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The goat became property of the new owner when it was sold at auction, which the family knew they were getting into. I hate defending someone who clearly was being an asshole in this situation by not having the heart to say “This little girl is clearly attached, I can simply buy another goat”, but there were no rights being violated here that I see.
This represents the trap of over-rationalisation which is so prevalent in the Western world. You cannot devise universal rational guidelines suitable for every situation and every subjective experience. There is a multitude of various different factors involved in every particular situation. The lean and precise rational model breaks badly simply because it doesn’t (and can’t) account for all the factors.
How much does that come out at per year? Do taxes eat up a large amount? Are you continuously employed or are there dry spells?
At the core of the German labor participation system lies the works council which is an (employee) elected board that represents them on a factory/office level (varies).

Large companies also elect a company wide works council which in the case of publicly listed companies is part of the board. (50% of the votes with a shareholder friendly tie breaking mechanism).

Works councils are traditionally dominated by unions but not always and there isn't a membership requirement to be represented.

Unions offer industry sector wide representation and also negotiate collective agreements that companies agree to (more or less) willingly and of course they coordinate strikes if need be.
What Makes a Great Toggle Button?
Yikes, this article is full of bad opinions.

1. We're supposed to sweat and "earn" our bicycling. I guess people who drive 4,000 pound vehicles around get a pass on this one. Oh, and fuck you if you've got bad knees or are elderly or need to go up steep hills, you'd better go buy a car or ride the bus.

2. E-bikes can go kind of mildly fast...just like bicycles. If you're in really good shape you can definitely ride a bicycle at faster speeds than your bog-standard bike share e-bikes, which are governed to 25mph of assistance and feel like a lead weight once you go over that speed. The male world record for unassisted flat bicycle speed is over 80 mph.

3. E-bikes are more expensive than regular bikes. Okay? I guess people driving around $35,000 cars get a pass here, too. I also Googled "best cheap e-bike" and I found quite a few models under the "minimum" $1000 that the author quotes. People spend almost $2,000 a year on gas, but somehow an e-bike is "expensive."

> Anytime you pedal with the motor engaged, it will push you forward more than you’ve pedaled. I thought I’d acclimate to it, but I still haven’t; especially when pedaling from a coast out of a turn, I forget the motor is in gear, and when it engages it sends me off course, flying into the curb (or worse, into traffic).

4. The author sucks at riding e-bikes. lol, I've never had any of these problems. Maybe the author bought a shitty e-bike. Maybe the author sucks at riding them. I don't know, I've never heard of this complaint from anyone. Since the author likes sweating so much, maybe just take a regular bike and leave the rest of us alone.

5. Bicycle and e-bike riders are blamed for traffic safety issues caused by cars and caused by bad city planning. Literal victim blaming.

Imagine if everyone rode e-bikes instead of single occupant personal vehicles. Most of us burn gallons and gallons of fossil fuel driving our empty F-150 trucks around 8 lane highways, blasting our A/C to drown out the effects of climate change that surround us. But e-bikes are the monstrosity, apparently.
That’s only for US companies though.
> Fans have nothing to gain

They have something else to gain: the validation of their worldview.
Exactly.

Econ 101 covers expected utility, and it's one of the few pieces of useful econ theory. It's like people write these articles without an elementary understanding of the theory which might be able to sensibly explain the situation.
As someone who's the exact target audience of this post (deploying Elixir apps in production), I have no idea what this PR piece is trying to say.

> Unlike BEAM it compiles applications ahead of time, allowing Lumen to perform optimizations BEAM can’t.

What does this mean? Erlang/Elixir are AOT-compiled languages. They're compiled into bytecode. (Also, "BEAM" is not a compiler, but a bytecode VM which executes the bytecode emitted by the compiler.)

Do they mean that they further compile the BEAM bytecode to native host-ISA object code? Or did they write alternative Erlang and Elixir compilers, to compile these HLLs directly to host-ISA object code, skipping both the language runtime and BEAM bytecode entirely? Do they mean "compiles applications" literally, in the sense of Whole-Program Optimization?

In short — is this something like GraalVM's Native Images; or something like an AOT version of BEAM's HiPE extension; or something else?

> FireFly is able to compile Elixir applications without having to run through the Erlang Virtual Machine.

So is the key benefit here that the compilation is faster because it's not running on the BEAM (good for e.g. CI); or is the key benefit that the resulting executable is faster because it's not running on the BEAM?

Also, there are some questions I have that this post didn't even try to answer. E.g.:

It is my understanding that the the bytecode-ness of the Erlang VM is crucial to the lightweight bounded-runtime cooperative-scheduling mechanism that allows Erlang/Elixir code to be high-concurrency + soft-realtime. (Effectively, every ISA op implicitly decrements a per-actor reduction-counter as part of its implementation; and the yield-point checks are also inside the impls for certain BEAM ISA ops, rather than being their own explicit BEAM ISA instructions.) How does a non-bytecode version of Erlang/Elixir abstract-machine semantics, achieve these same guarantees? Is there an explicit reduction-counter being carried around in the emitted native code?

And also, there is no mention of disadvantages/constraints of using this system. It's pretty clear that you wouldn't be able to do hot reloading or dynamic trace-point insertion without the BEAM there to intermediate it. That's fine for some use-cases, but they should explicitly mention the trade-offs and target audience.
> They listened to where they money was instead of where it was going.

You have to do both. A company pivoting to a new technology too quickly can run out of steam if there’s no adoption and no stable business to keep it afloat. The challenge is to make sure that your legacy team doesn’t stifle your innovation team yet remains profitable as long as it is strategically beneficial.
>I charge £500 a day. It's not much compared to some of the rates on here

500GBP/day is still very good by European dev wage standards. You can't compare to American wages/rates.
True, but Delta IV is the only one of those rockets using hydrolox for the first stage. I have to imagine storing and moving that much hydrogen is a lot more complex than launch vehicles that only use it in an upper stage.
Do you know many non-cyclists with a $5k bicycle?
I enjoyed this walkthrough. I'm interested in RB because it's used in Lucene but never dug in and assumed (without much thought) that it had to do with consecutive runs of 1s and 0s. Wrong!
> Teachers, personal care workers, doctors, nurses, etc.

All of which having a criminal record disqualifies one from.
The military is a jobs program, thats not a secret.
> On Thursday, one of the nation’s largest rooftop solar companies, Sunnova Energy, asked the California Public Utilities Commission to let it directly compete with investor-owned utilities to provide electricity to homes in new residential developments as a private “micro-utility” — a business model that is illegal in much of the United States.

> Sunnova is asking the state utilities commission to allow it to become a micro-utility under the same state law that allowed the one in Kirkwood. Mr. Berger said his company would work with developers to install solar panels and batteries as part of home construction in developments with fewer than 2,000 units.
If you're going to assert the average car dealership's $2M of annual net profit can't handle a $200k capital expense that can be amortized over a decade or more, you're gonna have to gimme a bit more than "maybe they're out of credit".
It should zone for more housing so that supply can chase demand and push down prices.
Luckily the 24 hour clock comes with a rollover counter, which may be confusingly named something like “day.” Consult accompanying documentation for details.

If your hardware vendor did not include a “day” counter, you may need to implement in wetware.
The investor's situation, I believe, is very much different from the common person's. The investor put him or herself in the position of doing tons and tons of financial transactions and investments, etc, like that. He or she put him or herself in a situation such that EV-reasoning makes sense. It seems to be that this isn't the situation for the common person.

But I agree... If you are an investor, or maybe a professional poker player, then you'd have put yourself in a position that favors reasoning guided by EV.

There are other ones as well, non-money related. For example, in sports. I believe basketball players probably try to do this. There are so many shots. They're probably using EV to guide their strategy and practice.
Everything's a cycle.
> did not involve characters where their race was either important to

I think the appearances of a character is quite important if the author took the time to describe it, don't you think?

Would a Little women adaptation where the three women are two trans gender people, one Black, one Asian and one South American person that identifies as woman, be a good idea?

We all know what "Little women" is about, we all expect that, not something else completely unrelated to the original IP.

Why isn't Jay Gatsby black in the movies and only black people in the book are also black in the movie?

Want my opinion?

People are making a big fuss about the ethnicity of actors, but I'm more inclined to think that Disney's worried about another failure like Tim Burton's Dumbo (the original Dumbo is considered unacceptable by today's standards and people staid away from the new one) and is playing it safe with a story (Pinocchio) that has no such bad legacy attached. it's so safe that there's even a "project Pinocchio" in my country against racism in schools.

> If you made him Dutch and portrayed by Chris Hemsworth you'd have to include in your movie all kinds of extra exposition and world building to set the background for the story.

That's exactly my point.

A black fairy is not an issue because she is black, but because it's a plot hole that the original story don't have.
It would be great if postal services could install your software and become part of the logistics solution (instead of being in a race to the bottom led by Amazon).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_utility_hypothesis
One can imagine a quite opposite scenario:

You wear AR glasses and can choose whatever virtual fashion you want. Other people wearing glasses too can also see your outfit. So you make something physical into something virtual, thereby not having fast fashion at all.
There are two Telegram channels with 'krymbavovna' belonging to the Ukrainian armed forces:

https://t.me/krymbavovna_chat
https://t.me/krymbavovna_bot
We have a local byword - because I never knew, I can not remember it now. when I say it to myself, everything falls into place.
Yeah I remember sars and the outcome of that. Why do you think asia is much more prepared than the west?

There’s a reason why China was buying up all the masks and such and shipping it all back in the early days.

But seems like I’ve struck a nerve from someone who probably is anti mask anti vax.
my 2 cents .... its unnecessary. It often then just leads to me having to explain what that term means. I would much rather use formerly incarcerated. Its a fairly neutral term, imo. Its not loaded with negative connotations like terms such as convict.

Also the term "justice impacted" seems to strip us of all agency. I would like to retain at least a smidgen of autonomy in my decision making.
No one wears a diaper to prevent the spread of COVID. You sound profoundly confused.
What’s the cost per liter of this tank vs. the one built in the 1960s?
What does dignity mean in this context?
Yeah no, I get that. But as you hit the bump, your foot would leave the pedal/lever, and when you come back down again, your foot will press against the pedal/lever, increasing the acceleration as you inadvertently pressed it down.
Wasn’t the whole point of Lord of the Rings to provide a (made-up) mythology for Great Britain? Middle Earth is ancient Great Britain (or maybe ancient NW Europe) according to Tolkien.
Totally depends on an individual. You can't generalize that $1M is life-changing for everyone and $100K is not for anyone.
I really hate it when people are spewing garbage mixed with fact.

Yes, the inflation has nothing to do with energy supply, or even price of digging it all up. The pricing of it is always driven by a plausible excuse and greed.

No, investment in tapping new wells is at an all time high, and for example has turned USA into a net oil exporter. Gas too.
Thing is, fossil fuels are not evenly distributed, nor do we want to use them to heat up the planet more. So when a major producer is cut off or decides to do everyone in, we get a price spike, and prices rarely return to baseline.
But that can also be true. Global economic stuff is out of China's control so how better to hide it than with something where they are in control?
Whatever they do, let's hope they don't decide to stick a camera in it (for AR purposes), or it could be another Google Glasses fiasco.
> better if NASA focuses on space science rather than rocket engineering at this point

Or focus on novel rocket science. There is so much opportunity in novel propulsion systems, from nuclear propulsion to ion drives. Most of this is only useful in deep space, a region the private sector has no interest in.
The Security Risk of Lacking Compiler Protection in WebAssembly
I think, in life, sometimes we just don't quite think things through. You're busy, preoccupied, whatever. You don't get all the facts and just assume the best. You get to the auction and realize your daughter loves the goat a lot. You don't spend all day in an analytical mode, anticipating the worst cases, and then things happen and it's then too late to act. It's like being careless where you park your nice car and having it get keyed.

We can hunch over a little more, strive to blend in, build taller fences, be more cynical, make a million plans and expect the worst, or we can advocate for change and try to be more patient, kind and accepting, and, I think, I would like to advocate the latter.
Yes, I think that's precisely the motivation. My friend was not thrilled about the combination of super buggy behavior and long drives for software updates that he should have been able to apply himself via removable storage.
>> Shooting was some weird combination of inputs, like ctrl+space, not the first thing you try.

Ctrl - jump

Alt - pogo stick (after you obtained it)

Ctrl Alt (pressed at the same time) - fire blaster

If you did not time it well you could end up doing an "advanced" pogo high jump (by pressing Alt just before Ctrl) when you intended to zap a Vorticon.

Commander Keen 4 improved the controls with a dedicated fire button. It also had one of the best control schemes, gameplay, and art for that generation of platform games.
SpaceX wouldn't spend $50 billion to develop a rocket that will cost $4 billion per launch.
So, as far as I understand its main feature is that it has a Rust-like syntax?
Is this a reference to Susan Cooper?
"An independent country can teach its own language and stop teaching a foreign language."

Tell that to Belgium, Ireland, Italy or Canada.

Ukraine is a deeply divided country and by violating ECRML they went not the Western but sub-Sakharan African way.

They shouldn't have done that. They would have their whole country, including Crimea, no war and 2x economy, if only they did not listen to western NGOs sitting on their ears like you do right now. About all of the wonderful independent rights of suppressing their own population for their language or electoral preference.

> Yanukovych was elected by a hair

Yep, so? As are most of presidents of the USA. Or Brexit.
>It's just another job

If this was true, then then purchasers would not be having to pay so much for the labor. No one is forcing them to.

Pricing is just a function of supply and demand. The high prices indicate more supply is needed to market participants. Maybe the participants can respond and provide sufficient supply to bring prices down. Maybe the participants are not able to respond with enough supply and prices stay elevated.
"A Gorillian Dollars" was a short-lived meme back in 2011. It was a cartoon of a gorilla in a suit holding an open briefcase full of money. Described (derisively) on UD: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Gorillion%20...
Nope. If you violate OFAC as a foreigner you are shit-listed by the US government. You become radioactive and anybody with even the most remote ties to the United States can't do business with you safely. The US government can find a random rule from their massive trove to use to throw the book at you at that point. You're in their crosshairs both literally and figuratively since there is a decades long precedent of US extrajudicial killings of even its own citizens. They will go to immense lengths to shut you down if they hate you enough. The extradition of Kim Dotcom has been going on for a decade and they tried to put him in prison for life because he once had a server in the United States. That's the entire legal basis for the extradition. If they fail he is bankrupted, if they succeed he will be in an American prison until he dies.

OFAC violations can have numerous painful impacts on a foreign company’s business beyond mere payment of fines, including triggering red flags during due diligence by prospective partners, investors, acquirors, and financiers, putting companies in breach of contractual obligations to their banks, creating a disadvantage or disqualification in bidding for contracts, and attracting additional scrutiny from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) when attempting to acquire or invest in U.S. businesses.

From: https://www.wiggin.com/publication/the-aggressive-extraterri...

US government overreach is hard to overstate. If things get bad enough the FBI/CIA will attempt to abduct you (Viktor Bout, Assange, Snowden) or suicide you in a foreign prison (John McAfee). Most likely nobody will learn about your story after your unfortunate "suicide."
I like tools that have 1:1 mappings for config file and command line flags because, as you say, both have advantages and disadvantages.
I honestly have no idea what you are trying to describe.

Outside of the peltier junction, there is no such thing as an electrical heat pump. They're all mechanical systems, usually with a working gas of some kind. So "mechanical heat pump" is a redundant term.
Brew Is a Bad Neighbor
> Cars denote freedom; commuter bikes imply, for better or worse, jerkitude or tweeness; motorcycles are cool; e-scooters are for douchebros.

utter asshole

But I'll at least give his premise one point: We're actually seeing two parallel surges in micromobolity, pedal-assist e-bikes, and electric mopeds. In NYC, we're seeing many folks on what are effectively electric motorcycles taking advantage of bike lanes.

I'm pretty sure it's just a matter of time before I get nailed by one of these heavier beasts, and if their attitude is anything to judge by, it'll be a hit-and-run for sure.
Non-cyclists are not the kind of people who would know what a "status symbol" bicycle is. They can only be a status symbol among bicyclists!

Other people I've never met: non-bicyclists writing 1500 words in the Atlantic about bicycles.
I mean, that's just the flip side of "cattle, not pets". But you really can't fault a little girl for not knowing all about the latest DevOps practices.
How well does that sharing work on Windows nowadays with ASLR being popular? Traditionally Windows uses non relocatable exe-files, and DLLs that require fixups on relocation where you lose sharing for every page containing a fixup. I assume that nowadays relocatable exe-files are more common to enable ASLR.

But do modern compilers targeting Windows prefer position independent code over fixups? Or are fixups of x86-64 code rare enough and clustered enough that it doesn't really matter?
Wages have not been tracking productivity though. The gap ever widens. Last time it tracked was in the 70s. No matter how you inflation adjust.

Fossil fuel companies (Shell and BP at least) reaped billions USD windfall from all the issues with war.
I don’t know about the US but in UK, NZ, AUS, Singapore, Taiwan (countries I know about) it’s pretty standard to have a notice period of 1-2 months.

So you can’t “just quit”.

Probation shortens that notice period to typically 1 week however most people tend to leave straight away as it’s fruitless to both parties if the employee stays.
> What is it with the trend for huge cars

I need to move next year because the city I live in (San Jose) is utterly unaffordable. Turns out there's a lot of things movers won't take for you including my vaste plant collection. I remember driving with all of my plants, valuables, and dog to San Jose. I had zero space left, yet now I have a long-term partner so I'll need more space for that move.

Second, road trips. I go to a festival every year that's in the boondocks in Michigan. Getting there is no simple task so having a car like the Rav 4 Hybrid that gets excellent mileage and can get me across country~ish terrain is quite nice.

> Why do people have to negate EVs energy efficiency story pushing around much more weight than (what to used to be) a normal sized car.

The Rav4 Hybrid is... a hybrid. I don't know what you're on about. If you're asking why I didn't get a plugin EV it's because I need to haul stuff and EVs perform terribly at this task.

Even if they did exist in a functional capacity I'd be hard pressed to find a place where I can quickly charge it. The housing crisis out here makes it difficult for me to buy a home, road trips would be a lot more inconvenient (I like to go to festivals, so they're long road trips.)

Last but not least is cost. The Ford Lightning looked attractive to me, but then I found out as soon as you haul anything the battery basically pits.

> Haven't you heard of climate change?

Weird question, but yes. I used to be an executive at a water startup.

> At least buy an Aptera for chrissak

This is it? https://aptera.us/ That would not solve my problem. Looks like they're reservation only. Looks like they're also having trouble sourcing parts, like Toyota: https://aptera.us/community/discussion/realistic-delivery-ti...

Personally, this reply wreaks of classism and doomerism. I don't know why this kind of take is so popular on HackerNews but I think y'all really need to think about the image you're selling to the rest of this forum and furthermore the image you're selling to people when you open your mouth and speak so shittily to people. This is especially true when you don't even commit one iota of your brainpiece to understanding my usecase before loudly complaining mixed with misplaced outrage and shaming.

Last edit: You have inspired me to start working on a website to combat doomerism and encourage people to seek help.
Wasn't this posted to Hacker News before?
Cops extrajudicially confiscating property isn't violating rights? Have someone try it on you and see whether you still think that.

Cops in the US get off on forcing their will on others.