666lumberjack

The median legendary pokemon in any given generation is typically quite mediocre in terms of viability/power, so I'm not sure it's quite correct to say that most tiers are free of legendaries. Even in ZU, the lowest possible tier, you have Pokemon like Mesprit, Regirock and Articuno kicking around in spite of their relatively high stats.

It is completely true to say that the so-called 'box legendaries' specifically - with base stat totals in the 670-700 range - tend to be excellent Pokemon and with rare exceptions are banned from 'standard' formats for being overcentralizing.

That is a seriously impressive amount of power. In case anyone else is curious, it apparently provided fuel for about one hundred nuclear reactors, from that power. https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Orano-to-start-d...

This seems to amount to:

1. They purportedly did a really shitty job of handling a report of CSAM 14 years ago.

2. They have the same problem with occasional abhorrent content every platform for user-submitted content has, except that they've taken stronger steps to reduce it by attempting to verify that everyone in uploaded content has consented to being in it.

Would we really call that 'pretty disgusting', if not for the consistent effort of conservative activists and thinkpiece journalists to frame the site in the most unfavourable terms possible?

Not the person you responded to, but this[1] is a very thorough and well-sourced criticism of the person behind the campaign to get Kiwifarms removed from Cloudflare. Sections two and three specifically go into the lies, misrepresentation and bad journalism surrounding Kiwifarms itself if you'd prefer not to read the whole thing.

[1]https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...

This reads to me like it's written to evangelize the concept of worker co-ops more than to earnestly investigate the question posed in the title - which is fine, but this doesn't seem like a very good example to choose to make that point.

They say they have ten employees, and the buy-in for ownership is a thousand dollars. But there's no way the start up capital for a quality restaurant in Seattle was only $10k, so either the original founders absorbed those costs or some later employees paid in extra to cover them - either way with no expectation of increased control or return. That's more charity than alternative economic organization.

They also mention that the business has been around for ten years, but isn't profitable - and it's implied probably never has been on any consistent basis, or they would certainly have called that out. Somebody is covering that shortfall, and they're not getting anything in exchange for doing so - very noble, but again that's a reliance on charity for the business to continue existing.

Can a worker-owned restaurant work? Sure, I think there are plenty of examples that prove it. Does this one work? Not as a business, by any reasonable standard.

Location: London (UK)

Remote: Preferred, open to hybrid

Willing to relocate: Maybe, within UK

Technologies: Go/Golang, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, AWS, gRPC, Docker, Javascript

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzh975ulwx3rgg1/CameronWatsonCV.pd...

Email: hello@cameronwatson.dev

Github: https://github.com/666lumberjack

Hi, I’m Cameron. I’ve been programming for my own projects for ~13 years, and professionally for four. I’m comfortable and experienced in teaching myself whatever I need to solve the problem in front of me, and a polyglot who’s tinkered with Python, Lua and a little Haskell and Racket in addition to the languages I’ve used professionally.

I previously worked as a backend developer for two and a half years on Bedful, a SaaS booking management system for campsites, and then for about six months as a full-stack developer at Hipcamp (Airbnb for camping) after that company was acquired.

I'm looking for an IC position working broadly on the backend, somewhere with interesting problems to solve and a culture that values potential and growth. Prefer working remotely and have experience collaborating across timezones from California to Canberra, but am open to hybrid with an office in London as well for the right opportunity.

Also open to freelance and contract work.

Location: London (UK)

Remote: Preferred, open to hybrid

Willing to relocate: Maybe, within UK

Technologies: Go/Golang, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, AWS, gRPC, Docker, Javascript

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzh975ulwx3rgg1/CameronWatsonCV.pd...

Email: hello@cameronwatson.dev

Github: https://github.com/666lumberjack

Hi, I’m Cameron. I’ve been programming for my own projects for 12 years, and professionally for four. I’m comfortable and experienced in teaching myself whatever I need to solve the problem in front of me, and a polyglot who’s tinkered with Python, Lua and a little Haskell and Racket in addition to the languages I’ve used professionally.

I previously worked as a backend developer for two and a half years on Bedful, a SaaS booking management system for campsites, and then for about six months as a full-stack developer at Hipcamp (Airbnb for camping) after that company was acquired.

I'm looking for an IC position working broadly on the backend, somewhere with interesting problems to solve and a culture that values potential and growth. Prefer working remotely and have experience collaborating across timezones from California to Canberra, but am open to hybrid with an office in London as well for the right opportunity.

Also open to freelance and contract work.

Location: London (UK)

Remote: Preferred, open to hybrid

Willing to relocate: Maybe, within UK

Technologies: Go/Golang, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgres, AWS, gRPC, Docker, Javascript, Typescript

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzh975ulwx3rgg1/CameronWatsonCV.pd...

Email: hello@cameronwatson.dev

Github: https://github.com/666lumberjack

Hi, I’m Cameron. I’ve been programming for my own projects for 12 years, and professionally for four. I’m comfortable and experienced in teaching myself whatever I need to solve the problem in front of me, and a polyglot who’s tinkered with Python, Lua and a little Haskell and Racket in addition to the languages I’ve worked with in the past.

Previously worked as a backend developer for two years on Bedful, a SaaS booking management system for campsites, and then for about one year as a full-stack developer at Hipcamp (Airbnb for camping) after that company was acquired.

I like having interesting problems to work on, whether that be some technical optimization or translating a thorny business context into software. Looking for an IC position where I get to do that, ideally surrounded by other competent and curious people and a culture that values learning and growth.

Also open to freelance and contract work.

I suggest you reread the HN Guidelines[1]. This kind of dogmatic dismissal-without-argument is not the kind of engagement that people expect here.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Welp, this is very relevant to me. Diagnosed with ADHD inattentive type ~4 months ago at 26, unfortunately too late to save myself from an inescapable spiral at work and a firing.

Definitely would recommend anyone who has serious suspicions about themselves to get checked out, especially if you found academics intuitively trivial through the 'typical' diagnosis years of ~8-14.

One unsubstantiated anecdote from one person doing one kind of sex work is enough to completely condemn it? I could just as easily point to someone like Aella_girl who is a vocal proponent of escorting and sex work.

Beta on how long it is before Elon Musk is in the same position?

How often do you use YouTube? Personally I am a very heavy user and in my experience the obsession with a new video kind you watch only lasts for a few recommendations unless you lean into it.

I would guess about two thirds of the channels I consistently watch I originally discovered through algorithm recommendations. I think it works extremely well.

Because the game is about to come out, I guess.

Did you personally sell millions of books on your own? Probably you used some service like amazon in order to sell those books and fulfil the orders, in this hypothetical, in which case the lefty argument would be that you are indirectly profiting from the exploitation of both amazon's workers and the employees of the printing company.

Their final paragraph goes beyond just sharing an anecdote and into making prescriptive judgements about how society should approach the virus based on those anecdotes in contravention of the medical consensus. I presume that's the issue people have with it.

Airbus approach: the flight computer should place limits on the control authority of the pilots to prevent them from making unsafe inputs

Boeing: The pilots should be the final authority in the cockpit; automation will warn against unsafe control inputs but not prevent them

If it were possible to ensure everyone who would potentially be exposed to covid-19 as a result of your decision to engage in high-risk activities had given informed consent, I'd be fine with letting people decide for themselves.

Since that isn't the case, your comparison is patently absurd. Skydiving isn't contagious.

Anything can be 'the subject of academic research' if you just find one sufficiently biased individual willing to write an article.

The paper that you link (which is the only one that ever gets trotted out when this subject comes up...) had to be corrected after publication and has been widely criticised for its poor methodology.

The author sought to find evidence to support the idea of transgender identification as a social contagion by surveying only parents who reported 'rapid-onset gender dysphoria' in their kids recruited specifically from anti-trans / 'gender-critical' forums 'transgendertrend', '4thwavenow', and 'youthtranscriticalprofessionals'.

The fact that their sample was obscenely biased is right there in the intro to the study. The fact that the study had to be corrected is right there at the top of the page.

Puberty blockers aren't exactly reversible

That's not what the medical consensus[1] says. I hope you have some damn good evidence to the contrary if you want to deny tens of thousands of people access to life-saving medical treatment.

[1] https://www.seattlechildrens.org/pdf/PE2572.pdf

The paper that article references was discredited for being bad science, not because of any kind of agenda. They collected their 'data' by surveying parents on online forums - most of them explicitly anti-trans / 'gender critical' - instead of from transgender youth or medical professionals.

I agreed with that before Tesla's Big Battery

Tesla's battery isn't really grid-scale energy storage of the kind you'd need to do 100% renewables. It's more for smoothing out fluctuations in the grid than for filling in for intermittent sources when conditions are poor.

If the gamble on renewables works out, it will be because of geological hydrogen energy storage. That's the only way to get country-days worth of storage at a price that's actually feasible (if it works in practise like it does on paper).

Given an equal amount of expenditure, a single-payer healthcare system will always be able to deliver a better standard of care than a privatised one because of the greater negotiating leverage and the removal of a profit margin for the insurance provider.

It may be the case that in countries which spend less on health per capita than the US wait times tend to be longer on average (and I'm pretty sure the data says this isn't universally true), but that's not an inherent property of the single-payer system - and wait times for someone who would never be able to afford the surgery they need under the American system are infinitely shorter.

Using their data for the UK (2011 weather) and the 2020 technology scenario (rather than the projections which conveniently make renewables and storage significantly cheaper and Nuclear costs constant) and requiring that the system be carbon neutral it only takes very small tweaks to their assumptions to make Nuclear a clear winner. They are assuming by default that countries will be able to use salt caverns for hydrogen storage, which seems unrealistic given the amount of it their scenarios require. Using the numbers they give for steel tank storage instead, it only takes a 5% cost reduction for nuclear (which seems self-evidently possible with economies of scale) to make the optimal solution a 100% nuclear grid.

Right now I don't think people are pragmatic enough for that to be politically viable in most western countries, but that may shift as the adverse effects of AGW start to be more acutely felt (and, hopefully, as more and stricter carbon taxes are implemented across the world).

Individual Contributor. In the SWE context, someone whose primary job is writing code rather than managing people.

http://danluu.com is excellent.

I'm convinced that the reason so many oil and gas companies are on board with scaling up intermittent renewables is because it secures demand for natural gas for future.

Making a better product isn't marketing. Making everyone aware your product is better is, though.

Maybe I wasn't clear; I'm not talking about comments on random threads about climate change suggesting it could be solved easily if people just didn't have kids. I don't think it's unreasonable, though, to suggest not having biological children if someone asks how they could lower their carbon footprint.

Yes - it's not surprising to me that few people are willing to consider adopting or living a 'childfree' lifestyle, only that the suggestion that doing so is an extremely effective way to reduce your carbon footprint is received so poorly.

I would suggest that whether an idea is good and whether it is popular are mostly orthogonal, but also that encouraging people who aren't certain they want kids to not do so is, from the perspective of someone concerned about climate change, a good idea.