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I feel like support for nuclear energy is the acceptable face of climate denial these days.

It's like states rights and racism. Who can be against states rights? That's totally noble sounding. Yet quite a few people who took up that banner were actually trying to achieve racist ends, and when forced to choose between states rights and racism, would choose racism, exposing them to anyone paying attention.

Similarly, it's a weird that nuclear (which is possibly the most state supported energy source) gets so much support from libertarians[1], rather than decentralised wind and solar with carbon taxes to internalize externalities.

Of course if you genuinely believe in states rights, or nuclear power, you now need some kind of introductory proviso to seperate yourself from the people stealing your topic as cover for their own ends.

My litmus test is: do you strongly believe in nuclear only because you think renewables are useless? If so, where did you get this information from? Second hand fossil fuel propaganda probably.

[1] this gets meta for libertarians as I'd say the same thing has occured there. Corporate fascists like a lot of the libertarian ideals and push them hard, while ignoring/fighting the logically coherent principles that don't suit them. Climate change denial being an obvious one were paychecks override principle, when the libertarian idea of carbon fees is probably the single best way to solve the problem.
tip - if you want to cd into a UNC path, you can't; but you can pushd into one and it'll create a temporary drive letter mapping and unmap it when you popd out
I wrote a security focused javascript, ad and annoyance blocking extension for myself, which is essentially a CSP, script and style injector with keyboard shortcuts. I don't see how utilities can help here.
Why are we not doing that?

I've seen towns oppose having a trash incinerator in their town, even if the county needs it; and villages oppose having wind turbines built nearby, even if the country needs it. And of course local politicians will get on board with local campaigns, they want to be re-elected.

I suspect siting a nuclear waste disposal site would have the same effect, but moreso.
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I take the bus every day to/from work (live and work inside the city) and am able to get pretty much anywhere with the bus, I don't really see a problem with it.

Pittsburgh would not work with a lightrail the city is a triangle with crazy ass intersections and "tiny" streets, not a grid. A lightrail would be very ineffective (see Baltimore's that just runs pretty much one line in the city to the airport), or would require the city to pretty much destroy all existing streets and try again.
Not to mention, if you want to make sure that the waste won't be left just orbiting in the solar system or irradiating Venus or something then you need to either bring its orbit down into the surface of the sun or accelerate it to the point that it escapes from the solar system entirely. Fun fact, it actually takes less energy to escape solar orbit entirely than it takes to reach the sun.
I think part of the problem is that "liquidity" is an imprecise term. It implies both velocity and flexibility. HFT definitely increases velocity, but it can make the market either more or less rigid depending on the circumstances.
Oh, I left the video game company. It actually wasn't a bad gig, tbh.
Yes I remember that! It was developed in a joint venture between Nokia and Siemens. People got tortured because of that infrastructure. So, Nokia/Siemens said in a press release, "gosh we didn't know Egypt and Iran would do that if we would help them violate human rights now we are sorry" and fuck them both.
I didn’t imply that. I wrote that trying to measure inflation with one metric in what is essentially two different economies (or countries if you will) is useless.
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My word... Books cost more than that.
$20k seems like a pretty lowball offer? Close to 1M users (plus potential for further growth) and you have me expecting at least $400k... Or, am I expecting too much?
Awesome! A whole new meaning to having your head in the clouds.
Imo optional typing like this is the best trade-off for now.

Usually, statically typed languages is not expressive. There are a lot of abstractions are hard to express in statically typed languages. Even in Haskell. With optional typing, you can express usual ideas with types, and cheat with 'any' when not applicable.

Another thing is the language itself can possibly execute without compile or even type check. Making developing feedback cycle much smoother when running tests or just save and refresh.
That is not my point.

Big-O notation is a mathematical notation. By using it, you are using math. It's the same as using a car and saying you are not using a car.
Hello, I'd like to ask how flexible are the working conditions? For example if someone were to have a bad night of sleep could they start later, take a break to go to the gym for a couple of hours, continue after that? Or is it like some other places where flexible means "as long as you're in from 10am to 5pm you can be flexible how much earlier you arrive" (I'm more interested in the London office) - thanks.
I'm still not so convinced by PHP's runtime type checking system. It adds a little overhead, I guess that's not such a big problem, but it adds also new classes of runtime exceptions that can only be caught using tests, or with a good static analyzer. Especially if you now upgrade your application to 7.4 you can only do it with confidence when you have 100% test coverage.

If a static analyzer can detect these mistakes, why even add runtime checks for it? Think TypeScript/Javascript, after the compilation is done, most type checks are removed for performance reasons.

Or perhaps there is something I don't see...
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Absolutely, this is the right thing to do.

If one needs to allocate more than 2 GB in a single allocation, time to move to 64-bit.
Faster networks. Arista exists because hft was a big target market and now everyone using networks with Arista switches in them has benefited.
Huge plus for regular users is that you can be online in the desktop app without having your phone near or on. When my phone broke, Telegram was one of the few ways to quickly inform my friends.
Remote doesn't work when wife is home
That's the plan. Just bought a super cheap house to help enable this.
Another thing that often gets neglected is that nuclear power plants do not create that much radioactive waste. A lot of it is comparable to concentrating existing sources used to create enriched fuel. And areas where that fuel is mined from has (somewhat) higher radioactivity levels, just spread over wide areas.

I suspect that a technically decent solution would be mixing up waste to very low concentrations over a large area (putting it where the source came from, or dumping it at the deep sea beds). However, it would be politically unpalatable ("our water will be radioactive, etc.). My 2c.
What's there about climate denial in support for nuclear energy? Everyone I've seen who push for nuclear, myself included, do so because of climate change.

Supporting decentralized wind and solar is good too, but it's really ridiculous how the discourse turned into nuclear vs wind and solar, where it should be about nuclear and wind and solar vs fossil fuels. We're sitting on a magical fuel of incredible energy density and zero carbon footprint, suitable for use in base-load power generation - and we're not doing anything with it, because it's too magical for people's taste.
So these new features are backwards compatible in that old code that has no typed properties will continue to work.

This is a minor release and PHP tends to be almost completely BC even between major release versions so it's unlikely you'll face any issues.

If you want to start writing code that uses these features in an existing library then you can branch a new version that depends on PHP 7.4, and define that as the requirement in composer. That way users with older PHP versions will pull older versions of your library.
Batching won't solve any problems you might think it would solve. The real world is continuous. Because of this, everyone is incentivized to wait until the last possible millisecond (or nanosecond) before the auction to submit bids so the incentive to build fast acting systems remains.

There are other problems as well, like how to deal with bid/ask imbalances at auction time.
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Recently applied at CataWiki and aced the actual coding problem, but was later rejected because I failed the 2 hours whiteboard part of the interview. I have to say, those hours in front of the whiteboard are really not pleasant and I would have performed much better if I had real-life problems to solve using real-life tools.
Title is actually Barbarians at the Gateways which is, of course, as play on words on the actual Barbarians at the Gate:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate:_The_Fa...

Another great tail of finance that operated at much slower speeds.
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Pretty much everything at sub-second resolution is pointless.

Some people think so, but the truth is you will simply shift the competition from “as fast as possible” to “within as few picoseconds after exactly one second” or whatever the limit is.
This discussion always drives me crazy.

What would you rather have inherited from the Victoria Era:

1) complete ecological disaster in the form of a 5-degree average temperature increase and 10 metre sea level increase; causing widespread food insecurity, human displacement, and mass extinctions due to habitat loss

2) a modicum of nasty nuclear waste, some of which can be refined for interesting isotopes

Also, we already leave a ludicrous amount of nasty industrial waste in the form of mining tailings, plastics fill our oceans, we constantly create electronic devices that can't be properly recycled and contain hazardous materials. Nuclear waste isn't even close to the top of the list of hazardous waste problems.

If nuclear power is one of the solutions to climate change, THE existential threat to human survival, then hamstringing ourselves because of handwringing about waste is just setting us up to continue to delay doing anything about this impending threat.
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They can offer $1 million dollars in in insurance because it's an FDIC Sweep account - the funds may be stored at multiple banks behind the scenes. Fidelity, SoFi, and others offer FDIC sweeps as well.
Why isn’t it an option? There are plenty of places where it’s implausible for any future civilisation to reach without knowing what radiation is any why such waste is best left undisturbed.
That's an ironic username.
Well, there actually are good incentives to dig it up (or to not bury it in the first place) as current reactors are horrendously inefficient, leaving 95%+ of usable energy in the fuel, that more modern reactors should be able to use.

Not to mention potentially usable metals & isotopes due to all the transmutations going on in the fuel.
I'm a long time Firefox user but unfortunately Firefox has bad issues with performance/battery usage on MacOS. Multiple long standing issues are open. (such as https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042 - open for 2 years)

I love Firefox but I had no choice and had to ditch it on MacOS.
It seems Mozilla does not have the resources to fix these problems.
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JSON Formatter is more aimed at technical users. I wonder if an extension with 1M less technical users would next higher.
In Scheme or Clojure, but not in Common Lisp. Now, should we adopt this parentheses-exacticity as part of the definition what is a real Lisp?

P.S. Of course, a Lisp-2 saves us only from an unlimited proliferation of parentheses, but a simple (defmacro foo () 'foo) will allow you to get a couple whenever really needed.
Nonsense, man. Germany’s done a fantastic job of keeping a liberal centrist - _humanist_ - coalition together in extremely difficult circumstances and under assault from predatory oligarchs from Moscow to London to Kansas.
yeah but then don't bother us with missing contributors.

Somehow someone has to live and code for food. Not everybody has the luxury of working as volunteer.
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You can replicate the Trinity study in javascript nowadays. If you want to experiment for yourself, Google for firecalc. 4% is just fine as a rule of thumb, or for the purposes of this post.
22 piles 10x10x10 meter size would perfectly fit into decommissioned nuclear plant. These building are build to survive earthquakes, thunderstorms and small plane crashes for hundred years. It’s insane they are not used for storing the waste. Germans are dismantling them wasting huge fortune: https://m.dw.com/en/germanys-atomic-phaseout-how-to-dismantl... It’s crazy mismanagement of resources: initially expensive and extremely durable structure is build, used, then dismantled wasting millions and then another extremely durable and insanely expensive structure is build to store the waste. Sounds craze to me.

I used to play in the woods as child, there were 200 years old military structures. Nobody were maintaining them, rain, snow did their job, but they were intact. I don’t understand how we can’t reuse nuclear power plant buildings as storage for the next 200 years.
Anyone here working at Goldman?

I’ve heard very mixed things about working there. Would love some first hand stories!

Have things changed from some years ago where the technology didn’t really get any respect and everyone was second class to the front office traders?

How’s the work environment?
Is there still a dress code?
Is the system kept running by heroics and sleepless nights, or is there a mature understanding of human factors?
100 years after Communism burst on the scene, we currently look at that development with disgust.

Right now most people have access to abundant food, cellphone in every pocket, access to a wealth of information, access to transportation, incredible medical advances.

I can't imagine that the progress we've made would be scorned. Like other market driven forces, bad players will not be rewarded as information about them increases.

However, if information is not increased because of something like a company buying a newspaper so investigative threats can be used against politicians to avoid information gathering, then we have problems. This is more crony capitalism than just capitalism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...

Most RTGs use 238Pu

Unlike the other three isotopes discussed in this section, 238Pu must be specifically synthesized and is not abundant as a nuclear waste product.

At present only Russia has maintained consistent 238Pu production[dubious – discuss], while in the US, no more than 50 g (1.8 oz) were produced in total between 2013 and 2018.[15] The US agencies involved desire to begin the production of the material at a rate of 300 to 400 grams (11 to 14 oz) per year. If this plan is funded, the goal would be to set up automation and scale-up processes in order to produce an average of 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) per year by 2025.
> Big O notation is [...] about how long an algorithm takes to run.

My former prof would have me spanked for an imprecise statement like this.
Well, he was invited for a on-site interview at Google rather than being a direct hire. But after this rejection, Apple directly hired him to work with the Xcode team.

In both cases he bypassed the recruiter and leetcode stages which are common steps before the on-site interview at most companies.
The financial crisis was not caused by high-frequency trading. I don’t see how it’s related.
>>preferably in a way that does not discourage going back to work.

Isn't this much easier said than done? Where will you cap the unemployment benefits so people are not discouraged? How do you come up with the number? How do you plan to verify the effect of your suggested cap?
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Everybody is either copying something someone else made up, or making it up as they go along. Most people only try the second strategy when the first one fails.

In regards to this article, I would not be at all surprised if the average age of first publishing for successful authors was well above 35. Is apparently around 45, for successful startup founders.

'Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45' - https://hbr.org/2018/07/research-the-average-age-of-a-succes...
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> Meanwhile, all this stuff costs money, people, resources that aren't available for actual productive work instead of overhead.

That's a very high standard. What's productive? What's productive enough, in your book, to be worth the effort used here?
That's not quite the same - it's more like a mine than a borehole. The whole idea of a borehole is that stuff sealed 5km under the surface isn't coming back in any way, and is nearly impossible to recover unless you drill another borehole in the same place. There is no known geological process that would bring it back up naturally. The site you quoted is pretty deep(500m) but it's not "stable and permanent for millennia" kind of deep.
Fake solutions for an imagined problem. The unused uranium from a reactor fits neatly into a few parking stalls. Security, transport, and storage of this valuable resource are already solved. Let’s put this material to use!
Sure 22 000m3 isn't that big, but the rate could increase sharply (currently new 34 000m3 of high and intermediate waste produced per year according to the article). The question is : should we invest and build 10 times more nuclear reactors for future energy needs ?

Build 10 times more reactors in the world, multiply per 50 years of operation and now you have 17 000 000 cube meters of high level waste.

Renewable energies introduced long-term thinking about impacts. The nuclear waste story only tells us we cannot scale the current nuclear technology, but we can still moderately use this tech for the next century to transition to more renewable methods.
They would be Apple under Tim Cook: existing on old momentum…