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by glogla 6y ago
Comparing nuclear (available 24/7) with solar without storage (available only in during the day only in some seasons) seems tricky - of course the solar will be cheaper. It doesn't cover all the need though. And storage is mostly
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by glogla 6y ago
Australia has a tiny (on grid scale) battery used to stabilize the grid, not for long term storage like you would need for relying on solar energy in place that actually has winters.
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by glogla 6y ago
Looking at this page [1] it seems China takes about 5 years to go from start of construction to commercial operation of a reactor. I'm pretty sure they have no NIMBY lawsuits to content with, so this seems like a realistic timeframe. [
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by glogla 6y ago
By that time, it will be too late to save even remnants of humanity. But your line of reasoning perfectly shows that it fine - humanity going extinct is a good thing. The universe is better off without the like of us.
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by glogla 6y ago
It's so weird, in movies there's always the villain going out of their way trying to "destroy the world" and it seems so far fetched - and now I'm talking to one.
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by glogla 6y ago
There's no need for invasion or occupation, bombing is enough - look at per capita carbon footprint of Afghanistan or Somalia. And that can be done "cleanly" with drones, no risk for the attacking nation. Other than that, som
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by glogla 6y ago
I would say it is the only way it makes sense. The world now belongs to huge nations like USA, China and India. The only way European people can survive with their freedom intact is by banding together.
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by glogla 6y ago
They still have nuclear weapons. And they have enough propaganda / hybrid war capability to get Trump elected. Maybe not a world superpower but dangerous nonetheless. I'm more interested in why Russia still tries to continue Cold
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by glogla 6y ago
Yeah. If police is coming up with ways to manufacture victimless crime, they obviously don't have enough to do in real crime, and we can defund them and save the money. If they are coming with this while there is real crime unsolved, w
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by glogla 6y ago
Using hydrogen as intermediate storage is interesting because it is a pattern that can be reused in many places. For example, I know of semi-experimental Chinese nuclear reactor that is used for making hydrogen rather than electricity. Tha
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by glogla 6y ago
Reminds me of Outside from Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine - also a nontraditional post-apocalyptic RPG, but a tabletop one.
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by glogla 6y ago
Cities Skylines is a wonderful game, but sadly it's going to be a slideshow on MacBook Air, or any MacBook other than 15" with dedicated GPU.
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by glogla 6y ago
That's one of the issues with current energy policy of most of the world - the terminology and thinking is stuck in the days when everyone thought the problem is we're going to run out of oil or coal or whatever. But that's n
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by glogla 6y ago
According to [1] they also have 24 GW installed capacity of hydro and 12 GW of gas so my guess would be that? [1]: https://www.electricitymap.org/zone/FR
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by glogla 6y ago
How is any of that anti-competitive? It's a fair competition between multiple app stores. And Epic is also competing with Steam by having lower cut (5 % versus 30 % IIRC) leaving more money for the developers. It's good for the de
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by glogla 6y ago
Something can be both "good business" that is make you a lot of money, and a terrible thing for society. There's an incredible amount of effort to prevent that - we can start with obligatory things like slavery, but there&#x2
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by glogla 6y ago
But how much of that agricultural land is pastures unsuitable for growing things for human consumption? You can probably give corn to people instead of cows in the US (yay more HFCS!) but you can't ask the sheep and goat herders to gra
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by glogla 6y ago
> And, if they do this, how are they generally speaking so successful? They have almost complete monopoly on online search, web ads, online video, on phone OS, on browsers. And they are not afraid to abuse those to get more, and are gett
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by glogla 6y ago
There are two important differences: 1) Head of Executive branch is limited by law (constitution, etc). CEO is not limited 2) The Raison d'être of government, at least de iure, is to do good for its citizens, while the raison d'êt
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by glogla 6y ago
Did you move to something or just stopped tracking? I like the idea of tracking stuff for myself, but it doesn't seem possible without evil cloud at the moment. Maybe with apple watch?
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by glogla 6y ago
Because it makes sense. Why wouldn't rent seekers - both landlords and more abstract rent-seekers - just raise prices? Maybe competition takes care of that? But that doesn't seem to work very well in the current housing market.
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by glogla 6y ago
What data types are available in Arrow? Avro and Parquet can't really do timestamp with timezone, which is a major pain when processing data from geographically distributed locations. But if Arrow can do it, then maybe there's hop
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by glogla 6y ago
Is that a fair price based on how it damages the planet? If so, why not?
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by glogla 6y ago
Yeah, we live in a culture where thinking about anything but next quarter revenue is discouraged in companies. In such a culture, anything but a status quo is not going to happen easily. See also fossil fuels.
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by glogla 6y ago
> Apparently there is a condition people who have sinus surgery get which is very similar but I have avoided making it worse by researching it. Yeah, here's the wikipedia page for that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by glogla 6y ago
I'm not sure cargo pants themselves are "cosplay". A lot of male fashion comes from military - peacoats, bomber jackets, parkas, trench coats, pretty much any boots, etc. And a lot of it comes from jobs - trucker jackets, den
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by glogla 6y ago
You are mixing things. Nordic model is a way of implementing "sex work is bad and should be illegal". Whether it's implemented in the Nordic model way, or in the "let's jail sex workers!" way does not matter th
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by glogla 6y ago
> I hope we adopt the Nordic model in this regard. I hope not. Nordic model is as abusive of sex workers and as harmful as any other prohibition, just with more bullshit.
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by glogla 6y ago
A large SQL database running queries from many users, say a data warehouse or a backend DB for web app like internet banking or something. You can run on multiple nodes, but that brings its challenges, see Jepsen.
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by glogla 6y ago
Mikrotik is pretty good for ISP-style stuff - CPEs, routers with OSPF, etc. They are rock stable and get long-term support. Great value for the money but don't expect state of the art tech or best performance. For "better wifi&quo

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