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Wind turbines work close to Betz limit [1]. Worlds demand for energy grows by circa 2,000 terawatt-hours per year. Two-megawatt turbine can produce about 0.005 terawatt-hours per annum.

With 50 acres per megawatt we would fill
land area greater than the British Isles, including Ireland every year. In 50 years it would amount to land area of Russia. And this is just new demand.

Plus wind turbines are just concrete and steel which requires coal and produce CO2. Hardly green energy.

A two-megawatt wind turbine weighs about 250 tonnes. Globally, it takes about half a tonne of coal to make a tonne of steel. Add another 25 tonnes of coal for making the cement and you’re talking 150 tonnes of coal per turbine. Now if we are to build 350,000 wind turbines a year (or a smaller number of bigger ones), just to keep up with increasing energy demand, that will require 50 million tonnes of coal a year. That’s about half the EU’s hard coal–mining output.

This game of green energy is just a sideshow. Opportunity to make big money for some, tax great unwashed and keep the game of demand/consumption/subsidies going on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz%27s_law#Economic_relevanc...
It's safe because humans had to fast. Think about it, humans didn't have a fridge and fast food. Humans had to go through fasting and in now way except the elite have 21 meals a week.

When you read books in history winter sucked because the lack of food. They would normally ration and it would literally be feast or famine. Just the way we evolved was to be able to do this.
I grew up in a very conservative area of America and we sorted our recycling. It was no big deal.

Then I moved to a fairly liberal area of the country and was stunned to see the “all together” recycling was the standard.

The stunningly low expectations we put on people is depressing. And the justifications I see in this thread below just show how prevalent this attitude is, that basically most of humanity can’t do the simplest of things.
Linode had an exploit awhile back, from their CF admin interface.

Lucee and CF runtimes are still activily maintained.
You also need to know the exact implementation of your compiler's optimizer, otherwise you don't know whether it's safe to change your program. Any change might give the optimizer enough information to unleash the nasal demons in previously cromulent code.
Most people who fast for more than 36 hours recommend electrolyte supplements. Now they even have "snake juice" recipes. If fasting takes off, I bet there will be commercial snake juice products for long term fasters.
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you can do a water fast for weeks and you’ll mostly be fine. your body has evolved to tolerate the absence of food and actually has mechanisms to deal with it. all that fat that you’ve been storing? gonna be converted to energy through ketosis. (in case you have a very low % if body fat you will be in trouble, but this does not apply to 95% out there)

if you fast totally (dry fasting) things go bad pretty quickly. Dehydration is the thing that it’s going to get you and there is a non-zero chance you are going to die because of it. Short of experimenting with this 1, maybe 2 days I would not recommend it.
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Am I supposed to be impressed? This makes no sense whatsoever. The reminds me of that card game that raised money to dig a hole.
I call this having "Complimentary" skill sets. If an OO shop, Java vs .NET and Ruby/Python etc. Hire for smart, ambitious, willing candidates that fit in well with the culture. I've seen people switch tech stacks very quickly, especially when there's established patterns in the existing code base they can pick up on.

I think programming language/tech stack is about 8th on my list of deciding on where to work, etc. (This just inspired me to do some writing on the subject, since I've delivered systems in most major tech stacks over the years.)
You should probably start with a less extreme version than water-only, and work your way up to longer durations and more extreme fasting regimes. As with most other things, mentorship and monitoring (as provided in a medical setting) can substitute experience and knowledge
Huh, can't believe I hadn't seen this before. I suppose the main problem with all of these systems is that the creator ultimately has to sign up to them in first place, and unfortunately all these smaller sites just don't have the people I want to donate to on them. There's no quick and easy answer to that unfortunately, outside of trying to federate some kind of standard for all donations that clients could plug into, and we all know how that goes[0]

[0]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
Definitely have the same feeling after QuakeCon or music festivals as well.
The text on this page is the most invisible I’ve seen for at least a couple of years. It’s both unreasonably light (#606c71) and absurdly thin (Quicksand 300, which is actually more like a 100 weight). Completely unsuitable for body text—I’d say it’s unsuitable for anything below about 50px at any colour, and you wouldn’t catch me using it there, either.
PassivHaus standard can be warmed with a 1Kw heater at -10 degrees celsius.
They have windows, doors and mechanical ventilation.
This sounds really fun! It is one of those ideas that when you first hear it doesn't make a lot of sense. I'm not sure how it will handle transaction costs though. It might be better to allow a minimum of $1 to be added in credits and use that to charge for letters.
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> While walk-on fares have increased above the rate of inflation

Barry Doe covered this in a recent Rail issue.

Inflation in this context is RPI, because that's what rail salaries are based on. Walk on fares are regulated and thus kept relatively cheap (Vrigin off peak returns are 6% higher than they were in 1995, after RPI for example. Service is now nearly twice the speed and twice the frequency). RDG want to get rid of this protection though.

But you're right that advance fares are both cheaper and easier to get.

The biggest winners are season ticket holders - many have risen by less than inflation (Chiltern, c2c, EMT, Great Northern, Sourther, Thameslink, South Western and Virgin)
I wonder if it's possible to use machine learning to speed up this process. Rather than doing computational biology, can we use a hybrid system? For instance, can we test this on mice and then feed some sort of parameter into a model to see the probability it working on humans rather than testing it directly on humans. I'm sure this won't be a perfect model but I wonder if it can raise the 14% to 20% while using less resources.
Also, I want to add, I've seen a .NET developer pick up our stack and be a better Java dev than some of the Java devs that had been around for years.
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The compiler vendor can treat UB however they like. One option would be for them to specify that it does something in particular...

(The C standard explicitly calls this out as a valid way of handling UB.)
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It's not about giving confidence to people, the existing methods are part of the fundamental idea of the scientific method. Dr. Hegde's claim of body types doesn't really mean anything until there's evidence to back it up. And modern medical trials are crafted and investigated with a wide variety of statistical tools to determine the exact impact of a treatment method. Only if his claims can stand up to this rigorous scrutiny can they be accepted the way existing models are. The rest of the world will then sit up and take notice, exactly because only then will there be something for them to take notice of.

An appeal to the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda doesn't really stand on it's own until it's backed by solid peer reviewed science. It's really not that hard, a well designed set of trials proving your point will have the entire world at your feet. Modern science is extremely receptive of new ideas that way.
I mean, there are a lot of languages that can be used both on the server and in a browser. JavaScript is the obvious one, but anything that compiles to js works, too.
I see where you're coming from. I maintain that caution and fear are different, even if they're related.

My original post was probably too broad to be useful. This topic requires nuance that I didn't express.
You run the AC as required.

An argument against that is that the work energy counts against the operation of an AC unit, whereas it works for the operation of a heat pump. So you get a better CoP heating.
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where did you find those characters?
You can't really. Especially in JavaScript world where velocity is everything. You'd spend at least ~1 year if it is really large and hit all kinds of hacks in the form of callbacks within callbacks within callbacks that are tuned in a way that (mostly) works. I'd recommend you to run away, seriously.
Not trying to dispute your point, but out of curiosity: Is that actually true?

> Donations to [...] can be paid using: a credit or debit card (Visa, MasterCard, American Express), a Euro bank account (SEPA Direct Debit), or a PayPal account.

Could I send money through my regular European bank without using Stripe to pay on Liberapay? Does anyone know how they've implemented that?
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Lets.
this is not boiling water AFAIK, it's more like warm water
I like Penn and Teller magic shows but that’s about as much as I trust them. They are entertainers with a very obvious political bias, which is usually one that encourages ignoring climate change. Their environmentalism episode was a total joke.
Not quite. Real-world environments (which Habitat is aiming to be a close-enough proxy for along the computer vision axis) are far more visually complex than what Doom allows for.
> Once you have typescript up and going, pull in some add-ons to make Node work with async code.

Maybe I am confused about the intent of your comment, but NodeJS works with Async code all by itself so long as you use a recent version, such as v.10+.

Callbacks are indeed hell, but you can avoid them by using Promises, Events, and Async/Await all without having to "pull in some add-ons". Furthermore if you use an event queue like Kafka or RabbitMQ and avoid shared global state it's possible to scale NodeJS horizontally quite nicely.

My comment here doesn't seek to denigrate TypeScript, nor defend NodeJS's limitations for building large systems with large teams, but to highlight that asynchronous code execution is quite a good fit for NodeJS when managed well. It is true that using observer patterns like RxJS can improve that even further, but they aren't required to achieve sanity.
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You are right. That is the title :-)
Disclaimer: I'm working on a platform that allows you to contribute to open source as a whole and which distributes your money proportionally to how much you care about various projects. I'm thinking of taking 30% as well.

I think people are just getting hung up on the number without thinking deeper on what it costs to make things sustainable.

5% of the 500 million Patreon claims to be able to process is 25 million. According to their team picture on their website (https://www.patreon.com/about), they have 74 employees. That amounts to $330000/employee. Halving that to account for benefits (chair, table, wifi, insurance, etc) leads to $165000/employee for salary which seems reasonable average for a senior employee in the Bay Area. Notice this doesn't account for infrastructure, taxes, outside counsel/contractors, etc. It's crazy that after working for 6 years and creating half a billion of value, a company can barely afford to keep the lights on, let alone make a profit. I agree 30% just makes sense for a platform - you need enough to hire properly, pay all expenses and make enough of a profit for this to make sense. The alternative is half a billion of value disappears to save on a few million which I think is incredibly myopic.
Need to add font enhancement features. Can I pay 2 cents per letter to have the letters animated in fire?
Total fasting has rather an inbuilt time limit due to medically dangerous dehydration. The usual way it is practised is for part of each day, rather than continuously. So it's not really comparable to water-only fasting that can be practised for weeks on end.
That's an excellent point, thanks.
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For Steam specifically, I can state with confidence that that's not true. On a phone at the moment so linking is difficult, but Jeff Vogel (the definitional "indie developer", there are very few people who have been doing it as long or as consistently) has a GDC talk on YouTube where he goes through his numbers--and he's a guy who went to Steam very late overall.

Steam's bigger marketplace and that it removes the uncertainty and risks around payment provider management (chargebacks etc.) easily make up for the bigger cut. Do less work, make more money. It's not unreasonable.
React has a built-in useReducer hook now as well: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-reference.html#usereducer
Or to spiritual practise. The idea that they have to have a mundane use strikes me as wilfully blind to their intended purpose.
> In my experience, it's almost always code for we want to put a ton of responsibility on you, while at the same time having unreasonable expectations for both speed and quality of what you produce.

If you want to hire me as a 10x programmer, and pay me 10x the regular programmer salary, I'm all for it :-)
Who defines "Hate Speech"? Is Donald Trump hate speech? Antifa?
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Indeed, it's surprising they went with distilled water exactly for this reason.
Given that Jean-Marie Le Pen was able to campaign for years, I find it hard to believe it is illegal.
For people that come into this and think: “wtf is wrong with someone that they want to starve themselves” there is more to this than meets the eye.

There is more than one type of fasting (more than one protocol - thowing this here: IF with 16:8/18:6/omad, ADF, 5/2, Extended) and there is some science backing this up. some of the benefits of fasting are mind blowing but it’s hard to “swim upstream” when some of our beliefs are so entrenched (examples: not eating is going to slow your metabolism down, not eating is going to make you lose muscle mass, it’s a sing of mental health issues, it’s a eating disorder, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, you need to eat X time per day to keep your metabolism working)

go to reddit and read the side bar for r/fasting and r/intermittentfasting and do a little bit of research/keep an open mind.
note that heat is already transported from one building to another when using central heating.

For example - Prague is (partly) heated by waste heat from Mělník power plant.
The point of the article is that (unlike people would expect) THERE IS a direct way how to convert mechanical energy to heat. It can be even more effective (in theory) than heating via electricity from wind, because there is only one energy conversion (motion -> heat unlike motion -> electricity -> heat).

Big downside is that heating with water brake is somewhat impractical and unexplored territory.

However big plus of this approach is that you can make water brake with middle-age technology.
It's entertaining. It doesn't need to make sense. If you want a sane product with a good business model, well, there's more than enough of that flying around.
The positive impacts of fasting are supposedly due to increased efforts by the body to scrounge and scrape for calories, which up-regulates processes that have the effect of clearing undesirable built-up matter/cells/etc.
I’m not aware of any traditional religious fast which requires abstaining from water for even a 24 hour period.

Traditional eastern and western christian practices did require a fast from water before liturgies but the church services were always held at noon or before due to this.

I see Ramadan does involve a fast from water, but only during daylight. Not sure about other practices.

Dehydration is real and will harm and kill quickly. I wouldn’t equate small snacks with water from this perspective - maybe snacks are keeping your body from entering ketosis and burning fat efficiently, thus the headache?
Pick any one on the ways used by all the religions that have been doing it safely for generations.

You should probably be asking is not fasting safe.
ok, so a protein source, or a source of protein, would cover it. Might be me getting old, but the term "a protein" rubs me the wrong way
From what I understand, this is not a physics engine (at least in its current form). This is a bare metal 3D environment rendering engine particularly optimized for speed; speed being especially important for training deep reinforcement learning agents for instance.

Physics would be a layer above this; I imagine Bullet can be integrated within Habitat, but will come with significant hit on speed. These choices depend quite a bit on the task being studied.
Stripe allows you to do that?
Ok, but seriously I am genuinely curious, what is the reason for the fence in the picture? I see fences like this when I am out in the mountains camping or hiking. Is it to prevent some type of animal from roaming down the roads?
289 tabs open right now in Firefox (I have a little addon installed that counts them for you).
Now it seems to be working for other people, but not for me. Perhaps because I'm not in the USA.
> It tried before. It doesn't work.

It works in Portugal.

> Public healthcare is working well if you are not interested in result. It tried before. It doesn't work

Public healthcare works in almost every country on Earth, and in most of developed countries it works really well. At least better than that in USA (looking at the life expectancy).

> Nobody will pay ever penny to care about zero cost homes. It tried before. It doesn't work.

They won't have a choice. That's what taxes are for.
I think the difference here is experiencing an entheogen. A psilocybin experience can literally restore your spiritual faith. I have experienced different conventions and different drugs, and the after-glow of entheogenic drugs is different than the after-glow of a con or shared group experience.
>I have taken it for granted that you know that the reason the UK refuses to decolonise the Chagos Islands is to provide an airbase for the US military on Diego Garcia.
Check writings by Valter Longo. The two principles are autophagy during the fast getting of bad cells (precancerous, etc...), and hormones typically only present in kids during growth periods reappearing during refeeding (eating after fasts longer than a few days).
Try this: https://beautifuldingbats.com/hey-howd-you-do-that/
Not an accurate comparison.
Did you read the article? The Portland Loo is neither crazy expensive nor high-tech. It's a more inclusive and accessible version of the "public urinal that's little more than a drain and a shield."
Thx for the hint... edit done :-)
Maybe costs of living increased compared to low-end salaries in the recent years?

Something had to change, it's not normal to have so many homeless people that it becomes a practical concern.
If you remove the trailing forward slash the link works fine.
Isn't the point of dry.io that a business analyst can replace a developer? :)

Only within the set of predefined functionality that can be specified in the dry.io JSON config file. If you want anything outside of that you'll still need a developer. I guess it's possible dry.io will have thousands of components that covers 90% of what each and every app does eventually, but until then most people who try it will bump up against it's limitations very quickly. The hard part will be keeping them on the platform.
There are about 2600 seats on 29 planes from Edinburgh to London's 3 airports on Monday -- average of say 100 seats a plane.

There's about 12,600 train seats

How do you propose to fit in another 145 flights a day between the two cities?
I agree, there's more to ta job than the technologies used. I'm biased, though, and been around awhile working in most tech stacks.

Just some of the things I prioritize:
1) Engaged, smart teammates
2) Solving an interesting business problem. What's the reasoning behind the softer, I'd much rather work with some legacy technology if it means working with a company with a great mission, vs doing the latest trends for yet another ad-tech company.
3) convenient commute
4) Lifestyle (occasional work at home)
5) Corporate Culture Fit
6) Amount of unplanned work and changing directions all the time
7) Amount of Cognitive load of multiple projects at once
8) Location in town (not necessarily for commuting, but just having a nice place to walk to for coffee, out of office thinking time, etc.)
9) Co-workers passionate about their craft
Ever since expert systems fizzled out and failed to deliver on their promise in the 80s, AI has been roughly equivalent to statistical machine learning and its applications. Everything else became just logic that needs statistical inference in order to work intelligently in a complex setting.
Oh I remember that it ran on CBM 8096 back in 81 - I seem to recall it was called "The Last One"
Yes.

I found this article to be slanted. This quote, for example, assigns too much creativity to a logic-based statement that I think is precisely the type of reasoning AI exhibits.

> Four-year-olds can immediately recognize cats and understand words, but they can also make creative and surprising new inferences that go far beyond their experience. My own grandson recently explained, for example, that if an adult wants to become a child again, he should try not eating any healthy vegetables, since healthy vegetables make a child grow into an adult. This kind of hypothesis, a plausible one that no grown-up would ever entertain, is characteristic of young children.

Also, I suggest updating the title to be less click bait-y. “The difference between bottom-up and top-down machine learning for beginners” or something like that.
They explicitly want to cripple third-party apps to push users to use their (awful) official clients, and their way of doing so is to enforce unreasonably low limits.

If they were to do the same with their official clients they'd become unusable.
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> severe issue due to out dated libraries

Which ones, out of curiosity?
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That, or terrible peer pressure. In my opinion, Occam's razor suggests the latter.
Which is true? They did and stopped, or started now?
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