Maakuth

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by Maakuth 4y ago
And they were very interested in doing so before that. Communist parties across the world received a lot of their funding from the USSR.
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by Maakuth 4y ago
I think it is very hard to measure the total impact of outsourcing. In single company's case, it might seem that competitiveness increases when you start to outsource, but when everyone is onboard with it, it fades into background. I d
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by Maakuth 4y ago
Outsourcing SWE work to India and Eastern Europe is already very, very common. I don't know if that has had an impact on the availability of doctors, but in Poland, Ukraine or Belarus you'll find most of the IT workers work in out
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by Maakuth 5y ago
That is only because that's the cheapest source, compared to gas which is bought from where the pipelines are coming from. The amount of uranium needed for power plants is fairly small, it can be transported from wherever and there&#x2
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Enriching (to much lower concentration of U-235) is also a part of nuclear fuel cycle, so a peaceful way of getting rid of this material would be to dilute it and make fuel.
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by Maakuth 5y ago
I'm not iOS user myself, but I hear Möbius sync ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/möbius-sync/id1539203216 ) is reasonably good Syncthing client wrapper for it.
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Apple is even a governing member of the alliance behind AV1 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Open_Media ), so the case could be different than with previous free codecs.
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by Maakuth 5y ago
This is the company doing the disposal, they start the disposal operations in a few years: https://www.posiva.fi/en/index.html The method is Swedish, they seem to have good pictures of it here: https://www.s
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by Maakuth 5y ago
There's a lot of cross-border transmission capacity, so excess capacity is exported without an issue.
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Why do you consider it certain that NATO guarantees would not apply? Ukraine is not in the alliance.
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by Maakuth 5y ago
That is the only opinion that's safe to say in the public though, isn't it? So even if that's the only thing heard, it's not clear what the share of the public agreeing with this sentiment is. To my understanding even in
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Hear it from the former Finnish PM, Finland is not neutral, even though we were forced to be during the cold war: https://mobile.twitter.com/alexstubb/status/1497619756760895... During this period, our politics un
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by Maakuth 5y ago
I had a Samsung oven that self-destructed beyond repair on the first attempt of the pyrolytic cleaning program, less than a year after purchase. I know multiple people that got less than year of service from their other sort of Samsung appl
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by Maakuth 5y ago
So the slot reservations are maintained by proof of work?
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Source? This sounds awfully lot like the ICE manufacturer backed FUD about EVs.
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Only France of those is under the Western regulation, and even though they did bring a couple of reactors online in the beginning of 2000s, those projects were started at least 30 years ago, using designs from before that. Hence, for exampl
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by Maakuth 5y ago
I'm not very worried about the safety aspect, as the safety features are probably among the most explicit parts of the design. These are carefully designed, modeled and simulated and are also the focus of the regulators. Moreover, ther
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by Maakuth 5y ago
https://www.tvo.fi/uploads/julkaisut/tiedostot/ydinvoimalayk... here's a nice summary of the plant design.
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by Maakuth 5y ago
I'm not disputing that there were politics involved in choosing to build one instead of two reactors. What I mean is that the many of the big challenges facing this project were not particularly connected to the power of the unit. Any
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by Maakuth 5y ago
I'm doubtful of that. One big root cause for most of the delays is the fact that no new reactor projects were started in a long time before this one, in Western regulation regimes. Due to this, a lot of cumulative experience was lost f
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by Maakuth 5y ago
When it starts producing, that is. According to the commissioning schedule it will be the middle of February until the production reaches meaningful levels: https://www.tvo.fi/en/index/production/plantunits&#x
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The Olkiluoto 3 EPR plant unit started up(tvo.fi)
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by Maakuth 5y ago
In Finland the system is similar, but recently changed in a somewhat entertaining way. The tax office used to publish a summary list of highest earning individuals for media's benefit. Then some politicians got involved and demanded th
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by Maakuth 5y ago
If you need to run a CI server or something, the cost of the hardware itself is not nearly the only cost you have. With this, you have it hooked up in reliable power supply, very good network connectivity and all the other physical concerns
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Starting from LTE, there's no distinction in the network level between data and voice or SMS, it's all just IP traffic. The voice call protocol is called VoLTE. As long as your handset can reach the VoLTE infrastructure via IP, yo
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Alternatively it works if you are sufficiently patient.
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by Maakuth 5y ago
I would bet on hubris here. In parallel with the Flamanville unit, they've been building EPR in Olkiluoto, Finland. There's a number of issues that have been shared by both of the projects, of course with some issues specific to e
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by Maakuth 5y ago
I agree with you that the SciHub's difference to Aaron is the different legal environment. But I think this is not a good explanation why SciHub might be morally better. Indeed protesting unjust laws could be considered moral good, whe
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Do you have better suggestions how to allow such access? As far as I know, Sci-Hub is the current leader in this field, with methods not that different from Aaron's. The official methods to achieve this proceed at snail's pace and
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by Maakuth 5y ago
Whether some parts are custom or standard start to lose their meaning in Apple's scale. Probably you're right in the SoC case, reserving that sweet 5nm capacity from TSMC likely costs a lot. But the rest of your list is similar to

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