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> This article is geared towards people with a STEM background. For something shorter try this article in The Weekly Standard.

From personal experience I can tell you that people with STEM backgrounds can also be too impatient to read an article this long.

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> (Bio) After years of building startups and advising organizations large and small on data science and cyber security, I'm turning my focus to improving public literacy on technology.

Starting your article like this is a bad way to do it.
I figure that noting something illegal would be the limit. Prosecuting would be discretionary.
Depends on the rate of return and payback.

Panels only last ~20 years so they need to payback ~5% of the investment + interest in the first year. Assuming costs drop less than ~4% waiting is unlikely to be a net benefit. (Basically, trading 1 year now for 1 year 20 years from now is rarely worth it.)

Further, panels are far from the only cost involved so really waiting is generally not worth it. Which you can see because panels are being used as quickly as they can be manufactured.
> I'm amazed that anyone would choose Snickers if they were hungry. It's just sugar -

No, almost half it's calories are from fat.
AFAIK it's an alternative to slack
Just posted an hour ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16258341
How about by trying to make it illegal for state utilities to sell power generated by alternative energy?

https://www.popsci.com/wyoming-is-basically-trying-to-outlaw...

Many politicians place a very high value on the opinions of their major campaign contributors. Many of those contributions come from established coal based power companies.
can someone explain to me why USDT's price is related to BTC?
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Yes, I don't think that view was expressed in Gray's article about Pinker. But I imagine that there could be an implication that "if the data shows the world is improving, it always will do, progress happens one way and is always going up" which Gray takes issue to. Why act if everything is getting better anyhow?
I understand your concern but I disagree that Pinker's book will lead to complacency. I believe the opposite: Pinker's book will prevent us from sliding into nihilism and despondency. We have plenty of media and politicians reminding us how terrible the world is; Trump gained the presidency in part by convincing a sizable population that America is declining. We need Pinker to tell us that we are actually making the world a better place.

If the media ever switches to telling us how great the world is all the time then I'll agree with you. :)
To the author of this piece, let me be the first to say "FUCK YOU." No, seriously... if your kid doesn't want to be recorded / photographed, there is one thing to do: DON'T FUCKING PHOTOGRAPH / RECORD HIM. End of story. If you don't have any more respect for your kid than to take "creepshots" of him, maybe you shouldn't be a parent.

Not wanted to be captured on film isn't "cute" or "adorable" or whatever crap you seem to think. It's an entirely reasonable position to NOT want somebody capturing your "adorable mispronunciations" (read: fuckups) so they can giggle over them for the rest of your life. Fuck you. Do you want somebody following you around, taking a picture / video every time you fuck something up? If not,then why would you think your kid would want that?
Thank you. I couldn't help but feel like Pinker is peddling feel-good nonsense to sell books, and give people hope to cling to.

Progress or betterment is entirely subjective, and when considering the human condition, relies on too many variables to even count. Of course, the variables the Pinker focuses on have gotten better overall.

The way I see it is a chaotic scatterplot that is trending slightly upwards towards "better." There are many local minima and maxima however, and I presume those ebbs and flows of prosperity and poverty can last 60 years at a time.
Solar has a barely positive EROI. When all costs are considered it typically uses more energy than it produces. This has been studied extensively in multiple European countries.

http://energyskeptic.com/2018/solar-pv-has-a-net-energy-loss...

These articles making claims to the contrary basically don't make any sense. If solar panels and wind farms resulted in large amounts of cheap energy they would be going up at a massive rate. We have a relatively free economy. Utilities and entrepreneurs would be going nuts building the things. Instead they only exist as tax scams anywhere in the industrialized world. Use your head, people.
That's not true, the tariffs put in place by the Obama administration were targeting only chinese imports (because of suspected subsidies by the Chinese state), Trumps tariffs target every import.
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A) What state is this, because the policy only applies in a few states?

B) What time was this because it's a recent change?

Based on the article I suspect your experience has little barring on this situation.
A fifty year old not-very-tech-savvy colleague recently suggested (in jest) that we could pitch something as "crypto-nano, for maximum buzzword effect".
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Is this related to the old MinWin project or a new beast entirely?
Health care is run more professionally than tech and is long term sustainable without so much ageism. That means the labor costs are a little bit higher, and the capex is out of control.

If you go to urgent care and there's no waiting x-ray tech or radiologist, you will wait in line until the local guy clears the backlog, which might take awhile, but you're not at urgent care unless its not a medical emergency, patient in stable condition, etc. Stable condition does not mean you're perfectly thrilled and happy with your health, it means you're not in the dying process.

At the ER they're paying on call for zillions of people and if you need an x-ray and they're busy, then as fast as a radiologist can drive in, one will magically appear. This is very expensive, my buddies obgyn wife got $600 per day just to carry a phone and it takes a heck of a lot more than one OBGYN to do everything an ER could possibly need, and the patients as a group will amortize that cost. My wife's friend's husband is an anesthesiologist and they get closer to $2K per day on call. It adds up and you get maybe two of each of the village people and by the time you're done, running a real hospital means you're burning $100K per day on people who aren't working that day... The patients will pay, of course.

A side dish is the capex, merely replacing a CT scanner machine every 8 or so years will cost about $500/day. Not to run it, not to buy supplies, not to power it, not the real estate cost per square, just buying a new machine every 8 years is $500/day and thats a mid-range cost, obviously MRI are more expensive or ultrasound imaging is a bit less. Regardless if you need it or not, because there's like 200 other machines also very expensive and someone has to pay for all that. Then there's the medication expiration scam, can't ever run out of Advil but when it expires annually you buy more. Departments get remodeled or newly built every decade or so and the going rate seems to be around $10M for a new or remodeled department every decade or two. I would guess its another $100K per day to stock an empty building with the capital goods, even if you barred the doors. The patients will pay, of course.

In tech terms a good analogy is you can get a password reset by the helpdesk at 2am for not too much money, but if you expect a level of service such that you can call at 2am on Christmas morning with a wishlist bug and a new bug free safety-of-human-life qualified release will be shipped immediately while you're on the phone, this is possible only because there are people that really like money... lots and lots and lots of money.

Another way to look at it, is its nice to visit an ER where they never ever say "yeah we could in theory save your life, but we had to save money so no XYZ machine or medication or treatment, too bad" but however nice it is to visit, you're not gonna like the bill. The best medical care money can buy is going to be expensive.
First, go ahead and mourn... for a little while. A day, a week if you need to. Then be done. Time to move on.

Next thing: Look honestly at whether any of this was your fault. Was your work inadequate? Did you have conflicts with your co-workers? You need to be honest with yourself. And if there's something that you need to change going forward, think through how you're going to change things (for the sake of the long career that you still have ahead of you).

I've been laid off. It wasn't me. They killed the project, gave everybody two weeks pay instead of notice, and escorted us out the door. It was kind of a shock. I stopped somewhere on my way home and cried for a few minutes. Then I took the rest of the day off, then started working on job hunting.

You feel like this is going to ruin your career. It's not. It may make it somewhat more difficult to find the next job, but not impossible. After that, if you do decent work at that next job, nobody will ever care again about you getting fired from this one.
You should check out this presentation done by Matt Godbolt about compiler internals. He talks about what kind of optimizations are being done by GCC and Clang. Pretty amazing stuff. For example, the compiler will figure out you are trying to write a pop count in high level code and replace it with a single popcount instruction.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSkpMdDe4g4
Well, yes, I might have argued against a straw man there ..
If you're only washing your clothes maybe but 11 hours a week sounds reasonable if one person is washing clothes for a family + hanging/collecting/folding
While I am unsure about the different units for conventional vs. renewable energy, pricing for large scale power projects is generally reviewed on a per unit of generation basis, not a capital cost basis. That way the cost incorporates all costs, including operations, maintenance, financing, insurance, and so on, and also includes expected plant performance levels. The $/MWh cost to the utility is the fairest way to compare different sites and different technologies.
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Riot.im is an open source Android/iOS/web messaging app. It uses the Matrix protocol, which is also open. There is a reference Matrix server called "Synapse", which I actually just started running the other day.

With these components, you can host your own messaging platform.
how can you possibly say roads are not subsidized for cars? if i wanted to build a railway, and the government built the track for me wouldn't that be a subsidy?

just because the government normally pays for it, doesn't make it somehow not a subsidy.
The other problem with Personas being the deliverable is often they're a form of making the marketing person's personal preferences look like user research. So instead of testing what thirtysomething professional males actually respond to, the campaign gets designed around imaginary Alan's enthusiasm for active lifestyles.

(In an extreme example of this, "Stefan" who was conceived by an internal marketing team to illustrate how a certain niche used a certain industry website ended up as an actual marionette with social media profiles with 2000 followers, blog articles about his holidays and photos taken with some very bemused industry executives who were also encouraged to download Foursquare so they could check in with him at tradeshows. An awful lot of paying customers' actual needs got ignored at the same time as the marketing team were having fun turning a persona they'd conceived into a mascot though)
A comment of his previous book that whitewashed in the most absurd way modern era's industrialized warfare and other horrors, through data selection about thunders and other less important metrics:

http://energyskeptic.com/2015/13-fallacies-of-steven-pinkers...
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So let me see if I have this straight.

Highly respected, four star general, Wesley Clark says that the Iraq war was about attempting to strip Russian influence out of the Middle East. That the plan was to knock over several of the dictatorships there, which were overwhelmingly friendly toward Russia and hostile toward the US and its allies.

You're saying it was about oil primarily. Yet the US didn't take Iraq's oil. The US didn't even secure an outsized share of contracts related to Iraq's oil. The US vaporized a trillion dollars, along with suffering tens of thousands of wounded soldiers, trying to stop the Iraqi civil war in which Iraqis killed hundreds of thousands of each other.

Simultaneously over that decade the US technologically unlocks its massive shale oil resources, making Middle Eastern oil almost entirely moot strategically. So much so, that the US is now merely about 10% of Saudi oil demand.

And the US got what out of all of that Iraq mess when it comes to oil? The US stuck its military where it shouldn't have been, and it did so for geo-political reasons, not economic reasons. The US was a massive loser economically from that effort to try to weaken Russia, it was an economic disaster. The net 'benefit' over two decades will be perhaps close to a negative two trillion dollars all-in.
Some extra info I am including

Legal Structure:
- explanation of US Delware C Corp structure and the local (in this case LATAM) lawyers that understand how to setup holding companies

- explanation of local incubators and accelerators as well as US players like YC, 500 startups, StartX, etc

- funding sources for grants, angels and what makes you interesting to VCs in LATAM and US (as well as some books on VC like the Brad Feld one)

- links to finding Market fit

- Sales & Marketing and tools you can use

- Building a team (centered around LATAM)

- Operations

- Development tools, methodologies, etc

Anything you would add?
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> "Every single electrical and radiological device can be utilized to transmit data. What's the baud of opening and closing HVAC vents and reading them from space satellites?"

https://www.wired.com/2017/02/malware-sends-stolen-data-dron...

Also reminds me of the stories of reverse engineers using, lights, motors, speakers, etc to exfiltrate boot images.

> "If hacking a Jeep is as straightforward as hacking a server, and servers are routinely breached, then where are all the hacked cars? It's a bit like the Fermi Paradox."

One barrier to entry is the actual cost of acquiring a vehicle. You can buy a lot of iPhones to hack on for the price of a Tesla.

> "We think of Teslas as cars just like we think of an iPhone as a phone, but a more accurate account of reality is that they're both just computers."

It's actually kind of worse than that, cars are actually rolling datacenters with multiple computers and multiple networks. (CAN bus[es], Ethernet, proprietary networks)

//Disclaimer: I work for GM, but not on any of this.
...but doesn't state what costs are associated with those varying durations.

This is a basic numeracy/literacy issue. I'm super bullish on solar and storage and follow this issue in the news, which is why it's so frustrating when these things aren't clearly communicated...
I think the parent poster is well aware that this is a pyramid scheme that can only keep going as long as Bitcoin is growing in price.

But here's an important thing - even if BTC drops in price, they aren't obligated to give you a broken penny for your tether. It is unredeemable for USD.
Well, it is possible to change that, right?

Might be much harder for you in the US, also because of the whole black money thing (CIA and cocaine), but in general it is possible.
How are they supposed to make money?

I distrust for-profit messenger apps, no matter how good their intentions are. Sooner or later, they'll sell my data :(
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Crucially, the National Transportation Safety Board's purpose is to make safety recommendations, not to enforce law.
Agree that this is a higher level of design abstraction.

Yet, I still do not think that it is a high enough level of abstraction for a Persona to be useful (you need to get out to marketing, if they're ever useful).

Even at the 'What classes/pages/workflows do I need' stage, what you really need is living users who are domain experts who will actually use the tool to identify both the tasks and the ways they might best be accomplished.

There's a reason that many of the best products are designed by someone who was building them for themselves as Customer#1 -- they internally knew what was needed.

To extend the metaphor a bit - you're trying to design an improved hammer, but how helpful would it be to consider the "Joe Carpenter" Persona and what he'd want, vs talking to a bunch of live carpenters and finding that they really have good hammers, but actually need better nail-pullers? The persona will get you nowhere, but the actual carpenters will get you a new market and product that sells.
I don't see the relevance. My question about the description of the measurement process on section 4.1 (which is supposed to be more fundamental: "Let us begin with the simple two-slit experiment.") stands.
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Where are both costs and duration mentioned clearly?
For home hacking, I'd rather not use a conductive material for my enclosure - too many ways to release the magic smoke.

If I were making a large number of things that I needed to be that durable, I'd be happy to engineer all the standoffs and isolation properly, but frankly wood and plastic are just way easier for throwing something together in my garage.
There's two problems:

(1) The bids include tax incentives. Without those it's much closer:

The cost of wind without storage was $18/MWh, while the cost of solar without storage was $29/MWh – both prices benefit from federal tax incentives, and would likely be around $US25/MWh and $US40/MWh without them.

(2) Solar and Wind are not 100% consistent producers. There are days where the wind doesn't blow, it's cloudy, or it's winter time. You have to have excess capacity in the grid for these events. So you can't just look at the price per mWh. You have to include this excess capacity in the cost of your wind/solar system
I love that channel! And I understand completely, it's easy for tools like that to sit collecting dust unless you have the right combination of skills and interests. I usually tell people that a 3D printer is not at all worth it unless you're planning on designing and fabricating your own custom parts and you have a need to do so.

I also have a basic CNC machine which I like, but of the big three maker machines (3D printer, laser cutter, CNC) I'd say the 3D printer is probably the one you want first because it's the most versatile. I mostly use the CNC for fabricating one-off PCBs and while I get a lot of use out of it for that most of the other things I could do with it I just do with a 3D printer. The CNC is a lot messier and more complicated, especially if you wanna cut wood or metal and if you want to do true 3D carves you need to do some proper CAM, which is a whole different skill set from CAD.

Laser cutters have a lot of downsides, especially if you are looking into one at home. Smaller diode laser cutters/engravers are more accessible to someone at home, but they can have a hard time cutting acrylic, particularly clear acrylic. You can get fairly affordable CO2 lasers now in the $5-600 with good laser performance but apparently the electronics suck so you need to change em and focusing the beam is a pain (it's invisible). My main problem with lasers though is that they are potentially very dangerous. One mistake can leave you blind or on fire, which means you have to take a lot of care using them, adding hassle. Plus you need to manage fume extraction carefully, as laser cutting produces pretty harmful vapors that need to be filtered and vented.

What I'm getting at is: 3D printer - minimal hassle, maximum versatility, good for home. CNC machine - medium hassle, medium-low versatility, kinda borderline depending on your use. Laser - high hassle, medium versatility, I'd rather go to a dedicated shop than deal with one at home.

Side note, designing a DIY CNC mill is kinda hard because their mechanical requirements are actually quite extreme even at the low end. You'll end up spending a lot of time and money on it, especially when you can get a cheap-but-pretty-good mill from Aliexpress.
Then the insurance company should punish the hospital and not the patient. Reimburse the hospital at the urgent care rate until they can provide both services.
> My imagination of how an army is run requires careful maintenance of fitness of soldiers, so use of PT instructors, regular monitoring of fitness metrics

When deployed operationally fitness is usually your own business. PTIs often have a different job operationally (something like close protection of the commanding officer), although they may provide some mentorship and help improvise fitness equipment.

Generally soldiers are treated like professionals and left to manage their own fitness when deployed, using the skills and self discipline they've been taught. A fitness monitor is a good way to do that.

> Opsec would probably deny any personal electronic devices.

It doesn't. I've been told to not connect to Afghan mobile networks, and obviously not to talk about what you are doing, but apart from that you can just use your common sense.

> Of course, the use of personal fitness devices suggests my conception is wildly off how a deployed corpus of soldiers is actually run.

It's probably far more chilled out than you imagine. In my experience tech people think the Army is all 'sir-yes-sir'. I've literally never said that in my entire life in the military.
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The Stalin, Hilter, Mao, etc. created secret police and whatnot to enforce their continued rule. They are despised mostly for what their rule entailed, not for having secret police.

We're* creating secret police but in the absence of an oppressive government for them to act on the whims of nobody much cares.

It'll get worse before it gets better.

* We = most nations formerly on the "right" side of the iron curtain
I'm connected to Discord, Slack, and irc chats from Matrix/riot.im. It's working great for me after about a year of use.

I also invited some friends to join my Matrix server directly, but there wasn't much pickup yet. But that doesn't matter since I'm already connected to the places where people are via Matrix.
This article/video explains why so many people have completely lost faith in our technocratic elite.

The idea that "You’re 37 times less likely to be killed by a bolt of lightning than you were at the turn of the century" makes a large difference in the happiness of people is ridiculous.

Why are people pessimistic about the future?

Maybe its because the rates of addiction (including to smart phones and other screens), of psychiatric disease, and of suicide are all on the rise.

Maybe its because rates of marriage and church attendance are on the decline.

Maybe its because of the debasement of our culture and education.

Technological progress is not the same as progress of the human condition. Our technocratic leaders would like to believe it is, but it is not.