himinlomax

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by himinlomax 2y ago
I haven't had a disc drive in any of my PC for a decade. I bought a USB DVD reader just in case, it's somewhere collecting dust — I've never used it. Why do you want one in a console?
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> if batteries and solar get cheap enough Solar is cheap enough. Batteries are never going to be cheap enough (unless, of course, some disruptive technology emerges.)
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Not when computer security is concerned.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
You're making a historical mistake. Copyleft was precisely designed by Richard Stallman to use copyright against itself.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Another wrong assumption about dams, whether for pumped storage or not: they're safe and environmentally friendly! Hydroelectricity has killed several orders of magnitude more people than nuclear power, and it causes a lot more environ
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by himinlomax 2y ago
The orders of magnitude needed for storage are not competitive with nuclear in any reasonable scenario. Nuclear exists and is proven technology. Battery storage at the capacity and price scale required are not. That remains true even if you
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by himinlomax 2y ago
An app in French would be easy to comprehend for an English speaker. To wit: une appli en Français serait facile à comprendre pour un anglophone.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Nuclear is cheaper than renewables+storage. Europe routinely has periods of 2 weeks with little to no wind across the continent (<10% capacity usage on wind power) during winter, when solar production is abysmal. You'd need batterie
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by himinlomax 2y ago
It's a fake "solution" that doesn't solve the problem. Nuclear is a real solution that solves the problem. It's the only solution that does with current technology.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Natural gas is a carbon source. It's a fake solution.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
How much solar electricity is generated at night? During cloudy winters in higher latitudes? During rainy season in lower latitudes? Do you know that wind often goes to zero across Europe for days at end in Europe in Winter? Last winter tha
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by himinlomax 2y ago
The international in international law should give you a hint as to why it doesn't apply to the Uyghurs.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
They're probably still wary of their latest PR disaster, the inclusive and diverse WW2 Germans from Gemini.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Workday is bad, but it's paradise UI-wise compared to the likes of SAP.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
It depends on the frame of reference, so you can correctly say that the sun goes around the earth. You're instead thinking of heliocentrism vs geocentrism, which is about the planets as a whole revolving around the sun. This is a commo
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Taiwan only continues to claim it because rescinding the claim would be seen as "separatist" and thus a casus belli for the CCP to end the status quo.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
If you want to put it that way, the United Nations is at war with North Korea.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
South Korea is currently at war with a hostile oppressive totalitarian neighbour. China is at war with its people.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Businesses are abstractions. You can't touch a business any more than you can touch a nation.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
Nations are just as relevant as businesses as abstractions as far as trade is concerned. Free trade across the world arguably only exists because it's made possible by the rule-based order with the might of the US Navy and affiliates t
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by himinlomax 2y ago
There is a glut of solar power during the day, hence the spot price goes down to zero. There is zero solar power at night, you know, the time when you need the lights on.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
There is absolutely no moral ambiguity in demanding fairness in trade. It's actually the highly moral position, see prisoner's dilemma.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
That's not a positive thing. Another way to spin it: renewable electricity (except hydro) is literally worthless. You get it when you don't need it, but you don't have any guarantee it'll be available when you do.
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by himinlomax 3y ago
I source my personal electronics from South Korea and Taiwan very deliberately.
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by himinlomax 3y ago
To understand what makes species evolve, you first must acknowledge that they do, to what extent and at what time scale. Buffon clearly was the first to understand the latter. There is a similar story with geology, and a similar pushback. A
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by himinlomax 3y ago
https://github.com/proposal-signals/proposal-signals > libselinux does not link to liblzma. It turns out the confusion was because of an old downstream-only patch in Fedora and a stale dependency in the RPM spec whi
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by himinlomax 3y ago
The backdoored library was linked to libsystemd, not systemd itself.
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by himinlomax 3y ago
Traffic will drop as a result of that toll. One of the benefits that will clearly positively impact people like your father is that it will make his travels faster.
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by himinlomax 3y ago
Why do you need my phone number?
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by himinlomax 3y ago
Airbus took over the debts for the project. They paid $1 for 50% of the shares, not sure how much they paid for the rest, but in any case, they assumed the financial burden which was what was dragging Bombardier down.

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