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"Nuclear energy, to start with, is ultimately not safe, and the Germans have always been particularly uneasy with it. After the nuclear accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan in 2011, Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered the “Atomausstieg,” the exit from nuclear energy once and for all. Why? Because, as Ms. Merkel put it back then: “The residual risk of nuclear energy can be accepted only if one is convinced that — as far as it is humanly possible to judge — it won’t come to pass.” After Fukushima, Ms. Merkel, a trained physicist, was no longer able to believe that a nuclear disaster would not occur. That there was a catastrophe even in a high-tech country like Japan made her change her mind."

This article dismisses nuclear power as "not safe" with nothing more than the decision of Merkel to justify it. Yes, Merkel has a background in physics, but she made that decision as a politician. It's an unfortunate truth that science is rarely the first consideration in political decisions.

Merkel's decision ignored the truly extraordinary circumstances of the Fukushima disaster, which was triggered by an earthquake and tsunami that, each individually, exceeded the design parameters of the reactor, which was 40 years old at the time of the disaster. Updated studies indicated the reactor was vulnerable to tsunami, but were ignored. Repeatedly.

The reactors of 40-50 years ago can indeed be unsafe if operated poorly (e.g. Chernobyl) or if necessary threat mitigation is totally ignored. Newer designs are safer, and older designs can be made safer if people don't bury their heads in the sand about necessary updates.

Ultimately, nuclear reactors are designed and operated by humans, and mistakes do happen. However, the fact is that the Fukushima disaster has killed fewer people in total than coal power kills every year under normal operating conditions.

Is Germany paranoid about nuclear power? Yes.
RSUs are a decent way of aligning company success with employee success. But there's plenty of pitfalls with RSUs too.

1) From an investment risk perspective, your personal livelihood is already significantly tied to the company because you rely on the company for a salary. Holding a significant chunk (relative to your total investments) of stock in your company as well adds to that risk.

2) Unless you're a C-suite exec, your actions will likely have no direct impact on the stock price. And obviously, insider trading is illegal. That means holding your own company's stock has no fundamental advantage over holding stock of a company you don't work for. If that's the case, you're better off picking stocks based on actual performance and eliminate the personal bias.

3) You can sell your RSUs once they vest in order to diversify, but you have to wait a year after vesting or short term gains tax will apply to any gains post-vesting. So, it might be advantageous to wait a year if you don't plan to sell immediately upon vesting. Also, with some companies, a portion of your shares will be surrendered back to the company to cover income tax on the shares.

4) From a tax filing perspective, RSUs and ESPPs can be a PITA. In my experience, tax software and general tax filing services often don't know how to correctly record the cost basis, which means you end up getting taxed twice if you don't know what you're doing.

5) When cash is tight, companies might lean more heavily on RSU-based compensation if they can't afford raises or cash bonuses. You need to make sure your company is giving you what you need.

6) The golden handcuff effect. You want to leave for a better job, but you've got a nice chunk of RSUs that haven't vested yet and could be worth quite a bit in just a couple more years. Is that new job worth the opportunity cost of giving up those shares? For companies that award RSUs as part of yearly performance reviews, you're pretty much always going to have some RSUs that are 3 years out from vesting. It's just difficult weighing the potential value of RSUs vs a new job's salary/benefits and whatever reasons you wanted to jump ship in the first place. It's very personal math and ultimately you have to determine an answer for yourself.
> This is simply false. Given methane emissions, we don't actually know that it's better at all, let alone half as bad.

Methane emissions have a much shorter residency time in the atmosphere than carbon. It's literally an order of magnitude difference: methane is significantly worse for a short period, but over the course of a century carbon dioxide is far worse. That lopsidedness gets even worse when you go out to a millenium. Thinking out to a century from now, it's appropriate to more or less ignore methane and focus on carbon dioxide.

> Actually, we're pretty much screwed no matter what we do, which is why the marginal improvement you're trying to say is acceptable, isn't acceptable.

"It's unacceptable for ten million people to die, so we shouldn't have a preference between ten and twenty million people dying!"

> Is "fighting for even better solutions" what you think you're doing here?

As someone who has actually worked full-time on climate solutions and whose carbon emissions are in the bottom 1% of Americans, it's presumptuous of you to assume that you're doing more for the climate because you're regurgitating an article you saw on the Facebook newsfeed.
IR35 is being reformed in April 2020. It is not a new law, as I have pointed out to the previous poster. There are no radical changes to: a) either create a new law or b) morph it into creating another law, which is completely unrecognisable from it's current form. Your claim that it is currently ONLY being observed by 'government agencies' is not accurate. Furthermore, your reading of this reform being pushed as some form of incentive is incorrect.

In the interest of providing impartial advice to the author of this thread; it would be extremely wise to seek professional advice before embarking on this route, as the conditions of employment under IR35 are complex and subjective.

https://www.contractoruk.com/private_sector_ir35_reform/empl...
I live in Massachusetts and I had to look it up. I figured it was maybe in the Berskshires somewhere--which I'm also not that familiar with but as it is no wonder I hadn't heard the name before. Any list like this is going to be a bit idiosyncratic but this is more random than most.
Catering to people that have those complaints sounds like a Sisyphean trek through hell
That you know who Soleimani is places you as an outlier.
Nobody would know unless told he's from Iran, and even more so that he lead the Quds.
This is a bit of a special case, though. The decision to relinquish the nuclear weapons was directly a consequence of the end of the apartheid regime. In a sense, the apartheid government didn't give up it's weapons, so much as it knew that it's days were numbered and it didn't trust the next regime with the weapons.
It is true that if employers are offering RSUs selectively, the assumption would be that they would offer them to people they wanted to incentivize not to leave the company until after the vesting period at the earliest. However, it offers no guarantee at all that the company would continue to desire the employee's loyalty or that the loyalty goes in the other direction in the first place, since as mentioned the company loses nothing but the employee if the employee is fired or leaves before the vesting period completes.
If you don't need backwards compatibility, you can use ES6 modules directly in the browser [1] and even load NPM packages in module format from Pika or Unpkg.

Living without a bundler was alright.

At my last job we checked Google Analytics and almost 100% of our users were on greenfield browsers, so we moved to that and had no issues.

[1] https://www.sitepoint.com/using-es-modules/
You are making mistake by trying to explain somebody elses motives for cheating by using your value system.

First, these are not great lengths when all you need to do is download and install an application.

Second, some people don't get as much kick from playing a game as from dominating other players. They want to win the game in any way possible, but don't consider winning fairly to be any more satisfying than winning with cheating. They might be in denial over their abilities and use cheating to feel better. They don't feel any need to be courteous or fair. These are people who, when they loose a game against you, will say "fuck you" instead of congratulating you.

Don't try to find logic where there isn't any.
All I see is a slow conditioning of people that using nukes is ok. This is just insane and all it does is telling to nuke free nations that they were the ultimate fools when signing NPT. One big fat lie. Guess what may eventually come out of this.
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According to a professional pepper farming acquaintance, if you do this for a couple of generations, the heat mostly disappears and the taste becomes bland. They go to some lengths to prevent cross-pollination.
Is your research software correct?
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Allowing only a few alphabets doesn't solve much (Cyrillic "а" still looks like latin "a" in most fonts) but opens new cans of worms: how do you update this list, why isn't alphabet x of important minority y included, etc.

Much easier to just allow everything in the technical standards and let domain registries set reasonable standards that make sense for that tld. Sometimes that works well (.de for example has a list of 93 allowed unicode characters [1] which covers everything a German might plausibly use from German or neighboring country's alphabets), but some registries just don't seem to care much (e.g. .com).

1: https://www.denic.de/en/know-how/idn-domains/idn-character-l...
Better yet, 1985.
I've run into people with this attitude before - they are quick to accuse good players of cheating who seem (to them,) to have inhuman accuracy.

I've been accused of cheating many many times, despite never cheating. I was blacklisted from a community counterstrike server back in 2002 or so for "cheating" after a lucky couple games where I got a LOT of headshots with guns that aren't very good accuracy wise. I was playing with very good players, and even some of them thought I was running cheats.

My experience says people vastly underestimate how far a good lucky streak and adequate reaction time + aim can take someone. Plenty of friends have similar experiences of being accused of cheating when they play well.

It probably doesn't help that the asynchronous client-server model of fast paced FPS games introduces weird effects with respect to latency. (I.e. rewriting history to show some high-latency player killed you after you've already observed visual/audio effects for their own death.)
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So Lidar is getting cheaper, but the advantage of Lidar (Vs. optical) may be diminishing.

Lidar worked really well because it was computationally impractical to process visual images in near real-time onboard. Lidar simplifies the informational inflow, which reduces computational cost. But the computational cost and practicality of processing optical data onboard has changed radically, it is now practical and affordable (both due to substantially improved software and new/cheaper hardware).

Keep in mind humans use "optical sensors with parallax" (i.e. our eyeballs). Cars are already optimised around that assumption (e.g. headlines to improve visibility in the visible light spectrum). Lidar still has advantages, but also a bunch of drawbacks (like dispersion and sunlight disruption), optical sensors do too (e.g. glare) but they're a lot more intuitive for humans because we share them.

I guess what I am saying is: Are you betting on better sensor tech (Lidar) or better computational tech (Optical)? I think Lidar will hit a ceiling after the "easy wins" have been consumed (and we're approaching that point), whereas optical has no real ceiling (even over and above human's innate abilities). With optical you can understand the world as humans visibly see it, Lidar sees the world fundamentally differently, seeing both less (bad) and more (good).

Obviously it is a somewhat false choice, but if people are investing dollars into development of both techs it is a choice that matters.
It's also the type of thing that can spark discussion, much like how basically any factual question you ask in everyday conversation could also be easily searched for.
But do the banks have access to your account information without the internet?
==> Genuine question, just how much do the banks rely on the internet to store and retrieve your account information?
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This comment is not my original content. This comment is from Reddit and I loved it so much that I thought it would be nice to share it.

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Has anyone on HN ever used RTE-6?
What is it? It is a real time operating system for the HP-1000 "mini" computer. The HP-1000 was in vogue for smallish companies in the '80s and it is the system they used to teach programming languages in my HS.

I didn't come into contact with the OS till much, much later.

Has anyone else on HN ever worked with this operating system?

[1] https://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=566
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-1000/RTE
What are the biggest recent changes?
The US is using, per capita, way way way more carbon than other nations. If we used the same per capita rate as India it would be a 90% reduction. That would be unbelievable. There would be parades in the streets.
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> and still nothing happened

Coal is on the move out. Most coal production in Germany has been closed or will be closed. Last year coal use for electricity production was on an all time low at 28%.

> 100% higher than France

The electricity price is political in France and electricity production is basically state owned. The losses are paid by the tax payer.
nicely explained!
I don't think "fears" is really the right word, and is not part of the original headline...

Regardless, sponsored editorial content is one of those icky things that I'm surprised remotely reputable journalistic outlets get into. You're renting out your reputation to those that could use it (e.g. likely not very reputable themselves and thus can easily drag you down).

How much does an article like this go for? Six-figure range? It just seems like the monetary reward doesn't make up for the possible damage to your perceived journalistic integrity.
>To people in general, what improvements are you making (not your country, but you personally)? Not something you've always done - what's your latest new eco-project, big or small?

Voting for candidates with a good environmental record, because that's really the only way to solve the problem.
Energy consumption in the US has been flat for 20 years thanks to constant improvements in efficiency.
Methane could be MUCH WORSE than coal considering the potency of the greenhouse gas and unknown and undetected leaks, such this one recently happening in Ohio: https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/12/ohio-gas-well-accide...

The leak damage is reported to be as bad as many countries do in a year.
That’s the point, though - I didn’t know who he was when I first heard the name. It took maybe 30 seconds for me to determine he lead Quds, at which point I had enough information to know that I supported his being targeted.
I first gained access to a UNIXish system in the fall of 1988, which was some SunOS4.x variant I believe. The shell was csh, the editor was vi, and I had no idea what I was doing, nor was there any help in my immediate area to be found. And no, I didn't know about 'man' yet.

Somehow I discovered that 'vi' was the way to edit things, but I didn't know how to exit, so trial and error led me to pressing control and z at the same time. Bingo! The shell is back.

After some days of building up background suspended vi instances, the system administrator came in and gave me a few pointers.
"shitpost engineering" seems like one of those wonderfully evocative terms (like "premium mediocre") that seems to perfectly capture some aspect of our age.
Thanks for this link. I didn't know. After putting in my address, I was afraid to click "See providers". Thankfully, Google just redirects you to a local search instead of feeding my address to some list of shady partners.
Thank you Google, for being sensible.
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Yeah...I've had some really odd 'volunteers' come up the year after planting mixes of squashes. Melons are are apparently notorious for crossing as well.
> his reasoning is er.. reasonable

Is it? Was the question about how acceptable would "veal" be as a name implying that it would not be acceptable at all? What about “lamb”? Or “pork”? (PORK is the long-awaited Well-Done BEEF, according to https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ozone/www/object-syste...)

By the way, there is also https://beefproject.com/
And how would you prevent this? The flip side of nuclear's stability at high loads over long term is that the economics are all built around running at high load. If they lose major customers to cheaper competition, they can no longer operate profitably.
A deep ethical concern for the treatment of animals is far older than computing: http://www.jewfaq.org/animals.htm . The cow is sacred to hindus, of which there are 1.08 billion.

stop assuming the problem is with people who care deeply about something and not people who tell them to shut up in public.
Huh? A bento lunch goes for 70 to 120ntd, most Thai places will be over 200 closer to 300. It’s the same price as Indian or Spanish (or figure “foreign food”)
Are you saying you have literally never slipped before? I'm quite impressed if so.
In no way do I intend for my statements to be binary.

I didn’t intend to be divisive, though I was pointing out division that does exist already.
There's also a great sea kayak along the coast. It's also very long (~18 miles) and potentially challenging in other ways if it's not very calm.
Why? SBCL implementation of Common Lisp is very usable for performance-oriented tasks; it compiles to native code, and with sufficient nudges, you can get pretty tight assembly out of it.

Clasp implementation of CL would be another choice, it leverages LLVM for compilation.

The problem is with the library and tooling ecosystem.
It really does look more like a show of force than an effort to kill. That's some pretty impressive accuracy by the Iranians. Those were not random impacts.
Probably a really hard sell that a single event took out mostly all nuclear power plants in Japan for a decade...
I cheated on the original Halo (PC, online capture-the-flag) because I really sucked at it compared to everyone else, which made it unbalanced and therefore not fun to plan (not saying it was right, just filling in the understanding you were asking for).

I didn't look into aiming bots, but I did figure out how to edit the resource files to make the walls transparent so I could camp the flag and see players coming for it long before I was supposed to.
PG mentions in footnote 2 that " the far right tend to ignore moderates rather than despise them as backsliders. I'm not sure why. Perhaps it means that the far right is less ideological than the far left. Or perhaps that they are more confident, or more resigned, or simply more disorganized"

This is not the case. The far-right police doctrinal purity very well, actually. They have built multiple pipelines for taking ideas that were once extreme and moving them to the moderates, who they then push to adopt these ideas lest the be called out as "Republican in name only (RINO)" or whatever the du jour insults are.

I don't know about the current state of things, but the far right used bank robberies to finance operations across multiple fronts back in the 90's. They used the proceeds to fund groups in different regions.

The far right is dangerous in a way that "the left" hasn't been since the 1960's.

I think its telling that PG's really concerned with ideologies that are a threat to his financial/class interests, thereby validating a point maid be leftist critiques of wealthy people like PG. So, way to prove their point, PG-man.

The history of the far right is really interesting and I would recommend it as a field of reading for anyone interested in American history.
Good question. For one, there's also a custom optimized-debug backend that's used by default for Debug builds which is a lot faster than LLVM. Secondly, there's incremental compilation with an object cache so minor changes only general minor rebuilds.

For a clean release build, however, LLVM will dominate the compile time as expected. Compared to C/C++, however, there is less duplication of ODR'd code (ie- methods defined in headers such as template methods) and less debug information duplication so backend time is lower.
I think it's really useless to take notes on what is already written in 1000 other places with much more legibility and coherency. Sometimes I see people with tomes of notes that is basically a duplicate of the textbook, and I can't help wondering that this is just a holdover from the days before the printing press.
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Hahaha, you're great.
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Thanks for the insight here, very interesting. I have been wondering what the shift could be, and this makes a lot of sense at least in part.
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