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According to the article, this plant would employ 30k-50k people. The secondary effects of these jobs would be equally massive. While I would prefer an American company operating the plant, merely employing this many people would be a serious boon.

I'm guessing you were thinking mostly about financial and political self-interest (the things we usually classify as "greed") when you wrote this post. But I think there are other, equally important ways to be selfish.

For example, humans evolved to be social creatures. Interactions with other humans impact our body chemistry in dramatic ways. I want to avoid loneliness, so I selfishly hold relationships with others. I want to hear people say "thanks" to me, so I selfishly give people gifts. I want to be able to be righteous without hypocrisy, so I selfishly stick to my principles.

Just my two cents. There are a lot of different types of desire in the world. Who's to say that UBI wouldn't be in folks' best self-interest?

I find that you need to explicitly state your intentions ahead of time. Otherwise, people assume the worst, and get defensive right away. Then communication closes down. So my method is this: before I even ask the question, I couch it in nonthreatening terms. Usually, I start with a simple compliment. It doesn't even have to be relevant: "Hey boss, that new policy seems pretty neat. What made you implement it all of a sudden?"

I find this is effective even if you actually do want them to change their decision. Come in with a compliment, then try to lead them to recognize the flaws in the decision themselves.

It shouldn't be about faith. Every "crowd" has all kinds of people, and even the very smartest people aren't always right. By reading critically (and following up with research if necessary), you can decide what's right and what's wrong.

In my experience, H.N. comments have a lot of wrong. But when the content is good, it can be truly great.

I don't think it's either. "Scaling" refers to growing the amount of compute power you are using. This change falls into a different bucket, which is making more efficient use of the compute that's already available.

If they are running multiple Docker containers, the improved efficiency would allow them to run more containers per host computer. Maybe that's what they meant, although it's not really horizontal scaling either.

Zen Buddhism is a classic example.

Sorry, but the OP wasn't talking about ipfs at all. He was talking about Cloudflare.

Having said that, thanks for the interesting digression. You've made me want to try out ipfs.

Whether or not you use an SSG, I find the biggest hurdle is getting/making a good theme for your blog. It looks like this comes theme-included, which is actually a pretty big deal if you want to get up and running fast.

Like what?

Some mechanical keyboards let you configure this with DIP switches on the keyboard itself. My keyboard even came with an extra set of keycaps for swapping the caps lock and left control keys.

Yeah, it seems like "Another Day, Another Hack" is just the name of the series they use to cover security-breach-related news. It's unfortunate that it confuses the meaning of the article to imply that there was literally "another hack."

A desktop PC is more than able to do good speech recognition as long as it's able to train the model for individual voices. Getting good results without training the model for the user beforehand is harder, and you would probably never be quite as good as a cloud-based system.

A Pi, though, couldn't do well at all, just like you said. If I wanted to build a system like this for myself, I would target an HTPC form factor.

edit: Another possibility, which was explored elsewhere in this thread, would be to keep the listening device "thin", but have the ability to offload the processing to a machine in my LAN instead of one the "cloud".

As another "software engineer", I can say that we simply don't ever need a tool like Jupyter for our jobs. It's excellent for exploratory programming, research, and publishing -- but it's not really meant for software development.