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by bildung 6y ago
The very article clearly explains why the world moves in the opposite direction.
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by bildung 6y ago
Nuclear is essentially done (outside of niches), simply because renewables have become cheaper (in $/MWh produced) than nuclear, while having non of nuclears disadvantages.
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by bildung 6y ago
Once you have the gog galaxy installed, though, even the "offline" install files of games will automatically get integrated into it. It's horrible.
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by bildung 6y ago
Yes, he just paraphrased the agreeableness trait of the OCEAN/Big Five personality model here. His nature/nurture musing are off the mark, though: Of the five traits agreeableness has the lowest heritability with about 42%. The cu
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by bildung 6y ago
No, the articles say that ISIS has been created in Bucca. From the Guardian article: “[al-Baghdadi] was respected very much by the US army,” Abu Ahmed said. “If he wanted to visit people in another camp he could, but we couldn’t. And all th
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by bildung 6y ago
Does Mozilla compete with for profit companies for C suite market? Yes, Baker is CEO of the for profit corporation. Which technology intensive company hire a CEO who is lawyer by profession and hasn't had any redeeming resume for ma
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by bildung 6y ago
Ah, yes, the US created ISIS conspiracy theory. You mean this "conspiracy theory" from the Independent[0] and the Guardian[1] and the New York Times[2]? [0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec&#x
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by bildung 6y ago
I know, I'm not from the US but I tried to follow the US development closely. Many other countries have furlough-like systems where workers get money in cases of force majeure like floods or a factory burning down, without losing emplo
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by bildung 6y ago
These are only results of the US-specific lack of welfare protection mechanisms, not a lockdown per se - especially unememployment and to a lesser degree also the negative growth are significantly less accentuated in the other OECD countrie
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by bildung 6y ago
You're correct, I misread Norways wind LCoE of 44€/MWh as offshore, though it was onshore. The publication you linked projects a 44% cost reduction until 2025, though. Given UK's listed offshore LCoE of $125 in 2018, that wou
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by bildung 6y ago
"Recent figures show that only 15 percent of all crimes are solved." https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/5399870 That low resolution rate alone introduces a margin of error that is larger than the difference bet
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by bildung 6y ago
Has the US actually decided on a permanent nuclear waste repository?
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by bildung 6y ago
I doubt these will actually be built. With a projected price point of $78/MWh [0] these are already way more expensive than existing offshore wind, even if they'd actually get built without budget overruns. [0] = https:/&#x2
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by bildung 6y ago
Income inequality universally is a pretty good predictor for violent crime: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2018/06/07/the-star... As the (still very low) income inequality is rising in Sweden(
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by bildung 6y ago
It appears this study shows that the majority of suspects for crimes are immigrants, which is an important distinction. I have no knowledge about the situation in Sweden, but in Germany there are known statistical problems like immigrants
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by bildung 6y ago
I know it as Eisenhower Method, which is even older: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_management#The_Eisenhower...
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by bildung 6y ago
In my reading nurturing is exactly what dylan604 implied with the von Trapps.
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by bildung 6y ago
Isn't that true for any kind of barter? If two parties barter with lumber and gold, the transaction is also irreversible. The ledger is just an implementation detail.
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by bildung 6y ago
Probably because according to the paper, Covid-positive patients not on ventilators also had the mental impairment problems, only to a lesser degree.
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by bildung 6y ago
Germany's equivalent to US' or Bolivias president is Merkels position, the chancellor. Germany's president is more like the role of the Queen in the UK.
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by bildung 6y ago
There is no way to scale this with tech, that's why it doesn't scale :P The core problem with multiple choice and other trivial tests is that a person understanding the concept will find the correct answer, but people not understa
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by bildung 6y ago
They did have coronavirus patients, though. I'm not aware of significant physical differences between Covid-19 and other coronaviruses.
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by bildung 6y ago
Not at all, perhaps you meant another commenter? From the link "Before exhaled breath collection, each participant was randomly allocated in a 1:1 ratio to either wearing a surgical face mask (cat. no. 62356, Kimberly-Clark) or not dur
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by bildung 6y ago
Here is one, took me about half a minute to find: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2 Counterquestion: Will presence of this evidence modify your position?
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by bildung 6y ago
In former GDR (Eastern Germany) there was a computer show on the radio where programs were broadcasted this way. Listeners could record the programs with tapes an then run them on their computers.
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by bildung 6y ago
Not qualified to have an opinion on that, though of course that doesn't prevent me from a back-of-the-envelope calculation: * A third of US healthcare cost is assumed to be administrative overhead just caused by the current system. &qu
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by bildung 6y ago
Health insurance definitely is outrageously profitable compared to other insurance sectors: https://www.statista.com/statistics/948687/health-insurance-...
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by bildung 6y ago
As a proxy of the effectiveness of the current US health care system, please have a look at the achieved life expentancy in the US vs. the other G7 countries: https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/life-expectancy-at-birth.ht
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by bildung 6y ago
You'd still need a computer, though, so now you pay for two laptops, one physical and one virtual?
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by bildung 6y ago
Isn't the energy content per kg more important for planes than energy density (J/m³)? Energy per kg is much higher for liquid hydrogen (122.8 MJ/kg) than for kerosine (42.8 MJ/kg): https://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.

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