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Not trying to pick on your comment but I'm always frustrated when someone points out "obligations to shareholders". I wish people would push back on this more. Sony's obligation when building and selling the PlayStation is to the end user customer. Not the shareholder. Because if Sony has only the shareholder in mind then a gaming console is probably the wrong market to be in from a pure profit perspective. Sony's obligation is to the gamer who wants a competitive, performant console. If they put out a next-gen console that has no games to play nobody will buy it and end up with no profits. Organizations have it backwards if they think they should be catering to their shareholders. Shareholders expectations should be that Sony has expertise in the field of consoles and I'm investing in Sony with the understanding that I want to invest in that. When I buy Sony stock I don't think Sony has bringing me a few more points in profits first over doing the right thing and building the best product for the end user. I hope that my investing in them allows them to better continue to innovate and bring compelling products to the market.

Milton Friedman's doctrine was a failed turning point in business thinking [0] and unfortunately pervasive in people's perspective today. Prominent shareholders often have different motives than that of delighting the customer. Motives that are very short term profit driven. Such a toxic way to purport value.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
But for the places with those well known companies it's a good way to check salaries across location. (Which should still be a proxy for overall market)
Holo token flamin' HOT: gain over 100% in 5 days
Ugh, send this forgettable piece of crap to the trash compactor already!
> Spain does not recognize it unless you're Puerto Rican.

So if you parents aren't from PR, or if you do not speak spanish or what?

> Source: I tried it and went through the process. I'm from mainland US, lived in PR and now live in Spain.

Tell me more about it! I'm thinking about moving to PR if there are more Covid restriction due to the new administration (curfew like in Europe)

I'm also considering Spain.
Full text: https://archive.is/myzAe
> My father wasn't white when he came here 30 years ago. Somehow magically I am.

This is interesting. Can I ask what your ethnic background is?
Kind of, see the monthly attestations at https://www.paxos.com/attestations/ . It's significantly better than USDT, but IMHO not fully at a level where you can say "properly audited" without any caveats.
Great point. I’m working with a client right now where 90% of the operational pain and low impact dev could be resolved by admitting that the project does not need to resemble a FAANG system.
>> meanwhile, solar is safe to set up, safe to operate, and there is no radioactive waste to manage

Only some giant amount (only 300x compare to nuclear) of non-radioactive waste that ends up in poor countries. Do you care about that?

https://www.solarpowerinternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

https://www.wired.com/story/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die...

https://www.technocracy.news/solar-energy-produces-300-times...
Just read their whitepaper and how exchanges use it before you downvote someone that has a different (correct) opinion than you. DYOR
I started looking at getting my Italian citizenship last year and then COVID hit and I wasn't about to travel to the consulate in San Francisco to deal with it. Kids have both US and Italian though. I hope to do it at some point, although I have some nagging doubts about Italy making a grab for US assets that are probably unfounded.
did you google the article that says how they submitted papers to NY attorney that they are fully backed?
Atleast until the inevatible hack
That reminds me a bit of PEAR, which also held that the "level" is so weak that it requires massive samples to detect. If I recall, in The Demon-Haunted World Sagan mentioned it as one of the three "psychic phenomenon" concepts he thought that it was worth examining further, not because he believed in them, but because the usual mechanisms of science had not yet completely removed all of the confounding factors to reduce the results to mere noise.
You can be a software developer and have a family and friends. You're acting like there is only one choice when you are passionate about software : hunker down and be lonely with your computer as your only company.
Desert solar is certainly going to be part of the story, but I can’t imagine that we can feasibly power the whole country with desert solar alone, and I don’t think residential solar will be a significant contributor because you lose the efficiencies of scale afforded by acres and acres of collocated, homogeneous, ground-level panels for construction, maintenance, and operation. Consider even the overhead of dealing with thousands of individual property owners rather than a single land owner (if that—the utility may own the land for a solar farm outright).
> US index funds are a risky play right now.

Why?
> According to the IEA we are spending more on nuclear power research than any other category.

Does that include fusion research?
My point was that PhD dropouts can land on their feet but it’s not a question of “following their passions and do something that makes you happy.” It’s really a question of “give up your passions and do something pragmatic.”

My career in software is also “fine” and even somewhat “lucrative” given that I don’t work at for-profit companies. But it’s not how I pictured my life going and it was a difficult adjustment.
For sure, I think in an English speaking country you would probably get your point across. They would most likely come back with asking for confirmation that you are declaring 'mayday', but you would probably cause varying degrees of confusion in many other countries.

I suppose the aim is to make it absolutely clear as quickly as possible that you want ATC to press the big red button labeled 'crash' which sets off the alarms in the airport fire station and causes other controllers to start diverting flights away and telling planes on approach to go around.

These two podcast episodes about the last major crash at Heathrow are pretty interesting if you want to know what happens in ATC during something like this. The fire appliances were already en route before the plane hit the ground.
http://airlinepilotguy.com/adam-spink-and-speedbird-38-part-...
http://airlinepilotguy.com/adam-spink-and-speedbird-38-part-...
It's hard to put your finger on the true "main point." Energy, especially nuclear energy has always been fraught, politically and technically.

Your point is definitely poignant currently. Renewables are looking like a good bet atm.

A fundamental point is that nuclear energy has a lot of potential, ultimately. The debate will always be about investing in nuclear now. Long term, it's hard to imagine nuclear energy doesn't have a place.

In fact, it's surprising that nuclear energy hasn't been a bigger gamechanger. That's my last point. Nuclear energy has been, historically, somewhere between "eh" and disappointing. Applicable where natural gas is inconvenient.

The fact that most nuclear plants them are nuclear powered steam engines... something not right. Generally, nuclear is promising. Particularly, the options available to a region that needs power just aren't that attractive.
I vaguely remember the Linux logo hunting phase and the platypus. The platypus made sense to me, but I get the appeal of Tux. And it's funny that it would be more than a decade from the first time I used Slackware before I realized what Slackware was named for, lol.
Can you please contribute something other than snark?
How did you reach this conclusion? Do you have some sources and numbers?

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio... puts the latest number at 173,340 TWh in 2019. This is an underestimate for the current value as energy consumption has been increasing.

https://cbeci.org/ estimates the annualised consumption based on a 7 day moving average of 120.87 TWh for bitcoin. To be generous let's assume all cryptocurrency mining is double that for 241.74 TWh.

That's only 0.14% of the total energy production, a lot of which comes from renuables (abundant cheap electricity means more profits for miners).

Even if you assume the worst case of 1100 gCO2eq/kWh (https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/post/postpn...) that's 265.914 Million Tonnes and https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-co2-emissions-per-... shows the 2019 value at 36.44 Billion Tonnes

That's a grave overestimate of 0.73% assuming the most pollution energy production and even then it doesn't even compare to any other sector: https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector
Technology has no rights; it is a logical abstraction describing the works of humans.

I like to think that humans have an inherint right to engage in creative work that pleases them.
Our present situation is also pretty nonsensical, though. (There’s no wealth on an uninhabitable planet.) Yet, here we are, stampeding towards the crisis. So, if you squint, Silent Running predicted that, too.
Job hopping programmers are compensated for how rare their skill is and not how much value they add to the business. It’s another flaw in capitalism.

Reward employees a direct and substantial cut of the profits and incentivize to them to stay 5-10 years and these behaviors should disappear.

The loss of job security, frequent job hopping has created more incentives to optimize for the next job switch and not value add.

The explosion of startups also contributes to this. They often have to attract employees by offering the promise of new tech. New tech can propagate these days same way how Bitcoin prices rise. Our industry is in a financial bubble which has created a complexity bubble. The financial bubble collapsing will pop the complexity bubble leading to huge surge in boring / low overhead stable tech.

Not to mention how ageism plays into this. People will hire someone who spent the past 5 years switching between 5 different JavaScript frameworks over someone who spent five years writing Java at some boring company.

Most startup employees know they aren’t getting rich. They go on to milk the startup for maximum resume points and move on.

The VCs unload these bloated companies into inflated stock markets and the cycle continues. Some small progress at the cost of tens of billions and lots of running in the same place.

Our industry is like some eccentric Howard Hughes drowning in so much money that all we do is come up with ever more esoteric contraptions to escape from reality.

DHH starts really small companies and pays his employees really well and doesn’t work them too hard. Employees have no real reason to leave. They see a direct link between the low overhead and their job security and work life balance. Since the team is smaller the work is less alienating / hyper specialized leading to a deeper connection with the company and its customers. Aligning incentives fixes a lot of problems.
Then we should celebrate her firing, because the future of civilization depends on keeping CRT out of our institutions, Google included.
Users. Users are holding all of this USDT. Anyone with a dollar pnl on Binance and most other exchanges is actually holding USDT.

The exchanges don’t have any USD. They never did and they don’t have banking relationships to process USD anyway.

As to why anyone would hold USDT especially when there are better alternatives? They wouldn’t. But it’s not redeemable (Tether claim it is but it’s never actually been proven).

Fiat goes in. Tether comes out. And that’s irreversible. It’s an amazing scam.
So much pascal in my youth.. my BBS software was pascal and a mix of assembly.. been a long time.
The Drunk Test
I assume you've weighed this against the waste materials and environmental impact that results from mining gold, such the usage of mercury or cyanide to process the ore.
Which cryptocurrency of the day is mined does not matter to the argument.
Aren’t you consuming this site, which is funded by one of their biggest venture capital companies in the world, on a machine created by “the system“, and probably working for a company that is part of “the system“?
it does not have an appimage. does it?
With a Swiss passport and the place of birth being Switzerland, nobody will ever ask them.

If they are asked if they have other citizenship, they can always say Germany - end of the inquiry.
You are talking about worst case scenario.

There are nuclear reactor types specifically built for getting rid of high half-time traditional nuclear waste.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/destroying-nuclear-wa...
exactly. fission is great if its run by smart, motivated people. unfortunately, the government is not always populated by the kind of people who are up to the task. and they are not always structured in a way that allows them to work optimally. its a big, complicated system. to have total confidence in it is foolish. its like any other huge, complicated and convoluted machine... you should be skeptical of it, not blindly faithful in its ability to do things like manage nuclear waste. maybe someone comes back at me saying that the government already does things like manages the nuclear arsenal, wages war, etc. my response is that you should be worried, we should try to reduce all of that as much as possible.
I was very disappointed when I joined Amazon to learn we were using plain old Java with servlets (this was 2015, I think kotlin is more common now). Since leaving I’m in awe of how sensible the technical decision making that led to that was.
I would dearly love a world in which you provided a reason to download a comment on this site.
Sure, maybe to other people in the world who are not as privileged, but help keep society tick anyway. We can be grateful to them that their toil is allowing us to spend our time doing this. But like the sibling comment said, employment is a business transaction, even if it’s usually heavily lopsided in favor of the employer. Typically it’s an organization owned and run by people who are even more privileged than us, and that don’t have any qualms about applying pressure in the other direction when they can (see the working conditions of most of the aforementioned ”other people in the world”).

Of course we should be respectful and strive to do our best and provide value commensurate with our compensation. But if the market is such that people can take a pick and go to companies that let them have more fun while doing so, I think that’s great. It’s a pretty calvinistic mindset to see it otherwise.
Russell's Teapot
False equivalency. 100 T of diffuse material reaching Earth, likely burning up, isn't the same as or even remotely comparable to parts falling off aircraft due to man-made negligence. Jettisoning honeycomb cowling sections because a particular model of engine is relatively unreliable, through design, manufacturing, or maintenance, isn't an excuse for not fixing it or not using a better engine if it cannot be fixed economically.

Could you proofread and type correctly so we understand what you're saying? I can't read all of what you're saying.
Are you under the impression decommissioning a nuclear reactor is a simple and tidy task?
It uses energy from the sun to turn xenon gas into plasma and shoot it into space. This makes it use 10 times less propellant than conventional systems.

The xenon gas is the propellant. This still comes from the earth so it's far from free. It's just more efficient.
They're actively not winning good pr because gamers realize they're being screwed despite nvidia's rhetoric, and miners can now no longer recoup some money from old cards they no longer need by reselling to gamers. And, everyone realizes how shit this is for the environment.

You can say Nvidia is making a smart business decision (questionable) but to say this isn't anything other than a pr disaster imo is incorrect. The people who were the target of their press releases saw right through it.
It's not. Checking it means however that the bank will report certain information to US authorities.
Well, there are vast amounts of highly toxic oil that we yet have to extract from below the surface - if something of that leaks by accident then it will poison and kill everything it will touch and it has been there since the dinosaurs died :-). Radioactive waste is solid waste and the amount is small - even if someone would dig it up, it would be only a local danger and it could maybe kill a reduced number of humans, but it will not be a global catastrophe. We are probably producing more highly toxic and poisonous waste that is not radioactive but it will also last hundreds if not thousands of years (e.g. toxic heavy metals) and kill many more people. Tens of thousands of people die every year from industrial pollution. How many people die from stored nuclear waste? Zero? (and even in worst case when a future civilisation digs up the nuclear waste - we are not speaking about hundreds of thousands like in case of industrial pollution).
I think that is a valuable point. With respect to SF, I assume you are talking about transient tech workers. I’m not sure I agree with this. In my experience, SF natives are loud advocates of the broken public policies. I think the innumeracy that leads to careless spending and lack of accountability runs deep in both groups.
Hah, and I am in 20 years of tech trying to take myself closer to medicine.

Python can serve so many automation scenarios for you that I really could not recommend any better language for general purposes, great choice!

As far as sharing, welcome to software! Unlike medicine, we have the luxury, some even think obligation, of releasing early, learning from our mistakes and the market and re-iterating. Those that share the fundamental cultural values of openness, experimentation, and helpful feedback in software are, luckily, widely present here.

"If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late" Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn, for which he should forever be ashamed for, but he did release on time).

I would suggest, now may be the time for you to reach out to devs and request personal mentorship in Python, explaining your high load with medicine and motivation for Python. Getting personal feedback and guidance will speed up things by a lot! (Unfortunately, I'm not a Python expert, can't help there ).

Best of luck with your future projects, you're very much on the right track!
Still doesn't make sense. Even if what you say is true, then the valid comparison is to compare nuclear to wind rather than nuclear to solar.
I don't know, but I think the destination is primarily the stock market for the past year. Maybe some also went to bitcoin.

- Fed open market operations: $2.8T introduced over 9 month by the Fed in 2020[1].

- Stock market (DJIA) run-up in 2020: $2.2T [2]

I don't think this can be just correlation, even on the simplest reading of how the Fed OMO works, but there is debate about this[3].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1. I believe M1 money is a good proxy for the Fed's open market operations that would go towards the kind of asset purchases that would increase stock equity valuation. I'd appreciate any feedback on this

[2] DJI went from $22k on Mar 1 2020 -> $30k, for an $8k change by end of year. DJI had a market cap of $8.3T when it was at $29k Dec 2019[2.1], so 8/29=0.27. 27% of 8.3T = $2.2T.

[2.1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Jones_Industrial_Average

[3] https://economics.stackexchange.com/questions/12226/does-the...
Hope you have a solution to never having bad government.
Talk to the PhDs at Princeton and their collaborators:

* https://environmenthalfcentury.princeton.edu/experts

I'm just copying and pasting the December 2020 report.

Off the top of my head, renewables (in the US) only produce electricity about 30% of the time, so you have to 'over build':

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor

They have energy storage experts, so I'm sure batteries and such are taken into account.
ok well lets settle it. how much waste would be produced if the whole country ran on nuclear? regardless of the volume of waste, how serious is a breach of containment? is the waste a target for terrorists? can it be weaponized?
Rocketlab is trying to carve a niche with smaller payloads -quicker to orbit clients. This is why their rocket is smaller. If you have a small payload and you don't want to wait for a ride on a Falcon 9, you go to them.

Designing and flying a Falcon 9 competitor is a very risky proposition. They would start heavily behind SpaceX and with Falcon 9 proven record, it's doubtful they could ever win that fight.
Targeted enterprise sales^W^Wspam?
as a software dev? germany, norway, switzerland, denmark, ireland
I do the same. Sometimes the snarky comment will make me feel good but usually I decide that the point I intended will be lost on the readers so best not to post. Ultimately it's still a kind of trolling and not adding value as you indicate.

I also find that sometimes I'll write a well written and reasoned comment, but it may go against the typical group think. So I'll not post that as well. It seems all too often people use the arrows to indicate agreement or disagree instead of well written vs poorly written and the comments to debate the merits.

Such is the nature of things.
> Slowing down innovation

- most "exiting" tech is not a innovation. It's just rehashing long known and previously failed concepts in new clothes. And sure due to improved UX, computation capabilities and/or better engineering it now might succeed or well just fail again.

- most companies purpose is to create revenue (hopefully by creating a good product). So there isn't any interest to drive innovation if everything can be done completely fine with existing tech.

- Just using new tech doesn't necessary drive innovation, only by giving useful feedback can it drive innovation. Something which in my experience is often not done, especially in smaller startups.

- If exiting tech enables you to do thinks you couldn't do before or to do thinks much more efficient (mainly productivity wise) then sure go ahead and use it but in my experience for a lot of companies opting to use exiting tech it's not the case at all.

- Not all exiting tech fits all company sizes, there is quite a lot of exiting tech which is generally good but at some point as a massive major overhead. Which any massive company can handle but which makes it a horrible choice for smaller companies.

- Lastly some exiting tech is not just not innovation it's more like de-inovation and the only good think it has going for it is that it easy to get started with and "is fun"/"exiting" or similar.

So I would only use exiting tech if it gives you a good benefit over other tech you can use instead.

Be aware that better UX can totally be a benefit good enough to make it worth it. (With UX I mean the developer experience as the developer is the direct user of the tech.)
Compare your best estimates of land usage to the amount of land the US uses to grow corn for ethanol.

Or compare it to the amount of land used for parking. Or for roads. Or for roofs of buildings.

I've never, not once, ever seen a comparison of this sort that sounded the least bit scary.

2. I'm a bit flabbergasted that you think we can scar nuclear production to what we need. We can't even scale nuclear production to hit replacement rate of our existing reactors. Nuclear does not scale, because it can not be built.

And I'm similarly flabbergasted that you think storage would hit scaling problems, when we build new factories for storage all the time, use new chemistries all the time to reduce the use of limited input components.

Storage production is growing at a massive pace, problems are getting solved all the time. Nuclear is shrinking all the time, gets more expensive all the time, and we can't even figure out basic concrete pours and welding. These industries are hugely contrasting, but I don't know how you can reach your conclusions when looking at the reality of storage and nuclear as they are in the real word.