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> Nunes, as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee: Russia is secretly funding the environmental movement, particularly in Germany, to help pressure the closure of nuclear power plants.

https://www.eenews.net/articles/devin-nunes-claims-russia-is...

Dominique Reynié: "We found that Gazprom funded environmental NGOs that provided ministers to various governments, such as Belgium, which then advocated abandoning nuclear power".

https://twitter.com/ziontree/status/1497998920739274757

> For instance, the Soviets used front organizations to influence the anti-nuclear movement, the initiative that most visibly put Western leadership on the defensive. West German Interior Ministry and FBI reports concluded that Soviet-linked organizations were successfully swaying local peace movement initiatives to conform to Moscow’s positions

https://warontherocks.com/2017/09/russian-active-measures-in...
Onkalo exists :)
I don't know about the author's schedule but:

I usually wake up at about 6am. I check my email (I do personal support for the courses I run) and then spend 10-15 minutes glancing HN and a few sub-Reddits. That's usually enough time for me to finish drinking some water, all in all now it's about 6:30am. Then I go for a 60-90 minute walk. Then I'll make breakfast while eating at my desk while making about 45-60 minutes of progress on something. This could be planning out this week's video so that all I have to do is record it at a later time, work on some open source project or maybe my course platform. At this point it's close to 9am.

Also, sometimes I wake up at 6:30am and I'll walk for an hour instead of 90 minutes. Sometimes I still walk for an hour even if I wake up at 6am because it gives an extra 30 minutes to do something interesting.

Then it's close to 9am to start work, I work until 6pm with a 1 hour lunch break in between. Most of the time during that 1 hour break I'll go for a 30min walk and eat lunch. Rather than try to do something productive I use this time to idle. I never walk with podcasts going or listening to music, I just let my brain veg out. I'll also do basic exercise during this time like push ups, sit ups and I've started to jump rope now too.

After 6pm I'll make dinner and relax a bit. By 7pm I usually take another 30min walk, then shower. Then I spend about another hour or so trying to do something useful (progress on something, reading, etc.). Then I'll watch a movie from like 9pm to 11pm and goto sleep. My evenings vary. Sometimes I don't put in that extra hour and play video games instead. Sometimes I might decide to eat out with a friend but not really that often. I need more hobbies and I wish covid wasn't a thing anymore because I wouldn't mind doing other things in the evenings but a lot of it is indoors.

Needless to say I highly value unplugged walking time where I think about whatever pops up in my mind. It's hard to measure productivity but I'm sure I could probably spend half that amount of time and still get value of it but working 9-6 doesn't leave that much flexibility to break up the day much better.
It was only a "mistake" if the word is stripped of its normal meaning since it was inevitable. It may lead to our downfall, but it was then an inevitable downfall. That said, it's not at all obvious that this is the case yet.
Doh, I missed that.

Aside, but I gotta say, lots of good stuff here:

https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/

I'm not personally a fan of videos, but I have plenty of collegeues who are that I'm going to happily start pointing at your videos. Some of these will be very handy references I can add to code reviews.
meanwhile when new stuff is rolled out anyone questioning the safety or efficacy or theorizing about potential dangers is demonized as a quack, people are so compartmentalized that they can’t see that humans are still flawed and make mistakes, somehow current year everything is a godsend break through, it’s marketing bullshit and corruption
Is wide or deep knowledge better?
Your question presupposes that the arrangement where certain people have to do shit jobs to survive, and others don't, is desirable. It works out fine for you individually, but the more charitable and humane arrangement is to spread the shit jobs around so no one bears the full brunt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
That is not my argument at all.

In fact the residential zoned houses at the edge of the industrial zone are worth less potentially than the industrial piece of land on that edge. (maybe not, because residential neighbors will get complainy ;))

I am saying that I don't see how a land value tax does what you propose. I had no idea what that even was until I read these posts and looked it up.

I don't see what you mean by zoned "lower" and "higher" actually. I can zone the land for another New York City in the middle of flyover country and that doesn't mean people will come just like that. The price this will command will be super low because there's nothing there (this is actually part of your land value tax system's reasoning). If I can find someone interested at all.

If instead I zone it agricultural I can sell it depending on vicinity to a small town, how flat it is (mountain side? No thank you for big agri, only small homesteaders will pay you a little at all). Flat and great soil near other agri infrastructure? Now we are talking pricy!
True that foundation exists, and is heavily criticized by other German environmental organizations in Germany as even this article points out. Also it was founded after the nuclear exit was decided. You are falling for the trap where you know a little bit about a subject but draw the wrong conclusions from it.
> That feeling seems to have been wrong, though

I'm failing to derive meaning from that sentence? The feeling is wrong - they're not actually feeling it?

Europe is very clearly ramping up energy alternatives to fossil fuels, for very sound reasons. They not wrong about that.

No, there isn't enough to replace fossil fuels yet; yes, it's an abrupt transition due to external events. changing that is the plan. The plan's not wrong.

But the idea that "this fossil fuels thing is not something that is going to last" and that depending on importing it in years to come, has been demonstrated to be bad idea, is IMHO not wrong in the slightest. It's a matter of security not profits.
Interesting thought, can you talk more about the methods and their flaws? Also what’s the article you’re referring to?
> Ctrl+B to move a letter forward

Did they mean Ctrl+B to move a letter backward?

Ctrl+F moves a letter forward.
> a global supply chain where one isn’t needed in most cases.

And you say this from your vast expertise in global economics?

Things evolved this way because a whole globe full of individual actors thought they made sense, based on prices. If they cease to make sense, those same actors will start doing something else because the prices they see will change.

It could take a while, but so would having another meeting of the Global Planning Committee.
That's exactly what I was pointing out in the post you responded to
The crazy part is that this journey is only the tip of the iceberg for this pedometer. It is made of many components, all of which follow similar journeys to the pedometer factory from their respective factories. And the components are made of raw materials, which are also shipped around in a similar manner after being mined. And the mining itself displaces those who live in that space.
10 Beans * 4 beans = 40 beans^2: Cliff Stoll on the Nescafé equation
This has everything I expect from Cliff Stoll: old tech, humor, a klein bottle, and (re)use of a cardbord box. Loved it
Most households burn gas at home for heating. Sure if there is no gas, you can use an electrical heater but that won't be cheap.
The drought doesn't really have to affect nuclear power's output. This is because of environmental regulation that requires that the plant keep a river below a certain temperature. Because apparently warming a river is worse environmental impact than climate change. Furthermore, many nuclear plants are cooled by the ocean or by waste water.

Renewables require immense amounts of storage to even out intermittency. Even just building one hour of storage is 2,500 GWh globally. We'll need around 3 weeks of storage to make a completely renewable grid: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/03/01/12-hours-energy-stora...

We have no feasible way of delivering that much storage. Wind and solar are cheaper to make small reductions in a grid that is mostly fossil fuels. Their intermittency isn't an issue there because it's just opportunistically shutting down the fossil fuel plants when wind and solar are producing. But actually delivering a 0% carbon grid with intermittent sources is not just hard, it's not possible.
but what if you have a valid plan in the work for the many homes? I think it is a huge violation of privacy for the government to need to vet you on the reasons for your private property
> Funny as stainless/high carbon steel with butter is perfectly 'non stick' and way healthier.

I bet that the butter itself is worse for your health than the minuscule PFAS you are getting from your pan.
about 10 years ago the EPA had a mandate to reduce use by 95% before 2011(?) and eliminate it by 2025(?). I may have the dates slightly wrong. went through the process on tens of thousands of SKUs. so far so good.

The reason I am conflicted is our vendors got rid of PFOA but replaced it with something similar to it but not the same.

Effectively, we now have 2 "forever" chemicals in the environment. rinse repeat.

I don't know what the answer is unless we make a conscious decision to forego the performance benefits these chemicals provide to our products. waterproof shoes and sofas, dental floss, med dev, etc.
I've explained over and over again to you that you're wrong. Studies such as this one (and others) confirm what I say. I have wonder why, in the face of repeated explanation, you are so resistant to understanding.
> stainless/high carbon steel with butter is perfectly 'non stick'

Except it isn’t. Try letting melted cheese, or pretty much any starch (pasta, rice, oatmeal, etc) sit in stainless for a while and then see how non-stick it is. It will glue itself to stainless but on non-stick it will slide right off.

I’m not arguing in favor of non-stick, and avoid it when possible, but we can’t also be making inaccurate claims either.
100% this. The climate change debate takes up wayyyyyyy too much political oxygen and leaves little room for tackling a lot more lower hanging fruit. I actually think society's efforts to fight climate change have been a net negative for the environment, not to mention that many corporations have "green washed" their pollution by feigning being climate change warriors. This narrative needs to end and real progress on environmental pollutants needs to return. Hopefully sanity can prevail.
In other parts of this thread people are arguing that a land value tax wouldn't increase rental prices because landlords are price takers. How does land trading hands drive up rents if landlords are price takers?
Firefox is not better than Chrome.
It's fungible for you, since apparently few dimensions of housing are salient to you. In my experience, this is not the case for most people. Units on the same floor can differ vastly; buildings on the same block can differ vastly; the neighbors you have, the direction a unit faces, square footage, street noise are all examples of factors that matter to many people and which can vary dramatically on a geographic scale measured in feet. Many people don't consider housing fungible to the extent that produce is.
Whoever lets Microsoft into commodity silicon is certifiably insane.
Cramming people together more tightly does not create more land.
Not at all. Fossil fuels have to be phased out, so CO2 charges and tariffs will be increased until they are. What renewables + storage have to be cheaper than is the other non-fossil alternatives.

We didn't wait until low air pollution technologies were cheaper than just dumping soot and SOx into the air, we acted to stop the pollution. Because negative externalities are a shining example of where government action benefits society. CO2 also presents large negative externalities. This is why you see climate deniers try to argue there are no such externalities from CO2 emission, because they understand the logic for regulation becomes inescapable otherwise.
Yes, of course, my statement has many caveats, you get the point.
No need, metaobeyverse is coming, and everything will be new and shiny there. Virtual cities don't need maintenance.
1990 is a litle late, Windows 3.0 was already out.

From Wikipedia: "Windows 3.0 is the first version of Windows to perform well both critically and commercially. Critics and users considered its GUI to be a challenger to those of Apple Macintosh and Unix. Other praised features were the improved multitasking, customizability, and especially the utilitarian management of computer memory that troubled the users of Windows 3.0's predecessors. Microsoft was criticized by third-party developers for the bundling of its separate software with the operating environment, which they viewed as an anticompetitive practice. Windows 3.0 sold 10 million copies before it was succeeded by Windows 3.1 in 1992."

10 million copies is pretty good for a DOS world.
You realize there's options besides intermittent sources and fossil fuels? Nuclear power has been around for decades. When plants are built in series, it's a lot cheaper than the one-off plants that have been built recently. The plants built in series cost about $1-2 billion per GW.
So let me get this straight, they’re excited because some government agency divided the ‘allowable’ levels of these chemicals by 40 million, and now the values (which are still the same) are too high.

…Wut?

Like, I get that the values are still ‘bad’, but there must be a different way to present that.

I’d also like specifics on exactly how bad ‘bad’ is, because these agencies tend to present their 0.5% increase of lifetime risk of cancer as something exceptional, when you can also get such a thing from, say, eating too much cheese.
There's balance to be had. Keeping everything inside isn't healthy either.
I, kind of, tried that once. Did work out well. Or it rather did, depending on perspective.
Nope but the last one is obviously the most bad choice.
> Some of us can change how we think, but big corporations and investment firms (and banks with investment divisions) are not going to adopt our way of thinking.

I wonder: can you overcome this way of thinking?

> People (and governments) realized that once a company grows and consumes or blocks out all its competition, things eventually get very bad for the consumers/public.

Realized to some degree.

> And now we see that there need to be similar regulations to prevent the equivalent in housing.

Some see this, some see other things (sometimes the opposite). Whose visions are correct?

> It will be ironic if the camp that has been promoting gun ownership while simultaneously screwing its supporters becomes subject to forceful demands of its angry former followers.

It would be even more ironic if all followers began to question the stories their leaders tell them, and the stories they tell themselves.

> Perhaps once enough of those armed good old boys finally put their puzzles together and realize they've been fooled on a grand scale, we'll start to see some change.

Surely, to some degree. But even more powerful would be if all people could do this simultaneously...or even a critical mass of people, especially if they managed to do it according to a non-partisan methodology. Perhaps someone will create something like that some day. Or, perhaps not, and we will remain at this local optimum indefinitely, content in the knowledge that it is all someone else's fault.
anyone know why? Aren't loyalty programs typically good for the company?
> There exists tooling to convert these typescripts into, for example, HTML output to include on your website.

Indeed, I mentioned aha in another comment.

> Some terminal emulators also support dumping the buffer as HTML.

That's a nifty feature that I haven't run into yet. Seems like it could be quite useful.
We have -- that relationship is, unfortunately, adversarial. See point #1 above.
Thanks, took a while to find but seems the version to go for is their Community Edition[1].

Had a look at a recent tutorial and it looks great!

[1] https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/plmapp/education/soli...
It would be good to have an objective measure of unsafe.

E.g. is the radioactive dust we are all exposed to from global coal plants unsafe? High levels of pm 2.5 from steel plants making your vehicles and roads? Low cost subsidized sugar making half the population obese?

We all die in the end, trying to balance where to act is a hard problem because time is zero sum.
I guess I was picturing it as "coming soon" but with unrevealed contingencies. So it's a lie by omission. You actually haven't made the decision that anything is "coming soon", because the contingencies haven't been met yet.

Being transparent would be something like Kickstarter/Indiegogo, where you have stated objectives and if those objectives aren't reached the thing doesn't happen, or happens to lesser degrees. I'm not sure how you would translate that into a market-research product page, as you'd need a way to positively spin the fact that the product doesn't actually exist yet. You're basically seeking funding more than marketing a product.

Emails would probably be the best happy middle ground. People sign up for news/info regarding a product that's under development, no promises are made, hell if you decide to start development you could even publish a dev blog documenting the experience and providing updates, depending on how technical your audience is.

I've just read so many startup-advice blogs that seem to recommend bait-and-switching the customer just to gauge interest. That seems counterproductive to me in the long run. Sure maybe the world is big enough for software that you can afford to screw over some people and there will be plenty more where they came from if demand is good. All I know is despite moving some distance away in recent years my family still goes to this one independent mechanic we discovered. He's gone out of his way to save us money when he could have screwed us (I requested repairs that were unnecessary), takes time to explain the repairs he's making and why, charges a decent rate (frankly I'd pay more if he asked) and hasn't broken anything. That's the kind of relationship I would want with my customers, and sure enough he gets every oil change from us despite being a 35 minute drive away.
Teflon vaporizes at >500F (and perhaps below). Leaving the pan on high without food in it will approach that quickly.
There definitely is a problem but I believe this sites’ demographics won’t let you find many voices towards taking measures that limit profit-seeking.

Entire sectors like healthcare and childcare are being gutted by prohibitive living costs associated with living in a city or close enough to it. The people of the cities don’t have enough essential workers anymore due to them being priced out.

Even private sector employers have to pay the price for the real estate sector cannibalizing economic growth and pushing corps to increase salaries (and the salaries increasingly just falling into the hands of real estate instead of businesses).

Productive business and economic growth is being captured by the non-productive housing sector and land-ownership class.

If taxes on the wealthy would have increased as fast and as comparatively much as rent has for the working classes then the wealthy would be at the barricades.
Xcode tried to use gdb as a backend for a long time and it was awful. It only got better when they moved to lldb.
Sure. If you count waking up tomorrow as boring.
Thanks, Monsanto!
They sell bottles filled with water, not everyone has access to tap water and Nestlé captures so much of a water source that locals don't have access to the freely available water that they did before.

Are you not aware that fresh water from wells depletes sources? The water table is limited.

You seem to be intentionally twisting the scenario in a disingenuous manner. Nestlé is selling water that was once free to a populace.
This is just repeating what other sites reported in broken english (not sure if they tried some translate-and-back obfuscation?), original source had large discussion at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32023868
Remove zoning restrictions. I will build multi unit housing in my lifetime. I would do it sooner but it is expensive and permitting is hard. There are so many barriers that protect single family homes.
(Since you mentioned it) I just recently watched all of Stuff Made Here (brilliant guy and channel). One thing really opened my mind - he built his own CNC machine! Now that I know this I could almost believe that I could build anything too. At least that it's possible to build at home.

Interesting about TikTok. But all the content niches are so segregated now due to algorithm recommendations, I'm not sure if these are being watched by only the interested, or are they watched by "everyone" in general?
This. This is what regulation is for and should be doing.

Trying to keep track of what is safe and isn't is basically impossible for an individual.

I tried for years to avoid PFAS and friends, only to discover my sofa was covered in it.

What's the point.
I do think that the human population is too much, but so is dangerous chemicals in the environment. But, additionally to that is harmfulness to nonhuman environment (animals/plants) as well as human, and also harmfulness earning money at the expense of everything else in this world.
Inventing the Service trait | Tokio – An asynchronous Rust runtime
Building a Mental Health App with Flutter
Guys, check the project out on my Youtube and let me know what you think in the comment section.
It’s worth noting that Siemens licenses the CGM kernel from Dassault for some of their products too though. At least they used to when I worked there…

I think they don’t need to market them - but that’s because they’re aimed at a different market segment. The licensing costs for these tools individually are very high, but big companies buy them as a package along with things like TeamCenter. Inertia is very strong so if a company uses a tool, they’re unlikely to migrate unless they’re forced to for some reason.
Pizza steels are very popular for that reason.
That's one of those things that sounds good in theory, but in practice has more to do with hardware than software semantics.

Any end-to-end guarantees pretty much requires control over hardware, which of course would be very interesting to a lot of people, but isn't really what mainstream operating system concern themselves with.

Already the block device hides too much of hardware, and any VFS layer will be even worse. Just because a write is done doesn't mean it's actually on the spinning rust. And even if it is, it could be done in several ways, maybe it was relocated, or parity hasn't been computed, or it's in the queue. Any attempt of abstracting different types of storage will pretty much have to resort to the least bad common denominator here.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, just that it's not the same problem that operating systems try to solve. But in the post-Optane world maybe block devices are too low level anyway and we'll finally see higher level storage systems.