Until systemd decides otherwise.

Teams crashes reliably whenever I start video on my laptop. I haven't noticed this very valuable feature in any other similar program so they're clearly inferior to Teams.

The bi-partisan Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (of 1968) explicitly prohibit Iran from ever developing or possessing nuclear weapons. And 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reaffirmed that Iran was not to develop a path to nuclear weapons. And included dismantling of many centrifuges, and divestment of nearly all of their enriched uranium stockpile, and submit to 24/7 indepedent monitoring and reasserts the authority of the IAEA to resume inspections. The sunset provision allowed some enrichment to continue for peaceful energy purposes, with the caveat that inspections and monitoring remains in place.

Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush green lit selling third-party weapons to Sadam. And David Perdue ( American Ambassador to China ) confirms that President Trump asked President Xi Jinping if China would like to buy weapons from the US. In 2003, while G.W. Bush was in office, the IAEA documented that Iran was found in non-compliance with its NPT safeguards obligations. So, I suspect the track record for the GOP is far worse than Dems when it comes to arming our adversaries, just on these facts.

I will point out that celebrities typically buy coastal houses on bluffs overlooking the ocean

Bluffs aren't a great place. They collapse.

Using celebrity behaviour as a gauge is also not a great idea. They do all sorts of stupid shit. When a celebrity buys a multi-million dollar house on a beach or a bluff they're thinking "this is cool, let's party" not "is this a secure asset I'll be able to pass down to my children."

That's how it normally works. The subprime mortgage thing happened because banks discovered they could make those risky loans and then sell them to other people for a good price by disguising how risky they were by packaging them up and selling them as securities.

Which is kind of ironic considering the OP's comment about banks still providing mortgages for coastal properties. Apparently they're selling them more and more to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation which... packages them up and sells them as mortgage backed securities.

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What DRAM fab do you think has unsold capacity?

There isn't really any such thing as a DRAM fab. You can make DRAM at pretty much any of them, including the one in that guy's shed. There are some that specialize in DRAM. They all have unsold capacity, DRAM-specialist or not. The typical lead time is apparently about 18 months. The DRAM manufacturers (including in this story) keep saying they're "virtually" booked up for the next year. So you can call them up and schedule a run in a year, or 18 months, or maybe next week depending on what "virtually" means.

The OP is claiming that memory fabrication is "worse than OPEC" because nobody else can make memory. This is obviously not true. Intel is contemplating it. Many memory manufacturers have started up in the past. Most have gone bankrupt or been acquired. The limitation is that nobody wants to go completely nuts building new fabs that are very likely to be under utilized two, three or five years from now. So they're "only" increasing capacity at 20% per year. For context, world oil production capacity increases by a couple of percent a year and refining capacity, which is capital intensive like chip fabrication, by more like 0.5-1%.

Periodic expansions and contractions are a persistent feature of capitalist economies. And the US and much of the world are ran by the idea that bigger is better: bigger boom, bigger bust. It does maximize the profits for those who are well-positioned and protected. And the the dot Com and other bust cycles drained away my parent's retirement, like so many others.

Gen X are the new boomers. We have most of their flaws and outlook. At times we seem to have more self awareness, but at others we are overconfident in that awareness and look like fools.

Rather than focus on generalizations based on generation, I prefer to divide people up between people mature enough to adapt to observed reality and people who deny reality. Either can cry or get angry when the world doesn't work the way they think it should, either for themselves or for others.

This one belongs in the trash though.

Cool. I'm glad people are aware of and catch measurement errors so quickly. It's almost like there are multiple independent sources and when a temperature seems to be out of what is expected from a weather model and heat map, it's worth investigating.

As for weather station standards because the source of false measurements used for the basis of the global warming hypothesis, if that is your argument. I would say you need substantial evidence that there is a relationship between a few known faulty weather stations out of many thousands of weather stations operating in the world.

A a hypothetical pattern of lying is a very weak argument. I would abandon it. Attack the argument and not the person. What logical reasons do you have, if any. What premises do you reject and why. Just basic courtesy when trying to have a rational discussion.

Census by the founders includes *every person* not just citizens. Disagree with the founding fathers on that one eh? Also there is an easy thing to do with people who are illegal, just make them legal. Reagan knew there isnt a practical alternative and now a new generation will have to learn that.

Nope....I liked Reagan a LOT, but he fucked up really badly on that one thing allowing an amnesty....caused a rush on the border...Hey everyone isn't perfect and he fucked that one.

Fuck legalizing them....send them all back and try to come in the legal way. I'm not against streamlining and reforming our immigration system to legally come here, but even with that we should be choosy about who we let in, only those that will benefit the US and show they will be likely to meld into the melting pot and become US citizens.

We need to set up system around work that will pretty much lock out ANY person here that is not here legally....I hate the thought of a national ID, but if something similar to it had to be in place to root out all the illegals, make it impossible to work and live here, I'd be for it.

And maybe we need to amend the constitution and ONLY count citizens and ONLY allow most things for citizens....let's make it as unattractive and difficult as possible for illegal immigrants.

Some scientists nailed predicting the frequency and amount of record breaking temperatures. Out of 17 climate model projections published from 1970 to 2007: 10 closely matched observations and 14 matched after accounting for differences in atmospheric conditions.
Patterns like high and low temperature cycles are something a statistical model is good at predicting.
P.S. I hope it doesn't come as a shock to you that there are multiple climate models.

This is one of the hardest problems in computer science: getting names right.

Should it be called WOPR or skynet?

Sorry about that!

Light bulbs are very small things; the energy that goes into making them is likewise very small, regardless of type. The electricity an incandescent bulb burns is, by contrast, not at all small. You also have to replace the incandescent bulb far more often.

There's all sorts of exhaustive analyses out there, but the TL/DR is:

One incandescent bulb takes ~1-1,5kWh to manufacture and lasts ~1000 hours
One LED bulb takes 8-20kWh to manufacture and lasts ~25000 hours (commonly modern home construction doesn't even use lightbulb sockets anymore; the fixtures are designed to not need "bulb replacements")

So even on manufacturing, the LED bulb wins because it's up against 25 incandescent bulbs. But that's all trivial, because:

60W × 25000h = 1500 kWh
9W * 25000h = 225kWh

So a few extra or fewer kilowatt hours in manufacturing is irrelevant. It's totally dominated by usage energy.

Incandescent only wins one category: disposal (it's just glass and a little metal, you can just throw it in the trash; LED is e-waste and gets recycled). But in both cases, you're talking tenths of a percent of lifetime energy usage.

Great. Nobody asked for this.