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> The success of the water cooled competitor eventually led to the predominance of water cooled reactors in the commercial fleet.

By commercial you mean operational (as in non-experimental Navy vessels.) There's precious few commercial nuclear vessels in history (four, each from a different country and I don't think they were ever operational all at the same time), so talking about the dominance of a particular nuclear technology being dominant in a “commercial fleet” seems misplaced.
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I wouldn't for any personal international trips, honestly. With the current air network, you can generally find a route that takes you in when you want it to (more or less), and that first day is already so disorienting that I don't think adding a few hours to it even if you can't find such a route is going to really affect the vacation as a whole that much.

Business is a different story since I wouldn't be paying directly and those trips are generally more fast paced and require you to be at 100% soon after getting off the plane. Those extra hours could help you finish preparing for a presentation or something.
wrong. https://cdn.britannica.com/668x448/60/91960-004-42DF23AB.jpg
What "Xamarin" specificly? Just the IDE? Or Xamarin Forms?
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Something is wrong here. How did humanity survive living most of their lives outdoors for so long in the presence of these ticks? Did lyme disease really not exist until 1975?

I see there is some kind of "blame everything on lyme disease" movement going on as well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease_controversy
It's not really a joke, statistically.
"During its 27 years in service, Concorde had about 70 tyre- or wheel-related incidents, 7 of which caused serious damage to the aircraft or were potentially catastrophic."

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590#Previou...
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Second that. And the fact it can run MS Office.

You can get some versions of Linux that are pretty stable with the right hardware, but the lack of MS Office is a total bummer.

PS: First person to say that one can run MS Office using Wine, will get nailed to a tree.
I think you would need to scan the images and have them printed onto proper photo paper if you wanted to keep them. Keeping them in the dark slows the fading process, but that is all
Having fewer stops is more about not having to deal with connections than the travel time for me...
My flight to visit family is 21 hours in the air. Add layover - 2hrs, check-in, security and customs, we are looking at 30 hours of travel one way. I'd happily pay 50% more for a faster nonstop flight.
"I hate Teslas because they're consuming all the lithium for their gigantic car batteries and regular folk like me who just want a humble smartphone can't afford one anymore." ;)

I could change my t-shirt color, but I can't change the thing I actually want to do with the hardware or the configuration I need it in that's optimal for my use case.
I'm not an apple fan, in general, but I agree. I would do everything on linux mint (pretty windows 95-ish) if I could.
Fascinating, thanks for posting this.

Buffett thinks it's irrational to pay $1750 for one ounce of gold when he could own 22 shares of Exxon Mobil for the same price.

Let's assume he's correct. Since the value of Exxon Mobil should compound over the decades much faster than gold, it should be worth more today, right?

But markets are already discounting those future cash flows, isn't that already built in to the current market price of both Exxon Mobil and gold?

If the price of gold is irrationally high, then it's an irrationality that has lasted for centuries and will likely last centuries more.

Even Buffett isn't predicting that the "gold bubble" will burst, sending its price to zero, as everyone sells gold to buy Exxon Mobil.

So if he expects an asset will be valued irrationally high forever, is it really irrational buy it?
> that the issue may well be solved by training people so that we have less low-skilled workers

For clarity, do you mean train people so that those truckers become lawyers, software engineers, financial advisors, etcetc?

If so, I feel like at best that is a statement missing a second part. Ie, I don't think existing "high skilled" job markets could handle an influx of what I imagine is at least double the staffing. I imagine it would immediately result in millions of people without jobs, regardless of qualifications.

So the second part of that is, we'd need to drastically expand the available jobs in those "high skilled" markets. And I've got no idea how we'd do that.

What are all those extra software engineers going to work on? What are those extra lawyers going to do? etc.
the key is that with Virtlet you can use you windows VM as other pods in replicasets, daemonsets, statefulsets, what can not be done using CRD offered by kubevirt. In the same time, assuming that your windows image supports cloud init (e.g. using http://cloudbase-init.readthedocs.io ) - you can setup it during the boot, configuring users, passwords, running arbitrary scripts - you have full control about what will be done during cloud init phase using only pod annotations (you don't need prepared specific image with predefined content as in KubeVirt case). In case of Virtlet you have a possibility to merge data from different sources (config maps, secrets, annotations) and use the result in output cloud init image.

At the end - KubeVirt provides you a way to run a VM as a custom resource in an app on k8s (virt-launcher), while Virtlet provides a way to run VM as first class cluster citizen, as a pod, with the same interfaces as for other pods (so you can use kubectl logs, kubectl attach -it, as with other "normal" (docker image based) pods).

ok, with windows vm you will see in kubectl logs only cloud init logs as thats the only part which is using serial console to output something :P

with other types of vm images (based on linux, bsd or unikernels) you would probably appreciate more possibility to use kubectl attach -it, or kubectl logs ;)
It should be evident that if the alternative is paying rent AND income taxes, then the less wealthy are relatively better off in the case of no income taxes.
I have this and was un-diagnosed for years, ended up doing all the research and ordering the lab tests myself as western medicine doctors were proving useless. For anyone struggling I would highly recommend this protocol from Dr. Buhner.
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I haven't imagined the cases like yours, but that's exactly the thing I was aiming at - there are thresholds for which a shorter trip makes a qualitative difference, which is worth paying a premium for.
4-8, 6 on average.
I believe that Windows 95 was a huge leap, but it's not the only good example we have of products that changed the game for any given industry (and computers in particular, as well).

Windows 98, for example, was a better version of the OS, in almost every aspect, but it was not as important as Win95.
Nit:

In relation to 'the fundamental premise of UBI is that it can replace all charitable programmes'.

This is not the fundamental premise.

UBI as a financial leveller or as a minimum support value would be a different number to those in different locations and with different conditions.

Location adjusts cost in terms of amenity values (heating, cooling, travel, etc.) - and it is not desirable to clump the population into one location.

Condition causes a large variation in living cost - good health is not cheap, but it is cheaper than many temporary, long term, terminal, or permanent conditions.

Where UBI does not take these into account - which most don't - there would still be a need for charities and other large scale societal funding mechanisms.
'Zolotaya' -> made of gold or golden, 'Rybka' -> fish.

The Polish currency is named 'złoty', which also has its roots in gold.
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...if it only could run MS Office...
The consensus amongst intelligence researchers is that adult intelligence is ~70-80% based on genetic factors. I refer you to The Neuroscience of Intelligence - Cambridge Fundamentals of Neuroscience in Psychology by Richard Haier and the many studies sited therein.

We should help poor and less intelligent people for moral reasons, but it is unlikely to improve intelligence in the poorer population and, if the aid is structured dysgenically, it will serve only to compound the problem.
If you could click a button that says "5¢ to Read" and have it work immediately, I think the problem would be solved. But this would either require some sort of browser-based wallet or a wider adoption of cryptocurrency.
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If you want it more like Windows 95, why not LibreOffice? ;P

(As an aside, LibreOffice puts into perspective how useful the Ribbon menu is)
How exactly do you plan on modeling how people are going to behave after receiving the aid? That's what these real-life experiments are trying to do in order to inform their models.

It's not like economists don't know how to build models...
Trying to shave costs is very reasonable, both for companies and individuals. Let's just be honest about it.
except that seats on the concorde were no where near 50% more, I think it was probably 500% more.
Fish tanks can have a calming effect: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/0...
Please add support for .ignore (used by ripgrep and ack) too.
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Were your friends wearing knee protectors? And if not, were the knee injuries the sort that would have been prevented (or lessened) by knee protectors?
...and will continue to be, long after the EU passes its rules.
What are you doing for $500/hr? I'm always looking for new ways to climb the ladder.
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Naming is more political than one would imagine. It has only a little to do with actual history.

As a fun example: I grew up calling a water body near my home country as Khaleej Al Arabi. The "Arabian gulf".

It's only when I came to the US that I realised people around the world, thanks to an effective campaign by the Persians, call that same waterbody the Persian Gulf.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_naming_dispute

Edit: actually, turns out it was the Arab nationalism that preferred to adopt "Arabian gulf" in the 1960s. Turns out I was sold Arab propaganda even after being told about the globally recognized name, that it was a Persian campaign.
I personally almost never run a full test run on my local machine for any project where the test run will take longer than a couple of minutes. Generally speaking, my local computer can only reasonably have the code in one state at a time, and any time spent running the test suite on a potentially finished change is time that could have been spent working on something else.

I never merge something to master, or any branch that I expect other people to use without knowing that it's going to pass, but I don't see any harm in having failing builds on a personal branch (particularly if I later clean up my commits to ensure that no individual commit that gets to master ever fails).
Is there a particular reason LibreOffice is not sufficient?

I rarely use MS Office like software so using LibreOffice has been perfectly fine for me.
At 38 and just starting to try kick off a consulting career and/or acquire more specialized skills so I am in demand forever, my first priority will exactly be to pay off mortgage earlier -- I haven't even started (don't ask, I was very stupid with money and only started paying attention at 37).

(I am a programmer btw.)

Investing in not giving a shit one day even if you don't want to work for 2 years straight is in my eyes something I can't put a price tag on -- it's invaluable!

That being said, nowadays I always have money on the side -- either to have work pauses (like right now exactly) or be able to go on impulsive vacations with my woman.
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How does that support Russian's government exactly?
Tick populations have expanded greatly in recent years.

Things like climate change and wildlife management practices are thought to be a factor.

(warmer winters->less ticks die, more deer->more deer ticks)
This is a great study and I hope it nets some value. UBI has already been tested in Canada and other areas of the world where it was abandoned.

The outcome, I would guess, is very circumstantial. Perhaps in Kenya, where there is lack of infrastructure and high corruption, giving people money will result in greater improved quality of life over providing subsidized services.

In Canada, I would argue that subsidized services (free healthcare, education, maternity leave, etc.) are more important as they guarantee that a person cannot possibility fall into the debt trap. Perhaps the ideal is something in between: cash (UBI) and services.
Problem is planes don't fly high for fun, they fly high because the air is thinner up high which improves fuel economy.
Giving you the ability to use a computer now is not the same as it was back then and that's why Windows 95 was so important. Now it takes much more to make the same impact, but the mindset has changed. Windows 10 is an improvement upon Windows 8, not a complete rebuild of it. That's something that I doubt we'll see any time soon.
I love it how they have “automated systems that remove spam” that somehow remove innocent accounts like this one but completely fail to remove blatantly obvious spam.

I don’t expect the system to be bulletproof and remove advanced spam rings, but when obvious spam is allowed to stay on the platform I’m wondering what the idiots at Twitter are really doing.
Incorrect.

https://news.mit.edu/2016/study-rich-poor-huge-mortality-gap...
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I'm yet to find someone who doesn't ever fly at least once because of the environment.
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Are we forgetting the security lines and 2ndary transport times?

For a 1-2hr flight within my region, I need

a) 30m at least of security time (let's assume passenger willing to pay has pre-check/global entry/clear/et)

b) 30-60m to get to the airport. same for arrival.

c) must arrive by boarding time or airline can deny you (about 45m at least).

So that's like 3-4h for each flight (e.g. 6-8h total roundtrip) for a door-door connection, and that's the safe minimums. If security is overloaded or traffic is jammed (or train is delayed), you risk missing your flight.

A business day is still lost, but it's possible with an early flight that an early or midday meeting could be attended on late notice - which might be an acceptable compromise for your average moderate company C-level to avoid using a private jet.
People don't mind paying a small incentive to cut travel time. I don't have analytics data to prove this, but this is how generally people book flights when searching on expedia or any other website:

1. Search flights from A to B, show me the cheapest flights.
2. Then comes time preference(Should fly Friday instead of thursday? morning vs evening)
3. filter results by least no. of hops(This definitely shows people want to cut down on flying time and most people still pay an incentive to reach their destination faster).

I feel the world and society had many changes since 60s, 70s. People today are more interested in reaching their destination fast and can pay a small premium. This is a change in economics since the Concorde time. People who are paying for Business class and First class, would prefer paying a premium and reaching the destination faster.

People would still want cheap, reliable aircrafts and they should have that option but supersonic commercial flights on certain trans pacific & trans atlantic routes is definitely feasible.

Concorde had high maintenance costs - it required special fuel, special tires and other maintainence costs which made it financially non-viable. If any new supersonic flight addresses these costs, then it will open a whole new world of faster air travel.
> Generally this makes sense, but not in China’s case where they require all foreign ventures to team with a Chinese company who then steals the foreign partner’s IP

China is also capable of figuring things out from first principles, or espionage from non-partners. An example of this was the decision by the US to exclude China from the ISS - they built a couple on their own (no partners) and will be there after the ISS de-orbits or privatizes.
> if we want to fight global warming, we have to fly less

Most people prefer to say they want to fight global warming as opposed to actually doing anything. If the average person really wanted to fight climate change, they'd:

• Stop eating meat

• Buy as few new items as possible

• Never get on an airplane again

• Not have kids

And even then one person's actions really can't do a damn thing so who can blame them for just enjoying their life and doing whatever they want?
Hearing directionality is also temporal, you only know which way a sound is because you know which ear heard it first.
I'm saying it again, don't build a business based on someone else's data. At any point it could disappear, along with you.
That is not true. Adult intelligence appears to be ~70-80% based on genetic factors.

See The Neuroscience of Intelligence by Richard Haier for an overview of the current consensus in intelligence research.
"The BlockChain"? What's that?
What's being missed in this conversation is that California is at "peak solar", meaning that having more solar is NOT good for the state.

We can't yet effectively store solar, so in the summer when everyone comes home, they turn on their AC's (in SoCal) and in order to be able to provide enough energy as the sun starts to set, Cal ISO (http://www.caiso.com) needs to tell gas fired plants to turn on (quickly) to have enough capacity in the grid. This causes--you guessed it--pollution.

Source: Worked 7 years for an ISO.
So if someone if getting trained for a type of job which will generate millions of future earning potential for them, should the cost be only 24k (or even 48k) per year?
The stronger the gear needs to be, the heavier it becomes. Planes are optimized for safety first and foremost, but weight is a very close second. Heavier plane = more batteries = more weight = more batteries etc.
When I think of biohacking, I also think first of the people who implant magnets into their fingertips and RFID tags into their thumbs. I think about the folks that make their own prosthetic limbs with additive volume printers. I think about the blind folks with artificial retinas, and the deaf folks with artificial cochleas. I think about people who have had cataract surgery that walk around all day with near-black filters, to see what the world looks like in UV, or infrared. I think about the people that wore vibrating compass belts, and the people who wore prism goggles. I think about Newton sticking knitting needles in his eye sockets.

A bit later, I think about people who synth their own custom peptide chains, and the people who try to CRISPR/CAS9 their own DNA. Maybe also the people who make designer drugs in the quest for the ultimate legal high or the ultimate undetectable sport doping.

Taking medications developed by someone else, that have not gone through FDA approval, doesn't even register on the radar.
I meant to refer to the commercial fleet of commercial nuclear power plants making electricity on land, almost all of which have designs directly descended from naval designs. I guess "fleet" isn't a great word to use in the context of naval vessels. Whoops!
An IOCCC Judge here. We are rather fond of this one. The "prog" variant allows you to build and run the mullender entry from the first IOCCC http://www.ioccc.org/years.html#1984.
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There has been active public development on ReactXP [1] for months now. It supposedly works with React-Native and React-Native-[Windows|macos].

Considering the amount of work being done in public on React-Native-Windows [2], it looks like this is turning into one of their (intended or not) version of cross-platform (using web technologies) dev stack.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp
[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows
Windows 95 didn't really offer much in the way of anything over Windows 3.11 for the everyday user. I remember everyone complaining about how it used 2x as much RAM and made their 486/25 and 386/40 systems unusable.

Sure, the interface was a little bit better, but Program Manager wasn't terrible. The 'desktop' is probably one of the worst UI concepts developed. Multi-tasking was a little better, but 16-bit apps could still wreck stuff, and the same went for memory protection. It crashed just as damn much.
They arrived in the west via Arabic books, so they were originally just called ‘arabic’. Calling them Hindu/Arabic is at least an improvement.
Where is it showing a password there? I assume this has been fixed because I can't duplicate it on my machine and the screenshot posted on that article doesn't seem to show any plaintext passwords.
If someone did a HN post on their awesome tritium-faced retro clock project, I would hope someone would be there to educate the younger readers about the history of that material as well.

If you really think I was shitting on the project, my apologies. I prefaced the sentence with "friendly reminder" as in "hey, perhaps this is something you should know about your materials, just like working with tritium".

And, at the end of the day, I didn't upvote myself this far. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

(And for the record, the project is pretty neat).
every time I've looked at remote (out of country) work, it was always as a contractor/consultant. Never as a true employee. That way the company pays an invoice, the contractor handles all their own taxes.

Treating your "foreign" remote workforce as employees I imagine will land you in some tricky international waters much better suited for your accountant, tax attorney, and your general business lawyer.
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Always figured that you get what you pay for, but in fact, Twitter/Facebook/Google aren't nearly that reliable in the long term.
I hate these sort of articles. As if we should all go cower back in our holes now that someone flamed out. A cautionary tale maybe, but crossroads? Hardly. People often pushing the boundaries push too far. If were ever going to improve things and get off this planet, were going to have to start stomaching some inevitable loss's.
Why don't you just code up a bunch of politically correct latin bots
Yeah, I'm only interested in the actual flow of all my work, not the flow of my work in individual repos. I can use 'git log' to list my work in a single repo.
What's interesting is that there is some evidence that the Brahmi script itself is descended from some variant of Aramaic. The jury is still out among experts whether or not this is the case.

The moral of this is that human history is not as easily partitioned as people would like.

(Before I get accused of being anti-India, I'd like to make it clear that I'm Indian)
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