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by doikor 3y ago
While a common hypothesis there is no scientific proof of that effect in skiing/snowboarding. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3989528/ > Helmets do not appear to increase the risk compens
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by doikor 3y ago
No I am not talking about Uniper. I am talking about the exact thing you linked. > Valtiovarainministeriön tukiohjelmasta voidaan myöntää lainoja, joilla tilapäisesti turvattaisiin yhteiskunnan toiminnan kannalta kriittisten sähkön johda
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by doikor 3y ago
> Energy companies are subsidied all the time. About year ago to date a 10 billion subsidy program (in the form of gov backed dirt cheap loans) was started in Finland. Uh no. Government gave above market rate short term loans (literally
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by doikor 3y ago
Here in Finland we do (and did). Last winter we had a couple go bankrupt as they did some bad gambles with the spot/futures market (basically not buying enough futures to cover their fixed price contracts and once the spot prices went
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by doikor 3y ago
The market is mainly regulated by having some restrictions on pricing by requiring the sellers to be able to prove that their price roughly matches your their costs + some profit margin (to stop a big player from buying all the cheap electr
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by doikor 3y ago
Many probably did. But as a buyer/reseller it would be in their best interest to just buy and shut up.
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by doikor 3y ago
They tried but it did not work. They needed billions for the compute time and top tier talent but were only able to collect millions.
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by doikor 3y ago
The game studios under Xbox run quite independently with the most extreme example being Mojang with Minecraft which still releases all their games on Playstation/Nintendo consoles too. But the other studios are also very independent ba
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by doikor 3y ago
Sweden wasn’t (and still isn’t) part of NATO so they were making their own bomb for real. Basically to the point that they had all the parts needed to assemble one and just needed a law change/approval the government to finish it (woul
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by doikor 3y ago
It is way worse than “6 hours of daylight” due to the lower angle of the sun. I don’t know the numbers for southern Sweden but for Stockholm level you get maybe 5% to 10% of the production you get in the summer. Here in Finland we have it e
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by doikor 3y ago
It is bad due to the short days and low angle of the sun. For example in Stockholm you get around 6h of daylight. Malmö (can’t really get further south than that) a bit over 7h. Basically the northern most point of mainland US is a lot furt
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by doikor 3y ago
> "bipartisan" This means something very different in most multiparty parliamentary systems. Basically as there isn't any single party with a majority every government is at least bipartisan (usually more like 3 or 4 parti
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by doikor 3y ago
> But nuclear isn't very good at quickly and continuously ramping up and down In terms of kW/min change rate faster then most gas peaker plants used all over the world. It is a totally different question if that is economical (
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by doikor 3y ago
We are talking about 2 to 3 million MWh for Sweden alone (~120 million MWh yearly consumption so in reality probably a bit more then that as the consumption is higher in the winter). The largest battery based energy storage in the world is
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by doikor 3y ago
The kind of storage we would need in the Nordics is around 1 week of total consumption. That is roughly how long the longest really cold windless periods last in the winter (basically a large high pressure zone parking itself over the area
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by doikor 3y ago
> because they're hugely expensive, they always require massive government subsidies, so are a convenient way to pipe taxpayer money to "useful friends". And yet Sweden is not giving any subsidies (at least for now) and th
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by doikor 3y ago
The Chinese test also happened around 350km higher then Starlink satellites (850km). The natural deorbit time at that altitude is already over 100 years vs under 5 years at 500km. Also it was literally the worst possible collision being an
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by doikor 3y ago
As long as the satellites are under 600km or so they will deorbit on their own in under 5 years. So in the worst case scenario caused by Starlink we would not be able to access space for 5 years which while not great is not the end of the w
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by doikor 3y ago
> What's the cause of all the flip flopping between Apple having to pay the bill or not? The justice system. Basically going trough the various EU courts due to appeals.
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by doikor 3y ago
While no board schematic there is quite good selection of guides hosted iFixit (Valve links you there from their website so it is the "official" source) https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Steam_Game_Console
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by doikor 3y ago
As they have identical sub pixel layout they very likely come from the same factory. I think one side of the mother glass has a few extra pixels that you can just not cut off and end up with the 80 pixels more on one direction? If you start
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by doikor 3y ago
> And... Is the OLED not VRR? That was my #1 wish for the original Deck (with #2 being an OLED) According to LTT it is due to the physical connection. Basically the panel is the same as Switch OLED and thus uses whatever it uses which is
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by doikor 3y ago
It is part of the "deal" for companies in Ireland to get access to the rest of the EU. This access is the reason why Apple etc shuffle their profits through Ireland in the first place. The "it" in this case is that every
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by doikor 3y ago
Something like that could work well with NPCs but would most likely introduce delay into the controls on the player character. Basically gameplay beats the animation in this case. On top of this a lot of the time you don't see your cha
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by doikor 3y ago
This usually applies but for Alan Wake 2 Epic is the publisher. So your argument is like getting angry at Valve for not releasing their games (dota, cs, half life, etc) on Epic store or GOG.
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by doikor 3y ago
> Alan Wake 2 getting phenomenal reviews in the face of terrible performance and game breaking bugs There is no terrible performance and the game breaking bugs are very rare (as in none of my ~10 friends who bought the game ran into any
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by doikor 3y ago
The AI can always continue with the perfect play from that imperfect state. That is what happens in chess as you can’t fool a good chess AI by making intentionally imperfect moves (chess is not solved so we don’t know if a move is perfect o
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by doikor 3y ago
It’s not “some people say”. It’s their yearly/quarterly reports saying that. (Also it’s two games) https://investors.remedygames.com/app/uploads/2023/03/remedy... They also have 2 more games with 50
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by doikor 3y ago
The game is basically unplayable if your GPU does not support Mesh Shaders which means AMD RX 6xxx / NVidia RTX 2xxx series or newer (or 1650 which is in reality a Turing card so RTX 2xxx but very low end). The game will tell you that
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by doikor 3y ago
They can always create a new index and a fund that follows it. But getting people to buy into such a fund is much harder then a fund following some well known index.

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