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by Gwypaas 4y ago
If after spending ~$25 billion it would be less than a "pretty good craft" then well. I don't know what to say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft)#Funding_his...
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
The Falcon 9 is ~500 tons of propellant for 25 tons to LEO. An A380 carries ~250 tons of fuel. In the Falcon 9 number the liquid oxygen is included. The RP-1 is a pretty much a cleaner diesel or jet fuel. The cost is like $1500 to $2000 per
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
It is all about creating the industrial base with people going through university specializing in it. This is from last time I googled the topic: In 2017 this angle was up in the news in the UK. Take the responses as you like. > The gove
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
> Also EDF has been trying to build the EPR in England, Finland and France, and it costed much more to build than budgeted. And someone has to pay the difference. And it seems that this someone is us :) (French tax payers and consumers)
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
> The LCOE figures for existing Generation II nuclear power plants integrating post-Fukushima stress tests safety upgrades following refurbishment for extended operation (10-20 years on average): (in 2012 euros) €23/MWh to €26/
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Renewables already fill that gap at vastly lower costs. Unless you specify that you're one of the about a million people living north of the arctic circle, then sure, do whatever you need.
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Given that nuclear power plants are known entities and the list of "unknown unknowns" should be non-existent given their safety critical nature it simply is mismanagement. If your nuclear plant costs more than $33/MWh to oper
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
> they have been forced to sell up to 100TWh are prices as low as €40/MWh. Should be plenty. The Swedish paid off nuclear plants operate around €25/MWh. Lazard similarly puts the range for paid-off nuclear plants at $24-$33&#x2
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Have a look at Flamanville 3 and then try to sell another 20 of those to the public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamanville_Nuclear_Power_Plan...
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Well, what is there to say given the state of Flamanville 3? Currently sitting at ~ €13 B compared to the initial estimate of €3.3 B. With a tentative start date for end of 2023. All the while EDF is being nationalized. Should more money ha
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Yes, that widens the problem space considerably, especially if it depends on the rate of access or something similarly non-deterministic. But you're still fundamentally testing interleavings through a synchronization library. Still, re
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
I complain similarly about writing deeply multithreaded code with synchronized data structures in Java, Go or whatever. It's a nightmare the day you want to refactor anything and have to keep the entire implicit state in your mind to m
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
> The vast majority of production failures in kernel code are due to race conditions and other timing-specific issues, which unit tests are extremely poor at reproducing in a way that mimics how the code is used in real life. Is this n
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
For true "wilderness" your total addressable market is like a million people. Sweden and Norway have abundant hydro power so they actually export power from north to south. So reduce that to tens of thousands. For southern scandin
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
But HVDC lines are. The longest one in operation today is ~2200 km.
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Because it's all about cost. Those 400m container ships are ran by a low cost crew of 15-25 with some 3rd party maintenance personnel sprinkled in. Try fitting a more expensive fuel and more maintenance into that. On top of all safety
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares_V
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
They want to do that, pending what the bankruptcy court would decide which they have no power to influence. Like the Kraken ToS. > Ownership. Title to Digital Assets shall at all times remain with you and shall not transfer to Payward, e
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Decentralized exchanges are equal to public bug bounties. https://beincrypto.com/top-ten-defi-hacks-2022-hackers-darin...
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Banks are also incredibly tightly regulated and your deposit is in almost all developed countries insured [1] by something like FDIC [2]. What the failing crypto exchanges are doing is similar to you buying stock in Apple, but they figure t
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Pretty much all developed countries have similar mechanisms. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deposit_insurance
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
What is the purpose of gold? It is a shiny metal with some nice electric properties. Exactly like platinum, copper or whatever else. The inherent "value" of it outside it's physical properties is as much of a human construct
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
FDIC insurance is backed by the full faith and credit of the government of the United States of America, and since its start in 1933 no depositor has ever lost a penny of FDIC-insured funds. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Reserves means nothing without also knowing the liabilities. Without that it is simply more smoke and mirrors.
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
> Do you watch porn? How many times have have sites that provide it been in trouble because of some puritan bs from the dark ages? Do you know this is the majority of the internet? Are you aware that a lot of innovations (the internet in
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Together with that any reasonable codebase denies any warnings from the compiler, Clippy or changes from running Rustfmt when running CI. Which is pretty much equal to Go best practice, using something like Golangci-lint instead. Although,
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
> The concurrency primitives are built into language and stdlibs which means when you do need synchronization, everyone does it same way. As long as you after refactor N still are staying in the happy path avoiding the numerous footguns
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Simply looking at the Resolve struct definition tells you. /// A map from packages to a set of their public dependencies public_dependencies: HashMap<PackageId, HashSet<PackageId>>, I do agree with yo
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
> Tesla was founded (as Tesla Motors) on July 1, 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning in San Carlos, California. [...] Ian Wright was the third employee, joining a few months later.[2] The three went looking for venture capit
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by Gwypaas 4y ago
Rust uses "shrink_to_fit()". Personally never had to use it, but you always end up scrolling by the backing allocation management for all the standard collections when looking through the docs. > Shrinks the capacity of the map

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