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> unfortunately I’m lacking the funds so I still need an income till I can properly develop it and I’m also hoping my next role can help me

"God helps those who help themselves"

Not sure what you are complaining about. Funds shouldn't be a problem if you already have an income. Should be able to start and figure it out.

Are you not comfortable working on your own start up after 5PM (after you are done with your main job duties)? Sounds like you DO want comfortable 9-5. In this case "I want to be somewhere where people want to push the envelope " sounds hypocritical.
Impressive achievement!
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Let's assume for a moment there would be no opposition to nuclear in Germany. How does nuclear energy help with climate change?

Looking back to 2000, nuclear energy at peak was responsible for 32.1% of electricity production[1].

We'd need to at least double that. That would take a huge amount of money. More importantly it would take time. We can barely manage to build a single fucking airport in 1-2 decades. Building this many nuclear reactors would easily take this long, if not longer.

It seems to me that nuclear energy as a solution to climate change might look good on paper. Sci-fi also looks good on paper though and it's just as realistic.

[1]: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/29295/umfrage...
This quote applies to fracking operations.
One of the strongest elements in that scene regarding the concept of 'identity' is completely missed by that video: Kusanagi briefly sees someone in an office building that looks exactly like her. It's a great nod to the book, which briefly explains that her face is made to look like a cheap factory-line model, belying the astronomically expensive military grade hardware she's made of.
Nothing better than having a bunch of people look exactly like you to make you believe in dualism, if only as a straw for your identity to hand on to.
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Here is data on total emissions over time.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...

edit: being nicer
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Why are you so sure the blanking is not caused by a bug? “On error clear screen” seems like a pretty good way of making it very clear to the pilot that something has gone wrong and they need to fall back to manual procedures (rather than looking at displays that may have gone stale or be showing bad information).
As a fellow Michigander, it baffles me that Pyramid Point was picked here too. Especially given all of the trails in the Upper Peninsula and the Huron Mountains.
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So how would sitting in prison as a result of that action have made the author's life better?
Would you pay $5000 for user research to vet your idea?
A Brussels committee [in 2017] agreed to set minimum import duties for Chinese solar modules and cells that could price them up to 30% above market levels with “huge negative effects” for the industry, according to trade groups.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/08/solar-in...

EDIT: they scrapped the tariffs in 2018: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1904
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50%?! More like 90%.

And your point does not explain at al why salaries are so much lower for on-site workers everywhere else in the world.

The answer, I'm afraid, is privilege.
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Some just want to enjoy the story-telling and skip the bs.
On the scale of a large solar power plant, pumped water storage has superior durability and much easier maintainability than batteries. Besides, the water that's pumped up hill can actually be "productive", e.g. suppling water to a city or to farms
It is indeed proper to use that sum as a metric. It's not necessarily the case that the decompressor is encoded in the genome, though. It may very well be that crucial biological information is passed from mother to child in other ways, and it could turn out to be a lot of information.
We have a podcast that covers these kinds of ideas! Basically every week we give out million dollar business ideas and encourage people to steal them!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/steal-this-idea/id1472...
No. I made a hemp business called Plain Jane (https://tryplainjane.com). We started living on someone else's family hemp farm and selling their hemp. We then started sourcing from other family farms in the area and got our own manufacturing facility. We now source from 12+ family farms. For many of them, growing hemp is their sole income.

We started our own farm a few months ago to meet the increasing demand. In general, this is how I see it playing out in rural areas. Brands will be able to start in rural areas and then sell direct to consumer while sourcing locally. I know a winery and a smoked meats company that operate similarly in my county.
These would be less than convenient to type, but perhaps as we go more and more towards a non-typing web where a walled-garden start page and predefined links lead to the most popular sites with a click, these URLs will become fashionable. I think if so, this will herald the impending death of the human-read and typed URL in favor of start page links and search results.
How the heck someone put Iran in South America? Just a little exposure to everyday media should give you enough to rule out that completely. That's such a basic geography understanding.

This completely blows my mind.
>The anime has some problems; namely pacing and the density of narrative.

I wouldn't call those problems, in that those are the hallmarks of the entire Ghost in the Shell franchise: relatively slow pacing, extreme density of information/concepts, and lots of exposition. If you're getting into a GitS work either you accept those and enjoy it or you don't and have a bad time. It's like saying Naruto has too much fighting.

Otherwise, I completely agree about Stand Alone Complex, and to me Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. 2nd GIG was even better. It's astonishingly prescient, it seemed to absolutely nail how the 2016 election would go down to having a Steve Bannon figure who uses manipulates the media and intelligence information to achieve his goals.
> a modern combined cycle gas plant emits only a very tiny bit more co2 than a modern nuke plant per MW

Citation needed.
True. Also, along the same lines, I wonder how much the reduction in dairy and meat consumption has played into it as well.
In my opinion, Milton is right in that clip. Everyone agrees that we need to draw the line somewhere, define some level of safety as 'good enough'. IE flying is more dangerous in IFR conditions, so we could ban all commercial flights during those conditions. However that line is not the same for everyone. Most people are fine with accepting the slightly higher risk involved in flying during low visibility.

Risk tolerances are different, so why do we try to regulate to a given standard. It makes little sense to allow motorcycles yet have a regulation that requires the use of seatbelts in cars. Instead, I'd like to see regulations that enforce testing and information sharing. After that, let people decide which airline to take, which car to buy, and therefore where to draw that line.
THAAD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_De...) is a bit of a big deal in Huntsville. I'm kind of surprised it's not deployed in the Middle East, although I suppose it wouldn't be much of a deterrent if it isn't shown to work better than it did in testing.
Any plans on creating a Language Server for use with VS Code?
Sometimes the game's just too boring and making a bot for it is actually much more fun. I had this experience with some mobile games and their little daily tasks. I realized they were trying to instill a daily login habit in me so I wrote a small client that'd log in and do the tasks. I turned their predatory design into a fun little project. Ironically, due to the way the game was designed the behavior of the bot is indistinguishable from that of a sufficiently addicted player.
Yeah I guess I'm more supporting the ideal of a union.

The whole point of a union is so that the benefits outweigh the costs but the actual benefits are hard to measure experimentally.

I would say anecdotally that in the majority of cases it's worth it, but the perception is biased towards it being not worth it.
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Ah, OK. This is all time total.
I was referring to current annual emissions.

Definitely two different things.

At projected rates when will China "catch up" in terms of all time total?
Ah, I should have checked, I assumed it was mostly hydropower like BC and AB.

However, the problem still exists, you have countries in the middle east which politically will never be allowed civilian nuclear power (only 32 countries out of 170 odd actually have civilian nuclear power) but which could potentially produce huge amounts of Solar power during the day. If only they could then buy power from solar / wind / geothermal stations through the night, or continue producing through the night from energy stored in Molten Salt, Liquid metal batteries, Liquified Air etc.
Scientific studies suggest men generally have a better sense of direction than women, and use that sense of direction more effectively. Kind of makes you wonder where the "fails to ask for directions" trope comes from! :)
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2015/12/10/do-...
Unless you're already this clutzy with your wallet and phone, I don't see how expensive headphones that you frequently use enough to keep on you is going to be any different.
You are lucky it was 30%. For most people hired locally it would be much lower in most companies.
It's closely tracked when it's something that could seriously impact the ability of the operation to continue producing revenue.

But what about when it's simply an environmental externality? Some contaminated water supplies can be conveniently swept under the rug, who's going to know and if they do how are they going to prove that you did it? Much better not to keep records on that type of thing and look the other way.
I think the economic lens is the way to go. It clearly applies to ebola itself. How come there wasn't a vaccine before now? Because it's a virus endemic to a poor continent that kills its host quickly. And the sudden effort over the past few years? Spurred by Western medicine's realization of the grave potential of an ebola pandemic, because of experience with the epidemics of the past few years.

I find it hard to believe that we couldn't moonshot an HIV/AIDS vaccine or cure, but it's also clear that the incentive isn't there. That doesn't take a conspiracy, just the people who could fund an organize a concerted, focused global effort simply not caring enough about a disease that is still stigmatized by its infection rate among "gays, druggies, and blacks" (particularly when they can rent-seek on bodies that have historically been commodified anyway).
No. You are not a descendent of "celts" who lived what is now "France". Your culture wasn't lost. Any Celtic culture that might have been present in France in pre-Roman times has nothing to do with you or your ancestry. It was not "your" culture.

The Celtic culture in Brittany is not something that survived from pre-Roman times, it's a later re-import from the British isles.

Stop making up silly, false, fake identities.
Nuclear guy here. Burning old plant's waste is extraordinarily expensive and we need to reduce nuclear costs overall, so I don't think waste burning is a good option at the moment. There is scientific consensus that deep geologic repositories like the one under construction at Onkalo in Finland are the solution for nuclear waste. Let's establish long-term disposal like this to put the concern to bed and then worry about breeding and reprocessing if and when it becomes necessary in 60+ years. There is no shortage of nuclear fuel in sight.
It should not. Firefox is not designed for the tech-savvy, it is a general public product. The average user has no idea what DNS is, couldn't care less. In the best case he is only bothered by the question, in the worst will call me for instructions on cleaning up a "virus".
I've heard both teachers and education researchers argue that once you understand an idea and represent it competently, repeated exposure is the only thing that matters for learning.

If people who are using a specific technique get better results, it's probably just survivorship bias, because everything in education is survivorship bias. Even if people who adopt the technique all do well, it's probably just selection bias on the sort of people who seek out new study techniques. And if you teach it to students and they improve, it's probably still the Hawthorne effect, with novelty and optimism meaning it gets used more consistently at first.

There are a few pretty miraculous results, but they're mostly on memorizing lots of completely arbitrary info (e.g. memory palaces). Outside of that, it seems like picking anything easy to use and being consistent is the winning approach.

(I'd allow a special exception for things like Anki: if one tool supports data relationships another doesn't, it can obviously be better for learning that sort of content.)
If one lacks the knowledge to even identify another nation on the global map, you have to wonder if this person actually has strong, sound judgement (when they speak in favor of dropping bombs) or if they’re easily malleable partisans.
It means that you have been wholesale influenced rather than informed about the conflict that politicians are peddling to you, as you don't have a grasp on the most basic facts of the matter. We're talking of civilian support for acts of war here.

Specially since an actual war with the people of that polity is an obvious outcome.
For the case when you want to read a mailing list but do not want to subscribe to it, I've been using kill-the-newsletter a lot (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949154)
I'm not disputing that. In theory Rust should outperform even today but of course reality is a different beast and implementation details are important.

Then you also get into architecture specifics etc.

dodobirdlord described the two major advantages Rust has on the language level very well so I won't repeat them, but the gist I'm making is that Rust simply allows more optimizations purely on the language level. Specifics of backend implementations are of course another topic completely (and is one of the reasons why I'm excited for the possibility of a GNU Rustc)
And yes - I know it didn't PROVE men have a better sense, it suggests that based on the effects of hormones administered to women.
> Natural gas isn't the ultimate solution, of course, but it's a mistake to treat it the same as coal.

OTOH considering we need to reach negative emissions asap it's a mistake to invest (or have invested) in fracking.
This article is very short but (some) early commenters appear not to have read it, and most subthreads at this moment started from them. Here are some of the important points from the article:

> This was due to a decrease in coal plants

> Further, renewables were up 6% in 2019

> Emissions rose from buildings [2.2%], industry [0.6%], and other parts of the economy

I'm supposed to take delivery of solar panels at my house today. It shouldn't be long before they're operational. I'm so excited!

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?
Wild guess: it's a Greenfield OS project
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used to be one called the global ideas bank but went away presumably due to lack of funding. Founded by Nicholas Albery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Albery
Apologies for the pedantic nitpick but did your fingers accidentally mash up 'forward' and 'foreword' to get 'foreward' or was it intentional?
This is a great comment. Look at success stories, especially recent ones, and learn from them!
I would like to have an excuse to use Julia in 2020
I've seen plenty of cases (in published books), related by real people, in which scientists, or academic people, face to face with raw data about a phenomenon, data that didn't make sense given what they learned, chose to ignore the data, and walk away without investigating it further. This goes contrary to what Science represents. It happens all the time. That's what I was talking about in my original post that's all. Of course it's not the absolute norm for all Scientific Community but it's abundant. This is pure dogmatism. Dogmatism originates from the same state of mind, which is Fear.
I believe most of us techies have our own personal list saved somewhere.
Your best bet is probably Reddit if you do not have a large following on social media.
It's pretty typical for the kind of answers you get from polling people walking around the mall in the middle of a weekday.
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Renewables are definitely a factor at this point, and a growing one. Nuclear is not... new nuclear production is basically at a standstill, because it's far too expensive. Cost is what's killing coal, and it's killing traditional nuclear as well.
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that depends on the definition of a good life
Batteries, while very efficient, have some pretty harsh scaling problems, and are very expensive for the tail end of availability needs. There are plenty of energy storage options that are comparably inefficient but scale much easier (such as hydrogen storage or thermal storage), but lower energy production costs can mitigate the expense of inefficiency.
Alternative link, eg for those that dislike that hard-to-navigate-"your choice"-of-npr: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/01/08/...

The pics are from Planet Labs, but PL does not have anything on their blog about it.

edit: I'm surprised how little damage each hit inflicted. Purpose more to say "we struck the US" rather than actually do damage, I suppose.
I recently met someone who claimed he had a three person company making cheats. Maybe one of them was solely marketing? The memory blurs. They were selling cheats as a subscription service and with different tiers unlocking more cheats. Earned a decent salary doing it.
My bad, I was actually reading the chart wrong:

https://tradingeconomics.com/finland/military-expenditure

Military Expenditure in Finland increased to 3615 USD Million in 2018 from 3430 USD Million in 2017.

Which you're correct, it's actually 3.6 Billion. US military spending still dwarfs Finland's, but not nearly as paltry as I had originally stated.
topstonks is hilarious, well done

it's sad that this version of oppsdaily didn't work out, but I think this is a valuable concept. there is a very small market of people who are looking for startup ideas and side projects, but a larger group of customers who would pay to be set up with the services that are peripheral to starting a company.

if you try to approach this concept again, I would subscribe
Iran wants this to end, which is why they didn't target areas that would cause a lot of loss of life. Iran is in no position to engage the US in protracted skirmishes, if the US hits its refineries, etc, Iran is hosed. The memes of WW3 occurring are absurd even for Twitter.
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The police in the UK are, on average, pretty damn polite compared to any other country I have ever visited or lived in. I honestly think it’s because they (typical beat cop) don’t have guns, so there is no overwhelming force escalation during an encounter.
> How could they possibly have had enough information to support it?

That is true for just about any political question. The consequences are usually so complex that the average citizen can't possibly be informed well enough on the matter. Just look at what happened with brexit...

Mandatory political disclaimer: I'm not saying democracy is wrong, and I wouldn't know how to solve this problem either.
Fox news typically has more viewers than MSNBC and CNN combined. So 47% doesn't surprise me.
And yet Twitter is the becoming-heroic war machine of the ordinary citizen, because it and other armaments of information allow a person to independently participate in information warfare on rival states. Just like the capsuleer pod technology found in the lore of the futuristic space setting massively multiplayer online roleplaying game Eve Online. It's safe to conclude that generally Twitter democratizes power.
When there's a massive profit motive for someone to lie to you about something, you approach it as if it were a lie.

If it's a win I'll take it as a win, but I'm going to scrutinize it in the extreme before I go about taking anything that amounts to good PR for a corporate entity's political aims for granted.
It's the Democratic Party, not the Democrat Party.
You can't lock in gas plants because they are less capital intensive, require less staff, they can throttle based on demand and finally the fuel costs are higher than renewables so it always makes sense to throttle them down when renewables are available instead of clogging the grid like coal plants. They are one key part of the needed energy storage mix.
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See also "Safe Systems Software and the Future of Computing" by Joe Duffy, the closing keynote at RustConf 2017:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuD7SCqHB7k

Midori and Rust have several striking similarities, and Microsoft's recent uptick in interest in Rust (and Rust-like languages) bodes well for improved software quality.
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For those who don't use feedbin, kill-the-newsletter.com will do this for you.
The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Natural gas is roughly half as bad as coal, and it's an easy win, compared to the alternatives. It's also better in terms of particulates.

If we sit around waiting for reduction of energy use and increase in renewables to save us, we are screwed. Gotta take what we can get for now, and continue fighting for even better solutions.
See also Hardcore History Episode 60 The Celtic Holocaust https://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-60-the-celtic-hol...
I'm just pointing out that we're switching from a crazy-high carbon source to a super-high carbon source. This isn't a climate solution. It's not a win. It's a distraction. We need to switch to low-carbon sources like solar, geothermal, tidal, hydro, nuclear, and wind. Not fracked gas. Fracked gas is a high-carbon climate-change-causing fuel and needs to be treated as one.