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by BenoitP 4y ago
The reserves are high, but the energy required to extract them are increasingly costly. Shale oil extraction requires about 25% of the energy extracted. Same goes for Venezuela's gargantuan reserves: higher volume than Saudi Arabia, bu
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I have a very grim outlook on the future. > “did everyone get a slice?” I don't believe so, but it makes sense: we've always been at (economic) war with Eastasia/Oceania
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I don't believe regular planes to ever run on hydrogen and be commercially viable. Hydrogen is not very dense, even in liquid form (to be compared with the volume already taken by kerosene on a plane). And requires very strong -and thi
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by BenoitP 4y ago
There are initiatives in the EU to require -by law- that if it's public research, then it must be released to the public. And there are official guidelines on how to do so: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03318932
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by BenoitP 4y ago
I'm assuming currently proven tech of batteries. And we need to act now for climate change, with current tech. Electricity to H2 to electricity has horrendous efficiency (about 20% at most IIRC). We'd be much better off CO2-speaki
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> Nuclear is not an load following source In France it is, and has been successfully for more than 33 years [1] [1] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01977209/
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At scale means with mining requirements as well. With current and projected reserves we can manage intra-day requirements for the whole world. This is the we mine it all option. But we need intra-year storage capacity. Nuclear is clearly th
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> most serious analysis agree that renewables will be about 80% Well, let's see them; and see how much they rely on yet to be proven industrially new storage tech (and without humongous mining activity)
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6 + an additional 8 are being planned at the moment. It is still dependent on legislative elections (starting this weekend), and on the EU energy taxonomy (currently going final rounds in the EU parliament) Both should be sort of ok, finger
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https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
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22 534.89 * 17 919 = 403 786 746 So, am I reading this right that 403 M$ are used to secure 278 M$? Or maybe are they accounting for market impact (by way of thin order book) for when the position is liquidated?
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There is not one single definition of safe, as perfect safety does not exist. So Java being 'safe' depends on the definition Apart from the integer overflows the other three are IMHO reasonable, not surprising, known to everyone,
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I was wondering: is there a community online like HN for marketers?
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Not a new kind of issue, and not a problem IMHO. Some GCs need to reach a safepoint before doing their work; and when a classic Thread is chugging along in a tight loop, that thread is blocking the whole system for a pending GC. One hacky f
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by BenoitP 4y ago
In a pond, water lilies multiply each day so as to double in size. It takes 30 days to occupy half the pond. How much time is left until the pond is full? ---- In other words: when we'll reach the limits, we won't have a lot of ti
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by BenoitP 4y ago
Some of these CFC are almost eternal compounds. They are so stable that no natural light frequency from the sun can break them apart. Sulfur hexafluoride, used in high voltage circuit breakers, has a half-life of 3200 years, has a global wa
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by BenoitP 4y ago
Is this going to get flagged like the one 5 hours ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31445380
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It took me some time to get a good grasp of the power of SQL; and it really kicked in when I learned about optimization rules. A query is a program that you rewrite, just like an optimizing compiler would. You state what you want; then you
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by BenoitP 4y ago
> not clear what attributes of a plan the corresponding vector encodes Fig 5, page 4 from [1]: > Topology Features > Operator Features > Data Movement Features > Dataset Features For a single logical plan, meaning it will var
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Something along these lines: https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220405-top-eu-body-laun...
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by BenoitP 4y ago
There's an interesting one linking geology and politics in the north of France, kinda like the Alabama one: A coal basin [1] predicts low revenues [2] and political votes for far right [3]. I'm no political or demographical histor
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by BenoitP 4y ago
Well, let's hear it straight from the horse's mouth: History is a set of lies that people have agreed upon Napoleon Bonaparte
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IMHO it falls into the same category as content farms trying to drive traffic into buying a product.
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Big fan here! I've been following the space since a bit of time, and I must say it's exciting. To me this is the future of apps where the Truth lives server-side, and everything reacts from there; With partial state evaluation low
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What an unfortunate name collision: https://github.com/google/dagger Is it some weird SEO niche-squatting technique? IMHO we see it happen way too often
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> they must have a stockpile of chips in case of war They would also prepare enough fuel and rations for the front in case of a war, but we have seen that they did not. Maybe they thought it was just an exercise. IMHO, this is adequately
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EG3D: Efficient Geometry-Aware 3D Generative Adversarial Networks(matthew-a-chan.github.io)
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How about Gerhard Schröder? I'm not very up to date about his role at the boards of Rosneft and Gazprom, but I'm pretty sure he must have had an influence somewhere in the current situation (although indirectly, and he probably wa
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I'm pretty sure people occupying Ukraine would vote for annexation once Ukrainian people have been removed or forced to flee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_the_Crimean_Tat...
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AssemblyStorm weekly?

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