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Why do you go immediately for an Omega Seamaster? There are a thousand other waterproof watches out there with removable batteries that don't weigh near as much as a dive watch. It's rated for 300 meters. I don't think anyone is expecting a phone to be thin and light and waterproof under 300 meters of water.
Unprofitable movies is just accounting. Something to do with Hollywood union compensation or something.
Valve might have been flat in hierarchy but that doesn't mean people didn't have specialized roles.
Chernobyl is historical drama based on real events, not a documentary. Some characters are entirely invented, sometimes multiple different people are merged into one and so on. The authors even made podcast where they explain what is made up and why

It realistic and quite close to what went on, but not documentary at all.
yes - "It will be like Donald Duck in mathland, but finally helping me keep straight the difference between stress and strain", I thought.
This is something that certain kinds of throat singing elicit in me.
In my very uninformed opinion the financial system is a big correlation machine. People buy stuff that is mechanically and logically unrelated to their other assets. Everybody does this, but when the crash hits they have to sell those assets too, to satisfy margin calls or other obligations.

Voila, instant correlation.
Feel free to email me to have a more in-depth conversation. My email is in my profile.
Netflix is doing what they can to survive in the face of the mob.

They're the outsider compared to all these old boys studios and copyright holders. The old boys are literally the mob. And when the mob saw how much cake Netflix was taking, they said "Nope". Given this, I feel like Netflix has less and less of a choice when it comes to what externally-produced movies/shows they offer. They're just trying to survive. And keep their kneecaps.
Those “not bad” answers are frankly terrible.

Why am I doing what I am doing?
Why am I asking this question? Why did you start this thread?

Both answers immediately shut down the enquiry. But if I wanted to shut down the enquiry then why did I ask the question “Why am I asking this question?” In the first place?!?

If we wanted to shut down enquiry we could have simply… not done what we did.
Exactly, France (sadly) lost most of its industry since the 1980's, and it shows:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-co2-embedded-in-tra...
Yeah! It would be weird to me if Apple said the official recommended repair process was to use a domestic hand-dryer or a hot water bottle and a guitar pick.
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Yeah, I agree. I mostly gave up on netflix because their SFF catalog has been underwhelming for so long.

SFF genre has outstanding authors like Brandon Sanderson, Will Wight, Jay Kristoff, Jim Butcher etc. who are producing amazing content for an adult audience at a much faster rate than I can consume with a busy schedule. In contrast Netflix titles simply fail to catch up - there are few good titles (100 & Arcane are the last ones I enjoyed) but for those too the storylines come nowhere close to as interesting as the best works by aforementioned authors.

At some point I realized I was spending almost all of my free time in books and 0% on Netflix and cancellation was a no brainer at that point. Likely I'm just too niche for mainstream streaming services.
> need lubing and eventual replacement

Yes. Every couple of years. After being subjected to a lot of pressure cycling.

If you do nothing but take it into the shower or a swimming pool the o-rings will last longer than the batteries.
On the contrary.

When a company is healthy it is able to pay salaries to employees and profit to owners. When it's bankrupt is paying 0 salaries and 0 dividends.

When it's in trouble, a company will have to choose who to sacrifice: firing employees or cutting dividends. The priority of privately owned companies is to maximize value for the shareholders. They are more important than employees, by design.

In a coop workers and owners are the same people so they are the first priority, that's all.

Statistics show very clearly that coops have a higher survival rate.

> you earning nothing and owing creditors

Once again, no, as an owner of a limited company going bankrupt you don't owe to creditors.
Maybe the story just isn't as exciting as Chernobyl. I mean, nobody died. Nobody even got sick with radiation poisoning. Not to be morbid, but that just isn't going to be as compelling a story.

I wonder if they just greenlit it because they had such a success with the Chernobyl series and wanted to do it again.
If you think this is a feature of Americans, you should definitely visit Latin America then.
And don't forget about silverlight and frameworks build on top of it (for enterprisy like form apps). That one was one hell of a swamp that almost drowned my friend's startup after MS decided to kill it.
Years of hard work went down the drain at a snap of a finger.
> At least not without changing the infrastructure for that completely

Was replacing that infrastructure considered when plans were made to shutdown nuclear a decade ago? At some point you have to show you're better than "armchair commenters" and actually do what needs to be done.
While I'm sure this is good advice, anecdotally I filled up a car with gas just as lockdown started, and then didn't use that car much for the next two years. Still seemed to run fine when I sold it this year.

More: this was a 1997 car with gas not diesel.
I'm talking about the first Defy, back in 2010. It weighted 118 gr (just over 4 oz), more or less the same as its competitors.
That's a different effect. There are different reasons why you react to music. You can have a strong emotional reaction for example because it was played during a key moment of a movie you really liked, or while someone broke up with you, and then this feeling is forever fused to a song. And recalled through it. But it is well understood that music in general connects with us by meeting and breaking expectations we have about music.
It's probably a little tough to find an instrument that gives you exactly the short exposure you want. You could sell BTCUSDT perpetuals and buy BTCBUSD perpetuals to hedge your BTC exposure. But holding that position isn't free. You could bleed fees for years until you finally get proven right.
> All blockchains require social coordination. How do you think Bitcoin operates?

That’s a great question, and one Jude C. Nelson — who has a PhD in distributed systems from Princeton — is better equipped to answer [1] than me (or you, probably):

“PoW requires less proactive trust and coordination between community members than PoS -- and thus is better able to recover from both liveness and safety failures -- precisely because it both (1) provides a computational method for ranking fork quality, and (2) allows anyone to participate in producing a fork at any time. If the canonical chain is 51%-attacked, and the attack eventually subsides, then the canonical chain can eventually be re-established in-band by honest miners simply continuing to work on the non-attacker chain. In PoS, block-producers have no such protocol -- such a protocol cannot exist because to the rest of the network, it looks like the honest nodes have been slashed for being dishonest. Any recovery procedure necessarily includes block-producers having to go around and convince people out-of-band that they were totally not dishonest, and were slashed due to a "hack" (and, since there's lots of money on the line, who knows if they're being honest about this?).”

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26810619
I read it similarly - as the present article for this post says, these were carved of “living rock”, which I take to mean that rock/dirt was removed from around the megalithic sculptures. In this context, the refill was when these hollowed out areas were covered back up. I read “uselife” similarly to you - the end of their usability vis a vis the refill.
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i have been interested in shorting tether since 2017.

if i had gone through with it, i would have paid 5 years of interest for close to no return, including in 2018 when crypto fell 90%.

also, if enough people are levered short, crypto traders could short squeeze you. the price just needs to go up temporarily.

also, there's counterparty risk. is the exchange you're trading on going to stay up if tether goes to 0? depends on which one.
There is no evidence that the tether was redeemed for anything.

We know from the CFTC settlement, and statements from Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky, that Tether Inc has a history of issuing tethers and then accounting the loan itself as the backing for the issuance - literally just printing pseudo-money out of thin air.

I would first presume the tether "redemptions" were just cancellations of these loans. No dollars or other consideration left Tether Inc.
Just throwing my classic frisson song into the mix:

Vessels - A Hundred Times in Every Direction

I found the song about 12 years ago, still gives me chills every time
Yeah well luckily those same folks are paying close to or sometimes beyond 50% in income tax
the poster you replied to did not say that we needed 4 stomachs to digest grain, either.
you're reading way more into their post than what was said.

it seems your misunderstanding results from the phrase "we'll be set", I think you took this general phrase to mean "we'll all be able to eat grain", yes?

if so, what the term actually means is, "we will be well prepared for the future", something that being able to eat grass would hypothetically help us with, since it would theoretically open up even more food options to more people
Netflix bores me to tears (I’m into stuff like Criterion and Kino) but I begrudgingly have to admit that they offer a ton of kids shows. Disney+ is better quality but they too don’t have a lot to offer, or didn’t three months ago, in terms of episodic kids entertainment.

Disney is also hoarding the giant catalog of classic or older films. Fox wasnt just XMen and Simpsons, they had been making films since the 30s. Seems like Disney is going to trickle out the old content slowly.
The generation isn't naturally massively distributed and resilient, that's the thing. Assuming that the grid will always be there and stable simplifies the problem quite a bit: all the inverters have to do is sync up with it and then dump all the power they've got into the grid. If you want the solar generation to be the grid, rather than just boosting it, suddenly you have to deal with all the hairy control theory problems involved in grid operation and stability, except that you have to do it using millions of generators rather than thousands - and the behaviour of those generators is closely correlated, so you still have to deal with problems like a large proportion of generation going offline at once as well as the extra complexity of a much bigger system.

Old-fashioned spinning generators also naturally act to stablilize the grid by pulling energy out and dumping energy back in through their inertia as necessary to counteract changes due to varying demand and supply. Solar and wind don't inherently do that: if you want similar behaviour from them, that requires additional software and sensing, and obviously for home solar that would have to be done in a distributed fashion which complicates matters further. (The grid is not in fact at a single frequency and phase everywhere, and can develop all kinds of interesting and undesirable oscillations.)
In my opinion crypto (i am talking about PoS with smart contracts) is about having a decentralized open source/standards cloud for financial services/ transactions. That opens up many possibilities but everything has been completely drowned out by VCs starting defi ponzi schemes and other shenanigans.
I put an episode up for each star-sign this weekend.

Most of them have had a 40-50 listens but the one linked here has 400+ listens!
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It seems unreasonable to think that wind and solar could be overbuilt to an extent they could serve as a sole supply.

Everyone has had the experience of walking around on a windless night. You can have many such nights in a row.
There are plenty who thinks that people who can't buy an air conditioner are lesser and don't deserve one. Bootstraps and all.

I like to look at the bigger picture, this will cause further instability in the world, which is bad for all of us. Besides the consumption of those who can afford an air conditioner drives climate change. You may be handing over the money in the shop, but it's the entire planet that subsidizes your purchase power, which is not cool, literally not cool.
Consider the availability of software upgrades because you don't want to have a shorter life because the manufacturer stops supporting the phone too soon.
You know that's the same thing, right?
I just can't see how that can be true - 'we're going to murder you all, but we're going to do it with good manners because otherwise people will think we're bad'??

It seems way more likely to be 'cargo cult' type learning where something worked for centuries and so got formalised and taught rigidly?

Any good sources on this, it must have been covered on AskHistorians!?
There's nothing wrong or PTSD-like about living below your means
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> Ppl dont understand that we can build reactors that not only can be powered up bu old nuclear waste but also are physically impossible to explode.

we would be able to yes, but we can't. not because it's technically impossible, but because people are stupid.
fukushima did not happen because it wasn't safe, fukushima happend because people were stubborn. Tepco knew what will happen and dismissed it because they were greedy (their offical report on that matter was "we did not do it, because it would scare people...").

thats why nuclear will never work, because we humans operate it.
if we would build as much plants as we need, it would be 100x the amount we have right now which would also raise the death tool by accidents.
and there is also no reason for nuclear, since wind and solar is cheaper and can replace nuclear.

I also will never understand why people write about nuclear that often. what nuclear provides is solved with wind and solar.
however no matter if we go the nuclear route or the renewables we still need to figure out how to reduce gas and built peaker plants that run on technology that is way more carbon friendly, but nobody ever writes about that.
"15m (49ft) steel tower suspending a 50 tonne iron weight. Inch-by-inch."

50e3 x 15 x 9.81/3600/1000?

==> 2 kWh

Can power 750 homes "instantaneously" for 29 seconds.

Tesla car battery has 100 kWh.

Heads exploding. (Inch-by-inch).
The problem is that it is not that easy to classify stuff as black or white. Most of the services we use are right in between. What's worse, what starts on one side might evolve to the other as new features are added.

So the "It's even in the name" argument is not an easy decision point as you make it look like.
No. This is completely true. I'd far rather we had labor's fttp majority NBN than turnbulls MTM.
Oh ok, my bad. Thanks
I suspect they’re both correct. House building standards seem to have been trending downwards for at least 100 years if not more. Some things have gotten better of course (fire safety, insulation, etc), but the construction itself tends to be optimised for cost over quality these days.
To have realistic 3D technology you need to have 3 things:

1. Stereopsis - different image for both eyes.

2. Accommodation - ability of eye lense to focus on different distances.

3. Vergence - eyes rotate slightly inward or outward so that the projection of an image is always in the center of both retinas

Modern 3d technology (movies, VR) provides only sereopsis without accommodation or vergence and vergence-accommodation conflict can cause headaches. You also notice that if you look at different part of the screen from where the movie camera is focused on, the image is blurry. Basic lens-screen technology can't solve all these problems. For VR you need either eye tracking (it's coming) light field technology or hologram technology. This is why VR is still work in progress.

You can make passable 3d movie if you try really hard (James Cameron, Avatar) but then you must direct the movie differently 3d always in mind. Most 3d movies don't do this. They just slap 3d in as an afterthought to save money.
Panoramic scenes with objects at different distances where eyes can scan the scene don't come out well.
I do live near one, near Shearon Harris actually. I'm not bothered by it in the least.
I would say that comparing the purchase of gas to the purchase of uranium is uninformed, if not dishonest, for two reasons:
- Fuel costs for nuclear is only 15-20% of the total cost, half of which is the uranium itself [1]. For natural gas, the majority of the cost is the fuel, even during "normal" times. In other words, natural gas imports generate a lot more $ per GWh of energy produced, even if imported from the same country (Russia).
- The reserves of Uranium across the globa are still huge, much of which can be found in (relatively) politically stable places such as Australia and Canada. For natural gas, one is locked into imports from countries such as Russia, Saudi-Arabia (and similar Arab monarchies), Venezuela and Russia for the forseeable future.

I'm not suggesting that investment in renewables should be slowed down, only that coal and gass should be removed BEFORE nuclear. If Germany is able to produce the energy they need from renewables only, and to provide a stable supply, all the power to them.

But to bring up renewables in a discussion about nuclear vs natural gas, is just a diversion tactic (or at best a dilusion).

Oh, btw, I'm Norwegian. My country is making a $100 billion profit from the current energy situation in Europe, just this year, meaning that my household of 4 indirectly profits about $80000 from this in 2022 alone. So I'm not arguing from personal interest....

[1] https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/economic-aspec...
No, China bets on renewable energy way more than on nuclear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31466725

Note: the AP1000 isn't French: its a Westinghouse reactor.
This Westinghouse division filed for Chapter 11, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Electric_Company

The French one is the EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)

2 of them were built in China. The project reached 60% overcost, was 5 years late and according to the French financial Court of Audit may not reach the break-even point. Then one of the reactors had an incident and is shutdown since mid-2021. Not sure all this is "thriving"...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/31/asia/taishan-nuclear-plant-in...
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I think something like that would have to be manually audited by humans (i.e. you'd need to agree on a central authority who certifies volumes of carbon sequestered).

I was thinking the other day that maybe something that could be easier to objectively verify is something like a cryptocurrency where you generate a unit of currency when someone votes. Sort of like "I voted" stickers as a form of money. It's not a fully formed idea; I don't know how the logistics would work.

Bonus points if the currency as a whole is valued higher or lower based on individual voters rating their voting experience. Like, you ask them on a scale of 1 to 10 if they think they have a real voice in how their government is run. Thus countries would have an incentive to be democratic in a way that's truly responsive to the people and not just some kind of democracy theater.
The shows I watch on Netfix don't have this property? There is some sex, but definitely not that much.

Not that netflix is super good, but just that stuff I watch or get recommended is much different then yours.
music, planting, hacking electronic stuff, research on renewable energy
Did I miss something in the Framework -> Core transition where strings aren't UTF-16 internally anymore?
Given Netflix comp levels, "trying to survive" might be overplaying it. The reason for the schadenfreude mentioned in the article is the massive cost inflation Netflix spending levels created.

I think a lot of the discussion in this thread could be summed up as, maybe Netflix should have been content to be a low margin tech supplier to the studios rather than try and spend it's way to becoming a new Disney. A lot of tech firms are built off the back of the fact that it seems to be harder for other industries to learn how to be a tech firm than the other way around. Streaming video is clearly one of those cases where it's the opposite and that fact had been hidden for a long time by the flood of QE funny money.
> I've been asking "which regulations" for years, nobody has ever, literally ever pointed me to which.

Well it looks like you have been asking in the wrong places:
https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html#public-concern-grow...
The Little Schemer was what finally got me to internalize how to solve problems recursively. I'd taken a couple of college classes and could do it some already, but it took a lot more thought than solving those same problems in other ways.

About a third of the way through The Little Schemer, things just clicked, and what had been hard became pretty instantly easy.

Some of that was it building on existing knowledge, but I found the structure very helpful. The narrative is really just the glue around a well-designed series of incremental problems.
In Korea, around the date of the deal with the UAE, there was quite a scandal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korean_nuclear_scandal
Most of what I watched on Netflix was this cookie cutter rubbish, but what they don't know is I was usually just putting that on in the background or when falling asleep.

Even though that accounts for 90% of what I watch, I cancelled Netflix because the 10% I actually care about isn't there now.
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They can be construed as opposition to tax payer founded nuclear power which technically is so something else then nuclear power. One is a policy the other a technology.
This explains 1.2K downvotes on "Russki Mir" aka "Pax Russia" aka "Russian World": https://youtu.be/h4WEBwsuQf0
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Yes. For me as a foreign (USA) resident of Finland (which has its own fraught history with Russia, under the serious question When are they coming for us?), I found his analyses so immensely comforting that I only cautiously trusted them. But the extensive notes and predictive power wins over all other pundits.
From what I've been reading lately, South Korea is currently the country with the best expertise in building cost-efficient nuclear plants. Maybe Finland should switch vendor.

[1]. https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/historical-construction...
Moreover in many nations the main potential for wind power is off-shore: more power, better load-factor...
When Rossman started to make Luke Smith style videos ?
No, they're still UTF-16.
And let's not forget the plea bargain. Very few other places use it, and those that do, use it a very tiny fraction of what the US does.
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Because that's a shitty, unethical way to operate. Yes, the competitors are also