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Wind most certainly isn't base load. It's highly weather dependent. Occasionally, Ireland's wind infrastructure produces the country's entire electricity demand, and they actually have to start shutting down wind turbines. Also occasionally the whole system only produces a couple of hundred megawatts for a period of about a week.

There are some locations with very reliable constant wind (though usually only for part of the year) but that's not the norm. Offshore wind does better, but is still far from base load.
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Climate change and immigration are the two topics that Trump can use to his benefit without the fear getting bitten back.

Immigrants have no say or voting rights. They can be used as a drum to do the pow wow ing. Earth wont talk back. Two perfect candidates.
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Which is why the master key shouldn't reside everywhere.

But this is no different from any other password manager. Once you have the master password, you can access everything else.

The difference in my opinion is that because you would only leave this master key on one device, preferably a hardware protected, encrypted device like an iphone, stealing this key is significantly difficult. Whereas with a password manager, you have to type your credentials on a machine open to malware and key loggers.
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> acquires a bargaining chip with Europe and China that he can cash in later.

Not really. There's nothing that he acquires by leaving a non-binding, aspirational agreement other than burning goodwill in effigy. What this means to the rest of the world is that the US cannot even be assumed to abide by voluntary agreements where it can unilaterally declare how much it actually wishes to contribute.

The message that the EU/China are getting is either that they're being given the middle finger for purposes of jingoistic posturing or that Trump doesn't actually understand how the Paris agreement works.
You might like this reading list I put together towards creating and sustaining High Performance Organizations:

https://github.com/pdfernhout/High-Performance-Organizations...
You might as well argue that it's impossible to distribute beer to a country of 320M people, yet inhabitants of large countries don't go thirsty.

Whether we talk about a union of 320M as the US or a union of 510M as the EU, or whether we talk about a state like Michigan with 9M inhabitants or a nation like Sweden with 10M hardly matters. There are roads, electrical grids and similar infrastructure everywhere in the modern world.

It's not the distribution that's the problem. It's political will.
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By BankID I think you are referring to "mobilt BankId"? They are both providing 2FA, but that is where the similarities end. They solves completely different problems.

If you use an e-mail-adress (and a password of course) to login on multiple sites, anyone with access to those sites databases could check which services you uses and they could collect all data from all of those databases to get alot of information about you.

Mobilt BankId is like that but worse from a privacy perspective. It make sites (I think, someone correct me if I'm wrong) able get, not only the information you provided, but also tie that to your real life identity. That's great for Skatteverket and Försäkringskassan, but for "Random Hacker Forum", it might not be that great.

SQRL will not in itself reveal anything about your identity. Even if you use SQRL to login in on different sites and someone had access to all of those sites databases they would not be able to see that you use the same SQRL-identity to login.

Also, BankID is relying on a third party for authentication where SQRL is not.
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The Paris Agreement, though, was to a large extent pushed by the Obama administration (and later China). While the EU is doing fairly well on renewable energy and general efficiency improvement (though even within the EU there's a lot of variation), it has not been particularly good at getting other countries to follow.
You probably mean 'ublock' (autocorrect issue?)
He's talking about recursion - a function calling itself. I find it's funny that factorials are understood easily in high school, but then recursion is mind blowing in front of a computer. Just like factorials, it can be understood best by walking through it with paper and pencil.

The examples in Eloquent Javascript need to be studied by the reader to get the most out of that book. I think people just glance at them with out typing them up and running them.
So, the function of a government is to keep the people happy enough so they don't rebel. Good to know. That's illuminating (1)

1. I mean in the clarity sense, not in the 'Illuminati' conspirational sense. Well, wait, why not both?
> Wind most certainly isn't base load.

The German government's scientific service, for one, disagrees with you.
> The problem I have with the tax simplification folks is that they're generally disingenuous about the fact that they're proposing moving from a progressive to a much flatter tax code. Or at least ignorant about the differences.

Whole heartedly agree. Simplification and flatter tax code should be separate discussions, with separate conclusions.
> that's nice, we'll stick with the agreement

The developing countries that (collectively) expect to receive $100 billion per year under the agreement would stick with it under any conditions.

How will that work now? Will Europe be paying that on their own?
the fashion online shop asos.com also uses a pattern that looks like a cellular automaton for it's packaging:

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Suuuper nitpicky, but in the paragraph directly below Dark Helmet, Jeff calls his Graphics Card a 1080 GTX Ti. The GTX goes in front of 1080, since GTX is the general product line.
Most EU countries are connected to the grids of other countries to some extent (even the UK and Ireland have underwater interconnectors, though they're rather limited).
If computer problems were real
And the people of the U.S. should support their president, even if they didn't vote for him.
It's almost all hydro power every thing else is too expensive to be competitive.
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no, these images will be censored same as all the other images

and for people familiar with Beijing massacre, they know that many gov officials joined people
>Trump bad, Trump bad, the news told me.

Yawn
Why do you think UBI is economically impossible? Studies I've seen point in the opposite direction (though they haven't been tested in really so far)
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Politics is driving people away from the Google homepage.
A couple things to combat some of these:

- When interviewing for a new role, interview the people you will work with and ask questions about the company. Interview them. Discovering during interviews that an employer or co-workers aren't a good match for you is the best place to figure that out.

- Realize and accept that most software doesn't need to be perfect. There is an acceptable level of quality and then after that it doesn't matter to the business. Sure its likely someone else's money but that contributes to unhappiness. When production bugs happen, tackle them like a professional and save the "I told you so's".

- Same can be said for large waterfall driven software processes. They tend (not all but many in my experience) to have a lot of feature bloat of things people want but never actually use. This could be borne out of politics or appeasing people, misrepresented requirements or the business changes faster than software delivery. Recognize if you work in a shop that does this and come to terms with it or suggest gathering metrics on usage of your system as part of your requirements process.

- A lot of the reasons stem from existing software and issues it has. You might think to steer clear of old code and work at a startup or greenfield project where everything is new. There is a certain satisfaction, maybe enlightenment is a closer word, when you figure out unexplained/broken software and fix it. Have you felt that? You'd be amazed what little fixes to do quality of life for the people using the software. "I am one with the code and the code is one with me".
Does it ever occur to people who want to introduce explicitly political conversation to a project, that a "lets focus on the task at hand" policy might be for their own good? That bringing the political dimension in might chase away contributors with whom their interests were temporarily aligned?

I can understand bringing up politics when the topic is something like deliberately using psychological manipulation against their users. Because if you think it's morally wrong, your interests were never even slightly aligned, and the goal is to be off-putting. Hopefully in a way that puts people off of what they're building, rather than putting them off of venues where you can converse with them.

But using that case as rhetorical cover for bikeshedding a minor slight that occurred in the context of an otherwise noncontroversial piece of software? That is why people hate "politics."

(I wish I had the link to where I saw this argument presented first, but I'll guess my poorly rephrased version will have to do.)
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What this shows is that even with best practices passwords are a fairly weak security control. We need a standardised second factor id.

The FCC or corresponding body elsewhere should mandate that phone networks and phones support a secure messenging protocol which could guarantee that a message could be sent to a phone number and only be received by that device.

Password-only authentication is like locks on luggage, even with best practices.
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There are literally thousands of altcoins competing to be the next Bitcoin. Of those altcoins which altcoins do you think are important and why?
Most discussions about "fully funded" safety nets go something like this. It's the reason, so far as I can tell, why Republicans talk about social security being trillions in the hole while others point out that the money in the fund is more than sufficient. The same principle is responsible (along with other things) for suburban growth in America.

The reason is that republicans are referring to accrual accounting, while others are looking at the balance sheet. It's very uncommon to do accrual accounting in government, though I've heard rumors that military pensions are funded in this way. My understanding is that, outside the government, it is obligatory (de facto or legally, I don't know). The absence of accrual accounting is known as a Ponzi scheme in the private sector.

When you let governments reap the benefits now and pay later, they use unfunded pensions as compensation and build low-value roads to cheaply built houses built in corn fields. And for government pensions, it's impossible to sustain the required infinite growth in a finite world. In the short term, the tendency of developed nations toward low birth rates breaks the systems even before we reach space concerns.
FWIW, this is what a 409A valuation is supposed to do. But that is often done long after a funding round is closed. The PR people and journos need a simple number to report on the story as the deal is announced. I would argue nobody really knows what the company is worth at that point (with the exception of the new lead investor, who may have a model for it).
Many commercial RE contracts require the rents to be paid for set periods regardless of whether the lessee still occupies the site.
Is my math failing me or wouldn't 8 digits result in 10^8 possibilities rather than 8^10?
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* I wanted to major in physics, but went into computer engineering instead.

* Physics always seemed glamorous. I know the reality is different, but studying physics makes me feel like a wizard (EDIT: in training).

* I want to be able to read pop-physics and actually be able to dissect it.

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I've never felt very productive doing any programming outside. Is that just me? I'd rather be doing something else if I'm outside.
From my point of view, discussing politics is a waste of time. We don't make progress by discussing the daily musings of the people who appear to wield power in the world.

I'm more interested in the technology that will eventually render their power useless: counter economics.

For me the goal isn't to find the right people at the right time to seat the power of nation-states, but to make it impossible for them to wield any meaningful power at all.

I am deeply interested in politics, governance, and the way humans interact at scale, but that doesn't mean I'm interested in what bills get passed, who gets elected, or what Trump said in a tweet. While these small blips in history do have an impact, I think technologies such as bitcoin, uber, etc., have a much bigger impact on the world because they usurp political power.
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> Yeah because China, India and everybody else are totally willing to sacrifices other deals because they are unhappy about this climate deal.

It's not a case of unhappiness over this deal. It's a matter of trust. The US pushes for this deal for years, then abruptly abandons it. So, next time the US pushes for a deal, who's going to believe it?

This will absolutely increase the caution with which countries reach deals with the US. As it should.
Again, do you have any firm data supporting the assertion that this form of network prefetching is so critical?

I've read many comments where people mention performance in ways suggesting they have issues with UI performance, launch time, extensions, etc. Optimizing cold-cache performance the first time someone visits a site won't help with that at all.
I am curious how long it took to develop OneGram.
One might think that if one were to read a wikipedia entry on it. But it's not true -- that's only a property of eating the leaves or seeds, not the fruit.
> The average unicorn, the researchers note, has eight stock classes for different types of investors, including founders, employees, venture capitalists, mutual funds, and others.

As an aside, this is why I think that any effort of a prospective employee to divine the value of a stock option package is likely in vain. Without a detailed accounting of the ins and outs of the preferred stock that is senior to your common shares, it is nigh impossible to tell how much the common shares (and options thereon) are worth.
There is a lot of unwarranted hate for this guy. He really did get Wisconsin through some hard times with his budgeting.

(WI native)
Pensions are a structured transfer of wealth from the old to the young. It's possible to have high unemployment when:

- Inadequate savings for the median retiree

- High levels of wealth inequality

- High levels of foreign debt

In that case the wealth transfer mechanism is broken. Those that are old are reducing consumption while those that are young can't generate income to replace it while those holding all the wealth (savings) scramble to avoid defaults (and risk) in a rapidly slowing economy.
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I'd agree with this - having previously been active on reddit and other social forums, HN is generally the most open to debate and alternative opinions that I've come across. Perhaps not so much with politics, where you'll get a mixed bag of genuine debate and left-leaning bias, but most subjects are treated as open for debate and that's one of the biggest draws for me.
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How do you square your comments with Buffett being on the record (repeatedly) in griping about his effective tax rates vs those who earn less?

One example: http://money.cnn.com/2013/03/04/news/economy/buffett-secreta...

I don't have any quotes in memory from Gates, but your position of "Buffett is just trying to get good PR by advocating tax changes that wouldn't effect him" doesn't mesh with his quotes to the effect of "It's unfair I pay less effective tax than my secretary."

What exactly do you seem him advocating that has an ulterior motive?
"Guido has a cow". Hmmm, or maybe he knows this would be mean huge, backwards-incompatible changes to the language's dynamic nature, and especially after the experience with the changes (I think much lesser ones compared to this) from Python 2 to Python 3, he's very wary of that.

Still, if you were going to propose "a few restrictions on the language" to make it less dynamic and easier to do multi-threading / optimization, what would they look like?
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> The Better Ads Methodology has not yet tested video ads that appear before (“pre-roll”) or during (“mid-roll”) video content

Funny that they would have a special rule for this kind of ads, that's exactly what Youtube does ... (Except that for me it usually is completely irrelevant, like ads for cosmetics or video games in the middle of a chemistry video.) I'm not expecting them to include this type of ads in the methodology any time soon except to find that they are totally fine.
Probably because it's out of print, and sold used from private sellers. My copy of On Lisp cost like $300.
Indeed. I'm almost 30 and I don't think I've ever clicked on an ad in my life. Cost per impression seems more relevant.
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In which case, it would likely go to the Supreme Court, who are better equipped to figure out this question than hackernews.
Wow, in other news - sky is blue!
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Display ads don't get quality scores, that is only for search ads. Display is just auction price.
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I choose to think of it as the Game of Life simulating rule 30, but zoomed way out.

Or maybe this is a joke at Wolfram's expense, attributing one of his own to Conway.
I use Chromium on macOS for development and occasional browsing. Chrome Dev Tools is really in a league of their own. But my primary browser is Safari, because it performs much better during regular usage on my 2012 retina macBook Pro which only has a paltry 8GB RAM.

On my mobile android device I use Firefox, since it allows you to install extensions. Running uBlock Origin makes mobile web a vastly superior experience. I also use Firefox on Ubuntu and Windows, since it has the least invasive defaults and it lets you easily sync content across devices.

I think browsers are actually in a great state. People have lots of incredibly high quality options to chose from! Although I'll admit I'm a bit worried that there appears to be a bit of a Chrome monoculture growing.
Those are paid search numbers. Display is for like avg $2 cpm. (.06% ctr, but it's paid based on impressions not clicks)
And they're owned by Walgreens for some time now.
Do you have a link to an article on this? My impression was that Germany was trying to move away from base load as a concept entirely, using unreliable renewables plus highly responsive fossil plants instead.
Is there another way to log in? I don't have a smartphone so I would be excluded from that.
Yes. That's the definition and social contract of a progressive tax code.

E.g. "You probably screwed over a lot of people to get where you are, or at least leveraged their work while reaping most of the gains. As well as being able to afford to pay more (given that basic necessity costs don't scale with income). So you should pay a larger share."
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How is that relevant? That's not the point. My point is that you can not go by some public survey of what people want. Most people have no idea how the Paris Agreement works anyways, so it all depends on how you phrase or sell the question.

We know that generally the majority people support some action in flavor of climate. So any question that is phrases in that light will reflect that and have almost nothing to do with Paris specifically.

> It's aspirational and America gains nothing by pulling out of it.

Who cares about America? How is that relevant to politicians? Some climat change that might happen at some point in the future when they will not be in office anymore. What even is America? The people now living in America? The future people in America that don't vote? The country itself?

Non binding international agreements are about signalling and internal politics.

If Trump actually believed that 70% of the people would vote against him if he pulled out of Paris he would never have done it, but that is not relevant because they want, so he doesn't care.
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