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...or to break those agreements. I imagine the memory of Operation Barbarossa hasn't faded much in Russia. It's hard to imagine them trusting China to move their military into a buffer state without moving further.

"Abandon all dimensional consistency ye who read on" should top every newspaper, magazine and blog. Failing to grasp or properly communicate meaningful scientific units seems to be a constant problem in the media I read, particularly around units of energy vs power. It's one of my pet peeves.

Fair enough. I suppose pointing out that the authors merely omitted "strictly" wouldn't have served GP's point as well.

You should recheck your definitions on convexity.

>function f: R^n --> R where for all x in R^n f(x) = 0

This hyperplane is not convex. A convex curve by definition can not be equal to its tangent at any point.

Edit: I should specify, I mean a convex curve cannot be completely equal to any of its tangents, obviously it will equal each tangent at a single point.

This seems relevant: https://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/extracting-structu...

I was basing that concern mostly on bad reports of the Leaf battery, good reports of the Tesla battery (someone put together a data set of range loss vs mileage) and lack of data on the Bolt.

I haven't seen data yet on the Bolt. The other child comment suggests it's favorable, though. If new data shows the Bolt as having similar longevity to the Tesla then it's more of a contender for me, although I don't think highly of GM or their cars in general.

Since I have an ear here, I have to say I hope the EULA doesn't require arbitration in Delaware like the Basic license does. These sort of terms make this a no-go for us - same as when Atlassian required mandatory arbitration in (New Zealand?); out lawyers refused to let us use JIRA because of that, and other clauses in their license.

I'm about to uninstall x-pack for the same reason. Hopefully we can use the 6.3 release, but it will depend on the terms.

I would consider another EV - for me that's the main I'm looking for in my next car. The reason I'm waiting for a model 3 rather than already driving a Bolt or Leaf is largely a matter of battery longevity. I want to have some assurance that the battery will not need replacing in the first 5-10 years. Tesla so far seems to be the best in that regard with their large packs and active pack management. The beauty and performance of the car are a nice plus, but even with that I'm not certain I'll wind up with a 3.

To some extent you're right, but I'd say education is absolutely a part of the problem. Most people (I'm guessing, based on anecdote), at least under 30, have no idea what the potential consequences of not showing up to a court date can be. Even if someone doesn't think the court system will help them, they should understand that not showing up makes things monotonically worse.

FWIW I'm very happy with my new Moto Z series phone so far. I haven't sprung for any mods yet but the phone itself is good. Battery life isn't great without the battery moto mod, but seems typical. For $350 unlocked I'll take this any day over an $800 phone.

The other two were Player of Games and Use of Weapons. Out of the three I'd say Player was my favorite, followed by Weapons.

You seem to misunderstand. Dishwashers use less heat and water than hand washing, not more.

As a Tesla model 3 reservation holder, I wish they would decide they're an electric car company, not an electric autonomous car company. I badly want the former. I'm not interested in the self-driving part until it's really good. This half-hearted level 2 stuff is uninteresting to me - I see it as dangerous and marginally useful. The fact that it comes with heavy handed control and surveillance by the company makes it worse.

I'd rather wait 5-10 years for someone like Waymo to figure it out and then roll it out than see a car I really want today get crapped up with features that are incidental to its raison d'etre. Honestly this and the delays may be enough to make me cancel my res.

I'm hoping they don't respect the plot too much, and improve it instead. Consider Phlebas was by far the worst of the three Culture books I have read so far. It had elements of a great story but IMHO was badly in need of an editor to polish the narrative.

I'm in that boat. I think a technical bachelor's plus work experience and self-study allows me to get along, but similarly to mr_overalls in the sibling comment I'm going back to school for a master's degree. It seems that getting into a data science career can be done without at least a master's but it seems that it would be hard to advance without one.

That's a fair question. After a bit of thought the best I could come up with are, depending on situation:

driven to professional exile

ridden out on a [digital] rail

digital skimmington

pilloried

[digitally/professionally] tarred and feathered

I wonder if you read as much online news about your country of residence as you do about SV, would you think they're fking insane too? Remember that the news distorts, there are trolls all over the internet intent on (and some paid to) stoke outrage and division, and controversy sells. And SV punches way above its weight in newspaper coverage.

I don't like in the valley but I suspect that you and many others are being drawn into an image of the place and of politics in general that is very distorted.

I would suggest trying to use a different term than "social lynching". It is a hyperbolic word that describes actions that are quite out of proportion with what might be called "actual lynching". Loss of a specific, typically rarified, job is far less consequential than death.

Using that term is going ensure that a large portion of the population disregards your argument out of disgust (at the co-opting of a historically powerful word for political points). Use it if you like, but you should expect that it will lose you debates if you do. There is probably a different term you could come up with that would be better received.

As a geographical outsider, it seems to me that this is more indicative that Silicon Valley runs on a deep amoral cynicism that uses hypocritical marketing messages to appeal to a segment of left-leaning youthful technological tastemakers.

I feel this is more of an indictment of the cynicism and hypocrisy of the gargantuan power players in SV than of the alleged political beliefs (techno-utopianism, liberalism) being discussed. The line of discussion that this thread represents, which seems common on HN these days, seems to disparage liberalism as if it is to blame for being used as cover by powerful corporations that seem to me to be more anarcho-capitalist than anything else.

Are there really very many techno-utopians in SV, or are they mostly people and companies who use the language of making the world a better place as a cover for consuming it economically?

Why do you oppose racial diversity instead of taking no opinion on it? One would think a neutral observer, seeing no difference in efficacy between different types of workplaces, would not oppose one of those types of workplace anyway. The conclusion I make is that the observer is not neutral, but biased.

When you say you're "against racial diversity" you are saying you prefer racial homogeneity. If that's not what you mean, you should rethink how you state your preference. Many people would take that statement to mean that you're an avowed racist.

I dream of the day I'm happy and productive enough with one set of tools that I refuse to switch to another. I still largely feel like I'm wandering the desert when it comes to tooling, where a new toolset looks good from a distance but when I start using it I discovered the ugly underside and start looking for greener pastures.

What about pay per support request? I'd think the people who are desperately trying to get back their email account legitimately are going to be much more willing to pay, say $10, than a free energy crank. Presumably they could set the price at a level they can afford even if everyone and their brother use the support service.

I propose a new word to solve this problem: avoision. This word describes a practice that is in all essences tax evasion but may not be technically found by courts to be illegal, or may be an untested grey area legally.

I think it's a nice, cromulent word that we can all agree on.

Out of curiosity, what makes you call those property managers scary, vs others you have encountered?

Something that would be worth considering in homelessness discussion re: Portland, SF, etc is how many of these people are city dwellers that became homeless versus already-homeless people who gravitated toward (or were shipped to) the city? The former is a reflection on the city, but in my opinion the latter is less a reflection on the city than it is of the nation.

If I become homeless and move out to Portland, is that an indictment of Portland? Is it more their responsibility to house me than say, Pittsburg, who may have sent the people there on a bus? I don't know the stats mentioned above but it seems like the places that have huge homeless problems are mostly those with nice mild weather and tolerant residents.

While I lean left and support affordable housing and the welfare state, it seems a little unfair to saddle those places particularly with housing a homeless population that they didn't cause to be homeless.

High productivity, great worker protections, and high unemployment. Seems to be a mixed bag but the workers who have jobs wouldn't trade it.

If you think tax subsidies have anything to do with EROI (i.e. EROEI) you are very confused. This is calculated on the basis of Wh/Wh. Simple dimensional analysis shows that $ doesn't show up at all in the calculation.

Of course tax subsidies are useful to bootstrap on a $ cost basis, but with current costs and rate of falling costs even that will soon become unnecessary (let's get rid of fossil fuel subsidies to make this "real world data" comparison fair though).

I'd say it's a moral panic. The response to this very real epidemic of deaths seems to be to moralize about opioids rather than to look for ways to reduce deaths from opioid use. Thus this is a moral panic as much as it is a health issue.

Out of curiosity do have a citation for that? It's something I'd like to look into.

That tends to happen when the user logs in, so they'll probably see it multiple times per day. I think that's pretty standard. The system doesn't have to be the wild west. But if someone can click through an authentication override then it's not really doing anything.