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Importantly, according to this map [1], it’s one of the better places for high average wind speed over a year at 30m and 100m height.
From the Dakotas/Montana down through Texas is the sweet spot for turbines.

[1]https://www.nrel.gov/gis/wind.html
Well simple really, there are still many shitty governments out there and not much of anything that we can do about it. worse is when they get sufficient weaponry it pretty much puts them off limits for any intervention and in some cases lets them blackmail others.

look at Venezuela and even North Korea, then look who supports these regimes that allow the governments of each to keep themselves in power. We cannot do much more than harm the people of countries like these two but surely trade sanctions or limits can be applied to their supporters.
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AFAIK, they arrested him because of the creation and sale/distribution of the Kronos and "UPAS Kit" malware [1].

[1]: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edwi/pr/marcus-hutchins-pleads-...
I respectfully disagree here.

The US has seen a sharp decline in children earning more than their parents. 90% of people born in 1940 earned more than their parents, compared to just 50% in 1985, a trend that we simply aren't doing enough to correct[0]. We're on our way to a new gilded age, but perhaps your kids will among the fortunate and not of the "useless class", as Yuval Harari would say.

As technology and AI continue to progress, it's going to become harder to educate and train the workforce, and perhaps more importantly, re-train them as human skills continue to fall into obsolescence. I look at my baby nephew and hope that he'll be able to find solid-paying work one day, but that just isn't a given anymore.

0: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/09/504989751...
> "How are many national economies keeping innumerable people hungry, even though there's plenty of food to go around several times over?"

I never see this question on TV. What I mainly see on Tv is talk about political strategies, result surveys and the like. Climate change is one of the few things that I see being discussed. And even that has a lot of this let's talk about politicians positions and poll results.

I want to see more about how to improve the world. Does anyone know any good on-line resources about this? Because mass media is doing a poor job. And we need them to do a better job.
I probably shouldn't name names without consulting them, but two of the bigger graphic design firms in Australia (bigger by half the products you see in a day are done by them) that I know fairly well are pretty much all Macbooks.

The CEO and team leads also get iMacs for the office, but extensively use the laptops. There is exactly one tower in each office - the render farm.
Well, that element of Real Steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Steel is on track to be reality. (Set in the year 2020, the movie features lots and lots of windmills in Texas.) :-)
That sounds like a surefire way of creating large discussions around bad comments, instead of moving them out of the way.
Yes, I believe that's what they're saying. Calculating the gain when buying a car may be doable (dollar value relative to what the pesos cost originally). The part about all this that doesn't really work is if you convert to BTC and buy pizzas and beers throughout the year, it's not really possible to keep track of the gain relative to each of those transactions. I fear that this will break things.
No sorry this is backwards. I don't have to prove anything. I wasn't making a claim they were (and it is quite a serious claim).

As far as I am concerned there is no evidence other than spurious claims from the SPLC and the ADL.

I gave you evidence that the SPLC throws the racism (Islamophobia is a very similar accusation) around too liberally and because Maajid Nawas is in the UK that has tighter defamation laws he was able sue them for a substantial amount of money. If the SPLC doesn't do basic research about Maajid Nawas, how can you trust they have done their research about the Proud Boys? The answer is you can't.

And sorry those statements do somewhat refute the claim. White-supremacists wouldn't have non-white people in their movement. White-supremacists wouldn't have children with non-whites (they call those people race-traitors). The movement was started as a joke (Gavin McInnes was on Joe Rogan Podcast 920 & 710 I believe it was one of these appearances where he specifically coined the term, but it could be an earlier appearance on his show).

So I can back up everything I've said. All I've seen presented so far from you is smear pieces by organisations that even Noam Chomsky has criticised in the past.
I also have to say that every time they bashed us, we took it as constructive feedback and acted upon that in a really positive way. Now we have a startup with better product-market-fit.
I have an AC unit on rollers that has a hose out the window[1] to take the bite out of those hot days. Although I've recorded 38C inside my house... Seems like you insulation is a bit better.

[1] https://www.homedepot.com/b/Heating-Venting-Cooling-Air-Cond...
> You said this in 2 consecutive sentences. Please reconsider your position.

There's nothing to reconsider. There are people that hate how free the speech is in the US, but their efforts are largely limited to the environments where they have full cultural and administrative control over - such as certain university campuses, or online platforms they own - and once you go outside these censorship areas, your speech is free, and the government - absent occasional local stupidity outbursts routinely corrected by courts - is not able to suppress speech in any meaningful way, and the courts are determined to keep it this way.

TLDR: some people want speech not to be free in the US, but so far they fail.
I don’t disagree with you that the two can coexist. I’m saying the mainstream publications have skewed most people’s perception of Xinjiang so far out of the realm of reality that they would likely be absolutely shocked if they ever actually set foot there. World class airports, modern agricultural techniques, a high speed rail system that would put the ones in NY or London to shame [1]. Stray from the “dystopian Xinjiang” narrative and you’re automatically branded a 50c army propagandist.

I honestly can’t remember the last time I saw a sensational exposé about alleviating poverty through technology-driven, sustainable farming in Xinjiang, in a mainstream publication. On the other hand, I don’t have enough hairs on my head to count the number of condemnations and denouncements.

This is likely the cause of frustration that you see seeping through in answers such as the one posted.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHCs582uUx8
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Brit here, and in 2017 I bought a window venting small ish unit made by Amcor. £199 or so, and worth every penny these last few years. When I don’t use it, it lives in my spare room tucked away and I wheel it to my office for the hot spells.
> given that the U.S. Constitution grants the government the sole power to coin money

Not true. It grants Congress the power to coin money (Article I §8 ¶5), and prohibits the states from doing the same (§10 ¶1), but it says nothing about private citizens. Coins can legally exist which were not created by Congress or by any state. Arcade tokens would be one obvious example.

In any case "to coin money" refers specifically to making coins, as in physically stamping them out of metal. Whether or not they're treated as "currency" in a legal sense, cryptocurrencies are obviously not physical coins so rules about coining money do not apply.

From a tax perspective, the special treatment applied to foreign currencies is a result of specific treaty obligations. It only applies to small amounts of income—under $200 IIRC—and is meant to avoid the need to report small fluctuations in value when you hold foreign currencies temporarily for travel. In other respects the rules are the same as for cryptocurrencies, or really any other kind of property apart from USD. It's not surprising that the currency rules are not applied to something like Bitcoin which we have no treaties about and whose use is not strongly correlated with travel outside the country.
I'm curious if Firefox has considered a GSuite competitor. Their IOT/home-router offering looks great, and a similarly privacy-first GSuite might get a lot of cross sell.
There was an excellent BBC documenatry about this subject which may be of interest: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006nzt/war-in-the-bl...
There actually is a law in France that forbids workers to check mail after hours. It's something :).

"New French law establishing workers’ “right to disconnect” goes into effect today. The law requires companies with more than 50 employees to establish hours when staff should not send or answer emails. The goals of the law include making sure employees are fairly paid for work, and preventing burnout by protecting private time."

Source: https://fortune.com/2017/01/01/french-right-to-disconnect-la...
Education is more accessible now than ever. It's amazing that anyone anywhere in the world can watch Feynmann and Leonard Susskind's lectures on General Relativity without giving a penny to CalTech/Stanford. There is also plenty of cheap housing in the US, just not in large cities and highly desirable areas. If you do decide to live in a low-cost area, there are more options for remote work than ever before.

Over the last 20 years, humans have really mastered cooperation on a global rather than a national scale. IMO, the economy as a whole has expanded as a result.
Thanks for the breath of fresh air. People stumbling over each other trying to foolishly validate the status quo makes me lose hope for this world.
You can do that. That’s how I have mine set up currently.
You dropped your /s
I felt the same way, and after maybe 2 years I still hate it - the only thing I ever want to use on it is the F-keys, rendering it useless.

Actually, worse than useless - I also run Bootstrap on my MBP, and when using keys on the touch bar you have to leave something like a 2s delay between each press for it to register. Maddening when F5 stepping through code!
I am as "egg" as they come (white on the outside and yellow in the middle) but I am consistently abused by Chinese trolls. I love China but loathe the Chinese trolls.
I never claimed UK has free speech. It is obvious they do not for a while. I was talking about the US though. Canada is kind of borderline - their "human rights courts" are a travesty but afaik still not as bad as in the UK (though I've not been keeping tabs on that for a while so I may be wrong about Canada).
There is no argument. That's what you are missing. Someone expressing his opinion is not equal to starting an argument, in any context. Starting the argument is the person who actually starts the argumentation process.
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The butterfly mechanism is fine, as a class of mechanism, it's Apple's implementation which pushes the limits of sound engineering. It's perfectly possible for that kind of keyswitch to have large travel and a good actuation threshold.
The range between the min and max temps for the last 100 years is under 1°C globally. For the last 1,000 years it's just over 1°C (from wolfram alpha at least). It's clear that temps are slowly rising, but the constant reports of extreme weather seem at odds with the data to me. Is 1°C over 1,000 years really doing all this? When I read articles about the weather I have to remind myself what the data says. If I didn't check occasionally I'd think we'd increased by 10°C in the last 5 years.

For the record, I drive an electric car and my house is supplied by a purely renewable provider here in the UK. I hate the thought of polluting the planet and I do what I can to live a green life. I really love science and study as much as I can, but reading about global warming is very different to reading about quantum electrodynamics or special relativity. I'll happily watch the oil companies go under and I think dumping tons of crap in to the atmosphere is clearly terrible and shouldn't go unpunished, I just wish I had some better data to back this all up.

Source: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=global+temperature

Has anyone got good sea level rise data for the last 1,000 years? Again, when I read any article I feel like the sea must have risen by a few meters already as everything is so dramatic, but I can't find a decent dataset that sets out what has actually happened.
>Nearly 3/4 of people report being “happy” with their cellular service

Since happiness with a product is about the comparison to other products that exist in their market, and all choices are virtually identical it is easy to be "(relatively) happy" that they can talk to their friends.

If they considered the % markup on service in the US compared to Europe they would likely be less happy. If they went further and considered the data being sold, ridiculous phone lease contracts, and planned obsolescence, they would likely be not happy. To consider that, though, would require another option which doesn't exist in their market.
Isn't it fraud already a federal crime?
Any time you "realize" a currency or commodity (that is, sell it or trade it for something else) you need to pay tax on the capital gain, if there is one. At some point, you purchased those CAD. If the value of CAD is higher when you use it to pay for your coffee, there was a capital gain, and you just realized it.

Say you purchased X amount of CAD a few years back for $0.70 USD. It doesn't matter how much you purchased.

Now some time goes by, and the current market rate for CAD is $1.00 USD. You go ahead and purchase your $5 CAD coffee. By doing that, you've realized $5 CAD of your investment, which is currently worth $5 USD, but when you bought it it was only worth $3.50 USD. So you made a capital gain of $1.50, and you have to report and pay tax on that.

Whether you purchased a coffee or converted to USD doesn't matter -- the important part is that you made a gain on the CAD over time, then used it for something.
Just bought one on amazon refurbished. Best. Laptop. Ever.
I am grateful for these "snide remarks", as to me there is nothing so important and interesting as trying to bring humans out of oppression and suffering (no matter who is the instigator).

Something I found amazing (horrific) when reading the article: what if this writing only sounds snide to us, but not to others? Consider your examples:

> Some of these Uyghurs, Kazakhs are sent to the reeducation camps and they are forced to learn Mandarin Chinese and the latest drip irrigation techniques to save water and reduce costs. Moreover, each village is assigned with one or more communist party members to guide them through to make sure that they don’t mess up the newly cultivated land.

> I mean, the Chinese government has also forced Tibetans to build a massive amount of greenhouses on the Tibetan plateau. Those Tibetans have no time to go to temples for worshipping any more, instead, they have to work in the greenhouses taking care of tomatoes. This is why Dalai Lama is not so happy to hear this.

This is horrific and dystopian to me. But imagine if you believed the Uyghurs/Kazakhs are inferior peoples, and that Tibetan temples/monks are evil. You could read these paragraphs and consider all of this to be positive. I wonder how popular that type of thinking is in China.
If balding it's entirely healthy and natural and magical and whatever, what are you shaving your head for?
I have no idea how exactly those kinds of decisions are made, but I feel like the "evidence of good character since then" clause has a decent chance to work here. The whole domain redirection thing he did definitely saved quite a lot of pain for people and businesses worldwide.
You need to look beyond just US corn. Crop yields need to continue increasing globally just to keep up with population growth, which going to be a significant challenge. At the same time, farmland is being lost to urbanization and desertification every single day. On top of that, weeds and pests are developing resistance to chemicals, and pollinating insects are dying off rapidly. Plus, GMO notwithstanding, conventional intensification methods are running into diminishing returns. So: farming ain't getting any easier.

Now, enter climate change. Droughts are bad. Downpours (cf. rainiest year) are arguably worse, because they accelerate soil erosion. Many places have lost half or more of their arable soil over the past half century, and rebuilding soil takes many, many years. No soil, no harvest.

So I don't share your optimism. Perhaps there are high tech solutions to all of the above problems, but they're (currently) too expensive for most of the world.
And of course, causing a counter-counter strike from country 2 against country 1. Messy!
I highly doubt that in all honesty. But it's good to think positive!
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> Really? We'd all love to see a plan.

Prioritize. Food, shelter, health. Everything else is expendable. Accept an unprecedented, long term recession on the order of 10% per year, possibly a bit less if we're lucky.

That's the easy part. The hard part is doing that without having a civil war (or just plain war) on your hands. We most probably need to come up with a convincing story where the economy slows down drastically, and we're all happier than we are now.

There's one little snag, though: this plan necessarily involves reducing inequalities. We cannot afford the richest of us. The problem is that they are rich and have a lot of influence. They will throw the army at us (possibly by asking the politicians whose election campaing they funded).
How can you not think the human race will be threatened by all those factors?

Forget about the geopolitcal issues, which will indeed be massive. What about food production?

In 2010 a single heat wave triggered the Arab spring revolts a couple of months later.

> The wildfires destroyed one-third of Russia's wheat harvest. The Russian government refused to export the rest of its harvest and set a grain export ban to fight inflation. This led to extremely high food prices, which led to panicking on the global markets. Many experts including from the International Food Policy Research Institute say that the Russian wildfires in summer 2010 played a leading role in triggering the Arab Spring starting in 2010, especially in Egypt's case. Higher food prices helped to make oppression, poverty, and corruption under autocratic leaders even more aching for the local population. Also, as Russia was not even a member of the WTO at the time, banning exports was not a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Russian_wildfires

We are approaching a world were these kind of problems with food production will be globalized and will affect everything but specially the global economy.
What is the effect of holding onto iron bars in a water bath?
That's exactly how any heart transplants used to work: you stop the heart (now the patient is dead), cut it off, put the new one back. If the body is cold enough, 10 minutes might be OK.

The reason it does not work past 10 minutes without cooling is that brain cells start dying en masse, including ones running vital functions.
> except for the 2 months a year that Seattle requires AC

Huh? 2 months out of the year AC is required? Even if you can not, somehow, stand a week or two of 90-100 degree weather(with NO humidity!) without air conditioning, to months of required AC in Seattle seems like an insane exaggeration.
I had long wondered if it would be possible to have a custom autoscaler that just stopped/started instances rather than terminating and re-creating, in order to respond to load increases more quickly than amazon's autoscaling groups. You still pay for the EBS even when it's stopped and deploys involve briefly starting all of the stopped instances, but EBS is a fraction of the overall spend and maybe in some cases the complexity is worth it?
> Is it because it is one of the few fonts you are able to name?

More that people can name it and identify it. Plenty of people know what Arial is, and I'd imagine designers hate it far more, but most people can't distinguish it from Helvetica.

> Stop font is far worse than Comic Sans

Yeah, if the original San Francisco[1] had been made a TrueType font and become popular, it would be equally reviled.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_(decorative_type...
This is the same FBI that dealt a devastating blow to Clinton's campaign with the re-opening (and later re-closing, again with no charges) of the emails investigation shortly before the election.

Are you really suggesting that right after the election they "turned around" and started undermining the Trump presidency? What kind of sense does it make?
In 3 years of work laptop use I don't think I've ever once encountered an app that actually provides useful enough controls to depose my default function controls of

1. Mission control
2. Brightness down
3. Brightness up
4. Previous track
5. Play/pause
6. Next track
7. Volume down
8. Volume up

After experimenting with all of the apps I use every day to see what controls they could provide, I ended up just disabling the app-specific touchbar controls entirely and going with my defaults for every app.

I know it's personal preference how everyone likes their own machine configured, but as someone who gets zero value out of the OLED display, it's frustrating how vastly worse an experience it is than than it needs to be. The touch bar is clumsy with its zero touch feedback, so that I'm always accidentally pressing it with my fingertips when using the number row, and it drives me crazy. It's so much worse than the function keys that even if they fixed the utterly broken keyboard mechanism I would never buy a touchbar Macbook. Fortunately, Apple is making it a really easy decision, since their display panels aren't even close to being the best anymore, their core components are perennially outdated and overpriced, and MacOS has long been neglected. What else is there? The touchpad? I just use a high-end gaming mouse because it's about a billion times more precise and reliable.
Because it is too late. We're realizing now that it was too late decades ago.
Would country 1 counter-strike without getting confirmation that it was, in fact, country 2? How would they know it wasn't country 3, 4, or 5?
> IANAL, I'm not a tax expert, but I believe you can deduct losses when converting to/from fiat currency (US dollars). Which is where taxation would take effect.

You are flat out wrong. You are taxed on any income or transaction, no matter the currency used.
I don't know about April Fools, but software pessimization as a trend has definitely been keeping Moore's law alive for a long time (via creating a demand for it).

Similarly to compiler pessimization, software pessimization operates on a higher level, and is implemented by the application programmer. The goal is to produce new software that does the exact same thing as old software, but uses more resources.

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Usually 3-4 kilowatts demand for continuous operation. Depends on sizing obviously.

Dunno if they even have measurable inrush demand from the mains as they have capacitors and can't turn on when they fail.
It missed Earth by 73,000 kilometers; Earth has radius 6,371 kilometers.

(79371 * 79371) / (6371 * 6371) = 155.2

This was a game of darts in a galactic pub. The dart hit the dart board, but not the bullseye (Earth). One in every 155 times we play this game, it ends badly.
> Build enough renewables to replace all fossil fuels and then some

Might work if you throw lots and lots of nuclear reactors into the mix. It's less dangerous than most people think, and is most likely the most efficient way to amortise the energy shortage induced recession.

(Renewables still need massive investment, I'm just saying they likely won't be enough.)