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AFAICT this article offers no dates, no numbers, and no primary sources. China did announce a thorium research program back in 2011, and continues to publish research, but I don't see any notable recent developments reported on other sites.

The IAEA does not currently list any reactors matching this description in operation or under construction in China:

https://pris.iaea.org/pris/CountryStatistics/CountryDetails....

World Nuclear News does not have any recent stories about Chinese thorium reactors.

Is this article just a rehash of old news? Or has a Chinese thorium reactor achieved criticality recently? Videos of simulations and 3D renderings are a dime a dozen. New reactor concepts are interesting only when someone operates real hardware. China can do so but there's nothing in this article that makes me think it has just done so.
I'm not an American, and the very idea that copyright can last so long and be this pervasive is shocking. It's nothing short of disgusting unethical behaviour from everyone involved.
I do wonder if some of the outcomes were dictated by people wondering about what this new brand was. It would be different if they were serving small populations, but they served it 20 Million times. I guess that is a good case study for small brands, but do the results stay the same when people recognize the brand?
The thing is that pretty much all reporting has bias. Interpretation is inextricable from observation. Bias in and of itself is not a bad thing -- it provides a framework for meaningful discourse. IMO the real issue is being unaware of these biases. Introspection and constant self-evaluation is key.
All artifacts that are high technology become worthless within 20 years. If you had invested 100,000 dollars into a video editing suite in 1994 the whole thing would be worthless in 2004. Anyone wanna buy a 60K Sony BVW? Got one for 50 bucks on ebay shipping not included. EDIT Oops that was a a UVW not a BVW deck still can't see why you would want to record anything. Just get the tapes into the computer.
You don't need that much money for the kids themselves but I find spending quite a bit on conveniences to compensate for being short on time. Cleaners, gardener, dry cleaners, extended childcare facilities etc.
This becomes pretty clear when you look at housing prices vs commute times in some of the larger, wealthier metro areas like NYC, Boston, Seattle, and the Bay

Sure, you can get a 2500 sq ft house on a quarter acre lot for $500k, if you’re also willing to drive for 2 or more hours a day to go to/from work. If you want a 15 minute or less commute, prepare to spend 3 times more for the same sized house on a smaller plot of land.

What’s crazy to me is when you have communities like Medina, WA or Atherton, CA where this extremely conveniently located land is all single family houses. When inequality is low you have people living close to employers for convenience and living far to get more house per $ - now inequality, especially in certain regions, is making it so that the rich people are able to get the best of both worlds

To me the high premium on convenience these days indicates that these regions are in need of a public transportation upgrade, but that’s another story.
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> There are a lot of cases where truth and falsehood are absolute

Truth and falsehood are absolute for pretty much all fact claims.

Whether they can easily by determined is another story.

> Think of something like Pizzagate - the fact that the restaurant in question didn't have a basement belied the assertions that bad things were happening in said basement.

Sure, but suppose (they weren't, by for sake of illustrating the problem) bad things were happening in, say, a attached a controlled by the owners of the restaurant, but somehiw as the story got out and before it was fixed in text, it was distorted so that it referred to a non-existent basement instead. Would actively suppressing the story because of the impossible location described really be in the public interest?

Sure, in strict terms any single factual error in the most involved story makes the story false. But, most accounts will accumulate some false elements in a complex story: there has to be consideration of importance and materiality.
I am saying that the more that life in prison encourages behaviors that will be constructive outside of prison, the more likely that ex-prisoners will succeed outside the walls. For example, it seems like right now the best things you can do for yourself in jail are to build huge muscles to defend yourself, don't interact with anyone to avoid conflicts, etc... these create very bad traits for living in civilization.

Instead, if prisoners had to pay their monthly rent, make sure their income covered that rent, budgeted for extras like meat with their dinner, etc... those skills all translate to proper functioning outside of prison.
This is just all theory, of course but this is something most backtesters do, so I wouldnt rule it out.

It helps to be overly skeptical when anyone claims to beat the index. Because it is such a powerful claim.
The difference is that when hiring engineer #1 there's no technical infrastructure to which you'd onboard someone, and nobody who's really qualified to make a decent technical onboarding process - you're hiring a person to create this process (among others) from scratch, make the initial decisions themselves (instead of being told them during onboarding) and onboard others.
So, I was not surprised to discover that this did not exactly revolutionize the mortgage industry, and on some level I'm not all that disappointed. There is a problem, but getting "mad as hell" is probably not the solution.

However...it does remind me of my chief disappointment with the Obama administration's approach to rebuilding after the Fiscal Crisis, and that is that we did not really change the financial system very much. I have the very strong impression that it will all happen again.
Well... sure, but it depends on how you look at it.

In a monetary society (as opposed to credit or barter (intermediary like you suggest) — monetary circuitist terminology), money is created as a debt/credit tuple to facilitate an intertemporal private contract (tit-for-tat), of which cash is a physical token representation. The etymology of “credit” is “faith”, “honor”, “merit” etc. That of debt, at least in some germanic languages (“schuld”) literally means “guilt” and has connotations of sin and atonement.
Can't you be connected to the grid on part of the house, say the garage, but not the rest?
And why are there not telecoms contingency plans for natural disasters? where civilian subs would get put to the back of the line or turned off entirely

I know some one who did that for BT planning for various civil disasters nuclear melt downs etc - went on some interesting courses apparently.
A) That's electrical tape, I believe, and all the more appropriately so.

B) you can also see someone holding the other camera on the ground, as well, which is interesting to see.
Two things: "very high wind conditions" is a rather relative term (and could e.g. mean "very high within the parameters that are still considered safe"), and we also don't know about the urgency of that job.

All in all, I wouldn't extrapolate too much from that little statement.
Err no !!

Grid cables fail and need redundancy and maintenance.
So for smaller islands - isolation could be easier.

The Euroasia cable could be nice. But i think all three countries are on a trend to reduce coal, increase Gas and push on solar. So i am not sure how much redundancy this will bring.
Ben Thompson of Stratechery has written about this a lot. Software has a small marginal cost and that's why Facebook can have over 2 billion users MAU, I can't think of anything in the world except food and water that has over 2 billion monthly users. Even the largest non-software company could only dream of that kind of reach.
They could just boil the ocean if they really need to dump energy.
That is interesting definition o making it big. I believe you need to be somewhat on the business side of things to make it big that way. There is a surplus of programmers who can write to spec but how many can spot the thing to build that will be disruptive? That's a different skillset.
Because ultimately the number of people who get really upset by interview process is small. Developers largely care about being paid large sums of money. Issues like open office design and take home work are tolerable when you are paid 300k.
This is like the age-old "hack" of creating a landing page for a B2B startup that doesn't exist, to gauge demand and build a marketing list.
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Yes, a lot of small land holdings. There are large corps and also government owned/run farms, but a vast majority of agriculture in the u.s. is family run. Which is not a bad thing, because they love what they do and we need them as a society. My family owns a farm producing corn / wheat / soy / green beans / etc, mostly run by my Dad and the work rented out to another local farmer. Some of the corn is used for fuel production. The rest of us have moved into suburbia/cities in various roles; managers, business owners, software, bartenders, etc. I develop software for example, myself.
Telecoms is CNI its entirely different
I hadn't seen the whitepaper on Turing yet. Where did you see they decoupled them?
This is a formal verification project that has already found some bugs: http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ Interestingly, it's also found some cases where type bounds were unnecessarily restrictive.
Separate. Work laptops and personal laptops. A better work/life balance is a benefit. It helps you focus when there's less distractions on your laptops, it also looks more professional.
C'mon, some stocks don't pay anything because there are better ways invest their profit. You still own equity in something tangible and generating value most of the time.
They should disclose how many backtests were run along with the methodology for evaluation. Backtests should be very rarely run.
Bearing in mind we're only hearing one side of the story, of course
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i have never heard of haskell being a language used for teaching introductory computer science courses. that sounds like a nightmare. i'd imagine mid-to-upper div classes.
Your own Personal Moon Sand is incredibly precious... and incredibly attractive to thieves. Let us store it for you. And what safer place to store it than the Moon? And why go there when it would only facilitate theft of your own Personal Moon Sand? Taking orders now.
Well, so too does the FD. But they didn't get it. Even Verizon's language says, "During times of congestion, your traffic may be slowed (but only after 22GB in a month)".

And yet their traffic was slowed to 30kbps (which, lets face it, isn't slowed, but effectively halted), permanently. Unless Verizon wants to claim that their best of breed, "least congested" network (their words) was congested at 2am, 4am, etc...
If you ever find yourself questioning the validity of all the studies indicating how terrible retail investors are at investing...read r/wallstreetbets and realize you and your index funds are still in the minority.
I don't like the practice either, but allow me to play devil's advocate for a second, although this is probably not what either of us wants to hear: I really don't think this could qualify as false advertising. The "limit" being referred to is the total data per month, not the bandwidth. Everyone knows bandwidth is always limited; that goes without saying. Moreover, the fact that "limit" refers to the total amount of data is pretty clear: when you buy a limited plan, we all know that "limit" refers to the total amount of data you can use in a month, not the bandwidth you are given. So when they say "unlimited", that is correct—they're indeed fully removing the limit, which is the total quantity of data per month you can use. Hence I actually don't see it as being false advertising. Is it misleading though? I'd argue yes; it's not straightforward and it's clearly intended to give a different impression to someone who doesn't take the time to make the logical deductions.
Very true.

However, it's _also_ true that "It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little."
Because it's part of the day to day upkeep of life in general. You don't get paid for cooking, cleaning, or doing laundry (unless you're a middle class child earning pocket money from your parents). It's just stuff that has to be done.
OR, we could call it H2Moon and heavily imply it is moon water but actually just source it from the local water and run it through a filter, even during droughts.
As a destitute person who used to be on the A-List for hiring, homework is a deal breaker. I did one assignment out of desperation recently when a hiring manager approached me via twitter DM, and despite the good unofficial coffee meeting I didn't even make it to a phone screen after spending 2 days' free time working on the homework (about 4 hours). I knew I should have declined to begin with, perhaps could have spent more days, but it did take a number of them. They just said my submission wasn't up to par, which I knew would be the case given my time constraints... but the coffee meeting went well enough that it seemed okay and like it'd just be a formality, so I went ahead.

Opportunity cost, wise: the bottom of the barrel for pay is Day Labor, where I can make about $100/day after a 1-2 day wait list... putting the fair market price of the homework assignment at about $250. The hiring manager did Venmo me $100 for food, which was well appreciated... but unfortunately still didn't give me what I needed to do a good job on the homework. Not that it's directly productive work, but considering head fees are in the 5 figures, a little compensation to grease the gears doesn't seem like it'd hurt even in aggregate. Perhaps it'd incentivize the hiring company only giving homework to better screened candidates, as well.

Makes different points than ones in the article, which are the original reasons I opposed homework. But in addition to all that, it also blocks people without good living situations from the job (perhaps desirable for some reasons, calling it out).
How is it clear? It contradicts itself. It’s not at all clear which part should be believed, unless you’re already familiar with ISP bullshit.
I wasn't aware. Thanks!
Are you able to get through books by Tolkein, Robert Jordan or Terry Goodkind?

I wonder because as I've aged I don't have the patience to sit through a description of every blade of grass in a meadow...
I work for a fortune 100 tech company as an IC, here's what I've noticed.

- All managers have gone through training w.r.t unconscious bias and the companies initiative to diversity and inclusion.
- Recruiters have worked w/ organizations like Code 2040 and events like Afrotech (which is awesome by the way) to reach out to minority candidates.
- The Employee Resource Groups have been given additional funding to help retain new employees.
- The company has been transparent in answering questions related to "quotas" and the like.
- More recruiting has been focused on HBCUs
It's a huge pay cut but you're not working. You have tons of time to do something else while collecting money. It's a very sweet deal.
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> How many net neutrality supporters stood up for Alex Jones?

By asking this question, it makes it clear you don't know what NN is about. It has nothing to do with censorship.

> That said, the fears of a single party dictating what you can and can’t see on the Internet are not just clear, they’re present.

Facebook/Twitter/YouTube/etc. didn't ban Alex Jones because they didn't want us to be able to see what he wants to say. They did it because they didn't want to be the ones broadcasting what he says. He incites violence. I do not fault anybody for refusing to be the platform relaying that message.
The developer pool being paid 300k is minute, probably smaller than that of disgruntled interviewees.
It's great that they have both options available. Things would be worse for teachers if they didn't exist.
I define data engineering as something like "implementing ML algorithms on servers for real-world use cases", in which case they're mostly just gluing together function calls that other people figured out. "Data science" on the other hand is the stuff that actually requires using statistics and math to figure out what operations are necessary on a data set.

Plus, I could say the same thing about ML. It's just graph theory, linear algebra and calculus with some statistics mixed in. Where's the absolutely necessary programming? There are plenty of opportunities to do ML theory with little programming, if any. There absolutely needs to be a distinction between theorists and engineers, because they aren't the same thing. Most of the programming is the grunt work you pass off to the engineers.
I keep being baffled at how transgressions tend to get handwaved away with "everybody does it" by some commenters on Hacker News.

First, there are plenty of locations where advertising is heavily regulated. Second, even in locations where that is not true, "everybody does it" does not justify anything. Every surgeon used to perform their job without washing their hands, and yet we got rid of that behavior.
Thank you. You summed up precisely my thinking. I think the “sensible” projects lay a foundation people can learn on. I just wrapped them up into a single package.
Who is the other side of these trades?
a couple of the supported titles are pretty weird, but I'm at work now so maybe not so much.

Doom ultimate and Doom II use dosbox in windows. I hope they're using a linux version of dosbox instead of running dosbox on top of wine. That would be an emulator runnning on top of an api compatibility layer.

Quake has an open source release and an official linux release (although it's probably pretty hard to get that running on modern distro)
Wait, so what you're telling me is, in the absence of accountability, telecom corporations won't just act in good faith?
I have suggested before that I would very much like to see a suggestion for a generic law that make prostitution illegal without using words that involve sex or proxies for it.

What about a law forbidding all work that has the work injury rates (or higher) of current legal prostitution and where the majority of employees are in debt? As a purely theoretical idea I wonder how wide of an impact that would have.

Coercion is naturally a bigger issue and reminds me of how mining and debt slavery co-evolved. Targeting the illegal behavior worked there quite effective in turning mining into a normal profession and away from a place where men in debt worked until they died at an early age.
You can do something else. Usually non-competes are very specific. I don't know anyone who wouldn't take 50% of salary for day 2 years in exchange to have all this free time to do other things. It's not like you can't get another job.
> If antifa really wanted to attack the 1%

They don't, as such. The Anti-Fascist movement overlaps very strongly with (and was originally a project of) various far-left communist/socialist groups, but it's rather central to the point of that project that it is a unifying front in which cooperation can occur with people who don't share the broader politico-economic agenda of the groups who established the movement.
When a Verizon facility catches fire, may the water facility throttle the water supply, demanding upgrades? Can the fire department throttle attention for Verizon's troubles during such a fire?
I am not an expert in this area, but none of the ads I watched seem to actually advertise anything. There is basically just a picture of a pizza and a saying like "The tangy sweetness of fresh mozzarella"

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFfnLmpHEyLYLqHdyOmVE...
And your quote actually stated that promises were _not_ made there, author just tried to bring concerns of some anonymous 'multiple national leaders' as a confirmation.
No, but if I as an EMT or paramedic, ask you to get out of my way, and you refuse, you absolutely are committing a crime.
Couldn't we use something like that on wildfires for chopping down trees quickly?
well, 911 receives special treatment but is regulated under the same rules as the NN services afaik?
You're doing homework either way: either take-home project homework or cram-before-interview homework.
> Users playing through Steam Play experiencing Linux-specific issues should be directed to Steam for support

I wonder how they'll handle user reviews. Maybe performance won't be an issue, I know some games run even faster than on Windows, but bugs that you don't know are Proton specific could lead to bad reviews.
First programming book I've ever read. I love it. I haven't done Haskell since.
Not to quite the same degree, but I find it interesting how you can discern the border of Atherton, CA from the surrounding area just by looking at the density of trees in the satellite view.
Terrible opinion.
What you're asking for is a fast, cheap, and persistent memory.

It doesn't matter in the slightest whether it's a memristor or some other tech.

And we can approximate this right now with a capacitor to dump out RAM upon power loss. The reason you can't get the experience you want is software, not hardware.
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> carry out their own individual on-site investigation

This is the crux of the whole issue. Everyone's talking about "facts" but should be talking about "proof". We would need a vouching system where only people who possess evidence or can otherwise demonstrate proof will even have their vote counted. Who watches the watchman yada yada. The whole thing is an impossible feat. The best we as content consumers can do is only trust that which is created by trusted hardware (i.e., is actual live action video and not CGI) rather than that which is created by journalists or reporters of any reputation whatsoever.
The VP of something should be more or less the best at that thing in the organization. The VPs in each area should theoretically be considerably better than the CEO is at that area. Specifically, at leading that area, which usually comes from deep functional experience in that area as a specialist. The career path of IC, founder, player-coach CEO, investor is one thing, but the alternative is specialist skills in a function (ie. marketing coordinator, manager, director and finally VP).
what constitutes a "living wage" when you don't have to pay rent or buy food?
I scanned the article twice and may have missed it, but what is the outcome for Paul Manafort having been found guilty?
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Well, the other option going into college was music. Although it's also quite likely I would have landed as a historian or linguist.

I would probably have continued programming in the evenings, but doing history as the day job. Today I program in the day, and often read history in the evenings.

Ultimately, I like paying rent/mortgage, soo.... yeah.
Actually Haskell is excellent for an introduction. The problem with Haskell is that it may be hard hard to get "real stuff done" so to say, i.e. in an industry setting where you have to interact with many external services or libraries (and then miss those specific libraries).

If you're learning the basics of Computer Science you usually don't have to do this so Haskell is a great language then.