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==That's revenue. What's the profit? It's not going to work unless you let people make money.==

Instead of looking it up, you have decided to create a new strawman argument. Excelon had net income of $1.9 billion in 2020, $2.9 billion in 2019, and $2.0 billion in 2018.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/EXC/financials?p=EXC

==But yea, those bailouts you mentioned, they're for unprofitable plants in Byron and Dresden. So don't pay them, and let them fail. So what? Get elec from gas. It's cheaper anyway. Or, factor in the cost of emissions, and pay the nuke guys more for making clean.==

These are gigantic plants that employ loads of people (entire towns) and deliver electricity to millions. Excelon takes advantage of this political realty by threatening to shutdown the plants every few years without a state bailout.

==You got angry at me 'cause I had some idea about this. It's not my fault--No point blaming anyone else or angry at me--it's your (IL, Chicago, politicians' and peoples') responsibility to fix this. It's not mine. I just had an idea. And it's a pretty good idea too: Let the fucking market decide, don't get bogged down.==

Is this a serious response? I "got angry at you" by responding to your comment and adding real-world examples? Sorry for hurting your feelings.

This is all a distraction from the main point. Illinois gets the highest percentage of energy from nuclear (54%) of all US states. At the same time, the nuclear operator has to continually come back to the state for bailouts. This does not square with what I hear from the "pro-nuke" crowd (high initial costs, low ongoing costs). I am simply asking for an explanation of why that wouldn't happen on a larger level if we invest more heavily in nuclear as a country.
Funny test: this post has 61 votes, 16 comments, is 21 minutes old and is on front page. It will be "dead" and off the front page in the next hour if usual hn moderation is applied.
This usually happens to thread where majority of comments go against the grain.

Edit: thread is a bit over 1 hour old, 125 points, 119 comments and on page 4. All the other threads on page 4 are of comparable vote/comment count but at least 20hrs old. If you scroll through page 4 you will not find a single thread as popular and as fresh as this one there. Maybe i'm biased but id like to think that my prediction was at least half correct.

Edit2: thread is ~1hr30min old, page 8 :)
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Disclaimer - I'm Australian. There's something really weird about the contemporary Australian culture that's seems to be permitting increasingly authoritarian governance.

If think if you asked my grandparents what defined 'being Australian' it would be been belief in freedom, mateship and irreverence of authority.
This reminds me of the story of kiwi farms and how expensive and mentally taxing for the founder it's been to keep it online.

https://kiwifarms.net/threads/biting-the-hand-that-feeds.808...
In that case, just keep printing money and buy up all assets in the world.
And besides general craziness and DSLs as pointed above, you can also easily experiment with relatively complex language-level constructs, like derived attributes or cacheable functions [talked a bit about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338923].

Trying to make such experiments safe in Ruby would be unwise, but starting them in Ruby is happiness.
Yes, you should embrace batching as your customers need it. We batch whenever possible. We process billions of api calls daily at our edge and that multiplies out internally. Without batching and caching, we would grind to a halt.

My suggestion: either pre-validate and return a structured response or return a 202 Accepted with a job id with a different endpoint for checking on the status of the batch. Another option is to have a webhook subscribed to report back status (success and error).
It seems to me like there are more forums for free speech now than ever before. When in our history has it been easier for the average citizen to find a platform to host their views?
I can see a weak point, if the NAND fails, the HDD is scrap.
That quote is at least a 100 years old, but it's pretty hard to follow in practice. Especially at a digital communications company!
> This equation is not some core law of the universe.

> It's simple to the point of not being especially interesting.

Either you don't realize what you're saying or you are playing a game of deception.

1. This equation is indeed a core law of the universe.

2. It is extremely interesting because it has a specific meaning. It expresses the kinetic energy of a massive body in motion.

3. More specifically, it means that E = mc² does not represent what Einstein claimed it did. It represents the maximum kinetic energy that a massive body can have. This is why it is extremely interesting.

Thank you for the exchange.
This is one of those topics I tend to agree with in principle.

And then every time I run into someone who feels very strongly about it ... the rate of me thinking about how it should be a rule based on their usage alone.

One of those weird things where i agree and then you meet the folks who have very strong feelings about it and I start to have second thoughts ;)

Granted I don't yet feel that way.
The user experience with Libby is so much better than any other audiobook service I have tried. The app is nice looking and responsive, but also minimal. Bonus points because using their website provides the exact same UI and UX as the app.
How am I supposed to show you what I posted when my account was banned? If I recall, it had something to do with being open to adopting QAnon and extremist Trump supporters kids once they were taken away from their parents because I thought they'd go full domestic terrorist after he lost the election. I guess I was right afterall.
Is Sinatra too bare bones?
It would be neat if the big companies like Dropbox, Instagram, Google, Oracle, Shopify, Stripe, whatnot building better Python/JavaScript/Ruby implementations would start building program analysis libraries for Python/JavaScript/Ruby so that more implementations could get this for free.

For example, the homepage of Nuitka says they only just added support for constant folding and propagation. That's such low hanging fruit it's crazy they have to do that for themselves.

You can imagine generic libraries for Python/JavaScript/Ruby that will turn the AST alone into its most optimal form and then let some other backend worry about code generation or VM implementation.
Ah yes the 1960s. Where politics and economics were also utopian and dishonest. When your average American job could impossibly support a family of 4. 16 year olds drove dodge chargers and the economy was so strong from all of the various nefarious engineering that you could buy products that were made to last 50 years.
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I have no dog in this particular fight, but if I were at the helm of any of these companies, I wouldn't willingly hand over my users' data without being lawfully required to do so. To do so would be an invasion of my users' privacy.

If it's so essential to the government to invade the private conversations of a company's user base, they should stand by their claims by using subpoena powers.

I believe they're hoping to avoid legal recourse by "requesting" rather than requiring.
To be fair, the person you are responding to may not like those other systems either.

All the articles with industry analysts insisting that other driver monitoring systems are nearly perfect have sometimes blinded me to that fact.

A lot of people don't like any of these systems for a lot of the same reasons that people didn't like basic cruise control in the early days.
That's not what they're saying.

They're saying as a company they don't have ownership of records of such discussions, which could be true.
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I ran into a similar problem a few years ago when I got a 7.1 home theater for my PC. Eventually, I realized that the only way to get sound into the receiver from the PC was HDMI. I also needed to have visual data coming into it for the sound to work, so I duplicated a screen to it, and keep the screen connected to it off most of the time.

I've wondered why receivers don't support USB input from PC. Sure, there's lots of receivers that have USB input support, but that's because you can play MP3s off a flash drive.
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>You trust a private corporation more than actual laws and government procedures and you feel right and cool?

Governments all around the world have proven many times that they are corrupt, incompetent, constantly make _horrible_ mistakes that impact our privacy, etc.
What's your point exactly?
What is going on with Australia? Are they just generally giving up on liberal democracy and the idea of individual rights?
Agreed that their claim of having literally zero strains credibility. This kind of feels like gab setting themselves up for a PR stunt lawsuit.
I'm alarmed. Mainly by the government coercing industry (lots of them, not just BigTech), getting in cahoots with industry, or directly paying industry (govt is definitely a monopsony in medicine since insurance rates are set off of medicare rates). I used to think govt had little control over our economy, but I was wrong.

Am hoping that our protections will be renewed because of potential loss of market share, and financial interests. BigTech isn't worth much if they go after 45% of their user population, I mean, product. Because of that I still actively use Amazon, Google, Facebook, and others
After they said it was technologically infeasible to combine WhatsApp with their service before the takeover (which was a condition for the takeover if one remembers), I don't trust anything they say anymore.

They stated to the merger review committee that the WhatsApp takeover couldn't feasably lead to data sharing with Facebook. And got fined 110m EUR for that, a pittance. You couldn't take out an insurance policy against a successful merger for that money. From [0]:

"When Facebook notified the acquisition of WhatsApp in 2014, it informed the Commission that it would be unable to establish reliable automated matching between Facebook users' accounts and WhatsApp users' accounts. It stated this both in the notification form and in a reply to a request of information from the Commission."

Edit: typo

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_17_...
Brexit doesn't, but the GFA was only possible because of the seamless border between the two countries. That lack-of-a-border can only exist if NI remains in the customs union. The rUK can only have a seamless border with NI if it's either in the customs union, or neither are. The UK decided the rUK didn't want to be in it. So now there's a border in the Irish sea.

> Threatening a return to violence in Ireland over Brexit is what I mean by "making things difficult".

Recognizing that putting in jeopardy an international agreement that brought an end to the troubles might incite violence, is not the same thing as threatening violence. It's common sense.

> The Troubles were not about sausage shipments between Belfast and Dublin.

You're right, they were an ethno-nationalist conflict, during which the British government sanctioned the murder of its own citizens, and now continues to protect those murderers from prosecution.
At risk of sounding corny, could the sole contrubution of Murchochs dynasty be cited accurately as a cause?
I guess Short Circuit is too old for people to be using disassemble?
It's not entirely true of any language.

In Java, for example, one can do static analysis and identify when a class is doing reflection... and flag as an error if the class is doing reflection on a class that is an instance of java.something.
FWIW, I had a call with a recruiter a couple days ago who claimed that the most expensive candidates to find at the moment are Rails people.

And I'm not a Rails person, so it wasn't flattery.
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It's terribly put. The American concept of freedom of speech has nothing to do with access to public forums but rather is a limit on government action against your ability to run your own forum (newspaper, etc), and if you consider that when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were actually written, most Americans had significantly less forums. A few newspapers made up almost the entirety of public forums when the right was written, and none of them were forced to publish political content they disagreed with.

In fact, when you realize that the internet has provided more forums for free speech than any technology in history, it beggars belief to suggest that there are less forums now than before.

We are at the ultimate highpoint of access to freespeech forums in American history, and to suggest otherwise is nakedly ignorant conservative propaganda pushing an emotional angle against technology corporations who enforce common sense rules against violence, terrorism, and hate speech on their private networks.

I maintain that until Fox News or conservative talk radio is mandated by the government to stop suppressing my free speech rights to have access to the network to say whatever I want, that Facebook and Twitter should not be forced to support insurrection and violence masquerading as free speech.

It's hard to understate how outrageous this lie is. It's like suggesting "folks today have less access to electricity than at any point in American history". It's such immensely stupid lie that how could anyone fall for it?
I'd hope that "automated driving" has standards much much higher than the average.
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Biden, when he's not eating ice cream and awake, hates Tesla because they aren't a union shop. This and other things are just a shakedown. You can see by the echo chamber here who's the bot army and who's not.

Remember, the primary purpose of Tesla is to save the planet. But I guess the unions trump that. Fuckers.
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> they are speaking as if the first ammendment somehow requires them to do this

What portion of their statement are you referring to? I didn't notice anything in this post suggesting that they're required to support free speech, only that they agree with the underlying principles which inspired that provision in the constitution.
There's scarcely a Python thread on here that doesn't mention the GIL. Or version 2. Or whitespace. It's like generics for Go and framework churn for JS.
> Seems like a can of worms to get the govt involved.

Yeah because corporations have been a GREAT steward of mapping online accounts to real persons. There's no way corporations could fudge up identity mapping as badly as governments could. There's definitely no way that people would get a false sense of security from corporations handling that and governments getting their data from corporations instead of directly from the real person. Governments are always bad and will never do anything well ever!

/s
Eh their interpretation is fine from my perspective, what everyone around them does to make them ignorable is fine too, and it’s up to Gab to figure out how to be resilient and route around that.

Congress trying to figure out what is happening within the country is fine too. It’s a lot of people and businesses and they don’t know.
There are obvious ways the govt can pressure people who've committed no criminal act.

Being put on a no fly list or terrorist watch list are some examples. Happened all the time during the war on terror.
"Social media" is not the internet. As long as the authoritarians are occupied with the few big tech monopolies, i don't mind. FB et al. brought this on themselves, let them live with it.
Before First Unlock (BFU) is a term used to describe the state of your phone after it has booted and been unlocked at least once. Even if locked again, the phone is still in a less secured state until it has been shut down again.
The linked to quote does not describe it's ability to function before first unlock. Many phone functions are disabled in the BFU state.
This is less "Computer Engineering for Babies" and more "logic gates for babies". While understanding logic gates might be useful if you're going into hardware, it's not really necessary for software. I also doubt whether babies posses enough abstract thinking to go from logic gates -> computers, or even logic gates -> adders.
You're right, because it's not about having a platform for speech, it's about escaping consequences for speech.
I'm unsurprised this is occurring in Australia. Australia has for a long time now been pursuing policies which seem on their face to feel more at home in China. I suspect for most Australians though, they'll just go along with this and there will be a greater proportion of tech-savvy people who find a way to dodge this and exclusively connect via VPN.

It's becoming more and more commonplace for people outside the US to connect to the Internet exclusively via a VPN egress in the US, creating "US-based" online accounts, and operating online as if they were a US person. It seems in the future this may be necessary just to experience the Internet with even basic expectations of free access and anonymity.

As long as they continue to play ball geopolitically with the rest of the West, nobody is going to call them out, but the last decade in Australia has seen a significant curtailing of human rights. The most surprising thing is that it seems few people are speaking out about it, generally.
Stripe, Shopify, and others are contributing. They are large enough to provide some large corporate assurance, if that is what you are looking for.
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Ok. Thanks for the exchange.
Travelled and stayed in Helsinki lots of times when at Nokia. Don't think language would be a major issue for a postgrad, wages and taxes more likely, specially in competitive / emerging fields. On the other hand the place is very attractive if you have family compared to any parts of the world.
It’s not uncommon to start by asking nicely in case there can be an easy resolution. A subpoena is a much more brutal process and requirement.

It’s like asking someone to stop pissing on the church wall instead of calling the police immediately.
Contrary to their claim, I believe they do keep records. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/11/gab-hack-neo-n...
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Since its primary use is… nefarious? You might find more with searching for dns exfiltration
Reading the first couple of sentences, it looks like Contempt of Congress applies only if you ignore a subpoena. It doesn't appear that Congress used subpoena powers (I may be wrong in this assumption) for this request, and Gab's reply to their request for information was optional.

Of course, Gab understands that to ignore the request altogether would have left them open to further harassment by the government, and they provided as little information as possible, but still complied with the request.
Huh, I didn't even realize there was a web version of Libby. I've always just used the normal overdrive website.

The UI is good in some ways but filtering/sorting are extremely clumsy in my opinion. It works perfectly as a reader/player once you have books/audiobooks checked out though.
This is a really fluffy article devoid of real technical content. It does not sound like the author fully grasps all the concepts discussed, especially in the section on parallelism and concurrency.

> Many systems using other “preferred languages” also implement some form of GIL (e.g., Javascript’s V8 machine, CPython); we don’t hear complaints about it, because these languages have a rapport for heavy lifting and parallel tasks.

GIL is the biggest performance obstacle for python and is constantly discussed. JavaScript is notorious for being exclusively single threaded (unless you consider the very late arrival of workers to be true multithreading).
Instauring a border between Ulster and Ireland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit_and_the_Irish_border#Go...
You’re mixing two distinct things. Sunlight is the best disinfectant when it comes to freedom of speech, but that does not imply the government should have full access to the communication of individuals and trounce the fourth amendment.

Put it this way, if the government wanted to get all comms around antifa, or any other anti gov anti police protests, would that be okay?
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Isn't it at least part of the problem that data laws/regulations remain fuzzy and complex? I don't think it's surprising to see that companies don't fully comply with a law that was created in 2016.
Conway showed that Collatz-like functions are as hard as Halting, by creating a language called FRACTRAN whose programs are Collatz-like functions: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Fractran
SES is good at sending stuff, but if you're mailing a lot you'll want to handle both hard and soft bounces correctly. And not just bounces you get live from the end SMTP daemon, but bounce emails as well.

If you keep attempting to email an address that bounces, over time, you may get marked as a spammy sender.

As far as I can tell, this setup doesn't do much with bounces other than quitting on a clear hard bounce from the end SMTP daemon.

This is one of the reasons email services aren't cheap.
But remember, it is your internet, so you don't have to peer equally with everyone. You can allocate bandwidth to those you prefer while limiting to those you don't. Just like THE internet.
Note that Japan couldn't deal with Fukushima on their own.

American nuclear experts stepped in and prioritized solving the two main emergencies, the plant failures and the less obvious storage ponds rapidly evaporating into more explosions. American experts used drones ASAP, and then relayed their analysis to the Japanese operators.

(I believe the US used their military relationship to inject themselves into the crisis without the usual diplomatic process. The Japanese PM was directly involved (he forbid a suggested plant evacuation), so it could have been via him.)
This seems really odd.

I always cringe at seeing the anti-mask or whatever protest, but this seems like it's getting out of hand.

Literally taking their cue from China, i.e. 'social credit'?

I find it odd that they don't consider this to be a kind of political suicide, like, after a 18 months of lock-downs, the population has 'had enough' and ready to burst, this seems like a bad idea out of a Will Farrell political comedy.
Didn’t I read just last week the Mustang Mach E was the bestseller in Norway, and that EVs were now over 80% of the market?

https://cleantechnica.com/2021/08/03/norway-at-84-7-plugin-e...
Contempt is in failure to respond to a subpoena.

A subpoena is the risk if you don’t respond to a congressional request. So this is two steps removed from a potential contempt charge.
Not sure how you conclude it's simpler than python. Different precedence of !/not has burned me in the past. Symbol/String keys have burned me. Module/Class (Python has this to some extent, but you don't declare modules so it doesn't come up), block/proc, fail/raise, extend/include, case/when can be used for bool expressions or instanceof checks

I enjoy ruby, & it's nice once you get that every property access is a method call ("it's all message passing") which has nice dynamism (see Sequel)

Maybe you can argue Ruby does a better job not leaking its abstractions (no __slots__ etc)