ponyfleisch

What I want to say is: atmospheric carbon capture is not the deus ex machina that one might be tempted to believe it is after seeing news of startups like Climeworks doing it.

I responded to a comment implying that if there is a philantropist like Bill Gates camping out in the desert sucking CO2 out of the air, we won’t need a massive collective effort.

Maybe this will be a somewhat effective solution one day for areas where fuel energy density is important (e.g. flight), but that’s about it. Carbon neutrality will still need a distributed effort as point source capture is massively more economical where feasible.

I think your perception of the ease of/effort required for atmospheric carbon capture is off by a few orders of magnitude.

And iOS Safari shows it as a mostly green mess. After tapping the image to get to the real .j2, in the page itself it’s a png.

Hi Jeff

Did you get 750-800 out of the box with a Pi4 and USB ethernet? Asking because mine was around 300 and needed some manual tweaking (see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27231705)

For those who get poor performance out of this, I recommend https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/scaling.ht...

I had 300-400Mbit/s out of the box and got it up to ~900 with the right set up.

Does paper cash printed by government make more sense?

Than energy wasting cash computed by chinese miners and (in the early days) a select group of early adopters? Yes, it makes more sense.

Would you mind linking the law you're talking about?

I think it's really just more of the ruthless pragmatism that makes this place so efficient and a consequence of land scarcity. Housing is limited and leaving it up to the free market would exacerbate wealth inequality. Therefore the government steps in with subsidized housing, which almost by definition will have more demand than supply. Prioritizing young families makes sense as the birth rate is below replacement.

Also criticizing the government is a crime and saying the wrong thing on facebook can land you in prison.

Would you mind linking the specific law(s) you talk about here?

There is no better way that a developer can earn outsized riches than blockchain and cryptocurrency. You are solving tough problems in difficult, constrained environments and are rewarded extremely well for doing so by a global group of investors involved in this alternative financial system.

You are not rewarded for "solving tough problems" or anything else related to creating actual value. It's FOMO driven gambling, scams and enabling organized crime that gets money into the crypto ecosystem.

A /16 has ~65k unique IPs.

For people who are of the opinion that expensive preparation for low probability events is untenable for elected governments because it would be seen as wasteful:

My home country (Switzerland) has a conscription army. ~160k people, each with either a pistol or an assault rifle at home, receiving regular training for a few weeks a year while the government compensates their employer for the loss in productivity. There are tanks, fighter jets and massive alpine fortifications. It's expensive. Most countries have an army and they are usually sized for an unlikely worst case scenario.

One would think maintaining a stockpile of PPE that would allow the authorities to recommend (and even provide) masks for the general population without risking a shortage in health care would be a relatively minor expense compared to that. And yet, all over the western world, PPE is in short supply, and that is without the general public wearing masks like they do in many asian countries.

Yes, that wasn't my point. I find the term "synonymous" when used for unambiguous numerical values that are off by 1% strange. But i'm not a native english speaker.

Roughly 1% of people born in the 17th century were not born in the 1600's.

Yes, I was aware that years not being zero-indexed can create confusion, but I never noticed this particular consequence of that.

I get your point, but would you say "a 99 year period" is synonymous with "a century"?

Wow. A linguistical off-by-one bug. I have never noticed that before.

Interestingly, Wikipedia contradicts itself here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1600s

The period from 1600 to 1699, synonymous with the 17th century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17th_century

The 17th century was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700.

I think this is going to annoy me until I forget about it.

I've met quite a few libertarians in Singapore but i continue to be puzzled by why someone with libertarian leanings would choose to live here.

Can you explain why it appeals to you? Do the low taxes make up for the limitations on personal liberty?

pro:

* Many overseas educated locals helping with cultural cross pollination

* Locals often live with their parents until their late twenties (when they get married), so there are a lot of young people with low personal burn rates

* Lots of government funding and plenty of private capital around as well

* A good amount of big tech companies have offices here

* Major finance hub

* Very business friendly regulations

* Cost of living is reasonably scalable (meaning you can slum it out here or live like a king, depending on your success)

* Good access to Indonesia, Vietnam etc. for talent

* Thriving e-commerce ecosystem in Southeast Asia

* Decent meet up ecosystem

con:

* Rent is expensive (both residential and office space)

* Foreigner visas are not always easy to come by

I might add more later in a separate comment if i can think of more.

Ironically, i come across quite a lot of outrageous health claims in Singapore. Cancer-curing smoothies for example.

Having a bunch of people paid 5 times what you are coming to your area is never fun.

It's probably a net positive overall though, especially if the money these people are paid (and spend locally) is coming from other parts of the world/country.

Tofu is _never_ mixed with meat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapo_doufu

But unless you use server push, it still is an additional roundtrip.

I have a bachelor’s degree but i know people without a degree making 130-140k USD anually in software related roles. Not quite SF/Valley rates but it goes a long way here with the low tax rates. And these are relatively young people. (Early thirties)

I visit home about once a year.

No I worked remote for companies in the US, which was my main willingness to live in SE asia in the first place because salaries here are crap.

You can make decent money in Singapore as an expat. But the range of salaries i've seen here is quite a bit larger than in most of the west.

As for the rest of your comment - interesting. Thank you for taking the time to write that up. I am no longer a backpacker and i travel and look at places differently nowadays. I have to check out Jakarta again.

I live in Singapore currently, have been here since 2013. There are things that i miss from my home country (Switzerland), but overall life here is good.

In all fairness I'd be hesitant to live in Singapore on account of its high cost of living and poor work-life balance.

As an expat, that would likely not affect you much. Lots of MNCs have fairly nice working hours, decent pay and 20-25 days/year paid leave (on top of the numerous public holidays)

Cost of living depends on whether you need a big apartment in a posh location and a car. Sending kids to international school is also pricey.

Their censorship regime is purely domestic.

They block:

-pornography

-ashley madison

-an admittedly very questionable "news" site targeted at Singapore but operated from the outside

Further, the sale of malaysian newspapers is banned, as is private ownership of satellite TV equipment.

Do you have to go to an office daily? How convenient is that? Do you go out socially a lot? How are the restaurants and bars?

Jakarta is the city in SEA i know the least. I spent 3 days there as a cheap backpacker 10 years ago. I remember spending a substantial amount of time in traffic.

Fair enough, but every city in malaysia feels like post apocalyptic singapore, infrastructure wise. Indonesia - not much quality of life overall.

why?

lol. nice and detailed april fools article. just wish it wasn't posted in December.

> avoid global state by having a global name that hold the state

That state is not global though, you can use multiple getters from a gettergetter in parallel.