India's government is also trying to ban cash (with very negative results for the economy).

You see rich people have to use banks. Because over certain sums, using cash just becomes way too dangerous. So they use banks which means the banks report to the government and the government gets their taxes. But rich people also often influence the government (or even outright run it). And they hate paying taxes. So they want to shift some of the taxation burden on to the middle class and the poor. But poor people often use cash and sometimes skim on taxes. I am sure this happens with some of the more adventurous middle class too. For smaller sums cash is perfectly manageable.

Thus, the government becomes very concerned and does everything it can to "help" the poor move to more modern electronic payments.
Probably not, but I also wouldn't presume Western economics. Saudi has supply to unlimited low-cost labor from Africa. Things get built with virtually no labor costs relative to the West.

I think I would be miserable without a yard, though. I don't think I want to spend my life inside of a manufactured block.
Probably because it's from 3 years ago, and at that point, Elon hadn't yet fully crossed over into shamelessness. Not that there weren't some early signs.
It's I think a general desire for end to end traceability and therefore accountability, which both managers and developers tend to like, albeit for different reasons.
It doesn't say zero consumer travel, it specifically talks about trains being the preferred mode of travel and becoming faster.

It does say that all airports would close by 2050. However, that doesn't address military flights or flights used for other than transportation purposes (ex. aerial imagery, etc.) So it would seem that small airstrips would likely remain open for those purposes.

They don't seem to suggest a solution for intercontinental travel at all. Presumably, everyone would have to land in the European mainland and take a train over. But it would seem strange to rely totally on the EU for that.
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