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Because the earth isn't designed to take care of us. If we had stayed a small pre-industrial society, we would still eventually die of something - there are myriad ways species go extinct.

The only way to ensure long-term survival is to develop science and technology quickly enough to solve problems (both natural and artificial) as they come up.

This includes solving problems created by past generations, who necessarily did not have access to the knowledge needed to avoid creating those problems in the first place.

It's certainly not guaranteed that we will do so fast enough.
You wish.

No, it usually comes from a river. And guess where the waste water from a sewage treatment plant goes?

Right back into the same river, only downstream. And that's where the next city down the line picks it up.

That water gets recycled multiple times on the way to the ocean, by each city on the river.

That's not a bad thing! But the water can hardly be called distilled.
It's amazing that he doesn't mention the legal aspects of his site. People will of course publish illegal content there. How is he going to handle this? One illegal picture may take the whole site down.
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Importantly, this device operates with an energy efficiency of 25 mW h L−1 (25±5 % salt rejection, 50 % recovery), which is near the theoretical minimum amount of energy required for this process (ca. 17 mW h L−1).

For that last number, the authors cite ref [1], which does an entropic analysis of unmixing solutions and looks at the minimum (reversible) work required therefore.

[1] Y. A. Cengel, Y. Cerci, B. Wood, Proc. ASME Adv. Energy Syst. Div. 1999, 39, 537–543;
Mixing saline and fresh water releases energy. To "unmix" them you have to supply energy.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic_power
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It's like blaming the designers for the Pontiac Aztek.
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I've finally managed to make the switch to DDG and this time it seems to stick. Every time I've tried before, I've quickly gone back to google, not finding the results good enough.

Either the results have improved since then, or I'm more conscious about my provacy and thus avoiding using and depending on Google products all over the line.

The last 2 months I've completely dropped at least 4 Google products, and I can see the list getting longer.

Thanks to the DDG-team for being one of the actors out there who respect my privacy!
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Imho GitHubs pull requests shouldn't be used as a replacement for good commit messages or code comments - GitHub might go away, you might decide you don't like them anymore or whatnot. If you feel like someone raised a question about some part of your code in a PR that does have an answer that's only obvious to you, there's no harm in just adding another commit adding comments to the code (you can even squash that commit into the commit changing the code between merging to master and pushing).
Did you actually want to say "OdinMonkey was implemented very quickly, in about a month"?

I am not sure I understand what people try to prove or imply when they say that.

OdinMonkey takes an extremely limited statically typed language with an almost non-existent runtime library as an input, checks the types and pipes fully typed IR further through the existing backend (IonMonkey). Does it come as a surprise to anyone that this can be implemented quickly?
You need energy to "push" the water through the membrane. A LOT of energy.

It's called reverse osmosis if you want to look it up.
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Nice trip. On that note, somebody really ought to remake Desert Bus with Google Maps' Street View (including the route from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada from the original game).
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(In the US) for airplanes with a maximum gross weight over 12,500 lbs, you require a "type rating" on your license to fly the plane. The type rating is for a specific make and model (type) of airplane. So if you have an Airline Transport pilot certificate with a 777 type rating, you cannot legally fly a 757 (unless you have a 757 type rating)

This distinction shows up not just in the law. I have many hours flying a Cessna 172, but when I recently bought a 182, some insurance quotes required as much as 10 hours of instruction, even though I could legally fly the 182 without any at all.

(Disclaimer: I haven't actually flown large airplanes or driven tractor trailers - someone more experienced is welcome correct what comes below)

Tractor trucks are all pretty similar. Hydraulic power steering, air breaks, unsynchronized transmissions, one engine, 18 wheels. They have similar stopping distance, similar handling around turns, and nearly identical controls.

Large planes on the other hand can have very different handling characteristics and controls. Different approach speeds, different after-takeoff checklists, different emergency procedures. Different navigation and autopilot systems. Fly-by-wire systems even change the basic relationship between control inputs and their effect on the plane.
There are dozens of compelling hypotheses as to why this happened. But op chose to submit this and people are up voting it and following the narrative that it is something about pilots being Korean and their training. I find it unsettling that the crowd of people whom I have thought to be more intelligent than the masses isn't all that better than the majority.
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I was unclear on his example -- their manual says to ignore "aft cargo door" cautions during takeoff? Are those known to be false-positives, or just not that important? I thought the cargo doors were structural parts of the aircraft, and thus having them open would cause both structural and aerodynamic problems. Maybe they just continue takeoff and land again?
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So ethical things can be illegal, unethical things can be legal.

Would discrimination against the employees of a legal employer in one's own state (country) ever be unethical?
Even greater reductions in crime rates are visible all across the Western Europe, and they have worked to reduce incarceration.
And yes, in the HTML5 spec (years later), it was standardized to a 4ms clamp, also because of the incorrect implementations prior.
So you're saying we shouldn't have open source? Shouldn't publish information from conferences?
One interesting aspect that the poster brought up was attributing some of the deficiencies to culture. Cultures which emphasize rote memorization in their education are usually maligned by western cultures because they result in individuals who lack the ability to improvise and adapt. Does anyone have any examples that go the other way (i.e. cultural aspects of western education that result in an individual being poorly suited for an occupation...even to the point of causing fatalities like being an airplane pilot)?
One thing that I think that is important to understand is that these machines, and this code, is still out there, working. People are still playing these games (MAME) and the emulation scene that has arisen due to the fanboix fervour has really pushed a lot of the gems into the 21st century with new life and vigor. The "automatic game player"-coded-in-z80, i.e. hardware playing hardware, is a real hoot!

And last but not least, consider this: people are still writing amazing software for the older architectures, using modern principles, and learning astonishing new things about the "antique hardware", to boot! In my particular nook I have witnessed the Oric-1/Atmos machines (http://oric.org), typically considered a fairly "grotty" 8bit machine of the 80's, never enough decent software, died early .. yet now come to new life with the discovery of never-considered color-modes and graphics capabilities by some of the modern scenes very elite hackers, turning their eyes to the "old" machines and producing new hits!

I think a lesson in all of this is that the old machines still contain a lot of power. The robotron code could probably be refactored into something else, easily enough, if there was some intention behind doing it. There are a lot of 6809's out there, still, presumably in landfill its true, but nevertheless one could do worse than to re-discover old machines in the modern era, were one to want to sharpen ones skills ..
There's more than 8 000 000 000 of us, if everybody were just doing the thing with the greatest priority it would be very ineffective division of work. Like digging one hole with 1000 people.

As a humanity we can (and should) multitask, especially when it comes to science and inventions, because you never know which seemingly pointless path can lead you to a great breakthrough.

Imagine everybody since antiquity worked only on the greatest humanity problems as they've seen it at the time. No useless stuff like music, so no irrational numbers for example :)
>What one should do depends on one's goals. To maximize profits, and ignoring the costs involved in doing so, one should charge each customer what that individual customer is willing to pay.

There you have the American university system in a nutshell, though you might have to substitute "able" for "willing".
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Apple's push into schools was the key to their success. Parents were guilted into paying for the overpriced Apples because that's what their kids were using in schools, so that's why they "needed" at home.

But the Ataris kicked Apple's ass in terms of capability and price. But, even before the Commodore, their good graphics and sound got them derided as "game machines" when in reality they were no-holds-barred computers with brilliant designs.
I think you are correct. This soon-to-be-past console generation was particularly protracted and I think that reflected in the PC gaming market.

The PS3 is 7 years old

The 360 is 8 years old

The Wii is 7 years old

Games written for these platforms and then ported to PCs (or written with cross portability in-mind) just aren't stressing modern PCs at all. I built my system to be as-good as or better than any of those consoles and it's more than kept up.

UberMouse (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6023957) mentions

"For gaming that will change with the new console releases. The Xbox One is >4x more powerful than the Xbox 360 and the PS4 is >6x. It might take a few years, but the slump in increasing processing needs will probably die off."

Which is also true. Ports from those consoles will definitely urge me to get a better machine. Not only are the CPUs and GPUs better, but the games will be written assuming more RAM is in place.

glogla (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6024693) is also correct that dropping in an SSD would ramp up my system speed noticeably (my rMBP is twice the computer my desktop is without SSDs, with SSDs it chews it up and spits it out...it's almost absurd using my desktop these days to be honest). At this point I'm also noticing that my primary computer use (web browsing) is eating up more and more memory. I'd also need more RAM, which in my case means a new motherboard, which implies new CPU etc. The truth is my machine is so old now that it's kind of reached the point where I can't really just upgrade 1 part, or add a bit more of this or that. And I definitely want my next system to have at least a 5 year lifespan.

Things I was waiting for:

- SSDs to drop below $1/GB @ 500GB or more sizes

- A selection of sub $150 motherboards to support 16-32GB of RAM

- Waiting for the CPU core wars to stabilize (It looks like we're good there)

- Some of the AMD/ATI merger stuff to shake out. I was an old AMD fan, so I wanted to see what if anything they'd end up offering

- The PhysX, CUDA, whatever world to mature a bit and see how it all gets pushed down into consumer-level video cards

I think it's time and I'm starting to price out parts and research stuff. But like I said, I'm not feeling any particular pressure to do it today and the beauty of technology is waiting a while just makes things cheaper.
Is it possible that this post is a message to many who work for the government to evaluate what they are doing and decide whether they are comfortable with what their job involves. After all there's a huge spectrum of possible actions between whistle-blowing and unthinkingly following procedures. And you can work for change from within... perhaps.
Absolute true. I end up doing all that stuff on my work issued machine which is a nice modern rMBP with 16GB of RAM and SSDs, so that kind of work screams on it.
I've been seeing OpenDylan pass by on /r/lisp and HN the past few months. I've installed it, and it looks nice, but it could use some maturing and I'm not sure what the advantage over other LISPs is. Can someone explain it to me?
Also remember the war on drugs rocketed the number of incarcerations. Under Reagan small-time offenders went into prison for 5-10 years and emerged hardened, smarter criminals. In the mean time the removal of so many males from communities allowed an entire generation of kids and teenagers to be preyed on by gangs.
I don't know much about the public actors or channels libraries for C++, since I work on a project that rolled its own green threads system and doesn't have much of a use for channels -- we end up having types that perform fifo enforcement in other ways, and our way of "sending a message" is often popping a green thread that switches itself to the appropriate POSIX thread before doing something, using some sort of fifo enforcement object to rearrange things in the right order at the right time (and then holding a short term userland single-threaded lock -- with no cross-posix-thread synchronization -- to do some atomic business once you get your turn).

You could create a channel library that is "as good as" other libraries you'd see, except that they'd use C++ constructors/destructors and you might want a family of channel types depending on ownership semantics -- such as a single-producer single-consumer channel, versus a (less performant) channel with more shared ownership.

The state of existing actors or channels libraries is probably dismal. A channels library would need to be rolled together with a specific green threads system, and that's one of the advantages Go or other languages with a canonical green threads implementation has.
I could be wrong, but I think we are looking at screencaps of documents which have been captured on different screen sizes, where there was word wrapping occuring. I dont see evidence of editing.
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i should have mentioned that both disks reporting errors. The DNS change required less downtime than the downtime of backing up everything and setting up the servers from the start.
I think you are confusing the current social/political issue (overreaching surveillance) with the mere fact that surveillance technology exists (a neutral thing, in and out of itself). This would be like speaking out against police in general, because police can be corrupt. It is understandable, but not realistic; we still want those robberies, murders and break-ins solved.
But we don't actually know for sure that this is what happened, right? At this point it seems to be just speculation that is being repeated as hearsay.
> creep-denial (a bug that becomes popular to exploit is still a bug, I don't care what the pro-gamers say)

That's a subjective opinion. Creep denial is typically one of these game mechanics that differentiate skilled players from unskilled ones. I find it a highly valuable feature. It defines so much of the meta-game, particularly for the middle lane.
just alert everyone that they will be engaging in a paintball event; and they consent to the assault.
> both the head and copilot on this flight were relatively inexperienced on the 777

The training pilot had 3220 hours on the 777, that's pretty experienced I would say. It's probably more time than I've spent walking. It was his first flight as a training captain, though
You, and the people replying to you, are pulling this out of thin air. The words "profit", "money" and "commercial" never appear anywhere in the bill. No aspect of the safe harbor rules hinge on monetization. On the other hand, the one thing you said that doesn't matter (that it's UGC), is the #1 requirement for protection. http://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/text-digital-mill...

Case in point: YouTube contains tens of millions of copyright infringing videos. YouTube runs ads on these videos. YouTube was sued for hosting these infringing videos (Viacom v YouTube). YouTube did host the infringing material, and profit from it; that was undisputed. It was found not liable for that infringement because of the DMCA.
Yes, because the same trend extends to places without massively expanded militarized police and ridiculous incarceration rates.
Agree about the sucking part. But IMO the problem is not that everyone will know everything about everyone. That would be weird (utopian?) but kind of fair.

The fear is about the rich and privileged knowing everything about the poor and underprivileged (using databases that are expensive, protected by IP laws, and/or require clearance), and opaqueness the other way around. Information as a means of control.
> Dota is not so much skill based as it is trivia based

You're saying that because obviously you haven't progressed past the trivia plateau.

There's a LOT of skill involved in DotA. You need a few hours of play to acquire the basic mechanics and principles of the game, but you need a lot more hours to become a good player - even if you already know your heroes and your builds. I've spent more than 1000 hours playing the original DotA (since 2004) and Heroes of Newerth, and I've seen a lot of mediocre players with a shitload of experience, as well as a lot of absolutely terrific players with only a few hours of play behind them.

Memorizing the basic knowledge required to play the game doesn't make you instantaneously a good player.
Here's the task list for this hackaton. https://github.com/dylan-lang/opendylan/wiki

Things that stand out to me are the LLVM back end, Coroutines support, Postgres library, and uWSGI binding.
Those on earth would still have the biggest military and as soon as the martian colony made it clear that they didn't submit to which ever overlords claimed them, that army would be in space on its way to Mars.
> Gameplay-wise, DotA is very cutthroat in that a single hero can go rambo and 1v5 the other team if he gets out of control

Well it only happens if there's too much of a skill gap between the 1 and the 5. The same exact thing would happen between an experienced Quake 3 player vs 5 noobies.
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HTTP 1.2 is an April fools joke.
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No, I'm saying before you waste hours and hours doing tedious tasks on Turks, just get a job at McDonald's. It will pay more and probably be less tedious.
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But are they criminals just because drugs are illegal, and they got sent to prison where crime is all they learned? Has the adversarial relationship been heightened by both sides?

When you send the police to war, the people become the enemy. The goal should be deterring the behavior not taking these people down and stomping them hard in retribution.
So in the future I will be able to enter alloy characteristics and get the exact formula or even better the alloy itself?
You are right about that...but years ago I had a service which shall remain nameless that got 10 million hits a month just by removing the tracking links on Google search results.

I didnt make a dime, but I did get calls from spooky people out of the blue who wouldnt identify themselves asking questions.

I admire anyone who pursues this goal, and yet I will never go there again.
The DMCA has no such consideration of profiting from infringement or the percentage of the service that is legitimate versus infringing. A service that contains nothing but infringing content, and puts ads on every page hosting that content, can be completely free from liability for the infringement. No need to speculate based on bits and pieces you think you've heard places -- read the bill! It's short, it's not hard to read, and it's something you should know given your profession.
This reminds me of the Minecraft youtube let's play series "Far Lands Or Bust", where the protagonist, KurtJMac, is walking from the center of the world to reach the outer regions, the so-called "Far Lands", a fabled (well, not if you cheat and teleport there) place where floating point errors become so aggravating that the minecraft world generation mechanics no longer make sense.

He's been "walking" for a couple years now for Child's Play too and has raised more than $100,000 in donations.

http://farlandsorbust.com/

Granted, the generated landscapes in minecraft are far more entertaining than Desert Bus :)
Thank you for the acronyms, but it's still missing a lot of info. The forum post is shit-garbage. Can you please rewrite the post and make it readable by a non-asshole? UAL, Standards Captain, -400, Asiana, "right seat, left seat", "upgraded by phenomenal growth" - jesus christ what the fuck is this.
Millions????? OMG

Give me a break. Unions have a lot of problems but if they were so damned influential, maybe every public sector union except for federal security wouldn't have been losing jobs and hours for the last 10 years.
I consider spending your life behind bars as a form of torture as well, or very close. It's certainly incredibly barbaric and I can't think of any advantage it has over a mental hospital.
At high skill level, these things don't happen. When you play pub games, who cares about winning or losing, its fun to lose anyway. If you are serious, you will have a team (and may be organized team tournaments), and it doesn't suck the way described above.
> EC2 Does have SLAs

While technically correct, I would not really call it a guarantie that you can take to the bank. EC2 guaranties you a whole 30% reduction of the monthly charge in case the service is down for a prolonged time (>10% downtime).

So say you base your businesses on Amazon cloud service, and they go down for a half month. 2 weeks of lost businesses, and you are given a slightly reduction in payments for that month.

Almost any other type of transaction gives better guarantees by default. In EU, you are likely better guaranteed by consumer protection laws, as that guarantee will at least go up to 100% of the monthly charge if the service is not fit for use.
Dota 2 on my PC runs pretty smoothly, I do play it at lower settings as higher setting and bloom gets distracting.

Dota 2 is really hard to get around for beginners as compared LoL. But once you are use to it, believe me it is much much better.

As the case of Rambo, it is really a team effort to make one carry hero be given farm and experience, that's the motive of the carry class here for late game.

I single well fought team clash can easily turn the table around. I have won many games playing smart with other team being overpowering. So there is a chance most the time to comeback. Valve has cleverly created suggested items for each phase of the game very well for an easier shopping experience.

I think valve has done a really good job in bringing Dota 2 with perfected balancing.

That all said I think the individual opinion is mostly affected by the game he has played more and start to love the characters and feel of the game.
>Would discrimination against the employees of a legal employer in one's own state (country) ever be unethical?

Of course. Feel free to skip the leading questions and make whatever point you're working towards.