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Thanks for the links. Their optimization approach isn't particularly sophisticated. Not saying I know how to do better, but wouldn't be surprised if it existed.
> It's basically a move to GTFO out of the nuclear power market

Except the losses come from the construction of new reactors (the AP1000 for the Vogtle and Summer plants), not the operation of them.
I was going to say that I made no claim about the role of culture and cultural identity in political decisions, but left it out. I was making a narrow point, and don't neccesarily disagree with yours.
Yes, I have been following the progress of AP1000 reactor projects for years. The Toshiba accounting scandal surely doesn't help but I don't believe it is the proximate cause for Westinghouse's bankruptcy. Toshiba's accounting irregularities aren't even mentioned in the bankruptcy declaration.

From the bankruptcy declaration:

As described in more detail below, the Debtors’ need to avail themselves of the protections of the Bankruptcy Code arises primarily from a series of unforeseen challenges that significantly delayed and increased the cost of construction of the nuclear plants in Georgia and South Carolina (referred to as Vogtle and VC Summer, respectively). These challenges potentially expose the Debtors to billions of dollars either in (i) cost overruns to complete the projects or (ii) penalties and liabilities if they abandon the projects. The Debtors cannot afford either option. Notwithstanding that the Debtors’ other businesses are profitable and world-class, the Construction Business cost increases have led to a liquidity crisis that the Debtors can only solve in chapter 11.

...

The Construction Business division delivers both new-plant projects and major projects for new and already operating nuclear power plants globally. It consists of two business segments: (1) engineering, procurement, and construction (“EPC”) services for customers around the globe, primarily offering the AP1000 technology; and (2) engineering and procurement (“E&P”) services, such as design, equipment, and site installation and startup support, to both AP1000 and non AP1000 projects. While some portions of the Construction Business are profitable, the main portion of the EPC business, which constructs the Vogtle and VC Summer projects, has damaged the profitability of the entire Construction Business. As a result, the Construction Business generated EBITDA from FY2013 to FY2015 of negative $343 million. As described in detail below, these losses have accelerated in the past 15 months following the Company’s purchase of CB&I Stone & Webster, Inc. (“S&W”).

https://pdf.inforuptcy.com/pacer/nysbke/273388/dockets/4/1-C...

(Thanks to mikikian for linking this declaration elsewhere in the discussion. All of Part III, "Events Leading to Chapter 11", is worth reading.)

EDIT: if you're talking about the valuation dispute around the Chicago Bridge & Iron acquisition, pg 22, that is presented as a $2 billion problem. The construction projects have another $6 billion worth of expenses now estimated necessary to complete before 2020 (pg 23-24). It's not clear that Westinghouse could dig itself out of this hole even if the money pit was only $6 billion deep instead of $8 billion.
Unfortunately, no taking any action to improve our world is not considered evil by many people, laise faire, let's the world go on. If all your life is about trying to be successful you are not evil by social standard, but perhaps you can make a lot of harm. Long time ago there was a post by the well known Steve Yegge, who by the way don't post any more, wondering why they are making photos of cats to get people attention instead of prosecuting other more important for the world roles, and one of his last post is about a game in which the art of making people addict to games, don't recall the English word for that, is really the goal to win money), just some quick ideas about huge power entities using resources for solving world problems.
Ok amendments as well as veto, but I think you see the point.

It is rare that a member of the Lords is in the Cabinet and it seems reasonable that the Leader of the Lords is from the Lords doesn't it?

Again the main point I'm trying to make is that the EU falls short of typical democratic standards which is a reasonably direct connection between the ruled and the rulers. Anything in between is highly subject to cronyism IMO.
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Not everyone would agree with you :) Although I think even most of us who enjoy programming would be happy to have some form of automation as an option.
+1 for Fastly.
European directives are not law - european or otherwise.
Meh, personal experience has been that demand for SE's is high enough that every company will give you another shot after a year. That is important to note though: you don't get another shot for a year.
If you have 1 million in revenue per month and you can't make good money from that then you are not running a real business in my view.
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Plus, unlike women, you/men can bank sperm in case you have need of it later.
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During WW1 and WW2, some countries (France and the UK) pooled their resources so they could fight together better.

Then a few years after the war, the European Coal and Steel Community was created to regulate coal and steel in six countries under a single authority. Including West Germany, which had only been formed from the occupied territories a year before. It was certainly not unrelated to military force.

Its initial aims included making war between member states impossible, and eventual democratic unification of all of Europe. The later institutions up to the EU grew out of it.

So although it was completely peaceful, it's still an outcome of WW2.
I enjoyed this article until I came to this paragraph:

> Other articles have argued that VPNs are not a solution to a policy problem, because you can’t necessarily trust a VPN provider, or some VPN providers don’t encrypt your data properly. That may be the case, but that’s an easily solvable problem. And there are no monopolies on VPNs. This is something that a market economy can solve in a year.

That's where the author lost me. Building a secure VPN is different than your run of the mill SAAS - it's a difficult security problem, and an incredibly complicated user problem.

On the security side, it isn't hard to make a mistake that will give motivated parties the hole they need to crack the VPN. On a business side, it's hard to know which companies have received lucrative deals (or national security letters) from three letter agencies. And from a communications side, it's damned near impossible to let the whole world know that VPN Provider A collects data for a three letter agency.

Sorry to say it folks, but this is an area where we either need wholesale political change, or technological change. I'm Canadian, so I can't help you with the first one and I'm not even remotely qualified to help with the second.
In the previous election we had a milquetoast liberal running against a ur-fascist demagogue. It is clear which one was the lesser of two evils, and now we are seeing the effects of America's choice in this bill and others.

If Hillary Clinton was president or if the Democrats had control of one chamber of Congress, this bill never would have passed.
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We do serve our own site! We're running multiple apps on the same fly.io domain. Our landing page is currently hosted on Github Pages (and that's probably how you're seeing Fastly headers), but you're hitting our load balancer first :)
> Natural selection isn't random.

Yes, it is; specifically it's a biased filter over a lower-level set of random change processes (which has its own biases) produces a biased-but-random (non-deterministic) changes over time.
Symbols are interned, and become a simple integer comparison once compiled. It's no different than comparing against 0, except that :null will have some other non-zero value.
It's what we honestly do (and aspire to do) as best explained in a couple of sentences. But as always, judge us by what we do rather than the vision that we profess.
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14 billion is a lot. For your storage alternative though, you'd still have to buy something to fill the storage up reliably in the other 10 hours of a day to be an even comparison.
At this point it seems like that would just mean nuclear losing to solar instead of natural gas. In both cases it's an extremely large investment and slow return, but solar PV juuuust seems to edge out nuclear. The numbers look like nuclear has a slight advantage, but that's skewed by underestimates of nuclear costs (or estimates that it'll come down in the future), as well as the rapid cost declines in solar power. Solar has a very wide price variation but the newest, cheapest stuff is better than nuclear.

I find myself in conflict with people a lot regarding nuclear online. I used to be one of those LFTR reactor guys but the facts are that nuclear reactors are always some newer, untested design that will require new untested innovations. On the other hand solar has an easily predicted, easily met roadmap to cheap power with existing tech. We know for a fact that solar can power the entire world's needs cheaply for many decades to come, but we are just guessing that the same can be done with nuclear. Why make that bet when we have a sure thing?
It's a metaprogramming language. The idea is you can both describe new ways to express a program and the program itself. The most well-known form of this is probably DSL's that let you express a solution concisely in a given domain. Kay and his people do that extensively at VRI.

http://www.vpri.org/html/work/ifnct.htm

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf
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why are you suggesting this? transportation delays affect everyone, disabled or not, and there are delays on subways and busses too.
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This is really just another symptom of growing wealth inequality, which affects businesses just as it affects individuals. Qualified people are a finite resource, and consequently, the greater the wealth gap between the richest companies and cash-strapped startups, the smaller the share of talent that startups will be able to recruit. This in turn will take competitive pressure off the richest players, enabling them to widen the gap even further. Contrary to popular belief, there is no 'invisible hand' that acts to counter this feedback loop. Just envisioning how to build a more valuable business is no solution, because if you cannot access the capital or personnel needed to bridge the gap to profitability, your vision will not matter. As time goes on, a smaller and smaller portion of the population will be wealthy enough to bridge that gap, even as overall average wealth increases.

It's true that startups have always had to deal with better funded competitors that could pay more. But what you're not accounting for is that that gap is increasing over time, and there is a point where the lead becomes insurmountable.
Hi Daniel,

I would agree that the remit of Congress is to govern the people, by the people, and privacy falls under that umbrella. The executive branch should not be operating as an independent law-making body, as it has been.

I would gently suggest that when geeks look at politics, it's much like looking at a huge codebase written for decades - our reaction is that it's corrupt and needs a rewrite. I have learned through very careful study and hard experience that often there are good reasons for codebases to be "crufty", and similar with politics. Doesn't mean reform can't be done, but it means we have to work within the codebase, and with the current web of loyalties to some extent.
And yet when an opportunity for real change happens, both parties dig in and fight back.

It is in their interests for us to think there is meaningful difference between them, and I'm confident that many dems and republicans do earnestly believe there are differences between them and the other party.

But the differences are _so small_.

If one party wants to pass legislation that does X, and the other wants legislation that does Y, there is _no one_ advocating for all the myriad unspoken options.

My wife used to be a kindergarten teacher. One of her classroom management strategies was to try to give her students options. She'd say "would you like to do X or Y right now?"

Of course, she only gave options that she already approved.

So, for the "powers that be", the real power is deciding what bills go up for a vote. What happens in the actual vote is trivial compared to the power that comes with killing a bill before it hits the floor, or passing other legislation in omnibus spending bills.

I maintain that they work together to screw us all over for their own benefit, and to keep the corporate spigot flowing.
Really!? You don't think that people were honestly excited about the most energy dense fuel known to man as a low footprint clean energy source? Your lifetime of energy in 1.5 soda cans of fuel! To me this is extremely exciting and totally unrelated to weapons.
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lots of literal shitposting there
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It doesn't seem like S&W is all of the trouble, the bankruptcy seems to be blamed on Westinghouse's inability to deliver its AP1000.
> Who is this person and is he trustworthy... what's he going to do with the money if he can't buy it ? Does he even know how to buy the data ?

You've documented exactly why we should buy Congressional data. Let's make it painfully obvious that the data can be "weaponized" against them, their loved ones, and business partners by the unscrupulous and the unstable.
Another way to prove this to yourself is to think, could there be broadcast TV without ads? And of course, the whole broadcast model falls apart without advertising. But without broadcast to compete with, is it likely that basic cable would be as inexpensive as it is? Even if you're of the view that costs don't matter to price, only what the market will bear, it seems self-evident that the market will bear less when there's a free substitute of reasonable quality available.
Of course being poor is not a crime. But we all may make mistakes. For example exceed the speed limit.

Say, instead of fine 50, I may agree to accept 5 whips with a wooden stick on my back. Because I need these 50.

So should we accept whipping the poor if they demand it?
There sorta is. Install the OpenVPN app, load your ovpn config, and connect. After you do that, there will be a VPN option on the homepage of your settings that will use the connection automatically and will keep you connected when switching networks.

Source: Figured it out over the weekend and have been pleased by it for the past few days.
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Awhile back I hacked together a project called Hactar (https://github.com/Hactar-js/hactar). In a nutshell, it parses code (javascript projects) and automatically configures dependencies. If you use ES6 it will add and configure babel, add CSS and it will add Webpack, start requiring SVG files and it will add a SVG Webpack loader etc.

I never really had time to further develop the idea. It has sat gathering dust since the weekend I hacked it together.

Recently, seeing stuff like Kite (https://kite.com) pop up has made me wonder if there would be a commercial market for this sort of thing. What says the HN community? Is it worth pursuing this further?
Old saying

Take money when you can get it, not when you need it.
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I'm still inspired by that essay 6 years later.
Your analogy is flawed because you are discussing investigating a crime that has been committed. The purpose of the new coin is to prevent the crime from being committed in the first place by making it harder to commit.

Given the expense of rolling out the new coin, it probably makes more sense from a economic and moral point of view to spend money investigating these crimes rather than preventing them.
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have you ever seen the tube system in London? it's a fully blocking barrier with a set of sliding doors that lines up precisely with the doors of the train cars when they pull in to the station.

that's probably the ideal solution, but not practical for New York because the system was never designed with precision stopping points on the platform in mind. there's a margin of error that is at least a meter or so in either direction right now.
From https://docs.blazingdb.com/blog/welcome-to-blazingdb

"BLAZINGDB IS NOT: Built for transactions. Try to run your webapp backend in BlazingDB and we'll scream STOP! At the very least, we'll find your audacity impressive."

There's no support for INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE. There's a proprietary way to ingest data. No way at all to delete or update rows as far as I can see.

So, I'm not quite sure what the popular use cases are here. Fast queries of relatively static data?
The summary does sound reasonable on the surface. But read the whole whopping 73 pages. The regulations hurt small ISPs much more than national carriers.

For example, there's a Mom & Pop cellular-based ISP that serves my small mountain community. They could certainly be put out of business by this type of regulation after they pay for lawyers, IT services, training staff on new operations, etc. -- and heaven forbid they get audited by the FCC.

Maybe if the regulations only applied to national carriers, then you could argue this wouldn't hamper competition. That'd be something I could support.
Yeah, the only implementation right now is in JS. They do want it to be language independent though, although I'm not seeing that happening anytime soon x]
where you have an actively antagonistic opponent

This is the case in climate research. We know from the East Anglia leak that at least some climatologists intentionally interfere with those who disagree with them. (To be sure, they may have very good reasons to be frustrated with those opponents, but that doesn't excuse the behavior)

is directed towards refuting the consensus about the causal mechanisms of climate change.

That was the first thing I noticed. I'm of the "lukewarm" mindset on climate, so I'm looking at both camps as an outsider. And I cannot fathom why either of them get so worked up about the "anthropogenic" part of it. If it's going to cause problems for us in the future, I just don't get why it matters if it's our fault or not. If something bad's going to happen, we ought to try to avoid that outcome whether it's coming from natural causes or is ultimately self-inflicted.
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I do this every time I call Comcast:

1. What is your operator ID and/or first name and last initial?

2. Can I please speak with your manager?

They either fix the issue or get the manager on the phone.

Manger gets on phone and usually resolves issue. If not then I repeat step #2.
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If you trust Scott Adams to review scientific literature or assess scientific models, then sure, it's reasonable.

Scott Adams, a cartoonist, has given me no reason to trust his capability to review scientific literature or assess scientific models.

That's not to say that a cartoonist could never meaningfully contribute to a discussion on scientific literature or models, but with a background as a cartoonist, the bar for me to trust him on this is a lot higher than, say, climate researchers. "I've never seen..." is insufficient from him. There's probably a lot of stuff he's never seen since he's focused his career on drawing comics.
Yours is the kind of negative, noncontributory comment I wouldn't be surprised to see dang flag.

Your comment consists entirely of conspiracy theories and personal attacks.
>they are algae that are found in ice

Which makes sense, because it's referring to a type of algae found in ice.

If there were a type of tea that only grew or were only found in ice, then it might make sense to call it 'ice tea'. However, that's not the case because it's regular tea that has been 'iced'.
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It actually is going pretty well. We elected a demagogue and he's as checked and balanced as he can be, given that he has the House and Senate.
I didn't say that privacy and pollution were similar in any way except that the line of reasoning presented in the article would apply to regulations policing both of them (and many others, and is hence over-broad).
I would suggest (1) working with the Democrats to focus on removing gerrymandering to using a more algorithmic approach that is party-independent. This helps ensure that seats aren't (in effect) locked to a single party. And, (2) working with political/advocacy organizations locally that help brief officials on tech reality.
MLCC are used in broader-frequency applications. The loss angle tangent varies much less than ESR over frequency, and so MLCC caps (and film caps at higher voltages) are more likely to specify the loss angle tangent instead.
>I suspect that that may just be a tactic to save face in vulnerable districts rather than a sincere desire to oppose the bill.

And the only reason Democrats voted against it was a tactic to save face for their constituents back home.

Why in the world would you think some politicians are magically sincere while others are not just by the little letter in parenthesis after their name?

Hyper partisan people that think this way are the reason political discourse has gone to shit and everything turns into some childish red team vs blue team ideology. As you keep propagating this mindset, people on both sides keep turning up the volume on their echo chamber and we get the most partisan congress (on both sides) in a hundred years[1].

1. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/01/13/he...
https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Deci...
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This happens in Europe, at least with electricity, you can choose a tariff that is cheaper during the night and more expensive during daytime.