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No, it is a straw man. The idea that crazygringo highlighted was simply the notion that maybe the best ideas don't win in a free marketplace of ideas. The straw man presented was that you wouldn't be able to discuss this at all if there was no free speech.

But there are regulations on free speech and they are sensible. My understanding of speech regulations in the USA is that they primarily need to be focused on time, place and manner restrictions unless they fall into some exceptions that typically don't matter (edit: typically don't matter in political discussions).

A sensible manner restriction: you will generally be told to move along if you are shouting your message at the top of your lungs in a public place. Especially so if it is the middle of the night.

How you speak your message can be regulated in a more easily balanced way, although it is somewhat dangerous as well. This leads to potential place, manner restrictions online. A manner restriction can easily be content neutral.

A manner restriction: you could maybe regulate the use of sock puppets or fake accounts.

Here you see it is a strawman argument to say we could not have a discussion regarding whether good ideas will win in a marketplace where sock puppets are banned.
No. The economy is people plus a whole lot of relationships that economists ignore, but which happen to be critical to a functioning civilisation.

Of course economic collapse hurts people. But there are only two causes of economic collapse - external stressors, and internal mismanagement.

And the only situations in which they're not the same are when physical disasters permanently destroy significant productive capacity. Everything else should be manageable.

Covid - and the Great Depression - both prove the economy is badly mismanaged. It should be possible to hit a pause button on non-essential activities, keep as many people as possible safe, fed, entertained and possibly even educated, and then hit restart when the threat is over.

"Possible" does not mean "trivially easy." But it does mean "Can be handled successfully with some adjustments and minimal attrition."

This culture just can't do it. Its primary engine is debt-fuelled plutocracy and short-term profit-seeking, and it's so inherently unstable it can't cope rationally with a relatively minor and short-lived challenge like a nasty but not spectacularly deadly virus.
You should have zero fear instilled when pressing any button. The system or process has failed if a single person pressing a button can bring something down unintended. Fix the system/process, don’t “instill fear” onto the person, it’s toxic, plus now you have to make sure any new person on boarded has “fear instilled”, and that’s just hugely unproductive
What kind of power could such a satellite realistically gather, and how much would be left by the time if reached Earth? Curious to know how this would be beneficial over a land-based solar array.
Yes, it is. Do you have a specific question?
This is not true "from am economic perspective", though individual studies may use "cost" as a proxy for quality.

No economist considers price the correct measure of quality, and a lot of economics deals with the often poor relationship between the two (and the factors subsidising the mismatch).
Yeah, I don't know the area well at all. It seems like at some point you'll have to pay for the grid directly (ie, the power will be free-ish, you'll pay for the size of the wire to your house).
Completely.

Not just storage but we need to work on energy efficiency as well. We just smoke a huge amount of our generated energy.
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Umm yes we do? We factor in these costs to every energy source, at least in our country, and solar is not even remotely cheap.
Low positive rates are an indicator that a country is having to do more testing to locate their cases than a country with a similar amount of cases, but higher positive rates. Nothing more, nothing less. At best, it indicates that the country has a relatively low infection rate (which is why countries that are doing better have low positive test rates), at worst it's because they're testing the wrong people.

Think about it this way. Currently, countries like the US or much of Europe tend to offer testing to anyone with mild potential symptoms that are caused by many common diseases. If they ever reach the point where Covid-19 cases make up such a substantial proportion of people with those generic symptoms as to affect the number of tests required, the country is in really deep, Lombardy-level trouble. The idea that the level of testing required depends on the size of the outbreak is nonsense created to continue the narrative that Western countries like the UK and US are still failing on testing and that's why we have so many cases well past the point it should've been put to bed. It made sense as a metric of testing aggressiveness in February when everyone was looking for cases linked to travel from China, since it tended to indicate how wide a net countries were casting when doing this, and a little bit back in March and April when many countries were only testing people with serious and obvious symptoms. Not so much these days.

(Note also that South Korea doesn't routinely offer testing to people with mild symptoms. Anyone can get tested if they pay out of pocket for it, but it's discouraged and at a tenth of the testing capacity of most Western nations I don't think they could handle many people demanding it. Which means they can't reliably detect cases not linked to ones they already know about, and of course those unlinked cases grow exponentially... Makes meaningful comparison of case figures and test positivity figures hard.)
One person on one device in the household using it doesn't mean all other devices have it.
Because they have to make money somehow. They took $300M in VC funding. Their product is open source and was subsumed by Kubernetes.
> Serverless removes operational details of servers, but often exacerbates process fragmentation. And the need to have "serverful" operational expertise is replaced by the need for serverless expertise.

I totally agree. As a consultant working with multiple companies, I see a slowly increasing number of Serverless applications. The code always looked bloated, with no chance of ever being migrated off the original cloud platform due to all the proprietary APIs in use. There was also no way to run any of them locally without extensive configuration. Serverless has a future, but this is not it.
That’s precisely my point. A lot of people have no fear because they’re complacent or ignorant rather than the button is well engineered.

But to get there you need to fear the bad outcomes.
Note that I am specifically pointing to those exact barriers, and not "any old barriers". C's memory orderings don't really lower down to a single instruction on any other platform that I'm aware of because of subtle differences in semantics.
Rent controls don't help the poor, the help incumbent tenants at the expense of future tenants and housing quality.
More correctly, they 'ensured' that anything not them wasn't going to happen.
I work as a quant for a power company.

I have very much looked at what the prices are doing and the answer is "making my employer filthy rich and making the grid unsustainable over the next decade".

Solar and batteries are eating the profit from base load and peak generators. Yet are unable to provide the sustained power requirements to keep the grid going on a day that gets over 35C.

If you like having power in hospitals at all hours you can't let solar and battery storage invade the grid without regulating it such that the grid survives.

Nationalization of the grid assets and a massive nuclear building spree is the only solution if we want children to grow up in a world where brownouts are the exception.
Ever since working in a finance company myself, I've realised that existing finance basically is doing proof of work. It's very hard to put my finger on it and come up with a coherent thesis, but so much of what they do is utterly pointless, yet somehow necessary. Take a walk through the City and you'll see grand buildings, but there's nothing going on in them. It's all just an illusion. The company I worked for had drones in call centres in out of town business parks in other parts of the country. The people working in the city were engaged in just completely wasting their time. We could also see into the Swiss Re building from up there. Nobody was inside. It was practically empty every day (this was before lockdown).

But yet it all seems necessary to build trust. Is it proof of work?
>Mozilla doesn't owe you anything. You think you can do better? Go build a better browser that's free yourself.

So criticising an entity that claims to be creating a freer internet somehow requires us to do better than it has have?

Of course we have the right to challenge a public claim that is not accurately made. I can't use FF to group call using FB and Google Meet but I don't seem to mind that but when you remove choices (e.g. Requiring the user to change profile-specific about:config flags and subsequently forcing users to resort to a custom userCSS file which requires not only having a legacy feature manually enabled but also a bit of know-how to remove the new behaviour after introducing a new megabar that seemingly adds absolutely nothing useful to the UX and trying to prematurely push a complete redesign of the Android browser to the masses without even considering the number of things it is going to break) without a proportionate incentive to do so, I draw the line there. I'm still using FF (both on my PC and my Phone) but I'm nonetheless saddened by what seems to be happening there.
These comparisions solely account for the production costs and not for the system costs of solar energy and are therefore completely useless.

Solar panels will always require a backup power plant as the Sun isn’t shining 24/7 and storing large amounts of electric energy isn’t trivial.

I‘m really disappointed that this kind of non-sense gets posted on HN over and over again.

I‘m from Germany, we have 50% renewables in our electricity mix and our electricity prices are the highest worldwide.

France has 70% nuclear and their consumer electricity prices are half of the German ones.

Additionally, France emits only 50 grams of CO2 per kWh while Germany emits 400 grams on average per kWh.

I know lots of comments will counter-argue „Yes, but the high taxes in Germany.“ but those aren’t the main price drivers.

The main price drivers are the costs for subsidizing solar and wind (the so-called EEG-Umlage) and the costs for keeping backup power plants available which are allowed to produce only when solar and/or wind won’t deliver as both solar and wind have precedence over other electricity providers in the electricity net (the so-called Netzentgelt).

Solar might be cheapest when you consider the pure production costs per kWh but it’s not the cheapest when you consider the costs for a conplete system to provide electricity for a population.

Even single houses aren’t able to live off just solar while every house can live solely on power from a nuclear power plant which provides electricity 24/7.
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Or (more likely?) a network of HVDC cables encircling the Earth, much as the world is currently enmeshed with optical fibre. The sun never sets on the solar network.

It's actually a real thing with the gradual roll out of HVDC between countries. Eventually the gaps will be filled.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/lets-build...
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Yet the USSR is long gone and we're still here.
Hey, what if we just covered the roads with solar panels?! There are lots of roads! Or maybe we put solar panels on the bottom of the ocean, no one is using that space! /s
>"Edit: So I am being down voted. At least challenge my reasoning?"

They just do not like what you say and the button is way easier to press than straining one's brain. Besides there are many subjects on HN that fall into "party line" areas and those are downvoted in droves
Don't know why you are downvoted. As a layperson I have no idea what the correct answer is to this - i.e. once you factor in the manufacturing, replacement, maintenance, backup plant, batteries, etc. what is the net gain?
Even in terms of containment, the Vietnam war was a huge failure, shortly after Laos and Cambodia went communist, directly supported by the Vietnamese communists.

I have no idea how you can reasonably claim that the war "prevented any kind of spread of that idea in the area", or that the "rational objectives" were achieved "relatively quickly and efficiently".
Or during winter above Artic Circle... As only meaningful pricing metric is average price for whole year in location of consumption. Anything else is just cheating.
When I say effortessly I mean w/o any hacks to make things work. I'm struggling to find a list online
I‘m not sure why you are being downvoted but you are 100% correct as I have explained in detail in my top comment.
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You can use the notes of Bruce Barnett for quick lookups:

https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Awk.html
Yeah I see a variety of forms. Usually sticks which I prefer also but also "two stick"ish and "four stick"ish slabs. I also see logs of rolled butter, which are about three sticks worth or so rolled into a cylinder. I also see square slabs, maybe the mass of a stick or so, and sometimes tubs. The tubs are convenient for spreading but not as much for baking.

I usually prefer the sticks, as you don't have to cut the larger slabs.
Yes, it does. Come to Germany, we have lots of solar power and the highest electricity prices worldwide.
It is not only that but also realizing that there is never a single cause to an accident or incident.

Even when it was a suicidal pilot flying the plane into a mountain on purpose. Someone had to supervise him (there are two crew members in the cockpit for a reason), someone gave him a medical, there is automation in the cockpit that could have at least caused an alarm, etc.

So even when the accident is ultimately caused by a pilot's actions, there is always a chain of events where if any of the segments were broken the accident wouldn't have happened.

While we can't prevent a bonkers pilot from crashing a plane, we could perhaps prevent a bonkers crew member from flying the plane in the first place.

Aka the Swiss cheese model. You don't want to let the holes to align.

This approach is widely used in accident investigations and not only in aviation. Most industrial accidents are investigated like this, trying to understand the entire chain of events in order that processes could be improved and the problem prevented in the future.

Oh and there is one more key part in aviation that isn't elsewhere. The goal of an accident or incident investigation IS NOT TO APPORTION BLAME. It is to learn from it. That's why pilots in airlines with a healthy safety culture are encouraged to report problems, unsafe practices, etc. and this is used to fix the process instead of firing people. Once you start to play the blame game, people won't report problems - and you are flying blind into a disaster sooner or later.
Do you think building solar farms causes existing gas plants to collapse or something? No, that capacity is still there and you can run it when the sun doesn’t shine.

It still saves you money, because the fuel costs more than the solar power. It also reduces CO2 emissions in the period the sun shines.

I guess your counter argument is “but it doesn’t remove ALL the CO2!!”

But why should it? That is a long term goal. First we remove all CO2 emitted when the sun shines. We still got plenty of work to do there. Only when that has been done all do we need to think about storage. By that time storage solutions will be cheap.
Wouldn't the observable universe have expanded quite a bit by then?
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Having some nation, or satellite hacker(s), be able to do Bad Things to targets on the surface doesn't sound appealing. :(
Not sure about books but look up the Swiss cheese model. It is widely used approach and not only in aviation. Most industrial accidents and incidents are investigated with this in mind.
There was a funny story recently in the UK, where a football team was late for a match because their breathalyser-equipped team bus refused to start. Turns out it wasn’t that the driver had been drinking, rather that the alcohol-based disinfectant they’d used to clean the bus triggered it.
Actually, prices excluding taxes and levies look pretty similar: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-household-electr...

And in Germany and Denmark, taxes and levies ARE the main price drivers. The maintenance costs are amortized in the per-kwh cost to consumers, same as with nuclear or gas or coal.

Single houses can't live off just solar energy because they aren't diversified like a nation can be (in terms of storage, routing, diversity of technologies, etc).

Nuclear is nice in theory, but unfortunately they are managed by humans, and humans do stupid things like run them past their decommission date or fail to locate backup generators above flooding level or skimp on maintenance and inspections. And nuclear accidents create no-go zones that last millenia. Only truly "meltdown-proof" reactors would avoid this problem, but R&D into this is terribly slow and seems to be obstructed at every turn by incumbents.
Seems like an American problem. You got more renewable usage in Europe and more stable grids than the US. Problem is more likely due to poor management and low investment and maintenance of grids in the US. When I travel around the US I notice infrastructure in general is in very poor condition . While people drive big cars and live in McMansions. Public poverty and private opulence.
Because people want easy solutions.

Being told that "we have locked in enough climate change already that by 2100 industrial civilization will be impossible anywhere and by 2200 so will agriculture." is not something anyone wants to hear.

If we were serious about climate change we would be spending the next 20 years under martial law building nothing but nuclear powered CO2 scrubbers and producing enough food to keep us alive. Anything else is superfluous.

Or you can vote for Biden and get a vague promise that by 2050 we will be emitting as much CO2 as we were in 2000. And the less said about Trump the better.

The difference in policy options in the US is like the difference between jumping out of a plane and jumping out of a plane tied to an anvil.
Give me a bit more time. I just added all the relevant modern RNG's to dieharder and am running all the tests. TestU01 later.
Actually MT looks good enough to me now.

Preliminary results at https://github.com/rurban/dieharder/blob/pcg/QUALITY.md

Re PCG: statistical weaknesses compared to the good xoshiro's or wyrand, and much slower.
I'm still missing SFMT (2x faster, due to simd), and the 2 newer PCG's with a good and a fast mixer.

But given the current results, there are a few new PRNG's which are so much better and faster than everything else: wyrand, xoshiro128+, xoroshiro64, xoshito128++, xoroshiro64
It’s been hard to keep up with the (largely crazy, frankly) events and speculation here, but a few things stick out to me that make me lean toward believing the story as told:

* Hunter Biden’s attorney, George Mesires, has allegedly gotten a subpoena issued for the return of Hunter’s laptops. In doing so his ownership is implicitly verified. Caveat: I wasn’t able to find a copy of this subpoena, though I’m fairly sure I read it a day or so ago.

* The Biden campaign has not denied _any_ of this.

* The FBI has not commented. If there were no active investigation they would typically say so. If there were an active investigation, they are bound not to comment on it.
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Social distancing reduces the number of infections - but it does not change the course disease once a patient is infected. So out of the infected (for IFR or out of the reported case for CFR) there should be the same fraction of fatalities with and without social distancing. Fatality rate is that fraction.
You’re being downvoted because that’s nonsense. It comes built-in with formatting, intellisense, a terminal, a debugger, Git support, and syntax highlighting.

Secondly, trying to discern between an “IDE” and a “text editor” in 2020 is a fools errand. It’s pointless because there’s such a grey area between where one definition starts and ends.
> I am generally a very privacy-minded person, but serious question here: is there any legitimate use case for financial privacy from the authorities? I don’t mean “ideologically, I am upset that the government can see I buy too many pastries”.

And the vast majority of people have very little to gain from all other kinds of privacy. The government wouldn't find anything interesting in my IM messages either.

Most people who really need it are probably up to no good too.

I'm on both sides of this debate. I think most privacy issues are overblown by a small set of zealots. But at the same time I don't see much difference between financial privacy and whichever other kind.
THIS WORLD NEVER BEHAVED LIKE ADULT AND VACCINATED HUMAN!

more like primitive autism... :Ð
That's not an endorsement of US foreign policy
If you think it’s much longer, then you haven’t done it with modern frameworks. I’m CTO of a German startup, which went from a two-founder team to over 250 employees in 70 locations in 3 years. For us microservice architecture was crucial to deliver plenty of things in time. Low coupling, micro-teams of 2 ppl max working on several projects at once... we did not have luxury of coordinating monolith releases. Adding one more microservice to our delivery pipeline now takes no more than one hour end-to-end. Building infrastructure MVP with CI/CD on test and production environments in AWS took around a week. We use Java/Spring Cloud stack, one Postgres schema per service.
What about the practical limitations with moving cash, this puts _some_ limits on criminal activity. How do we get at least that level of control with cryptocurrencies while maintaining privacy?
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman. He covers pilot error a lot in this book in how it falls back on design and usability. Very interesting read.
That's a very long winded and obfuscated way of saying that people would be utterly fucked if the economy collapsed, which was my original point. "Experience of most people" would be pretty awful with 50% unemployment, and once economy stops it's very hard to get going again, let alone get it going to the extent we saw in January.
Butter is already spreadable if you don’t refrigerate it.