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Lest we not forget, there is Detroit

> Keeping the jank of X11 around was never long-term viable

Ha, it’s like saying “keeping the jank of win32, directx, GDI was never long-term viable” as your one and only argument for the inevitable success of Windows RT.

Fools, the lot of you GUI hipsters.

By the ones doing the considering. We get together every spring in Lucern to revise the Book of Considerations.

Jupiter has a lot of magnetism and the baroque clockwork ballet of its moons in the solar wind and on its stormy poles never fail to sing their eternal opera. My grandfather, Hein Hvatum, thought this might be the case and happened to be the first to point a radio telescope at Jupiter and write a paper about it.

The purpose of regulation and regulatory enforcement is to make what would be lucrative nuisance behavior highly unprofitable for the offender.

For example, in the cases of shoplifting or selling fentanyl on the street, lack of enforcement-coupled-regulation leads to a wholly predictable rise in shoplifting and fentanyl street vending.

To say otherwise is just another kind of public nuisance for personal gain.

I feel embarrassed for Germany. So much pride, built on dishonesty and exploitation of customers and other EU nations. Getting to the point of implementing meaningful reform will be tremendously ugly, in a country that derives such gratification from exporting carbon-intensive industry to China. Sad.

> So the point is that you are simply wrong about your understanding of the issue. The intellectual community fully accepts the possibility of hydrogen as a widespread fuel and a way to solve climate change.

That is terribly naive and wishful thinking, I’m afraid.

For even the smallest-scale industrial applications, hydrogen is almost invariably produced on-site, near or within the manufacturing cell consuming it. Even if Linde charged nothing at all for hydrogen, electrolysis would still win: no 10kpsi (good lord) tank, no inevitable 1% loss per month of high-pressure hydrogen, no extra insurance premium.

If you’d dealt with hydrogen in industry, you might appreciate the problems with it. The static electric discharge from fingertip to ground required to ignite hydrogen is barely perceptible, and a ridiculously low atmospheric hydrogen concentration will burn with a very hot flame invisible in daylight.

The proposition of the public driving high-pressure hydrogen tanks around is brain-damaged. If you want fuel, you should make methanol from your hydrogen - for the same reasons that, if you want hydrogen, you already produce it from water or natural gas or propane.

Hydrogen has been an excellent topic for boastful press releases by car companies, corrupt nations, and fossil fuel producers murderously determined to continue the status quo indefinitely. It’s ideal for that, because there’s no danger of practicality.

Iran systematically employed 12-16 year olds en masse for the purposes of clearing minefields and drawing Iraqi fire. Perhaps 50,000 Iranian children were sacrificed in this manner. Iraq regularly responded to these child-wave tactics by deploying mustard gas.

> i have a non tesla ev and it’s totally fine

It really isn’t. Driving my Leaf or i3 beyond 70 miles round trip is absolute Russian roulette. Will the charger be in service? Will it accept payment? Will it accept payment and then, for unknowable reasons, just not initiate charging?

Contrast that with driving 2000 miles round trip in a Tesla. There’s not going to be any trouble charging, ever.

The R community is fantastic and very helpful for getting started. There is so much peace of mind to be gained by doing everything in R and then using R’s write.xlsx to output the excel sheet for your users.

Python+pandas is an ok alternative. The ergonomics are weird, but if you’re familiar with Python, it works enough.

> I'm curious why you think food prices will rise

More money (provided by UBI) chasing fewer resources (less reason to work) until a new equilibrium is reached.

Somebody has to farm, and it’s not easy work.

> So where the FUCK is all that money going?

Please be aware that higher education is a massive dumping ground for the lowest-performing segment of the politically-connected managerial class, who are too cowardly and lazy to run for elected office, and too stupid and impulsive to make it in industry.

Academia is perfect, for them: a gigantic stage for demonstrating moral superiority and hiring friends, with no fundamentals that matter at all.

Don’t be a tool. A heroin addict’s motivation to acquire heroin is infinitely greater than a heroin addict’s motivation for anything else in the world.

> The fact that they don't have bureaucracy is a direct consequence of them not doing any work right now.

Is “bureaucracy” a euphemism for Diversity, Equity And Inclusion busybodies, in this case?

> There are 16 CHAdeMO charging points in the US

You are wrong by a factor of over one hundred.

> That's it.

Yeah, except for the thousands of chademo charge points outside of your microscopic awareness. https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/articles/fotw-1139-june...

> This implies than it's much easier to do nuclear again independent of what the people of Japan want or not want.

Oh excuse me, I didn’t realize you’re a populist.

Vice News used to be great and essentially apolitical. They went to interesting, dangerous places and reported what they saw by showing you what they saw. Their viewership grew rapidly.

Fast-forward. All new Vice productions are deeply and uniformly opinionated. Comparatively few people care to watch. Relative to their previous work, this later work received no significant attention and generated no revenue.

There is political groupthink in reporting ruinous to the bottom line.

I don’t think stinknet requires cleared land. Vegetation in the Arizona desert doesn’t form an unbroken canopy. Water is the limiting factor, and stinknet is apparently more efficient than any native plant at immediately converting water into explosive growth and immensely prodigious seed production.

It may well be that the natural course for stinknet is to dominate all other desert vegetation to such an extent that it forms a monoculture that fails to maintain ground nutrients and creates evolutionary pressure toward symbiosis with native plants. But it could take a hundred thousand years for Arizona stinknet to become a good citizen.

I know from experience that both Norway and Sweden have credit score systems. It’s an expedient way to formalize a single important aspect of reputation, so that people who are careful to service their debts can borrow on favorable terms.

It’s the least painful way of enforcing some personal responsibility for debts taken for personal benefit, and because medical treatment is socialized and the government looks after the poor, nobody should ever be faced with the need to borrow to continue living.

Credit scores in the US are much more sinister, in that respect, representing a measure of not only fastidiousness but also desperation.

I mean obviously wherever a date time entry can be found, there should be a TZ drop-down and a DST checkbox.

lusers who don’t know what those things are will learn soon enough.

I really mean it. The ambiguity is a problem.

> If they have a liquidity crisis the western world will essentially end.

Already had one in 2008. Thankfully, our currency’s value is notional and the fed can print more until such time as the bank run ends.

Benzoylindole, the active ingredient in most “Spice” products, is not found in cannabis and its metabolites are toxic as hell.

> Much of it wasnt meant to be relevant for decades, it was meant to be ephemeral topical entertainment, and functionally intended to be disposable.

As with Pompeii graffiti and warehouse cuneiform tally tablets, from the anthropological perspective, the ephemeral is interesting.

Old entertainment that seems alien has a lot to offer for understanding culture that was.

Perfectly peaceful? You must be talking about a different Portland. One without a Federal courthouse that was attacked nightly for months on end.

“Fiery, but mostly peaceful” is a euphemism we all can live with.

It’s an advertising company. Their destiny is to reach parity with Clear Channel Communications in terms of ethics and quality.

If you saw a chart of Stanford administrative overhead growth, you would be aghast.

All these useless busybody administrators sucking down $100k+/yr compete for visibility in order to grow their compensation and hire yet even more of their dipshit buddies.

They are a cancer.

Learning, teaching, and researching are entirely beside the point. Demonstrate moral superiority and hire your friends if you want to stick around.

This insular, spiraling, incenstuous dynamic produces artifacts that are tremendously embarrassing and discrediting when exposed to the outside world.

It’s worth noting that Elon unbanned a whole slew of accounts that had been silenced simply for disagreeing with what happen to be your political priorities. Who has Elon banned for their politics? Being banned for tweeting Andy Ngo’s current home address is very different from being banned for saying that COVID-19 likely originated in a laboratory.

I hope you’re not suggesting that the DA being motivated by politics is a bad thing.

He’s an elected official. His job is to respond to his constituents by prosecuting people they don’t like.

I recommend starting right out of the gate with a modest project goal in mind, such as something neat to 3d print, or a simulation of interesting gears turning.

The period where you feel like you’re progressing the least and struggling the most is actually when you’re learning fastest.

Having worked with the St. Louis housing authority in the past, I bid work for urban development authorities at a 10x multiplier, and I am elated to tell my investors that we tried, and our bids were rejected.

You cannot possibly imagine the pain and frustration of building for inner-city urban development government organizations. They exist to perpetuate the problems that perpetuate their existence. The worse things get, the more funding they get.