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This also includes people that went through schools in Finland and would be paid the same money as a native. There just a massive issue with our immigration service running out of capacity to handle applications in a timely manner and some
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The title is partly wrong (badly translated). Actual emergency services still function and have capacity. What is full/out of capacity is walking into the clinic with smaller issues. Basically if you don't have some immediately li
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This is why tenure for fundamental research is very important. You have to be free to fail without consequences or you won't be able to take the risks to figure this stuff out.
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FIA and F1 are trying to make them smaller and lighter in the 2026 rules. Really hard thing to do without making the cars less safe as the modern crash structures are one do the main reasons for the size. The plan is also to remove MGU-h (w
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Many airports are also subsidized. Basically every kind of transportation is subsidized to the point that figuring out the true cost is really hard.
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The price going up for such forms of shipping is the point. So if a competitor figures out how to do the shipping cheaper due to it outputting less co2 (like trains running on electricity or just less polluting ships) those should over time
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While not optimal most of the best patent lawyers work for companies that have a lot of patents and often are the best legal experts to ask opinions/judgements from. Obviously if a case actually touches a company they work for (or work
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Frames you can find for cheap if you look around a bit. The lenses cost a lot as I need massive amounts of prism (took me a bit of looking around to find an optometrist/eye doctor with equipment that could even measure it as it is outs
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For a lot of people you can just take lenses from the production line and cut them to shape and be done but that is not always the case. Personally I always have to wait 2 to 3 weeks to get new glasses done as the lenses have to be made to
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It went even further north. Finland is the true successor state of the Holy Roman Empire https://i.imgur.com/tolQ9ih.png (As this is the internet I have to mention that this is indeed a joke and not even a very good one)
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But still very different from thousands people losing their jobs at once (has happened before at Microsoft)
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True but not when the upkeep of that infrastructure costs more than the profits you get from selling your high supply product in the far away high demand market. Obviously with the current market prices the cost of the transmission capabili
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Transmission lines increase the end customer costs (a lot). They are necessary but you want as little of them as you can get away with. Obviously not having enough can also increase costs as you have to use very expensive forms of productio
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> No civil nuke plant has ever been operated, anywhere in the world, without massive government subsidies, or by coercing ratepayers to pay well above market rates. Here in Finland we do. They can't coerce the rate payers as the cus
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Not every country uses a decommissioning subsidy as you should just take the money from the plants during their lifetime and put in a fund for this purpose. This is what is happening in Finland and the fund already has more money then the p
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> The sun does, in fact, shine far, far more than enough. Not in northern Europe. For example at the southern most point of Finland there is 3 months in the year when solar produces less than 1% of its name plate capacity. It does get sl
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This is because Germany does a lot of direct gas/oil heating. If you scroll further down on your own source you will see that gas consumption is actually bigger than renewables. Northern Europe for the most part switched over to distri
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Yes they do know the trajectories so you put yours in a one where it should not hit anything. Most modern satellites also have engines so they can move on their orbit to dodge stuff if needed. Also remember that space is 3 dimensional so yo
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> Cut off all those people from food/water/medicine? If that is what it takes to force the invaders off their land. > What is the end result planed here? Ukraine winning. Will there be a lot of death and suffering to get the
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> A political organization like EU has no say in this. EU and most people living within it would disagree with this statement.
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Lithography equipment isn't some government funded cost+ industry with 0 innovation or competition like what SpaceX had (has?) as its competition. Nobody is using equipment from 70s (Soyuz) or even early 2000s (Atlas or Delta). It is a
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Even if they 10x their production you are talking about 200 of the same machine max per year. Nowhere near the numbers where proper industrial automation would make much sense. Also who would be buying these machines if they 10x their produ
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> Some parts seem oddly manual and others interestingly esoteric. They don't really make that many machine for heavy automation to make much sense. By the end of 2021 they had made ~140 EUV machines in total with commercial producti
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The Finnish gas grid provider said that it is not too bad as long as they are not left in that state for too long. To fix them they would have to be filled with seawater anyway as you would need equal pressure on inside and outside the pipe
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> AFAIK TSMC is operating Apple’s machines. Nah they are TSMC's machines. Really expensive ones. Apple just has bought the production of certain fab before they are built for certain amount of wavers (or time?) for X amount of money
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And it isn’t just about money. There is a lot of skill/expertise at TSMC that makes things work. Both Intel and Samsung have been chasing TSMC for years now spending billions on their fabs but neither has managed to catch up.
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NVidia (and AMD for their own line) did not talk about these in the public much as they were really bad PR during the worst moments of the gpu shortages. To the point that they never even updated the site for the later/better models (l
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Nvidia did (does?) have a miner line of cards (CMP HX). Though they were mainly their server cards that failed QA but could still work as a miner. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/cmp/ These also had models that you c
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> Unspecified 3d cache models have been confirmed. Coming end of this year, Q1 2023 at the latest. Most speculation/leaks point to CES (early January) would be the announcement so not this year.
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You can run it in 65W or 105W Eco mode. It will get the power consumption down a lot. Single thread performance will be the same and in multi thread it will still beat 12900K even in 65W Eco mode. https://youtu.be/uks4qQ2MXr
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