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Wind vs nuclear, USA edition:

Wind advantages:

* Faster to build

* Electricity production can begin before entire project is finished

* Lower cost per MWh generated

* Much less expensive worst-case-scenario failure mode

* No cooling water required

Disadvantages:

* No guaranteed output without storage add-ons

* Much lower areal density of annual generation (e.g. "how much energy can you generate yearly on a 10 km^2 parcel of land?")

Other differences:

* A nuclear reactor may operate 40-60 years before replacement; a wind turbine is more like 20-25 years

* Over its full life cycle, a wind farm demands less human labor per MWh generated

I put nuclear's long life under "other" rather than "advantages" because the other side of "long life" is "long term commitment." I also put the lower labor demands of wind under "other" because many people (not me, but many) consider "providing good jobs" as more of a benefit than a burden when they evaluate power sources.

On balance, I think that wind has the advantage now and for at least the next decade or so. Nuclear could become more attractive again once there's a high penetration of intermittent renewables on the grid that make guaranteed-output sources relatively more valuable. The high areal density of nuclear power vs. wind is much more of a theoretical than a real advantage in a country like the USA, which has low population density by global standards and a lot of windy area. The more interesting contest will be between wind and PV; the latter has historically cost more nameplate watt, but its costs have been falling faster. PV also has lower day-to-day variability even though its annual capacity factor is typically lower.
> I didn't constrain it to academia.

> > That's the thing. It isn't that. It has never been that. No one says that. No where in academia does it even approach that?

Are you claiming that using privilege to shut down discussion isn't used in academical or are you claiming it's neither used in academical nor casual setting.

Because I claim, it very well used for that purpose in casual setting. "Check your privilege" isn't a meme for no reason. So, I do see how it isn't used in academia, but its definitely present on forums and other places.
Particularly the comment on that SO question that begins "There is no difference..."

So many names for the same thing (that hardly anyone can agree on what exactly it is).

No wonder the doctors and lawyers and accountants take all the money.
Completely off-topic: As a one-time civil engineer, mathematical dullard, and frequent New York visitor, who is losing his mind, I thought this was about completing a subway line. In my defense, the N train does go to Queens (though it's not called the N-Queens), and everybody knows completing a subway line is a really hard problem, especially if you're following the story of the new 2nd Ave line.
edit: Full mea culpa. Parent is right.
Keeping this post intact since it still contains green-relevant information and some historical information that may be of interest. Big ups to Scotland for pushing this forward. The Northerners[0] are doing some clever things too like running their own municipal fiber after having their pleas being ignored for ages.

The Danes have been at it for almost the better part of a decade[1]. IIRC, their national transport is 100% green 24/7 and has been for a few years now. They've hit events where 100% of their entire country grid was wind-powered, and are so good at it China[2] brought in Danish consultants for assistance. Here's a real time chart of their energy infrastructure (including exports to Sweden/Norway/Germany)[3].

As a MA native, I remember people on the Cape would joke about the "bridge tax" (i.e., anything coming into the Cape is ~25% more). I know until recently[4] their internet connectivity was horrenduous. Energy there is fairly intermittent as well. Hopefully, they'll pick up a few Siemens units (you can pick up retired Siemens Vestas units on ebay for < 100k that are rated in the 10s of MW!) and deploy a unit or two[6], if only as a PR stunt to make themselves look 'progressive'. A win/win if they can increase employment and bring jobs to the locals in addition to that energy.

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[0] http://gizmodo.com/5984187/british-farmers-install-their-own... "B4RN" is awesome. It's great to see what a community can get done when they ((apologies in advance:) broad)band together.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_offshore_wind_farms_in...

[2] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-windpower-china/ch...

[3] https://en.energinet.dk/#energysystem - Real time chart! Porn for green energy nerds like me.

[4] Thier municipality started to offer gigabit through a peering with the Boston/North Shore providers to position their community as a "business friendly, gigabit ready" region in order to attract more businesses, rather than relying on the traditional tourist-town economy. They brought in some contractors to lay cable from Boston (or likely just North of Boston[5]) which is active now with tons of businesses using it, though I'm not entirely sure if the general populace has FttH.

[5] IIRC Andover or Quincy or somewheres around there (http://nationwidecolocation.com/massachusetts_colocation.htm) was one of the major peering points where a significant amount of NE traffic ran through. Traditionally it has great connectivity first due to all of the DARPA peering that occured around universities (MIT still has the 18.x.x.x class A perma-leased from ARIN). This continued through the late 90s/2000s with Verizon using those DC's as their major peer-points (which is incidentally why FiOS was rolled out so early in the Boston suburbs).

[6] You'd have to deploy them strategically in a region that isn't going to interfere with the yuppies boating experience as they go to the Vineyaahhhd on the 4th. NE has the same NIMBY problem that SF has in that regard.
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Thanks for the reply. I can see how it can be confusing, and more so for that indeterminate part.
Nothing is going to grow underneath the solar panels. At least with solar panels you can selectivaly decide where nothing should grow. With roofs it's already an easy decision. With wind paths - not so much.
Micoroservices are great for _RUNNING_ your app, monolithic are great for _DEVELOPING_ your app. I wish there was a way of developing like a monolithic and deploying like microservices.

Monolithics are good because you get a "stack trace" of an error! That stack trace is so much better than all that Ziplin stuff that barely work and takes so much longer to just see what caused the error!
> Any discovery is useful information.

I don't think that's true in the slightest. I had an original thought, which is effectively a discovery of something new. The time to transcribe and validate currently outweighs the value of most novelties and that may still not produce anything useful enough to justify the storage of that information (effectively making it useless having never been used and now forgotten).
Another day, another accusation of antitrust bullying against Google
I think "solid state" is being used as meaning "no moving parts".
I'm confused how you'd consider reverse mortgages a subsidy.
Transcript from Dan's talk about Bitfunnel:

http://bitfunnel.org/strangeloop/

The talk itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80LKF2qph6I
What I've found is that those days of pre-planning can be hit or miss. Yes, you might uncover a design flaw or missed requirement that would have set you off in the wrong direction. However, a prototype implementation is much more likely to uncover those same flaws, and probably also a few that you never would have found without building a prototype. I've found the prototype approach leads to a far higher likelihood of success. I think the real challenge with it is getting management to understand what is a prototype and what is a finished product, the danger being that you ship the prototype.

Of course, this is all highly dependent of the nature of your work and length of development cycles. But if you're shipping in weeks, I'd wager you should be planning for hours at a time, not days.
This only means there is lots of unsatisfied demand. That's more or less the policy endgame of NIMBYism and anti-gentrification: keep things affordable for existing residents by removing them from market pressures, then let the market deter unwanted outsiders.

EDIT: I should add that my point is, there's no reason it couldn't remain this way forever. Urban revival could be over, even though the desire for it isn't.
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That's a weird statement. Residential neighborhoods of major cities might tend to be slums, and rural areas might tend to be slums, but most suburbs of major cities are nice upper middle class areas. Sure if your city has five suburbs, one might be the slums, and over the decades that might switch from one to another to another as they cycle around, but by-and-large actual suburban cities exist because of the middle class.
Physical possessions like this pen is just so vain, shallow, and meaningless.

Have you thought this through, to the point where you have a cut-off?

Is it the cheapest? Is a 12-cent biro vain, because there's a 10-cent biro?

Is it a $10 fountain pen, because you could have bought a cheap BIC? Is a $30 fountain pen OK, but a $50 fountain pen is shallow and meaningless? Where do you draw the line?
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This is not really audio, but when it comes to programming, I don't think any sort of listening material (by itself) is ever going to top visual material. In that department, I recommend this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wiki.algorithm...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/algorithms-explained-and-ani...
This is something I don't quite get about Jason Fung. He is critical of calorie restriction being less effective (he says you will feel more tired). But I'd like to see strong arguments and evidence for that.
Everybody should learn to write using either fountain pen or at least good gel ink pen (like 3-5€ Pilot G-2 gel ink pen). Using standard ballpoint pen makes you hate handwriting.

The idea of fountain pen is to put the pen down on the paper and move it around without the need to press the pen against the paper. Invention of ballpoint pen was move backwards in ergonomy and most people don't realize that this happened, they just hate writing in general.
Yeah I certainly would not want to have to Uber around town every day. If I had that kind of money to blow, I'd either buy a car or I'd live downtown and not in the suburbs.
Blinkist is worth checking out. I like using it to determine which books I am going to actually read.

https://www.blinkist.com
LINQ is like flying a plane. It will take you where you need to go extremely fast, but will also crash you into the ground if you don't know what you're doing.. Personally I get immense value from it daily, but I know when not to use it as well.
Several large companies that experimented with full-time remote work have ended those experiments and declared it to be a failure. I expect we will see it trend down, not up.

Maybe some new, large, remote-first organizations will be born, but it seems unlikely that they would pay rich-country salaries.
although for the record that one is not the same as the one that killed 6% of the population, which happened in 1854.
Heck, add San Jose to that list.
There are still many people moving to SF, especially those who work in companies in SF where the high compensation makes living in SF possible. Lots of people don't want to deal with travelling from outside SF to the city. Taking BART / Caltrain is soul sucking. Lots of young, unmarried people love the vibe of the city, and are willing to fork out part of their income to live there.
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Sketch is not a UX design tool
This is a very opinionated article stating that a software developer's main task is to know libraries and how to glue them together.

I appreciate any constructive feedback.
Who mentioned Germany at all?
Micro wind turbines were a hot topic for a while before solar started getting a lot cheaper. In general, the ROI was always mostly suspect (except where you needed off-grid power). They're still sold but you don't hear much about them.

As others have said, it's not great for placement and small blades are not really what you want for wind power.
If it's for embedded systems, Polyhedra from Enea is used in quiet a few high reliable and rugged systems.
Watermans is correct. Lewis Waterman invented the capillary fountain pen.
The difference is that fold will add a trailing newline. Another option is to add an '; echo' at the end of the operation.

And yes the "cat" is not necessary.
Part of the reason is support. Long ago Britton Lee[1] in fact provided an AST API mainly for tool vendors. They stopped doing that when one of their customers called them asking for help with the "GUIDE BY" clause. Nobody at BL knew what a "GUIDE BY" was since it was something implemented by the frontend, but that didn't matter to the customer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britton_Lee%2C_Inc.
Oh I don't deny I felt like shit and every moment of it sucked. But like most things worth achieving you need to put something resembling effort into it. The results were definitely worth it.
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I think it's more important to ask, what do you want out of life?

It could be making the world a better place via charitable endeveours.

Or maybe take a shot on making a billion, then you'll need to be super speculative.

Or maybe it's ultra conservative, then index funds.

Or maybe a mix of things, so many asset classes (and many sub asset classes) to build such a portfolio.
My Powershell-fu isn't quite up there. What's the first part of that block? Is that concatenating arrays of ranges of char codes?
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A juice fast isn't a fast, it's another stupid name like biohacking. The literal dictionary definition of "diet" is "the kind of food an animal eats" or maybe "the types of food someone is limited to for weight loss or medical reasons". A "juice fast" is a diet, not a fast. A water fast is just a normal fast, since water does not have any calories and is not a food.

A diet is not a state of caloric reduction, it's a description of the foods you're able to eat. A fast is not a description of the foods you're able to eat, it's a description of the act of eating zero foods and zero calories.

If you're dieting, you're eating food. If you're fasting, you're not. There is an infinite amount of difference between zero and anything-but-zero.
Yep, this is the end-game of "customers buy benefits, not features" marketing writing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm fully on board with the idea of marketing your benefits, not features, but so very much of the marketing writing you see out there now takes the concept to this unhelpful extreme.

I ride my bike past a shop every few days that's called something like "Shelter Solutions," but in smaller print they say "We rent equipment for commercial and residential roofing need". Boom, done, that's what I care about.

Or some lady who gave me a fistful of business cards at a networking event (she apparently has five thriving gigs, eyeroll), one of which was "telecommunications solutions consultant"--talking to her, she has some cell phone MLM program she's a part of.

Customers buy benefits, but if you're not telling them what the features are, you've failed at writing clear copy. Most people do.
No, inequality will always persist. You can't have 10,000 people come live in a place where water is expensive and then demand that society bring water to them. You speak of freedom - freedom brings inequality as different communities make different choices.

Back to your point - you are free to leave your job if another company will hire you. You are free to leave your community if another community will pay for your UBI. Or if you saved up enough to move, or if you actually make enough money now etc.

You do realize the UBI is on top of what you'd be making anyway, just to help you save up?

Perhaps the community will pay UBI only to those who move there and work there (contributing to the society), or prove inability to work. But then it wouldn't be unconditional anymore - and who gets to say that the "poet" who muses for 10 hours a day isn't doing some productive work? Communities would then be tying UBI to certain kinds of work.

But just giving unconditionally UBI to everyone is unsustainable because it just completely overlooks the cost of living in a certain area. If millionaires can afford super duper doctors and other gentrified stuff in that area, how would you figure out how much UBI to give to the people moving there? If you give the same amount to everyone everywhere, they STILL couldn't afford doctors in Beverly hills.

Now you are talking about price controls forcing an ace surgeon in Beverly Hills to take the same as someone who barely graduated medical school and never got better, who works in SomewhereCheap Kansas. That's unrealistic.

And you're forcing a water company that supplies water to a desert place to charge the same for that necessary good as a water company that delivers 100 feet from a local aquifer.

Think it through and tell me how your proposed UBI system without immigration quotas would even workz
Truthfully it's less that I try specifically to work out faster but more that I work out in the morning and simply cannot fathom eating anything that early
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It's absurd to call it a crash at this point. It's just barely a bear market.
I worked at HSBC for a little bit. We often hear the term "too big to fail" in relation to big banks. This place is too big to succeed.

I was there supposedly to implement state-of-the-art trading systems and processes. I left after 2+ years with little to show. The pace of progress is glacial. Managers are scared to change the status quo because of fears of rocking the boat. Embarking on new projects risks making them look bad if the projects don't reach expectations.

One of the problems is HSBC's DPA, deferred prosecution agreement, with the Justice Department. Basically, HSBC needs to operate on a clean track record for 5+ years and the US government will avoid fining them even more. The result is a culture of fear combined with zero innovation. Just stay the course, get paid nicely in your nice cushy jobs. Screw over your clients in the meantime if you have to.
If your sole purpose is authentication w/o authorization, one should use securelogin.pw which does not depend on identity provider. And btw OAuth2 spec is insecure by design, it's a known fact.
What about immutability and shared structure. You can stream your computation in a way to avoid copying, avoid locking (unless you have to synchronize on a change). Persistent DS are rarely mentioned, I only know Demaine's course.
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" there's a huge influx of tech workers whose compensations are also relatively high"

Relative to what, exactly? Relative to teachers, office workers, state employeers - sure.

Relative to the cost of living? Hardly "high".
no need for you to inform them of your other accounts with other banks
(and privacy laws may forbid banks from sharing this information).

The UK have a small number of credit reference agencies, and UK banks universally (as far as I can tell - there may be extremely niche private banks which don't) share customer data with one or more credit reference agencies (and there is provision in law for this).

Every bank I know will carry out a credit-check on a customer opening a new account (even an existing customer), so your other accounts will be immediately visible to the bank you're applying to - and the fact of your application will also be recorded.

I have no idea how much that information would affect your application, but I'd be extremely surprised if questions weren't asked.
What's the reason for going offshore? Is the wind not as strong on land?
And here's why it doesn't matter for most of the US: energy companies are regulated to make a percentage of the money they spend. This incentivizes them to SPEND MORE MONEY for energy so they can make more money. Until we fix that, most of us are screwed (at least the ones who can't get off or mostly off the grid).

Sources: My friend who runs an energy company and I also found it here: http://blog.aee.net/how-do-electric-utilities-make-money
Can you please provide a case in which a gpl licensed item was revoked "at will". Since I am pretty sure such has never happened you could alternatively provide another case in which a piece of software was revoked?

I honestly don't believe that you can make such an offer allow man years of work to be built upon your offer, derive benefits for years based on providing such an offer and say sorry changed my mind.

Even if an unproven legal theory existed that would Theoretically justify this, it would end in 7 years of litigation during which the ecosystem would have collapsed.

They would own at best a billion dollar legal bill and 100% of nothing at worst a billion dollar legal bill and nothing to show for it.

Its hard to imagine that this is a real issue.
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I built webserver from scratch as a term project at university. Due that the fact that it actually did something self-contained and useful I got away with turning in C99 project for C++ course :) (and probably also because I wrote my own talloc/apr_pool-style malloc wrapper to base that on, when presenting the thing that was about as far as I got and then was told, "well, this is C++ course, but you got A and now go away")

For another MSc. level course the whole term project assignment was: "choose or design some language and try to somehow conjure compiler and if required VM for that". "somehow conjure" is significant because nobody said you have to do that from scratch, hacking tcc/gcc/lcc/llvm to accept your language was fine and basing your language on top of some Smalltalk VM (preferrably ST/X ;)) or Common Lisp was essentially encouraged.
I listen to python podcasts: https://talkpython.fm/ and https://www.podcastinit.com/ . Outside of purely technical subjects, I also like "talking machines" about ML: http://www.thetalkingmachines.com/ . Maybe they won't improve your "core" skills, but it's good with keeping up to date with cool recent libraries or new language developments. I use an app on android that pre-downloads podcasts on wifi and allow me to listen to them at 1.5X speed.

I wouldn't recommend audiobooks, as they require more focus and context than podcasts and it's harder to find during the commute.
I have a Montblonc fountain pen that was my father's and made in West Germany :). It's neat to write with, but extremely messy (I'm a lefty). I wrote a few sentences with it about 20 years ago and haven't used it since.

Honestly, I'd like to try a feather and inkwell just to see how people wrote way back when, but haven't ever gotten around to it.
Nah, that's not really true. If you have 500K (especially excluding retirement accounts) then you should really have it under management (robo, yourself, a fiduciary, whatever). The S&P is up 10% on the year so far, so that's $50,000 you could have made 1/1 through present. Obviously not a guarantee of future performance, and caveats apply, but that kind of money definitely has the potential to make more money, but not when in your 1% APR savings account.
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