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That's it's problem it never really want any further. It's just a generic rpg game. Which is fine for a lot of people, but it wasn't a world. It didn't feel alive or real. Nothing really connected to each other. It was a linear narrative with a simple set of endings. Don't get me wrong there's nothing wrong with it. It's just not anything new or really good. What some of the developers promised was a universe a world that was alive, it wasn't that.

There was no human connection besides in the same NPCs. No real drastic changes and nothing that would necessitate what would immerse you into a cyberpunk world. Just a high budget linear AAA title.
I think this depends on what your definition of “work” is. I’m going to assume the poster you’re replying to means your typical office, service, or labor job - most of which are as you said, meaningless, consuming or alienating.
The poverty rate (i.e. proportion people who lack sufficient income for basic needs) of the UK is 18.6%. Still lower than Spain and Italy where it is over 20%.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-r...

(Edit: the numbers are from 2017 and 2018, so it is possible that things have changed. For example, it's possible that the UK was hit harder by rising energy costs. I don't know.)
It’s not tangential at all. A key argument of the article is that we should spend more on the military like we did in the 50s. It’s important to point out how much the income structure of the government has changed since then.
It had vestiges of an empire until the mid-1960s, lost its status as an imperial power, it had industrialised much earlier than other European countries like France so didn’t have an equivalent of “Les Trente Glorieuses”, deindustrialised earlier than other countries and has basically cast about looking for a new purpose ever since.
>Oh, it's totally fine for me to deploy a multi-ton vehicle system with a "backup" operator that all human factors research reasonably tells us is going to be rendered unsafe by the levels of detachment induced by too good, but not good enough" levels of automation.

Except in this particular case, the driver wasn't just zoned out, she was streaming Hulu. I don't think she was so lacking in free will that not having a stream on was out of her control.

>Uber, apparently made the decision to deactivate the AEB system (likely because otherwise they couldn't convince anyone sane to ride in the car because they system wasn't ready).

You're saying they disabled the AEB system, otherwise people wouldn't ride in the car? How does that make sense?
The US did not accept a conditional surrender.

The Japanese came to the table with a conditional surrender, the condition being that the institution of the Emperor remain in place. The US rejected it. The Japanese came back to the table and accepted an unconditional surrender. The US then kept the imperial system in place anyway.
> I don't need studies to validate the hundreds of incredible results I've seen within the population I have direct access to (and myself)

One would hope that most HN crowd would hopefully stop reading after this sentence.

Where to even start?
That might be the recommendation for a very small woman.

For men of average size, the recommended daily intake of iron varies between countries, but it can be as large as 14 mg, which would need at least 400 g of cooked lentils per day, according to your list, which corresponds to lentils cooked with an unknown amount of water, so it is difficult to compare it with lentils cooked in different ways, though it seems that these 100 g of cooked lentils correspond to about 40 g of raw lentils with about 60 g of water.
The term "work" may not be sufficiently precise. And that's how "Nobody wants to work" can be both simultaneously true and false at the same time, depending on what is meant by "work".

To say "Nobody wants to to engage in drudgery anymore" is true and always has been. To say "Nobody wants to be employed at a job that's meaningful and rewarding" is false (for most people at least; there may be exceptions).
At this point the argument isn't that people stayed in Africa, but that everyone outside of Africa died. At this point the 3 oldest fossils we have that look like homo sapiens are all from Morocco or the Levant or Greece, suggesting homo sapiens first evolved near the Mediterranean. But at some time between 50k and 20k years ago, all humans outside of Africa seemed to have died: Neanderthals, Denisovans, and Sapiens, all of them.

Regarding the older finds of Sapiens, when we find DNA traces and compare them to modern DNA, we are not able to find any modern population that is descended from any of this Sapien DNA, outside of Africa, that is older than even 25k.

It is well known that Sapiens arrived in Spain 40k years ago and that they demonstrated modern behavior: arts, music, advanced hunting tools, but DNA analysis suggests this group disappeared entirely, no trace of their DNA is found in existing European populations. The picture then is that 75k ago Eurasia was covered with humans, of at least 3 or 4 different species, and all of them died, and then Eurasia was repopulated by a burst of homo sapiens that radiated out from Africa.

Of course, this picture would change if we ever found some old DNA, outside of Africa, that could also be matched to DNA in a surviving group of humans.
You're going to get downvoted for that not by me though.)

It's a serious point though, but unfortunately one that has copius evidence that the outcome of that approach is worse, not better.

The problems with democracy are evident (brexit being a poster child.) The democratic successes are equally good (South Africa, Northern Ireland).

The primary problem with alternate systems is that there's no way out. Once you have an authoritarian approach, if you don't like the authority you SOL.

Basically it's all the worst bits of democracy without any of the up sides.

Ultimately people vote, (or don't care) and get to live with the consequences.
What I’m wondering then is:

- How so?

- What can be done to fix it?

- Is there a viable path to getting there?

the parent comment to me sounded like democracy as it exists in the UK basically led them down this path and now has them stuck in a death spiral
"Any more" and "these days" only imply an arbitrary amount of novelty. They are correct phrases whether we're observing a problem this year that wasn't present last year, or this millennia that wasn't present last millennia.

Regardless, novelty is a straw man. The implication that it's wrong to complain about something because it's not new is fallacious.

Yes, a person may compare younger people unfavorably to their own generation at the same age on some property they observe to be different when in fact it's only their perspective/memory that is different. But demonstrating that a complaint is not new is not evidence of that.
>additionally, as I understand it, this basically boils down to use-after-free due to unsafe code, which could occur in either agent implementation, even without loading an extra .so, although the presence of .so loading in general certainly does increase the attack surface.

You are not going to see similar exploits available in a program written in Go, it would result in a crash. Not an actual code execution issue.

So you are removing attack surface by not loading shared libraries, and quite a bit of attack surface considering it's not written in C.

> this can also be partially mitigated by requiring user interaction for every signing operation, but it's also not necessarily something that works for all use cases, such as when connecting to a few hundred destination hosts.

Allowing better UX would also allow people to utilize better and more secure defaults. The PKCS11 stuff is general unfriendly and using it correctly as a result gets harder.

This isn't only about attack surface, but also enabling more user friendly tooling.
> For some god known reason

...which becomes obvious once you notice that options apply either to one of the inputs or output.
As pointed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_moder... it seems that modern humans went of out Africa in many waves at various eras. It's not surprising, the other Homo genus did the same.
Is most therapy practiced today Freudian, in any sense more meaningful than that Freud helped inspire the whole field?
I’ve lived through 2 hospital transitions to Epic. Everyone hates it for the first two years and then when they learn it they generally love the benefits it provides (much faster chart review, documentation and billing).

As a physician, using Epic is a pre-requisite for me to consider working at a hospital.

Yes it has flaws (ordering and encounters are still very annoying but make sense for billing purposes), but it’s also incredibly powerful and once you learn how to use it there isn’t really a better alternative (in my opinion).
It's a little obtuse to "pretend to be deaf" and not use text relay...
Now this is some “folksy wisdom”
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The only substantive objection I see there is archeological-linguistic. Words related to chariot technology like “wheel” and “yoke” are cognate across IE languages, so the languages probably split after this technology was invented. But the invention seems to have happened later than 8000 BP.
I see signs that China, juggernaut of globalism, is starting to flounder due to its own Emperor Xi Xinpeng style of make China CCP again nationalism.
Britain isn’t really poor as a country if we look at all the money/wealth in it. The distribution of the wealth is very one sided though. Recent decades of law making favouring the top few percent. Giving more to the wealthiest few doesn’t seem to trickle down apparently.. eroding middle class and diminishing purchasing power is what bothers me most. Privatised energy, water, public transport aren’t serving the public’s interest anymore but the shareholder’s. Housing prices getting out of reach of the average workers is rubbing salt on the wound. These are mostly symptoms.
You have no clue how Discord stores private messages, and IRC absolutely forces you to use a bot to have logs.
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This! Many of the prosperous economies now have few industries/brands that the world depends on. It's been outsourced, replaced by cheaper or better brands in upcoming economies. All that's left is banking and other such nonsense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrenching_tool
Horse and Buggy Drivers show pay stubs, rant against cars!
How can you travel faster than the wind that is pushing you?
I'm more interested to hear what discoveries have lead to meaningful results. There are a lot of news articles on potential medical breakthroughs but I have no idea how medicine is actually advancing.
> Where to even start?

Maybe reading the rest of the comment is a good start
I don't think it's a stigma. It's observable. Government agencies are created to fix problems. If they fix the problem they are downsized. As an extreme example, the Department of War got very big in WW2, fixed the problem of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, and then shrunk. From 40% of GDP, to about 5%, and today a little over 2 or 3%

For most government agencies, it doesn't work this way. They get lots of funding, aren't able to fix the problem, and so the solution is to give them more and more funding. The result is that non or barely functional agencies are getting bigger and bigger, spawn out countless sub agencies and special task forces, and the problems they exist to solve remain. HUD funding for instance has grown multiples, inflation adjusted, since the 1980s, but no American will tell you the housing market or affordability is great right now. And HUD will get another huge increase for the next fiscal year, then again the next, ad infinitum.

This is fundamental problem. Until it's fixed, this fact, or what you term 'stigma' will continue to exist.
The laser technology for space-based winds measurement is very difficult to make work in space. The requirements on materials, optics, and power dissipation are daunting. This was a technology demonstrator to show that it had a chance of working and it succeeded.
The 'oldest' Wikipedia article you linked isn't the 'oldest'. Should you want to go by Wikipedia for a 'truthyness' https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inflation&oldid=2...

But.. we could reference "a rise in the general price level caused by an imbalance between the quantity of money and trade needs" [1] (Cleveland Fed; On the Origin and Evolution of the Word Inflation).

[1] https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentar...

On reverting to to 'old' meanings, Adam Smith's The real price of everything...is the toil and trouble of acquiring it isn't inconsistent with Marx as long as toil and trouble is, in the end, people. Or perhaps myths of old beliefs that there was no sectoral, geographical nor temporal stickyness to anything. It's as if there were no sudden and unexpected changes in prices during times of a roughly constant amount of specie backing 'prices' that make 10% look like a storm in a teacup, though was it ever 1:1 or was hope to have the means to provide backing more accurate; specie based currency has a long history of volatility over the world, from West African empires to Asia.

We could even go farther... to say that inflation, a change in prices, is caused by expectations of inflation; that the supply of money is driven by the demand for money... and that gets us to whether demand is liability or asset driven which may be full circle.
> I have no strong point of view and am interested in why you think safety is okay and financial auditing is not

1. Real-world data. We all know how it went. Like a scientist, I go by with empirical data when dealing with complex systems that can't impact 100s of millions and not by ideology. The last time a govt audited private financial decisions (and other decisions) was when Soviet Union was alive. Let's do a 5-10 year A/B test and see before making a massive change. (This way we ensure dead sparrows don't cause famines.)

2. Also, why can't the govt clean up its massive fraud and wastage first? Isn't that serving the interests of the public more than political commissars micromanaging every nook and corner of the country? First, the govt should clean up massive fraud wasting tax payer money. Then, lets talk about govt auditing minutiae of businesses. In these kind of threads, there is an assumption that the govt. is 100% efficient. It is not. 2 seconds of digging:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/biggest-...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/pentagon-burie...

3. Just because something is important, doesn't mean a bureaucrat should micromanage that by default.
It's hard for me to know much of the particulars here, but this kind of thing is all too common now. There's so much pressure to have eye opening results.
This has nothing to do with climate change and everything to do with insane inflation and insurance fraud, many times from property owners themselves.
I have a question. Blambla or Bibiano?
That’s the gist of the whole “American experiment” thing, however history has shown that people are far more likely to double down, continue with what they’re doing, and just blame “the other” (immigrants, minorities, liberals, etc.) as the reason it’s not working.
Don't downplay oxalic acid.

There are many things which have it, particularly in the wild edible category, and those who have dietary restrictions which limit them to mostly such foods have serious consequences from the presence of it.

I know first hand it can do serious harm.

Do not downplay it.
People hate on the default blue Luna theme, but there was a perfectly professional Silver version, and the later (black with orange accents) Zune Theme was one of the most attractive UIs I ever got to use.
Fish don't care about a ton or two of scrap metal. Whole ships sink all the time and fish love it.
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Yeah, I generally agree with all of that. At the same time, if you reach a point where breaking democracy becomes the only way to survive an existential threat, then it’s do or die.

So considering how severe those consequences are, something would need to be done to prevent that outcome if that’s the trajectory you’re on.
1. There shouldn't be landlords.

2. Copyright shouldn't exist at all, but until it's abolished I am not opposed to a system where revenue is shared with the developers of any libraries you use. Although I think such a system would be difficult to manage and track.
Yep, experience of life, love of family, desire to help steer the country you’ve contributed your whole life to… nah, you’re right, fuck the old they have nothing to offer.

I’m not sure I could fully express how foul I consider this recent memeplex that older people shouldn’t be allowed to participate in democracy.
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I think it's underappreciated that an increase in co2 levels is also a decrease in o2 levels. They don't have to drop much for there to be wide-ranging consequences.

Plants can help balance that, but we're also busy deteriorating plant life.
> The reality is that all human organizations - government, for-profit, not-for-profit - suffer from incompetence, corruption and inefficiency.

My observation is that size matters. Generally speaking: The larger an entity is, the more difficult it becomes to be a benefit to the public. The ability to cause harm doesn't diminish the same way (if at all).

Governments and NGOs at least have a realized duty to be a public benefit.

The same obligation is typically not recognized for corporations (eg: Shareholder good is applauded - even while it brings brings detriment to society, employees, the company).
Not sure if anyone will see this but here is my advice if you really don't want to work and are smart: get a high paying job like programming or data science, work for 6 years, save up a ton of money by being frugal, then quit and go live somewhere cheap while working part time for 2-3 hours a week.

There are plenty of places where you can get a cheap house or a cheap apartment and work on passion projects to pay the bills.
A more apt description is the Murdoch Media as he has control of all the mouthpieces that Tory voters look at.
Your derision aside (which is not really a winning method if you want to convey your point or gain understanding with others )

Why do you believe my definition which is a very old definition dating back long before computers let alone the internet is " look-ma-i-discovered-the-internet version"

Or maybe that is suppose to be a weak attack on either my chronological age (which you believe to be 30, far from accurate) or that I am naive in my views even though I have been refining my political options for decades in various venues.

So who about you formulate a better agreement than your current dismissive weak ones where by simply because you only discovered this view on the internet you assume that is the only place it was present, and therefore should be dismissed out of hand. Seems like a lot of projection going on here.
Much of that wealth is mobile though, it’s not that straightforward to start taxing it unless you introduce capital controls.
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That Britian was at the forefront of the industrial revolution also means that it endured some of the worst horrors on the labor that powered it. Also being a smallish island, such impacts were more difficult to hide and diffuse as would be possible in a larger land mass. I wonder if that impacted their willingness to offshore their industry instead of reforming or evolving it into something more humane.
Yes, this is what I meant. Thanks for interpreting what I said charitably.

For some reason the poster you're responding to felt the need to add "immediately" to their interpretation of what I said to make my words seem ridiculous.
That's not a problem you have with mini PCs. Quite the opposite, mini PCs have a software library at least 2 orders of magnitude larger, multiple options of commercial OSs and very mature Linux support.
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All's right with the world!
>Could you explain?

Someone who understood basic economics wouldn't assert that investors are ruining the housing market for individual family buyers without explaining how the housing market or one particular housing market is different from all the other markets were investors are helpful for bringing products and services to individuals and families. I am sympathetic for example to the argument that the housing market in Vancouver and perhaps other parts of Canada is being distorted to the detriment of families by wealthy Chinese wishing to establish a safe trove of assets outside the reach of the Chinese government. But there are more barriers to Chinese investors (and Chinese visitors) in the US than in Canada, and the US is 9 times more populous than Canada, so that makes any particular severity of distortion cause by Chinese investors at least 9 times less likely in the US than in China. Non-Chinese investors who have an accurate understanding of the other investments available to them, on the other hand, will tend to invest in housing only when they seriously expect the demand for housing to increase--"expect" as in actually willing to put money on the outcome, not merely to opine on the outcome in internet forums--so their investment helps out families on net by helping to increase the supply of housing to meet the increase in demand.

>Does it really bother you someone could be ignorant of something here?

I'm not sure I understand the question. If you'd phrase your comment as a question about economics, I wouldn't've replied like I did (with a complaint in the form of sarcasm). Most humans are vulnerable to misinformation if it is repeated sufficiently often by a sufficiently diverse set of writers or speakers, and certain economically-impossible or -implausible arguments are repeated often enough on HN that I consider it worth my time to try to counter.
> Terence: If I want to cancel my account (without using the phone) what can I do?

> John: the only option though is by calling .

Comcast told me this exact same thing but I just told them that section 9(a) of their Xfinity Residential Services Agreement allows for termination by e-mail and that I was providing the agreed notice and will withhold payments effective immediately. They shut up after that.

I'm not deaf but I've claimed to be on multiple occasions to avoid dealing with a customer service phone call. They want me on the phone? Pay me for my lost hours.
The Parts-Bin Approach: Konami’s Contra
The topic every vegan refuses to discuss:

Biolavailability
"If the reward from working is barely enough to cover the necessities, then there is technically no difference between working as a free citizen, and being forced to work as an indentured servant, other than a vague notion of freedom, which in that case is the freedom to decide between working and living on the streets."

What an incredibly privileged perspective. Do you think that actual indentured servants would agree with you on this?
Ask HN: I need help getting rid of my digital footprint
Over the years, I have singed up for over 500 online services, I have left sensitive information all over these online accounts.

I recently started combing through my (15k) emails, deleting every service that I have singed up for.

Is their a way I could automate this process?

Is their a way I could find all my accounts on the internet (since some companies never email you)?

Are their any other OPSEC tips I should know?
I hate to be too paranoid or nutty about these things, but I know several dozen men who've died of sudden heart failure in the last two or three years. And only one woman.

I used to think that women outlived men on average because men did more physical labor that was both more wearing and more dangerous. Now I think there's something else going on.
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