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I found Scala functional programming to be my “mind blown” revelation after 15 years of software. I dislike the ecosystem and the build system but I sure loved the language.

Since obviously California is going to do nothing about this, can we just tackle the problem at the source and restrict water outflows from the Colorado river authority itself?

I would love to get into this hobby but I want keys that are absolutely silent. The mac keyboard of 2013 era is ideal for me.

Quick analysis of transmission losses may discourage this to an extent.

The entire purpose of the article is race baiting against so-called “insecure white men”, so substantiated claims aren’t needed.

I do partake every chance I get, assuming it’s been washed recently. And assuming further activities are available.

See above comments if you doubt the prevalence of licking anus.

These days, despite soap and cooking capabilities, we are doing our best to reintroduce the occurrences by everyone out here licking their partners anus.

AGW advocacy would enjoy a significant improvement of reception if every solution other than me suffering a lower quality of life wasn’t neatly boxed out of our set of choices.

Meanwhile the politicians and celebrities who wish I would eat crickets (literally) fly on private jets to spend time on yachts that burn 500 gallons of diesel a day, and complain that my work truck doesn’t run on lithium and cobalt batteries powered by solar panel.

> there's no way to reduce nuclear power upfront costs without also introducing unacceptable risks

This simply isn’t true. A substantial amount of costs are that every single reactor must be approved as if it’s a brand new design. This is after fighting for 10 years or more for the rights to build it.

> how safe these plants have gotten

Consider that Fukushima was designed in the 1960s and that virtually no reactors with designs that date more recently than that have been built, and we have an absolute quorum that this is the safest form of base load energy you can procure.

It’s saddening to me the green movement ruined our chances of clean energy and averted climate crisis in my lifetime.

It’s only a hedge if you use it.

This has been my observation as well.

Some countries declare steel to have certain properties and they do not have those properties.

This is a certifiable fact.

I tend to disagree with this in many ways. Chinese products are often made from subpar raw materials like steel, which can be much more brittle than steel sourced from US, Germany, and Mexico.

And those climates scoff at those of us in Texas and Arizona for needing air conditioning to survive.

> why did taxpayers ever fund a trillion+ dollar F-35 program that keeps running into problems year after year.

These problems and that budget are the feature they have been seeking.

It’s not clean, limitless energy.

Say you find the asteroid on bottom of ocean. What sort of hoisting apparatus do you propose we use to bring it ashore?

But was it really? The GDP of the internet and related industries was many times the size in 2005 as it was in 1998.

I’m not trying to be dense here, but exactly all of that was predicted. What about the environment in 1998 caused you to believe that we would stagnate?

Just 3 years later, online banking was ubiquitous in 2001 - such that I stood at a conference for retail banking and personally pitched dozens of banking executives on frameworks and white label software they could use to build their own. Meaning that it wasn’t just one-off banks who were doing it, and surely some were doing this in 1998 as well.

Cable modems were becoming common. ADSL was next best thing.

1998 was a year things really exploded. It was part of the tech bubble upswing. I’m confused what would cause someone to think that was the end of history.

I don’t understand this.

> No one could have predicted computers would be so small nor so light on power usage for their relative processing power.

He’s predicting the future but assured that technical progress won’t occur in an 8 year timeframe, after watching us go from mainframes to PCs over the previous 30 years.

This is a case of abject stupidity on the part of Krugman.

There is a limit to my faith that the plummeting of these prices will continue without fossil fuel use to produce the equipment. We are also in an inflationary period where raw materials may see outsized gains.

Build the nuclear plants.

Can you put that guarantee for my small business into the law?

Maybe the stories were false and they didn’t want to publish them accordingly?

Not sure what articles you refer to but deciding not to publish something isn’t always bad.

How in the world do you invent (or at least properly commercialize on a mass scale) a feature like MagSafe and then remove it from your laptops?

Jonny Ive made a lot good decisions in the days when he worked for Jobs, but my theory is that Jobs kept him from being a complete idiot. Tim Cook lost control of him and it went downhill massively after that.

True. In my case I didn't need a laptop for 2015/2016, but I'm typically an "every 2 years" kind of person. When 2016 rolled out I knew I was going to be taking care of that 2013 laptop for a long while.

Honestly the keyboard prevented me from purchasing a MacBook from 2014 until 2020. I still despise the 2020 keyboard but I’ll reluctantly use it to type a password and then plug in a USB keyboard.

The 2022 is a dream come true for me.

I think the most effective school field trip would be a trip to the landfill to show everyone what happens when you throw something “away”.

> but I'm denied the opportunity to do so.

regulatory capture is the phrase that comes to mind.

That cynic would then be rewarded with even fewer of the things that they wish to purchase.