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by Xixi 3y ago
I wonder if it's the same as with the Shinkansen: they are not running when there is a typhoon, and stop when there is an earthquake, but typhoon/earthquake induced delays/cancellations are usually not included in statistics
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by Xixi 3y ago
Look at it from the bright side: you are likely born towards a local maximum in terms of human development. Too late not to notice the decline, but early enough that you aren't likely to suffer too much from it for the best part of you
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by Xixi 3y ago
Yves Bréchet point in the linked video is that it’s first and foremost technical expertise, rather than political/regulatory landscape that explains why Taishan has fared better than the other EPR projects. It’s not something we (I’m E
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by Xixi 3y ago
Compared to Hinkley Point, Flamanville or Olkiluoto, that’s actually pretty good…
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by Xixi 3y ago
I disagree. But note that I never said it was Siemens fault. Or Framatome. I have no clue on that, so won’t make any claim on the subject. And frankly, I don’t care. I look for flaws in processes, rather than trying to assign blame. Especia
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by Xixi 3y ago
You are missing half of it: Siemens. The EPR design is French-German, as an "evolutionary descendant of the Framatome N4 and Siemens Power Generation Division Konvoi reactors". [1] This largely explain the complexity of the design
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by Xixi 3y ago
And yet, EDF successfully built Taishan 1 and Taishan 2 in China, pretty much in time and in budget. There were a couple of teething issues (as expected given these were the first two EPRs to enter service), but they are now running great.
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by Xixi 3y ago
Figures that I have for Q1 2023 for BMW Group (which includes Mini) are: 588,138 total, including 64,647 BEV. So that's 11% BEV. IN Q1 2022, figures were: 596,907 total, including about 25,940 BEV. So it was 4.3% BEV. Going from 4.3% B
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by Xixi 3y ago
It was an E-2 visa (as "essential manager", not investor...), so not H1B. But again, that's what the attorney told me, maybe he just wanted to be super extra careful. But notice the nonimmigrant wording on the U.S. Citizenshi
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by Xixi 3y ago
I might have been traumatized by US visa process, but in my mind "immigrant" has a very specific meaning: moving to a country with the intent of settling there permanently. And the US is very strict on that meaning: when I went to
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by Xixi 3y ago
One of the biggest industry in France is aerospace (might even be the biggest, not by market cap but by revenue/people employed), and yet Airbus (not only French of course, also German, Spanish, etc.) is headquartered in the Netherland
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by Xixi 4y ago
You don't have to adjust the clocks though, you can adjust business hours instead. Just look at Spain, which shares the same timezone as Poland: they simply wake up/go to bed later on the clock, but not with regard to the sun.
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by Xixi 4y ago
I’m not sure I expressed my point clearly. It wasn’t quite about Apple. So I will reformulate it here: the fate of any instruction set on the desktop is primarily decided by Microsoft. Do you have any information that Microsoft is plannin
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by Xixi 4y ago
If RISC-V support by Microsoft is as bad as it has been for ARM, then I'm afraid RISC-V will never touch the desktop market, at all. Contrary to ARM, which is being pushed there with great success by Apple. Server-wise of course it&#x2
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by Xixi 4y ago
Estimated frontal Radar Cross Section (really just estimates, actual figures tend to be classified as you can imagine): 1.2m² for the F-16, 0.8m² for Mirage 2000 and Gripen C, 0.04m² for Rafale and Eurofighter (0.05m² with anti-air missiles
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by Xixi 4y ago
Reading "The Limits to Growth" and having a passing understanding of the consequences of global warming will have you start to ask these kind of questions fairly quickly. The Shift Project [1] did exactly that for France: they ela
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by Xixi 4y ago
IANAL, but from my understanding of Japanese law, technically you renounce your Japanese citizenship when you acquire a foreign citizenship. So, even though Japanese authorities might not know it yet (or ever), you lose the Japanese citizen
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by Xixi 4y ago
It’s not replacing gas/coal but nuclear, so CO2 wise it is a major step back… Germany first replaced nuclear by lignite, then lignite by wind + lignite/gas, so if you only look at the second step it doesn’t look so bad. But if you
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by Xixi 4y ago
It is indeed mostly green tea, although different kind of green teas: "standard" green teas (from Sencha to Gyokuro), teas made of twigs (Karigane), roasted green teas (Hojichas), green tea with rice (Genmaicha), green tea flavore
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by Xixi 4y ago
These few legitimate use cases should not be dismissed though, from the perspective of sizing an energy grid: for example reducing iron ore with hydrogen rather than coal works out to about one nuclear reactor for one furnace. No idea for c
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by Xixi 4y ago
https://tomotcha.com/ — a Japanese tea subscription service. Although we had to suspend our activities for the better part of 2022, we've been able to resume in January 2023. Logistic is brutal in what is starting to l
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by Xixi 4y ago
My understanding is that in this case Mercedes if fully liable if something goes wrong - so you are allowed to watch a movie or read a book. If the car proceeds to crash into the car in front of you, Mercedes is on the hook, not you. I doub
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by Xixi 4y ago
I'm not sure what you mean, but I don't think many countries still had legal slavery going into the 20th century, outside of the Arab peninsula. In Korea it was officially abolished in 1894 (although it took a few decades to eradi
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by Xixi 4y ago
It's not hard to find sources about slavery in Asia. "Slavery in Korea formally existed from antiquity up to the 20th century. Slavery was very important in medieval Korea; it was a major institution. [...] The Korean "nobi&q
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by Xixi 4y ago
On the other hand, the planet was only 4~4.5ºC cooler than at the beginning of the industrial area, so it was not that much cooler. For those who think that warming up the planet by 3 or 4ºC is not a big deal...
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by Xixi 4y ago
Indeed, I would have agreed 200% with the following: "In Europe Apple stuff costs much more, relative to income." But I've read so many times (on French forums) people argue that Apple is overcharging EU citizens by forgettin
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by Xixi 4y ago
It's something that I often hear, but each time I check, the difference is minimal. So I did the comparison again between France and the US, for an iPhone 14 (unlocked, 128 GB) + AppleCare+. I take the phone unlocked, with AppleCare+,
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by Xixi 4y ago
Parent wrote "The sleepless nights and diaper changes are a mere blip on the scale of a lifetime with kids." You still pretty much in the middle of that blip. It is exhausting. When your kids are getting closer to 10, you will h
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by Xixi 4y ago
The A380-800 was vastly overbuilt, as it is, in essence, a shrink. Shrinks are always the least efficient airplanes in a family. Usually larger variants are more efficient, while smaller variants tend to be more capable (in terms of range,
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by Xixi 4y ago
Taiwan biggest trading partner is, by far, mainland China. And Hong-Kong is not far down the list [1]. Media might give you the impression that China and Taiwan are practically at war, and that might even be true in so far as China is conte

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