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> The populist narrative likes to simplify complex economic topics into rich versus poor narratives as if this was a zero-sum game.

There are multiple populist narratives. At least equally popular is simplifying into the narrative where the non-zero sum aspects make up for any number of other problems (cf Regan's trickle down stories).

I guess it's hard to simplify complex things without losing important information.
> People without both debt and assets aren't paying anything.

Poor people without debt still pay because their buying power continually diminishes. Their $100 saved today isn't worth as much the next year.

Poor people without assets still pay. They are forced to pay rent to those who have assets. The rent will be priced to cover the debt of the asset owner.

> People with savings, and who own debt are the people who suffer from inflation.

People with savings most typically invest it. The higher the inflation, the riskier the investments they will take to ensure their savings don't dwindle away.
The two big dangerous things to withdraw from are alcohol and benzodiazepines. Opiates withdrawal won't kill you (but you'll want it to)
I'm accidentally dominating my own contest
Last week I released a project that allows anyone to anonymously submit project ideas and then vote collectively on their favorites. The top voted project gets built.

Before launching the project, I submitted a few of my own ideas anonymously so the first visitors wouldn't see an empty list.

Over 500 people visited the site. They submitted 39 project ideas (some spammy, but mostly interesting). And 634 votes have been cast! I'm so grateful for all these people engaging with my project.

But here's the irony: my initial ideas are absolutely dominating.

They are the top 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th ranking ideas. I don't think it's because they are so much better than the other ideas. I think they had a huge advantage because they were there right from the start and got more eyes on them.

There are still 24 hours left of voting, but it looks like it would take a miracle for me to not win my own contest at this point.

I'm sharing this here because I'm fascinated by unanticipated consequences and accidental corruption.

Would love the hear your thoughts on it!
If only it were that simple.

The hard part is getting legislation passed that mandates adherence to standards. Texas has prioritized minimal regulation and low taxation and "running on an infrastructure platform" means nothing if you can't get it enacted into law. Right now the TX regulatory climate is fiercely against these kind of measures and, terrible as recent events have been, I don't see it changing any hearts or minds in Austin. It's just not where the state government is at.
I am very, very sympathetic to the people of Texas. There are a lot of decent folks in a terrible situation solely because of their awful and incompetent politicians.

The schadenfreude I feel is at the blowback these same politicians are getting for their idiotic statements:

- Ex-mayor Tim Boyd forced into resignation after saying "if you were sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising!" about his constituents? Hilarious!

- Gov. Greg Abbott getting raked over the coals for blaming his failures on California? Keep it coming!

- Sen. Ted Cruz being called out for previously saying "California is now unable to perform even basic functions of civilization, like having reliable electricity"? Inject that right into my veins.

There are lots of good people in Texas. There are also lots of decent, hardworking, well-meaning politicians. I'm not enjoying these nice people having to suffer. I am very much enjoying the self-inflected suffering from the handful of visible idiots in charge.
The trick is to always auto close transactions at the end of the request.
How did the pioneers survive?
15.5-18Mbps
But multiple nodes offers you resilience against node failures not just drive failures. And with Ceph you have the flexibility to add or remove single disks as you like. And you have multiple storage interface not just FS, but also S3 or block device if you like.
The DnB scene in Atlanta is probably the best in the nation and far less gross than the UK's. There's some great Techno clubs too, but some of the better ones are illegal so you have to know someone (this was true pre-covid).

There's tons of world music in Atlanta too, since Atlanta is one of the primary locations new refugees get sent. That's why you can get just about any cuisine on Buford Highway.
Germany has lots of plants near larger cities. Neckarwestheim NPP, for example, is just about 25 km from the city of Stuttgart and it operated a rather old boiling water reactor at the site until 2011.

At this point, only the far more modern Neckarwestheim II is operational at the site.
Also https://www.wherecanirun.org/
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That's sad. Texas is pretty green in terms of power generation - even compared to California. Texas is 20% renewables [1], California is 32% [2].

[1] https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=TX
That's just standard issue Republican politics and not at all specific to Texas. COVID is a hoax, there were WMDs in Iraq, the guy with horns in the Senate is the leader of Antifa, Trump won by a landslide, etc.

I started calling the party "Soviet" way back in the Bush (or "Bushevik") era, and it's only gotten even more so since then. While the official party platform is quite different from the old USSR, the whole "the party platform dictates the facts of reality" thing is similar. I predict it will only get worse. Qanon is in the process of taking over the party.

It can have only two outcomes: the victory of an irrationalist / anti-realist Qanon party and the ensuing collapse of the country, or Democratic single party rule which may lead to the same... due to what happens when you have single party rule.
Do you mind elaborating on these what these foot guns are and how to avoid them?
What is the average yearly take home of people working multiple part-time jobs though?

Most people live bill to bill, probably more-so those less advantaged.

How many would really be able and or willing to save like that?

Isn't the more simple answer getting rid of this crazy system and profit incentives by nationalizing healthcare?
I wouldn't confuse mockery for active attempts to harm.

When California had wildfire disasters, Trump actively impeded efforts to provide relief, and Texas politicians openly attempted to delay federal aid.

Now that the shoe is on the other foot, Biden immediately activated FEMA, and NO national Democratic politician to my knowledge is arguing that Texas should not get immediate relief. And I completely agree that Texas SHOULD get as much federal relief as possible.

But as far as hurting their feelings go? I mean, during the wildfires, Texas politicians like Ted Cruz were very happy to mock us, so what's the issue, really?
Dust on the solar panel seems likely to be a problem after the first landing, unless it's got a clever way to keep it clean.

And its got to be tough conditions for the battery, low temperatures and probably deep discharges to make the most of it.
Yes, but a Solokey is half the price of a Yubikey that could do the encryption implied by OP. And to be fair, even Solokey is too expensive for most.
If they pay for the rewrite, they have control over it.
Plus, part of the profitability of mining cards is being able to resell them once their profitability is low (and they do usually still work fine for gaming after a year of mining). The new mining cards will have to be insanely profitable to make them look better than the 30-series cards.
They should just relaunch it as ÜberCheats!
If both those product lines use the same dies, mining is still taking GPUs away from gamers.
They won't do this. Its their run-around to giving law enforcement access to the devices.

They can claim that the device is secure and always encrypted, and all the messaging is encrypted, and they don't collect user data. This is all true (i assume, but did not audit).

If you care about security, all you have to do is turn off iCloud backup, and everything is secure. If you don't care, well then you have a great feature.

They upload plain-text versions of messages, etc to iCloud so if law enforcement asks, they can still comply with the juicy data. They don't need to back-door the iphone for the Gov. which was a major PR issue a few years ago.
> […] but it seems like every avenue of "you deserve it" is being explored on social media towards the people there.

I don't know about "deserve", but if you don't want to get hit by lightning, don't go golfing during a thunderstorm.

Texas had a similar storm in 2011, and there was a report about what should be done: ERCOT decided to ignore it. Meanwhile, some places that are not managed by ERCOT decided to pay attention:

> El Paso is not apart of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), a major grid operator that controls about 90% of the state’s electric load. El Paso Electric, which oversee's the electricity from Hatch to Van Horn, said the Borderland is apart of the Western International grid.

[…]

> El Paso Electric said they always try to prepare for the future and after a winter storm in 2011, the utility company worked towards replacing and upgrading their equipment. Many generators now have antifreeze protection.

* https://kvia.com/news/el-paso/2021/02/15/el-pasos-not-seeing...

Meanwhile, former Texas governor (and previous Secretary of Energy) Rick Perry:

> "Rick Perry says Texans would rather be without power for days over more federal oversight"

* https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/rick-perry-says-texans-woul...

H.L. Mencken once said: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

The people running the show now, and for the last few decades, in Texas is supposedly what 'the people' want (notwithstanding over suppression).
Or the obvious solution: put hydroponics on traditional close to ground greenhouses... Potentially best of both worlds, if they are sufficiently distributed on outskirts of cities.
It’s easy to predict who will have problems with opiates, very few go from 0 to 100 without skipping steps. Just license the users.

Commit any infraction, drive or work heavy machinery while under the influence, your license is suspended until you complete rehab. Do it too many times and it’s suspended permanently. Use while unlicensed, it’s jail time.

This way there is a progression. We don’t have to waste police resources on those who can handle it. The minority who can’t are directed into rehab to deal with their issues first, and only the minority of that group who fail to shake up get jail time.

Meanwhile crime is down because drugs are affordable. New addicts are down because kids aren’t getting laced drugs. Deaths and overdoses are down for same reason.

And it all costs society less, less police, less crime, less hospitalization and less death means less taxes.
I'm not sure that's what this is. I think this is more an indication that the Texas power grid infrastructure has been messed up for years and this should call into attention how messed up it is. None of this is new engineering or revolutionary engineering. People have decades of experience around the world building reliable power grids able to withstand serious winter storms of shocks to the system. The fact that Texas does not have a state of the art grid able to points to decades of mismanagement and incomptence.
Natural gas isn't helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Lithuania can opt for small nuclear reactors like Estonia did:

> https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/No-time-to-waste-in-...
I'm not taking a side here, I'm telling you what is happening because I have friends and family on both sides of the isle.
The space shuttle was partially reusable.
OK, but it still seems like a problem until people can see that this doesn't affect their games. Perhaps this will reduce demand among miners after all.

I shouldn't be surprised - this is what Nvidia already does with their Quadro vs. consumer line. Heck, I owned a Sound Blaster Live! which was functionally equivalent to the EMU APS and used the hacked drivers for years back in the olden days.
"I am very much enjoying the self-inflected suffering"

This seems like something that would be very bad if applied to everyone. Perhaps I'd get hate for saying this in 2021, but I'd prefer a society where no one enjoys anyone else's suffering, no matter how much they dislike that person or feel that they 'deserved' it. I want a world with less suffering for everyone, not more.
You really do have to drive close to the cliff when it comes to electricity generation. Producing too much power can damage the grid, and producing too little can damage the grid.
I wonder how much of this is Nvidia getting pressure from the Gaming industry to do something about it. As far as Nvidia is concerned they are selling as many units as they can produce, so it is a gold rush for them. The gaming industry I am sure is getting concerned that for their new AAA titles already under development which require these high end GPUs, their customers won’t be able to get ahold of them. Or at least will be unwilling to pay the huge markups that the cards are going for.
I would rather work 40 hours without benefits than 29 hours without benefits and then trying to fit in an extra 11-20 at another place every week(also without benefits).

What a short sighted rule enacted by the government. I don't see how they didn't recognize what would invariably result.
I actually support wind, and I think that it's great that ERCOT leads in wind generation. Hopefully they just need to do a better job at weather-proofing in the future.

What I have a fixation on is false claims that wind generation did not contribute to shortfalls. Failing to produce power by design is not a very good defense of wind power, while the out-of-context quotes that wind "exceeded expectations" are conspicuously missing any details of just how woefully low those expectations were.
thats Mars 'tonight', of course
You have to read up to the second sentence.
This has easily been the worst thing I've seen this week (other than the disaster itself, of course). The way that I've seen so many centre-left urbanites talk about people in "red states" is outright genocidal at times - how could any sane person see someone with differing political opinions lacking power, water, or heat and think, "Yes, punishment!"? Somehow it never crosses their minds that if there are people in the South committing various wrongdoings (racism, voter suppression, draconian criminal justice system, etc), there are even more people in the South suffering from these wrongdoings.
I don't think Chrome does any of those things on desktop.
When you've finished adding classes, would you know to click the "courseload" button in the top right to complete your enrolment? Probably not.

It's lazy UI but in some ways it's going to be more intuitive, not less, to any student who's ever used an online retailer before.
Exactly, it's all damage control. From Abbot coming out and immediately blaming ERCOT Management and calling for their resignation (deflecting attention from himself) to trying to blame renewables (like we even have enough to make a difference). How appropriate no one in Gov is blaming their buddies in Oil&Gas for not winterizing pipes and well heads.

Abbot and the Legislature should resign, they did what Terrorists and Covid couldn't...they brought the state to its knees through gross negligence.
> The Texas storm was a 1 in a 100 year storm, so there was no way to plan for it, it was a black swan.

Sure you can, people plan for far more rare occurrences. It costs money and will and nobody was willing to spend any. It is a tradeoff but saying you cannot plan for it is nonsense.
Same thing for ECC being disabled on customer GPUs.

And ECC disabled on customer Intel CPUs and AMD Ryzen APUs. (AMD is quite sneaky there, non-Pro CPUs have ECC but non-Pro APUs don’t). Market segmentation is a usual thing on the computer market.
Congratulations to everybody involved! Not my language anymore but glad to see it getting a little better than before!
The best many non-founders can hope for is a cushy acqui-hire deal.

I've had several friends have the startups they worked for acquired, and their equity was worth nothing due to valuation and unfavorable liquidation preferences.

They got a nice hiring package from a big company, but not significantly better than one can get from applying on your own. And the opportunity cost of taking a below-market wage for several years probably nets out to a loss in pure dollar terms.
"The worst case scenario: Demand for power overwhelms the supply of power generation available on the grid, causing equipment to catch fire, substations to blow and power lines to go down."

Technically correct yet hypothetical bullshit.

Earlier in my career I worked in this industry designing automation equipment. A substation has more than enough protection relays with redundancies designed to shed load, turn on auxiliary cooling, trigger systems down the line, etc. The automation is far from rocket science, and reduces to comparing against thresholds and protecting the equipment or circuits as appropriate. Logic that matters defaults to a disconnected state, such that if the safety itself fails then the system is put in its most conservative mode, even if that means stuff turns off.

It would take work and massive negligence to override multiple layers of automation (software, firmware and physical connections), so based on the information provided I'm not giving the operators here any special credit. No blue ribbon to the guy whose job was to watch a circuit breaker trip.
Un-winterized anything freezes if it's cold enough. The nuclear power plants and windmills shut down too. The issue is that nobody spent money winterizing everything because they never expected it to get this cold there. It's an issue of how much you want to spend preparing for the worst, not an issue of what type of power source you use.
What word choice would we prefer? "Some". As in, "there is some correlation".

The issue isn't word choice. The words express what you're trying to say perfectly well. The issue is that we think you are wrong. Simply choosing different words isn't going to fix that.
I think it's inappropriate, for sure, but I'm no more "shocked" than I was when California was burning and folks on the right were doing the same. A younger me would hope that this would establish some empathy between the Texans and Californians... but today, I can't see how media companies would profit from that, so I'm not holding my breath
I did a project in Atlanta which required my presence on-site, so every week a flight to and back. I've spent enough time working there that I had to pay Georgia state tax.
Anyway, I consider Atlanta to have one of the worst airports in US. Pathologically long lines through security, even with the rapid pass.

Maybe it won't be a problem in the Covid era, with zoom calls everywhere, but in the pre-Covid era Atlanta was a PITA for travel.
Engineers constantly rail against the “mind over matter” hubris of managers. If at first they are right they just push their luck again and again.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Especially when people asking for money are telling you these things.
Thanks! AP seems close to I'm looking for, which is a plain news with less opinion.
> what is 15 years minus the amount of time it takes to build out a nuclear power plant?

If the last European projects are to be taken as models, it's a negative number (Olkiluoto 3 started in 2005 and not online before next year at best...). Not better for Flamanville 3, maybe Hinkley Point C will be achieved a bit faster...
I'm surprised there aren't more independent apps geared towards maximizing earning for drivers. Like it can't be that hard to create an artificial surge price if there's enough coordination between most regular drivers at popular spots (e.g. airports).
I can understand not wanting to write an essay every time. I've moderated forums myself.

The reason I mentioned the links was because 'this is the policy' didn't really seem to apply when I was addressing the amorphous reasons for the policy that could apply to any number of active discussions on HN right now. I didn't doubt it was an actual policy.

But either way it's not my call, best of luck to you.
It is (I think) much better now - it is ghdl as a plugin synthesising to yosys IR. The nightlies from https://github.com/YosysHQ/fpga-toolchain have it all ready to go.
> Hell I'd run on an infrastructure platform if I had any idea how. (And of course the means to run.)

All that is required is to know there is a problem and to judge who is likely to have a workable solution if you seek them out.

Politicians don't know anything about technical issues. A good politician's strength is in knowing when to defer to experts and to judge who is a good expert.
The bright side is that it only takes $10 of stimulus to fix that potential $30 economic disaster.... if you give it to the right person.
the governor repeatedly said all energy sources failed, including gas and even nuclear. he gave specific numbers, pointing out that more energy was lost with natural gas compared to wind. of course people omit that because it's counter narrative.

also, Texas is a leader in wind power. it produces more than any other state and more than most countries.

If Texas were a country, it would rank fifth in the world: The installed wind capacity in Texas exceeds installed wind capacity in all countries but China, the United States, Germany and India. Texas produces the most wind power of any U.S. state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Texas
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It's worse than that, this article basically says:

"ERCOT has no idea how to do a controlled shutdown and cold restart."

My God, man, that's like Priority 1 of your job--have a plan to reboot.

What a bunch of morons.
>that artificial market segmentation for software should be analyzed separately from artificial market segmentation for physical goods

This is akin to economic voodoo. There is no reason to do anything different for either one - they are products, customers buy them.

Once you want this artificial split, I guess based on your (incorrect) claim that there is no marginal cost (original claim) or lack of any real marginal cost (backpedaled claim) as the deciding factor, then when do you start to add a continuum of how you analyze based on a continuum of costs?

If there is a marginal cost 3/4 between your two cases, do we now need to interpolate your forms of analysis? All because you personally don't like how markets work?

Or why not simply use the same method, standard economics, to analyze them? And realize all these products have the same benefits to consumers via varied pricing?

>The software stuff you brought up is a red herring.

No, it shows how markets work. That you move your goalposts in the middle of a thread is the fallacious reasoning.

And you've failed to address that segmentation like this allows people to buy that could not have otherwise. Do you dispute that segmentation allows cheaper pricing for some consumers, and in some products, all consumers? Are you arguing for higher prices or just ignoring this empirical fact?
Some type of semi-reflective coating to keep heat low and closed loop systems? I wonder how expensive and actually complex would it be to find nano-scale substance that would reflect most of wasted light spectrum while allowing the one needed...
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I’d call it fixed spelling rules rather than pronunciation rules, since the language predates writing it down.