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__johnon Why the U.S. government is allowing bears, wolves to be hunted in their dens

> Reason is much of the price is based on the land values.

This is untrue. Beef prices are set by the four meat packers that control 75% of the market[1].

https://www.hcn.org/issues/43.5/cattlemen-struggle-against-g...

__johnon Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?

I don't care for any book in particular (except maybe Excession). I more just enjoy the Culture universe.

__johnon Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?

The Culture Series by Iain Banks, quite a good scifi series in my opinion.

__johnon Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why?

https://atlas-api.com/

I probably need to promote it better, and get a better landing page set up. It could probably benefit from an interactive map as well.

__johnon Apple CEO becomes chairman of China university board

From Wikipedia

> Since 2015, Tsinghua University has overtaken the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to top the list of Best Global Universities for Engineering published by the U.S. News & World Report.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsinghua_University#Rankings

__johnon Fast inverse chirp z-transform found

The link in the article was not paywalled for me (maybe it is for others?).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50234-9

__johnon Eleven Ordinary Twenty-Somethings With $250B Riding on Their Lives

> SPY as we know it will cease to be on Jan. 22, 2118, or 20 years “after the death of the last survivor of the eleven persons” -- whichever occurs first. The structure doesn’t provide those people with a financial interest in SPY.

If SPY ceased to exist what would be the effect on the markets?

__johnon N. Korea Took in $2B in Cyberattacks to Fund Weapons Program: U.N. Report

Would the Chinese government send it's "LulzSec" types to cyber work farms in NK? Or is something else more plausible?

__johnon Beyond Einstein: Physicists find surprising connections in the cosmos

> normally particles don't have an entangled counterpart.

I believe this assumption is incorrect. Most particles do have an entangled counterpart.

https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-subatomic-particles...

__johnon Where is the universe hiding its missing mass?

My impression is that quantized inertia is somewhat of a fringe theory. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

__johnon Announcing unlimited free private repos

I didn't know this existed, thank you for pointing it out.

__johnon Announcing unlimited free private repos

One thing I like about bitbucket/atlassian over github is bitbucket's pipelines[1] and the bitbucket-pipelines.yml file. I really wish github had something like that.

[1]https://bitbucket.org/product/features/pipelines

__johnon Introducing the Tink cryptographic software library

For those who didn't know what AEAD is, it stands for Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authenticated_encryption

__johnon Tell the Senate to Pass a Strong Election Security Bill

and what problem does the electoral college cause?

__johnon Tesla stock sinks after Musk gives tearful NYT interview

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=IIAOPSW

it's called noprocrast it's a dropdown, 'No' by default.

__johnon Cloud9Trader – Simple, powerful platform for algorithmic trading

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/on-cloud-nine.html

__johnon Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

ClearCase is a terrible version control system.

__johnon Delft scientists make first “on demand” entanglement link

Wouldn't a "quantum internet" have more stable latency? I generally notice that my latency fluctuates between 50ms and 100ms. I attribute this to the other users on my ISP's network, all the routers/switches/etc between me and the server I'm connecting to, and the load the server is under. I assume that the first two things (users and equipment) would be mitigated by using entanglement to communicate. Can someone tell me why this line of reasoning might be wrong?

__johnon Reddit DMs will not reach their destination if they contain certain text

That thing about Facebook blocking messages with links to the thepiratebay.org doesn't seem to be true. I just tested it. Maybe it's a regional thing (i.e. it works in the US but not in the EU).

__johnon Coyotes Conquered North America. Now They’re Heading South

Build a water trough.

__johnon How Mapbox Is Winning Over Developers to Challenge Google's Mapping Dominance

what is noc?

__johnon New Shepard's 8th test flight [video]

The exciting bit

https://youtu.be/ZUV53Nn3PhA?t=4202

__johnon Hedge-fund managers that do the most research will post the best returns

How long ago was this?

__johnon Telegram plans multi-billion dollar ICO for chat cryptocurrency

nah, anyone can buy Ripple and have a Ripple wallet. Only thing you can't do is mine Ripple.

__johnon Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text

The way I remember [] before () is that [] is "basic" and square and () is "refined" and curvy. Seems silly but it helps me.

__johnon Wyoming's War on Wolves

>ex-military, java/python/etc

do you work at Raytheon in Aurora by any chance?

I think you should ask him. If his lively hood solely depends on the livestock he raises I doubt he supports reintroduction. Same goes for the others ... it's easy to support something if there is no risk to you for doing so.

__johnon Wyoming's War on Wolves

I'm not validating what the parent comments was saying. Just seeing if I could get examples of these kinds of operations, specifically in NM and AZ. I know of Ted Turner, but from what I could find most of these "well fare" ranchers aren't really ranchers. Instead they are people who made their money some other way and bought up a bunch of land. I know a few people who lease forest land ... I don't envy them.

__johnon Wyoming's War on Wolves

> The saddest part is that the open range ranching in desert Southwest is not even profitable without large subsidies and support by the taxpayer.

Curious if you have any specific examples of this?

__johnon Wyoming's War on Wolves

I think you'll have a hard time finding any rancher who is in favor of reintroducing wolves, Colorado or otherwise.