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by jcfrei 5y ago
That's very difficult to do because it will increase prices of said natural resources (for example natural gas). As you've seen in Kazakhstan itself the tolerance for fuel increases is not very high in the population. A very noble
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by jcfrei 5y ago
It's certainly not "backed by the west". These dictatorships exists because they allow the elites to exchange the profits from the sale of natural resources in exchange for dollars and euros. That money then flows into wester
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Let's hope reddit users catch on to this and downvote such posts / comments.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
The biggest problem is that converting energy into hydrogen is extremely inefficient.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
This paper has been out for quite a while now. The argument that any digital assets whose value can drop to zero at any point in the future has a current value of zero is flawed. People can maintain the ledger even when they are losing mone
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Any source on that claim that Obama was behind the coup attempt in 2016?
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by jcfrei 5y ago
A fair comparison would be to Falcon Heavy (Ariane 5 uses boosters as well) which has about twice the payload capacity. Just doesn't yet have the launch history required for such an important payload.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
I use calc as well, especially practical in combination with guake ( a drop-down quake style console: https://github.com/Guake/guake ).
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Shopify Outfoxed Amazon to Become the Everywhere Store(bloomberg.com)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Square meter / person has only gone up here - and the population too.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Public spending is not the biggest issue. The problem is that having lots of government employees in cushy jobs starves the labor market of talent. Why take on a risky job at a flimsy startup when you can have a nearly guaranteed income til
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Israel is economically very tightly integrated with the US, they have the oldest Free Trade Agreement with them (1985). One third of their exports go to the US and having such an old FTA means it has become very cheap for companies to setup
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Changing currents in the Southern Ocean raise a climate alarm(nytimes.com)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
It's not a cult. But as alluded to in the article it's an attempt by a dying business model to amortize some of their investments. A move to BEVs breaks lots of business models. For example when people stop refueling: Gas station
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Talking from a Swiss perspective here: What usually happens here is that facades are protected to "maintain the look" of a certain neighborhood. But everything inside the exterior walls is ripped out and completely rebuilt from sc
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Those investments only benefit very few people though, who already have well paying jobs. Private investors prefer to take long bets in technology corporations (like FAANG, etc). That benefits to a small extent the few people working there
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China's Yutu 2 rover spots cube-shaped 'mystery hut' on far side of the moon(space.com)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
So any SaaS startup that offers referral fees is now a pyramid scheme?
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Rail services in European countries are not covering their costs in any country, as far as I know. Speaking of Switzerland (which is notably at the extreme end in terms of costs) public rail services are run a lot like infrastructure projec
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Not a very good example: The reason for this is most likely because of regulators (US and CH) which create such a huge compliance headache for US-associated customers that in most cases it isn't worth keeping the customer.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
How long until the first DAO attempts to acquire companies on wall street?
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Will an Island in Indonesia Become a New Frontier in the Space Race?(nytimes.com)
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CS50 Lecture by Mark Zuckerberg – 7 December 2005(youtube.com)
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by jcfrei 5y ago
> Only a numerical minority of farms are actually designed to grow food. "Numerically", ok. But by landmass the majority is used to grow food, right?
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Yeah but that's also the disadvantage of the Linux ecosystem. Either you're on the same version as the devs or you're screwed.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
> But is it, actually? The amount of nuclear waste in interim storage speaks against it. No, there aren't a lot of breeder reactors running. But that's just because there hasn't been any pressure to develop them commercial
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by jcfrei 5y ago
Not circumvent them. You can create a system that addresses the concerns of regulators wrt money laundering. Valve offering such functionality on their steam store (without some blockchain just all transactions in their own DB) would likely
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by jcfrei 5y ago
They have to because a large part of their voting base consists of older members who joined the greens back in the 60s, 70s and 80s because they were the first to spread FUD and mobilize against nuclear power plants.
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by jcfrei 5y ago
It's all well explained - at this point you don't want to understand the solution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository I've cited this quote before: " Despite a long-standing ag
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by jcfrei 5y ago
A lot of the fuel can be recycled and doesn't need to be stored for thousands of years. Storing the remainder underground is mostly a one-off cost except for some monitoring. It's a solved problem and only public misconceptions ab

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