ocschwar

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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   Predictable isn't good enough. Predictable is a reason for a government regulation. Without that, you need quantifiable. What is the probability of a polar vortex this year? (P) How many hours of high prices would that cause? (H) What
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   SO here's the thing: " 3 - Market mechanisms are needed to incentivize surplus capacity, or else we wind up with blackouts." Market mechanisms DO incentivize surplus capacity. There are peaker plants stationed all over the U
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   Not SPP. FERC. Winterization is required for any gear that's on an AC grid that crosses state lines. SPP is on the Eastern Interconnection. So all the players in SPP are required to winterize. ERCOT is entirely inside Texas, so they h
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   Capacity payments ARE a market mechanism. It's like paying the ambulance squad for answering your call when you need medical help, and paying the ambulance squad to exist in the first place regardless of whether you call. Both services
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   A few years ago there was an incident in California where someone emptied an AK-47 into a transformer, nearly, but not quite, causing a local blackout. And I have to wonder if it was a chaos monkey from one of our security agencies forcing
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   There is one corner of math that does have a replication crisis. Just as we compare programming languages by how "ergonomic" they are to learn and use, mathematicians do come up with novel notation systems to try to improve the er
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   When you mention the murderous violence that drove Mizrahi Jews into Israel in the same paragraph where you mention the snobbery they faced in Israel, you're not doing much for your credibility.
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   WHile true, it's worth remembering that Hamas has not submitted to new elections in quite some time.
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   by ocschwar 5y ago

   If you want to stay in the news, cost the Israeli army money on Iron Dome rockets, rattle Israeli nerves but not watch Gaza get steamrolled yet again, you send the rockets on a clear day when Iron Dome can intercept them with ease. If you d
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Historically they've not done that because they know the IDF's response is proportional to the civilian casualties on the Israeli side. Better to wait for clear weather when iron dome is maximally effective.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Mesmerizing the slaves? No wonder they came up with zombie folklore.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    He didn't know. Bat bites are barely perceptible.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Just saw that my neighbor installed one on his fence. I'll ask him in a week how that's going.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Whoops.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Environmentalism in the US started with a book, Silent Sprint, in 1962, which pointed out that when you poison pest species, you also poison the predators that prey on them, and risk shooting yourself in the foot that way. So pretty much th
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    I avoid mentioning anything that points to topic-oriented Discord servers that are not yet 100% fedoras.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Also, VS Code for Lean is beyond awesome. And the Emacs package is not bad either.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    I had no experience with proof assistants until this year, and no real interest in formal proofs except as a QA method for statistical analysis code, so I started from a blank slate with almost no prior art to walk through. Lean is way the
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Emacs and Elisp.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    The mere fact that they hint at a Q clearance shows they have no idea how little weight that actually carries.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    A Q clearance could mean you are privy to absolutely nothing. The janitors cleaning the buildings in the secure part of LANL all have Q clearances because they might, might, be exposed to classified information. Needless to say, just becaus
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Just look around. Do you see it adopted anywhere?
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    School boards and city councils are part of the democratic process, and they are open to you in your jurisdiction. You just have to face the prospect of your wishes being overruled for lack of support. That is part and parcel of living in a
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Part of the lack of democracy in the USA is the "Bowling Alone" problem: too much of the citizenry has no experience interacting with a democratic process. And part of THAT is the experience of losing a committee vote and moving o
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    My point: Occupy had two goals that I kept hearing when I went: 1. the bailout and recovery from the crash of 2008 should help the victims of the crash, and not the perpetrators. And 2. "it's not about the policy, it's about
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    > How do people on HN deal with the potential disappearance of work altogether ? Thanks to peak oil and climate change "solving" this problem, I don't really think too much about that prospect.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Fishing rights. Cultural affinity. But yes, there is very much a risk that the Fijians will mistreat the Tuvaluans.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    The most likely resolution would be a land purchase in (for example) Fiji along with a grant of autonomous power on that land, in exchange for a fishing lease in Tuvaluan waters. Fiji gets a share of Tuvaluan fishing grounds, and the Tuvalu
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    Brittany: IIRC, it was still part of the Roman Empire when Cadwalldr and his followers migrated there. Galicia: the local king.
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    by ocschwar 5y ago

    The engineering challenge involved in making that a safe way to live go beyond anything the Tuvaluans can hope to finance.