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by gnaffle 14y ago
Of course the construction material requires mining. My point was that there is no way you can plausibly claim that nuclear and wind power are equally environmentally friendly. I'm really tired of all the pro-nuclear people here that can't
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by gnaffle 14y ago
So, if wind energy doesn't create waste, doesn't require mining and enrichment and doesn't have a chance of causing a major environmental disaster, how can you claim nuclear energy is "just as environmentally friendly"?
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by gnaffle 14y ago
"Just as environmentally friendly"? Since when did Wind power require long term storage of waste? Nuclear power depends on public trust (which is reflected in politics). That trust was just about built up again after Chernobyl when Fukushim
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by gnaffle 14y ago
This is correct. Norway exports power in wet seasons, and imports it in dry seasons. But if there is less rain and dam fill-up than expected, they will throttle down on production to save the water in order to sell it at a higher price late
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by gnaffle 14y ago
You forget that batteries can be recycled.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
No, I'm not saying that. I was thinking about the hypothetical coffee chain, and I'm countering his idea (from what he writes, that any market change that happens is "inevitable" and that businesses can merely accelerate or delay that chang
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think there's a big difference between demonstrating that something is not viable in the long term, and some company killing off a business because it suits their particular business goals and they have the money to do it. Consumer habits
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by gnaffle 14y ago
True, that's a better analogy, especially if they drove local bakeries out of business by giving away muffins and other baked goods for free.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Maybe most consumers are satisfied, but the ones that are not don't make up a big enough population to sustain a good coffee bar?
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by gnaffle 14y ago
..or maybe Starbucks successfully pushed the consumers to some other way of consuming coffee (for instance hypothetical store-bought Starbuck espresso capsules)
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Here you go: http://code.google.com/p/artisan/
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Not only that, but people would probably be wary of investing too much in a new coffee shop. After all, if Starbucks changed their mind so suddenly, what's to keep them from changing their mind again?
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by gnaffle 14y ago
If Starbucks invaded your city and used their cash pile to give away free coffee for years until there were no more independent coffee bars left, and then suddenly decided to close up shop leaving you with no decent coffee bars, would that
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by gnaffle 14y ago
At least there's a lite-version available.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Looks really nice!
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by gnaffle 14y ago
The interesting question is whether there is a correlation between _how_ rich you can get in a country, compared to it's GDP / PPP. I don't think you'll find a simple correlation if you compare those. Excluding countries that are rich in na
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Well I did have a capacitive touch screen "tablet PC" (Panasonic Toughbook). But that's pretty much irrelevant since the UI didn't have pinches and swipes and wasn't designed primarily for use with fingers.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
A reviewer driving in circles at a charging station _without mentioning it in the article_ and all the other things mentioned here proves that the journalists left out facts in the article.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I've had and heard about about enough encounters with journalists to say that while they may not outright lie, they will twist or omit facts to fit whatever angle they have in mind for the story. Often it's just somewhat annoying to those w
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by gnaffle 14y ago
You're most likely to encounter a common aircraft type. Airline sompanies have reserve pilots that they can call on short notice, so it's highly unlikely that ATC will be unable to find someone to help. If you're in a small plane, there are
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Actually the opposite is true, apparently Mac users keep their computers for much longer than Windows users. A key reason is probably the price of a new Mac, another that time and OS upgrades generally don't make a Mac much slower (the exce
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by gnaffle 14y ago
"A smartphone is used for consumption" is just a bad generalization. Is making calls, sending emails and text messages "consumption"? No. And for tablets it's an even worse generalization. But still, _most_ computer usage _is_ consumption!
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by gnaffle 14y ago
An ATC will be able to help by quickly getting someone who can help on the phone or in the tower. Finding someone with knowledge of the particular aircraft in question is seldom a problem, especially not at an airport.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
No, the FAA says so, leading to a grounding of all the planes.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Saying something like this is akin to saying that the whole world is overthinking biking and all those tips on endurance training are irrelevant because Lance Armstrong was using drugs. All those books tips are still useful if you want to b
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by gnaffle 14y ago
The main problem is all the internal webapps that were written to support IE6, still works with IE8, and are very costly to rewrite, upgrade or replace. So in many cases they have to _add_ Firefox, they can't simply replace IE. That means e
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by gnaffle 14y ago
The only way they can compete in a market such as this is to partner with a manufacturer, and the end result is that they have to play to the manufacturers whim (and often the operators whim if the manufacturer wants to ship devices). The e
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by gnaffle 14y ago
From the people I know working in banking, outsourcing is in fact quite common. They just have very tight access controls and truckloads of legal contracts, and some work has to be done on-site.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Do you think he kept a head count and had set a limit beforehand based on the expected prison sentence? According to himself, he didn't expect to get out of there alive, and was prepared for life inprisonment if he did.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think the main reason netbooks are considered garbage by many is that they decided to cram Windows XP into underpowered machines, which meant a horribly slow laptop with poor battery life, with the only advantage being that it was small a

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