skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you'd add the cost of maintaining radioactive waste for thousands of years on the cost of power, you'd end up with even higher prices and how do you think those reactors came into existence in the first place? Not even Bill Gates wants to pay for his reactor by himself.

Here are state subsidies for energy sources in Germany in Billion: https://i.imgur.com/NbaNLK4.jpeg

Than there is maintenance. EDF will have to pay staggering 100 billion € to increase the life of their fleet for another 10 years and the price won't go down in the future. Even though the fleet is quite well maintained and France relies on it, accidents, overheated rivers, too cold winters force them to buy (often dirty) power from Germany.

LCOE for nuclear is only surpassed by peak gas: https://i.imgur.com/gRj8GS0.jpeg

https://zenodo.org/record/5573719

So yeah...number juggling is quite trendy in Shillenbergers Astro-Turf but it won't change the facts: nuclear is too expensive and too slow to fight climate change.
In order to cope with renewables variability various approaches complement each other but need investments in order to produce the baseload: continent-scale wind generation patterns benefiting from lo-correlation between wind regimes, a mix (wind, solar, biomass...), storage, smartgrid...

Money spared because they are more and more cheap will be invested in those ways, letting us benefit from their main characteristics (no major risk, no combustible, very low emissions, no dangerous waste, no risky and expensive decommission...).
Thank you, I've been running needgap for over 2 years.

You do have a point regarding security implications of the unique names, Considering people get swatted and have even died for their unique social media handle it might not be worth to pursue a unique name for that.
So this project is just a joke
Achieving fusion is a necessary step along the road to achieving economically viable fusion. They have a long ways to go before they achieve the easier of the two steps.
Thankfully, with latest TS updates, all of those strings and their combinations can be safely typed, too.
If the end result weren't so stable and high-quality, I might agree with you. But Fossil has become my VCS for personal projects because I can host a repo-farm trivially through CGI on my webhost, and it includes issues/wiki/forum. This makes me feel like Fossil has carved out a nice niche for itself that provides a real benefit for at least some folks, rather than simply being a reactionary project motivated because git was written elsewhere.
Still; moving those off of fossil fuels will put a lot of strain on our grid. Some of those facilities will put solar panels up and run their energy intensive processes during the day, but not all of them will. The grid needs to be able to handle that process, or we’ll just keep consuming fossil fuels.
Only if you are looking to reinforce your beliefs. Otherwise, besides the above two strategies, you should look at which study has better methodology (though it's usually never trivial, especially not for us, bystanders), bigger sample size, stronger statistical power.

If none of these seem to suggest a clear winner then you should just think that this is still undecided. You can also ask an expert. Choosing one and believing is basically just going with your suspicion.
There's certainly some added latency in GPU composited desktops so a lot of the time that has an effect with modern desktop environments and/or wayland vs LXDE which as far as I know doesn't run a compositor.

I'd love to find some good testing on it somewhere, but I do recall off the top of my head that Windows XP or Windows Vista/7 (with Areo disabled) had significantly lower latency than the GPU accelerated counterparts in Vista+. I believe it has to do a lot with Vsync, but imagine there's some additional overhead involved as well.

Of course many would say removing screen tearing is a valid tradeoff there, I mostly agree but not everything is significantly effected by tearing either.
If you don't slap some numbers on there, anything could be described as a low probability win with an extremely big payoff.
I’m not sure I’d still call it an overdraft if the cash is just sitting in an adjacent savings account and gets pulled automatically.
Could it be because the three glass disks cause a slope in the agar gel? And the slime mold prefers to grow downhill?
Is this voluntary or based on necessity?
The cool thing about solar panels is that they are recyclable like old clothes. People are super super happy buying 5 year old panels for $80 that are rated at 250 watts but are giving someone like 235 now.
Filling Blind
The post to which you are (nominally) responding was not obnoxious in the least. Your name-calling most definitely is obnoxious. I thought this was an adult forum. Eternal November?

And please show us the words where where the poster claimed that “all molecules are prions”…as you claimed. I can point to your exact words here…look forward to you doing the same.
To this day you can live in a small Bavarian town, and have the US army keep you awake late into the night with training exercises that involve plenty of shooting, as it's, for example, the case for the people living near Grafenwöhr.

To this day it's completely legal for the NSA to operate in Germany and spy on literally anybody [0]

Neither do I see the attitude change on a grander political level in Germany. Most of the German political landscape is still plenty happy displaying a double-moral that's would transplant neatly right back into the cold war [1]

One of the weirder examples: Persecuting alleged Syrian torturers for crimes against humanity committed in Syria [2].

While crimes against humanity committed by the US, trough German territory, are apparently not in the jurisdiction of German courts [3].

That's not what a "neutral" Germany looks and acts like, that's what a Germany looks and acts like that was for decades groomed to be a US vassal.

[0] https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-10/nsa-uerberwa...

[1] https://youtu.be/C4RalenYhoY

[2] https://www.dw.com/en/german-court-hands-down-historic-syria...

[3] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/08/germany-could-have-deli...
While it used to be a different matter in France, they last completed a reactor more than 30 years ago and the one currently being built is beset with the same time and cost overruns as those in the U.K.

> A third reactor at the site, an EPR unit, began construction in 2007 with its commercial introduction scheduled for 2012. As of 2020 the project is more than five times over budget and years behind schedule. Various safety problems have been raised, including weakness in the steel used in the reactor.[1] In July 2019, further delays were announced, pushing back the commercial date to the end 2022.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Pl...
The market agrees, just look at recent prices of uranium, uranium mining companies, and now nuclear infrastructure companies are also starting to take off
"time can only be spent once" - that's so important, yet people rarely realise it
Surprise: get vaccinated. And now you'll say that "but you can get it even if you are vaccinated". Which is true, but of course less likely. How much less likely is known from the experiments.
Sort of off topic I guess, but: if I wanted to learn react nowadays (coming from extensive backend experience but not much in the front end) where should I start?

From ignorance, it seems like react has changed a fair amount during its lifetime, in terms of good practices, features available, etc. Where can one find resources that are both complete for a begginer and not outdated?
Not a single one of the power source/price studies I've seen has normalized the price in regards to making the source constant or government incentives. Not one.

Energy sources have their caveats. Nuclear plants using rivers decrease output when rivers overheat. Solar panel efficiency falls 0.38% per degrees celcius under and over 25. We think failing nuclear and gas is a big deal because it's reliable most of the time. We do not think failing solar panels in night (because they can't produce energy) or hot and cold weather is not a big deal because it's designed to be that way. If that's the case, how is it viable to compare the prices?
> We know the French model works really well

It works so "well" that the French taxpayer will have to pay the UK so they can deliver their guaranteed energy prices the over-due and over budget reactor they desperately try to finish will generate.

It's so fantastic that every summer they have to buy dirty coal energy from Germany because their rivers get too hot and every winter because...it's too cold and their ageing fleet is breaking down all the time.

The success is so staggering that they plan to reduce their fleet by 50% until 2030 and replace that with renewable energy.

Hooray...

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Edit: since the Astro-Turf reached me and I can't reply anymore due to downvotes, here are the answers to Bayart:

> I don't down where you get that broadly France relies on German coal in the summer and winter.

Why do you try to lie about something everybody can google. This is the first result for "France river hot":

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-electricity-heatwa...

> Pretty much the entirety of the problems we've had with the EPR program has to do stopping building nuclear power plants for decades and losing the associated skill-set and industrial base.

Weird because EPR didn't stop building. They just stopped building in France so this can't be right. Also: the reactors currently still under construction started construction when all the people from the peak construction times where still there. They still can't manage to build on budget or on time. Not even close.

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@corban1:

Only because Germany doesn't hide their subsidies doesn't mean that the French taxpayer is not paying for their ageing fleet (or overpriced projects abroad) with their taxes...

Also the fact that coal is an important job motor in troubled regions of Germany which is why it's still there (but is being phased out completely soon).
That's one of the things I've really liked about Minnesota. I live on a farm just about 40 minutes outside of the capital city where I work.

Still remote but they're trying to get more people to come back to the office which is really making me rethink this job...
Check out their Twitter feed: https://mobile.twitter.com/sporeMOH

They provide daily updates but have been changing the detail level and categorization to get away from pure case numbers.

Go back to late August to see the breakdown of cases across fully, partially and unvaccinated individuals. The vaccines clearly work prevent serious illness, but don’t seem to be slowing the spread that much.

The MOH used to also breakdown daily deaths into vaccinated and unvaccinated, but recently stopped. I suspect (and they confirmed a few cases) where the deaths are often fully vaccinated.

Of course they don’t want to provide data for the vaccine hesitant to call out, but they have been changing their narrative so often it’s starting to be a problem.
It shares a lot of traits with Game of Life. 2D grid, ruleset, emergency.
“Has the appearance of being happy.”
> This blindness to feminist ethics is revealing. In part it is a function of the era in which they worked, but not completely; they all lived through various waves of feminism. And yet the ethical battles they were involved in—even when about abortion—were, it seems, purely intellectual ones. One can imagine contemporary feminists seeing some maddening abstraction in their work, as they themselves did in the Oxford ethicists. Questions about female embodiment and intersectionality, so crucial to current feminist thinking, are absent from their “gender-neutral” work—and from this book.

This sounds like a blurb a medieval priest would put in when talking about how Virgil’s Aeneid did not talk about Jesus and the Incarnation.
"One can imagine [feminists] seeing..." is a mention of imagined critique, a position that the author is carefully not taking. That's nowhere near "chastising."
Electricity is only 28% of global emissions.

If the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has accurately estimated the planet's economically accessible uranium resources, reactors could run more than 200 years at current rates of consumption.

Nuclear energy now provides about 10% of the world’s electricity from about 445 power reactors.

This isn't hard math.
So if you plan on building 4KW solar, and then decide to do 100X that, you can generate ~1800KWH per day (400 * 5 hours per day of ideal sun * fudge factor). If you have the battery storage for that you can probably get through 66 days from one sunny day. The cost would be super prohibitive too, but not everyone needs 100X out there solar to get through some rough days.

My personal plan is 30KW (over the next few years) so I can get through like 4 days. And heck, a stormy day will still generate enough electricity.
Cheaper electricity means more electrification. The majority of my energy use is natural gas (for home heat) due to its low cost relative to electricity. Plus, there's coal and gas plants to shut down and something needs to replace them.

Quality of life goes up with cheaper energy. If energy were free it would be 22-23 C inside my home right now, rather than 18 C, and I wouldn't be wearing a jacket while sitting on my couch.

Now, the fact that it takes $400 of natural gas per month to keep my home 18 C when it's 11 C outside has a lot to do with how hard it is to get building permits in CA. But that's a different issue.
If the majority of the population is willing to use either, than I expect so.
Best feeling in the world, as a programmer: removing code! (My implication: removing complexity.)
What university do most the math professors act as expert witnesses? Much less most act as expert witnesses and receive fees in excess of their salaries?
I can tell you for sure I would not being happy if I had no choice to be working at 70, 75 or even 66.
Not all information falls under copyright.

If you build a database of touristic places and display in your website, the information is not protected by copyright.

In Europe they have laws covering _sui generis database rights_, but they are from another era and unenforceable nowadays.
This article has been retracted 5 months ago. So basically right after publication [1] .

[1] https://pubpeer.com/publications/EDF9109EE29DF2340379B562365...
I don't think it is always the case. There are many networks which remain small and do not over-grow, but you are less likely to know about them.

Typically, they are constrained by some limitation like being for an offline group or requiring a vouching process to join.
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Well if you wanna debug it, go back to 5.13. I just mean I want Nix or Guix style declarative systems.
Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation (2015) [pdf]
I'm pretty sure I know why you can't find it anymore...this is ridiculous.
I'm not eating a pizza right now. But I might be soon.

Nobody _actually_ knows if I am going to eat a pizza, but they _do_ mostly know that I am _capable_ of eating said pizza. Which is why the local pizza shop stays prepared for what they consider to be a virtual invitability - which is smart.

Which is exactly what I said, so please stop with the strawman stuff.

And, I'm not surprised that someone on HN can't take a joke (re: the loo comment), yet am somewhat surprised you think phones stop working below the water line.

As for previous incidents, you need a read a book. Or the news. Or just get off faceobok for a minute. There's a whole world of knowledge and understanding out there.
>perpetual refund period that covers "DRM or server obsolescence."

This seems like it would still be an issue if the company providing the game goes out of business. I've bought games from both PlayFirst and AmbrosiaSW and even after buying the games, the servers that verify registration no longer exist or work. It's disappointing that awesome and fun games aren't able to be played because they can't phone home.
We’ve been buttering bread and laying it in an iron pan or griddle since our toaster broke several years ago. Works great. Save the counter space.
The thrust was correct according to your source, or am I misreading it? Nuclear median 12, Solar 48 (4x nuclear), gas 490 (10x solar), coal 810 (20x solar).
As the owner of the first company I worked for said when he was complaining about a product, "somebody said, 'fuck it, it's good enough' and shipped crap out the door."
Antarctica, Amundsen/South Pole station, as a life test on mobility of productivity. Otherwise, back to Taiwan in the mountains.

"Have you noticed their stuff is sh-t and your sh-t is stuff?" -- George Carlin on Stuff
Technically? Sure, its a great solution. Politically? Totally dead in the water.

Its not a good solution unless you are an authoritarian government.

(I am pro-Nuclear)
Comparing the price of unreliable energy with the price of reliable energy is like comparing the yield of a bond without taking default risk into account. It's just terrible.

Similarly thinking you can combine a bunch of unreliable energy sources and "tranche" them in order to get a smaller stream of reliable energy is very much like the gaussian copula problem that got us into the financial crisis. Yes, it's possible to do it in theory, but very hard to do so in practice due to the financial incentives involved and lack of knowledge about risk.

The level of discourse in our energy markets really needs to be improved, and quickly, otherwise we are going to make a lot of foolish choices.
Not OP , but born and raised in Bengaluru
Air Quality - depends . Very bad while traveling. Residential areas much better.

Tap water , not drinkable as is. Most houses I've seen have a water filter. We personally used to use one of these[0]

[0] https://www.pureitwater.com/IN/
Easily processed uranium will last us 80 years at current consumption rates. If you start building current nuclear reactor designs everywhere, we'll run out of it in less than 40 years. Then the price will skyrocket, and nuclear is already more expensive than renewables.

We need different nuclear reactors, fast reactors or thorium that use uranium more efficiently to stave this off, but they're more dangerous and still experimental, respectively.

I think we're better off using that nuclear money into building lots of grid storage for renewables.
Charming and well-executed. Cheers! It makes me this this would be a quite good premise for a dating app. My intuition, after spending ample time with behavior data sets and related conversion data, is simple: people who would name their baby Ashley belong together, as do people who would name them Olivia or Jamari. It would be a wonderful experiment to see how this bears out.
It's bullshit.

Electricity is only 28% of global emissions. What about the other 3/4ths?

And on that 28%...

The Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has accurately estimated the planet's economically accessible uranium resources, reactors could run more than 200 years at current rates of consumption.

Nuclear energy now provides about 10% of the world’s electricity from about 445 power reactors.

This isn't hard math.
They were probably just trying to get you to pay with cash/debit card.
A lot of people get to retirement and simply don't know what to do with all the free time. Work the same job for 40 years, and a lot of people will start to enjoy it (or did the whole time) and will retire only when forced to.
This is already common. It's mildly annoying for scrapers but generally a waste of time since you can usually still orient yourself based on the content of the nodes.
Have you looked at Ubuntu-Mate? Its 21.10 release has the makings of the best one in years. I'll concede that it has taken a bit of time for development to start coming together but now there seems to be a momentum and I've yet to see a version of the desktop that looks better. I wish more people would look at this version of Mate, with its best foot forward rather than some of these basic ones with absolutely no polish applied.
For a long time fusion was funding constrained: there were many more ideas than could be tested and examined under government budgets. In the US nearly all funding went to one concept, the tokamak. While the tokamak has achieved the best performance thus far, there's now sufficient interest in fusion that less-well-developed ideas are being tried, in order to not put all the eggs in one basket.
That last sentence is what we're mostly standardizing on, except for using QT.

I've pushed for web interfaces but it's weird how even embedded developers with broad backgrounds get when you bring it up. I think there's a psychological barrier some people have to using webpages on an embedded system.
France €0.1765 per kWh 57.3 gCO2/KWh (2019)
| Germany €0.3159 (+76.9%) per kWh 468 (+816%) gCO2/KWh (2019)

Seems the success is very clearly visible both environmentally and economically?

[0] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1190067/carbon-intensity...
[2] https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/press/pressinformation/co2...
> They found that, even more than the total mass of the objects, the slime mold reacted to how much of the horizon the objects occupied. It repeatedly preferred objects spread along the horizon as opposed to those at a single, stacked point
For one, yeah, I think in important part is that the choice of technical tools is made for good reasons. A default, boring choice is probably okay. A more exciting choice might be okay.

For people who pick NodeJS.. for some, it may be the only thing they know, it might be something they dislike, or it might be something that seems practical. -- I dunno how many people pick Haskell out of practicality but would rather be using something else.

It's lame if someone picks a technology for bad reasons, and then makes bad decisions to exasperate it. e.g. Kubernetes is not bad, but I think if you end up with 5x as many microservices as developers, you've made a mistake.

All the same.. I think it's easy to write hard-to-understand code in any language.
Economically accessible coal resources will deplete in 30 years. (1950)
> It always bothered me how a user-hostile piece of software like git rapidly took over the world.

After almost 7 years on git I have given up on getting git and I stick to what that XKCD comic said - remember some commands and just keep syncing. It felt one has to make it into a masochistic exercise to understand it.

I feel similar about Markdown (though I won't call it user hostile). Because there were and there are better and accessible/uncomplicated alternatives.
I see $20k in 30 days, $10k in 7 days, and $3.5k in 24 hours in my BoA account:

https://i.imgur.com/he9PXTn.png

I can see $3.5k/day would be a problem for paying rent easily in some places. I guess this is the best we have for instant online payments until FedNow goes live.
A lot of 75 year olds play golf, and walk the course, 160+ days each year.
I have bad news for you (unless it was irony, which I can't rule out): the SARS-CoV2 virus contains its genome as RNA that is used directly (IIRC) as mRNA. Because it's needed for the protein synthesis to build new virus particles. This is true for every virus, BTW: they either contain RNA that can be used by the cell for protein synthesis (i.e. mRNA) or they do synthesize (or make the cell synthesize) the mRNA based on their genome, one way or another.

So no matter what, you'll get the viral mRNA in your body. Either through infection or through the vaccine. The vaccine just contains a small fragment and it does not proliferate. Unlike the virus.
It's pretty different. This is pulsed; LM's was going to be steady state. LM's design had magnets internal to the plasma which has significant difficulties.
The proposed fuels are different.
As far as I can tell LM's fusion project has stopped.
same here in joining.