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Per Wikipedia, nuclear LCOE runs to $81-82/MWh, so is not cost competitive.

There are a couple of tricks the seed companies use to get around this:

First off, a year or two before the patents on a variety expire, they simple patent some other feature of the variety. Problem solved (from their perspective).

Second, several years before the patent expires on a variety they'll have a "new, improved" variety (often bred from the first) that their sales-people push hard onto farmers so that by the time the patent expires the variety basically has very little/no commercial value - it's been superseded by the "improved" variety in commercial use.

It does, actually, because one of the big seed companies can then simply take that seed and... patent it as their own.

escape into the wild: You'd be up for a decade or more of litigation against one of the wealthiest corporations on Earth. There was a Canadian farmer who went exactly that route against (iirc) Monsanto, saying that their GMO Rapeseed (again, from memory) had contaminated his crop, but Monsanto sued him anyway for "illegally" growing their GMO stuff. I believe he "won" in the end. But at what cost to him?

and, "dominant species in the wild": Domestic crops are so pampered, so dependent on our adding nutrients, keeping predators and competitors at bay, that they stand very little chance of surviving long enough in the wild to be able to propagate. Dominant species? Not a chance.

Another Zim-Wiki user here -- been using it for something over 5 years, now, and have yet to find anything that could replace it for me. That it doesn't use (the bloody horrible) Markdown is a feature, not a deficiency.

Sometimes -- those times when you're breaking entirely new ground with a thing, when you're starting with just a vague vision of where the thing might go -- slow is better. Slow gives you time to understand the effects of what you've already done and the possibilities that affords.

I guess it depends on whether you're looking to achieve something unique and truly new, or just "get rich fast".

South Africa could learn so much from this. But won't.

No. Touch soil.

There is good, scientific evidence that skin contact with bare soil (walking barefoot in natural surroundings, gardening without gloves) makes humans happier, and the mechanism is this: there exists a species of bacteria found everywhere on Earth (even Antarctica, apparently) that exudes a compound which, on contact with the skin, triggers the production of endorphins, making is feel happier.

I'm skeptical of the electrical-conductivity related claims in the article, but contact with the Earth being good for us is at least explained/explicable.

Depends to some degree which search engine you're using, even with all the so-called "AI" pissing in the soup.

The Butlerian Jihad?

Sunlight/windows.

Light mode.

Non-fluorescent lighting leaning toward warm colours.

Yeah... it's not like they working code already in place or anything.

Or... just use any software like Linux or *BSD.

Well,... measuring gravity waves was outside of the technically realisable for a long time, but a couple of decades of trial and refinement and it got realised.

From a code search in the wild, with no context? Not a lot. From a code search from a person who's logged in, identified? Well, probably still not a lot, but it's another factoid about that person to hang onto the knowledge graph.

This (behavioural data) is precisely Microsoft's playbook - no charitable interpretations ought apply. As far as I am concerned, no Open Source project has any justification for still being on the platform as of the day of the MS buyout. It's not as though there aren't good alternatives just a git clone away.

If you want to avoid "bloated" I can only recommend both bearblog.dev and mataroa.blog.

(Full disclosure, I'm a paying user of mataroa, but no other relationship to either of those sites.)

Assuming that the widely touted "statistic"[1] that the global developer cohort doubles every 5 years or so, this would inevitable make it true that more than 75% of all devs have no idea how predatory MS is.

[1] I'm not sure where it comes from and have never seen any survey/study to back it, but most of the industry seems to think it true.

No Asciidoc? I know (and use daily) the IntelliJ Asciidoc plugin, so it's surprising to me that they make a writing plugin/environment and don't support AD out of the box.

eta: Having now had a closer look, some more thoughts:

The tool is clearly focussed on writing docs "for a website"; for external consumption. (For whatever value you choose for "external".) Definitely not for internal-to-a-project docs that you'd want side-by-side in a code project[1]. So no wikilinking between pages, which is (for me) a deal-breaker, making this thing basically just a previewing Markdown editor that also does XML source.

Well, it's early days, so let's hope that the tool becomes all it might be someday. But if you're doing "for external consumption via a website" docs, then maybe this can be useful to you, though it's hard to see what it's doing that a dozen other previewing Markdown editors don't already do, and some better.

[1] Yes, I'm aware that there are several plugins to IJ that do side-by-side note-making in projects. I've tried (probably) all of them, and they're all badly deficient in one way or another.

Just seems odd to ask a bunch of random strangers who cannot know YC's internal decisions or policies rather than ask the party who makes those.

Why don't you just email YC directly and ask...?

Nor are 99.9% of humanity. I think that's the point.

I'd have thought that 3 or 4 a year would be as much as any human being can reasonably produce if we make a presumption that the author actually desires to write something of decent quality.

Can highly recommend Migadu for those geeky enough to handle their own DNS setup. No affiliation with them except as a very satisfied customer.

I made no such assumption; merely pointed out that the original post is about Norway, but the commenter appeared to have confused it with Denmark. Could happen to anybody, really... ;)

Wait until you mention you're from an African country... :)

"Oh, yeah! I've been to Africa!"

You might care to learn the difference between Norway and Denmark.

> GPG just screams "an important conversation is happening"

is just another argument in favour of all email being encrypted.

And yes, there's side-channel/metadata still in the clear, and that's a problem, but still a smaller problem. The only crowd I know working on solutions to minimise/eliminate that problem is the Cwtch project (not product!)

You're right, but "war" is so much better clickbait.

Have to say that when writing fiction (and taking that seriously) my output slows down by a very significant factor. It's not the physical act of writing that takes time, but the time needed to think about the scene, characters, etc. I've said before that I never realised that writing (fiction) is a performance art. The performance might all be solely in your own head, but it's as real as any, and harder, because it has to make sense on the written page, in light of all that's been written before it and has yet to be written after.

eta: Writing fiction I consider myself doing really well if I achieve 500 words in an hour. Non-fiction? 1000 is quite easily done.