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I actually think it’s the opposite. On traditional social media a mediocre post will still get a few likes. On 4chan a new thread needs to achieve quick popularity or it’ll get deleted within 5 minutes.

I think that is part of what fules the negative culture. The anonymity and lack of moderation surely helps but outrageous threads simply have a higher chance of surviving on 4chan.
As far as I know Florida is basically all limestone, which is porous, so dams don’t work. The water will seep through the bedrock so you can’t do the same thing in the Netherlands in Miami.
How much money and time would it take to research battery technology that could put coal and nuclear plants out of business?

We know how to build nuclear NOW. Let's do it. We can turn all the plants of the second someone finds out to store terawatts of power produced by renewable means in a cost-effective manner that doesn't rely on some geological anomalies.
I buy solely Android flagships these days (and we just shelled out for one for my wife), and I'll tell you why. I've been burned multiple times by mid-range Android phones - both personally (old LG smartphone) and indirectly (family buying mid-range smartphones). It's not worth the daily frustration of living with a device that constantly lags, hangs at random times, making it difficult to use with the standard suite of apps (mail, maps, social media) and sometimes making it difficult to answer a call. This is death by thousand cuts, it really takes a toll on your psyche - particularly if you use your phone a lot.

Buying a flagship is pretty much a guarantee that you won't have to suffer through this, and will have a device that's reliable for years. I used my Galaxy S4 for years (replaced broken screen two times, and broken camera once; had luck of doing that when I was in Shenzhen, so it wasn't even expensive). When I switched, the device was still better in use than a new mid-range phone, so I gave it to a family member, who used it until it died of mechanical damage. I'm on S7 now, and it still doesn't show signs of age - and I expect it to live and perform for couple more years still.

Flagships may seem overpriced, though if you calculate in their longevity and mostly-frustration-less experience over whole lifetime, I'm not sure if the price is really that bad. So I prefer to save up for one, instead of going for mid-range phones that magically tend to start breaking after couple months of use (P8 Lite, I'm looking at you).
It absolutely is the definition of socialism: socialism is common ownership of the means of production. Most of Norway's wealth is government-owned, thus it is mostly socialist.

I'm not sure why people get so vehement about denying this fact. Perhaps because it requires acknowledging that socialism actually works really well?
Google Reader was a success in that it dominated its niche for many years.
I had an MD player when the first iPod came out. A friend got one and I noticed how bad it sounded. So we compared the same track at the same bitrate with the same headphones. The quality on the iPod was much worse. But it did look cool and they had iTunes.
Samsung starts to sell its 5G mobile phones
It's paramount we expand nuclear power. Despite potential risks. We absolutely need all that electricity to... do what exactly? Mine bitcoins?
No, but my team lead just got married and is on holiday for 2.5 more weeks.

Vacation is a much more common case than death, especially in Europe where 28 days a year is standard.
> 1. Urbanization

I'm more and more convinced we will see a reversal here. My guess is this: society as a whole will eventually reject the idea that they should be burdened with a massive expensive infrastructure just to have people sit in offices in centralized locations, staring at screens and doing the same job they could do from their homes. Or that shops need to be in centralized locations. Roads, railways, brick and mortar shops will all be gone and replaced with rural settlements in natural surroundings and virtual "travel" (VR) for the most part, air travel (drones, helicopters, flying cars) for the cases when absolutely necessary (transport of goods). It will probably be a gradual, but accelerating process as the bits fall into place.

So no, I don't believe urbanization is a good bet, not even in the medium term at least not in developed countries. Goods and services that support the above scenario on the other hand ...
That is what is taught in school, and I always thought it was right. But many Italian facists started as socialists and they certainly learned the methods:

- Individualism is squashed in both systems. The citizen solely exists for the state and is to be exploited as a worker or cannon fodder.

- Both systems had worker holiday cities for propaganda and constant reeducation.

- Both systems had many youth organizations for indoctrination.

- Both systems had nationalized radio.

- Both systems sent their opponents into Gulags/camps.

- In both systems, if you pretended to be a follower, you'd be taken care of (that arguably is the socialist aspect of national socialism).

National socialism did not actually nationalize companies, but they were certainly under control of the state.

The point is that while the ideologies were different, the outcome was not completely dissimilar (even antisemitism with purges was there under Stalin). National socialism had an overtly murderous ideology, while the marxist one pretended to do one thing and did quite another.
Based on my experience, apart from a handful (really a handful) of open courses by elite universities (e.g. Harvard's Stats 110), the vast majority of online courses are garbage - low quality of content, insufficient coverage of the material, inappropriate format, bad teaching. I'm talking about almost anything on Coursera/Udacity/Udemy. Even if the courses were good, you still need to spend a good amount of time with a textbook and practice the subject. And considering that most courses are useless, you're usually better off skipping them altogether and getting straight to the book + practice approach to learning.
I always felt that for a product called webOS, Palm had one of the worst mobile browsers. The big missing feature I remember was lack of support for downloadable fonts. I don't remember the Touchpad itself being particularly polished (although the corded charger itself is supposed to be very high quality). Some of the touch stuff was pretty slick (the rubber band effect in particular), but a lot of it was pretty infuriating for me to use.

The mobile OS I miss is the most is the last iteration of BlackBerry. Although Palm had the upper hand in developer/user relations, I think that BlackBerry really got the UX right.
Isn't that the stiffness is given by the battery pack _enclosure_? This means that in a swappable option you may not need it. (Genuine question).
One mor story like that: Nadezhda Durova. She was a russian cavalry officer in the Napoleonic wars. She wrote an autobiography then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadezhda_Durova
Yes, the article mentions this problem.
A bomb powerful enough to breach reactor containment but small enough to be smuggled past power plant security is already a nuclear bomb in its own right, and would be more effective used against population centers directly.
I guess? I find that I prefer the web being a bit (but not excessively) "dressed up"…
Yes, for reactors operating at atmospheric pressure like MSR or metal cooled reactors, the containment building is much cheaper. And by not needing stuff that stands up to 15 MPa, you can frickin' stamp out the reactors from sheet metal. Well, not quite, but a lot simpler and faster than building large pressure vessels capable of LWR pressures with 25cm thick walls.
Nuclear power plant failure, like Chornobyl, _can_ make whole continent inhabitable for thousands of years.
That would make for a great follow-up article.
> If a country has a large amount of natural resources like Norway, it can be somewhat successful in dispensing with individual excellence.

I'm not sure what is meant by this? I would assume that the more resources the government or the community has, the more they can support people's talents.
You can invest more in education and arts.

> Norway used its oil profits to create a sovereign wealth fund and invested it in stocks. What is the system called when dispensable income is used to form capital which is then invested in other ventures to create additional revenue streams ? I would call it capitalism.

True, that's a good point, it's state level capitalism.

If instead the oil money went into tax cuts, what would one call that policy then? Antisocialism?
The Germans seems to prefer coal to nuclear. Oh, maybe they thought lowering nuclear would increase the renewable? The renewable sure did increase, but it doesn't compensate the decrease in nuke power. What did is the other fossil fuels.

Of course, most Germans would deny that. But the fact is, reducing nuke power leave us only two alternatives: increase the consumption of coal/oil etc, or decrease energy consumption period. Solar and wind are all the rage, but they're still very little compared to nuke.

And good luck with significantly reducing energy consumption: energy is more or less the limiting factor in our economy, so decreasing it decreases the GDP. So it would mean a big fat, long term recession. Now it doesn't have to be bad, but it sure needs a significant overhaul of our societies.
Maybe it’s me, but I’ve never found prototyping boards to be worth the time it takes to set them up.

I’d rather go for a PCB and set it up so I can test the circuit. If it works all ok, job is done, otherwise I have a good testbed for experimenting.

Everyone I’ve talked about this tells me it’s timing, but As far as I can see, it’s a difference I more than make up by rearranging tasks or taking on parallel projects.
I like how their website logo shows the actual time.
You are correct in the sense that the government owns 67% of Equinor (formerly Statoil and Norsk Hydro): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equinor
And controls the oil fund.
Man I'd had loved to meet Feynman...

I can agree people learn very differently about abstract things. Throughout my career I've seen truly remarkable students that had a very different way of thinking about problems that gave them a competitive advantage over others.
though it is interesting how wives always disappear as soon as you get into a tight spot in your life, whether it was or wasn't your fault.
In Japan? Maybe. Globally? Not even close. As recently as 2004, there was a tsunami in the Indian Ocean that caused over 200,000 casualties (compared to the 15,000-20,000 casualties of the 2011 Japanese tsunami).
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Im speculating on landworth inlands rising. Longterm bet, but im sure people will not migrate away from those cities completely, only gradually inwards.
Fascism was socialism by itself.

The creator of Fascism was Mr Mussolini, himself a member of the communist party in Italy.

It was only that Mussolini wanted to create a socialist movement independent of the International Socialist , the Komintern, which was controlled(and financed) by Soviet Russia, following the interests of that country.

So he created a socialist movement with the interest of Italians first, nationalistic. Hitler then copied the movement in Germany.

To say that nazis were not socialistic(and socialized the means of production) is like saying that Trosky was not communist because he was assassinated by Stalin.

Of course they were the worst enemies between each other, but there were not big differences in the way they planned the economy.

In the civil war in Spain, in the left side there were independent anarchist and socialistic leaders and they were killed by Stalin, not Franco.
Regardless of what the MPAA would have you believe, digital products and cars are a bit different.
If you are interested in some numbers about the subject, there is very good resource for the case of British isles. The situation is of course different for USA the people per area is different. But you anyhow can get a grasp why renewables are problematic.

http://withouthotair.com/
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>It boggles my mind that Germany made a great effort on renewable, and used this extra energy to close nuclear plants rather than coals ones.

Today Germany is still affected by the radioactive fallout (Chernobyl). For example many wild boars in Thuringia are radioactively contaminated with caesium-137. It will still take about 300 years until the radioactive caesium-137 vanishes.
This is interesting, I'm pretty sure we all do this to a large extent, I would say one thing that I've noticed when everything was going sideways was I learnt that in the absence of a good viable outcome doing nothing was a very effective strategy.

Not without its risks either, but in some cases my act of doing nothing allowed what I had done to progress (where I knew it would not have a detrimental impact and couldn't see any path forward that was effective, I just circled the wagons and waited. Surprisingly effective.
Any recommendations on what hardware or project should I look for to "start at home"? Sounds interesting...
To me this is a story of immigration.

Europe is currently 'struggling' with immigration, the subtext being they don't bring skills, lower wages for the poorest, etc.

Here you have an immigrant that brings massive wealth to a country, (and he's essentially a healthcare tourist!)
http://withouthotair.com/

"A vital tool agains global warming" means that it's our only possibility. It's not about cost, it's about what is physically possible.
I bet, we will develop that technology in much much shorter time than we need to store nuclear waste.
The problem is the "mega project" part of it, not the means of production.

Unlike coal or nuclear, renewables are easily scaled down without creating a huge risk: for coal, you want to go large for efficiency reasons and to ensure that the right set of filters are installed and maintained. For nuclear, there were ideas of building a nuclear power plant in every basement, but given how the power plants we have look like military bases, that seems rather unfeasible.

Once you go big, you have the issues mentioned elsewhere in the thread (sunk cost fallacy, NIMBY, ...) but also corruption and that these big sites become single points of failure.

Dams are in the same space: NIMBY, once started you can't stop, large scale construction (which is rife with corruption).

Create financially reasonable basement/rooftop level nuclear or coal systems that can be safely installed by any random electrician and operated by the home owner and the entire discussion may shift.
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I investigated this a few months ago and no browser, not even Safari supported it. Hopefully more platforms will start to support it.
Ask HN: UI/UX Inspiration?
Are there any sites you use for UI/UX inspiration other than Dribbble?
> Your conclusion is different than mine, therefore you are talking nonesense. Consider coming back when you get closer to my level of knowledge.

Be careful about how you know what you think you know. How informed are you about these matters? Have you taken a good look at the numbers? I know I haven't. How trustworthy are your sources? Why do you trust your sources? Are they expert or something, or do they happen to appeal to you emotionally?

This is a problem at the global scale we're talking about. We need good solid numbers. The number of articles in the newspaper for instance is not a good solid number. Emotion is not a good number.
Ask HN: Has anyone earnestly given up and managed to come back from it?
In a few months I'll be on the wrong side of 40. Honestly, I would throw the last 40 away in a heartbeat if given the chance. I was an only child born to narcissists. I spent my adolescence as a military brat moving every 2-3 years. It was brutal at times but I got really good at reading people, having the reset switch pushed on my life so often and being forced to brave yet another wave of a new "community." What I generally saw in others wasn't good. One of my early memories being at a new school and watching most of a class taunt a kid whose entire body has been terribly burned. This was probably second grade and was the beginning of a pattern I'd witness. I'd go on to try to befriend and defend outcasts but I felt it was sort of a losing battle, that the world was just going to grind them up regardless (cue starfish analogy).

I went on to work in a lot fields before landing in programming and had a knack for getting into places where I could see behind the curtain. This is ultimately what I think gutted me. I was disillusioned again and again seeing the gulf between what really takes place and what most believe happens. Should happen. This occurred in the military, medicine and law enforcement. I was shaken repeatedly by what I saw and deeply dejected.

My guts finally gave way in earnest about seven years ago after experiencing burnout at a job that was knowingly running me into the ground (I left). I've just been staggering forward resentfully while trying to numb myself since. While I'm fully aware of how unhealthy it is but I've isolated myself to the extreme nonetheless. I always felt divorced and frustrated by people but the alienation feels too far gone now. I've been through the gambit of treatment options and providers. The drugs, therapy, none of it seeming to make a difference. Now, I'm beyond tired. I have no interest in another 40 years. Has anyone clawed themselves back after being so far gone for so long?
Trip bundles, pinning, mail previews. Inbox was much cleaner than Gmail. Gmail also feels slower than Inbox - spinners on startup.

And other UX issues: seeing previews of images right in the email list, font/UI makes it harder to find things vs Inbox. Inbox was a much nicer UI/UX.

Ads are annoying but I would have been fine with ads if it was integrated in Inbox.

And look, I understand that it doesn’t make sense to invest in/maintain two heavily used email clients. But the most infuriating thing is the trip bundles. That was my most used feature and such a distinguishing aspect of Inbox that it’s almost insulting that Google would tell me I can “find my favorite features in Gmail” when it’s blatantly not there.

I would pay to still use Inbox.
Renewable are a way better source of energy than nuclear power and we should definitively invest on them. But currently they does not suffice (because we don't have enough energy storage capacity). So we need nuclear both
- now, to complete renewable, instead of using gas/coal
- in the future, as a back up plan, if good storage technology is not found and renewable are not enough.

Remember that we will need a lot more electric energy if we want electric cars and use energy for decarbonisation; so we should use nuclear until renewable completely fill the gap.
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Was it actually renewables slumping in production or demand surging? If the second, how different would the situation have been with traditional power?

I ask because a 40C day sounds like a problem due to AC usage, but would probably come with pretty effective solar, and decent wind near the sea.
Then you should read the book Six Degrees by Mark Lynas, who read 3000 peer-reviewed papers on the effects of climate change and summarized them, one chapter per degree.

Billions of deaths at three degrees is probably overstating things, but three degrees does bring massive food shortages and hundreds of millions of refugees. At four degrees, billions of deaths doesn't look that unlikely, and it starts getting hard to imagine how modern civilization could survive. More than that is unthinkable.

The book is a decade old but more recent work hasn't improved the outlook at all.
I’ve worked in credit cards and this business model (like most fintechs) isn’t sustainable. There’s just a fraction to be earned on transaction fees so not surprised it’s being bought out. I'd say for many alternatives, they will eventually follow the same route.
+ Fist bump. One day I will have something as good as VB6's IDE. Right?
I haven't read the linked article completely. But I think unless we're able to manipulate our Sun's mass or luminosity, it will be extremely difficult to make our civilization difficult.
repeated appeals were not what I was looking for. where are the numbers which describe the the contribution of nuclear power to control global warming? How many? What timeframe? Costs? Who builds them? Which models? Where do we build them? What effects does it have when? What are possible scenarios?

If nuclear proponents want to be taken serious, they need to answer those kinds of questions. Currently nuclear is stagnating on a global scale.
What is needed as a complement to renewable energy is dispatchable generation, i.e., plants that can be quickly turned on and off as the supply from renewables changes. Nuclear (and also coal) is a really bad option for this because the time to turn these plants on an off is measured in days.
Check the fate of the EPR projects.

Just replacing eol reactors in the west will be hard.
I always wanted to try similar experiment - to see what I can build for the house out of used packaging; in particular, large plastic bottles from soft drinks (we already drink filtered tap water instead of buying bottled). The amount of plastic packaging I find myself throwing away weekly is ridiculous, and it's really hard to avoid it. We segregate trash, but with the stories breaking out recently that recycling is a code word for "shipping out to poorer countries to be dumped all over the place", one wonders what's the point.

> I wonder how much we lose as a society for running virtually every price to the lowest possible level.

We're losing the habitability of our planet.

I thought long about this in the past, and honestly - disposable packaging wouldn't be a bad thing iff it was efficiently (and actually) reused or recycled after being disposed of, and if we didn't have problems with energy security and fossil-fuel-induced climate change. 24ᵗʰ century humanity from Star Trek would be able to use disposable packaging to their heart's content (and note that in the show, they didn't). Our Earth can't afford this. And yet we do, and it's a market failure.
> with breeder reactors and reprocessing (super expensive, but that's another story)

Till and Chang argue in their book about the IFR that if we start building IFR style plants for production usage it's entirely possible that costs drop to about LWR levels.

So far fast breeders have been expensive, but that's largely because they've all been one-off designs largely for R&D purposes without much effort to reduce costs.

For reprocessing, their argument is that electrorefining (pyroprocessing) would be much cheaper than PUREX. To the point that the lower fuel acquisition cost and cheaper waste disposal could make it roughly comparable to once-through LWR costs, even with relatively cheap uranium.

Such a shame IFR was shut down.. sigh
A banana is radioactive as well. What is the exact negative effect compared to coal?
Even with the current advances we have only just seen a glimpse of what can be optimized and improved using ml/ai.
I do everything I can to make typography invisible to me. I do this by converting it all to the same style. I don't allow websites to chose their own fonts. I use Firefox's Reader View whenever possible. I remove all formatting from ebooks and apply my own CSS in Calibre. I'm convinced that the most legible typography is the one you're most familiar with, and if you consistently read the same typography it will become the metaphorical crystal. The actual design of the type matters very little.
I've always wondered, what is the overhead of an OS (say Linux), compared to a stand-alone binary? Maybe some here could answer the question: What kind of differences would you see for nginx on HermiTux vs Linux? Less memory usage, more requests? Also, what about a standalone web server operating system that just implemented a TCP stack?

How would the performance ande memory usage of those three things compare?