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> So is gold. Both don't fall from the sky however.

Thorium is literally a waste product resulting from rare earth mining. With basically no effort we could have 100s of years of reserves. Thorium is also available in waste quantities in basically every country in the world.

So its not at all like Gold.

> Not currently option, but wee need one now.

No we don't. Fusion actually make very economics sense outside of a few very specific issues. We certainty don't need it in the next 50 years. And practically speaking for power generation on earth fission will likely remain the cheaper option.

> Waste with loooong times to take good care of. Calculate the provision for 10000 years of toilet paper for a single security guard.

In any real nuclear society you would only produce waste that only needs a few 100 years of storage.

And anyway toilet paper and pope are simply resources that are recyclable. So not sure why that would even be an issue.

Also, you literally don't need a guard at all.

> So the hunter-gatherers were definitively nuclear.

Hunter-gathers required waste amount of land to produce their daily energy inputs.
I wish this were a short blog-post, as we need more of those, but it seems like a clear and incisive analysis of the issues facing ISAs.
I visited the first Whole Foods that lets you skip the checkout line
It really sounds like her sole uncontroversial accomplishment, unless you're of the "More woman prison guards!" persuasion, was a 400-pound leg press. That's impressive enough for a spry youth, so hey, good job. Probably part of why she lived to 84. Being the first of a demographic to participate in a broken system doesn't impress me.
>First, the lack of skin in the game leads to very poor participant behavior.

is there a reason why they can't require some amount of money down (eg. a few thousand dollars), or does that go against the ISA philosophy?
Google issue is whether they will pull the plug of the whole service, change name or what. Then you will ask what. And if you are not looking in that several months … it is really what.
Quest2 goes for $300/350€ and is a substantially more complete and better VR package than Daydream/GearVR ever was, i.e. positional tracking on headset and controller, Daydream/GearVR was rotation only. Not having to use a phone also reduces a lot of friction in using the device and drastically improves the visuals.

I do however miss the $200/200€ WMR headsets that we had for a while, that felt like a more reasonable entry point for a PC gaming headset. There is currently no replacement for those. Quest2 not only adds price, but also weight due to battery and SoC, which you don't really want or need when using it only on PC.
I would absolutely use "degrade" to describe what happens to public-facing or Internet-connected software over time—eventually you'll have to upgrade it for security reasons, and you'll often find that this is way more involved than just upgrading the server-side package itself, or even its immediate dependencies. The alternative is even more work back-porting security patches. All this is assuming someone's actively working on the software you're self-hosting, at least enough to spot, advertise, and fix vulnerabilities.

Ditto the average Rails/Python/Javascript project, as anyone who's tried to resurrect one that's gone so much as six months without being touched can attest. Which might not matter except that a ton of the software people might actually want to self-host are in one or more of those high-entropy ecosystems. Extraordinary levels of care and organization on the part of the creators and maintainers can mitigate this, but that amount of taste and effort is vanishingly rare.

These are degradation due to a changing environment, sure, but I wouldn't describe it as due to evolution in the needs of the user (presumably "must not have any well-publicized remote vulnerabilities" was a need from the beginning).
Thanks for the response!

I gotta disagree with you though on cost. You can get a beefy refurbished dual Xeon blade for a couple hundred bucks. Rack space where I live is like $50/month for 1U and gets much cheaper/machine as you scale up. $50 on aws will get me maybe 1 medium ec2 instance and an s3 bucket. With a used blade I get 20x the compute for the same price.
Well, that's because the US Treasury only mints the coins - the Fed banks buy them. All US currency in circulation is ultimately issued by the US Federal Reserve, they just don't physically make all of it.
To the extent permitted by the hosted service, you should still backup your data. If you manage to accidentally delete all of your hosted photos or if your account is compromised, I wouldn't rely on most services going to their backups to restore your data. Unless it's a site-wide issue, most places will say "that's too bad" and send you directions on how to protect your account.
But nothing will catch the amazing place there, I visited this lake with my family there 2 years ago and the wonderful scents permeated the valley almost like magic. In my hotel room the jar of honey we bought lasted 4 days.
https://sworld.co.uk/02/699964/photoalbum/lake-ritsa-in-geor...
This is why I'm building Timelinize [1]. It's a follow-up to my open source Timeliner project [2], which has the potential to download all your digital life onto your own computer locally, and projects it all onto a single timeline, across all data sources (text messages, social media sites, photos, location history, and more).

It's a little different from "self hosting" but it does have a similar effect of bringing all your data home and putting it in your control. We have to start somewhere, might as well start with bringing in all the data we've put out there. (It's not a replacement for self-hosted media servers, for example.)

The backend and underlying processing engine is all functional and working very well; now I'm just getting the UI put together, so I hope to have something to share later this year.

[1]: https://twitter.com/timelinize (website coming eventually)

[2]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner
Can someone add some of the missing context about the ISA experiment mentioned in the tweet thread?
My understanding is that a lot of the folks you'd want to target for something like this don't have appreciable funds to put down in the first place.
I think it’s an example of why companies need mature governance models.

It’s cool tech, but it seems like it’s boiled down to Second Life + helmet graphics.
ISAs are also appealing to people pursuing degrees without an intent to become high earners, such as those looking to 'broaden their horizons' or 'earn their Mr./Mrs.'.
Why Apple will soon lose its tight grip on the App Store
> Quantum fields make non-negligible contributions to the gravitational source in these models. That means that, for a fully consistent model, you need a theory of quantum gravity, which we don't have.

Importantly, I don't think this is true. The gravitational field at the event horizon of pretty much any black hole people care to model, is actually quite "weak", when compared to the Planck scale where quantum gravitational effects are expected to become important. While quantum gravity would be needed to model phenomena deep inside a black hole (near what is referred to as the singularity), phenomena at the event horizon, such as Hawking radiation (and presumably, the phenomena these researchers claim to predict?) can be modeled quite adequately just using QFT and classical gravity.
I agree but I think about it in the reverse way: the hosting is easy, what you get when you use another company's service is the maintenance. Just like every other option where we choose who will maintain something there are trade-offs. You can maintain your own car if you want, but it'll involve things! We all look at our lives and decide which is best for us for each thing.

Personally, I tend to self host the things whose maintenance I at least find satisfying, and hopefully enjoy. Otherwise I pay someone (through ads or my own money) to do it for me.
Genuine question: does it make sense to go even more paranoid with self hosting?

1. buy a box at home

2. run on onion: https://medium.com/axon-technologies/hosting-anonymous-websi...

3. access media using onion browser

I believe electricity cost of hosting at home would be expensive and accessibility will be a problem 2000 miles away without cdn. One might have to consider having this box on a separate network.

So anonymity here might not be worth the price?
Yeah I could see that argument too. Lots of hard decisions and interesting questions in terms of how to navigate what people want/need. Honestly I don't envy their situation. It has even made me think crazy things like what a Django fork would look like... the thing has some bloat that could stand to be removed too. And some legacy decisions that are super hard to change, but also need to be changed.
If you don't care about optimizing latency, we definitely didn't build Fly.io for you. That's not because you want the wrong thing, though. It's because we have a narrow and, we think, very valuable focus.

We're actually not in the same niche as Render! At least, I'm pretty sure we're building towards different things. But we are each (a) small (b) scrapping with large public cloud providers and (c) attempting to generate a self sustaining startup reaction.

Attracting people with new apps is a way both of us prove the value of what we're doing. Attracting people who want to run their apps close to their users is the way we make a lot of money.
It definitely beats me sitting in this char for playing space. I had a Quest 2 and I can say the playable space is pretty large, more than enough, and I walked away from the experience feeling that it was absolutely profound. I haven't had such a game changing experience since I bought my Diamond Monster 3D (3dfx Vooodoo 4MB).

It's not going to be for everyone. Games today aren't either. Some people just don't like gaming, reading, VR, sitcoms, etc.
it’s a colloquialism, “the experiment” refers to the collective belief that ISAs had potential risk to revolutionise funding for education etc.
I am not surprised you didn't find a quote which says she regrets the action, and not the statement regarding that action. Politicians gonna do politics.

Just like today with sanctions on Russia, even though there is almost no proof that sanctions have ever produced anything but suffering for the least privileged, it's trivial to make that an us vs them game to bring masses in.
Yes, you can use the certificate-transparency go code to pull down from the trillian API https://github.com/google/certificate-transparency-go/blob/m...

You would need to know the index, or you could just iterate over a range
Literally was looking for this software about 5 hours ago because of this..
Aside from labor replacement and the implied capital efficiency, are there other benefits automation can bring to solar installations?
> Sure, but my old Google cloud apps on python 2.7 will one day get rug-pulled and forced to upgrade

“Degradation over time” was being cited as a reason not to self-host. Pointing out that not self-hosting exposes you to risk of others changing the environment so it no longer supports your software is a diametrically-opposed argument.
> "Let not future things disturb thee, for thou wilt come to them... having with thee the same reason which now thou usest."

That's what Marcus said? Or rather a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery old and dusty translation of what he said?
I think that the explanation about credit scores probably applies here; much as people with good credit scores had better options than ISAs, people with some cash to put up do as well.
this is all on my homelab to-tinker list - any further comments you can share? assuming with a CA, DNS and NTP everything stays up without missing a beat if you lose WAN for some time?
Your mental gymnastics remind me of the 9/11 Truthers who wouldn't believe that the Twin Tower collapsed.

The video is self evident and your discussion points do not meet my expectation of reasonable discussion.
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Plans like these are generally intended to help precisely those people who don't have a few thousand dollars lying around. (Heck, even many traditional students taking out loans would be hard pressed to put a few thousand dollars down instead of taking out a student loan. That's a lot of money to most people in the US.)
Compiling ‘Suckless Tools’ on FreeBSD
It's also worth considering why a participant might "behave poorly". Even if you select for "good people", those in circumstances bad enough to need an ISA are probably more likely to hit harsh times in the future and simply be unable to repay the loan - they suffer from generational poverty, for example, which means if a close loved one becomes injured or badly ill they may have no choice but to abandon their education and work multiple low wage jobs to support their family. At that point the ISA investment is wasted because they're unlikely to finish that education anytime soon or be able to convert it into a high-wage job. People in poverty situations also often have worse health, which means you are dealing with higher odds of the participant being unable to pay it back because they get sick, or die.

I would not be shocked if it turns out that in practice ISAs are a money-losing proposition due to all the risks involved, even if they can be an effective way to make education accessible to people. Education being so ridiculously expensive in the US is still a relatively new thing.
What is "a responsible mix of working from home and ‘on the job.’"? I don't understand how working in an office is 'irresponsible'.

My guess is that the employer is concerned about 'shirking', which tends to be prevalent in union-protected positions.
And ISA being..?
I'm making some assumptions here that the ISA context is free coding camp like education for a cut of the participant's future income:

What I always wondered was regarding these agreements:

"People aren't used to making these kinds of deals. Do they understand them? Do they want them? Who is going to take them?"

I assumed the attractiveness to the individuals was NOT taking out a loan and folks taking more of a 'long shot' and if it didn't work, things weren't going to work out for everyone.

Also, I took a bootcamp that even with folks paying for the camp / taking personal risk, half those folks had no place there. After one month half the class should have been dis-invited "this isn't your thing". Finding good candidates is hard / IMO unpredictable.
So there's two levels to this debate:

1) How unfair/biased is the policing of blacks in America?

2) To what extent is that unfairness the result of the right intentionally trying to harm their outgroup?

That second point is essential to your argument that that bias in criminal law is a form of "right-wing cancel culture". When a left-wing twitter mob joins in to get a man fired from his job for holding his fingers in the shape of the "OK" sign[1], that is their explicit intention.

Likewise, you are arguing that biased outcomes in criminal law are the intentional outcome of right-wingers targeting their political enemies (who are black people, apparently?). Even if you were completely correct about racial unfairness in the criminal justice system (which you are not) the fact that the policy was championed by black politicians and endorsed by a Democratic-majority House of Representatives makes your thesis that it was all a right-wing plot completely untenable.

As for the enforcement side, even if the police enforcing these laws were majority right-wing, this is still primarily happening in cities where the politicians, judges, district attorneys, etc. all have a left-wing bias.

With all this in mind, what you are arguing sounds more like a conspiracy theory. Again, not every outcome you don't like is the result of intentional action by your political enemies.

As for addressing the question how unfair in general the criminal justice system is towards blacks, there are several other good arguments in the link I shared. I don't have any specific stats about marijuana-related convictions, but even if there is a bias in that area, I think the arguments linked undermine the idea that in general the criminal justice system is unfair to blacks[2].

[1]https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdge-worker-fired-ove...

[2]Of course, the higher rates of incarceration of blacks is certainly tragic, and I would be glad for solutions to reduce that rate. There are probably many factors that cause this higher rate, but my argument is simply that biased laws and law-enforcement are not among them.
> which indicates that there was something very flammable in this area

For a brief period of time, the warhead of a missile.
Majority of the documentations I came across usually have the mantra of "Do this and you are golden". I know it is not dark wizardary, it just the documentations are aiming for someone who have the experience and the technical knowledge of this. Whereas there are people who are pushing "self-hosting is the answer! Even your tech-inept grandma can do it!" without providing documentations for inexperienced people like me. Annoyingly that some guides have parts that have a links to other guides that barely provide information about this. It is like "I know how to set it up but I am not gotta tell you how to do it, so here the link that might help" and it didn't help at all.
They use a RAD hardened FPGA to handle the avionics. The Snapdragon is for the less critical activity.
Madeleine Albright has died
There are hundreds of companies providing managed object storage and likely tens of thousands with file storage.

And you are free to create your own. It IS decentralised just at a different granularity to IPFS.
>The Dark Patterns We Want to Avoid

Entire article is basically a big dark pattern.
Reports are somewhat varied here but we find that about 10-20% of the overall site cost goes into labor. The bulk of the rest is component cost for solar modules and tracking systems, which are relatively commoditized and so are a thin margin above the cost of the raw materials to make them (silicon, steel). Those costs won't drop unless the underlying materials get cheaper.

We find that beyond the direct cost, the logistics of getting hundreds of people to a remote site is a significant challenge for construction companies. We directly saw how much of a hurdle this can be when we were on a site with the closest city an hour and a half away. Weather conditions are also a factor here, work on the site was actually shut down due to conditions that were too cold for laborers.

As we've interviewed solar construction companies, all of them have told us that they're turning down potential jobs just because they don't have enough people/capacity to build them. Unfortunately they can't simply raise their hourly rate by a few dollars to make this problem go away, because the challenges are more the regional specificity and logistical challenges of getting workers to sites.
I'd call it condescending, not pretentious. Is it reasonable to expect somebody implementing security to be aware of an algorithm that's 4 years old? 38 years old? 379 years old? I'd say yes to the last two, and only prevaricate about the first. I think some condescension is warranted in this case (less so for a 38 year old algorithm -- there's 38 year old hardware out there). We want people to hit the clickbait when it includes lessons so important.
> I cannot understand why movie that attempts to reflect as much Chinese culture as possible (excluding decorating everything with Dragons, which is a secret Chinese symbol and not used for decorations - even in the biggest Chinese movies you won't find too many Dragons) added this insult.

Kung Fu Panda is a movie made by Westerners, for Westerners, about the cultural zeitgeist of Asian martial arts films and their common tropes as interpreted by Westerners, for whom the distinction between Japanese and Chinese martial disciplines isn't really relevant. Dreamworks didn't add "ninja stars" as a sly insult to Chinese culture, they added "ninja stars" because "ninja stars" are a common element in the films being parodied.

I mean, it isn't a documentary about Chinese history, it's a comedy with talking cartoon animals. Get over yourself, sheesh.
> SystemD is complicated for a layperson

Is it? It has clean and logical abstractions, and consistency. Services depending in each other isn‘t complex or difficult to understand.

I suspect that a nice GUI would make systemd quite usable for non-expert users.

BTW: It‘s called ”systemd“:

> Yes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn't system d either. [0]

[0]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/#spelling
oomkiller wouldn't help if there's an I/O overload (good old friend Linux kernel bug #12309) since memory usage is fine, just your system can't read anything from network or storage.
It is more Common Lisp with an extension into my area, even though my first degree and jobs are all stat. Thanks for the suggestion. Just not how I thinking of it. In fact if you just want to do stat, I recommend spss, R, python … not really sure you will start with this and learn the lisp underlying. Clips-stat guy moved to develop R for a reason.

Still I think it is lovely they restart this path. Love Common Lisp.
I used to produce and record music and used a website called imeem to host my works. At some point it was bought out by MySpace and all non-licensed music was removed (granted there was a ton of stuff uploaded by individuals who did not own the rights to the work they uploaded) including stuff uploaded by the creators.

My work was pretty sub-par at the time, but I felt the burn pretty badly. Since then I’ve had very little faith in any site that allows creators to upload their content.

I still have work uploaded to SoundCloud, but also have backups stored locally and on my self hosted nextcloud instance for this reason.

This is probably more along the lines of the current situation with Vimeo than it is with Picaso, but I can still feel the burn from time to time.