illiarian

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by illiarian 3y ago
Air conditioning is not the only power consumer. If your production goes from 100% to 0%, it's not just air conditioning that will be affected.
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by illiarian 3y ago
It only pencils out when you don't have to worry where your power is coming from at night or on a cloudy day.
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by illiarian 3y ago
So now: - Elon is running around handing out free blue checkmarks to people he's afraid if losing on the platform (pretending he's doing it as a joke). And this resulted in predictable backlash from those people - Removal of legac
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by illiarian 3y ago
When you put it that way, yes. On the other hand, I, too, want to live in a house with a green space of my own, and would complain loudly if I was forced to change
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by illiarian 3y ago
You've described literally every platform and physical store under the sun except desktop OSes.
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by illiarian 3y ago
As a tangent, Andy Bell and Heydon Pickering have the following, and you absolutely must check them out: - Every Layout https://every-layout.dev/ - Inclusive Components: The Book https://book.inclusive-components
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by illiarian 3y ago
Butcoin's main use case was HODL. You know, in the ancient times of just a few years ago. And now you'd need an electron microscope to find its use cases as money.
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by illiarian 3y ago
That is exactly what they did. Instead of asking people who know their shit they went ahead with populism, emotions, and scare tactics.
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by illiarian 3y ago
> It's not only high level long-live which has to be stored deep and safe. Your source shows it pretty good, and therefore it's not "just" 0,2% but 9% + an unknown amount of VLLW. See, again you're bunching very
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by illiarian 3y ago
> The proof is in the pudding -- data beats predictions. Tell me, using data, on a quiet night, where does Germany's electricity come from, and where it will come from this wondrous future of 2030?
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Market cap is by definition people using it. You and I have very different dictionaries it seems > They’ve exchanged their money for it. A thousand people trading magical tokens they pretend cost trillions of dollars doesn't ma
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by illiarian 3y ago
It's a useless metric if no one is using it. It's a magical purely speculative number.
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by illiarian 3y ago
Basically all of crypto passes Howey test for securities: --- start quite --- an instrument qualifies as an "investment contract" for the purposes of the Securities Act: "a contract, transaction or scheme whereby a person inv
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by illiarian 3y ago
> So it matters when wind is providing 20%, but it doesn't matter when it's providing 100%. Of course. Because when there's no electricity, there's no electricity. > even though coal use is at a historic low, it&#x
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by illiarian 3y ago
In France, for example, only 0.2% of nuclear waste is high level long-live waste and needs to be disposed of somewhere deep and safe. The absolute vast majority is low-level waste that we have not trouble with. See report on nuclear invento
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by illiarian 3y ago
> I’d put money on others launching similar things. WeChat has had this for years (and other messengers in South Wast Asia). I have no idea why in-chat apps were never successfully implemented in the "West". There were minimal
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by illiarian 3y ago
The cores of the cities, yes. And those cores are tiny. There are a few exceptions like London (7 million in the 19th century, 9 million now), but most cities are not London.
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by illiarian 3y ago
None of those are resilient to politics. See for solar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35661918 Same for everything else. Green Party in Britain is campaigning against literally everything including offshore wind: ht
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by illiarian 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35660264
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by illiarian 3y ago
> dispatchable electricity sources is fully tapped to balance renewables across Europe. We will see very high prices during mornings and evenings and whenever it's cold and dark It's already a problem in Sweden. It exports elec
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by illiarian 3y ago
> those that benefit the most from the subsidies that support their life styles will have the most to complain about. What
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by illiarian 3y ago
At all? Often? If I fly once a year over a distance of over a thousand kilometers, is it fine or not? What can I, and individual, do to fix the issue that it takes three trains with a high chance of failures and delays, to get to a destinat
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by illiarian 3y ago
That is the same level of advice as "humans need to learn how to fly". You not only have to change planning, you also need to change all the existing cities to accomodate that planning
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by illiarian 3y ago
> Every person on this planet has the power and responsibility to change and act now What more power beyond, say, recycling and using public transportation can an individual person have? Note how this narrative is literally shifting the
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by illiarian 3y ago
And yet power plant closures were entirely due to politics, not the cost. Now the price of energy in Sweden quintuples depending on demand: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1271491/sweden-monthly-w... I am ju
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by illiarian 3y ago
Again: total numbers mean absolutely nothing on a night when there's zero production from renewables. That "shill" is showing data . Just the fact that you don't like this data doesn't make it invalid. Right now
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by illiarian 3y ago
> On what day it happened is independent of how often this happens, for how long, with what demand and the amount of other electricity supplies.. This was a regular sping night in a nation of 80 million people in the middle of Europe. Wh
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by illiarian 3y ago
Too bad numbers don't work when it's a quiet night, and you have to burn gas, caol, and biomass to make up for those nuclear reactors you've shut down: https://twitter.com/energybants/status/16477997
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by illiarian 3y ago
They replaced it with coal, gas and biofuel (that is, burning more stuff): https://twitter.com/energybants/status/1647799729734971396
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by illiarian 3y ago
I'll believe it when I see it. It's a lot of could should would. A lot of tech "revolutions" sizzled away into nothingness after initial round of celebratory press.

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