KarlKemp

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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It’s not comparing peak-to-peak. That’s what “levelized” means. It’s price per actual megawatthour produced.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yeah, I, too, read slashdot when those arguments were still current. Now, they just aren’t. The stats above are already levelized. The change in output is also smaller than what people believe: with solar and gas as two independent systems,
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The International Monetary Fond, not known to be populated by treehugging hippies with naturalistic fallacies as a major character trait, published this beautiful graph: https://blogs.imf.org/wp-content/uploads/201
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yes, that’s pretty much what I suspected.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It's marketed at the slightly-adventurous enthusiastic middle-aged middle-manager. As such, they are probably quite receptive to a bit of showmanship along the lines of Q (as in Bond, not Star Trek). That segment is, indeed, also the m
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
I'm European and everything in the article is the same from this perspective, except the scale of class differences, which tends to be even lower here (or inverted: I don't have a single friend who owns a car, and I'd be afra
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yeah, right… What was that Linux Distel trying to copy maxOS again? „Elementary“? All rounded rectangles and the same 50 shades of gray, but not a single label had the same margins to its button. Design takes more than a „skin“. Besides pro
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Wait… Do you believe bees act as in some 90s strategy game, with exactly one bee in any hexagon?
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Murder and suicide aren’t „skyrocketing“. In as far as crime rates have risen, there is no clear pattern pointing at any cause. Many other countries have had similar experiences with the pandemic, yet seen no changes in rates of violent cri
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Maybe that’s what congress should do. Until such time, Signal should follow the law, in letter and in spirit. Even if the US democracy is flawed, it’s still a lot closer to the concept than any alternative.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It has been part of the literature since the early 1980s: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=social+distanc... It just wasn't a widely-known term because we didn't have much need for it.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
They very clearly don’t care about such matter. Or, more accurately, they specifically want to harm people who have committed the great sin of accidentally posting something. Opinions and practices are very different across different proj
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
> 60 to 70 percent threshold that Fauci and other public servants claimed as the target over the last year. That number changed because the delta variant is far more infectious now. It's closer to 90 %. But you already knew that, w
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It seems you believe the Facebook spin. Congratulations! You're on of two people believing anything Clegg has said in the last decade or so, and the other one is Zuckerberg. FWIW, the problem with this idea, except from being an ad ho
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
This was the common mantra ca. 15 yes ago on Slashdot that made you look extremely in-the-know, with that ineffable quality of genius that cynicism is often mistaken for. Have you read anything in the intervening decade-and-a-half? Battery
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yes, neither option may be perfect. But just claiming that, therefore, they are equally bad is philistine. It's a full embrace of a talking point even ExxonMobile has retired.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The only get donations for their campaigns. If tech companies give evenly to both parties, it wouldn't matter to politicians if those donations stopped. If one party gets more than the other, one party would gain, relatively, if donati
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
No, the beer shortage is in the UK.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Governments are bound by law, at least in democracies. There are thousands of cases in court by citizen and companies trying to, for example, overturn some decision (i. e. building permits, asylum, road construction, ... really anything), a
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
In German law, the Eichmann lesson was the opposite: it created (or, more accurately : recognized) a moral duty to refuse to follow unlawful orders. They didn’t let Eichmann get away with his just-following-orders excuse. And subsequently,
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Well... where to begin? * it's a 1964 movie * it's set in pre-revolutionary times * the students are arrested and/or shot, respectively * the students aren't capitalists * there were widespread protests, just a few mon
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Yes, exactly like “cancel culture”.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It’s perfectly fine to “self-censor”, and 100% of living adults do it. You don’t need to tell your father-in-law that he gained weight. It’s not the kind of information that wants to be free. The only actual censorship that’s happening in t
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
This faults the media for a widespread misunderstanding and starts with two examples of “the media” getting the story right (AP & WSJ) and an example of a Republican misrepresenting a case to get some cheap laughs and enough outrage to
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
"Democracy dies in darkness" is fundamentally true: it's a regulatory system, a basic feedback loop where people elect representatives, observe what happens, then possibly make changes if they don't like what they are se
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
I believe the criteria are more complex than just “7 days”. There’s something about AI or ML in the Safari “experiments” settings, and IIRC first- vs. third-party data is handled differently, and data may also be protected for more than a w
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The only obvious way to test if some operation is going to produce some value(s) is to perform that operation. Yes, for, say, a single multiplication I can anticipate the necessary bounds for each input value. But even short sequences of op
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
It’s pretty obvious how that is helpful to protect users’ privacy, isn’t it? Or why would they do it, considering it’s extra work compared to the status quo?
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
The identifier is part of it, as I remember from my mackintosh days, but it cannot be all: MacOS works well as a multi-user system, including separate iMessage accounts for each user.
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by KarlKemp 5y ago
Ah... bullshit. Copyright is civil law. There's no assumption of innocence in civil law. Fundamentally, because there's also no guilt, in the moral sense, only responsibilities and obligations. Practically, it's often a matte

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