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by bildung 4y ago
The term of trade is "Levelized cost of electricity", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levelized_cost_of_electricity Coal is about 2x, gas about 1,3x and nuclear is about 3.6x the LCOE of wind, in 2020, without
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by bildung 4y ago
I had overweight people in mind. For both cases I'd argue that emphasizing the benefits of healty weight and the means of getting to/staying at that weight is the more effective approach, though.
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by bildung 4y ago
My point was more that feeling bad, by itself, actually is a de motivator. I'm all for motivating! But that would mean emphasizing e.g. the health benefits, or positive reinforcement of actual lifestyle changes.
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by bildung 4y ago
> Feeling bad about your weight is a good motivator to lose weight. Educationalist here, actually it isn't :) For many people, this just makes you feel bad - and that's it. For that feeling to result in meaningful action a bu
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by bildung 4y ago
Actually that outlier simply was a wrong number it seems, as per [1]. But my reasoning was: * Most importantly, TSMC's market share grew uniformly, and they already were quite dominant before (market shares: 2013: 49%, 2014: 54%, 2015:
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by bildung 4y ago
Fair, but phoronix is a linux site, and thus performance under macOS won't be of interest for most readers. The performance as stated is the actual performance one currently gets under linux, regardless of potential.
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by bildung 4y ago
If you look at TSMC's revenue this doesn't seem to be the case: https://companiesmarketcap.com/tsmc/revenue/ Ignoring the 2014 outlier (2013 was the year Apple started using TSMC) the growth curve looks
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by bildung 4y ago
Obviously both charts start with a filled tank/battery and ignore fuel/energy production. It only makes sense to belabor charging loss if you take the gas equivalents like fuel used in transportation to the gas station into acco
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by bildung 4y ago
No idea about the US, but in the EU this class of super light cars is allowed (with certain speed limits) and some also are produced in the EU, e.g. the Renault Twizy.
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by bildung 4y ago
Please compare the list of countries with plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_by_country with the list of countries with nukes: https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/worldwide . Not
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by bildung 4y ago
Yes, Gronau is the notable exception. Though note the involvement of WW2 winners France and UK (the owner is still a UK company) and the capacity that was wildy below demand for Western German plants. It also isn't like Germany didn&#x
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by bildung 4y ago
Germany never had energy independence in nuclear. Yes, Germany has/had plants, but nothing like enrichment etc. The reason is geopolitics: Germany started two world wars, and noone wanted to have a postwar Germany capable of building n
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by bildung 4y ago
> Just so the situation is clear, half of Germany energy is imported from Russia. Not energy , but only gas. > What does this mean for people on the ground? Energy prices can easily go 10x (so a $300 bill becomes $3000/month)
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by bildung 4y ago
> There solar and wind installations peaked and then steeply declined, as a consequence of the actions of the same government which had hastened the exit from nuclear. The decline hasn't much to do with nuclear, but instead with t
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by bildung 4y ago
Why would you think that? It's clear that different political parties are driven by different value systems (more obviously in other countries than the US, but still), thus also quite plausable that those value systems differ in their
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by bildung 4y ago
> protectionism is not new, but it’s definitely in the eu’s dna. This is actually the opposite. The EU here is enforcing market competition in segments that became entrenched by monopolies (remember this is not specifically about Apple
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by bildung 4y ago
I think you mistook German for Germanic. German means citizenship in Germany, Germanics were peoples living in central Europe and Scandinavia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_peoples
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by bildung 4y ago
> Using the median surely goes too far the other way though, discounting the fact that the US is far larger than any of those countries except Russia. Of course the US is less likely to have shooting-free years, it's far bigger. T
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by bildung 4y ago
> History has literally never shown this. Empirically, this is actually beyond doubt by now. Piketty et al. were in the news 10 years ago with this very topic, showing that inequality is detrimental to growth, for many countries and ov
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by bildung 4y ago
You mean imprisoning the leaders of the unions and the social democratic party? (I get what you mean, but IMO reducing Bismarcks policy too introducing pensions seems way to simplistic. Especially how that worked out a few decades later...)
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by bildung 4y ago
By law their residency was on the condition of employment or self-employment, so close to 100% by definition. Nowadays they are either naturalized (so no immigrants anymore) or pensioned, or returned back home after their work life ended, o
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by bildung 4y ago
Those are * minimum times, i.e. they don't automatically have rights afterwards, but have to obtain a permission for working first ("Arbeitserlaubnis") * those minimum times prolong as long as immigrants live in special immig
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by bildung 4y ago
It's literally law, and has been for decades. See here, directly from the federal government: https://www.bmas.de/DE/Arbeit/Fachkraeftesicherung-und-Integ...
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by bildung 4y ago
Germany is a bit special here because refugees often are not allowed to work at all, or, depending on their status, are only allowed to work under certain conditions. This was introduced by the conservative parties as a juridical answer to
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by bildung 4y ago
Then just look at the distribution in the USA: Among the states with most homelessness per capita are: District of Columbia, New York, Oregon, Washington State, Alaska. Yes, also Californa, but California has most of everything, including h
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by bildung 4y ago
> 1) How many homeless people are interested in a productive life, with the work/sobriety expectations (and the housing/benefits) that implies? Almost all, as becomes evident if you compare the drastically different homelessn
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by bildung 5y ago
Compared to the conditions under which the competition takes legal responsibility they seem quite extensive?
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by bildung 5y ago
That is a very low quality study because it a) employed self-selection instead of a proper RCT design and b) didn't control for anything. At least tracking pre-existing conditions would have been necessary, when not randomizing, for th
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by bildung 5y ago
> the media being fully unionized means that it is extremely biased in its coverage of these kinds of stories. So? As with many societal topics there is no neutral position here, because all arguments eventually boil down to questions
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by bildung 5y ago
It does? Those drivers remove a small portion of the autopilot miles driven, but a large portion of the challenging/dangerous miles. The result are stats with a low accident per mile ratio.

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