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I don't see how this doesn't end with the government basically failing. The modern world is dizzyingly complex, if Congress can't delegate to dedicated agencies how does this all work.

Are there 435 people in this nation well versed enough to write detailed regulations on nitty gritty details about Securities on Monday, regulations on Agriculture on Tuesday, rules for calculating acceptable emissions for Coal Fired Power Plants based on service area, customers, and operating capacity on Wednesday and so forth.

The dismantling of the administrative state leaves us in a precarious position where we either end up completely unregulated (which I know some people would welcome, but as someone that enjoys not getting asbestos in my breakfast cereal, I think we need some regulations). Do we just end up with massive packages of regulations written up by ALEC and other private groups that then get handed to legislators and passed?

Sure an unelected bureaucrat sounds bad, but if the alternative of paying some guy $40k a year to think about these issues and draw up regulation is to let the person being regulated write their own rules, I'll take the former. I suspect the latter regulations will end up being whatever makes the most profit for the person being regulated, and if we all have to breathe lead because it makes some company's profits go up then so be it.

The government isn't always on the side of the common man, but neither are multinational corporations, and the multinational corporations are pretty up front about being in it for themselves.
Also most utilities will not let you charge from grid. Its very hard to get interconnect agreement if a battery is involved
Of course not. This was disproved ~3000 years ago.

Said another way: can the Constitution save your soul?
> Much like the biomass from long ago which has become the oil of today, I'm pretty sure the plastic waste of today will simply become the oil of the future.

OK, but on that timescale virtually nothing about climate change or environmental issues matters. On the scale of millions of years, life on Earth will continue in some way or another. But what's important is how much suffering will be endured in the potentially cataclysmic coming 100 years, and plastics hold great potential for harm on that timescale.
That is just about every company right now.
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It'd be ideal to also electrify cement production, iron smelting, and fertilizer production. And other big industrial heat and power uses, and commercial and domestic heat. Then we'll have converted most uses of fossil fuels.

That 1TW is nameplate peak production. New solar installed in good sites has a budgeted capacity factor of 0.2, declining gradually as the panels and associated equipment age.

If loads (demand, storage) are not well matched to solar production, realised capacity factor could well be 25% lower.

We'll want more of everything as the developing world develops and wants stuff and as demand for air conditioning grows. Vaclav Smil estimated world primary energy supply as 10 TW continuous as at 2000. since then it has near doubled with China's sudden rise. We'll probably want 50% - 100% more by 2050 as India and Nigeria develop.

0.2 TW continuous per year (the optimistic figure) growth in solar is not fast enough, IMHO.

1. Energy in Nature and Society, Smil V.
Far from me the idea to dictate what you should eat, but now is the time to reduce meat consumption. Once every three meals should reduce it enough in developped country to add a lot of grain on the market.

But once every two meals is good too. I'm not dictating anything, just think about it and how hard is would be for you.
What "dogmatic beliefs" are you referring to here, that innocent and helpless people deserve our protection? I don't think that's controversial. We're not animals.

I'm well aware pregnancies are commonly spontaneously aborted, but the key word there is spontaneously, "without apparent cause or stimulus", i.e. not through the choice or neglect of the mother.
At least it's possible for a budget-conscious person to rent a simple apartment within a 10 minute commute of central Tokyo for ~$500. Try doing that in San Francisco. Different expectations
Your door-to-door salesman is charging 4x what you could pay somebody not on the take. Home Depot, likewise.
This is again missing the big picture: the single easiest way to ensure that Mali's birthrate goes up instead of down is to make it as economically advantageous as possible to have large families. Famines tend to do that.

Talking about it in terms of ratios masks the actual material conditions we're talking about: withholding food would mean hundreds of thousands of pointless deaths; pointless because it undermines the actual macro trend we're seeing of rapidly falling birth rates. Infant mortality is a red herring: it's fallen faster than birth rates in every country that has undergone a development shift because it's the bellwether for the latter.
Eh, there's stuff that eats wood but we still build our houses out of it. Paper disintegrates pretty gosh darn easy if you leave it outside but we still use plenty of it. Most steel rusts in the right conditions, including the stuff in infrastructure.

I don't think plastic eating bacteria would be as much of a problem as people make it out to be.
With the state of Google these days, I think if I searched “What do NFT collectors think about NFTs?” I'd probably just get back results for NFT themed merchandise from Etsy and monkey pictures on Pinterest.
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You're in luck, my excerpt from today's court ruling is immediately followed by acknowledging more recent rulings.

> According to the Supreme Court’s more recent
formulations of that longstanding rule, Congress may grant regulatory
power to another entity only if it provides an “intelligible principle” by which
the recipient of the power can exercise it.

But then the hits just keep on coming

> We first conclude that Congress has delegated to the SEC what would
be legislative power absent a guiding intelligible principle.

>cue laugh track<
50 years ago, this Maud Lewis painting bought a grilled cheese sandwich
Nothing pairs well with nuclear.

A key fact about desalination is that it is totally OK for it to happen only when the sun shines or the wind blows.
Possibly, although it would behoove solar panels to have a high albedo along the non-electrically producing wavelengths. Lower panel temperatures mean higher efficiency, but the effort might not be worth the marginal improvement.
Just download the pdf, looks better TBH.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GReNZ9fbI4203esUwGzqqLVg1El...
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Net positive and constitutional are mutually exclusive concepts. That I do agree, and I agree that my earlier statement doesn't seem to give room for that level of nuance.

It just so happens that all my causes and grudges are from creatures of the New Deal, and I'm not in a position to bring them before the courts yet. Imagine my excitement when I realized how flimsy that era's legislative flurry really was.
Thanks for your time in the succinct reply.

They all work, you just need mass and height given a surplus of renewable power from any source. Last I checked we have junkyards filled with oxidizing metal that could be put to "potential" work as mass, not to mention all the other precious metals which could be reclaimed as people seem to forget we pulled them from the ground to begin with. Height is accomplished using the same materials salvaged from the junkyards to be used as structure in a different remanufactured form. Hopefully gravity doesn't change because then all of this is meaningless anyway. Efficiency doesn't really matter because nothing I am aware of is 100% efficient in energy and if the source is renewable then the loss is always made up in time, something people have no patience for today it seems. The CAPEX cost may be high but with correct design the OPEX cost will be low and functional unit lifetime correlates to the specific lift/generation device and that is where your simplicity reference is key.

It always comes back around to cost but when the power goes out what are people willing to pay? I have contacts that lived through the Winter Texas outage and the stories impact deeply and it of course will not happen again. Oh wait, last week 6 plants totaling 2.6 GW went offline from the spike based on May heat and certainly June, July and August will be cooler. And what about all of those devices that require electricity to keep various mammals alive, humans included?

My experiences reflect that few people on this planet are proactive, I can only hope those with crazy ideas working toward the energy problem find the needed traction in proving solutions that work to our global energy issues. If we do not solve the energy issue in a clean manner we are certain to be unable to solve the carbon issue which will need that very energy to return all the carbon we have already released and more.

Your assertion of simplicity is correct and this is the best outcome I can hope for. I'll shoot for one, maybe two but whatever the outcome, simplicity will always be top of mind. I am no expert by any means yet thanks again for the motivating feedback.
Sounds like classic problems with socialism and central economic planning.
What noxious fumes? Plastics are very clean burning if you do it properly (which isn't hard to do).

They burn MUCH MUCH cleaner that coal for example.

> The energy captured from the burn is obviously not the same

There is nothing obvious about it. I don't understand what you mean? Plastics have around the same energy density as oil.
Owning renewables doesn't sound like a fantastic business to be in, except maybe for hydropower plants. Massive amounts of CapEx, a commodity product that you're locked by contract into limiting any possibility of upside...
>It will be very interesting to see what happens if SCOTUS tries to roll back the administrative state...

"Interesting" to say the least. Trying to govern a modern nation of 370 million people based on a literal 18th-century interpretation of a Constitution designed to govern a handful of former colonies is going to be a (very predictable) disaster, which is why the Court hasn't done it before.
The UCMJ forbids military members from "contemptuous speech" against the President and others in the chain of command. They may have some Constitutional protections, but they're hardly identical to those of civilians.
What’s to stop eco-terrorists from releasing these bacteria and letting them propagate out of control consuming plastic?
The cost is minuscule compared to the ROI.

Religion in Japan is big business, just like your home country.
Rest assured that when you visit a shrine in Japan, the first thing to greet you will be an offering box.

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A long, leaky pipe achieves the same thing without the tanks.
You’d be surprised by the number of things that need to be constantly monitored. Building structures, power plants, roads, dams, mass transit, etc. basically everything.
Or maybe they're a musician, and are using the musical definition of 'counterpoint', where a melody is played with another melody and together they harmonize.
Final advance warning might have been more accurate.

Sense meant was "the threat is active, you can't presume otherwise, ignorance is not safety".

That said, I suppose that message will be repeated occasionally in future. Possibly even by myself.
Yeah, I dont know if its pointless to get in early (as if now is really early) given the subsidies in some areas. And it does seem realistic to become an energy independent home for not that much investment which 10 year old me still cant believe is actually a reality.

But I do like the idea that these industries might actually be motivated to progress faster now if people hold off on getting on board. Seems like its enough of a reality that they can justify r&d to make the last push toward real competitiveness.

Then again my brains fried from work and I don't know what I'm talking about.

All I know is I want me some solar panels and an electric F150.
I bought books from leanpub.com, and they could really improve their PDF generation.

In Markdown, there's no concept of pages. So you can get one row in a table get pushed to the next page and the rest of the page is blank, even there are contents after. Generating PDF with pandoc will usually take care of this through LaTeX, but I don't think leanpub is doing that.
I used to work at a company that managed the systems for back of house in fast food chains. We moved customers from excel to an online system. Omg when it came to doing labouring in the US. It’s scary.

If a person clocks in at 9:52M. The company only has to pay them from 10am. But in other states they must pay from 9:45am. There’s so much complexity in the us due to all states being different.
Agreed, a paralyzed society is one where corruption flourishes unchecked.

Of course, given what happened with the last presidency, that is probably the desired outcome for everyone rooting for paralysis.
Not many. But before I embark on this sort of exercise, I damn well better have a salary range.
However, electricity is easily transmitted, especially compared to oil pipelines.

Northern Africa is having a massive solar boon right now, with lines delivering across Europe.
> There are other forms of competition that work better.

There certainly are. The one that works best is the free market.
There should be a countdown somewhere.

Days before the entire kernel is written in rust.

I feel for the kernel devs who know just plain old unsecure/horrible C ;)

You guys had better start learning rust.
The one thing I don't understand is whether or not each chess round is a new game, or if the chess round is paused to start the boxing round. I'm just at the minimum requirement for chess, and not that many of my games end in a draw.
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Why would you have NOx? The fire is not that hot. And no, there are no dioxines because they burn up in the fire.

> It's messy to the point that it's debatable if it's better just to bury it.

No, it's not. You do get that people are doing this already, right now? It's not some theoretical - there's a huge amount of plastics being burned, and it's very clean.
Mandatory arbitration clauses seem to hold up in court fairly regularly.
These are just as tedious as web programming. SRE even worse. Security might have a few research roles if you’re really lucky but most are boring jobs where you nag people to do things they don’t care about
The Crypto Crash Feels Amazing
I drove a Tesla plaid model S recently, and I’d hardly call that a “low-quality” car, unless you’re very out of touch.
> His market validation - you are seeing it. It is a submission to Hacker News.

Yup you're totally right. All these ideas really seemed like things that would trend on HN (but that's easy to say in retrospect, getting to the front page isn't quite so easy!).

> My final advice for seeing how online services validate their ideas - run the product's domain through a backlink checker. It lets you see what other websites link to their product and what avenues they pursued for outreach. Each of those submissions exposes the product to potential customers and gives valuable feedback to the creator.

This is one thing I know I'm terrible at. I barely use any SEO tools properly, I should probably just hurry up and pay for ahrefs or whatever already.

I don't think the concept of checking backlinks even clicked properly in my head until I read your explanation, thank you very much.
There’s a process for that. The authority to override or change the constitution is not given to a single government branch but to the states. We’ve had an amendment as late as the 1990s, so it isn’t as of the constitution is immutable.

The authority of each government branch is explicitly enumerated. I’d rather them behave according to the contract they are beholden to than decide they have whatever authority they wish. That’s no longer a constitutional republic.

I’m not saying that a constitutional republic is the end all, be all. I’m just saying there is a process for getting things done and it is supposed to checked by the constitution and the other federal branches. That can be changed by amendment or revolution, but should not be changed by the whim of politicians.
kWh is a unit of energy measurement
kW is a unit of power measurement

Capacitors are capable of delivering high levels of power but have relatively small energy storage capacity compared to batteries.

Grid scale batteries need to be sized in terms of both charge/discharge rates (kW/MW) and energy storage (kWh/MWh)
If you look at the data, industrial production starts bouncing back when the worst provisions of the New Deal get struck down by the courts. It was very much self-defeating, the only part that helped was devaluing the dollar wrt. the main foreign currencies.
Finally, I see mention of the HVAC "battery" idea I've been flogging for years. Progress!

I hope this progresses to using the pile-of-rocks "battery" to store heat/cold in cheap hours and draw on it in expensive hours.
This is a thing I'm wondering. In Europe houses are old (i.e. not well insulated) and electricity is expensive. A heat pump to go through the winter would be insanely expensive for most households. Is there any solution that could fix this issue?
AI has definitely been bastardized and hyped by the marketing departments. Interesting enough recently within the last month IBM has dropped the AI from one of their products.

The sales/pr guy wasn't even sure why or not willing to disclose the why. I wonder if it had to do with unions. However that is total speculations based on an experience with gov't and unions approximately 20 years ago where the unionw was very concerned with computer and software I had written taking over union jobs.
Why don't you just copy something he's already done? His point is that you just need to start.
On very sunny days in Australia the price frequently goes negative already.
Yeah not the greatest recent bit of news... and I was pretty dismayed by it. I really hope that doesn't happen, but will prepare for the opposite.

Well the good news is that it's probably somewhat easy to make another bandcamp these days compared to when they started, so if it got bad enough, someone could pop up to fill the void with nothing but a Stripe subscription and S3 if they were determined (and not VC funded) enough.
Leaked hydrogen, all told, traps 200x as much heat as CO2. We really should not leak any more than we must.

By itself, it is just 6x. But it has lots of other interactions, such as increasing lifetime of methane.

But round-trip efficiency of hydrogen will be rising fast. Electrolysis by itself, which used to be 60%, will go well over 90%, maybe over 95%, in short order.
We fought the war to restructure the government. I think if you told the revolutionaries they were fighting to abandon those traditions they'd be very upset.
I am sure that is the exact attitude they are looking to filter out. And to be honest I can't think of any employer that is going to want hire an applicant that thinks they can get fucked, or think that what they do is nothing more that work for a "tool".
New AC designs seem to get about 1-2% more efficient every year, so we're making progress on both ends.
And that a lot of what’s recycled is rejected by industrial manufacturing as unusable and sent to a landfill anyway. I have to admit I don’t know the numbers, but the fact that these issues aren’t more widely discussed makes me suspicious that the popular positive consensus around recycling is the product of marketing and politics which would be par for the course.
Haven't tried this yet, but Oracle have a very generous free tier: https://www.oracle.com/au/cloud/free/#always-free
The chess game is paused each boxing round. The chess board is carefully lifted out of the boxing ring and brought back after the punching!
We should demand governments to maintain and provide an API for their tax codes. Let them have skin in the game. If the taxes are incorrect, businesses can point out that it’s the government API’s fault.

Completely developed in the open, and with full test coverage.

This should be required to collect taxes. No API? No taxes. API down? Tax waived.
1 move each, then 1 boxing round. Boxing matches used to go on for an obscene number of rounds...
If you ask a language model:

> NFT collectors think that NFTs are a great way to collect and trade digital assets. They also think that NFTs have the potential to revolutionize the gaming industry.
I don't think that's relevant to his point
I don't find conservative appellate judges to be doing anything extreme. I don't find this 5th circuit one to have done so, I don't find the Supreme Court to have done so.

The thinnest rationale I've seen was that Florida Federal district judge that gutted the CDC order one month before it was going to expire anyway, in that case she spent a comical amount of time defining the word "sanitation" after finding a couple dictionaries from 1944, when the act was passed, specifically because Congress neglected to define and codify what sanitation meant for the purpose of the CDC's authority. I'm like "okay. thats low key hilarious" and I would love to see how this pans out on appeal.

I just am not finding the court system to be doing out of character things. I can independently find some outcomes to be shocking or inconvenient, but surprised based on my analysis of how I expect them to act? No. Nothing surprising occurring.
> Are there 435 people in this nation well versed enough to write detailed regulations on nitty gritty details about Securities on Monday, regulations on Agriculture on Tuesday, rules for calculating acceptable emissions for Coal Fired Power Plants based on service area, customers, and operating capacity on Wednesday and so forth.

They certainly could be well-versed enough to supervise the work of picking the best proposals in each of these domains. Each Congress-critter has enough paid staff to basically be their own public-policy think tank.
This stupidity is causing our civilization to collapse.
Don't ignore what works now such as natural gas, nuclear, clean coal. It's still 8 years till 2030. Investment in these have collapsed, and now we are short on resources.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/electricity-shortage-warnings-g...
Ian Bogost was not an author I was expecting at The Atlantic. (edit: hrm, 15m.latter recalling they have I think writtem here before.)

Anyhow. It doesnt feel good to me to feel so about others doing bad. But yes. And Im glad we have some in print testament to how relieving it is to see bullshit collapse. There's a ton of grousing & shit talking, dissent against the would be cryptocurrencies, but Inappreciate having something a little more official, a bit less obviously polemic,& a bit more willing/able to mark what may/may not yet be a sea change.
They will have countries that 'voluntarily' tether themselves to "beautiful clean coal" to keep them going.
Insulation!

Northern/Western Europe has a whole bunch of Ukrainian refugees. Why not solve two problems at once by putting them to work doing insulation retrofits?
As far as I am aware I still need to agree to the terms that the state of TX has set in order to legally drive my truck on public roads within the state. Meaning a driver's license, current insurance, and current registration. I would not need those for driving US military vehicles, tractors or horses. If this is no longer the case, please show me where I can find that information as I would very much like to not deal with that regulatory mess any more.
Yes. But it's complicated https://www.justia.com/traffic-tickets/proceedings-in-traffi...
We might even form a symbiotic relationship with it. It feeds on the micro-plastic in our blood and we get to live long enough to make the next man-made horror beyond our current comprehension.