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by legulere 5y ago
I would not call it artificially constrained supply. New construction in the vicinity has an effect on the quality of life in the existing houses/flats. In the end space is indeed physically constrained, especially where people want to
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by legulere 5y ago
You also need gas for peaking power plants if you use nuclear for the base load. France has a huge problem having to replace crumbling nuclear power plants with new ones being too expensive and too slow to build.
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by legulere 5y ago
You can achieve much more per Euro though with renewables than nuclear.
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by legulere 5y ago
Germany manages to reduce fossil fuel use though: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiemix#/media/Datei%3AEn... (Personally I would have preferred to shut down coal first, but old nuclear plants are a risk
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by legulere 5y ago
Just because it occurs naturally in soil doesn’t mean it is harmless, especially in concentrated settings. Putting BT-Genes in plants also means using pesticides indiscriminately and precludes targeted pesticide use.
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by legulere 5y ago
Also Denmark itself and the US. Intelligence Agencies are simply out of control and a threat to democracy.
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by legulere 5y ago
Could you wash bitcoin by colluding with miners? You create a big transaction with a high fee, but don't propagate it. You give the transaction only to the miner you colluded with. The miner gets the transaction fee which is seen as le
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by legulere 5y ago
- JSON just has UTF-8. XML has encoding madness. - JSON has just one escape format and all unicode codepoints can be used. XML generally allows only certain unicode codepoints, at some places like element names its further restricted (Quic
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by legulere 5y ago
2FA is already mandatory by the PSD2 directive of the EU. I use my debit card as the second factor to access my bank account here in Germany via ChipTAN
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by legulere 5y ago
It’s also about where your costs are. Google has much less revenue per compute-time/requests/whatever than most other companies. If you target the business to business field your computing costs are usually negligible while your d
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by legulere 5y ago
Another case in point: OAuth
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by legulere 5y ago
Machine learning is a tool for solving certain tasks. Usefulness lies in finding new places to use those techniques. The hype is about predictions that machine learning (or AI in hype-speak) will be able to do things that it is currently no
733.
by legulere 5y ago
Which ideas do you think will not go away?
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by legulere 5y ago
It's pretty useful for scammers, extortionists, drug sellers, money launderers and all other kind of people that want to bypass or break laws. But that's about it.
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by legulere 5y ago
Why do you need a blockchain for that? Gambling and Insurance existed both long before blockchains.
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by legulere 5y ago
The radiation from bananas is completely harmless though, as the body keeps the levels of radioactive potassium constant due to homeostasis.
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by legulere 5y ago
Another helpful technique for stimulating genetic changes is colchicine, which induces polyploidy.
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by legulere 5y ago
> Wealth is the thing you want. Wealth is assets that earn while you sleep; it’s the factory of robots cranking out things. Wealth is the computer program running at night that’s serving other customers. In reality you still need people
739.
by legulere 5y ago
I really like the direction this leads to: GUI Programs properly controllable with the keyboard.
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by legulere 5y ago
I often wonder where Fabrice Bellard finds the time for all of his projects
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by legulere 5y ago
Let‘s just agree that C is not a good programming language according to modern standards: basic integer types are a complete mess with varying sizes and confusing implicit casts. The advantages of null terminated strings do not matter anym
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by legulere 5y ago
> Humans’ ability to efficiently shed heat has enabled us to range over every continent, but a wet-bulb temperature (TW) of 35°C marks our upper physiological limit, and much lower values have serious health and productivity impacts. Cli
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by legulere 5y ago
If you extrapolate, VW will overtake Tesla soon in electric cars. The reality is more that untapped markets follow S curves. The electric car market will not be bigger than what the total car market has been but replace it. Electric cars ar
744.
by legulere 5y ago
With a controlled ventilation system you have better indoor air than with leaky old houses and it's also more energy efficient.
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by legulere 5y ago
How does using an external service for auth shield you from having to be responsible with your users‘ data? GDPR compliance is not something you can just buy.
746.
by legulere 5y ago
There’s a huge range between doing everything yourself and handing your users to another company and make all of your business depend on an external SaaS provider‘s whims.
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by legulere 5y ago
Your friends are not contradicting each other, we could also ban both.
748.
by legulere 5y ago
Statistical algorithms like in machine learning can reproduce human racism that is fed to them. That does not mean that the creator or user of such algorithms is racist, but it is their responsibility.
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by legulere 5y ago
There are also some things that need to be consensus without being fact-based, for instance that we want to live in a democracy.
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by legulere 5y ago
For a democracy to work you need a basis of shared facts with opinions on top that need decision. In the later years we have seen a movement to erode this basis of democracy to make discussions on top of the basis of facts impossible and re

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