brazzy

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by brazzy 17y ago
Um... how exactly do wind turbines cause demineralization? How do modern reactors produce less waste? The underlying nuclear reactions can't really be influenced by technology. Not to mention that your "green" reactors' fuel is A) produce
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by brazzy 17y ago
You mean like right now we just need enough oil fields to hollow out a quarter of Spain? Here's the numbers: Size of Ghawar oil field: 280 km × 30 km Fraction of global oil produced by Ghawar: 6.25% Size of Spain: ca. 500,000 km^2 Do the
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by brazzy 17y ago
The only thing that the phrase "with almost 24/7 sun" can logically apply to is the word "areas", because otherwise that word makes no sense. But it's a silly oversight that is irrelevant to the practicability (or lack thereof) of this prop
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by brazzy 17y ago
Think about cost and scale the already existing power infrastructure of oil fields, coal mines, pipelines, refineries, supertankers, gas stations and power plants. That's mind-boggling too, you just don't think about it because it's alrea
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by brazzy 17y ago
"solar panels, distributed across deserts and areas with almost 24/7 sun" Um... I don't think so...
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by brazzy 17y ago
No. Twitter is a single website. RSS is a format used by hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of websites.
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by brazzy 17y ago
The difference is that, he claims, "making messes is never justified". Which is somewhat divorced from the reality of real world development that sometimes, even if you do everything right, comes down to firefighting, making the deadline at
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by brazzy 17y ago
Who says that the person who originally came up with a catchy expression gets to decide what it means for all eternity? To me, the difference that Norton makes out between "technical debt" and "messes" is at most one of degrees and in no wa
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by brazzy 17y ago
Maybe I'm not up to date on trading fads, but as far as I'm aware, the "packaging and securitization of tuition" is an exception rather than the norm. At most, it creates a theoretical potential for a speculative market and thus a bubble.
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by brazzy 17y ago
While there are certainly similarities between real estate and tertiary education, the title claim is obvious and unmitigated rubbish. A bubble is only possible when prices are drive up by speculation. Where exactly is there a speculative m