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The Windscale reactors were built in a hurry in 1950 to produce nuclear weapons after Russia managed to test it's first atom bomb in 1949 and are not really representative of modern power generating technology.
>The argument that dealing with China will somehow make them change their values makes as much sense as saying we should deal directly with drug cartels and they'll change their values. It may be true, it may not be true, but either way it's basically the same argument. Somehow that by bringing them into the system will make them more like us

Well, the US has been dealing directly with drug cartels and it did turn them to have closer ties (e.g. funding them against communists in latin america etc).

And of course drug cartels that get rich enough tend to diversify and branch into legal businesses in a generation or two (they'd rather invest their riches than keep living under constant threat).

Finally, if drugs are made legal, drug cartels are forced to change into mere drug businesses (or branch into other types of much less lucrative and impactful crime, like smuggling).
You can really strip down and simplify your life, spend time in silence and adjust your social interactions to suit your personality in many ways that are much better than this.
The spinal cord itself is pretty limited in terms of processing power; just reflexes as far as I know. So the comparison between something basic like coax or fiber optic cable is fair.

The piece talks about transmitting 4k movies over nerve fibers. I take that to mean: if you removed the nerve from the body and use it purely as an OSI level 1 physical layer. There is no neural net. There is no processing.
Aren't we also breaking in and stealing other, not people, but livings things "stuff" when we mow down their home, destroy their supplies, and then kill them off completely? Is it really a "break in" and "theft" if you are not part of the society that has defined those collective myths? If you are not part of a society that deems that individuals can own stuff, why should you follow those rules? What about when we put upon others our will when we start a war? Is it always wrong to take other peoples possessions or put upon them our will? Is it wrong to take from others that have plenty if you have none? Isn't our modern societies built upon taking stuff that isn't inherently ours, claiming it, and then forcing our will upon those around us, humans and animals alike?

If you are not part of our society, maybe going in and taking our stuff is not as much "break in" and "theft", but just pure and simple survival.
That world doesn't and won't exist for most. In places where jobs are being lost and no one works people band together for crime more than innovation. The common goal being additional money.

If you look at the wealthiest innovation is not what they do with there freetime either.

Innovation requires motivation. Innovation requires resources.
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The only way I've found to do that is to go through and manually tag the games myself.
>Investing in China could become more risky than investing in the Philippines, Brazil or India in the future simply because you can better estimate how your capital will interact with political policy.

On the other hand, investing in China could have you get guaranteers by politicians that they'll help with your investment, even bypassing the market rules in your favor, making it much more profitable to invest there.

So you might not get much competition, but you still get highly successful investments.

It's not like western economies don't get too monopolistic and lobby-powered all the time (Amazon, Google, Facebook, and co).
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>why should a person or another creature that is not part of society think any different when they go into someones cabin and take food and supplies instead of finding the things in untouched nature?

Because the creature or its family isn't going to be planning retribution, like I'd be doing if you broke into my property and stole my stuff.
Besides it was always a doctrine, not some physical law of the universe...
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Is this a new Bezos product? The Article wasnt clear to me :p
Where did you feel wikis fell down in the long term? I would quite happily ditch Slack for something like a live collaborative Google Docs but simpler and with wiki style linking, if the tooling for search and discovery was good.
as another datapoint, I worked at GRASP lab and half of my classmates went Waymo, or some other self driving car company. They go there because of the calibur of co-workers, many of them do no believe self driving cars on residential roads is possible within the next 10 years. In fact, one of the robotics professors here (who is no stranger to PR hype) said: self driving cars with pedestrians on the roads is impossible

Most are optimistic about highway driving in California though.
>How so? It appears to have worked on the Soviet Union, and very few people accurately predicted its fall.

Correlation != causation. For one, all kinds of Eastern European regimes collapsed before USSR -- which helped a great deal.

Second, it was already not in very good shape from the inside...

Third, China did the same closer capitalist cooperation at the same more or less time as USSR, and is stronger than ever, as opposed to collapsed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher and others

Passive cooling techniques are quite advanced in middle eastern tradition of architecture.
> I must be weird. I find fishing, sunning on the beach, sitting in a lawn chair, etc., extremely dull, and last about 5 minutes at it.

I'm the same way, but for fishing it depends on the type of fishing. Bait/lure fishing I tire of quickly. But fly fishing was vastly different, at least the one time I did it. It seemed a bit more technical and required more focus and finesse.
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Because they were several generations removed from the iron grip of Stalin and the state, and had internalized the pathologies and weaknesses of that system (some of their parents also suffered from it).

Besides, after all the decades of drabness nobody really believed in some imminent glorious future as a justification anymore -- like they could still believe in the 20s and 30s...
Sorting by recommended system requirements would be pretty cool.

Library listings for games could definitely benefit from the addition of genre/category tags. It's annoying having to go to the store page to check what kind of game it is.
Not to mention that almost all democratic societies also end up cyclically ruled by shitheads and selfish out of touch elites (and we're at that point well now).
That's a mighty large parking ticket. Equivalent of around 20% of annual net income for Facebook.

That would be like your average American making $50k a year getting a parking ticket for $10,000.

But the real question is whether Facebook earned more from the specific bad behavior than the fine. Which I think would be hard to know without a lot more information.
I'm totally expecting from Google to discontinue, restrict or change the API for Google Sheets at one point. It will likely be in the moment when it's hardest for you to timely update your app.
On a smaller scale, the concept has been used in the Middle East:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher

If there is wind, you don't even need the fans that are used in the basement of the Eastgate Centre.
Ah, the gatherer becomes the hunted.
Or 25 years ago building things on Tibco Rendezvous...
Even if everybody on LiveJournal has since changed their passwords (there and everywhere they repeated it, which we know they won’t have), this now adds to the dictionary of passwords which _other_ humans may have chosen elsewhere and will certainly increase the hit rate of password spraying attacks etc.

While everyone recommends turning on 2FA everywhere, I’m increasingly convinced we’d all be safer if the password was the second, optional factor.
Most would not last very long I agree. But I don't think that those that find the hermit existence more to their liking (and can sustain such an existence for an extended period of time) would "come crawling back" or anything like that. Once my kid is out of the house, I don't really care about not kicking the bucket a little sooner if by doing so I could live out my last decade or two in peace and without having to deal with the daily stream of bovine manure that "civilization" entails.
At this point it's really only a cesspool of people trying to sell stuff - get off the platform, you won't be missing out on anything valuable.
How is this "SNS and SQS rolled into one"? What's the SQS-like part in this? This seems very similar to SNS, with some additional flexibility around event filtering, and the added bonus of various SaaS integrations that can replace traditional webhooks.
Thinking about this more, and extending/tweaking the kernel of your original idea of solar close to consumption, and providing shading: an ideal place for solar is to use it as shading in car parks. Underutilized land, demand in the nearby businesses and to charge parked cars.

Not really my idea by the way - I have seen a number of such projects underway on the web, and in real life.
The e-cigarette culture is widely different in Europe. Only people that I've seen using it are 25+ year old people that want to reduce/stop smoking.
Not a single kid. Let alone someone "cool".
Still the European Union are regulating it and making it less attractive. Like with the recent ban of "shake n vape" for example
They teased an update for the Steam library recently, I think better filtering functionality is part of it. Not sure when it's coming out though, but since it's Valve time, you never know anyways.
> > With the era of mass communication upon us, the collective human organism . . . rose into existence.

> I like thinking about us this way too, as being both individuals but at the same time also forming a sorts of organism together.

You may be interested in Paul Stamets' thoughts on this, essentially, that the invention of the Internet was an evolutionary inevitability.

https://youtu.be/90vhfdj1zic?t=977
Windcatchers can also be used in combination with qantas to provide more cooling capacity.

A qanat or kariz is a gently sloping underground channel to transport water from an aquifer or water well to surface for irrigation and drinking, acting as an underground aqueduct.

Qanats used in conjunction with a wind tower can provide cooling as well as a water supply.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat#Cooling
Yeah and your statistics are also misleading because who the hell smokes a full cigar in a sitting?
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Looking at teaching materials, indexing in R hardly gets a mention. Student are told they get get the first element by a[1] and the twelfths element by a[12], and if you want 4th, 5th and 6th, you just ask for that range, a[4:6]

For python teaching this is almost a whole chapter, with people sharing cheat sheets and building graphics to show how slicing works what not. You don't see these things in R teaching materials.

I'm sure that for the implementation of algorithms, things might be easier with zero indexing, but for a user asking for element 4,5 and 6, 1-indexing is much, much easier on the user.
If you're going to take the "might is right" standpoint then society with it's huge police and military force always wins.

I don't even understand why you need to ask these questions. In the past countries routinely ignored other countries' laws by going to war. Even nowadays China is extraditing Chinese Americans who break Chinese laws even if what they did is completely legal in the US.
Also here's the part of the interview on Apple's decision to do their own mapping service which started in 2009: https://youtu.be/ukTAAz5TfnY?t=7854.
This article sure did a shitty, non-existent attempt at citing its references.

From the cow's mouth, here's the original JEDI Cloud solicitation[1]--which includes the latest amended SOO[2] and Oracle's pre-award protest[3]--and the actual court order[4].

Doesn't seem like anyone is really talking about it either, but it's worth noting that this isn't some gratuitous "here's $10B, we're locking ourselves in for the next decade, go buck wild" ordeal. This ID/IQ contract has a 2-year base with 3-, 3-, and 2-year options for the remaining years, and a maximum $10B cap iff the government exercises all options.

Here's to hoping the government doesn't royally screw themselves over by dropping the ball on CDRLs A007 and A014.

[1] https://www.fbo.gov/index.php?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=386...

[2] https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=845d0652768ef4a4749231d39a...

[3] https://www.fbo.gov/utils/view?id=6cd8017d52d2b832855c41fb74...

[4] https://ecf.cofc.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2018cv...
When a random third party is acting on their (Strava's) user's behalf, it kind of means they should.
Email, forums, the Fediverse (Mastodon/Pleroma/...), Twitter
I don't see the argument. Bad effect from things that are relatively non-addictive (at least physically) suggest that things that are addictive needs to be even more controlled. If anything there is now a disparity between what science tells us about "junk food" and digital media, and what how we treat them. The idea that you can teach people faster than dangers can appear without boundaries doesn't seem to be supported these days.
That article misrepresents what Musk actually said. The actual conversation was more like: Q) When will you be able to fall asleep and let the car drive? A) Uh dunno maybe late 2020.

Even if you believe in Musk, he tends to run late so late 2020 seems optimistic. Assuming you are being safety conscious - some idiot will probably do it anyway and post to youtube.

It seems to me that self driving systems could do with an algorithmic breakthrough or two before they work satisfactorily. If you look at the Autonomy event video https://youtu.be/Ucp0TTmvqOE?t=6973 where Karpathy explains how the systems work, the Japanese Spaniel problem a couple of minutes in to that is the kind of thing that needs fixing.
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Juul is supportive of this -- and Juul is funded deeply enough (by Altria -- Marlboro, over 12 billion) to be able to go through the FDA review. Pretty much all the independents cannot. This means that the vaporizer business will be completely ceded to "big tobacco". Please don't say "e-cigarette", say "vaporizer" instead. Really would appreciate that.
> I don’t think that democracy is vital to the wellness of a society.

Well, it depends. If you're well above the typical middle-income country, I think you'd still benefit from more democracy. Democratic countries tend to benefit from increased openness, which is vital to creating wealth and avoiding disruptions of all sorts when you're at the forefront of economic development - and we see this even in historical times where non-democratic polities were far more common.
> It seems like you're saying you would happily use the service if there was more of it available.

Which is a problem when the scooter companies lose money on every single scooter they put into the world.

Being popular alone is enough to grift SV investors who have money to burn, but when that well dries out they can't afford to subsidize these things to the extent required to keep them useful to people. If you can't find scooters they lose their utility, but the companies won't be able to afford leaving so much excess capacity around.
> He wanted to live out his life in that small place in the woods, to die there among the trees, leaving nothing behind.

Well, the people whose cabins he raided might not agree with the "leaving nothing behind" aspect. That would sound more convincing if he'd lived on wild berries and roots, fish from the streams, etc., taking no more than the environment could comfortably sustain.

He didn't become a hermit; he became an outlaw in the forest, and we shouldn't be surprised that the sheriff eventually came after him.
See also this, which describes how US healthcare is killing people: https://www.ft.com/content/05f7fa82-a315-11e9-a282-2df48f366...
Not defending Oracle, but in government contracting, it's par for the course and happens a lot more than you might expect. Given the magnitude of this contract and its single award nature, I would be even more surprised if no one protested.
Reminds me a bit of Apache Camel then - let's you easily route end points from all kinds of different protocols as if they are messages.
Is the difference now that the tracking metadata used to be set at upload time, and now it's set at download time? Presumably, if you set it at download time, you can not only track the uploader but also the downloader.
From the comments here, it seems people have not studied any philosophy and are treating these folks as selfish and thieving. Not so; as a living organism you need the minimum to feed, clothe and house yourself. This can be done in any manner (in ancient history Sages/Monks used to "beg" for food which was an accepted norm) and it simply is that some ways are looked down upon in today's society. Nothing more. For some more accounts on solitary living and solitude see;

1) Read up on Dick Proenneke - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke He lived alone for 30 years (from age 50 to 80) in the Alaskan Wilderness; built his cabin by hand and filmed his activities. Those documentaries and journals are a must watch/read.

2) Into Great Silence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Great_Silence A beautiful documentary on Carthusian monks in the French Alps.
Usually closed source simply means it's not open source. Since it is not open source, I I think many people would normally call it closed source.
> I don’t think that being a hermit (avoiding any social interaction in ‘nature’) and being a criminal (acting against law) are mutually exclusive.

I don’t think anyone here disagrees with this. But this man was certainly more in the latter category than the former. He was just as dependent on civilization putting groceries in the supermarket as any of your suburban neighbors, except instead of paying for those groceries, he stole them. Sure, he also lived in nature and didn’t talk to people.
None are passive
That's true, but adapting to those things later seems simpler than addressing the technical challenge of autonomous driving.
Founder’s effects are really interesting. One might hypothesis that this led to the descendants of these colonists to have stronger bones. You see this effect in many populations that originated from few individuals. A good example is Polynesians, who nowadays have massive obesity problems. The advantage that let these founders survive and reproduce is same that hurts them today (low metabolism, efficient calorie usage, etc).
I'm actually surprised it isn't the opposite. I met my girlfriend at work and many of my friends and co-workers have done the same. Its one of the few places (college is another example) that you can build a rapport with someone on a daily basis. If you are around someone you have good chemistry with on a day-to-day basis for months or years, eventually you will get together (no matter what the company policies are).
I ask because the one I asked seems to believe break ins and theft is anything but collective myths existing only because the individuals in our society believe in them. Outside of society, where nature and war takes place, none of those things exist, and since the hermit was not part of society, it’s not break ins and theft, it’s survival. The only thing not allowing things out there is ethics and morals, if one is capable of such, and that, understandably, seems to crumble when standing in the way of survival.
In copyright, for example, all-rights-reserved is the default if nothing else is specified.
It is perfectly reasonable to be skeptical for all the reasons you've noted. However, I see two things that have changed. Most importantly, he has set of specific month and year. He is also stating a specific license, which I don't recall him doing before. Finally, he did release inform 6 as open source years ago.

So again, you have reason to be skeptical. But there are also reasons to hope.
It's not in the interest of the stores to let you efficiently find just what you need - this would deprive them of revenue from errors and impulsive purchases, and would reduce the time you're spending in store, exposed to various form of advertising.

Stores are not a good product discovery mechanism.
I haven't watched the video yet so I may be missing some context, but terminals (as in ASR-33 and ilk) predate computers. They were used for telegraph/telex services for example. Old teletypes had no electronics btw.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code
Those politicians who promise you the world are humans and in the long term humans switch jobs, switch political stance, mess up and get fired, get sick or die. Hinging your investment on specific politicians is more risky than hinging it on systems.
Would never have happened. There were far too many protected technologies, weapons technologies, involved in getting to and from the moon. At some point the plug would have been pulled.
You are looking at this from the wrong pov. The objective of solitary living is to cut yourself off from "society" and its demands/interactions. The ensuing mental calm and peace (there is "joy" in this) is what "hermits" are striving for.
Hydrogen has low capital cost. The capital cost/energy of storing hydrogen underground will be much less than the cost of storing that energy in a battery. If you have a storage scenario where the energy is stored for very long times, there will be few cycles of that system over its economic lifespan, so minimizing capital cost (even if that means much lower round trip efficiency) is very important.

One would still use more efficient short term storage (and over-installation of renewables sources) for diurnal load leveling.

Hydrogen can also be turned back to electrical power (at lousy efficiency) with cheap hardware. In particular, simple cycle gas turbine power plants with efficiency of 40% cost maybe $400/kW. Compare this to $8-10K/kW for a new nuclear power plant.
> have p2p solutions

Had. Torrent is mostly banned at ISP level.

> The public doesn't use it.

They will if there is no alternative. The public uses email because there was no WhatsApp in 1989.
I don't really see the problem, they can't do it now.

One of the first things we teach people is, that once a picture is on the net, it will never be deleted.
So many discontinued services and people still invest their time to Google APIs.
"as long as the average price is above average cost"

And that's the killer. Add enough solar and wind and the average price craters, even if solar and wind cannot handle everything (without help from dispatchable sources and/or storage).
Not a ton of outside integrations, but this library creates and maintains an esb using sqs and sns with just a few annotations in java. Uses json as the message and maps to pojo in the application.

https://bitbucket.org/pythagorasio/java-message-bus/src/mast...

Its also published on maven central. Io.pythagoras.messagebus

Disclosure: I’m the primary author.
My personal rule is that any code which doesn't get exercised at least weekly is untrustworthy. I once inherited a codebase with a heavy, custom blue-green deploy system (it made sense for the original authors). While we deployed about once a week, we set up CI to test the deployment every day.

Cold code is dead code.