Nuclear power is fundamentally incompatible with a for-profit energy sector. It makes zero sense as a profit seeking CEO to invest tens of billions of dollars and over a decade of development to something that might pay for itself over the next half century if ever. Especially when you can build wind farms that turn profits in under 16 months and solar even more quickly these days. Maybe nuclear makes sense for a country's long term energy security. But that literally has no bearing on what happens with US energy investments.
There's also the huge amount of economic risk in each construction project, which is too much financial risk for an entity the size of a utility to bear.
I would argue that it makes little more sense for a nation state to take on that economic risk, either. Risk can be priced, and the bill for many the risks of nuclear are already picked up by others due to the laws around nuclear. If, even with those massive subsidies, nuclear is too economically risky for utilities, I would argue that it's too costly overall for anyone. Or at least a poor decision.
Until there's some major innovation in nuclear construction, the risk should be reserved for those with no better options (e.g. Finland, maybe the UK, etc.)
Most people radically overestimate California income taxes because they fundamentally fail to understand how progressive taxation works. No one talks about Oklahoma having a high income tax, but everyone making under $50k per year would pay more income tax in Oklahoma than California. Quite amazing how that's not "high tax" and perfectly okay. Meanwhile, practically no one in these comments would be exposed to a California 12.3% income tax because it only applies to income above roughly $1.5M/year if married. My income taxes were lower in California than in Iowa at comparable times in my life, yet no one ever used Iowa as an example of high income taxes.
> Most people radically overestimate California income taxes because they fundamentally fail to understand how progressive taxation works.
Most people radically overeatimate California income taxes because of propaganda by the narrow group of people paying top marginal rates directed at the broad group of people who pay closer to the median rate, because the former group wants the latter group to act against its own interests.
The biggest "high tax" component of California's system is that capital gains gets taxed as if it were regular income.
This was another California Republican idea, namely Reagan's, and I think he implemented it nationally when he was president too.
This means that in boom cycles with lots of IPOs and acquisitions, the California state coffers are bulging with money, but in a broad economic downturn there are a few news cycles of "California has a $XYZ billion state budget deficit" before the new budget is set since that deficit is how the new budget is set (no news articles on the balancing, though). There's a big appetite for anti-California news and I have little patience for the assholes who gobble up that misinformation...
Elon has stated that you're "retarded" if you believe the government uses SQL. So it's difficult to assume any level of competence from him or his team or anyone who continues to prop him up quite frankly. This should be a blatant and obvious tell to anyone with passing technical abilities. But many seem to lose all ability to reason when it comes to supporting Trump and people around him like Elon.
The ability to reason isn't lost, it's replaced with motivated reasoning.
They are tangentially pursing <some political goal I agree with>, thereby I will latch onto <whatever implausible deniability they have for what they are doing>.
Rushing it is part of their strategy. They have openly talked about it.
"The opposition party is the media. And the media can only, because they’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time…
All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity."
Not the OP, but I work in consulting. When I was still hands on keyboard, this would have been very helpful for the clients who don’t provide their own hardware or environment for us to use. I also do work for extremely large organizations who have literally dozens of different stacks accumulated over the decades.
In addition, I play with all sorts of open source tools and they often come with their own tool chains and expectations. Python version management in particular benefits a lot from this level of isolation. Instead of figuring out the different version management tools for each stack I use a higher order environment management tool in Nix.
Some others are solving these issues with containers, and that’s a part of the nix strategy as well.
I've previously used Nix to manage C/C++ projects and ended up with a really nice flow, so I really want to use Nix for Python, since I've had so many issues with conda. However, every time I've tried, I've ran into enough issues trying to get a lot of ML packages I use to work (dealing with transitive dependencies on esoteric packages, mostly) that I couldn't justify continuing rather than just hacking my way to getting the conda environment working with random pip packages, pinned versions, etc.
I've been considering an AI project for consuming a conda build recipe and digging into the codebase to extract extra info about the project and make it into a nix flake--which would be a bit more stable. I figure you could test for equivalence in a few ways and feed the outputs of that test back into the model. Hopefully there's enough context in the conda recipe, the project codebase, and whatever errors pop out to get some of them converted with minimal handholding.
Because regardless of what the cool kids are doing, important work is being done in conda, and usually by people whose expertise isn't software packaging.
Yeah I get the idea but I’m asking op for concrete examples. Python has its own environment management options that work well. I’ve read on this site over and over what it can do - I’m wondering if anyone has hard examples of tooling they switch about enough to make it worthwhile.
Ticket to ride isn’t so bad, but a number of the more in depth board games have a LOT of setup. Digital versions can eliminate hours of tedium across multiple sessions. I have the physical copy of Gloomhaven that was only played once. I played the digital version with my son for tens of hours.
Yes exactly. Building is cheap in the US relatively speaking. There are tons of grants and government money to help move things along. Those avenues don't really exist for maintaining things that were built with grants and outside funds. So we see TONS of expansion followed up with almost no maintenance and suburbs and less populated places literally cannot afford to maintain the services that they utilize. The burden is almost entirely shifted onto renters in urban areas instead.
In this country we have this ideal of a rugged individualist whose out there living off the land and making his own way. Never will this rugged individualist acknowledge that he's dependent on 10x as many miles of roads as his urban counterpart. Never will this rugged individualist acknowledge that providing him with internet access on the state's dollar costs orders of magnitude more than someone living in a sustainable location. Same with delivery costs and literally every other thing this person consumes. They get to pretend to be a self-reliant individualist while leaching off of the tax dollars of urban residents who cost a fraction of the amount to support.
> Never will this rugged individualist acknowledge that providing him with internet access on the state's dollar costs orders of magnitude more than someone living in a sustainable location
Thankfully we have Starlink to replace pork consumption with actual services.
And this forum isn’t specifically made for you. Ignore it and move on. Just like other people do for other subjects they aren’t interested in. The ego to think that things that don’t interest you specifically have no place here while plenty of others are engaging just fine.
Of course it isn't made for me, and I do not expect it to be. The fact that you assume so points to a lack of empathy on your end, something that I think most Americans could really use more of right now.
As another sibling comment previously stated, this forum is mainly for employees of US tech companies. I don't think I'm alone in thinking that this forum could do more to keep the number of polarizing non-tech topics to a minimum - there are plenty of other forums where those discussions can and do happen. It's not like there's a tech twist to the political discussions here anyway, it's just poop flinging like everywhere else.
And there it is. When China needs to be a scary enemy of the US then it’s a communist hell hole. When trying to explain their successes, it’s because they aren’t really communist.
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