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Accidents are bad but left-overs are even worse. I wish people would think more about long-term problems with spent fuel rods. I don't think that burying them is a viable solution as the Asse mine in Germany shows.

https://www.dw.com/en/nuclear-waste-in-disused-german-mine-l...

The salt mine was deemed to be safe for thousands of years. But then people discovered ingress of water. And salt water is corrosive.

I am sure that we will experience very expensive disasters with nuclear storage the next few thousand years.

We should never have used nuclear power in large scale.

Edit: And we should shut down coal, too. It's not about nuclear vs coal but nuclear vs renewables.
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> Before the great depression and the federal reserve, weren't there financial crises/panics over and over?

They were tiny, and they were mild by comparison.

Even with the Fed, not exercising "flexibility" has been a better option. In 1920, the Dow dropped 47%, deflation hit with prices dropping 20%, wholesale prices dropped 37%, and unemployment went over 10%. Neither the Federal Reserve nor the federal government did anything.

You have never heard of this intense deflationary depression because it didn't last for 11 years. It lasted for 18 months.

Edit: > but obviously there was a reason we set up all those institutions and laws in the 30s, because the way things worked had become untenable.

There does not. Poorly run institutions are a staple of the Modern Era. The reason the Fed was set up was because it aligned with the philosophy of central control within the progressive movement. Until Wilson, no presidency had ever been called an "administration." (For an unbelievably sad look at that former president, look at his favorite book called Philip Dru: Administrator.)
Is this a common issue for you ?

In my experience, the most common 'don't match the job requirement' issue is mostly about lack of experience (e.g. out of school and applying to senior position).

And in this case I don't really blame them for trying
We've also spent 30+ years trying to build nuclear plants on time and on budget and we've been unable to do that.
> . When private companies screw up, who gets left with the bill?

The share holders (which often includes the leadership). Their shares drop relatively quickly to close zero.

I think, however, that this is not enough.

Share holders of a company should be liable as individuals for the damages the company causes in case the company cannot pay.

This would strongly encourage share holders to pressure the CEO (which is also usually a share holder) to run the company in a sustainable way.

Also if the CEO does "gross mismanagement", share holders should be able to sue them as individuals, but from the point of customers, share holders should pay.

The only reason "stonks can only go down to zero" is because we have put in rules in the system to make it that way. When a company fills for bankrupcy, the risk for share holders is limited (to their original investment).

If we change the rules and make share holders accountable, then stonks will definetly be able to go way below zero and share holders will need to foot a bill here, potentionally leaving them all bankrupt.

Once that happens, then customers might still be left in debt. IMO at that point employees of the company should start footing the bill. Many employees look away at wrong business practices because there is nothing in for them in trying to push for change and doing the right thing.

If everyone involved with the company would be personally liable, most companies would be run very differently.
In corporatese, "lack of diversity" means too many white and asian males, and generally if you're concerned with too much quantity of something, that's because this something is deemed bad.

The relevance is very direct. The next thing those "concerned officials" will notice is that asians and whites get much higher grades on math and other stem subjects.
You could be interested to checkout libreho.st and chatons.org, who are two generic hosting coops federations. tildeverse.org is a third one centered around PUBNIXes, that is servers giving away shell accounts specifically.
The problem with all these self-hosted PaaS is that they have to reinvent the wheel. Every PaaS needs some database to store information.

So what's really missing is that someone would build a self-hosted RDS. A complete solution with a good backup concept (e.g. wall-g for postgresql), ability to restore from backups and in later versions maybe the ability to setup read replicas and do manual failovers for high availability (because automatic is still not easy).

So if there would be such a solution every PaaS could just say use "awesome free rds" for database storage and they have to implement a lot less functionality. And even if you don't want to use a PaaS and just install everything directly on a server, a DBaaS solution is still needed by a lot of folks.
It isn't whataboutism if people write off an energy source because it creates visible and containable waste and as a result a much more dangerous energy source wins out that emits much more of an invisible and uncontainable waste.
In the space industry, “flight” is used for all types of vehicles so I’d also argue to use that very broad definition rather than terrestrial terminology.
I do suspect that a lot of "our CI says this compiles on platform X" situations, for quite a few programs, are targeting arch/os combos that genuinely aren't getting tested, with only the occasional hobbyist poking at it every few months.

It wouldn't surprise me at all of most of those just crash-on-launch - or crash when you try to do anything, even though the CI builds them just fine and they pass the automated tests.

For an awful lot of boutique platforms, it's usually "literally one person" that drove the work to port it to that thing, and when that person's no longer actively doing the work, bitrot goes wild.
> everything is speculation

You've reduced his argument to ridiculousness. That's kind of low-effort, so in that spirit: It's true, nothing is in fact certain. Telling yourself otherwise is a convention that makes it easier to live and be resilient.
As a 501(c)(12), they provided services at cost to all “customers” (members), as legally required.
Some dogs get uncomfortable or anxious if left alone in complete darkness.

Others might have poor night vision (mine tends to bump into things / have trouble using stairs if it’s pitch-black).

Learn to know your dog, they are not things that can be left alone in a fully dark, unheated home.
When we relocated, the new building already had the ethernet cables we know today. I was very impressed by the cabinets with the switches. The floors had little covers with power and ethernet. That was in the 90s.
Great work!

Can you link to the supplier of the driver board?

How did you go about determining the board was ok to plug into a shinny new panel?

My previous experiences with Aliexpress where a bit hit and miss. Either with issues of using obvious counterfeit parts or batch quality issues (order 100 and 70 are OK, etc.).
Question is what is more costly
private company + bailout
or government entity
Quite the contrary, I'd love to be able to continue using the 5K iMac as a screen once I get a new computer.
It will happen eventually. Until then, 4K is good enough for me.
If you're interested in some fiction with this concept: In Neal Stephenson's 'Diamond Age' humans have mastered assembly of individual atoms in basically arbitrary ways. They use it (among other things) to create flying airships with an envelope made of diamond with a vacuum inside. Found it to be a fun read in general.
The article you reference is a bit of a scare job, and you're conflating here on-site storage facilities with the actual operating reactor. Note that levels of tritium do not exceed limits in drinking water.

Because of nuclear physics (gamma energy levels, isotope half-life), it's very easy to identify when any contamination, even amounts that have no effect on human health, escape from a nuclear plant. Meanwhile, fossil fuel emissions (not just carbon-- soot and other particulates cause near-term health problems for humans) continue.
My Generation Isn’t Suffering Enough
Which for the majority of the UK means unpurchasable. With high rents in many places it's getting extremely difficult for a lot of people to save enough even for a deposit on a house, let alone buy it outright.

Oddly I think refusing to mortgage homes on flood plains is actually a good call by the banks. The local councils are just building in whatever idiotic places they like, stripping hills of the foliage which absorbs water to put houses there, then putting even more houses below where all the water now has to flow.
It is incredible that such a fund is not mandatory
Do you think that the organizations that couldn't bother to take into account a 1 in 20 winter would build safe and secure nuclear?

Also consider the amount of battery storage arriving onto the Texas grid in the next few years. If that would have been commissioned already, reconnecting neighbourhoods would have been much easier.
"The LG ultra fine is taken out of stock due to some EU regulations"

Is that true?

I bought one about two weeks ago from Saturn, for 19% off. Still waiting for the delivery though. According to "geizhals.de" there are a few stores that still have it in stock.
For the same reason anything that's profitable remains profitable for a while: It's risky to enter and there is a barrier to entry.
What you are describing isn't scalping. Scalping isn't about buying the entire supply. That's something completely different, namely market manipulation and this requires a huge amount of capital and you are not guaranteed to sell all your stock which makes it highly risky since the artificial demand could be outstripping regular demand. If you buy 100k GPUs and consumers only want to buy 75k GPUs then you would be stuck with 25k in this market manipulation scheme.

However, since there is actually more than 100k demand for GPUs there aren't enough GPUs for regular customers. Meaning that a large portion of consumers are actually getting ahold of GPUs which would make it impossible for market manipulators to buy the entire supply. You can't have both things at the same time. You can't be angry that stupid idiots get stuck on inventory because you aren't actually buying GPUs while at the same time being angry for there not being enough inventory because people are actually buying GPUs.

The reality is that people are buying GPUs and thus there is a lack of supply. Scalpers try to get ahold of the supply and auction it of fairly so that anyone who wants a GPU can get it since Nvidia failed to make sure that everyone who wants a GPU can get it.

>The only way to beat scalpers is to raise prices beyond what people are willing to pay, which forces scalpers to charge more to turn a profit, further raising the total price.
I guess I don’t see how an initially higher price would stop scalpers at all, they’d just keep buying the entire stock, anyway.

As I said, if scalpers keep buying the supply while nobody wants the GPU they will simply be stuck with the excess stock and since they are in it to make money they will be forced to sell the GPU at market rates which is a net loss for them since they bought above market rate and a net gain to Nvidia. For the customer there is no difference.
Nuclear energy, for generations now, always has a stronger theoretical case than a practical one.

Going on first principles, nuclear is amazing. Abundant. Clean. Cheap. Constant. When we build cities along the kuiper belt, they're obviously going to be nuclear powered.

Practically... Nuclear energy has been around for 60+ years. There have been massive investments. Many plants in many countries trying different things. It's rarely been a notable success. It rarely been especially cheap. Not that nuclear energy projects always fail, but...

To riff on the author's own analogy: nuclear never had a coal_vs_wood moment. It didn't ultimately matter that the clergy hated coal. Coal was better than wood by a big enough margin that it would win regardless. Nuclear was never practically superior enough to replace coal, and many countries that invested in nuclear divested later.

Renewables OTOH, despite their first principles problems are on an economic trajectory that nuclear never had in practice.

Long term, nuclear is a good bet. Practically, it's that bet rarely never paid off to date... and many bets have been made.
I believe it's due how huge the demand has become. Entry into software engineering has become really easy. Thus, people without proper are contributing to projects and the result is a mess.
No, they were not. Did you look at their financials? Maybe you should see how much this was very much not the case before saying more on the topic.
EU to propose digital 'vaccine passports' in March
That's true! I did very little combat overall -- I spent most of my time on the social side of the game -- but I did build a few of my own convenience scripts anyway, so the criticism is well-founded.

You can get by in PvE without anything overly complex, and it's honestly more fun to figure out how to deal with the damage and affliction patterns from individual monsters yourself than relying on an autocure system. (Achaea has strict rules on what goes beyond the line of "botting", too.) But yeah, PvP essentially required some automation to let you focus on tactics instead.
"The industry is moving so fast that arguments become stale very quickly but people are slower, it seems, to update their opinions."

How fast is it moving? "For the first time in nearly a decade, annual installations of energy storage technologies fell year-on-year in 2019. Grid-scale storage installations dropped 20%" [1]

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-storage
but, if coal burning continues to pump out carbon dioxide into our atmosphere and eventually completely upend any semblance of stable environment... wouldn’t it be preferred to make not doing that a priority?
> The net effect of consumer taxes is rich people pay less and poor people pay more.

As a percentage of their income, yes that's true!

> If we need to raise (consumer) taxes, then we may hit that upper limit you mentioned where people can’t afford the basics.

I think the solution is not to stop raising consumer taxes, but instead to have a way to make sure people can still afford the basics. And that can very well mean to _also_ tax income and/or wealth. Not to replace consumer taxes, but to enable them.

In the end, taxes are more less a 0-sum game in terms of money. So, in my (maybe naive) opinion, it is advantageous to create tax so that people are incentivized to create a better life (for everyone).

Think about it: with a high income tax and a low consumption tax, you are essentially giving people who have wealth but don't work an advantage. And there are certainly ways to get wealthy without working, be it inheritance, luck (lottery) or even illegal ways of getting rich without paying tax. Hence I think they opposite way is better, given that it is not at the cost of poor people.
Lots of "I think this okay" type of answers here. Here's the authoritative answer:

> Can I answer my own question?

> Yes! Stack Exchange has always explicitly encouraged users to answer their own questions. If you have a question that you already know the answer to, and you would like to document that knowledge in public so that others (including yourself) can find it later, it's perfectly okay to ask and answer your own question on a Stack Exchange site.

From https://stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer
The prices have been raised. GPUs of the current gen are (relatively) a lot more expensive than they used to be. It's just the case that the scalpers make them even more expensive.
Micro transactions were probably added in late stages of development by someone pressured to get the job done quickly and the developers were savvy enough to believe that the added overhead to slow initial loading was standard fare that users already accepted. Not enough time to optimize, forced to ship, and good enough.
Google lately "optimized" Chrome "time for the first page to load" by no longer waiting for extensions to initialize properly. First website you load bypasses all privacy/ad blocking extensions.
Yes, I can imagine that!

I was part of a mentoring program in 1993 where I was a shadow at the local hospital's IT department. They were able to purchase an Indigo for some sort of research and allowed me to explore it.

My home computer at the time was a 286, which could barely run Windows 3.0.
Spectre exploits in the "wild"
Let's hope they're not trying to log in with Google on their phones, because that hasn't worked for about a year now.
A father and his son were strolling down the street one day, and as they passed a woman the father tipped his hat to her. His son says, "father, why did you tip your hat to her? She's no lady, she's the town prostitute." His father says, "son, you're right. She is no lady. But I'm a gentleman."

> You choose to let them get away with bad actions

Nope. I said line it out.

> More people causing negative consequences to bad companies is a good thing though!

Behaving unethically makes you just as bad.
>while it’s normal to put down a month or two worth of rent as a security deposit, it’s much less normal to get it back

This looks insane to an Australian. I have moved house 4 times in the past 5 years and I have never not got all of my bond back. Some states here have a rule that the bond money is held by the state so that the landowner doesn't just take that money for themselves. How can the poor ever break the cycle if no one is willing to help protect them from shitty rent-seekers?
Never thought about it in that way about majority of .NET libs, even those made by 3rd party and most popular ones
Yes, but this is always the case when more people are doing something. The less gated something is, the worse the quality will, in general, get. When writing was the privilege of the few, written words carefully curated and edited and survive for ages. When everybody could write, there was a lot of trash, along with a lot of great stuff. The average will usually decline in such cases, because most people will not have the drive and resources to become excellent at it.

In the same way, when we are pushing coding at kids barely above kindergarten, there is going to be lots of crap code, but also much more excellent code, in general though, the amount of crap will overwhelm the amount of excellence so average will trend down. If you applied some kind of cutoff at the base, removing the absolute worst, the average might trend up. This is the case with anything that gets more democratized.
I was able to write something similar in chez-scheme

(define deriv (lambda (f)
(let ((dx .0001))
(lambda (x)
(/ (- (f (+ x dx)) (f x)) dx)))))
> If that were fraud, then any lie to anyone would be fraud.

Not really, unintentional and/or harmless lies wouldn't be fraud.

> That's not what fraud means.

Could you elaborate? What does fraud mean according to you?
There was a fantastic discussion some years ago on ways to design an organization to minimize the tendency to drift towards self-preservation instead of remaining customer-focused.

The HN discussion[1] was started by an article that provided numbers that seemed to suggest that Wikipedia's spending was slowly spiraling out of control.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14287235
You can if you don't connect to internet.
While we're at it, let's ditch the Eurocentrism and make that "... that took Europeans 375 years to find again"
I feel Solaris really got this right with its p* commands, e.g. pargs -e 42 or just penv 42 to mirror your example. Whilst in practice they may use a procfs they could use other backends if implemented on other systems without or with a differing procfs. These commands are a much cleaner interface IMHO.
And likely the staff at theverge large consumers of it, based on the type of articles they spend so much time publishing. Kinda like that perv who puts his hand over his face but peeks through his fingers.
I understand that Firefox is on average faster than Chrome at WASM, though there are plenty of tests where either is faster than the other.

However, I can’t find much actual qualitative performance comparison of Firefox (there’s a little more of V8).

A couple that I have found are https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/jangda (from almost two years ago), showing Firefox being about 20% faster than Chrome:

> Across the SPEC CPU suite of benchmarks, we find a substantial performance gap: applications compiled to WebAssembly run slower by an average of 45% (Firefox) to 55% (Chrome), with peak slowdowns of 2.08× (Firefox) and 2.5× (Chrome).

And https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3/blob/master/docs/Performance.... of CoreMark 1.0 (higher is better), showing Firefox being about 5% faster than Chromium:

Webassembly.sh (Chromium 78) 6914.325225 4.2x
Webassembly.sh (Firefox 70) 7251.153593 4.5x
> Royston Bypass

New road bad! There's nothing for you here.
I hate that it is asynchronous now. I liked it back before when you talked to someone who was online and you knew he was engaged in the conversation. Now all of that is gone. As you say "I'll just reply later"—I hate that.
It's not about nuclear vs coal but about nuclear vs renewables.

Just shut down both coal and nuclear!
One of the most egregious examples of this that I like to use is in natural resource extraction, mining, deforestation, etc. When mining companies start a project to dig a quarry (in Australia), they are meant to set aside funds for rehabilitation of the environment when they are done, this should come out of the profits from the endeavor. I consider destruction of the environment a socialised cost. Unfortunately, quite often, these companies will avoid rehabilitating the environment and misappropriate those funds, and then pay out massive bonuses to the few executives that could make it happen. Some of these areas will not be habitable for native wildlife for decades because the process is destructive and leaves the area toxic. The Flint water crisis is a specific example of this in America that really is affecting people. While I think you are technically correct, I don't think you considered the scope of the issue of privatizing profits and socialising losses.
One wonders why SMOM should and (say) Google can't.
They kill less people than coal if you make a very gross average of total deaths per kWh.

30 years after the Chernobyl disaster there are two uninhabitable subdivisions of Ukraine that will require control for the rest of human history. "Average deaths" doesn't matter when the people living near nuclear power plants have to be in constant preparation for total evacuation.

I agree with the parent comment in that I wouldn't trust Western countries in maintaining nuclear plants for 40 years and safely disassembling them afterwards. Luckily for us, renewables exist so we don't have to.
The WHO estimates that 4,200,000 people die every year from ambient air pollution. That’s one death every 7.5 seconds. That’s one Chernobyl death toll every 18 to 125 hours (depending on which estimate you’re looking at).

The argument about land being uninhabitable is equally silly, because land permanently submerged in the ocean tends to be uninhabitable as well.

The perception of the risks associated with nuclear is so dramatically misaligned with reality. The only conclusion I can possibly draw is that anybody who is anti-nuclear can’t possibly be taking climate change seriously.
It's the kind of thing that's very easy to accidentally write, it's not that shameful. What's shameful is not investigating the load times at all, since the problem is so easy to see when any measurement is done.