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52% of Germany's energy production in 2021 was from renewables [1], which are productive now, don't need decades of planning and construction, have zero costs for waste and a perfectly clear risk profile for the next centuries.

I don't see how wind and solar don't make sense.

[1] https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2021/09/PE21_429_43312.html
Congratulations, Zach! It's been very cool watching Codecademy go from electrifying prototype to media darling to quiet giant.
Could be game-changer for remote teams. I like the no download.
> Is there something impassably / chronically dangerous about nuclear power or is it just public fear that pushes us away from it?

Oil funding of anti-nuclear FUD. Thats it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f...
>To save someone a click,

And yet you admit

>I didn’t bother checking results. Both are US-centric.

...

You need to let the Stanford Professor and Pew Research know they're unqualified to perform research. :S
1. There is a long record of fossils as they are quite common. The old Greeks found marine fossils on land and deduced that land was once under water. The ancient Chinese documented them to be dragon bones.

2. How wide do you expect the fossil-conspiracy to be? This specimen was found in China by Chinese, surely they don't care about western evolutionists?

3. Have you never ever seen or found a fossil yourself? If you use sedimentary rock as wall cover you will get a fossil sooner or later.

https://southlandstone.com/using-fossil-stone-in-the-house/

3. You could travel to Michigan and just wander the beach until you find a fossilized coral. They are easy to find:

https://www.michigan.org/article/trip-idea/where-find-petosk...

4. Or go treasure hunting other coasts. Here is a video of a guy collecting fossilized ammonites in Ireland. I link to the timestamp he is opening a rock. If this is fake how do you think it was done?

https://youtu.be/OVCH98aFSRY?t=591

And if you watch the whole video you see other fossils in the big stones themselves. To reiterate: You can visit these places! Fossils are quite common.
I am afraid this thread is going to be heavy on strongly held opinions and very light on facts and figures. In a futile attempt to compensate, here is the history of gross electricity production in Germany [1]. And here is the electricity import/export statistics [2].

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Energymi...

[2] https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Infografiken/Energie/stroma...
The panic surrounding Omicron is absurd.

Take a look at these two charts. Omicron cases spiked in SA. Deaths didn't budge. At all.

https://i.imgur.com/TgRmz4F.png [1]

Omicron is a good thing, if your baseline is Delta. But I'm still waiting for the US media stop hyperventilating about it.

1. https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...
What if we ban all cryptocurrencies mining in order to save energy ?
The numbers are the numbers. # of hospitalizations/# of cases is not a high number. It doesn't have to be a high number to overwhelm hospitals, I get that. But it's still a small percentage.

When I caught it in February, before I was eligible for the vaccine, I was shocked by the reaction of most of my peers. They seemed surprised by my mild symptoms. The American public, as a whole, overestimates their own risk of hospitalization by orders of magnitude. You can be angry at me for recklessly stating this, and not piously pretending like the risk is evenly spread, but I'm not going to join in a mass delusion of pretending like 15 year old kids are statistically at risk from this virus. They aren't.

The distributions of cases and deaths by age group on this CDC dashboard are striking:
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics
It would be very interesting to hear about the technical details!
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The confusion (intentional or not) may stem from that 90% figure being of all ICU patients, covid or not, or just as a proportion of covid patients. People are still getting into car accidents, shot, and having heart attacks.
Am I the only one who reads these less than scientific articles as much more than wishful thinking?

I mean, I hope this pandemic comes to a close as much as anyone but so many of the recent news articles about the omicron variant being our collective way out of this pandemic seem a bit premature. I understand the theory that viruses become more contagious and less deadly over time but is there an real, peer reviewed science that backs up the idea that omicron is going to be our "savior"?
I read this news a week ago, so I think it's already been more than a day or two.
All German reactors have run long past their design life span. The ones shut down first are already being decommissioned.

Proposing new reactors would be political suicide, unfortunately.
top and free also double count memory footprint of common shared library’s across many processes that are using the same “.so” library. Use pmap to see how much unique memory each process is actually using vs. shared libraries.
If a student shows up with visible bruises from domestic abuse, should the teacher attempt to "get to" that child, or just focus on the agreed-upon curriculum?

If the chess club coach notices that a student displays aptitude at strategic thinking, would it be fair to invite them to attend chess club? If the student's parent is upset by the child attending chess club, does the school have a duty to inform them, or does the child have freedom of association?

That said, I'm pretty uncomfortable with teachers having visibility into kids' Google searches, unless the kids know that they're under such scrutiny.
Doesn't make it less true.
Doesn't the US broadcast regime change propaganda into the country via Radio Free Asia / Radio Free Liberty etc?
Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I don't mean WS over long polling. I mean WS in addition to polling, not long polling. Use websockets, but also expose an API to get the same events by specifying a timestamp. This way the websocket server implementation can be much simpler, and the client just has to call the API to "catch up" on missed events on reconnect.

You can also use this API for integrations, and your clients/consumers will thank you. For example, our third party integrations use the event log to sync back to their own data stores. They probably call this every hour, or once a day. You wouldn't want to use websockets with PHP apps like WordPress.
And nuclear from France if I'm not mistaken.
Cloudflare DNS blocks
Marion Township in Pennsylvania had to pay out the nose a few years ago because of staff spying on children at home via webcams in school issued laptops.

Why are teachers being allowed to spy on students at home? I can understand having remote access to view a laptop during school hours within programs used for school. But to have unfettered access to their search history? Or unfettered access to dial in and observe whenever they feel?

> we totally stalked what they were doing on Google, when they weren’t doing school work.

The perverts at Marion School district had similar attitudes and look where that got them.
> I'm thinking about things like build systems and dependency managers.

Ah, that's a different kind of tooling. This matters, but there are loads of developers out there who care just as much (if not more) about IDE tooling and other things that assist in the writing and refactoring of source code itself. Features like generics open up new ways to make this tooling better.

It's also worth pointing out that you can have your cake and eat it too. .NET and Rust are fine examples of having great build/package management tooling, runtime performance, compiler performance (.NET far more than Rust), artifact management, and so on. And great IDE tooling in different environments.
tl;dr The photographer that created the NFT owned the rights to the photo. She doesn't really have an issue with that, but as a transwoman, is self-conscious about her looks and doesn't really like the photo
I feel like I achieved this by using a degoogled Android OS + never listening to news. My life is certainly a lot more pleasant being more or less entirely detached from mainstream social media and media in general.

But I'm glad your decision worked out for you :)
"case counts" are also a really bad way for measuring. Media likes to use it because they love sensationalizing things but if we already know this is a "mild" variant with little to no increase in hospitalizations then using "case counts" is really poor unit of measurement.
Frankly you are great at knocking a strawman down. Jonathan Mayer likely has some motivation for those efforts. I made no claim to the motivation being remunerative or not.

Do you have an alternative hypothesis of a motivation other than preparation for a "public-interest" lawfare campaign?
Please remember that nuclear energy makes up 12% of Germany's overall power production [1]. Yes we do import nuclear power from France.

But this is not going to be a game-changer and might be even possible to offset with clean sources.

[1] https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2021/09/PE21_429_43312.html
They are not building a browser engine.
It seems to me that that the harms from power generation increases only in logarithmic proportion to the amount of energy generated for nuclear (adding a few more hundred tonnes of waste to an existing storage facility doesn't really increase harm all that much), in linear proportions for renewables (more hills must be covered with wind turbines to generate more energy), and for fossil fuels the harm is to some degree in an exponential relationship due to the feedback effects of increasing carbon dioxide. Unfortunately I don't think the world is in a position to give up nuclear just yet, and Germany certainly isn't.
Very cool. I tried something similar once. Have you gone down the differential/compressed update rabbit hole yet?
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Maybe you're using cloudflare dns? https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...
I wish we have archive.md automatic for each post...
That too. As far as I can tell, this thing has all the control and glide capabilities of a brick. At least the brick has the inherent safety feature of not being mistaken for a passenger aircraft.
Huh. Any idea why?
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I’m not sure which tools you are referring to exactly, but I’ve had success with Adobe Reader/Acrobat using Wine.
I saw some charts out of South Africa today showing that deaths are starting to rise with a three week delay. I'm optimistic that Omicron is less severe, but it's also possible that it's just taking a little longer than expected to start killing people.
Load sheddding might also be a good solution
California is doing the same insane thing, unbelievable, this is worse than denying climate change
Why should Instagram, a FREE social networking site where you share pictures and videos be a utility?! There are countless ways to accomplish the same thing, including email and text, both of which are also (thankfully) not utilities.
That doesn't seem like a similar enough story to contradict anything here.
Since deaths lag cases, have you seen a graph that has peaks labeled on the time axis?
For today's elderly or otherwise at risk, that may very well be the case. It's going to be the younger people today who are either vaccinated or survive infection, that become the much more resistant adult and elderly population years and decades from now.
Why would it do that FFS ?
I am, on all of my devices. Interesting.
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Another thing that makes me suspicious is that Skillsoft just went through chapter 11 bankrupty summer of 2020. It's near the start of a pandemic and people are at home yet these guys struggle? Also look how many owners skillsoft has passed through.
The Io language is elegant both to program in and in the way the design is built up from simple parts. In fact it was my first introduction to dynamic typing after many years programming in C++, C#, and (various) BASIC(s).

Io allows you to write only and exactly what you meant with the least amount of non-essential complexity of any dynamically typed language I know. The lazy evaluation also allows you to take full advantage of code is data / data is code. That sounds like LISP, but whereas there the primitive is the list, in Io the primitive is the message.

My experience trying to write a larger project (a game, never finished) in Io was that it allowed me to make enormous progress initially, but suddenly reached a point in size of the project where the lack of static checking was (IMO) impeding my progress more than the elegance of the language was helping it.

(I also realized at that point I needed to re-implement some things in C++ for performance reasons, not because of Io per se but just because some things needed to be on the "native" side of the fence because things they touched also were.)

When I reached this point in the project, I found there was no clear path to translating what I'd developed into a static language (C++) because many of the ideas and systems I'd created in Io simply couldn't be expressed in C++ - or they made no sense there.

For example I'd created an embedded DSL (something Io excels at) for a data definition of the game objects. When I tried mindlessly converting these Io prototypes into C++ classes, they not only became too verbose they also lost all of the semantics of prototypical inheritance where "take a copy of another thing and tweak it" was my means of building up game objects by incremental refinement.
Sometimes the US broadcasts bombs too.
To be clear, I'm not saying the study was conducted ethically, which I think is a complex question (but also one I think influenced quite a bit by the wording of accusations, as "human subject research" has some historical connotations even if an accurate description), but that attributing all lost time/money to a cost the study imposed on others might be taking too much of a leap.
It doesn't have to be procfs, but it would be nice to have a /proc like interface.
I love the casualness about somebody wasting hundreds of dollars consulting a lawyer for something that isn’t relevant to them.

As for the personal blog: it is relevant, because the email was send to owners of personal blogs.

You claimed that the recipients of this email, such as personal blog owners, had no business running a website if they didn’t know the details a law that doesn’t apply to them. That’s stifling plain and simple.
They usually help with sites that go down under a heavy traffic load, or that have a paywall.
super fast spread even with milder effects will still meant overwhelming healthcare capacity
let's not even go near the notion that more infection means brewing more variants
we've never entertained herd immunity for polio, why covid..
I’ve recorded my sleep many a time. What I say is entirely random and garbage. To suggest someone hacked your phone to listen to your dreams requires extraordinary proof, and would also be far less effective than listening to your day while you’re actually awake. And even then, you need quite a high bar of proof. This is only been documented to occur for high value targets, so unless you’re one of them, I’d be far less concerned.
I'm glad someone with some authority is saying this. I've been saying it for awhile. "With enough eyes all bugs are shallow" assumes "enough eyes". It's "begging the question" in the tradition sense of the phrase. Most users just compile the source - if they ever even touch it - and run the app. Most developers are just interested in adding features and refactoring. So who's looking for bugs exactly? And when bugs are reported, no one wants to do the work. They're closed as the infamous EWONTFIX, or they're blamed on upstream, or they're "scheduled to be fixed in v6" (while the project is on v2).
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> as has been pointed out by so many news outlets recently that even the CDC was bullshitting

Source please?
Nuclear plants can adjust reasonably quickly in theory, but most plants don’t have the equipment to do in practice.

This is because nuclear has a very low marginal cost of power - a kJ is very cheap if you’ve already built the plant - so the plants are intended to run full-tilt to make the most of your very expensive asset.
Precisely why I started a strict 1800 calorie cutting diet and working out six times a week. Already down 11kg. Obesity makes you severely at risk yet it's not really highlighted by the news. They make it seem like everybody is at severe risk.

If anyone else wants to lose weight, it's simple but very difficult. It will test your discipline.

Find out your TDEE using this https://tdeecalculator.net/, subtract 500 and boom that's your ceiling. Don't eat anything beyond that. Use myfitnesspal to track calories and weigh your food using a scale. That simple. If you work out you will lose weight even quicker. You will succeed or fail in the kitchen. The gym is just gravy on top - fight your battle in the kitchen.

It's simple but _very_ difficult. Easily the hardest thing I've done in my life.
More than five million probable died from Covid, the vast majority since summer 2020. The pandemic isn’t over because someone decided it was. This person’s comment is asinine.
Further down in the article, there's a more technical explanation under the heading "Can you elaborate on the technical issue?"
I was at Costco this morning (DFW) buying a big hunk of Prime Rib for Christmas Day dinner. No one either knows or cares anymore. I'm still wearing a mask for facial recognition purposes but I'm starting to feel weird considering no one else is wearing a mask anymore, not even the folks who look like they got one foot in the grave already.

Omicron is already so yesterday it isn't even a memory.
Are you using Cloudflare DNS? The archive.is owners intentionally block it. It's occasionally blocked at the ISP level too.
Changing their minds is what I figure would happen.
I concur. It’s amazing how well anti vaxxers have taken over the narrative.

Literally all data has shown that omicron is a non-issue for triple vaxxed individuals, with a baseline being the standard flu.

If someone has data showing that triple vaxxed people are dying at rates similar to March 2020 I’d love to see.
> Whataboutism or whataboutery (as in "what about…?") is a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy, which attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving the argument

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
The website blocks Cloudflare DNS, not the other way around.
It makes the decision to shut down nuclear power plants understandable, but not right.
It doesn't/its complicated.
I don’t understand this move with Putin shutting off gas to flex. It’s going to be a very cold, very expensive winter for the Germans.
Why would Shanghai police care to manufacture opinion abroad? I consume a decent amount of news and rarely see Shanghai mentioned in American newspapers.

Or is this supposed to be one part of a larger effort, tasked to work on stories that are actually of global concern, having nothing to do with Shanghai?
That's untrue, you can see Cloudflare's explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

Short version: The Archive.is authoritative DNS servers do not give correct addresses to Cloudflare when Cloudflare asks for them
the test and source material should be available in french - I assume it already is. That part actually seems to be in there to make it so those who do poorly in the math have some reading they can do to boost their marks.
Just tried it out briefly. Pretty WYSIWYG. Could be useful for my daily standup. Hope it works on mobile.
> people across the world are more likely to know broken English than even a single word of Mandarin

Several years ago I went to a resort town in Egypt, and all Egyptians working around the hotels there spoke Russian, because there were lots of Russian tourists. Later I've been told that just a few years prior to that, everyone spoke English instead. Apparently money talks in a more literal sense too.
> the persistent WebSocket connection allowed a set of assumptions around the shared state of the client and server that would have to be re-negotiated when reconnecting. The fact that this renegotiation was non-trivial was a major driver in selecting WebSockets in the first place. With HTTP, regardless of HTTP2 or QUIC, your application protocol very much is set up to re-negotiate things on a per-request basis. And so the issues I list don't tend to affect HTTP-based applications.

I think this describes a poor choice in technology. There's no silver bullet here, and it sounds like you made a lot of questionable tradeoffs. Assuming that "session" state persists beyond the lifetime of either the client or the server is generally problematic. It's always easier for one party to be stateless, but you can become stateful for the duration of the transaction.

Shared state is best used as communications optimization, and maybe sometimes useful for security reasons.
I'm running Synapse and Cactus chat on a 1gb memory, 1 vCPU Linode and it's just fine.

Given, I have a small blog (ie low load on cactus), but I'm in many (15+) medium sized (100-1000 members) federated chats and it's just fine on a day to day basis.

There are some limitations tho:

- I can't join large rooms (2000+ members and whatever number of servers that entails on average)

- Initial sync (first time log in on new client) is crazy slow - syncv3 will hopefully fix this

My definition of not being resource hungry is being able to run on a 1gb, 1 vCPU VM - however you and me might have a difference in that opinion
Frustrating.

Also ironic, the idea that climate activists are a significant cause of climate change.
Cloudflare doesn't block them, Archive.is intentionally refuses to resolve DNS queries from 1.1.1.1 due to lack of geo information. See explanation here: https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/
This is not just about Germany, it affects energy and gas prices across Europe and it makes Europe more dependant on Russia.
We experienced fallout from Chernobyl (radiation levels of wild boar meat and some mushrooms are still under surveillance today) and we were designated nuclear ground zero in case that the Soviets tried to invade Europe. What attitude towards all things nuclear do you expect to arise from that?
You can read about their reasoning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702

Posted by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=eastdakota, whose profile reads:

> A little bit geek, wonk, and nerd. Repeat entrepreneur, recovering lawyer and former ski instructor. CEO & co-founder of CloudFlare. [ my public key: https://keybase.io/eastdakota; my proof: https://keybase.io/eastdakota/sigs/_uDY0ZsLTEWaNu5daRtuwzZtJ... ]
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The US is not a good example of a functioning democracy. Our federal representatives have to represent 700,000 people. The state legislatures get to shape the federal districts, which means the representatives effictively get to pick their voters instead of the other way around. Our senate is grossly undemocratic, giving each state two representatives regardless of population, leading to minority rule. And our presidential election system is expressly anti-democratic.

There are lots of good examples of better functioning democracies and a fair amount of theory on reforms that could improve even those (things like ranked choice voting).

That's why I said "Build the most responsive democracy we can".
But you just said the crux if the issue: you refuse out of principle, but that doesn't mean others share your principles.

Why did Google's refusal squash a brand new browser? Why was it even a factor? Did it have to be? Is there an alternative approach one could take to not need google's involvement to include a Widevine module in their said brand-new browser?