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Did you know that Darwin wrote 6 additional editions of Origin of Species [1] to address his critics? That there are many possible ways to disprove evolution by natural selection [2]?

[1] http://darwin-online.org.uk/contents.html

[2] Finding a species that won't fit in any taxonomy, a dog giving birth to a non-dog, finding a fossil in the wrong layer, etc.
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There are many available technical solutions, is just that the majority aren't as cheap as burning oil or gas yet, at least for most situations.
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I had actually written "died off" rather than "retired", as that's how I recalled it being stated when I read The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. But then I couldn't recall a good reason why they had to die, and not just retire, so I changed the wording. But maybe even retired tenured scientists exert too much influence.

I love the Max Planck quote, though. I hadn't heard it before.
These comments are not necessary exclusive. Parent said electricity while brc indicates globally wind power produced < 0.% of <energy>.

Of course, no thermal plant has been built in the US in the past 50 years without some subsidies -- both direct and indirect. So, it's a bit of a red-herring argument.
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iOS 3 on any device has a tiny marketshare - Instapaper showed it at less than 1.2% of iOS, and that was nearly 9 months ago. (http://www.marco.org/2011/11/30/more-ios-device-and-os-versi...)

The support matrix for Enyo is here - http://enyojs.com/docs/platforms/
Opera Mini and mobile are just not supported.

You need to draw the line somewhere. 'Broad' support is good. 'Everything' support is futile, for the feature set desired in a mobile application framework, with the resources the Enyo team has.

Enyo is good at creating 'apps' - often things delivered in a PhoneGap-like container or something with defined browser support like Chrome Web Store.

Its probably not the general framework for any and all website development needing to support all platforms.
Is it possible to upgrade OS X's default zsh version to 5.0?
How do I make that my login shell? When I go to login options, I don't see zsh 5.0 as an option.

Does this mean I have to manually enter the path like /usr/local/zsh?
Though, his op/ed was devoid of any data regarding cost.
or their intermittent power will be unpredictable and extremely bad for quality of life. So if you have to build a regular power plant to make up for the intermittent nature

You don't have to build a power plant, you have to build power storage, preferably with long distance interconnects.
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It's not just that. It's also that the majority aren't as heavily subsidized, both directly and indirectly, as burning coal or oil.

In the U.S. more than half our electricity comes from coal. When the enormous external costs of coal mining and burning are factored in (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-cooper/harvard-study-coal...) the per-kilowatt hour cost of coal should be more than double the artificially low cost we see today. And in certain parts of the country (particularly the midwest), wind power is already within a factor of two in price.
No they won't. The populace doesn't care. Even on issues that affect far more people, they're relatively mum. Most people don't have strong opinions about the *AA, and there isn't enough controversy to justify any sort of news coverage.
>Take your car and ram into people. You will probably be able to kill the same amount (or even more).

Priscilla Joyce Ford

http://www.newsreview.com/reno/day-terror-came-downtown/cont...

“It looked as though someone had gone through the streets with a lawnmower, mowing people down,” a woman from Canada who’d witnessed the massacre from the Onslow Hotel-Casino tells the Gazette. “It looked like a battlefield—there were bodies all over the place.”
You assume specific aspects regarding the regulatory environment for the parent. Are you sure that they're talking about a full-NEM style arrangement like found in California, or is it something akin to Australia (or Wisconsin) where you're credited at avoided cost for exports to the grid?

I strongly agree that subsidies distort markets (usually to the detriment of society). However, with energy, emerging technologies are competing with incumbent technologies with a host of direct and indirect subsidies.

Regardless, for the parent -- solar isn't always a good investment. You need sunny areas with high electricity prices. While this is found frequently, it is not ubiquitous.
No mention of liquid fluoride thorium reactors (LFTR) or algae-produced oil. Lame.
> Globally wind power produced < 0.5% of energy last year. Most people forget, or don't realise, that the current obsession with alternative energy is limited to parts of Western Europe and parts of the USA. It has virtually no traction elsewhere in the world.

Who cares about places that aren't Western Europe or the USA? Those places are technology followers. 15 years ago, the internet was only a statistically significant phenomenon in Western Europe and the USA. Yet other countries are now reaping the benefits of that technology. So to will be the case with energy technology.

> - Bankruptcies in Germany and Spain by solar companies are very much the cause of bad policies

This argument is non-sensical. STD's and babies are both caused by sex, that doesn't mean that STD's are the fault of babies.

> The correct response is to admit there is no current technical solution to affordable energy without burning stuff.

"Affordable" is a very relative term, especially when you look at true costs, including externalities, rather than just observed costs. Where I live (Illinois) wind power is approaching a factor of two of our average electricity price. Is that affordable? Almost certainly.
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Are you a real human being or a brain-dead bot...? So it is good when CIA goes and kills anyone thousands of miles away (whether you call them civilians or you consider them guilty by default), you're just not sympathetic with those people who are victims of CIA...? Aren't you associating yourself to terrorism (i.e. killing innocent civilians) even if you are not committing the acts yourself?

Was a good thing that CIA installed brutal dictators after toppling the governments of dozens of elected leaders around the world from Chile and Brazil, Cuba and Guatemala and Iran to Indonesia?

https://www.google.com/search?q=cia+interventions+since+1945

Is it terrorism when a guy named James kills a dozen Americans and injures 5 dozen? Would he be called a "suspect" or a terrorist if his name happened to be Muhammad?

Is it a good thing when an American soldier kills a dozen Iraqi civilians?

https://www.google.com/webhp?&q=american%20soldier%20ira...

https://www.google.com/search?q=american+soldier+killing+spr...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_eclipse_of_Darwinism
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>I still managed to max out my personal IRA as well as hit the match on my employer's 401k. Sure, I was single and living cheaply...but that's the point.

The point is if you're not making enough money don't have a family? Or choose between family/kids etc and retirement?
The best thing about shale and coal seam gas is that it is typically domestically produced.

This has two advantages for the domestic producer : 1) you're not funding a government that might have a different idealogical bent to your own and 2) higher shipping costs mean that it becomes advantageous to locate production closer to the gas source (or pipelines). Costs for Natural Gas vary widely across the world, depending on supply.

A fundamental lowering of energy costs is the best way to get an economy on track because it increases productivity quickly.

A fascinating bit of technology that is popping up around the place is microturbines. These take natural gas as a raw feed, and produce power and heat on-site. They are effectively low-maintenance electricity generators with heat re-use (either for heating or cooling). This can isolate a building/factory/whatever from the grid, and provide a very high reduction in energy costs, making the investment decision pretty easy.

Capstone Turbine is an emerging player in this market - their website is well worth a peruse:
http://www.capstoneturbine.com/

Note: I have nothing to do with them, I just find the tech interesting.
Much like the Israel/Palestine conflict. They believe the country is theirs. Hence why they want unification.

As I say, good cause is debatable.
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All electricity installations are subsidised, one way or another. What we need to ask is what the subsidy is for and if it is likely to help. As far as I see it the question comes down to how much investment it would take so that solar is cheaper than other forms of energy production. If we are in the situation where that is about to happen soon and where a major factor in keeping prices high is economies of scale, then the subsidy is sane and is likely to result in economic benefits that massively outweigh the cost of the subsidy. Otherwise it isn't.
The article talks about When Google stole java code, and then stole ios... I smell some hyperbole.
I agree...I thought the common wisdom is that scientists like proving each other wrong. In my experience that is not a myth.
Remember when relativity didn't need a generation of physicists to die before it was accepted? How about quantum mechanics?

The big problem I have with Kuhn's idea of paradigm-shift-by-mass-retirement is that there are a bunch of examples in the past century of really big upsets in a number of fields that were accepted without dramatic wailing and gnashing of teeth. They just don't get mentioned so much when the idea of paradigm shift comes up -- classic confirmation bias.

(If you want to see big changes in action today, look at molecular biology. Now there is a lively field! It's kind of disconcerting how often they have to update their textbooks, especially at higher levels.)
The "no subsidies" bit is really a massive red-herring.

Even without taxes, fossil fuels are hugely subsidized. The lack of effective legal frameworks to prevent e.g. coal plants from shifting the inherent costs of coal power onto people in surrounding neighborhoods is an implicit subsidy. Letting them shift $100 of environmental damage onto the residents of West Virginia is exactly the same as giving them a $100 check.
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Or many of the other promising and fascinating technologies currently being developed. Not all of them will work, but a few innovations will go a long way to fixing the energy problem.
If a dozen Americans killed by a whacko deserves to be on hacker news, the mass murder of Afghans and Iraqis also deserves to be mentioned. There have been no minutes of silence for the million+ Iraqis and Afghans, no American media outlet has run hours long stories about the victims, the survivors or their families.
Oooh... you're getting into some serious math now.

The stable waves on a circle are precisely those waves which oscillate an integer number of times as they traverse. In other words, one for each integer. Further, every function on the circle can be expressed as a sum of the sine waves. That sum is called the spectral decomposition. (This is Fourier series.)

With clever choices of functions, you can get some profound results. For example, picking a saw-tooth wave and doing the spectral decomposition gives the identity

1 + 1/4 + 1/9 + 1/16 + ... = pi^2/6

And, by the way, the left hand side is the zeta function evaluated at 2.

And about functions that are zero at each composite... You may want to check out Dirichlet characters. They are periodic functions which behave nicely under multiplication. Whenever an integer and the period have a common factor, the character will be zero at that integer.

It's not going to be zero at all composites, but it's on the right track.
Iceland has so much extra hydro and geothermal power that they built an aluminium plant just to use the excess.

But that's hardly something that applies to the rest of the world. On a global level hydro and geothermal energy is maxed out, every usage that practical is already being done.
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> Clean energy is expensive, takes a long time to build, and introduces more problems,

And doesn't exist. Nuclear power is the best option, with natural gas second. Everything else is too small to matter.
Apple has been responsible for a lot of recent LLVM development, so it's not as though they didn't know what they were getting into with that.
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> I have no idea how we get past this.

We won't, as long as "journalism" is a profit driven business, where revenue is based on ad viewership.

The result is more entertainment and editorial than education, where the need to be first, even with inaccurate stories, overrides any sense of integrity.
Interesting, but I don't really by his it arguments. All that is required to learn in our industry is a sub $1000 pc (and on a budget, sub 500) or a $1500 mac.

Yet somehow we end up with people who cannot solve fizzbuzz.

That seems like a talent shortage to me.
Whether you can get away with building 20% depends on what kind of software you're selling and who is buying it. In the enterprise software world your customers are going to have a check-list of features, some of which are useless or redundant, but they happen to have been implemented by your competitors. If you don't implement those features, you may not even get your foot in the door.

There are lots of other areas where you would be killed if you tried to sell just the 20% of core features. For example, a "20%" smart phone probably couldn't compete against a fully-featured iPhone or Android phone.
It seems like a very "neener-neener" argument to me. Okay, so what, proponents of wind and solar a decade ago were overly optimistic about how quickly such technologies would take over. NASA scientists also thought we'd be going to Mars by 2025. What does that prove?

At the end of the day, the installed capacity of wind power has tripled in just the last several years. The price of solar panels has fallen through the floor. A number of U.S. states are seeing immediate local benefits from supplying > 10% of their electricity through wind power. I'm not quite sure why "% of global electricity consumption" is the only salient metric. Even if Texas's gas guzzling keeps the overall % low, Iowa still has cleaner air by supplying 14% of its electricity needs through wind power.
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We have an issue here with basically two sides that keep blaming each other.

What would it look like if we had a talent shortage instead of a skills gab? How would that effect our expectations?
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I personally don't find this useful at all, but for the love of god why does the page need to reload for something as simple as this?
I teach English to a guy who sells these in Japan. Massive boom after the 3/11 quake because distributed power sources are much more resilient to the single point of failure of one. It power plant. He's learning English to make inroads into China.. And it looks to be going very well.
From the wikipedia article you linked to:
Jellyfish have no brain nor central nervous system, but employ a loose network of nerves, located in the epidermis, which is called a "nerve net".

Though they are brainless, they do have enough reflexes to get by.
Mosaddegh wanted to nationalize oil, are you telling us that BP (then APOC), the UK, the US were all happy about it and the Iranian public was furious to see the oil money coming back to their country?

What about the coups and assassinations in several dozen other countries? Chile 9/11/1973, Brazil 1964, Guatemala 1954, Venezuela 1992+2002, Haiti 1991+2004 (Aristide was forced to board a US military plane that took him into exile), Congo coup 1960 and Patrice Lumumba's assassination 1961?

https://www.google.com/search?q=patrice+lumumba+assassinatio...

https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+cia+interventions+si...
Safe drinking water is completely unnatural too.

Do you suggest that is bad?
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Wake me up when "the majority view of modern psychology" provides a refutation of Szasz.
NZ and Iceland are tiny.

Iceland has a total population of 319,000.

NZ has a total population of 4.4m.

Both are situated on active volcanic areas.

Iceland is a geologically new island formed by the spreading of the mid-atlantic ridge.

NZ is basically a giant mountain range sticking out from the bottom of the ocean, in a climate where it rains and snows, a lot.

They are interesting cases in using technology to generate power both at low cost and minimal environmental impact, but in no way at all are they models for the rest of the world.

An externality can't be costed because there is no way to know the cost. You can only model it. As there is no way to validate the model, you end up with many competing models with no way of knowing which one is correct. As such, you can't give an accurate price.
I feel the Geto Boys are oddly relevant here:

And niggas always gotta high cap
Showin' all his boys how he shot em
But real gangsta-ass niggas don't flex nuts
'cause real gangsta-ass niggas know they got em
And everythings cool in the mind of a gangsta
'cause gangsta-ass niggas think deep
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Exactly. I'm growing from an iPad and got this message:

"Sorry, it isn't working out between us
It's not you, I just can't get along with your browser. Maybe if things change in the future... maybe if you bring Chrome, Firefox, Opera or even IE10 to the party... not promising anything, but give me a call.

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However, I still up-voted this article because of all the good suggestions other people added for good sprit generators.
Which was, thankfully, followed by the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_evolutionary_synthesis
> My advice is this. Stop going to parties. Then use all that free time to start spending time with the serious people, doing serious things. They aren’t at those ridiculous parties. So, why are you?

I'm not invited to these parties, but a legitimate answer to this question is "because they're fun". I'm not sure why he is so bothered that people want to hold lavish parties; if I was invited, I'm sure I'd go. There's no reason to spend your entire life working.
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"... The Secret Service’s landmark study of school shooters in 2002 determined that 78 percent of those shooters had experienced suicidal thoughts or attempts before mass murder. ..."

With respect to Columbine, the same study noted this observation about targeted violence in schools.

'... Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted, or injured by others prior to the attack ...' [0]

The relationship between bullying and targeted violence appeared to be a serious enough problem for the Secret Service to consider and investigate.

[0] Fein, R.A. Ph.D., Vossekuil, B., Pollack, W.S. Ph.D., Borum, R. Psy.D., Modzeleski W., Reddy M., Ph.D., "Threat Assessment in Schools: A guide to managing threatening situations and to create safe school climates", Chapter III, P17, United States Secret Service & United States Department of Education, Washington, D.C., 2002. (pdf, 754Kb) ~ http://www.secretservice.gov/ntac/ssi_guide.pdf
It's /usr/local/bin/zsh. You have to add that path to /etc/shells before chsh will let you set it as a login shell. Happy zshing!
Great write. What about total expense for PR during this time period?
> I'm not sure exactly what the intent of the OP is

I saw the link on cryptome, read it, and decided to test hacker news with it. I feel like a pt. whore, but I am pleased with the results:

# my submission was not censored (far from it!)

# I learned some of the history of this meme

# People honestly discussed a variety of dimensions to the issue

# The community that thinks about these challenges expanded

Thank you all.
Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4279118
All mineral reserves are basically 20-60 years into the future. That's because there is no incentive for a company to go out and find more reserves than it needs.

I'm not arguing against you, but using company reserves to predict the future is like using the length of a current employment contract to work out the future of your own employment. If you have a contract for 2 years worth of work, you're not necessarily going to be unemployed in 2 years. There's just no need for you to arrange more work just yet.

The same principle is at work with company hydrocarbon reserves.

The other curve-ball is changing technology. Many fields that are producing now were considered uneconomic in the past, but improvements in technology change that.

All in all, they are a very poor way of judging how much 'stuff' is in the ground. Which is why people, when looking at proven reserves 10, 20, 50 years ago would have concluded that things would have run out by now.
It's actually 1/6 * Sum_n (5/6)^2n = 1/6 * 1 / (1 - 25/36) = 6/11. The first move provides a small advantage, as intuition dictates.