bayesian_horse

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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Doesn't matter the source of the energy if you have to store it anyway. With nuclear power the "good weather" is the actual problem.
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
That's not fast enough. Also, running nuclear plants at much below peak capacity is hardly efficient, increasing the cost. Again: This is a problem no country experienced so far, because even France doesn't have that much capacity
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Past history is a bad indicator for future risk when the costs are so high. And the reason why there were so few fatalities was because huge chunks of land have been evacuated every time and costly cleanup operations have been undertaken. T
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
You ignore fat-tail risks. The incident in Fukushima is already hugely expensive and the expense keeps growing. Relying on past frequencies for future risk assessment is dangerous, especially when there is this high of a cost. Especially on
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Bullshit. There was no "decision" in the refugee crisis, we had to take in the refugees because of our constitution and frankly because we (constitutionally and fortunately) don't have the means to get rid of them even if we
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Nuclear power projects are always finished late and way over budget. There's definitely a pattern there.
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
It's not the replacement. The argument that "lignite" plants replaced nuclear power is mostly wrong. Especially not long term. But this argument is highly convenient for people who are delusional over the benefits of nuclear
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Just wait until the summer. Also exports from Germany to France did indeed decline due to the transition.
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Ever questioned if maybe experts and politicians who deal with these issues daily are less delusional than you? "Ecologists" weren't the ones who nuked nuclear. Popular opinion did. Impossible accidents happening a couple tim
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Because electricity demand fluctuates. It's uneconomical to build enough nuclear capacity to satisfy peak demand. So even if you were to go to 100% nuclear, you'd have to store the excess power to satisfy the peaks.
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
It's not baseload if it's not on all the time. The point of the article is that what was previously supplied by "baseload" is now generated from a flexible mix, with hardly anything generating 100% of the time.
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Nuclear power has high upfront investments, always. And pretty much all nuclear projects are finished behind schedule and wayyy above budget. After a couple of decades of this, reasonable people may come to the conclusion that these investm
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
I actually meant the author. She is taking Musk too seriously. There may be people in the general public, who are unrelated to SpaceX or anything space related, who are crazy about Mars. But my point is that even SpaceX has plenty to do bes
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
I hardly think any of that is going to be binding.
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
By the time we CAN send Human beings on missions leaving the solar system, the definition of "Human being" will have changed beyond recognition.
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
I don't think the conditions on Mars will kill the first few people going there. The transportation, including the landing, is much more dangerous. And those people won't even stay there. A couple of years at most for any one pers
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Starship is immensely useful, even much closer to home. Financially, going to Mars is not the justification for Starship (no matter how often Musk says). Starship will enable us to bring much more mass into orbit. Communication satellites m
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
What race to Mars? At best three entities are even aiming to send people to Mars, and all of them at a quite leisurely pace: NASA, ESA and SpaceX. And by all accounts, they are cooperating more rather than competing. Some people take Elon M
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Yes, let's be clear: I'm not saying it's the worst animal cruelty there is, just that animal welfare has to be seen on a spectrum. Our avian medicine professor said that budgies will get frustrated from trying to socialize wi
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Browsers are now so essential, that there is little incentive for Google to drop out and very much incentive for everyone else to continue or increase their involvement. With Firefox there is even a viable alternative that isn't contro
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Those comparisons are meaningless, because this bird is living in Human care through Human decisions (at some point...). What is less meaningless is the idea that animals should be able to fulfill the full spectrum of their natural behavior
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
I'm not saying these birds can't be happy. Some certainly aren't resocializeable, and there's nothing wrong with keeping them as happy as possible regardless. One of the most objective criterion for animal welfare is how
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
The preference of people over birds is not a good sign. Usually means he wasn't well socialized or even misimprinted. Breeders do that intentionally because people want people-focused parrots. But it's not good for them. Sometimes
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Budgies will try to socialize (in vane) with extremely unrealistic plastic budgies. Parrots actually recognize each other by voice, the colors of the feather doesn't matter hardly at all (maybe for mating...), we know that because cert
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
First question in my mind was: How did they stop the parrots from destroying the devices? But the species they used is quite small, so...
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
When you want to hire them, you'll have to compete (especially in salary) with employers who need them for something Rust is actually very well suited for.
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Both Python and Javascript are eating Rust's lunch in terms of popularity. And Typescript is just a typechecker, it's still a very dynamically typed language/runtime underneath. Especially with Rust you have to think way more
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Rust engineers coming from a different niche than frontend development will just LOVE web development.
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
My point was that there is a better access for the immune system in the brain. Not that you'd want any infection regardless.
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by bayesian_horse 3y ago
Electrodes would usually be mounted on the surface of the brain, outside the blood-brain barrier of course. That's plenty close enough for most purposes.

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