_Tev

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by _Tev 5y ago
The phrasing does not read like a solid confirmation to me: > This was the world’s largest aircraft, AN-225 ‘Mriya’ (‘Dream’ in Ukrainian). Russia may have destroyed our ‘Mriya’. But they will never be able to destroy our dream of a stro
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by _Tev 5y ago
Random paywalled book does not qualify as a basis for "expert consensus".
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by _Tev 5y ago
We already know what is the issue with only scalable renewables (wind & solar) - unrealiability. Germany is doing pretty much nothing to scale up energy storage, so this all is just a fig leaf to burn more coal & gas (or imported &q
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by _Tev 5y ago
> As to how the mere presence of a nuclear attack submarine can scare off an entire carrier group, I still don't understand. But then again I build web apps not submarines. Escalation concerns - USA and Russia both really want to av
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by _Tev 5y ago
So when Russians in USA go back to visit their family they should pay for visas? I don't see how that helps the fight against Russian goverment in any non-symbolic way. Maybe stop trying to punish ordinary people for their (effectively
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by _Tev 5y ago
But there was no defense alliance between NATO and Ukraine, right? Maybe NATO has also weak wording in the treaty itself. So ask yourself - why did Ukraine want so badly to be accepted into it? Why is Russia opposing NATO expansion so much?
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by _Tev 5y ago
Just read the thread, your quote says nothing about going into nuclear war because of anyone breaching the treaty. EDIT: and wiki wording is unclear whether the treaty applies for conventional war. That's all I meant by "fuzzy&quo
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by _Tev 5y ago
Yea, but that was weak at best https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum_on_Securit... Also the wording is fuzzy when it comes to conventional war, but maybe the wiki has wrong wording. Either way, that is nowh
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by _Tev 5y ago
Yes, when you are in defense pact with nuclear powers, you have way better detterence on your side. Why is that so hard to understand? People are also forgetting that you can't just instantly admit Ukraine into NATO and instantly telep
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by _Tev 5y ago
So you are saying NATO should have started nuclear war because of Crimea? Because when you admit state that has part of it's territory occupied into a defense pact, you are effectively declaring war on the occupying state. Imo it'
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by _Tev 7y ago
On Android, PowerAmp has the functionality, and imo a tad more polished (enqueue is saved as a temporary playlist). On desktop WinAmp is still the only one :(
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by _Tev 7y ago
Well, this nicely shows problems with this debate in a nutshell. 1) nuclear is covered in FUD: > I don't think we even have enough qualified personnel to build the huge number of reactors 2) renewables "just work" without
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by _Tev 7y ago
Then we better start with it soon, right? Also we should start subsidizing batteries (and their research) more. How else do you propose to eliminate CO2 from electricity production?
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by _Tev 7y ago
We can use spent fuel to make more. It's just too expensive now because we still have a lot of natural sources, so this will fix itself by supply & demand process. And fuel costs are really tiny fraction of nuclear energy cost so t
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by _Tev 7y ago
There's an order of magnitude difference between enrichment levels for reactors and for nuclear weapons. It's like saying that any nation with orbital rockets can throw asteroids at you.
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by _Tev 7y ago
Yeah, nuclear can be expensive when you're building only couple of them per decade & continent. Look at China. On the other hand, what is the actual cost of renewable energy with storage / backup / grid upgrades accounted
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by _Tev 7y ago
> Its just the costs, they're high and increasing. This is only because of economies of scale (China is building many nuclear reactors and they seem to be fine). Also no one ever factors storage / higher grid costs / backu
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by _Tev 7y ago
> Instead those are footed by the taxpayer when something happens. Higher electricity bill from renewables is also footed by the taxpayer, see Germany.
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by _Tev 7y ago
But that's the problem with renewables - no one talks about utilization / MWh produced per year. Instead you quote "peak output" and hope nobody notices it's not a valid argument. I heard about 0.12* being utilizati
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by _Tev 8y ago
Well, if you don't follow spaceflight / LVs it sure doesn't make much sense. From my PoV (very casual fan of the above) it actually is pretty spot on to value ULA at 1/10th value of SpaceX. However reasons for that are t
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by _Tev 8y ago
Storage should be measured in MWh. When you measure it in MW (i.e. how much power it can generate _per second_) the important variable is for _how long_ you can do it - getting you back to simply using MWh.
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by _Tev 8y ago
> I cannot conceive of how anyone would think those phrases would result in useful, effective, or even interpretable irony or sarcasm. Well, that is the root of the disagreement (and one of the main issues with this whole fiasco). When y
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by _Tev 8y ago
Ok, let's make it hypothetical (and I think it's worth discussing because there are other examples / it will happen soon anyway) - is the blocking by payment processors on more-or-less arbitrary grounds good idea? Don't
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by _Tev 8y ago
Frankly, yes, those ideas are just "quirky", if you want to use that word. I would use "extreme", and maybe even "a bit crazy", but I still think deplatforming those stupid ideas is wrong, because: 1) you shoul
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by _Tev 8y ago
> Do we philosophically want to live in a world where people can be incited to great amounts of violence just because we want to protect FoS on private platforms? Do we want to live in a world, where everyone will be scared to say anythi
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by _Tev 8y ago
I think you missed the point of importance of clear link between violence-inciting-speech and actual violence. Because a lot of stuff today gets labeled as "hate speech" without direct violent consenquences - and that is the probl
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by _Tev 8y ago
> People forget how horribly inefficient and unethical current economic tools are. Crypto-plebs seem to completely undervalue blockchains ethical potential. > Both the pro- and anti- proponents are moving sideways throwing the same me
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by _Tev 8y ago
Are you for real? I don't care about other "non-ideal" choices, once you (repeatedly!) call for someone's death in public you should be (at least!) banned from running for any public office, period. The false equivalence
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by _Tev 8y ago
Have you read his quotes? This guy really does not shy from calling for blood. That's pure Nazi shit. "empty accusations" is quite dishonest as he literally calls for death of _thousands_ of his fellow citizens.
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by _Tev 8y ago
So,you agree with USA being unreliable partner now? (it might have been always that way, but it really looks different now)

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