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  1. Biomass is a fucking scam on UK Renewable Energy Capacity Surpasses Fossil Fuels For First Time (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It mostly just means burning wood in old coal plants for massive subsidies. It's a complete dead end. Hideously expensive, unscaleable, with massive transport costs burning lots of fossil fuel.

    It's only the subsidies which make it profitable, subsidies which should be targeted at something not so utterly retarded and destructive ... but then relying on government on the scale of the EU not being utterly retarded and destructive is a lost cause.

  2. We get to run off the cliff faster and in more comfort.

  3. Just do pop out on Samsung Will Put Notches On Its Future Phones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Making a waterproof version of the Vivo Nex cam shouldn't be too hard.

    Face identification camera can be put under the screen, detect head with low quality shot through OLED screen, pulse an IR LED to get a low noise shot ... the face ID won't care about a bit of screen dooring from the OLED pixels.

  4. Re:Take care of the homeless on San Francisco Passes a First-of-its-Kind Tax on Big Businesses To Help the Homeless (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    That article does not say what you think it does, try reading it.

  5. Re:Lets build a new internet already on Oracle Says China Telecom Has Misdirected Internet Traffic, Including Out of the US, in Recent Years (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Oh no, not Unix. That could have meant capability based security could have been the dominant paradigm instead of ACLs ... what a disaster that would have been.

  6. Lets build a new internet already on Oracle Says China Telecom Has Misdirected Internet Traffic, Including Out of the US, in Recent Years (zdnet.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm getting sick of this shit. The US and the EU should just make the old internet an overlay on a new internet, with new internet traffic having priority. Fuck the globalist fairy tales. We don't need to be trivially vulnerable to DDOS's (allow IP owners to send firewall rules upstream) we don't need foreign agents redirecting internal traffic ... we can fix this, we should have fixed this.

    Much like we should have told C programmers to take a long walk off a short peer the moment the inevitability of buffer overflows and use after free became clear, we should have started fixing the internet the moment it's ridiculous weaknesses to DDOS's and hijacks became clear. Yes the costs are huge ... but I'm pretty sure that by listening to the people who say there is no alternative because of those costs the economy has suffered criminal damages upward of a trillion dollar by now, time to stop listening.

    There is an alternative, it's not easy, it is necessary.

  7. Re:So it's basically an old-school overtraining on Opinion: Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    It's a lack of thought. Their algorithms recognize, we do that too as a first pass ... then we reason about what we are seeing, a messy unbounded process completely unlike what the perceptron networks AI researchers keep polishing up every few decades do.

  8. I should has said they are useless for academics who want to reference the paper, they need to be certain they are truly referencing it as printed.

  9. Preprints are useless after publication because they can be out of date, the Accepted Manuscript which Robert Kiley mentioned is the one you know will be identical to the paper in content.

    https://www.elsevier.com/about...

    "by updating a preprint in arXiv or RePEc with the accepted manuscript"

  10. No, pubmed is simply not part of their accepted repositories for accepted manuscript publishing pre-embargo. Only arXiv and RePEc are, which only deal with limited subject matter. So if you want to put it on pubmed pre-embargo you'll have to pay for making it an OA article first.

    There are all kinds of bizarre limitations to manuscript publishing from Elsevier, at least for the researcher himself. Anyone else can do far more with it once they get it, because they can use the manuscript with CC-BY-NC-ND. It only doesn't make sense if you don't recognize their sharing policy is being carved out one exception at a time by their enemies. That's why it's an obtuse fucking mess.

  11. With a fee.

  12. Re: They shouldn't have been there. on Amazon Warehouse Collapse in Baltimore Leaves Two Dead (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Oops nevermind, I can't read.

  13. Re: They shouldn't have been there. on Amazon Warehouse Collapse in Baltimore Leaves Two Dead (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    That was on the other side of Baltimore.

  14. All the developers who got in early on Bitcoin/Ethereum/etc will have diversified their assets by now, that doesn't necessarily stop them from coding or being part of the project. It was their hobby to start with and billionaires still have hobbies.

  15. It depends what you call white, whether it's about skin colour or self-assigned identity. Their identity isn't build on descending from European people, with classical liberalism and Christian ethics forming the core of their culture ... their identity to a large extent is build around being persecuted by those people, ie. the holocaust.

    You'll frequently see white jews adopting the identitarian definition of whiteness, where they say they are not white.

  16. Re:So let's talk about it on Facebook Allowed Advertisers To Target Users Interested in 'White Genocide' (theintercept.com) · · Score: 0

    Replacement migration, lack of ethnic identity and demographic decline. How to fix it, revolution and propaganda. Revolution to get sustainable borders, propaganda to reshape the culture into one favouring forming families and having children, with a cohesive ethnic identity not shaped around self-destruction. Basically whites need to have equivalents to the Jewish sense of identity and Israel. Preferably without first experiencing a holocaust.

    Realistically though some North-Western European countries will probably have to fall into an immigration triggered decline before there can be a white revival ... shame France&UK have nukes though, that could get a bit dicey as they slide into anarchy or totalitarianism.

  17. At least he treats it as a tool to accomplish a goal other than keeping an investment scam going as long as possible. That earns him some respect.

    Not that I think the goal is worth going after, I think that governments will at some point will stamp out unregulated currency transfers ... so what's the point of making a system to do so in the most complex way possible? Cryptocurrency will be e-gold v2.0, regardless of whether it's an unscaleable power hungry POS.

  18. Civil rights act declared sex a protected class which comes with privileges, so it's a matter of government to define it. Marriage comes with privileges, again necessitating the need to define it.

    Remove the privileges from sex/race/religion (ie. abolish the civil rights act and remove special tax exemptions for religions, instead just combining them with charitable organizations) and abolish federal marriage law and government can get out of it.

  19. Re:False dichotomy on The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Any country/state is in competition, both economically and for brains. If you don't provide reliable power someone else will, so need.

    Non industrial demand for electricity is very inelastic, you'd have to hit people very hard in their expenses to convince them otherwise ... if you don't provide cheap power, someone else will.

  20. Re:"without issue" on The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    They now want to shut down the coal plants, but just relying on neighbours to make up the difference during a Dunkelflaute. Except the neighbours don't have enough surplus as is and are doing much the same thing, oh and they are also all trying to electrify the heating at the same time because somehow that will rid them of dependency on Putin's gas. This will all end in tears and rolling blackouts, but I'm sure Brussels will stay lit ... and the air-planes for the politicians and their kids to hop around the world will keep flying.

    Europe is being led to the slaughter, both demographically and economically.

  21. Re:False dichotomy on The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State (newyorker.com) · · Score: 2

    https://www.azfamily.com/news/...

    Cloudy, humid AND 107F ... why the fuck do people live in Phoenix?

  22. Re:False dichotomy on The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Solar thermal has limited room for cost reduction, it's expensive and it will stay so IMO.

    PV I think can get cheap enough to be worth it simply for fuel saving of traditional plants. You'd still have those plants, you just wouldn't operate them most of the time.

  23. Re:False dichotomy on The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State (newyorker.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ah Germany ... did you know that apart from Energiewende they coined another great term, Dunkelflaute. It means when there is very little solar or wind, which can happen across all of Europe at the same time. Which has happened. The German backup is coal, gas and some French nuclear power. There is no other backup in sight either. Power to gas could work, if we want to multiply our electricity costs by an uncomfortably large amount.

    There's a page on the English wikipedia for Energiewende, not for Dunkelflaute though.

  24. Re:Utilities should not be private on The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Per kWh generated at the solar plant ... not per kWh dimensioned for the grid, which includes the costs for the fossil fuel backup which is for now still present.

    Until solar is cheaper than fuelling a fossil fuel plant it will raise electricity prizes, or be a rolling blackout waiting to happen.

  25. Re:False dichotomy on The Battle for Solar Energy in the Country's Sunniest State (newyorker.com) · · Score: 1

    Aren't extreme weather events going to become a lot more common going forward? :)

    Seriously though tropical storms aren't that rare even if global warming doesn't increase their frequency and they can put large parts of the US under cloud cover, the best parts for solar power too. I think the grid should be able to deal with it, yes. If you design the grid not to be able to deal with it you better be up front to voters about it, they don't expect rolling blackouts to be part of the equation under circumstances the old grid would have functioned fine.

    Unless you want Trump v2.0 electric boogaloo down the line as the lies by omission blow up in people's faces.