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We need an alliance between nuclear fans and wind (heh) fans. You situate the nuclear fans in front of the wind fans' wind turbines. The wind fans then ask the nuclear fans about nuclear's ongoing problems with going over-budget on new builds and unresolved multi-century waste management commitments. The nuclear fans immediately try to hand-wave these objections away. The resulting draft turns the wind turbines. Viola, clean, green energy!

I think the thing you're looking for is a "prediction market". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market

Related to that, one funny thing I remember from Robert Heinlein's "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" is that the Lunie protagonist didn't understand why Terrans bothered with insurance companies. Are there no bookies?

The Carpathian Mountains and Transylvania would like to have a word with you...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpathian_Mountains

If you are a true connoisseur of cringe, see if you can find "The Eiger Sanction" with Clint Eastwood and George Kennedy. There's a part in that flick where Clint Eastwood's character pretends to be a gay-coded deliveryman with a package of dental floss. "What am I gonna do with this boxth of floth?" Unforgettably bad but mostly unforgettable :)

The Facts that you have presented to the Elon defense force gave the Elon defense force uncomfortable Feelings. Not Respecting the very important and precious Feelings of the Elon defense force and their meme coin twitter daddy is just about the very worst thing you can do! I hope that you will moderate your wrongthink in the future, comrade!

All I have to say about this is thank goodness for Gwynne Shotwell and JB Straubel. They adult so that Ol' Musky doesn't have to.

Like, thank you Musk for backing smart people like Gwynne and JB and giving the powder that they need to fire their flintlocks of excellence.

Dislike, no thank you Musk for your distracting and pointless pre-occupation with meme currencies and "I am 14 and I just read Heinlein and this is deep"-tier libertarian twitterings.

i think you and the above poster are in vehement agreement. ingesting 2 MBs of logs per minute is impressive in its pluperfect unimpressiveness.

maybe the presentation was called "Timmy's first named pipe" or "Sally explores /etc/logrotate.d"

I wonder why nuclear fanboys always attack low-carbon, low-capital renewables with a ferocity that they spare incumbent and well-financed, carbon-spewing fossil fuel power providers. i don't know if we could ever figure out "cui bono"!

certainly don't quit - but also create and curate a helpful paper trail - to reduce the likelihood of credibly being accused of job abandonment.

constructive dismissal is the name for the thing that is being done to you.

sorry you have to lawyer up but you have to lawyer up.

well, we haven't been gamma ray burst'd yet. sheepish thumbs up

I think Diaspora by Greg Egan covers some of this territory

...that or the much older idea that if the whole universe is the dream of a dragon (or a butterfly or Chuang Chou) then let's not do anything that's too startling or implausible so we don't wake them up and end it all!

maybe they reverse engineer or whitehat/grayhat/whateverhat for a living? hacking, ethical or otherwise, could explain looking through binaries with hex readers.

i seriously wondered if this post was related to ethereum and solidity and was amused that it was actually more to do with installshield.

solidity programs can be hosted on? run on? ethereum. people can and do implement mutexes in solidity. (e.g.: https://medium.com/coinmonks/protect-your-solidity-smart-con...)

what would happen if somebody, in their solidity-based smart contract, called a mutex "ether-rot-mutex". ether is one shortening of ethereum so it's not hard to guess. neither is mutex. rot is frequently short for rotation. also German for red.

if it's easy enough to get scope wrong or cause leaky namespaces in solidity (disclaimer: i do not know enough about solidity to guess at this) then could somebody calling a mutex "ether-rot-mutex" little-bobby-tables themselves into exploiting your smart contract?

i don't know. i don't even know what i don't know in this particular field. i'm just letting my apophenia out to play :)

I think the (TWRT_T) link in the press release got removed by a summarizing bot or a summarizing intern. Thus, through chance and endless change, the English language has again been improved. I do believe I will now add "incestimate" to my personal lexicon for any assessment of an entity's value that comes from that self-same entity.

I think it's art and, as the youths are wont to say, I am here for it!

Would a "truck hater" voluntarily describe a truck as "cool"? I think it is possible to respond to a more charitable interpretation of the post than the one that you are responding to.

Tell me some more about your 10 foot long parts that were outweighed by their wooden skid? Would you still have bought them and had them shipped if freight had cost a few hundred dollars more? Genuinely interested. Were the parts for your business? An employer's business? A personal project? Honestly interested.

A joy shared is a joy multiplied. A pain shared is a pain divided.

did you decide to compress the "5 Whys" into one Why with 5 hs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_whys

hypothesis: the Great Filter is that every sufficiently long-lived society eventually invents and uses the Deplorable Word from C.S. Lewis's "Narnia" universe.

fundus are safu