jlmorton

In retrospect, having 100 trusted certificate authorities might have been excessive.

Well, according to TFA, you're still paying an Amazon tax, which is itself similar to the Visa tax, which apparently we all pay even if we use cash to purchase directly from manufacturers (so long as the manufacturer also sells their product on Amazon).

Because the major categories are very hard to cut:

Social Security: 22% Interest on the Debt: 14% Medicaid: 14% Medicare: 14% National Defense: 13%

That's 77% of the budget in those categories.

Everything else is 23%. The Federal deficit is ~25% of receipts.

You could cut each and every function of the government other than the above and still be left with a deficit. And there isn't a lot of room to cut everything else, as they've already been squeezed for decades.

> If I ask ‘ Linux "sort" command line for sorting the third column containing integers’,

Wow, that's actually quite a lot. You can also just say "sort 3rd col nix."

The blown up whale in Oregon is sort of like the SR-71 speed readout story. Reposted endlessly, but you just kind of accept it.

Steel is by no means obvious. No one else in the industry uses it. (No one else in the industry uses carbon fiber, either, except things like fairings).

The obvious choice that everyone uses is aluminum, or various alloys, like aluminum-lithium.

There is absolutely no chance Starship is developed using steel without Musk. There is absolutely zero chance that Mechazilla would exist without Musk. These are massive elements of the Starship program.

Now, it's true enough that he didn't literally _build_ these things. He is the CEO. Steve Jobs didn't build the iPhone.

But these programs are very obviously shaped by Musk to a large degree.

I did exactly that, and it was very close to the actual sklearn output.

I tried with alternate values and got the same result - not quite precisely exact, but extremely close values.

It shouldn't be, though. There is way too much democracy in California localities.

There should be no elected school board, transit districts, utility boards, assessors, sheriff, and so much more. No one is properly informed about candidates for these positions.

For that matter, the Board of Supervisors should have no power other than oversight and impeachment. The Mayor should basically be a local dictator, with the power to do anything the State authorizes the municipality to do, at their sole discretion, with the oversight of an elected board.

> oxygenated atmosphere

Of course, the oxygenated atmosphere only exists due to life. Otherwise, it would just rapidly oxidize everything else.

Solar panels across the entire roof of a data center can't generate much more than 1-2% of the total power usage of the data center.

Would need a solar farm with about 50x-100x the land area.