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If the Airmash name is trademarked, can't one reach the original developer (or their lawyer/estate) by this?
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Solar and wind aren’t disruptive to base-load though, which is the problem. You can build all of the solar/wind you want, but you’re just falling back to fossil fuels at night and during less windy days.
Solar did not just rise mysteriously - it was driven by government policy, first by huge feed in tariffs (US$270/MWh) and later with massive rebates.

"West Australians who applied for rooftop solar panels from the 1st of July 2010 till the 30 of June 2011 could lock in a 40 cent feed-in tariff for 10 years and those who applied in July 2011 could lock in 20 cents for 10 years." [1]

"The current Rebate subsidises 54% of the price when purchasing a Solar System for a home or property." [2]

[1] https://www.solarquotes.com.au/systems/feed-in-tariffs/wa/

[2] https://www.solarmarket.com.au/wa-solar-rebate-scrapped/
A screenshot of part of a log snippet. Followed by "can I phone you?"

Dear users everywhere: the point of the exercise is not to prove there is a problem. I believe you when you say there is a problem. I need enough context to understand what the problem is.
FWIW, I've had a kind of opposite need in the past (using European plugs while in the US) and I found that the European plugs can be connected to a partially retracted (but still connected) American plug. The inner distance of the two European leads just fits over the outer distance of the two partially exposed US leads.

I mean, since this thread doesn't seem too picky about fire safety anyways... ;)
Reading the article (and hoping i didnt just read over the part), they never mention the word waste once when it comes to the cost calculation. Thats rather convenient seeing as the number of functioning deep repository sites today is rather limited. What good are small operating costs when the build costs are this expensive and we dont have a viable solution for waste management (yet?). In practice these costs are externalized to the tax payers and next generations of tax payers. As long as we dont have a functioning waste management, waste is a constantly running cost that wont stop at the end of the reactors lifetime. As long as we dont realistically factor in the waste management cost, nuclear is highly subsidized by the following generations who have to pay for the running cost of waste management. That just doesnt make sense.

Dont get me wrong, i am not anti- nuclear. It just doesnt make sense to me at this point from an economics perspective. When factoring in the cost of waste management and decommissioning the power plants after the end of its lifetime, they are absurdly expensive. All this not to mention the absurd follow-up costs of having to dig out collapsed long time storage yet again. I dont see how nuclear today is not just another technology that offers a unsustainable, quick and cheap energy source that externalized the costs to the next generations. The running costs of all those waste management failures is starting to add up, and when looking at Germany, who set an exit date for nuclear power, the cost of decommissioning the power plants themselves is going to be a massive loss for the tax payer, even if everything would work as planed. Which, when looking at the history, we can be sure it wont.

I am not convinced yet that nuclear doesnt just look good on paper. Get me a realistic calculation for the actual energy price without externalizing the cleanup costs to the tax payer and we can talk. Dont factor in waste management at a fixed price the state offers and dont just assume that no meltdown cleanup will ever be necessary. But i have yet to see anyone make the argument that way, which lets me assume, that nuclear is a wonderful technology to research until someone finds out how to run plants economically viable without just externalizing costs.
I would think it's easier to blame someone you've never talked to than to blame someone you have talked to.

If they had interviewed him, he might have revealed systematic failures in many other parts of the company. But if he's a nameless individual who can't say anything, he can be a silent scapegoat.
> This is what we all want price-wise, but would we really, truly want to turn Netflix into the equivalent of the iOS App Store for essentially all legal streaming movies and television?

You mean like the music industry has Spotify, Google Music, Deezer, Tidal, Apple Music and many many more, and everyone has a 99% full catalog?

You better motherfucking believe it.

This is the only thing people want in the ultra laggard video-streaming market.
Ugh, this sucks. I've used PIA for ages as well. Their infrastructure is really great too - I get better latency on PIA than my own ISP sometimes!
> more difficult to pretend that nuke plants aren't dangerous.

Nobody can pretend that nuclear plants aren't dangerous. The argument is that a Fukushima somewhere in the world once every 20 years would be substantially less dangerous than a coal fired plant in every country operating for 20 years. And it doesn't seem to be likely that we get a Fukushima every 20 years. So why is Fukushima used as a reason to use coal plants??? The logic is barely coherent, and even then only assuming that someone has no understanding of the background risk they face every day.

I've lived in a coal mining region. I would have statistically better health outcomes if I had lived next to Fukushima.

EDIT And you linked the Fukushima outcomes page - it says that even only considering Japan the lives saved from not using coal probably outweighed hypothetical maybe-deaths from Fukushima that cannot be detected. Footnote 75.

> Moreover the waste management problem is not solved.

It is kinda difficult to describe a scenario where nuclear waste causes much more damage than say a tailings dam failure at a heavy metals mine. Or a gas leak in a built up area. Or a bad wildfire. There is not a lot of nuclear waste and there is a lot of desert out there if it comes to it.

People have largely been ignoring the waste for 40 years and that strategy is working pretty well.
> Abusing, in all senses of this verb, is much easier if you absolutely don't know, won't know and even don't relate to your victim.

Well that's patently untrue. The average abused child or woman actually lives with their abuser. A significant number of abused children are abused by someone who is not in their family but who knows them. It seems that people fear abusing strangers (who are more likely to report you) more than those who are close (who are more likely to say "it's not his fault").
When I read this title I thought it's about optimizing servers by rebooting them more often so they get rid of leaked memory. Also a form of medition I guess.
Advertising or not, you can't get Prime without VoD, so if GP likes the deal just for shipping, or for shipping and music, then fine.

Personally I have it mainly for shipping, and get good value out of that (especially since here it's next day by default, some items same day), and stream occasionally.
Not really bold at all. The climate change we are on track for is very disruptive but even the worst case doesn’t show anything that would threaten civilization itself.

We could lose 90% of the human population and be back to the numbers of when the US became a country.
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There is a quote from Chesley Sullenberger (The pilot that landed an airliner in the Hudson river):

"Everything we know in aviation, every rule in the rule book, every procedure we have, we know because someone somewhere died... We have purchased at great cost, lessons literally bought with blood that we have to preserve as institutional knowledge and pass on to succeeding generations."

We forget that often process and procedures which we now take as "common sense" or "bare minimum" were introduced as a best practice exactly because someone somewhere made a mistake that would have been avoided with those procedures in place.

Another thing I think is important to bring up, is that in software teams we often think that procedures are in place for 'other' complacent people or inexperienced juniors.

The reality is that procedures enforce consistency. And that consistency is needed for you as well not just for 'others'.

Today you write something elegant, tomorrow you could have trouble at home, be sleep deprived, pushed for a deadline, pressured by management and suddenly you in that instance become the 'others'.

Procedures in the end eliminate any wiggle for negotiable 'business compromises' or relaxing quality 'just this once'.
> Prices did move based on supply and demand. The main issue dictating this was actually the limitations of transport. In areas with ready access to water transport though, you will find price integration (i.e. local prices moving together) and this is definitely true to a significant extent in the UK (another good example, obviously, are the Low Countries which were heavily integrated into global markets).

The UK did not exist in medieval England, and the medieval Dutch weren't known for trading with the Javanese and the Maori.
The Mu One 45W charger comes with UK, EU and US interchangeable plugs. https://www.themu.co.uk/collections/muone
My heart tells me that the vast majority of serious chess players are kind and genuine people (eg Jerry from ChessNetwork), but the amount of rank snobbery i actually observe severely limits my interest in learning more about the game.
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Using NordVPN is never a smart idea. Same goes for using a VPN linked to a US company, unfortunately. Use Mullvad or https://www.ipredator.se/
Why would 'large scale solar' cause an issue for native species? Even if 100% of Australian power were generated by solar, what percentage of the total land area would be used?

Well, lets check! The total power generating capacity of Australia is about 66GW, but about 18 is already hydro, wind, or solar. So we need to come up with about 48GW. Lets take a fairly moderate estimate of 4 acres per MW (4000 acres per GW). It may be more or less than this, but in the long run this is not a terrible estimate. So we need to come up with about 50 * 4000 == 200,000 acres of land.

South Australia by itself is 243,000,000 acres, we need about 200k, so this is about .8% of the total land area. This seems like a lot! However, the total number of dwellings in South Australia is about 768,000. The average size of a roof, according to google, is about .03 acres. So just putting photovoltaics on 1/2 of the roof area (meh, I don't know how to estimate usable roof area with a random direction and I don't know whether roofs in Australia are flat, so lets take 1/2) would get you 11.5k acres.

So 5% of the total power usage of all of Australia could be provided just by putting solar panels on the roofs of houses in South Australia. Seems like a good deal for endangered species.

What about the other 95%? Well, again, you would only need 0.8% of South Australia to supply the energy needs of all of Australia.

Like you said, Australia is a MASSIVE country, and has extremely low population density and an almost perfect climate for solar power production. So what is your point exactly? That if they took less than 1% of the land of one part of the country and converted to 100% renewable energy some lizard which is only 'unique' by an arbitrary human criterion might have too much shade?
So what exactly is the gameplan, how are you going to change the world by selling your stake?
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Since the previous HN post last weekend I cancelled my PIA subscription and went to Mullvad. So far so good.
> Once the direct subsidy of nuclear via the military's nuclear weapons buildout went away, new plant construction... went way.

This is easily false. When you look at historical nuclear powerplant construction via the NRC, you see a flatline of new reactors starting 1979: Three Mile Island accident year.

In fact, Ford and Carter (a nuclear engineer himself) banned reprocessing of spent nuclear fuels even before that! Due to nonproliferation concerns (NPT had been around since 1970).

The USA kept building nuclear weapons through the 80's, so where were those "subsidies" for civilian powerplants?

The answer is the strong anti-nuclear movement in the 80's society that was the culmination of several different political, disaster, and cultural events. Not because we stopped building nukes in the 80's (we didn't stop).

Edit: One of the defining features of the US's civilian power fleet of reactors is exactly because of its adherence to non-proliferation, independence of military, and economic viability of "standing on its own two legs". Contrast the PWR designs with the power+breeder designs of the RBMK, the Soviet design to accidentally produce power while also producing weapons grade materials. This is why, in contrast, in the USA the reactors at national labs and military sites are so secure and secretive, and why the fuel used in US civilian powerplants are very tame in comparison: only the military is subsidizing it's own reactors for its own weapons grade fuel.
Guess what else will cause problems for native species? Climate change.
Her work absolutely addresses principal-agent problems. In fact that is the core of her work.
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Stop comparing solar and wind to nuclear. That’s a cudgel to ignore the fact that being anti-nuclear means being pro-fossil fuels. Bringing online solar and wind does not displace nuclear because they do not provide a stable base.

You highlight that storage is a challenge, but it’s the entire blocker at this point. Until storage is solved, solar/wind do nothing more than displace some peaker plants.
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> Healthcare in the US, on the other hand, is such a morass of regulations (including patents), subsidization programs and conflicting interests that I can't see it fit any simple model.

This is a very good points. Some of these programs are just so huge and so complex, its crazy. We are talking about almost 20% of GDP that is regulated in a incredibly complex ways, has massive amount of government money spent on it as well.
On the other hand, if a technology requires higher levels of organizational competence than is available from the government of a major first-world country, maybe it isn't ready for primetime.
What's wrong with the first option? Runtime invalidates the pointer, and then just segfault on use and be done with it?

It seems to me that if you're going to play with memory directly, it's reasonable for the generally-memory-safe runtime to throw out its guarantees on memory-safety
The author didn't mention what percentage of objects is getting sweeped at every GC stage, but it might be a small percentage of the total heap if the application is complex.

Sweeping, in typical implementations, also requires locking/unlocking mutexes and sorting/combining freed memory chunks to combat fragmentation, and that can be slow.

My hunch is that sweeping is fast because there isn't much garbage (meaning distinct allocations, not megabytes) per sweep cycle to start with.

Edit: the talk referenced in the article (https://blog.golang.org/ismmkeynote) provides a hint. Go has lightweight threads, and if you have many of them you have to walk all stacks, closures, and all registers of all threads in order to determine which objects are live. If they are processing millions of requests per second, they might have a goroutine for every request, and that might explain why sweeping is (relatively) expensive in his benchmarks.
Yet PIA has LIED about making their desktop source code public.

Where's the link to the GitHub repo?

You are proven liars.

(Thanks for the flag, doesn't change the facts, prove me wrong ;) )
Did it ever existed to begin with? The myth begun with "Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" from Steven Levy in 1984, and it was mainly propaganda.
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Hacking is just interesting only if you are not following any "tutorial". Today you can run an embedded linux under 10 minutes with less that 20 bucks with a RPI by reading some tutorial or watching a youtube video. What's the fun about that?

I remember too hacking my commodore and the only help I had was just a book in a strange language (english in my case) and my dad (he was into 8086 at that time) when I was a kid. Today everyone pretends there should be step-by-step guides on how to do everything.

The most similar thing to that hacking feeling I get in the present is implementing some unknown HW component (i.e. a sensor, I2C device, microcontroller) that there is no source code or help for it (of course, when doing it for fun and not work). When the thing starts to work, there is a very little spark similar to those felt when I was a kid.
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> The network effect doesn't happen if people have to install software

Plenty of people installed the facebook, twitter, and instagram apps on their phone - and in many cases don't even use the web interfaces. Local software installation is not an issue when it's as streamlined as the current mobile experience.
Microsoft gave their customers a full refund, what's the problem?
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PIA also claimed they were going to release the code of their new Windows desktop client.

They did not.
They have not.

They lied.

They cannot be trusted.
Ignoring the red herring, and the assumption I read these stories after a bad experience, let me address, yet, as a consumer, all that matters is the vocal user experience.

If there are 100 bad stories out there, that's enough of a failure of a company irrelevant of its size. And I have personally conducted the support experiment multiple time over the years to have the first-hand experience.

Either way, since you clearly have a vested interest in Ad companies from your HN comment history, I shall engage no more.
I don't understand your point.

When you build a product, the purpose is to get customers / users, as many as possible. And when you win a majority market share, then that will make your product a de facto standard.

Google could have introduced a lot of proprietary, non-standard extensions to Chrome (not Chromium, but Chrome itself, aka the proprietary version), screwing everybody else in the process. Think Microsoft's ActiveX or XAML.

And while there are some glaring exceptions — like Chrome being responsible for the standardization of DRM, which is now keeping smaller open source Chromium forks out of the market, Google has been playing nice with web standards organizations, being major contributors, alongside Mozilla. And sure, they are in a position to impose pretty much anything they want, but they are fairly conservative in picking their battles, PNaCL versus WebAssembly comes to mind.

Google might be guilty of anti-competitive practices, but in my opinion it is the software developers themselves that are to blame for a Chrome-optimized web. This is because they (we?) continue to use Chrome for optimizing and testing web interfaces, while neglecting Firefox and Safari.
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I would love to see all this surplus energy used in direct-air-capture stations to pump CO2 from the air and transform it (either store it as a liquid, or convert it into plastic precursors, etc).
Please stop digging further into the hole you've dug. The theory you posit is that Semiconductors were key to the fall of the Soviet Union, and many helpful people have pointed out fallacies in that argument. Your counter is not a very good one.

> I think most people on HN are familiar with the story of how computers won WWII, where Von Neumann used them to decipher German and Japanese encrypted communications. Also the Apollo missions were all controlled by circuits. Computers have been massively important (and expensive - the modern equivalent of ~100 billion USD was spent putting a man on the moon, and some of that includes developing IC technology) for a while.

Sure, they have been important, but again, they're not the key. As others have pointed out, the USSR was economically behind the US even right at the beginning of the cold war. Technically, the USSR was able to fight the Germans specifically because of the billions of dollars in Material that the US supplied to the USSR. The American view of the Soviet Union has been shaped by the simple fact of MAD with nukes and various made up scares (e.g. the space race), but if you look at economic and sociological data (e.g. life expectancy), the US was ahead of the USSR for the duration of the cold war.

As the GP has pointed out, reasonable people came to the conclusion that the system could not continue to exist without massive repression and tried to change it.

Your other arguments don't seem to make any sense, and are just referencing historical tidbits.
What I'd like to know is why for the L2TP setup with PIA, the PSK is the same for all customers.
> It is entirely possible to do something slow and well and still do it alone and essentially without funding.

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So, one interesting detail about this interview: audio was recorded. The version in print is abridged, and I would love for the ACM to release the audio -- if only for the incredibly long (and mind-blown) pause after Arthur told me that he felt that the closest analogue to software is poetry...
He referred to it as his hobby in the video...
Our biggest Go project has a sub 3 minute build time including running a bunch of tests, staticcheck, pushing to registry etc.

It doesn't have to spin up any DB or things like that though.
My guess is that laptops probably have a much tighter integration with the whole system, and so it takes more effort to change the CPU. It might take a few years of consistent performance from AMD to convince the laptop manufacturers to invest in the engineering to do that integration with a new CPU.
Online gambling is not in any way built on eroding privacy. You are free to not like how the industry knowingly makes money of off addicts (no, no matter how much they say they care about responsible gambling they will not stop problem gamblers more than necessary to comply with the law), but in my opinion that is the only ethics problem online gambling has that most other industries do not also share.
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