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The Achilles Heel of fusion is low volumetric power density. This is because all the energy has to go through the first wall, which has limited area compared to the surfaces of fuel pins in a fission reactor.

So, there's been effort to try to maximize the power/area at the first wall. One part of that is the power that directly strikes the surface (ions, electrons, photons). The capacity to carry away this heat is limited by the strength of the wall material and its thermal conductivity, a fact that was pointed out by Pfirsch and Schmitter in the 1980s.

https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2131865_1/component/file... (see section 4.1.1)

One could raise this limit by doing away with a solid wall (with its limits on thermal conductivity and stress) and instead using a liquid wall. This would also address erosion of the wall by sputtering, and help reduce damage from plasma disruptions (which may well otherwise be a showstopper for tokamaks.)
You can't just declare it. You have to have the political power for people to respect it. Even after Xi became president, he didn't have that power until he purged his opponents. Trump certainly never will.
I don't mean to start a flame war, but how is the left more authoritarian? I don't really get it.

Conservative leaders, at least in the US, seem far more authoritarian and xenophobic than left leaning leaders. I'm curious what you see as authoritarian about the modern left.

Also, it is interesting that you associate shaming with authoritarianism. Shaming is intrinsically a grass roots thing - it's the people, not some autocrat, that shames people. Authoritarian governments don't need to shame people, they simply imprison them or take other direct coercive measures.

Societies shame people because they cannot physically do anything to them. That's a huge distinction.
Neoliberalism is based on economic policy position. Your lack of understanding of the term doesn't mean people are using it incorrectly.

It does have a meaning.

> Neoliberalism is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy.

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

So disheartening to see this low quality of discourse on HN.
Untested on people with serious allergies and unnecessary, because it's not a virus encounter at that point.
Well he posts on HN so I am sure he can respond to criticism personally
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Even if she broke the law when making the recordings, it's not clear that the recordings can't be used in court. [1]

This would be different if it were the police illegally procuring evidence, under the 'fruit of the poisonous tree' theory, but here it's just a private citizen. So while she could surely be punished for breaking laws related to recording people, that doesn't seem to foreclose the possibility that she could use the recordings in court to prove her case.

1: https://acitylawfirm.com/recorded-conversations/
> I would argue that if a U.S. state has made unconstitutional election changes and thus has conducted an unconstitutional election then other U.S. states not in violation of the constitution have standing to dispute the election results with federal implications in accordance with the 12th Amendment.

The process you are talking about involves the US House of Representatives, not suing the states in SCOTUS.

The legal basis for claiming injury in the face of improper elections is the notion of "vote dilution." However, vote dilution cannot happen in the Electoral College by definition. Texas gets 38 of the 538 votes in the Electoral College, and that is true no matter how tight or loose the voting restrictions are in Pennsylvania. The voting power of Texas residents remains unaltered no matter what the voting power of residents in Pennsylvania is. Texas's brief did not persuade me that it had standing to sue (although it does appeal to vote dilution), and none of the other briefs have attempted to address the issue of standing at all.

That the House has had to decide the election is not unprecedented (it has done so on three occasions, 1800, 1824, and 1876, where it delegated its decision to accept the votes to a separate commission). What is unprecedented is a state asking SCOTUS to overturn the results of another state.
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By this definition it seems like every social media app, by virtue of it being different, is a monopoly of its own? Eg: Twitter is “Twitter” that is the problem.
You make it sound like they don't argue their hardest that it's destructive to the economy, and not that they just don't like it. Yes HN is susceptible bias and no that's not okay. This idea that we just have to be relegated to accepting bad ideas cuz everyone wants to do it is.. dangerous.
I haven't heard of it either, but it's mostly a proglonged, enhanced DMT trip, and I know people who got addicted to DMT, so I could believe it?
No, but will that stop him? Or will that allow acquiring companies to start asserting some control? Or will Boston Dynamics yet again use the US military as a counterbalancing force to do what they want?

The main point is that profitability is probably not the issue why BD is switching owners so often. Some of these owners did not need the cashflow from the sale in the first place.
There _isn't_ nuance here. That's the entire point. It's an extreme slippery slope and this is already several steps down that slope. The earlier things were censorship of moon landing hoax videos and other such conspiracy theories. People didn't have an issue with censoring those as a tiny minority thought those. Now they're censoring things a significant double digit minority things (probably). Wait until they start censoring things that the political party alignment of the owners of Youtube disagree with, as that's the next step.
It is entirely possible for an allergen to not cause sensibilisation ans a consequent allergy.

It is extremely rare for an allergen you are sensibilized ("allergic") to, not to cause some reaction. But the reaction may vary in strength and symptoms, especially with age and presence of irritants to the immune system. Unfortunately, some vaccines do contain those irritants as active ingredients to improve the function of the vaccine.
Hebrew has a number of sacred books written in it. This us why it was preserved through centuries by faithful Jews, who read these books basically daily. It was and is a strong part of ethnic and religious identity.

A similar situation is with Quran and classical Arabic, even though it's not an everyday spoken language in (most of) Arabic world.

AFAICT Irish does not enjoy a similar status. If you want to hear a more or less alive Gaelic language in everyday use, visit rural Wales.
How about "shouting fire in a crowded theater"?

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

Brandenburg v. Ohio in 1969 limited the scope of banned speech to that which would be directed to and likely to incite imminent lawless action (e.g. a riot). This seems reasonable.

Consider a hypothetical with the current election and baseless claims of fraud. A month from now as Biden is sworn in, the drumbeat of fraud continues. There are now collectives of militia groups who claim they cannot "stand by" anymore and the election must be overturned or they will secede from the union. Trump decamps to Mar-a-lago and continues to claim he won. Then one day, local county governments in northern Texas band together and take the side of the militias, saying they will not recognize the current federal government until Trump is declared the winner. This action spreads like wild fire and triggers the same revolt in most rural areas of the country. Trump incites them and declares himself leader in exile. Most red county governments back the militias and declare they will not recognize the current government, as they have no choice at this point. We are now at civil war.

Is this scenario likely to happen? In the current state if disinformation and cult-like following of Trump supporters, I honestly think it is. Look at how Kyle Rittenhouse is now a hero of the right.

So at what point does disinformation reach the level of "imminent lawless action" and should not be protected speech? The government is weak and severely limited here. Any action against disinformation will immediately back fire. It will not happen.

But YouTube as a private company can. And I think they should. It is fair that they see this disinformation campaign as getting very close to "shouting fire in a crowded theater" and are acting on this threat.
Funny enough $400k is pretty spot on: https://www.zillow.com/austin-tx/home-values/
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> Not true. The existence of privately-funded fusion efforts implies that some people think there is a reasonable expectation

Examine some of those efforts in detail and you will realize utterly bonkers nonsense can still get funding. One well known effort was told 20 years ago their scheme didn't work, but wishful thinking springs eternal.
My 2 cts on the long term play of Doordash:

The long term trend is that (primarily take-out) restaurants will decline and be replaced by ghost kitchens. The unit economics of ghost kitchens is much better than paying rent for prime real estate. You can run a ghost kitchen from a warehouse. This trend was already underway before covid [1] (see also Travis Kalanick's investments in this space) but has been 10x accelerated due to covid. Many people are saying that Doordash's revenues will decline post covid, but are neglecting the fact that many restaurants struggle to stay alive. Prime opportunity for Doordash to step in and solve the supply side with ghost kitchens. Restaurant brands will go virtual. And who is going to be the "app store" of the virtual brands? Doordash.

[1] https://www.qsrmagazine.com/ordering/doordash-gets-ghost-kit...
Yeah, it seems Apple has figured out the way to make people accept their ads and upselling - brand everything Apple.
Cars are a consumable product. They only last about 10 years. Before you get bored of it and buy a new one. Or before it breaks down so often, that you must buy a new car.

Software, like Microsoft Office, is also consumable, in the sense that your computer burns out, or Microsoft makes its operating system end-of-life after 5 years. This forces you to buy a new license.

So if Toyota makes $3,000 in profit per car. And you replace your car in 10 years, then this is $300/year. Or about $25/month in profits to Toyota.

If it’s $7,000, then the monthly profits goes up to $58/month for Toyota.

So it’s the equivalent to a Netflix or Cable TV subscription for Toyota. But with the entrenched benefit that being a car manufacturer is big business, and there aren’t that many players in it.

What Toyota did was to make perfect, their vehicles, that they have such a loyal following. That their customers go back to them for every new car, decade after decade.

And plus, they make more money from their luxury brand, Lexus, and from their trucks.
As an Australian, I need no ID to vote in any elections. I can just turn up at any polling place, tell them my name & address, and they hand me the forms and mark me as having voted.

There is nothing stopping me doing this again at a different polling place on the same day, but it would trigger an investigation if my name was marked at multiple polling booths.

And yet, there is basically no electoral fraud at all. In each election, this happens less than 10 times nationally with a population of 25M ppl.

It turns out to be forgetful senior citizens more often than fraudulent voters.
Drivers can easily put in consistent overtime which is harder to do at a traditional job. Removing some of the friction of overworking themselves while giving the illusion of choice.

Migrant workers consistently show up at farms too; it doesn't mean they're paid well.
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Yes, the guardian article is great.

I went down that rabbit hole a while ago and I found convincing arguments that the Sappho poems were fakes (though the Bible fragments are genuine but stolen). I can’t find the source again. I thought the Atlantic article explained it, but they stop at the Turk who provided them to Obbink. So I’ll settle for “likely forgeries”.
There _isn't_ nuance here. That's the entire point. It's an extreme slippery slope and this is already several steps down that slope. The earlier things were censorship of moon landing hoax videos and other such conspiracy theories. People didn't have an issue with censoring those as a tiny minority thought those. Now they're censoring things a significant double digit minority things (probably). Wait until they start censoring things that the political party alignment of the owners of Youtube disagree with, as that's the next step.

At this point Youtube is no longer a "common carrier" of anything at all.

Also don't forget how terrible Youtube's algorithm is and how it bans people at random and deletes video streams at random.
I did on internship in Texas when living in California. I had to pay California state income tax on what I earned there. Luckily Texas has no state income tax or I would have been paying in both states.
My Sony headphones and cheap phone have NFC but even expensive laptops don't.
> Yea, that's what he said.

Well, the two comments are not very far apart in substance, somewhat further apart in terms of emphasis. Often two people can be close to agreement on what the facts are, much further apart in which of those facts they think ought to be emphasised.

> Regarding the rest of your comment: I don't think _anyone_ is arguing that the US electoral system is without flaw. A large system of any kind will have many flaws. Ask any software engineer.

Every large system has flaws, yes. But how does the US electoral system compare to those of other countries? It is far from being the worst, but it is also far from being the best. If someone was pointing out flaws in one of the countries with the best organised election systems, then "A large system of any kind will have many flaws" may well be a decent response, but it is less so when pointing out flaws in a system which is at the best somewhere in the middle.

Imagine your product has lots of flaws which many of its competitors lack. In such a situation, the truism "a large system of any kind will have many flaws" is missing the point.

> That being said, RIGHT NOW is decidedly not the right time. I'll be all for having an honest, bipartisan discussion as soon as there are no longer parties actively trying to steal an election

I don't agree that anyone is trying to "steal an election". President Trump is being a sore loser, but I am certain he is leaving the White House peacefully come January 20th. His attempts to challenge the result in the courts have always been half-hearted. Back in 2000, each of Bush and Gore made sure they had the brightest legal minds of their respective parties on the case. Trump has not signed up the brightest legal minds of the GOP to challenge the result. I don't think he was ever really serious about it, he is just putting on a show. He can't steal an election, he doesn't even know how to pull that one off. But I think a lot of people – his supporters and detractors alike – fall too easily for Trump's shtick.
The fact check does not prove a lie. At most it proves that Trump is not making the statement based on publicly available data. Since the final rejection rate for 2020 have not yet been released.

From the fact check:

"Georgia rejected 6.42% of mail-in ballots in total in the 2016 general election "

"The higher percentage he mentions for past years is likely based off the total rejected ballots (here) which can not be compared with 2020, as this information is not available."
They banned the spread of a story that lacked anything resembling coloration or basic standards of journalism.

"Mostly" is still completely unknown when it comes to the contents of that laptop, it's provenance, and the veracity of individual emails.
I'm also not a lawyer, but this sounds unconstitutional. This lawsuit sounds even more extreme than ex post facto laws, since antitrust laws haven't changed.

My pet theory is that the legislature is so divided and incompetent that laws are horribly outdated. The other two branches of government need to compensate. Google v. Oracle is another example of this.
This isn't a rumor. Non-LTSC builds do not have an opt out, unless the machine was booted with no access to the network. Not configuring wifi or leaving ethernet unplugged allows you to bypass it.
The FTC cleared FB to buy Instagram in the first place[1]. Any idea what changed?

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-instagram-idUSBR...
Yet iPad Air 4 is USB-C and arguably "non pro"
Splitting WA from Facebook isn’t going to change that though. It’s still going to look like WA is a monopoly, then what?
> Even if you waved a magic wand and eliminated any form of political opposition, that doesn't change this less than favorable cost picture.

The cost is the manifestation of the political opposition.
Elixir as a Competitive Advantage
Doordash's demo day was the first one I attended. I invested in spoonrocket.
"1. Life costs are nowhere near quadruple, in fact they are roughly equal to lower in the US."

That is unlikely. Metropolitan areas in the US are expensive as f. But assuming they are the same. Health care and education of your children will kill you financially.
It's literally the same thing, though.

$30 Hamburger, or $25 Hamburger + $5 tip.

With the latter, you at least get to decide how much to tip - and if you received awful service, you have some recourse/feedback mechanism.
The Pacific Northwest has had a problem with right wing extremism (skinheads, neo-Nazis) for decades, and the polarization between left-wing cities and right-wing rural areas is particularly extreme in Oregon.
Meanwhile, in Windows-land, literally everything is installed by clicking Setup.exe.
BD robots could be easily defeated by a 50-cal bullet or an EMP or a sandstorm or merely by preventing them from recharging their batteries. Reality is not like the movies.
Given enough time, you can say that about any company.
That graph was for a crash program under the assumption that tokamaks work better than it turns out they do.

So, if that money had been allocated, it would have been a failure. There was also not the appreciation then of the grave nature of the engineering challenges facing fusion, even if the plasma physics worked wonderfully.

The implication that we'd have had fusion if that money had been spent is not supported by the evidence.
Corporations already have it. I can’t imagine they’re more well-intentioned than a democratic government.
Can google imprison me? Can they seize my assets? Can Google execute me?
Non-competes are illegal in California. That’s likely a big reason why it is so successful. As an example neither Intel not AMD would exist if non-competes would be allowed there. Iirc Nvidia too.
> This is not the constitutional process for disputing an election. There is no constitutional processor for disputing a fair election. And this literally reflects the instability of the end phase of Weimar.

Therein lies the rub. If a court is not the venue, then what is the venue?
Giant pandas are our worst charismatic megafauna.
Is there a timeline that Nuvia disclosed already?
Most of the deaths are in states without lockdowns. So that explanation is obviously untrue.
Interesting. By abused, do you mean prolonged use over many days or large one time dosage or both? If the one time use definition, can you reach a threshold dose for what one considers an mdma experiance and still avoid the bulk of depression?
We prohibit discriminating customers on the basis of color. religion etc. Add one more clause: discrimination based on political/social beliefs or something along those lines however stupid those might be.
This is a great idea, I've been looking for it for years!
> Property rights inherently derive from the state.

This is not true, property rights are the human incarnation of territoriality which is exhibited by many species.

> Unless you subscribe to "might makes right", the idea of property rights is inherently a social construct which the state is a formalization of.

The state is a formalization of a particular social construct that is not identical to property rights.

> Limitations on rights is precisely the foundation of any society.

Do you have any support for this statement? It seems to contradict your earlier assertions and despite that I'm not sure how it would be true on its own.

> To claim otherwise is just the semantic game of "oh, I don't mean those rights".

Well, I don't think its a meaningless semantic argument for people to discuss what specifically is referred to by "rights." If you think people have a right to steal food out of other people's homes then I can see why you would think the government was a necessary limitation on that "right." But I think its a reasonable response to say "there is no right to steal food from other people" and then we can discuss what is and is not a right, which is much closer to a necessary conversation than a game (when conducted by sincere interlocutors).
That’s not very accurate and makes a lot of unproven assumptions. They found that an old, disused RNC domain from years prior was compromised. There’s no reason to believe they withheld anything material, and even if they did, it’s not really relevant. All they did was show the public authentic emails. If anyone actually changed their vote based on having additional facts, which I doubt happened in any significant way, then it was for the right reasons.

If your wife-to-be was having an affair and this was dumped before the wedding day, would you be mad at the hacker, or at your partner? Blaming Russia for showing truth never made any sense to me. Are we to believe that the process has more integrity when we cast our votes with less information?
Perhaps Boston Dynamics should make a robotic vacuum cleaner. One that’s more intelligent than the Roomba.

Or even a lawnmower.

This can become their cash cow, that they use to fund the R&D into their serious industrial robots.
In general that's true, but there are some specific exceptions that are worth remembering. Houston, for example, has always been unusually gay-friendly by Texas standards.
The BSDs are getting more and more appealing every quarter, personally. I've moved some personal/home services over to OpenBSD, the process was smooth and straightforward.
It's not "free speech" for the president to lie and accuse state governments of defrauding the country, without evidence.

This is beyond political speech. It is inherently dangerous.
Open source is a trademarked term by OSI, and it doesn't allow licences that discriminate based on user (even cloud mega corps) to call themselves open source.

The Businesses source licence https://mariadb.com/bsl11/ tries to make dual licencing easier, but isn't "open source", the term is "source available"
How Censorship of lie A fundamentally different from Censorship of lie B?

Picking arbitrary facts as somehow political issues is very dangerous waters. I honestly have less problems with someone saying a Holocaust was a good idea than I do when people say they aren’t happening.