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> national security

That's a bullshit ticket to do anything they want. Next.

> grid resiliency

As others have mentioned, batteries. Next.

> unprofitable nuclear (from GP)

> However, getting rid of nuclear

Do you recognize the difference between antiquated, unprofitable nuclear power plants and modern ones like those in the article? Your comment seems to lump them all togther, which suggests you don't. The US has many of the former and none of the latter. The latter would be beneficial.
My comment was basing on this:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...

But AFAIK they have already changed that and this text doesn't reflect the recent changes (it's the proposal of the comission AFAIK).
That’s really interesting, thanks for the explanation. Makes me think of tuning LED lighting the same way a mechanic might set spark timing. Obviously in reality the right lighting for a plant is known but it’s neat to be able to see the effect.
This looks like a distro with quite a lot of innovation going on. Anyone on HN tried it?
I'm in the Kaiser Plan in California. The hospital is also the insurance provider. Generally they are pretty good but even they sometimes cannot tell you the costs ahead of time. Their saving grace is that for most things they have a copay system with a fixed amount out of pocket.
How is this different from Chocolatey or its pseudo-wrapper PackageManagement(OneGet)?
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It's even worse than you think. Because even if you put a credit card to back up your payments (easier now that PayPal has a deal with VISA), and you are hoping that a passed expiration date on your card will block a transaction from happening, the company will try new dates with one year increment in the future, till eventually the transaction goes thru.
What’s crazy to me is that in 1997 I got an MRI for a back injury and precautionary CAT scan on my eyes for metal fragments (did a little work in a metal shop) and together it cost me nothing due to insurance. I’m afraid to know what the out of pocket cost is today.
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Because there are natural economies of scale in building larger nuclear reactors. Submarine propulsion reactors are several times more expensive than commercial reactors on a per-unit-power basis, even after accounting for the overruns.
You could, but that's still lots of work, and you'd constantly be chasing incompatibilities with Discord's servers.

At this point you may as well just use an open standard instead.
I can get close to the math by being extremely generous. 15k of tramua fees. ~10 specialists on call for tramua. That implies each specialist got about 1.5k for the call. ~2 hours of work, maybe payment for transport time so super generous call it 4 hours. If normal pay is 1x and overtime is 1.5x, must stay by the phone critical on call is 2x? This computes the specialists as getting paid an average of $200 per hour normally.

This is all pretty crazy - $200/hour for a brain surgeon, sure, but there's no way the nurse is getting that. One of the big missing data points is how many people were called in. 15k is pretty reasonable if a 50 person team was called in - but then, why would a 50 person team be called in?
A strong case against being open with the numbers is it that it could limit your ability to negotiate a higher rate with a potential new employer.

In the air force / navy / army etc there is only one employee to choose from so this never comes up.
> I don't think there's such a thing as $160k jobs just floating around.

Well, there are and the point of finally getting around to saying this out loud is to push through the brainwash.

Too many people are subservient to their uncompetitive employers just because they feel obligated to "count their blessings".

Turn down six figure job offers for the right gig which typically comes with a better compensation package.

Before you make your rebuttal, lets up the stakes even more: I've done this unemployed with six figure debts, a calculated risk, and now I have no debts. Calculate your risk. If you get it wrong, ruin your family, lose access to credit and also end up homeless, well yeah that happens.
Sure, there is a spectrum of hands-on skills that could be important or not, depending on how much was blown to bits. My overall point is that "staffing coordinator" and "business analyst" are nowhere on that spectrum. Learn a trade as a hobby.
Perhaps not easy, but it is (a) online, (b) consistent from one app to the next, and (c) pretty much guaranteed to work correctly and work immediately.

Considering the sort of problems people are discussing in the wider thread, this is pretty idealistic.
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So if you're a Chinese entrepreneur who speaks the language and lives in the same city you get a good team cheaper than in the US?
Fucking assholes. I guess that's why we need these stupid laws.
whoaa .. wasn't expecting all this. I just download songs to put in my android phone for running. Though I doubt your salty words. Mostly a bunch of drunk people in a crowded party want to dance and have fun. I am sorry that you had to spend a lot of money 'buying in'. But I think the point of a DJ is to play music to a crowd, get them to have fun and dance..
So one can keep the coal plant but don't run it.

Subsidizing running it when you only need it around as reserve seems like a really bad idea.
It's probably better to not include an 'obvious' error, but a plausible error that has some degree of subjectivity.
In Norway this is an open database which gets published annually and anyone can search in it to see what other people make.

It's not a digital wild-west open style though:

1. You have to authenticate using something which identifies you specifically as a citizen.

2. Another caveat is that people who gets looked up will be notified about that, with information about who it was who looked them up. (so it can't be used for direct covert spying)

That said, this system allows for a certain degree of transparency, and makes it easier for journalists, press, researchers etc to dig into issues such as social inequality.
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Oof, that seems like a bad thing to do in America. In the EU thanks to SEPA regulations banks allow you do withdraw direct withdrawal consent at any time luckily.
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Maybe not in Hong Kong, but try the Philippines or some other countries and it's very realistic.
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A simple workaround for nefarious vendors is to ignore your DHCP-provided resolver address and just punch through to their own resolver. Maybe over SSL is they're really sneaky.

You need to firewall addresses ( tricky ), or connect to a LAN-only Wifi, or don't connect at all.
you have to replace those calories with something, and it makes no sense if the something has 100x the production costs for what returns exactly?
They are making more of it in Hawaii but the process is pretty inefficient.
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In most cases (private parking lots) it isn't illegal to take a disabled parking space. The fines a private company levies against you don't have any merit (though of course they can refuse you entry and sue you for damages or whatever).

Parking spaces on public roads is a separate issue, and it's more in line with driving in a bus-only lane (technically illegal but it is because you need a particular permit -- so it requires more than just being disabled).

My point is that your are jumping the gun with discussions of legality here. The litmus test should be wheter it's shitty to lie about a disability in order to cut through reselling bullshit. Other commentors have more than adequately covered this topic though.
One can never have enough linux distros.
I have no idea what it is because that landing page, or any other page on the website for that matter, doesn't tell me anything.
Interestingly, the plan to create harbours using nuclear detonations was seriously considered by Lang Hancock (The mining magnate) in Australia during the 70's, as well as a method for extracting Iron Ore...

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3533473.htm
Huh? Does your card number not change when you get a new one in the US?
It's funny how everybody hated E4X when Adobe and Mozilla were doing it, and love JSX now.
There are plenty of crops which are actually more wasteful and yield less (or hit an ROI wall which is unfavorable) when grown in hydro rather than in regular soil. Wheat is one, corn is another, barley is another (however, the two smaller grasses, just as fodder grass, are quite efficient when grown hydroponically and indoors, with a rapid turnaround time.)

Hydro isn't a fix-all solution for crops.
> There were so many false positives that it made the car a road hazard due to random hard breaking.

Do you know that for certain? Or is it just that Uber were too lazy to cope with any complications that might arise if Volvo's system braked?
I wonder if it's really necessary to convert the light to electricity as an intermediate step. I'm imagining a filter that's mostly transparent but has a fluorescent coating to convert UV to visible light that the plants can use, effectively brightening the sun in the useful part of the spectrum. Unfortunately Google is giving me the wrong kind of results for "fluorescent filter".
if they choose the most lucrative jobs.

I don't think that's how it works.

You can only choose to apply.
Hacker news has always featured these kinds of articles, it is not turning into anything.
For a distro marketed as having The Power Of Simplicity, the website leaves me confused about what makes this distro unique, who it is for, what problem it solves, or even what makes it simple.

In fact the website seems to go out of its way to shove complexity in my face.
We europeans better block every access from California due to this overreaching undemocratic GDPR style law. /s
And me naively thinking this would be something worthwhile looking at, instead of yet another Linux copy.
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It’s easy to bash and dismiss these guys - after all, they seem to live in some weird divergent reality in which the world is ending, and are looking out solely for me and mine. What assholes, right?

Well... one of those is true.

These people are not wealthy by accident. They were not gifted their riches. They have acquired their wealth through pattern recognition, through being right when (almost) everyone else was wrong.

Someone here asked me a few weeks ago why I felt travel might not be so easy in the not-too-distant future - I held my tongue. Not so now.

I spend a lot of time rubbing shoulders with these intelligent, cynical assholes - and while I lack their dizzying material wealth, I find myself having my brains picked frequently on technical solutions for the apocalypse, as I made my much smaller fortune through - you guessed it - pattern recognition. All successful businesses boil down to individuals who can, to some degree or another, predict the future.

Why does this matter? Why am I defending them?

Firstly, I’m not defending their moral worth. Some of these folks are perfectly lovely, others yet you get the feeling are thinking about asset stripping your organs, and set up dead man’s SOS timers before going to a meet, particularly if it isn’t in public.

It matters because they are almost certainly right. This interglacial period is a bug on the windshield of time. This century and a bit of liberal democracy is a mere blip on the radar. These post-war decades of unfettered growth are a fluke, an artifice built on nothing but itself.

Is the planet going to explode, Death Star style? Unlikely.

Is it going to become a place largely hostile to human life? Probably.

You might think that it’ll take a massive event - all-out war, total crop failure, diabolical climate change - but the reality is that it doesn’t take much, and the more interconnected and interdependent our world becomes, the less it takes. We haven’t created resiliency, we have created points of failure. The internet is the ultimate amplifier and feedback loop - information and its impact now spreads and distorts like never before, waves overlapping and interfering constructively and destructively, creating ripples in the fabric of human civilisation. Those amplitudes can only grow so much before said fabric starts to tear, buckle and break before the strain.

No, this is a chaotic system, with multifarious inputs, and a few well (or badly, if you rather) timed shoves will send it way off “normal”.

There are also those who have taken a page from Asimov, and are attempting to hasten the Event, as a crystal of civilisation is more likely to survive a well planned and rapid demolition than a slow, aching, chaotic collapse.

A flood here, a drought there, an insurrection over there, an environmental disaster there, a refugee crisis here, a small food shortage, an interruption to power supplies, a market crash there, a bread riot here, a mass exodus here, a closed border there, martial law here, panic there, sell-offs here, no economy here, no food here, no security here, no life here.

Not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Minimum wage in the USA is, what?, $7.25 / hr?

So you'd need two shifts to cover your waking hours, so call it $30,000 per year. The last driver takes the car home and the first one picks it up.

Making a lot of assumptions here. It was just a silly thought experiment.
Maybe now? When I tried to swap from a Facebook login to an email login after deleting my FB account a couple of years ago there was literally no way, so I just cancelled my payments and went with Apple Music instead.
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You could generate chemically costly preproducts for the plant synthetically too to help its efficiency.
Things like increasing CO2 and providing at least nitrogen.

But while you are at it, you could directly to synthetic food... Hydrogen, methane, formaldehyde, sugars.
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If you’re using git as a backing store, why is there a need for MongoDB?
Put in fail deadly devices - e.g., thermite burners or bombs.

Putting in a wrong password, or excessive physical damage, will cause it to trigger, destroying the valuables.
Because async state management is a pain, and hard to reason about, that is what Redux and MobX are for.
Got the exact same email from them today. I removed it as I'm not a legal expert and thought it looked authentic, but glad to know they don't really have any legal power to do anything.
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The project should consider https/ssl for the website.
In some other thread recently and iirc, it was being claimed with some confidence that the statistics claim was determined not to be the property of the NFL/MLB, by some court case, as you can't claim rights to facts about the world. You can claim rights to representations of facts, such as a visualization, but not to the facts themselves, and their arbitrary derivatives.

Which, at least, sounds like a sane argument to me; it would be absurd to think that I couldn't take notes on a game being shown on television, and try verifying whatever numbers the NFL report for a game/series.
Minecraft was (probably still is) one of the biggest factors for a lot of people to learn programming. Specially in the first years where it felt so genuinely indie: It had noticeable (but mostly harmless) bugs, and the famous notch was doing everything alone (don't think the solo phase lasted that long, but that's what the public thought).
What would blow you away today? I’m always curious to know what to build next.
I’ve done this twice. When conditions and stress and the possibility of anything getting better we’re all so bad that I literally thought it would be better to be homeless than to keep going at work.

The first time I was very young, had no savings, and no professional network. I ended up moving across the country to stay with my family while I got a new job lined up. It took me almost no time at all to get hired at what turned out to be a very good company.

The second time, I had 6 months of expenses in cash and more in long-term savings of various types.

For whatever reason, the way the interview dice rolled that second time it took me 8 months to get back into a solid gig, I chewed up all my cash savings, and it hurt a little more because I was counting on professional network contacts that made promises they didn’t deliver on.

So, your mileage is going to vary. I was probably too ambitious in my initial searches the second time around, looking for a big boost in both salary and title.

I can’t speak to how common it is, but I will say that the frequency of it is related to a few key factors: 1. How startupy the company is. How willing they are to burn people out with long, pointless hours. 2. The strength of your savings and family and friend networks. How likely are you to be actually homeless and broke vs. just unconfident because you’re sleeping on a couch and don’t have a job right now.

I don’t think people do this as much at mature companies because the overall amplitude of how bad and how good things can get is smaller. Startups can have really great highs, but the lows can destroy you. The worst most established companies will do to you is slowly wear you down, so there’s often a lot of time to plan an exit and get a new gig before you flame out.
Having never played with BeOS but dabbled with Haiku — the richness of the BeOS filesystem would have won me over in a heart beat. Imagine if Microsoft bought them and then actually shipped a proper reFS that had the same richness? Or if Apple had — meh, Apple should have just paid Oracle the license fees and licensed ZFS. Or co-opted openZFS (not sure if that’s possible either, legally).
It looks like they also offer a premium version when you PayPal them $5 or more

> All Contributions Of & Above $5, Are Eligible For A Private Download Link To PrathamOS Full Edition.
http://www.prathamos.com/Index.html#connect

Seems weird that this doesn't seem to be advertised otherwise, or include a description of what's in the premium edition.
I'm from near Bournemouth (Broadstone). When I lived there 20 years ago houses on Sandbanks were the most expensive properties per square foot in the world. Beach front prices in Dorset are crazy.
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Please don't comment like this on HN, even when someone is treating history anachronstically. We want substantive conversation.
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Right! It actually took me clicking around a bit to even find it was a Linux distro. I was hoping for something different
I thought the non-profit created an OS for "edge education". Oh well :)
> the actual data and state you need to distribute to them has a structure that is completely unrelated to how its laid out in the DOM.

It took me many years to realize this. I think very few front end developers understand this. And more problematically: very few framework devs seem to understand it.

Stated another way....

Your tree of UI widgets, and

Your tree of data which feeds those widgets

... are two orthogonal trees.

If you are a front end dev and you haven’t spend time wrestling with that, I strongly recommend it. It’s extremely likely your front end architecture is suffering because of it.

React take the strongest stance on this matter, by making the interface to every widget be one giant shared global. But globals are bad, so while it’s good they acknowledge the situation, they mostly punt on the question of how to deal with it.
I read a piece a while ago that basically said that the poor will be the ones to survive an apocalypse (of whatever cause).

Because the poor have always been surviving, since the day the were born. It's ingrained into their being. The rich don't have this instinct to survive, they're detached from it.

Anyway, it got me thinking about the rich people building bunkers in New Zealand.

I don't think they'd last very long to be honest. The farmers will be the ones to survive. The billionaire who's bought a bunker in Queenstown doesn't know how to handle their shit in the outdoors, it's not a boardroom out there. The cocky who's been walking up and down those hills all his life does. He's spent 12 hours a day out there for decades, he's probably hunted more animals than he could ever remember, he's used to being out there and handling his shit. He also probably owns a horse, which is going to go a lot further than a 4wd or a motorbike.

The survivors will survive, not the rich.
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Unless you specifically ask for a new number, not at all. What's even worse it that the cvv is changing (checksum with the date and card number) but the transaction can go thru without cvv submission in most cases.
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Especially that the logo and the layout looks like a music album, it made me confused for a bit.
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That's the whole point of the article, thanks.
Anyone who plans to use this and missed the news about it: do not use Stylish for user styles - it was bought by a scummy tracking company and logs every page you visit and scrapes your Google searches.
Thanks will check it out. Goes against everything I've experienced
I can’t tell what the fuck this is.

The website takes ~8 seconds to load what I think ought to be a static page and says some things about simplicity and The Lord of the Rings as well as Vagrant.

I like all of those things, but I don’t trust an OS that has a slow-ass web page that tells me nothing about it.
Was about to post the same warning. Here is the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17447816
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Wealth beyond the dreams of avarice and what right do us ordinary people have to say anything about it?

One might call it a rule of “profit before people”.
population does not grow exponentially, current population is not expected to double before the next century.
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Not necessarily true. You might want to run ANNs on micro-controllers at the edge for many different reasons.
I think this is an extremely relevant topic for the HN community.

If there is one area that begs to be fixed, disrupted and overhauled it is US health and scammy insurance industry.
Letter is rubbish. They wouldn't have the legal power to enforce anything. We received the same letter today.

For a number of reasons the letter is useless, and you shouldn't really do anything.

1. It's an email letter, legal letters for any court action need to delivered Registered post, so proof you have received it. This is relatively expensive to do. Especially at the scale they would like to do it at.