evilos

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by evilos 3y ago
Ah, the infamous NYAS hit job. It wasn't even peer reviewed, yet it was published on behalf of a supposedly scientific community. That should tell you everything you need to know. Meanwhile, the UN Scientific Commissions and Harvard&#x
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by evilos 3y ago
Nuclear energy is so insanely safe that of the three worst accidents in its history, only one actually killed people and its on the order of hundreds of people. Hydro dam failures have killed on the order of hundreds of thousands but no one
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by evilos 3y ago
Love that this scifi trope is coming to life, I really do. Also pretty funny is the inevitability of dumb memes and porn being etched into glass for essentially eternity. We're gonna produce a lot of 'cave paintings'. I wonde
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by evilos 3y ago
The French government has been trying to kill their fleet for over a decade now. They've only recently come around.
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by evilos 3y ago
If you look at large nations that have actually decarbed their grid, they do it with hydro first and nuclear second. Show me even a medium sized nation that is predominantly powered by solar/wind and isn't utterly reliant on impor
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by evilos 3y ago
We've been saying this for decades. It's still not true because we haven't figured out massively scalable grid scale energy storage. The only thing that gets close is PHES and we don't have enough of it.
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by evilos 3y ago
This was literally legislated by green party politicians. They passed a law mandating that the nuclear fleet must go from 75% to 50% of generation. They also forced the company that owns the fleet (EDF) to sell power at a loss to energy tra
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by evilos 3y ago
The combined heat and humidity cycles of being on a roof would be quite damaging to any electro-mechanical machine. Especially one that isn't designed for that kind of environment. I'd be surprised if a PC fan made it more than 2
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by evilos 3y ago
The supply here is highly constrained, hence my desire (in general) for zoning reform. Of course, there's a lot of opposition to building more housing from the usual suspects. Build more housing, that's the only way.
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by evilos 3y ago
I mean my preferred solution would be zoning reform first, yes. I was just proposing an amendment to OPs policy, I don't think it's politically viable in the US. In my large US city, a lot of apartments are held by various corpora
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by evilos 3y ago
Maybe a more workable and less authoritarian tack would be that the government plays in the market as a limited profit entity, thereby ensuring that a cartel cannot fully capture the market and endlessly drive prices upwards. Limited profit
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by evilos 3y ago
Only the 8GB model. Hardware Unboxed latest gpu market update shows the 16GB model is selling for $50 above MSRP at $400 and the 8GB model for $280. You definitely shouldn't buy it at $400 since the 6700xt handily beats it and costs $3
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by evilos 3y ago
I had no idea people paid that kind of money for chromebooks. I was under the impression it was firmly in the three to six hundred dollar range.
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by evilos 3y ago
Full Self Driving is imminent and X.com is the future of finance!
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by evilos 3y ago
Chimneys are for snowflakes.
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by evilos 3y ago
Ironic you put it that way, since it actually increases the need to ramp up and down dispatchable generation. Average is literally a smoothing function. If you look at an hourly output graph of wind farms it's often hopelessly spiky. I
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by evilos 3y ago
In practice, the amount of power you can "rely" on a wind farm to produce is so small as to be almost useless from a grid planning POV. Yes, dispatchable generation can have unplanned outages too. But the differences in those prob
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by evilos 3y ago
I'm just saying that faulting a F-117 for not being a dog fighter is silly when it was designed to be a bomber. The real reason to retire the F-117 was because the B-2 could stealthily deliver more bombs anyways and they wanted to free
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by evilos 3y ago
That's like faulting a can opener for not slicing pizza well.
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by evilos 3y ago
I thought that really only happened because they used the same route repeatedly and because they kept their bomb bay doors open longer than necessary which ruined the stealth?
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by evilos 3y ago
AFAIK the new iphone 14 already meets these standards. It's really not the insane burden everyone is making it out to be.
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by evilos 3y ago
Looks like 40k workers was the peak during construction. And to be fair, it was also the 1940's, they were in a massive rush, and it was the literal first time it was done.
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by evilos 3y ago
Proliferation concerns for reactors are silly IMO. Any nation state with access to U and graphite can simply construct a pile reactor to make Pu. Much easier to conceal and operate compared to trying to mask reactor operations at a civilian
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by evilos 3y ago
Patrick (patio11) has some great blogs about working in Japan and the culture, if you're interested. I found this one insightful and very entertaining: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-
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by evilos 3y ago
Article didn't say that. It's an existing site and they've built so many of these things (typically in 6-7 years)[0] and the local supply chain has stuck around because they've been doing refurbs even now. I think there&
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by evilos 3y ago
They took your DVDs? On what pretext? Did you get them back?
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by evilos 3y ago
Yeah iphones were premium/valuable enough that people would go through the trouble to repair them even if they had to deal with some glue. With android phones the resale value/demand wasn't there (also due in part to bad soft
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by evilos 3y ago
So, you're saying the answer to your own question was "basically all iphones"? I think the new law would basically mean the end user doesn't have to deal with glue now at least.
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by evilos 3y ago
Apparently the brand new iphone 14! https://www.ifixit.com/News/64865/iphone-14-teardown The new law apparently doesn't require a user to be able to replace the battery by hand. Just that it is serviceable.
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by evilos 3y ago
Yes but USB C has solved that problem.

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