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Side note: I found it interesting to see the discussion from people who have solar panels and learned that without a whole house battery the panels are practically useless when the power is out.

I thought it was just worth noting as a time people think they have one thing, and discover it’s something else entirely.
I often check the comments first to see if there is one as clear and concise as CJ's. Then I don't need to skim a lengthy article for the information I'm interested in - such as the answer to the question in the headline in this case.
There are only a limited number of markets where large numbers of buyers and sellers transact for commodities of well understood characteristics.

The fundamental transaction of capitalistic societies is the "deal", where sellers vary the benefits of their products and conceal their deficits and where buyers conceal their willingness to pay as well as the exact thing they want to buy. Typically there are no more than two or three sellers (e.g. Airbus and Boeing) or two or three buyers (e.g. the market for very advanced fighter aircraft).

The first thing you learn in business school is that you must have product differentiation and must at all costs avoid being in a commodity business..
Some of the readme reminds me of Borges' Library of Babel [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel
How does owning the 1% stock that doesn't get a pay out when the purchase occurs affect taxes? Do you have to pay taxes on the perceived value of the 1%? Can you consider it a loss?
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Sounds like another example of company dribbling too many balls and end up making none of the shots.

Smart watch, smart home and a AI powered chatbot with AI retail experience? Sounds like a desperate company getting whoever that would be naive enough trust it’s lies.
Some founders honestly are using employment numbers are surrogates for friends

It is also convenient for them to feel like they are contributing to the local job numbers

It is convenient to villify people that accumulate value amongst a small number of people

Regardless of your thoughts if you have money and are aiming to make more of it, the leaner operation is the one to do it
This is the case that established unlimited liability for PG&E regardless of any determination of negligence on its part or staff.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/ca-court-of-appeal/1223894.html

CA legislators could pass a law changing this.
> The overwhelming majority of deforestation is done for crops, not pasture

I'm not so sure this is true. Maybe in the United States. But most of the deforestation happening in the Amazon (which is a major component of climate change) is for meat and leather production.

Relevant quote from Wikipedia: "The cattle sector of the Brazilian Amazon, incentivized by the international beef and leather trades,[1] has been responsible for about 80% of all deforestation in the region,[2][3] or about 14% of the world's total annual deforestation, making it the world's largest single driver of deforestation.[4]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_of_the_Amazon_ra...
> but I can't think of any for not liking it.

I distinctly remember a post on here about three or four years ago where a blind person detailed losing their job because Electron does not integrate with desktop accessibility functions.
So I think the fundamental problem with a lot of the arguments I am seeing presented here is this fascination with logic and thought as being a universal truth. We are, in fact, no different than Flatlanders.

If we walk through the evolutionary history, we can see a clear pattern of each advancing step slowly creeping into further and further dimensions. First it was single cell protobacteria being able to detect light or dark above them, and gradually growing more and more complex. A dog, while a 3 dimensional construct, is really little more than a 2 1/2 dimensional being. Humans, by extension, are really the first fully realized 3 dimensional being. And also one of the first to take steps into the perception of the 4th dimension. And as evolution continues to advance, there is no reason to suspect our ability to perceive the 4th, or even 5th dimensions won’t continue to advance. Soon our ability to manipulate those dimensions will follow suite, and with it, will come a fundamental shift in how that creature conceptualizes the physical world.

To say that a 4th or 5th dimensional creation would still use a binary logic system equal to true or false, on or off, is nonsense. And as such, any mappings of our current logic systems would fall relatively flat.

Our world is still flat, confined by the limits of our own physical hardware. In a billion years what ever comes after us will be completely different. Confined by its own limited hardware.
> Weed is something that often makes me acutely aware of my mortality, and to an extent that is quite uncomfortable.

I think this is also why some people report getting paranoid from ingesting marijuana. For whatever reason, being high on pot allows (forces?) you to look at death in a way that is far more serious and real than you normally would.

Whatever that mental block described in the article is, THC seems to be an antidote. And CBD provides a buffer or counter antidote to that, since generally the more CBD content that is included, the less of this mortality effect intrudes on an otherwise perfectly good buzz.

It can be quite comfortable and even joyful provided you don't go there and then dwell on it.
I've been thinking about adding this to the app I'm working on, as a sort of UI hint. Just something real subtle at each edge that is scrollable, to signal the user that they can scroll in that direction (maybe a transparent animated chevron or something).

It definitely does feel like something the browser should handle though. Having to work on stuff like that instead of actual functionality is painful, especially for startups that are trying to iterate fast.
Thanks! Still not always (in Chrome, still need to scroll or hover over the scrollbar to appear).
OK, what I understood from the article is that the guy owned 1% not of the company's acquisition price (as he thought), but 1% from (price - X) where X was unknown and turned out to be greater or equal to the price.

The fact that he didn't realize it until the very end makes the author's advise very correct - "make sure you understand exactly what you own".
One Drive files as well.

Strange it doesn't do local, but I imagine there are legacy reasons for that. Everything in Office is old. Often it is crazy well engineered, but decisions set in stone decades ago still linger on.
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The distinction that may be lost on many people is that plants that were very common in these areas were plants that could tolerate low to moderate intensity fire. In some cases the plants are so adapted to fire that they only reproduce after a fire. No fire, no new plants. Plants that aren't fire resistant get substantial selective pressure against them after every fire, while the fire 'loving' plants have reduced competition.

But if you block the fires for a long time, you get not just more fuel building up, but more flammable plants building up. The whole process created hotter fires, that can damage or kill even the resistant plants. There is no phoenix to rise from those ashes.

Prescribed burns are done, in theory, when the fuel+heat+oxygen equation is barely favorable enough to sustain a burn. This clears the fuel and maladapted plants and leaving the rest more or less intact. But a sudden wind or a nearly certain rainstorm that doesn't happen and you have a lot of explaining to do to the public.
Indian tech startups have already raised $11.3B -- the new financing rounds of Swiggy, Zomato, and Paytm if they happen this year and if it is indeed of $3B size would make Indian tech startup's raise this year to over $14.3B.
Yeah that’s what happens when you’re held liable for damages caused by a fire.
And I do think Krugman is qualified to write about the economy (less so about other things). I just don't like him (or people quoting him) using his Nobel Prize as some kind of ethos cudgel to hit me over the head with.
Somewhat different, but I have a similar issue finding dairy-free foods that aren't vegan (I'm lactose intolerant and the dairy pills don't always work well). It's really frustrating.

In any case, as another commenter pointed out, Vox has a good map showing how much of cropland is used for feed and fuel rather than direct human consumption [1].

[1] https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6053187/cropland-map-food-fuel...
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"Options/other"-icon now: 3 horizontal lines ( https://cdn1.iconfinder.com/data/icons/android-user-interfac... )

I liked the 3 dots because it was natural for me to associate it with "etc...". I don't know what the 3 horizontal lines are meant to represent, but I know that it's really difficult to explain to my parents and that they keep forgetting its meaning because they cannot associate the symbol with anything :(

Similar thing with the "back button"-icon ( https://icon-library.net/images/android-back-icon/android-ba... ): it's an equilateral triangle, maybe pointing to the left, or maybe to the top/bottom right corners, or maybe just a "triangle" (associate "triangle" with "back"?) depending on how you think. I'd prefer a less stylish but classical arrow ("<") than that.

Etc... .
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> in the scheme of things (vs, say, a LISP machine)

Heh
It was an extended metaphor categorizing an ISP's (or a cloud provider) customers into multiple buckets: Kobolds, Lizardmen, Hobbits, and Princesses.

Princeses were the customres which sometimes required a lot of customer support, but paid really well because they purchased a lot of services/VM's. Hobbits were customers who basically minded their own business, and didn't guy a lot of stuff, but didn't cause any problems.

Lizardmen were customers which had possibly clueless marketing departments that would occasionally send e-mail marketing campaigns which crossed the line, but which also sent plenty of legitimate e-mails, and which were mostly trainable after the ISP/cloud provider smacked them on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper --- and Kobolds were spamvertising companies that did nothing but send spam, and were constantly switching ip addresses / VM's, and knew d*mn well that they were doing something evil, and were not trainable.

The problem is that if the ISP / cloud provider has the vast majority of their customers being Kobolds and Lizardmen, it becomes economically hard to just cut off the bad actors, because the vast majority of their customer base are bad actors. If the provider originally had a good mix of all of these customer mixes, but wasn't proactively cutting off the Kobolds and educating the Lizardmen, then their network block would start getting a bad reputation, and all of the major e-mail providers (not just GMail) would start blacklisting the netblock, or at the very least, treating any e-mail sent from that network block as a strong SPAM signal, and this would cause the other customer types to find other providers.

So if you happen to be a customer of such a network/cloud provider, you could try complaining to the provider, but they are really in between a rock and a hard place, because if you're the 1 good hobbit and all of the otheer customers for that provider are Kobolds and Lizardmen, what is the provider supposed to do? You're probably better off switching to a better provider. Unfortunately, the better provider may also cost more, but you get what you pay for.
> But if one station is charging 3.69 and another is charging 3.39, should I assume that the one charging more actually paid 30 cents more a gallon, or have that much more for expenses?

Probably a bit of both. Gas is often more expensive in more well off areas, which also usually have fewer gas stations in general, and the rents those stations pay are probably a bit higher too. It's also more near airports, because demand is high for rental car returns.

But part of the higher price is a function of your willingness to drive to a poorer or less convenient part of town to fill cheaper gas in your car. As a younger person on a limited budget I would do that frequently.

But depending on how far away the cheaper gas is (meaning gas used to get there), and the value of your time spent getting there, you might be better off paying a bit more to fill up closer to where you live. That's what I do now, even though it's a $.20 more per gallon.
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So what? Chill out.

We all know that C is not without flaws. I would use other languages if there were good alternatives. For example, I liked some parts of Delphi, but it has too many show stoppers. For example, all local variables still have to be declared in the variables section before the function body, right? And are we still required to make type aliases to use pointer types in important places, such as function signatures?

C is special in that it is the only language that I've known that has a minimalistic attitude, resulting in a shitty language (every language is shit!) whose problems we can actually work around in practice.
It's all the same though.

In the vast majority of circumstances you aren't firing an individual American and hiring an individual from China. You're just choosing to buy something from a giant corporation that manufactures goods in China instead of a competing giant corporation that manufactures goods in the US. Switching cell phone providers is just like switching from American Giant (made in America) to some other purveyor of sweaters that manufactures overseas.

Are you saying that you think you have a moral obligation to buy things made by American workers, who are universally wealthier and have access to a much stronger social safety net, than Chinese workers?

If anything it seems like it would be the opposite to me.
You mean the melamine formaldehyde they bulk up with saw dust?
In recent years, the United States Forest Service has been trying to rectify the previous practice through the use of prescribed or “controlled” burns.

I read an article last year about this, I think also in the Times, and it pointed out that this was mostly a California thing; other states continued with proscribed burns, while California stopped for aesthetic reasons.

The article was spurred as a fact-check piece after the president tweeted that last year's fires were because of California's mismanagement of its forests, in spite of federal agencies trying to continue the controlled burns.

It came right around the time someone on HN posted a very cool interactive map that used satellite data to show all of the fires burning across the country, and sure enough — when you hovered over the fires in other states the pop-up text indicated they were controlled burns, but the California fires were all enormous out-of-control conflagrations.
>> they expected significant job distortion as a result of free trade. So they literally moved government agencies from their current locations, to locations that they expected would be hardest hit.

> Such a strategy failed utterly in Canada.

It's possible the strategy is good, they just utterly failed at executing it for other reasons.
And employees deserve to be sandbagged? That seems monumentally unfair...
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Often, founders get paid money directly as part of the acquisition to make them greenlight it.
If I may...

> Any history book will show you...

And any newspaper will show you the atrocities committed by contemporary humans against each other, for false reasons that out forefathers would have said "how could they [not learn a single damn thing we taught them]?"

The fact that we do not share their biases do not make our behavior any better, nor our excuses any less petty, dumb or self-serving. And rest asured that our descendants will judge us just as harshly as we judge today those that came before us. Such is human nature.
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I'm not blaming all of these fires on PGE. The state is simply not resilient to fire -- the smallest fires quickly become infernos.

They deserve some blame, of course. Clearly arson is wrong, and so is negligence. But how negligent are they really being? It seems like the latest fire was caused by a tower that was regularly inspected.
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As I understand it, from memory:

I invest $100 for 20% of your venture. You sell for $200.

Standard preference: I get $100, not $40, as my % would suggest, because I get at least every dollar I invested back.

2x preference: I get all $200, because I'm promised at least 2x my investment back.

Participating preferred: I get $120 (I think?) --- I first get my invested dollars back, and then I still get my % of the venture.
Their decision should be based on delivering power and maintaining the system. It shouldn't be based on profit or any sort of business prospective.
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The idea is to use the carbon taxes for sequestering the carbon released, so it's not just a punitive tax to reduce demand, like the tax on cigarettes.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/cost-plunges-capturi...

Normal people also are very opinionated but don't know the facts.
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That's what happens when you don't maintain your equipment or the land around it and cause fires as a result- you get held responsible for it.
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How often is often? Can you name 3 such cases?
No it is not disingenuous! The point is that the standard of reliability that you require for renewable energy cannot be higher than the one you require for nuclear energy.

You say that a handful of nuclear plants can hit five nines of reliability. Sure, but then you must also consider a network of thousands of wind parks that can also hit five nines of reliability without breaking a sweat. Even assuming a high correlation in wind conditions.

You say that import is not an option because electricity is so critical. But then how come all the world's nuclear power is dependent on imports of uranium from Kazakhstan, Canada and Australia? Not to mention oil and food imports.

Is wind power the perfect energy source? No. Is it better than what we have? YES.
But people have moved into the forest and they can't do prescribed burns there, so fuel will continue to build up near where people live. People in such areas should be forced to build houses that can survive regular fires (something eminently possible) or disclaim all right for compensation over fires set intentionally, negligently, or naturally.
> Every single large company I've worked at has had mandatory training classes where lawyers explain why you never, ever say or send e-mail with anything like that.

Yup, I went through the same training.

> as part of a discovery effort from the FTC or state attorneys generals investigating abuse of Monopoly power.... well, it would be bad.

It depends though, losing money to acquire customers is sometimes OK, sometimes not.

How many years did Google lose money on Youtube?

Sometimes making the best technology requires going in heads first, not worrying about profit, and deciding that if you make the best product, you will eventually find a way to make some money. After all, Google had no problem monetizing Gmail, and it doesn't take a genius to think "hey, storage prices keep dropping, offer users a gig now and we may lose money, but that'll stop as prices for storage keep going down."

It isn't like Yahoo in their heyday couldn't have made the same decision.

Also, I never suggested sending that in an email! But telling the team that they need to make a product so much better that the competition has 0 hope? Well now the team has a mission statement, and one that they can go use to attitude adjust anyone who is too complacent with the status quo.

If some executive wanted to start threatening data center providers or cut off network peering agreements, yup, line way too far.

But if someone wants to make a REALLY damn good product, to the point that it is so good by the time everyone else catches up it is too late, well, more power to them.

The desire to achieve market dominance by making an insanely better product is often the means by which technology progresses.
Then how about prohibiting dividends, buybacks, and bonuses until they are ready to accept liability -- or some other way of structuring this regulation other than imposing contradictory requirements on them that force blackouts?
You mispelled 'Bookchin'.
The state should (i.e. probably will not) counter by throwing a few of their execs in jail for their role in starting fires due to failure to maintain their stuff aka gross negligence.
I assume you're referring to Intel's robust history of "Intellectual Property" lawsuits?

Agreed. ISPC is under a BSD license, but I wonder if there's a lawsuit to be made from the use of the techniques.
Pi is conjectured[1], though not proved, to be normal. If true (likely), we can expect to find Moby Dick in its entirety somewhere in 𝛑, along with tomorrow's news of the day. Eventually, we'll find a string of digits nnnn....nnnn that's going to be longer than the number of particles in our universe. Of course, there's also a lot of gibberish.

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Not fines so much, but payments to insurance companies and others who suffered loses in fires found to be started by PG&E power lines.
The article mentions at least one reason why the incentives often aren't aligned: a carve-out agreement that guarantees specific people (often founders) a cut from the "preferred" part of the pie. As I understood it, this cut is completely unrelated to the amount of shares (common or otherwise) those people own and is a separate agreement saying that they get eg. 10% of the money in the event of a sale.
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