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Is there enough potential capacity of solar + wind + hydro to meet total future demand though?

Yes. And very easily too. ANU did a study in Australia and found pump hydro could cover 100% of the supply needs while only using a small fraction of available sites. Australia is a very flat country so I'd imagine it is even easier in most countries.

See http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/anu-finds-22000-potentia...
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It turns out that economics is just politics. The greatest political move was to rebrand political economy as economics and try and pretend it is a science.
Can confirm it works fairly well for the poor. I have been registered for Medicaid the past three years of school and have not had to used it until this year. Every single time I use my insurance (CareSource) I am absolutely blown away by how painless it is. Other than presenting proof of coverage twice in a series of multiple hospital and doctor's visits I have not had to worry about insurance for a single moment. At one point my physician was ordering lab work and kept asking if I wanted any additional lab work of my choosing and this just seemed absurd because on private insurance I would never consider lab work to be discretionary.
I wish that people started focussing more on the Gini Index and rooting for their country or region to top that list: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

“Distribution of family income - Gini index measures the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income in a country. The more nearly equal a country's income distribution, the lower its Gini index, e.g., a Scandinavian country with an index of 25. The more unequal a country's income distribution, the higher its Gini index, e.g., a Sub-Saharan country with an index of 50. If income were distributed with perfect equality the index would be zero; if income were distributed with perfect inequality, the index would be 100”

In this table Finland is #1, USA, 40th from the bottom, China is 30th from the bottom. This shows that the size of your economy and how fairly the wealth is distributed is not correlated. It also says that the so-called "American Dream" is a fantasy for much of the population. I also think that this is an index that is important to track _over time_ and I don't know of anyone doing that because then you could see if the country/society/region you're living in is getting more or less unequal over time. I know that I'd prefer that my daughter lived in a country where the wealth was more evenly distributed than than when I was growing up.

In Rawls' Theory of Justice he gets you to imagine that by a "veil of ignorance" you don't know where your position in society is. Given that, he says, you'd prefer a more fairly balanced society and world because you don't know which segment of society you'd be born into and which part of the world. Going by Rawls you'd prefer to be born in Finland (or most places in Europe) rather than China or the USA.
Since they are direct substitutes it seems reasonable to compare them to me.
In Alaska (where I live), reindeer meat is extremely common. You can go to most diners and get reindeer sausage. It really is excellent, and good for you.

I would love to see reindeer spread. Not only would it be great for our small villages, but I think it's a healthier alternative. Win-win
Sure, I can accept that generally speaking there is a difference between phone/tablet and desktop. But how about Android vs iOS. I can install Firefox on Android, but not on iOS. (It "looks" like FF, but it's Safari with a skin, same with Chrome.)

Can you offer a valid explanation on why it's technically not possible for a real Firefox browser to work in iOS, but works fine on Android?
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There's a funny bit in the Norm MacDonald special on Netflix about that exact thing... He challenges the audience to name the 3rd guy who went to the moon.
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I'm doing really well, although I did kind of fall off OSS work as I got busier with kids and family stuff. I still hack on lots of different things, but nothing that I've been able to open source. I've been busy learning Haskell these days, although I tend to write Ruby for work.
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Pump hydro is viable to build now for circumstances like that.
I was an idiot who was on the advice giving side. Looking back I can see how I was a really shitty friend. I am glad to come across these types of topics so that the person opening up to me can have someone who listens without jumping in with advice. Please forgive us idiots who don’t know any better.
With respect to that xkcd, while there's some humor in the progression of the quotes about letter writing (which doesn't mean they're completely off target) and some of the other concerns seem to me narrow-minded or silly, I appreciate a lot of them and think they have aged just fine.
Yeah I suppose that's true for me as well. I had heard that the officers were pissed and basically threatened to execute in the field any men caught doing that, but I didn't know that it had effectively worked at eliminating these kinds of event.
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To be fair, I corrected myself that the actual claim is that sugar is more addictive than cocaine, not heroin.

Also, I did live on the streets and have first hand experience with these drugs and their affects on real people. And I've been clear in my comments here I didn't change on my own, but needed help and support from others.

And no matter what you do for any addict, if they don't decide to change themselves, they won't change.
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Actually real life people with perfect memory have a problem with relationships, cause they remember all the fights and arguments and insults.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zTkBgHNsWM
That's by PPP[0]. The CEBR report is stating that China's economy will be bigger than the U.S. in absolute terms (PPP is a relative measure, look it up) by 2032. That means that population size notwithstanding China could choose to outspend the U.S. dollar-for-dollar on its military or space budget or infrastructure or whatever. You get the idea – the implication is that over times economic might should shift the balance of global power.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity
Interesting to compare this to the wave of nostalgia for our agrarian past that hit during the 1930s and 40s, leading to novels like Lord of the Rings, the Chronicles of Narnia, and The Grapes of Wrath. The past that the author yearns for was the future of those writers.

That nostalgia didn't stop the clock from moving forward or life from getting ever more hectic and complicated. But there seems to be something deep inside our psyches that yearns for "the village": a place where the rules are known, the people can be trusted, and time can be spent rather than hoarded.
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Slightly poorer than those with a lowly 130 IQ
I think the first step is simple, but hard. From there it gets complex, but not too complex for anyone to deal with. After all, they aren't dealing with anything more than their own life.

I like that quote, I will pass it on to my father, he likes L'Amour. ty.
That's interesting. It's never felt gamey to me, but maybe because it's domesticated and farmed.
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Unless you know what you are buying and have a sense of what quality you are buying, its impossible to buy online.

There is a reason why most people get a touch and feel of things at places like Target and then buy it online.

In India where large retailers like Target are absent and people have no way of getting the 'look and feel', the trend is its getting very hard to sell things, unless you throw impossible discounts at customers.
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Is it ever a good idea to speak WITH an attorney present? I’m serious. I see movies where people talk to law with attorney and wonder if they are actually required to? Could they not just say nothing even with a lawyer?
Pure numbers is the worst way to try to make this comparison. Quantity is not the same as quality, and quality really matters when you're analyzing national economies.

What often gets lost in the equation, because it's difficult to put a number to, is robustness. The Chinese economy can be looked at as a gaggle of one trick ponies. For example, you can go to a Chinese factory, hand them a blueprint, and get very good results, on maybe the third run, after you iron out all the kinks.

American industry iterates on proven designs that have been iterated on continuously since the Industrial Revolution. Our creative professionals can get very specialized. I met a young lady engineer once who could talk your ear off about toilets. She was in charge of a very niche aspect of toilet design and her one specialty likely numbered in the hundreds.

Now I'm not saying that Chinese engineers can't produce quality products. What I'm saying is that as quality as these products are, they're still stone age in many, many, many respects compared to American designs. Techies can't really see or understand this because all of this collected industrial knowledge isn't open source and is passed through institutions.

They can produce a toilet that works. We can produce a toilet design that lasts 4 times longer, uses 30% less water, meets recyclability guidelines for porcelain, does not compromise strength yet is 40% lighter, and can be packed 30 per pallet rather than 10. Sure it gets manufactured in China, and they might rip off one of our designs, but they're going to be perennially playing catch-up. Can they make that toilet in 10 different fashions to match both upscale and low-end bathrooms? Rinse and repeat for every single other consumer and industrial product that modern society uses.

We've been dominant in so many areas for so long that for China to even get on our level would mean to first create a middle class that's the same size as ours, so they can start iterating on a similar level as we have been doing for over a hundred years. That's no mean feat. Just because they're moving similar quantities of products around as we are doesn't mean that that wealth is getting shared with the public enough to create a professional class.

And until they can create a professional class of their own, they will always be playing second fiddle to our professional class.
I think the source needs to be strong. I'm currently using a wifi extender and noticed the speed isn't good when I move the extender to a room further from the source.
Again, batteries make sense with inflexible energy production methods. So if you want to use that coal more effectively, get a bunch of batteries or a lake up a hill to pump into.
Here in Alaska there is a lot of farmed reindeer as well. My kids love going to see the reindeer farm in Palmer every year.
> If I spend a million dollars inventing a nice car that can be freely replicated I don't have to sell it for a million dollars to break even.

So do filmmakers make movies or an implementation of the bittorrent protocol?

That analogy is terrible.
Oh I very specifically said “lighter” and not faster, referencing only the distribution size. But not much lighter, even then.

It just makes no sense to me to throw away an actual virtual machine for a mere abstraction of one.
Options beyond hunting for it yourself? I know in Alaska it's pretty illegal to sell game such as moose. Are there states where you can legally sell/buy game?
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You are saying FU to people. You are exactly the type of person who is the problem, and who is causing countless low income people to suffer high rent. All because you want to live in an upper middle class bubble isolated from the real world.
Self driving cars are the mass transit of low-density suburbia. Electric AVs in the next 10 years would be a significantly cheaper solution than remaking US infrastructure & political culture to be more transit friendly. That is why americans are especially excited about them.
well people deciding between an ambulance or an uber aren't really qualified to make that decision so it wouldn't surprise me if a bunch of people who needs an ALS unit decide to take an uber.
How does your solution solve the problem?
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Yes, definitely reminiscent of bison. Although if I was told it was beef I might believe it. Although reindeer sausage could easily pass for pig sausage, other than it is leaner and has a much better texture IMHO. It's often spiced differently and I like it much better. Man this is making me hungry.
I think this is something where individual US states need to blaze a trail. California passed a (light-on-details) single-payer healthcare bill through the state Senate, though unfortunately the matter has been tabled for now by the Assembly, and funding it would require creative use of Medicare dollars that a) would require federal approval, and b) may not even exist much longer if the GOP gets its way.

I agree that major health care reform at a US national level is pretty unlikely at this point, even if Democrats manage to gain a supermajority in both houses of Congress and win back the presidency. I'm not even sure trying out something novel at a national level is a good idea, since it carries a lot of risk. I think doing something new at the state level, if they can get around federal interference, has a decent chance of getting somewhere.
posting this anonymous. Most people tell me I'm the smartest person they've ever met, which makes me sad rather than happy. People reference my 'mind' as if it were another person. I feel pretty lonely most of the time, and though dating isn't that hard for me, finding an equal partner is very difficult.

It feels like I have these facts in my head, but by some trick I've conceived of, when I tell them to others, they are bewildered. To me it seems like I just read more, like if they had read what I've read, they would be the same. But they are never the same.
From experience, shocked there are that many reasons - core prob is they never seem to do anything
Oh please. Everyone should have the right to purchase housing at fair market value. People like you twist the power of local government to subvert the market for your own benefit. The price is high because of NIMBYism, not because of the market.
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A moments reflection shows this to be hyperbolic and cynical.
No, it's the locals who are intervening in government with their overly restrictive zoning laws. We want to undo that intervention an diet the market set the prices.
Except it's not the same across all these frameworks.

If I build a grid with 15 columns and 3500 rows (actual issue faced) which contains 3 characters in a cell and a menu when clicking on the cell.

Out of the box Angular took ~8 seconds to make it appear on the screen.

Vue and React were both less than 1 second.

If I changed the value of a cell, then Angular would redraw the entire grid, Vue and React just updated the cell.

You know what the Angular gitter room told me to do... turn off change detection...

Changing it to 1 way binding resolved the rendering time and made it on par with the other 2, but it's still frustrating, especially when the same example in Angular 1 worked in less than 1s with 2 way binding.
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It's shockingly ignorant and quite offensive to assert that fundamental tenets of morality and ethics originated in or necessarily had to be promulgated by religious doctrine.
> because we now have the ability to record performances for future generations

I think this has the potential to be extremely interesting. Until relatively recently, you could see a performance and be influenced by it, and that fusion of ideas could still be seen as new and original. As more and more things are recorded, and become more readily accessible to a much wider audience, I wonder if we'll start to see people unpicking the minutiae of an actor's influences and what effect that will have on how actors are perceived.
He is remembered because people took the tablets and transcribed it from medium to medium. Wrote books about it. Made movies about it. And created internet articles about it. If no one moved it from tablets to these new mediums, he would not have been remembered.

Tutankhamun is a great example of this. His name was forgotten. His existence forgotten until they discovered his tomb, read the tablets, and then transcribed knowledge of his life to the modern medium. His memory now exists because we transcribe and communicate this information today.
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Yes, there are but they tend to be ranched. For an example in Texas http://www.brokenarrowranch.com/Shop/

This seems to have a recent list of online places:
https://www.thespruce.com/best-places-to-buy-wild-game-meats...

There are lots of constraints on commercial sale of game meats, I don’t think you are going to find hunters selling small quantities, if I recall correctly this is illegal to avoid impact on wild populations.
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There is pretty much nothing that infuriates me more than the health insurance system. Here is just one example (other than your ambulance example, which is like some trolley-car problem come real):

We use "insurance" for routine medical examinations which are supposedly to be done regardless of health. We use "insurance" for YEARLY checkups.

The absurdity of this is on par with insuring yourself against getting hungry, or buying gasoline insurance to fill up your car.

Gas in $8000/gallon. But pay $900/month and we will cover the cost!

It is absolutely embarrassing that this is the system we have allowed to exist. I consider myself a pretty staunch capitalist in most regards. Health insurance is definitely not one of them.
This has never been a problem for me and I've never heard of it being a problem for anyone else.
Great movie (1971). Saw for first time when I was about 8 and it freaked me out then and still does to this day. Did not see the remake.
I disagree about the memorability of bringing peace to the Middle East... because once peace arrives, it will be longer be a famous conflict zone.

Quick, who was involved in bringing peace to Northern Ireland?
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I don't understand why they would have to lower prices just because they bought more efficient machines. That defeats the point (as mentioned) but has two obvious solutions that I can think of: keep prices flat, or raise prices.
Brave is truly an underdog to me. When it was first launched, I thought it would not last long - another competing browser? Why would a VC invest in it? Because of Brendan Eich (he is extremely bright but I did not see how one could market yet another browser focus on privacy)? I am surprised with the direction the project has taken since though.
Why? I don't find it offensive. I don't you can maintain morality long-term without religion.
I've always wondered how deep learning handles problems with well-understood time complexities.

How well does the idea of "time complexity" apply to a NN? Since we aren't performing a series of operations with a NN, we are just passing values through a mesh of neurons, right?

Would we ever know if a NN "found" a way to solve a certain problem in a more efficient time complexity than what we currently understood? Can the "time complexity" concept evne apply to a NN?
Obama was the 'First Black President' - this is, on a historical scale - massive. Just massive. Also, America is kind of a 'world leading' country, so 'leader of the free world' - meaning, a black man as 'leader of the free world' - only about 150 years after slavery. This is a big deal, historically. I think his story is just getting written. Academics love him and they will write the history books. In 50 years, I think Obama will be up there with the 'big ones' in terms of being a 'landmark president'.

Sorry, I meant wary :)
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“last 5 decades”

Then they are not really AI failures “of 2017”.

More like “AI problems that are still unsolved”, at best.
The reason you must get car insurance isn't to cover the cost of the car, it's to cover the very high variance in potential payouts to third parties should you cause an accident.

Health insurance in principle works on a similar basis: it's a cost smoothing mechanism for unexpected large costs that not everyone is expected to incur.

It breaks down if everyone incurs the big costs (old age) or not everyone insures (only at risk people insure, which increases costs, which pushes out people who aren't as risky, which pushes up the price further, in a cycle.) It also doesn't make much sense for regular care that doesn't directly prevent major payouts.

So it seems to me that health insurance is only workable if it is mandatory, old age spending is rationed, and checkups that find things that can become very expensive are covered, but other bits and bobs aren't. Obviously gold plated coverage could cover more, but that's all the mandatory insurance should cover.

It's all far too politically charged for any kind of rationality to prevail though. I think single payer state care can work, but it has high overhead and suits high tax countries better, not the US, where there is less acceptance of the social contract of taxation.
You're probably sad because you are surrounded by unintelligent people.
It's like a very intense self existential crisis all the time, although it wears with age. You can do math fast, you daydream a lot and run deep on many mental tangents that for the most part you've learned to suppress explaining to other people, because it's like 15 steps removed from where the current conversation is.
Does it taste better or worse now? Or just different?
From my experience, intelligence matters less than diligence. And contrary to popular belief, I think high diligence is also genetic talent. Having said that, I don't think my intelligence is all that useful considering I have low diligence.
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It doesn't have the pig taste and it's less fatter. Maybe it could pass as pig mixed with >60% beef or horse.