UK households and businesses will be offered payments to flex their electricity usage at times of tight supply throughout the year under plans by National Energy System Operator. Excellent initiative to support the grid whilst minimising costs. www.ft.com/content/638b...
A reminder that ongoing electrification towards a net zero energy system means that enhancing demand-side flexibility is vital. Great to see steps towards this being normalised for consumers.
Bob Allen on the wood-to-coal transition in The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective (2009)
How are Kubernetes and green software connected? Here is my new article in The New Stack about how modern orchestration for distributed systems, of which Kubernetes is an example, might be the key to building green software systems at scale thenewstack.io/is-kubernete...
The container orchestrator, and the principles upon which it’s built, are well-suited to adapt to the future’s renewal energy supplies.
Great policy - these vehicles cause a lot of negative externalities
Norway recently implemented a weight tax on all vehicles (including electric!!) NOK 12.5 per kilogram over 500 kilograms. EV lobby groups and big car companies that have been aggressively bloating EV models for years are *very* pissed off about it.
Ekstra avgift innføres for elbiler. Og når elbilene skal bli dyrere, blir alt dyrere.
I remember attending a lecture by the Whitechapel Mission. It was pointed out that homeless veterans/care home leavers were often the same problem. Many care home leavers go into the army but are faced with same issue when they leave - no support system. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sir Keir says there is light at the end of the tunnel in his first Labour Party conference speech as prime minister.
Indeed. Arendt does spring to mind. But as a result we do have loads of work from Milgram, Asch etc. on it. People go along with stuff. Banality of evil indeed. I think you have to start with psychology on this. Over a decade ago I worked with themindgym.com/solutions/et... I still like their stuff
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BTW none of the stories were like the sex allegations - it was different examples of extreme self centredness - but there is clearly a pattern. I used to lecture on ethics & I don't believe you can do that without also discussing the psychology of enabling codeandethics.blogspot.com/2020/02/part...
(Part 5 of the University of Hertfordshire Tech Ethics Course. << Part 4 | Part 6 >>) People do bad things because they’re evil. If ...
Ha! might be the intended way to view some modern films? Probably not Psycho ;-)
Nowadays they would be "psychopaths" in books and films but I think Christie and Tey described their external behaviour more usefully and made it easier for folk to understand and recognise. They just prioritise what they want so highly over everyone else.