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by derriz 4y ago
I'm really not a fan of implicit context being passed around like this. I hated Scala's implicit feature although I'm not familiar with the recent apparent improvements referenced in the article. In a larger 'with'
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by derriz 4y ago
The EU budget is tiny - under €150B euro per year[1]. And what's more it has being falling in absolute terms in the last number of year. While the US federal government spends over $20 trillion a year. This isn't comparable at a
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by derriz 4y ago
That's quite a stretch. US states cannot just ignore federal law - unless the federal law is deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court - a federal institution. There are effectively no limits to US federal powers - while the treatie
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by derriz 4y ago
Parquet is still relatively poorly supported in the JVM world unless this changed in the last year? Yes, you can use Spark but that's an absolutely huge dependency just to read a file representing a table of data. The alternative - t
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by derriz 5y ago
I don’t think it’s as black and white as that. The original railways in the US and in most of Europe were developed privately AFAIK - then in many cases the infrastructure was later nationalized - and in some cases subsequently privatized!
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by derriz 5y ago
The Irish ate a huge amount of dairy apparently. https://www.bonappetit.com/trends/article/what-the-irish-ate...
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by derriz 5y ago
Ok - sorry I've really screwed this submission up. I think the points that many have made in the comments about the clickbaitiness and misleading nature/incorrect interpretation of the title I used are completely valid. I had fou
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by derriz 5y ago
Apologies for the original click-baity/misleading title. I've changed it.
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by derriz 5y ago
That's a fair call regarding the title I used. I didn't intend it to be misleading - I was being sloppy as I found the number absolutely shocking. Perhaps something like "At least 6,500 construction deaths in Qatar since wi
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At least 6,500 migrant worker deaths in Qatar since winning the World Cup bid(theguardian.com)
103 points by derriz 5y ago|77 comments
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by derriz 5y ago
I don't see the relevance. Military intervention in Libya was not motivated because the Libyans decided to align with Russia or China or another anti-Western power? I'm not claiming the West became pacifist after Vietnam, as such
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by derriz 5y ago
I find this type of thinking thinking repulsive. Individuals and cultures are not allowed to decide their own fate? I can only assume you're not from a country threatened by a more powerful neighbour. If you were would you be happy t
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by derriz 5y ago
There are all sorts of complex flows of money between local and central taxation and spending. It's not really relevant to my point which is that taxes being collected by consumers of fossil fuels in the UK are certainly NOT being sent
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by derriz 5y ago
I think I'm misunderstanding you. There are multiple externalities to consuming petrol/driving cars around the UK. There's a local/national one. By consuming petrol you're generally inflicting wear and tear on exis
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by derriz 5y ago
Assuming that it's more likely that marginal demand will be met by coal than by renewables makes no sense to me. Coal is rapidly been retired as a source of electricity generation - 85% of generation capacity being retired in 2022 will
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by derriz 5y ago
That makes little sense to me. Your analysis would result in the conclusion that charging an EV in France (90% carbon free electricity) causes the same amount of CO2 emissions as using one in South Africa (90% fossil fuel electricity). The
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by derriz 5y ago
How is doing a calculation based on assuming electricity sourced 100% from coal or NG help develop an informed decision? US electricity is roughly 40% carbon free, 40% natural gas and 20% coal - wouldn’t it be more honest to use this mix i
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by derriz 5y ago
Seems that Russian forum trolling/disinformation spreading is about as sophisticated and effective as their offensive military capability.
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by derriz 5y ago
Yes - parquet tooling is non-existent compared to CSV particularly on the command line. And the cross-language/platform support is a mess - good luck reading Pandas generated parquet on .NET or in a (non-spark) JVM environment. There
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by derriz 5y ago
What you've described may not necessarily be the "equivalent to the exercise of border checks". That depends on what would have happened had you not complied. In France if you are unable to produce an acceptable ID, you&#x27
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by derriz 5y ago
In many European continental law countries - notably France but many others, you can be asked to present a national identification card (or passport, if foreign) by police/government security at any time and are expected to be able to
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by derriz 5y ago
There were a bunch of projects like this (Xlinks in the UK, a big German one and a few others) based around the idea of generating solar electricity in northern Africa and selling into Europe via HVDC cables under the Mediterranean. What ha
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by derriz 5y ago
The issue is that either your choice of extensions to standard JSON turn out to be useful and used - which causes the value of having a standard to become eroded, or they remain unused - in which case your work to support a bigger/wid
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by derriz 5y ago
I'm not sure it's Brexit related - but I've noticed more and more that when the UK media uses the expressions Europe or European, they are referring to the European continent as if the UK was not part of it. I've even h
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by derriz 5y ago
Energy density has at least doubled in the last 20 years. See figure 8 in [1]. And it's easy to overlook the most important factor for general applications - price - where the declines are much more dramatic. People complain about the
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Why the UK's IBM Failed – The Rise and Fall of ICL(youtube.com)
2 points by derriz 5y ago|0 comments
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by derriz 5y ago
The whole world is on aggregate bearish on nuclear electricity - its share of global electricity generation has fallen from about 18% in the mid 1990s to about 10% today. The reason is simply economics/cost. In the late 1980s in most
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by derriz 5y ago
The cost is mostly being passed on to the purchasers. The same app is nearly always more expensive in Apple's store than in Google's. But the funny thing is that even with the premium, Apple users spend far more on app purchases
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by derriz 5y ago
I couldn't think of a less worthy sector than dating apps and dating websites for a ruling like this. From what I've heard, their business model is almost entirely based on making subscription easy but making unsubscribing incred
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by derriz 5y ago
You might think so but this is the nuclear energy industry - where building a plant typically takes at least a decade (or not-uncommonly 2 decades or more). In fact, this is currently the most modern production reactor design in the world.

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