Gwypaas

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by Gwypaas 6y ago
I'd say the problem with Instant Run-off is that it feels good and tangible but doesn't accomplish anything. A prime example is the Australian parliament, where the lower chamber is essentially IRV while the upper chamber has some
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Single member districts coupled with todays media and social media. This naturally leads to the natural balance being two parties, which has to oppose each other to the extreme in all topics, which then diverges further and further creating
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Downward pressure and stability margins have been added recently by forcing people to amortize their loans, seemed to cool the market for a year or so until continuing to increase. Loans above 70% of value needs to be amortized by 2% per ye
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Good summaries from the EU side: Short easy infographic: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/api/files/attach... 6 page summary: https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info&#x2
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
The natural balance of a system built on single member districts is two parties, which naturally has to oppose each other to the extreme in all topics. The final outcome is the US today. See the radical shift when New Zeeland shifted to MMP
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They tried to expand into the Nordics in 2017, with headlines promising opening hundreds of pizza places. By the end of 2019 they canceled all new plans of expansion and have been trying to sell the restaurants since [0], really bland borin
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Dumbing down anything WW2 to a single statement is pointless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_during_World_War_II
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Or Blue Origin trying to patent rockets landing on floating platforms and then suing SpaceX. At least we are soon coming up on the 5 year anniversary of the first successful landing! https://spacenews.com/spacex-gets-partial
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Depends on country, many has messenger as the primary app. In Sweden Whatsapp barely even exists. https://www.messengerpeople.com/global-messenger-usage-stati...
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
The merlin engine uses TEA-TEB which causes the green flame seen on Falcon 9. The raptor uses electric spark ignition, which is harder but doesn't require any awfully poisonous chemicals and you can't run out. https://e
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Maybe some metal in the engine burning, you could see some green streaks at the edge right at the relight. Engine rich combustion?
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Wouldn't the major differentiator be the safety standards? You can't have a runaway reaction, because you need energy input to the magnet field to get more energy out. Instead of creating the right environment to get a chain react
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Until you get payment processors, mostly US based, which still don't follow the standards. Have to click the dangerous sounding "Open card to ALL internet purchases for 60 minutes" button every time I buy a game on Steam, oth
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Because efficiency is the name of the game. If you miss your slot time in a busy port you might spend some days or a week waiting on the next and now you have cascading logistics issues, both for the ship in question and the cargo getting s
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Or simply add some flexibility. The rules are similar in Sweden, with the caveat that if an employer suspects that an employee actually is not sick they can demand a doctor's note which the employer then pays for. If the note shows tha
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Look at the graph I linked. Burning oil more efficiently is easy when you start from coal and emit tons more, real change is hard. Compare to Sweden, less than 1/4 the CO2 emissions compared to the US, and an almost completely carbon f
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I think what's missing is the difficulty. The US did a purely economic side step led by the fracking boom with a coincidental effect being less emissions. The next step following is where it becomes interesting, because now it's n
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Much easier to make large cuts when you're on a completely different level to to begin with. Replacing coal with natural gas and patting yourself your back because you made such a contribution while locking in another 30 years of foss
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Yep, that is feasible today. Coastal ferries and routes counted in hours. Here's a larger ferry connecting Sweden and Denmark that was converted to hybrid with the goal to not use any diesels in regular service. Has 4 160 kWh battery c
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There's two sides to it. For peak loads and shorter routes measured in minutes or hours with easy charging possibilities batteries have been coming for 5-7 years now. The issue is charging since no regen is possible except load smoothi
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No need to be authoritarian. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/High_Spe...
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On the other end of the spectrum you have France and Spain with new lockdowns and high mask compliance. Public health coupled with the communication of it is a damnadly hard subject.
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It was tried back when nuclear everything was the future. Deemed non-economical except in special circumstances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_marine_propulsion
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Wallenius Marine is designing one. Together with their partner Wilhemsen they are one of the words largest Ro-Ro operators. Completely different scale, although always hard when one of the incumbents try to innovate. https://www.
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Better wages in Norway, though a more traditional low tech market focused around resources. They've been trying to diversify for ages but can't comment on the results of that. Haven't heard of any Norwegian Spotify, Mojang,
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I wonder if Stockholm is the closest? At least in VC per capita. Also really easy to start a company.
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Flamanville, France: The project was planned to involve around €3.3 billion of capital expenditure from EDF, but latest cost estimates (from 2019) are at €12.4 billion. Pierre Moscovici, president of the Court of Audit, gave a statement on
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Do you also handle your mask and other PPE like this? [0] From the comments the even the linked video is not perfect. This is the problem with the public advice, humans are imperfect and will always be, maybe our kids will be better due to
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Either way, using Stockholm as the geographical reference point the chosen point correlates against dark cold Januari/Februari with average temperatures of -1°C and 7-8 hours of twilight. Considering that keeping the relative number be
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China has levelled of since 2011 while still maintaining their incredible economic growth. Quite remarkable actually. On the other hand it's quite easy to spot the outliers. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-em

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