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> The US has cheaper AND cleaner electricity than China

This is a nice read: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2017/0...

Quote: "The nation is on track to overdeliver on the emissions reduction commitments it put forward under the Paris climate agreement"

And: "Compared with the Chinese coal fleet, even the best U.S. plants are running older, less efficient technologies."
> Imagine you go to a restaurant, and the waiter just repeatedly brings you the wrong order, repeatedly.

I agree with you in general, but that's a bad example IMO. If they are stressed out and make honest mistakes, even if they're totally incompetent and stupid, I would probably laugh harder each subsequent time and assure them it's no big deal, and it would be true. With anyone, but doubly so with anyone who handles my food.

If on the other hand they just didn't care etc., I'd leave at some point and never return. The point at which there would be something to get nasty about is also past the point where it would still make sense to be nasty about it, if you know what I mean.

Not that I think Linus is being particularly nasty, and as I said, I generally agree. But that example rubbed me the wrong way, I just had to speak up, sorry ^^
Biggest CDN charge $9 per 1TB of transfer... how is watching 20TB per month worth less than netflix fee so that they actually make some profit?
Part of why we hype is because it’s how we get advancement. Yeah realistically the AI we all really want to see might be another three decades out, but if we want that to happen we have to get investors hyped about it now.
Blockchain is good for security, because a lot of people duplicate the ledger. But for the same reason, it wastes electricity. Trading energy credits hardly seems like it needs that kind of security, so using a blockchain for it seems to undercut its purpose.
They may, except the FCC is also abandoning considerable authority by throwing away Title II, so it may not be able to overturn (or over-overturn, or whatever) those and other rules — and perhaps may not even be able to enforce its prohibition against state/city net neutrality rules.
And paradoxically moto ROMs are the only one's I've actually liked. Still running Lineage just because but their stock was arguably better.

(also I bought my model (athene) specifically because it could be unlocked, wasn't just gonna keep stock on it at that point)
Those examples (writing a will, giving flu shot) are an expense of the giver, and the giver alone. (In the flu shot example, assuming they're not stealing one from their employer.)

With "get out of jail free cards", the expense is borne by society: blue family members speeding without risk of punishment increases the danger to other people, and at no cost to the officer giving the perk. Equivalently, pretend the offender's fine is just paid out of some public coffer. They're taking money from the city.

If, say, the police officer's union wanted to pay supporters' fines out of their own coffers, I could see an argument that it's not immoral. At least then they'd be incentivized not to hand out so many…
Are you using GopherJS? What’s the performance of Go in the browser?
I’ve used peerage (https://github.com/mrluc/peerage) on kubernetes for SD. It’s simple to set up and works in dev/test using its local adapters.

Libcluster looks good too. Everything bitwalker touches seems to be solid AF.
Having a big installed base of low op-ex power generation will be handy as prices fall, but panels installed now won't be the thing setting those mid 2020s prices.

I'm not posting in support of tariffs, I just don't see the connection between spending now (at today's panel prices and resultant kw-h/dollar) and lower future electricity prices.
Dominant meaning the smallest of the big 4 (Disney, Comcast, Fox, CBS) along with being the only one with a dropping stock price YoY in a bull market? (+3.2%, +16.6%, +25.1%, -8.25%)

Discovery is my favorite show at the moment, but one show can't carry a company.
I think the advantage of rail over buses is that rail is faster.
> Again, how is this growth? People will simply replace their existing cars at a known rate with electric cars as they become available/affordable

Since driverless vehicles and fleets are arriving roughly concurrent to electric vehicles, they're actually more likely to _reduce_ the volume of cars produced, after accounting for any increased, accelerated "fleet churn" buyers exert via aggregate demand to reach a faster critical mass on increasingly or perfectly safe cars.
For a tariff that hurts one industry but helps another, it's comparative advantage, not just advantage, that is relevant. (Even if country A is better at making both product X and product Y than country B, introducing trade between A and B can result in manufacturing of Y migrating to country B.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
> say goodbye to your traffic infrastructure

I'm not sure how you're proposing that would happen. Like ripping up roads? Or like, not renewing a contract for future repairs? And would that be different from the abandoned projects from NGO's?

> the Chinese are doing the same with their money. Colonialism at its finest.

I think there's some projection here... Although I grew up in the U.S., I've visited relatives frequently enough to come at this with a different perspective.

In Chinese culture (and perhaps some other cultures as well), there is a notion that nations that have economic ties with one another are highly disincentivized from going to war with each other. And also, that nations with hard infrastructure, such as roads, a stable power grid, and soft infrastructure, including high literacy rates, low rates of religion, and dual-income households being the norm, have the ability to grow their GDP more effectively, and less likely to give into religious fundamentalism, civil wars, and general unrest.

In American culture, I've heard it said that no two countries that both have a McDonalds would go to war with one another. So I don't think this is really so different.

> cheap low quality China crap

um... I'm not sure whether to call this conscious bias or unconscious bias. A lot of high quality products come out of China these days, and the last time I visited (in 2017), Shanghai seemed way more high tech than the SF Bay Area. One area in which there is a lack of talent is in brand marketing, and I'll explain what the problem is with two scenarios:

1) U.S. brand wants to get a particular product made. Gets quotes from X suppliers. Chooses the lowest cost estimate, which happens to cut corners, reinforcing the low image of Chinese exports.

2) Chinese manufacturers release their own products into a Chinese market. Manufacturers compete against each other for consumer preference, and high quality products are rewarded. That's where the good stuff is. Problem is, these companies don't tend to have a lot of in-house marketing talent for making the right kind of ads for the West, despite having lots of technical / manufacturing / design expertise.
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a cheaper way to achieve this is to have a centralized currency and mature financial infrastructure.
The USA is so big and diverse it's silly to say that the it doesn't have any "real cities". I suspect New York City, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Portland and others would be proof otherwise.
I live in an exurban area only about 40 miles outside a major coastal US tech center city. There's minimal Uber around where I live.
Taxes imposed on import do not hurt solar, as much as they will help the American solar industry. Tons of American solar companies have nearly been brought to bankruptcy because china is massively subsidizing the export of solar panels.

This problem is also magnified by the fact that Warren Buffet has been using his influence to encourage states to charge panel owners fees relating to grid usage that weren't there prior, as there is a cost associated with continuously switching which direction power from a given houses is flowing.
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Solar cost per kWh are still prohibitive for aluminium smelting. Specially because due to the production profile you can sell the energy at much higher price than what you could get by producing aluminium.

Wind OTOH produces a lot of energy at night where demand is low and you can't really shutdown turbines - you must use the energy. Yet I'm not sure if it's feasible to run a plant in those conditions.
My father got one of these from an officer he befriended in Chicago. It had the officer's name and badge number on it, and my understanding is that the officer who gives out one of these cards is willing to put his or her reputation on the line as a reference for the recipient of the card.

The gravity of that gesture seems to be altogether lost with the people described in this article.
I agree, what matters isn't so much the tariffs on the relatively small amount of photovoltaic panels installed in 2018, but the tariffs on the much larger amount installed in 2021–2027.
>> Huh, maybe the dark fibre of Bitcoin will be cheap silicon and subsidized fab research.

EUV lithography subsidized by a pyramid scheme based on a bubble in virtual currency!
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Thank you, soared and jdormit!
Still leads to family members of the diplomat trying to pull one. Not sure how common it is vs the Hollywood depiction of same though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_immunity

Interesting chart at the bottom btw. Seems that in USA a diplomat or their family can be issued traffic ticket, but can't be detained, prosecuted, or have their residence searched.
They used to spend $0.05 per GB more or less per movie. I'm sure it's lower now. You may be a power streamer, but some people don't use it as much. The major cost used to be content licensing, but they are content creators now. Their top shows are becoming classics, drive tons of subscribers, and help with retention. The most important part is that they are still growing.
What kind of threshold has to be crossed before we recognize women acting as a group?

General principles of human rights broadly forbid notions of collective guilt and collective punishment: one formulation is
that everyone is entitled to be treated as an individual before the law. This doesn't mean one can't sue a company or nation; but men don't act as a group in the sense of having a steering committee with clearly articulated policies on gender politics.
I’m shocked at this article. This makes no sense, and reflects the growing loss of touch with reality of media with trade and manufacturing. The US imports over 80% of all goods. Do you think companies are going to pass up the huge US market just because they have to build a factory here as well? If so, then a local US company would build one.

“The WTO might ultimately rule Trump’s tariffs illegal”.

Ok. So what? The WTO has barely passed any infraction against China despite thousands of illegal violations over the last 20 years. Why did the writer think this makes any difference at all?
Inkling?

Show your data, please.
The productivity in certain aspects of construction and many government services has in fact gone down in recent years. Sure society wide, we have seen massive productivity gains, and unionization with the only purpose of capturing these gains back to the workers would be one thing, but to force them to fall without anything new added to the table is problematic.
Just want to say thank you and this is great news!

On a related note, there goes my weekend.
> Chivalry, for instance, had a not coincidental effect of ensuring that knights were very rarely killed in most battles.

Which is the goal of any 'rules of combat' - to formalize the process in a way which reduces the actual damage done (or at least, the damage done to those writing the rules).

It's no different to the way cats will hiss and growl and spit at each other but will usually try and avoid actually fighting. Both sides have too much to lose unless a fight is really necessary.
Err, it's just an idea. y'know, an inkling, a suspicion, impression, etc.
App store with a Netflix login in front? Same way they distribute their current app.
> Royalty free isn't good enough

Yes it is. It means there can be many HEIF implementations, open source or otherwise. Pick the implementation you want to use and use it.
> I’m too scared to comment or say anything else though. It would be the equivalent of saying something negative about bitcoin on r/Bitcoin.

I'm not sure where you got that impression but skepticism of AI hype gets a lot of airtime in HN threads.
But you don’t really get to pick. Dense European style cities are outlawed in the US. Hell, dense European style suburbs are outlawed here. My pre-zoning code suburb has lots that are less than 3,000 square feet. It’s awesome—easy to walk and you see your neighbors all the time. But it’s completely illegal to build more neighborhoods like mine. The minimum lot size now is more than five times bigger—we have legally mandated suburban sprawl. And there is no justification for it. If people wanted to have big lots, developers would subdivide lots that way. There is no reason to mandate it by law.
You are right, it is a bit of cat and mouse game, but I have been quite successful at using a Nordvpn's French and Brazilian pops (for at least the past 6 months).
You have to also modify your client DNS settings to either use European/S. American DNS servers (plenty of free ones) so that Netflix's apis will resolve to the proper region, otherwise you will get only NA catalog, even if you are on VPN.
good luck!
at the scale netflix transfers data they pay much much less than this. They also do direct peering and will put boxes in your ISP datacenter - https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
I think it is true everywhere in the world that photovoltaic costs per kWh are still prohibitive for aluminum smelting in 2018, but that won't still be true in 2022.

Aluminum pots are usually run off extremely consistent power sources like hydro. I'm not sure how much you have to redesign them to take effective advantage of unpredictable intermittent supplies.
So what's your better alternative to police that no criminal justice system of any major civilization today has been sophisticated enough to figure out?
Can you compare this with redux with respect to complexity and performance?
What choice do we have? Keep your money in cash? Invest in bonds for 4% return? No thanks, I'll take my chances, especially with true inflation being higher than people think...

Right now I'm gradually liquidating my crypto stash and buying stocks instead.
Really excited to see Elixir going more mainstream. It's a hidden gem that solves so many painpoints of the day to day programming. It's POWERFUL!
Heh, I saw this thread. The top comments were actually surprisingly good as far as conspiracy theories go.
> With Android being the concrete pillar of stable OSes that it is, I would blame them for building a phone that can explode because of a software flaw.

Obviously they didn't build a phone that can blow up on purpose, and you don't actually have to have a real chance of it happening for other models for your legal department to tell you to cover your ass really, really well. It's not like these batteries haven't exploded in other contexts as well. Li-Ion batteries have been known to explode for a long time now. The problem with Samsung's phones was a defect that caused it to be far more likely. Also, the difference between software and hardware is much more fuzzy these days when talking about firmware. Some chips (what you might consider hardware) in the phone have their own little operating systems embedded and running in them.
Sorry, where are you getting that she believes other people should be barred from using Oxycontin?
There are concerns about IOTA: MIT Media Lab's concerns about the cryptocurrency IOTA

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15980675
If someone were to call _you_ stupid, would you be more or less willing to help? How does calling other professionals stupid help the situation?
> Again, how is this growth? People will simply replace their existing cars at a known rate with electric cars as they become available/affordable

From investor pov you can short dinos and ride disruptors. ez $$. Not saying tsla isn't overvalued though.
At current prices and difficulty probably on the order of 6-12 months.
You can sell Bitcoin futures.
Wanna see what a full blown network effect looks like, kidos — check out Netflix earnings.

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>That's not quite correct (and neither is that StackOverflow answer).

The SO answer isn't wrong. The EXE there has a space in the path. The answer uses a string literal for it and thus needs &. It could of course escape the spaces with ` instead; then it wouldn't need a string literal and thus not need &.
Shadow IT; New Technology Organization Structure or Battle of Power?
Started writing a response before reading your own, I think you've nailed my perspective on the matter.

Abuse is not offense, offense is not abuse.
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If that were possible, it would be a one time thing I am guessing. But it's possible to short bitcoin now I believe. So ruining the network/reputation could be profitable?

I am speculating and don't know for sure.
This explains today's tarnished image of German engineering. It really hurts me to see what's happening with the engineering found at Volkswagen et al.
Cruise Automation estimated it would take them about 6 months to learn a new city in preparation for a commercial deployment, which would include mapping, learning the quirks of specific intersections, signage, and presumably adapting their planning algorithms to local driving customs.
In theory, sure. In practice, they don't go any faster a car is capable of [1]

[1] https://ggwash.org/view/4524/average-schedule-speed-how-does...
> There's no invention there

A common bias amongst Westerners who have never visited China. Actually, a lot of "home-grown" innovation happens in China, but is not really covered by Western media. You don't get double digit GDP growth without research into R&D across a broad range of sectors.

The solar panels that were produced a decade ago are also not as efficient as the ones produced today, and are productized in very different ways. For instance, light-weight solar panel kits that include a battery pack and LED lighting have a very high product-market-fit for ethnic Mongolian nomads (who follow their herds) and sell like hotcakes over there. You can get another add-on kit for charging your smartphone.
Disagree. This is hotly debated, but, i think that the growth in demand for transportation will be so staggering (when AV's are introduced) it will more than offset efficiency for a long while.
My grandfather I think just gave up on life after he lost the ability to drive. Taking taxies in St Petersburg, FL in the mid 1990s just sucked. Inconvenient, expensive and slow. I wish he was still alive today and I could give him an Uber/Lyft account.
> I'm not sure how you're proposing that would happen.

One way, for example: Have only Chinese nationals operate the railway equipment or the dispatching. In case of conflict, forbid the personnel from working, order the personnel back home - or, in severe cases, to activate a hidden killswitch on the IT equipment (which can be done even from remote). A railroad network without a working dispatch is useless, dito for airports. In today's world where nothing operates without massive amounts of computers the unspoken threat alone is enough to coerce any country into doing what China wants.

> In Chinese culture (and perhaps some other cultures as well), there is a notion that nations that have economic ties with one another are highly disincentivized from going to war with each other. And also, that nations with hard infrastructure, such as roads, a stable power grid, and soft infrastructure, including high literacy rates, low rates of religion, and dual-income households being the norm, have the ability to grow their GDP more effectively, and less likely to give into religious fundamentalism, civil wars, and general unrest.

Indeed, indeed - and exactly this is what makes me afraid. Who is going to oppose China when they try to annex Taiwan for good? I'd be surprised if the US actually follows through on their decades of pledges to Taiwan. Or when they will turn into that massive monster of a surveillance state enabled by modern technology? When everyone has ties to China, China has leverage. (Just as the US has, yes, but at least the US are a democracy and bound to human rights at their core.)

> um... I'm not sure whether to call this conscious bias or unconscious bias.

Combination of both, I'd say - the "conscious bias" backed by countless stories of faked high-quality Western products ending up even in legitimate supply chains and sometimes endangering lives.
Unless more people in total subscribe at the lower price points. Not everyone had cable.
https://www.investopedia.com/news/short-bitcoin/
PoS basically increases energy efficiency by decreasing the degree of randomness and skewing the dice in favor of stakeholders to the degree depending on their stakes (at the limit you'd have just one entity verifying all the transactions, a very energy efficient situation we have today with fiat). In general PoS looks like a reasonable trade-off, and we're to see whether it gets accepted.
> There are valid use cases for having domain aliases for local ips.

My preferred solution doesn't prevent this, and in fact it is preferred partially because some of the other solutions do.
Luke works for Blockstream as a contractor. Does that not count? Still seems like a conflict of interest.

Maxwell JUST left a few days ago and spent plenty of time at both Blockstream and Bitcoin Core simultaneously.

Timon is still there.

You also left out Strateman.

In any case, your strong assertion that only one contributor works at Blockstream is flat out wrong and easily shown to be wrong by anyone with 2 minutes to google.

You seem to know all these people, which indicates intentional deception rather than ignorance.

I use the word "disgusting" because the choking off of BTC is an intentional play to further a greedy business model and not just an act of stupidity.
Strictly speaking, these are scale economies, not network effects.
That's why workers need to keep fighting for things they have achieved. Otherwise employers will take them back.
>> Real inflation is 10 times the official rate.

ELI5 please?
Can we stipulate that you object to a certain gender-neutral singular pronoun so that you'll please stop making unsubstantive posts about it, like we've already asked? It's so tedious.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14217345
> Part of why we hype is because it’s how we get advancement

That's a partisan overstatement. It's how some other "we" gets funding, at best. Yes there's a correlation between getting funding and success, but to say the correlation between hype and success directly, seems disingenuous.
Okay.

I spent a lot of time last week trying to get elixir setup on gcloud, but variables were the one thing I could never figure out and I eventually gave up.

Is there some magical way to get variables and secrets in gcloud without having to commit them to a repo?
The signal you speak of erodes as YC scales. From the outside we only see the effects of this a couple years later. So the tone of the conversation now would imply that the signal peaked several years ago.