anovikov

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by anovikov 2y ago
Price of raw solar panels and inverters is so absurdly cheap, tariffs can't impact them much. They make under 10% of final price of installed systems and included financing costs and maintenance over lifetime, under 5% of LCOE. Even if
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by anovikov 2y ago
U.S. market for solar panels is tiny and won't change much for Chinese solar producers. They are sitting on 1200 GW/y production capacity for panels and U.S. installations in 2024 were only 30 GW. Many other companies may be worri
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by anovikov 2y ago
But those thefts will quickly stop once people realise that you do it once - and you are out. That's the whole goal. Law enforcement is now toothless because just shooting hundreds of thousands per year is politically a no-no, and impr
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by anovikov 2y ago
That had to be resolved somehow. All problem with crime in the US is not catching the criminals but that there are so many of them they can't be affordably imprisoned - and death penalty applied on machinegun scale is out of favour wit
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by anovikov 2y ago
Probably they will be imprisoned there for long enough so they are no longer dangerous once out. Or indefinitely.
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by anovikov 2y ago
I thought the problem with it was the lack of space.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Well that was more or less my initial point. Yes from 1950, spending has increased but it did so by introducing beneficial things like Medicare or Medicaid, and vastly more people under Social Security because of demographic transition. So
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by anovikov 2y ago
In 2024, federal budget spent: - 1350B on social security - 870B on Medicaid - 850B on Medicare - 830B on the military - 660B on interest payments Out of total of $6200B. Essentially 3/4 of all spending is in these 5 major categories.
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by anovikov 2y ago
In theory, it should grow faster than GDP. Because government spending is inefficient but it is able to do things that the free market can't, so poor/less developed country should try to minimise it to enable fast, efficient growt
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by anovikov 2y ago
>The fact is the federal government seems to grow and spend without any limit or regard to logic. That's not the case really. In the last 50 years there was no trend in federal spending vs GDP, with widest movements being a growth f
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by anovikov 2y ago
Big question is quality though and how it all is used. They are fighting against Ukraine that has at best 1/5 as many people and they are barely advancing at all. This is not sustainable and they know it.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Today these people hang out at private jet FBOs.
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by anovikov 2y ago
They claim they have sonic boom solved by modifying the airframe shape. Otherwise, i agree with you. It will be a thing of no real consequence just like the original Concorde.
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by anovikov 2y ago
It worked because not just the development costs were paid for by the government, but acquisition costs were, too. Planes were given to the airlines for free, completely paid for by the states. Also, only be BA made good profit on it and on
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by anovikov 2y ago
But in a case like that eventually (once the business has become "sustainable") we will be speaking of 1.5 founders (some full-time founder and some guy who just holds some stock because they started together/knows some know-
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by anovikov 2y ago
I didn't think of it that way, but you seem to be onto something. I can indeed see that at least some groups of far left and far right are looking for modern society to collapse because they see it as the best way to push their values
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by anovikov 2y ago
It works. It's just that there's so much easier to extract energy, both renewable and non-renewable, that no one seems to bother. We can fairly see it as a hedge in case "something goes badly wrong with all other renewable en
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by anovikov 2y ago
It has been obvious since a year back. UNRWA is Hamas. They must be all rounded up and imprisoned, possibly for exchange for Israelis.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Well, there is no notion of crime if there is no actual personality involved. It's hard to define crime on a blockchain. Scripting could be in rust of solidity for instance, but sometimes it's just python or literally bash. Prime
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by anovikov 2y ago
It's more because people have realised that money is easier made outside of public space (crypto projects, scripts, other things that just extract money out of thin air) rather than by building something public that needs clients, inve
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by anovikov 2y ago
No you just "start looking" on a single image. Know your approximate location: by dead reckoning. You will need coordinate fixes once every few minutes anyway and you know your direction precisely enough from the same stars, error
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by anovikov 2y ago
No problem, in a few hours orbits of satellites don't change much, a day or two days' old ephemeris are ok. Especially not those on medium earth orbits which are the ones to be used (geostationary and other high orbital ones are t
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by anovikov 2y ago
How do you find your location from one image of stars? It is possible if you have a precise vertical but you don't have a precise vertical on a moving UAV. That is, you need an inertial system on top that will provide you with a vertic
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by anovikov 2y ago
An idea: use satellites for navigation. No, not the satellite signals, but the satellites themselves. Use NORAD orbital elements data for satellites to deduce land coordinates using time and pixel coordinates of satellites observed. Low orb
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by anovikov 2y ago
But there is no moral side to it, at all. Countries are shifting to renewables because they make more money. It's not about subsidies anymore. In the U.S., with abundant, very cheap fossil fuels, established engineering companies that
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by anovikov 2y ago
How does a co-op exit?
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by anovikov 2y ago
Real solution: assess risks and mandate building houses that can withstand those risks. Hurricanes? Find out what is the maximum possible hurricane and mandate construction standards that a house will withstand it with minimum damage (24&qu
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by anovikov 2y ago
Rwanda is a sad case. Biggest reason for their success is what no one wants to admit: the genocide.
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by anovikov 2y ago
Well 10mSv per hour is a really small dose rate considering post-SIOP environment. That's what will be there for a threshold of "heavy" (300Sv total dose) fallout areas, in 6 months. Or pretty much everywhere including areas
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by anovikov 2y ago
Homeschooling doesn't scale, this is why it's not a solution for everyone. I can't see a fundamental drawback to it, like there are none in say, private jets: only problem is that neither can be applied to any sizeable minori

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