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by legulere 6y ago
GDP per capita also counts children. $48,000 for a family of four sounds perfectly fine to me.
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by legulere 6y ago
Probably one underestimates productivity increases a lot. You really only see how much something gives you when you have to go back to the old way. For instance large parts of the company where I am currently working still does not have sho
843.
by legulere 6y ago
What China lacks there is rule of law.
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by legulere 6y ago
Just 60% nuclear according the map. Why not 100%? A lot of countries have more than that in renewables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable...
845.
by legulere 6y ago
But it is nuclear that cannot replace fossil fuels, because it can only supply base load. Also what are you doing when rivers are too low, too hot or frozen and you cannot get the water needed for nuclear power?
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by legulere 6y ago
Germany had 46% renewables and 10% gas for electricity production in 2019. The United States have 40% of electricity production from gas. Renewables have nothing to do with the high use of gas in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org
847.
by legulere 6y ago
Better support for hierarchical data structures. You can dump in schemaless json, but then loose a lot of the benefits of relational databases.
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by legulere 6y ago
Which renewables are producing PM10 emissions? The problem of renewables is not the power they can produce, but how to handle intermittency. Better electricity networks are one part of the solution, batteries can be as well. Even with 50% r
849.
by legulere 6y ago
Safety is not about deaths alone. You can’t ignore the massive costs and negative personal effects of Chernobyl and Fukushima.
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by legulere 6y ago
The largest problem of nuclear price is the price of construction. Construction doesn’t keep up with efficiency gains in the rest of the economy and as a result gets more and more expensive.
851.
by legulere 6y ago
At least what I read about Germany the disadvantage of boys is even bigger under male teachers.
852.
by legulere 6y ago
This way of thinking has originated with scientific management, also known as Taylorism.
853.
by legulere 6y ago
If they didn’t cut the trees down, maybe a big storm left them with a lot of wood?
854.
by legulere 6y ago
But wasn't waterfall always a description of what not to do? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfall_model#History
855.
by legulere 6y ago
fixed-width integers have exactly the same semantics as true integers bar overflow, which is a very easy to understand concept. Floating-point numbers behave like a physicist would do calculations rounding at every step, but doing everythin
856.
by legulere 6y ago
One example where floating point does not match the problem field is GIS. Coordinates are bound by the earth's circumference. Fixed point would make much more sense, but neither hardware nor software support is there.
857.
by legulere 6y ago
I’m not saying that nuclear is worse than coal (I don’t think so), but only that there are negative effects beyond death and that we should take them into account. The things we compare are nuclear and renewables. The consensus is already p
858.
by legulere 6y ago
> Whether or not nuclear power costs too much will ultimately be a matter for markets to decide It’s not a market decision, but a government decision, as nuclear power has always been built with state guarantees and/or subsidies. Th
859.
by legulere 6y ago
> “I see an inclination in the more respectable part of the Royal Society to guard against the Ballomania until some experiment like to prove beneficial either to society or to science is proposed.” In the end a few non-amusement uses ha
860.
by legulere 6y ago
The problem is not the cost of houses, but the cost of land in desirable locations. Van living and tiny houses don’t solve those problems and most people are still bound to their city jobs.
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by legulere 6y ago
Variable electricity usage is also a problem for nuclear energy, as it fits mostly base load tasks. You are right though, that intermittent renewables are a new sort of problem. But there are also solutions like a super grid: https:/&
862.
by legulere 6y ago
I doubt it, as it is not economically feasible in western countries. It’s a pretty hard sell when you can have renewables for much cheaper. Also the east problem is still not solved and getting enough and cool enough water becomes more and
863.
by legulere 6y ago
At least in Germany you can also buy electricity that is 100% renewable at 0 g CO2/kWh. It also does not really cost much more (though we generally have pretty high electricity prices because of taxes on electricity).
864.
by legulere 6y ago
You can use proper data structures in mmaped files. The problem is that you will need offset-based pointers (Like position independent code, but data) and fixed strict layouts, which has very little support in programming languages.
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by legulere 6y ago
I have the feeling that immutable data (with which I don’t mean copy on write) has an extreme potential for optimization but there doesn’t seem to be a good central collection of it. Some tips from me: mmap works really well and easy with i
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by legulere 6y ago
It is a general rule that you can fall back to. Like all general rules there are exceptions, but those exceptions have to be explained. If you do not use boring technology, you will pay a price, so you really need to think if the price is w
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by legulere 6y ago
Just wait until you get the British variant. Edit: to explain my point a bit: the British variant has a higher reproductive number. The existing immunity and measures in some cases can be enough to reduce the numbers of the traditional vari
868.
by legulere 6y ago
Why do you think nuclear is necessary? Nuclear is stagnating at just 10% of global electricity and renewables are rapidly growing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation
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by legulere 6y ago
Plastic consumption is still growing exponentially though while burning oil is declining.
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by legulere 6y ago
> For road racing there is no point in scandium anymore, carbon frames are made lighter, stiffer and more comfortable. Comfort is actually a flexible seat post, which can be most easily made out of carbon. The frame material has basicall

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