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Book Review: Non-Nuclear Futures – Lovins and Price
Lovins and Price "Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy"
Ballinger (1975)

This book advocates avoiding nuclear power sources, instead advocating solar, wind, and other non-nuclear technologies. The arguments are even more relevant today.

This book is written for the layman but presents detailed scientific evidence for those who wish deeper background. Chapters cover fundamental issues, reactor safety, fuel transport and reprocessing, waste management, plutonium toxicity, safeguards, and public policy.

A (predictive) quote of a problem with choosing nuclear is that nuclear is "subject to
high-consequence low-probability mishaps not readily addressed by traditional mechanisms such as insurance or tort liability" (p 7). Writing in 1975, they seem to have forseen Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1988), and Fukushima (2011).

The book unintentionally illustrates the "lag" in global policy decisions. We, nearly half a century later, can now agree with its basic premise, that there are better alternatives to nuclear energy based on renewables. Given this lag time, we will probably be able to reach zero CO2 emissions by, say, 2060, predicted to be a 4 degree climate change.
> I find the current font a bit illegible

It takes a lot of effort to read it. I'd say that for me it's 80% unreadable. Please, at least make a button on the site to select another font if a user feels like I do.
Came here to say the same thing. They were intentionally (and arguably still are) limiting the number of doctors admitted to medical school and number of graduate/medical schools.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4561/does-the-a...
I test drove a Model S years ago. It definitely felt like a bus the moment you turned the steering wheel. There is no substitute for weight reduction when it comes to handling.
I always thought p-values were arbitrary.

Frequentism is antiquated.
It has nothing to do with pleasure/sex. Those are metonyms for power.
I found the Boston Metal link particularly interesting. If you consider it, combined with a small form factor nuclear reactor, you could build an iron ingot producing plant right on top of the deposits in places that would otherwise be forced to ship ore out for external processing.
Peter Zeihan, a geopolitical author, has had a long running thesis that after the end of the cold war, the US no longer has a motivation to maintain the post WWII order of multilateralism and ensuring the safety of global free trade with its navy. The current administration has only accelerated that timeline. The end result, he claims, will be nations acting more like nations have always acted which unfortunately means more conflict. The US will simply watch from afar and swoop in when its interests are directly threatened. So in his opinion, it very much is NOT the US falling, but simply withdrawing because the economic order it used to bribe most of the world to be allied against the USSR no longer makes sense.
I agree, also it's like claiming "people who wear seatbelts incorrectly believe their car ride is doomed" or even worse like a driver feeling offended because a passenger puts on his seat belt.
Pretty much exactly what I did, as well. And I'd usually do it an hour or two before each test.
And it is very easy to work illegally in the US. Other countries make it very difficult. Working as an illegal in Canada or the UK is possible, but not nearly as easy as in the US.
What is the long term growth strategy for worker cooperatives? How do you scale them?
I'll note that there are several smaller hospitals much closer (but they're not allowed to be called hospitals). There is light emergency care, nurses and doctors there but they often need to send us to the hospital 2 hours away. For example for our ultrasound we can go to one 1 hour away and for regular talks and checkups the local one is fine.

So maybe it sounds worse than it is in reality.
Yes, and I assumed that was your assumption. :D
I never claimed it eliminated any value, but to answer your question more directly, it reduces the value for the same reason it reduces the value of any action taken by an clinically insane person in terms of moral weight vs one who is sane: the insane person is presumed to have lost the ability to reason and act rationally due to factors outside of their free will.

Of course, more to the point, is the fact that based on the article the extent of the evidence that this was racial profiling is that the victim speculated it was such, and the two victims were of similar ethnic origin. That, combined with the fact that it sounds like there is evidence supporting the idea the person may have been having a mental episode, should call into question the journalistic integrity of the author who in the title claims as fact that racism was the cause of the employee's behavior.

At the very least, it seems like there is some chance that this person had some kind of lapse in sanity, and this article now labels that person as being a racist -- if that person's name were included in the article, they'd likely now be the target of an internet mob and persona non grata. Insofar as the allegations about their mental illness are true and have been identified as the cause (unknown) I commend Alaska Airlines for protecting the person's identity.
ok good night :)
Google's Chrome Has My Dead Grandpa's Data, Who Never Used the Internet
To be fair, I remember PM Manmohan Singh also in ISRO live streams so that wasn't it.

My issue is that the 100 day celebration was timed around rover landing and unfortunately rover did not land.
It could also spray some downwards for lift.
Well..

First - when you buy that Heath insurance, if you're poor or poorish, it's heavily subsidized. Of course, it might have been free but a number of red States didn't expand Medicare. But yes, it may cost you money because Oabamacare was step 1 and was always planned to be tweaked but well... We've seen how political discourse has gone. But medical bankruptcies have fallen tremendously with Obamacare. That's why you have to pay because it'll save you if you're unlucky. Just like social security.

Re:free college - why do you think rural areas couldn't benefit from free college? Less, more expensive education isn't going to help. And the people that need to pay for it are the ones destroying your neighborhoods and city centers (aka the Walton family and their ilk)

The lack of investment in their people and empathy for their people of Midwest governments is what's killing them, not costal elitism. The green new deal is a perfect example of the sort of investment it needs. But they'll fight it because winning is all that matters, people's lives be damned.
I also heard that doctor's salaries in general are significantly impacted by hospitals and insurance companies and it's hard to make the same sort of money now as you could in the past. Is there any truth to this?
Are there any effective solutions that work to counter suicides?
Horizontally... by spinning off new coops.
> I wish the Chromium team was working more with other browsers to make this a more coordinated change.

The same change is in development for firefox as well: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.dev.platform/n...
You see, ISRO is the poster boy for Indians. They are brilliant and hard working. Exactly opposite of any other govt org

So even if ISRO fails it is temporary. And we all are unconditionally proud of ISRO no matter what.
> Kinetic energy rises with the square of velocity

That's all well and good but a fully-loaded semi-truck weighs 15x as much as a full-loaded Taycan. My rough calculations say a fully-loaded Taycan driving 150 mph has a kinetic energy of 6.5 MJ while a fully loaded (80 thousand pound) semi at 80mph has a kinetic energy of 23 MJ. In fact a semi at 45 mph still has (slightly) more kinetic energy than a Taycan at 150. I wasn't very good at physics so maybe I screwed this up.

But yes, the Porsche driving 150 is more likely to fly across a median to hit your family sedan head-on.
There are plenty of freedom indexes published by all sorts of agencies and NGOs. The US does not top ANY of them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_freedom_indices

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US: #16 Canada:#9 UK:#11 HK:#1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_Freedom_of_the_World_...

US:#25/26 Canada:#6/7 UK:#14 Norway:#1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index

US:#33 Canada:#20 UK:#39 Norway:#1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_Press_(report)

US:#10 Canada:#3 UK:#36 The Netherlands:#1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Index_of_Moral_Freedom
This whole thread is in the context of the actual trafficking and sexual abuse of minors. You can’t get away from that context. No matter how much you try, it’s the place your in here, in this discussion and I think it’s worth taking that into account.

Inadvertently I’m sure, your and some other people’s posts here come across as normalising the outward behaviour of Epstein and people like him. But the behaviour of Epstein in particular is not normalisable. The women concerned about the status of the girls Epstein took with him weren’t faced with ‘a rich guy with some young girls’. They were faced with this rich guy with these young girls, face to face, with all the emotional context of actual direct human interaction.

I can image he a situation in which I meet an older guy with some young girls and it’s all fine. I can also imagine ones where I would be deeply uncomfortable and queasy about the interpersonal dynamics going on.

The women at the lab weren’t in a hypothetical situation, they were in a specific real life situation, and the way it made them feel was clearly very, very uncomfortable to the point of deep distress.

So I can see why you think talking about hypotheticals is all fine and you don’t understand why it upsets people. But a lot of wealthy powerful people have spent a lot of effort trying to normalise, justify, write off and cover for Epstein’s behaviour. Those efforts created a context where Epstein was able, again, to traffic and sexually abuse children. So any direction of the discussion towards a context that even inadvertently appears to be normalising any aspect of his behaviour, well, I’d say this thread at this time on this topic isn’t the time or place.
Trying to Convince People to Change (2016)
OK, gotta quote a band whose name isn't mentionable in polite company. (Actually, a name that couldn't be said on the radio, but whatever.)

> It's better to regret what you have done, than what you haven't done.
At our job we use a homebrew C++-like language. Now some people are planning to rewrite a core part of the problem to be completely dynamic, only using key-value to control the behavior of a large number of things. There is no namespaces and the value is an Object (base class for all classes), so you always have to cast.

The absolute horror it will be to debug this mess when people starts to use it, my god.
Explaining Streams to Rich Harris
I wouldn't say CSRF is dead yet. Chrome is just one browser, until all major browsers have implemented this (and IE11 is still kicking), you still need to implement CSRF mitigations as well.
Perhaps the silence is telling.
I am excited to see something like this, but this website would inspire way more confidence if there was an "about us" page describing who/what/why.

On the other hand, some of the courses are written by very prominent people in the Julia community, so there is some minimal amount of legitimacy already present.
Maybe if they are still independent. Many serve the same sodexho garbage you find in US universities and prisons.
You can get type annotations at runtime. And you can use this for validation with something you roll yourself or with 3rd party packages. I've used pydantic [1] before and found it quite nice.

[1] https://pydantic-docs.helpmanual.io
The original New Yorker article says he was blacklisted after his 2008 felony conviction. I've been told that the CRM software used by university development offices is pretty phenomenal. It was hinted to me that it automatically annotates donor records with SEC stock transaction disclosures, and I wouldn't be surprised if it also annotates donor records with public criminal court proceedings.
Is it just me that feels like recently the word “crisis” is being overused? not just online but by the media also
>the Roman Catholic Church could serve a unifying purpose and hold in check the worst impulses of an individual kingdom.

When they weren’t actively inciting and promoting those worst impulses in the service of their own ends, that is.
I looked it up, and it may be so -- but every public figure has scandalous accusations, and these don't seem very strong. Is there something unusual in this case?
> even centuries old countries like Canada, Belgium, UK, Spain, etc, still have infighting, and even votes to break up...

1. Not all of these are centuries old.

2. The fact that they generally agree on a legal system to bring about the changes each side wants by voting on these separatist policies within the scope of that agreed system is impressive in and of itself. They simply want some decisions about their government to be made by different people in a different place which is quite compatible with some hypothetical global federalist system.
I read a few more of Xeni's tweets, and wanted to get HN's honest opinion on them. It seems (to me) like a lot of people on Twitter (and HN?) are over-reacting.

For example, Xeni's pinned tweet references this other tweet (https://twitter.com/xeni/status/1165266579560521728), which implies that anybody who was ever at a dinner with Epstein should be considered complicit in Epstein's crimes. Take this quote, for example:

> I would like to not be sued or disappeared, but I would also like people to seriously register the fact that Amazon and Google CEOS/Founders were at the gathering alluded to in this Twitter thread. Their names are in the screen grab. Don’t sue me please. I have no money.

This seems to imply that anybody at this dinner (that Epstein) was complicit. Other attendees include Daniel C. Dennett, Steven Pinker, Marvin Minsky (yes, that Marvin Minsky!). Is it just me, or does that strike anybody as an overreaction?
I would like to share Mebo. A Node.js framework I've been doing on my spare time
when are we planning to talk about Koch Bros/MIT connection - money funnel?
Richard Branson “hangs out” with 2x-year-old women, not 14-year-old girls. The difference is literally infinite in the legal realm and still enormous in the moral realm.
You may be privileged enough to not be personally affected by any of the political conflicts roiling society today, but many other people are not as lucky as you are. There are millions of people whose lives risk being destroyed based on the whims of politicians, and they have every right and reason to be scared. Your smug indifference does not make you more enlightened than everyone else.
Well, to play devil's advocate here, this article's reason the 10,000 Rule is not true is because it doesn't make experts.

However, he never said the 10,000 rule would create experts. He said it would create proficiency.

It's become a major theme in society (especially online at places like Reddit) where someone misunderstands a statement, and then promptly attacks or disproves it, instead of asking the person for clarification first.

If there is one thing I've learned over the years is people tend to be well intended, and by asking for clarification, one has more of an opportunity to learn than shutting it down immediately. At worse you've learned where they're coming from, which imho is more valuable than the initial statement itself.
HN is less of a broad community than say reddit. Not all, but many of the perspectives are going to be from a tech startup POV
https://open-match.dev/site/

https://mobile.serverwatch.com/server-news/how-epic-games-us...
I believe I mistook the use of the word folly in a context that was not relevant.

I would not feel qualified to say for whom it might be of value, but my thinking was perhaps for the individual having their behavior being categorized, or a clinician assisting them. Not super relevant here.

We're talking about the journalist, and perhaps ourselves, and in that light folly makes a lot more sense than it did in how I had initially misinterpreted.
> I don't believe any of the possible interpretations of QM have a clear path to being proven, so are they pseudoscience as well?

The characterization is a little bit harsh, but yes. The Copenhagen interpretation is non-falsifiable, (relative to MWI) so while I don't know what it is, I know it isn't science.

There's a reason most reputable scientific journals don't accept papers dealing with interpretations of quantum mechanics. There's no "there" there.

Hawking radiation is interesting because a proof of lack of Hawking radiation is a proof of the falsehood of quantum mechanics. Which is really interesting; any time you can falsify something like quantum mechanics every physicist should be paying attention. Also, if certain models of string theory are correct, particle accelerators like the LHC should be able to produce micro black holes, which will then evaporate in detectable ways. So Hawking radiation is of observational interest as of 2010 as a possible way to provide evidence to support string theory. (spoiler alert: we didn't find any)
In other news, govt reduced salaries of ISRO staff just before launch of this satellite

https://hwnews.in/news/national-news/govt-cuts-back-incentiv...
That's a lot of rural California, really.
I don't work in the healthcare industry so I have no skin in the game, but in what situations do you consider labor cartels ok because unions are exactly that and many people here seem to advocate them. Becoming a doctor from what I have read sounds like a horrible return on investment: You have to delay real wages for like 8 years while you get educated, those 8 years make you massively in debt, once you become a doctor, you have to pay off those 8 years of debt while also paying massive insurance rates. I'm not suprised doctors are trying to secure some wages after 8 years of investing in themselves while going massively in debt.
It's way too little. Even if you removed consumption and personal transport completely were looking at maximum of 30% reduction.

We'd have to reengineer manufacturing goods and food distribution massively to cut it deeper, replace more transport with renewable or nuclear fueled electric. Local is best most of the time, so buy local food and locally made things. Skip unnecessary gadgets.

And the most problematic part is reducing airplane miles and agricultural emissions.

Nuclear tankers have already been shown, but I don't remember a link.
I don't view the term "collectivized micromanagement" as a bastardized term for what's going on at most places touting themselves as "Agile". In fact, I think it's a much more honest and accurate term for what's going on at those places.

Now, if you've been fortunate to work in places that more closely adhere to the original ideas and concepts that's great; count yourself fortunate.
The Media Lab in particular is a corporate PR/money vehicle, it’s not really an academic lab like a cancer research institute. There is some real research there but also a lot of “stick 25 Arduinos in something and make a video for a Fortune 50 company who will give you $10 million”
Appwrite: A New Open-Source Back End Server for Mobile and Web Developers
Observation = interaction
I dont know the experience of others with this, but in reality is not that easy to have people with enough brain power or compromise for languages like C++ and Rust.

Sure theres "enough for the world", if you sum everybody, but i bet that even a company of the size of Dropbox would have a hard time hiring everyone they need if the complexity of the language is the same as Rust or C++.

For instance, if you read the Go manifesto to why the language was created, you can read between the lines that
C++ getting in the way where enginners were fighting hard to deal with language complexity.

So the same way as Java before them, they created a language for the "average programmer". And you can see how the language is very pragmatic and how they fight to no put more complexity on the language.

By the way, i know its a personal opinion, but i think Rust will not be a great fit for the cloud backend exactlya because of this kind of thing. It will be hard to create codebase as complex as the ones in Java, because there will be much less man-hours available.

Maybe if generations are getting smarter, IDK, but needing to rely on a big head-count of C++ or Rust enginners for any company, i bet they will have a hard time to fill all the positions they need.

Theres much more C++ enginners than Rust right now, and companies have a hard time hiring them (and i bet that for Rust it will be no different giving its complexity).
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We drive by it on our way to Vegas. I always felt it was ripe of either building a "company town" or a giant battle simulator for counter strike fans.

As a company town it would work for some company that wanted to co-locate tech workers, a campus, and maybe a factory in such a way that they would be tempted by "live in Calfornia economically!" and realize that they were kind of stuck where they were.

As a battlefield simulator its wide open spaces with a bit of underground 'works' (for things like effects and replenishment) could make it a more active entertainment destination than Universal Studios or Disneyland.
No shit, Gladwell knows one thing, how to sell a hokey idea to the credulous.
Reminded me of KeyNote NF [1]. Very reliable, super small, keyboard shortcut friendly, supports images and cross links has everything I need for organizing my data except data sync and that its windows only.

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/keynote-newfeat/
A lot of smart people, when they acquire power, start to behave recklessly. It’s not necessarily irrational — powerful people are almost never held to account for their crimes, so you see people getting life in prison for robbing a liquor store but a $3 million fine for creating the opioid epidemic. So maybe it’s because they’re smart that they behave recklessly — because really, Joi Ito is going to be fine, and for every one of him there are 1000 that nothing happens to at all.
Reading everyone's experiences with Dilaudid is really interesting to me. I had appendicitis a year-and-a-half ago. It was the most incredible pain I'd ever experienced in my life. They gave me Dilaudid in the ER - a pretty good dose apparently - and it barely touched the pain.. maybe took it down a notch or two. Even after a second dose, the pain was still incredible. Looking back, it did dull it and just put me in a daze. So, yes a large dose helped, but I didn't get the experience others are talking about.

Edit: a nurse friend came to visit after surgery and said: "oh, they gave you the good stuff." I still wasn't impressed.