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greatpatton
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Switzerland built and put online 3 reactors in 6 years between 1965 and 1971, so yes it's a proven fact that's it's technically easy. Now from a political point of view that's another issue.
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Yes it's an issue when people have decided that energy generation should be outsources somewhere else... If you close your nuclear reactor you can only blame yourself if your power generation infrastructure is undersized. Can we please
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My point is that 15% is still 15% even it represents the population of Estonia or of a suburb of NY. By the way you are mixing everything. I talk about private transport and you give me the figure for total energy consumption... Total energ
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4y ago
A study was made for Switzerland. If all private cars were going electric, it will only require an additional 17% to the current electric generation. This is not a shitload... People keep forgetting that the yield of an ICE is really really
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When eastern part of Germany was annexed to Poland they used the Oder-Neisse line which run along 2 rivers hence this border. If it was still Germany the border would still make sense.
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Not only that they can just shutdown your account because you shared picture of your son infected penis with your pediatrician. https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/billboards-seen-in-LA-a... And now their reviewe
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Moving all private cars to electricity will increase total electricity consumption by 19% ( https://phys.org/news/2015-07-cars-electric.html ). This number is not something worrying in any way, and well manageable by the
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4y ago
It's great when it works, and can also be costly when it doesn't or when you blindly trust it.
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ok but technological evolution follow the same curve. We would not be able to sustain current population with 1900 technologies. It's very strange to completely discard technology evolution in this equation.
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White is not by nature prone to yellowing. Some paint are (the organic component of the paint), but if you are using a lime wash it will never turn yellow and TiO2 as a pigment is very stable.
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4y ago
The probability of that income is quite hypothetical. Most of the time, the person would never have payed for it.
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Don't complain in Switzerland we have the most expensive price (24.9CHF or about 26.7$) and we have the smallest catalog and no local content...
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4y ago
If it was an Australian citizen that was under the threat of an extradition to China for exposing the shit they did, the outrage will be total! But here it is supposed to be the "good guys" doing it. Funny how the yard stick can c
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"how effective are these sorts of statistical methods?" Exactly they are so many variables to take into account that each population subset is becoming very small. I would love to have the insight of a stats nerd on the study. Btw
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From a European point of view this is really strange and the emphasis on the external aspect of someone seems to be the key. Trevor Noah, like the leading French player or even the former US president all have a white parent but somehow eve
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I'm 48, been skiing since I was 3 and switched to mainly snowboard at 17 (and living less then 30min from a lot of ski resorts). I ski from time to time, mainly when with the kids and when the snow is hard. But as soon as there is powd
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"Just as an example, the best performing company this year is Total with 15B and which is happily feeding the government with petrodollars and the other people with lies about "Net Zero " etc." French government is not a
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Please this is public research from a public University, what do you expect? That they can scale it to 1000 of people? This is research as intended, now commercial products may be built out of this but it will take time again.
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Seems that it's not as simple as mentioned here: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326617-arm-refutes-acc...
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They are many bacterial vaccine out there against pneumococcal, meningococcal, typhoid fever, cholera, haemophilus influenzae type B etc.
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How really can you tell me how many project migration project that involve changing a whole basic infrastructure is done in less than 5 months from idea to completion in your company? For a personal project where you may not have a lot of
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People are talking about their purchases on Google play, but that's not the main point. All the web services where you used Google as the IdP are going to be toasted if you move. You will to go through all the services you use to see h
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Yes but for my family of 4 it would cost me 4 6 12= 288$ per year! That's about 50% of my yearly unlimited fiber internet access (that also come with a free email). For me that's the last nail in the coffin, will make sure in the
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Yes but Russia and India don't share a border
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The representation of the gravity on the moon was so off that it completely killed the show for me.
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96% of the participants were fully vaccinated.
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Not much into US law, but can someone tell us what is happening if you had personal possession of value in your car?
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Seems from this case in Norway ( https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E... ) that Moderna is a tad bit better at preventing infection from Omicron, but when you see the overall number of cases
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The USA are the only country not part of CRS. Have a look here: https://www.oecd.org/tax/automatic-exchange/international-fr... The USA is always "do as I say not as I do" and they have zero credibility
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The problem is not housing rules, it's the concentration of companies in the same place that drives the concentration of talents which itself drives the concentration of companies... From my point of view the only things that can solv
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