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by doikor 10y ago
Problem with the "would be cheap for half the year" is that you would still have the capital costs of building the grid for 2x (actually you would need 4x the grid as the energy usage during winter is roughly 2x of the amount in s
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by doikor 10y ago
Them overpaying doesn't always happen (They don't use the Mankala model for the fun of it. It adds risk due to the capital investment but has been worth it over the long term up to date at least). As I understand both Olkiluoto 1
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by doikor 10y ago
No we don't. The heavy industrial corporations and some of the larger energy corps got together and formed a company called TVO. TVO got a few billion euros of loan and started to build nuclear plants (the current one under constructio
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by doikor 10y ago
Ok but why are we building nuclear power with 100% private money and subsidise wind? It literally makes no sense. The system should work the other way. Tax what we don't want and let the free markets work the rest out. Now we are gross
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by doikor 10y ago
Same thing by Google in Finland but using the sea water from the Gulf of Finland which doesn't get that warm even during the hottest of summers. They used an old closed paper mill so they had large structures ready to make it cheap too
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by doikor 10y ago
We (Finns) still use diesel engines for the more remote/less used lines. Mostly for industry or seasonal routes (think lapland during the winter etc.). Just not economically feasible to electrify all the less used routes.
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by doikor 10y ago
Wind power isn't doing very well here in Finland though. It is 100% propped up by subsidies. The government will pay them 85,30 €/MWh for the electricity generated by wind power even though the market price is somewhere around 30
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by doikor 10y ago
Cost of transmission already more then the cost of power in many places in Finland. Though I think that is mostly due to the subsidies in generation side being much larger then transmission. For example for me transmission is 0.022€/kW
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by doikor 10y ago
The goal in this case isn't to make money but to have more apartments/houses for rent (and hopefully lower the prices too)
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by doikor 10y ago
Is it harder to make an AI that is mediocre at playing the game vs one that is good? That is the main issue with making good AIs for games now. We want AIs (if you can call them that) that play kinda like humans but worse then the player as
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by doikor 10y ago
I think one of the best things about Dotty is that they now have a proven theory that the language works on top of (DOT calculus http://scala-lang.org/blog/2016/02/03/essence-of-scala.html ). This has all
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by doikor 10y ago
The https://www.scala-exercises.org/ is a good source (though it is just exercises so might not be the best first material) Great thing about it is that you can do it in a browser without setting up anything (requires a git
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by doikor 10y ago
And once your self made cheap chinese battery pack ends up catching fire and taking your whole house with them you understand why you want to pay for some actual company to do this and have some quality control/insurance.
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by doikor 10y ago
I did my driving education during the summer and got my license. Got my first car during the middle of winter and just learned to drive in snow (we did have a 2 hour course on a slippery track as part of the driving education). It isn'
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by doikor 10y ago
It will be a long time before Teslas can drive on dirt roads or roads covered in snow. But most daily driving happens on pavement either on the highway or in the city. Both of which it already handles quite well and will just get better.
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by doikor 10y ago
> insert PIN, wait another 5-30 seconds until the transaction runs, and then get my card back. Never had to wait that long (unless there is some issue at the bank but usually it just stops working all together when that happens) here in
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by doikor 10y ago
It kinda depends on what kind of strength. For things where the athlete is rather lightweight/small and does some kind of fast/twitchy power moves you peak out somewhere before 30. But when all you need is pure strenght you have 3
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by doikor 10y ago
Nokia tanked well before Elop came around. Basically the refusal to accept the fact that Symbian was going nowhere killed them. If they did the switch sooner (while they still had some market share) to pretty much anything else I think they
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by doikor 10y ago
The issue comes if someone steals it from your porch and then you claim that you never received it. Just having a marking in the delivery system that it was delivered isn't enough proof in court that it actually was delivered and thus
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by doikor 10y ago
The one doing the reimbursing would be the courier company not the sender as from legal perspective they still have the package as nobody signed it off. Similarly you shouldn't sign a package if it looks clearly damaged on the outside.
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by doikor 10y ago
Here the existing courier services won't leave the package with the neighbour or in front of the door even if you ask. The law is such that if they did that (left a package without it being signed off by someone whose name is on that a
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by doikor 10y ago
"the world is terrible and people are terrible" -> "there's no point trying to improve things" -> "I don't need to improve things" This is kinda a stupid position to hold as statistically for
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by doikor 10y ago
McLaren Technology group (the main parent) and McLaren Automotive are making a profit though. Yes they aren't doing all that well but still actually making money. Though hard to say what kind of a black hole the racing side (Formula 1)
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by doikor 10y ago
Tile functionality.
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by doikor 10y ago
Yeah 500€ notes are pretty useless. Most shops here in Finland don't accept 200€ or 500€ notes at all. Basically any time I've had to use 200€ or 500€ notes they have basically gone quite directly from bank -> my wallet/en
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Netflix asks FCC to declare data caps “unreasonable”(arstechnica.com)
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by doikor 10y ago
The solar panels that Juno has produce only 500 watts of power. You would need a lot more then that to be sending gigabytes of data in any meaningful timeframe. So yes it really is just six megabytes of data taking 30h+ to download. Btw the
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by doikor 10y ago
They are trying to up that 40% to 75% now. http://fin.afterdawn.com/uutiset/artikkeli.cfm/2016/08/17/st... (in Finnish only though)
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by doikor 10y ago
I guess its ok for SES as they say the insurance premiums didn't go up at all for using the reusable rocket. So they are just saving money with the same risk for SES in both cases.
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by doikor 10y ago
> The current systems also have millions/billions of hours of proven flight time, as well as the knowledge gleaned from thousands of crash investigations. I'd rather fly on a current system. Also, a plasma aircraft could certai

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