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> all Tory voters are rich white men who want the poor to suffer.

The recent vote on school meals certainly didn't help that image
Yes, the big drawback is that he's agreeable to people in instances where he shouldn't really agree with them, that's an unfortunate line that's crossed sometimes.

That said - I don't think in those specific cases it's that important, I loathe Alex Jones but I'm not sure how important he is.

He doesn't support Anti-Vaxxer conspiracy theories, he's spoken publicly about that, though I'm not sure if he has publicly spoken out against QAnon, he did have an interesting and nuance guest Tim Dillon [1] to explain it in a nuanced and reasonable way.

One thing that's interesting about his guests is that they are not 'communications' people in the classical sense. On the news, you get people in makeup, nice suits, symmetrical facial features and talking points.

I don't think Rogan is the solution to anything, but it's an valid format.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1fdIP_KyL0
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Not even close. Many drugs, especially the hard ones are very physically addictive.

This is a multi-faceted problem.

Removing NIMBYism won't help those unable to afford a place to live.

Mental health professionals can't simply 'solve' addiction with a few visits/more 'medicine'

These are starting points but far from an end-all solution.
That's still quite a lot of people in absolute numbers. I'm not sure I buy that so many can have it without any reason at all.
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That is true but a one sided take, at least over here in the USA. Here the right and the left seem to escalate in tandem. The extreme far right now calls anyone they disagree with a literal Satanic baby eating pedophiles.

This also identities the left entirely with Marxism-Leninism which is like identifying the right entirely with fascism.
With COVID lock-downs ?!?
It's a bit rich to claim he wasn't censored when it was demanded, in violation of his contract, to also not run the story anywhere else.

I strongly disagree that the edits were reasonable and I find it to be a huge red flag in your stance that you completely dismiss this.
IMO: it's not "the internet." At least, not to the same degree. It's the huge platforms with their own ad networks that are driving it.
The media is liars. The whole world accuses Azerbaijan and Turks of murder, but this is not true.

Azerbaijan has never attacked a civilian settlement. But Armenia attacks civilians every day, as it did in the past.

Turks do not kill civilians in their ethics.

Karabag is an Azerbaijani territory and was occupied by Armenia in the ~ 1990s. They attacked the villages and killed them without children or women. Armenians swallowed the skin of the children, They was cutting off the belly of the pregnant woman and bet on whether the child to be born was a boy or a girl. Do you know?

For ~ 30 years, Azerbaijan defended its rightful case, demanded its land back, but Europe remained silent.

https://icdn.ensonhaber.com/resimler/galeri/15_4476.jpg

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkZHOlQtYO8

https://www.ensonhaber.com/galeri/hocali-katliami-uzerinden-...
Agreed, but now we have some real criticism of the Tories, it's just noise to them because they're used to the constant hate. This is one of the issues with constant outrage.
> Oddly, this is the exact sort of behavior I sometimes see with the advocates for renewables.

If so, the renewable advocate should argue based on cost. Nuclear is very likely going to lose that argument, ultimately spurious arguments about energy density or intermittency notwithstanding.
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TIL my father is pioneer of fasting eating for years just late lunch as single meal per day

actually most of the population is fasting by this logic, if you sleep at least 6-8 hours and don't eat right before sleeping and immediately after waking up

so sorry for considering this pretty stupid definition of fasting when 80-90% of population is fasting during sleep
This is the most SV tech bubble post I've read this week.
I'd like to hear the creations as a type of "This American Life" series. Is there a way to subscribe to Artifact as a podcast?
> Have you seen the article posted here this week which claimed the main narrative on Twitter was only originating from about 6 people?

Do you have a link?
you might wanna consider that you may be affected by adhd.

- "lose my interest"

- "inconsistent"

- "thrill"

Sounds like classic adhd.

It won't be easy for you to get consistent without external help but you can start by externalizing your tasks. Write down every morning physically on a piece of paper what you want to work on and rewrite them by priority

Start crossing off one at a time.
If you lose interest in the first task, You will have to rewrite the task as something "thrilling" to get you started.

Problem with people with adhd is getting "thrilled" about a thing and then "losing interest" quickly. even though you know you need to complete it irrespective of what you feel like.

"You know what to do, when to do and how to do things but you cannot DO it. And you know that you can do it but at the same time you also know that you cannot do it."

Do you relate to this?
It depends on your project. As soon as you add too many dependencies to rust with lots of macros, compile times tend to increase a lot for rust projects because it creates a fat binary, whereas it works fine for a mountain of dependencies in Scala for me.

On the other hand if you just need compiler errors, cargo check runs almost instantly for incremental checks.
Social media might need to be controlled in the same way cigarettes are. At the end of the day, both are drug dealers. One of them sells nicotine, the other sells dopamine.

Not sure what that would look like though. Cigarettes have scary labels and enforced age requirements. Maybe social media would have to change the way likes/upvotes/etc work to be less polarizing, in addition to an age limit enforcement?
Exelon has stated that for new nuclear plants in the US to compete with NG CC, CO2 taxes would have to be $300-400/ton. To compete with NG for filling in around renewables, CO2 taxes would have to be much higher than that.

Other projections have the economy basically decarbonizing (without needing nuclear) at a CO2 tax of just $200/ton.

There's a good reason Exelon is tryin to spin off all its NPPs.
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I agree. There are a couple interesting platform pieces before things start getting really interesting:

1) Getting US laws encoded in GitHub

2) Building a better proof of identity/residence verification provider that feels more like Authy and less like shitty SSN/identity questions, which provides a semi-anonymous user ID and geo range

3) Building a distributed consensus layer on top of that which makes it easy to conduct and tally anonymous polls across geo ranges for identity/geo verified users
A publicly owned company might have to double prices, but that money would practically speaking have to go into infrastructure spending. If not, the governmental entity in charge cans the C-suite and brings new people in.

If a private company like PG&E gets that extra money, maybe they spend it on infrastructure, maybe they give half of it back to investors as a dividend. Then they come back again and ask for more. You don't want any of those nasty fires, do you?
imho if you're an early stage startup and you don't have an operations or devops person, you're better off either running everything off a single machine or doing devops the old way (as in baking machine images, updating launch configurations and doing service rollouts with via autoscaling groups).

Once you get more revenue, hiring an operations/devops person might be a good idea. A good operations/devops person might make you save his own salary in infrastructure optimization (depending on the scale of course).

another good pattern that i've seen in action is contracting the operations to an external company that's specialized in doing this. the approach would be to let the external company design and build the cluster for you, define responsibility boundaries for your company vs that company, and let such company take care of daily operations and cluster upgrades, possibly with on-call availability. A small support/consulting package (say, 15-20 hours/month) can get you very far.

We've been doing something similar with SigHup (sighup.io) and their Kubernetes Fury distribution, it's been working very well so far.

(disclaimer: i'm not employed by sighup, just pleased to work with them)
Well, not as much of an organization. Ulku ocaklari is the successor organization. Although it shares the same ideology as with its historical counterpart, it is considered mostly harmless. Generally due to the sheer incompetence of the organization).

However, there are far too many individuals/groups (Equivalent to Mafia in Turkey, ultranationalist gangs in Europe) that sympathize/share views with said organization. And those guys are definitely not "mostly harmless".
Utilities are in a thankless position. Everyone wants rock-bottom low rates, but also wants 100% solar, distribution lines in their neighborhood buried underground, and every new development in the middle of the wilderness supplied with reliable power at the same price paid by people in dense city apartments. Major infrastructure is near universally well past its designed end-of-life across the United States, but no one wants to pay for replacing it. Poor people complain, rich homeowners complain, state legislature complains and blames the utility for all the woes of the state, environmentalists complain, anti and pro nuke advocates complain, the newspapers publishes idiotic articles written by journalists with no idea what they're talking about bashing the utility, every dollar spent is scrutinized at length, but at the end of the day everyone expects the lights to come on like magic whatever the weather or demand is like and doesn't even think about it.

Everyone always thinks there is some grand nefarious plot in play out to fraudulently overcharge them, suppress solar power, or emit mind control waves into their brain, but the system is really just the result of all the many demands placed on it by many different and frequently opposed interests. Generally they understand their role is to "play the bad guy" and be a foil for politicians to look good in public by standing up to a big bad villain. At least in my experience, a utility is a big boring company full of people doing their best to provide their customers with reliable service given whatever constraints are put on them.
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If I'm reading you correct, that'd be hydraulic rather than pneumatic.
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And that involves a third party app. I wanted to do a shortcut to modify my wake-up alarm for the next day (in the "Health" sleep schedule). Not possible.
I strongly agree with this. It's hard to see bias when you agree with the stance. CNN is extremely biased and it can be seen by anyone who isn't a reactionary to everything Trump does just because he's the one that did it
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The curse of the programmer! The one game I finished recently: a polyomino puzzle game, but of course had to make a solver from scratch first. But at least I finished it :)
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Spanish Flu

Hong Kong Flu

West Nile Virus

German Measles

Guinea Worm

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Lyme Disease (named after Lyme, Connecticut)

Ross River Fever

Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever (named after Omsk, Russia)

Ebola (named after the Ebola River)

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

Zika (named after the Zika Forest, Uganda)

Japanese Encephalitis

Marburg Virus Disease (named after Marburg, Germany)
First, piracy is not a breach of EULA, it's copyright infringement, which are entirely different beasts. Second, breaching the EULA of a hardware product might be breaking the law in the US, but in the EU, hardware products cannot be bound by contracts. You buy a good, not a service, so no EULA can apply. I think even in the US, it depends on the state you're in...

So, no, legally, they have almost nothing in common.
And if you have a Debian machine that’s a couple years old and you want to upgrade it to the latest Debian version? Good luck.

To counter that with my anecdata, my Debian installations usually outlast the hardware they've been built on. I've found that it's much easier to start new builds with a backup (or the original disk) of the machine they're replacing, that's how easy it is to maintain a Debian system for me.

Heck, my first Linux desktop started out as Ubuntu Breezy, and ended its life as Debian Squeeze. Its replacement started out as Debian Wheezy, and is now on Bullseye.
Everything about this article so Portland. Starting with getting duped by the West Coast’s fraudulent “laid back” reputation. Or that they saw some cultural jest and assumed that something as big and complicated a city could be the twee character it’s exaggerated into for effect. Going in not knowing that the local terrain is constantly trying to kill you and wildfires are just one of the many tools it will use. Thinking social unrest should still be kid friendly. The list goes on, all the way to writing a disappointed immigrant exposé in a paper like The Guardian. Classic.

And ironically all of this adds up to the fact they’ve assimilated into a typical type of Portland resident.
I literally live in front of a nuclear reprocessing facility (as in a can see it from my window), and I want more nuclear energy.

Also, there are some reactor designs that can burn the waste we currently have, so we could get more energy and less waste.
Obligatory plug to TidalCycles [1], which is a Haskell based system folks have begun to use for live coding with IMO impressive results.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNj-I2pZwX8
Thank you! :-)

Nextcloud isn't for non-technical users, + even then it's a big pain to set up and configure. (That's also why I built Duple, to have something plug and play).
What we have with Duple is a full private Dropbox, no complicated installation, no server needed. You just plug your storage anywhere and it works.
We sell paper.

I’d focus on anything other than software but use software development principles to make some part of the business more efficient whether it’s idea generation, product development, manufacturing or marketing.
Any NPP started today will not be online until 2030 or later, so one should compare with renewable/storage projections of cost, not current costs. The renewable and storage systems can be brought online much faster than NPPs.

Using 2030 projections, nuclear loses.

https://model.energy/

(and that model doesn't take into account addressing intermittency with transmission or dispatchable demand, such as end-user thermal storage.)
Unfortunately, ever since the debate between JFK and Richard Nixon, we increasingly demand that politics be spectacle, and that the president, specifically, be demagogue in chief. We don't believe politics can be useful, so it should at least be entertaining.

I'd rather being president were more like being prime minister, just a bureaucratic position without much prestige, necessary but no one is calling you "leader of the free world." But Americans are too entranced with the Great Man view of history (and their own importance) to allow that.
I think the reference link it unintentionally pointing to an internal Guardian system. Someone will probably notice and fix it later.
From a rustacean perspective I'm wondering why they aren't copying Rust's Send/Sync traits. They work so well: they're purely a type-system thing, without being tied to any coroutine runtime. And they allow creation of multi-threaded primitives, like actors, queues, locks, async, etc. in libraries without baking them into the language.
> But the unfortunate side is that it's seeping into the overall culture and previously-benign and relatively apolitical institutions

It's very hard to be apolitical. Almost all behavior can be interpreted politically.

What has really changed is it's much easier to obtain information about an organization and the individuals involved. In the past you might have simply not known enough to peg someone politically. Hence the impression of neutrality. Today it's just harder to create this illusion.
Than why have the GOP not not denounced them? Their silence is approval of the Nazis.
Thinking of some ways you could build this product into a business, which I think is the best way to scale the positive impact of your work. First thought was building a network interface so folks could interact and collaborate within the environment. The other thought was to offer it as an educational tool, as a gateway to more advanced programming; for that to work, though, I think it’d need some sort of game-like attractions, to pique the interest of the user and create positive feedback loops so they delve deeper into the tooling. The Minecraft comparison resonated strongly for me; even if it’s not your long term vision, it seems an apt template to follow while you crystallize your ultimate product vision.
Making plans ignoring where prices are likely to go doesn't seem prudent to me.

Investors are used to operating under uncertainty and placing their bets. The market, which reflects the combined input of all those investors, seems to think NPPs are not a good bet.

The technical issues of storage are unique to particular kinds of storage. There are many different kinds being pushed. Are you saying ALL of them are going to fail? That's a bold position, especially as cheap renewables make the environment more and more lucrative for anyone who can provide better storage technology. We're talking many trillions of dollars here, and the economic incentives will only get stronger as duck curves and CO2 taxes increase.
I just explained to you, that they were ALREADY there, they didn't take it by force, they already lived there, for litearlly thousands of years (we have archeological evidence for at least 2 thousand, thus thousands, in plural).

Legally the place does belong to Azerbaijan, because URSS gave it to them to appease Turkey, but de-facto it was never Azeri land.

Note: I am talking about Nagorno-Nakbath proper, not the lands around it.
How would you know that it's primarily the left (whatever that is) doing that in NL. Your own observations are not a good source for this, obviously.
ok but there surely is "cleaner energy"?
Also, since some people missed it: I wasn't talking about the effect of reintroducing wolves of Yellowstone (although they were mismanaged too). I was talking about the effect of messing with the ecosystem the first time.

Yellowstone: How Not To Manage A National Park https://kottke.org/15/01/yellowstone-how-not-to-manage-a-nat...

"By 1934, the Park Service acknowledged that whitetail deer, cougar, lynx, wolf, and possibly wolverine and fisher are gone from the Yellowstone.

What they didn’t say was that the Park Service was solely responsible for the disappearances."
The world isn't zero sum, Trump wasn't a topic here until you brought him up. You're basically doing a "but her emails" here.

Biden's gonna win, most likely, will any pushback against our government be met with "what about Trump" for 4 years?
I understand because I have been on both sides of this. Unless people are really pushy and persistent about their advice I take it as well-meaning empathy -- one of the few redeeming qualities of human beings. Otherwise, to the advice giver, it comes across as being shouted and yelled at when all you did is hold the door for a person.
It's a mini TCL. It was fun to mess with it, but just as easy to load a full function TCL and use that.
I think good manners version is 'The Featured Article'
Here's a brief reality check: the U.S. and its european allies have been exporting crime and terrorism to southwest asia and northeast africa for almost twenty years now, entirely for the benefit of private corporations. And sure, maybe it's more comfortable to go into denial about what really has been happening over the past two decades, but why settle for comfortable denial when you can embrace the whole truth and feel happy? Feel happy that you're where you are, and they're where they are. We're so lucky to have been randomly born in such good circumstances. Think about it. We might have been randomly born in Yemen, and in that case we would have been thoroughly fucked. Do you feel happy? There are a lot of people suffering right now for our benefit. It would be wasteful to feel anything but joy.
If it wasn’t for Twitter I would have literally no clue about the machinations of the intelligence agencies to undermine the president or the corrupt activities of the Biden family. Unfortunately the mainstream media outlets choose not to report or pursue a lot of stuff, and have an alarming habit of citing dubious statements from “the intelligence community” as legitimate evidence that resolves the matter.
This model does not work very well for consumers. It really does raise the prices of goods and drains consumer income and forces an opportunity cost of not investing in retirement, and not paying down mortgage faster (for example). It's almost always better for consumers to lay out the capital up-front and own the item.

For businesses, the calculation is different. Maintaining appliances, or cars, or coffee machines, means redirecting resources (that you're already paying for) away from building widgets to something that isn't your core competency. Plus you get a bit of a discount because you're working with pre-tax capital.

Again, it's why car leases make sense for business, but are a terrible deal for consumers.
Don't all governments to this to any other democratic government? This practice is as old as democracy itself.
I think there’s a difference between “stable” and “evolving”.

No, that's pretty much the Debian definition of "stable": software that doesn't need changing for multiple years. The Debian term "stable" has nothing to do with whether or not a program crashes regularly, but how often it requires maintenance. In that definition, "evolving" software indeed isn't "stable" (yet).
What I see anecdotally is that the left has become more inclusive, and the right as become more extreme. People have fled the right either to no party or to the center left. That leaves behind the extremes on the right which have become emboldened by Trump and their shrinking bubble.

It's like evaporating water out of a glass of salt water. The water left behind becomes more and more salty. If you have ever had a salt water aquarium you'll know that you don't add salt water back to the tank, but fresh water in order to balance out the evaporation.

You mention racism. The same people may have been racist before, but now they are ok yelling it out loud because the only people left in their bubble think the same way (Trump may or may not be racist, but he certainly stokes this fire). And this is why it's difficult, because if someone tells me they do not want black people living in their neighborhood, I'm going to tell them that's a racist statement.
Indeed. We need to keep rolling out renewables until nuclear is ready.
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If I just casually follow the mainstream media NL ( in addition to my own preferred sources ), why am I not a good source for this?

What would be a good source for this?
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