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There is a difference between suffering from terrorist attacks, and letting it change your way of life so that the NSA can snoop on your citizens in an unprecedented way, and you are starting to build a wall somewhere at the Mexican border.
I think you grossly underestimate how many Republicans live in California. There are more registered Republicans in CA than any other state and they get representation in the state legislator, just like there are a bunch of noteworthy Republicans from California in the US House. Republicans are regularly elected to Governor as well as other statewide offices.

I believe there has been a recent large Democratic majority in the last few years, but these issues are decades in the making.
It's Electron on Linux and what's being discussed is that it's slow on Linux. Nobody refuted that it's slow on macOS, it was even stated.
So how does this play out with the recently announced third party repair program?
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Peak growth rate (as percentage, not the absolute number of people per year) was half a century ago. We are now seeing the effects of a huge base value (i.e. size of the world population) while the actual growth rate is lower today, see graph [0] from the article on future population growth [1] in "Our World of Data". Overpopulation is a problem that is going to solve itself as people get older.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/06/2019-Revision-%E2...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth
And don't forget we have concentration camps. That's prisons for non-citizens, we also have lots of citizens in prison too. More prisoners per capita than any other country. We are the world's police.
There are notes about this in the link too.
It's astonishing how decades into nuclear energy, there are still people who attempt to shift the blame for this over budget and behind schedule technology on somebody else.

You have literally nothing in your hands but it still won't stop you from blaming the government (which blindly throws money on it) and "environmentalists" (which obviously failed or those projects would not have started).

This is hilarious.
I enjoy most JRE episodes, this one as well.

However the one thing I do not get is how he is always complaining about CNN not reporting this or how nytimes is practiced bad journalism going so far as to call cnn fake news, but he never discusses Fox News which is actually the most popular news network by far (record profits this year if 1.5B) and the most obviously bias.

It really weakens his position, and paints him as only a pseudo centrist
This is one of the problems we try to solve at Satchel (https://satchel.com/). We write long-form guides to help startups figure out the best tool for them to use.
He's doing the same hissy-fit resignation nonsense that Bari Weiss and Andrew Sullivan did. There's a lot more money to be made by charging people directly without having an editor to tell you to validate your claims and cut out your editorialized nonsense than there is as an actual journalist. He wants to be the Perez Hilton of politics. He cut his teeth in the business with opinion blogs, got his big break precisely because people felt comfortable leaking things to him BECAUSE of his opinion pieces, and has never been comfortable just reporting news.
Just let him have the damn title already. What a waste of legal resources. No one even plays that stupid game anymore. It was a bad game designed purely to suck money out of people. It doesn't even have an ending. Mario just dies on the 22nd level no matter what you do.

Oh. Sorry. Spoiler alert.
Things aren't sufficiently bad yet for the average person to consider doing this since the present way works well enough for them. These things happen gradually in the beginning, but after a critical mass of people have heard, considered and tried an alternative, it can become very quick.

I don't think decentralization is inherently a non-starter and I don't see a convincing argument why it would have to be. It's a matter of marketing and UX.
This is good PR, seeing how the story is spreading, but it is in fact nothing more than restating a known fact.

Genius to update the TOS that way to create buzz, though.
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Arguably the reason for the success of renewables in the UK is that the government gave big subsidy opportunities early on, and then made cost reduction a condition of future subsidy. And there is a strong grid operator that can do strategic planning. This worked for wind, solar, and maybe battery storage now. And this regulated/grid based approach is what deals with issues like intermittency. People may forget these things in a discussion on the web, but the grid and regulators do not.

And actually Hinckley and Sizewell do fit within this model. They have been given very high strike prices and hopefully will be able to deliver a more cost effective pipeline of projects later on. But this approach is more difficult with large, monolithic projects.
That's definitely possible. The actual DAC but it's trivial - the hard but is that you would need to implement the USB Audio device class and a USB stack. That's a hell of a lot of code. Also what would be the point?
The hell it is. Make any chart productive use of resources, and you’ll find it correlates perfectly with population. There is no such thing as natural resources—there are only raw materials. Which are transformed into productive applications by the creativity of people. More people means more efficient use of raw materials, and more available resources to extract from them.

The Malthusians predicted global collapse at 100M people. Then 250M people. Then 1bn, 2bn, 5bn, and 7bn. Yet somehow instead of famines we have an obesity epidemic.

Don’t believe Malthus, or the racially motivated social Darwinism that drives the horrendous “population control” human rights abuses still being perpetuated.
The US's weird obsession with "race", a concept that the entire world agrees does not exist does not help. Everything is done through the prism of "race relations", as if that had any sense.

It's not being asian that makes you survive Covid. It's cultural and societal habits. Go to any asian country and you will most likely see people wearing masks when they're sick. Even before covid.
I'm a former string theorist and no, it didn't produce a prediction here.

The problem with getting predictions out of ST is that you need to find a vacuum (ground state) with 3 macroscopic space dimensions and no scalar fields (except for a Higgs). It is historically done by keeping some supersymmetry (for instance using Calaby Yau Manifolds) to keep the problem mathematically tractable. It is then a problem because no supersymmetry was found at CERN where it should have been (in some models) with this particular Higgs mass.

This however doesn't mean that the theory has nothing to say. For instance AdS/CFT from which this paper uses inspiration was discovered using ST, but is believed to be more general.

Also, i can tell you after working 4 years in the field: I think string theory (theories is more exact, there are at least 6) is incomplete: the part we understand is just a sector of a bigger theory where things are nice and geometric. For instance: many people say you cannot get flat vacuum in ST, this is incorrect some perfectly sound ST's have Minkowskian vacuum.

Now for the hatred of some people against it (including many on this forum): some physicists in the field had big promises that were not kept, and that was a big mistake of them exposing their half-baked models to the public as it was The Solution. ST on Calaby Yau is indeed not the solution. On the other hand people like Lee Smolin and Sabine have overreacted (many times with bad arguments, and i respect their work and some of their criticism but it's not like they have perfect models themselves..) to this and the result ugly: An open war and a beautiful field of physics which is now destroyed by personal egos, collapsing funding and no hope for permanent postions.

Let's be honest, no one understands a thing at this organised mess we call Nature. Not even Witten.

In the end, be it MOND, ST, LQG, etc, etc they are just models, some models have no implementation in the real world but might be useful to improve our understanding of the world, this is how Physics works. It is very sad that people now think of ST vs LQG like one should choose her/his religion, i find them both beautiful theories personally. It's for a reason i left the field i can tell you.

Anyway: Nice result <3
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It has about the same issues but because it's managed and because you are a small company, nobody cares about your issues and you can do nothing about it.
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I don't get it. Isn't it well-known that PhD makes only sense for people who want career in research? In this case, why "wasting years and years" doing research would be a waste of time?
This is the paradox of tolerance (which to me should be what Popper is reminded for)
Good book on this by Dr. Christopher Tucker: A Planet of 3 Billion https://alumni.columbia.edu/content/planet-3-billion
To some extent, it turns out that the problem is France never actually had those specialized nuclear techniques and skillsets. For example, they had huge problems with defective welding and large forgings that weren't up to spec and had faked QA testing documentation which caused big delays. Then the regulators went back and looked at the old plants from the original wave of nuclear building, and they had the same problems. It's just that French nuclear wasn't so well scrutinized back then, possibly for political reasons.
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I pay less than 1/2 of what they do. It’s not fair to them.

Also, I'm not sure how what I paid is at all relevant to a tax that is based on current value.

When you register a car, which is also taxed on current value, it has nothing to do with what you paid. If you got a good deal you don't save on your registration fee. Even in the first year.
I guess you can keep resorting to ad hominem or you can admit this is not settled and India is a genetically diverse place.

If you pick a different haplogroup such as O-M122, which is believed to have originated in China, you’ll see that is highly present in northern India showing that that border is porous, Himalayas or not.
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In my experience, once you have a .deb package, it does indeed work perfectly. However, getting to that stage, unless you're packaging a collection of plain files with very simple dependencies, is the hard part.

Ignoring the weird scaffolding you need just to package a static "hello world" binary, there's also all the dh_ scripts which you should use for your package to be "well-made".

I remember looking up how to properly package a Python application, found like 5 different ways documented on the debian wiki, couldn't get any of them to work, gave up and just shipped a whole virtualenv.
The article mentions how a bug in a library Chrome uses allowed a sandbox escape. I am left wondering if forks of Chrome (such as Edge, which I'm using to type this from) are already updated. This is what really worries me about using Edge. Not to mention unstaffed forks such as Ungoogled Chromium.
I realise this is a Microsoft one, but roughly how many of these are there now? And are they all just productised frontends for the Python libraries like I think they are?
I sort of know the feeling. I came to Mumbai in 2000 in a long distance train and deboarded it at Mumbai CST. As I was figuring out if this is the Mumbai they talk about, we quickly boarded a suburban train to a suburb where I was gonna stay. It didn't help that adults around me were constantly saying, "we have reached Mumbai", while our train was passing through stations like Wadala and Kurla. This was the first time I was experiencing a suburban train system and previously I had only lived in tier-2 cities. My small mind thought that cities and railway stations are supposed to have a one-to-one mapping.

Upon reaching the destination I was surprised to see our flat in a small building and that further confused me. The 5 year old me thought that Mumbai only had tall buildings. It took me a while to understand how the city is organized and where I was actually living w.r.t. proper Mumbai.
Yea, the US has shown great historical leadership in naming people accurately. Thank God they just called the people there Indians and didn't go all the way and called the place India as well.

So the world has much more sense than to take it's cues from the US, in these matters atleast.
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I’m not from the US but I can see that this is yet another effect of two-party politics rotting your country. Centrists and pseudo-centrists are giving outright lies more weight by trying to be ”balanced and not biased”. Giving weight to someone’s lies just because they are led to believe that truth is always in the middle. This leaves all editorial responsibility to the reader. And when the reader sees that a media source is not publishing a story that they are violating their responsibility to give the unfiltered ”truth” to the masses so that they can decide its truthiness. A media source not being just a printer of statements beccomes a weakness.

The internet has a lot to do with this since the value of editorial practices does not exist online in the same sense. Bots and blue-checkmark-people give any story validity on twitter.
Luckily there are wonderful USB stacks implemented in open FPGA toolchains these days - check out the toolchains described at https://workshop.fomu.im/en/latest/
We need to seriously consider breaking up Big Tech companies
Hi Hackernews, my name is Mert and a long time lurker. My partner and I decided to build a direct to consumer ecommerce brand due to some of the downtime we've had from our regular jobs.

Knowing the amazing community of growth hackers and tech people. It would mean a lot to us if we got some feedback on how we can improve and grow our business, especially on how we can grow with ad buying etc. Any critique is welcome and look forward to any comments.

Regards
Mert
I wrote this trying to compress the notes: https://github.com/amb007/sound-series
My wife is an organic chemist by education and for every R&D job she applied to, there were tens to hundreds of applicants with PhDs. Having "only" a Master's degree, she had no chance. Pretty much all her college friends went to do a PhD, just so they could get a job.

She's a happy software tester now :-)
also platforms alex jones, so it's a nope from me, john.
In general, most of these companies have automated tools to accomplish things like this. If you look at Steve Yegge's recent rant about GCP, you'll note that he mentions this as a use case for his tool, Grok. Link: https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-depre...
> lack of innovation in western countries [...], Red tape, regulation

Red tape is invariably written in innocent victims' blood. And "regulation" is not a bogeyman.

But for a complex problem like this, I assure you there are no simple explanations - but people always seem to want simple explanations. That disappoints me.
"geographically independent"

Well nuclear needs water, not a very strong constraint I agree but one nevertheless.

In France when it gets too hot they have to stop the nuclear plants since by environnement regulations they cannot pump out too hot water in the river.

By now offshore wind is still behind in capacity factor compared to nuclear but it's closer and closer.

For the past two years (2018 2019) capacity factor of nuclear power in France has been around 70% mainly due to maintenance according to RTE (1)

For reference best UK offshore wind farm had 55.3% capacity factor in 2019 and UK offshore wind average capacity factor was 40.6% in 2019 (2)

(1) https://media.rte-france.com/bilan-electrique-2019-2/ 379.5 Twh produced, 63.1 GW installed, 68.7% capacity factor

(2) https://energynumbers.info/uk-offshore-wind-capacity-factors
i took option 2 and haven't found work in 2 years. I'm a project manager. ex IBM.
Fox's bias are well known and have been known about for a long time. Complaints about CNN are more common because CNN's bias is new. At least to the point that it has impacted it journalism so deeply.
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Keeping people excited about such ventures is a must to accomplish them.
They all deserve equal criticism, there is no scale of bias because they're all bottom feeders.

The New York Times repeatedly claimed there were WMDs in Iraq based on evidence that was fabricated. This helped sell the invasion to the public leading to the deaths of thousands of people. [1]

CNN was caught leaking debate questions in 2016 to the Democrats [2] and falsely linking an innocent man to a fabricated Russia conspiracy and then being forced to retract and roll the 3 journalists involved in the deception. [3]

That's just scratching the surface!

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/may/26/pressandpublis...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/07/do...

[3] https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2017/06/26/cnn-resig...
I think image is the important thing. The one time I bought a used iPhone from a shop (reputable one), I received a device sold as "refurbished as new" with a clearly subpar third party display (protruding, wrong colors). Had I not known how the phone is supposed to look like I wouldn't have a great opinion of Apple's build quality.

Now, Apple does have authorized and official repair shops. Clearly they don't have enough of them and they treat them quite poorly too. When I called one that I needed replacement AirPods Pro (already with a ticket from apple), they told me the wait time is 3 weeks because they can only source 1 part per week (and the two earpieces and the box are counted separately).

Apple is fine if you live in a country with Apple stores, but outside of that it's a big risk.
> So even the company with a financial incentive to under-estimate the cost is saying that the electricity it produces will be at best as expensive as wind energy already is.

... And be low-carbon (~10gCO2/kWh). Whereas the £40/MWh estimate for wind included gas power generation, which is at 400gCO2/kWh. Given how wind has a typical load factor of 20-30% max in Western Europe, you’d be using gas at best 70% of the time, meaning an average carbon intensity perhaps around 300gCO2/kWh.

So for the same price (or even double that as a first step - nuclear costs decrease radically with lower risks perceived by investors), nuclear gets you > 30x less carbon in the atmosphere than wind+gas. That is not insignificant.

> they're only used on such days, then the cost per Joule is even worse.

Nuclear isn’t like gas: it is fixed-costs infrastructure, meaning that the more you use it, cheaper it gets. So you want to use it as much as possible. (French nuclear plants oscillate between 75% and 90% load depending on maintenance schedules.) So on a windy day, nuclear load won’t typically change too much, but rather gas and coal usage will go down to let wind electricity match up with demand. This means nuclear gets you less emissions even in that case.
I'm not a Joe Rogan fan but I share this opinion. Fox News isn't fake news because it isn't news at all. it's literally just a propaganda network. NYT is supposed to be a higher standard.

As to centrism, I'm not sure Rogan has enough of a coherent ideology to even call him a centrist.
This is maybe not completely clear, but one of the issues is that if you have a serious condition, you may know more than most doctors do about the condition. I mean you may know more about it than general practitioners and you will only have some hope of learning more from a doctor if you see a specialist.

So you have buckets and buckets of info and you run into well-meaning people who want to feel helpful and they toss out some random snippet of an idea without even really talking with you. It would be sort of like if you walked into a doctor's office and said "I have x condition" and they replied "Do you want X antibiotic?" without taking a history of finding out what your current complaint is.

And it becomes about their emotional needs. Even if they are sincere, it's exhausting to try to explain.

It's like if you go to a cocktail party and you spend the entire evening repeating your entire medical history to everyone you meet to satisfy their curiosity and you never get one minute to actually enjoy the party and socialize a little.

So you eventually just don't want to talk to people casually about it at all. Because it is one hundred percent downside for you.

There is a long-shot scenario in which maybe you will meet someone who actually knows something useful and is actually sensitive about how they talk with you about it and it's mostly not worth leaving that door open in hopes of connecting with that one rare person once in a great while because the rest of the time it is such a huge burden on your already limited time and energy that you are better off just betting that "This person cannot help me. Moving on. Yeesh."

So while I welcome sincere interest in my various problems, no, some random person who knows nothing of my background and just wants to get their jollies feeling "helpful" for five minutes isn't really going to enhance my life at all. It is all downside and I mostly want to avoid having certain topics come up.
With many species, there is basically no risk. While an escaping bear or tiger is of course a risk if you run into that individuum, humans are far too good at dealing with those species, as the constant extinction-risk for their modern cousins shows.
Most of the damage to ecological systems is done today by invasive species, which are either actively brought to new regions or travel secretly along with humans.
If you fail based on any of the "would be nice to know" items, you were never going to succeed.

Find another few founders, ask them what they use. Find another few who use the same, ask what they think. Repeat.

If you can't figure out how to hire, you're not fit for this.

There's really nothing to any of this that should be at all difficult relative to product/market fit, and the answers to all those other things change too often to be worth enshrining. "Ask other cofounders" is the trivial and 99% correct answer, so why complain that someone hasn't done that for you given that the data will be stale every 6 months?
There’s /dev/dsp that you can write to (and read from).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System
If I'm walking around by myself at 1 or 2am here in Trondheim, no one says a thing to me. I do not get stopped by cops, nor do they slow down to check. Random men don't stop their cars pretending to be concerned for a woman walking around by themselves at night.

If someone does, I don't feel I need to be suspicious of most folks that offer help.

I don't have to worry about going broke due to health care, nor if I get sick and have to miss work.

Yeah, sure, people are still idiots and can be self-centered little turds. I'm no exception. But culture makes a difference. The way society treats different groups - like armed white supremacist militias - differs. Approaches to policing and prisons and rights differ. All this makes a difference in the way folks in that society treats others.

If everyone were truly the same, culture shock wouldn't be a thing.

I'd also like to state that Europe is a big place, with a wide variety of cultures and laws and customs. Living in Greece is going to be different than the Netherlands, which are both different from Norway.

Edit: For clarifacation, am American, and have lived in Norway for some years.