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by derriz 5y ago
I'm missing something I guess - I don't understand your comment in the context of this claim near the start of the article: "The root cause of the problem is that distribution package managers and Python package managers (&q
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by derriz 5y ago
I probably haven't thought this fully through but wouldn't it be simpler to just have a system venv - root protected - perhaps distributed using the system's package manager? Then if you mess up site-packages at least you wo
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by derriz 5y ago
France's most recent experience with expanding nuclear production, Flamanville 3, has turned out to be anything but cheap. Nearly 6 times over-budget and yet to provide a watt nearly 10 years after its initially projected completion da
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by derriz 5y ago
Geo - like hydro-power - is only suitable in very particular geographies and so has relatively tiny scope for decarbonizing electricity generation. Solar is on average cheaper but the cheapest wind is cheaper than the cheapest solar[1]. N
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by derriz 5y ago
I don't think the UK tabloid press is as harmless as that. Yes, sometimes the headlines can be funny but very often it seems they are about vilifying or bullying an individual or group. They mainly sell "outrage" but under
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by derriz 5y ago
I wish this was the default behavior of xargs (the 'tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0' bit). I don't know why xargs splits on spaces and tabs as well as newlines by default and doesn't even have a flag to just split on lines. Ok fi
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by derriz 5y ago
An issue I have with this essay is that it assumes that it's the absence of central planning which gives rise to unlivable and automobile dominated cities. But if you look at old photos of European or American cities before the rise of
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by derriz 5y ago
It's a blip - wind generation is at a two week low. Live snapshots disguise the overall trend. The evolution of CO2 intensity of electricity generation in Europe can be seen here: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-map
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by derriz 5y ago
I don't feel I distorted your claim very much? In full: "While people in other countries may be used to always having to carry identification, this is rather provocative in a city and state which does not require identification, a
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by derriz 5y ago
"this is rather provocative in a city and state which does not require identification" I've spent not more than a couple of weeks in total in the NY and during that time I was required to produce identification more times tha
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by derriz 5y ago
Europe - or Germany specifically - made a humanitarian decision to allow civilians, fleeing a civil war that had claimed half a million lives and displaced 5 million, refuge as per UN rules. They could easily have said no - like many most o
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by derriz 5y ago
Except electricity costs are not rising - renewables are having the opposite effect actually. For example, in Europe, in the last ten years, wholesale electricity prices have on average nearly halved despite the four-fold increase in the c
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by derriz 5y ago
You're ignoring a parallel development - the electrification of transport, industry and home heating/cooking. These sources constitute the majority of the rest of the co2 emitted. In combination with decarbonizing electricity pro
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by derriz 5y ago
Read the “Methods of estimation” section where the standardization process is described. This would be a lot simpler is you could simply provide a reference to support the claim that the life expectancy at birth metric in the USA is calcul
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by derriz 5y ago
Variances in how countries calculate IMR don't affect the calculation of life expectancy at birth which is a standardised measure - see https://www.who.int/whosis/whostat2006DefinitionsAndMetadata...
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by derriz 5y ago
That sounds wrong. There’s a whole range of life expectancy metrics that are calculated carefully as they constitute a fundamental metric about a population in everything from the insurance industry to the health industry. Life expectancy
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by derriz 5y ago
"If you run a classic or high performance car, now is the time to throw away that can of additive, and fill up with award winning genuine leaded petrol"
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by derriz 5y ago
Well it's very incidental. The EU is a completely voluntary association. There are those that left freely and there are others who want to join and its powers and purpose is driven by treaties agreed by all members. Being a colony of
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by derriz 5y ago
38% of Europe's electricity was generated by renewables in 2020 - not including nuclear. This proportion is growing rapidly. It's a win already particularly given the relatively poor efficiency of internal combustion engines. An
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by derriz 5y ago
That comment seems tongue-in-cheek to me. But to attempt a serious answer to your question; a large quantity of CH4 is produced in nature which eventually - after about 8 years - turns to CO2 and water in the atmosphere. But carbon in the
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by derriz 5y ago
I wish people could frame arguments without implied/covert vilification of the presumed opponents of your position - in this case introducing the argument with a reference to "rent-tribute to knowledge capitalists". If you a
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by derriz 5y ago
It assumes a blended cost of capital of 10% which is very reasonable for utility infrastructure projects even in developing countries. The World Bank charges rates of about 3% for infrastructure projects. I don't get the capital cost
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by derriz 5y ago
What do you mean the analysis is "bad"? It's widely referenced and they explain their methodology in detail and their data sources. If there's an aspect of the methodology you think is bad, I'd be interested in h
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by derriz 5y ago
Where do you get the idea that renewables are expensive energy? Utility scale onshore wind and solar PV are the cheapest form of generation[1] by a long shot. And because of this, 90% of the global electricity generation capacity added in
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by derriz 5y ago
Where in the world do you live out of interest? There must be some unusual local conditions that would cause that price discrepancy because I've followed the electricity prices in a number of European countries as they've increas
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by derriz 5y ago
> The world needs a way to convert renewable energy into constant energy. Not really or at least that represents a gross simplification of the situation. Electricity demand is anything but constant - peak to trough intraday consumption c
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by derriz 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point? Say for example, I'm looking at a freshly cloned repo. There's a first commit and most-recent commit on master - I can identify them with git-log. The problem is that I cannot view the
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by derriz 5y ago
The author identifies the problem which I think is a fundamental failure of the git model which is that commits aren't associated with branches. But proposes a different solution. I wonder why they didn't decide to attach a bra
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by derriz 5y ago
Maybe I'm quoting the wrong part of the video but he suggests you need to use the re-usable heavy bag six times not hundreds of times to equalise the environmental impact? This looks about right to me - he's comparing with the ver
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by derriz 5y ago
Could you explain what you mean? I find it hard to believe that the environmental impact of one sturdier plastic bag is equivalent to hundreds of slightly flimsier bags. I’ve shopped in a few European countries, and found the reusable plas

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