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Clean because no one has yet measured the ten thousand year containment costs and unintentional releases.

Clean because we have somehow written off the devastation of Chernobyl and Fukushima as trivial.

I don’t want a nuclear plant within 100 miles of my home because I have lived through three meltdowns and do not want to be displaced by a fourth.

But sure, in the moment nuclear emissions are super green.
A valuable anecdote - I lived in a city with amazing public transit - cheap and plentiful.

What do people who can afford do with their money? Buy cars.

People act like cars are a forced choice, while completely ignoring the fact that even with the option of great public transit, people still choose cars.
Oh, I see. You are handwaving away the nonexistent storage tech required to stand up a power grid. Please stop.

The fact is that without inventing new storage tech, which might or might not be possible, the only options for powering the world are nuclear or burning more carbon.

Personally, I'd rather humans still have a viable habitat in a century.
No worries, love your work on Bookstack - it's awesome, and shows your commitment to open source.
I feel like this is a very unserious proposal. I'm all for massive engineering projects, but well, I feel like this response which I think like the linked article is basically just a letter to the editor type situation does a good job describing some problems https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/contributors/valley-.... But yeah it's a tremendous construction project, a huge amount of water to lift up into the mountains, and all instead of just growing the food somewhere else and then shipping that.
> perhaps prioritizing enforcement of RVs with drugs, trash, and sewer issues first would do a world of good. "They won't hassle you if you keep to yourself and don't leak fluids and leave trash on the street".

That does generally seem to be the case. I live in one of the neighborhoods the article is about. There are a couple of RV residents nearby that have been in the same spot for years, keep to themselves, and don't seem to leave much trash around. The city and neighbors seem content to leave them as-is.
The Great Lakes area is unable to produce food for about 6 months out of the year. So as long as people in the Great Lakes are eating preserved foods only during that time. I am fine with that trade.
Why should you be guaranteed water if you live in CA? It’s an arid ecosystem that naturally has fires (chapparal) and low rainfall. It can only support so much life. Just because there are great views and great climate, the fatal flaw is lack of fresh water.
There will always be many things in this world. I don’t have to directly support them though. Tobacco companies do not care about harm reduction, they care about money. The way they make money is to sell a product which is objectively harmful.

I’m not saying they won’t exist, I am choosing to not support them though. I am realistic. But I’m not going to compromise what I believe in to ride on the back of their success in hurting millions of people on the plant, many of whom are not making an informed choice. Every child in a smoking household did not get a choice. Pets too.

You make your choices and I’ll make mine.
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> They take many hours to adjust power levels.

FYI, France nuclear reactor can vary power level 80% in 30min

https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suivi_de_charge ('Les réacteurs sont déjà capables de faire varier leur puissance de 80 % à la hausse ou à la baisse en l’espace de trente minutes')
Sure, we'll just grow it in the midwest, ie, the rest of the country. Only reason we grow mostly corn is because of subsidies. That can be easily changed. If you're suggesting CA is the only viable farmland in the country, you are mistaken.
Me too, me too. If only I could blame my brain damage on COBOL...

Remember that 8 and 9 haven't been valid as octal digits since the ANSI standard.
Certain luxury foods or at least less necessary foods take a large percentage of water that could be reallocated to more critical needs. Meat also takes 10x the water needed for many crops. There are many ways to reduce water usage.
To understand how difficult distributed computing is, at the container level of abstraction, one has to try Docker swarm.
What about desalination? Would that be more cost effective?
And you think you hate YOUR power company.
PEX is cheap and cheerful, but with plenty of downsides, PP is actually pretty good just expensive
> Governments should be protecting their citizens from this fate.

This framing does a disservice to the homeless because it takes away any of their agency. What about the people who choose to live this way? Or does the government take that choice away from them too?
> It's been there as long as the article has (almost two years)[1]

Yes. This was already pointed out. I was mistaken about the antisemitic part not being there earlier.

> its roots are in the anti-semitic criticism of the Frankfurt school

I would have said its criticism is rooted in the fact that Mao rose to power through cultural subversion and is responsible for the deaths of tens of millions.

> apparently peddled at, for instance, a Holocaust denial conference 20 years ago

Interesting that is brought up. To deny the existence of cultural marxism, IMO, is akin to holocaust denial.
I am the “person above”, and my family and I have been farming in California the last 23 years. I absolutely would not complain about that; we have been raising our own produce rates in order to keep up with both supply and demand. We do trade our food for water: what resource do you think makes food?
While they haven't been as outspoken on encryption It's still an offense to refuse to unlock a device. If you're visiting NZ it's best not to travel with a laptop and to take reasonable precautions with your mobile devices.
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Fruits and vegetables existed before the Central Valley you know. CA doesn’t have a monopoly on producing those.

I’m fine not eating salad in December if you give all the water back from the Colorado river.
So this is not a figure for the cost of the tent itself, but to lease the space the tent occupies? That would make more sense, but not much. For $5000/month I would expect to be able to rent an actual apartment there, you know, with an actual kitchen, den, bathroom and bedroom.
Where I live, cities have home rule responsibility including local highway maintenance. The city’s general fund is primarily funded by property taxes, followed by a prorata share of sales tax and various fees.

Suburban and rural towns are a little different - the state maintains state roads and US Highways, mostly with income, sales and excise tax. Counties maintain county roads, mostly with property and sales tax.

Given California’s strange relationship with property tax and the inherent inequality associated with it, it’s a different animal.
So as someone who grew up with lots of Utah Mormons (mother was a convert) I believe there was a strong evolutionary selection pressure for naivety to both become a Mormon and then remain Mormon through all of their “trials and tribulations” in the mid 1800s. If you thought it was all horse shit you wouldn’t have moved 1000 miles to Utah in the middle of nowhere.

While members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints can be exceptionally intelligent people, there’s also an air of childish gullibility I don’t see in the general population.

I’m not super confident with this theory and have no skin in the game but it’s something I’ll posit to friends over a drink if Mormons come up.
Go Ask Alice predates A Million Little Pieces by more than 3 decades.
They only saw them with their "spiritual eyes".
https://read.cesletter.org/witnesses/#second-sight

Former member, it hurts seeing everything that I " knew" to be true turn out to be complete falsehoods. I encourage you to read the sourced and cited first-party quotations.

I'm sorry, and I hope nothing but the best for you and yours.
This is not a west coast problem. North of sf, we get all our own rain water up until Canada. This is a central and southern Cali problem.
If you consider empathy critical, you may want to consider demonstrating some instead of stereotyping and insulting people.
So 1500 miles of imminent domain confiscation of property. Impractical engineering. Enormous state, local and federal spending to accommodate this new, man-made river. And no discussion of addressing the absurd laws and abuses that drive much if California's water woes...
I think we need a come-to-Jesus talk about almonds. The water required per nut is not sustainable.
If only there was some way for the sale price of a bag of almonds to incorporate the costs of the materials required to produce the almonds.
Bear in mind that solar power is the future of energy - and the Western half of the USA will be the best place for that. Perhaps electricity for water is a fair swap?

I dont like in general enabling people to live wasteful lives, but at the same time I feel like we've given up on big engineering projects. Most of the infrastructure we enjoy using in the US and other countries was built 100 years ago. Railway lines, bridges, hydro dams, motorways nothing new is being built any more.
I thought that was a problem for other countries? In the US I’m pretty sure dedicating something to the public domain actually places it there.
Hey Hacker News!

I'm thrilled to read all the comments with ideas and improvements. I will try to answer and keep up with the thread.

Kudos to all the similar initiatives trying to solve the problems I outline in the article. It's wonderful to see a zeitgeist about dictionaries.

Who wants to jump the article and try the version I built, feel free to download the iPhone [1] or Android [2] version or run it by itself with the open source repo [3]

1: https://apps.apple.com/app/wordnote-dictionary/id1596537633

2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zehfernand...

3: https://github.com/zehfernandes/wordnote

Cheers!
> Still, I care less about relative quantities and more about what can be produced with the absolute amount at hand

This attitude is exactly why our planet is dying. Instead of investing time and effort into things that matter, people become hyper-focused on worthless things that have no impact. Like measures to conserve a trivial amount of water at home.

It's a poisonous and wasteful way to think.

> There’s always some bigger problem you can point to that seems to render the point at hand useless

That's simply not true. We have real problems to solve. The numbers are clear. This isn't one of them.
The state exists to perpetuate itself and its power, unless an outside force acts on it. That used to be the people, but increasingly the "machine" of bureaucracy has overtaken or subsumed democratic politics. It is not only in Australia. Chuck Schumer's grave warning sums it up well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nXGt6Jnabc

An elected president who is head of the executive and armed forces which include these intelligence agencies, would be foolish to "take them on", because they would "get back at him". The people no longer have the power to determine the way in which they are governed by democratic means (maybe they never did, but I'm lead to believe that elected politicians used to hold a bit more power a century or two ago). I expect it is a similar situation in Australia, it's not really the PM's office the holds the real power.
Wasn't good old Orin Hatch a protector of MLMs and things like snake oil vitamins and supplements in the Senate?

edit - wow - ok he wrote a law exempting them from regulation apparently (https://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-hatch...)
Lake Tahoe has dropped from it's most recent peak in 2019 and inflows do appear to be lower than normal, though perhaps normal should just be thought of as having changed
Seattle PD doesn't even have enough resources to respond to all 911 calls right now, so it would be very hard to justify spending additional resources tracking down who place eco blocks.
I don't think that's the only reason, and it is not by choice either. California weather is more temperate than the rest of the US and it is more suitable for many types of crops compared to the rest of the US.
As happy as I am to see some sort of manufacturing in the US, I really hope they get their water cut off.

Maybe they'll think twice about building the next one in the middle of a frigging desert during a regional mega drought.

https://www.theverge.com/22628925/water-semiconductor-shorta...
The idea behind the term "differential programming" is that many traditional autodiff systems force you into a highly restricted subset of the language or DSL (e.g. no loops, no if statements etc). Differential programming is a term used to describe systems that let you take derivatives of your entire source code. This lets you do things like AD through a simulation or optimization algorithm which can be really powerful for applying ML techniques to domains that are less typically suited to ML approaches (circuits, physics, differential equations etc)
Canada Will Implement a New Luxury Tax on High-Priced Planes and Vehicles
Woah mate, religious dogma? Please. This is a respect thing like saying thank you or you’re welcome. Not religious at all.

I’m not asking anyone to do this. It was and STILL is a cultural normal in Australia and surrounding islands for some incredibly long amount of time (30,000 years perhaps?). Long long time. Not hard to honour is it?

> Protocols for welcoming visitors to Country have always been a part of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. Boundaries were clear, and crossing into another group’s Country required a request for permission to enter.

>When permission was granted the hosting group would welcome the visitors, offering them safe passage and protection of their spiritual being during the journey. Visitors had to respect the protocols and rules of the land owner group while on their Country.

> An Acknowledgement of Country is an opportunity for anyone to show respect for Traditional Owners and the continuing connection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to Country.

>An Acknowledgement of Country can be offered by any person and like a Welcome to Country, is given at the beginning of a meeting, speech or event.

https://www.reconciliation.org.au/acknowledgement-of-country...
Travesty or not, not-posting regional flamewar all over the thread would be a good start.
You may also enjoy https://tomstu.art/automatic-differentiation-in-ruby and the accompanying video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI7mtWB4WiA.
> Never felt as anxious and isolated as when hanging around with privileged art students.

I am picking up a broad brush but bear with me for the moment. It is likely that half -- if not more -- of those 'privileged art students' felt anxious and isolated in spite of their positive demeanor. If privilege alone was a solution for general well-being, we would not have as many rich and famous people struggling to keep it straight. Don't get me wrong, privilege helps a lot, but may not be enough.

Growing up, I thought that if only my family had more money, I would feel much better. Now, I think that my anxiety is caused by other things such as lack of control over my schedule, uncertainty about the future, and feeling of stuckness in the job (even if it is well paid). On the other hand, knowing that I have multiple options for gainful employment and having the ability to work on things that I care about -- brings me joy and satisfaction.

In short, just having the ability to walk away from a situation is calming and joy-inducing. It does not matter whether that situation is good or bad, all that matters is that I have options.
Driving a car is a life or death situation where you’re engaged in a complex dance with many other people. The cognitive load isn’t even close.
Cigarettes contain a pharmacy's worth of chemicals. I've read that their addictiveness may come from the combination of MAOI inhibitors + nicotine, or some other combination.
When I hear/see a new word I write it in a google doc along with it's definition (from www.tfd.com/<word>) and reference to where I came across it (e.g. a quote or link to youtube video).

The doc has a short and distinct name so can quickly be accessed via command + L (to go to address bar) and the distinct 5 character name for chrome to auto suggest it.

It's now ~10 years old. I used to add to it often, but the pace slowed as my vocabulary grew. It contains around 1-2000 words. I occasionally review it. One day I'll parse/analyse it.
That's lovely to hear, thank you very much!
Even if this were true, which states are putting sauerkraut on their bratwurst for sport??
Batteries don't exist? Pumped hydro doesn't exist? Hydrogen doesn't exist?

All these storage technologies exist. The churn right now is to figure out what flavor of storage is going to win, and how much they will end up costing after they go down their experience curves. But if some aliens held a gun to our heads and insisted we build storage now, it could be done.

The weirdness from you guys, thinking that obviously existent things don't exist.
Desalination is great for California. Arizona, Colorado is too far from the coast.
As a reference, China has been doing this a similar project to interconnect the North (think Beijing etc) and South (think Shanghai) water system. Heck, they have been doing it since hundreds of year ago [2]. So I guess there is a precedent.

Based on this thread, I would guess that a large amount of the problem will not be an engineering one, but political and social one. Constructing such a large mega project to divert would require a national unity and tremendous will to 'sculpt' nature.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%E2%80%93North_Water_Tran...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Yunnan_Water_Diversion...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Canal_(China)
Major source of income for Mormons, who run the state
Not to mention all the various in-house systems in the 2010-era. I worked at a small place back in 2013 that had built their own container platform about a year before Docker was released.

It was more like workqueue than borg. But it worked well enough. Eventually we got tired of maintaining our own snowflake scheduler and switched to Kubernetes.

But I'm also old enough to remember pre-borg systems used in HPC. Maui, TORQUE, etc. I wasn't surprised batch scheduling finally got used for service deployment.
> If it linked to that article people hearing e.g. Jordan Peterson use the term and then googling might be given a history of Marxist theory being applied to culture. Instead they see only that it’s an anti-Semitic right wing conspiracy theory

Capital C, capital M "Cultural Marxism" and "Marxist theory being applied to culture" are two different things.

As a parallel, should https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_agenda actually link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_studies? There are gender studies academics who work to normalize gay and trans people within popular culture (sorry, "establish[ing] a counter-hegemony within the existing cultural hegemony, thereby subverting it"). Saying that any gender theory being applied to culture should be categorized under the gay agenda would still be a category error.
I admittedly have been hesitant to jump into denoland but isn't it just a runtime for typescript? Wouldn't it work out of the box?
This just makes me shake my head. I'm not in the industry, but I'm guessing there's a least a bunch of things that could destroy the ecosystem out west by introducing a different ph, foreign mineral content, or lack of natural bacterial content. So instead I have a bunch of better ideas that don't result in ecological disasters:

* How about people stop living the desert? Somehow, unexpectedly, there's not a lot of water there.

* How about we don't grow baby spinach 365 days a year? We can eat other things in the winter.

* How about we reexamine the scientifically unsound pact around the Colorado river?
Would love to see a power efficient device streamlined for texting with this. A smartphone is so overkill and battery wont last that long.

Would also be nice not to connect with bluetooth. Either connect with a cable, make it an all-in-one texter/transmitter, or make it all-in-one but detachable. I guess this is starting to reach, but bluetooth is just too finicky for something with this use case IMO. I can see the value in wireless pairing though - you could put the transmitter up a bit higher and text on the ground.
The proposal wouldn’t really provide water to California - this is about Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and the Colorado river.

I suppose some of that water could also be diverted for use in California, but that’s not what the author is asking for.
That's way cooler than this! Makes extensive use of canvas though, so I'm inclined to consider it cheating ;)
Yes, this is very weird. I think Apple Store is not given a proper rank because it's a new app.

You must write the full name "Wordnote Dictionary" to find it.
Solar leaks heavy metals into top soil. Most of solar is not recycled properly. Nobody seems to worry about that at all.

If a solar facility gets carpet bombed during a war, you think it's more likely it will all just get somewhat cleaned up, and lots of it will be left in-situ and plowed over, or someone will actually remove every little dust particle? I think the lazy way out is what is most likely.
Well it used to be a game engine. It was on people's radar because the devs had previous success with a different game engine and they wrote fairly technical dev blogs about the process.
You need a lot more than just the back-of-the-trailer view. Admittedly this could prevent someone / something being run over by the rear bumper of the trailer, but that's pretty much it.

For all other cases (backup), an overhead view, real or synthesized, would be much more helpful in establishing actual situational awareness. Anything less than this would still require the driver to G.O.A.L. (Get Out And Look).
Plus once it's "operational," it takes like a year or so to work out the kinks to get a decent yield of working chips.
I guess there's also the argument that in case of dam failure, most people don't live to tell the tale, so it does not stay in the news for a long time.

In case of nuclear incident, actual death may be lower but the affected people will keep being concerned about health issues and complain (rightfuly so) about the necessary relocation, which makes for stronger staying power in the news.
> a lot of virtue signalling going

the phrase "virtue signalling" is just "asshole signalling".

if you want to reach anyone vaguely on the left end of the political spectrum they're not going to listen to much after you drop that phrase. but you will score point with people who already agree with you.

which is a whole lot like the very thing that you're trying to criticize.
Just based on what I’ve seen I feel like you could feed it the insightful bits that were original and it could word it eloquently. It would work better/worse based on subject.
Just flag lame comments.
Boulder CO

https://www.rei.com/blog/cycle/here-are-the-most-bikeable-ci...
Yeah, but is that because it's unmaintained or because it's finished?
The states in question don’t have oceans to desalinate.
Thanks for double checking. I really appreciate it. :)
What is its scientific output, though?