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The gun nuts have convinced so many people there is only one way to read the 2nd amendment.

"Despite the Supreme Court’s rulings in Heller and McDonald, many constitutional historians disagreed with the court that the Second Amendment protected an individual right to “keep and bear Arms” for the purpose of self-defense in the home. Indeed, for more than two centuries there had been a consensus among judges as well as scholars that the Second Amendment guaranteed only the right of individuals to defend their liberties by participating in a state militia. However, by the late 20th century the “self-defense” interpretation of the amendment had been adopted by a significant minority of judges. The self-defense view also seemed to be taken for granted by large segments of the American public, especially those who consistently opposed gun control."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Second-Amendment

Then the music focused tidal.com maybe be for you. They claim to send a higher percentage of revenue to the artists.

Also, the learning curve on wind and solar is so much faster than nuclear.

Tidal pays more for the artist and has a higher quality streaming option if that matters to you. Qobuz is another good artist friendly stream that historically paid the most to artists but it has a bit smaller catalog than Tidal.

I would be more accurate to say parts of the planet will become hostile to human life that currently are not. India, for example, will have human shattering heat waves. And it is hard to live in a city when it is underwater.

However, by the middle of the 16th century supplies of wood were beginning to fail in Britain and the use of coal as a domestic fuel rapidly expanded.[10]: 22

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coal_mining#:~:text...

Similar comments here about the lack of wood driving the use of coal.

https://industrialrevolution.org.uk/coal-mines-industrial-re...

And:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24953925

Nuclear needs subsidies due to a long history of large cost overruns and other issues.

https://energypost.eu/how-profitable-is-an-investment-in-nuc...

And France, with many Nuclear plants, has recently had issues keeping the plants up. Many of the most problematic plants are newer ones.

https://www.ans.org/news/article-3939/frances-energy-woes-wo...

The reality is economies of scale have kicked in for solar and wind energy in a way they never can for nuclear. We are at the point where it makes sense, at times, to overprovision renewals to ensure enough supply.

The issue with renewables is storage, of course. But that problem looks to be more solvable than cost effective nuclear, a problem which we have not solved in over 50 years. One can say if we were only smarter we could make nuclear more cost effective, which is probably true. But we built a nuclear power plant where a tsunami occurred in the past, only to find it occurred again, so we aren't that smart. The issue with nuclear is everything has to be right for it to be cost effective and safe, and nuclear is too complex for humans to consistently do this.

Safe nuclear power that is also cost effective is not a problem we have solved.

This does signal what type of person you are dealing with if they don't go along with the word change. For example, if I heard someone using the negro word I would think that there was an excellent chance that person was racist. The renaming also signals to everyone racism isn't acceptable (in a very minor way). It is hard to change a culture but the words we use in one of the ways we do it.

When the world stops being racist this renaming will stop.

I believe nuclear can be cost effective. I believe nuclear can be safe. I just don't believe nuclear can be safe and cost effective. We have been trying to solve this nuclear energy problem for over 50 years and we still aren't there.

The issue of renewable energy storage is significant, but look to be easier to solve than how to make nuclear energy cost effective and safe.

It is interesting to compare US vs Canadian suicide rates to see what impact gun ownership could have.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

The key is in the name, mobility. Being able to look at a map on the web on your home computer is nice, being able to look at map anyplace your phone works is the so much better.

It is more complex, and worse than that due to heat domes. Air, when it descends, heats up. And a high pressure heat dome results in air descending, so the amount of heat is higher than the amount of solar heat input - earth heat output.

A recent study put the Pfizer vaccine at a 97% hospitalization prevention rate, which is much better than the AZ one. How comparable all these studies is a good question.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/05/real-wor...

I don't see any evidence humans are smart enough to operate nuclear power safely. There are too many examples of humans not fully understanding nuclear, or just being stupid with nuclear. For example, building a nuclear power plant near an earthquake fault line in CA, or where tsunamis occur in Japan. We can't get the basics of safety right here.

Toyota expected it, showing once again why they are one of the best run car companies.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-fukushima-anniversa...

Modern renewable power is like a server farm, whereas nuclear power is like an old mainframe. Server failure is built into the server farm model, whereas mainframes try to avoid failure through expensive redundancy in the mainframe server.

People weren't saying we are doomed, but were saying are doomed if we don't do anything about an issue. For example, if the birds are dying out because of ddt, we eliminate ddt. If the ozone layer is disappearing from the atmosphere, then we try to eliminate certain gases that destroy the the ozone layer. If we find out certain chemicals cause cancer then we try to clean up the chemicals and reduce the creation of those chemicals. And there are always people that say these obvious issues aren't a problem even with overwhelming evidence to the contrary. People don't want to understand science.

But we are still here because there are enough people that can recognize and fix out mistakes.

And global climate change is one of the biggest mistakes humankind has made.

As a side note, do people think Russian trolls have invaded this site to foster dissension? If any group of people could figure this out the people on this site could.

Elon Musk has start up ideas, and most start up ideas fail. Yes, he overhypes the ideas, but this is common in the start up world.

The difference is he has been involved with three large successes - ebay, telsa, and spacex. This success/failure ratio is leagues better than just about anyone else. And he did this in three very different industries.

So his self driving car effort will likely fail, or at best be very late.

But we do need more people willing to take chances like this who can also execute as this is rare.

The relative performance of these two queries will vary by data volume. Swap in a sales table for the weights table, and make that a massive sales table at that, joining it to much smaller prices can be much faster than a group by. Stated differently, a join can be faster than a group by. This is even more true when the small table can fit into memory and a hash join can be used, and the data in the group by can't fit into memory.

Solar panels, which we have built millions of, are on a learning curve. The more we build, the cheaper they get. Storage is still a problem, but that too can handled in a distributed manner where the learning curve can be applied.

Nuclear, which we have built 100s of, never got to a critical mass where the cost started going down. Nuclear plants are just not built on time and budget. The alternatives to nuclear aren't going to be easy, but humanity has been trying to get nuclear to work for over 50 years and has failed.

If you want to find it, you will see racism in America is alive and well. This is what the black lives matter is all about. People may say they agree with MLK, but this is because they know what should be said in public. The actions of society highlight how far we still have to go to fight racism.

I know social conservatives who think they aren't racist but don't care about issues like how many more black people end up in jail than white people. They don't demand justice when police forces overreact to black protests, and don't care when police forces almost don't react (and take selfies instead) to white protests.

After all this, not being able to see how serious racism is in America is one of the better signs you are racist.

Just because twitter has illegal content doesn't make what parler was doing any less illegal. Just because someone else breaks the law doesn't give you a free pass.

This is not a free speech issue on any social media.

Amazon had every right to stop illegal activity on their platform.

"Break into Congress and kill the swamp creatures". This is a quote from Parler, and this is known as incitement, which is often illegal. The first amendment does not apply to child porn for obvious reasons, but it also doesn't apply to threats of violence, which isn't so obvious to everyone.

To make this obvious, this is not a free speech issue.

The creation of integers doesn't scale for large data volumes. Plus you need a place to create these integers, and a failover location, which adds complexity. Multiple machines can each be creating their own guids in a very simple manner.

And the odds of a guid collision is extremely low, and for most applications is acceptable. Having worked with petabytes of data guid performance isn't really an issue as there are more important factors to worry about.

Please provide facts to back up your statement, otherwise your statement is unfounded.

The issue is most people agree that people can own arms, but with limitations. For example, the vast majority of people think universal background checks are a good idea, but the NRA did not.

https://iop.harvard.edu/get-involved/harvard-political-revie...

BTW, using a term like "Gun Grabbers" might appeal to those who agree with you, but isn't going to convince anyone on the other side or in the middle of a topic.

Here in Seattle there are far more homeless people than there used to be. In Seattle at least, thing are much worse than they were. The cost of living in Seattle has become too high, and the wages aren't keeping up. The OP is right about that, if overly dramatic about the homeless being handed a death sentence.

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

Oddly enough, buying more wind farms in the same area can solve the power supply issue some of the time. For example, say there is a low wind day when winds farms are not effective enough, but still generating power. If wind farms are cheap enough, one can over provision. This means on high wind days too much power is available, but on low wind days enough is available. This doesn't solve the no wind day, but it does make the not enough wind day less common. And making the not enough wind day less common means the energy storage and generation solutions need to be used less often.

However, having said this, I would like to see a model of this with all the generation potential and costs involved, because right now we are all speculating. One can think of a multi-generation options, with wind and solar being the first and default option, battery (and other storage options) being the next option if wind and solar aren't enough, and gas being the third option if required.

Someone must have created a model like this?

There is that old saw that generals fight the last war, and this article misses the modern risk of nuclear. With the development of cheap attack drones the risk of nuclear has increased over what is was. There is no effective way to completely protect against drones. Drones have already been used in an attack against a centralized energy facility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Abqaiq%E2%80%93Khurais_at...

Why should we listen to the ideas of a rich guy rather than an educator? How many times have have you seen an education expert on this site discussing these topics from a critical standpoint?

The bigger issue is why to people want to listen to rich people rather than experts in the field? This reminds me the climate change where some people don't want to listen to the experts but instead want to listen so someone (or news organization) they already know.