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> but investing in solar, wind, geothermal, etc works too if we're serious about it.

2 questions:

Don't huge windfarms affect the local climate and wildlife? Afaik we don't know the long term effects of massive sustained wind farms.

Have we solved the solar storage problem yet?

I read something about massive battery plants and/or high speed flywheel energy storage, but as far as I know this is still a problem.

I vote we go all in on nuclear just to quickly remove coal, and then slowly phase out nuclear with better, low-impact renewables.
I think Sanders is pretty honest in this department. The problem is that if he becomes President (or influences the next one) and puts a gigantic trillion dollar money pot out there, lots of politicians and bureaucrats are going to be involved in doling that out. It's gonna be a wild pork stampede and we'll end up with a lot of BS shell companies doing "green" stuff that involve no real engineers or other people who know how to actually build anything.

Edit to clarify: I also think we'll end up with a lot of well-meaning people who simply don't understand the science or the engineering wasting a lot of money. Corruption is a problem but it's not just corruption.

That's why I like incentives much more, whether they be tax incentives or general goal-oriented subsidies. There's a lot of surface area to work with here, not just carbon taxes:

* Extending and deepening EV tax credits.

* Reforming zoning laws to encourage density and eliminate impediments to it. This is largely a state thing but the Fed could apply pressure or incentives to states. It would also help with the housing affordability crisis that exists in some cities and states.

* Tax credits to encourage higher density housing, such as an increased mortgage deduction for condominiums in multi-story buildings and a rent deduction.

* Building public transit, a lot of public transit, and fixing/elminiating the regulatory and bureaucratic nonsense that stops the US from building high speed rail like other developed nations.

* Funding R&D by labs and universities with a record of producing results in areas like batteries, next-generation nuclear power, fusion, better solar PV, etc.

There are also some areas where you might have to fight with environmentalists, like expanding hydropower. I've long wondered how much hydropower potential there is in Northern Canada and how efficiently it could be transported by HVDC lines to the US. Would Canada like another big export?
Seems like a lot of trauma to have multiple open heart surgeries.

Seems like something like a portable ECMO (not sure if that exists) would be less invasive

(ECMO is for oxigination which probably would be overkill in this situation)
There is enforcement though. I think the idea is that once a standard for privacy-respecting ad personalization is in place, Google will be free to start taking more aggressive measures towards blocking more invasive tracking systems (like cookies and fingerprinting) without hurting their own advertising business.
This is the equivalent of casting in Java. Is Java's type system unsound?
Well it is guaranteed that Greece will never repay the debt, but for some reason the ECB and the IMF keep flushing huge amounts of money down the toilet. No one seems to care all that much though...
Testing Robustness Against Unforeseen Adversaries
Yes, I think that's exactly what that comment meant.

I'm sure a 2 man experienced team consisting of a programer and an artist can recreate the vault intro sequence of F3 in a few months. They wouldn't be able to expand thst into the full 2007 game without years of man-hours. Because F3 itself took thousands of man hours. It'd take a lot less time with modern tools, but not enough to offset the work of hundreds of developers.
Why a global recession isn't inevitable
Yes, I have allowed autoplay on the video sites, but it is now click-to-enable on all those others sites that are just using it for ads.

Go to about:config in Firefox, and change "media.autoplay.allow-muted" to false.

Chrome has shut down auto-play on any video with sound (excepting video specific sites) and they have a flag "Autoplay policy" which was partially successful, but not as effective as the blocking in Firefox.
> From the beginning of AOL there was instant messaging. Barry noticed that users had created scripts to query whether their friends were online or not. So he decided we should just let them know all the time. He commissioned an initial version of the Buddy List, that worked within AOL. It didn’t scale well, though—we called it the Buggy List.
I'd go one more explicit step: the carbon we emitted made us wealthy while externalizing the costs. The recipe for gaining wealth at present for poor countries is, emit a shit ton of carbon in the pursuit of growth. If we're serious about reducing emissions we'll have to provide a different recipe.
Besides morality and compassion (and who cares about that, amiright? /s), there's an enlightened self-interest here.

If, e.g., droughts and floods make a various regions holding, say 1 billion people unable to sustain themselves, those billion people are going to be forced to try to move to some place they can survive. That may cause us a lot more than $200 billion worth of trouble.

(Not that $200 billion is going to counteract the effects of climate change, but they idea is that it would substantially mitigate the most serious issues. I have no idea if that's true under this plan or possible under any plan, but that's the idea.)
You mean the 'Republic of Korea'?
NPM Pulls Malicious Package That Stole Login Passwords
> Having the national guard protecting property in the middle of a disaster where people were dying from the elements was the peak of capitalist insanity.

Calling it like it is: this was mostly about white people protecting their personal interests at the expense of black people. Many of the people making those decisions cared more about their property than they did poor black folks. After all, only a couple of generations ago, many of those people owned black people as property.

Note:

> Fifty-three percent of deaths 51% were black; and 42% were white. In Orleans Parish, the mortality rate among blacks was 1.7 to 4 times higher than that among whites for all people 18 years old and older.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18756175
Given how cities that transitioned to $15 minimum wage workers did better* after implementation maybe it's time to try investing in infrastructure and the working class rather than the 30 years of trickle down economics and stagnate wages we've suffered from both Republican and Democratic administrations...
The same president who recommended pooping every other day [1] in order to protect the environment.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49304358
Good. This is the kind of total war ramp up to help attempt to save the planet that we desperately needed to do years and decades ago.
Question: If he is dropping 650B in FF subsidies, does that mean we can assume the price for gas prices, flights etc will all go up respectively ?
> The 40h a day week and modern-day work contracts come as a direct evolution of medieval servitude, with little modification.

Edgy. But also deeply ignorant of history. Servitude means you can't quit your job. That is a pretty significant modification!
Unfortunately planet Earth doesn't care if you ran out of green cotton notes. Make it work.
I had a friend who had an appendix removed, the bill was $80K, similar to what you quoted. He didn't have insurance, however, so he haggled on the bill. Eventually they settled and accepted $8K, or 10% of the sticker price, for the procedure. I don't know how insurance companies settle these things behind the scenes, but I imagine many are overpaying and we're all paying the cost through higher insurance prices.
Well you guessed wrong. What justice? Developing nations are the major polluters (reasons aside, that's just a fact). If there was "justice" for pollution we'd be at war.
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/nuclear-energy/
https://www.yang2020.com/policies/climate-change/
Not the person you asked, and I have paid attention to this. I found "Run for Your Life" [1][2] to have useful insights and tips. The biggest one for me was starting with foot landing, where the outside of the foot near the little toe hits first, it spreads out nicely to start taking body weight. Then letting the rest of the outside of the foot land until the heel touches, and then somewhat relax the calf muscle and pull the heel back and slightly roll the ankle in, so the big toe is loaded for the push back and lift off. I play around with variations and sometimes, it becomes almost effortless, almost floating along, even on hard surface.

[1] https://runforyourlifebook.com

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSIDRHUWlVo
I prefer the "father figure."
Starting negotiations from the middle never works out.
The body language of the last picture in that article is terrible. He's grabbing her on both arms, firmly, and her expression is totally neutral. She's stronger and faster than you, dude, back off.
If the plan is further out, so is the middle to. It's a political mandate, if your plan is milquetoast congress will pull it to almost nothing.
That seems to show it burning in the ocean? That seems to include all the exhaust and not be a picture of the fires themselves.
NYT appears to link to a scanned copy of the plan;

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1654-bernie-sanders-...
Both NM and CA could expect large numbers of English speakers to outnumber those who spoke other languages. In CA this happened almost immediately, because of the Gold Rush; in NM it took longer. In both cases, English-speaking, common-law government institutions were immediately established upon US annexation.

Had the US annexed Quebec two centuries ago, the massive American population influx into the region would no doubt have assimilated the Quebecois, and today French Quebec would be a bunch of place names around the state, and tourist districts in Montreal and Quebec City. That wouldn't happen today because there is a substantial French-speaking population, and a new large English-speaking influx is unlikely.

And yes, I believe English is fundamental to being part of American culture. That doesn't preclude speaking another language as well. But the descendants of hispanos of New Mexico, Hawaiians in Hawaii, and every other group speak English, and would be the first to tell you of the importance of doing so for personal and societal advancement.
Exactly this. I don't understand the nuclear circlejerk. We get it, it's safe and clean. But the waste is also extremely hazardous and if we can power the grid with solar/wind/geothermal/etc... what's the point?
> The science of what is happening is fact.

That is a tautology. Exactly how much warming are we looking at by 2100? Is it an emergency, an annoyance, or nothing much?

Will higher CO2 concentrations avert an Ice Age in a few thousand years?

The fact is that market forces are looking as if they will greatly reduce CO2 emissions over the next few decades. The wildcard is how quickly China, India, and emerging third world countries will wean off of coal. Nuclear must be a much bigger part of the mix (see ThorCon and others).

In the meantime, most of the "mitigation efforts" look more like unrelated social engineering.
Nothing new there. Most of these are standard techniques on social media and used all over the world.
You have to aim high and have room to make sacrifices.
There is a good interactive map: https://www.windy.com/-CO-concentration-cosc?cosc,-12.555,-7...
It’s certainly not sustainable. We can’t handle the radioactive waste we already have unless there are some massive overhauls.
Because politics is largely a negotiating game. It's really not that different from haggling. Formal bills are adjusted in order to be passed, which usually involves making members of both major parties happy.

The other reason is that there's a large consensus that believes that we're not in a climate for moderate politics to thrive because some members of congress have a tendency to negotiate in bad faith. There's a widely held belief on the left that the GOP cannot be negotiated with, and any kind of call to the center requires giving them more power.
I never hear this criticism when devaluing our currency to go to war or subsidize large business.

Devaluing the currency as a form of redistribution downward seems to be way more radical then devaluing it for wealth transfers to military contractors and large institutions. Why is that?
Unabridged version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32FB-gYr49Y
Pinole indeed. FTFA, "To keep hydrated, the Tarahumara runners eat pinole, a corn paste, which is also part of their daily diet."
If an effort like this isn't made, then it's guaranteed we don't save the planet.

Yes, it sucks, but someone has to be the first to bite the bullet.
Government downsizing - Ready to drown in a bathtub, just as planned.
That's largely the idea behind the concept of "technological singularity". We are quite slow at developing the first version (it's still a work in progress) but that v1 will likely be able to build a v2 much faster and so on, leading to an "intelligence explosion".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
Where do you think China got that strategy? We've long had aid-with-strings-attached.
Engineers are equally stupid on average as everyone else. It takes an engineer to believe in apolitical money or unbiased facial recognition “predictions”.
US and EU have reduced carbon emissions in the past decade. Meanwhile China almost doubled their emissions, and now emits more than the US and EU combined.

China now burns more coal than all the other countries of the world, combined.

Any plan ignoring China's dramatic carbon emissions growth (for example: the Paris Accords) will do nothing to stop climate change.
Agreed there too. A few tens or hundreds of B's in the right places could have a huge effect. I'd put the money on extending EV tax credits and subsidizing solar, wind, and grid-scale storage, and fund it with a big tax on carbon emitting fossil fuels.
Global Travel Hackathon
What? No we're absolutely not broke.
I am still not sure how that solution makes sense.

(1) In what way would the police change behaviour if you're on that list? Why don't they behave that way anyways?

(2) How much unwarranted behaviour will now be shown to people who are not on that list?

(3) What if pretty much everyone ends up on that list in the end?

(4) Should one not spend more energy trying to make sure the callers get identified & prosecuted for endangering another person?

I am not based in the US. The problem is non-existent here.
Don’t look for sense in the statements of a fascist. It’s pointless and will just drive you nuts.
The New American Homeless
Or perhaps without cookies, only lower value ads bid? There are a lot of factors and it's not clear how they interact or if they'd be relevant if cookies didn't exist for any user.
Probably going to take some heat for this answer, especially as many of the comments here are very negatively Google, but I actually think that was pretty balanced. Sure they're (obviously) protecting their own interests, but realistically SO much of the web relies on advertising. I mean, how many startups did we watch over the last 20 years with no real source of revenue (but some of which were actually fun/useful) end up doing the whole "we'll just use ads" thing? And ultimately as a product owner (web or otherwise), you're not going to spend money on ads (and thus fund a whole load the Internet) if you a) can't make a return on your ad spend, and b) can't understand what and where performs best.

Don't get me wrong, I hate the super spammy intrusive ads, and sometimes retargeting does feel like I'm being eavesdropped on, but I can't be the only one that prefers to see relevant ads? I'd much rather see ads for sneakers and watches (which I'll frequently click), than I would for some other junk that doesn't interest me. I genuinely don't mind ads if I know it's supporting the thing it's displaying ads on.

And as for the cookie stuff - it's a complete mess now. I get that we as a community should probably be spearheading SOME sort of privacy to bubble down to those that don't 'get' it, but talk to the bulk of my non-tech friends and it's a non issue. All those cookie popups are clicked without being read (and they never will be read ever get, that behaviour has been established) - the brightest button gets the click and they can move on and get to actually looking at what they wanted. Literally nobody reads, cares or understands. Even the "they're selling my data" / "they're tracking me scandals" - maybe five minutes of outrage and then assuming you can still share cat memes and holiday photos, who cares? Yesterday people were all over Instagram sharing an outraged message that "Instagram have no permission to do what they want with my content" - and yet no one left IG. Everyone is still back today, business as usual.

I think at least _exploring_ this whole thing in a way that's balanced towards the entire internet ecosystem is way more thoughtful than a knee-jerk "block everything, privacy everything" response. It's a pretty emotive topic, and close to a lot of our hearts, but we definitely need more talk. Just my 2c!
Proprietary software is not open source and this is a way to monetize open source, which could be beneficial for the open source community as a whole?
I rather like Yang. He’s my favorite candidate outside of my Warren and Sanders. His policies are evidence-based, compassionate, and Yang Gang is fun.
It’s part of politics. You cannot put forth realistic plans because your opponents or competition would split the difference. Also at the early stages you have to appeal to your most fiery ardent base. Later on it’s time to “negotiate” and become more moderate and realistic.
I respect and listen to Bernie even though I have very different ideologies and fiscal policy. Recently he went on the Joe Rogan podcast for over an hour; it is a great source of information on his politics: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-iLk1G_ng
According to the Wikipedia entry, in the initial incident they were just trimming the tree, not cutting it down.
I tend to think the opposite, but maybe nuclear isn't such a bad idea; this isn't clear to me.
> the project was only 60-90% complete.

Despite starting that project in 1965.
Do you mean, replace just the nuclear with solar in 2 years, but keep the rest of the infra (Coal and other source of power generation) as is?

If so, it can only mean exponentially more coal/gas power generation to supply power during peak demand. How does that help?
TimescaleDB could fit your workload if PostgreSQL fits you. The main issue with PostgreSQL and TimescaleDB is big amounts of storage space required for huge time series data volumes. There are reports that storing data on ZSF can reduce the required storage space.

Probably, ClickHouse [1] would fit better your needs. It can write millions of rows per second [2]. It can scan billions of rows per second on a single node and it scales to multiple nodes.

Also I'd recommend taking a look at other open-source TSDBs with cluster support:

- M3DB [3]

- Cortex [4]

- VictoriaMetrics [5]

These TSDBs speak PromQL instead of SQL. PromQL is specially optimized query language for typical time series queries [6].

[1] https://clickhouse.yandex

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/http-analytics-for-6m-requests-p...

[3] https://www.m3db.io/

[4] https://github.com/cortexproject/cortex

[5] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/

[6] https://medium.com/@valyala/promql-tutorial-for-beginners-9a...
You nailed it. If you can take a hard to grasp or orchestrate concept and make it easy for the layperson to use, then you've built a linux tool
The new deal worked fine and it was put forward by a politician.
NFS currently cannot be used inside a user namespace.

There are patches floating around (similar to the work we did to allow FUSE) but they haven't made it upstream yet and my understanding is that there is some tricky corner cases on NFSv3 which still need to be sorted (NFSv4 was easier due to already having uid mapping capabilities).
Collusion didn't work, racism didn't work, now NYTimes is trying to crash the economy and start a civil war. Nice.
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If the incentive were financial based on the cost per copy of printing, a 10,000 student school with .02 per copy is still only $200 to print a paper form per kid.

You're also talking about collecting personal data (contact info, medical info, etc.) digitally which brings on a whole mess of laws for this free service to deal with.
I for one don't believe 100% privacy is even possible, and you've got to keep some kind of reality principle to decide what's "acceptable".

But anyway, as someone else said, I don't trust the fox to guard the hen house - even though again there's some kind of reality check that says if (one of) the most powerful actor starts doing something, there _will_ be some traction, so yeah, let's see concretely what it is about...

About the privacy budget: if I understand well, they want to count API calls that return device/environment-specific data, probably giving some set of weights to each of calls and stop accepting requests after a certain threshold. I'm a bit skeptical with that kind of complexity but why not.
Opposes? Or just "doesn't support"?

I mean, free market is still free to jump in and create nuclear power plants and CCS technologies, or am I wrong?
Bolsonaro's government is a criminal regime. One of his first goals was to destroy the agencies that regulate the environment and disable the reporting mechanisms (which were "fake news" according to him). He personally fired the president of INPE, a state research agency, for publicizing a report about Amazon deforestation.
I would make it 60 and force the EU to pay at least 30%.
Does nuclear waste really take up that much space? My understanding was that it's negligible for the amount of power it provides.
thanks for the mention of purify! This is going to be a game changer for me, I think. I can already see how this will benefit my TypeScript workflow!
Look at Dieselgate where the engineers pulled the wool over the politicians’ eyes and they merrily kept cranking down the emissions targets without checking if or how they were met
New York's rooftop farms provide fresh local produce
I think you mean you hate BAD pixel art. Thing about the critical modern successes is that they try to recreate that feel for modern hardware. In the process that naturally means they use more resources to pull off the visual look because 1) there's more resolution so more work needed and 2) it's usually being applied to a modern pipeline (computational lighting, for instance. Something NES games lacked)
So you're correct that the Chilterns aren't ideal - those are dormitory villages, already very expensive, I grew up there.

The open land near Oxford will be open because it's a swamp. If you could build on it cheaply somebody would.
That's obviously the reason. No question about it. No one at Google would be able to google for dessert names starting with the letter q.
Chinese scientists and US leadership in the life sciences
Bernie Sanders’ Green New Deal Plan [pdf]