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These kind of articles are truly disappointing. Downplaying how dangerous heroin is is simply criminal, at least morally.

Unfortunately though these kind of positio are made possible by our stand against drugs. Currently nearly all western countries are simply banning all drugs. This war on drugs, however has proven to be ineffective at best. The truth is that the more we fight drugs the more problems we cause.

We should aknowledge that drug use is not the problem, it's a symptom. So instead of prohibiting the drugs, we should be helping those that seek drugs, to cure the underlying problem. If we did that, we could even sell drugs in pharmacies. The point is curing and helping out people, not putting them in jail.

Switzerland has done this for nearly 30 years with great results, we should learn from them.
It depends on who you ask. I personally would like to have an answer to that question if it exists, but if it doesn't well that's okay too.
Wipr is what you’re after. “Native” adblocker for Safari. I’ve switched to it from uBlock years ago and not looked back since.
Yes. I definitely see you up there with Turing / Dijkstra / IBM 360 / DEC and Unix.
Bitcoin (and the other coin systems) ultimately need to be able to handle transactions by a large number of users if they are to gain widespread acceptance. If I want to buy something with my coins, I don't expect to see "Sorry your transaction timed out. Please try again in a few moments". That is NOT confidence inspiring to me as the coin holder, and certainly not to the person/business expecting to receive my coins.

Bitcoin needs to be able to handle at least a few hundred transactions per second as a first goal.
Every region prepares for what they are likely to face. Florida prepares for hurricanes, California prepares for earthquakes. If a hurricane hit California, or a large earthquake hit Florida very bad things would happen.

Likewise the average in February high/low temperature for Austin TX is 65/45 F. They had no reason to prepare for a prolonged deep freeze that dipped as low as single digits.

...That is until it happened.
For those interested, the "3D projection of a 2D surface" that the author mentions is more formally called AdS-CFT Correspondence[0]. The AdS stands for "Anti-de Sitter spaces" and CFT for "Conformal Field Theories". This finds that the "surface" of the former looks like an example of the latter.

Man, the author has stumbled onto such a cool bit of physics/math. Wish I could ramble on about it more, but I'm about to head to work. Hopefully, someone else can elaborate!

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdS/CFT_correspondence
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Apple is trademarked, so why not Uber?

https://trademarks.justia.com/771/72/apple-77172511.html
I always found AMFV very underrated. Maybe I've never really been a puzzle person but I liked that one because it was more of an interactive story.

Also really liked Planetfall. Those three (along with Hitchhiker's) were all written by a classmate of mine who I knew quite well.
For your enjoyment, detailed recommendations from 2011, none of which were implemented:

https://www.ferc.gov/legal/staff-reports/08-16-11-report.pdf
What is a political issue is when political leaders lie to the public about the cause. "It's the wind turbines fault." "This is why green energy can never work."

These kind of blatant falsehoods should be inexcusable, but we're living in a strange world these days.
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I went asearching about this. I'm not from the US and basically I'm aware that NASA have a logo.

This: https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/5-8/features/symbo... seems to be the authorative/PR source and it mentions the creator of the Meatball but not the Worm logo. That's probably a simple oversight but a sad one nonetheless.

FWIW I'm a fan of the worm. The meatball thingie is a bit formulaic for my taste.

EDIT: He also created the logo for this: https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/02/18/obituaries/18blac...

I think this is nicely apt:

“They say in life there are moments that are once-in-a-lifetime opportunities,” Mr. Blackburn said. “And I got two of them.”
I agree that use cases may be limited with crypto, but some are pretty valid. E.g. international transfers are faster and cheper with crypto.
> On a side note all those virtual currency are just plain wrong on the environment side, it does not make any sense in 2021 to have a currency that need heavy computation thus increasing power consumption.

I don't know how can you say that after volatility in banking systems crashed large parts of economies of at least a few developed countries leading to resurgence of nationalist leaders that fuel and use those sentiments in people damaged by banks gambling on stuff they can't be trusted to count properly.

We'll see how well your wealth gets preserved when China stops buying US debt for whatever reason and oil is sold for euros or yuans. I think there will be proper mess in global economies and you might use a thing that can't be fudged by people.
I stopped watching videos like these when they started chanting like some crazy cult when things went well (USA! USA! USA!). No wonder we can't just get along.
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I’ve got a few designs planned over the next couple months that I’d love some help with. I am a software guy and my circuits “work” but are probably not the ideal designs. We’re talking single layer PCBs that I etched myself using a laser printer, an iron, and some acid... would love to see them be actual PCBs, but the complexity of my circuits is quite low. Any way I could get your contact info? My email is in my profile, would love to pick your brain on how I could improve, and send you some virtual coffee or something!
If it was made with off-the-shelf parts then it's a testament to how wasteful NASA has become. Building that helicopter took them 6 years and $80 million.[1]

1. See page 20 of the launch press kit: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/mars_2020/download/...
After landing discussion – Perseverance Mars rover and Ingenuity Mars helicopter
> Because greed leads people to harm and neglect others for gain

I accept a job offer than pays me more, that is greed but how does that cause anyone harm or cause neglect ? I think you are mistaking lack of compassion on charity to be greed. Which societies or successful people are not greedy in your case ?

> It's probably not the best movie to teach this, but at least it's for adults and it came to mind easily.

I do not take moral lessons from movies. There might be bad people everywhere but greed has very little to do with it.

> rough rehash of some melodramatic libertarian propaganda meme

This is just flamewar. Extreme ideas are a good way to compare principles. Once you agree that stealing is bad, it is irrelevant how much stealing is bad.

The example of North Korea has nothing to do propaganda meme. The observation, real observation is that people are giving arm and leg to move to areas with lower taxes, these areas also have reasonably well quality of life.

> We're talking about tax havens (and a weird assertion that they should be pride-inducing),

Using our logic (or rather lack of) "haven" is a socialist propaganda term. Some political entities have figured out that by having a "BETTER" tax regime they can invite more wealth and wealthy. Singapore an Hong Kong are such great examples. You in one stroke are calling them "greedy".

Not only is factually wrong, it is also pretty self righteous of you.
particularly skilled people go in to grid operation control rooms, power plant control rooms, airplane cockpits, etc, all over the world every day. This is their career. They are trained to deal with failures of the system they operate and to take over control from the automatic systems when the computers can't make the right decision.
By all means, please point us all to where we can get personal loans at negative interest rates.
There's a theory on how the universe is structured that instead of space-time being like a uniform grid, a Cartesian space, that space-time is made up of nodes which are linked together. I guess kind of like a voronoi diagram in 4 dimensions. I wish I could remember the name of those theories.

If space-time is packed together in most places, then it might resemble a grid to us. This model works in a lot of interesting ways too: wormholes are just links between two otherwise unconnected regions, the curvature of ST can vary depending on the region, and time can flow at varying rates depending on how "dense with time" an area is.

One thing I like about it is that Planck units kind of just represent a minimal distance between nodes (indeed, the connections between nodes defines "distance" and "duration") and everything else just falls out of the geometry of this ST graph.
AMD already did this. The RX6K series are terrible cards for mining. The radeon 7 smokes the new cards because the new ones where designed to be as bad at mining as possible without effecting raster performance.

RX 5700 will hit 55mhs and the RX6K series will do ~68mhs, but the cost of the 5700 is typically like half that of a 6800.

There's a reason it's easier to find the new AMD stuff in stock than nvidia stuff, they've got a terrible mining roi.
Yes there is a lack of regulation around winter weatherization. However, this is not a Texas only problem, in fact the PUCT requirements for weatherization exceed the current NERC standards and are similar to the new requirements that should be approved in November. Also standards for weatherization were proposed to NERC all the way back in 2011 but they were rejected.
> The comment is pure ad hominem

You got that wrong. Listing the many ways in which someone doesn't know what they are talking about is a statement of fact, not a personal attack.

If I argued a bunch of nonsense on HN about an article on biology and someone called me for not having a clue, that would not be a personal attack, they would be factually accurate. Biology is not my thing.

Sometimes we just need the truth.
I work in a healthcare adjacent business and while there is a large amount of information out there and a lot of market participants it isn't nearly enough information to make an informed decision. Whether a drug you currently use will be reimbursed at your local pharmacy and about what your out of pocket cost will be is entirely opaque to the consumer - it's even opaque to drug manufacturers and, in many cases, the precise cost is opaque to insurers until the pharmacy actually states their fill cost to the insurer for reimbursement - and these charges are arbitrary and continuously in flux.

When shopping for individual insurance you're trying to balance a lot of future unknowns - will you puncture your kidney in the next year and need dialysis? How likely is it and how much is 50% POC (Price of Charge) coverage worth to you? Are you going to need an oncological drug due to a sudden cancer diagnosis - those can easily run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars a month - I hope you don't accidentally choose an insurance that covers treatment for all variants of cancer except the one you need treated.

The health insurance market is insanely opaque and most employers pick a reasonable plan and, when that plan inevitably refuses to cover a necessary procedure for their employee - they bitch and moan at the company over the phone and leverage their collective bargaining. There are also some really good reasons that the ACA didn't extend the individual market as a replacement for medicare since those insanely expensive and obscure treatments get more likely as you age.

Right now we're sorta surviving on insurance supplemented by go-fund-me and good will but that's a terrible system. Sudden insane health expenses can happen to you - I hope they don't, I wish they didn't happen to anyone - but our current system treats most folks decently well and really screws over a select few, and not due to any particularly stupid decisions on their part in most cases.
Ugh. This is really shallow analysis.

* Solar is the only form of renewable energy where this is a potential problem and there are already solutions that actually exist. Solar farms can also be vertical (look up 3D solar farms) or even on water (look up floating solar farms), which avoids this supposed land problem altogether.

* Even if we use traditional "2D" solar farms on land, space is not all equal and most of it isn't arable. With vertical farming, all that previously non-arable land is now usable for farming indirectly via solar panels. We still get desired effect of increasing our capacity to grow food in the face of shrinking available arable land, which is the whole point.

While I think this is an early technology that will be pretty niche for a long time, i'm glad it's being developed and has potential applications today. It's my view that vertical closed system farming and fusion power (for desalinization in particular) becoming practical on an industrial scale is vital for our survival as a species in the coming centuries. If the predictions on topsoil erosion and climate change are even partially correct we're going to need this technology figured out.
> If companies would agree not to sell or share my data with third parties (law enforcement serving a warrant being the major exception) then I have no real issue with the tech.

In many countries (Russia, China, Myanmar come to mind) you would not give the law enforcement exception. How certain are you that, in 20-40 years, your current political beliefs won't get you in trouble with the government?
Yes, though none of my contracts with either company prevent me from doing so.
Don't, it's not accurate at all. "Mining" in the context of Ethereum is what powers it, not some abstract useless calculations.
It looks like it is still unfixed
I remember reading this article a few years ago and it's still so simple and interesting to this day.
You may have heard the fed printed a lot of money this year.
NERC doesn't have winterization standards. It has reliability standards that tend to require winterization. Texas would not be in step with the generation standards without more significant winterization, therefore they'd have to improve their systems to meet those standards.

Edit: Here's a PDF of all the standards from NERC. Search "winter" or "ice" or even "cold" and you'll get zero hits.

https://www.nerc.com/pa/Stand/Reliability%20Standards%20Comp...
Try running the numbers for actual lifespan.

Callaway is 1,190 MW on 2,767 acres at 87.70% over it’s useful lifespan, but that’s ignoring permits + construction = 10 years and decommissioning which takes ~30 year. Even a generous 55 year operating lifespan is still reduced to 87.7 * (60 / (60 * 10 + 30)) = 48% capacity factor. Using a 20% capacity factor for solar (aka non tracking in a good but not great area).

That’s 1,190 MW * 48/20 = 2856 MW. A very good modern panel is hitting 220w/m2 add spacing, equipment etc, and 110w/m2 is a safe bet. That’s 2856 * 1000 * 1000 / 110 = 26,000,000m2 or 26 km2 or ~6,424 acres solar vs 2,767 acres nuclear. Lower efficiency panels bump that by 25% or so.

Clearly a win for nuclear, but not a 100,000 acre win.

PS: That said, this is largely a moot point as even with reprocessing we would quickly run out of fuel with large scale indoor farming.
The politifact article is responding to nonsense like this blaming wind turbines for the shutdown: https://mobile.twitter.com/Acyn/status/1361868404534112257

Note that's the governor of Texas in that clip, not some internet armchair grid operator.
> I would say the majority of those outside responses are from people who see Texas as some kind of backwards red state that was overdue for some comeuppance.

Consider that Texans have a well-earned reputation for talking about secession from the union, Don't Mess with Texas, etc. In some ways the dynamic between Texas and not-Texas reminds me of the dynamic between USA and not-USA.

> turn Texas blue

People have to realize that there is not really red states and blue states. It's urban-vs-rural, and whether a state turns red or blue has everything to do with the growth of metropolitan areas, not some shift in political values.
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Inept judge, or certainly one not steeped in the ways of finance. People make wire errors all the time. Fraud occurs, things happen. I haven’t read the statute but as written the exception doesn’t even apply (Citibank being an agent and not the lender.)
GameStop stock worth $359M 'failed to deliver' following frenzied short-squeeze
Where can we get the download image for Virtual Box? Would like to try my hand at it. Only tried it once one afternoon in 1996 or so. Made me laugh when CDE came up, because I had previously tried it on a Slackware install I had at the time.
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Yes, it would mitigate it, until ISPs outright block all known DoH endpoints (probably not feasible though, too easy to fire up another one.)
I think it's possible to detect if we're in a simulation or not. I think of it in a similar way to detecting whether or not a system is running in a virtual machine or on the hardware machine itself. Even if the VM is really, really good, there may be sidechannel tests that can be done, like measuring the amount of heat generated for a given computation, or weird timing attacks, or edge conditions that affect the underlying hardware.

For every action taken inside the simulation, there will be things that happen on the "hardware" outside of the simulation and since it's simulated, not real, the "hardware" won't respond in precisely the same way as it would if it were actually real in every possible circumstance.

The only simulation that would respond in exactly the same way as a "real" universe under all circumstances has to be a perfect 1:1 mapping in terms of "universe hardware", which is exactly the same as running on "real" bare metal.
This is the logical conclusion of central planning in the currency market - where supply can be infinite and is controlled by monopoly, as opposed to currency bound to a real asset, or otherwise can’t be created from nothing such as bitcoin.

Inflation hits those who have a salary, as their purchasing power sinks. The rich earn their income from owning capital, not from contracts where they trade hours per dollars.
Exactly. The DC ties with the other grids are small and can only import <1 GW, but even if they were larger it wouldn’t have mattered much in this case. TX was pulling 600 MW from the Eastern grid but even that had to be shut off because Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Missouri etc were all under blackouts too. The other grids had no spare electricity to share.

TX also has ties with Mexico, but those were useless too because even Mexico was hit hard by this storm and had blackouts all along the US border.
Messages in iCloud is end to end encrypted.
Not an apple fanboy, please argue on merit, else I won't continue.

Apple isn't ripping off anyone. They're taking their cut of sales based off the value of providing access to a high paying market that has a non-negligible cost. The point is - Epic is not doing this "for the market." They're doing it because they want more money for themselves - which is fair, but they are using a service which provides them revenue. That should not be free. For that matter, they have a monopoly over their store as well - should they have to allow third party "VBucks" stores? It's absurd.

> Apple is using it's market position.....

It clearly is worth that, in fact, probably much more - others on this thread that support your POV have said the App Store generates twice the revenue of Android. It's not just the convenience - it simply makes devs more money. Cutting the app store will tank developer value instantly. Developers will lose big time in this event. There will be many on here that will begin to complain as their salary dips. Also apple already cut the fee for smaller apps. So what's the real problem? I have yet to see any tangible evidence of consumer harm.

> And App Store can be as curated.....

That opens the door for malware and a poor customer experience. I can see my mom now being tricked into downloading a privacy invading app. my dad's android is a nightmare. It destroys the product.

> I generally agree that you have the device choice....

There isn't market inefficiency. It's hard to argue monopoly of a company that has 20% of the market. The IE/Windows debate is far different. Both DOMINATED the market. This simply isn't true in this case.

The fact is every time this comes up on HN people just hate Apple, but never look at the actual merit of the arguments. It isn't a monopoly (less than 20% global marketshare), its fees aren't exorbitant based on the value it provides developers, and end consumers get a clean, relatively safe experience. No one is losing, except megacorps like Epic who want to make a little more money.
What does this have to do with the environmental harms caused by crypto? Two wrongs don’t make a right.
you're wrong. That video is a bunch of crud
What's the practical difference between mandating a minimum wage increase and mandating benefits? They both increase the cost of labor without directly making that labor more productive. It's not surprise that price controls negatively impact the labor market, like it does to other markets.

If we want low wage earners to take home more income, it seems more prudent to subsidize their pay through a negative income tax rather than try to fight against mathematics and supply/demand curves
> Thomssons

What is the origin of this term? I can't find anything with Google.
Oh interesting! Very cool, thanks for the info :)
This is a glimpse of hope, because a current trend basically kills the gaming market above 1080p for an indefinite amount of time (if not forever). $2k+ per card every 2-3 years is non-viable even for hardcore enthusiasts.
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What I don't really like in cargo is its' overcentralized and author-centric approach. What if some of your dependencies relies on the crate, which author doesn't support anymore and doesn't even accept patches? You will basically have to maintain a fork either with a different name (because you can't push it to crates.io) or have a patched version which you also can't push and have to manually update every Cargo.toml of every dependency in your project to use your fork. And what if you have not only one Rust project in your complex system? You will have to update or vendor everything. This is a real maintenance hell.

While in C/C++ I can just build a fork as dynamic library and put it to the system image or to the own package manager repo.

I mean for sure Cargo is great for small hobby projects, but for the big complicated enterprise projects it's not really suitable. Even Google doesn't use Cargo in Fuchsia and vendors everything.
That's true, I am just more exposed to the Twitter and Reddit coverage, which is decidedly blue team. There is absolutely a bunch of red team folks trying to use this to their advantage. However I will say that I don't think red team is going to be as successful as blue team in this event.
Someone from a more temperate climate asked me about sweating in the South once.

"What do you do when it's 90+ and you need to be outside?"

"You sweat and accept that other people sweat."

If you shower once a day, a little sweat isn't a bit deal. I think of it as making sure my pores are clear.
You are just playing word games as you just redefined the term interconnector.

In power grids an interconnector is used to move large amounts of power between grids and if it can't do that then is not an interconnector.

The Texas grid is and independent grid control by ERCOT exactly for this reason.

It was always designed to be independent by the Republican government that has controlled Texas for the last 20 years.