How would out of state "pirates" manipulate the CA market? If the pirates want to charge more for electricity than it costs locally, use the local power. If they're offering it for less (which is likely the case, since everywhere around CA has cheaper power than CA does), then buy it.

This seems like nothing but a win for CA residents. The residents of other states in the area might not fare so well, since their own generation companies will prefer to sell to CA for the higher prices available there.

Except in this case the answer is clearly "yes". Connect the grids as far and wide as possible, and let market forces drive production up and costs down. The argument that "but then Californians might sometimes be using dirty power from coal plants in Nevada" is just stupid, because while that might happen sometimes, it also means that people in other states will use more of CA's renewable power.

What matters isn't who uses which, but that we maximize the total use of renewables and minimize the total use of fossil fuels. Given that renewables are dramatically cheaper than fossil energy, this means that just letting the market work will move us in the right direction. Broad interconnection and competitive markets will serve to ensure that the cheapest and greenest energy sources are 100% used and never wasted, not until the whole western US has enough renewables that renewable output sometimes exceeds the consumption of the entire region. It will further encourage deployment of more and more super-cheap renewables, driving fossil energy gradually out of the market.

Note that it's also important that wholesale prices not be tightly regulated, that the market be free to seek proper price equilibrium. Why? Because it's important that it be possible for, say, gas peaker plants to be able to make an absolute killing in the rare cases that available renewables fall short, so that power companies are motivated to operate and maintain those plants -- or to replace them with energy storage systems (battery, pumped hydro, whatever) so that those can make a killing when they're needed.

If at some point we fall into a local minimum where the market isn't incentivizing the shift to renewables + storage, then it will make sense to find some way to intervene with regulation. But, again, the best strategy will be to harness the market. For example, just internalize the carbon emission externality by applying a carbon tax, then let the market work out the power balance -- which could even include fossil fuel plants with carbon capture systems, who knows? At the present, though, costs favor renewables even with the carbon externalities of fossil plants.

Whoever can provide the most power at the lowest price at the times it's needed.

It's "[pasteurized] cheese product" because of a legal oddity that makes a blend of two cheeses somehow not cheese.

OTOH, being supported by a widely used OS might well help them to *become* more widely used.

Debian supports lots of systems that aren't widely used. It's even slow to drop systems that nobody appears to use. (But it does, because testing updates for those systems is difficult.)

From Bleeping Computer -
The KB5002754 update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019.
The KB5002768 update for Microsoft SharePoint Subscription Edition.
The update for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016 has not been released yet.

Maybe the universe began and immediately ended a billion times until the odds lined up and a big bang finally produced more matter than antimatter.

It's usually a little bit more indirect than that. Soldiers get commendations and medals for confirmed high-value targets, and those help them get promoted, which of course results in higher pay. I'm not aware of any western country that has given cash bonuses for taking out specific targets. That includes Ukraine. TFS says their units get more/better equipment, which makes sense.

I've used quite a lot of sophisticated statistics, requiring calculus. It makes sense that it's somewhat context-dependent, I suppose. In any case, I think calc is an important element of mathematical maturity, which is useful regardless of whether or not you actually use the mathematics in question.

To be fair, it sounds as if they haven't figured out a decent patch. I mean when they're recommend that users make the systems safe by unplugging them, it doesn't sound like they've got a better idea.

No kidding. But "si vis pacem para bellum". Many nations aspire to lasting peace, but as it turns out there's always some ambitious a-hole who thinks their neighbour's land is there for the taking.

Motivated people with lots of external support tend to win. Remember Vietnam. (I suppose one could reasonably argue that the North Vietnamese were freer than the South Vietnamese, but that's not the opinion the US press ever had.)

According to the summary you get 10X as many points for getting a soldier to surrender as for killing him. But it's not genocide to kill someone who's physically attacking you. Not even if you had the alternative of capturing him (which isn't usual).

Got a serious genetic disease? The sensible solution: get your tubes tied. Want to raise a child? Adopt one instead!

Sorry I can't point you at a reference, but thing is that the mitochondrial environment is a really bad place for DNA to live, so over evolutionary time some of the bacterial DNA moved into the cell nucleus. Mitochondria is now an "obligate parasite", though parasite is *really* the wrong term. (I can't think of the term for obligate symbiote.)

OTOH, I'm talking about the function rather then the physical pieces. This is probably similar how some of our DNA "moved into" the plants that we eat, so now we are dependent on them for vitamin C. But the result is that much of the DNA controlling the mitochondria now resides in the cell nucleus.