Gwypaas

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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Yep, by forcing Areva, the supplier of it, into bankruptcy by having the foresight of signing a fixed price deal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areva#Restructuring
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
France is pretty much winding their industry down. The only one under construction is Flammanville 3 [0] which is currently projected to cost €19.1 billion compared to the initial budget of €3.3 billion. The current goal is 50% reduction to
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
That is not correct. VAT is added in the supply chain as a flat rate on price, then you keep an account of in-going and out-going. Then the state makes up the difference in the end of the fiscal year depending on if your customers were othe
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
The LCOE of unsubsidized newbuilt renewables are currently getting below the marginal cost of existing nuclear and fossil infrastructure. https://www.lazard.com/media/451446/grphx_lcoe-07-07.jpg From: https:&#x2F
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Watch the bicycle infrastructure get better as he get out into the Amsterdam suburbs. Cycling showdown, Amsterdam vs. Calgary https://youtu.be/M8F5hXqS-Ac
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
It does, the US is currently building it's first Jones act compliant Wind Turbine Installation Vessel. New Details on First Jones Act-Compliant Wind Turbine Installation Vessel: https://gcaptain.com/new-details-on-first
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Why are people still arguing about a countries population density in late 2021? It is a completely irrelevant metric, lets include the Canadian arctic when calculating the density of Toronto and the effects of Covid, makes a whole lot of se
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
BankID in Sweden. Sucks that it is privately owned though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankID
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
SpaceX sued for the right to compete on a sole source contact, same against Kistler which lead to COTS. Blue Origin was given about 500m to compete, then lost and is now suing even after the GAO came to the conclusion that they lost fairly.
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Not even rockets. Lose too much from the low density leading to a larger structure and isolation required to handle it as a liquid, and not freeze the oxygen. Meaning worse performance than the pure numbers would imply. Not to mention cost
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
You're off by more than 20 years from the flight of the DC-X. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
I would say the difference is fixed-cost vs cost-plus contracts. Paying for the development or paying for the result with less constraints on how it is achieved. Look how hard Boeing has stumbled trying fixed-cost with Starliner.
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Is a test requirement when certifying a new engine.
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
So 9% of seropositive and 10% of seronegative reported at least one symptom beyond 4 weeks. I.e. the background level is around 10% and the seronegative had "more" long covid than the ones who actually had covid in that group. Alt
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
About zero for children. Long-term symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection in school children: population-based cohort with 6-months follow-up (Preprint) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.16.21257255v..
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Which is why the A320 is designed to be loaded with conveyors. This means it has no problem accommodating an even larger nacelle than the 737 in a regular position instead of the up and forward the 737 Max resorted to. Even the previous gen
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Not even the new, just haven't been picked on up on HN earlier. The sciency Covid-19 subreddit was all over it last summer when HCQ had been proven ineffective. https://www.reddit.com/r/COVID19/search/?q=
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
With the fuzzy GPS signal you had DGPS correcting it by broadcasting the current change from a known point. [0] Before GPS LORAN [1] and it's versions was used relying on ground stations [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Sweden has higher funding per capita, but does not answer why it became this way. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1071105/value-of-investm...
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
It's all about the geographical decoupling with local storage and smart consumers to smooth the loads. For example tying the charging of your electric car while it's parked to the current price. For example using Norwegian hydro t
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
The worst is the "Legitimate interest" when clicking manage options. Apparently 235 companies have a "legitimate interest" in tracking me which is on by default unless I click "Reject All". https://i
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Another amazingly horrifying example is Project West Ford[0] in 1963 which dispersed 480 000 000 copper needles at an altitude of ~3500 km to create an artificial ionosphere facilitating military communications. [0]: https://en.w
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
No, they don't use imperial. The mile you are talking about is the Nautical Mile[0] which is the consequence of having 90 degrees between the equator and the pole, then splitting each of those into 1/60[1] (also called a minute),
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
This is simply a myth being propagated to detract Musk's early involvement in Tesla. It simply would not be the Tesla we know today without his involvement. Musk simply led all funding rounds up to series C, was employee number 4, chai
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Vulcan and Falcon 9 does not compete in the same league. Vulcan exists as a backup choice for the US government to have guaranteed access to space. All commercially relevant features regarding reusability to get the costs even close to Falc
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
The true achievement is not the capability of the rockets, it is the huge reduction in cost compared to government contracts. This is even excluding the reusability. The development costs for Falcon 9 v1.0 were approximately US$300 million
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by Gwypaas 5y ago
Windows 8.1 reached end of mainstream support on January 9, 2018, over three years ago. Windows 8 support ended on January 12, 2016. No wonder you ran into issues if you installed it and tried getting it "updated" recently. https
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Uber tried launching "ride-sharing", also called the UberPOP service in Sweden in 2015 completely flouting the laws. Many of the drivers were quickly convicted for illegal taxi services and Uber had $2M in unpaid taxes and social
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Here's an awesome diagram of all tracked space debris from 1959 to 2021 showing the constant cleaning by drag happening at lower orbits. It's the higher ones we really need to care about. https://www.reddit.com/r&#
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
See the regular Hohmann transfer [0]. Adding Δv at one point causes the orbit to become elliptic and will still pass through the same altitude, the yellow line in the picture. To increase the lower altitude, also called the periapsis, you n

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