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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, we don't have a "good technology". Yes, breeder reactors exist, but e.g. France has given up the technology, the UK has one? The problem is, that this technology is no where economic and breeder reactors are really challe
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Well, lacking any reasonable technology to process it, we have to store the wast. The problem is: safe storage is difficult to realize and extremely expensive. It needs to be kept safe for many millenia.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Nuclear waste is many magnitudes worse than natural uranium. It is not only way more concentrated, but contains a lot of radioactive isotopes, uranium doesn't contain, as a consequence of the nuclear reactions.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
We could... but is it a good idea?
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by _ph_ 4y ago
By far, not enough heat and radiation. With some luck you could drive the lights around the storage depots.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
If the containmaint fails, it means widespread contamination. This is basically the reason, Chernobyl was so bad: the graphite in the nuclear core caught fire and the fire launched a lot of radioactive material high into the air. So beyond
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes. Fast breeders are not new. But they are even more difficult than plain nuclear reactors. France built some, but gave up on the technology.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Anti-gambling laws are not vidoe-game specific, at best they just have to be adjusted to cover them correctly. And these kind of laws are pretty obvious so I don't see why there shouldn't be sensible working laws. There are sever
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Most countries (if not all?) are still far from the point where storage "blocks" solar/wind. But moving forward, more storage will be needed. And I am quite optimistic that it will be there as soon there is enough energy to s
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by _ph_ 4y ago
What you write, is I think the main point in this case: there is no hint in the article that telegram is providing access to the communications themselves, but rather data about the account holders which might let the authorities determine
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Actually, I would be surprised if anyone thinks, that WFH always beats working in an office. But that doesn't mean, that there are not a ton of jobs where it does, or just part time, even if the job requires a lot of on-site presence.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
And of course the asymmetry between being the CEO of the company, where you sit only in the meetings of your choice and where everyone tries to make you happy vs. having to sit in meetings any manager in your chain scheduled and expects you
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Indeed. In Cologne, which has quite a beer-brewing tradition, there are even humongous deep and large cellars, where they stored ice and cooled the beer barrels for later sale. Some of them are as large as a basketball court and today they
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Admittedly, that wasn't a tweet by Elon, but a leaked internal mail. But yes, it hints at less than optimal working conditions.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
There are plenty of reasons, why it can be valuable for people coming to the company offices. But if it was not apparent before, the pandemic has shown: - how much time is wasted in commutes - how much productivity can suffer from too much
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by _ph_ 4y ago
It is roughly half of the pixel count, as the Bayer interpolation gives better resolution than a naive conversion. Also, a lot of detail is in the green channel, which is registered by half of the total pixels.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Thanks, I thought you had spotted a certain model. Yes, split and ISO are a mandatory requirement, but I like the rgb lighting in that keyboard. Unfortunately, ANSI and ISO are physical different key arrangements, even if thy differ only by
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I think the same, you would need a different positioning of the switches on most keyboards. But as the poster I answered to was claiming you could convert them, I was curious, what he was thinking of :)
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Sorry, can you be helpful and point me to a link which shows how to do this for any given keyboard? For example, you would have to replace the left shift key with 2 separate keys, how should that work?
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Which one are you referring to?
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by _ph_ 4y ago
That looks like my dream keyboard - except it isn't available with an ISO layout :(
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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, you cannot convert an ANSI keyboard to an ISO layout. Which is a pity, as many nice keyboards are ANSI only.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
That is unlikely, if the energy is overall cheaper than at a fixed rate. Also, all countries are facing the same challenges with the transition to renewables.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, there is no clear endorsement from "scientists".
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, he did. Is there any chance he will build them, if you look at the unfinished Flammaville reactor, which is like 10 years overdue and equally over the price estimate? France currently has like 58 reactors, all of them very old. It is d
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Depends a bit on the nature of the bio mass. If we are talking about the non-edible parts of groceries or the manure produced by raising animals for meat, that is quite renewable. However, I don't think explicit farming for energy prod
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by _ph_ 4y ago
There should be some limit on how far the price varies, but it is an illusion, that electricity costs the same independent of time. For normal household appliances, there isn't too much flexibility - you need light, when it is dark, co
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Often enough, France cannot even power itself, less so export electricity 24/7. And the number of operational reactors is going down, not up. France is only a strong exporter in the times where there is low demand - exporting surplus n
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by _ph_ 4y ago
FFP2 masks are still mandatory and it isn't as if the regular trains were not crowed before.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Right, it is tax-funded. Don't ask me how exactly they assign the tax money to the train companies, but probably they get a fixed amount per ticket sold, which would be another reason why it is important to "sell" those ticke

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