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They're building one of the biggest solar farms in Europe just down the road from me. The local Green party campaigned against it, on environmental grounds. Really, it seems like it's impossible to please the environmental lobby. As much as I want this stuff to happen I can imagine a politician thinking, "screw them, they'll only whinge anyway."

On this specific issue, what more could be done, really?

Bring the ban to 2025? 2022? One can't simply expect mass production to switch that fast.

UK has already tightened emissions rules on vehicles and VED taxes more polluting cars more heavily. They could, and probably will, ratchet things more.

The right response on this policy is to say: great thanks Boris, you can clearly see the potential in green tech, now could you do X, Y, and Z too?

Yes, the government expects people to lap this up. Which is a reason why they do it. If they see electric cars both piss off the Daily Mail camp and yet are still criticised as worthless by environmentalists then we're not giving them the right incentives to take further measures.

Thanks.

Cheers.

Thanks :)

Thanks!

> The IPO was a sensational draw for China’s retail investors who bid a record $3 trillion, equivalent to the entire annual economic output, for shares in the fintech giant.

:o that sounds quite frothy.

Too many kids, that's the problem with schools these days.

That's an epic design.

Question: I've not tried steam on linux. Is it bad, usable or nice? Is the GPU support ok?

Did you use that one weird trick to make $135.67 per hour?

This carries over to a general problem with wordy riddles and puzzles. They rest on a slew of assumptions and tacit knowledge. If the riddler fails to pluck out the essential parts, then there's a good chance the interaction will fail.

Is this GPT-3 written?

Interesting, the gig thing probably promotes unionization, because the membership actually carries some signaling value to the hiring org.

I too would like to know what's going on in their mind. Given they're apparently under the impression there that the most notable contender in that space is Go. Scala isn't a bad call though, and is JVM. Java itself seems like a non-starter for doing actual data science due to its verbosity and lack of scripting.

Instead, Julia should really be first to mind when considering that question. Although I might expect the author to respond with something about the mysteries of 'production'.

This isn't actually a rebuttal of the point.

Says the company running the tower...

IP is one of those areas where programmers like to imagine the law is a function definition which provides clear answers. And aside from obvious stuff like selling bootleg copies of a movie - it doesn't.

Whether the pattern of light hitting a building is copyrightable is likely to be an under-explored area of case law. E.g. in the UK it would probably have to be a work of 'artistic craftsmanship' which is not defined in the statute. But the Eiffel tower is in France. So now you have two slightly differing sets of copyright law.

In the end many IP cases come down to bluffing because the actual class of question has never been settled by a judge.

On the other hand you have other cases like Banksy today loosing a case on trademarking one of his paintings. Which was dumb because he'd have got further with copyright infringement.

That's a great question. Because it lets you as a candidate screen out places run by morons.

Can confirm the stats department at Warwick is good & pretty active.

Yes. To give people from other disciplines a flavour:

- Why Engineering needs PDE solvers.

- Why Computer Science needs compilers.

- Why Geography needs digital maps.

> Over time it can cause damage to the ventral what pathway to the point of complete speech impediment, memory loss and even Alzheimers.

This sounds like complete guff to me. Citation sorely needed.

Perhaps Seal Team 6 is a better example then? AFAIK, the 6 was a misinformation technique.

Edit: Haha, went and checked. Damn the lying documentary I watched.

> unclear how long that can last before more consumers catch on

I'd rather have it that way round than get to the checkout and find 'O yea and there's £5.99 delivery charge as well'.

If 'npm package update' includes the ability to modify strings in served pages, one would assume so.

To draw on some well-founded sci-fi concerns, the dark forest hypothesis would be that it is not a good idea to announce one's presence to the cosmos without preparation.

https://blog.usejournal.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-un...

> It's all the more important to be trained in stats

There, fixed that for you ;)

IRC.

Well I guess the problem there is inviting them to your defence. People gonna people.

1. It's hard to see how guaranteed income would put the less well off more at the mercy of the well off. And you don't provide a causal explanation of how this effect would arise.

2. Surely UBI is cash, not vouchers. At which point the particular lower-than-face-value scenario is moot.

3. This is a valid point. I'm not sure whether it's good or bad, but it does seem likely to entail some morality shake-up.