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I don't hold a strong opinion about global warming and other doomsday theories, with which we are bombareded every day, but population control has crossed my mind and I can't seem to find a reasonable con.

In an ecosystem, nature has its ways to control an overgrown population of one species or another. We humans are not as reliant on nature as other species, so there is no way for the balance to be preserved naturally. What is so atrocious about limiting parents to have only 1 child, for example? Or only two for that matter, some individuals (the number of which is growing) will never have an offspring, so the population will simply contract. What is so bad about it?
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In college they would say "Attendance".
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So don't have private prisons.

Even Ayn Rand said that government should only be in the military and judicial business, how did we end up to the right of her?
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The analogy doesn't hold. The point of the NYT exercise is to challenge our perceptions/biases, not challenge calculations.

Yes, in science, say, you should make a guess about the end result, based on something, like first principles, direct observation, etc. Then, if the calculated result diverges, check both.

In this case though there is no reason for the general public to have had a good picture of appropriate curve; it's a lot of hearsay and ideology which biases what we think it should look like, and it is right to trust that less than the actual data.
And yet in some countries the union is able to work together with the employer so that everyone wins. (By wins I mean the employer makes money and stays in business and the employees earn a living wage.) This of course requires mature sensible people who see beyond the next financial quarter or the next paycheck.
HN is definitely left-leaning as a whole, I think it's a programmer's thing in general. The more radical ones take advantage of that and engage in subversive actions. If you take the time to read the whole threads on politically charged topics, take notes of people, follow their links, you will arrive at some disturbing conclusions.
You try turning up at ha hospital with a bag of blood and saying "here's some blood, but I won't say who it's from".
> In response to that dilemma you could refuse to ever try and make any action to improve your life because you might have misunderstood the situation. You could believe that any attempt to gain knowledge and act on that knowledge is wrong because there are always greater 'mystical' forces at play and you can never be sure if you are right. That is a radically anti-science and anti-civilisation position.

You are completely misrepresenting my position. I did not say that we should do nothing. What I am saying is that we should not do things that will definitely harm people to try to stop something that 1) we do not know will happen, and 2) we do not know we can affect.

If you are advocating doing such things, then that is an anti-civilisation position.

> It's funny that in your desire to absolve yourself and the political and economic systems you support from any kind of responsibility you have ended up holding a position that is more politically extreme than even most radical super left wing anarcho-primitivist. Namely that any attempt to understand or interact with the world at all is futile because of mystical forces.

I have not said anything of the sort. You are misrepresenting me to such an extent that it's simply ridiculous. I have not said in any way that our political or economic systems are good or or well-functioning or do not cause harm. Nor have I said in any way that we should not attempt to understand or interact with the world, nor have I said anything about mystical forces.

You have accused me of thinking and saying these things in several comments now. It seems a common tactic for one side of these issues to accuse the other of taking "extreme," "anti-science," "mystical" positions. That is simply dishonest. And having demonstrated such blatant dishonesty, I don't know why anyone would believe anything else you say.

You're effectively trolling, and I won't feed you anymore.
I am in total agreement on the undesirability of private prisons. Even if they were more efficient they are not an area that anyone should ever aspire to run a business in. Prisons maybe unavoidable, but profiting from locking people in cages is morally disgusting.
I always thought about this about taxes.

If you could choose from a list of projects a la Kickstarter where YOU choose where your taxes go to, I'm sure people would not only feel better about taxes in general but would allow them to get involved in said projects.
Can you clarify what you mean by "harm"? I think it's a judgment call as to whether we should proceed with the method to stop the extinction. For example, if it means sterilizing all humans, I would say don't do it. If it means everybody has to be vegetarian, I would say do it. If it means economic harm, then it would depend on the extent and the available measures to mitigate it.
The title is misleading. As I understand it from the text and photo of the sms (i don't speak swedish), messages are sent when the blood is used. It doesn't say whether it saved somebodies life or not.
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One part Gimmick, two parts Chart Junk with a large dash of Navel Gazing and a squeeze of Self Re-inforcement.

This is almost the Comfortable Middle Class version of the Find-your-way-through-a-Maze puzzles that you find on paper placemats in roadside Burger Restaurants.
>if we deny the developing world the use of fossil fuels, they are going to keep starving and living in poverty.

If fossil fuels are so vital to developing countries why are you wasting them on luxury goods? Surely you should be campaigning for massive reduction in fossil fuel use in developed countries (who can afford sustainable and nuclear power generation technologies).
I'm not being dishonest. Sure, humans have caused or nearly caused a few species to become extinct in certain places.

That is a far cry from causing mass extinction on a global scale.

We have also protected and repopulated some nearly extinct species.

Equating the two--that's dishonest at worst, and a difference in judgment at best. Like I said, it's a question of judgment.

What is definitely dishonest is to claim that all sea life will die in ten years, leaving the shores covered with dead fish; or claim that the entire UK will starve to death; and then, when proven wrong by reality, say, "Well, they're having problems, aren't they? See? I wasn't really wrong."

And with such a track record, it seems ridiculous for anyone to believe him when he claims we are now causing mass extinctions on a global scale. How can you take him seriously?
In a language with first-class functions, control constructs can be replaced by polymorphic methods - see smalltalk for the ultimate version of this. In scala the idiomatic way to do "short-circuit the rest of this in some cases" is usually for/yield with a type like scalaz's \/.
Perhaps a “Kay” should be a measure worth approximately one deci-Dijkstra.
I think telemarketers don't need much reminding.
If the commenter hadn't intended for someone to ask the question why did they mention it? Conversational protocol dictates the hearer engage with what was said. Asking for more information on one or more aspects of an open communication is normal.
People who have access to money are always paying for convenience..

I'd paint that in big block letters on the side of the time machine I'd send back to younger self if I could.

"Why would anyone pay $100's for that when you can just do it for free (with only 3 days of googling and configuring)?" They pay for the bit in parenthesis, and I failed to even consider it.
I came back to note that Mark has subsequently clarified that he meant absolutely no slight against Kyle. He is a gentleman.
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Ex-recruiter here, and long time contributor under a different alias!

This year I made the move into a PM role and have now ended up as a coder. I need a pet project to try out my front end skills and will be creating a blog with all the information I learned as a recruiter (obviously no client specific).

My background - I've been successful placing UK developers into top tier investment banks and two major silicon valley companies, and a bunch of startups in between. I know what makes a good 'google-esque' hire and where most people go wrong in the recruitment process. Disclaimer: I was never an 'asshole recruiter', understanding the market and what clients are looking for got me 100 times further than the pushy sales techniques that give recruitment a bad name.

What I want to know is, what's lacking from the current technical 'career advice' sites out there now? Or is there anything specific you'd like to know?
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> Mass extinction events have not been happening continuously for millions of years. Perhaps that is the cause of your confusion.

I did not say that. You are putting words in my mouth again.

The point is that mass extinctions have happened multiple times without any human intervention.

I call troll.
But sometimes there was no reason. Sometimes someone built a fence just because, in the dead of night, and told no-one about it. Must we leave such fences to stand forever?
Nice idea. My only complaint is that searching only works on domain names, rather than URLs like the name would suggest.
Sounds like the first chapter of Accelerando.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...
Is that blank recordable CDs or actual music CDs?
Not because we can't grow enough food. Famine and hunger is a political problem, not a crop yield problem.
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this seems more like a very clever way to collect data about perceived inequality and could be applied to much more distributions
Atypical in which direction? Is that more or less time than you'd usually have?
Also - what did the other 999,999 firms do wrong so they didn't make it to $400 million?
Your rhetorical style here is off-putting. I don't think he's committed any logical fallacy. It's perfectly possible to do charitable work selfishly. For example, if you were offered a choice between saving two lives or, for the same money, saving only one life but getting a nice packet documenting the one life saved, it's selfish to choose the latter for the purpose of making yourself feel better. Even though you're still doing good.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9250020

I thought it wasn't possible to submit the exact same URL twice.
What is so bad about it? Are you kidding me? Why don't you talk to some people in China about that, people whose children die and are denied the right to have more.

Why don't you think about corrupt, evil governments that want to keep the population a manageable size so they can remain in power and continue exploiting people.

I don't know where you are from, but where I come from, we value freedom and the right to self-determination. Trying to control other people--to prevent them from doing normal, natural things like having families--is wrong.

There is no shortage of food, nor of living space, on this planet. The problems are getting the food and the people to the right places. The solution to those problems is not to sterilize people--medically or legally--against their will. The only reason to do that is to keep certain people in power so they can continue to exploit everyone else. And that is evil.

So that is what is so bad about it.
This also recently started happening in Australia, I got a text message 3 weeks ago saying my blood was used in Liverpool hospital. It was pretty fun knowing where it helped someone.
Is it just me or it doesn't render well in 4 inch screens?
I'm curious. This is phrased as a ruling on CDs. But doesn't the logic used suggest that if I buy an album on MP3, I cannot copy those files to my server and phone? It would be really weird if (US prices here, maybe UK is different?) I spend $15 on a CD I can only listen to the music using the original CD in a CD player, but if I spend $9 on an MP3 album, I can copy it to all my devices.
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I really like the idea of having the readers draw their assumption out. A great approach to creating conscious engagement with a complex topic.

The scales in this particular example are problematic, though. By using a logarithmic scale for the x dimension, the non-linear relationship between income and college attendance is hidden to the majority of readers. Logarithmic scales are hard to grasp for most people not working with numbers all day. Having percentages on both axes but only one of them being linear further obfuscates the variable relationship.
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Science theater is the practice of investing in research intended to provide the feeling of improved understanding while doing little or nothing to actually achieve it.

Or the start-up equivalent 'innovation theatre'.
What I mean by harm is things like enacting economic policies which would do things like prevent the developing world from developing, resulting in people remaining in poverty. It's easy for healthy, happy, relatively wealthy people to say that we should cut emissions (cf. DiCaprio). But reality is that, if those people practiced what they preach, they'd be living in log cabins--without solar panels.

And I certainly take issue with your vegetarian example. What other people eat is none of your business. It sounds almost funny, but that would be food fascism--is there any other word for it? Do you really want some bureaucrat sitting behind a desk writing memos telling you what you are and are not allowed to eat? How can you think that's a good idea? The more governments try to control people, the more people are harmed. Doesn't history make this obvious? Why do people seem to think, "Yeah, but we can get it right This Time"?
The text message says "Thanks! The blood you donated on January 13, 2015 has now been beneficial for a patent. Best regards, the Blood Centre."
> But it's like an ant trying to trip an elephant.

I think this is the wrong way to look at this. It's not about "are we powerful enough" or "are we big enough" it's not about size or power.

Even very small insignificant things can and do have quite a large impact. It's more about impacting a system in a way it's ill equipped to compensate for.

One of the more recent theories of the cause of the worst extinction level event is a particular methane producing microbe. Something far less powerful than a human is, yet a potential cause of an extinction level event that dwarfed the one that killed off the dinosaurs.
Haven't heard of Inform 7 before! Looks pretty interesting! Thank you for sharing.
Can you say specifically where for the stupid people like me? I looked through and did not see anything.
The level of variations in the text of the article depending on the drawing is a nice touch: http://imgur.com/a/pbmfc (didn't get anything special for drawing a bell curve BTW)
The non-spam link to download is here: http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/
Compile time is the most efficient way (IMO) to deal with all the types that can appear (also in intermediate steps of a calculation). I found this idea first realized in this implementation: https://github.com/JaapSuter/Vital. According to the comments in the code is from 2004 so it did could not make use of C++0x, which is why I adopted it rewrote it for C++11. This was motivated by an actual problem I had to solve but, sadly, it turned out GA isn't fit for it.
It would be great to have Scsh as an installable package for the major Linux distributions? For example, on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS it exists but is not installable, says something about "unresolvable dependencies". Don't know about other distributions.

Then, there was an effort to port Scsh to the GNU Scheme, but the work was lost or abandoned somehow if I understood it correctly.

For people spending a lot of time on with Unix shell(s), a great Lisp/Scheme shell might have been the entering point. But somehow the great work that has been done at the beginning cannot be brought to masses.

It's a pitty.
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The problem with this approach is the areas of need rarely aligns with areas of desire. What happens to those areas that need resources that nobody really cares about?
Interesting article but mostly because of the form not the conclusion - as refered in other comments, most people will guess the big picture. What's really impressive IMHO is that people in NY times are consistently killing it in mainstream interactive journalism.
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That probably must exist to track potential problem with donor's blood in case it wasn't spotted

And also, people generally like being appreciated personally. I'd imagine that named donations prevail over anonymous in most cases.
Agreed, I don't believe we should be forced (with the threat of imprisonment) to pay taxes. I believe it should be voluntary, that way members of society get to allocate their resources in the most efficient way possible.

You might already be a Libertarian/Voluntaryist for having this belief but if not check out Murray Rothbard or Friedrick Hayek.
As mentioned in the thread, only TeamTreeHouse and Basecamp (this one only when you are there for a while) allow to have a 4 day workweek.

I strongly believe it will be a good asset for any company on many level.

First: If everyone is working 4 days a week it means you have to fill the gap.
This means that knowledge must be shared and that you always have a backup plan no matter what.

This is great for the company because it allows better work, and a more relaxed mindset because you're not tied to anyone and you always have an employee ready to help you.

On the other side, the employees are more happy, have more free time and mind.

I don't know if every company could do this, but I sure do know it might be worth a try if your business allows this
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> As our world becomes ever-more automated, the labour market requires less human workforce. Once the "top" of society have completely automated their profit making, they no longer have a use for the rest of humanity. Hence the propaganda of "You lot are the problem" and everyone is like "oh yes, we're the problem"

That may very well be the elephant in the room. In all the talks about AGW/climate change, biodiversity, etc, I've never seen anyone talk about the issue of increasing automation and unemployment, and how they may be connected politically.

If increasing automation results in increasing unemployment, that could result in increasing social unrest. What better way to prevent that than by reducing the population. And what better way to do that than by convincing people that we're killing the planet and need to stop having babies.

I don't know about grand conspiracies, but as far as emergent behaviors, it's very interesting.
So that if a donor is diagnosed with an infectious disease you have to throw away all blood in the centre? There are good reasons to track the provenance of blood.
Well if you agree with the assumption that we live in a democracy and that for anything to exist in a democracy a majority of people have to support it? Such as welfare for the poor and sick, etc.

If we took away that democracy that majority of people will still exist the only difference is they get to voluntary choose where to put their resources (meaning 100% goes to the charities) rather than having most of it spent by bureaucrats and politicians on other things such as war, debt, etc.
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I really like the way the article gets its readers to interact by drawing the line and giving tailored feedback. It makes the article way more memorable and engaging.

This is EDUCATION done right.... Quite fitting really as the article is about Uni and education in itself!

This post definitely gets my up-vote.
Frankly, I think the earth's ecosystems are incredibly robust and able to compensate for more than we can imagine.

Regarding the "farting bacteria" theory (I'm sorry, I couldn't resist), hey, who knows, maybe that happened. But it's surely a stretch to say that it probably did. And even if it did, look at the incredible biodiversity that came to exist afterward! Why are we (or some people) so worried?
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California Correctional Peace Officers Association and Correction Officers Benevolent Association are playing the same game and are not exactly private organizations and exert far more influence over individual politicians than either private corporation does. The first makes political donations across the country.

We also by no means blame the prison industry; public or private; for this outcome. Its a government industry through and through, from police, to prosecutors, public defenders, judges, and even the supply chain benefits.

* besides this is nothing but a Rubio hit piece which tells you it basically is pushed by operatives in the Democrat party, a party which basically does even more in most states to keep people in jail. They even fought Republicans in NY over a law to make it not criminal for a certain amount of pot
>"I talked a junkie off the bridge and took her away before the cops showed up, and let her stay at my place for six months until she cleaned up"

It's reassuring to know I'm not the only one who got an ex-girlfriend this way.
I agree, its hard to monetise something which people do for free and for fun however as someone who considers themselves to be a casual gardener, just remember the audience you are trying to reach is not the hobbyist... its the mainstream masses.

I'm sure some VCs will love this idea. Find the right ones that don't push you to monetise right away. Focus on user acquisition, then monetisation will come later.
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> you will arrive at some disturbing conclusions.

Well, that certainly is ominous. Can you give any (anonymous) examples of such conclusions?

Interesting that your comment got quickly downvoted, too. There are at least some people around here who really don't like those insinuations.
> What happens to those areas that need resources that nobody really cares about?

This is why taxes cannot be donations. Indeed, they are not donations.

I remember the people at institutional giving at my old college say that nobody wants their name on a parking lot.
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It's blank CDs and DVDs only, on this chart the tax is 35ct per CD and 1€ per DVD which seems about right.
Yes. In none of those businesses you are allowed to restrict the fundamental rights of human beings. In private prisons that's the core business model.
Hypothetical question: an asteroid is hurtling towards Earth. You don't know for sure if it will hit, but you're pretty sure that if it does hit, it will be exceedingly bad. As the supreme authority on Earth, what resources are you willing to sacrifice to try and blow it up or divert it?

edit: Never mind, I read your answer up above. Well, anyway, a judgment call.