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by emn13 7y ago
We really live in the age of head-in-sand. How do you do anything about that? Somehow reality has become not just optional and uncertain in our policies, perceptions and opinions, but downright irrelevant. When there's no merit in eve
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by emn13 7y ago
It's not clear to me from that link whether those savings apply to the whole supply chain or not. So when they say stuff like... "Producing recycled paper requires about 60 percent of the energy used to make paper from virgin wood
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by emn13 7y ago
So while this is a problem, I doubt it's really all that related to landfills vs. recycling. Some of that exported waste was supposed to be recycled, almost certainly. It's likely that exporting for the purpose of recycling ru
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by emn13 7y ago
sure, no question - but that's out of the standards body control. And even if you don't include your own top-level dir, using a common file name might clash in other dirs too. Hoping that compilers would not resolve headers via u
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by emn13 7y ago
Standards evolve. There's value in keeping things simple and consistent to allow that. So it'd be a cost to have specifically version treated exceptionally here, and it'd be a cost to have system headers treated very differ
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by emn13 7y ago
If the researchers intended audience was other experts, then this was the wrong channel to distribute the research. Obviously this PR blurb was intended for a broad audience; that is why universities write and publish blurbs like this. A
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by emn13 7y ago
I think a distinction like that is the bare minimum if you intend to broadly distribute the text. Additionally, simply don't mention the word maximum until it's clear from context that you're talking about one component of m
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by emn13 7y ago
...and in general of most things that have been around longer, or are biologically simpler (a non-perfect hint being plain size). Huge organisms like humans built on the biological infrastructure available, and are thus to some degree depen
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by emn13 7y ago
"Despite the intuitive sense that electric bikes would require more resources than regular bikes, life-cycle analysis shows that they actually consume 2-4 times less primary energy than human riders eating a conventional diet. This con
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by emn13 7y ago
Even if it weren't 100% wastage, it might take time and effort to find the salvagable bits. So when they restart, they'll might need to restart with an empty pipeline. By the time the salvagable bits are recovered it's conc
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by emn13 7y ago
> Here's a different take on it: subsidies tend to help both the upper and lower ends of the economic strata. The lower benefits directly and, in cases of business elite, they may benefit from effectively being able to maintain lowe
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by emn13 7y ago
You're totally right to point out that Republicans are much more shameless in this regard. I didn't intend to imply the two parties are the same here, but that's how it reads. But even if the republican party+electorate are a
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by emn13 7y ago
People at 30k are not "dependent" on government subsidies in any socially meaningful sense. They're likely paying more taxes than receiving subsidies - and even if they aren't, there's arbitrariness in that "z
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by emn13 7y ago
Relying on congress to respond to public issues is fundamentally weaker now, and weakening by the year due to the duopoly in politics: any issue one side takes up is immediately something that - if possible - is criticized and turned into a
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by emn13 7y ago
I'm not sure anymore if it's every shutdown or patch tuesday anymore; but it sounds like every shutdown? Somebody would need to repro.
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by emn13 7y ago
In theory perhaps: but by the description given in this article the keys are not permanent, and that means you'd need to wait for an automatic reboot, and cut the power while that's occurring, and you need to do that right on the
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by emn13 7y ago
Or don't, because this isn't a real risk. It's a risk if you and another person you don't trust share a machine, and that person has admin access, and you store sensitive stuff on that machine, protected by DPAPI, a
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by emn13 7y ago
I'm saying that the whole concept is a distraction. It's like talking about absolute zero when somebody asks you to turn down the thermostat. It's simply not constructive. The original linked article is better in that regards
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by emn13 7y ago
That sounds like a slogan, not something founded in reason. No country has freedom of speech; it is heavily regulated... everywhere. The world hasn't collapsed yet. How it's regulated probably matters; granted! But let's no
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by emn13 7y ago
They still will, just for L1 only; TAGE is for the lower levels.
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by emn13 7y ago
This isn't at all discoverable, but... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/disable-or-re-enable-po...
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by emn13 7y ago
You may find your priorities as to what constitutes a good browser are not universal. Having a content blocker may be more important to many people than a tiny animation most people will barely notice. And... if you're not immediately
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by emn13 7y ago
Browsers have tons of feature; you don't need to use the ones you don't care for. It's trivial to remove the pocket button - right-click and select "remove from address bar". If I might ask - how is a "save to
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by emn13 7y ago
That's only the big ones you know about; it's safe to say there have been many many more smaller ones; especially if the site was small or desperate enough to consider a coverup.
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by emn13 7y ago
> Yeah, they do. The EU issues them a fine, and they don't pay. Okay, nothing happens to them. But now if any of the the executives or board members or anyone else who can be held liable for their failure to pay the fine can never
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by emn13 7y ago
I understand the worries; and the fact that it's a local interest site. Hence the appeal to HN to block such links, since HN is presumably not local-interest. But while the massive media blitz on the GDPR makes it appear terrifying; it
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by emn13 7y ago
> Well, it's "choosing this absurd behavior itself" insofar as risking tens of millions of dollars in fines for violating murky and ambiguous that can be interpreted differently in any of the 28 member states counts as &qu
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by emn13 7y ago
Yeah, not disagreeing with there being a problem. Just saying that it's a little more complicated than "stagnant wages + rising prices = boom". Because it's nontrivial: what's the best fix? Does it render the jobs
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by emn13 7y ago
That's a whole 'nother discussion; the point is simply that an ad hominem vs. the economist on this matter seem incongruous - and, more importantly, a distraction in poor form. But I won't dispute that the idea seems applicab
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by emn13 7y ago
There's no region blocking being forced on this poor site by anybody. The site is choosing this absurd behavior itself. And that's fine and all. But unless HN aims to be local-interest only, pretty please don't bother me with

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