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> Look here’s what you want to consider. The waste needs to be stored safely and responsibly for not a decade, not a century but for thousands of years.

I find that people making this argument always always fail to engage with at least three important considerations.

1) As a consequence of how physics works, the more dangerous a radioisotope, the shorter the period for which it is dangerous. The most radioactive substances decay in years or decades, not millennia. Anti-nuclear activists routinely engage in a form of equivocation in which they juxtapose dangerous but short lived substances (e.g. Strontium-90 has a half life of a few decades) with long-lived but low-danger substances like Uranium (with a half life of billions of years), pretending that every form of radioactive waste is as dangerous as the most dangerous form for as long as the longest-lived form survives.

2) Anti-nuclear activists routinely ignore the possibility of reprocessing nuclear waste into more nuclear fuel. They pretend that our only option is to store this fuel indefinitely. They also use this epistemic void where reprocessing should be to argue that we don't have enough nuclear fuel on Earth to sustain civilization. We do, and we do by several orders of magnitude if we remember that nuclear "waste" can be turned into new fuel.

3) Anti-nuclear activists routinely ignore how modern civilization produces non-nuclear waste products that prompt similar concerns over waste safety. (See, for example, the famous Love Canal incident.) By fixating on nuclear waste and ignoring other industrial byproducts that are at least equally as harmful, anti-nuclear activists reveal themselves as being motivated by some kind of emotional or ideological opposition to "the atom" in particular instead of, as they claim, an altruistic concern for the safety of humanity in general.

All in all, these people are Luddites, and they've set back the progress of carbon free energy by almost a century. We need to ignore people afraid of nuclear power in the same way that we ignore people who worry in public about the power of witches and Mercury in retrograde.
Perhaps "frivolous" is the wrong word. But the effect he discribes in the linked article is a backwards pricing relationship between necessities (food, rent, housing) and non-necessities (TVs, air-fryers, etc.). This is possibly an example of Giffen Goods in effect [1]. Where as the price of an inferior good increases (ex. bread), poorer families are forced to buy more of that product and forgo more expensive alternatives (ex. steak or TVs).

Price change over 2022 [2]

> Smartphones, 23.4% cheaper.

> Televisions, 17.9% cheaper.

> Bread, 16.2% more expensive.

> Eggs, 59.6% more expensive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good
[2] https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bizarro-inflation-is-makin...
It depends on scale and stuff. Really fancy equipment can be a drag on any economy.

I have a 6 gallon stock pot for primary fermentation, or a large mash of beer ($30ish). I use a smaller kitchen pot for most of my batches of beer (1-2 gallons is a usual size for me). I use my grandparents old 3 gallon carboys and bottle capper. I also bought a used glass carboy 5gal for $20. Used beer bottles can be found for nothing through local Facebook groups and friends. I use screwtop wine bottles to save on cork costs. Gallon jugs are about $5 (you can also use these as carboys). So a low tech setup that can do 5gal batches can run less than $100. My initial setup was the stock pot ($30) and a 4pk of 1gal jugs ($20), and ballons ($2) for airlocks. That can give you enough room to make 3 gallons. A 5gal bucket and some strainer bags can be helpful depending on the recipes ($20ish).

Depending on the fruit wine I want to make, I can make it for between $3 and $15 per gallon at 18% ABV. Even for for beer, which admittedly can involve more equipment, I can make a case of NE IPA for about $16. That's probably about a third of the cost in the store.

The only additional beer equipment I have is a capper and a grain mill. The only reason I have the mill is that it was free. You can order your grain pre-milled.

And yes, I make mead, which as you said is where the real savings can come in. I also use my own honey so it's super cheap.
> This has nothing to do with advancing knowledge and specialization, and in fact reducing pesticide usage is only going to be enabled through greater advancement of our ag tech.

Or by restructuring how land is used. When you have miles upon miles of corn fields, it's a fucking buffet for corn pests. In contrast, land that has a great variety of usages - corn, wheat, grass for making hay, marijuana, rice, potatoes, berries, tomatoes - makes it difficult for pests to explosively sweep over entire swaths of land and leaving nothing but total destruction in its wake. Our ancestors knew this and changed sequentially what seeds they sowed, they even let land sit idle for a season or two so it could recuperate nutrients. All of this is extensively documented, a lot of it has actual scientific backing, it just takes a bit more effort so it isn't worth it under capitalism.

Also, California should stop growing fucking alfalfa only for the Saudis to feed cows with it. That is a waste of water and land that could both be used for something more productive than blood money from oil returning home. And they're not the only ones doing atrocious wastes of all kind of valuable resources.

> Also, if you have some magical way of doing this, I'm all ears, it would be great, but wishful thinking is no substitute for actual on the ground solutions that are working.

Well... France for example forces supermarkets to provide leftover food instead of trashing it. That led to a massive increase in food that ended up in people's mouths via food banks, over 10.000 tonnes a year in fact[1], additionally it creates a negative incentive against overstocking.

Restaurants can be forced to limit portion sizes (which might also have side effects to improve public health, aka obesity epidemic).

Stores could be forced to do regular maintenance on their cooler systems to reduce the amount of food lost there.

Students could get education on how to cook, how to check if food is still edible and other food aspects. It's not like their parents are teaching them...

tl;dr: stopping food waste can be tackled on so many levels and, given 50% food waste ratios, even slashing half of that is equal to provide 25% more food to the world's population.

[1] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/lebensmittel-verschwe...
Computing and Climate Change
Thermal radiation is in fact emitted from the nucleus of atoms; all matter emits black body radiation. The reason hot things generally aren't considered radioactive is because that would pull literally all matter into the discussion.

But that wasn't the point being made here. The point being made with the hot spoon example is that EM radiation doesn't make other things radioactive (except insofar as it heats things up). This is equally true of gamma radiation as thermal radiation. Thermal radiation and gamma radiation can both cause harm directly, but neither will make other things radioactive.

That's why it's completely safe to eat food that was sterilized with gamma radiation intense enough to kill you outright.
> a mistake in the execution by whoever did this, with one pipeline somehow getting two explosives planted

This was my thought exactly. It's dark underwater, and it's often not clear which pipe is which
Taste is not neccessarily a reason for popularity. Often a dish is popular because it's cheap, or simple. And this site probably only contains dishes which are popular enough to be put on this site. So there already is a selection bias. This list is just about the worst dishes from the best dishes (of this site).
The platform provides the service to the customer. Without it there is no uber. Without gig drivers, there is still an uber it’s just more expensive because the corporation can’t pawn off cost on the gig drivers.

The workers do not own uber. They do not see profit. ROI or anything like that.

And before someone mentions: yes, it is the corp’s duty to provide ROI to shareholders. Investment comes with risk.

*Why are people more “ok” with hedging investor risk by trading it for a lower worker quality of life?*

When workers discuss more open, they become more class conscious, they realize they can be paid more, and they fight for it.

With no workers there is no product.

With no investors, there is product, when the workers are the owners - they become the investors. ;)
Yes, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate had the permanent table. While 4 was for game session.
But where is the calculation for all the effort to distribute food to all those tiny shops? It is comes in via truck/van often at night. Central large stores, with customers buying in bulk, means fewer trips. The total carbon/energy in the system isn't as simple as saying "walking is better". It may be that a monthly trip to fill a pickup with food is more green than thirty daily trips to the corner shop by foot. Environmental concerns and modern lifestyle trends don't always line up nicely.

I Costco baker told me once that they used less preservative in bread than small bakers. Costco has such a high turnover that they don't need bread that can survive a whole day on the shelf. Same too with their vegetables that spend far less time in transit than they would getting to a tiny farmers market.
I meant now; there was obviously media coverage when it happened.
We are not. As a matter of fact we just renewed our annual contract with Heroku.

As disappointing as it is that Heroku is basically stalling, the fact is that it was light-years ahead of competition in terms of developer ergonomics. Even to this day, it's still super convenient and reliable-enough for us.

If anyone wants us to switch to their service they can't be as good as Heroku or slightly better. They need to be _much better_ to justify the costs of a switch.
I have a “living experience” in a country where (potential) billionaires were not allowed to make money. Believe me, you do not want to be there.
I'm the founder of webscraper.io. The paid version includes proxy, scheduling, data export, data parsing, data quality notifications and much more.
Then you lost money due to inflation or the opportunity cost of it being somewhere where it could have made money.
You get what you pay for :-/.

Everyone else seems to be more expensive.
https://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210328000109
I don't think remembering sources is an intrinsically difficult problem.

I think it's hard for language models, and indeed, after further thought, I'm pretty sure they shouldn't remember sources: https://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2023/understanding_gpt_better/

But the problem in general is probably not a particular stopper.

A bigger problem is people thinking that we should be taking language models and using them as AIs themselves, rather than seeing them as a component of an AI, which the more I think about, the more obvious it is that this is the case. Language models aren't what we want. They're a necessary step to what we do want and I don't expect them to go anywhere. But history will look back and laugh at this misguided attempt to make them be the entire AI.

Also, if you are implying you can just spew out the exact sources you learned some fact from... no you can't. You think so only because you haven't tried. Ask someone around you for five random "facts" for you to cite your source from, then try to write on a sheet of paper where you heard this fact from for the first time. Then hand the sheet of paper back to your friend and have them verify your claims... so, note, immediately you have the problem that an unverifiable claim is a fail, so "in elementary school" doesn't cut it any more than you can cite "at the library" as a source on your high school essay. I'm not looking for words that "identify" a several year span of time. You need to give me book, page, and line, or timestamps on a video, or something like that. No, you can't. Nobody can just spit out a bibliographic citation from memory for when they learned that Pluto isn't a planet. I can give you "in the news" for that, sure, but what news source was first? What is the title of that article? Who wrote it? What was the exact date? Of course not.
Until it explodes because it was filled with organic instead of clay kitty litter and costs $500 million to 2 billion and two years to clean up (this happened at WIPP in 2014)

https://theecologist.org/2016/sep/20/wipp-nuclear-waste-acci...

It seems that nobody can safely deal with nuclear material cost effectively.

From the article:

Worse still, mismanagement of the clean-up has involved poor safety practices. Last year, the DOE's Independent Office of Enterprise Assessments released a report that found that WIPP clean-up operations were being rushed to meet the scheduled reopening date and that this pressure was contributing to poor safety practices.

The report states: "The EA analysis considered operational events and reviews conducted during May 2014 through May 2015 and identified a significant negative trend in performance of work. During this period, strong and unrealistic schedule pressures on the workforce contributed to poor safety performance and incidents during that time are indicators of the potential for a future serious safety incident."

The report points to "serious issues in conduct of operations, job hazard analysis, and safety basis." Specific problems identified in the report include:

workers incorrectly changing filters resulting in five safety violations;

waste oil left underground for an extended period despite a renewed emphasis on combustible load reduction;

fire water lines inadequately protected against freezing;

inadequate processes leading a small fire underground, followed by the failure of workers and their supervisor to report the fire;

an operator improperly leaving a trainee to operate a waste hoist, the hoist being improperly used, tripping a safety relay and shutting down the hoist for hours;

an engineer violating two safety postings to remove a waste hoist safety guard;

workers removing a grating to an underground tank and not posting a barricade, causing a fall hazard;

a backlog of hundreds of preventive maintenance items; and

failing to properly track overtime such that "personnel may be working past the point of safety".
No opinion on whether the US did it.

But Hersh's essay indicates there were last-minute changes to the detonation method. That adds risk, which could have manifested as failure of some detonations.
I'm one of those people. My current laptop came with an eGPU enclosure, and I recently put a 3090 in it. The battery life on the laptop is so bad that it's basically a desktop now constantly connected to the eGPU and power supply. For gaming and resource heavy tasks it works great though, even if a bit loud at times.

I ended up getting a much better and slimmer laptop for actual portable work.
It's easy to see this is largely bullshit.

The LCOE of nuclear is fundamentally higher than solar/wind.

https://www.lazard.com/media/451905/lazards-levelized-cost-o...

Page 3, unsubsidized analysis.

I scanned the article and there are some bizarre accounting things like "drop in value after XX years or YY % of generation reached". I didn't bother reading the arguments because any article on nuclear economics has ONE JOB:

- explain how it will fix the LCOE gap with wind/solar
- barring that, justify its existence as a grid leveling service versus other generation schemes and grid storage

Everything else is fluff.

Note there isn't a single mention of LCOE in this article.

Now, that's just the cost for today. Wind/Solar is still dropping by 10-20% per year like it has the last decade, that will likely slow, but compounded 5-10% cost reductions is still a hell of a curve to compete with.

Consider that large scale nuclear buildout, AS THEY HIGHLIGHT in the article, is politically fraught, has long unreliable time frames, and is prone to vast budgetary overruns.

So the article wants you to start with nuclear, already not price competitive, start a whole bunch of nuclear plant builds, and in ten years (an optimistic timeframe!!!) they go into service where solar/wind is probably 1/2 the cost it was when you started the buildout, so the plants are even MORE uncompetitive.

Finally, I am unconvinced that nuclear generation costs also include the fuel rod reprocessing, waste transport, and waste storage costs fully. That comes down to accounting, but it's not like the gas or coal calculations include the carbon emissions costs (which no economics wizardry can accurately estimate, showing the fundamental issues with economicists as the voodoo witch doctors of the era of capitalism).

So, there are the counterarguments for the top commenter.
I'd think that was a function of supply and demand to a large extent, people can forgo non-necessities and therefore the demand drops and the price follows that. For necessities not so much.
US jet shoots down unknown object flying off Alaska coast
Meshes are not CAD data. Engineering applications need math surfaces, and thus use Boundary Representation (brep) based models, not triangle meshes.

This is the main difference between video games & vfx tols and engineering CAD tools and the reason why there is so little crossover in the software development of those tools.

The author's tool here uses OpenCascade which is a true solid modeling brep kernel, hence my comments.
Rated high up there is a dish called "scouse" which sounds like a perfectly unobjectionable stew of meat, potatoes, and vegetables. Nothing fancy, but sounds like it'd be great on a cold wet night.
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The law on fair use says "such as" those categories you list but it is not read that you MUST be in one of those categories to enjoy fair-use. In fact, it goes on in the next sentence to say you need to consider the 4 factor test in every case.

> The fair use of a copyrighted work ... for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include ...

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
"go super basic for a few hundred dollars."

My very basic setup is less than $100.

My first wine setup was under $55, and could still be under $75 today.
Curious how well ChatGPT could write css selectors for these no code scrapers.

If running the model was cheaper I would even say run the whole page through ChatGPT and ask it to format the information on the page for you.
AC was such a fantastic game and community - props to all you at Turbine that worked on it. So many great memories for me!
> Writing tests is annoying, especially in a codebase that keeps changing

Only if you don't have a functional core.

One of the psychology tricks I've learned about unit testing is just how bad sunk cost fallacy affects some people (all the time, and most people some of the time). I've witnessed people pairing for two days to fix a couple of nasty integration tests. That's 3 person-days of work lost on a couple of tests. How many release cycles would it take for that test to pay for itself versus manual testing?

You want the tests at the bottom of your pyramid to be so simple that people think of them as disposable. They should not feel guilty deleting one test and writing a replacement if the requirements change. Elaborate mocks or poorly organized suites can take that away. Which is hard to explain to people who don't see the problem with their tests.

You also want the sides of that pyramid to be pretty shallow, especially if you keep changing your design.
African elephants are not endangered, especially in Zimbabwe (where he apparently shot the elephant): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-63597223

Of course it's totally valid to make whatever decisions you like, but there is something disconcerting to me about how we judge our hands clean as long as we pay someone else to do horrific things to animals. Personally I think I probably do worse moral harm than killing an elephant every time I buy a dozen eggs or a Costco rotisserie chicken.
Having 200 boards can't be more cost effective than not hiring one data protection officer, right? Even two boards has to be more expensive.
Yes thanks. Guess I was wondering about the ethics of why that would be the case, rather than the details.
> Extremely far-fetched, you'd have to convince me that the Russian government and military are full of total morons.

They launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine while denying they were doing so and failed at every one of their military objectives while causing their economy to collapse due to the massive worldwide sanctions. What other evidence could you require?
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>One of Time's best inventions of 2021 or Fast Company's most innovative companies of 2022.

I'm mainly with you but uhh, Theranos?
That is all fair. The premise is the article headline that open source or Foss is dead. An open source software no one can use is a dead software. So the success of a Foss software might not only depend on functional aspects in Future but also on non functional aspects like the Cybersecurity management.

And do not think that this influence will not happen. There are reason why the non functional requirement licensing has switched to MIT from previously more LGPL constructs.

Having said all that... Yes, no one is obligated to answer.
> I also learned that batteries cannot be recycled.

That seems factually incorrect, and the anti-renewables paragraph was the thing that jumped out at me most, though the author claims not "to say that we should abandon renewables altogether, but to illustrate that all energy generation carries an environmental cost, and no solution is perfect."
I can choose between 5 supermarkets in a walking distance. And they are all busy.

America is just not denselly populated enough to really make it worth your while to build a supermarket ever 3 miles. Too much empty space so people refuse to live efficiently.
>I almost doubled my (non-index) portfolio by making the most obvious plays ever (durr, airlines will probably go back up, casinos will probably go back up, cruise lines will probably go back up).

I would argue that these were not the "most obvious plays ever." Airlines were making most of their money from business travel. It wasn't necessarily foreseeable that business travel would rebound somewhat and that increased leisure travel would make up the rest of the difference.

Additionally, you should really compare your performance to how a baseline investment would have performed over the same time period. VT almost doubled from the the start of the pandemic to the market's peak, so it is not really fair to say that you traded your way into doubling your portfolio.
Approaches to the idea of networked leadership. Amazing video.