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by avar 3y ago
> A1Bs are not submarine reactors but I guess that's not important. I'll admit I was assuming that these naval are broadly similar, at least in cost per MW. > If it were as simple as [...] everyone would be doing it already
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by avar 3y ago
> People in prehistoric times must have been the most skilled stone carvers ever. Look up CNC stone carving, the ancient have nothing on us.
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by avar 3y ago
A HN comment chain claiming the opposite of what you're arguing here, that they're much cheaper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26348839
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by avar 3y ago
You're still fundamentally conflating "aren't logged" with "are logged, but chats expire". Consider what would happen if a company deployed a system of microphones across their offices such that all in-person c
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by avar 3y ago
> American jurisprudence is headed for a future where there is no such thing as going off the record, if you are using a chat app. Companies could set up internal chat solutions where conversations aren't logged. But they'd lik
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by avar 3y ago
Talking about "the budget" is meaningless in this context, you could similarly argue that Bill Gates can't afford to buy his kids bubblegum on any given day. After all his self-imposed budget for them is $10/day. Look at
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by avar 3y ago
The "act as if you [have] it" really depended on your government's policy at the time. I live in the Netherlands, and during the height of the COVID scare here and in the EU you needed e.g. a negative test taken days before e
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by avar 3y ago
> The negatives can't really be trusted, but if they say you've got it, you've got it. All of these tests have a non-zero false positive rate, they're not definitive proof that you have COVID.
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Even if we had no oceans (or other bodies of water, or ice) we'd instantly get a new atmosphere from the resulting vacuum-induced outgassing.
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by avar 3y ago
Is general it's not so clear cut. If I make wheat and you run a bakery I might offer you a 30% discount for the next 5 years, but only if I'm your only wheat supplier. This sort of arrangement allows us to spread the risk of marke
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by avar 3y ago
Is this in the US? I believe that the EU regulates this: > Overall Migration Limit (OML) of 60mg/kg food, or 10 mg/dm2 of the contact material. - https://food.ec.europa.eu/safety/chemical-safety/food-c
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by avar 3y ago
> Netherlands we have the world's cleanest tap water. Eh? Dutch tap water is fine, but do you have a citation for that? Also note that "clean tap water" is a bit of a fuzzy non-metric. I live in Amsterdam[1], where the pH
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by avar 3y ago
I use these too, but as they have microwave safe plastic lids they're perhaps not the best example for those paranoid about plastic exposure: https://www.ikea.com/nl/en/p/ikea-365-food-container-with-li..
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by avar 3y ago
I'm not, I'm assuming it'll average out. It's no more likely on average that the current owner is an enthusiast that's extending the usable lifetime of the vehicle than the next owner.
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by avar 3y ago
Your friend may understand environmental science, but clearly not economics. If you don't keep your car you'll sell it. You won't be moving the needle on how long it'll take to amortize that initial manufacturing cost, i
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by avar 3y ago
Why paint it at all? If it's a curtain rod that uses moving rings the friction is almost entirely at the top. Just apply some painter's tape at the top when painting it. If you do want to paint it spray paint gives great results,
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by avar 3y ago
The difference is that other ship types don't have an incentive to run their engines once they're docked. Cruise ships as floating hotels have high power requirements even when they're not underway. They're also likely t
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by avar 3y ago
I too find cruise ship pollution while in port annoying, especially so once you realize they're burning oil to run generators ... while being just meters away from a perfectly working power grid. It seems to me that a perfectly reasona
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by avar 3y ago
> Remain neutral on all topics. Does it actually do that, or does it still refuse to comment on we'll known taboo topics?
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by avar 3y ago
Even if we accept this argument, the parts you're talking about are a tiny proportion of video game console parts. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to e.g. buy replacement analog stick parts.
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by avar 3y ago
Yeah, it definitely depends on the country. For western Europe in general the reason to stop at a highway gas station is because you're looking to go-go-go. If you're willing to do a 10-15 minute detour off the highway there'
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by avar 3y ago
I'm not the GP, but I've driven a lot through western Europe, including Germany. There's two break patterns when driving a gasoline powered vehicle that I'd really miss if I had an EV: 1) More frequent but short breaks
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by avar 3y ago
It differs by banks and countries, but e.g. my Dutch debit card only has an IBAN number on it, so anything set up to accept credit card numbers won't accept it. Almost every online web shop here will accept debit cards, but it's t
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by avar 3y ago
> are equally meaninglessly > large to any lay reader. No, because a cubic kilometer of ocean does not contain a nice round number of liters of water. It contains however many liters of water are in that cubic kilomete
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by avar 3y ago
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but some quick searching seems to suggest that it's just as much of mess in Argentina as here ;-) https://www.totaline.com.ar/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/17-Ca...
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by avar 3y ago
What country is that? Here in The Netherlands there's at least 3 entirely different standards for household water and gas pipes (and I know Germany's much the same). There's BSP (imperial), but be careful, it's not the d
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by avar 3y ago
> Western Europe was more > industrialized than we were[...] One reason for this is that weights and measures in Europe were less standardized at the time. While the US (mostly) used a consistent system, different countr
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by avar 3y ago
> Imagine how long it actually takes to build one structure like that [...] 6M tonnes of the great pyramid. This one machine in Germany is already making the equivalent of ~15 great pyramids per year, by tons of material moved: https:&#
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by avar 3y ago
> third-world living conditions [...] I know that the phrase has gained an orthogonal meaning since the cold war, but if we use the original one it's funny to call what's arguably the only remaining second-world count
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by avar 3y ago
So what? I'm suggesting pricing in the externalities. It's not a problem that you want to release a ton of CO^2, if scrubbing and permanently sequestering a corresponding ton of CO^2 is included in the price. Instead the EU wants

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