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The graph shows solar becoming on par/ slightly cheaper then oil/gas/coal solutions over the past decade. If this trend continues we may see an energy revolution take place in the next 10-20 years. Data center costs will dive down, more places will become livable with always on AC/heating. Even inefficient energy storage becomes viable with low enough prices (if solar is 70% cheaper than gas, then it can still compete with gas at night if the energy storage is more than 30% efficient or so, when in reality storage is close to 70-80% efficient). Humanity as a whole might even make it to a Type 1 Civilization with our increased usage. Carbon capturing even becomes a viable solution to climate change.

Just as rapidly changing CPU and internet speeds changed the world over the past few decades, so too will an energy revolution. I look forward to this new world and how we can use the innovations to solve todays problems.
So wait. According to UN cannabis was more strictly limited than cocaine?

Based on perusal on the drug categories before this change one could get prescription of cocaine but not cannabis. This is absolutely hilarious.
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Nice read. Very exciting!
There was a story some time ago about a high-profile politician in my country. She had shared a link to a parody newspaper article about teenagers at a party who died from "marijuana overdose". From her comment it was obvious that she didn't understand that the article was a fake, didn't understand that nobody ever died from a marijuana overdose.
Yes, society has not crumbled here in Canada.
Sorry but I'm having a hard time understanding this. It's been removed from schedule IV, but remains in schedule I.. Schedule I seems to me to be the strictest category. AFAICT they just removed it from schedule IV, which.. doesn't seem to be the strictest drug category?
It sounds like he didn't just ask for a contract change: He simply crossed it out and expected them to take it.

I'm honestly surprised people do that. I always go with the assumption that a job offer comes with the implication that you agree to the legal stuff as you are signing it: If you don't, you have refused the job. If you don't agree to something that has been updated, you have quit. The only thing that might actually protects you in the last scenario is something like a job contract, but a lot of places in the states simply don't have them for everyone.
I think what gets overlooked about Jobs, even among his admirers, is that he did start with an audience. Particularly by the macOS X and iOS days, Jobs was fundamentally driving the product design towards what he wanted with the implicit idea being that if he liked it and used it, others would too.

This has its own pitfalls, but he was fundamentally "talking to users", he had just narrowed his focus group to a user of one. He used his own products as far as we know as well.

The thing is that most tech doesn't dogfood quite so easily. Most founders can't replicate that as they are generally selling outside of the consumer market that they can just adopt themselves.

So, maybe cast another way, every product must have a target demographic and you need to interact with that demographic to get feedback on what you're building. Jobs just happened to have a shortcut that isn't generally applicable.
well for example when it says " Physicists have argued that if it were something like 1/138, stars would not be able to create carbon, and life as we know it wouldn’t exist."

I might like to read more conjecture as to what would exist if it were 1/138

and so forth.
Small town winner news stories resonate more with a wider audience so will feature much more than big city winners. People can also work out who won in a small community as opposed to a large metropolis so higher chance of nabbing a story there too. Being more newsworthy is not a representative selection when reporters are looking for the most rags-to-riches (Willy Wonka) heart-warming story.
This creates some pretty perverse incentives.
From [1] (links therein might be more in-depth)

"stable matter, and therefore life and intelligent beings, could not exist if its value were much different. For instance, were α to change by 4%, stellar fusion would not produce carbon, so that carbon-based life would be impossible. If α were greater than 0.1, stellar fusion would be impossible, and no place in the universe would be warm enough for life as we know it."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant#Anthro...
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There isn't just one way, but from what I can tell AWS works great for the really small and the really big, and is a massive waste of money for the in-between. They have run an amazingly effective marketing campaign to make everyone feel like they are missing out if they aren't using it.

The learning curve for working with AWS is similar to the learning curve of working on bare metal. It honestly does not take a specialist to use MySQL, Postgres, etc. They are really quite easy to make a HA turnkey solution. It's as easy as learning how to effectively use an amazon service. We aren't talking about the days where you had to shard out which was a big pain in the ass, because machines are cheap now with 128 physical cores, 1tb of memory, massive fast storage, etc. You can run the nastiest largest database on a single machine and achieve a pretty large scale doing it.

One of these paths costs about $2500 a month with server purchase amortization, and on the other about $20,000 per month. Either way I need someone to manage it (unless you are talking heroku level of turn-key, then up that $20k a month to $50k a month).
Good memories. Also spent some time scrolling through https://skins.webamp.org/ and found some I'd never seen before that I liked!
I wish I could watch these without creating an account.
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I suggest that you substantiate your opinion as per the community guidelines, explaining your position and backing it up with data as much as possible — your comment seems to be getting rapidly downvoted because your account is new but your only post doesn't necessarily meet the Community Guidelines (which you can find at the bottom of the main page).

There is a risk that people interpret your account as trolling.
> It boggles my mind that people look at speculators helping make markets in risk hedging as the vultures.

If you get rich from someone else's failure, you're a vulture, end of story. I think we ought to ban shorting stocks and a pile of other usurious business practices that have become commonplace. Failure should not be making other people rich.
There have been several talks recorded on SS7 at CCC over the years. Here are two from 2014:

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-wu_pO5Z7Pk

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nRdJ0vaQt0o
letting go of a prospective employee for trying to protect his or her privacy and apparently being able to read their contract carefully and think through it tells you all you need to know about what Google stands for today.

Never let SV compensation packages or relaxed workplace culture distract you from the fact that the interests of the owners and workers at those companies don't have the same interests.
Could Nintendo be the oldest company currently involved with tech?
> most states take about 40-50% of the lottery winnings to fund education programs. In Georgia, we have the HOPE scholarship which is funded by the Georgia Lottery.

My father and I once debated the merits of this, and he made a point that stuck with me: the overall funding for education didn't change. It's just that the money that used to come from the government now comes from lotteries instead.

Meaning the burden of that cost has shifted from the collected taxes, which is more proportionally paid by the rich, to the lottery system which is more proportionally paid by the poor.
> But there is a tipping point where marginal solar is not really valuable for a grid anymore.

And that is a very good problem to have.

There are any number of industrial processes that could easily put that excessively cheap energy to use. Aluminum smelting, for example.
The person redlined a contract instead of spending +$2000/yr (out of a likely $250,000+ salary) on a second personal phone. Such short-sidedness is a bad trait in an employee.

Second, their protest is laudable. But their decision was consciously: "the legal department of this $xxx billion company (that spends $xx million maintaining this employment contract template) will bend to my will, or I will {quit OR relent}". If they'd quit? Job well done. If they'd relent? Then why try? You're screaming into a void, and if you didn't recognize this prior to redlining, you have a bad trait for an employee.

All scenarios point to a competent red-liner achieving their desired outcome -- an ethical win in whatever case. Only an incompetent/shortsighted/kneejerk/low-critical-thinking red-liner would achieve an undesired outcome, because they didn't consider the game before playing.
I bought it in person at a Korean grocery. It doesn't have any manufacturer label.
FYI for those in the US: the MORE act, which

* decriminalizes marijuana,

* removes it from the schedule system entirely,

* appears to just duct tape it to existing tobacco laws, and

* reinvests the funds in communities disproportionately effected by the "war on drugs"

just passed the House Rules Committee and goes up for vote in the house some time this week. The question is whether this will ever get through the senate
If I was established in the cannabis industry or looking to start something in the space, I'd pay attention to the countries that don't currently have federal legalization but voted to remove it: https://jedgar.netlify.app/pics/weed.jpeg
> It's always frustrating but never particularly hard to find the special incantation that will invoke it to do the thing that you want it to.

I think magical incantations is a perfect way to think about it. Using voice assistants feels more like the land of Harry Potter than the land of technology we live in. It's the flipside of “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.
I completely agree. They can put whatever they want on a work phone that I don't need to take with me without it being an explicit part of the job. I very much mind on a personal device.
That’s what qualitative data is for. At the very least, talking to customers and reading their feedback. Preferably followed by organizing that data somehow, and using it to better understand the quantitative data you have.

It’s fair comment, though, that undifferentiated ‘engagement’ is rarely a good metric.
> It's so refreshing to have it completely normalized in Canada now.

Is it really completely normalized? Like are senior members of society such as judges, doctors, military officers, teachers, politicians, etc completely comfortable smoking cannabis in public or would that still cause some surprise if they were that casual about it?

Because I don't think that is even the case with tobacco - people shamefully hide that even though it's always been legal - let alone cannabis?

I think the only drug which is completely normalized is alcohol. They serve alcohol at state dinners and expect most people will want it. I doubt they serve cannabis.
I'm kind of surprised by the option to use a personal phone anyway. Whenever I've worked at big tech, there has never been an option to use a personal device or laptop. Even getting a USB port enabled takes a VP to ok it often. But this tends to be in R&D depts.
I consider myself well informed and I had no idea burnt food was unhealthy. I would just figured it was carbon, and I don't have any reason to believe carbon would hurt me.
> if your food, beverage, dye, or aromatic scent readily undergoes chemical reactions

That would also include anything acidic and basic, so essentially, any vinegar, baking soda, fruits, ...... Among proteins, there are enzymes that catalyze chemical reactions.

On alcohol and char, I agree. But, the general statement is too broad to be true or useful.
Lovely. This emits some strong Christopher Hyatt vibes.
You can run most types of businesses without Google, or even in being in Google's index at all.
I'm not a native English speaker. Fun fact: In my comma-heavy mother tongue I almost completely exclude its use. Not sure how this came to be.
Yup this should work on most Android smartphones.
His mapping of the structure of our current governmental system was eye opening to me. I liked the explanation of the prescriptive (planned/written) vs. the descriptive (actual/unwritten) constitution. I also liked the idea that organizations that aren't officially part of the government are effectively part of it without having any accountability.

https://graymirror.substack.com/p/3-descriptive-constitution...

He's certainly not for everyone, but the most common criticisms of him I see are usually pull quotes taken from Wikipedia.
Reminds me of an excellent SMBC-comic: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2013-02-08
Why does the ownership of a local building need to become a pawn in a big stock-market casino game where people can walk away rich while everything falls apart? It's because these things aren't owned by local institutions that care about the area they are in, at all. They're owned by people who wouldn't even step inside the building if they could avoid it. The crux of the issue is that buildings and facilities that are essentially civic centers have been financialized.
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Contrary to poular belief, you can get "marijuana" (cannabidiol) overdose, albeit it's rare. It manifests with vomiting, abdomen cramps and feeling of serious sickness, which could be fatal (other drugs that can cause a fatal overdose often are not fatal by itself but by the secondary effect of suffocating with vomit or other). I'm speaking from experience.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482175/
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Which I have addressed.
Speed of light is roughly 186 000 miles per second, and roughly 300 000 kilometers per second, and as it turns out, 186 000 is very much different from 300 000. The beauty of fine structure constant is that it comes out to be the same numerical value regardless of what units you choose for your measurement.
Maybe use excess electricity to produce hydrogen using electrolysis and then burn it in a turbine later?
I've tried several times to wrap my head around Hoon and failed. However I'm only a functional programming novice. The one time I reached out to a colleague who's an FP expert, his response was (paraphrased) 'I'm not touching that with a ten foot pole because of Curtis Yarvin's involvement'
I've had the misfortune of dealing with Snowflake before.

Their sales team behaves in a way that I'd call predatory and pushy. Their account managers were unhelpful to the point of being opaque about how much "credits" we had, and just how that corresponded to actual value.

The whole experience, coupled with what I'd call an otherwise uninspiring product was unpleasant enough to make me want to never deal with them again.
Magnetic field of power cables is easily detectable and you can't realistically defend thousands miles of them.
Who's going to benefit from the privacy law and who's going to sponsor it? Trillion dollar empires are built on surveillance and we'd need another Lincoln to stop them.
By no definition is Starship a paper rocket. Either you have not been paying attention or you don't know what the definition of a paper rocket is.

> small fairing space and

Its not actually small. Its a little smaller then the biggest that you could launch on Delta 4 (that you can't buy) or a New Glenn (that you can't buy), but to just say its 'small' is just not accurate. Essentially its size is big enough for 99% of payloads.

There are like a few military sats in the next 5 years that need a slightly bigger fairing and they will have that for those launches.

> not the most efficient beyond LEO

By what definition? Just because it doesn't use hydrogen doesn't mean its not the suitable for beyond LEO. There is a reason the alternative for SLS is Falcon Heavy and not anything else.

> Also, it may not be suitable for some sensitive payloads (military, etc...).

That is just false. Falcon rockets are fully qualified for all military orbits and payloads.

The only thing they can't do right now is vertical assembly and that will be built by the time they have the first contract.
Curious abut the Wisconsin specificness you added. Does WI have a larger percentage of alcoholics than other places?
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The big difference between exponentiation and addition / multiplication is that it is non commutative. This means there are two inverses. The relations between them are not very easy to learn. Using this as a teaching tool could help a lot in explaining this kind of stuff.

I remember back I high-school whenever I met these kinds of problems I would just write everything back into powers and solve the equations in that setting. Because otherwise just dealing with all the interacting and different operations was too annoying. I could see this notation essentially doing that for everyone.

Now, I made it through high-school, and got a degree in math. I think it would be better if more people made it through high school math without hating it. Making logarithms, exponents and roots clearer might help do that.
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> I was suggesting that people test on themselves.

My fear is that people may be deceived by random people to test "miracle drug" that turns out to cause heart problems or something equally serious.
did the change have anything to do with their job? No, so it's basically injecting code.
COVID-19 reinfection is negligible. Only 26 cases worldwide are reported - sad for them but they are extreme abnormal cases. Immunity seems to work with this virus as well.

https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/08/covid-19-reinfection-t...
I'd say let those managers use those features, the company will go downhill faster for it and deservedly so.
I don’t see the 25 changing their stance because they lost a vote.

This committee exists to take away people’s rights, not to give them any.

I look forward to a UN vote on mandatory mask requirements (will never happen).
>Isn't this kind of silly at this point? I'm not into weed (it's always weird to feel the need to append this disclaimer) but for God's sake at this point I think pretty much everyone recognizes where it lies on the harm spectrum and we still treat it like a deadly narcotic.

Not many people realize this yet, but weed is already legal in the US. With the legalization of "industrial hemp" [0], you can now buy cannabis sativa flower in all 50 states 100% legally. The law requires that it contain less than 0.3% THC by mass, so the strains you can get are selectively bred for that, but it actually isn't a big deal. CBD, and all the other cannabinoids in cannabis that aren't THC still absolutely get you high. You can also create extracts and cook with it for all the same effects as "regular" (high THC) weed. It's essentially like being able to buy beer but not liquor at this point.

[0] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2018/12/14/the-farm-bi...
There is also a big difference in saying "Vote for X" vs. "You are allowed to vote."
I agree. If anything, it's a lucid, realistic take. And the "orange man" jokes long pre-dated Trump's presidency, it's about the same level of offensive as an unflattering SNL impression.
Beaming power from space has huge losses, and I really don't think we need to a system of remote-controlled death rays orbiting the planet right now.
Not with connie
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Look at it this way, how many families have the reliability of a thousand years streak of employment? If it ain't broke...
The same logic can be applied to black people and the n-word. Shall I name a product after the n-word with no harm intended or being explicitly serious or negative? Does that make it right? No.

You may not be offended by the word "smallfoot" but that's just you. You can't make that judgment for black people and the n-word anymore then you can make that judgment for the word "amnesia" and the entire community of amnesiacs.
I don't read a license document when the advertisement is so clear.
The listed nuclear price is $155/MWh. But that's for baseload power, which can't replace batteries. What's needed is dispatchable or on-demand power, which costs about 3x as much for gas, I have no idea how much it inflates the price for nuclear, but the answer will be "a lot".

Nuclear in 2020 doesn't make any sense. It's far cheaper to over-provision and use storage.

We should have been building nuclear like crazy over the past 40 years. Then it could have followed a similar learning curve that renewables did and it'd still make sense today.
From the opposite angle, too much sugar.
Are you saying it doesn't in theory or in practice? I agree that in practice, it's mostly a joke, with Cannabis having a higher rank than Cocaine and Meth. In theory though, the definition explicitly says it's about addictiveness and harm.
>> there is a huge market and billions to be made in this industry.

What canada has found is that this giant market is illusionary. Overall cannabis use has not increased after legalization. The same amount of money is being spent now as before. Yes, there is a slight tax income, but the reality is that people are getting it from the same people they used to. Everyone buys from friends and family just as before. So the government, and all those investors, are not seeing the predicted profits.
Can't you still bootstrap LLVM from GCC, and GCC from the last C version, and that from tcc?

GNU GUIX works on the boostraping issue, they strive to reduce the seed size as much as possible: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/tags/bootstrapping/
(Not that you can’t die from a Dihydrogen Monoxide overdose as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication.)
If the only words in your toolbox are "barbaric," "death machine," and "destroying," don't be surprised when people don't take you seriously and stop engaging with you.

Being factual and a little more subtle goes a long way.
"A gate is core with one arm named $."

"A core is a cell of a battery and a payload."

"A battery is a collection of Hoon expressions and the head of a core."

This is what GP is talking about. Reading through the tutorial, it made some sense. I could probably code in this language with a bit more reading and practice. But the choice of deliberately obfuscating terminology makes it read like a joke or an esoteric language (languages not meant for real use but as puzzles, challenges, maybe for code golfing).

I mean, half the time they explain these things with analogies. A gate is a function, they say it nearly every time the term comes up. So why call it a gate?

EDIT:

When I was at GA Tech (now many years ago) we had access to a set of servers, "acme" (acmex, acmey, and acmez if I recall correctly). Each semester we had a limited amount of access to computational resources on these servers, measured in "bananas". We had plenty to do things like access mail, newsgroups, maybe do basic programming assignments. But anything resource intensive or really long running ate up your bananas and you'd have to request more (no cost, it was a limit to keep people from abusing shared resources).

This was absolutely fine, and a bit humorous. "I can't run that, I don't have enough bananas." But if I were rolling out a product to universities across the country to manage access to their systems I would not use "bananas" as a term. Within the GT community it had a shared meaning, but outside it made us sound like asylum escapees (perhaps an accurate description of us). "bananas" communicates nothing to users on its own, just like "gate" and "battery" communicate nothing to anyone familiar with other programming languages.