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A “US journalist” whose grandfather was the personal physician to the house of Saudi’s founder, whose billionaire arms dealing uncle was involved in Iran Contra, whose first cousin was in that car with Princess Diana…

He was hilariously Saudi!

17 hours after launch and of course, a solid rainbow road is already in place!

edit wow, that got very 4chan, very fast in the hour since my comment. The Internet for ya!

The twentieth century and its experiments in alternative resource allocation and community building are not propaganda, it happened.

It wasn’t live tweeted, but we do, actually, have records. Some people were even there!

I absolutely believe Slack can’t hire enough developers to build native platforms for Mac/Windows/Linux without hilariously extensive & expensive retraining.

Have you tried to hire developers with eg AppKit experience in the past 5 years? I have, twice. Neither were small companies. Both routes went electron because 95% of the native Mac developer pool works in Cupertino or China, and it’s a kiddy pool at that.

5 years later, started to think it would never bother!

$15 is a no brainer given how much I personally use it. Have recently found myself dipping into/staying in vscode more and more for version controlled markdown though.

Ask your European colleagues how their decision to move somewhere with draconian social policies went.

Bigoted tweets or blackface matter more to US society than Libya, Syria, and Yemen combined.

Foreign policy/tragedy simply just does not matter to US citizens, US culture, or US media for various reasons independent of any moral failings, or gullibility (though that certainly does help things along).

Actually grouped:

1. Fossil fuels: 42.9%

2. Renewables: 41%

3. Nuclear: 11.7%

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Actually split:

1. Lignite: 17.8%

2. Natural gas: 16.7%

3. Wind onshore: 16.4%

4. Nuclear: 11.7%

5. Solar: 9.5%

6. Hard coal: 8.4%

7. Biomass: 7.6%

8. Wind offshore: 4.0%

9. Others: 3.2%

8. Hydropower: 3.1%

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Actually not as bad as I thought it would be!

Is Tokyo’s direct powered electrical mass transportation sustainably sourced?

Does direct powered electrical mass transportation exist within 2000km of the other user, assuming they’re in the New World?

Outhouses that didn’t bury waste well past 4 feet.

Can see a comparison at 11:05 of the 1920 Rockefeller educational video https://youtube.com/watch?v=OD-sDlSDrKk

Please consider posting some form of this as a blog post as well, I love to hear about product inceptions.

HN doesn’t allow lesser users with lesser eyesight to read light grey on beige self text, unfortunately.

These chickenhawks are about the least exotic birds imaginable in this part of the world FWIW.

Hobbies like this typically result from spending absurd amounts of time outdoors in the first place, that some of those most attuned to their local environments have turned themselves symbiont with the neighborhood apex predators is quite beautiful, and closer to where we should be headed imo.

Sour meta comments are boring, especially when they rope in unrelated personal beefs you have with individual users like ocdtrekkie. That was a little much.

Consider posting something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28977462, which inspired a lot of sub comments and a good on topic discussion, vs yours, which produced “haha Kentucky and South Dakota”, “Microsoft/Apple bad”, “gigantic evil news cabal”, and “HN is dumb”.

That’s an article describing Huawei paying a documented fee to a registered lobbyist to plead their case to the White House.

In the United States, speech is free as in speech. And you can also charge a blacklisted Chinese tech company $500,000 for it too, provided you follow some terms and conditions.

The alternative is unregistered influence, undisclosed payments, and even freer speech unless politicians are isolated & insulated, and that’s just generally not a great move.

The article linked in the comment they’re replying to.

According to Walter Isaacson's biography of Jobs, the tech guru was opposed to allowing third-party to run natively on iPhone…

…Others in the know disagree with Isaacson's story and contend third-party apps were always on the iPhone roadmap; Jobs and company were simply not comfortable with releasing an SDK at launch.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/07/10/the-revolution-st...

No, there’s no indication of population dropping in that article, only the dissolution of a city.

I’m not read up on Cahokia, but it’s probably more similar to the dissolution/dispersal of the (lowland) Maya vs something like a mass die off.

Pre contact population centers were additionally in Mesoamérica & northern South America, where most of the total post contact population drop occurred.

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung is a delightfully centrish-center-right liberal publication.

https://www.nzz.ch/

Switzerland, and the German speaking world in general are almost always on the sidelines in issues of politics, tech, economics and especially foreign policy when it’s outside, or merely adjacent to continental Europe.

For issues in Europe, well, it’s Swiss & German speaking. In US affairs, of which there is slightly too much coverage, it manages to avoid the polemics present in German-German publications.

https://www.nzz.ch/

No, that is specifically the core worldview of a century old strain of environmental activism that has been repeatedly dunked on by reality & technological progress at nearly every single turn.

“Sacrifice someone today to help reduce the overpopulation/famine/nuclear war/greenhouse problem in the future, or else doom!”

busy people with taste*!

Here you go:

http://archive.today/EMPL2

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

It’s the market. Normal people doing normal things don’t pay $35.99 for a todo list calendar app.

I don’t know, that might be optimistic. There is infinitely more talk about how big tech is bad than how privacy is good in “red” areas.

A cudgel’s a cudgel though, and this one came with blueprints.

Ah, autocorrect! Meant to say “Entire communities of people…”

Can absolutely see someone being part of that group before reading/realizing though, Watts/Blindsight is so different but almost “natural”. I used to think it was its unrelenting emphasis on competition, but there’s absolutely more to it as you say in its treatment of psychology, consciousness, alien/different life

I’ve never read Ken Macleod but I’m happy to look into him now, can’t remember ever being disappointed in recommendations given off the back of Blindsight!

Ensure communities of people have spent years trying to find books similar to Blindsight/Firefall in general to scratch the itch (with 0 success), so, be careful in maybe not finishing them too quickly.

That’s the dream, and it stays a dream most of the time. Business concerns pop up again when it comes to building out teams for Qt based desktop apps.

Electron comes with an enormous, deep, absolutely stupid big pool of web developers. I genuinely can’t emphasize enough how big it is, and how easy it is to hire from.

Montevideo, Montenegro, Monterrey, doesn’t matter. Hot, not particularly expensive developers are ready to churn out React UIs in your area!

…streets don’t account for SUVs and pickup trucks in their designs?

Absolutely disheartening to see EVs amenable to people who drive trucks and SUVs though, one would hope their manly culture of overpaying for patriotic vehicles would change before the climate does, but alas.

This crisis is about natural gas, not oil, as described in the article.

The USA imports ~0% of its natural gas from Russia, >98% from Canada, all dwarfed by its exports though making it one of the LNG sellers Asia and Europe are turning to, as described in the article.

That’s assuming the DoE doesn’t at some point need to prioritize domestic needs over exports like Russia did however, as described in the article.

My comment was also about North America, which includes Mexico and critically Canada. But if you’d like more about the US, here’s a nice recent overview of its natural gas trade: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=49156

The rest of the world minus North America*, whose main problem seems to be selling too much of it!

The US government is having to address ransomware crime, a topical issue, in the middle of a gigantic rise in ransomware crime.

HSBC laundered money for cartels and helped eg Iranians avoid sanctions. Those are issues, but they aren’t directly related to ransomware crime like a crypto exchange facilitating payments for ransomware crime is. It’s somewhat off topic.

California is an import-consumer-product route for the US.

SCS is an export-everything/import-food-energy-also-basically-everything route for China.

Gulf of Mexico + Caribbean would be a far closer comparison with whatever non North American US exports that exist going out through there, and eg Cuba, Venezuela & all the other nations vs California’s fish.