Beware of talk about benefits without mention of drawbacks.
Connecting grids could significantly increase the fragility of the system resulting in higher risk of large-scale power outages. Some of you might have experienced the 2003 blackout in northeast North American (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003), which luckily happened in the summer. Tail risks should not be swept under the rug.
Even a single widespread event could completely wipe out the benefit gained from connecting grids.
This is a general principle: making things bigger and/or more centralized tends to increase efficiency and decrease the frequency of failures but greatly increase the cost and severity of failures.
In computing think about, for example, centralizing identity management in the hands of a few large companies. These companies have large security teams and mature well built infrastructures, but a huge failure or a huge security compromise of, say, Google’s OIDC system, could be utterly catastrophic, paralyzing and destroying vast swaths of our digital infrastructure. Entire companies, services, or even sectors would be paralyzed or worse.
Small, decentralized, and diverse is overall more costly and experiences many smaller failures but is more robust for the long haul.
This is probably why life, having evolved over a billion years, is mostly this way. Giant super organisms and super-optimized monocultures are possible but fragile.
Our economies, having only existed for hundreds of years and being incentivized to only care about next quarter, tend to go all in on anything that makes numbers superficially better.
I remember we were at work and the power flickered and all the UPS's started beeping for about 10 seconds. Then it went back to normal. Then about 30 minutes later people looked at the news and saw a massive blackout. We were hundreds of miles away and that's all we felt but I had a relative tell me about walking a few miles home because the subways were down and the traffic lights not working made it even crazier.
If you want to run an up-to-date version of Docker, look into https://github.com/telnetdoogie/synology-docker/. It is a script that will back up the existing docker binaries and replace them with the latest. (Note the "First Time" upgrade information of switching to the "local" logger from "db").
I have forgotten why I originally wanted to update but I have had no issues with the updated system.
> This is bizarre but maybe I see the reason why. If it's to restrain foreign ownership of rental properties.
The reason is that the government wants its tax money. Since the cash flow is coming from the renter they are also responsible for it. There is a similar situation with employers who are responsible for remitting tax withholding even though it is the employee who owes the income tax.
How far does this extend? If a restaurant doesn't pay its taxes would the Canadian government go after the people who ate there for the money? They are the source of the restaurant's cash flow.
The renter in this case was responsible even though he claimed he did not know his landlord was a non-resident since she left Canada during the time that he rented. The Canada Revenue Agency disputed that claim since "[the landlord's] phone number on the lease was an Italian phone number; she had used an Italian e-mail address to correspond with [the renter]." The landlord had also asked the renter to start paying her sister who was still in Canada before she left for Italy.
I am curious about what would happen if the renter could genuinely establish that he did not know their landlord was a non-resident. Based on the defense lawyer's claim that "Whether the CRA could have collected the rent in some other way does not impact his liability under the law. The CRA and the Tax Court have to apply the law as it is written." [Note there is a mistake in this quote the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency) collects taxes not rent].
The reasoning provided by YC is in the subsequent tweet: "It's pretty rare for YC to fund solo founders, because startups take many years to get big and it's very hard to stay motivated for that many years without a cofounder helping."
YC has been reticent to fund solo founders since its inception.
Excellent tips. As a corollary to #1, strive to make your own driving predictable to other drivers, e.g., turn signal on before changing lanes or braking to make a turn.
