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While that's true, it's also true that the total cost of solar (taking storage into account) is far lower now than it was even 10-15 years ago. The logical thing we should be doing now is building massive amounts of storage, rather than complaining about how solar costs don't take it into account. As an added bonus, large pumped storage or fuel cell batteries can be reused for any renewable source (unlike solutions like concentrated solar), so any improvements in one can be mostly decoupled from improvements in the other, which is why I find the insistence that people add the cost of the batteries to the cost of solar to be pretty wearying. And I don't find arguments that pumped storage takes a long time and has high maintenance costs to build very convincing when the alternative, nuclear, has exactly the same requirement.
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You wrote:

“Do these men think that time is free?“

That’s not even the same structure as ‘all men are evil.’ Instead what you wrote is gendered and thus completely inaccurate.

So again, you could have used ‘people’ to be respectful and inclusive but you’re choosing to stick with ‘man’ because that’s what you know.

That’s unkind. You know that this is an issue within our community but you are fully choosing to go against the norms because of ‘your language’?

I’m sorry but I thought we could have a conversation. This many replies in and I realize that you don’t actually have much sympathy, understanding or even basic caring.

Be better. It’s easy.
It would be helpful if you actually posted the study, not a quantitative graph without context of the data contained within. It is misleading.

The study: https://www.pnas.org/content/107/38/16489

"Emotional well-being also rises with log income, but there is no further progress beyond an annual income of ~$75,000"

"We conclude that high income buys life satisfaction but not happiness, and that low income is associated both with low life evaluation and low emotional well-being."

The study states that emotional well-being does not rise with income over 75k. The study also concludes that high income is not correlated to happiness.

These conclusions are clearly erroneous.
What’s the best way to get onto Clubhouse and try it out?
That analogy is a bit too harsh. How about like saying you went to Texas but then only visited Austin?
Which is the correct thing to do.

Less than 10% of the population being vaccinated, means that we can't afford to give the appearance that everything is fine just yet otherwise we will encourage the other 90% to bring down their guard even though hospital levels are at their highest.

If we managed 10% in 3 weeks, and Oxford vaccine is going to start getting deployed via pharmacies and other outlets is only going to be increasing our vaccination throughput. February we should be doing 2-3 times that so we'll have 30% of the population vaccinated by March 50-60% by the end of March. By the start of March we should be able to see improvements in hotspot areas and maybe talk about reducing lockdown measures. That's only a few more weeks.
It really all depends on the lifestyle you think you need to maintain.

I like to think of money a bit like gasoline.

100 gallons of gas will last you pretty well forever if you ride around on a moped.

It will get you maybe an hour or two down the road if you're driving around in a fully loaded semi.

What most people need in order to be happy is somewhere in the middle. Unfortunately, many people are determined to live in a way where their reach always exceeds their grasp.

You can't outrun financial idiocy.
That's just your subjective opinion on the matter and you are free to have it. I share different thoughts on the issue though.

In all seriousness my post is lampooning the absurdity of calling something an objective opinion because anything can be classified as such and I'm subtly hinting at the fact that it's pointless and we should have the capability to label certain things as wrong or right rather then call it just a collection of opinions. I think you're mistaken here, we are actually in agreement.

All of Css is a design mistake and guess what? I'm not saying that's my opinion, that's fact.
Finding a way to get better sleep is, of course, the proper answer to this problem, however there are mant situations where better sleep is elusive, so...

As a former sender of six digit codes, I worked hard to make them visually (and auditorially) appear to be two three digit codes; we thought that would make it easier for people to process. If you make a habit of processing the codes as two three digit codes, it might help when you're over tired.
“God made the integers, all else is the work of man”

I’m not sure if even that is true. Integer counts and succession seem like human constructs to me. An apple isn’t fundamentally a single unit. If I take a bite out of it, is it still one apple?
I definitely concur that strict verification is necessary.

That is one of the reason why I would prefer an electronic nose. For all their problems, machines do not want to please their handlers.
>This is primarily done to keep people from eating sugar when their teeth are most vulnerable.

SLS is primarily added as a foaming agent.

>Sodium lauryl sulfate is frequently used as a surfactant, or foaming agent. It may also serve as an emulsifier, helping oil based and water based ingredients to stay mixed. In many of our toothpastes SLS is used as a surfactant and helps to properly disperse the ingredients during brushing, and ensures easy rinsing and removal of debris (i.e. food particles).

https://www.tomsofmaine.com/our-promise/ingredients/sodium-l...
Indeed. Also Fiat Chrysler, Nissan, Renault, and Mercedez-Benz. Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal
It's also an under-discussed part of the YIMBY movement. Wanting a boring detached house and a garden somewhere quiet is generally categorized as NIMBY in these discussions in my town. I grew up somewhere quiet and residential with trees and sky and space, and I liked that. It has a ton of jobs nearby, so it's gotten crazy expensive. But if you don't want to bulldoze the single-family homes and build high-density, you're the problem. Doubly so if you are lucky enough to afford said home.

I sincerely hope remote work takes off so the geographic network effects of all the jobs being in the same place are less important. It would make low density much more viable for those of us who want to see the sky and maybe a tree every once in a while.
While I'm not necessarily a fan of this particular article, I feel it relevant to point out that explicitly denying the "homogenous myth" of Japan has political value as a counter to its all-too-common use by conservative nationalist ideologues in Japan to casually brush aside the entirely valid concerns groups who don't check off all the boxes of "being Japanese".

> Those Korean-Japanese are no less Japanese culturally

To this point, however, on a somewhat lighter note, notice that the birth rate of Korean-Japanese shown in the article's graph dips sharply in 1966. This is due to it being the year of the Fire-Horse (https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hinoe_uma), which AFAIK is a superstition unique to Japan. We're due for another Fire-Horse year in 2026, so it'll be interesting to see what happens then, too.
I think history is ultimately going to show that children were at far more risk from school closures than they were from Covid-19.
If I file a PR on it and more than half a billion Indians give it a thumbs up, does it get merged? Talk about e-voting!
Germany: 350 million tons of CO2 per year in the energy sector

France: 50 million tons of CO2 per year in the energy sector

Germany: 50% renewables

France: 70% nuclear
You're right, I was thinking of SMACSS.

SCSS (or SASS, more generally) does benefit some methodologies more than others though; I've never found much use for it while using Tachyons or Tailwind, for example.
A lot of it comes down to the individual State incentives. My co-worker put in a system on his house and at the time the incentive was that you sold all of your power back to the grid at a fixed rate that was higher than what you would normally pay. He gets a check every month for what he sells to the grid. That rate was locked in for 15 years. It meant that he knew that with average usage he would break even in 6-7 years. Downside is that he is taxed on that income.

The other side of it is how big your roof and if it faces south without much occlusion. If your roof doesn't face south or is occluded but trees then it makes it much less attractive.
Until that other-evidence is just the product of some other hellish surveillance system. What I'm really saying is broadly we need fewer of these systems as they will only be abused, especially in concert. If you have one system that says the suspect had their phone off at the time of the bombing, and another saying they searched for "how do bombs work" on google a few years ago the jury will eat that shit up even though in actuality it provides almost zero evidence of anything.
Yep. It is so small and light I ship it in an envelope with a stamp. It might take a little longer depending on the country, especially eastern Europe. If you want tracking I charge $10 which is still not so bad given the distance.

You are totally right about the EU thing, I had thought it was approved but also I am so tiny that it probably doesn't matter. There were a few safety studies done that has proven that it is safe and there hasn't been a single negative reaction to miracle fruit reported in the last several decades. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.
This is a common oversight in much of the public discussion about renewables that is inexcusable. Public policy is being devised from a very deep misunderstanding of the physics of a power grid.
Are you accounting for the refining and transportation costs of fossil fuels and for the fissionable material mining and refining and for the waste storage costs of nuclear?
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And yet rich people live significantly longer. Money is important for a lot of things impacting life expectancy
In Italy (and I guess in many other places) laws are effectively commits, not documents/ files. The actual law is often implicit in the result of the successive modifications each new law applies to the existing ones. Which is terrible from a usability perspective- it's like working with lists of patches instead of files.

I think software engineers- thanks to much faster iteration cycles and having clarity and order as their only concern- have developed solutions and practices that absolutely can and should be applied also to the management of the law.
Wow, 8-digit ARR from that niche is pretty amazing to me. The power of specialisation I suppose, but it does make me question what the "right" size of market to go after is to not spend a life chasing the dragon.
Scotland is quite likely to leave the UK and join the EU. Hoping that happens within my life time
Big box stores (and malls) were killing most local downtown businesses before Amazon was a thing. The sad reality is a lot of small-scale local retail just wasn't very good. High prices, lousy selection.

It will be interesting to see what shopping patterns stay in place post-pandemic. On the one hand, even I who already shopped a lot online, have switched even more to Amazon rather than taking a run to the store for something I don't actually need right now. On the other hand, I was picking something up at an Apple Store a few days ago (for reasons) and it was a little bit surprising to me that the shopping mall was actually pretty busy.
The people I know who have left specifically due to Covid are young professionals, either single or childless couples. Yes, they could easily afford to move.

> You leave SF schools to escape diversity

That is exactly what I said. This gets euphemistically phrased as "The test scores are too low. I don't want my kid at a failing school."
Home security tech hacked into cameras to watch people undressing and having sex
One of the keys to effective social media marketing is the exact same as the key to effective content marketing: providing valuable content.
Sorry for being snarky, but the title should really be: Team at a Static Website Discovers that Dozens of Megabytes of Unnecessary Javascript Is a Bad Idea, Learns Nothing.
Well duh. Obviously experiencing well-being results in making more money.

[looks around] am I..am I surrounded by lizard people?
How do you pronounce SPAC?
The Salton Sea is such an interesting phenomena. An accidental diversion of the colorado river creates the largest lake in California (I think) and a community springs up around it. You have jet skiing, sun bathing, and other activities that local californians can partake in.

Agricultural runoff and a lack of an outlet slowly kills the artifical lake until its completely poisoned and millions of fish die and wash up on the shores spelling doom for the new community.

I've camped there several times and I recommend anyone near Socal to go check it out. It gives off very dystopian vibes but you can't help but awe and gawk while watching the locals like you're watching the last of humans in planet of the apes. It's wild.

I can't find the pic of missing kissing a fish bone but here a few pics I could scrounge up.

The jesus loves you mountain is outside the salton sea but I find it amazing.

https://imgur.com/a/39lJ047
We have lots of solar in Germany (50% renewables in our electricity mix) and we’re paying the highest price per kWh in the whole world.

Let alone that we’re emitting 400 grams of CO2 per kWh on average while it’s just 50 grams on average in France.
So the question is is GitLab an aberration or ahead of the curve? To me it feels like the latter but I admit I don't have evidence of what the future holds.
You’ve missed my argument. Almost all cultures venerate their history in the sense of socializing the idea that their country is basically good, and founded in ideals that are basically good. That’s very important to conservatives, because they believe 90% of everything is bad. If your society is successful, then you have to teach each generation to respect what came before, because whatever prosperity you enjoy is a product of those things. Moreover, teaching people that their country is basically good gives disparate groups common ground to stand on.

The traditional American approach (my education in Virginia) reflects that. We learned about slavery, the trail of tears, etc., as bad things that happened in the process of living up to fundamentally good ideals.

Calling the US a “slaveocracy” or the Constitution a “racist document” (as the 1619 Project does) is a radical departure from that.

To a conservative, its obvious you can’t build a functional society on the notion that the country and its shared history is fundamentally bad, and by reframing shared traditions ranging from Independence Day to Thanksgiving as “racist.” Maybe that’s wrong and liberals are right. But that’s why stuff like the 1619 Project causes conservatives to flip out.
Do you know another group that stole ad-revenue from the media like high tech companies did?
Except now it feels like a California Prop 65 warning that you see on literally every business. “Something in here may cause cancer. Is it a bottle of toilet cleaner locked in the supply closet? Is it benzene in the hummus? Who knows!”
I was very confused on how power was being supplied over RS-232 (DE-9). Apparently this is for Amiga's 9 pin connector which does have a +5V pin.
This.

As cool as PV is, there is a big difference between always-on, modular power source and one that has a variable and intermittent production.

It would be like saying one doesn't need heating in the winter since heat is cheap in the summer.
You're comparing end-user energy cost with production costs.

These are not the same !

The cost you're comparing (0.17€/kWh) includes transmission costs (Enedis + EDF), taxes (CSPE, ...) AND the energy cost (~0.06€/kwh, market rate).

You cannot compare costs between countries like that, because taxes are different and transmission costs too.

You must compare market rate costs (from eex for example).
Yes, that’s all accounted for. Can be looked up in one of the IPCC reports.

Google for “GHG emissions life cycle IPCC”. I’m currently on mobile so I don’t have the sources at hand.
People who don't fully understand certain emerging technologies are free to spread FUD about that technology to their hearts content.

Nevermind that the Fediverse is not an emerging technology, having been in operation for almost 13 years* at this point.

* https://web.archive.org/web/20201028234912if_/https://mastod...

* https://web.archive.org/web/20210124192004/https://social.di...
The very limited depth of field of a microscope necessitates doing depth stacking for every field of view. This is done automatically by the apparatus. As a side effect, it gives a heightmap, but with the lens used for the whole-painting scan (what HIROX calls "35x", corresponding to ~5 µm sampling resolution), the elevations are not reliable, especially near the edge of the field. For selected areas, a higher magnification was used that gives much more reliable elevations. Sadly, only a small fraction of the painting was imaged using this higher resolution, so the 3D data is spotty.
Yeah, basically.
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"I don't really think the Itanium factored into it"

There's a sibling comment that mentions Compaq putting in the final nail. But, my impression was that more customers might have switched to Alpha servers (from HP-UX, Solaris, etc) if they didn't think Itanium was going to win the market. It also gave more credibility to x86-64 by sort of confirming that old-school RISC was dying. Itanium did end up with a heavy stigma, but there was a time when many thought it would be the future.
> BobJS

account created 57 minutes ago, commenting on a post created an hour ago.

Man, this smells fishy.

Where's dang ?
Nice overview by Matt from WordPress: https://ma.tt/2021/01/new-whitehouse-gov/
Just curious - do you invest in startups?
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Do these numbers factor in pollution from uranium and coal mining and enrichment? For uranium there is also the burden of storing it for a few ten thousand years.

You also need to factor in that Germany is exporting more power than it imports within a year, primarily to Austria and Switzerland but also a bit to France.
Right. I have a shared hosting site I used to host some projects on and now I keep it solely for a single wordpress site for a relative.

My thinking was a wordpress-specific provider might be cheaper so I went out looking for one with disappointing results. `
Yeah, that, using the --date parameter on git-commit.
Harvard’s top astronomer says solar system may be teeming with alien technology
That's an incredibly disingenuous comparison; Germany gets just 10% of its power from solar, while France gets about 75% of its power from nuclear. Once again, this is not some sort of demonstration that "solar doesn't reduce greenhouse emissions," it's an indication that people need to start building pumped storage.
I can promise you the energy industry knows about both CapEx and OpEx and has incredibly in depth models on them for all relevant energy technologies.

And on the topic, I can also promise you that they do in fact know about the concept of capacity factor and that the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow.

And on the topic of France, their reactors oveheat the river they use for cooling and have to shutdown. And just as you claim you can't soley consider the cost of a plant, you can't solely consider the smokestack emissions of a plant without consider the mining, enrichment, handling, and disposal of nuclear.

Germany has a large CO2 output because they have a large manufacturing industry, and for policy reasons technically decoupled from their investment in solar, they also maintain production capacity of a dirty type of coal as power source because they have it in abundance within their own borders, its a security interest.

If you think your armchair analysis has outsmarted the energy industry then go ahead and invest in fossil and nuclear i guess.
How did you arrive at half a million?
>"Quotes

On the question, why the Linux desktop has not been adopted by the mainstream users yet:

The basic failure of the free Linux desktop is that it's, perversely, not free enough ...

Desktop Linux distributions are trying to "own" 20 thousand application packages consisting of over a BILLION LINES OF CODE and have created parallel, mostly closed ecosystems around them ...

The Linux package management method system works reasonably well in the enterprise (which is a hierarchical, centrally planned organization in most cases), but desktop Linux on the other hand stopped scaling 10 years ago, at the 1000 packages limit ..."

PDS: An absolutely astute, perfect, exact, "dead-on-the-money" observation -- if you ask my opinion...
That’s a non-answer. National populist parties rise with increased immigration and a feeling of their society changing from what they’re used to.

How do you tell people who vote for these parties to not do it? I’m also an immigrant but it’s become very clear to me that telling people what they want is bad and they shouldn’t want it is not working at all
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+ there is no mention of batteries etc. Batteries are most important component and I doubt it has improved so much.

Yea I don't understand these non-sense which doesn't includes whole system costs.
Could also be that the environment has changed since the original studies were done in 1999-2002.

I know that my subjective well-being was higher with an income of $100K in 2008 than it is with a half-mil+ in 2020. Why? Because the social system around me wasn't crumbling. Pre-GFC it was hard to imagine the degree to which your fellow Americans could end up hating and distrusting each other. $100K/year was a very respectable upper-middle-class income that could buy a house and have plenty left over for savings.

Now, you can be making a couple million a year and only be worrying about who's about to take it from you or whether your assets are going to be worthless in the next financial crash. You're certainly better off with that couple million than without it, though.
> > descendant combinator should have been » and indirect sibling combinator should have been ++, so there's some logical relationships among the selectors' ascii art

> wat

Skipping the combined character mistake, it means it should have been: > for direct descendant, >> for indirect descendants (instead of just a space), + for direct siblings, ++ for indirect siblings (instead of ~).
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Which is actually not true at all. Modern nuclear plants can be operated in load-following mode and reduce and increase their output by 10% and more within minutes.
Both can be problems. The lack of housing just big enough for a single, maybe couple, with an occasional guest (friend/etc) that later becomes the first baby's room. The lack of overall social stability to promote relationships.

In more modern terms, also the lack of a home office for each working adult; because society still hasn't digested the possibility of remote-mostly working and how that can be a good thing, rather than the hell many are facing during this pandemic.
That would make you, someone who hasn't donated billions, evil, correct?