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The main purpose of those dams which were built right after 1949 in Huai river basin was flood control, not power generation. The dam you link, was built in 1958, but the power generators were installed almost ten years later at 1968, the electricity was just not the the priority for those dams. And it was not just one dam failure, but multiple dam failures, 62 dams in total failed in this extreme weather event, Banqiao was just the largest one, and only one with power generators at the time. After dams lost, there were constant floods in downstream areas, and almost all dams were rebuilt in 80s and 90s.

The 150k-230k death toll most likely is estimate for whole flood event, not just for this dam. We can say that if the constructions of the dams or coordinates between dams were better death toll can be much lower. But if dams were not existed at all, for that level of heavy rainfall, some people at some specific locations may be alive, but for the whole basin, I don't think there will be a huge difference.
Last time I drove down to Miami on the 95 people were flying on that freeway going 90+ mph. I didn't see a single cop until I actually got to Miami and saw a few cops hauling screeching people out of the bars and throwing them into the street later that night.
Downtown, like below 14th st, feels a lot more like that, and even more the further south (i.e. older) you go. Midtown and uptown not so much.
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"Is it really so hard to believe that some people buy the most expensive iPhone simply because it's the best phone available on the market?"

I can believe that you THINK it's the best, and worth the money -- that's literally what advertising is for and how status symbols work -- but of course I would reject any claim that any $1000 phone is worth it on the merits. (Example, this 'pro' branded flagship phone comes standard with a bottom-of-the-industry 32GB of space, a laughably inferior specification for 2019 flagships where 64gb is standard and 128gb base is available. That's objectively the worst, not the best).
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Except natural gas is still contributing to global warming, and someday we'll run out of it.
The glowing text is awful for readability. My eyes automatically try to escape from looking at the text.
If you're ever working with colors and have the cpu time available, I highly recommend working with luminosity. The gist is, full-bright yellow is brighter than full-bright purple, they have different luminosities. Anything with a luminosity of 100% is white.

CIELAB is worth looking into for the color space which best defines how humans see (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space#RGB_and_CMY...).

Here's some of the relevant code, copied from the private repo I have for this (legally).

https://gist.github.com/SephReed/8c762f3434d683c66339f63342e...
One of the key features of e-ink is that it actually requires zero energy to sustain an image. It only consumes energy for state changes between images.

Of course, modern e-readers have a backlight. Though you can never fully turn it off, at least on my first-gen Paperwhite, which is unfortunate.
Ok, well lets say the german police is restraint in comparison to other police forces. At least, thats what I heard lots of times. Also what I experienced so far. But I have also seen the BFEs in action ..
Good question. Hopefully someone is familiar with this scenario and could provide opinion on it.
> If you were to sum up all the retail banking locations, corporate offices, their data centers, contractors, POS systems, etc. would you realistically expect energy usage per transaction to be lower than a Bitcoin transaction?

Yes, on a per transaction basis. You can only have 7tx/sec which means only a tiny tiny number of people could ever use it, and yet it uses as much power as Denmark. Currently nobody uses it and it uses as much power as Denmark. I would rather another Denmark or Austria than an incredibly inefficient payments system. To underscore just how little bitcoin matters ask yourself, if it just disappeared one day would anyone outside the industry even notice? And on that you want to spend an entire nations energy budget?

Visa processes 600,000 transactions in the same energy budget as a single bitcoin payment. Six hundred thousand times more efficient.

I can’t understand why you’d compare it to the entire global financial system when it can’t possibly ever replace even a sliver of it. I could outperform it with a single AWS instance and one table in RDS or DynamoDB.

[1] https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Can downvoters explain why I'm wrong?
It isn't about whether the roads are in a grid or full of nooks and crannies per se, but that the city itself wasn't planned around the existence of the automobile, either deliberately or because the automobile didn't exist yet.

A good example of this is parking minimums, which make Manhattan-style density literally impossible in places like the SFBay.
A variety of sources? Fine. Show your work. 2018-2019 vintage sources only, not something from twenty years ago.

edit: Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

Feel free to offer rebuttals of the numbers in there, with sources.
That's pretty neat. Are your users engaging with the game?
Manhattan's grid was laid out in 1811, a hundred years before the automobile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commissioners%27_Plan_of_1811

Lower Manhattan has plenty of nooks and crannies. My father had a secret street that he would park on when he needed to visit Battery Park City. It was a little-known street maybe one or two blocks long that was perfectly legal to park on but that hardly anyone knew about because it didn't go anywhere. I went with him a few times, and we were the only car to park there.

Plenty of nooks and crannies can be found, even in grids. There are always irregularities and sacred cows to be worked around.

Also, Chicago has a lot of nice nooks and crannies. Including an ordinance that requires that a cattle path be maintained through some of its downtown skyscrapers, and an old barn at the end of an alley.

https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2009/04/08/the-loops-mos...
Because laws requiring sidewalks went into effect after some land was developed, and the city would have to pay for the land owner to put a sidewalk in.
Lax to end curbside pickup by Uber and Lyft
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Typically the road w/o sidewalks was put in earlier, when sidewalks weren't required.

Or there is a change of jurisdiction, and one didn't require sidewalks and one did, often city vs. unincorporated county land.
Buzzfeed eliminating the competition.
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Try systemd-cron https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron. Best of both worlds: simplicity of crontab and manageability of systemd. And it comes with built-in MAILTO support.
You get your PD measured at the time you order your glasses. If you never order glasses they'll never measure your PD.
Yes but if you have improved over time, then at least the most recently developed parts of the code would be high-quality and would not need rewriting. So you would only need to rewrite some encapsulated legacy parts of the codebase, which is completely different from a full rewrite.
The worst thing is that at least on my tablet, I get continual popups saying unfortunately Google Hangouts has stopped. No kidding Google - it's because I bloody well deleted it. Why force me to keep seeing it even if I never have and never will use it, and don't want it on my systems?

For some reason, my Android phone doesn't harass me like the tablet does. But I best end it here, lest I jinx myself.

Android used to be better than Apple's OS.
Reading the article, it seems like these are from an automated tool. I wonder how many of these are actual race conditions, vs false positives because of logic that the tooling can't decipher.
Well, UX means user experience. If some little features give you a better experience to me, a user, isn't that a better UX?

They both have regions. One makes it easier to see at a glance.

They both have the concept of reserved IP, one doesn't need to be set first.

They both install ssh keys for you. One does it per user, the other per instance.

One sets up cross region VPC for you. The other one makes you suffer and do it yourself.
Police standards and the populace's standards of what constitutes legal gathering and protest are often quite different, as evidenced by the unnecessarily harsh deployments against protesters as seen in Hong Kong and less recently in the US. More often than not, police forces make the first move in otherwise legitimate protests either with direct oppression, false-flag tactics, or unnecessary displays of force (or potential force).

A helmet is entirely necessary in peaceful protests because the authorities resisting the demands of the protest do not play fair.
There seems to be a common problem here, is it possible for a startup to come in and improve things.
I made a site that lets you check how much an athlete makes in Bitcoin
Not exactly. Framed the way you do it doesn’t mean i’m $1650 better off, it means government is hiding the real cost of my consumption and encouraging me to use fossil fuels.

I’d rather bare the cost, and be able to realize the financial benefits of reducing my carbon footprint.
Where on Earth is this setting inside the Calibre preferences menu?? I just spent about 5 minutes looking and simply couldn't find it anywhere!
After India, TikTok Bans Paid Political Ads in US and EU
We tried, and it was legislated otherwise for a while, but it didn't really work out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CableCARD
> Speeding is not inherently unsafe.

It very much is unsafe.

In some studies they find that speeding does not cause more accidents.

But speeding is still unsafe because speeding makes the accidents that do happen much more likely to be fatal.
Placebos do work for some things. Though not likely against something like Pancreatic Cancer.
> I still strongly feel that I don't have to follow laws that I find immoral or unethical. I am not sure this is good.

I think that is definitely good. If everyone followed laws simply because "it's the law" then no one would ever think critically about whether those laws were morally justifiable or not, or if they did they would shrug it off because "breaking the law is wrong". But such questions are important to ask, and while it may be impractical for _everybody_ to do so, I'm glad there are people like me & you that pay attention to whether the law is actually making the world better or not.

(obviously, determining whether a law is ethical or not can be very tricky; you can't just go around breaking laws because you don't agree with them - there needs to be e.g. clear moral ground indicating that there is some collective thought that the law is immoral/unethical)
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Yeah - I am going to look into mock interview stuff more - hopefully something where it could be in person or at least on camera too. I'll press harder for feedback before accepting another interview loop. I tend to smash most phone interviews - so it's probably something special to the in-person aspect. A lot of my friends think people are writing non-technical things because there's something else more "problematic" for them to say that wouldn't fly in their write-up. Like - "he had rbf", "didn't laugh at my jokes", [insert unacceptable reason #48352], etc.
It seems like you're confusing UI and UX. My experience with either UI is almost nil, so I can't comment, but an ugly UI that streamlines common patterns and has sane and unsurprising defaults has good UX. As far as I know, you can accomplish all of the things GP mentioned with either AWS or GCP. Its just that doing so is much less confusing on GCP, hence better UX.
When I started riding a wise old motorcyclist told me
"Ride like you are invisible".
You fail to provide any evidence or even personal anectode to support any of your assertions.

You make claims, other fellow users counter your argument with objective statements, but you ignore everything and opt to double down on more baseless assertions. That is not helpful at all.
Your question is basically how does hosting a quarter of the internet make money, well Amazon benefits a mil+ an hour in profit off AWS margins... plenty to entice Google and Microsoft to compete.
I'm not sure what "speculation" is meant to imply here. Deutsche is explicitly giving a speculative valuation here; they speculate that Google Cloud will reach $38 billion of revenue in 2025. But that's not some pie-in-the-sky impossible dream; AWS brought $25B (and operating income of $7B) last year.

There are two direct responses to your last question: all parts of running a server farm are hard, and a cloud platform is more than just a glorified server farm.
Google sees Amazon as its biggest and most threatening competitor. Starving your competitor of lots of high-margin revenue is a good thing to do.
Are there any treatments to remove fungi ? I thought they were impossible to get rid off passed a certain threshold.
So then you just created this account to tell us that Facebook banned you for no reason even though you posted nothing? Interesting, why did you do that?
Yeah Robert Moses had a big influence, but there are still some areas that are more like what the article describes. They just tend to be little pockets off the beaten path that you almost have to stumble into.
You would think (rationally at least) that people obsessed with the optimal interface between user and computer would focus on non-QWERTY layouts instead of dropping dough on intricate mechanical keyboards

(yeah, cue "por que no los dos?" but still!)
Surprised that no one raised privacy issues.
Now technology can eavesdrop on what I am thinking? Give me a break!
I think this theory has been mostly debunked, ironically because it pretty much happened in multiple reactors at fukashima without that disastrous result.
We have no idea if the Tesla would have stopped itself - im positive the driver releasing the button wouldn't have the reaction time the car did thus proving the car was avoiding the accident by itself. get worked idiot
You work for Google or something? I've been in an out of a ton of IT departments and I'm just reporting what I've seen. I've honestly never done a real evaluation of GCP as a whole. Only Firebase. From what I've seen first-hand, AWS is the default choice. Azure has substantial market share, particularly among orgs that are already bought into the Microsoft stack. GCP just doesn't have a strong story to tell. I should also say that I pretty commonly see senior IT decision makers just make arbitrary decisions.
I'm not exactly surprised because that was my original response to the UI as well, several years ago, but the surprising thing to me now is why exactly I considered it such a terrible UI back then.

One thing I can remember is that if you start a conversion or a download, often it silently starts in the background with apparently no indication anything is going on, unless you know to look for "Jobs" in the lower right corner. But I think I had a bunch more complaints which have apparently become invisible to me now.
I don't think there's any guilt by association being assigned to anything. The article in my head amounted to the realization that the corporation behind Robert's Rules does not itself adhere to the book's teachings and has had problematic elements in the past. So instead they recommend other resources, one explicitly still about Robert's Rules itself.

>> I’m ready to advocate on my campus against all post-1915 editions (with apologies to Cleary) in part because of her politics and in part because there are plenty of alternatives. My new favorites are Nancy Sylvester’s The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Robert’s Rules, and Alice Sturgis’s The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure

The only outrage I felt came from your comment.
The roads are indeed super dangerous in my opinion (I rented a scooter once and truly feared for my life when huge buses lost their patience and overtook me during switchbacks, after that experience only cars!) and additionally you really need to be in amazing shape to bike there - steep climbs everywhere, under a hot sun.
Fair enough, but when I look at pictures of peoples' builds it is almost always a square keyboard with fancy backlighting.

I'm personally a fan of the MS ergos with the wrist wrests and have mixed feelings about how that design doesn't seem to be getting replicated anywhere
Recent California flooding makes me question this.
I don't disagree that many groups could get closer to consensus with better meeting management, but in practice building consensus is often an illusion. I've been in organizations where building consensus meant continuing to meet and rehash until the minority group got sick of meeting and stopped arguing. Then we voted and the majority ruled, but there was still no consensus. Massive waste of time. Make your case succinctly, vote, and move on. You win some and you lose some.

Problems arise when the minority opinion members can't recognize the possibility that they were perhaps wrong or perhaps not seeing the complete picture. No truly productive debate can ever occur unless both sides are willing to recognize the very real possibility that they are wrong or at least that there are often multiple reasonable ways to solve a problem.
This is why I think H.R. 763 (in the US) is a well-designed bill. It taxes everything, and has a built-in tariff to serve as incentive to other countries to implement similar carbon taxes. I hope it passes. I believe it starts out at $15 per ton, then goes up by $10 per ton each year, with adjustments based on whether we're falling short of our greenhouse gas reduction goals, or greatly exceeding them.
Generators, wait groups and closures in Golang
Anecdote on the other side - Small customer (~5k/mo google cloud / firebase spend). They're support has been decent. Sub 24hr email response and technically competent enough to quickly escalate. It was comparable to AWS basic support.
> If everyone just signs up to a major instance like mastodon.social, some of the problems you see on platforms like Twitter and Facebook will just be re-introduced as the number of users grows.

Wouldn't this problem be mitigated by allowing users to migrate everything to other instances?
It has been argued, I wouldn't say that it has been shown. Both my ISPs operate a DNS blacklist. So did my previous ISPs, in the country I previously lived in. And in a third country, where I was on holiday. ISPs even in the USA are gnashing their teeth at the prospect of losing visibility into DNS. Why would they care if they weren't using that data? Why do they need a subscriber -> [domain] mapping? Routing tables don't care about domain names. Edge caching of web content doesn't work with https. I might care about DNS caching if the ISPs haven't demonstrated time and again that they will abuse my privacy for a buck, after I've already paid them for the privilege.

I trust Cloudflare much more than I trust any ISP I've had to deal with, including American ISPs when I lived there. I trust Google much more than any ISP, and I'm not particularly charitable towards Google.

Centralized DoH isn't perfect, but it's better than the status quo. The SNI hole is shrinking. My threat model does not include defending against the Mossad doing Mossad things with my email^H^H^H^H^HDNS[1].

[1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf
That PR describes what's wrong pretty thoroughly, some went for the rest of the community's response. Therefore they backed down.
Goldman valued WeWork at $60B, as part of their sales pitch to lead the IPO. The context makes all the difference since the point of that valuation was to aid a sales pitch, not be an accurate assessment.
Whatever its legal classification, it's still protective of privacy, and it's still an example of how the idea that you have no legal protection when you're in public isn't accurate.
Sleep apnea screening using a disposable chest patch
It also could be done independently and without affecting the natural flow of a major river/ecosystem.

But I've never actually heard of nuclear requiring storage, except for emergency cooling.
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> Unbroken sheets of glass, prefabricated panels, poured concrete, steel girders—these are the basic units of construction, and all resist the kind of random puncturing and cobbling that subordinated the work of the architect to the changing needs of the community.

Glass curtain walls are progress, civilization, and enlightenment. "Random puncturing" by contrast, is pernicious just from the sound of it. Romanticism.
If you hit someone hard enough to kill them then you were definitely speeding and/or not paying attention. Even going 45mph, which is the highest speed road around me where you'd encounter a crosswalk wile driving, you still have plenty of time to slam on the brakes and bleed speed to a nonfatal speed. Probably takes 1 second to go from 45mph to 20mph.

When drivers kill people in my town, it seems like it's mostly hit and runs which should give you a hint on who was at fault.
The layouts can be whatever you want. The keycaps are interchangeable and the layout is dictated by the firmware flashed to an Arduino.
So, am I understanding that right, that they're upholding the chalking-tires technique, but saying it holds up for reasons other than the vehicle and caretaking exceptions?

Also:

>>Because we chalk this practice up to a regulatory exercise

It should not be legal for judges to make puns like that.

(Edited to add substantive remark that belonged here as well.)
You would have to be careful. Most people buying cheap kits get the same stabilizers that everyone uses in every high end build, its like a $20 upgrade. They also clip the stabilizers, make sure they are lubed properly, and some people put pieces of cloth band-aids under them to soften impacts and make it more quiet. Some people also lube switches which is a little harder to do right and takes some tools.

If you wanted to test, it should be on equal footing. A $200 keyboard with the same switches and modifications as a $2000 keyboard. Same keycaps as well.

If we're talking kits, honestly you might even want to use the same board and just have the case be different.

Even with all that, there's a good chance they will be able to tell that the keyboards are different, simply because the acoustics of the cases are going to be different. They just won't be able to subjectively measure the quality.

$200 might be too low though, I think the realm of it not being noticeable is probably closer to $300-400+.
That's not seriously the real engineering portmortem is it? That looks more like a 'Resolved the issue' update - it is way too shallow and vague.

If this was sent out at AWS as a COE (postmortem), it would be ripped apart - it is not going to satisfy anyone reading it that they should have confidence this class of failure isn't going to happen again. It looks like they haven't even identified the root cause(s) of the failure...
Actually I really like the AWS documentation, even more since they launched their public knowledge center [1], which offers answers for common use cases.

And AWS does have of course evangelists blogging about a lot of stuff. You should check out their blogs overview page [2] which lists 29 new posts since the beginning of October alone!

[1]: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/

[2]: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/
I call v1.00 "Version One point Uh-oh." I learned from years of working corporate IT that installing anything brand new is nearly always a mistake. There is a reason non-critical patches are pretty much always delayed... look at Chrome's recent OSX file system destruction.
"that sounds absurd."

I know, thats why I prefer to read the news via The Onion or similar newspapers ...