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Nuclear waste is mostly a political problem. We could build breeder reactors and burn up 99% of the so-called waste, leaving behind only short lived isotopes. We don't because of proliferation fears.

I'm also reasonably sure that nuclear still produces a lot less carbon dioxide than coal or gas fired plants, even if you account for mining operations.

Safety is indeed a problem, especially with the old designs we're running now. But you have to weigh the risks of localized disasters with the risk of catastrophic climate change.

The main problem is the high cost of nuclear plants and the long time it takes to build them. It is entirely unclear whether investing into new plants right now makes sense, or whether we should rather dump the money into battery storage. What doesn't make sense though is turning existing nuclear plants off, as we did for example in Germany, or building new coal plants instead of new nuclear plants because base-load plants are still necessary.
The local authority would have to buy the land (or compulsory purchase) so it would be registered.
I remember reading The Sociopath Next Door a few years ago, and the author, a Harvard psychologist who studies this stuff, claims that 4% of people are sociopaths.

My impression is that we aren't at the point where we can detect sociopathy reliably enough for a ban like this to be realistic. With such subjectivity and unreliability, it can just become a tool for governments, and those who influence governments, to abuse their power. I could even see it _increasing_ the amount of sociopathy amongst those in power. But once we develop the ability to detect sociopathy more reliably, I think the question changes, and I'm not sure what I think.
Yup. Command-line, git and a dumb text file editor are all that I use.

But I wasn't always this way. Used to be a Windows guy in the past and used to prefer specialized GUI tools over command-line or general tools. Have tried all kinds of planning tools - GTD tools, Trello, some Kanban stuff, multiple Mind mapping tools. All of them had some minor deficiency or the other which I'd end up obsessing over, instead of doing my actual freaking work. It's taken me years to satisfy myself that git and an editor are more than enough.
>the transcendent "self-actualization" required for leadership

Spot on, in every interview I ask the hiring manager if they have ever jumped out of a plane, and if they say "no" my respect for them drops to zero (sorry, it's a fundamental subconscious response I can't help it). I call their boss, tell them that their subordinate forgot to self-actualize, and I get made their manager on the spot. It's how I got my last two jobs.
CUDA is now 11 years old, older than x86 was when the 860 came out. Internally the GPUs today are radically different but they run the same software.
The transformation in the article is the usual one we've seen for the last several decades in other service industries like foodservice, retail, home system service, and even transportation. An uneven patchwork of limited-region small businesses is being abstracted away, albeit not necessarily replaced, by national middlemen with deep pockets, vast experience, consistent standards, and powerful negotiating position. Those looking to hire them to perform a service are pleased with the consistent standards, tailored solutions, and their ability to keep costs predictable across the board. Those middlemen often contract out to the exact crop of companies and people who were doing the work before, but the standards are higher, the competitive price pressure is higher, and a cut goes to the coordinator which didn't before.

With time, this will result in consolidation, as it has always has. The most underperforming subcontractors will be shed, some will be directly acquired, existing employees will be handed new responsibilities, geographic bases will expand and redundancies will be identified. Both the job alarmists and the capitalist extollers are right, because this is the path to efficiency among whose chief instruments is reducing labor cost, but also because this process has always played out for hundreds of years in the exact same way.

The silver lining here is that this particular transformation isn't based on regulatory arbitrage (or simply ignoring the law), doesn't result in the sort of homogenization that imperils an intangible heritage (like foodservice consolidation did), but is actually about a middleman inserting real value into the supply chain. It's exactly what it says on the tin, and that's quite nice.
Ignoring or avoiding "this" isn't improving things... learning how "this" works and using it properly is improving things. Not wasting effort trying to make Javascript act like more of a functional language than it is would probably reduce the complexity and increase the efficiency of a lot of the code on the web.
Used them for a couple years already. Input Mono Condensed!
Why would you want to do OOP in JS?
It seems that this simulation wasn't filmed on the ISS in orbit, but rather at the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility. The view out the cupola is fake.
No. I would recommend reading the works of Thomas Szasz.

Declarations that somebody is "mentally ill" are almost universally done to target undesirables for persecution.
Would there be any successful companies at that point? You kind of have to have a machevallian/sociopathic take on achieving your and the companies goals to be successful I would think (I’m no CEO so maybe I’m wrong).
Right now the 600 pound person is eating 500 calories per day more each year, and the plan is to reduce the increase in calories a little bit.

For climate change, the total amount of released carbon is what matters. So far we haven't been able to even get the second derivative to point in the right direction.
Stanford Prison Experiment wasn't legit. Guards were instructed and encouraged to act tough, and surprisingly few did. Prisoner breakdowns were kids acting and took it as an improv opportunity. And many other nuggets were exposed.

https://medium.com/s/trustissues/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d8692...

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17287319
I recall reading that "sociopaths don't feel empathy" is largely a myth/misunderstanding. It's more like they do feel empathy, but they're capable of turning it off in certain situations. I can see that in myself to some extent. I would say on I'm more empathetic than the average person, but if someone threatens me (like a robber) then my empathy for them drops to 0 and they basically stop being a human in my eyes. Just a nuisance that needs to be removed permanently.
Just coincidence, if you think this name is expected when you are talking about Bitcoin Patreon alternative. We are not even connected with YC, neither based in U.S.
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I love this font for programming. Topped only by SF Mono, IMO.
I don't even agree with the sentiment. The "empathise with/care for others" gives them away, empathy has nothing to do with care. This question is pointless and is just a play to emotion.

Further, read up on the Stanford Prison experiment, it was pretty much faked. Here's the first google hit
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/13/17449118/stanford-prison-exper...
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It doesn't quite break down per street - my house is freehold, but a house we are buying across the street for my grandparents is leasehold. The land was sold by the Church in the 60s to developers - that is leasehold, part was retained by the council as public green spaces[1] and later sold - that is freehold.

[1] though it was already paved over with paving slabs, so a bit of a waste of time
I have experienced a handful. Of book sheet together have given me some peace and focus. Hopefully some of these might be interesting.

How to organize things is as important as balancing why the things are important.

The core book to start with is Getting Things Done by David Allen. It gets momentum going and allowed me to look up and around.

These books that have helpful to connect the productivity to trusting we're doing the right things in terms of meaning and purpose.

Set the stage:

Book 1: Mindset by Carol Dweck (are you really open to possibilities and not a fixed mindset?)

Book 2: The Power of Habit (how do you build small new skills, since are only a sum of our habits, and those habits can change)

Getting prioritized:

Book 3: Focal Point by Bryan Tracy (find and set the priorities in all areas of life)

Getting and staying organized and focused:

Book 4: Getting Things Done by David Allen (the how to get it done and stay organized and keep it all out of your head, biggest productivity book of the last 20 years)

Book 5: Deep Work by Cal Newport (regain the power of focus to get twice as kuch done.. With the same effort and no distractions)

Book 6: So good they can't ignore you by Cal Newport (now that you're going, how do you really make an impact in what you're putting your time into)

Book 7: The Miracle Morning. I'm a night owl. This book convinced me that the late night is the same thing as the super early morning, except I'm rates and have way more energy.

The order may vary for others, in hindsight I'd read them in this order, but starting with Getting Things done and working through the rest as you like is realistic too.

Happy to learn about any books you'd like to share.
His base wants the temper tantrum and the shutdown. The fact of the matter is, Trump hasn't lost any ground in his approval rating over this yet.

With that being said, Democrats don't want the wall. They were pretty much elected to stop the wall and have a huge majority in the House. I don't see how this gets resolved at all.

To have the shutdown end, the House (Democrats), Senate (Republicans), and President have to agree on a singular solution. In the past, the general agreement has been "Lets keep the budget numbers the same and argue about this later".

But the typical plan has failed, Trump is doubling down on the wall (+$5.7 Billion added to the budget), and his base loves it.
> Trump is asking for less than 1/1000 of our annual budget for border security.

No, he's asking for it for a wall, not for border security; wall's are't security, they're security theater. Actual security requires people, not walls. Most illegals fly in on Visa's and just over stay, they don't sneak in through the desert. Walls are easily by ladders, ropes, and shovels, only an idiot like Trump would want to spend billions on a wall.
The reason I asked the question is because back in 2016 I had a similar (now out of date) approach to finding related subreddits at scale using Jaccard similarity: https://minimaxir.com/2016/06/reddit-related-subreddits/

There, I only built a user edge if a given user commented on 5 distinct threads in a subreddit, since a lot of subreddit interaction was due to brigading.
That is in fact the core of the idea. I suck at low-level planning. All the wishful annual life goals have to trickle down as concrete daily activity to get anywhere. My mind is excellent at building castle projects in the air and even good at high-level analysis of them using flowery language. What it sucks at is converting all that into concrete steps. That's why I have to explicitly break them down into monthly, weekly, daily, and even hourly chunks.
I have heard about it. I have to check it out someday, even if just for historical purposes.
Here's the key point I think the article misses: Very nearly always (I mean really really nearly always), when you do a left/right/inner join, the condition you use for the join is a unique (usally primary) key on one side and a foreign key on the other side. So although in theory you start with the full cartesian join and then filter some of the results out (picking out of n×m entries), in practice you are only left with at most max(n,m) entries. So something like a Venn diagram is much less wrong than it is for the outer join (but still a bit wrong).

What I would like to see is inner/left/right joins explained with colours used to indicate value (as the article already does) but in the form of entries in a PivotTable (as the article used only for outer join), perhaps with faded entries for those that were filtered out. Most of all, it would be great to see this with non-unique values in both tables, as rare as this admittedly is. This could be followed up by the more usual primary key / foreign key combination. At that point it would be visually clear that only max(n,m) entries are left, so you could finish up by showing those evil Venn diagrams after all, with the disclaimer that you understand that there's a full n×m combination under the hood in theory.
"I feel sorry for people who sell their creative energy for the sake of money and popularity."

This is called 'a job'.
it's not controversial at all, the answer is simple: no.

even assuming it's beneficial, who would define who's a psychopath and who isn't?
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Pea milk isn't represented, possibly because it is fairly new. I've been drinking Ripple Vanilla and it's like a healthy version of the Carnation Instant Breakfast shake. It has a thick consistency, unlike almond milk and friends. It might be too sweet for some.

Ripple appears to be a bad choice of names, though, as a senior lady prompted me to investigate what ripple meant in the 70s: "A slang term for cheap or low-quality alcohol, usually wine. Has a negative connotation", courtesy of urban dictionary.
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Employment to population ratio does not exclude anyone. It is the number of people divided by the number of people who are employed. It is also not 2016 anymore. The prime-age labor force participation rate has risen about a point since then.

Labor force participation rate is also not a measure of employment. It is the number of people who are employed plus the number of people who are actively looking for employment but who aren't employed. If you want strictly what portion of the population is currently working, that is employment to population ratio, which is what I posted.
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I will say maybe, if and only if, you have an objective measure of such.

As it stands the slippery slope of abuse far outweighs any potential benefits.
The issue is that people nowadays may live in a place with a lot more UV than their ancestors adapted to -- consider an Irish family that moved to Arizona, for example. The same principle of "more available than evolution prepared you for" seems also to apply.
Gmail basically took over email through centralization. A lot of companies and people use it because the price is fair and the spam filter works better than almost anything else.

I have tried FastMail and I like the company, but the spam filtering is not good. But good luck even trying to replicate FastMail anti-spam if you roll your entire email stack yourself. I have run my own email server even well before Gmail was popular and it was a nightmare, I'll never do it again. If a company asks me to do it, I'll quit.

Even if you put Gmail aside, email became reputation based, which is naturally going to mean the larger centralized platforms will succeed over a few independent outliers because they will always have a better reputation and control what is allowed to go out or in. Just like how the United States still has a large role in the internet and what is seen internationally because so much is still centralized within those borders, or the centralized companies that are within those borders control it.
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> How do you know that being a business leader or politician doesn't induce psychopathy?

Psychopaths are born, sociopaths are made.
As a psychopath I do not knwo. My “mild” psychopathy does not prevent me from functioning in the society but I will for sure seize every opportunity to climb the ladder without even thinking about the consequences.
That's new to me even though I'm Japanese. lol
Well done ...
Data.gov is down due to a lapse in government funding
I think the gloves on that site are particularly interesting because they show a high integration of textile and electronics with a practical application that actually makes sense.
Empathy as typical people experience it isn't something that can be turned on and off at will, it's controlled by external factors. Sociopaths can learn to develop a cognitive model to emulate empathy but it's not the real thing. That's why sociopaths can turn it on and off; it's just another con game to them.
imo what you're describing is more self-preservation. For another example, take the most empathetic and understanding human you can imagine and then threaten their child with harm. The gloves will come off in short order.
> empathy has nothing to do with care

I find this a remarkable statement, what do you take empathy to be? Do you think that people can realistically care for others in a purely cognitive, non-emotional sense?
> For the Federal government, any self-sufficient or quasi-self-sufficient operations (like the USPTO, USPS, etc.) are unaffected. Any operations that already had their budgets passed are unaffected.

Wrong. The Federal Budget was done in steps. Only 25% of the government was under debate on Dec 2017, so only that 25% of the Federal Government was shutdown.

In 2014 (IIRC), there WAS a total government shutdown for a few days.

> We're talking about a fraction of the total government here. There's more drama here than anything else.

25% of the federal government is roughly 800,000 workers who have gotten a $0.0 paycheck yesterday, while most of them were forced to keep working.

Most noticably: Boarder Patrol Agents, TSA Agents, US Air Marshals, and Air Traffic Control agents. They ALL got $0.0 paychecks.

IRS is also affected: the entirety of the IRS got $0 paycheck yesterday.

The fact that airports keep working are because these TSA Agents + Air Traffic controllers have decided that keeping the airports open are more important than getting a paycheck. Salute them next time you see one and thank them for their sacrifice. Airports literally can't function without air-traffic control, and TSA have a thankless job.
Author of 'Stylish F#' checking in. Thanks for the endorsement!

Incidentally 'Stylish F#' is intended to be an intermediate book so it might be worth reading Chris Smith's 'Programming F#' or one of the other intro books first - or some beginner online material. That said if you had C# exposure and were determined, you could probably get away with using 'Stylish F#' as your intro.
Reorganizing is cool, just make sure you put some actual steps you can take forward to advance a project or goal/task, etcetera. You are putting some thought into your actions.

Most people think its time wasted but most also never think before they act.
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"We're immanentizing the eschaton one SAP plugin at a time."
I don't think "refined" matters, except so far as once you refine sugar, you can add it to all kinds of foods, driving consumption up. That's exactly my point--eating some fruits or honey is good for your health when every calorie is valuable. Eating tons of sugar when it's cheap and added to everything is bad for your health. Just because eating some sugar was helpful in the past doesn't imply that our bodies have evolved to process arbitrarily large amounts of sugar with no ill effects whatsoever.
Securing the DNS (a) doesn't fix the underlying problem for TLS (as you can see by the last 2 waves of CA-missuance takeover attacks, neither of which relied on wire-level DNS hijacking) and (b) adds nothing to any secure protocol, which already has to do end-to-end verification today. Despite that, DNSSEC is already the most expensive proposal we have on the table today, requiring every major site and every major piece of software to upgrade or reconfigure.

Deploying RDAP and adding it to the CA/B Forum Blessed Methods gives CA's themselves an end-to-end ability to validate domains, decisively solving the DV problem, and doesn't require any of that expense.

Explain to me again why we should choose the former over the latter?
I agree with the sentiment, but I take exception at the name calling. No need for that.
> but for one thing we came pretty close to repealing the gas tax in CA a few months ago

That was a recent increase to the gas tax that was up for repeal, not the whole gas tax.
if this turns out to have weight im going to need to switch my routine, but i'll probably continue to use sunscreen on my face (but maybe not my arms anymore). the anti-aging effects are important to me, but particularly on the face, so there might be a nice middle ground here, as long as you're wearing a t-shirt.
Correlation does not imply causation, but that doesn't mean that correlation cannot be by causation. It sounds likely that these negative features arise from having received power. It's like Abraham Lincoln said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Also, I'm sure that to get to such positions, these people were thoroughly reviewed by others in all their aspects before being given such positions, so what you suggest is already done to an extent. It may be however that those people doing the reviewing may find these features desirable, or at least not bad enough to outweigh the features they found that are desirable.
Was this a natural progression of your system, or did you have to try it to see that it works?
What did Ford learn from its pizza delivery experiment via self-driving cars?
> One of the primary functions of the government is to provide consensus.

Nope.
>All products have a limited lifespan for how long they are manufactured. Products come and go, this shouldn't be surprising or weird.

DUH! People already know this.

It becomes surprising and weird when it happens at more than the normal rate -- whether it's software or hardware--, which is what we consider Google to do.

If the Chromecast Audio product was the first time Google had pulled this shit, then nobody would be discussing it...
Your claim here is that a browser vendor could somehow fork the DNS and use its own .COM? Explain how that could possibly work.
"4 text files that go from vague life goals down to concrete hourly tasks ..."

I do the same thing but I keep all of them in a single text file and hide sections with the "fold" feature of vim.

I tried last year to dive deep into markdown and emacs and evil mode, blah blah blah, but in the end the only thing I really needed was the folding feature of vim.

What makes it work for me is folding based on any kind of indent (tab or space) and fold-toggle with the 'tab' key.

The indent folding I use is at 0xRKTFUG[1] and the tab-as-fold-toggle (along with a few other folding items) is at 0x3HS2RD.

[1] https://0x.co/RKTFUG ... and so on ...
Not sure about others, but we are serious about that. 6 senior dev team, everyone left their job to make this dream true.
super fixes that use case though.
Iosevka and Bitstream Vera have been my go-to's
Seems to me they have plenty of vacancies[1]. It seems to me that these announcements can just be smoke and mirrors.

[1] https://www.spacex.com/careers/list
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Second the ideas of a 12 week year - I find a lot of my “really want to do” ends up being a “this year” thing, which ends up becoming a “next year” thing. If you are not likely to work on something in the next 12 weeks, for me at least it should be on a long term list and not expected to be done at all.
That's still a lesson. Don't make product promises you cannot keep.
Sociopathy is not on/off thing. It's a scale. Some people have more callous and unemotional traits than others and different capacity for empathy.

Personality disorders are not considered mental illness under the law.