Integration is failed assimilation, it's not something praiseworthy.
Have you listened to Erdogan lately? The Turks came to Europe as economic migrants (we were told they would be temporary, but it didn't work out like that). Now Erdogan tells them, integrate but don't assimilate. The Turks here respond by waving Turkish flags and voting for him... because of course they have dual citizenship. Cheering their dictator and booing any national politician who goes against him.
Turks, a perfectly integrated third column of foreigners who will forever be foreigners and a detriment to our nation.
I don't care if they are economic migrants, or asylum seekers. Giving hostile foreign cultures who fundamentally can not assimilate and/or are genetic dead ends a permanent large representation in your nation is insane. Help them, don't make them fucking citizens.
High temperature thermal storage might get 50% round trip efficiency, but to have low cost you can forget about molten salt. Special concretes which won't crack under thermal cycling are the preferred solution, but I'm not sure even that can be cheap enough for the 10s of Tera-Watt-Hour storage you need to store to be able to handle a couple of days of low renewable generation.
Similar for hydro, we just don't have enough natural combinations of high/low altitude reservoirs. Anything non natural is extremely expensive.
To solve it at the Tera-Watt-Hour scale at high round trip efficiency will require something new. I think either pumping water up from deep sea tanks (you don't pump in air to do so, you pull them vacuum, not trivial to do this energy efficiently) or lowering/raising giant weights on steel cables into the deep sea (very little technological innovation required, but I'm not sure about the cost of the steel cables and the maintenance costs).
In the ideal case renewable plus storage should meet baseline and peaking demand most of the time. Backup should also be able to meet total demand, but since it's not delivering any demand most of the time it's by definition not baseline. The whole concept of baseline doesn't really make sense any more once you get the amount of storage necessary to make say 95% renewable work. It will be an archaic and useless term.
Of course we have no technology to economically create that much storage currently.
Nah new ocean based energy storage schemes and PV cost reductions will make nuclear commercially inviable in 25 years... making wild predictions is fun.
With subsidies and long term feed in price guarantees. They basically run no risk with wind... but they are making the consumer electricity prices a lot more expensive. Nuclear needs similar long term guarantees to be worth the risk, but government are no longer willing to give them in the west. So we build more coal and gas plants for when the wind doesn't blow while decommissioning nuclear plants. CO2 emissions don't really budge in the process.
Eventually wind and solar will reduce fuel consumption of the fossil plants enough that it will be a big net gain in CO2 emissions, but we aren't quite there yet. In the mean time electricity is getting more expensive.
Your supreme court just invokes the commerce clause to allow government to regulate anything it damn well pleases. If there was a recognized church of porn games then Patreon/Paypal/Mastercard/Visa would all be forced to cooperate with the transactions for instance...
So having established that you're already under their gun lets just determine when they should use it.
We need to get away from credit card type transactions for these small amounts. Paypal needs far too much overhead to deal with charge backs.
Leave it to the court. Keep every transaction in escrow for say a month and freeze his account if you can present evidence that the recipient is being sued by someone who send him money. That should cut way down on nuisance charge backs and overhead, but still allow money sent to a scammer to be recovered. Obviously you couldn't do this through credit card companies though, it would have to be done through direct debit.
Because payment processors have a defacto monopoly and allowing them to arbitrarily restrict legal commercial speech gives them power which should be restricted to government.
PS. I should add that if it were not clear, you only block traffic from the suspected attacker's IP to the attacked IP. You don't cut them off the internet, you cut them off from the ability of reaching you. That's why it has to happen at the originator ISP, you can't do it at your own firewall and if you tried to do this even at the backbone level the wire speed and the required sizes of the lookup tables make it all far too expensive. If it happens at the originater's ISPs the resources required are minimal, their existing routers can handle it.
If you're driving around with their branding and they set your hours, they're your boss. The pretence that the drivers are independent contractors is just an end run around labour regulations.
Firewalls don't help unless they are way upstream, that's my point... as the owner of an IP I should be able to put up a firewall upstream, preferably all the way at the ISP of the attacker (or blocking an entire ISP at the backbone level if the ISP is a known attacker which doesn't bother with ingress/egress filtering).
It's not like they can afford to only send a single packet per compromised device, there are still limits to their pool. They each send hundreds of thousands of packets in an attack, if you can detect an IP as an attacker after say a 100 packets and push a rule to their provider which blocks them for a couple of days it will put a huge crimp on the potential.
Also you can create IP blacklists and ISP blacklists (for the ones with no ingress/egress filtering) similar to the email blacklists. Being attacked, just push the blacklist upstream and if it catches some innocents, oh well...
As an owner of an IP I should be able to tell a service provider to simply cut off traffic from given IPs on his network (or his entire network if they don't do effective ingress/egress filtering). Start up internet 2 with a less retarded infrastructure already, this shit got ridiculous 20 years ago and the fact that we haven't even attempted to fix it is just insane.
Could just be a twist on the classic stalker, who thinks he didn't get the attention he deserved from his target. Less about the concrete difference of opinions, but the fact that he thought he deserved replies.
In the end retail customers and especially the poorest retail customers will pay through the nose, because they are paying both for the backup generating capacity AND the expensive solar. Meanwhile industry will get free electricity throughout the day because of the vast oversupply of renewable energy...
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Integration is failed assimilation, it's not something praiseworthy.
Have you listened to Erdogan lately? The Turks came to Europe as economic migrants (we were told they would be temporary, but it didn't work out like that). Now Erdogan tells them, integrate but don't assimilate. The Turks here respond by waving Turkish flags and voting for him ... because of course they have dual citizenship. Cheering their dictator and booing any national politician who goes against him.
Turks, a perfectly integrated third column of foreigners who will forever be foreigners and a detriment to our nation.
I don't care if they are economic migrants, or asylum seekers. Giving hostile foreign cultures who fundamentally can not assimilate and/or are genetic dead ends a permanent large representation in your nation is insane. Help them, don't make them fucking citizens.
High temperature thermal storage might get 50% round trip efficiency, but to have low cost you can forget about molten salt. Special concretes which won't crack under thermal cycling are the preferred solution, but I'm not sure even that can be cheap enough for the 10s of Tera-Watt-Hour storage you need to store to be able to handle a couple of days of low renewable generation.
Similar for hydro, we just don't have enough natural combinations of high/low altitude reservoirs. Anything non natural is extremely expensive.
To solve it at the Tera-Watt-Hour scale at high round trip efficiency will require something new. I think either pumping water up from deep sea tanks (you don't pump in air to do so, you pull them vacuum, not trivial to do this energy efficiently) or lowering/raising giant weights on steel cables into the deep sea (very little technological innovation required, but I'm not sure about the cost of the steel cables and the maintenance costs).
In the ideal case renewable plus storage should meet baseline and peaking demand most of the time. Backup should also be able to meet total demand, but since it's not delivering any demand most of the time it's by definition not baseline. The whole concept of baseline doesn't really make sense any more once you get the amount of storage necessary to make say 95% renewable work. It will be an archaic and useless term.
Of course we have no technology to economically create that much storage currently.
Nah new ocean based energy storage schemes and PV cost reductions will make nuclear commercially inviable in 25 years ... making wild predictions is fun.
With subsidies and long term feed in price guarantees. They basically run no risk with wind ... but they are making the consumer electricity prices a lot more expensive. Nuclear needs similar long term guarantees to be worth the risk, but government are no longer willing to give them in the west. So we build more coal and gas plants for when the wind doesn't blow while decommissioning nuclear plants. CO2 emissions don't really budge in the process.
Eventually wind and solar will reduce fuel consumption of the fossil plants enough that it will be a big net gain in CO2 emissions, but we aren't quite there yet. In the mean time electricity is getting more expensive.
Your supreme court just invokes the commerce clause to allow government to regulate anything it damn well pleases. If there was a recognized church of porn games then Patreon/Paypal/Mastercard/Visa would all be forced to cooperate with the transactions for instance ...
So having established that you're already under their gun lets just determine when they should use it.
We need to get away from credit card type transactions for these small amounts. Paypal needs far too much overhead to deal with charge backs.
Leave it to the court. Keep every transaction in escrow for say a month and freeze his account if you can present evidence that the recipient is being sued by someone who send him money. That should cut way down on nuisance charge backs and overhead, but still allow money sent to a scammer to be recovered. Obviously you couldn't do this through credit card companies though, it would have to be done through direct debit.
Tamest furry shit ever, they might as well go after Donald Duck.
Because payment processors have a defacto monopoly and allowing them to arbitrarily restrict legal commercial speech gives them power which should be restricted to government.
PS. I should add that if it were not clear, you only block traffic from the suspected attacker's IP to the attacked IP. You don't cut them off the internet, you cut them off from the ability of reaching you. That's why it has to happen at the originator ISP, you can't do it at your own firewall and if you tried to do this even at the backbone level the wire speed and the required sizes of the lookup tables make it all far too expensive. If it happens at the originater's ISPs the resources required are minimal, their existing routers can handle it.
PKI based proof of ownership of the IP.
Amazon is putting a small twist on it, by making it a minimum 5 man company instead of dealing with 1 man companies.
It's a smart scheme, but I hope the judges remain unamused.
If you're driving around with their branding and they set your hours, they're your boss. The pretence that the drivers are independent contractors is just an end run around labour regulations.
Firewalls don't help unless they are way upstream, that's my point ... as the owner of an IP I should be able to put up a firewall upstream, preferably all the way at the ISP of the attacker (or blocking an entire ISP at the backbone level if the ISP is a known attacker which doesn't bother with ingress/egress filtering).
It's not like they can afford to only send a single packet per compromised device, there are still limits to their pool. They each send hundreds of thousands of packets in an attack, if you can detect an IP as an attacker after say a 100 packets and push a rule to their provider which blocks them for a couple of days it will put a huge crimp on the potential.
Also you can create IP blacklists and ISP blacklists (for the ones with no ingress/egress filtering) similar to the email blacklists. Being attacked, just push the blacklist upstream and if it catches some innocents, oh well ...
As an owner of an IP I should be able to tell a service provider to simply cut off traffic from given IPs on his network (or his entire network if they don't do effective ingress/egress filtering). Start up internet 2 with a less retarded infrastructure already, this shit got ridiculous 20 years ago and the fact that we haven't even attempted to fix it is just insane.
When enough people get together to hate they can be globally influential.
Could just be a twist on the classic stalker, who thinks he didn't get the attention he deserved from his target. Less about the concrete difference of opinions, but the fact that he thought he deserved replies.
Presumably managers aren't entirely terrible, the coworkers agreeing with him 70% of the time doesn't sound very outlandish to me.
These presumably aren't minimum wage jobs, if someone is dead weight they drag everyone down.
"meaning they can keep their jobs or seek new ones within the company with different bosses""
Their employees probably aren't as picky as the Google ones too.
In the end retail customers and especially the poorest retail customers will pay through the nose, because they are paying both for the backup generating capacity AND the expensive solar. Meanwhile industry will get free electricity throughout the day because of the vast oversupply of renewable energy ...
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Win win, fuck the poor, reward the rich. Until the poor can't get any more loans to buy shit with, but worry about that later.
Just take a PACE loan to pay for it, it's free*.