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by fuoqi 5y ago
Robot-sumo? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS-L2fpV1Is
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by fuoqi 5y ago
I wonder how much they pay for insurance and what are regulations around it, i.e. what will happen if it crashes and kills someone in result?
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by fuoqi 5y ago
Multicopters are mechanically simpler than helicopters and thus can be cheaper. Assuming that power system is electric, they are easier to control. Because of the rotor redundancy they can continue flight even after losing several engines&#
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>Which might mean that they don't reprocess all of Russian waste, unlike the French facility processing French waste I don't know if France indeed processes all its waste, but in the Russian case it certainly not the case today
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>at a rate much smaller than what France is doing No wonders since La Hague handles waste from a bigger number of reactors. In France only they have 58 reactors vs 39 in Russia and they also handle waste from other countries as well. Con
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>only France has really closed the fuel cycle No. Fuel reprocessing close to the France's technological level is also performed routinely in Russia and Japan. And "closed fuel cycle" usually means using uranium-238 for ene
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by fuoqi 5y ago
The restrictions are quite useless (and BTW the website is quite horrible and has a bad security record). Even in Yandex you can easily find the list on various websites. It has even been duplicated to Wikipedia: https://ru.wikip
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>1% tax on the full amount of every trade. Fuck off worthless HFT mega brain drain. Fuck off short termism in markets. I think a much better solution would be to mandate "slower" exchanges, i.e. exchanges would accumulate order
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by fuoqi 5y ago
I think that the presentation and the paper look good enough to listen to the claims of experimental results in good faith. While I also remain fairly skeptical, in my opinion it's worth to reproduce those results. Even if it's no
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>If you don't believe me then please try to explain why hasn't Japan experienced a double or triple digit inflation. It's important to note that Japan should not be viewed as a template for the US. Both countries are quite
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>But if the currently-working people are unable to support the retired ones, no financial magic is going to fix that. Well, there is a way to work around this: to invest into foreign assets. In other words, domestic retirees will be supp
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by fuoqi 5y ago
Have you missed the underground part? Ideally both reservoirs would be kept underground, thus minimizing environmental impact and water loss to an absolute minimum. I agree that such storage would require huge CapEx, but on the bright side
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by fuoqi 5y ago
I think that natural gas plants will be a significant part of power grids for a long time. Maybe they will not be primary generators, but they certainly will stay as backup. At the very least until the grid-scale storage problem will be pro
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by fuoqi 5y ago
Today most of wind turbine blades get literally buried in specialized landfills [0]. Companies which produce them promise to boost recycling rate in a decade or so, but right now it's just yet another externality. Proper recycling simp
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by fuoqi 5y ago
Tri Alpha certainly looks promising and I hope they will succeed, but the article itself severely lacks any detail about the developed technology. It does not even mention FRC[0], which is foundation of the TAE reactors. [0]: https:/&
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by fuoqi 5y ago
The usual reminder that laser fusion research is done not for potential energy production, but for development of thermonuclear weapons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25210756
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by fuoqi 5y ago
There are two main reasons for using DC for long distance power lines: 1) The line connects two synchronized grids. It's much easier to convert electricity to DC and back to AC on receiving end, than to synchronize grids or to implemen
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>The commies started infighting. What? 1978s PDPA coup has begun from assassination which was allegedly done with CIA help. USSR didn't have any reason to destabilize the relatively friendly Daoud regime. When shit hit the fan, they
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>we just packed our bags and left instead of helping them build a society that wasn't based on religious extremism Yeah, let's completely destroy the relatively stable secular state built with the help of those evil Russians (D
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by fuoqi 5y ago
You mean "democracy"? Let's be honest, US (and to a lesser extent EU) can tolerate just about any atrocity performed by a "friendly" regime if there is enough to gain from it. There are countless examples past and p
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by fuoqi 5y ago
It's interesting to note that DRA (the pro-Soviet Afghanistan government) has fought for 3 whole years after the Soviets have left Afghanistan. And it was with the almost complete lack of military support from the USSR (you know, the U
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by fuoqi 5y ago
Yes, this is why I wrote "since".
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by fuoqi 5y ago
Looks similar to the joint Russian/EU experiment MARS-500: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARS-500
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by fuoqi 5y ago
Also let's not forget about the amount of USD printed since 2015-2019.
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>Natural gas has already fulfilled its usefulness as a “bridge fuel” Seeing how Poland still gets approximately 70% of its electricity from coal, I wouldn't say so. Also until the grid-scale storage problem (at least on the level of
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>Meanwhile, the US has been pressuring EU countries for years to not source their gas from Russia To force them to buy more expensive LNG produced mostly in (surprise!) the US. To me it's nothing more than a case of failed geopoliti
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by fuoqi 5y ago
I wouldn't be so sure that EU and US will follow the Japanese scenario. In many regards Japan is a special case. On this subject I recommend reading Lyn Alden [0] and Princes of the Yen [1]. [0]: https://www.lynalden.com&#x2
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by fuoqi 5y ago
>Natural gas prices have just spiked in Europe because Russia is limiting supply. Well, Russia simply plays by the rules Europe promoted itself. You don't want stable long term "take or pay" contracts with price tied to oi
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by fuoqi 5y ago
I have used Tesseract for OCRing Japanese vertical texts and while it does work fine most of the time (not good mind you, since it constantly mixes certain complex kanji, lack of advanced context awareness shows) after a bit of pre-processi
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The Case for a Longer-Term Oil and Gas Bull Market(lynalden.com)
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