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Not really, the level of production in the winter would be very low, and no batteries can fix that.

They have cheap gas though, and that could be used in the winter.

Ottawa has supported the keystone XL pipeline south. I don’t see what changes there. The democrats in the U.S. are the blocker for god knows what actual reason.

If that were possible it would happen anyway. You can’t hold back progress.

It’s very, very far from possible today.

Taiwan relying on energy imports is a major strategic weakness.

People think China will invade Taiwan. I think they’ll just put it under siege until it surrenders.

Why would it be used in farming, you can edit the DNA before fertilization in farming, no need to do anything in vivo.

I agree, this is makes no sense at all.

Can I take the other side of this investment? Like an angel funding round, but selling short?

I don’t want a large std lib. It stifles competition and slows the pace of development. Let libraries rise and fall on their own merits. The std lib should limit itself to the basics.

I would take a logical dump on shutdown and the restore that rather. You’d need a backup and restore process anyway, so that path has to exist either way. It’s kind of like a full vacuum, so has some benefits too.

The NDA prevents me from saying which database company, but it’s a major provider of cloud managed databases across clouds.

Yeah, so restart does not.

Which means you can count on it about as much as a server of your own, if you could not repair the server.

I know a database company that uses instance storage as the primary storage. It’s common.

My understanding is this not true, only when the instance permanently fails and is moved.

Where do you want to start? Going back 3000 years it was the state of Israel. Then conquered by various nations, including the Persians, Greeks and the Romans, among others. Move forward a couple thousand years and it was conquered by Arabs. Then in more modern times, the Ottoman Empire, then the British. There have been Jews living there the entire 3000 years.

I suspect you're talking about more recent history, which I'll just copy from Wikipedia here:

"During the Mandate, the area saw successive waves of Jewish immigration and the rise of nationalist movements in both the Jewish and Arab communities. Competing interests of the two populations led to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine and the 1944–1948 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine to divide the territory into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, was passed in November 1947. The 1948 Palestine war ended with the territory of Mandatory Palestine divided among the State of Israel, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which annexed territory on the West Bank of the Jordan River, and the Kingdom of Egypt, which established the "All-Palestine Protectorate" in the Gaza Strip."

"On 14 May 1948, with the termination of the British Mandate and the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel. The following morning, the surrounding Arab armies invaded Palestine, beginning the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The Egyptians advanced in the south-east while the Jordanian Arab Legion and Iraqi forces captured the central highlands. Syria and Lebanon fought with the Israeli forces in the north. The newly formed Israel Defense Forces managed to halt the Arab forces and in the following months began pushing them back and capturing territory."

Israel has as stronger claim to that land than anyone else, and I want to note the Palestinians had their state in 1947 and gave it up by starting and losing a war. They had a chance to get it back again when Bill Clinton was president, and they turned it down. They want all of it and the Jews dead. They'll keep losing, and keep getting a worse and worse situation for themselves until they can let go of that crazy, evil, and unrealistic idea. They're in the process of losing parts of Gaza now. You don't start a war, lose it, and get to keep your territory. That's rare.

You must be referring to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War? That was not started by Israel! You would do well to read up a bit on the history of the region, because "Israel literally started the war by invading Palestine" just doesn't make any sense in a historical context, that never happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War

Self defense is not evil. Yes it's war, and wars are horrible, and innocent people die - but Israel didn’t start it. Gaza (that’s what you mean when you say Palestine? You don’t seem educated about the region) was free for the most part with zero occupation for the last twenty years. I support Israel in its right to defend itself.

> On the Gaza side the people are protesting against Hamas who are equally evil.

I don't know how any human can look at Israel and Hamas and call them morally equivalent. I suggest your moral compass is badly broken, and that makes the rest of your analysis suspect at best.

That's the cynical take, and it's been said about 9/11 as well. I don't think it's actually true in either case - but it's impossible to say with 100% certainty.

Yeah, that's an interesting way of looking at it. Also I didn't realize Fox dominates so much.

It makes some sense!

I've been saying this for years on X. I think static languages are winning in general now, having gained much of the ergonomics of dynamic languages without sacrificing anything.

But AI thrives with a tight feedback loop, and that's works best with static languages. A Python linter (or even mypy) just isn't as good as the Rust compiler.

The future will be dominated by static languages.

I say this is a long-time dynamic languages and Python proponent who started seeing the light back when Go was first released.

That makes some sense to me, although the result is surprising. Do have anything you can point to for further reading on the subject?

I can cite multiple studies showing the left bias in the media. I think it's pretty widely held to be true. I'm actually kind of taken aback that anyone would take the other side of that argument.

The media is far from neutral. Almost all have a major left bias. Fox has a major right bias.

Implying the media is sensible is hilarious

The media has been extremely critical of Trump. Sometimes deserved, sometimes not. But impossible to deny the bias.

> All I have to say is imagine if Biden did this, what the news would be saying.

Surely you don’t mean to imply the media treated Biden less favorably than Trump?

The labor market is the most lagging of all economic indicators. It doesn't turn over until we're really in the recession.

Leading indicators, like housing and manufacturing, are not looking promising.

In general yes, but in practice housing prices are down big in a lot of areas and still falling. Decisions happen at the margin, which means it's the marginal home owner who lost their job and has to sell, which pushes up supply at a time when demand is very weak - and that's your lower prices.

But it's very regional. Some areas will continue to see rising or stable prices.

People and businesses freeze when facing uncertainty. They cut back on spending and keep more cash in reserve in case they're going to need it. I fully agree that this is predictable, and if it drags on, I think it's likely to push the economy into recession (just one more quarter like this and we're there, technically.)

I strongly disagree with this.

Most startups fail. Optimizing for getting revenue is more important than optimizing cost in the beginning.

If you get revenue you can solve the cost problem. If you don’t, it doesn’t matter.

Anything that gives you more shots at the goal is a win in a startup.

I don’t share your optimism, but I admire it. For all our sakes, I hope you’re right.

You realize female birth control drugs have the same lingering effect on fertility too right?

And many people are opposed to abortion for moral reasons.