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> Pokka collaborated with a vending machine manufacturer to build a “hot-and-cold” vending machine which could sell both hot and cold beverages simultaneously

How does the 'hot' thing work? Is it kept hot for long periods of time?
The article combines some silly biased observations with hyperbole. "Guts to crack down on" means higher parking fees for bigger vehicles. Personally I (as an unapologetic large SUV driver) think that's fine, although it's really just a regressive tax on poor people. The person with the G-Wagon doesn't care that they have to pay a few $ extra. And now someone that dared to have more than two kids and needs a bigger vehicle won't be able to afford coming into town.
Isn't this well known, and not limited to AC, based on the Urban heat island effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_heat_island
You aren't that far off. Young people today can see the writing on the wall: for the first time in history, we have scientific evidence that continuing with capitalism will bring the end of the world. We'll have to choose between continuing with colonial subjugation of the working class by the owner class for another eon or revolution by spiritual enlightenment to take us to an egalitarian future like Star Trek.

Now I'm not anti-capitalist, because capitalism is social darwinism and is a description of how resources get distributed under contention due to scarcity. It doesn't need defending. It also can't be stopped. So it doesn't care if you believe in it or not.

But the rampant corruption and crony/late-stage capitalism we live under today has metastasized. And most people don't know it. I'm sure that 50% of the people reading this are just fine with the status quo. They have high incomes and can take care of their families and that's great.

What they probably aren't thinking about on a conscious level is that the median income for individuals globally is right at $10,000 annually. An American making $36,000 is already standing on 3 other people's backs. HN viewers making $100,000-$250,000 are standing on about 10-25 people. A billionaire making $100 million stands on 10,000 people. Our uber-rich stand on 1 million people or more.

So what we think of as buying a $30,000 automobile and spending that again on fuel and maintenance steals 6 years of someone's life, not to mention the life lost by the owner working to make payments. A $300,000 home ($600,000 with mortgage interest) steals 60 years of life. A house is someone else's lifetime. You can see where I'm going with this.

It's not so much that we can't imagine a life without fossil fuels. That's actually pretty easy: solar panels on our roofs and electric cars, home hydroponic robotic gardens, recycling of all things (even landfills), off-grid living. Solarpunk.

It's that we can't imagine ourselves at the bottom of the capitalist pyramid, toiling our lives away so that someone somewhere can be wealthy at our expense, forever separated from financial stability and self-actualization like the 7 billion people propping up the billion people in "developed" countries. So we project our generational trauma onto the people we depend on most.

That's what the Russia-Ukraine war is about. That's why the Middle East can't seem to get left alone. That's why the Global South struggles to eat. That's why we're seeing continuous decline in all things from economics to health to the environment. That's why we won't solve global climate change. And that's why the most likely future currently is a dystopian one.

We can't change the world, but we can change ourselves. As we each pull ourselves up by our bootstraps since the wealthy do nothing about any of this, we begin to manifest a viable future.

Personally I have stopped fantasizing about disruption and winning the internet lottery. Now I meditate on how to bring $10,000 of resources to every single person in the world through automation to free humanity from forced labor and enter the New Age.
I'm glad you agree, it did seem the dumber choice to continue driving at full speed into a brick wall just because the driver next to me won't brake first.
Not saying this is what happened necessarily, but sometimes as a startup, you find yourself in a position where you must either sell to someone/anyone or the business must shut down (and you're left with the debt and with long-loyal early employees/friends whose equity you were never able to pay off).

I was a founding member of a social enterprise startup which ended up in a position very similar to that.

In our case, we were lucky that we had two options to sell: (A) to an investor who wanted to pervert our mission, vision, and values for profit; or, (B) to a nonprofit who didn't have the money to give us more than a single paycheck or two worth of payoff for our equity.

If we had sold to Option A, a dozen of us would be wealthy right now. But the company we built would have been perverted into something unrecognizable.

In our case, to our founder's credit, we sold to Option B to keep the dream alive, but none of us became wealthy... and the nonprofit just shut down the company we founded only 2 years after the purchase (partly because the nonprofit didn't have the business savvy to make it sustainable). _Everyone_ was just laid off.

That means, our noble sacrifice only extended the lifetime of our noble vision by 2 years, and we're certainly feeling less good about it.

Because the alternative would have meant that a bunch of us bleeding hearts would have the economic freedom right now to do all sorts of good for untold decades to come.

So I'm just saying, sometimes you don't get to have good options and everything sucks, no matter how well-intentioned you are.
> People will starve, become homeless, and maybe anarchy will reign. Not just in the developed world but globally.

The irony of this comment.
Agreed, both on the whole and in the details. But if I'm forced into the "either/or" mindset of the OP of a hypothetical choice to shrink GDP by 1% by stopping all vacation car travel or deficit spend 1% GDP as a "Manhattan Project" to get lab grown beef commercially viable, I'm voting for the latter.
Your comments reek of pseudosciency pop evolutionary biology bullshit. Human behavior is way more complicated than you would hope. Explanations like these that make intuitive sense but are not backed by any real science have been used to condone harmful behavior in the past. We can, and always end up doing better.

Also diamonds are not rare. Look into the history of the diamond industry. It didn't spawn because society needed to use something for "mating rituals", they advertised their way to become that.
There’s no doubt in my mind that EVs are the future, it’s just hard to fault people who don’t want to pay more for an objectively worse overall product.

For the record, I think within the next 10 years that will change but I don’t think 5 ton EV trucks are the answer.
I mean, you can murder, rape, steal, lie, and more with a badge. If you want accountability, you have to get rid of the unions
In the suggested scheme the "old national currency" is not used anymore and the crypto is the "new national currency".
For completions sake, though, the easy way to do it is:

foo`'bar

The empty quotes make foo and bar separate words.
There was already a preview of this a year or two ago, when there was a shortage of salad vegetables in the UK (Brexit + Covid + weather, I think). The government minister recommended eating turnips instead, as they were in surplus.
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It sure does.
One chinese person driving a gas vehicle, shouldn't be blamed over Taylor Swift taking a thousand trips on her jet just because he is from China.
Everybody needs to pitch in.
Sahara solar plants + carbon capture? Solar capture in Africa is supposed to have a lot of potential except for the problem of transporting the power. If you can use it locally, maybe it's more valuable.

It's not clear to me if direct carbon capture needs to be distributed.
It’s all making sense now, we kill half the population today by stopping all oil consumption so then maybe in the future they won’t die.
In Bangkok I sometimes grab a Boss Coffee[0] from the 7-11 and I'm inevitably surprised by how not-bad it is.

(I was thrilled to find a serious coffee culture in Thailand that rivals anything outside of Portland or Italy, but coffee at night is not a thing.)

[0]: https://www.suntory.com/brands/boss/
Your rebuttal scenarios are weak, of course in this fantasy scenario some cars will still be allowed. But yes I do agree about butterfly effects, like in this scenario: https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-on-earth/how-the-cov... or https://archive.is/0inYa

Pandemic happened -> Europe went to lockdown -> Restaurants, hotels closed, weddings cancelled -> a drop of flower sales -> Kenyan flower growers suddenly find themselves out of work and out of income (plane-loads of flowers get flown everyday from Africa, M. East and S. America to Europe)

Yeah it was probably okay sailing for rich countries that can conjure up debt and give their citizens some relief, but how about for the poorer countries? India had a lockdown and day-wagers had to walk thousands of kilometers home, and the PM's response seemed to be "Not my problem!"
We have problems with Earth core. More info - https://earthsavesciencecollaborative.com/
> I can bring 100L gasoline with me to add 1000 km range on top of existing 500 range

This is the big advantage.

> not 5 hours

This one is mixed. You can charge the EV at home for ordinary use. That's better.

For road trips, you can use DC fast charging to add a bunch of range in 30 minutes. This is worse, requiring combining charging and meal stops.

PHEVs are a decent compromise, though: you can do basically all of your driving electrically, and then burn a little bit of gas on road trips.

> It does not get worse with every year

Sure gasoline vehicles become more maintenance heavy and terrible over time. EV degradation is probably around 10-15% range lost after 5 years typical today.

> May be except maintenance

Odds are you don't deal with brake pads anymore, and yes, no oil changes. The sheer torque of most models feels like a spaceship when you press down the gas pedal.
even better, constantly hash sign footage as it is generated, publishing the signatures immediately, preferably signed by sensor itself so authorities don't have access to the private key.
Sure, but the OP was confusing dowry, which is common in western world, Europe, with bride price. People today are too squeamish about this, but in the past, the women were just not setup to be good main providers: it was hard physical labor working the fields, or in the forest, mines, construction etc. just meant the man was the provider, so the women had to be worked into this "workable culture"
Still blows my mind that they did this about a year after announcing that Domains was out of Beta.
My work laptop runs windows. 16 core 3.4GHz I7, pretty respectable. It should be, it's brand new.

C++ compilation takes more than twice as long as my Linux server from 2010. It's got two 16 core Xeon 2600-something processors at 2.6GHz. GCC doesn't even fully load the processors, it's something like 70% average and still runs twice as fast.

Fortunately, the exact details of my job have changed and I can switch to Linux soon. If my work machine still can't compete with my server, I can just slap distcc on it and use my server as a remote compile node. Might do it anyway, the compile is 'only' five minutes on my server, if I can combine these machines it'll likely halve again.
As a US citizen, I’d be happy for us to stand up (ie fully fund) a “solarcorps,” where we send folks to help build out renewable infra in developing countries subsidized or free. Your country provides the local labor who will be paid fair wages, we’ll provide hardware and know how. Conversely, if that help is not accepted and they keep building coal plants (or similar “business as usual”), punitive economic policies are enacted. The carrot is welcome, but sometimes the stick is needed. People are tricky, but physical systems don’t give AF.

Simultaneously, the developed world should partner with China to stoke uptake of EVs globally, and rapidly destroy the market for fossil powered mobility (although there is strong evidence we're rapidly approaching a tipping point wrt EV sales [1]).

TLDR War time effort without the war.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-08-28/electric-... | https://archive.ph/jakiU
Nice. I'm not a huge fan of Taibbi anymore, but that segment rings true, especially about needing a plan B for mundane things. Basic, mundane things that you used to be able to just do and count on working, like sending an important document in the mail, or hiring someone to install flooring, or ordering food for delivery, or making a doctor's appointment, now have a reasonably high chance of just not working. And it's always due to human incompetence. Businesses don't pay enough -> they don't hire competent workers who care -> nobody knows what they are doing and everyone screws everything up.
From my perspective as a dev, this is what happened: UI designers who had been trained on usability, who had a good grip on what was/wasn’t feasible technically, and knew to take content variability into account were almost wholesale replaced with more generalist print/graphic designers who were great at pumping out pretty branded PSDs, but not so great at producing usable UIs.

My guess is that this happened because real UI designers are harder to come by and cost more, while generalists are more common and cost less. I’ve not hired for these positions though so I don’t know for sure.
Indeed. The project has no renderer or game physics code it seems? If so, it is too premature to be a game engine.
I’ve had a police officer lie on the stand. It destroyed my faith in the justice system.

Without truth there can be no justice.
> If it was some creature that's evolving we surely stopped it in its track.

Pokemon style evolution?
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Probably just plain old functions & laziness.

If you want to interleave IO into it then probably a library like conduit.
It's weird to say, but we should crash the economy if it can slow down climate change.

If global warming is in fact a conspiracy made up by foreign actors to destabilize the west, man, have they got you.
A weed is literally defined as an unwanted plant. If you don’t want a native plant then it’s a weed.
If your ISP doesn't do PD with v6, their implementation sucks. Even my crappy 6rd setup from CenturyLink gives me iirc an entire /48.
> If it was some creature that's evolving we surely stopped it in its track.

Unless there's many of these things floating about. A small sample to dissect isn't going to slow down the march of evolution.
Being conspicuous to predators sounds like something that's liable to get weeded out by evolutionary pressure anyway
When I was a teenager, I added extra cables in my PC case everywhere they fit. My idea was that if/when I added something, I would already have the cable.

I probably spent $100 mail ordering the cables from sellers in Computer Shopper. I am not saying this made sense, but it probably made as much sense as RGB fans do today.

I had to take it in for some repair that I could not figure out, and the service tech "stole" all my spare cables.

I recall being unhappy, but I do not remember the details.

I do know the tech refused to give me back all my cables.
Yep, they screwed the pooch with Google Reader and forced Google+ registration. Rather than learn their lessons, they just keep doing the same things over and over, eroding trust, and wondering why they can't get more marketshare in new endeavors.

They just can't see why folks have such loyalty to search, gmail, docs, and Chrome: they are consistent. Folks aren't loyal to Google Cloud, chat, etc. precisely because of their inconsistency and likelihood of getting the rug pulled out at any moment.
>people shouldn’t drive a 2-ton vehicle for 40km to buy 200g of Wagyu every other day

Your example describes a fantasy.

The vast majority of people do not travel anywhere close to 40km to buy groceries. Even in a car-centric country like America, the average driver travels just 4km.

If someone has to travel 40km or more to get to a grocery store, it's because they live rural. People who travel that far for groceries do not buy 200g of wagyu at a time. They typically only go once or a few times per month and they stock up.

The population of people who live rural is very small. People who live rural are also quite poor.

The carbon emissions, environmental impact, and fuel consumption of this population of people is so unbelievably small, it's irrelevant.

But, you are targeting this small population of poor people. No wonder you get so much pushback, or "extremism". I guess poor people defending their way of life is extreme.
Everyone lies on the stand - it's up to the jury (to determine truthfulness/credibility).
Old gold as opposed to a newly made gold from a fresh supernova?
> a weed is just what boomers call plants they don't like that also grow without additional labor, water, or fertilizer.

That’s literally the definition of the word weed.
I was hoping someone here knew how it actually worked.
It's not (just) the a/c in the store, it also has huge refrigeration units.

In Asia, 7-Eleven is famous for its chilled air, but also has the walls covered with refrigerators for cool drinks, and there may be freezers for meat, seafood and ice cream.
Never mind that a lot of Volga boats were very single-threaded.

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2021/12/belyana-russias-giant-...
Interesting community, this HackerNews site... I'm not sure I agree with everything you said, but I think I agree with a lot of it. Not long ago a book titled "12 Rules to Live By" (peterson) was mentioned and spoke highly about so I've started reading it based on HN recommendations. I say "interesting community" because a lot of what you posted is in line with the first chapter in that book, yet here you are recieving downvotes.
Europe doesn't have food insecurity. Health is pretty good and there's a safety net. Even China scores pretty well on those points. Yet their per capita emissions are much lower than the US.
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Are you just using it for email? For my family that already had a few Apple devices I switched to using custom domains with iCloud (which is included with any iCloud subscription, even the $1 one).

You can have up to 3 domains configured per family.
You have to consider how many people will die in the future from climate change
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This list sounds like it's written a little after the time of my first LAN parties.

I recall really only having one game we could play (and really only one game we wanted to play)... Doom. And the network was fully 10BASE2 running IPX, not IP.

Fun fact: I have the BNC connector I used back then sitting on my desk in front of me as I type this.
It depends on your location I guess? I for one can definitely tell from my own experience, and I'm not even 30 yet.

Proper winter starts much later and is milder than before, it was 10+ degrees Celsius for the past five or so NYE (didn't even need a winter jacket), summer heat waves are more unbearable and last longer, we went from no serious issues with floods in the spring to a number of entire-towns-are-underwater levels of flooding...

Now some of these did happen before, but as an anomaly, definitely not something that happens multiple years in a row.
What is generally missing from this category of article is a motivating statement, eg here is a problem that is easier or at least different (transformed into a different category of problem) given this idea. Up top. When I don’t see this up top or scanning forward I assume the article assumes knowledge that I do not have, and I bounce.
Everything is more complex than it seems.
Windows, hard pass.
You’re not being practical, hence you’re not adding any value to the conversation. How exactly would you slow the world down?
Conventionally, install puts the outputs in their where they will live for use. It does so in a way that 'make uninstall' will leave things as they were before install. The install target should also run any pre- and post-install commands. There's also a 'make dist' convention, to build a release tarball.
You can even see the steam ships that replaced the slave in the background.
The environment will be fine. They want to kill people now in order to hopefully save people from dying in the future.

How this is not a parody is beyond me.
That'll probably be NTFS shafting you. It's terrible at handling small files.

Trick I found was to fire up a Linux VM and do your compilation in there.
There is no need for it to happen. This weird idea that getting poorer will ensure the long-term survival of humans is in error.
> Your rebuttal scenarios are weak, of course in this fantasy scenario some cars will still be allowed.

Then

> But yes I do agree about butterfly effects, like in this scenario: https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-on-earth/how-the-cov... or https://archive.is/0inYa

> Is the cure really worse than the disease? The health impacts of lockdowns during COVID-19

https://gh.bmj.com/content/6/8/e006653

Rich countries suffered too.

https://edpolicyinca.org/newsroom/california-test-scores-sho...
> Unless the name is explained somewhere, I'm convinced it's complicated on purpose.

Tell me you only speak English without telling me you only speak English.
It wasn’t deadly pandemic that did that; it was biz owners complying with orders to let workers stay at home and not commute in and work their jobs that depend on it. Society didn’t collapse either. It’s a decision.
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Any resources you'd reccomend to a beginner?
The first time I encountered CGNAT was such a rude shock. I don't think it should be legal to market it as "internet" to consumers
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