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Completely agree.

The fact that there are still apps where the hamburger menu cannot be used properly without a mouse caused me to switch to KDE. Having certain menus accessible via Alt + Letter shortcuts is an accessibility requirement for me.
Asia have a massive booming tech industry. They always have done.

Surely you’ve heard of brands like Sony, Sega, Nintendo, Samsung, Huawei, Asus, and Acer… to name but a small few?
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Even if that's not the case, in many political races in the US, MAGA politics is the only option for conservative voters, even those who wouldn't consider themselves a part of the MAGA movement.

Of course, it's pretty messed up that the rationale to continue voting Republican is apparently, "well, I don't like Trump and dictators and the erosion of democratic values, but... man, that Biden guy annoys me".
> Now they can't own them. So they sell them. Now you have a LOT of residential properties on the market, and a lot less entities that are legally allowed to purchase them than before. Of course prices will come down.

It's an interesting thought experiment, I'm not sure what the outcome would be.

In the real world we also have a lot of people who want to rent, so someone else needs to own those rental properties. But for the sake of a thought experiment, let's ignore that part.

There's a town with 1000 houses and 1000 families. 500 families own their house, the other 500 are owned by MegaCorp who rents them to the remaining 500 families (who'd prefer to buy but can't).

If MegaCorp is ordered to sell all their 500 houses overnight, I agree prices will drop. Because not every one of those 500 renting families will be ready to buy overnight, it means the ones who do can negotiate down on price. But that's not how divestitures are usually done, precisely due to this shock to the market.

If MegaCorp is ordered to sell one house per month until all are sold, I suspect prices go up a bit. Because even though the buyers know every house will eventually be sold, it's going to take 500 months so many would rather get in earlier so they'll be bidding against each other, rising prices in the early years of this program.

My main point is that "a lot less entities that are legally allowed to purchase them" is not that important. Because MegaCorp is a pass-through entity, they don't occupy a house, they just want the income stream from it. Ultimately it is still occupied by a family, whether by direct purchase or via renting. So removing MegaCorp from the picture does not reduce demand, there's still 1000 houses and a 1000 families. (It does remove their profiteering from renting, so that part is still a win.)

Of course, reality is more complex since there are renters who want to rent as well as families moving both into and away from this town, so modeling this precisely is too much work for a HN comment.
I originally started to include about mineral rights, but took it out. If you own the mineral rights and this happens to you, then yes it becomes a case of stealing/theft (whichever is more accurate in legalese). If you don't own the rights and the rights owner allows for that $$$ to be extracted, horizontal drilling is exactly how they'll get to it.

Yes, the quote chosen did lead the meaning to stealing as that's how it was used in the movie. I have just always liked that quote. It didn't occur to me until your post how it changes the intent of the entire comment.
It's even worse than that. Choosing to copy another OS should have made the rest easy because it eliminates many design decisions and lets you focus on implementation. Somehow they still blew it, copying limitations rather than advantages.

It doesn't help that they think extensions are an excuse not to finish features in the DE itself, while leaving the extension experience so poorly conceived and implemented that you have more confidence installing a Skyrim mod than a GNOME extension.
Beef and pigs had to die every fall - except for a "small" amount that you would raise for next spring to start the next generation. If possible you would prefer not to store food for animals that you don't need to, so when the snow flies you kill all the animals and then freeze it (snow = freezing temperatures), storing it and using for the rest of the winter to the best of your ability to store it. Smoking and other preservatives methods would also be done to any meat in fall, again so you don't have to harvest food to feed those animals all winter. Harvest uses a lot of labor, so storing food to feed animals isn't a good option when you can just kill them and eat later.

Of course you need a lot of animals around to raise the next generation. Still if you plan to eat it in winter the best best was kill it in fall.
What about TempleOS?

I think if you care, go help them make Ladybird work on your OS. People who make software for fun and give it away for free owe all of us precisely nothing: I believe that’s a very important principle, otherwise they’ll just burn out as their hobby project turns into a grind.
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Yeah; the "trick" of the question is "a straight line along a curved surface is actually a curved line", but even this isn't taking into account the Y-axis curvature of the earth; and thus the assumed-to-be "straight" line you're walking isn't even straight on the globe, its more like an arc along the planet's surface.

You can't walk in a universally straight line on the planet. You can only walk in a straight line relative to something. In their example, when they say "walk in a straight line" they really mean something more-like "walk in a radially straight line, relative to the center of the earth, assuming the earth is a perfect sphere, etc"

My assumption when reading the text of the question, which I think is most peoples' very reasonable assumption, is that you are traveling straight relative to the eastward direction; meaning, you're re-adjusting to continue to travel east, because that is a reasonable extension of the pretense "you leave Seattle traveling east".

Its a bad question that is purposefully bad to trick people.
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I don't think domain knowledge is issue. The issue is that SAAS apps or Twitter or w/e scale infinitely in an extremely short time. What is the time horizon for drilling geothermal all over the world? There are environmental factors to consider, etc. It is fairly trivial for 4B people to be on FB but getting 4B people to get their energy from geothermal doesn't scale the same way.
Polyalphaolefins (PAOs), the most common synthetic oil, are produced from ethylene. In the US, this overwhelmingly means being produced from natural gas, as US fracked gas is rich in ethane, the feedstock for ethylene production.

https://www.cpchem.com/what-we-do/solutions/polyalphaolefins...
I remember people saying the same about blockchain and, a little later, "the metaverse". A prominent, large tech company even changed its name to show its commitment to this promising technology!
Author here.

Reading these comments I agree that the title is far too misleading (and unnecessarily so). Changed to “A path from Seattle”.
Since it seems like you've seen data pertaining to this, do you have any good/reputable sources? I've tried asking in various places about what percentage of planetary warming is due to direct heating from energy consumption, vs. greenhouse gas effects vs. natural causes, but usually just get accused of being a climate change denier and told to go educate myself. I'm really just curious about methodology, want to build a better mental model of how it works and how it's studied, and have never seen any discussions/papers talking about direct heating effects, so don't know where to start.
That's not what I am saying. Nazis are bad, but the GP has a poor way with words and it looks obvious to me that the comment was made in a context that applied to "the anti-nazi crowd's MO of bullying" not applicable to just nazis, but anybody they disagree with. Basically cancel culture, whether you're a nazi, or just somebody they don't like. The point was specific to the bullying, not about Nazis. The GP clearly conflated these two ideas when responding.

You can be an opponent of both "cancel culture" and nazis at the same time. And you can be an opponent of cancel culture while still publicly calling out legitimate Neo-Nazis (even though I think it is a waste of time). But if you call somebody a Nazi for disagreeing with you, or voting for a republican, or having a viewpoint that isn't leftist, then that's crossing a line. This happens all the time, and the GP is obviously aware of it like many of us are.

Just because some people (like the GP) do a shitty job of criticizing cancel culture, that doesn't make cancel culture any more right or wrong. It is what it is.
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This is something that varied a lot in Tolkien's writing throughout his life.

When he wrote The Hobbit, he was very much writing a fairy tale. So there was very little consideration for things economics and agriculture because it wasn't that type of story, and those types of things aren't important in fairy tales. And when he started to write the early drafts of The Lord of the Rings, he was still very much in that mode - it was intended to be a direct sequel to The Hobbit and the opening chapters have that much more light hearted feel to them.

But the story grew in the telling, and by the time he reached the end of of The Lord of the Rings he was far more invested in realism and consistency within the world - so was paying a lot more attention to this type of thing (including going back and editing and rewriting sections multiple times).

This is also very evident in his other writings. The first drafts of what would become The Silmarillion were very much more fantastical and mythic - we got stories of a flat world and very brief and vague descriptions of the Elves awaking under the stars before the Sun and Moon were made, and marching across the land. The versions of that same story he wrote towards the end of his life had a round world, and carefully planning out of the Elvish aging and reproductive cycles throughout the march, to work out how many generations would be needed for there to be a suitably large host.
To this list I would absolutely add Julian Jaynes' "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind."

> simulations of conscious thought entirely via prediction language tokens

Jaynes goes so far as to assert that language generates consciousness, which is characterized by (amongst other features) its narrative structure, as well as its production of a metaphor of our selves that can inhabit a spatiotemporal mental space that serves as an analog for the physical world; the mental space where we imagine potential actions, play with ideas, predict future outcomes, and analyze concepts prior to taking action in the "real, actual" world.

The generation of metaphors is inextricably linked to the psychotechnology (to pull a word from vocabulary discussed by John Vervaeke in his "Awakening from the Meaning Crisis" series) of language, which is the means by which one object can be described and elaborated by its similarity to another. As an etymological example: the Sanskrit word "bhu" which means "to grow" forms the basis of the modern English verb "to be," but predates lofty abstract notions such as that of "being," "ontology," or "existence." It's from the known and the familiar (plant or animal growth) that we can reach out into the unknown and the unfamiliar (the concept of being), using (psycho-)technologies such as language to extend our cognition in the same way a hammer or a bicycle extends our body.

There is something here about language being the substrate of thought, and perhaps even consciousness in general as Jaynes would seem to assert in Book I of his 1976 work, where he spends a considerable amount of time discussing metaphor and language in connection to his definition of "consciousness."

There are also questions of "intentionality" and whether or not computers and their internal representations can actually be "about" something in the way that our language and our ideas can be "about" something in the physical (or even ideal) world that we want to discuss. Searle and the "Chinese room" argument come to mind.

Turing famously dodged this question in his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" by substituting what is now called the "Turing test" in lieu of answering the question of whether or not "machines" can "think" (whatever those two words actually mean).
PLA does come from corn! And you're right that we do have plant based sources that are 6x the cost for a lot of things.

We dump fertilizer made from petrochemical on the plants to grow them.

And that's the rub. I have to wonder how much oil we use, to grow corn, to make ethanol, to save oil...

EDIT: I Had to do the math I needed to know!

173.3 Bushels of corn per acre: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Iowa/Publicati...

140 gallons of fossil fuel per acre of corn: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Iowa/Publicati...

A bushel of field corn can produce 2.77 gallons of ethanol:

Assuming these numbers are right, it isnt so bad...
The site had multiple scoops so far, and never failed me until now. I agree on a first landing can look suspicions but, until proof of the contrary, and did not happen yet, I consider it somewhat reliable.
The thing that encourages me a bit about the US's situation here is that we're still decentralized enough. I'm not a "state's rights" guy by any means, but it's significant that we have state-run election systems. It's much harder for an authoritarian executive to run sham elections here.

But still, I feel like this property only slows down the march toward authoritarianism. It won't stop it.
I read a book review [1] that discussed how land reform, specifically distributing land to small farmers, seems to be a reason why some Asian countries did well. This is about improving agricultural productivity. That's an earlier stage before industrialization, but does help make it possible.

The US could be seen as another example of the benefits of cheap or free land being widely available to small farmers, even though it didn't happen through land reform.

Tolkien wasn't writing about how to encourage economic growth, though. Rather the opposite.

[1] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-how-asia-works
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Didn't stop YC from funding almost 100 of them[0] including signal boosting[1] this obvious scam that blatantly ripped off another's website and company too.[2]

[0] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?tags=Crypto%20%2F%20We...

[1] https://x.com/ycombinator/status/1517556338750074881?lang=en

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31686140
Same. I'm the guy who would have order Bitcoin with pizza, guaranteed.
Turkish used to be written using Arabic characters before the Turkish Republic. Now, the Latin alphabet is used. So, it was fairly easy (probably not) to switch alphabets for the same underlying language.

And 29 characters are sufficient to represent the sounds of the language with a couple of controversial accents like '^'.

The sounds in Chinese are probably very different and nuanced, but for Turkish, I am always surprised that sounds were very similar to European languages so switching alphabets was possible.
I enjoyed the author's counterfactual description of the "Sauronic Empire" [1] that was established following Sauron's victory at the end of the third age.

https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/02/10/the-sauronic-...
That just makes things worse. Imagine if most people working on nuclear reactors in the navy instead spent the time building and maintaining civilian equipment. The kind of people designing and building the F-22 etc where capable of more long term useful activities etc.

The US could be safe spending 1% of its GDP on defense and largely importing foreign weapon system designs for local manufacturing. There’s clearly a lower limit, but half of current spending is perfectly reasonable starting point before decisions get tricky.
Tolkien himself had a different point of view. In his opinion, if suspension of disbelief becomes necessary, it's a sign that the writer has failed. He preferred "secondary belief" instead. The idea was that the reader should remain immersed in the fictional world, confident that the world works consistently according to its internal logic. That the logic is there, even if the reader doesn't know it, and that the writer doesn't break it for their own convenience.
So your rationale is to avoid seeking out privacy on the off chance that you might not get the biggest discount available when buying insurance?
This is still mostly true. Kids books also have bopomofo rubies, like the kana rubies in Japanese. And occasionally you'll see bopomofo as a typographic choice to represent a sound that feels more natural in Taiwanese amidst an otherwise Mandarin sentence.

This is just my personal experience, but I think the big change in the past 15 years isn't Bopomofo -> Pinyin, but rather Wade Giles -> Pinyin. Bopomofo seems equally prevalent, but the Wade Giles romanizations on street signs have begin to get replaced with Pinyin for the sake of non-native speakers who are almost certainly more familiar with Pinyin than WG.
Nowhere in my previous comment do I mention abolishing property rights. This has nothing to do with socialism, and I'm not sure why you think it has. This is about replacing the monarchic corporate structure with a democratic corporate structure; please refute democracy and argue in favor of monarchy if you think this is wrong.
The goofy thing is that these questions feed back into dev culture and create a perception that people who’ve worked at a FAANG must be a god of programming.

Call it what it is: your intellectual laziness in evaluating people and your own bias towards “winners.”

Regression to the mean is very real. I doubt an org of sufficient size can truly beat it, if only because not every employee can do well in every situation/project, regardless of their skill level.
Are you telling me China built the largest navy in the world (hahahaha little pooh bear with small honey-pot syndrome) and now... Will use it in violation of international law? I don't believe you're high enough ranking in the Chinese military to be privvy to any such plans. You're welcome to come back with evidence, though.
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Not really. The mythical man month fallacy of 9 women making a baby in 1 month is about rushing a specific project, and having the coordination between the individuals make it take longer. For something way bigger, like the whole field of nuclear fusion, as opposed to shipping an app next quarter, more people means more work can happen. Having more smart people work on fusion instead of HFT (eg Jim Simons), would lead to progress and advancement in the field, compared to not.
You’re absolutely getting paid because you’re valuable, otherwise Google wouldn’t need to buy you out to enact their anti-competitive behavior. You wouldn’t be a threat in the first place.
They can drill horizontally subsea too!
What if someone doesn't offer enough to his employer to justify the healthcare coverage? They should just not be able to work legally?
This is exactly what the guidance should have been about, right from the start.

Basically, if you are in a vulnerable group, wear a mask around others. Make it a good mask. Fit it well. Especially if the group is known to be 'risky' or large. And for those extremely vulnerable groups, wear a mask around them as a courtesy.

But it got warped into 'wear a mask around everyone at all times'. And that just didn't make sense to a lot of people.
Economies of scale become important when there are a lot of non-farmers to feed and farm labor becomes scarce. When labor is cheap and land is expensive, getting more food per acre is more important.
To me Material looks like Google looked at iOS and compared it to their then rectangle-box based UI and said "Our UI is too bland compared to Apple. We must need tons of border radius and padding. And big splash animations when you touch a button!" Some people used to look down on Apple's UI as "fisher price" but Google has long taken that crown in my book. When I make flutter apps for side projects I just use the Apple based widgets (called Cupertino [0]).

[0] https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/widgets/cupertino
I don't think it is negativity. Someone else already called it out, but if you were to face east and then travel in a straight line, you would leave Earth's orbit. Thus, the question inherently is taking Earth into consideration. Their definition of "most obvious" is strange because you would encode a globe using spherical coordinates. A "straight line" East in spherical coordinates could be argued to be keeping the polar angle constant and increasing the azimuthal angle which would land you in France. The crux of the disagreement is what "most obvious" means.
Go experience is nice to have, but not required, and we let candidates choose (almost) whatever language they like for interview exercises.
Why do you say that? If that is the case, then they have been reliably reporting on Russian own losses....
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More likely sold covered calls and CSPs on the way down, maintaining his long position.
Would be nice, but wouldn't that limit the taxable set of data records to those that have enough info to route payment to? Either paid directly by the company, or enough information for the government to identify you.
Not a great analogy, as not many people use chemotherapy agents daily, for life (unless you die while taking them, of course) and those can have crippling side effects that are way worse in some populations than simply dying from cancer.

> stealth side effect that takes 30 years to manifest

Heavy metal toxicity, cirrhosis, lung cancer, persistent infections that lead to cancer (HPV, Hep B, etc), silicosis, COPD, skin cancer, all sorts of diseases result from cumulative exposure.

> (why oh why do I suspect that semaglutide skepticism correlates heavily with the “respect my freedom to not wear a mask” crowd…)

Can you approach skepticism without ad hominem attacks?
> it was demand for coal

"...the industrial revolution was more than simply an increase in economic production. Modest increases in economic production are, after all, possible in agrarian economies. Instead, the industrial revolution was about accessing entirely new sources of energy for broad use in the economy, thus drastically increasing the amount of power available for human use. The industrial revolution thus represents not merely a change in quantity, but a change in kind from what we might call an ‘organic’ economy to a ‘mineral’ economy. Consequently, I’d argue, the industrial revolution represents probably just the second time in human history that as a species we’ve undergone a radical change in our production; the first being the development of agriculture in the Neolithic period."

https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus... Note: one of my favourite essays
It's entirely logical for the Gnome folks to do this. They've been removing features and widgets from all kinds of programs for literally decades; Gnome is fundamentally a destructive project. Outright sabotaging GTK (which predates and inspired Gnome) is just the logical way forward on this multi-decade orgy of destruction.
People who use resin printers usually go for the high detail instead of engineering properties - main users tend to be either cosplayers or mini modelers.

Engineering prints are certainly possible I think, but you'd need some specialist resins.

Personally I'd stick with FDM for making functional prints.