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> It is very likely that many industries will move to places where solar power is especially abundant and inexpensive.

I suspect over time the cost of producing solar electricity will become negligible against the cost of storage. The key thing will be not so much the lower levels of sun which you get in temperate latitudes, but the variation you get between Summer and Winter levels of insolation, which means you have to maintain backup generation. Variation within a day you can deal with, variation from season to season will be much more difficult. But as you say that is going to drive some interesting changes in geopolitics.
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One point I'll grant you is that ignorance is indeed bliss.
We have never had to deal with the problem of storage for solar power. That's still in its infancy, but as it becomes more mainstream that will change.

It's a different game altogether - batteries etc instead of train cars full of coal. But it will happen.
Gwern analyzes some ideas at

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Tablets have the same update cycle as phones for Android devices -- my tablet got a one major version upgrade and that's all it's ever going to get. From Samsung. And it's a powerful tablet that will last for years.

Google can keep pushing out updates but the percentage of devices on any particular version will keep getting smaller. The whole thing is fundamentally flawed.
> Go spend some money on offshore coders and get a prototype built.

But please, PLEASE know that that is a prototype and that your technical cofounder will likely want to throw it out the door on day 1.

Nothing is a worse conversation than "okay, so I have the v0 built offshore, but it just needs X, Y, and Z". Great start, but let me pick the stack, framework, etc. so I can do my job quickly. I'm here to make decisions WITH you, not be your code monkey.
> I just don't see enough in his CV to believe he created Bitcoin

Have you researched the guy? I would say his CV is quite impressive.
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With a nod to the BBC's Ashes to Ashes and no trace of any reliability guarantees, http://ptscientist.com/ might be willing to "fire up the quattro" on realative short notice.

(Would be a shame if contemporary car brand rivalry was a bigger hindrance to cooperation in space exploration than cold war rivalry was in the days of the Apollo/Soyuz docking)
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it's worth noting that buffett doesn't believe markets are "efficient":

"[D]iversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing."
To give you some illumination on how to deal with intermittent solar checkout out the best paper I've read on this subject:
Jacobson, Delucchi on Wind, Water and Solar https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/JDEn...
How does your post relate to the post you replied to?

Is DRM required for streaming music? Definitely not.

Is DRM required to make money out of streaming music? Debatable.

Putting it on a comparable service, look at GOG.com and Steam. They are both digital game distributor services. Before GOG.com people thought DRM was the only way to make a viable business out of selling digital copies of videogames, as presented by Valve. Then GOG came along and they said "nope, we hate DRM, we're gonna sell digital games without it". Now, is their system viable? Well they've been around for quite a while, I don't know if their money comes directly from game sales or other sources (their parent company also owns CDProjekt which makes Triple A games like The Witcher) but they are still in the business after all these years.
No, but the agreements in place more or less guarantee it. Back with the original iPhone, Apple was able to push Cingular into ceding a lot of control over devices. Google was never able to do the same. Partly because they needed to make up marketshare, but also because it went against a lot of the Android ethos (IMO) that pre-dated even the iPhone.

I love open-source, and I'm a huge believer in the possibilities it represents. But I think those beliefs blinded people in the beginning, who assumed that carriers and manufacturers would similarly care. They don't. Hell, they're even slow to respond with security updates. Google is moving in a better direction, but it'll take a while. If we're really lucky, carriers and manufacturers won't notice the gradual changes and raise a fuss.

You'd think that, as long as they get to customize things to their heart's content and install their bloatware at some point, they'd be able to realize the benefits of a better update model. But then again, major UI changes that are clearly visible help differentiate new devices. So there's a nasty vested interest at work there as well.
> If I want to keep it without being chained to servers that will go away, I break the law.

I was thinking of that today as I had to download (for the 6th time since I started) a Kindle book I'm reading to my Android.

I'm another 1-2 downloads away from going on a torrent site and grabbing a DRM free copy that will actually stay on my local storage, be read on an app that does not take 30 seconds to boot, and not require large downloads with every open.

The natural evolution of that is to buy a copy on Amazon to support the author and industry, then download a free copy somewhere so you can actually read it in peace.
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Yeah, tell me about it! The urgency (or lack of it) is what drives me crazy. At least there is hope though, for example huge changes are happening now in China at a crazy pace. I hope it won't be too little too late, the magnitude of what we need to do is daunting.
Formal verification of service level agreements and other contracts would be a pretty cool machine learning project.
This debate has virtually nothing to do with me. If you want to put names to it, use Thomas Pornin and Daniel J. Bernstein.
They still need willingness from their manufacturer...
"engineering students working on high speeed GHz digital circuits can use $100k Agilent scopes."

Something interesting to think about is as a hobbyist I'll be buying that $100K scope at a hamfest or off ebay in about 10 or 20 years for basically the cost of shipping. Then at home purely as a hobby I can entertain myself cheaply and endlessly doing stuff that was cutting edge in 2016, which is still going to be an enormous market in 20 years.

There are two problems. One is that companies like to think they're cutting edge. So gaining expert level skills on, say, late 70s high speed TTL is not interesting to hiring managers. The second problem is companies that like to think they're cutting edge, almost always are not, unless they're household names. Everyone knows google uses go and python but "the rest of the real world" runs on perl and cobol, like it or not. Oddly enough the hiring managers often don't know how far behind the times they are, so you get the equivalent of an interviewer bragging about the EE equivalent of planning to implement CVS someday soon, or trying that newfangled agile design methodology someday, not knowing their plans for the future are already obsolete in the market. Half of companies are below median, after all.

TLDR is there's a lot of posing in stem, and at least some of the people doing the loudest posing are actually doing stuff right out of 1975, if not earlier. Usually because if something makes money there's no need to fix it solely to strike a stunning pose. In public of course the image will always be that theres no way we couldda dunnit without that $500K budget, partially to intimidate competitors, partially to appear more powerful, mostly just traditional neophilia.
when someone picks active management over passive, they're betting THEIR MANAGER can beat the average. people invested in buffett's stock picking skill; how are they doing?
We adjust it so that it uses 80% of the monitoring servers disk.

Just store as much as you can - "some" metrics is more valuable than an empty disk, even if only marginally, and you never know how you might want to slice and dice the data in future.
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That looks good. Yeah, mine wasn't really focused on performance so much as ease of use (being able to compile and reuse circuits).

One thing I never got around to that IBM did was measurement operators. They break my simple compilation strategy but would definitely make it more useful.
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You are getting downvoted, but no less than Sir Roger Penrose had the same idea for the origin of human intelligence.
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This is the best quote imho: "If we can get CO2 from the air at 125 $/t-CO2 then the idea of making fuels at prices of order 1 $/L looks plausible over the next few decades."

It's uplifting to me, both for the high value on a ton of CO2 and the (still) low resulting price of fuel. Solar beats fusion (chance * impact)!
Close to your suggestion #2. There are electronics running software, plus a set of entangled qubits whose output probabilities are influenced by the machinery which the above mentioned software controls, and the software also interprets the output and decides when a sufficiently accurate answer has been found.

The particular configuration that the software defines for the controlling machinery (and how it sets up the qubit entanglement) is meant to implement the chosen quantum computing algorithms and to encode the chosen inputs.

For example, for a given instance of Shor's algorithm and for one given public key, you'd first calculate how to encode this configuration into the qubits, then load it up, to then run it over and over and interpret all of the outputs to look for a useful answer.

I've got no idea how the qubit programming is practically implemented.
As a language, Ruby is awesome. As a host for cryptographic applications, Ruby is hobbled by a very serious error that they refuse to correct.
Time demands. It sounds like the program is a lot of work and I don't think having school crowd out everything else is necessarily healthy.
So, I don't endorse this reasoning, but I can see it. With Rust you have to think about the possible failure cases of your code up-front and account for them. In other languages, you don't have to.

For instance, I'd bet that most C or C++ apps in production that use concurrency have some concurrency bug somewhere, that's so rare that nobody has hit it yet (or the effect of the bug is minor). Those apps are running in production and serving a valuable purpose. Rust would force you to solve the edge case before deploying the app in production.

Occasionally, it's the right set of engineering tradeoffs to deploy something that produces useful results 99.9% of the time and crashes .1% of the time. (But, I guess you can say, you can always use Rust's 'unsafe' keyword to acknowledge that something isn't quite right but you're deploying it anyway.)
Yeah that's why I really don't pay attention to it. Plus the fact that it is so easily gamed: if a party wanted to (such as a realtor or someone else with access), they could just run hard credit checks on you all day and tank your score.

To illustrate how fucked it is, I use a credit tracking app from my bank and it consistently reports scores of 700 and above yet I've had realtors tell me they weren't sure if I could get an apartment because of my credit score - showing up with enough cash for the first six months of payments quickly resolved that issue.
The pellets have nothing to do with it - the lead styphnate is used as the primer charge (which then detonates the gunpower). That's why it tends to be aerosolized.
Cash isn't included in the enterprise value, you're thinking of the market cap. A company can simply do stock buybacks until it owns all the outstanding stock itself. It's like an IPO but in reverse. During an IPO a company sells equity and gets cash. During a buyback a company buys equity and pays cash.

If you still believe this is impossible, think what would happen if a company on the day of the IPO decided to immediately and unilaterally reverse every transaction. Everybody would get their money back, and the company would simply get its equity back. It's as if the IPO never happened. Clearly not an impossibility. The only difference here is that because some time passed the investors want some extra return on their investment. That's not an insurmountable problem because Apple is rich.
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on top of that, the entire argument is predicated on us stock returns over a 100-150 year time period (an unusual one at that). what's the real expected investment life of the audience? the sample is ridiculously small.
This was a government worker's union issue that got absurdly bent out of proportion.

The government demanded that government employees get approval for any direct communications with media, etc. This all began when a researcher seriously impacted the salmon industry by releasing extremely preliminary results (that turned out to be wrong), making a name for herself and setting up a PR circuit. The media loves apocalyptic outcomes ("So would you say this means that we're all going to die?"), so of course it made headlines with the most dire of predictions.

This was not an independent researcher. This was not the private sector. This was someone directly employed by the government. It's like a Microsoft employee wrote about vulnerabilities in Windows on their private blog, offering to sell solutions.

So the government put a process in place not unlike much of the Western world, doing nothing to control the science (papers were published, research was released, etc. The scientific world understands that preliminary results are preliminary), but having everything to do with the message relayed to the media. Of course this was met with a conspiratorial narrative that continues to this day: That they were hiding dire greenhouse gas/global warming information, for instance.

But the shackles have come off. Where are all of these dramatic scientific findings that were suppressed?

...crickets...

The single example constantly floated is about a guy who got called by a reporter about a paper he released about ~~slime mold~~ rock snot (the exampled floated in literally hundreds of articles about the muzzling of scientists). This government scientist was outraged that he couldn't get approval within 24 hours, and the reporter lost interest. Apparently rock snot is a real timely issue in media circles.

There was a lot wrong with the prior government. An enormous amount. By this particular story is about some freelancing employees who don't want anyone telling them what to do.
Same results but faster! The IBM version runs slower than a classical simulation of it, making IBM's project a tech demo toy. (Obviously. If it were actually efficient, they would charge a fortune to use it.)
That's why many solar plants use molten salts to store energy and generate electricity even at night.

"Technicians say that the Noor 2 and 3 plants, due to open in 2017 will store energy for up to eight hours – opening the prospect of 24/7 solar energy in the Sahara, and the surrounding region."
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/oct/26/morocco-p...
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Lithium ion can't store electricity across seasons, though, which is important anywhere outside equatorial areas. Gas can be left idle during the Summer, and used during the Winter. If the cost of solar power went below the marginal cost for burning gas (i.e. lower than the per unit fuel costs for gas generation), the most cost-effective solution might actually be to use solar during the Summer, and maintain a fleet of gas stations solely for the Winter months.
Coal is usually designed to run all the time rather than be dispatchable on a minute-by-minute basis. To make it dispatchable you need to run it as "spinning reserve" and increase generation. But it cannot be turned on in a few minutes like a modern gas plant. And for it to be economical coal needs to be turned on all the time.

Solar reduces the base load required and makes the maintenance and capital costs of coal stations higher.
Isn't there a network effect at play, though? People who can't read your article because of ad blocker blockers won't share it on social media. Sites that turn away some visitors will probably notice a dip in traffic greater than the number of ad-blocking users who were denied access.

This is the same reason Microsoft has historically been pretty lax about going after home users who pirate Windows; those users make Windows a more attractive market for software publishers, which in turn draws more users.
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Actually it's not supported with virtio-rng. Here[0] is a proposed patch to add support.

[0] http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2016-March/msg010...
Are there many designers that know their way around Interface Builder?
> Even if someone does figure out how to get to 5nm it may not be cost effective to mass produce chips at that size.

On top of that, it is not quite clear what would the hardware designers achieve with an increased transistor budget. CPU cores are becoming increasingly small in comparison to the surrounding circuitry (graphics, caches, control logic). We are bumped on clock speeds, too.
(Sam & Elon too.)
Easier than if you're forbidden from opening your mind at all ? Safe spaces are about preventing people from saying what they think. That's their purpose.
People put up with it because they don't really know of any alternative outside iOS. And until recently, financed phones were pretty much only available through your carrier, firmly locking you into the carrier channel and everything that entails. People might not like the nonsense--to the extent that they even think about it (honestly, Android updates take so long I know people who don't even realize that major updates are even an option for them)--but they dislike it a whole lot less than the idea of spending two grand in cash and all at once to outfit a family of four with new phones.
I really hate the popup thing.
That's inconsistent thinking. Weak protection is equivalent to no DRM on the part you are able to copy.
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Fair point; this stuff certainly doesn't happen in a vacuum.

I should have mentioned that investing comes with the caveat that one should also have a plan for major life events like a job loss. Having 6+ months of living expenses on hand in cash is a must. I firmly believe that 70%+ of the stress and anxiety of losing one's job is the pressing need for cash flow. I can't imagine the kind of stress that produces for someone who lives paycheck to paycheck.

That brings me to a larger (slightly off-topic) point: people don't save enough money. 10% is the absolutely minimum one should be saving, despite that being the common advice which no one follows. Most people, even high-earners, spend nearly all of their money. There are tons of people out there making $75k+ per year who are a couple paychecks from being on the street. Those people are simply doing it wrong and will absolutely get bit in a down market.

For those still reading, do this: Get an emergency fund that you can live on for 6+ months. Pay off your debts. Contribute to your IRA, 401k, or whatever else, putting all of that money into a boring index fund that tracks the market (I like VTSAX because Vanguard's fees are incredibly low). Make sure at least 20% of your money is invested. The only people who this might not work for are those earning at or near minimum wage with dependents. If you're not in that group, just do it. You do not need that 20% of your money right now. You may think you do, but you don't. You're spending money on stuff you don't need.

My apologies for getting so far off topic. This is just something I feel very passionately about.