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by cbmuser 6y ago
> The "cancellation fee" is because you are breaking a contract which you agreed to in order to receive a discount. Exactly. And it’s perfectly legal and practiced by a lot of companies, even the public transport company in Ber
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Exactly. It’s a contract. If you cancel it early, the other contract partner has the right to get a compensation fee. That’s perfectly normal and also practised by other companies.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> You're getting lots of replies from (I presume) Americans, who are used to much scammier business behavior than what I know from Germany and you describe in Australia. Berlin‘s public transport company has the exact condition in t
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Exactly. Even the public transport company in my city has a similar TOS. If you have an annual subscription and cancel it early, they will charge you the elapsed months accordingly to the monthly fee, not the yearly one and I had to pay 150
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by cbmuser 6y ago
It’s Tritium aka Hydrogen with two neutrons which is part of any water anyway and even part of the human body. Even if they release all of the Tritium water, they will not even cause a minuscule bump in the Tritium concentration of the ocea
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> retox 9 hours ago [–] I think it's a real shame that there is no way (as far as I know) to use re-writable MiniDiscs in the same way that CR-RWs, for storing generic files. HiMD does exactly that. It’s a FAT-formatted mass-stora
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> That seems to be true. After looking into the Linux implementation, I realized that it's python and not something more low level. There are two implementations in our organization project, one in Python which supports NetMD only a
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by cbmuser 6y ago
The actual hard work was reverse-engineering the NetMD/HiMD protocols and implementing the C project „linux-minidisc“ which is a project I created together with a friend in around 2008. It‘s still on Github and I should probably get ba
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> Other stories include speculation that curved bananas are to be banned It’s acting not so far fetched as there was an actual regulation for this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_Regulation_(EC)_No....
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> This is important to keep in mind when you read articles and/or studies about how electric cars or wind or solar power is impractical. A lot of the data these studies use is just obsolete. Solar power and electric cars aren’t impr
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by cbmuser 6y ago
That single hall is for the _whole_ country for _decades_. Nuclear is the _only_ technology where the fuel and the waste for decades can be stored on-site. It's just extremely dense. The Russians have a single hall for all their waste
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by cbmuser 6y ago
The French have been doing it for decades already with not a single casualty: > https://www.orano.group/en/nuclear-expertise/from-exploratio... It's not that they are doing the recycling in a cookie factor
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> The issue is not finding a place that's geologically stable now. But finding one that's geologically stable in 850.000 years. Something that takes several hundred thousand years for decay isn't actually dangerous. Short
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Modern nuclear power plants such as the German Konvoi or modern Russian VVER survive plane crashes. Some German plants even have military defense systems on site.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> Fukushima cleanup costs will be between $470 and $660 billion. Germany's nuclear phase out costs the country $12 billion per year plus 1100 additional deaths due to air pollution: > https://haas.berkeley.edu/wp
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> The main issue with nuclear power in Europe has always been the storage of nuclear waste, for which many countries still don't have a long-term solution. Nuclear waste isn't a problem. It's actually the best type of wast
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by cbmuser 6y ago
It doesn't matter that solar itself is cheap, it still needs backup plants which are the reason Germany has the highest electricity prices - world-wide. > https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/electricity_prices/
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by cbmuser 6y ago
The apparatus to produce hydrogen from electricity doesn’t like fluctuations in its power input.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> You can't stop start nuclear like you can with gas. You actually can. All remaining six German nuclear power plants can operate in load-following mode and vary their output power by 10%-20% within minutes. It just makes no sense t
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Good luck driving through the Siberian taiga or the Arozonian desert with a battery-powered car. Or what about emergency vehicles with electric motors? “We’re sorry, Mr. Miller, we can’t come to your burning house right now, we need to rech
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Don’t worry, they‘re not going to stop making and selling cars with combustion engines in the foreseeable future for the reasons you mentioned. This whole electric car hype exists in wealthy urban bubbles only and only because they are heav
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Yes, because there is absolutely nothing wrong to have your infrastructure and economy exclusively depend on a politically unstable region. The lengths of bizarre ideas people are coming up with just so they can avoid nuclear power seriousl
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Make murder legal then because the law to make it illegal doesn’t keep it from happen 100% of the cases.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Brazil is bad example, they have much more serious social problems. Compare with any European country and you will see that gun control works. Of course, there will always be criminals who will acquire illegal guns, but overall it’s much ha
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by cbmuser 6y ago
The report in question was written by an independent UN organization, not the Japanese government.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
> It’s not like not evacuating was an option. Actually, it was and that’s also what the UNSCEAR report concluded.
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Yes, they actually did.
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by cbmuser 6y ago
Hey, another comment that doesn’t understand the difference between system cost and levelized costs of electricity. Solar and wind are ONLY cheap if you ignore the costs for backup power plants and extra landlines. We have the highest elect
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by cbmuser 6y ago
And how much of that _generated_ electricity from solar and wind is actually produced on demand? Electricity generated from nuclear power can follow the load, neither wind nor solar can do that meaning you will _always_ need backup power pl
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