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On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Alex Epstein, founder of Center for Industrial Progress, joins Federalist Western Correspondent Tristan Justice to make “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels,” discuss the Biden administration’s out-of-touch climate goals, and explain why nuclear energy, which is often overlooked, could actually help solve American energy problems.
“We have restricted coal and natural gas in particular, as well as oil, so much on the promise that green energy would replace them and that has not happened. So when there’s an increased demand for energy, we need fossil fuels but you don’t have as many because they’re being restricted in terms of their production and transport,” Epstein said.
Epstein said the panic surrounding climate change and energy is “total distortion.”
“It’s really instructive that almost all the people talking about climate catastrophe in the future do not recognize the climate renaissance of the present,” Epstein said. “So I mentioned that if I would trust at all the solar and wind people if they acknowledge that solar and wind are a failure now, but they have some great argument about the future, but they claim their success now which means they’re definitely gonna be wrong about the future. Exact same thing with climate. If you acknowledge that we have the most livable climate ever, thanks to fossil fuels and what I call climate mastery, then I’ll listen to you if you say there’s a problem in the future, but if you portray today as unprecedented climate danger, then you are a total liar or just unbelievably ignorant.” //
Since the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was created in 1975, there have been ZERO nuclear plants that have gone through the entire regulatory process (plants built after that were approved before NRC was established).
The Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) has developed a standard (AHRI 550/590 Standard) that defines the Integrated Part Load Value (IPLV) as a better performance characteristic for chillers. Over the lifetime of a chiller, it is running at 100% capacity only 1% of the time, or in other words, 99% of the time it is at part load conditions.
The IPLV is calculated using the efficiency of the equipment while operating at capacities of:
- A = EER @ 100% Load
- B = EER @ 75% Load
- C = EER @ 50% Load
- D = EER @ 25% Load
The allocation of time running at these four loads defined by AHRI is as follows:
A=1%, B=42%, C=45% and D=12%
IPLV = 1%A + 42%B + 45%C + 12%D
Boring Company aspires to solve this
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OB-2158-T (MSN 46091), which is now operating pretty-regularly for Amerijet, used to be N873SJ. AStar retired her at IGM on June 26, 2012, per planespotters.net. She was ressurrected and flown to VCV from IGM on May 26, 2017, where she stayed until 7/15/2019, about 2 years ago. She hasn't seen a lot of use since then. Shortly before retirement in 2012, she had 26368 cycles and 93090 hours. //
Both the DC10 and MD11 series are very sturdy built aircraft.
The MD/DC-10 series has a limit of validity of 160.000 hrs and 60.000 cycles, and only a few fatique related AD's.
However the MD11 series has a reduced cycle limit (lengthend fuselage, higher operating weights) : 40,000 cycles, so conseq. will have a shorted technical life than the DC-10 series.
Example : N383FE (MD10-10F) was retired at May 26th 2021 with the last recorded cycles (42343) at August 19 2020
"Environmentalists should reduce their over-reliance on apocalyptic scenarios "that tend to create feelings of helplessness and isolation among would-be supporters," Shellenberger advises. "Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech is famous because it put forward an inspiring, positive vision that carried a critique of the current moment within it. Imagine how history would have turned out had King given an 'I Have a Nightmare' speech instead.” Indeed, the key to a revitalized environmental movement will be the application of a belief King often expressed: Warnings of impending catastrophe, along with shame, protests and lawsuits, all have a role to play, but any movement will fail if it cannot paint an intensely attractive vision of the future, one that appeals to the mind and to the spirit."
— Richard Louv, The Oregonian, March 28, 2005
The same firms that volunteered to represent 9/11 terrorists pro bono now have no interest in defending the American citizens languishing in prison since January. //
At least 50 high-powered law firms that went out of their way to defend foreign terrorists in Guantanamo Bay free of charge are nowhere to be found as hundreds of American citizens languish in prison for charges related to entering the U.S. Capitol building during the January 6 riot.
When foreign terrorists, including the accused mastermind who helped plan the 9/11 attack, were being held in the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, law firms from across the country volunteered to represent them pro bono. Now, nearly 600 Americans face an intense legal battle over their participation in the events of January 6, and these same firms are leaving them defenseless. Not one of the legal firms that assisted Gitmo terrorists have helped any of those charged with ties to January 6. //
Without a strong criminal defense, the government can take away individual rights without a clear demonstration of the guilt of the accused. The firms who trumpeted the right to a strong defense for everyone charged in the American legal system when it came to Guantanamo Bay are well aware of the need for a competent defense for citizens today, yet they have not allocated any resources to an equal defense for some accused of crimes.
ID requirements appear to be less stringent to vote absentee in Georgia than to enter an indoor establishment in Los Angeles. //
One of the major objections that Biden and his allies have had to the Georgia law is its enhanced ID requirements for proving one’s eligibility to vote. Contrast this with how supportive the left is of ID requirements for proving that one is vaccinated against COVID-19 and thus is worthy to participate in normal American life. //
If you want to walk into a restaurant, bar, coffee shop, gym, movie theater, sports arena, museum, concert venue, mall, bowling alley, arcade, pool hall, hair salon, nail salon, or barbershop (all of these places, and others, are specifically listed) in the nation’s second-largest city, you will have to show proof of vaccination — plus an ID. But if you want to vote in Georgia, having to show an ID — and nothing else — is allegedly the second coming of Jim Crow.
This would be ludicrous even apart from the fact that, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, white people are 20 percent more likely, per capita, to be vaccinated than black people. In other words, Los Angeles has imposed a vaccine mandate that has a disproportionate racial impact, on top of an ID requirement that is stricter than the ostensibly “un-American” voter ID requirement in Georgia.
Wolfram argued that, early on, the language saved its adopters from their darkest fear: “That they would always delegate the process of computation to somebody who would be down in the dungeon somewhere actually dealing with the computer.
“The big transformative thing that happened as a result of the release of Mathematica — and it happened rather quickly — was that people like theoretical physicists, mathematicians, things like this … Those kinds of people, were able to go from thinking of a computation to actually doing a computation directly, and were able to, therefore, get much further in lots and lots of different areas.
“And it’s been wonderful over the last third of a century to see all the inventions and discoveries that have been made using the technology that we built.”
the company itself posted official guidance on its website detailing how to circumvent the TPM 2.0 requirement. The process involves taking your Windows 10 machine and changing the registry key values in the OS to ignore the check for TPM 2.0. However, the bypass only applies to PCs that have at least TPM 1.2, which has to be enabled. This can usually be done by going into the machine’s BIOS settings on startup.
The Microsoft-provided bypass should also enable a Windows 11 installation on PCs that have a CPU older than the official system requirements, for example an AMD Ryzen 1000 processor or an Intel 7th-generation Core chip. The company’s webpage notes: “An image install of Windows 11 will not check for the following requirements: TPM 2.0 (at least TPM 1.2 is required) and CPU family and model.”
If you want Windows 11 on an unsupported CPU, you should use the Windows 11 Disk Image installation process.
Still, using the bypass has caveats. Microsoft’s instructions link to a whole page that warns installing Windows 11 on an unsupported PC could lead to malfunctions arising from compatibility problems. The company also vaguely says: “Devices that do not meet these system requirements will no longer be guaranteed to receive updates, including but not limited to security updates.” If you do get denied for a Windows update, you’ll have to download and install the patches manually.
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karalabe commented May 2, 2017
TL;DR https://play.golang.org/p/LPkPTRF7fC
The above code looks quite plain and obvious, except it does something completely different than you'd expect (feel free to run it). The obvious thing that should happen is that it counts the number of bits set in the given string. The non-obvious thing that happens is that the mask is actually 0, not 0x01.
So, what happened there? The abuse in the above code is around the invisible Unicode characters that mark following text to be right-to-left or left-to-right. Since Go permits arbitrary Unicode characters to be present in string literals, it also allows me to have a string of the form "bla bla blaabc". Since we're dealing with valid Unicode sequences here, any modern editor/website will actually interpret those special characters, causing the content in between the two special marks to be reversed to the end of the line (alas still part of the string literal).
In my playground code this is abused by having the following source code:
str, mask := "Hello, World!<rtl>10x<ltr>", 0Which will be displayed by all modern editors/websites as:
str, mask := "Hello, World!", 0x01The security aspect of this issue is social engineering attacks. The "display" line of my sample code is obvious beyond doubt, so noone will ever inspect such a thing; however it managed to flip one bit in a mask (imagine doing this for file permission umasks). The issue is that such code could easily get past reviews and into a final product.
At issue is a component of the digital text encoding standard Unicode, which allows computers to exchange information regardless of the language used. Unicode currently defines more than 143,000 characters across 154 different language scripts (in addition to many non-script character sets, such as emojis).
Specifically, the weakness involves Unicode’s bi-directional or “Bidi” algorithm, which handles displaying text that includes mixed scripts with different display orders, such as Arabic — which is read right to left — and English (left to right).
But computer systems need to have a deterministic way of resolving conflicting directionality in text. Enter the “Bidi override,” which can be used to make left-to-right text read right-to-left, and vice versa.
“In some scenarios, the default ordering set by the Bidi Algorithm may not be sufficient,” the Cambridge researchers wrote. “For these cases, Bidi override control characters enable switching the display ordering of groups of characters.”
Bidi overrides enable even single-script characters to be displayed in an order different from their logical encoding. As the researchers point out, this fact has previously been exploited to disguise the file extensions of malware disseminated via email.
Here’s the problem: Most programming languages let you put these Bidi overrides in comments and strings. This is bad because most programming languages allow comments within which all text — including control characters — is ignored by compilers and interpreters. Also, it’s bad because most programming languages allow string literals that may contain arbitrary characters, including control characters. //
“Therefore, by placing Bidi override characters exclusively within comments and strings, we can smuggle them into source code in a manner that most compilers will accept. Our key insight is that we can reorder source code characters in such a way that the resulting display order also represents syntactically valid source code.”
“Bringing all this together, we arrive at a novel supply-chain attack on source code. By injecting Unicode Bidi override characters into comments and strings, an adversary can produce syntactically-valid source code in most modern languages for which the display order of characters presents logic that diverges from the real logic. In effect, we anagram program A into program B.”
Dr. Eli David
@DrEliDavid
Fact check:
🔹 2% of @elonmusk's wealth is $6B
🔹 In 2020 the UN World Food Program (WFP) raised $8.4B. How come it didn't "solve world hunger"?
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11:50 AM · Oct 30, 2021
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
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Oct 31, 2021
Replying to @DrEliDavid
If WFP can describe on this Twitter thread exactly how $6B will solve world hunger, I will sell Tesla stock right now and do it.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
But it must be open source accounting, so the public sees precisely how the money is spent.
9:55 AM · Oct 31, 2021 //
Beasley would later respond with his own tweet.
“With your help we can bring hope, build stability and change the future. Let’s talk: It isn’t as complicated as Falcon Heavy, but too much at stake to not at least have a conversation. I can be on the next flight to you. Throw me out if you don’t like what you hear!” said Beasley.
Firstly, it’s interesting that Musk specifically asked Beasley to provide him the plan in an open Twitter thread and he refused to, wanting to meet privately instead. Secondly, it’s highly unlikely that Beasley could actually come up with a plan that utilizes Musk’s money in such a way that wouldn’t look bad to the general public. //
Handing someone a meal and medicine is great, but once they eat that meal they’ll soon need another.
Infrastructure changes, national politics, and the environment all play a role in the solving of world hunger, and it’s highly unlikely that six billion dollars are going to solve it. It’s even more unlikely that the United Nations is going to solve this problem, especially given their bloat. //
2buildit2
an hour ago
As usual, the UN doofus has it backwards, now if the UN gave Elon Musk the 6 billion and the command and control of the feed the hungry aid structure, things would improve for everyone but the bureaucracy.
The only way to guarantee secret ballot is to restore the local in-person option everywhere, including states that have long abolished it, such as Oregon.
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Often, when we think of long-endurance flights, our first thoughts jump to military operations. Big planes with highly-trained crew will fly for long periods, using air-to-air refuelling to stay aloft for extended periods.
However, many of the longest duration flights have been undertaken as entirely civilian operations. The longest of all happened to be undertaken by that most humble of aircraft, the Cessna 172. From December 1958 to February 1959, Bob Timm and John Cook set out to make history. The duo remained aloft for a full 64 days, 22 hours and 19 minutes, setting a record that stands to this day. //
The pint-sized Cessna was fitted with a 95-gallon belly tank, paired with a electric pump that could transfer fuel to the main wing tanks as needed. Special plumbing was also added that would allow the engine oil and filters to be changed while the engine was still running.
The interior was stripped out, and the standard co-pilots door was also removed, replaced with a folding-style accordion door instead. A platform was also rigged up that could be extended out of the co-pilot’s side of the aircraft. This allowed the co-pilot some additional room to move during the crucial refuelling operations. //
Refuelling was handled by lowering a hook via a winch down to a fuel truck that would trail the plane on a straight stretch of road, usually twice a day. The winch would then pull up a fuel hose from the truck, which would be used to fill the belly tank in around three minutes. The same system was used to regularly pull up food, oil and other supplies like towels and water for shaving and bathing. //
The plane took off once more on December 4, 1958, at 3:52 PM from McCarran Field, Las Vegas. Officials monitoring the record chased the plane down the runway in a convertible Ford Thunderbird, putting white paint on the tires as an indicator to ensure the plane didn’t make any secret landings during the attempt.
Over the course of the near-65 day flight, the plane was refuelled by its truck over 128 times. This, and the job of flying the plane kept Timm and Cook plenty busy. What downtime was available was spent reading comics and making up simple games such as counting cars on the roads below to pass the time. //
Over time, equipment failures began to stack up. A generator failure meant that fuel transfers to the wing tanks had to be done using a hand pump. Other failures took out the autopilot, various lights, the tachometer, as well as the fuel gauge for the belly tank and the crucial winch. With the engine racking up over a thousand hours of continuous operation, carbon build-up was starting to reduce engine power, too, making it difficult to climb the plane with the fuel tanks brimmed.
Let’s be honest, Democrats.
Joe Biden was elected — I will not relitigate the “stolen election” debate in this article — for one reason: to get rid of Donald Trump. Period. The Democrat Party could have nominated a blind, intellectually disabled squirrel, and the results of the 2020 election would not have changed.
But let’s be clear: No one loves Joe Biden. //
The Economist
@TheEconomist
Asked for their opinion of Joe Biden, some Democrats who saw him speak in Arlington this week said they were “indifferent”, others claimed to have “no view”
No one loves Joe Biden -- Americans elected the president to get rid of his predecessor. They’re not sure what else he can do
economist.com
10:00 AM · Oct 29, 2021 //
Diamond and Silk®
@DiamondandSilk
Disaster: What Happened to Biden's Approval Rating Since Taking Office Hasn't Happened to Any Other President Since WWII
Disaster: What Happened to Biden's Approval Rating Since Taking Office Hasn't Happened to Any Other...
Joe Biden has suffered a larger approval rating drop at the start of his term than any president since World War II, according to a new Gallup poll. Biden’s approval rating dropped from 56% in Q1
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11:31 AM · Oct 27, 2021 //
GennaroPatriot • 27 minutes ago
"but,but,but Trump's tweets were so mean..."
Jaye -> GennaroPatriot • 22 minutes ago • edited
Trump's tweets consumed a few seconds of reading time .
Mocking Bird Media spent the next 24 hours hashing and rehashing them.
Understand "The Method" proposed by Dr Norman Vincent Peale in this book The Power of Positive Thinking, since Trump long ago admitted he was a follower of Dr Peale at a NYC's Marble Collegiate Church.
Then you will understand why Trump cleared the air with his early morning tweets, and then spent the rest of the day accomplishing extraordinary things - promises made, promises kept.
While the hate-media was still mucking and re-mucking his one early morning tweet. All of this was well known well before the 2016 election. Trump has been in the spotlight for decades.
*See Peter Grave's Biography series on PBS- for an early extended Trump interview. WYSIWYG
It’s great that so many have copies of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, but very unfortunate that so few have read it. The alleged “supply chain” problems we’re enduring right now were explained by Smith in the book’s opening pages.
Smith wrote about a pin factory, and the then remarkable truth that one man in the factory working alone could maybe – maybe – produce one pin each day. But several men working together could produce tens of thousands.
Work divided is what enables the very work specialization that drives enormous productivity. If this was true in an 18th century pin factory, imagine how vivid the truth is today. Figure that something as basic as the creation of a pencil is the consequence of global cooperation, so what kind of remarkable global symmetry leads to the creation of an airplane, car, or computer? The kind that can’t be planned is the short answer, but more realistically the only answer. //
Really, who was talking about supply-chain shortages or the impossibility that is demand-driven inflation in early 2020? Very few were, and that’s because the U.S. economy was largely free then. At which point politicians panicked. And in panicking, they imposed a rather draconian form of command-and-control on the U.S. economy. //
Some were free to work, some weren’t, and more still were free to work and operate their businesses within strict political limits. From freedom to central planning in a very small amount of time. At which point it’s worth considering once again the simple pin factory that Smith witnessed in the 18th century versus the global cooperation that was the norm 19 months ago. //
The supply lines of February 2020 were impossibly complicated structures that no politician could ever hope to design. Think billions of individuals around the world pursuing their narrow work specialization on the way to enormous global plenty. Put another way, the shelves in economically free countries were heaving with all manner of products based on economic cooperation that was staggering in scope. Brilliant as some experts claim to be, and brilliant as some politicians think they are as they look in the mirror, they could never construct the web of trillions of economic relationships that prevailed before the lockdowns. But they could destroy the web. And they did; that, or they severely impaired it. //
We know from the 20th century that when politicians, authoritarians or both substitute their intensely narrow knowledge for that of the marketplace that immense want for very little (and lousy) supply is the logical result. Yes it is. When we’re not economically free, bare shelves are the inevitable result.
Conversely, product and service abundance is a certain consequence yet again of the infinite actions and trillions of economic relationships entered into by billions of people. These commercial tie-ups were constructed by consenting individuals over many years and many decades only for them to be wrecked by a political class arrogantly seeking to protect us from ourselves. That’s what happens when command-and-control replaces voluntary order. The remunerative ties that bind us fray, or vanish altogether. Consenting, profitable economic activity was suddenly illegal. Yet politicians and other experts are only now wringing their hands about a lack of supply?
Really, what did they think was going to happen? While politicians couldn’t ever create or legislate billions working together around the world, they could and can surely break voluntary economic arrangements.