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I agree with a lot of what you said.

I think quite a few MUAs could absolutely be rescued from their shadow death, if funded properly (and if they're capable of being funded). It's just that I personally haven't seen a strong candidate yet. I don't like any of them, they are irritating. Aerc is promising, but CLI is simply not for everyone. Then Thunderbird was on life support for a while, maybe if it gains some speed again? I'm not sure.

So lack of support from users is one side of the coin. But the other side, developers and companies doing email, I don't know if that can be fixed. Sidelined maybe. There's just an immense amount of feet-dragging and archaisms in the ecosystem. "We can't because others don't" - everyone. Can't enforce TLS, can't enforce SPF, can't enforce basically any standards that would improve the quality of the ecosystem. When was the last email-related flag day?

Enough of that rant, it's just a bit frustrating. Forced to use with no visible QoL improvements.
Have a link for that info where you can be location independent on Starlink for 99 USD/month?

I’m all ears.
In the US at least there are tons of farming subsidies (not sure about cattle specifically). So the way to do this is via policy, not nerd outreach. Plenty of levers to incentivize the right behavior.
As a JS dev, I tend to go with Node + Express. For more complicated projects, I go straight for the MERN stack (add MongoDB and React to the previous two bits of framework). As for deployment... I use Heroku. Or, I guess I used Heroku, past tense, but now that the free tier is dying, I guess we're both on the lookout for a free quick deployment option, unless you just want to host the server yourself :D
1500... per year?

I use more than that by myself per month. Granted, I have all electrical appliances, heat, and a car, but even without those I have to imagine I'd still use significantly more.

Thank god for being on hydro I guess.
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Anaerobic decomposition mostly produces methane, but aerobic decomposition mostly produces CO2. What happens in nature is mostly aerobic. If you have a compost pile, you turn it periodically to keep it aerobic.

https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/earthkind/landscape/dont...
Wow, that's crazy.

At this rate, the US will be like a modern country in no time.
> He also wants a garbage collector (pg. 57) and Pascal / ML family syntax (pg. 58). He clearly wants https://nim-lang.org/.

Since this was written in 2005, Rust/the Rust model didn't exist, so maybe Rust is memory managed/ML enough? But I am interested in looking at Nim. Had no idea it was ML influenced.

And I think I read in another comment Sweeney hired an engineer to write a new language called Verse.
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“So how does this composition get this reputation then? Well, it’s hard to make so other people don’t make it and test. And what the Germans in 2011 published is ”Hey, it’s too sensitive and we can’t test it because it’s below our threshold for sensitivity”… Which doesn’t mean suppose that’s a fucking zero then, it just means they have some cut off.”

This guy is the best.
You just have book an appointment and get to a consulate. We were going overseas with some friends and a few nights before, one of the people realized their passport was so close to expiring they were likely to be denied entry (many times countries will not let you in if your passport could expire while you're there). They booked an emergency appt. in ATL, drove the 6ish hours, then got their flights changed to leave from ATL. They got it same day if I remember correctly, and flew out that night or the next morning.
I agree with this take. The student loan is only one where the lender faces almost no risks. It does not seem fair or precedented to put 100% of the risk for the loan on the borrower.
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My read of the title: Science must respect the dignity and rights of humans that left propaganda favors
I think "little one" = your child and not a passport card? If so, minors can't renew the way adults can and must meet with an agent - similar to an adult getting a new passport. Idk how these standards are set, but unless something changes, renewing online will likely be limited to adults.

Agree with your sentiments about the current process and hopes for improvement.
1) I don't believe the considerations are equal because those in the medical profession do not make laws, and should never be empowered to make laws, often because their focus is too narrow (don't get me wrong, politicians are not perfect, but go with me on this one). Making drunk driving illegal was not a decision medical professionals made, it was one made by elected representatives.

2) There is no "one-size-fits-all" solution to anything. Drunk driving doesn't seem like an apt comparison to the vaccination thing because while we know a whole bunch about drunk driving, there are a whole lot of questions around vaccines (and other medical procedures. Beyond that, current medical practices are constantly being challenged and improved. Trying to keep the idea broad, but also not ignore the vaccine elephant in the room), in particular the COVID ones. Some of these are questions that require more research into COVID itself. Some of the questions require more research into the delivery method. Some of them require more research into human biological functions as we understand them. Since these questions remain (and on the same vein there are questions about a vast portion of medical procedures), medical practices (even above and beyond vaccines) should remain in question and as recommendations only.

EDIT: 3) There are portions of our community that seem to think we should just take a medical professional's word without any additional consideration, in particular with vaccines, but even though I think the COVID vaccine has likely helped a large group of people I also think there is a valid argument that the messaging and integrity of those most pushing the vaccine have shown themselves to be very poor, in large part because there was no willingness to acknowledge that they don't know something or that they could possibly be wrong. For example, the vaccine, in it's early days, was touted by many people (Trump, Fauci, Biden, Pfizer and Moderna execs, Walensky, etc.) as the perfect solution. You get the vaccine, you never have to worry about COVID again. You won't get the disease, you won't transmit the disease, you are no longer a danger. But that clearly wasn't the case and we are being shown data that shows that all of these people should have known better. None of them have turned around and said they were wrong. None of them even acknowledged the possibility. That, in and of itself, hits one's integrity and reliability hard.

4) Anything that falls under the umbrella of "science" should be open to challenge and should welcome the challenge. The scientific method demands no less.
Might be this one https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
Ponder this a moment. How many batteries will last 200,000 miles? What is the average mileage put on a car per year? 10,000 to 15,000? That is a payback in 13 to 20 years per EV. The expected EV battery life is 8 to 10 years.

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark …" Marcellus, Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Ugh. That sounds so horrible it could actually happen.
Appreciate the recommendation. I'll check it out
Used to be that way! But actually for security reasons, it was better for us to operate out of a separate domain. The github.com domain is very locked down for good reason.

Also, various boring realities around SSL termination made deployment difficult in a github.com domain. This was the expedient solution. Not phishing!
> forgive that percentage from every student loan

This would be unfair to students who were frugal and chose a 20k-25k/yr COA state school with the assumption that their debt must be repaid.

Going to college is an investment that you ideally should plan for and weigh the benefits of the education vs the cost. If you don't think it's worth the 20-25k/yr COA at state schools (or whatever ridiculous amount at private schools) than just don't go. It absolutely is, but okay. This is an incentive to make good choices about college and be educated and productive post-college. But cancelling more debt would remove this positive externality.
'In God We Trust' is the US national motto. It's literally this string of characters and nothing else. Regardless of having official language, this law looks unambiguous: any other string of characters is not covered by the law.
Yes exactly. And if they don't, lets leave NATO and stop with this eternal world policing at the human expense of our own populace.
Yes, yes, yes. So many technical people vastly undercharge. My firm experience is that the more you charge, the better people listen.
I do think it's worth noting for kids in the US there is no "renewal." Each time it's considered a new application.
How about this [1], which shows that producing a calorie of beef produces about 7x as much CO2 as one of chicken (not even including methane), and 30x as much CO2 as one of rice. And this [2] which shows that methane emissions are roughly twice as high per calorie from beef vs soy.

Also, saying "already part of the carbon cycle" about factory farmed cows is nonsense, because the sum totality of carbon in the atmosphere is the problem being discussed. It's part of the carbon cycle which is currently bad.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-kcal-poore the data looks fairly well sourced

[2] https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-climate-impa...
technically it is destroying money due to the way loans are treated on bank balance sheets.

a loan is an asset to a bank and a liability to a borrower.

forgiving a loan destroys it as an asset (money-like) and causes deflation from a money supply standpoint even if it does increase the buying potential of a borrower.

Since all federal student loans are still in payback pauses for covid this will have negligible effects
Also, some of these improvements would take an initial investment that would pay off over time (and possibly lower running costs over time) but that doesn't mesh well with the "lower my taxes/starve the beast" crowd.
No, the title is not misleading that way.

The warming caused by methane is proportional to the exponential average of emissions, with a ~20 years half-life. Reducing the rate of emissions literally reduces the total warming from methane.

The one point where the article is misleading is that it reduces the warming as long as you keep the effort. If you stop doing it, the warming comes back in ~40 years as if you never did anything.

Methane is very different from carbon dioxide, because it doesn't accumulate forever. It tends to break people's intuition.
I was still on an outside IR35 contract up until October 2020, and then on another at a financial firm on a slightly lower rate until April 2021.

You are right though, that it was getting more and more difficult around then. At the first firm they stopped granting outside IR35 contracts during 2020, but were able to grant extensions if one was requested by somebody in leadership however eventually the extensions themselves were only allowed to be one week at a time so I left.
The guilt of original sin driving individuals towards redemption via organized religion thereby allowing increasingly large, stable civil structures in Europe.
concentration camps were (are?) built to kill people, subject them to abject torture, to hell, it was not an economic end let alone an ostensibly sustainable venture
Questions as of 27 min 26 s: https://youtu.be/6xfRaFMTJ3Y?t=1645
It would release a greater portion of CO2 and a smaller portion of methane if converted by anything other than a cow. Plus, if we didn't deforest as much land to support our least efficient farm animals (cows eat 25 calories for every calorie of meat produced, vs 15 for pigs and 9 for chickens), more of that carbon would be sequestered in trees. Obviously this doesn't apply to sustainably raised cows which are fed primarily from naturally occurring pasture land.
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This is a children's passport; an adult Irish passport is basically the same price as an adult US passport. Given my experience growing up in Ireland, I would guess that the Irish government is subsidizing passports for children.
There's a difference between thinking someone has done something wrong and thinking they're 'utter scum'. And I do think there's a difference between someone sending me an unsolicited newsletter summarizing stories from a platform they know I'm on vs. random mailing lists that are wholly irrelevant to me (so signing me up 'for a bunch of unsolicited newletters' would be worse than equivalent for me). I don't think what this person did is right, but I do think the reaction to it seems overblown.
> Why Does the U.S. Have the Best Research Universities?

Does it? What does "best" mean? If you look at any particular field in the sciences I am sure you will find several universities outside the U.S. with renowned/leading researchers from that field. (At least that's been the case in every field I've been in.)

The U.S. as a whole simply tends to have more researchers and participate in more fields than any other single country. But that's largely a matter of allocating resources, of which the U.S. and its universities obviously have plenty (more than any other country) for numerous reasons. But it doesn't say anything about the quality of the individual research being conducted.
The blog was formerly hosted on corante.com, search for this and you get all the early submissions on hn, too:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
It's not reasoning like a human, but if it's using code it memorized from the past it might be able to string along comments it memorized from the past into something that is relevant for the context it's being asked for.
Just spent 2 hours at a passport office to renew. I even had an "appointment" :(
Where are the downvotes coming from here? This comment is correct! Per one quick google, I found a number claiming that livestock agriculture constitutes 14.5% of global carbon output, with beef specifically being the bulk of that: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21102019/climate-change-m...
For many FPGAs, the cost of the additional power supply controllers will be more than the cost of a full microcontroller solution.
My idea is you wouldn't have to cut and paste implementations like this. You would be able to just call the function with a column name and table name.
Do you consider large organizations more or less efficient than smaller ones?
> so not really poor

I think this highlights an issue with this poll: the potentially huge disparity in cost of living.

Where I live (Western Canada) this is below our minimum wage mandated by law. But renting a single bedroom apartment is also nearing $2000/month.
You left out when exactly you went to college.

Tuition increases have been ticking at around 2x-3x inflation for the past 25 years. It's not like the 70s or 80s when you could work during the summer and cover most of your expenses and then possibly take out a modest loan to cover the shortfall.

There ultimately needs to be some form of price control on tuition. Otherwise it just turns into, "well elite schools charge X so if we don't charge X*.95 people will think this is a school for rejects" since the only real signals in the market place are the price, average standardized test scores, and "prestige." Maybe in exchange for getting government grants and loans, they have to negotiate tuition rates with the federal government. They would be in a much better position to collectively bargain on behalf of the students, since the only option now is to either withdraw or grin and take it when they decide to hike the tuition.

Employment outcomes and default rates could be used in these negotiations. Lower than average employment prospects should be tied to lower than average tuition. Also, the overhead rates could be considered. This would put pressure on universities to curtail the sprawling administrative industrial complex.
> but it's important to note that the 2008 $700 billion bailouts were paid back

I’m far from an expert, but isn’t the assumption that the cost of cancelling these loans will also be paid back indirectly now that loan holders have less of a financial burden?

It feels to me like giving people lower levels of debt, access to affordable education, and a social safety net to allow risk taking would improve our economy overall. Of course this isn’t what the government has provided at the moment.
It's also how much it costs for the same level of care. The US spends twice as much per head on healthcare as the most costly european countries like Norway. The amount spent on medicare/medicaid alone could fund a system like the NHS for everyone in the US.
"EV will need its batteries replaced every N years at a substantial all-at-once price"

You can count on replacing them in 8-10 years. It is currently a false economy based upon a false narrative to buy an electric car.

At $6.00/gal you can buy about 1333 gallons of fuel which translates into about 3 years of fuel purchases. It might make economic sense if the government stops increasing the price of EV by subsidizing them.

At $3.00/gal it doesn't make sense because of the added cost of an EV. It is price prohibitive for the majority of voting Americans.
Common sense for sure, but def not 1-3 story points. More like a decent product owner at the helm now, driving product in the appropriate direction.
That cuts in both directions. COVID proved beyond any doubt at all for those paying attention that the public health institutions are overrun with pseudo-science. Their claims are literally nothing but sciency words, and lots of people who refuse to take vaccines now point to that fact (which is easily proven) as a good reason to stay away from them.

Actually it's worse than institutions just using science incorrectly. They just flat out make up scientific sounding claims. The claim that everyone had to take the vaxx even if they weren't elderly was rooted in claims that the COVID vaccines would create herd immunity by stopping transmission. Go try and find the underlying scientific evidence that led to that belief - there isn't any. They just made it up because they knew it'd cause the Vaccine True Believers to force everyone around them to take it. And those people were now revealed to not only be idiots: the vaccines have never stopped transmission, but in many case flat out evil authoritarians as well.
According to your linked article its main use is silicon crucibles - which are required to make the source material for ICs and solar panels.

But solar panel prices continue to drop rapidly, and quite a few silicon-based semiconductors are still widely available at low prices.

The chip shortage is a direct result of a covid-induced demand shift. Manufacturers of cars and consumer electronics seriously mispredicted consumer demand. The resulting mass-cancellation followed by mass-ordering resulted in a demand shockwave for mature microcontrollers, which manufacturers were unable to absorb with existing stock. Due to plant shutdowns and the general multi-month production time, immediate replenishment is not possible. The resulting shortages in turn made downstream manufacturers switch from JIT to hoarding, which made the problem even worse. Microcontroller manufacturers in turn aren't able to adjust supply because fabs are really difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to build.

Nothing about this has anything to do with quartz.
Yeah but the federal reserve has the world's biggest printing press, paid for by the entire globe having to trade in dollars, which keeps your economy afloat, so there's no need for tears.
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I think this is a good argument, actually. It has been so surprising to see how quickly renewables have scaled up and built out. In the time you need to build, let's say, 3GW of nuclear, could you realistically build equal or more renewables with the same economics, reliability, and lifespan? I don't think that question has a clear-cut answer, but I think we are edging closer to "yes" by the numbers.
It's funny because I worked my ass off to pay back my federal loans. I paid those off first because the interest is higher. Will I retroactively get a refund? Why can't they just give every student 10K in cash? That would definitely help with paying off my private loans.

So many questions that need to be answered. Maybe I'm overreacting, but the whole thing is ridiculous.
I don't think govt. spending is always printing. Normally it spends tax money. I do am against govt. motivated printing (govt debt buying by central banks). As European I've seen my savings decimated last year, +18% yty cpi forecast in UK. When in the road to Venezuelan's 3000% inflation do we realize modern monetary "theory" (read 'agenda') implications?
Actually the opposite. The story of a single neuron on/off state for everything we experience is just that, a story. If you tried to build a skull large enough to hold all that, it would burst. The reality is that paradigm of hardwired neurons works well for the initial layers of processing (Eg recognizing lines and circles in visual stimuli), but that same model can't be repeated all the way up to the point of having a "grandmother neuron" for recognizing Grandmas face. There's just too many possible states of grandmas. There has been some evidence (like this study) that maybe sometimes there are "sparsely coding neurons" (Eg, some monkeys apparently have a brain cell that reliably responds to seeing Jenifer Aniston and nothing else). But such sparse coding (if it exists) is the exception not the rule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_njf8jwEGRo
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AOC put it well:

<quote>

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Not every program has to be for everybody. People with apartments pay for first time homeowner benefits. Young people pay for Medicare for our seniors. People who take public transit pay for car infrastructure.

Maybe student loan forgiveness doesn’t impact you. That doesn’t make it bad. I am sure there are certainly other things that student loan borrowers’ taxes pay for. We can do good things and reject the scarcity mindset that says doing something good for someone else comes at the cost of something for ourselves.

An example: If a person is blessed enough to be in a position to have paid off their loans, maybe they have a home now and benefitted from first time homeowners programs that people crushed by student loans help subsidize when they aren’t able to buy a home because of student debt. It all comes around. It’s okay. We can support things we won’t directly benefit from.

</quote>

https://news-papers.co.uk/news/38704/advocating-for-student-...
That's a very shitty excuse. Those things can scale, and get more efficient with scale, especially when you have multiple times the revenue too.
Kinda meaningless and incoherent. Explain seems to be used to mean predict. I'm not even sure what an explanation of markets would even consist of. And somehow that explanation, if it could be presented, would not be mathematical?

"Markets" are asserted to be simple, and then contrasted with climate models, which are asserted to be a conspiracy theory. Even though anyone can read the IPCC report and see what is asserted, measured, or modeled.

Then we make another leap to QM and determinism and WFC. To what, try and bolster the unsupported idea that prediction isn't possible. I'm sure author is super familiar with einselection and classical limits.

Then as an experimental test, we are asked to predict a single data point of apple revenue and that somehow that prediction is the same as making a climate prediction.

Super weak. Author is obsessed with the idea of control. So much so that their thinking is controlled by these bad ideas.