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by esarbe 3y ago
Nuclear power is just too expensive. Look at France - the have 80% or so nuclear and all of their power companies run at a loss and have to be subsidized. Meanwhile in Germany wind and solar make a pretty good complement and are cheaper, ev
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by esarbe 3y ago
That's useless for extending capability.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Unfortunately, you cannot build an existing plant. You have to build a new one.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Everything is cheaper than nuclear, at this point.
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by esarbe 3y ago
I'm extremely happy with a keyboard focused interface like Gnome is. I also like Gnome for giving me sensible defaults and for staying out of my way. The whole "desktop metaphor" with icons littering the display never made se
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by esarbe 3y ago
France is having massive problems operating their reactors and had to shut them down in summer the last few years. It's also most expensive.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Yes.
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by esarbe 3y ago
That's because HN is the private playground of the venture capital tech elite and those who are courting them. Most of the people here would love to be Apple and to abuse the shit out of their users rights in order to make profit. This
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by esarbe 3y ago
I'm looking forward to Apple leaving Europe. Good riddance.
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by esarbe 3y ago
With "freedom", you mean the ability to exploit customers and disregards any responsibility when it comes to protecting customer's private data? Yeah, let's hope so.
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by esarbe 3y ago
I miss real knobs and sliders to control my car. These touch screen displays in cars. I want to have my eyes on the road.
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by esarbe 3y ago
There's more than enough money to go around. The "money" sent to Ukraine doesn't even make a dent in the budget. [0] The problem is that it is an ideological decision not to give money to the poor, the homeless, the need
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by esarbe 3y ago
This is a straw man argument. This is not a problem of lack of money. There's more than enough money to go around. This is a conscious decision to not provide money to the citizens in need and push it into the MIC instead.
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by esarbe 3y ago
Ukraine is not a proxy war. Ukraine is being attacked by Russia. Ukraine fights for its survival. It has been doing that since 2014, when Russia first attacked Ukraine. It has been doing that without help by the US for 8 years. It will cont
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by esarbe 3y ago
Don't buy the disinformation;not much of that money was actually sent to Ukraine, most of the money stays in the US. [0] The US not funding school lunch programs, affordable housing, homeless programs is not a problem of lacking resour
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November is the sixth straight month to set a heat record(apnews.com)
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Earth on verge of five catastrophic tipping points(theguardian.com)
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World facing 'hellish' 3C of climate heating, UN warns(theguardian.com)
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World stands on frontline of disaster at COP28(theguardian.com)
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by esarbe 3y ago
> Should we be nihilistic and do nothing because of that? No, not at all. But let's be honest about the stakes. We don't need to save Earth for Earth's sake. We need to save Earth for our own sake. This is not about tree-h
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by esarbe 3y ago
I'm not sure if climate engineering should have been the first tool to reach for. Limiting emissions would have definitively been the correct first step. Alas, this comes 40 years too late. The oil and gas companies really kneecapped a
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by esarbe 3y ago
I'm not worried about Earth. Earth will be fine. Give or take a few million years and not much of mankind's adventurism will be left and the ecosystem will have restored itself. It will just be the end of that whole "mankind&
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by esarbe 3y ago
No, of course not. We'll just continue business as usual and keep expanding our industrial base and the associated emissions until a magic technology appears and we're all saved. I mean, that the plan, right?
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by esarbe 3y ago
It did, didn't it?
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by esarbe 3y ago
What amazes me the most is the incredible ability of humans to rationally understand all this and just go "...meh".
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by esarbe 3y ago
And that's where I see the "bad faith" in the conversation. Why make a jump from "You are reminded of this scene" to "You don't understand how the system works"? Even if we assume that one follows fro
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by esarbe 3y ago
Warren Buffet famously pays taxes at a lower rate than his secretary. https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2012/01/warren-buffett... This is an anecdote but there's no reason to expect that this do
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by esarbe 3y ago
I'm not trying to troll. But I admit I'm slightly annoyed by the bad faith in the conversation; that is something I'd expect on Reddit, not HN.
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by esarbe 3y ago
They didn't write they were reminded reminded of an overleveraged stripper in a movie any time they thinks of a mortgage. That's pure speculation, or worse; insinuation.
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by esarbe 3y ago
They didn't say that they have a Pavlovian response to the phrase "mortgage securities", trained only on surface-level knowledge of a Ryan Gosling film. They were simply reminded of the scene from The Big Short with the strip

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