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by deeviant 6y ago
> Democracy and free speech are intrinsically linked. Not really. UK has far more limits on speech than the US but is just as much of a Democracy as the US. "Free" speech has be weaponized in the internet age. It is a cancer th
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by deeviant 6y ago
Oh I see the problem: it doesn't seem like you know what you are talking about. Both Chernobyl and Fukushima were critically close to absolute disaster. Chernobyl was a potential kiloton-level steam explosion that would have jettisoned
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by deeviant 6y ago
You just took what you originally said, and said it again. Did you expect a different result? If the worse-case engineering disaster happened in either case, millions would have died. If you want to dig into this point, great, happy to. If
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by deeviant 6y ago
> Considering that (estimated lifetime) deaths by all Nuclear (including Chernobyl and Fukushima, but excluding bombs) are less than one week of pollution deaths, it'd be an easy sell if we actually looked at numbers. Than again, if
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by deeviant 6y ago
Sticking your fingers in your ears and saying, "Ah ha!", does not an argument make. I spent 6 years in the solar industry, working at both a start up and a fully vertically integrated behemoth that manufactured panels and built p
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by deeviant 6y ago
> Storage costs, despite being in freefall still are still in the hundreds of dollars per kilowatt hour range. And it's kind of moot since the total amount of storage produced globally is still a fraction of what is necessary to mak
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by deeviant 6y ago
The statement was no X in Summer, no Y in winter. It was not talking about a daily or even weekly phenomena but seasonal one. There is no summer which have had no winds, no winters that have had no insolation or vice versa. Instead of m
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by deeviant 6y ago
> If there's no wind in summer and no insolation during winter you'll have to overbuild each by a factor of 5... If nuclear power physics stopped working October to March, that would drastically effect nuclear power economic co
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by deeviant 6y ago
> Storage costs are in freefall because the bulk of the car market about to transition to electric and it's creating economies of scale and spurring a ton of R&D which is picking all the low-hanging fruit in battery cost improve
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by deeviant 6y ago
Seasonal storage? That's not a thing. You just scale your solar/wind installations to the part of the season with the least resource (solar and wind do not often have the same low point, either), which is economically feasible bec
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by deeviant 6y ago
Pass on that. Solar and wind are already clapping nuclear in LCOE, and before you can rip out the nuclear battlecry, "But BASELOAD", storage costs are in freefall too.
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by deeviant 6y ago
> The weird idea that only the "super-privileged" can do this is just flat-out wrong. It's not that YOU HAVE TO BE super-privileged to be able to quit your job and take a whack at the start-up lyfe, it's just tha
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by deeviant 6y ago
If you look at the graphs or some HN comment, apparently, every language is flourishing, including cloture! Conversely, using the same technique, one could also ascertain that every language is also languishing.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Less a engineering disaster and more a human one.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Except the US didn't "grant" Pfizer anything, nor made any arrangement in regards to IP. Trump only made a deal for some of the first couple batches and that's it. What should have happened, is what you are saying. But
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by deeviant 6y ago
It's always possible that your weren't that into programming first place, but also some jobs/projects/people just suck and may have given you a bad look into the field. Your options are pretty straightforward: 1. Press o
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by deeviant 6y ago
I've lived in California all my life which is over 40 years now, everywhere from LA/Sand Diego to Sacramento, in the bay now. I'm afraid I seem to have more California experience than you. I'm also from a multi-racial fa
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by deeviant 6y ago
This description of California reads like a description that somebody that has never been in California but watches fox news would give.
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by deeviant 6y ago
The problem with this is that the lizard brain takes over. Brain says eat your are staving to death, eat it'll make you happy, eat... or else. You can't control urges to eat, you can only do your best to resist them. However, exer
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by deeviant 6y ago
Solar is the cheapest source of power in a wide range of markets. Storage will become economical long before fusion at this point. Also storage isn't even a concern until solar/wind reaches far greater penetration.
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by deeviant 6y ago
> I will tell you this, I do not miss headphone cords at all. I do. I am at the point where I literally have to buy low-end phones just to still have a headphone jack. Stuff gets lost, stuff breaks, I don't want to pay hundreds of d
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by deeviant 6y ago
Does the frying pan go back and time and re-cook all the food using the new-fangled super important features? I don't see why the cost of new features must be borne by existing applications that don't necessarily benefit from it.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Lol Electron? Yes the whole world wants ALL programs to be as shitty as the average webpage/webapp.
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by deeviant 6y ago
People only tend to appreciate thoughtfulness and restraint when said thoughtfulness and restraint benefits and/or agrees with their own positions.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Definitely have been having this issue, for weeks.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Here's the problem: facts have a liberal bias. If you try to create an apolitical platform, then you created a platform incompatible with facts.
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by deeviant 6y ago
> I think something that gets lost... It's really not lost at all. Most people know about the secondary effects of the lockdown. Loss of jobs, loss of schooling, mental health effects. It's all front and center. The math is sim
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by deeviant 6y ago
"We have been stuck on this one problem – how do proteins fold up – for nearly 50 years. To see DeepMind produce a solution for this , having worked personally on this problem for so long and after so many stops and starts, wonderin
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by deeviant 6y ago
I feel that Jeff Dean is a much better engineer than he is a leader.
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by deeviant 6y ago
Oh maybe that don't give a fuck and just want their big check?

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