Gwypaas

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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Welcome to the pandemlympics, where every country is comparable down to the day and everyone is a combined epidemiologist and statistician. Yes Sweden has a second wave, although still in an earlier stage than most other places. Hopefully i
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Not really. The blocks change, especially in close elections without true winners. Then negotiations happen and smaller parties often make concessions on the grand scheme of things to get their key issues through. So, much more compromise t
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Michael Barbaro: So this winner-take-all system, this is not something envisioned by the framers. It seems like it kind of came to us in a pretty haphazard way. Jesse Wegman: Right. People like to imagine that the system that we used tod
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Better to let land vote than the actual people right?
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
American trucks are actually lighter than European. 36 tons compared to 40 or 44 tons for most of Europe. The entire Nordics allow 25m (83 ft) trucks up to 60 tons.
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Wow! Thank you for showing me that, really piqued my interest as a commercial maritime nerd on the side! I've seen other more permanent container solutions retrofitted on ships, though mostly passenger ferries with set schedules. Also
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Sweden here, all manual on paper. A first count in 2-3 hours the night of the election, then a complete recount the following weeks in all districts, no triggers or conditions to keep it simple and use the same process for any result. You c
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
I wonder if battery swapping is a red herring which always will be talked about but never realized? Hugely increased complexity since the battery needs to have all mounting points easily accessed in any condition, rain, snow, ice buildup, w
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Wouldn't be surprising considering the per capita has mostly leveled off since 2011 https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china?country=USA~IND...
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
China already leveled off in 2011. https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china?country=USA~IND...
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Haven't even heard of the Washington accord, seems very US centric. All of EU except Ireland is missing.
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
I find it very American to define living standard by the size of the car, size of drink and home size. I much rather do it by the quality of entertainment and culture I have easily accessible, while choosing to live maybe a little bit small
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy due to failed nuclear construction in the U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/westinghouse-tos... Areva, responsible for the construction of Olkiluoto-3 in
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
It's a different culture than the US. Not at all the same pressure to immediately go to university, many people get jobs and travel while feeling out what field they really want to enter. This is of course dependent on the current jobs
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
It's really nothing! Compare to a Iridium Go! which is what many cruisers nowadays use to download weather forecasts off-shore. Around $700 for the base unit and then even more if you want an outside antenna. This is even omnidirection
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
This was posted here regarding some similar discussion a while ago. "Falsehoods programmers believe about prices" https://gist.github.com/rgs/6509585
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Population density really doesn't matter in these discussions regarding spread. How does the huge Canadian arctic influence any spread happening in public transportation in Toronto? It doesn't. Same with Sweden and the other Nordi
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Both mobility data and the curves of ICU cases and deaths, which are fairly reliable proxies for the infection level in the society regardless of variations in testing capacity, are orthogonal to your claims. ICU cases peaked early april, d
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Really the stronger but not as striking data point, sadly not in the title is: For the year 2020 so far, ie January - September, the number of deaths per capita is the third lowest ever.
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
You will never get it completely right but at least do something with a true grounding in math aiming for the most precise outcome. Every vote, in every election, should count for something and not only be a participation point on all other
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Latest Lazard LCOE (Levelized cost of energy) report actually showed that the building new of the cheapest onshore wind is lower than marginal cost of running existing nuclear plants. It also showed that PV+Storage, though with their define
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Factor in a cleanup cost of $200 billion, or up $470 billion if actually taking care of the contaminated water [0] and not a single insurance company or reinsurance broker willing is to take on a nuclear plant. I would much rather have that
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
WhatsApp isn't as common as you might think, although still the largest. It's either Messenger or WhatsApp, so still Facebook. [0] My personal pet theory is that it depends on when the country got free text messages. For example i
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
I guess there's two ways of looking at it. The distances spanned by the extreme points net or how dense it is. Not that I have the knowledge to relate any of that to real world use cases or consequences. Here's the map including a
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Apparently not a problem to do today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continen...
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Certain exceptions from the right of withdrawal should exist, both for distance and off-premises contracts. A right of withdrawal could be inappropriate for example given the nature of particular goods or services. That is the case for e
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
To clarify what KTH is: KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Swedish: Kungliga Tekniska högskolan), abbreviated KTH, is a public research university in Stockholm, Sweden. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTH_Royal_Institut
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
All of Europe is already connected, here where I live in Sweden I don't even remember the last power outage. Happens like maybe once a year that you wake up or get home and the microwave clock has reset. Map of the European grid: http
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Too simple a take on the relations between EU and Norway, here is a more comprehensive view: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway%E2%80%93European_Union_... In short, as much part of EU you can be without being part of
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by Gwypaas 6y ago
Sweden actually does it. It's PCR tests to track the number and change in ongoing infections in the whole population. 0.9% end of April 0.3% end of May Zero of the tested were infected end of August End of September is being published

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