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I concur. My experience is similar. Definitely needed to will myself to continue them, but they kept me sane.

I know what you mean. I've been there.

And yet, from my own experience and the little I have read, the bigger problem is that there is no anticipation of fun. Thinking of fun activities does not bring me joy when depressed. Doing them brings lesser joy, but there is still joy, however little.

The death rate of COVID-19 is at about 3.4% on average. In comparison, the death rate of seasonal flu is about 0.1% in the US. No, it is not "like" the flu.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/03/who-says-coronavirus-death-r...

This rumor also exists for the Robarts Library at UofT, and in both cases, I am quite certain, it is just that - a rumor.

I know this is meant to be humor, but realistically, as I understand it, you can just tap into the muscular signals with electrodes - that does not need any such dramatic step.

I can't upvote a second time, but this was a very good use of analogy. I am going to save this for later.

Not GP, but I think they are referring to https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels

Older thread on same post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523056

Non-medium link to read: https://outline.com/AvA2tz

While reviewing helps a lot, even without reviewing, the act of noting things down in a place that you can refer to later is huge. A capture location for all that you need to do later is a great idea - it frees up space in your head, and you can go back to it whenever you feel like it.

Search for "b ok cc" on Google if people are looking for the book.

I am telling you that the problem in India was just as complex and the political system there is also democratic.

And yes, I have been to US cities multiple times, and I don't see why the challenges there are so very different. New Delhi is denser than New York. Its traffic situation was as bad as New York. I am not saying implementation is easy. I am saying implementation is feasible. It's a matter of public and political will. What's holding it back is not that somehow the problem is so complex that it can't be solved.

Adding to the point of induced demand on traffic, thankfully it works the other way too. The traffic situation does not get significantly worse when roads are reduced. The Alaskan viaduct highway in Seattle is an example of this.

Edit: And I have seen the transformation of Vancouver to accommodate bike lanes too, and while Vancouver is nowhere as dense, my point is that the traffic situation did not actually get worse when bike lanes were introduced.

The more roadways you build to accommodate cars, the more cars fill up the roadways, as long as more people have cars in the city. [0] On the other hand, public transit can be designed to ease congestion and allow movement between densely populated areas. Moreover, cost of building public transit keeps on increasing [1].

The solution is not more roadways to magically reduce congestion. It's to build public transit today before it gets more expensive. See the success of the Delhi Metro in India, for example, where New Delhi was never built with a local subway system in mind. [2]

[0] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/09/citylab-unive... [1] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/04/why-new-york-... [2] https://www.globalmasstransit.net/archive.php?id=26471

When was the ACLU going off the tracks exactly?

Wikipedia regularly misrepresents the intended use of donation funds when asking for money. They should be upfront that they are looking to keep it running for so long with such and such strategy.

Wikipedia asking for donations isn't any better. It is well documented that Wikipedia is less than forward in their donation requests about how much money they actually need. Wikipedia is not starving for money.

Where does this 20,000 number come from?

It actually does matter to visibility of comments when you're trying to engage in discussions. If you'll read my comment, I'm not really craving internet points in anyway. Downvoting for disagreement is just a poor way of having a discussion. In the comment that was downvoted, there was no name-calling, nothing uncivil. A lot of subreddits, surprisingly unlike HN, do actually discourage downvoting.

And if I was craving internet points I'd probably not comment about voting cause clearly that's unpopular too.

My arguments notwithstanding, I don't intend to comment on voting again.

I suggest looking into org-mode in emacs to take notes on emails. However, I have not yet figured out an annotation method that works. Would be good to have one, but given that the emails are not long, may be a little unnecessary.

This is not what my comment is about. I am saying that irrespective of the less sensational paper title, the conclusion of the paper is worth sensationalizing.

The paper might have a less sensational title, but that does not make the content any less news-worthy. I don't think the author is wrong at raising alarm about this.

I've gone back and forth between thinking of switching to KDE Plasma and sticking with gnome. Moving DEs comes with a significant time commitment and my old experiences with KDE were just too jarring.

Just to clarify this: You tried to use emacs on Windows in Ubuntu VMs and are asking it to compare to native performance of tools like VS Code? Have you considered running a native Emacs build too and see if that performs better?

That automation is in competition with minimum wage is unsubstantiated. And if companies innovate to get rid of the need for minimum wage jobs when min wage is raised, the society's response should not be to throttle innovation or keep lower minimum wage, but to institutionalize changes to how we redistribute the gains of that innovation.

Let me rephrase that last sentence for what you are meaning it as "If you call this class warfare instead of unintended consequences, in my opinion, you are being paranoid or cynical."

Neither "paranoid" nor "cynical" are absolute terms to base your argument on.

Precisely this. Trade negotiations by their nature are written by the winners, and until the voters wise up to this, we are doomed to repeat these mistakes.

They are not standing by and watching. They are involved in the tragedy. Western nations are dismantling nuclear power on a massive scale. They are blocking the growth of renewables industries in developing nations [0] under the guise of free trade instead of promoting renewables usage in those countries. US has backed off the Paris climate accord saying they should not be subsidizing solar in these countries. They are showing anything but leadership after having damaged the planet for their own benefit all these years.

Climate change is a problem, and we have to deal with it, but the west blaming India and China when the US has the largest emission per capita by a mile and more is not going to get us anywhere.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-india-wto/india...

No, it isn't just globalization. It's globalization done poorly. A level playing field wrt human rights of workers across wherever companies do business should be part of a just (in a humanitarian sense) globalization.

> Some awareness of the possible impact of leaks, and awareness of the contents of leaked documents. Both Snowden and Manning appear to have failed to read all the content they leaked, which is dangerous. In practice, we have gotten fortunate in that there were no obvious immediate lethal consequences to the leaks. But hope is not a strategy.

You are suggesting they make judgements, but they are not independent authorities on making such judgements. People who are, are making judgements arbitrarily too, hence why being a legit whistle-blower in any organization is a problem. If you read or listen to Snowden, he worked with journalists to proof the leaks. Yes, he handed them to journalists, because if he went through official channels, nothing would have worked out.