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by jhayward 7y ago
This mis-states how electrical generation markets work and relies on the fallacy of "baseload", which is an artifact created by the past-grid domination of large thermal plants for generation. In my market (Texas/ERCOT) there
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by jhayward 7y ago
Agreed. The point of the HBO series was to depict what people experienced during the catastrophe, not to debunk the misconceptions, misinformation, and bad science that was present at the time. To get upset that they didn't make a &#x
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by jhayward 7y ago
It is not useful to use the many failings of coal as a fuel to promote nuclear power. Nuclear power does not compete against coal, it competes against wind/solar and natural gas. The constant refrain of 'but coal ..' from nu
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by jhayward 7y ago
"What about DRM?" is not a valid response to discussion of GPL v3 issues.
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by jhayward 7y ago
I'll accept the correction regarding Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux, thank you. However the steam explosion(s) that blew apart the reactor assembly at Chernobyl did not melt the fuel rods there although of course there may have been some local
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by jhayward 7y ago
> so it would never be at risk of a melt-down This is a misunderstanding of what a melt-down is. In every case we know of involving commercial reactors, fuel melt-down happened when the reactor was non-critical, completely devoid of
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by jhayward 7y ago
In almost every state jury awards for damages are reduced, often drastically, down to what can be proven as material damage. Unless someone has receipts for the $11 million (I haven't read the case) it will likely be reduced. This is
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by jhayward 7y ago
> I suspect you do have an enemy. It might be rural people, southerners, Christians, or people who want to win bigly. I am not at war with any of those people, although I might disagree with them and oppose their policies. There'
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by jhayward 7y ago
Thank goodness for Safari's reader mode. This article was unreadable without it. Why do people do this?
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by jhayward 7y ago
I don't know where I picked up that particular factoid, but if you look at the trend lines in [1] you can see the improvement claimed. In [2] there is a slightly different claim, "A modern 5-day forecast is as accurate as a 1-day
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by jhayward 7y ago
The last day of the 10-day forecast is now more accurate than the 3rd day of the 3-day forecast was when I was in college. This covers some decades, to be sure, but it's a pretty big improvement.
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We are not at war with people going to college at Dartmouth, and we won't be nuking Dartmouth. What kind of world view does it take to see everyone as the enemy?
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My point is that what you believe to be age discrimination may not be that at all, rather a judgement of suitability based on temperament and how relationships are handled. A certain equanimity and humility often is attributed to age and th
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by jhayward 7y ago
I suspect that the incivility and self-righteousness that comes through in these comments may have lead some to think that the poster needs some time to gain perspective, and wisdom, about how to deal with everyone with respect.
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By this logic, a building can't be created or destroyed. I suppose you argue that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of nature, independent of all other things, rather than some emergent property of matter and energy. If so, it is a
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by jhayward 7y ago
That's an interesting question. As you say, it depends on definitions. I would say that some betavoltaic devices would qualify, and perhaps some phase-change stuff that I can't recall right now. Supercapacitors are essentially ba
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by jhayward 7y ago
> You have no proof that it's simply nothingness when you die Do you mean to imply that you have proof to the contrary? Why is there any reason to assume anything else?
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by jhayward 7y ago
As far as I know all ion-exchange (chemical) batteries have a positive temperature coefficient of performance. Lead-acid, NiMH, Alkaline, Lithium-ion, Vanadium flow, etc.
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by jhayward 7y ago
Electrical power does not cross oceans. Dollars do. A factory in China running on a local coal plant's energy does not pay the same cost that a factory in Texas would pay.
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My pet peeve is energy reporting that uses "average households" as a unit of power.
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The learning curve is one thing; dealing with purity and immutability is another. But the real stumbling block (besides the tooling issues) is the effect of lazy evaluation. Lazy evaluation can make it quite difficult to reason about the t
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by jhayward 7y ago
For at least 10 years I have had a contract for "green energy" from my municipal supplier. They, in turn, contract to buy power from solar and wind suppliers to fulfill the consumption of those who are part of that program. It do
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No. This is a fallacious misunderstanding of how markets work. The hypothetical user of the older hardware is not damaging anyone else by consuming "green" electrons. Their demand provides a market for green projects, and the fa
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by jhayward 7y ago
> You would definitely not expect that a machine selling for $1000 would have used more than $1000 of energy in its manufacture. This is a misconception. Energy is not a transportable, fungible quantity the way dollars are. It is ent
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by jhayward 7y ago
> By living longer you are merely stealing resources from those that follow you Have you carefully examined the logical outcome of such a line of thinking? Carousel, anyone? Is your life clock blinking?
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by jhayward 7y ago
The PS2 was released in 1987, 5 years after the US antitrust suit against IBM ended, and after IBM no longer had a monopoly position in the PC market. It was a different era and the horses had left the barn. The PS/2 was a dead end. Th
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by jhayward 7y ago
I suppose it's possible to have a difference of opinion on the meaning of "open". The BIOS was the only bit of the design that IBM had any IP in, and they definitely intended other hardware manufacturers to make compatible p
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by jhayward 7y ago
The inertial trackers in current-day phones do not have anything like that kind of stability. They accumulate errors at an accelerating rate (they are essentially doing a double-integration of the error). Using just MEMs based acceleromete
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by jhayward 7y ago
IBMs fall began with the PC, which they made an open design explicitly because of anti-trust pressures. They lost control of the design and the market on PCs, which led to the rise of, well, most of the market since then. Your comments ar
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by jhayward 7y ago
I don't have any links to hand but I'm fairly darn certain that arrhythmias start showing up way before anyone gets to 25 cups per day, not to mention fluid balance/kidney issues, which can lead to congestive heart failure. T

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