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Super cool, but not going to solve the question of renewable energy at scale.

Farmers have been doing things like this for generations. American Homesteaders - settlers of the sometimes-rather-arid Great Plains in the US - used windmills for exactly this purpose in the 1800s.

We know renewable energy is super useful under specific circumstances (remote/underdeveloped electrical grid, low power, low need for consistency). Another example in the US is emergency phones on the highway - solar panels power those too, and have for a decade or more.

The critical question is whether it can overcome those specific circumstances and be useful in developed electrical grids with strong needs for high power and consistency.
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Not making any arguments about the author, but there is a bit more work to a static site than just apt install nginx. You need to make sure your firewall is setup correctly, users are added and keys managed, ssh config has correct settings, services start automatically, certificates. Either need to deal with certs on your own or get a cdn. Either way, more work than apt install
> At no other time in human history has one nation been as powerful and influential as America was, and to a certain extent continues to be.

The US is influential in a broad way but not in any particular deep way. Even Russia still has significantly more ability to penetrate the culture of countries where it is present.

If you visit a city like Astana this becomes blatantly obvious, the way the Russian language and politics influences daily life is present everywhere. In the Middle-East that is evident as well as Russia has re-established historical ties.

Whenever the US has gone somewhere militarily the way to build influence was basically with guns or coffers full of money, but it could never compete with the sort of influence historical empires or cultures can built that have deep religious, linguistic or ethnic ties, the US is in a very real sense isolated and fundamentally disconnected from history.

In the same sense exactly like the British Empire was, and we can see where the UK is now and it didn't even take 100 years. Bruno Macaes recently wrote a great piece about the comeback of the 'civilisation-state'[1], and here the US cannot compete.

[1]https://www.noemamag.com/the-attack-of-the-civilization-stat...
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1Blocker on Safari has been comparable to ublock origin for some time now (and really excels on iOS - how I found them). I say "has" because recently Google changed something with Youtube and it isn't 100% effective against YouTube preroll ads - but other than that it's been just as good as ublock origin.
Mail delivery, like many internet services, has very nice economies of scale. Once you are paying the setup cost for someone to go to every door every day, the marginal cost of adding one more package is not high. So USPS can probably offer any particular mail-sender very low rates and justify them with the idea that the revenue exceeds their marginal cost to deliver (though if they offer everyone such low rates they won't be covering their true overall costs).
I would say a lot of people yes but "Most" may not be accurate clearly there are more projects on github than there are companies which are funding OSS projects.
> Bringing up Israel in causes that have nothing to do with Israel politics is antisemitism.

Israel was invoked in a discussion of how American foreign policy colors domestic affairs. When a foreign ally is training our domestic police on tactics they have developed to enforce a racial apartheid, what could be more germain?
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It's a bit strange that, Buffett, who made billions on technical analysis of businesses, makes decisions based on who can manipulate him with Dale Carnegey (who changed his named to Carnegie to make people like him) tricks.
Perhaps it's a meta thing, where Buffet only works with manipulators because he knows they need to manipulate others to succeed.
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Reddit is rank 20 on Alexa. They could make it a special case.
German is gibberish; but whatever; hope the patch or idea is a good thing. <3 Thanks for reporting dude.
> But not being included as an author on a paper, or being included when you didn't contribute that much? I've been in both situations and in some cases, I was completely fine with it; in others I was a bit miffed (mostly because of the same interpersonal frictions that happen everywhere where people work together) - but in none of those I would call it anywhere near 'fraud' or even 'dishonest'.

As I understand it, ghosting becomes a more significant issue when it enables the omitted author to peer-review their co-authors' papers (and vice-versa) without disclosure of the conflict of interest.
I signed up but I fear that it is going to be shopping-centric. So results are bought instead of intelligentely mined.
I think there is an underbelly of a few nasty people on HN who seem to consistently pop up on threads about things like welfare and climate change. I don't know if that was why it was flagged but HN seems to be the only place I regularly see climate scepticism (similarly to how on every physics thread there is always someone with a pet theory or complaint about academic physics)
Ah cool thanks for the link I'll check it out!
We are talking about OSS projects that "need to pay the rent".

OSS projects that are created by companies as a strategic move are something completely different.
Sure.

Once you get a positive cancer diagnosis, or sometimes before, you give someone a PET scan to see if it's gone metastatic.

A PET scan will "detect cancer" down to a few mm in resolution. It will only miss cancers smaller than that. It detects all cancers, though there is noise.

What is it detecting? Positrons. From memory you dope glucose with decaying fluoride. You inject this or drink it after fasting.

Fasting clears out (some or most) your blood glucose and some glycogen in your muscles and other places. So you get a rush of this glucose and it goes straight to the tumors. There, it emits higher amounts of positrons due to concentration (and maybe metabolization, I forget).

So why does glucose go straight to tumors? Because tumors exclusively process glucose. The other pathway to ATP, fat (triglycerides to ketones etc) is broken.

That's why a PET scan works. Sugar. The stuff in coca cola. Although today there's a lot of fructose too (fun fact, fructose is a poison just like alcohol).

To go further, human beings didn't used to eat nearly the quantity of sugar or at the frequency we do today. You can become much healthier by fasting and avoiding carbs (which are in some ways one and the same thing).

A similar analysis of dentistry will lead to the same conclusions.
Thank you for clarifying. I can see how it may come off as this.

I guess this is a symptom of learning language X in our free time in combination with a "I know this" dopamine hit while being in the early learning stages.

By the way I always thought of JS closing over references (instead of values) was a feature. A closure over a mutable reference or pointer essentially becomes an object interface. Otherwise defaulting to 'const' makes the intent clear.
The are robots, just a different kind. They are social robots, running mechanical social scripts like Furby. They are absolutely not open and honest.
[citation needed]

This isn't my experience--I've worked with hundreds of developers who do open source, and only a handful were paid in any way. I don't exactly look deeply into the finances of every open source project, but my own open source projects, I've paid to run. Now, I'm aware that my experience is anecdotal, so I'm not going to confidently say that you're wrong, but I'll say that the best evidence I have (which isn't very good) doesn't match your claim. If you want to persuade me, you'll have to provide better evidence than what I already have.
> Also, because it relies on session tickets, there's a time window after which the ticket gets cycled and properly initialized. But that is apparently 6 hours by default so it is going to protect only really long-lasting TLS sessions, which are uncommon, I would argue.

I'm the author of the Tweet which this paragraph links to. The author of this blog post is misinterpreting the problem. It's not the session ticket which is rotated after 6 hours, but the session ticket encryption key (STEK). This has nothing to do with the length of the TLS session, but rather the lifetime of the process using GnuTLS. For the first 6 hours, connections made to the GnuTLS server are vulnerable. After the process has been running for 6 hours, new connections are safe (assuming there's no other GnuTLS vulnerability). This reduces the impact of the vulnerability considerably (although it's still really bad).

> It is likely that people don't have OpenSSL in mind when they suggest moving away from GnuTLS

No, OpenSSL is exactly what we have in mind, including Filippo: https://twitter.com/FiloSottile/status/1270130358634283008

OpenSSL isn't perfect but it has improved considerably since Heartbleed and has the resources (funding and competent people) that a crypto project needs.
You need to look a little more carefully into the history of railroads in Great Britain. An act of parliament was required to build most of them. And they approved the routes over the objections of local landowners. In fact many local landowners hired thugs to harass the surveyors and builders.

Without government power forcing the sale of land none of those early railroads would have been built.

The same thing applies to canal building in the 18th century. Government authority was used to force landowners to allow canals to be built.

Again with turnpike trusts, acts of parliament were required to establish each one, and they were generally financed by community bonds.

There has never been a history of private entities building a large, road or rail network through land owned by many different private owners without using the power of government to force the landowners to cooperate.
Besides the monopoly on letters that others have explained the USPS also has a legal monopoly on the use of your mailbox.
It's been 80 years and we still haven't figured out how to reliably perform loading doses (when someone is just starting out on warfarin) and to maintain stable INR (anticoagulation effectiveness, essentially) in people who take it daily. Lots of work has been done on it, but it is petering out due to the recent introduction of new anticoagulation drugs that do not require regular monitoring.

I happen to take warfarin daily, happy to answer any questions!
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“ Establishes in the Treasury the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund, to be administered by OPM. Requires the Postal Service, beginning in 2007, to compute the net present value of the future payments required and attributable to the service of Postal Service employees during the most recently ended fiscal year”

Compute the net present value of future payments does not sound like “accrued” benefits at all. It sounds like future payments which is the opposite of accrued benefits.

I don’t know the details of USPS’s finances, but reading that bill it seems they basically got rid of pensions around 2007

“ Postal Civil Service Retirement and Health Benefits Funding Amendments of 2006 - (Sec. 802) Relieves the Postal Service of an obligation to contribute matching amounts to its employees' civil service retirement.”

but required that all existing pensions be prefunded.

That’s an extremely onerous requirement and whether the fund has been funded or not, it will still affect service drastically. Even if the fund has been paid off it’s not a moot point because that’s potentially billions of dollars that they cannot use to fund service and instead is waiting in an account somewhere to be used decades from now.
> For an upfront payment of $5,000 they can buy an array of solar panels and an electric pump. Once it is installed, there are virtually no running costs.

I don't know much about solar panels, but I thought they broke down fairly frequently and required specialized tools and knowledge to repair? This article makes it sound like the panels are pretty reliable over time, which would be welcome news to me.

2) Drilling down 100M to groundwater -- does this require industrial equipment? I wonder how these farmers afford it, if so, or perhaps drilling 100M is much easier than I believe?
> because I could! Isn't that the point of tech - to be able to build whatever you want, whenever you want, for any reason you want, in any form or shape you want without asking for permission?

Well yes, if it makes you happy, absolutely, do it.

But another reason we are all here is to discuss the merits and problems of various technological approaches.

> The hexagon nut in your car is built on a technology that you don't know or own.

This just isn't true – the hexagon nut is completely open. I can go look up the length, shaft diameter, thread pitch, etc. Countless different manufacturers make one to the exact size. I could even make one myself with a lathe if I were so inclined.

SES is proprietary. I could not replace SES with something else.

> If you consider how easily an MX record can be created/changed, how am I losing anything by attaching myself to SES's email service?

Because if you wanted to move away from SES, you would have to completely rebuild how your client receives, stores, and sends email.

If you build your client on POP/IMAP/SMTP, then you can just change your MX settings, and your POP/IMAP/SMTP settings, and you can move all of your email to AWS, or Fastmail, or Gmail, or your own machine, in the time it takes DNS to propagate.
> pay the emulator people a bucket of cash

> without having to rebuy the titles

How does this lead to making "so much money"? Purely from hardware sales?
No, if you want to argue against a government military you need a different tack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_good_(economics)

> In economics, a public good (also known as a social good or collective good) is a good that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous, in that individuals cannot be excluded from use or could benefit from without paying for it, and where use by one individual does not reduce availability to others or the good can be used simultaneously by more than one person.

Basically, defense of the realm is commonly seen as such a public good.

However, food and postal services are excludable and rivalrous.
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> There are multiple logical fallacies in this sentence.

No, there aren't any fallacies in that sentence and can't be.

The statement expresses a personal preference; to be fallacious there must be some logic that can be unsound. That is, it must start from some premises and then derive a conclusion. To find a fallacy, you have to show that at some point the conclusion does not follow from the premises.

Since it's a simple assertion, it is implicitly sound. (The graph of premises to conclusions is just a single node.) And since the author knows with certainty what his preferences are, we can take it as true. It's fruitless to argue with people about what their preferences are.

> First is the use of the world 'until' which is ambiguous here

Virtually all "fallacies" you see online are just people typing their thoughts in a hurry. Take advantage of interaction and ask them to clarify.

> Lastly, your personally preferred outcome for your personal data is not a measure for all of society, but you grant it that "public service" label as if your preference matters above everyone else's.

And as a member of the public, if it serves my interest, it is a public service to some extent.

Now, fair enough, you're trying to attack it as not being some broader notion of a public service. You have that broader notion in mind, but you don't explain what it is.

Instead you apply your internal definition through "as if..." which puts you in the territory of inventing a claim they simply never made. That's not even fallacious, it's pure fiction.

> A blind deletion of unknown data belonging to unknown people is not a public service.

You do make some claims, mostly coached as questions, that might lead to this conclusion. You never plainly state your premises, nor do you connect them to this conclusion.

So after all that, your conclusion is a non sequitur!
Loss leader is fine, but they still need to retain accountability.
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"...water is effectively free..." yeah, until they deplete the groundwater. But until then it's good times! They should talk to farmers or more importantly, residents in central CA about how much fun it is to run out of groundwater. Good luck.
If that was the case, I would be the last in line! ;-)

But God's whole purpose was to save sinners like me and you through Jesus Christ:
"If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us". [1 John 1, 8-10 NKJV]
> What is recent on Python3 that makes it hostile to hobbyists?

Python has become a very complex language [0], and the complexity continues to increase. IMO it's too much for people who only write code for, say, a few hours a week.

> The new features are optional

I hope Python isn't becoming a "choose your own subset" language like C++.

[0] https://twitter.com/raymondh/status/1280946969116995584
This is at the direction of a Trump appointee. Career USPS workers are not happy about it and their union is exploring options, last I heard.

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But none of that hostility made much of a dent in any immigration statistics I was able to find. In fact, legal immigration under Trump even increased by a few percent compared to under Obama: https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2018/tab... (latest year for which data is available)
Tumors eat more food, because that's what tumors are. Fetuses eat more food too, but eating food doesn't cause pregnancy.
That's one of the purposes of the PBGC--to prevent people from losing their pensions when companies have problems. Look at the history of the PBGC and bankruptcy. Companies routinely use bankruptcy to benefit creditors at the expense of the PBGC. Basically creditors get paid, while the PBGC gets stuck footing the bill for pensions.
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This kid of stuff is incredibly hard to use for accurate results. Gels (and all materials) are not perfect in any sense, and you'd need significant effort modeling any material you used - viscosity under all sorts of motions (since nothing is nicely linear), the gel itself is sloshing, compressing, has different lag times...

It's possible in theory, but in practice would not be useful.

Look at what planes (Air Force has lots of R&D) did for the past century to see the state of the art at each point and the methods used.
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The "up front" part I think is what is considered onerous.

Typically you'd target a result in the future and work backwards off of an average return rate (over years/decades, not months!) to ballpark a "this is what we need now to fund (with interest/returns) our pension obligations in the future".

As one can see from many pensions today though, this setup often falls prey to politics or other mismanagement. I think the "other side" sees it as an attempt to say "USPS can't stay solvent, time to chuck it over to the private sector." while ignoring that other comparable businesses do not and will not have such an explicit cash requirement, which by definition makes them looks better.
I'm surprised to not find Stanley G. Weinbaum in the list or the comments. He was early in sci-fi (mid 1930s) and died not too long after his career took off, but a bunch of his writing laid the foundation for many SF writers that came after.
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The USPS is the largest unionized operation in the USA. Republicans are trying to drive it into crisis and kill it. So they passed a law which requires it to set aside vast amounts of money to prefund retirement obligations on a scale which no other organization in the USA has to do. At the same time, they are refusing to let it raise postage rates or otherwise generate more revenue. And in the news recently (past few weeks), Trump has appointed a new head of the agency who is ordering it to slow down mail delivery.

Goal is to get the public to perceive it as a money-losing, inefficient operation which should be destroyed and outsourced to private companies (who will immediately hugely raise postage rates, reduce letter carrier pay, reduce delivery speed, and so on).
Why is he a special case. There are hundreds if not 1000s of people that want to be risk takers for no other reason then the risk its self
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That is a _very_ "Have you ever seen a communist drink a glass of water, Mandrake?" headline.
> In this, BLM is no different from other Marxist groups. The organization’s goals extend far beyond police abuse and police brutality. The ultimate goal is the abolition of a society based upon private property in the means of production.

Oh dear. What on earth has this so-called 'peaceful' organisation being using race as a trojan horse for a full blown revolution for? To them, everything is 'racist' such that they use that to call for revolution against the 'system'.

Close, but no cigar utopian comrades.
The usual proximate causes for pension scheme funding gaps are excessively optimistic assumptions about investment growth and mortality, coupled with underfunding.

i.e. you assume your investments will growth faster than they do, and you assume people will die earlier than they do, then you don't even put in enough to fund the scheme based on your optimistic assumptions.

In the US, state pension schemes tend to use more aggressive growth assumptions than private ones: the government holds private companies to strict standards, but does not impose them on itself.
I don't think that's true, for example renewables were responsible for ~50% of the energy generated in the UK in Q1 2020[0], and Germany claims it's ~40%[1] and Sweden claims it's ~55%[2].

These aren't perfect numbers, but they clearly demonstrate renewable energy is deployable at national grid scale.

[0]: https://www.edie.net/news/10/Renewables-accounted-for-record...

[1]: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...

[2]: https://sweden.se/nature/energy-use-in-sweden/
You are basically saying the same thing. The point of the American Dream is the promise of improvement on one's status. Different groups decline that promise in different ways: for the migrant, it means an untroubled existence in a land under a stable rule of Law; for the working classes, it means doing better than your parents ("becoming a millionaire"); for the wealthy, it means more personal empowerment ("freedom").

Some of these promises can still be fulfilled, which is why people still come to America and follow the script. Others have not kept up with the times, maybe because social and economic institutions are struggling to keep up with the rate of change.