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I don’t speak Danish, and the Google translation isn’t that great, but when I said credible, a random Danish blog wasn’t really what I was referring to. I was talking about something in a major publication.

Economically competitive wind power would be an earth shattering development. If it exists, there would be articles about it everywhere. Everyone on HN would be getting jobs at wind farm startups, and trillions of investment would be pouring in. Venture capitalists would be walking the streets to find wind farm entrepreneurs that have hidden their contact info because of the overwhelming number of term sheets being thrown at them. Bakeries throughout the Valley would be offering turbine-shaped gluten-free cupcakes to VC’s, who would include them with their hand-delivered term sheets in hopes that theirs gets a little bit of extra attention from picky entrepreneurs.

I want it to exist too, I just see no evidence that it does.
thanks Obama for repealing, not signing the extension and for not expanding the "PATRIOT" Act /s
It sounds like this interrogation strategy could be designed to make the interviewee think that the interlocutor is onto something, even if they aren't.

If you're a regular guy, you're likely to react by becoming bored and tired. If you're doing sinister stuff, there is a chance that you might start to stress out from the interaction. I believe similar techniques are used when screening people for government security clearances using a polygraph. They seem to push people hard and accuse them of lying. I can only assume it's with the intent of causing legitimately guilty people to "crack".

I am not trying to justify the practice, just speculating about the purported rationale. Not a very fun experience as an innocent person.
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> AFAICT there has yet to be a state that's fully embraced communism; dictatorships don't count)

Ah, the classical "no true scotsman" that pops up in every discussion on the virtues of communism.

It's weird how people praising or arguing in favour of communism repeatedly claim that communism never existed, particularly unsavoury and atrocious communist regimes, but somehow every single far-fetched example involving some kind of transaction that has a negative connotation is somehow a prime candidate to represent capitalism.
And dogs on protestors in Ferguson in the hours after the police shooting of Michael Brown.
Didn't it mean satire, like the Daily Show and the Onion, before?
That would help account for consistency over place and time.

But meaning? I'm guessing something like "# was here".
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Your argument is against fundamental freedoms that humans have granted one another, which have allowed civilization to improve over time (with "bad times" alongside). Anyone against dictatorial (not the benevolent kind) powers would never argue for everyone to be micro-chipped and tracked, disallowing all cash, etc. Even in democratic setups these kind of additions and restrictions tweak the power asymmetry significantly, and are causing a lot of human suffering. In short, these moves aren't great for humanity as a whole.
Put up 100 gigafactories, install turbines and/or solar everywhere, and buffer the off times with huge on premises batteries. I’m not sure if a 2-3x price increase will buy this in the short term, but going into this direction will have a positive effect.

Oh and that’s not my idea, it’s someone else’s ;)

Since price is a signal, I would not simply charge 2-3x more for local electricity, but instead switch to 30m charge windows for end customers. Prices change every 30m, and the consumers (or rather, their smart homes) decide whether to charge that Tesla right now, or wait until price goes down. Consumers will buy batteries to store electricity when it’s cheaper, giving an incentive to buy solar panels to match.

I’m glad you don’t have a downvote button, because having a conversation is so much more productive.

EDIT: Added paragraph before last.
I have a few working without soldering; I just stripped wires and threaded them through the contact opening. I intended to solder after I confirmed it was working right but never got around to it.

So far I've got an Alexa controlled IR transmitter that controls my TV, an LED board showing the current bitcoin price, the temperature outside and the status of the local highway and I've got some led strips controlled by Alexa.

I haven't coded for years and it was a lot of fun.
They aren't that hard if you have an interface nearby to do it - my phone usually sits upstairs in my bedroom after I come home from work, so the Echo is a convenient voice interface to do exactly that set of things (timer, lights, playing music, etc). One thing it's super convenient for is when I'm upstairs and going to bed and I realize that I left the lights on downstairs, I can just call down "Alexa, turn off downstairs lights" -- it beats getting my glasses and opening up the app that controls my lights.

One thing I don't find it useful for is what Amazon most want me to use it for -- to buy things. I rarely buy the same thing twice from Amazon, so I can't just say "Alexa, buy more toilet paper" -- when I shop, I generally want to look at other options, compare different retailers, read reviews, etc... which is hard to do with a pure voice interface.
I guess you didn't read the paper.
All the artical is about the era of republican-China (i.e before 1949) except only one partial data (total death number) of 50-51. The data about "Number of exposed corpses and abandoned coffins" even only before 1938.

What doesn't that mean? That means you provide some evidence that inderectly support the idea that a govenment of "None-Regime" with less control over its citizen's life similar to India could cause many abandoned dead people. The republican-China before 1949 was the one that overthrowned by currrent "regime". The one that was thrown happened to be more like India in many ways excpet at that time there was no real election yet.

The same "Republic of China" still exist today. It's formal name of Taiwan. There are NO long time exposed dead people in normal place in China. I mean NONE, not few vs many. The story of above ID is totally fake.

I believe there are NO long exposed dead people in Taiwan today either. But before 1949 it was a weak government managed a much larger population with much much less control
compare to today's "Regime-China"
> No central point of failure

It's looking like the dev team behind bitcoin is the central point of failure given recent political fights.

> No middle man

If the lightning network becomes a thing then bitcoin will have lots of middle men. Coinbase already is one in practice.

> Nearly instant transfer at low cost

People have already pointed out that this is totally false.

> Incorruptible

In what sense? How can any financial instrument by corrupted? There's definitely corruption at bitcoin-related institutions.

> It is the first system to solve the byzantine generals problem.

No?

> Non-governmentally bound

only if you are willing to break the law. which is true for lots of financial instruments.
Yes, it does make sense to me. I think conclusions drawn from this thought experiment are not entirely correct. Under your experiment when sending you spatially create a beam - there is this beam as wide as parabolic dish and no light anywhere else. With zero interference (using the word quite freely) this beam "will be just as strong no matter how far away the receiver is". With roles reversed, you do not necessarily get directional transmitter. For the sake of argument consider omnidirectional light bulb (the same bulb without parabolic dish) as sender. Classical intro/ELI5 description of transmit power is fixed number of spatially evenly distributed omnidirectional "rays". The larger the distance, the lower number of "rays" you receive per unit of area (receive power scales with surface area of transmit profile, usually r^2). By adding a parabolic dish you effectively increase receive area to size of dish instead of sensor size. When sending, the area over which power is dissipated is constant instead of scaling with distance.

> You're claiming it won't matter how far away the sender is from the focus, which makes no sense.

You are correct in that it makes no sense, but the claim was "every improvement in sending is completely equivalent in receiving for a system that uses the same antennas for both directions", key word improvement. While this is not entirely correct, this approximation (that antenna improvement works both ways equally) is pretty close to reality in practical far field applications.
> I mean isn't this the whole point of terrorism? To get you to do things you don't want to because hey 1 in a million potential threat?

Is that really the point of terrorism? Is there even such a thing as a general "point" to all terrorism? I would assume there as many different goals as there are terrorists, or at least terrorist organizations.

Rather, what's more interesting is what the people in power do to take advantage of terrorism. The policies they implement, programs they put into place, etc. Terrorism (and other external threats) can act as a convenient cover for domestic actions that would otherwise be scrutinized.

And then there are the more mundane issues. Sometimes the changes that become visible to the public come from relatively low-level managers and officials, who simply enjoy playing with a bigger budget and new toys. It's not all conspiracies in dark rooms at the top.

We have to give democracy its due as well. Just because people can vote doesn't mean we inspire the most desirable behavior in our leaders, because the masses aren't rational. Who wants to be the politician responsible for having weakened security before the next terrorist attack? It's similar to being "soft on crime." The public will hold you responsible, right or wrong.
Just my $0.02.

The Netflix client/SDK was configured to contact 3 different regions. I'm guessing somehow, on the backend, it was replicating the state of your request to the other three regions. If one regions were to fail, the client would query the other two regions and regain its state.

Having 3 regions available - the other two should be able to pick up the load of losing one without hitting capacity.
this is a great list. I would add Hofstadter's Analogy as the fuel and fire of thinking and Chomsky's New horizons in the study of language and mind. they show that language structures are fundamental to consciousness.
Yes, it's sad that while so much is discouraged here, far-right/racist comments or voting by certain users is tolerated.

Seems like I have at least one such user following me around now, downvoting my comments (my anti-racist comments anyway) in different threads.

We'll see if they anonymously announce themselves with this post too.

Edit: And right on cue, the test produces a result: mere minutes after making this post - two more downvotes, including a post already downvoted.

So either someone is keeping themselves awake 24/7 to religiously reload a dead thread, or my comments page, using multiple accounts to downvote (which while completely insane is still flattering), or it's a bot with no limit (for reasons that can only be guessed at) that checks for new posts and downvotes automatically.

(Perhaps more tests are needed, I can then write a Medium and submit the results here.)

Either way it's an interestingly hostile response to someone commenting about far-right/racist users at Hackernews.
Makes sense. But, I think it’s important to consider that if a ledger is not decentralized, it may be immutable, but it’s immutability is not verifiable by all parties.
Agreed. And unfortunately, it's a policy that will heavily enrich current Shanghai real estate owners (most of which are already wealthy) and residents so there won't be much political opposition.
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Yes we can, because "breakthroughs" don't happen over night. There's often at least a decade between the first lab result and wide industrialization of technologies like these. That means you can use today's lab results to predict the "breakthroughs" in 10 years.

I'm no expert whatsoever but if there's no promising lab results currently for lighter batteries than lithium, then I doubt they'll be replaced any time soon.
Researchers should stop producing this type of misleading content that clearly started out with a hypothesis driven by an agenda.

There are so many things that drive people to become what they become. Even using the "inventor" example, not everyone whose parents are rich has desire to invent something. If anything, it's the opposite. Most rich people are satisfied with the world around them so they just "fit in" to the world. There's not enough motivation for them.

The ones that do come up with world changing inventions in many cases are outsiders. These people are not satisfied with the world around them, that's why they invent something to fix what they think is broken.

So while I do agree that if you're too poor, you probably don't get enough education to know what you can or cannot fix, and you probably don't have the money to sustain yourself, I do not like what this "research" will be actually used for--it will be used for people who want to use it as an excuse not to invent something.

"See some Harvard researchers proved that you can't become an inventor if your parents are not rich, my parents are not rich and look what i have become. it's all my parent's fault! (while doing nothing but sitting around living a pathetic life)"

If you look at a lot of people who actually achieved things that made a difference, a lot of them were at the bottom of their lives before they created their masterpiece. J.K. Rowling was broke when she was writing Harry Potter. Van Gogh died before any of his art became famous. Nikola Tesla had a sad life. Howard Schultz grew up in a housing complex before going to build the Starbucks empire. Larry Ellison grew up in a poor family under adoptive mother.

I don't see any value this type of research adds to society. If anything, it will only make one more person give up her/his dream because "some Harvard researcher said you won't become an inventor because your parents are poor."
Even if the human operator is faster, you can buy many more machines. Airport immigration is extremely inefficient, e.g. Malaysia being one of the worst, but I think there's much that can be improved if the space was disrupted.

My idea would be when you approach the immigration hall there are 50+ first-step machines where you slide in your passport, it does just enough to detect if you're going to need a grilling or likely to pass through with no questions, then takes your biometrics if required, and then it prints you a number and you head to either an automated gate or low grade desk operator or high grade desk operator for the more thorough processing. It could potentially also discriminate against old people - you don't want a 70 year old queuing for long after a long flight so they get priority etc...

Then again nowadays I'm quite good at figuring out which lines will move faster, it might sound racist, but if a flight from Ethopia has just arrived at KL then I'm going to choose the line with less passengers from that flight as they mostly get grilled or havent got right documentation or completed formalities properly. I also avoid Chinese on exit immigration in BKK as they almost always miss out details from their departures form (perhaps due to no Chinese instructions) and don't heed the advice to move out the way whilst they complete the form. Children can be a problem too, and a short line might be masking a few brats hidden in the leg space of adults, always take a side scan of the line, because 1 child = 1.25x adult time - lifting the brat up for photos etc... Avoid Indians/Pakistans/Bangledash on check-in as they travel with the kitchen sink and 9/10 there going be at least one argument over excess luggage. Sometimes you can't really tell and just look for preparedness - do these people have their passports in their hands ready to go, or buried in the handbags, have they removed their cap or will they wait to be told. grumpy traveler
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2. do all of the homework on time

3. make sure I understood how to do 100% of the homework problems

4. get help with anything I didn't understand

5. write down everything that the prof wrote on the blackboard

6. clean up my handwriting so it was legible

7. lectures/homework/studying always came first
It's not 50/50 if your spouse gets alimony on top of your assets. It might even be permanent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimony#United_States

EDIT: With regards to no fault divorce, you might want to take a look at this rather short paper, called "No-Fault Divorce and Rent-Seeking": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1630462
Oh don't think for a second that people in bands aren't suffering in several ways.
With the incident in Cuba I would think we would be a bit more reluctant to use such devices on civilians.
"Us tech people" are the ones enabling them to censor though. From the article: "Facebook this year removed 159 accounts at Vietnam’s behest, while YouTube took down 4,500 videos, or 90 percent of what the government requested".
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Compared to what? I got money transfer between banks, by wire, from the US to the end of the world in less than a day.
You can't get 3 confirmations on a BTC transaction in 24 hours!
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> For whom?

For the parties transacting in the electricity markets with negative prices. The one producing electricity is paying positive amount of money to the one that consumes electricity. Of course, transmission costs need to be taken into account, and of course, that is not a long term equilibrium, but at that time, yes, very much, electricity is "less than free" with any sensible meaning of the words.
more like "special administrative region" of china.

thought not many people want to believe that, China has very strong political influence in Vietnam
It's because the NPS rating numbers are ordinal, meaning that you can put the rating numbers in order, but the likelihood gap between the numbers may not be equal.

For example, 6 on the NPS scale would be less likely to recommend compared to 7 and 7 would be less likely than 8. However, the gap between 6 and 7 and the gap between 7 and 8 may not be equal. If you were to get the mean of 6, 7, and 8, you would get a value of 6, but there is no guarantee that the average of the participants' likelihood to recommend was actually equal to a 6.

Measuring the mean would work if the interval between the numbers were equal. See here for details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement
Yep, the industry term for this stuff is "Demand Response", and there's already companies doing this.

If you're in California, there's a company called ohmconnect.com. You can hook up your Nest thermostat and smart plugs connected to your lights, fridge, etc. They let you know once or twice a week of peak pricing hours... if you can reduce your consumption during those hours, they credit you. They use your smart meter to verify participation.
Yeah good question. I didn’t elaborate very well on that.

The inefficiencies come about in transactions by separate parties. I am no expert on how Ticketmaster works, but I will use an event ticket as an example. If customer(a) buys a ticket from a venue and wants to sell it to customer(b), there are 4 separate parties dependent on that transaction. The current solution is having Ticket unique Ticket stubs which are difficult enough to counterfeit that they protect the transactions enough but counterfeit tickets do get made and sold often. Those make cause for problems. And, selling the physical tickets requires a physical transaction. All of these things mark inefficiencies.

These mirror the inefficiencies overcome by cryptocurrencies in that the solutions replace stringent centralized enforcement with decentralized access.
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That's nonsense. Countries are responsible for making up their own laws, not foreign techies.