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by bildung 7y ago
Sadly there was no successful run. While this made unemployment rates look better, it has been shown that the absolute amount of hours worked hasn't increased in that period. In other words: 1 good job became 2 bad jobs, which meant le
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by bildung 7y ago
Well, low wage jobs are almost always manual labor that is hard to automate and thus doesn't scale. So more low wage jobs means lower productivity. (Keep in mind that productivity has a specific definition in economics)
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by bildung 7y ago
I am honestly confused how anyone could code themselve up into that python2 only corner. With the release of python2.6 and python3 in 2006 , it was clearly described what one had to do to write upwards-compatible python2 code. 2006. https
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by bildung 7y ago
The consequentialist philosophy of justice (which is the base of the Finnish reasoning) goes a bit like this: * People should have a right to housing. * Yet we see many people how apparently can't obtain housing. * Assuming they don&#x
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by bildung 7y ago
I'm aware of the discourse in the US, and I think I can agree to everything you said in the second paragraph - though I can't see how housing not being a right can follow from rights being unalienable?
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by bildung 7y ago
AFAIR there never was a period from the renaissance up to present times where rights were universally interpreted the way you describe them - though your view certainly is pretty widespread in the US discourse. If one wants to conveniently
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by bildung 7y ago
But housing specifially is a human right, it is stated in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration: https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
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by bildung 7y ago
Signal has only e2e and is able to offer synced chat between phone and desktop - the phone just sends the content to the desktop instance and vice versa.
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by bildung 7y ago
> Except the market has succeeded fantastically. In my lifetime alone, AIDS and HepC went from death sentences to chronic conditions. Many forms of leukemia went from fatal to highly treatable. Meanwhile, what has the government done?
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by bildung 7y ago
I see, thanks. 50% isn't that much of an outlier, though, as the average over both onshore and offshore farms seems to be 42% for younger projects: http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/wind-energy-factsheet
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by bildung 7y ago
Then it's now my turn to call your numbers misleading ;) I don't think you can directly compare the two that way because a) The French government heavily invested in nuclear for strategic reasons, not directly economical ones. Th
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by bildung 7y ago
You are right, it wasn't my intention to imply the 50% refer to France. I'll try to edit the phrasing. I don't get why you think comparing to offshore wind is misleading, though. Could you expand on that?
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by bildung 7y ago
Let's look at actual and current numbers for construction costs, ignoring subsidies: Wind: "The costs for a utility scale wind turbine range from about $1.3 million to $2.2 million per MW of nameplate capacity installed." ht
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by bildung 7y ago
Well I never said "onshore". Nevertheless, wikipedia has an example of an onshore wind farm with 60.2% in 2015: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacity_factor#Wind_farm
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by bildung 7y ago
I'm a bit confused where we disagree? You posted the same capacity factor for nuclear. Here is a real world example of a Danish wind farm averaging 47.7% over 7 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horns_Rev_Offsho
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by bildung 7y ago
> in France in 2018 nuclear has a capacity factor of 71% Which is the same number I wrote?
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by bildung 7y ago
I'm not at all disagreeing. The coal phase-out should have happened a) before the nuclear phase-out and b) decades earlier. Processes like these tend to be pretty sluggish, the political discussions for both date back to the 1970s. Che
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by bildung 7y ago
Yeah, sorry, native German speaker here, I got the tense wrong. Germany is in the process of phasing out coal, just as with nuclear. https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-coal-powe...
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by bildung 7y ago
But real world nuclear plants seldomly run for years. I just posted links in another comment, nuclears capacity factor in France ( the country with a high nuclear buildout) is about 72%, while that of wind is about 50%. The nuclear plants
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by bildung 7y ago
Even without including cost overruns and decomissioning, wind energy costs the same per kilowatt of capacity[0,1]. And the actually produced energy as share of capacity (= the capacity factor) is way better than most think. For the nuclear
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by bildung 7y ago
> Germany's choice to phase nuclear out and leave coal on straight up Often repeated, but still wrong: Germany also phased out coal.
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by bildung 7y ago
Nuclear is way too expensive, it essentially has lost. It will certainly will play a part for decades, but e.g. wind turbine parks are already at the same price level and have none of the disadvantages of nuclear. Plus several wind parks in
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by bildung 7y ago
The underlying assumption of the incapacitation argument is that people can't change. Which evidently is wrong as other countries achieve much lower recidivism rates. This essentially moral assumption (that people are inherently good&#
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by bildung 7y ago
Let me guess, you are not part of the demographic you just opted to let die in the name of cost reduction?
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by bildung 7y ago
I'm not qualified to have an opinion on the the virus, but the numbers could exhibit a selection bias: People with relatively mild symptoms and no death probably could be misdiagnosed as having a flu or proper influenza, which would im
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by bildung 7y ago
This is what you get when you introduce market mechanisms into research institutions. If the researchers have to solicit external sources of finance, they effectively become (part time) sales people. As the financial sources are by definiti
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by bildung 7y ago
That is a very low gas tax. In Germany it's €2.47 per gallon/ €0.65 per liter. Edit: Your numbers for california amount to about $10.6B per year - and the transportation budget for california for the current fiscal year is $23.5 b
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by bildung 7y ago
> In 2017 the antifa turned that city into a burning hell looking like civil war area. This is a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened. There were over 100k protesters, almost all peaceful, and about 15k police personel. Th
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by bildung 7y ago
The existence of old people is not the cause of unemployment. On the other hand, enforcing the work week maximum of 48 hours, from the ILO convention in 1930(!), would actually help and doesn't need age discrimination.
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by bildung 7y ago
Europe is actually better in this regard because of grid connections between the countries. So lack of wind could be compensated by imports from Spain or Germany, for example. Germany and Norway also currently work on a project for a direct

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