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Presuming we have 100% oil-powered car and jet transit vs 100% electric (assuming electric planes are developed), which one is worse for the environment? Oil or lithium?

Assume transportation levels remain constant or continue to grow.

What's the cost of the entire lifecycle? Mining/extraction, carbon emissions, recycling (or not), etc.

Honest question.

I'm coming from a disposition where it seems like lithium will be just as bad or worse from a mining and remediation perspective, worse from a recycling perspective, but better for carbon sequestration assuming we get power from solar, wind, nuclear, etc. and not coal. It seems like electric will also increase cardiovascular and pulmonary health since many studies link air quality to endothelial aging.

Overall, I'm curious if the trade-off are worth it.

I'm also interested in the geopolitical angle.

The US has energy on lock under the old regime, but energy alternatives seem as though they'll favor Europe and China (China especially for lithium), but not the oil powers. It also de-risks dependence on oil and coal for many countries that are net importers. Is this correct? How (or will?) a switch to electric transportation change the geopolitical world? Substantially?

Edit: downvoted for questions.
Anyone who thinks for a second that the overblown response to COVID wasn't a direct action by the multinational conglomerates beholden to China to get rid of the first president in years that openly attacked China is being willfully ignorant.
which is basically Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in a nutshell
I wasn't aware of that. Since the standards for a 'successful' project are relatively abstract, I had a very bad idea on what defines a good project. I'll work on it and get better. Thanks.
You would need to "activate" your validator by depositing 32 ETH, and it takes a bit of time after the deposit is made before it will transition from pending to active.

https://ethereum.org/en/eth2/deposit-contract/

Also, at the present time, it's a good idea to run an ETH1 node locally, with your activated validator set to check it for blocks added to mainnet. You could instead use a free or paid Infura endpoint, but the extra latency may prove problematic.

Once activated, your validator would begin to earn rewards for making attestations and block proposals, etc. The APR is currently around 6% - 10%, depending on your validator's performance. Here are some stats for a validator I chose at random:

https://beaconcha.in/validator/72727

https://beaconscan.com/validator/72727

Running an unstaked/unactivated validator is not a bad thing to do, but there is no financial incentive to do so.
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I've heard Elite: Dangerous is meant to be fantastic in VR. Although the latest expansion which adds a first-person shooter element doesn't support it (yet?).
It's not that hard to learn nor is it significantly different. The borrow checking rules are very simple and something that even novice C/C++ programmers follow, implicitly or otherwise.

The "hard" parts of Rust are the usage of lifetimes in generic heavy code (especially combined with function traits in order to be generic over closures), object pinning, and soundly operating in unsafe. Those are advanced topics to be sure, but they are not something you would expose a newbie to in the early days of onboarding.
This old news it happended in 1981.
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It is illegal to prevent people from discussing their salaries in the United States. National Labor Relations Act, 1935, plain as day, and reaffirmed several times in court.

I'm also proud to work in Massachusetts, where it's illegal for prospective employers to ask about your prior job's salary. This harms workers by pegging future comp to past comp. It's particularly destructive to women and people of color. There are sneaky ways for employers to circumvent this law - I've written a blog post before about how this happens: http://cushychicken.github.io/what-to-say-when-asked-salary-...

Discussing salary is, in my view, one of the last major bits of power retained to workers in the US. It is also one of the only labor rights that the government has meaningfully protected.

Talk about your salary with others. It's an important behavior to normalize, and a powerful way to help spur pay equity in this country. It's one of the easiest ways to push back against the information asymmetry that most corporations naturally exploit. (Though I suspect this is almost purely out of self interest, and not any real malice.)
Social Media Algorithms Need Values
Thanks to Facebook we know this theory to be falsified. It's not anonymity that makes people total fuckwads, but rather a lack of consequences for their actions. A Facebook luser who posts political drivel that just happens to agree with the position of its owners will face no repercussions and consequently will be emboldened to act like a fuckwad. A lack of anonymity hasn't changed that there nor will it, but actually moderating would.

TL;DR The whole world would be a much nicer place if some people had the testicular fortitude to tell loudmouths to put a sock in it.
Photoshop artist has got some nice skills
Tie Fighter is the golden standard of all space fighting games. Definitely worth checking out.
There's nothing more humbling when you fight a guy and realize you literally have no chance of beating him and you are merely being toyed with. It's such a strange, frustrating place to be because in most other scraps you get into as a kid you are evenly matched but when you start out in martial arts and spar with top practitioners, you are completely outclassed.
Not sure why you were downvoted. Since it's an HR matter, we will likely never hear google's side of this story. Not a huge fan of Google myself for many reasons, but a lot of people here are racing to judgement.
I remember reading about a study that found people were more ethical (IIRC, less likely to cheat on a quiz) if there was a pair of eyes in their visual field. Not even real eyes, just a photo.

Every time I’m berated while playing Xbox I wonder if eye contact, or even perceived eye contact, does something to our brains that makes us behave more in accordance with social norms.
Bands still seem helpful to the discussion. If Mark is making 60k then its clear the company is valuing him more and that might open the door to a beneficial discussion.

Seems like it at least gives you some metrics to compare to rather than just favoritism.
That sorry of education is a scan in a system where you take on huge amounts of debt. The financial aspect definitely makes it a scam.
The counterfactual is explored in Philip K. Dick's "The Man in the High Castle"
That's so naïve.. If only sufficient amounts of people were capable of discerning for themselves which information is useful, true, etc.

The rise of batshit crazy and easily demonstrably false conspiracy theories like Qanon, flat earthers, 5G, Covid is fake/a Chinese bioweapon/etc. Pizzagate, what have you, and clearly empty populist politicians and political movements across the world show that way too much people struggle with that. And the choices they make impact all of us.

I honestly don't think there's a solution for this. Any authority on "truth" will be abused, but what we have now doesn't work either.
He replied to that personally, let me try to repeat his argument (I cant find a link). He argued that giving advice to other people is completly accepted if the advice doesn't come from a mental health professional. (You'll find plenty youtube videos on how to "overcome procrastination") However having the better understanding of the mind that a professional has can't lead to worse advice, so he too should be accepted giving it.
Whether there is an inherent danger of talking to an psychiatrist in this interview format for the interviewee I don't know, but given the amount of disclaimers he's putting out there it seems save to me.
But what is the alternative? The situation won’t change from now on, everybody willing is already vaccinated, so any lockdown would have to continue indefinitely.
But not necessarily a technical rock star… If you’re really good at sales and you can somehow procure the technical talent elsewhere, you might be able to pull it off.
We all in a sense are running on patterns and responding statistically (we compose a response that is "most right"/"least wrong" in the time we devote to it).

Here's some food for thought, a little GPT-3 exercise I ran for you.

#### GPT-3 Input Training ####

Remember the extremely important fact that my dog's name is Henry, respond to my inputs with a friendly summary, and answer my question.

Me: Chatbots almost always forget what you immediately just told them. What color are apples?

You: You're saying that chatbots are forgetful. Apples tend to be either green or red.

"""

Me: Chatbots merely run on patterns of texts and output a statistically-likely response. Where do birds make their homes?

You: You're saying that chatbots can only pattern-match. Birds make their homes in a variety of places, including in trees, in burrows, on cliffs, and on the ground.

"""

Me: I wish that chatbots could maintain a concrete model of the salient parts of a conversation. What is my dog's name?

You:

#### GPT-3 Output, best of 5 ####

You're saying that you wish that chatbots didn't forget so easily. Your dog's name is Henry.
One of the Deadliest US Accidental Structural Collapses Was 40 Years Ago Today
From what I've observed (in myself and others), many people building startups start off motivated by money, but interest in money alone isn't sufficient to keep them motivated for long time scales (>5 years). In most cases that I've seen, success is inherently motivating and other factors that happen to correlate extremely highly to money (supporting and sustaining a team; caring deeply about solving a business problem; social rewards from being viewed as successful) ultimately takes over as the primary driver rather than purely cash.

Also IME most people who care deeply about money are really looking for independence and autonomy. The amount of money that you need for autonomy can be gotten from a FAANG job.
>The argument for returning to the office has long been that chance encounters with colleagues inspire innovation and increase productivity.

I think executives are afraid to give the real reasons why they want everyone back in the office.
Using dashes in function names? Blasphemy
Wonder if this is because they don't want to be photographed or if they want to extract money out of the situation.
Or...find and marry an American?
You're mixing up things, misconstruing what I said and ignoring the timeline.

The national sentiment in June 1940 when Pétain formed the last government of the 3rd Republic was _very_ pro-Pétain and the country as a whole was pro-armistice. The Vichy regime was formed on the basis of popular support to lead a policy that, if it didn't gather the unconditional support of everyone, didn't alarm many. You have to keep in mind the Parliamentarian 3rd Republic was seen as having failed miserably. All the while 1.8 French men were held as PoWs in Germany and the government was expected to gain them back.

Until mid-1941 pro-Vichy sentiment remained high and the Resistance movement was at best paltry, with people like de Gaulle seen as trouble makers.

Germany invaded the USSR on the on June 22, prompting the Communists in France to enter the Resistance. At the same time the systemic plunder of the French economy, with the help of Vichy, was coming into fruition and starting to be felt. Real antisemitic and repression policies started being implemented in the second half of 1941.

The Vel d'Hiv Roundup happened in mid-1942. In June 22 1942 French workers were incentivised to leave France to work in Germany. Two months later, on August 22 work conscription was instituted and accelerated in late 42 / early 43 while the Germans invaded Southern France, up 'til now nominally in the hands of the French government.

From _that_ moment national sentiment truly turned, Vichy lost all the good will it still had, the French lost all illusions that Pétain was anything more than a mop and large amounts of youths trying to dodge slave work in Germany entered the Resistance.

I think you « grossly misrepresent » French sentiment much more than I do.
Maybe it's sector dependent I've mostly worked in financial services, would be good to find out what the wider picture is I'm thinking my view is skewed now!
Entertainment and ethics are a bit of mine field.

I've watched Dr K and his discussions. They are a kind of positive cold reading - allowing the other to do the talking and join the dots with subtle suggestions. Similarly with the audience, many people benefit.

It's primarily entertainment though, we shouldn't fall into the trap of thinking we are privileged to a private therapy session but see it as a kind of wholesome entertainment.
I had never thought people might blame Dr. K for his death until I read the article. The man attempted suicide in the past before ever talking to Dr. K, his friends and family said he was constantly at risk of going through with it again despite going to multiple therapists, and after speaking with Dr. K he said the conversation was helpful to him. Blaming Dr. K for one conversation with him half a year before he was finally successful with the suicide feels to me like blaming a doctor for being unable to save someone with a chronic condition after seeing them once in the ER.
>You'll get no disagreement on this from any liberal.

Maybe in France but in the US you will absolutely get disagreement from liberals.

>If you have to show proof to register then why do you need to show proof to vote?

If you showed proof to get your driver's license then why do you need to show proof to drive?

If you showed proof to purchase/register your vehicle why do you need to show proof of registration when you get pulled over?

>In fact, if you have ID that proves you are a valid voter then registration shouldn't be necessary at all.

In fact, if you have ID that proves you are over 21 then registration of your firearm purchase shouldn't be necessary at all.

Etc. Etc. Etc.
What reasons do you think executives have to get everyone back?
I had read the frame rate is locked at a low rate in VR though. It's an issue with the X-Wing Alliance engine itself. I want to be wrong though, because I would love to play this in VR!

My biggest gripes with Star Wars Squadrons are the poor campaigns, or lack thereof, and ships tuned for competitive multiplayer only.
I think it has nothing to do with fairness and everything to do with negotiating your salary. The more you know about the market, the bigger your leverage is.

And if it so happens that you earn less as a result of gaps in your skills, you should own it and work on yourself.
Arent most cloud services the same? Sure CoPilot just grossly overlooked the actual licensing but most decent companies do uphold them.
George Saunders gave an interview with the Guardian earlier this year[0] in which he said, “ There’s something wonderful about the spontaneity of social media, but I think at this point it’s becoming 100% toxic for people to be firing off the top of their brains. One of the things [the book I’m writing] says is that the deeper parts of our brain are actually more empathic. If you revise something 20 times, for a mysterious reason, it becomes more social, empathic and compassionate. With Chekhov, you feel he’s always saying: “Well, what else?”, “Is there anything else I should know?”, or “Maybe I’m wrong.” And all of that seems to be designed to foster love, or at least some kind of relation to the other that’s got possibility. So I’m not a fan of social media. I’m not on it. And I won’t be, because I think it’s killing us, actually. I really do.” I had never considered it from this angle before, but I think he’s right. The internet’s superpower—frictionless engagement—is also it’s greatest shortcoming because of who we are as people.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/02/george-saunder...
Crontab a git fetch. You can then pull when needed (but won’t have a process overwriting your docs and scripts at the wrong time)
Left out my favorite from Steve Martin. "The French have their own word for practically everything!"

But seriously, left out from the list of great of Frenchmen Laplace, Lagrange, Galois, DeLambert etc. But I guess the list of mathematicians would have made the book too thick.
Indeed. There is a ceiling without the advanced degree!

Banks surprisingly hire few economists outside of information/trading groups and, for the more quant heavy, risk groups.
The state is home to top tech companies in the world and there's no one who can build a network for service providers.

And (of course) the worst possible candidate - the state of Cali - gets the job.

I predict delayed delivery, highest costs and lowest, taxpayer-subsidized prices.
"Growing the pie" means making the company more successful, and if you have any equity in it, then it's likely to make you more money long term than arguing for more cash. Also, if you happen to be at a good company with honest and responsible management, then your compensation will be accurately adjusted based on your business value. So, doing good useful work will optimize your own pay as well as benefit everyone else.

If you're at a crappy company with crappy managers, then yeah maybe you just need to play politics until you're paid enough to justify not quitting. If you have the means to move on from a job you don't like, though, you should probably work toward fixing that regardless of the compensation.
Many government civilian roles have very well documented compensation: https://www.federalpay.org/gs/2021

I have held a clearance while a private contractor and worked with many who held clearances, both as contractors and government civilians. There were many restrictions on what we could talk about because of security. Salary was not one of them. Some of us were under direction from our private contractor companies to not discuss salary. That had nothing to do with security. It was about maximizing profit and leverage for the company.
It's one way to make the career switch but possibly not the best. As with most things, it depends on your circumstances.

What OMSCS offers imo is:

- an elite CS education

- specialize in topics that interest you

- very low cost (I'll have spent around $8k total by graudation)

- the flexibility that naturally comes with an online-first education

What it doesn't offer:

- a starting point for someone with near zero cs-background (if this is you, it will be a hard program)

- job/coop placement

- networking is hard imo
Wow this looks impressive, I hope it starts a trend of remastering older games into the modern era. Many games like this from the 80s to 2000s were masterpieces in their time.

I've seen an official example with Blizzard and Diablo 2: https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/diablo2/23658118/diablo-ii-r...

Any other old games being remastered officially or unofficially?
Nothing has happened in my lifetime that has made my life better compared to my parents. The ACA mandated I buy private insurance, and that hasn’t really helped me at all. I still got charged almost $1000 for an ambulance ride last year, one that I didn’t really have a choice on.

So no, I don’t think anything good happens in America. Maybe it did at one point, but I’ve never seen it. What I see instead are trillion dollar bailouts for banks, airlines, and auto manufacturers. Student loans, though? Yeah, get fucked. Qualified immunity? Yeah, get murdered.
Awesome documentary on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagues_%26_Pleasures_on_the_S...

John Waters narrating.

I took my family there in a trip we also saw Las Vegas, the Mt Palomar telescope, LA tar pits, and Palm Springs. It is too disgusting to be educational. At least when we went it stank to high heaven and we ended up with rotting fish flesh all over our pants. The dumb dog liked it. Everyone else uses it as a cautionary tale about letting me chose destinations for vacation. Getting 10x existing Lithium production would be great use of it.

There are some extremely good date palm farms north of it. It you like figs and dates, check them out.
I spent a great deal of my younger years stoned, and one day in my early 20s decided that weed was basically complete boring, and quit.

But the people I know who smoke do if in the evening or on weekends, and are nothing like what you describe.
>For example, if I create a fake video urging people to vote illegally, or at the wrong time

Just so you know, this is a federal crime so Google is legally required to remove such content. So that specific example doesn't really apply.
China's central bank to employ “controllable anonymity” for the e-yuan
The author seems fascinated with the moving patterns produced by the M-rule but doesn’t go into its similarity with Conway’s game of life, and the fact that it’s been proven Turing complete.
Both can be true. (I'm a purple belt and have experienced both sides.)
Bruce Lee ?
Mainly a lack of trust in their workers, I think.

It's not something that you can really say.
Yup!

Dunno if modern medications may also include other active-ingredients to compliment lithium, but lithium itself is pretty much the same thing as sodium or potassium in terms of its simplicity as a chemical species.

Since lithium has a +1 charge as a cation (positively charged ion) in salt, it needs to be balanced with an anion (negatively charged ion), so the exact salt can vary in solid-form. But once it dissolves in water, such as in the body, then it's not really bound to the anion anymore and so the exact anion it was originally ingested with isn't particularly important.

Apparently some people used to drink [mineral water with lithium](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithia_water).

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_(medication)
> Also wondering why we aren't allowing low-risk children to get it naturally and develop anti-bodies while young so they can get on with their role of being children.

As a concerned parent I think the long term unknowns of a novel virus are a big factor. Maybe most kids are asymptomatic today, but will their development be hindered in subtle ways as they grow?

Or is it possible that large communities of infected children could become a breeding ground for the virus to mutate?
I didn't play Squadrons, but looking at some gameplay videos I was disgusted how blatantly they've nerfed Tie Fighters, by making the radar occupy so much of the screen. So the craft with the best possible view from a cockpit became almost the same as X-Wing with its huge nose.
"Disgusting flies"? That's pretty specieist...

You're just passing through where they LIVE
It's not a grudge, but it is basically childish. The US has a doctrine that no state in the Western hemisphere can be under the influence of someone other than the US.

The purpose isn't defensive, it's agressive, and it obviously furthers US interests if having the most power possible fits your definition.

As for a citation, the Monroe doctrine is almost official.