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by jhgb 5y ago
> people get really mad and their days get spoiled because a train arrives 5 minutes too late A state of affairs immortalized in the famous sentence "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy".
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by jhgb 5y ago
From what I understand, the texts are perhaps from 1800-1500 BCE but the manuscripts aren't. That ancient and medieval manuscripts are almost universally younger copies of older texts is common knowledge. The oldest manuscript in
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by jhgb 5y ago
> Oldest surviving manuscript of Rig Veda dates to 1800 BCE Wait, what? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigveda : > The oldest surviving manuscripts have been discovered in Nepal and date to c. 1040 CE Where
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by jhgb 5y ago
> Without having a way to store a whole nation's energy needs for several days or even weeks That requirement makes no sense, though. Do you foresee a massive volcanic eruption that there will be darkness for several weeks? Because
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by jhgb 5y ago
Don't freak out about a statistical variation. The trend is for wind power to increase and for coal power to decrease in Germany, so really the only interesting points in time are the first time when wind generated more than coal and t
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by jhgb 5y ago
I know. The point is that in the long run, the phaseout happened almost exactly as planned twenty years ago. This is no new development, of even a post-Fukushima-development.
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> A factor of three (which is very optimistic) For cars, the factor of three is not "optimistic", it's simple comparison of the respective primary energies consumed by typical vehicles in their respective categories. 20 kW
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by jhgb 5y ago
The problem with your reasoning is that no cost-optimal plan of providing the society with energy would call for a week's worth of batteries. Furthermore, another problem is that judging from the number, you're presumably calculat
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by jhgb 5y ago
As far as I can tell, it became a law in 2002. I'm not sure how "momentum really was gained after Fukushima" when the phase-out procedures had to be followed ever since 2002. The whole thing has been in motion for almost twen
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by jhgb 5y ago
You're confusing energy with electricity again. Please don't do that. Furthermore, it's also a number that is completely irrelevant for the climate perspective, since it doesn't matter if your imports are low if that mea
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by jhgb 5y ago
Germans don't import 64% of electricity (in fact they're a net exporter almost every year). This article is about electricity generation in Germany and I'm commenting on electricity generation in Germany. The comment I was re
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Germany finalized the plans for a nuclear shutdown somewhere around 2021 in a binding law in 2002 (apparently this was based on "remaining energy to be generated", which doesn't naturally allow to put a precise date on it bec
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by jhgb 5y ago
I don't care about California. I was talking about Germany. This whole thread is about an article on Germany. There is no such trend in Germany, as data shows.
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Completely wrong, as German statistics for power generation by source show. As nuclear power plants generate less and less electricity, so does German coal (with some inter-annual noise, of course, but the German trend is clear).
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> The data shows that. I just added a source that shows that data tells something completely different. In the past ten years, German renewable generation more than doubled (from annual ~100 TWh to ~250 TWh) while their natural gas consu
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by jhgb 5y ago
So far, probably what Zerrahn et al. suggested in 2018 ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001429211... ), namely overbuild renewable generation to achieve a Pareto-optimal mix of generation of
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by jhgb 5y ago
> Mortality from existing fossil fuels is significantly worse That may very well be true but it's completely irrelevant for future choices. Not building more nuclear plants doesn't mean you'll be building more fossil fuel
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This makes some of the "informed opinions" in the recent discussion hilarious to read in retrospect, considering that the event reasoned about in those comments didn't actually happen to begin with.
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For one, I'd be surprised if Azul's C4 (Zing) didn't have these issues already solved (assuming anyone has solved that, they probably did).
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> Software is one of the best careers in the world. In theory it is. In practice...well, let's ask game developers for example. Or other groups who end up with a real-world job they end up hating. > Maybe they are getting lost a
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> In a lot of ways, GNU Emacs is the last life raft from the MIT AI Lab and its Lisp Machines. In that case it needs better menus and GUI elements.
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I'm puzzled. On one hand, you're talking about "an inclusive community". On the other hand, you admit to dismissing thirty percent of women?
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> one of the only examples of problems ever happening for anyone Assuming you don't have a sampling error here, of course.
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> No free lunch, but an incredibly good value lunch As in, "Incredibly-cheap-but-sometimes-there's-rat-poop-in-it" lunch?
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> they seem like noodle portioner Wouldn't you expect such a mundane tool to have some kind of "minimum practical design"? Your noodle portioner is just a flat object with holes; a hammer is just an object with a long part
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> pure math (topology and countability) and computer science have almost no overlap in the short term I may be misinterpreting the word "overlap" since I've seen quite a bit of usage of at least countability in CS works. D
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If you look at for example mapy.cz, they call it "Aerial map".
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MathJax is somewhat convenient but doesn't seem necessary at all.
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What part of a Mathematics Stack Exchange clone would require JS?
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On the other hand, Apollo had no option than to abort to orbit. Just ditching somewhere and hoping for the best wouldn't have been an option on the Moon, but it's commonly done in aviation on Earth.

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