MagnumOpus

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by MagnumOpus 2y ago
> couldn't even build them to meet the needs of the grid near unlimited money France did, with very limited money. > It would require more than halving the capital requirements to get close to break even with renweables France -
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
> we began enforcing reduced sulfur emissions from diesel motors in international waters. The expectation was that would help with climate change, how couldn't it Nice story, but the drive to reduce SOx and other particulate emissio
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
Read the comment again - he pays for one seat, he sleeps across 3 or 4.
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
> a £60K household income (two adults, no kids) still makes you better off than 88% of the population That is before taxes and redistribution though. People without income or with _de minimis_ income would get their housing cost paid (wh
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
> nobody manages to build it aggressively or even at enough scale to make a meaningfull impact China does. They will be completing 60-70 GW worth of reactors in the next decade, planning to take nuclear power from 2% of their electricity
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
French nuclear power has a levelized cost of about $70/MWh - which is about the same cost as the levelized cost of solar or wind in France, without most the headaches of intermittency. (Remember the average French person lives further
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
The NSA (probably) communicates it to the DEA’s Special Operations Division, which creates an entry in the DEA’s DICE database and tips off a DEA field office, which then asks local law enforcement to do a “random” stop and to use some Para
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
Offshore rigs/wells/FPSOs are huge operations and ownership is relatively easily traceable for the people who can exert pressure (investors and governments). And generally it is the big operations that have the biggest leaks. The
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
Don't be deliberately obtuse. It's clear that PayPal won't pay interest on "frozen" cash unless sued, and it is also evident that any corporate cash is swept into money market funds at >5% interest.
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
3.2% yield which likely is real yield as it grows with inflation in the long term. And the underlying property price also growth with inflation (with incomes, really, so higher than inflation). So 3.2% real yield - which is not much lower t
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
The correct term is "per mil" or "per mille" (‰), equivalent to "per cent" (%).
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
And not just the Czech one. 2017 Balakliia, Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balakliia#2017%E2%80%932019_ar... 2017 Kalnyvka, Ukraine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Kalynivka_ammunition_de
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
Underestimating the enemy rarely ends up well. The decapitation strikes might have worked if Ukraine didn't have advance warning from very detailed intelligence, and if the Russian military was as competent as everyone assumed.
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
> would never ever had access to launch codes What do you think, how many hours does it take to remove and jury-rig launch signal electronics for a motivated nation state at the cutting edge of weapons technology? If the Soviet troops ha
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
A good proportion of these people have the majority of their multi-million dollar wealth tied up in a single on of the FAAMG megacorps, or in a stock portfolio heavily invested in them. As they say, "it is difficult to get a man to und
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
The other users who already spent the money paying for Apple-made devices should also enjoy the experience without having Apple lock them in to charge 30% for services subsequently. That sort of leveraging market position to extort extra mo
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
Dear newly-created "Irish" account, all of your critique misses the mark. The author is very obviously not racist, and has not mentioned headline corporate tax rates at all. The eagerness of successive Irish goverments to facilita
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
You copy/paste these comments on every unrelated post created by immigrants. Please stop. Obviously your comment is irrelevant, your parent poster didn't migrate "without paying any cost or contributing in the form of higher
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
Baseload and nighttime cannot be ignored if you try to argue economics. You have to compensate with batteries or overbuild or a continent spanning grid - and suddenly “cheap” is not quite the word. And of course solar is “cheap” in SoCal or
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
The alternative for the toxic teratogenic heavy metal that is depleted uranium is the toxic teratogenic heavy metal that is lead. Banning depleted uranium doesn’t solve anything.
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
Dude is bringing petrol and heating oil/gas into the discussion in addition to electricity - while ignoring that the EV transition is also greener for France than for the rest of Europe/US which runs their EVs with fossil-generate
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
And that 63% is far lower than any country/region at that latitude that doesn't have lucky geography for hydro power. And that 63% can be easily reduced in France by introducing heatpumps and EVs, but the same is not true in the U
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
Options are good. Resuming on error can be just as much a feature or flow control paradigm as using exceptions for flow control. VBA gives users options. If you want a straitjacketed 1990s predeclared OOP language, you can use Option Strict
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
It is though. Take the example of the Books app on iOS. If you enable iCloud, it uploads third-party documents and books into its cloud - so far so good. If you discontinue iCloud (or even just disable the annoying upload-and-delete-local-c
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
It doesn't need a privacy policy if it doesn't betray your privacy. And that is a PM decision.
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
There's the majority of drivers, and then there's the people with BMW M-series :-) (yes, yes you are right, half the autobahn has speed limits.)
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
The Bureau of Labor Statistic. Non-partisan enough, the methodology hasn't changed from the last administration. And take it from a non-US-based inflation expert: it is accurate enough, some gripes about "quality adjustment"
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
No. He is saying the former. The latter is not true, but it is the case that black women drop out at disproportionately high rates out of these programmes.
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
The EU’s new CBAM is a tariff that is based on embodied carbon. All other tariffs aren’t - they are protectionist measures aimed at increasing domestic employment.
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by MagnumOpus 3y ago
Yup, but an unrealised gain is still a gain. A million dollar in shares or paintings or classic cars can be borrowed against, and you don't need to pay taxes on borrowing. (And when you die, the capital gains base resets, which is the

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