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by keanzu 7y ago
Per capita Norway exported ~20x as much oil as the US in 2007. Norway 554.24 bbl/day per 1,000 people United States 28.08 bbl/day per 1,000 people https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/s
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by keanzu 7y ago
> had no inherent authority to do Who decides what inherent authority governments do and don't have?
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by keanzu 7y ago
> They only had 150 active users "roughly 150 active users of the platform per week." This is a distinction with a difference, "per week", casts the active user count in a different light. > passive-aggressive jab
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by keanzu 7y ago
They fail to mention how many potential users there were and whether this was high or low take up. "The acronym CERN is also used to refer to the laboratory, which in 2016 had 2,500 scientific, technical, and administrative staff membe
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by keanzu 7y ago
> Reactions were not always positive. Universally true: Reactions are never always positive for anything. A non-statement which will also be true of whatever replaces Workplace. > Many people preferred not to use a tool from a company
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by keanzu 7y ago
> That was a pissing contest, Or in legalese as written by the men's lawyer: "The justice system ceases to serve its crucial function and loses credibility when criminal accusations are used to advance personal or political age
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by keanzu 7y ago
I've been in a meeting where the amazing scalable cloud solution for the huge data warehouse was laid out. Turned out to be 500GB. Judging by the death stares I got I don't think I was supposed to say "Wow, the whole thing wo
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by keanzu 7y ago
> To write efficient big queries, you need to think in terms of data flow and write declarative SQL with an execution plan in mind; it reminds me of my days tweaking source code to encourage a compiler to make certain register allocation
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by keanzu 7y ago
How much does it matter that the data doesn't fit in memory when consumer grade (Samsung 970 Pro) SSDs can deliver 3GB/s sequential read? On inexpensive hardware you can process a ~TB every 5 minutes per SSD.
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by keanzu 7y ago
It's a blog page on holistics.io so it is paid-for PR content. Or a blogvert.
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by keanzu 7y ago
q - Text as Data q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files). q treats ordinary files as database tables, and supports all SQL constructs, such as WHERE, GRO
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by keanzu 7y ago
> we sustained the monarchies in the middle east Fortunately the fracking revolution broke OPEC's hold on oil prices. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/07/22/how-the-frac...
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by keanzu 7y ago
> Are those industry-neutral organizations that made those estimates? Do neutral organizations still exist when even school children have strong opinions on coal power? I don't believe neutrality is thing for coal anymore and it has
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by keanzu 7y ago
PowerWall scales fine, like most things do, with infinite money. All you need is a ~$10K [1] investment (including installation) for every house every 10 years (warranty period) and voila - grid scale! Oh warranty doesn't cover normal
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by keanzu 7y ago
> They need to be changed often I looked for some reference material and I found a "rule of thumb" which claims that PV panels lose about 1% efficiency per year of operation and can last 25-30 years. Nuclear power stations (in
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by keanzu 7y ago
Something else is at the root of nuclear fear. There have been much more serious renewable accidents. Banqiao Hydroelectric Dam, China, was breached Aug. 8 1975 killing more than 85,000 people that day. A study conducted by eight Chinese wa
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by keanzu 7y ago
Unknown. ABB has won orders worth over $300 million to supply breakthrough technologies for the world's first 1,100 kilovolt (kV) ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) transmission link. [1] For an 8 GW 40 km link laid under the En
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by keanzu 7y ago
> power located closer to usage centers If you are willing to throw money at the problem then high voltage DC transmission lines can move a lot of power over long distances with surprisingly little loss. A 1,100 kV link in China was comp
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by keanzu 7y ago
Upvoted :) I'll concede that point.
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by keanzu 7y ago
There would be no spontaneous chain reaction, the waste is depleted below the radioactivity of naturally occurring sources. You can't practically store it that way though because no-one really likes moving waste any distance for fear o
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by keanzu 7y ago
Anything is viable if you want to pay Australia's electricity prices. Australia (Hornsdale) enjoys some of the highest electricity costs in the world despite being a major coal producer and using coal for 75% of their electricity.
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by keanzu 7y ago
All of the used fuel ever produced by the commercial nuclear industry since the late 1950s would cover a football field to a depth of less than 10 yards. https://www.nei.org/fundamentals/nuclear-waste
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by keanzu 7y ago
> great, cheap, abundant, and much safer than uranium Some of the claims are true. Cheap, abundant and safer. It's the "economically viable" part that's tricky. No-one has solved that yet. India has a ton of thorium a
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by keanzu 7y ago
The world's present measured resources of uranium (5.7 Mt) in the cost category less than three times present spot prices and used only in conventional reactors, are enough to last for about 90 years. [1] There are an estimated 1.1 tri
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by keanzu 7y ago
How long will our supplies of uranium and thorium last? There's never been a commercially viable thorium reactor.
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by keanzu 7y ago
"This solar farm in the southern state of Tamil Nadu in India has a capacity of 648 megawatts and covers an area of 10 square kilometres." [1] That's 10sqkm that's been lost basically forever, or as long as it humans req
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by keanzu 7y ago
> If the oil companies have to use a more expensive alternative service Microsoft is delighted to announce we are the digital transformation partner of #IPTC2020, the International Petroleum Technology conference, that kicks off tomorrow
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by keanzu 7y ago
Don't know why Amazon doesn't just leave protestors to their actions. Bezos needs to watch Southpark episode 100 and rethink the strategy. We can be a nation that believes in war And still tells the world that we don't
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by keanzu 7y ago
> I am brown "If you’re not prepared to come to that table and represent that voice, don’t come, because we don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice." "We don’t need black faces that don’t want t
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by keanzu 7y ago
Has it gotten so bad that you genuinely can't tell? I'm confident that it was a joke. Want some satire where it is difficult enough to tell that a number of people have been taken in? https://twitter.com/TitaniaMcG

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