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My point is to not build new nuclear centrals. France should maintain its current centrals so that no coal is used and as little natural gas as possible.

Recycling solar panels (and other stuff used to produce renewable energies) is a real issue. But I wonder why pronuclear fanatics are so sure that we will find technical solutions to dismantle old nuclear centrals and safety stock tens of thousand tons of nuclear waste... but always point the issues and challenges of renewable energies as totally impossible to get over.

Nuclear energy is not the solution for a sustainable world. So France should invest heavily in research and development on renewables energies to find solutions that scale to the needs of 9+ billions people.

There are plenty of discoveries and breakthroughs to make, patents to deposit so that France can reindustrialize and have an positive industrial balance in 20 years.

At the same time, nuclear fission should be pursued. It will cost tens of billions but that's worth it. The EU ought to keep up with China and the US leading that field. The ITER project is international but is getting behind.
How is mandatory data reporting linked to bankruptcy? The more information available to the market, the better and more efficient they run.
It can be both. We can have scarcity of access to a resource (entertainment, dining, culture, etc) which makes another resource (housing) much more expensive. There can be a relation to what people want access to and where people need to live.

Places like NY have extremely high densities of cultural resources and extremely low densities of housing. This doesn't mean people like the housing, it just means people like the cultural aspects.

This begs a big question: why do we pack all of our cultural institutions into a small area? Is it more cost effective? I would have a hard time buying that due to how many restaurants, businesses, etc close in Manhattan for not being able to catch up with rent. I think it's a cyclical issue we see in other areas. Why is Shenzhen the "only" place that manufactures electronics? It is likely a network effect causing this. Factory A can sell to B, C, and D which can all sell a similar fan out. The same likely happens with cultural institutions. Starting a restaurant supply company? Well, you'll look for the place with the most restaurants. Starting a restaurant? Look for the place with the most supply companies. Want to find a place to live? Look for the place that has the best optimization of {Rent, Entertainment, Food, Employment}. For me and many others: this is NYC (actually NJ with a commute to the city).

A bigger follow up question: Does it need to be this way? I don't think it does. Living in Manhattan/Brooklyn/etc is way more expensive than living in the suburbs of NJ even factoring in double taxes and commute. I currently pay $1,500/month in rent for a 1br 1bath. A friend who lives in Brooklyn (with a 15-20 min shorter commute) pays about $3,500/month and needs to pay $300/month in an MTA card while also spending way more on groceries and cost of living stuff than I do.

If you owned your residence in a suburb even with taxes my guess is it becomes much more financially beneficial even if you need a car. If we got a little smarter and built trains, street cars, buses, subways, etc in suburban areas with sprawl we may not even need cars for most Americans.

If we have separate single-family dwellings than the damage fires and poor maintenance can cause are limited (blast radius). We can, as a society, gradually "roll-forward" new standards in electrical codes / eco friendly by renovating homes as people move.

The only reason we don't have a single family home to give to everyone who wants one is because we haven't built them. Once everything is said and done though the cost of building an apartment complex in NYC is not much cheaper once you factor in the huge fees for doing any sort of construction in NYC.

I personally think that if we, as a country, decided to build walkable small towns that were interconnected by fast moving and reliable public transit and forced businesses who could work remotely to do so many people would much rather live there than in the city.
> If you reached this page by clicking a link, try unclicking the link.
You get a potentially bidirectional serial interface. Whether there is a shell running or any input accepted is another question. Very often they are output only, merely for debugging.
Find your other, have a kid. The rest will sort itself out.
That's not honesty, that's just being an asshole.

If a kid draws a picture and has obviously put some effort into it and is proud of it, I'm gonna be impressed and tell them so. If they obviously haven't tried very hard and I'm being called upon to judge it, i'd say it didn't look like they tried very hard. And kids usually respond well to that sort of criticism. But for kid's art to be objectively terrible, I don't even know what that could mean.
There's a feedback cycle here. If it's long and difficult to get to the store, you need to buy a lot to make it worth the time. If it's easy and quick to get to the store, you don't need to buy nearly as much. Carrying a single small bag of groceries for 10 minutes shouldn't be a big deal.
I really wish there were better secure communications apps. Signal is good for encrypting messages/calls, which is the main feature I happen to care about personally. It's awful for keeping important communications safe, though, because it's deliberately tied to a single device that is highly likely to be broken or lost. There is still no sensible way for users to even export their Signal message history to another safe place as a backup, for whatever their personal definition of "safe" happens to be.
I agree with your assessment. The problem is it became basically a religious thing on the meantime, and as you say so politicized that people have had a hard time walking back their stances, and institutions have realized all the power they can wield. I'm hoping that now that "the science" actually shows that most covid measures and restriction are frivolous, we will slowly get the religious stuff out of our systems and start getting back to normal, as has already happened in many jurisdictions
K-6 is way too early for Algebra I or anything like that, but what you can do is smoothly transition from arithmetic to "pre-algebraic" thinking, most commonly seen in complex word problems. Geometry can be taught alongside math throughout the whole K-9 or so curriculum, laying the prereqs for trig, so-called "precalculus" and calculus in 10-12. This is not a fancy approach, it's basically how math has always been taught outside the U.S. When you hear amazing things about "French math", "Russian math", "Singapore math" or whatever, that's what it's about. It's a smartened up form of traditional teaching: no need for useless Ed-school woo about how "students should just learn their math by themselves".
It's true that it's hard to get an academic job, but it's not true in all industries. In CS for example we've been hiring constantly for years and our searches are often not successful.

Moreover not everyone who graduates with a Ph.D. wants on the tenure track, and universities are increasingly creating non tenure roles to meet this demand. I'm not on tenure track and I don't think I'm missing much compared to my TT counterparts. I don't even want tenure, it's not at all what it's cracked up to be.

Your citation also leaves a lot to be desired. From your link:

> Nowadays, less than 17% of new PhDs in science, engineering and health-related fields find tenure-track positions within 3 years after graduation

Two of the things we ask during hiring are:

- "How is your research agenda different from your advisor's."

- "What funding agency will you target for your first grant proposal and what research will that be based on?"

Most newly minted PhDs cannot answer those questions satisfactorily. It sometimes can take 2-3 years doing a postdoc to be able to find a suitable research agenda that is sufficiently differentiated from your advisor's.

Moreover:

> We recognize that in using a simple model, several parameters that are not part of our analysis may pose limitations (Ghaffarzadegan et al., 2011). One consideration is that many engineering doctorates are not interested in academic positions and may not even compete for tenure-track positions in academia. Another consideration is that some engineering graduates are foreign citizens who take academic positions outside of the USA.3 Another factor is inter-field hiring. Engineering doctorates might obtain positions in other fields such as science or business, which would also diminish the gap.

Okay, so they discount people who don't want to work in academia, and also foreign students who won't work in America. I'm sorry but what? Foreign students who won't be working in America after they graduate are most of our students. Probably 70% of our grad students right now (and the situation can't be much different at MIT). It's pretty hard to take this paper seriously when they just handwave all that away and say "but in the steady state..."

And then the grand conclusion of the article is to throw up their hands and say (paraphrasing) "there's probably nothing we can do about this so we just have to be more forthright with students about their prospects." Okay then...

I'm not saying it's not hard to get an academic job, but at the same time the measure shouldn't be academic tenure track jobs. There are lots of non-TT positions across the country at top research universities, SLACs, and community colleges.
> occasional broken window

I repeat, as someone who moved out of a city to get away from much more than 'the occasional broken window', your perspective is naive and you look ridiculous.

> Is an election that the right loses actually a legitimate election?

That's a cute way to 'remember' it was the first time we did mail-in voting at scale, or did you also forget that in 2016 the media and left wouldn't shut-up about Russia infiltrating our elections? You know, if things were so f*cked in 2016, I'm not sure what changed to make the 2020 elections so impervious to fraud by comparison.

> Basic public health measures are tyrrany!

You do realize that the models for COVID-19 got more wrong the longer the charade went on? You do realize that for 2 years things such exercise and preventative care were put off for sheer virtue signaling through cloth masks? No, of course not, you're just another person who thinks we all made it through a 'pandemic' when worse pandemics have happened no sooner than a decade ago. Here's a hint: None of the measures during the pandemic were in the name of "public health" and someday in the near future, you'll learn in difficult ways why that is the case.

I truly hope you find the right way. From only two comments I can tell you're the type of person who thinks propaganda could never affect them, but is somehow hyper aware of the propaganda that is affecting others. It's the most dangerous type of pawn and you're the epitome. Congratulations.

You're not informed if you're just repeating what some billionaire wants you to.
Constructivism isn't really a "camp". It's a set of axioms. (Probably more than one, since mathematicians are clever.)

Whether real numbers are real is a metamathetical questions. a choice of models/axioms is either the rules of a fun game or a map for the territory of something that exists in the real Universe. If you are looking for a good map, you choose between non-equivalent models based on how accurate the map is, per experiment, not philosophical preference. But then you are doing physics, not pure pure math, so then the metamathetical debate is irrelevant.
Every time I approach this problem, it frustrates and educates, even in the last 24 hours.

I got a message from Florian Hars, who got it to compile and mostly working on Ubuntu 20.04 with GCC 9.4.

Amazing

https://github.com/fhars/stoical

I also got a message from Joshua Saxby, who put a ton of work into it as well. Like me, just getting it past the compiler was the goal.

https://github.com/saxbophone/stoical/tree/josh/cmake-build

Since Florian actually got it working, my instinct is to just import Florian's version into git. Does that seem reasonable? I can then start digging into the warnings, documentation, etc. and improve it from there.

Thanks again to everyone for your help!
I thought stalebot was supposed to back down if people were commenting. But this time it added a "wontfix" tag right away, ignored the humans and closed the issue anyway. The scourge is getting worse.
I guess the question would be if a larger pool of users willing to vote for native apps with their $$$ would counteract the dynamic you mention.

After all the worst possible dev environment will get extensively used if there's money to be made using it (I'm thinking of talking with PS2 developers 20 years ago…).
"but Levine's stuff is good because I don't think it pretends to have a purpose..."

Yep. Agreed. He's there to drive visits to Bloomberg, but I know what you mean, and that is indeed part of what makes him good.

As a layman and small-time investor, I like his stuff simply because he makes me aware of things I would almost certainly never encounter were it not for him. He seems to like explaining things just to be explaining them, and I like reading or listening to folks who share their fascination and insight into how their field works. I have an almost physical revulsion for dismissive people who seem never to be intrigued or surprised by anything -- those folks to whom everything wonderful is simply to be dismissed with a halfhearted wave of the hand accompanied by a yawn, sneer, or a subtle roll of the eyes. Levine's content seems so different from the usual slop about how the economy is going to do this or that, and consequently, why you should buy this or that.
I tried asking about his horse semen divorce settlement (look it up), and of course there was no prepared answer for that one.
See also the utterly disgraceful handling of HIV/AIDS under his watch, throwing long standing gay friends of Nancy and himself under the bus to woo the evangelical vote.
I've half-learned both. My impression is that Godot is more like a framework (but more so) with prescribed ways of doing things, with lots of custom languages and formats, and Heaps is more like a library you use in a codebase that belongs to you a bit more.

From an ability-to-ship-games perspective, starting out, I'd go with Godot. Putting together a game's architecture from scratch with a library like Heaps sounds like a fun project, but to just get a game out the door without fussing around, Godot makes things easier without major downsides. Godot has so many custom things because those things work.

That said, I'm just a dabbler, so I'm sure other people will chime in as well. I'm also sure that if you invest time in learning Godot or Heaps, it will pay off well, because they are both mature projects that people have used to ship commercial games.
Despite all the fancy new websites that crop up every couple of years in the apartment rental space, imo the best place to find an apartment remains craigslist. I've only ever leased spaces through there. For the mom and pop landlords who you really want as your landlord, they might get a new client every 10 years. 10 years ago, they were using craiglist, and it works exactly the same as today, so that's what they continue to use. If it gets them a tenant its good enough to not bother learning some other new website. For the large corporolandlords who have those bougie amenities that perhaps you crave, they will be posting on all the major websites including craigslist anyhow, so you might as well use craigslist for that use case too if only to use a less bloated website.
Currently about 16.5k tax free. If you live in London you get slightly more, and if you're an STFC-CASE student you get more again (total of around 20k in London). It equates to somewhere between 19-22k if you were paying income tax. For anywhere outside London and Oxford/Cambridge (where rents are also extremely inflated) it's a fairly liveable wage. Shared housing pretty much anywhere else is in the range of 500 a month, possibly a bit less in the North of England. UK citizens generally don't have to pay tuition fees directly, they're all rolled into the PhD "grant".
If you log in with craigslist you can save the search instead of having to bookmark and manually recheck.
Buses are much easier to add in a city that's already built for cars. You just build some stations instead of having to dig up the whole road to add rails.
That's what mattered for the election. Not what matters for understanding history and trying to stop repeating the same terrible mistakes.
Of the issues I've replied to, closed by the stale bot, they've been reopened.
His potential solution requires the customer to know that there are two states to the sign. An unlit “Ham biscuits available” with a white check next to it would be confusing to those able to read it. Although the legibility would be lower it’s not ideal.
Also, better documentation (the HOWTO series), better distribution (plenty of CDs) and Linux installfests.
Sea level rose continuously from 20,000 until 8000 years ago, 120 m in all. Each of 600 generations experienced its own deluge as the shore moved inland, often hundreds of miles all told.

Local events were often more dramatic, maybe including the Black Sea filling in. Then there was the global Younger Dryas cataclysm 12,000 years ago.
Wow! That's some serious mental horsepower and creativity. I have an old physics book for layman by him. Seems like a guy who just liked to share the wonder of the world and the imagination. I like people like that.
The link itself is great too:
/s4/is/a/joke/stop/sending/us/money/readthefineprint.aspx
Accusing them of doing the "wrong thing for 99% of their users" is pretty hyperbolic. They've managed the feat of offering simple, easy E2EE for messages, audio and video calls for one-to-one and groups, without charging anyone a penny for it. Their protocol is so successful it's been adopted by others and is often considered a gold standard.
> most people in America didn't even graduate from high school

Mostly, they didn't need to. A good quality junior-high education could feasibly reach what today would be high-school standards. And such was all that was needed for the kind of manual work that would've been common prior to the advanced factory manufacturing that only became common post-WWII.

> There are simply many more students than there were before, so while the performance of the good ones got better, and there are more of them, the average performance got worse.

This might most accurately describe the performance of teachers, not just students. If really good teachers are inherently very rare, then average performance might indeed get worse as numbers increase. What one could raise issue with though is the recurring claim that modern educational methods are more effective than earlier ones. There's simply too little evidence for that theory.
Sounds like you should become an agent.
It proves that's the kind of stuff he spends his time watching on youtube, he believes it supports his own argument and point of view, so he recommends that other people spend their time watching it too.

On the other hand, I'd rather spend my time watching and recommend other people watch stuff like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30969388

(For whatever reason, that's not available on youtube. My pet conspiracy theory about why not is that the Pepsi Corporation suppressed it because they don't want anyone to watch it! So I included a partial transcript to save you from being tracked and receiving targeted advertisements for watching it. ;) )
This is pretty sketchy. No HTTPS and a fake example website called MothersInLawPhotos
It had me up until the SOAP example!
Something about this being HTTP only makes it even better.
Home Depot actually has their own feature reduced SKUs from popular brands.

But checking prices, they are around $250.
And still you shouldn't have had to reply to those issues to keep them open.
>> You had an unusually positive experience with UAW. They own the UC system contract, and negotiated pay caps, lowering grad student pay on some campuses.

This is pretty normal with all unions. They negotiate higher pay and benefits for journeymen-level members at the expense of apprentice-level incoming members. Management then does their best to purge the journeymen while bringing on tons of apprentices.

Management and union leaders work in concert to ensure the above scenario happens a predominant amount of the time. See also: MLB, UPS, other entrenched and long-running union shops.

It's great if you're a tenured member. Not so much if you're new.

Hey, wait a minute... that sounds a lot like academia now with more steps...
There's a native reader in the Drive app. It's a nice integration actually, allowing for quick management of the file in Drive, keeping it from vanishing forever in my phone's "downloads" folder
When I was young I couldn't understand why Vanilla Ice couldn't use Bowie's bass sequence from Under Pressure. Those are different songs!

As long as you do not go full Pierre Menard songwriters should be able to "steal" from each other.

I miss the late 80s where sampling was supreme - Paul's Boutique, the KLF, pretty much all early house and techno songs heavily sampling from each other.

I do wonder if there is any type of underground scene where this type of experimentation is still happening. Obviously it is near impossible in AI policed venues such as Youtube.
I find it funny that the same person who made an obvious comparison between an online shame list and the physical marking of Jews in Nazi Germany is now

(a) claiming I'm assaulting their character
(b) "defending" themselves by claiming it's a super obscure reference in which a woman is marked instead of Jews.

Seriously?
The waste heat will be radiated away to space. The premise of global warming is that CO2 (and other "greenhouse" gasses such as methane) cause more of the heat to be retained in the atmosphere.
See here’s the thing. I completely totally agree with you. Which is specifically why I want to drop the math curriculum that is 4 years of blinding speed though material with just enough understanding and blind memorization to pass an exam it before forgetting it all.

I want a world where people come away not afraid of maths and feel like they can use it as a tool to solve real problems. But that doesn’t happen unless you sit with the material for a while. What you see as dumbing down I see is actually having a whole generation of people understand and remember algebra which is way better than we have now.
The alternative is living in an area where you don't have to drive everywhere to get things.

I drive maybe 200 miles a month now. I walk down the street to a supermarket to get toilet paper when I run out.