For something that has no clocks, it sure has a lot of gears like atp synthase https://youtu.be/b_cp8MsnZFA
While I appreciate your comment in being fairly correct, I still think there is a lot of value in trying to understand the human body as a molecular machine that runs on top of reality and generates sub environments that have "clocks" to synchronise processes. After all a clock signal doesn't measure the day, it measures discrete intervals.
I tend to feel that emotionally charged language shows part of the problem preventing us from resolving these things.
Morality is as much a social science as many things, however without taking into account a pretty cold analysis of why we are in this situation to begin with you can't solve it. Certainly naive calls for blockades and sanctions won't solve it. Since the people who would implement those sanctions are probably also the people benefiting from and causing the situation in those countries to begin with.
In addition to my self having gone through the Citizenship process recently.
Additionally several native nationalities have an exception:
https://www.gov.uk/english-language/exemptions
The UK citizenship authority accepts most major accredited english language certifications and or a university degree as proof of english language proficiency.
The only tests are for lay of the land/law/society, not language proficiency.
Feels to me like romanticising certain experiences more than they have merit. Yes I've also traveled before the Internet, and frankly we just sought information from books and locals or friends that had gone before. In some ways collecting the information was slower but less prone to gaming via online methods/interests. There were also several regions where taking the tuk-tuk to the non existent waterfall was a pretty good way to end up in very bad to your physical safety situations, and burdening the locals with bailing someone one out of their own 'exploration'. Saying this from having to rescue several brits from risk of death from dehydration and sunstroke.
I used to be mostly a Python guy, fell in love with Clojures syntax, you get used to it surprisingly fast, and it's caused me less headaches than 'interesting' pythonic syntax. That having been said, I still love Python too.
I am a relatively unhappy user of mesos marathon and chronos migrating to k8.
While it would take a long time to mention all the reasons and I might do a writeup, one of the main things that pushed us to k8 was the code quality / bugs in the mesos stack.
Minor examples are the bugs breaking HA + SSL in combination (mesos + marathon, fixed now) the odd bugs in chronos, where a major 3.0 release would forever append CMD to CMD modifying its own supposedly immutable config into a never ending string, the list is relatively long but we are spending too much time catching edge case bugs, which seem to be a side effect of a fairly loosely coupled stack that doesn't get tested enough.
Overall so far we are much happier with k8 in terms of both quality, and it's batteries included stance in most issues.
Nitrogen fixated feltilisers, our agriculture industry at its current scale is only possible due to fertilisers produced at mass from natural gas. There are other side issues that contribute too.
There was a question posted in the techcrunch comments section regarding Nitrogen fertiliser from natural gas being used heavily in vertical farms such as this. I understand thats the case for a lot of agriculture regardless.
That having been the case, regardless of how 'green' these companies try to go, aren't they really just using fossil fuels en mass the same as everyone else ?
I haven't spent ten years in Japan, but I have spent some time there. Some of his complaints do ring true especially around civil rights, however his experience of it feels very weird. I was praised for my language skills, accepted and invited to family outings, never had issues with restaurants that had no foreigner signs (after I spoke Japanese even badly it was all fine so long as acted within their cultures manners) and the police were nothing but helpful, gave directions etc, outside of Tokyo they even gave me a ride when I miscalculated a hike.
So yes I agree Japan has huge issues... however I can't really explain the toxicity of his experience.
Yes I'm white non Asian, pretty tall, and pretty certain they won't ever mistake me for a local.
They also always used the San or other appropriate honorifics, it helps if you adopt a 'japanified' name and introduce your self that way.
So to respond, yes I generally suggested the above for dry climates, I have also lived in humid climates and agree to all the comments regarding them.
However I am willing to bet we use electrical heat pumps out of sheer convenience even in climates that offer alternatives.
That having been said, even for humid environments, the ground often offers us solutions that are more efficient.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-coupled_heat_exchanger
They do however ofcourse require engineering and support from society to adopt.
I hate to say it but AC always felt like thoughtless engineering and consumerism, especially the electric varieties.
It's ironic that in a sunny, energy rich environment, you spend extra energy on a heat pump. In a lot of environments some better architecture will take care of the problem via passive methods, additionally evaporative methods work pretty well in dry environments and polute considerably less ?
Failing that, hell atleast use some solar energy to run the heat pumps locally, atleast stop burning stuff to power them.
Failing all of the above, stoicism isn't that bad, honest, neither are life style changes that shift high activity periods to later in the day, they are widely practised in Mediterranean countries.
Do you want to build a safer basket ? Or invest in two baskets and split your eggs ?
To some extent that is one argument, however space research in it's own right has generated a safer basket as well, as most engineering research is highly reusable. A lot of environmental problems for example could be solved via space based power generation that is beamed down.
Sadly enough a lot of doctors are complicit in it, after all a lot of doctors didn't get into it out of altruism, then again the same can be said to apply to a lot of developers, lawyers, and several other professions. My comment was in no way denying that our society is messed up.
Just please don't equate a medical profession and body with nutritionists, that is just grossly disproportionate and just outright weird. If you like I can have a rant as to how little we understand cell uptake pathways and metabolic pathways another day.
I can honestly only appreciate this comment as a form of sarcasm ?
If instead you were serious please consider the following,
our understanding of psychiatry is constantly evolving and psychiatrists are trained MDs, please don't confuse badly trained psychologists and the pharma industry trying to pump you full of drugs and nutritional supplements, with the science of psychiatry.
All of Amsterdam's power charging station network for cars is accessible via a very similar method.
Unauthenticated Telnet just a serial connection away, allowing you city wide access from any charging point.
It's frightening especially combined with the amount of data access charging points have to cars plugged into them.
What I would like to understand is why are these startups defensible.
The tech value proposition is in running these algorithms, often tensorflow at scale cheaply in production.
Companies like Google/Facebook/Palantir often have access to very similar supposedly hard to get to datasets, plus a lot more engineering expertise to running these systems at scale.
Why can't they start playing whack-a-mole pumping out vertical products presenting a serious threat to these smaller startups. Maybe it's not worth it for them but there is a fair bit of cash there ?
For example Deepmind with healthcare, and the google jobs API ?
A lot of 'managed' hosting providers are pretty bad with security, there still is a major provider that just gives root credentials to all servers to all techs not just admins, doesn't audit who accesses which credentials, and doesn't rotate credentials, doesn't rate limit dumping credentials...
That's before we go into more interesting issues with their security.
Frankly I am surprised this sort of thing doesn't happen more often ? In some ways it both restores some of my faith in people while reducing some of it at the same time in a different vector.
Moderators and professionals in this area, like police officers, are often the least psychologically prepared to cope with this, they also often receive the least support in quality and time to do so.
Psychiatrists receive a lot more training to cope, and are monitored by other psychiatrists them selves to ensure that they get the help they need.
Yet there are too few psychiatrists and psychologists for this job and they are too expensive, so we just burn out regular individuals.
That's interesting, did you control for changes in other diet elements, exercise, and water intake ?
Some more recent studies show that except for short term spikes in blood pressure, salt isn't that guilty for high blood pressure in healthy individuals.
Sigh, about time, even for the US this was starting to drag, I wonder how much it had become about saving face ? Either for the US actors or the Swedish assets.
I agree it's not that uncommon to see stuff flagged and removed, especially of political nature, especially when it's something not viewed in a positive light by the moderators in HN. It's not exactly 'free speech guaranteed' on HN.
From guidelines:
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
This allows them a lot of leeway to take stuff down.
Could it be that none of the current steel manufacturers want you pushing their prices down by doing the sensible thing of salvaging easily reused sources ? ;)
Hopefully between virtual credit card providers, invoicing providers for b2c like klarna, cryptochains, challenger banks like monzo... one of them will land PayPal in hot water, it's about damn time, they are one of the most toxic companies online.
I think that might be missing the point of something like uber a bit, they could very well just rent you the self driving cars of individuals when they are not using them. Once self driving features hit most cars, companies like uber will be very well placed to capitalise on that. As software providers for the networks of self driving cars and trucks, owned by others.