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I live in Scotland. We've gone from ~15% renewable electricity to >90%, replacing fossil fuels.

When you're claiming that something can't possibly be done, when it has already actually been done, it's hardly a surprise that no-one takes your argument seriously.

Go look up a list of countries that have, say, >70% renewables and explain to me why they are managing something you claim is impossible.

> Can you name any time in history where the side burning books was in the right?

Well, after WWII, the USA engaged in their "denazification" of Germany, where they censored and burned Nazi materials.

Which side would you say they were on?

Except, of course, the middle classes are the ones who're paying most of the taxes in the first place, so they're hardly being subsidised by a lower earner who pays very little tax.

Also, there is no "UK system" for education. There is an England & Wales system, a Scottish system and a Northern Irish system. They're each managed differently.

The series "The Last Kingdom" is based on the books by Bernard Cornwell. He also wrote the "Sharpe" books, which were adapted to several TV films (starring Sean Bean). They're set around the Napoleonic Wars, with some of them in India.

You move to a shared flat?

Thank you, but I know what a tree is. I believe they were specifically referring to https://treenotation.org/

That's the thing I hadn't heard of and would be interested to hear if someone had tried applying it in real world scenarios.

Probably not. I hadn't heard of Tree Notation before. Do you have a useful comment to make on it?

> The user didn't intend to.

Well, they should have read the docs. They clearly show examples of how to define a timezone right there. It isn't a fallback, it's what TZ is for.

Edit: perhaps `date` should have a `-z --zoneinfo` option, in which you could specify a timezone by file and it would fail if the file did not exist. This would fix the issue and avoid breaking existing scripts.

Because it has additional information in a file in `/usr/share/zoneinfo`.

But you can still define a brand new timezone with the TZ variable. Perhaps you want to argue that you shouldn't be able to, but that's what it's for, as the document linked above clearly states.

> or fail noisily if it's not aware of that offset code.

But it is aware of it! You just told it, using the TZ variable, what EDT is. It's a timezone called EDT, with no offset from UTC!

If you wanted an offset, you should have written `TZ=EDT+4 date`

It didn't display the time in UTC, it displayed the time in timezone LOL. It happened to be the same as UTC because no offset was specified. It knew it was timezone LOL because that's what the TZ variable was set to.

If you set your machine to something weird, then expect the utility that reports on those settings to report the weird settings you set.

No it isn't. If you tell your computer that the timezone your machine is set to is called "LOL", then of course that's what it should report. What else would it do?

It truncated the name because of the underscores, but you can do `TZ=somerandomthing date` to see it just reports what you say it is.

Belgium was the country that recovered fastest from the 2008 financial crash...

Unfortunately nuclear power plants are notoriously bad at providing a) water supply and b) flood control. Especially the latter.

The Guardian kind of forgot to mention these as factors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il%C4%B1su_Dam

I would guess that literally no-one else on HN has "had a government take all their money because of unpaid parking tickets". I don't reckon it's as common as you think.

It seems it came to be applied to farms in some areas, but it was more widely used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-wich_town

Ah, by "soon" you meant in a different book. That could have been clearer...

They didn't imply (not "infer") that nothing was being done. They implied that not enough was being done and more attention needed to be given to the problem. That seems reasonable, doesn't it?

Apparently they were supposed to be phased out by 2018 but it's been delayed: https://www.faa.gov/news/fact_sheets/news_story.cfm?newsId=1...

> Be sure to read the whole story there.

Ok, I did.

> Ananias and Sapphira come shortly after that part

Yup they do.

> you'll soon get to the verse saying "those who do not work shall not eat."

Nope, I don't. Where is it exactly?

That would seem reasonable if you consider Russell, for example, as a philosopher who knew mathematics.

But it seems equally valid to consider him a mathematician who knew philosophy. In which case, you could just as well frame the argument as mathematicians and scientists no longer have a good understanding of philosophy and are therefore incapable of contributing to the philosophy of their field.

I'm kind of surprised GPT-3 doesn't "understand" haiku. You'd think it could extrapolate the rules?

The logs are broken!, Sysadmin sweeps up the leaves, The database cried

Ah, it is hacked and it picks a new time whenever they try to reset it?

I have "19:46:38"

EDIT: And now it shows "19:47:13"....not decided yet? :)

Do you think, perhaps, if he switched to some modern novel writing software, with character and plot tracking, that he might actually finish the "Song of Ice and Fire" series in this lifetime?

Which has nothing to do with the cost of wind and solar.

You can tell this because there are multiple European countries which have a higher proportion of renewables than Germany, yet (as you point out yourself) they have lower electricity costs.

The 200 you mention are comparable to the 6 in the comment above, not the 152.

They absolutely are not. Our typical occupancy this time of year would be around 50% (of pre-covid capacity) which is high because it's flu season. It's currently 140% which we can only accommodate because we've expanded the capacity specifically for covid.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Hospital beds are full. ICU beds are full. They are full of covid patients.

That's the simplest I can put it. You're arguing against reality.

> * Bitcoin: 0.1% of all electricity in the world, 7tps

And? Who are you to tell anyone how they should use their electricity? Do you want my advice on what you should be doing in your home?

> Bitcoin is the most inefficient payment system in history.

I think the "hauling big rocks between islands" currency was probably less efficient, at least on a per capita basis.

> then the entire bitcoin ecosystem should be replaced with a small rock

Then go ahead and do that. If people have trust in your rock then that will work fine.

You appear to have written two books about money. Do you not understand how it works yet?