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by laurencerowe 7mo ago
The CSIRO report appears to have cost estimates for "normal" nuclear power plants too. Large scale nuclear $155-$252/MWh. Solar PV and wind with storage $100-150/MWh. https://www.abc.net.au/n
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by laurencerowe 7mo ago
I usually end up paying about $5/month, though that is a data only plan as I just use Google Voice for calls and use maybe a couple of gigs of data. Having moved here from the UK where I was used to cheap mobile plans I just grate at h
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by laurencerowe 7mo ago
I just buy local eSIM's online when I go abroad now. Lycamobile is usually good around Europe if you land in a country with them. Their UK and Portugal subsidiaries are £5 or €4 / month with 30-50GB in country including 12GB roami
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by laurencerowe 7mo ago
Coverage is very specific to your situation. I've had basically no coverage on Verizon in offices in the Bay Area where T-mobile worked fine while colleagues could only get Verizon at home.
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by laurencerowe 7mo ago
Is Google Fi particularly cheap? Their normal prices seem to start at $35/month for 30GB of data which is more than Verizon's Visible plans at $25/month. (The current 50% off offer on Google Fi does seem a good deal though.)
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by laurencerowe 7mo ago
They absolutely do because random byte strings are not valid utf8. Safe Rust requires validating bytes when converting to strings because this.
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by laurencerowe 7mo ago
lz4 can still be the right choice when decompression speed matters. It's almost twice as fast at decompression with similar compression ratios to zstd's fast setting. https://github.com/facebook/zstd?tab=readm
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
Surely the alternative would have been that land being owned the Anglo-Danish elite installed by Cnut a few decades earlier, or perhaps a newly installed Norwegian elite had Harold lost at Stamford Bridge. Britain's ownership inequalit
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
While I don’t think anyone should be allowed to take a 2150Wh home made battery on a train, I’m not sure why battery capacity should affect classification. Limiting power delivery makes much more sense. Quite common for Bosch powered cargo
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
LA is much less dense than Canadian cities. Taking the central municipalities which seem fairly comparable: Toronto: 3.271M in 631 km2 = 5184/km2 Los Angeles: 3.879M in 1215 km2 = 3192/km2 Toronto's population is growing, up
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
It seems to work for my https://github.com/libriscv/kvmserver tests at least.
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
The UK is quite liberal with who can vote in general elections allowing both Commonwealth as well as Irish citizens living in the UK). I don't think there's any harm to it and it seems unavoidable given our history. It would certa
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
Nested virtualisation with KVM works on the Linux GitHub Actions runners which I believe run on Azure.
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
How is this different than running that same React code in deno whose HTTP server is also written in Rust?
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
While Utah has a lower homicide rate than California (2.2 vs 5.1 per 100k) like many rural states it has a much higher suicide rate (21.5 vs 10.1 per 100k). Accident mortality (mostly overdoses and car accidents) are similar (49.7 vs 51.1 p
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
These prices are a lot closer. You can play around with the assumptions in the government's LCOE calculator spreadsheet linked from the article. Removing the carbon price and using pre-wind load factor of 75% gives a LCOE of £67/M
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
Median income is not much lower in Utah than in California. Utah's low healthcare spending per capita is likely a reflection of Utah having the lowest median age of any state. Most healthcare costs are spent on elderly people. I should
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
It's true that non-coastal Utah, Colorado, and Minnesota have good life expectancy for the US but they lag behind California, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Hawaii. https://www.cdc.gov&#
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
Quality of life is very subjective though. Few American cities offer the kind of walkable lifestyles those of us who moved from Europe took for granted. San Francisco is one of the few places that can offer that, though even then I spent mo
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by laurencerowe 8mo ago
Isn’t that financial risk of credit cards borne by the banks doing the lending? It’s not really any different to a debit card transaction on a bank account with an overdraft facility.
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by laurencerowe 9mo ago
If you’re building a new rail line you might as well make it high speed. The problem is that a political decision was made to tunnel through the Cotswolds to minimise local impact because a lot of rich and influential people live there.
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by laurencerowe 9mo ago
That's a win for society if the money is instead invested into something productive!
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by laurencerowe 9mo ago
I much prefer the texture of porridge made in a pan on the stove to that made in the microwave. The stirring releases the starches from the oats. I use rolled oats and cook with just salt and water which avoids the risk of the milk burning
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by laurencerowe 9mo ago
Isn’t the acceleration here just the difference in velocity between the plane and the runway so 0.7 m/s/s?
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by laurencerowe 9mo ago
I think it’s more historical at this point. 20 years ago SMS was expensive in Europe as we had cheap plans and expensive calls/texts vs US which had expensive plans but free calls/texts. That made things like WhatsApp take off in
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by laurencerowe 9mo ago
Rails expand and contract according to the temperature (11mm per degree C per km). They are continuously welded together and installed under tension and heated to a neutral / median temperature for the location. It was around 0C that n
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by laurencerowe 9mo ago
There is no more sterling available because the tax burden has just been shifted from VAT to employer NICs.
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by laurencerowe 9mo ago
A single country's tax policies don't exist in a vacuum. Let's take as an example a new car that costs £36,000 including 20% VAT. If the UK removed VAT and put the cost on employer NICS then British built cars would still cos
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by laurencerowe 9mo ago
VAT is not really all that complicated and accounts for around 15% of the UK tax take. Moving that to income tax would mean a substantial redistribution from working people to pensioners and incentivise moving more production abroad. Import
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by laurencerowe 9mo ago
I would really like to see the source of that because as mentioned elsewhere in the replies the Holocaust is a compulsory part of the National Curriculum and has been at least since I was in high school in the 1990s. To the extent that the

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