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Given the lead time required to bring new nuclear generation capacity online, it probably makes more sense the other way around: before you get too serious about letting the nuclear power industry die, you just really need to be sure it's feasible to replace it with solar and wind.

(I don't love that nuclear reactors, as opposed to the turbines that generate electricity from the steam they produce, should be in the hands of industry at all; having a profit motive involved in such a safety-critical set of processes is a recipe for disaster. Given a choice between for-profit nuclear reactors and not-for-profit ones, I'll take the second every time. But given the criticality of reliable baseload supply to so many of the processes that support the style of societies on which we've grown so dependent, if we have to choose between for-profit reactors, with all the attendant problems, and no reactors at all - we may very well still be better off with the former than the latter.)
WASM sounds great and all with it’s sandbox like NaCl. But I have to imagine over 90% of client and server computers are x86 and ARM and I don’t see those targets losing any share in the near or long term. Also I don’t see wasm being used in micro controllers as well.
Regolith Linux r1.1-Ubuntu 19.04, international keyboard support, more polish
A rock solid serialization and RPC system.
And not just _this_ problem.
That map shows California (which OP's article is about) as one of the states where CONs are not needed
Your library claims to be 'dual license' but your license file is empty.

Just my personal opinion, but it's unlikely anyone will pay for this given the amount of free alternatives, and it's unlikely anyone will use it in OSS projects because there is a paid tier.
Even better, the federal government already spends more per head on healthcare than the UK government!
OK, the emissions were indeed confirmed to be coming from China. Fortunately they are tracking down the CFC producers now and shutting them down: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/china-makes-arrests-shut...
This is does seem like a trivial optimization over striping.

If your target area is small relative to your potential search space -- imagine your grid is a million by million rows and you are selecting rectangles that are between 10 and 1000 units wide in either dimension -- you'll end up with height or width number of rows or columns to search, most of the time.

Meanwhile, if your target area is large compared to your potential search space ... you also end up with height or width number of L-shaped segments to search along. You only end up with fewer segments if your search area happens to include the center.

Also, not actually a space-filling curve.
They have been doing this to Firefox and Edge for ages. See https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/19/18148736/google-youtube-...

And check out the embedded links to similar accusations by the Firefox CEO among others. It's hard to believe this isn't intentional.

What's hilarious is that the new Edge IS essentially Chrome, making their BS more obvious than before. Chrome is the new IE
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It just means that the population cancer rates in general just keep rising, and adopters of the paleo diet which is promoted as a meat-based health diet have even higher levels of certain cancer biomarkers.

The current science says that processed meat is a known carcinogen, and red meat a likely carcinogen. This

The places with the highest lifespan have all low animal product diets and are known as the blue zones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone

The health in the US is pretty bad, the rates of cancer, stroke, heart disease, and diabetes are at all-time highs and keep rising.

You can give drugs to people and keep them alive for longer, but in which conditions?

Did you see the source of the article? It's a journal sponsored by the meat industry - https://academic.oup.com/af/pages/About
China has a lot of reforestation projects, the most notable of which is the "Green Great Wall," which is intended to hinder the growth of the Gobi dessert. The benefits of this project are questionable because the trees soak up a lot of groundwater in an already very arid area. Also, the forests rely on a few species of trees, so it's very vulnerable to disease.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-North_Shelter_Forest_Pro...
The rationality of hoarding makes more sense if you have 'warehousing' capabilities. Not so much if you're just piling things up haphazardly. (And those capabilities have costs associated with them.)
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Any post critical of USA is universally panned on this site, careful now.

The point of my post is their not pushing green tech to Africa, they're pushing all the dirty industries they no longer want/need to tolerate on-shore.
You can use a closure to pass in the configuration.

def configure_memcache(client_ip, port):
client = pymemcache.client.Client((client_ip, port))
@ring.memcache(client, expire=60)
def get_url(url):
return requests.get(url).content

return get_url

Then in your code which imports the above library:

get_url = configure_memcache('127.0.0.1', 11211)
result = get_url('https://www.google.com')
i didn't go to an elite school by any stretch (being a country boy first in the family going to college) but i know what you mean. After graduation, I felt like a hardened and bloodied gladiator standing alone in a stadium with the sun going down. Without a seemingly impossible task to face i didn't know what to do with myself, it was kind of scary.
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>Are we so sure that plants aren't sentient

Yes.

>Pea plants will grow towards light pretty actively. In the experimental group, they would consistently grow in the direction of the fan - expecting the light to follow the wind.

You don't need sentience for that.
> While it can be shown that a majority of psychopathic serial killers have the prefrontal cortex brain anomaly, it's also the case that almost all such criminals are male. Yet we have an abundance of plainly apparent counterexamples to dismiss the idea that being male implies criminality

That's a bloody weird argument, and AFAICS wrong: (psychopath -> male) /-> (male -> psychopath), where -> is logical implication and /-> is is 'does not imply'. You are confusing implication with equality.

> with more research possessing the same systematic error ... in spite of a counterexample

What systematic error? What counterexample?

> without a thorough and unbiased analysis of the rest of the population

Sampling not good enough?

Serious question, do you have any background in either classical logic or statistics? And what is your area of research?
I believe that psychopathy encompasses many traits, which may be expressed individually to varying extremes

You may get someone who is particularly aggressive and mean-spirited but who is generally honest, the opposite, and so on
Ask HN: How to tell I'm ready to found a startup?
It's always been my dream to start my own start-up. I think I have some pretty good ideas, but whenever I think about acting on them, I feel like it's too soon, I still have so much more to learn... but then I'm afraid if I go on like this, I'll never get started. How do I recognize the right moment?
Ask HN: What Was the First “Web App”?
It's meters per minute.
This resonates with what happened in Eastern Europe. Until the fall of communism nature (by and large) thrived. Despite some bone-headed industrial projects, hunting sprees of the ruling class, etc., a remarkable level of biodiversity was preserved and there was no widespread poaching or deforestation.
In comparison, the wild capitalism of the last 30 years and the opening up of the market to (more efficient) international players meant a death-penalty for forests and wildlife.

EDIT: downvoters, please argue for the opposite if you disagree.
That's almost definitely the case. But there is such a thing as maliciously unintentional, and this seriously keeps happening with every browser that isn't Chrome.

For example; Google is a technically advanced company, so they must have a CI check somewhere in their Youtube release process which confirms that a suite of browser tests pass before a greenlight is given on release. Do you think Chrome is one of the browsers included in this test? Do you think Firefox, Edge, and Safari are as well? Given all of the external evidence we have that they continually break the experience for non-Chrome users, even if they were just oversights.

Maybe Edge released an update that changed a UA string, Youtube is too strict, and it had nothing to do with a new release. Now ask yourself: Is there any chance something like this could happen with Chrome? Of course not; they coordinate and ensure the experience is Perfect on Chrome. Is that less evil, given Google's overwhelming control over the internet?
This seems to be from a magazine sponsored by the meat industry, so it could be why it was taken down - https://academic.oup.com/af/pages/About
Pedantry ahoy: that’s not a hashtag, it’s just a hash.
It is worth noting though, that just planting trees all over the place isn't the same as building and sustaining a complex forest/jungle ecosystem. They may be planting a lot, but the habitat destruction is still a serious concern.

And it's not just an India/China thing too. The US also paves over new and moderate growth forests so they will never develop into old growth ones.
I thought it was only "based on" and distinct from Chromium?
Pedestrian and bicyclist deaths have been climbing due to distracted and impaired drivers, as well as more vehicle miles being driven overall. Vehicle size has little effect on pedestrian safety. A compact car will hurt a pedestrian just as badly as a large SUV. Actually the compact car can be worse in some collisions due to the hood height and shape.
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It’s a good question. Notably, most dictatorships are this way and rarely do we find benevolent totalitarian regimes (Park Chung Hee, Lee Kuan Yew etc).

The CPC is different in that at its core it still seems to a) believe in science and b) wants to uplift China. The bargain is that CPC will take China down a path of prosperity while suspending democratic freedoms. It’s entirely possible they don’t hold their end of the bargain, but it would likely lead to social instability on a massive scale.
We have HTML standards that ar stable. 4.01 e.g. The problem is that no browser ever implemented all of it, and even implemented parts were done differently.
And what about India? As far as I know it doesn't have an authoritarian government. Europe is also democratic and has been a world leader in environmental policy. It's really just the United States that has the problem.

I don't think the key difference is authoritarian vs. democratic, but "prudent" vs. "proudly ignorant". America has some deep, deep-rooted cultural problems that are really at the heart of our environmental failings. Nearly half of our country still thinks global warming is a conspiracy. Some here in the south modify their trucks to produce more pollution as some kind of twisted badge of honor. You see them belch smog across the freeway like it's 1920. It's really a very specifically American complex.
Having government step in to fix things runs contrary to libertarianism. Firstly, whether "your data" is yours I would dispute. At most, it's produced by interactions between you and a company's software or server, so you own no more than half. You exchange that for free services. You also brought up two entirely different points: making services interoperable and making data produced by users belong to users. I addressed the data one, so next is interoperability.

I would say that indeed, we will end up with the lowest common denominator of services, because the services are all different. Also, have you thought about how giving all these companies more access to data would impact the whole problem? Regardless, my argument is more that I see no clause in the Constitution that justifies such an action, and certainly see no justification in morality.

Lastly, why are you writing in such a manner? It's clear you're trying to sound smart, but it just comes across as pompous. Just make good points. There's enough jargon on this site without people deliberately adding more. Also, a "demarcation point" does not convey what I think you wanted to ("law"). Furthermore, you cannot "harrass down" anything; that's bad English. Based on a quoted search, it looks like a piece of jargon specific to League of Ledgends gamers. I wouldn't pick on such things but for the insufferable tone. You've got some nice phrases, they're just in the wrong sentences.
Absolutely love Sarah Drasner's projects! Attention to detail and great sense of humour, thank you!
has done, not is doing
Ask HN: Should I take the 2% employee stock options or Leave?
So I will be given a 2% employee stock option and have to stay in the company for another 2 years (I already stayed for 2 years). We don't generate any revenue yet for the new product (launched for 6 months). But our competitor has 20,000 users with $10 pricing per user.

I don't have any plan after I leave while I feel I can't learn much as I want If I stay in the current SaaS startup. I'm 28 years old.

Did you experience this? Should I stay or leave? What's your advice?
> That arrangement lands particularly hard on contemporary composers, who must compete with a group of semi-mythical figures who are worshipped as house gods.

Hardly a new phenomenon. Brahms could be arguably said to belong to that Pantheon, but he struggled hard with the old composers reputation. Of particular note its first symphony [0]

But also one can do a search for his quotes relating to Beethoven, Mozart or Bach.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No._1_(Brahms)
Sure, I suspect it would be hard because there’s quite a bit of social pressure at school and in the neighborhood - more or less all kids are hooked on screens - and because my experience with trying to limit screen time is that it takes a lot more parenting effort, we have to actively stay on top of it since there are screens in the house, we have to actively provide constructive alternatives and more frequently check on them.

There’s an obvious implication about parenting being more difficult with screens excluded - that using screens is potentially somewhat lazy. As a parent, I think I have been lazy and allowed iPhones and Playstations to keep the kids occupied and let me work on side projects. Road trips with devices is Nirvana compared to not having them; the kids fight for hours without, and it’s silence when they have games.

I didn’t have a screen to myself when I was growing up either, until I camped on the family IBM PCjr as a teenager. This generation just has it quite different than we did, which in a way makes it harder to evaluate what we should do as parents. That said, sitting in front of the TV was something we would do as kids, and also something the adults were warning against.

One way to consider this is to think about whether we adults can go without screen time. I find it pretty hard myself, much harder than it used to be. Of course kids are a different case, but as parents we’re setting an example, and we also have to realize how much of life went online in the last 20 years. It might be harmful to prevent kids from going online entirely. On the other hand, there seems to be an emerging global consensus that considerable limits for kids is healthy and necessary.
Consumers could always use less plastic.
I don't see how anyone could think Malaysia is obliged to fix this mess for the West, they already take in large amounts for processing.
EU-enabled DDoS attacks. Expect automation developments on both the attack and the mitigation side to grow until it's cost prohibitive to do business with those in the EU and companies simply stop offering services to its members.
> And anyway, how do you propose to fix climate change without massive, centralized planning, including punishment of those who subvert such a fix for personal gain?

Tax tax tax. Price in the cost of externalities and let the market sort it out. Market forces allow society-wide coordination without heavy-handed central planing.

Obviously you'll still need to prosecute tax cheats.
Anyone has a link to read the underlying study?
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Now that school is "easy" a team of students sent their own rocket into space... private companies are doing the same... we have cars that can sorta drive themselves...VR is actual thing. Gene therapy...

Seems like people are actually smarter and the pseudointellectuals at Reason are just trying to find something to rail at.
I think you have the onus of responsibility backwards. Nuclear power's ability to achieve the amount and type of energy production appropriate for today's energy usage patterns is proven.

We should be determining the feasibility of scaling solar and wind energy production, creating enough multi-scale storage, and long distance load balancing, and demand shaping before winding down nuclear.

I think it's obvious that we need to do both. Nuclear plants have a lifespan of ~50 years. Reaching and sustaining zero carbon lifestyle isn't a one time occurrence, it'll be an on-going journey for centuries. We'll have plenty of opportunities later to drawdown nuclear.
What actions do you propose in order to "engage with" this "fact"? Are there factories in Western nations that would be seized by more "authoritarian" governments? Can we write some letters to get those factories shuttered without buying into more authoritarianism too?

In fact it seems quite normal that polluters would be punished. When the authorities charged with environmental enforcement are accountable to the populace, polluters are punished for that reason. When they are not accountable, polluters are punished for other reasons, which reasons are probably more closely aligned with the interests of those authorities than with those of the populace. It's great that China no longer imports trash, and it's great that they've closed down some polluters, but they're pretty late to this party. Far freer nations managed to accomplish this a long time ago. Maybe China should copy them instead?
It may unfortunately be the only way. We live in a capitalist society where the only reason any sort of enterprise occurs is because there's a profit to be made. The US government just doesn't give a shit to correct negative externalities via smart regulation because it's in bed with all the big actors in most industries.
So, let's say that I receive this and do no comply. What should my "enemy" who sent this do next? What is the worst case outcome for me?
Software error caused major railway service disruption
The browser vendors always had control. W3C could put anything they want into the standards, it does not matter if nobody implements it.
I don't see the US government (for one) having the teeth or even really desire to enforce any regulations absent a huge change.
It certainly won't stop just because we wish it away. Note the passive voice in "This nonsense should cease." Who, exactly, should do this?

Some junior professor, who's up for tenure based on research output, and teaching prizes based on being liked... in his shoes, would you decide to spontaneously give mostly B & Cs next year, and spend weeks fighting unhappy students?

Thinking about how we'd like the idea system to work is just daydreaming. You've got to think about the incentives facing all the people involved. And at the moment, these seem to point towards inflation.
I don’t believe there are valid studies showing that sugar in a whole food, like a piece of fresh fruit with all the fiber and water that entails that slows down the intake and the absorption of the sugar, has that ability anywhere nearly as much as in stuff like cookies, snack bars and so on. Like at all. I really don’t think you should limit your (whole) fruit intake.

If you know something I don’t, though, please do tell.
Isn't burnout depression?
I'd rather see their points addressed than just flagged because they're from the "wrong" industry.
I would say putting it in the EULA text is telling you and what's more important, a court of law would probably agree. I don't know why you would expect anything more?
"I will have to strongly caution against going long term carnivore or keto, however."

I tend to agree here. Again it gets back to your goals. (Strict) Carnivore and (strict) keto are great tools to achieve your diet/fitness goals, but I don't really consider these diets in their strict form to be "maintenance" diets. Once you achieve your goals I would relax things and reintroduce more diversity of foods. On the other hand, if keto/carnivore is the only thing that seems to work for you, I'd keep doing it and just listen carefully to your body.

"Regardless of the quality of your meat products, animals still have metabolic processes that concentrate toxins, especially higher in the food chain."

I recommend eating primarily ruminants (cattle, bison, sheep, goats, deer, moose, etc.) and small fish / shellfish. With regard to ruminants, these animals are plant-eating herbivores and are on the bottom of the food-chain-- they are "predators" of only plants. Biomagnification of toxins is more of an issue for consumption of omnivores (e.g., pig, chicken, dunno... bear meat?) and predators (e.g., tuna, shark, swordfish)-- the animals which eat other animals.

"You need to set your body up for success by giving it a varied diet with nutrients from different kinds of food. ... I am in favor of a balanced diet, a little of everything, mostly plants, and high-quality animal organ meats."

I like this advice very much. I'm not much of a detoxification proponent, I don't think there's much science to support a lot of the kooky practices out there. I think your body is surprisingly good at sequestering and eliminating toxins from your system. If you eat a natural, whole-food and simple/unprocessed diet which is varied (including plant and animal sources), this is going to give you great odds of being metabolically fit and free of toxins. Once you get that down, I'd also be sure to try to address other lifestyle factors such as sleep, stress, exercise, personal connections, etc.
No, Huawei is not banned from using Wi-Fi in its current or future smartphones
TX passes first grid protection bills to boost cybersecurity and best practices
There are a couple minor things. For example: inside of a Doc, in Chrome you can right click -> edit menu -> copy/paste, but in Firefox it tells you that you must use CMD+C/CMD+V. Non-Chrome browsers also used to be unable to upload folders, but this has been fixed for a while.

Calling the experience Handicapped is extreme, but there's clear preferential treatment toward Chrome.
It sadly doesn't solve the problem with literally all and every grid generator out there - no proper support for spans and areas. The biggest power of grid is the free-form layouting it provides - it just gets lost in these simplistic editors.
Propaganda has always had an effect on democracy, especially power over elections.

I do agree that we should give up on democracy altogether but that’s a different topic, yeah.
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Greenpeace has successfully spent several decades painting nuclear power as Evil so its going to be difficult to convince voters to support it from now on.