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I agree. This isn't the first project I've had where I've been riding a wave up and down. Many things have a limited lifespan, but can often still be worth doing.
"The cost of renewables will certainly go down as scale increases"

I think you have it somewhat backwards: the ordinary expectation would be increased per-unit costs with increased scale; but renewables are special because they are a hot technology field, so we are likely to see per-unit cost reductions as technology improves.

The reason that per-unit costs typically rise with scale (as illustrated with an upward-sloping supply curve) is because inputs become more scarce. For instance, the best wind and hydro locations are already taken, so new locations will be slightly worse, leading to higher production costs.

"Economies of scale" are an exception early in the supply curve where it slopes downward (due to better utilization of capital, etc.). We are probably past that point because the scale is already quite high, so the supply curve for a given product using a given process is probably upward-sloping, and there are no more economies of scale to be had.

The higher scales will finance technology improvements (in processes and products) so I agree with your overall point that prices will drop. But the reason for the price drop is technology (the R&D for which may be financed by the higher scale) not the scale itself.

I believe this distinction is important because it means we need to watch the R&D budgets, not the scale. R&D budgets will be flush when firms see a lot of improvements to be had, and will dry up when they don't see much more (even if scale remains high).
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Don't credit card companies charge a fee, which you can avoid by accepting cash? Is that charge usually worth avoiding the hassle of handling cash?
It's not a double standard. If you make a claim, you have to provide proof for it. As it now stands, the Energiewende is going to cost one to two trillion dollar in subsidy [1] And that is with a 80m population, so in USA terms the equivalent would be $4-8 trillion. Why would that be the case, if wind energy is so cheap? Are all costs factored in?

[1] http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/technikwissenschaften-...
Same. Alexa insists to tell me the weather of the city I lived until a year ago. No idea how to inform her that I moved.
It's true that it's not forbidden in Saigon, but it is essentially forbidden in Dalat. I don't know about other towns in Vietnam as I can only speak to my experience.
Thanks for writing this. I got out of the game industry myself after working as a developer on 8 games in a row that failed to make hardly any money at all, for three different companies (two startups, one small business).

I've been working on corporate software for 3 years now, and while my finances are back on track, it's gotten harder and harder to stay motivated and I've been really tempted to take another stab at it, despite not really having enough saved up to do so (especially if my girlfriend and I are going to buy a house this year).

Anyway, it's tough to just sit and stare at the die and not roll it. I have done some board game design as a hobby, since that doesn't totally drain me like extra programming does, and I've even gotten my first publishing offer recently, but I know firsthand from other designers of successful titles that the money you can expect from it is minuscule compared to making a successful video game (one person told me he made $10k in royalties off a game that you can buy at Barnes and Noble. I've made more than that off a video game that was only somewhat successful).

Anyway, I've played and enjoyed A Dark Room. I should probably check out your other games. Thanks for taking the time to share your story, it's given me something to think about.
Huh... no kidding. I'm going to have to try that out some day. How was the signal like on the wok with the antenna through the center?
For those interested this is Linus Sebastian (or his last name "Tech Tips"), not Torvalds... As the video was loading I was wondering if Torvalds had started commenting on general tech news.
Also:

* Fraud
It clearly worked as there are several questions here about where to invest, we are easily manipulated aren't we.
Why does (your) salary matter in this discussion?
No it isn't. He also isn't employed in SV with those comp numbers. I'm kind of surprised he isn't working there with his personal levels of ambition. Being married also helps him avoid the difficult hetero male dating scene there too. I guess family or something similar is keeping him from moving.

There is a lot of cool stuff to work at a big silicon valley tech company. They actually have the budget & the need to do engineering 'properly' somewhat :).

I have read that in most businesses, you want to start with marketing & sales as the major focus vs. the product itself. Creator types like us software engineers like to focus on creating, which can create problems in making an actual business.
Agreed. The general sentiment that I've gotten from talking to people is that they are worried that either China will invade Vietnam (and hope that the US will protect them) or that the Vietnamese government has already "sold out" their country to China.
Are you sure about that? The Hong Kong frequent flyer e-gates are supposed to check your right thumbprint.
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What textbook is this excerpt from?
Just following orders huh?
Blah blah blah, yadda yadda, and then promotes some obscure project.
> Anderson Cooper caught in front of a green screen

source?

> CNN Kosovo videos from the mid 90s being filmed in front of a blue screen

source?

EDIT: the second one appears to have been debunked (was the Gulf War, not Kosovo years later). wasn't able to find any evidence of the first one.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22170/did-cnn-f...

https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-cnns-fake-news-broadcasts-...
Thanks, fixed the https issue.

Maybe I have a too rosy world view, but I don't think rivals would be this mean. Probably some simpler answer. Maybe there's some forum post somewhere like "how I got free candy by using this list of credit card numbers" and people keep trying that.
Don't be fooled. The W3C does not even set the standard for HTML5 - it's developed by WHATWG and then periodically the W3C just makes a copy and throws away all the GIT history and erases the acknowledgments section and publishes it to keep themselves feeling relevant.

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6825713/html5-w3c-vs-wha...
It unquestionably requires engineering effort. And business effort to clear the rights.

It's fairly straightforward as these things go, but to suggest it doesn't require anything is flat out wrong.
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Can we be absolutely certain that everything before “Ok, Google” or “Alexa” isn’t being recorded, by the companies or by back doors created by the security services? Seems too much like a telescreen for my liking.

The problem is I would love one I could trust!
You: Alexa mow the lawn and feed the cat.

Alexa hears: Mow the cat.
And allowed downloads, putting Google at billions of dollars in liabilities on their music license agreements.
I have long stopped telling people whether their charge worked if an order looks suspicious, to prevent them from getting this information. So that wouldn't work now.
As further evidence that the assafnativ probably understands trolling, it's worth mentioning that he wrote the article The Making of the Kosher Phone [0]. So he knows how to troll Orthodox Jews if nothing else.

[0]: http://blog.assafnativ.com/2014/03/the-making-of-kosher-phon...
Related to the topic: it took me almost 3 years to understand what a variable is and does.

Looking back I can't understand why it took me so long. It's so obvious.

Sometimes it's really hard to understand why some things are not understood.
The fun thing is that three-phase EV charging is common in Europe. Renault Zoe even support 40kW+ charging.
While I agree with your sentiment, I think you could have expressed it in a less dismissive way.

Edit:

s/childish/dismissive/
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I already suggested basing the W3C spec on the web developer edition of WHATWG HTML as a compromise. In retrospect, the full spec was never a good fit for a W3C REC in the first place. (you may remember the 2022 prediction)
On that note, it'd be nice if Apple were more user-friendly about battery cycle counts. I don't think there's a way for me to see battery health without installing an app, and I've never seen a message asking me to replace the battery in my two-year-old iPhone.
Thanks to some great third-party plugins I easily linked my RPI:3 with echo...not ground breaking...to be able to link to separate devices is pretty cool
...and remember to make tests that don't confirm your model. If the set is 2, 4, 8, and your model is "powers of two", then, sure test 16, but also test 1, 3, 6, 0.5, 0.1 (maybe the correct model is "also 2 to the power 0" or "two to any integer, including negatives" or "all even numbers" or "any integer" - or something else).
Alexa skills are weird in that Amazon is supposedly selling lots of Echos but our skill has something like 500 active users when our mobile apps are in the 1M+ active range.

We have no idea why skill usage is low. It’s a really good skill. The major complaint seems to be having to use our app name to activate it but we have no control over that.
They are throttling it according to battery's condition (but actual throttling apparatus was added via an update). If you replace old battery with a new one, phone starts running at full speed again.
Who mentioned ancient astronauts?

Archeologists don't seem to be as blasé as you about this:

> Nothing puzzles archaeologists so much as impracticality, and although the karst topography of Baalbek demands strong foundation stones, and although one big stone is easier to move than many smaller stones, the pillars holding up the temple’s podium, van Ess says, are bigger than they need to be. In fact, Baalbek is one of a series of ancient projects that are under rigorous study by the Germans for being unnecessarily large.

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/baalbek-myth-megalit...
Have you looked into Preact? Aside from the convenience of being (almost) a drop-in replacement for React, I recall it was also supposed to be much more performant. While I'm sure pure JS DOM could eke out even better performance, it's possible that compared to Preact (or some other fast VDOM implementation like mithril), the benefits are not worth it anymore.

(I'm not sure of any of this though, so I'd love to hear others, who have kicked the tires, weigh in.
Not wrong. From the article: "This is exactly why we build pluggable governance into (some new altcoin)"

There are many legitimate criticisms of cryptocurrencies, but this problem isn't at the top of the list.
The Ancient Egyptians did too. I recall examples on a temple wall that illustrate decreasing virility (semen volume) as age increases.

http://www.seiglefamily.com/2008egypt/IMG_4997%20hieroglyphi...
There were/are architectures (Burroughs large systems, iAPX432, to some extent AS/400) with fine-grained memory protection which essentially solved all the memory safety issues. Apart from the fact that some such machines were terribly inefficient (eg. iAPX) the major reason why you don't see them that much today is that there was no sane way to run existing C code (or any other code that expects flat memory space for that matter) on them while preserving the safety features.

So the bottom line is that such hardware architectures necessitate using more high-level languages than C.
. Edit: failed at reading comprehension
> The price for electricity is indeed very high in Germany

It's not only very high, but the second highest in the world, and we are about to take over the first spot [1]

> The problem is, unsurprisingly, regulation and policy, i.e. the fees you already mentioned, and the subsidies for industrial usage, etc.

The problem are the subsidies for all the green energy. It's not only the direct costs but also the costs for grid interventions (turning on/off capacity), paying for renewables even if they are not producing because there is too much energy available, the huge requirements for new energy lanes from north to south, getting rid of nuclear power etc.

Subsidies for industrial usage is often quoted as increasing the costs by interested parties, but it's also a direct need of the Energiewende, because the economic damage would be gigantic. Unless you want to get the energy intensive factories out of your country, you have to factor in those costs.

> So, yes, it actually seems that the NYT is misleading here.

Yes, as does most media - especially in Germany. Those negative prices are no win for any german. Why else is it, that we will soon pay the highest prices for electricity in the world?

[1] http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/energiekosten-in-oecd-...
“…for bases classes with a long name, repeating it in the body of the derived class adds a lot of clutter to it.”

When you write the code, it feels a bit cumbersome. When you read it, though, you know exactly what’s going on—which pays over and over again. These days, for most code in any language, I’m more inclined to say to myself “suck it up and be explicit” when it comes to these small decisions—as long as “explicit” doesn’t get confused with “needlessly long-winded”, of course.
Can someone explain to me how this can reasonably be considered fraud? I don't think Apple makes any guarantees about the performance an iPhone will sustain over time.
Maybe the topic may sound funny for some but it's not when you experience it.

I am currently dating a girl who has been force-married at age 12 to a cousin of his father. The man is two decades older than her but she had nothing to say because her consent is not need according to "traditions". Women are "exchanged" as cattle in their culture. Those transactions build inter-tribal relations. I know a bit about their culture because i read social Anthropology @ uni.

She run away from the man 4 years ago & came back to live with her parents. The father is still pushing her to go back to the man. He has heard that his daughter is dating someone (Me) and is very treating her shabbily these days.

Whereas the girl's mother got to know me and we interact regularly. She is a very kind & soft-spoken woman. Her husband is now accusing her of supporting the "dalliances" of their daughter. The father is the one who is supposed to take the bride-price in case of marriage.

I'm currently confused about it. I don't want to marry someone i've not paid the bride-price for. I don't want to leave the girl either because the love she has for me.

Hmmmm I'm confused... I'm really confused... Any help or advice...
Don't forget they had to drag them from Southern Wales. Getting them in place was just the final phenomenal feat.
> or that the Vietnamese government has already "sold out" their country to China.

That's what im' trying to say as well
Maybe blog posts with candy reviews might bring in some traffic?
This is great news. I’ve been using 2.2.5 for the past year on Mac and Linux, and it Is a great RAW editing tool. It does take some getting used to UI-wise (hopefully this release lets me use the trackpad more intuitively), but the non-destructive editing and effect masking are awesome.
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I think the point is that Google shouldn't be in the name at all.
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This might be of interest: The UK Crown Prosecution Service uses " definitions agreed with the National Police Chiefs' Council to identify racist or religious incidents/crimes and to monitor the decisions and outcomes:

"Any incident/crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by hostility or prejudice based on a person's race or perceived race"
or

"Any incident/crime which is perceived by the victim or any other person to be motivated by a hostility or prejudice based on a person's religion or perceived religion."

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> I'm still stuck at the 'I don't get it' phase, despite looking at Docker, and more recently Kubernetes, several times over the years, mainly because everyone around me evangelizes it so much.

This is me until a few weeks ago. After all the hype, I think some bulb turned on in my head and I'm finally starting to understand the point of all these container shenanigans.

> For instance, if I look at a WordPress[1], I'm lost. [...] what if I wanted nginx? What if I don't want it to run on Alpine, but Ubuntu 17?

It might help not to think like a sysadmin for a second. You'd pull the wordpress container because you want to run Wordpress. Who cares what's underneath? It should feel to you as a blackbox that might as well be running on hamsters for all you care. And that's great for 99% of the cases, because wordpress is just a puzzle piece in a bigger picture and we developers shouldn't have to spend too much time thinking "ah, what were the required rewrite rules for wordpress again?" when there's more important stuff you should be spending your energy on.

If you really need to tweak the internals of the blackbox, yeah, write your own Dockerfile, but you'll find there's often no need.

I've been a sysadmin for years, and then a lone wolf developer, and never understood the point of Docker to manage my projects, now I find myself at the engineering helm of a company and need to juggle all the legacy pieces of software we have, and all the new stuff in the pipeline: MySQL, PHP 5 applications, PHP 7 sites, Elixir app, Node for SSR, Redis, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.

I jumped into the Ansible bandwagon immediately because configuring servers by hand is an irresponsible idea, but now I have to manage all these small blocks that have completely different runtime needs, and let me tell you, my goal for the first half of 2018 is to containerise everything and retain my sanity.

I don't know Kubernetes very much, seems to be the next hyped thing but still feels very complicated unless you're in the loving embrace of Google Cloud/AWS. I still believe in bare, cheap VPSes and in-house infrastructure. I'm still investigating Docker Swarm to orchestrate multiple containers across servers but it's hard to tell the real world performance for the hype.

Hope this helps!
I think a big reason why people chose the dot is the price. With a home mini you need to also buy a chromecast to use your speakers, while an echo dot has that aux out already.

Music is the universal killer app of these devices. My relative after talking to me basically chose the dot because of the above reason.

For myself, thats what I ended up using the dot for in my house. Music, weather, traffic & turning off some lights.
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It's what I started with and didn't even realize okay google was also valid. I wish they'd just let us designate our own, or at least give more choices.
But that's still pretty terrible, they now have to support both 'OK Google' and 'Hey Google' and 'XXX Google' for all other countries.
Eventually you realise that journey of increasing productivity (consumption really) isn't very enlightening.
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There are quite a few people out there who don't speak English. Okay is a common word in many languages since WWII I guess. In many languages there isn't a aspirated H.
Interesting, I've not really had a problem with it picking up my commands from across the room when music is on, even when its playing on my nvidia shield.
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That's how the Hukou system works, there are two tiers: Farm/Country and Urban, and they want to urbanize farmlands, which will upgrade existing farmland hukou to city ones.

They are not talking about moving farmers into existing cities.
But you can only have the fdic insurance limit in your boa account before the solvency of boa becomes an issue - also doesn't your boa transfer take a few days to clear?
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That was my impression as well (I am likely biased - I'm Hungarian). What's your nationality if I may ask?
Did you read the link? The paragraph wasn’t made up. It is a summation of attitudes towards children at the time.

My bet would be that it was falsely wrapped up into a quote because it simplifies origin and time frame to better underline the point.
Perhaps rubatuga is an observer rather than arbiter?
Are you describing what paper money does or what Bitcoin does?

Sooner or later, blockchain-based money will be regulated. Just like paper money is today. But its too early now.
>Can we be absolutely certain that everything before “Ok, Google” or “Alexa” isn’t being recorded, by the companies or by back doors created by the security services?

It's all proprietary, so the answer is: no.
I also thought that, but I couldn’t find any references to any of those studies when I was writing my comment. Do you happen to know where I could find them?
Yeah, I see what you are saying.

But I'm coming to think they may go: Lincoln, Washington, Obama as the 'big 3' over time. Again, a 'Black leader of the free world' is historically massive, and it transcends USA issues.

Not saying I think that, just how academics will write it.
Yeah, my reaction to the headline was, well of course it was. Amazon was forcing it down your throat on just about every page.
Oh man, how is this possibly legal? Can the WHATWG license their work in such a way as to disallow this, if you want a fixed version number to test against (which doesn’t actually make sense, as there is no reference implementation, just various browser vendors that hopefully converge on and agreed implementation) you can just fork your own version of the WHATWG html spec, which will be more inline with browsers and have further bug fixes and corrections.
> even to Sweden

Is Sweden typically a country where things aren't shipped to for free?
Come to Baltic states or Poland then. It does happen in either super old and not yet renovated downtown buildings or roadside establishments in the middle of nowhere. Old narrow pipes just can't take paper. Especially if someone loves to fold it few times...

I think I've seen that in the UK as well, but memory may be playing tricks on me.
Not really composers, but Walter von der Vogelweide, or a trobador like Betran de Born are somewhat famous.

At least they are one of the fews whose name and music have reached us after about a thousand years.

But your point stands, music travels the years pretty badly.
Yes, technically there were 'people who wrote music' but we wouldn't really call them composers, and we were not attributing anything to them.

And it wasn't a 'maslow' thing - it was that we had yet to develop proper instruments, scales, etc. etc.

FYI Music during about that time was mostly Gregorian chanting and what not - and for a time music was banned by the church, at other times it was only allowed to be made 'for God' type thing. Come to think of it there are I think some composers and attributions but minimal stuff. We don't 'remember them' because what they did was not remarkable like Beethoven.