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Isn't this also a question of dependency?

Maybe the uranium will hold on for 20 - 200 years, who knows, but look how we sustained the monarchies in the middle east by depending on their non-renewable resources.

The way to go should be getting rid of dependencies as much as possible.
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As always it is all about intent. Did the OP agree to have his information disclosed in return to getting disability insurance?

If they did then there is no problem here.

It seems that people are getting hung up on the wrong issue. Filling in and signing endless pieces of paper at the doctor's office is the most annoying experience. I wish my signature was applied directly.

Of course, I would like to be informed of what I agree to in simple brief terms. Putting massive documents in front of me that will sign automatically anyway makes no difference.
Ok. I thought it was understood that more detail was of interest with neurons than "1 cubic cm".
Just to confirm what you are saying.

I had a Time Warner cable modem for 15 years and the IP address would only change after a sustained power outage. Usually had the same IP for a year.

My AT&T Fiber IP address has not changed in 2 years and that is even after 2 power outages of about 12 hours.
>Already you can "e-sign" all sorts of legal documents with no verification of your identity whatsoever.

Well, not really. If you e-sign a document, it's not like there's no traceable provenance to the signature to establish your identity. To what email were the documents delivered? What computer/device were they signed from? At what location were they signed?

Sure, all of those things can be "faked", but they really only matter if the signature is disputed. In this case, that's happened, and it will be quite easy to prove he didn't sign the documents.

>This fake signature is just an acknowledgement that signatures are useless

This is a bit of a reach. Signatures are not meant to be a secure identity measure. If the story is as explained in the Tweet, it's fraud, and that fraud can be proven thanks to what was or was not actually signed. The story doens't end with the insurance company pointing to the signature and saying, "Look, there it is".
There was no change of mind. They always had generics in their minds. See the Go FAQ: https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics

"Generics may well be added at some point. We don't feel an urgency for them [...] we continue to think about it. [...] The topic remains open."

These sentences have been in the FAQ since Go 1.0. Maybe people should start to believe them.

They have gathered experience with the current language, their generics design drafts have improved over the years, and now they feel like they have something that might fit.
The nuclear industry is terrible at making reactors, but really good at making excuses.
I’m curious, do you stand under the cold water the entire time?

Or kind of get wet quickly and step out of the stream, lather, rinse quickly, etc.
> Nothing about the greenest and most sustainable solution: reducing consumption. Most Americans could drop their consumption by 75% purely improving their lives, before difficult decisions, many of which would also improve their lives.

As an Indian, when I see resource consumption per capita for US, it boggles my mind. But I don't believe every single American can make a significant change without institutional and government support.

Environmental impact is a function of what your society has optimized for. You can't really depend on public transport if the entire society around you is optimized and designed for cars. You'd have a tough time being a vegetarian if meat is a primary component of every meal. You can't forego flights if the rail infrastructure doesn't work well.

A similar thing happens in India. India optimizes for cheap stuff so a lot of stuff available for purchase near me is practically use & throw. I've had keyboards, monitors, powerbanks, cables die on me in 6-12 months. I'm having a hard time buying good quality stuff as India grows. That also has a significant environmental impact.

At the risk of sounding like fatalist, I won't discourage individual action. Every single step is welcome but as humans we need to significantly step up our political initiatives if we are to make a significant dent in climate change.
AFAIK the position expressed in the Go FAQ (https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics) has always been the official position on generics: "Generics are convenient but they come at a cost in complexity in the type system and run-time. We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionate to the complexity, although we continue to think about it." There's nothing passive-aggressive about that - most proponents of generics only see the advantages (i.e. more expressiveness), but fail to see the downsides.
Can’t wait to see what the Fed will try to do when the next recession hits. They’ve been searching deep into their bag of tricks to keep this phony expansion running.

The next recession is going to be a bloodbath. Not sure what else the Fed can really do and it’s not as if Congress can cut taxes too much lower. The last 10 years we’ve been doing the opposite of what we should have. But at least the boomers got one last big fake boom-bust cycle to live through! Just like the glory days.
Norman Borlaug's nobel prize speech was in 1970. Demographics have not gone in the direction he expected. Dependancy crises are now looming from falling birthrates in most developed countries, and China. China removed the one child policy in 2016 but their birthrate continues to decline and age despite the party's new efforts to encourage fertility. Have a look at Hans Rosling's work.
The whole computing experience is overwhelmingly complex compared to the Apple ][ I started with. My daughter just turned 8 and I am struggling with how to:

1) get her interested (she has been an iPad generation girl since 3)

2) ease her into it without the layers of complexity that I had the time to learn organically as they were introduced over the last 40 years.
Maybe have a dispatch interval. The weekly-on-tuesday emails get sent one every 5 minutes starting at some time.
But renewables are very bursty and don't allow you to plan well, so we need both.
I'm waiting for Tuple to launch their Linux version, but wonder if they ever will or this will just be a major blocker.

Half my team uses Mac, the other half Linux and one Windows guy. Zoom works pretty well for calls, but I'd like something better for pairing.
As compared to billions of years of projected solar availability.
Have you tried using another search engine like DuckDuckGo?
You are getting down-voted but your point is totally correct.

The population extremists from the 60s, many in the 'green revolution' were part of that, were VERY actively promoting eugenics and wanted to deploy it on a massive global scale.

And this was not new, Eugenics was massive popular with the Progressives, in fact the Progressives were the primary political power behind Eugenics. And those are the exact groups moved over turned into the 'environmentalist' movement that was advocating those same Eugenics policy recommendation, but on a global scale. And because they were smart, they changed the language from 'We need to clean the human race' to 'If we don't clean the human race everybody is gone die'.

They wanted the US government to make aid conditional on Eugenics and population control tactics. Trying to prevent the population growth in India was one of their major goals and reading now what they advocated should be done about it, is truly disturbing.

Many of those, to be fair were not white supremacists, but if your main position is to advocate extreme policy to curb baby production in Asian and African countries, how much better are your really?
He writes in the context of the UK. In January 2008 the UK Government gave the go-ahead to build a nuclear power station. This is Hinkley Point C. It might be producing power in 2023. It could cost as much as £22 billion. This kind of project is certainly not the solution.
Who is "they"? It seems like it was used first by a conquistador. Who wasn't Greek.
MSRs have to deal with some truly harsh materials for very long periods. Getting that to be reliable for 30+ years of on time is not easy.
USA electricity demand was 12071 kWh/person over 2016. Multiply by $0.1/kWh (cost of nuclear power given elsewhere in replies to this submission) means Americans would have spent $1207 on electricity, per person not per household, for that year.
Then FB left behind tracking data, and there's your link. Sigh.
A year later construction of Olkiluoto 3 began. It is still not finished today. The costs are currently estimated at 11 billion. Original estimated costs were 3 billion.
> "imagine using electricity to power everything paired with basically free nuclear power"

The problem with this fantasy is that nuclear power is not by any stretch of the imagination "basically free". New build nuclear is very expensive, costing much more on a per-MWh basis than most renewables.

This doesn't mean that we shouldn't be developing new technology to improve the cost effectiveness of nuclear in the future. But right now, each dollar spent on renewables delivers more carbon savings than each dollar spent on nuclear.
It used to be the case that emulating Intel on ARM would be much slower than the emulators that supported previous transitions.

Given how impressive the recent Apple chips are, perhaps that's less of an issue now.
This felt like a very thin layer of purpose stretched over a long article.

-Why are streamers leaving? Because they get good financial deals, other platforms let them relax and not have to fight for attention, and because they let them reach new audiences.

All of that is spread over a ton of press-speak like 'Timothy hopes to break new ground with his move to the platform and revamp the game on streaming.' I'm not a regular viewer of any streams bar checking out a couple to assess some new game that I'm interested in, but I'd be quite interested in an article on the same subject that actually does a deep dive and compares the benefits and downsides of these different streaming platforms. To an outsider, they seem like pretty much the same thing.
Coal plants are not able to rapidly start and stop like that and still operate efficiently or at peak capacity - their startup time is measured in hours not minutes. Gas (particularly OCGTs - CCGTs are usually less efficient than OCGTs if you do that with them) does that.

Coal can be used in some markets seasonally (ie to supply additional baseload demand for summer AC / winter heating depending on local needs).
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GDPR (that thing that happened in Europe) was highly focused on consent and the use of your data. IANAL but it's highly likely that you could claim you had not provided consent for the actions taken by State Farm in this case (though I wouldn't be surprised if their small print allowed such things).

Of course, just because they have attached your signature to an unseen document will likely still require a legal case to affirm that it was illegal or unethical (probably little to no case law in this area).
The intermittency of renewables means nuclear doesn't help. Nuclear needs a constant market at a good average price to make sense. Renewables, even when they do not cover 100%, crash the price often enough to kill nuclear's business case.

As renewables build out, the prospects for nuclear will only get worse. At this point, it's a delaying action by utilities to try to get their existing reactors profitable enough to keep from shutting them down. New reactors are not close to making economic sense, and the effective CO2 taxes that would be needed to make them so would be very large.
But with six billion, and growing, few options remain; we can not continue drawing energy from fossil fuels and there is no chance that the renewables, wind, tide and water power can provide enough energy and in time.

I beg to differ. So far in China's electricity mix renewables have contributed much more than nuclear.

And it's poised to stay that way given how difficult it really is to build nuclear power in practice.
Nobody does. Nuclear power plants don’t get built without assurances and help from the state.
That's good to know. This is a new release for K8s users showing the 1.7 release of k3s.
Looks like they have a free tier for the first 50k in revenue: https://www.chargebee.com/launch/
>Nothing about the greenest and most sustainable solution: reducing consumption.

Well that's because it's not a realistic solution. Any solution that goes against the human nature is doomed to fail. Our species historically had issues with implementing solutions that require short-term detriment no matter how large the long term benefits were. Montreal protocol is often cited as one of these collective actions that succeeded, however what is NOT often cited is that the cost of implementing it was tiny compared to respective countries GDP. I.e. millions, not billions of USD.
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Hydrogen is hard to handle - it is very good at leaking, including through things not normally thought of as porous like metals, and it has low energy density unless under high pressure.

Synthetic CH4 from H2+extracted CO2 seems more likely to happen.
Good find and thank you, was bashing my head against a wall trying to recall what I'd used to make sparks with flint as a kid.
The group studied seem to have a extraordinarily high rate of sick-days no? Around 30% taking a sick day in a 90 day period?

I've probably had 2 sick days in 3 years (data point: mid 50s, a nice hot bath with my toe stuck out of the bubbles, good book, cup of tea).
I mean yes - if I was playing Civ this is the route I would go.

But I look at the current landscape of both political opinion and technological progress and think: we should go all-in on Solar and storage.

I look at practical-minded organizations like the US Navy (who certainly have access to nuclear reactors in a more streamlined way than civilian utilities) and yet they still put in a 21 MW solar farm at NAS Oceana [1].

1 - https://navysustainability.dodlive.mil/energy/repo-3/project...
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> mastered growing leafy greens in indoor closed environment

I love this! Makes me happy to see someone's working on such an interesting problem that would benefit many.

For feedback, I believe using photographs of the leafy greens would be effective in communicating your vision.
I understand why this is flagged, but I wish it wasn't.

Regardless of the proposed merits of the shutdowns (I don't consider them valid), the concept of this is horrifying.
I agree that we can consume less, it is just a hard policy to push. How will the market be affected? Any politician enacting this change will be hit with the 'destroying the economy'. Is there room for capitalism in that economy? It feels like the idealism wars have doomed us.
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The sad state of wayland on Linux.
4) Nuclear is and always was incredibly expensive to set up. There is a reason why nuclear plants are never paid for in their entirety by any private firm/operator and heavily subsidized (at least in the EU)

5) I am still fascinated by the lack of awareness regarding waste (particularly since it is with well educated/smart people)

Yes, I know, there are alternative nuclear power sources where we don't need to safely store nuclear waste for millions of years. But those are not readily available.

We still do not have a real solution for nuclear waste. Just dumping something so dangerous for thousands (or millions) of years is mindbogglingly reckless. And loudly asking to increase this amount by plastering waste-producing facilities everywhere... That's like pouring poison in the floor below your own garden, hoping the next guy will have a solution for it.

But I guess good ol' America, where dumping any waste is not considered a problem, there is simply no awareness for this practice. Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it has no effect.

Dumping. is. not. a. long-term. solution. And just because You don't need to care about it anymore, doesn't mean nobody has to.
Does (2.) include storage cost? Otherwise wind and solar cannot replace base power, so it does not make sense to compare the electricity production cost alone.
> no killer moths have been spotted, despite getting in 190 million years of moth gene dice rolls

Nature works much slower than humans and with different "targets". There's a reason we shun engineering of deadly pathogens that could wipe out the entire population, and the assumption that "it can't be done otherwise nature would have done it already" doesn't hold.
While car batteries are charged using fossil fuel derived electricity, you're gaining nothing, and probably losing due to inefficiency.
Once electricity is green and cheap, electric cars will naturally follow.
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Nuclear is probably the best solution, but it only works if you somehow manage to calibrate its impact on people's psychology (or just hope for no disaster to happen in the next 100 years, which is hard to to be sure about). The standard procedure in case of disaster involves a massive evacuation, cleanup, and confinement, which are costly[1], deathly[2], and traumatizing for the population[3]. All of that is probably still worth it in comparison to the consequences of global warming in regards to many factual metrics (number of deaths, purchasing power, etc), but I'm not actually sure it's worth it in regards to the only metric that actually matters: how much of a disastrous state people perceive their environment to be in.

In the case of Fukushima, Japan, which was beforehand in the process of switching more and more of its energy to nuclear, changed their stance overnight to switch back to all-fossile, because of pressure from the public opinion. If a nuclear disaster would come to happen in a country like France, the situation would probably be an absolute disaster, with people on a major psychosis and a state unable to realistically switch to another form of energy.

[1] The cost of a nuclear disaster in France (similar to the one in Fukushia) has been estimated at 430 billions euros, which is 20% of the country's economic output. (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-nuclear-disaster-c...)

[2] Fukushima's evacuation caused 1,600 deaths, that is more than the deaths caused by the tsunami itself.

[3] Following the Chernobyl disaster, there was a large increase of PTSD instaces, psychosomatic diseases, alcoholism, suicide, etc. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_effects_from_the_Fuk...)

TL;DR: you need to somehow make people chill about nuclear if you want to argue that nuclear is a satisfying source of energy. It might still be the best option nonetheless.
The GP was, and now I am, objecting to your speaking "brutal truth" and then acting like the brutality of it is a virtue. As if it's courageous to be mean to people. And then talking about being unable to understand the world, it being like sticking your head in the sand, without it! .. It's not 'euphemism' to speak respectfully about people. The point is less brutality, not less truth.
depends on the alternatives, which at the moment are indeed considerably worst
Yes, definitely one of the biggest failures of the Android "ecosystem".

Google has figured it out somewhat (3 years of updates), but even that's not enough. Most phones are actually used for 4-5 years, even if a single person doesn't use them for that long (only 2-3 years). But those phones still end-up with someone else.

Software updates should definitely account for that. I would dare say a law should be made to ensure that an electronic device should be supported for 80%+ of its typical life (again, not to be confused with how long a single individual uses that specific product, as it can have multiple owners during its life cycle).

It's also why electronic devices that don't have replaceable batteries should also be made illegal. It's a cheap trick for companies to add batteries that don't last that long as a indirect planned obsolescence.

It's just that it's very difficult to prove that they did it on purpose, as they can just say "we were just trying to lower costs when choosing the shit quality battery". And that's why it would be much better to have a law for replaceable batteries. OEMs can still add their shit batteries to devices if they want, but at least customers can replace them.
So basically, "doing something physically unpleasant every day increases ability to push through/withstand other physically unpleasant events" is my big takeaway.

Meh, that would require an independent confirmation too. It is harder for me to believe that doing one somewhat uncomfortable thing a day will make you more likely to push through multiple other more uncomfortable things.
I knew someone who worked on the Word 2007 team. First day he was told to write a list of 10 features Word users needed. In his head he's thinking "word is fine as is?" but that's not what he was asked, so he and the rest put together their lists, and those lists were collated, and those features developed & executed, by and from college kids who had no practical business application experience.
That's so funny that they come up with this page these days.

"We receive Jane's off-Facebook activity and we save it with her Facebook account. The activity is saved as "visited the Clothes and Shoes website" and "made a purchase"."

I downloaded my data before, and never have I seen what exactly the listed companies sent to FB.

I have a list of just a few companies (mainly by using a different email address for FB only) but still, I have no idea what these companies sent to FB about me.

Edit: I found the data now - it's now available for export.
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Isn't that because we're using fossil fuels for the base load? What happens when all we have is renewables?
At the time, many of the same people were cheering on and covering up the crimes of dictators Ngô Đình Diệm and Dương Văn Minh. There wasn't a democratic side in the Vietnam War.
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It would be interesting to investigate this based on the subject’s climate and time of year.

Up here in Minnesota I could imagine doing this in the summer, but right now, when it’s grey and 18F outside, um no.
Literally thousands of other people have the same qualifications as him and are also not freaking out over Twitter. I'd say the data leans more heavily in the other direction.
It's expensive to build and maintain to the required level of safety?

Even if, somehow, you had a perfectly safe magic hot rock that could put out a gigawatt, all the plumbing and turbine machinery would still have a minimum cost level that would be cheap but still metered. Maybe something like half the cost of natural gas.
The article is old and outdated.

Since Nuclear does not scale, it is no solution to climate change, for example.

The World Nuclear Status Report says:

https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/The-World-Nuclear-Industr...

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Non-Nuclear Options Save More Carbon Per Year. While current nuclear programs are particularly slow, current renewables programs are particularly fast. New nuclear plants take 5–17 years longer to build than utility-scale solar or onshore wind power, so existing fossil-fueled plants emit far more CO2 while awaiting substitution by the nuclear option. Stabilizing the climate is urgent, nuclear power is slow.
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Just look at the electricity production trends of China:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China#/m...
If you're talking about Go, they have an official specification (https://golang.org/ref/spec), which is probably what you mean when you write "standard", and the two official implementations (the Go compiler and the GCC-Go compiler) are based on this spec. Which is more than other up-and-coming languages (which I won't name right now) have to offer ;)