Posts by Jaybus 583 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Jan 2011
"But when you boil it down, government officials DID ask various platforms not to carry certain third parties speech, they just didn't threaten adverse consequences."
Edit: Append ", or else they made the threat of adverse consequences clear offline so as to maintain plausible deniability."
It should be held as an economic axiom that we get less of what is taxed and more of what is subsidized. For example, if government began paying a subsidy for playing tennis, then many people with no real interest in the sport would begin playing for the money. If they raised the subsidy higher, then even more would play, and if high enough, then everyone who could walk would be playing. The more the subsidy, the more tennis gets played. By contrast, if a tax were levied on playing tennis, then many casual players would stop, felling that it wasn't worth it. If the tax were raised higher, even those who loved the game would no longer be able to afford it, and at some point only the rich and shameless would play. The higher the tax, the less tennis gets played.
Now consider that even with the subsidies, few EVs are being sold, really. How many would be sold if there were no subsidy? What was it Margaret Thatcher said, something about socialists always running out of other people's money?
The equal protection clause of the 14th amendment applies to state governments, stating "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States". Colorado's anti-discrimination law does indeed affect business and was the law being examined, whether or not it violates the plaintiff's 1st amendment rights. The equal protection clause is certainly applicable.
I don't think this is about Red Hat's contributions to FOSS, which everyone agrees is huge. I do NOT believe Centos Stream was about opening up Red Hat's internal development program. That was also said about Fedora when RHEL binaries were no longer available without subscription. Centos came into being because the life cycle of Fedora was way too short for most business use scenarios. Then along came AWS and other cloud providers and businesses using dozens of instances. Many were/are perhaps buying some RHEL 7 subscriptions to get the support they needed and then running Centos 7 on a bunch more cloud instances. Centos Stream, like Fedora before it, is about a short life cycle, making additional RHEL subscriptions more attractive to businesses than fooling with Centos Stream. Then along came Rocky from the ashes of Centos, prompting this current round of increasing the difficulty of building the distro from source.
That study also stated "Uncertainty in the radiative transfer due to soot cores within the contrail cirrus ice crystals is thought to be large, as the change in the shortwave (SW) albedo is large (Liou et al., 2013). The soot impact on contrail cirrus RF has not yet been quantified." It might increase the short wavelength albedo and reflect more solar energy than it traps, just as clouds do. "Uncertainty thought to be large" is another way of saying "we have no idea".
They make great two-monitor low-end workstations. They have a VESA mount. I have 2 large monitors, the nuc, and a power strip mounted to a VESA mounting plate. One power cord unplugged and I move my two-monitor workstation outside onto my deck in a minute. It is actually easier to move than my laptop. The trick is to get one of the lower-powered ones. I don't need a 14 core i7 for development work. Much of the time I'm working on a remote server and an i3 does me just fine. I rarely notice any noise. If the fan is on, then it is at low speed.
Yes. Without the contributions made by Dr. Moore, and other electronics industry pioneers, the average inflation rate would be much higher. Their success in making electronics cheap also translates into making manufacturing cheaper. It is the principal reason, if not the only reason, inflation is not *10 or greater.
In this case it is corporate welfare. Power companies can get up to 60% of the cost of replacing a coal plant with solar paid for by the government. Will their customers share in that windfall? Oh no. And a huge missing piece of the equation... there is no expectation that the new solar plant produce as much electricity as the coal plant that it is replacing. So what happens to the price of electricity when the capacity shrinks? Great deal for the power companies, though.
It depends on personnel, doesn't it? Two low-end server machines in a Pacemaker/Corosync cluster with redundant UPSs and an automatic=transfer switch and a couple of routers from independent ISPs can indeed have that availability and fit in a 22U rack. It's not really that expensive, in fact cheaper than AWS etc., but only if that small company's one or two IT people have the expertise. Contrary to popular belief, they do exist.
Well, glass walls are well suited to a C-suit. In general, there is a need to be seen, but many feel that they are performing a community service by allowing underlings to physically see their betters. Hence the need to force workers back into the office. What good is a c-suite office if nobody sees you in it?
We are so used to advanced electronic technology that the simple things are overlooked. A most obvious example of this is the arc-lamp searchlight that revolutionized nocturnal warfare. Another example is the wired telephones that were attached to tethered observation balloons, dramatically extending the range and accuracy of artillery. Around 60% of battlefield casualties were caused by artillery.
"this was not some secret democrat run operation to prevent people from learning about Hunter Biden's laptop."
Except that Musk claims evidence of DNC members working with Twitter execs to filter the Washington Post article, which would indeed show a secret democrat run operation for just that purpose.
First of all, the Electoral College certainly was not about the landed gentry overturning the will of the unwashed masses. Who could vote was left to the state legislatures, and in general, only those paying property tax could vote. There was no income tax. Those who were not landowners were not considered to have a stake in funding government, so therefore did not get a vote. Basically, only the landed gentry voted, wherever they lived.
Don't forget that these were state governments joining together into a republic, but wanting to retain as much sovereignty as they could. The more populous states, those containing the large cities, Philadelphia, New Your, Boston, Norfolk, wanted a popular vote, because of course they did. It gave them a better chance of electing a homeboy as the President of the republic. Some of the smaller more rural states wanted the Congress to select a President with no popular vote at all. They feared (rightfully so) that every President would hail from Philly or New York and they would have little say in the matter. Hence the compromise. It still holds true today, really. If you don't think so, have a look at the NY Times 2020 election results map by voting district and note the small blue metro areas in a sea of red rural areas, and that was a year when the Democrat candidate won.
Actually, at least one of the 4th gen designs, the sodium-cooled fast reactor, can use the "spent" fuel from the current power stations as is. As you say, the spent fuel is one of the World's most expensive materials and we have only used around 10% of its potential energy. It belongs in a reactor generating clean energy. What a really stupid waste it would be to put it in a hole for centuries.
Not to mention that those "spent" fuel rods have around 90% of their energy remaining. They are extremely valuable, can be recycled, and there are 4th gen designs nearing readiness. Sodium-cooled fast reactors do not require slowed down neutrons, so can use the "spent" rods as is. Getting rid of them now would be just ridiculous.
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