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Conversion to hydrogen need not be expensive. In the UK sometimes electricity prices turn negative on very windy days, and hydrogen can be stored. Pilot schemes are already using hydrogen blend with gas using existing infrastructure. [1] I&
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Baseline/baseload as the minimum you need to provide to meet demand over a period of time. [1] The concept doesn't become irrelevant just because you're using renewables. Renewables still need to serve baseline power demand,
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I believe gas plants are already used to stabilise grids, as they have the benefit of being able to come online quickly. They do depend on subsidies, however, as the idea is they would be mostly offline.
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> Wind and solar each provide close to 3x the capacity nuclear ever did. The difficulty is that the renewables don't provide baseline power. Ironically, this baseline is now sometimes coming from French nuclear power plants. I respe
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> Why do you say heat pumps only work in well insulated houses with large radiators? Because heat pumps operate at a lower flow temperature than boilers. Smaller radiators designed to operate at hotter temperatures won't bring your
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A further alternative to heat pumps is hydrogen fired boilers. Heat pumps work well in well insulated houses, with large radiators, which aren't attributes of much existing UK housing. Boiler manufacturers are already designing hydroge
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Java Optionals are useful in Streams. I've found I agree with the principle that Optionals only make sense for return values (and if the method returns null, that should be treated as a bug). I've seen Optionals used for member va
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> Yes, it's a juggling act: Person A still has $1000 on the ledger in their deposit even if the bank lends $800 of that to Person B Fractional reserve banking isn't up-to-date with the modern banking system, where in many cases
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> Which is why we don't let private companies create currency willy-nilly anymore. As I understand, private banks extend loans, which while not being printing money, the loans being deposits (which can be withdrawn) the effect of cr
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I think twitter is the most toxic. I have been uncomfortable on twitter to find enclaves where people are mentally ill, and have found others to exacerbate their behaviour and thinking.
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> But it is a business This is why I was disappointed, because it marks a departure from things auspiciously done with consideration "for all mankind". A publicity stunt I wasn't disappointed in, was the twitter account fo
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> I'd say maybe 10% of that stunt was for publicity. It was the dominant media image at the time. It was 100% publicity. There is a difference between convivial behaviour between people on a mission, and a stunt by a private company
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> Musk seems to approach space as a serious thing Musk sent a car into space as a publicity stunt. My colleagues liked it, but I found it ... disappointing, that it seemed to signal an end of an era that did see space as a serious thing,
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The ORM vs SQL debate is a false dichotomy, at least if you take Hibernate as an example. You can use a combination of JPQL, native SQL, and object mapping. There's nothing stopping you from mixing and matching. You can use an ORM to s
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I assumed they were talking about an event pre-1989.
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> That is, only paying you for those 2h a day instead of 8... In the context of tech-based work, If pay is based on productivity, then those two hours should be paid the same as 8. I think tech companies are realising that it's payi
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> everyone simply stopped doing unpaid emotional labour. Arguably this is the situation in Europe, compared to America, as there isn't a comparable tipping culture. In Germany, there is a word to describe how this has tipped over in
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The UK legal system, at least, recognises property rights, but offers varying degrees of exclusion. For example, the right to exclude certain classes of people is different renting a room of your house vs. renting a whole apartment. The abi
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That is the situation already. Evidently they're not attracting enough donations to not consider advertisements. https://donate.mozilla.org/
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I expect if Mozilla made opt-out a paid feature, then all that would happen is that Firefox would be forked without ads, and the general public use Chrome or Edge anyway.
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The UK also benefitted from North Sea oil, but unlike the Norwegians, we don't have a sovereign wealth fund. Some suggest the money raised went towards tax cuts and contributed to house price inflation. [1] Although I'm not sure a
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Who decides what speech is radical enough to compromise the privacy of users? And if speech is "radical" meaning to the point of illegality, shouldn't the legal system decide, rather than the court of public opinion?
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My experience deleting Facebook has been strange. Maybe I didn't do it right, but I have continued to receive "sign in with 1-click" emails, and at one time I was notified somewhat disconcertingly that someone had memorialise
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Physical things exist, the fact that they are attributed to certain humans as property is a social construct.
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The basics are vaccinations. We have a vaccination now: this is the end game. There is nothing more we can do, unless we want to enforce children to wear masks and distance every winter flu season, which comes at a mental and developmental
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Maintenance windows make a lot of sense when your market is domestic, as you can run upgrades during a night shift at the weekend. Although in the company I used to work for, I can remember there were stories of people who liked to carry ou
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Coronavirus's risk to children is low. It's not true that there are no mitigations for Covid: children in the UK are being vaccinated against Covid, as often happens against winter flu. Measures to protect adults against coronavir
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> Billionaires shouldn't get a pass because of 'philanthropy'. You're responding to a comment I didn't make. Bill Gates is a philanthropic person. That's not to say I think he shouldn't pay tax, or Micr
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> their abysmal greed and asocial psyche: When you already have billions, what does it matter if you pay any percentage in taxes? How does it have any material or imaterial impact on your quality of life if you contribute back to society
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I found this odd too. The idea of limited liability, is that your business can go under, without it taking your personal finances with you. > pay severance to his employees? Isn't severance pay something that should be included in t

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