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> It's gonna cost money. It's gonna require work. It's going to not only be opportunity cost, but require us to do stuff. This is what it means to have climate change as a priority. It's a priority above money, above GDP growth, above even the standard of living.

It is clear that climate change is an emergency. However, the amount of resources, including money, to address that emergency is finite, so it would be illogical (or even unethical) not to use resources in the most economical way possible.

New nuclear power plants have a cost of, for example,
over 90 £ / MWh. New solar and wind energy can deliver at less than half that price:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...

There is also another motication to build nuclear power plants - they subsidize military use of nuclear weapons. To cite from the article above: "On 12 October 2017, The Guardian reported that researchers informed MPs that the UK government was using the expensive Hinkley Point C project to cross-subsidise the UK military's nuclear-related activity by maintaining nuclear skills. The researchers from the University of Sussex, Prof. Andy Stirling and Dr. Phil Johnstone, stated that the costs of the Trident nuclear submarine programme would be prohibitive without "an effective subsidy from electricity consumers to military nuclear infrastructure".[97]"

(The linked reference [97] is https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/12/electricity-...)

On top of that, such plants, even with very conventional nuclear technology, take more than a decade to build. To address climate change, we need big and radical changes in energy production in the next twenty years. Building new nuclear energy is very clearly too slow to achieve that.

So, at that point, using nuclear to address climate change is merely a distraction. There are much better ways to address this problem.
No ESP32 contender, half the RAM and no I2S peripherals means audio applications are out. Too bad.
Indiana Jones, Rambo, and others ended up in 1980s Czechoslovak text-adventures
Like you, most people I know took many years of a foreign language and can speak little if any of it. But I'm curious if that's even the goal of it?

When I took ASL I remember them saying the reason ASL was accepted as a foreign language was because it has a culture that was taught along with it. It may or may not be taken seriously when taught, but a lot of people grow up in a bubble and don't get exposed to other cultures.

I've lived with a bunch of people that were fluent in English, but it wasn't their first language and others who were English native but studied foreign languages more seriously. Learning another language makes you think more about your own language. One friend said her teacher gave her a basics of English book early on when studying Japanese.
Sorry for not being clear enough.
It's not that torrents as protocol are illegal. So yes, it is totally legal to distribute any content you have rights to distribute, such as Linux distros, creative commons material, you name it.

It would also be legal for you to share a music file to, for instance, your friend who lost it's original copy but already paid for the song. You simply can't redistribute the song on massive scale to people who didn't buy it, so that's torrenting weakness here. Also, the personal connections between you and the downloading party matters in determining if this was fair/"personal use".
Agreed. It might (or might not) be lovely if personalities and culture and power and ways of learning didn't come into things, and everything was truly meritocratic/anarchist/optimised or whatever, but this is not the human condition, and never has been.

Much better to understand the working reality and either live with it or try to change it from a position of understanding.

This is what culture and history teach, whether its Xenophon or Succession.

Slightly off-topic generalisation, but maybe one of the reasons hackers disdain good management consultants, is that the latter are experts at understanding "the bits that are unspoken about the operating nature of a company", whereas the former see this as unnecessary overhead to doing what they want to do.
damn. then I've been living through those ages. I feel old.
> the depleted Uranium(10-100x mass) can be converted into Plutonium as drop in replacement.

This needs breeder technology which is a different kettle of fish. The only existing plant was the Japanese Monju plant which was closed due to numerous problems and accidents, including a dangerous liquid sodium fire. You can read about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monju_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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I was deeply resentful of the school system in the USA by age 16. The only thing you ever heard, by word of mouth, was that taxes were paid yearly in April. I had the impression that if the stupid government is teaching me, they have an obligation/responsibility to see to it that I know something to basic as what I will have to do to avoid extreme penalization. After all, they went to the trouble of telling me to use condoms and not do drugs, shouldn't they cover things that will cause terrible harm to my life if it only takes a few minutes to teach?

By time I dutifully did my taxes in April when I turned 17, the IRS said that I owed them over $10,000 in penalties for not paying "quarterly taxes" on time - something I'd never heard of in my life. This was a huge sum for a 17 year old to try to come up with in the late 1990s, and ultimately the only way out was to fraudulently use a college loan to pay them - otherwise they would stalk me day and night with threatening letters and sanctions

So that's the story of why I'm not a patriot but an enemy of the state, they burned me before I even had the chance to reach adulthood.
The server side doesn't seem to be free software, am I missing something?
The employee doesn't take money. The employee gives away life itself, measured in hours, in exchange for money. Do not trivialize this exchange. All of the value of the company comes from the bottom. The money that the shareholders put in is just a bet. SOMETHING has to back up that money, and that's what the employees are for: to help the investors win that bet.

Don't say "I'm taking all the risk over here" because it creates an adversarial dynamic with your team. There is no need for you to separate yourself from the rest of the company in that way. You're all on the same side and the language should focus attention on cooperation and the benefits which cooperation will bring. Writing a check takes seconds. Real work takes hours, days, months, years off of a person's finite life. Try to stay grounded in the real world.
> So, you should be able to click a "?" link in the corner of any ad and see which demographics or groups the ad is targeting.

You can do this on Facebook, for maybe four years now. It's not particularly informative, but it exists.
On Android I really like Black Player, it's one of the few apps I've actually bought. It's fast and has a really good UI.
Mobile Apps are open source, this is not an self hosted solution.
My argument is that the URL address for the HLS stream you access is not in clear text in the html code youtube sends you. Javascript code is executed to decode it (which changes constantly, hence the need for youtube-dl to be updated constantly) and that is a form of DRM which youtube-dl breaks.
> There are 4 billion tons of Uranium dissolved in Earth's seawater.

There are also many tonnes of gold dispersed in rivers and seawater. It is however not economical to extract it.

Also, uranium mining is often causing a lot of health problems. Like in the German SAG/SDAG Wismut:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismut_(mining_company)#Impact...
The mode code you have the mode code you have to maintain.
That was interesting (the mechanical simulation reminded me of the one done some years ago to demonstrate the Bohm/de Broglie Pilot Wave* interpretation of QM)

Anyway, now I'd suggest you have a look at the link I've posted above about the transition of the electron from one shell to another.

___

* Off topic, but this is interesting despite being debunked by Bell's, etc.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W9yWv5dqSKk
If the server-side contract is documented, the open source mobile apps should be easily reconfigurable to point to a self-hosted implementation.
The big laptop manufacturers each have one or two mobile displays these days, e.g. stuff like the Thinkvision M14, which is basically just the display portion of a 14" thinkpad. These are USB-C only though, so compatibility is rather limited and getting these to work on something without USB-C requires about 100 € in adapters (Wacom Link - 75 €, USB-C PSU - 25-30 €).
It isn't no. In their telegram group they said they want to keep it closed for now to make it easier to monetize.
Their argument is that all the relevant cryptography happens client-side.
> first-degree murder

Willful homicide, for non Americans.
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With firefox, you can see the ads that pay for hosting that content you are interested before, during and after you see it. I don't know how enforceable is that you should watch some content exclusively with the provided frontend, but it really makes a difference for them how you watch it.
Is this shell actually written in python2 in the year 2020?

(see: https://github.com/oilshell/oil/tree/master/Python-2.7.13 )
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I and my peers were mostly freelancing within our software engineering field (for the most part websites & some native development). At some occasions I got to work with hardware but that was rather an exception.

At our class we had pre-defined businesses at first to learn how to file the tax returns. But for a long term project we could think of one on our own. The task wasn't to come up with a business plan though so nobody really had a groundbreaking ideas. We could just pick something like a bakery, research initial investment and go from there.

We could also build a tech project in our last year of school to be excused from part of the graduation exam. We just had to pitch it and present it instead of the exam (we also had to provide code and/or tech documentation). Though we didn't need a business plan for that either. But it was obviously better for the grade if the project had at least a basic business plan.
Singularity was also a subject in Marooned in Realtime.
I have a very low pitched tinnitus around 345 Hz (a little below F4 = 349 Hz), and by deliberately contracting some jaw/ear muscles (I believe stapedius and tensor tympani) the sound gets much more pronounced.

While it helps with starting on the right note when singing a song and deriving single pitches, it by no means makes me instantly know a note's pitch like someone with perfect pitch would experience. I still have to derive pitches manually, and while singing the sound of my voice is loud enough that I don't hear the tinnintus anymore and I often don't notice my singing going slightly out of tune.

I do have the ability to recognize relative pitches in relation to e. g. accompaniment playing in a given key, and this recognition is automatic in a way that the derive-from-tinnitus definitely isn't.

Also sometimes the tinnitus goes out of tune down to almost E4, this sucks.
I'm getting a few downvotes, so let me try a different approach.

To the people I quoted: you evidently understand that runaway tech debt is a bad idea. So let's start a company where all of you are founders! At inception, this company would not need heavy approval processes around spinning new services and so on, since all of you share the same ideas about tech debt and can trust each other to do the right thing there. Security is more tricky, but all of you are responsible enough to actively seek feedback from security experts instead of just pushing insecure services to production, even though you would technically have the freedom to do that.

Now let's hire a few people to scale the company to 10 employees, while maintaining that same culture of responsibility. Now let's scale to 100. Then to 1000.

Why does necessarily stop working? Why is there necessarily a point where you cannot trust your colleagues to behave responsibly anymore?

(Note: this doesn't apply to everything. Personal information for example may legally require strict processes to be in place from day 1, and even if not legally required you may still want to do it by abundance of caution and respect for your users.)
Just as an FYI, micro-targeting is very difficult to make work (i.e. measure) on Facebook, or indeed any digital ads platform.

FB/Google/Twitter etc work by measuring some kind of conversion (pixel hit, app install etc). Micro-targeting in terms of voting doesn't have this signal, and as such any of these ads will be difficult to make work on FB.

You can optimise for engagement, but I suspect an ad targeting black voters saying about the 94 crime bill is unlikely to elicit much engagement.
If we're talking about laptops with heat issues, discussing macbooks seems pretty pointless. Most business-class laptops are clearly designed to survive being plugged in for a few years without getting a beer belly.
I think programmers use binary-search.
I personally clean when I'm searching for something. Like refactoring really :)
I cannot find a real postal contact address anywhere.
I'd prefer a situation where everyone automatically paid for university fees via a graduate tax and no one has the option to pay outright.
That may be the case for universities or other institutions which are the last step before entering "active life".

However, up until high school, there are a bunch of subjects that are taught purely for the benefit of the students. I'm thinking about sports / physical education, geography, history, etc. I didn't use anything I learned in those during university and none of the job interviews I've been through touched on those either.
Thinking through the question, I think a slightly better question would be :
Why isn't finance a part of the core curriculum at high school/college (before under-grad ?)

I honestly can't answer this from the school's POV ( perhaps an elective/extra credit whatever should be a good motivation for students) but a couple of things that parents can do and should do before the said kids reach high-school etc:

This can be made as a ritual from a young age where kids can be taught basic concepts whenever pocket money is given and can be given slightly more advanced lessons as they age. Shouldn't take more than 30 mins a week and might actually help kids learn the importance of this way before they get some informal education from the real world.

Brb time to teach my 6 year kid how many cents are there in a dollar ;-)
It boils down to the intention. The intention is to download videos to your computer (as viewable mp4 files for end users) which isn't legal, as they are intended to be streamed (or possibly removed in the future) with ads, stats, analytics, recommended etc.

I definitely don't defend this and I know that this whole copyright and DRM thing is fundamentally flawed by design, but it unfortunately works this way legally.
+1 Interested. I have been using Ardour and JACK and lot - which are Paul Davis' creation - amzing tools.
I'm looking forward to seeing where this will go. The framework looks very preliminary at the moment, but I'm hopeful this will eventually become quite useful and will contain vectors like side channels and property inference attacks ML engineers don't often think about. I'm definitely going to join the Google Group and try to attend the workshop mentioned in the README. The current framework seems quite conservative in classifying attack vectors.
TCL has a very simple model of a shell "REPL": interpret string as expression and evaluate.

In contrast, a Unix shell has job control, stderr, pipes, etc.
It's similar to the Tarsnap model, except this uses GPL-licensed client apps so you can implement your own backend legally.
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What do you think about the developments in the field?
When people say poverty affects your brain, this is one of the things they mean. Now, the landlord probably isn't poor, but from a poor or normal background, where money isn't abundant enough for such solutions.
> Nuclear power is a zero emissions source of power.

That's not exactly true, apart from mining for example the construction of a reactor building requires huge amounts of concrete. Also, mined uranium needs to enriched by centrifuges before it becomes usable, which is a process that requires a lot of energy.
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This is the reasoning behind the book Poor Dad Rich Dad, which to be fair makes quite a few good points about this stuff, and says you are left to your own devices because it isn't advantageous for govt, companies etc for you to be educated in these things. Good book to start off your 'financial intelligence' as Kiyosaki puts it. I particularly like how it is themed around the idea 'the rich don't work for money', and so the middle class bear much of the burden of the modern world.
The way I see it, nuclear is proven. And renewable storage is uncertain. Most likely we can make it work, but what if we can't? It could quite literally doom us.

It may sound macabre, but I would feel much safer if I knew the renewable advocates had serious skin in the game. If they were duty bound to commit seppuku should the renewables push fail.
That's not a huge deal for 2 reasons.

1. Not all software is exposed to internets, or requires many 9-s in reliability like avionics. A videogame that crashes their hardware-virtualized compartment on 1 out of 100k consoles is not OK, but might be good enough in practice if the unlucky users are refunded.

2. We have higher-level languages which solve these vulnerabilities for acceptable performance cost, and even easier to learn than C.
From listening to some people who have managed billions dollar for public and private sector, there is a huge incentive from financial elite to suppressed financial and legal education to the general public (macro and micro). Many fraudulent activities are hidden between fancy legal and financial jargons. And finical education is made to be something boring.

Seems it is matter of learning about 200 to 300 or so specialised terms.

Would be good idea to make a github page about these words. Anyone?

Here is example of a US lawyer that has taken upon himself to learn about these words:

https://thedailycoin.org/2020/08/12/the-feds-silent-takeover...
Pretty sure I remember Hydrogen Audio did a bunch of ABX tests that showed nobody (including so-called "golder ears") could distinguish 160kbps (or maybe it was 192) VBR MP3 from uncompressed - assuming a good encoder was used.
False theories of poverty spread by people like yourself are the reason more people don't get the right advice to get out. They're told something crazy like "well yeah you just don't have enough money, too bad"

The guy I'm talking about has windfalls - and when they come he'll feel so bad he goes out with friends and blows $30 on a meal. If he changed his celebrations to $15 meals using a coupon clipped from the paper (I know he can, I've been with him I know his world and options) and saved the other $15, the next time he got an unexpected bill he would have the savings to cover it. (The definition of unexpected here is very loose - because for him it is very loose. Everything is "unexpected" and "unplanned" - but YES - a flat tire) He does this and before long his credit score starts to improve, before long he has balance free transfer offers, before long he is no longer throwing money at credit card interest but instead paying down the balance because he has 18 months 0 interest

My OTHER friend, who is now a millionaire, was earning the same super low income. But he was already investing based on this income by making hard compromises on day-to-day living. He is Asian, so has a completely different cultural background based on his immigrate parents believing one needs to save no matter how low their income. Yeah if he didn't get a better job he probably wouldn't have made it to the millions, but, on a poor salary he was already well on his way to home ownership and all the domino effect line of decisions that lead to lower and lower cost of living (once you're in a home equity is building instead of disappearing on rent) etc. even on the same low salary.

If I didn't know the Asian guy, I'd probably still be using your same line of argumentation - pretending that there is some lower limit where you "just don't have enough" but it is just such hogwash & excuses that got the poor where they are in 9 of 10 cases of poverty in the US at least. Clearly there is a huge difference with the 1 case or with cases in another country where the political system's own evils may cause it
OP is correct. You don't need breeder technology to produce plutonium. In fact, the US produced enough in 1945 to build and detonate two plutonium-based atomic bombs. There are hundreds of tons of plutonium that have been produced and stockpiled worldwide, not including the thousands of nuclear warheads in existence and the thousands that can/could be decomissioned.
In The Netherlands, some of what you wrote is what we got if you took am economy profile and the elective management and organization (a euphemism for accounting, lol).

I didn’t take the elective but did take the profile. It taught me how (central) banks work and how to do causal thinking in economics. I still use that kind of thinking to trade stocks (and I noticed that when I come up with an original idea then my stock trading goes quite well, too early to tell if it isn’t simply luck though).
> FB didn't "do something wrong". They have repeatedly engaged in research without informed consent as op mentions. These are not isolated incidents, but rather Facebook's modus operandi.

Are you referring to AB testing here?

Are you aware that every internet service does this, on an incredibly regular basis, without informed consent?

You can argue that this is unethical, but you should then be calling for online experimentation without informed consent to be banned.