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Nuclear power has significant and often unpredictable down-times

The availability for wind power in the North Sea is about 50%. Admittedly, lower than 85%

It's not only lower. It's 35% lower. That's a lot of lower.

Aside from hydro, which I very much like, but it has its own limitations, what else comes even close to nuclear?

https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/iaea-releases-2019-data...

I'd say nuclear is very much predictable.
My understanding is that the inflation is causing skyrocketing asset values, it just hasn't trickled down into the economy.
Nah, just one less thing to worry about by letting it go by the wayside.
Yes, and conversely, during recessions, the poor get it worse. If you look at black poverty rates for the last ~60 years, it has declined overall, from ~55% to ~20%. But you can see every recession or economic dip in the graph as a bump in poverty rate.
Another question - is there anyway to take these notes and integrate with Evernote? Or has anyone tried a creative solution for this?
> We’re going to print, not repay, our way out of this.

Try to, we're going to try to print our way out of it.
That's not possible: CDNs exist not just to reduce latency, but to reduce data-transfer costs by having content within the ISP's own network where data transfer is literally gratis to the ISP because it's running on their own hardware: they just charge companies like Netflix and Akami rent to sit within their network. By your proposal I would be paying the same per-byte rate for both Netflix and Vimeo, even though Netflix has a CDN and Vimeo doesn't - so Comcast would be profiteering from Netflix both ways and the Netflix data doesn't cost Comcast anything. That puts Vimeo at a disadvantage.

Utility systems in most countries work on a grid system: natural-gas and electricity is pumped into the grid by supplier/producer companies, managed by the grid-infrastructure people, and measured at the point of consumption. This works because both natural-gas and electronic-potential are both fungible and do not originate on your utility-grid company's premises (assuming your utility-grid company is not also an energy-producer). Bytes transferred over the internet are not fungible, so it is incorrect to compare residential gas and electricity billing to residential Internet billing.

Also consider that just as data itself isn't fungible, the value of that data varies tremendously: A high-quality VOIP connection is probably 128kbps and needs modest latency needs, but it absolutely has to always work - whereas Netflix et al. is high-bandwidth but not latency sensitive and occasional outages and poor routing is acceptable; disregarding network QOS, I'd still gladly pay far more per-byte for a hyper-reliable VOIP 128kbps connection than a 1Gbps link for Netflix.
The premise of your argument is that explicitness comes at the expense of additional complexity. I believe this premise may be flawed.

Let's rewrite it from:

> We began this public review in early 2019 to assess the monetary policy strategy, tools, and communications that would best foster achievement of our congressionally assigned goals of maximum employment and price stability over the years ahead in service to the American people.

To:

"""

We began this public review in early 2019. The goal was to assess items relating to monetary policy ("Monetary Policy" has to do with the creation and management of money at a national level).

Those monetary policy items under review were the:

- strategy.

- tools.

- communications.

The goals of the policy review, which were assigned by congress, were:

- maximum employment.

- price stability going forward, for years to come, in service to the American people.

"""

I believe nothing has been lost from the original text, and that this is far easier to read and understand.
Curious what the founder of Starsky Robotics is up to. The site is still up and there's even a blog post after the post about them shutting down: https://www.starsky.io/ https://medium.com/starsky-robotics-blog/the-poor-roi-of-aut...

Here's the post entitled "The End of Starsky Robotics" https://medium.com/starsky-robotics-blog/the-end-of-starsky-...
Zoom is not alone in this. Lots of crud gets left, and it differs between which OS it is.
I worked as a developer for a design agency in the year 2000. This was a frustratingly common perspective from the designers.
It's now -41F. It's not really rocket science, unless you're trying to trick me with a double negative.
Evernote also messed up badly by losing ot messing up customer data a few years ago IIRC.
Ugh that sucks. I have heard that too. Family relatives tend to be limited to 2-3 good food places that are "not too far"
At this point gold and silver could be considered heterodox.
I came here to say the same thing. I'm not even particularly good at this kind of thing.
> solid wood IKEA furniture

Interesting, got a list somewhere.
Since when are republicans for sane financing of anything? I thought that was just bullshit because it nearly always results in increased spending and cuts to services. They clearly just use this to con their base.
Yes they should stop doing that, our country has an unbearable president (Trump) right now but, that doesn’t excuse China from anything and it is also way worse in scale and intensity and done directly against their own citizens who have a different religion.

The thing is that here in the US nearly half of the citizens are opposed. In China nobody gives a damn, they don’t know and don’t care. Big difference!!
Are you paying 0% on your mortgage? If not then the Fed has room to lower rates. Joking aside I'd expect the Fed, and former Fed officials, to continue floating this idea into the public discourse over the next 6-18 months. The move into the corporate bond market is a start. QE is not limited treasuries, it is just the most efficent point to start with because all debt is marked off that, or was...
I’d like to see what happens if someone like IFTTT is forced to do this...
How would you compare this to Microsoft OneNote? It is free and cross platform. It also lets you put "anything" on your space and lets you scribble or type anywhere.

What would you say justifies the $99 jump to Muse?

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-onenote/id410395246
They used hydrazinium trifluoroacetate, likely a super poison.
How is this not just spam for a new IKEA item?
Lots of crypto is trustless, they just don’t have inherent value.
Google it, there has been much reporting on the numbers. Aircraft accidents are a cascade of failures. The debris was part of a chain which ended with concord.
I don't think Nitrokey is claiming that the lack of USB Type-C connector is a good thing. Rather, it appears to be a specific reference to Yubikey's (and maybe also other competitors') "half USB" designs where the very slim HSM slides into a USB port, but isn't actually a USB-compliant connector.

Take a look at https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-5-nano for an example.

I think both approaches are fine, and it's really a matter of preference. But it _would_ be nice if manufacturers of USB-connected devices that strictly speaking aren't actually USB-compliant would be a little more explicit about that detail.
I can't think of any payment processor that would allow this without 3 separate entries.

They would be upset or bring you into PCI scope if you were modifying or tampering with their single input SDK to send cardholder data elsewhere.
...and thanks to some apps doing away with window borders completely, as well as everything becoming some drab grey colour, many times I've mistakenly clicked in and activated a different window while trying to manipulate a nearly-invisible "automatically expanding" scrollbar.
Widespread consensus doesn't determine what is and isn't a crime. The law does. Until the federal law changes, marijuana sales are a federal crime. Technically speaking, no state can actually "legalize" it.
That's a good happy? medium. I guess that's a downside of living in the inner city (I'll add it to my cons list haha). I am with you, I dislike walking around in areas where you don't see anyone else but just cars driving around. But also, I really like gardening and I'd like a backyard. So far, I am leaning more towards a suburban area just for that.
(1) A seed was rebranded as an oil?

(2) Not really; the nomenclature and its history is more interesting than that.

(3) The seed is still called rapeseed.

(4) Why was that not the intended point?
Most articles on Scottish Wikipedia are by an American teen who can’t speak Scot
If you spend what you think is way too expensive for ikea furniture, that’s the stuff. I have a $400 ikea table that is basically bulletproof.
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Can you please recommend a very fast Linux distro for Raspberry Pi that boots quickly in a full screen Chromium?

I need to boot a Raspberry Pi Zero in under 3 seconds.

Thanks!
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Isn't this similar to the Oracle-Google API dispute that has gone to the US Supreme Court?

EU has already ruled that APIs are not subject to copyright, https://econsultancy.com/will-the-oracle-google-lawsuit-kill...
This article explains the Volcker era and subsequent events in plain language

https://nplusonemag.com/issue-34/reviews/other-peoples-blood...
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This looks more like them actively placing a cookie into the cookie DB upon install. Doesn't appear to be simply left behind.
I believe it
No need to counterpoint my example. The original list of case studies already lists Go's success stories.

I was just providing the example the parent post was asking about. And note it's "hearsay" to you only because I didn't name the company and people involved -- because I was told this in confidence -- but this is a major company where I'm from, and their attempt at adopting Go ended up in disaster. Just a data point, that's all.
You're having things backwards, and I don't know where to start educating you, so I won't. Just remember some good rules of thumb: stock market isn't economy, allowing hiring workers isn't the same as hiring workers, US government is quite able to pursue conflicting goals at the same time.

And welcome to Hacker News.
Or, we could just make yachts illegal.
hacker news is for topics that we might find interesting:

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

(from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

this definitely falls into the former for me.
I don’t recall ever being locked down. I have always been able to go out. I don’t remember the grocery store being completely closed. I think maybe there was a week I couldn’t get a pizza.

There was a lot of pressure to dramatically reduce one’s exposure to others. Extremely few countries enacted a true lock down. Which is, in fact, why we continue to have a pandemic.
There are lots of accusations against China's Xinjiang practice. They are all mixed together unintentionally or intentionally to mud the water.

The accusation of concentration camp is exaggerated and there is no credible hard evidence. This report is highly questionable. That is my opinion and what we are debating now.

Human right issues in Xinjiang? Yes. I am not questioning that.
I understand M1 includes the most liquid portions of the money supply in circulation. When the Fed "prints" money I don't think they are talking about physical money.

Can someone explain what this graph tells us?
I'm with you. Where are the few places that you thought would give you that?
I think "nobody" was relative here. I had never heard of her before this thread and looking at her career she isn't a nobody but she is very far from being an A-lister.
Where does the leached radiation go? What happens to the plant matter after the sunflowers die? Their seeds (and are the seeds viable?)?

I am curious.
I know exactly how this happens because I have to deal with this all the time. Here's my guess:

The boss ten years ago now dead said if it looks like a penis and is the right color of a penis then we can't sell it. Therefore, you gotta change the color. - Wells Fargo, probably.
At least zoom has privacy statement / policy page available on their web site unlike threatspike.com
ahh it all makes sense now...so that's why I have to go to the web to buy stuff in Fandango/Vudu.

How come these companies don't do something similar for subscriptions? ex: HBO Now (or whatever the fuck it's called these days) could have a subscribe button that takes you out of the app to their site - completely circumventing the in-app subscription purchase. Right?
If the Fed wants to print their way out of this, the Fed can print their way out of this.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
Does this mean I can have them on an iPhone one day too?

A true NoScript alone would be awesome.
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Data doesn't have to have an exact fungible value for it to be a good way to divide up costs. Users torrenting terabytes a month should pay more than someone who mostly uses email and reads news articles.

Also, note that Netflix gets its CDN boxes hosted for free. It "lets" ISPs host them, rather than paying for colocation space. Charging equally for data use regardless of CDNs or not would rebalance this effect.

And finally, the largest cost for building out residential ISP networks is last mile. It's the most expensive part to build, maintain, and upgrade to support increasing usage. The CDN boxes are on the far end of this, so mostly irrelevant anyways to this point.
Announced back at WWDC: https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/25/apple-will-let-you-port-go...
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you are damn right bro
Do we know the ReMarkable 2.0 will be just as open as well?
If they are distributing via the App Store, I assume this means requiring the publisher to be paying the yearly $99 developer fee?
threatspike.com is totally shady and shitty
Looks like the announcement specifically calls out the _Mac_ App Store, so at least not initially...

I’d love ublock origin or HTTPS Everywhere on Mobile
Is it really arbitrary, though? The decisions all seem to have reasons, mainly "what is best for Apple's bottom line"
No mention of iOS:

> Safari web extensions are available in macOS 11 and later, and in macOS 10.14.6 or 10.15.6 with Safari 14 installed.
My new IDÅSEN powered stand up desk is quite sturdy, albeit with a considerable premium from ikea is fantastic. Since I’ll be WFH for awhile I thought it worthwhile.
But in that case nobody was accessing a service. If I use Tesla’s servers/service without permission in my app, then they could legally terminate my access (or, perhaps try to get it taken off the App Store). If I simply reimplement the Tesla service myself (even though that’d be useless with a production car unless you rewrote the telemetry stuff), they can’t sue me under the Oracle-Google decision, as I understand it.
Probably because you could just make an application like that on an iPad...
I mean 'library' as in 'my collection of ePub and PDF files', not a lending library.
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This is ideal for avoiding distractions as a student while consuming lectures that I need for studying.
Windows new feature: Access your Android phone’s apps directly from your PC
Wait, this free form content collating tool doesn't have an infinite canvas? So I'd have to create more boards once I run out of space?
I agree that if you have state in two places you're doing it wrong. That's why I keep all my state client-side (the only thing in session storage is your user ID if logged in). My server is basically just a thin wrapper around my database, providing an API for my client to call.
What are LEGOs good for? They are good for explaining Graphical Linear Algebra:

https://graphicallinearalgebra.net/2015/04/29/dumbing-down-m...
I have way more than 5 minutes, just my attention-span is crippled.
Not just that, but that combined with the lack of a microSD card slot.
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>>>I know the word and its meaning and my initial reaction was negative because I thought "this has very little metaphorical value for a physics engine." You think of kinesis, movement, reactions.... Rapier is - to me - just an inanimate object.

I looked at is as implying lightweight, nimble, and functional efficiency for small-scale uses, much like its namesake. I would assign much different metaphorical implications to something named "Zweihander" (Germanic two-handed sword) or an even more esoteric French polearm name such as "Bec de corbin" (a name probably only known to hoplophiles).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qJBGlChcXU?t=546

https://myarmoury.com/othr_aa_bec.html
> Golang is like Python [...] Fast to implement, easy to read

I disagree. Python is often described as "executable pseudocode" - for example, to delete the `i`th element from a list `a` you use `del a[i]`.

In Go, it's much more convoluted: `a = append(a[:i], a[i+1:]...)`. Plus, without generics, you can't even easily hide that inside a function! There's a whole page of these "tricks" that are necessary to perform basic operations on slices: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks
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> which will be expanded by about 8.5x by fractional reserve banking.

Didn't they remove all reserve requirements back on March 15? I thought a 0 requirement would cause a bigger than 8.5X multiple with enough time (all else equal).
Mortgage interest rates are close to yearly inflation. Soon it’ll be free money to own Realestate, even if it’s not cash flow positive.

We could see a huge run up of property values as people shift to taking advantage of real estate leverage and tax advantages coupled with literally free money.
Since the app in question here allows users to send commands to their Tesla vehicles, it seems like Apple’s decision could be connected to their deeper integration with vehicles through Car Key (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211234).
Eliminating reserve requirements (the net effect of which is to allow banks themselves to print money at will). This has already been done.
Do you really think controlling your local desktop is an API feature that web browsers should provide to web apps?
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It's a thing, I'm taking remote classes now and some seemingly 20 somethings are taking the time to dress up more and more in cosplay attire for them.

Course instructors wearing cosplay?
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This page gives me an SSL certificate error
I don't think this is the same issue. From what I understand, the Tesla api is accessed through Tesla's servers via a remote api service run by Tesla, and not by directly interacting with the car itself.

_Technically_ it is a crime to access a remote computer without permission -- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
Shorter:

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting richer.
> why can we not also address overpopulation at the same time?

We don't need to.

Overpopulation has already been addressed. Look at the CIA's World Factbook list of countries by total fertility rate. Most countries are below replacement fertility; most of the rest are rapidly approaching that state.

There is only one region of concern, sub-Saharan Africa, and even there total fertility rate is falling quite quickly.

World population is pretty much only growing because of increasing lifespans: it's just momentum. Sometime between 2045 and 2080, momentum will work towards decreasing populations without any policy effort.

Global population momentum is pretty hard to stop, so there's a much bigger payoff for much less effort if we focus on the wealthiest 500 million people in the world.
My collection of ebooks is about 50 GB. Once you get into art-heavy PDFs like those for tabletop games you can be looking at 5-25 MB per file, and that adds up fast.
This problem is well known. I think the big opportunity is now to figure out ways to solve it efficiently at scale - in times of excess power, how to store energy.

Until a few years ago, the cost of Solar/Wind didn't make it worthwhile studying this problem. Now it's probably viable.

Personally, i think the solution would be in converting energy into fuel in some way. Hydrogen is probably the easiest but very dangerous to handle in field conditions. Hydro Carbons would be ideal (extracting Carbon from air or maybe organic waste). There have been recent advances in catalysts - how to use electric/magnetic fields to mimic the action of physical catalysts etc.
I think GC is not harmful than helpful in drivers and things like an OS. gVisor in particular jumps through hoops for performance and still has poor performance. It could be more successful in C++ or Rust probably.

I like Go a lot, but if you needed the performance or manual control it is not the tool for the job. On the other hand most problems don't fit that description and Go is one of the best choices for them.
I think this was only a matter of time. The Chrome extension model has become the de facto standard, has a large existing extension ecosystem and huge user base, and other browsers have adopted this model. While sticking to their own extension model would ensure that they remained in control, this is the right thing for users, both current and possible switchers. Here’s why:

- Current Safari users can get the goodness of Chrome extensions, specifically the ones focused on privacy such as NoScript and uBlock.

- Switchers from Chrome can feel familiar with Safari if their Chrome extensions are available to them in the new browser.

- New macOS users don’t need to select a browser based on whether extensions are available for it or not.

With extension availability out of the way, the discussion on macOS browsers is going to come back to UX, speed, and battery usage. UX is a personal choice. Based on my experience, Safari is the fastest and least battery hungry browser on macOS. Syncing using iCloud Just Works (TM) for my devices and account. YMMV.

Net-net, kudos to the team for getting past their “Not Invented Here” instincts and going with the market flow.
Perhaps they want they want to make a "trillion dollars" the new "billion dollars" by inflating the national debt away. YMMV
If you consider Bitcoin unconventional (I would), it qualifies as a trustless currency.
I’ve unfairly disregarded Safari on MacOS for years because it didn’t have parity with chrome/FF in terms of extensions. There’s uBlock of course, but I spend a lot of time on Reddit, and I can’t bear it without the RES extension. So now there’s hope.
Fiat currencies are not ideal but are the best known currency tool to date.

I commonly hear that blockchain-based currencies can be a good replacement for fiat currencies. But current examples of blockchain-currencies are either company-sponsored or community-based. This again puts a big weight on a single actor. I'd rather trust the admin of money to a government than a company or a community of anonymous economists/technologists.

Finally, the ability go debase (I assume you mean devaluating) a currency is (arguably) a desirable characteristic. During crises, responsibly devaluating a currency can help a country's economy.
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