This is more about the trajectory. China is all-in on building renewables while the current US administration is pushing hard for more coal even when it doesn't make economic sense.
Nuclear made a lot more sense back when solar panels and batteries were less mature. With how insanely cheap solar and batteries are getting, it doesn't make much financial sense to build new nuclear plants anymore (for…
Genuine question: I think making things worse to motivate later making them better is a relatively common idea. Are there any historical examples of it actually working well? To me, it seems more likely to concentrate…
Yeah, you have to conjure a really weird scenario for there to be any advantage. Something like waiting until male puberty is already pretty far along and doing extensive strength training and then transitioning and…
It's insane to expect people to move to a different country with zero days notice.
Railways have always been prone to failure, even in back when rail was the hot new technology transforming the economy and minting fortunes.
A lot of that isn't the drivers; it's the roads being designed for speed and traffic volume ahead of safety.
That's extreme and unusual prosecutorial overreach to the point that it's making national news. It's also unlikely that she will be convicted since VA passed a law in 2023 that makes it explicit that parents are allowed…
I'm pretty sure they didn't think the reaction would be perpetual; just long-lasting enough to wipe out life on Earth.
Forgot to add salt? Does that actually happen? A chef forgetting to add salt sounds like a photographer forgetting to use a camera.
The goal isn't to cause real damage. It's to be a persistent thorn in their side and make the cameras more trouble than they're worth. There are a lot more of us than them. If 1% of Americans cover up 1 camera every six…
I don't think prosecutors generally are very motivated to pursue tiny misdemeanor fines unless they have slam dunk evidence. As far as I can tell, the most likely charges for the garbage bag strategy where I'm located…
In general, there is not. For the border search exemption to allow a warrantless search of a citizen, the only legitimate grounds are preventing countraband from entering the country.
The border search exemption can't be used for general purpose law enforcement; only for determining if the person should be allowed to enter the country (inapplicable to citizens) and for preventing countraband from…
> While the Supreme Court has long recognized a border-search exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement, it applies to only two interests: promoting the duty regime and preventing contraband from entering…
The GPL requires use of a medium customarily used for software interchange; not a medium that used to be customarily used for software interchange. It's not customary to mail software on disks anymore so it doesn't…
GPL requires that source code be in the preferred form for making modifications. If you use source control for your own modifications, then that's obviously the preferred form and you must distribute the source in that…
Arguably, they aren't even distributing the source code at all anymore. The GPL defines "source code" as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". I would be willing to bet any amount of money…
I'm not really sold on the idea of private prisons in general, but if we're going to have them it should at least be the prisoner's choice. Unaccountable private prisons that are also a government enforced monopoly is…
Billionaires with a b. The difference between a million and a billion is a billion. Tax all of them. No one has ever earned a billion dollars.
That sounds dystopian as fuck.
I'm not saying it's not hard; I'm saying it's not a competitive moat. There are hundreds if not thousands of companies that successfully run streaming services and I doubt that any of them are more worried about the…
They need to read some Clausewitz even more badly. No matter how powerful your military is, you can't win a war unless you have a political objective that is possible to achieve via the war.
Browsers would work as a separate business if we stopped the anti-competitive practice of giving them away for free as a way to prevent competition in your other lines of business.
Not sell it. Split it into a separate business. Every share of Google turns into one share of Google and one share of Chrome.
This is more about the trajectory. China is all-in on building renewables while the current US administration is pushing hard for more coal even when it doesn't make economic sense.
Nuclear made a lot more sense back when solar panels and batteries were less mature. With how insanely cheap solar and batteries are getting, it doesn't make much financial sense to build new nuclear plants anymore (for…
Genuine question: I think making things worse to motivate later making them better is a relatively common idea. Are there any historical examples of it actually working well? To me, it seems more likely to concentrate…
Yeah, you have to conjure a really weird scenario for there to be any advantage. Something like waiting until male puberty is already pretty far along and doing extensive strength training and then transitioning and…
It's insane to expect people to move to a different country with zero days notice.
Railways have always been prone to failure, even in back when rail was the hot new technology transforming the economy and minting fortunes.
A lot of that isn't the drivers; it's the roads being designed for speed and traffic volume ahead of safety.
That's extreme and unusual prosecutorial overreach to the point that it's making national news. It's also unlikely that she will be convicted since VA passed a law in 2023 that makes it explicit that parents are allowed…
I'm pretty sure they didn't think the reaction would be perpetual; just long-lasting enough to wipe out life on Earth.
Forgot to add salt? Does that actually happen? A chef forgetting to add salt sounds like a photographer forgetting to use a camera.
The goal isn't to cause real damage. It's to be a persistent thorn in their side and make the cameras more trouble than they're worth. There are a lot more of us than them. If 1% of Americans cover up 1 camera every six…
I don't think prosecutors generally are very motivated to pursue tiny misdemeanor fines unless they have slam dunk evidence. As far as I can tell, the most likely charges for the garbage bag strategy where I'm located…
In general, there is not. For the border search exemption to allow a warrantless search of a citizen, the only legitimate grounds are preventing countraband from entering the country.
The border search exemption can't be used for general purpose law enforcement; only for determining if the person should be allowed to enter the country (inapplicable to citizens) and for preventing countraband from…
> While the Supreme Court has long recognized a border-search exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement, it applies to only two interests: promoting the duty regime and preventing contraband from entering…
The GPL requires use of a medium customarily used for software interchange; not a medium that used to be customarily used for software interchange. It's not customary to mail software on disks anymore so it doesn't…
GPL requires that source code be in the preferred form for making modifications. If you use source control for your own modifications, then that's obviously the preferred form and you must distribute the source in that…
Arguably, they aren't even distributing the source code at all anymore. The GPL defines "source code" as "the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it". I would be willing to bet any amount of money…
I'm not really sold on the idea of private prisons in general, but if we're going to have them it should at least be the prisoner's choice. Unaccountable private prisons that are also a government enforced monopoly is…
Billionaires with a b. The difference between a million and a billion is a billion. Tax all of them. No one has ever earned a billion dollars.
That sounds dystopian as fuck.
I'm not saying it's not hard; I'm saying it's not a competitive moat. There are hundreds if not thousands of companies that successfully run streaming services and I doubt that any of them are more worried about the…
They need to read some Clausewitz even more badly. No matter how powerful your military is, you can't win a war unless you have a political objective that is possible to achieve via the war.
Browsers would work as a separate business if we stopped the anti-competitive practice of giving them away for free as a way to prevent competition in your other lines of business.
Not sell it. Split it into a separate business. Every share of Google turns into one share of Google and one share of Chrome.