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The AT protocol I was looking at the other day has a concept of choosing your own algorithm to aggregate content. I think that’s an important option in order for a dominant platform to be useful to society.

I think the submission is exactly wrong, the culture of an online space is heavily linked to the technology of the platform, interlinked with its business model.

It would be much more useful to search using the “people you follow” filter.

Most popular with the membership but too radical for the MPs. It’s the same as Corbyn with Labour members and MPs.

The members weren’t allowed to choose Badenoch, she was eliminated at an early stage by the MP vote, probably because she was too radical and lacked ministerial experience.

Rishi Sunak was claiming to be resident in the US while Chancellor of the Exchequer, while his wife was claiming non dom status to avoid paying tax. He was also hated by the supporters of the previous PM because he wielded the knife.

It’s not a shock that elections are not won on competence.

The most popular candidate with the party members was Kemi Badenoch, a black woman, so it doesn’t seem credible that people voted against Rishi Sunak mostly because of race.

Rishi Sunak was claiming to be resident in the US while Chancellor of the Exchequer, while his wife was claiming non dom status to avoid paying tax. He was also hated by the supporters of the previous PM because he wielded the knife.

Also, the most popular candidate with the Conservative membership was Kemi Badenoch, who is black, but far more radical than Rishi Sunak, who was forced to defend Treasury orthodoxy.

I’m not convinced it has much to do with race.

Yes, at a moment of inflation, they announce significant tax cuts which will have a big inflationary impact. The Bank of England was already behind on interest rate rises, and now the government is relying on them to not only counter global trends (high rates in the US causing devaluations basically everywhere), and also the inflationary effect of energy cost increases, but also extra inflationary tax cuts. That will force rates high (apparently the market is pricing in an increase to 5%), which will then cause big reductions in housing, and negative equity.

The thing I am confused about is why this happened at the announcement. The big measures had already been announced, an energy price cap (£60bn or more depending on wholesale gas costs), and reversal of planned tax increases in National Insurance and Corporation tax (about £40bn). The additional unannounced tax cuts were small (for instance the cut in top rate tax was £2bn). So it seems that most of the drop should have happened before.

Apparently the PM wanted the announcement to feel radical to distance her from the previous government, so maybe the markets were responding to the feeling of the announcement, and the implication of future radical ideological action, as much as the numbers.

I think that tax credit withdrawal still exists, so now the effective tax rate is 40% from £50k to £100k, then 60% from £100k to £125k, and 40% above that.

Also, despite 10% inflation they’ve frozen the tax bands, so all workers earning above about £12k will have more of their income pulled into higher tax bands.

So they’re left with that artificially high rate which blocks progression, and most workers up to about £150k will pay more.

Hi, are there Jacobson papers for 100% renewables looking at geographical distribution of generation, storage and interconnectors, then modelling them against weather and demand, or are they cruder than that? If those papers exist, can you recommend an accessible way to understand these models, and their outcomes? For instance, are there areas for wind generation which are more valuable that others, to provide a balance to regional lulls, and is that data published?

Is model code available so that it can be run by any of us?

Wind has higher average output in winter and at night, but even in winter and at night, it has lulls which last for many days. Look at the wind and solar generation numbers for Germany for a month last winter:

https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/power/chart.htm?l=en&c...

If you connect wind production across regions the lulls can be averaged out, but I want to know how reliable that is and what distances are required.

Has anyone seen any good explanations or visualisations of how long term storage would be achieved? For instance in Britain solar in winter has 1/10th of the output in summer, and we can have lulls in wind output for many days at a time. Using these resources to reduce gas use makes sense, but our current plans call for about 30% of electricity generated from gas using carbon capture and storage. How would this be handled under a 100% renewable scenario? Is it just generating Hydrogen?

Or it is that these intermittency gaps can be closed using long distance connectors? Has anyone done studies showing exactly where resources would need to be located and the length of connectors, modelled against weather and demand patterns?

Thanks for both answers, I use Calibre, so that’s the reason why I’m getting that.

From someone reading with a Kobo device:

* Have you considered putting the books onto the official store? It would make it much smoother to get books on the device. You could charge a small fee to pay for the effort, I’d pay the extra to support the project and avoid the hassle of doing an upload. I just saw above you now do bulk downloads, which will help also.

* Although your covers are beautiful, they only appear in a small corner of the screen for the Kobo devices I’ve used, even using the Kepub format, is that a known issue?

And also to thank you for the effort. This project plays a really important role and has been a source of pleasure for many of my friends and family.

Does Linux work well on those M chip Apple laptops?

https://www.notebookcheck.net/ also seems to do a lot of their own testing.

How do you build your intuition about creating queries in a way to avoid this?

Is it a matter of having a conceptual model of relational algebra and the way the different db engines work, or is it more an accumulation of heuristics over time for what probably will cause problems, and an iterative process of using EXPLAIN, adjusting the query and seeing what happens?

Do these issues not still apply? Have they been fixed?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllTrials

I thought circumin combined with pepper was to increase bioavailability, which has since been found not to be useful because the effects occur in the gut, and don’t require absorption into the blood stream.

It’s not too distant a dream, the Rolls Royce small modular reactor designs have just been submitted for approval:

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/rolls-royce-submits-...

The obvious thing to do was continue to invest in Servo. If they could have produced a parallel layout engine, which could provide app like animations without fiddling on desktop and Android, and then make that easy to embed, they could have made real inroads into blink/webkit.

Multi Account Containers is also good.

> Data please? Have you been living under a rock?

I’d say the same to you, if you didn’t see reports of heart problems before the vaccine were you living under a rock? Either you weren’t reading much or your filter bubble was removing that news, perhaps because the media you were reading was trying to minimise its impact at the time. It was very widely covered where I am. There was even a widely watched documentary in the UK of a well known science/health presenter who had heart problems after a Covid infection in early 2020. You can probably look it, it was called “Surviving the Virus: My Brother & Me“

They don't oppose wind power, which is the complaint above.

I think people dislike her because she’s informal and popular in talking about a subject which is traditionally elite. She talks a lot about ordinary lives rather than great events, and she presents herself as an ordinary person, wearing trainers, with normal hair and teeth. A lot of it frankly is that she is not young and doesn’t attempt to make herself up to look young. You can see in many places there are very few women over the age of 50 on TV who have not been heavily made up.

All of this could be thought of as progressive or left wing but not in a way which anyone should object to! The only reasonable criticism of her I’ve seen is the discussion around the “ordinary British family in Roman times”, which was obviously wrong but made an underlying point which was valid, i.e. the lack of a modern idea of race in Roman civilization.

I think she has also objected to some aspects of gender self-id which would apparently make her right wing in a US context.

Do you know if you can do full text search for saved webpages? That would be useful.

But the second bullet point is:

> However, if you have added to or enhanced our data in order to make the map, you must make those additions publicly available without charge

So the produced work seems to be only a map, derived entirely from OSM data with no combination of data from other sources, except as a wholly separate layer. And any processing you do on the map has to be made available freely.

It's totally unclear to me how you can make a technology business based on the geographical database. For instance, I can't see how you'd read that section and conclude that the bike routing engine mentioned before would be a produced work (the section starts with "If you make a map from OpenStreetMap geodata..."). And if it did the algorithms you used to produce it would have to be openly published and made available to competitors.

When I was looking at it, I got the impression a produced work was something like a t shirt with a map printed on it. Is that wrong? Or any idea where I could read about how the interpret that permission?

The most interesting quote, from a Russian magazine in 1966:

> Philistine pragmatism takes over in Fleming’s novels. They tend to be indiscriminate, to combine elements of all sorts of sensationalism — political action and thriller, science fiction and advertising brochure, a fashion magazine and nudist film… This, briefly, is the secret of the genre, of popularity in its modern shape. Still, had it not been for the screen, Bond would have been lost among all the other spy characters out there. A nobody. It was the film industry that made him a myth.

I find the distinction difficult to understand. The way I interpret the OSM license, the data is really not freely available to use in a commercial context except as a base layer. If you use the OSM data in combination with any other data sources you have to publish both the resulting dataset and any processing steps or algorithms used to produce the dataset. So that means you cannot combine OSM data with any dataset which cannot be released, and it also means any innovation you develop in processing the data cannot be protected.

I can see why the license was chosen, clearly it's necessary to prevent Microsoft or Apple taking the data and closing it off for their use, but at the same time it seems to make most business models using the data unsustainable. It's a shame from a HN perspective, you'd hope open data would allow for the continual opportunity for the creation of startups to innovate on using the data, locking open competition in the same way that open software has done, but it doesn't seem to be working out that way. Most companies in the area seem to be creators and consumers of base layers, I don't see many doing anything with the geographical database.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the terms of the license.

I doubt most of the countries with much higher excess deaths had strict lockdowns which extended for long periods of time. Russia for example had one six week lockdown in March 2020 and then held the economy open for the next 18 months, but you can see through that period consistent high levels of excess mortality.

This idea that lockdowns caused spikes in non-Covid deaths seems highly dubious to me. From what I've seen it's actually the other way round, for instance deaths from influenza, or from accidents, are reduced during those periods.