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But we do need to ship energy across markets over long distances. There's nothing on the horizon that is going to end that need.

Energy is still largely in the domain of geopolitics. Russia can turn off gas shipments to Europe. Qatar can be blockaded. Entire governments can veer towards collapse threatening supplies (Venezuela). Coalitions may decide to forcibly remove another nation's supplies from the market, as was the case with Iran.

That leaves international energy markets inherently inefficient and susceptible to disruption (not the SV kind). When those disruptions occur, the ability to quickly ship vast quantities of energy becomes absolutely vital.

This has been best demonstrated during periods when OPEC refused to supply certain countries because of their ties to Israel. The ability to quickly shift supplies from non-OPEC sources around the market, due to the fungibility of oil and the ease of shipment, kept the lights on across much of the world.

A fair counterpoint to this argument is the reduced dependency on energy produced by potentially hostile powers that could come about with the advent of renewables like solar and wind. However, as technology improves to allow electricity transmission across greater distances (like, say, the Mediterranean), do we really reduce dependencies on potentially hostile nations? Electricity isn't fungible if it can't be transmitted to the markets where gaps are created by geopolitics.

If, say, Tunisia decided to cut off France from a hypothetical trans-Med grid, would France be able to find enough energy from neighboring grids with excess supply? I don't know.

So long as energy decisions are inherently political, the market needs the ability to ship energy quickly and on-demand to fill gaps created by the whims of politicians and autocrats.

Finally, I'll note that the Allies won World War II in large part because of their superior ability to ship energy wherever it was needed in any theater of operations and moments when those supply chains broke down often led to significant Axis advances and prolonged the war, such as Eisenhower's difficult decision to deprive Patton of gasoline in order to keep other parts of the Allied advance moving across Europe.
Incredible time-lapse of the landing, from Elon Musk's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BVxysOlA04j/

The yawing motion at the beginning of the video is because they moved the drone ship to avoid stormy seas, so the stage had to thrust sideways to retarget. In calm weather SpaceX positions the ship right along the ballistic path, so the stage only needs to pitch up and "flip."

You can also see the grid fins "pulling up" through the atmosphere to bleed off as much speed as possible. I described the optimization a while back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14288431

Fantastic job to everyone at SpaceX!
Good question :)

I am not sure if it could have been easily avoided, unless the Nazi party was met with strong resistance from the start. When a party assumes total power, it has inertia that is hard to overturn.

A lot of people are using the word authoritarian, but we are still far from a true authoritarian regime (that said, the fact that we are given two dubious candidates every four years makes me wonder how free we really are).

I think the counter-counter-question is "will history repeat itself indefinitely?" We still have genocide today (i.e. the Yazidis by ISIL), but the last genocide to occur in a country with remotely Western values was 70 years ago (not that Western values imply moral purity).

Like the dropping of the nuclear bomb, the Holocaust was so powerful that most people (even on the extreme right) seem keen not to repeat it.
> so there would have to be some coordination among the teams so everybody fixed their spelling at the same time.

What a strange approach. Why not create a function with the correct name, put the code in it and redirect the misspelled function to it?

Mark the bad function deprecated, warn the teams and after a few release cycles, remove it.
Sounds like you got a ragging Elon
The DVD player on OSX with a MacBook (polycarbonate ones) would occasionally cause a kernel panic if you had 4GB of RAM installed.
There is a vast difference between a person and groups of people. If there was only one thing to ever get upset about then sure crowds would resemble people.

The problem is everything has issues when you look close enough so you can only meaningful think about a tiny fraction of these isssues at a time. Net result Exxon did not even need to change it's name after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. BP, paid a fine and then moved on after causeing 10's of billions in dammages without any real consumer backlash. In part because which oil company are you going to turn to?
It doesn't sound that great, to be honest. None of those tiny institutions could ever reach the same amount of consumer trust that Amazon has engendered with its customer service/experience.
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Appreciating solitude is one thing. Being lonely is another. Telling people loneliness is "OK, and doesn't mean you're less of a person" isn't going to make it feel any better to be lonely. It's not going to ameliorate the way in which, lacking the same social framework as everyone else you see, you really do feel like somewhat less of a person.

Well, it isn't for me anyway. Anecdote blah blah whatever, but I can't really imagine that I'm such an outlier in this regard, at least. If anything, as a middle-aged and rather tired divorcé, I don't really have it so bad - I can't imagine being twenty and having the same problem. "Hell" is the word that comes to mind.
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> The bottleneck is the grid. The Grid has to match the production and demand, and at times that is why CA gives away electricity to AZ and pay for AZ for consuming its electricity. In turn, AZ turns off some of its production.

This is more likely due to subsidies. The government wants more solar so it pays the producer to make it. They can sell it for any price down to the negative of that subsidy (i.e. pass on 99% of the subsidy to someone else) and still make money. If it displaces fossil fuels then the government has succeeded in achieving their aims with the subsidy and everyone is happy.

I believe solar (and wind) can generally curtail themselves, so if they are exporting power to the grid then it's because it's in their economic interest to do so.

Some in depth info here:
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/An-Illustrated-...
I think a tanker ship is pretty safe from a BLEVE. Those explosions usually result from a tank being heated continuously by a very hot fire underneath it. I'm not sure where you would find one of those at sea unless the tanker wrecked on top of an erupting volcano.
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Although this is true, I can say from personal experience that my body will ramp up the vomiting and diarrhea to keep the weight gain to a minimum.
When the inevitable human fatalities are realised, we will see that everyone involved had done their best: SpaceX doing everything they can to make their rockets more reliable, a launch escape system that works all the way to orbit, and dozens of successful launches on the same hardware.
Hard to be excessively anti union in Norway as being a union member is so normal. Something like 80% of the working population. Still Norwegian Air Shuttle has gotten a lot of flak in Norewgian news media for their confrontations with pilot unions.

As a Norewgian I got mixed feelings about them. It is cool with a Norwegian company doing so well and I like flying with them more than other low cost carriers. Ryan air is just too nasty for me to ever want to fly with. I got a minimum of principles and they border on being crooks.

Still I am not happy about many things Norwegian airshuttle does. I wish they played more fair with the unions and took safety more serious. They are pushing boundaries with safety with overworked pilots. Not sure how they are by international standards. Noregian labour regulations tend to be a lot stricter than most other places.
The crew escape system on the Dragon as described by your link is a huge advance over the Shuttle. So while a launch failure on a manned flight is likely inevitable, casualties are not.
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True enough - but they're flying 737s into SWF. I would bet they'll get plenty of people not going to or coming from NYC to fill the 183 seats on those planes.
How does one get new microcode on Windows? Is that what the Intel Chipset drivers are?

And is the microcode fix available for non-Linux systems yet?
Well, I've not really tried to define the term so explicitly, but I think it's fair to say that any position that is held by a majority of Republicans (or Democrats) is not extreme, because it would by definition not be outside the norm.

For example, public opinion in support of same-sex marriage in the US is currently at an all-time high of 64%, with 34% opposing. Being opposed to same-sex marriage is not an extreme position, as it is one that is shared by 1/3 of Americans. Only two years ago it was 42:40 in support. Therefore, the position statement "I believe that marriage should only be between a man and a woman" is not extreme.

The bottom line is that many views that are strongly associated with conservativism are likely to result in personal attacks if expressed in the aforementioned settings.

Just look at the flak Peter Thiel has gotten for supporting Trump. Why does donating to a major party's presidential campaign result in things like this [1]?

1: https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/17/13307112/peter-thiel-tru...
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Is that TWR (Thrust to Weight Ratio) for when all 9 Merlin engines are lit? Landing burn today had 3 lit if I recall correctly.
Agreed, it's one of those "be careful what you wish for" scenarios. A bunch of smaller retailers with disjointed UX and idiosyncratic service policies is the alternative to a giant monolith such as Amazon.
The ACLU was worried about government restraint on anyone under the 1st amendment, specifically the display of the Nazi flag with a swastika. I think they were wrong insofar as the march and display of the flag was intended specifically to terrorize the Jewish population of Skokie. In the event, the march never took place; by the time the case was resolved, the residents of Skokie had built a holocaust memorial and the Nazis got permission to hold a march in Chicago instead, which they did.

The 1st amendment does protect private parties from government interference with their political expression. It says nothing about whether other private parties should passively accept political expressions that are specifically aimed at intimidating them. Had the march gone ahead and the citizens of Skokie set about the Nazis with baseball bats, I would not consider the Nazis' first amendment rights to have been inhibited in the least bit.
As in our entire development team turned over at 1/2 Musks rate?
>they started (with success) launching stuff into space only 10 years ago

They really didn't start off with success. Their first 3 launches (on the Falcon 1 platform) were failures. If I remember correctly it nearly bankrupt the company and Musk himself ended up pouring a ton of money into it to keep them afloat.

It was a pretty rocky start for them as a company, and in my mind that makes it an even cooler story. They started with nothing, failed their first 3 attempts at launches but just kept at it, and they are now consitered at the top of the field less than a decade later.
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Leveraging to the hilt and operating at a loss is par for the course in the oil industry. It's very common, especially when new plays open up, either from technological or political advances.

In the case of fracking, everyone was scrambling to get extraction rights on any piece of land that looked promising. Often that involved massive speculation and debt.

Inevitably the downturn comes and shakes out the players who don't have the capital or discipline to survive. The industry consolidates and production continues. The cost of fracking has continued to decline as frackers learn how to be more efficient in order to be profitable with crude prices at their current low levels. Even if the current players went bankrupt, others will pop up once prices rise again.

American frackers have effectively replaced Saudi Arabia as the world's swing producer. Unfortunately for them that means learning how to withstand wild boom-and-bust cycles.
Its only faintly suggested, to be fair.

"In all the time I’ve been playing video games, only one game has forced the player to deal with the toxic ideology of National Socialism...That game is 2014’s Wolfenstein: New Order and it’s a game that’s depressingly relevant today."
> I personally respect them for if I did not respect them then it would be an affront to freedom.

First, please distinguish respect for the person from respect for their beliefs.

A person's beliefs (as long as those do not include the intent to harm others) should have no effect whatsoever on what rights they have, and on being accepted and treated as a human being equal to all other human beings in society. That is respect for the person.

However, when a scientologist believes that Xenu's army dropped hydrogen bombs into vulcanoes in order to free the thetans from their bodies (or whatever exactly the story is, theology is not my expertise), there is absolutely no room for respect for that, it is bullshit and should be called out as just that.

And there is one very important reason for that: Respect for those beliefs by society is one factor that keeps people trapped in these belief systems, which is very much the opposite of freedom.

There are more than enough people who will tell you that they wished someone had shown them earlier how ridiculous and irrational the beliefs they were indoctrinated into were instead of validating it by pretending it was worthy of respect, because they could have started earlier to live a life free from a completely irrational fear of hell, for example.

Respecting ideas that suppress people's free development does not contribute to freedom.

> I think the problem is when mockery of such systems is disallowed.

Well, yeah, but that is directly interlinked with the idea of respect for irrational belief systems. Mocking something is inherently not respecting the thing.
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> For some purpose

e.g. without going into set theoretic fundamentals to build up ordered sets.
>There are certainly people who believe what they say on /pol/, but the vast majority of them are consciously acting as a parody of what they have been cast to be.

What leads you to believe this?
>So I don't think it's a foolproof scheme, unless your solution is also programmable/customizable, which is a lot of work.

Yep, almost everyone you casually talk to about a problem domain is only casually talking about it. They'll dream, but won't let you know about the pitfalls.

After you build something, the next questions are usually, "Can you change this just for us?", which is a fun task if you have 9 other customers that won't want that change.
That's a good strategy for an individual, but if a boat is taking on water there are probably better uses of time than teaching people to cling to floating detritus. It's something they probably could have figured out on their own and it doesn't address the underlying issue.
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Out of market deals with the government where wind and solar and even hydro generators get prices way above market rates are what is driving the adoption of renewables in Canada.

For the market to create the incentive for renewables the price of power would have had to go up a lot, or the externalities like pollution applied to gas/coal so that the price would go up, but still generation takes so long to plan approve and build and then so long to pay back that markets with varying prices are a bad mechanism. The price would have to be too high for too long than is politically palatable to encourage construction of new generation, and even then why not just build a gas plant.
> That leads me to this: to be great in this industry ( or great for this industry), I believe that InfoSec/NetSec has to become a lifestyle,not just a job. I easily work 80+ hours a week

Who is working 80+ a week long term? It throws into question every other statement on the page.
No, that's for a single engine. At landing, the first stage is nearly empty, and thus very light. Even the single center engine alone, throttled as low as it will go (40% or something like that, I don't think we have the exact number for the Merlin-D), produces too much thrust to be able to hover. The Grasshopper and F9R testing vehicles carried extra ballast to be able to hover and descend under thrust without cutting their engines.
Marx was not really a utopian socialist

The issue is not with Marx himself but all of the utopians who follow in his wake. The same goes for Derrida. It's fine to be a critic of society. It's another thing entirely to have the hubris to propose a societal reboot. For some reason, so many people take the successes they have with the former as evidence that they're smart enough to achieve the latter.
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I parse your comment to mean "/pol/ is childish. People who hold those views are shallow and unintelligent."

I find it interesting that my posting discussing /pol/ - not supporting it, mind you, merely discussing it - elicits a response like this from a brand new account.

My position is that exactly this sort of response to anything that isn't "progressive" is what has caused the rise of /pol/.
That's called a leased parking space (except for the free part) and my point was that people who can't afford to live downtown are the ones inconvenienced not the people who live there. Effectively the rich are hoarding the downtown so that they can deal with a little less traffic and if you have to do business downtown, screw you, you should be rich enough to have a condo walking distance away.

You took exactly the opposite away from my comment from what I was trying to say.
The social unrest of the 60's was a direct results of widespread prosperity. Even a minimum wage job for 6 months was often enough to live on for ~1 year. In part because there where fewer things to buy, but also because expected standards of living where low and the green revolution drastically reduced food prices.

The world population was also less than 1/2 what it is today which had other benefits.
I absolutely agree with you that some people on the wildest fringes do advocate genocide. Note that that pro-genocide advocates tick more diversity quotas than the most liberal arts college.

Do I paint all of BLM with the same brush as I do with the small numbers of their group who advocate white genocide?

Do I cast all Muslims aside because a small % advocate genocide of Kuffar?

Both would be unthinkable in right-on politics, and rightly so. If you are not very careful when pushing a certain way to judge things as absolute, you will find yourself having to answer very tricky questions that are contrary to the values you believe you hold.

What I was trying to get across in my previous message is that if you really want Nazi to be a powerful, meaningful word, it should be used correctly. Unfortunately a quick look at some publications/social media shows you it not being used that way. It is being levelled against out-groups completely inappropriately and in a way that is counter-productive to the left's cause. Many of the liberal old-guard personalities are called Nazis by thousands online. Whenever someone sees an article or twitter movement accusing their favourite old-guard liberal icon being called "literally a Nazi", people start realising the stupidity and tune out. The same thing happened with "racist". There is a reason it has fallen out of favour in certain circles.
That doesn't mean that "more calories in than calories out" is wrong... it means that "calories out" is FAR more complex than people give it credit for. We don't even know all the variables yet. Taubs' writings do bring to light some of our unknowns. We keep finding more variables for the equation, but that doesn't mean the equation is wrong... just incomplete.
That comment is worth a read, I had no clue they were actually generating lift on the body to reduce fuel/etc. Incredible stuff.
This is super cool, maybe add Itanium for an example of what failed?
My point is simply that future consumers may not necessarily be looking for those interactions as the article suggests.
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Generally speaking, psychedelic species are uncommon in Northern California, and at Golden Gate Park in particular.

This report found one elusive group of
only five mushrooms.

There are peak times are certain species are certainly psychoactive, but the average person isn't gonna walk around and 'get lucky'.
You took exactly the opposite away from my comment from what I was trying to say.

This is BAD for society. It is only good for people rich enough to actually live downtown. For someone who needs to go for a job interview or commute to work every day an extra 40 minutes each way is not a "little" inconvenient; it makes downtime completely inaccessible to them.
All manned spacecraft in history had launch escape systems (or at least ejection seats, on Gemini and Vostok). Except for the Space Shuttle... The Dragon 2 system is a first though, in that it uses liquid propellants and is highly controllable - as opposed to throwaway solid rockets used everywhere else.
This story just teases that there will be an answer and then doesn't really give one. To paraphrase the ending: "We had to. To those writing in to explain that we didn't have to, trust me, we had to."
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Yeah they actually started a bit sooner (2006) but the first 3 launches failed. And yeah - it makes it an even cooler story in my mind too.
For as long as we can't read each other's minds there will be "knowledge silo" problems. And yes, all code and all documentation is shared. For sharing designs, we use google docs. For documenting code already written, we use markdown and jupyter notebooks where things are hairy or test data has to be synthetic.

Note that I said "loose partitioning". Team members are expected to be able to make forward progress on their own in areas they don't work on as the main thing they do, but review code for. Maybe not at the same speed, but at least they can fix minor issues and bugs. Anyone can change anything in the code base as long as the original author of the design approves the PR. The understandable desire for territoriality is ignored as a matter of policy.

And none of what we do could be described as "simple". It generally ranges between "insane" and "frustrating", sometimes both.