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by lightgreen 6y ago
Power lines are built from hydro power plants in the mountains to the cities. Obviously you know that so I don’t understand what you were trying to say.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
For the comparison, average nuclear power plant produces 1000MW around the clock. The goal of Australia batteries was to normalize short production/consumption fluctuations, not as general universal battery storage to deal with renewab
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Unlike most places in the world, Scotland is sparsely populated (5M) and mountainous, so they have an option of using hydro. Good for them, but let’s not jump to conclusion that their approach is for everyone. And yes, the article is only a
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by lightgreen 6y ago
“Device” here is a clickbait. Device means some separate entity which prevents fraud, but these’s no such device. It’s akin saying modern money printers use anti-fraud devices (watermarks).
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Shoot and collect parts
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by lightgreen 6y ago
It’s better this way than listening advice of people who don’t risk their money.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Ability to downvote others
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Or not to get their karma trashed because of naive questions.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Apple didn’t lock the parts yet afair. I recall a couple years ago they tried to lock screens and a lot of devices bricked. But I wish they locked them: where I live virtually everyone I know have their phone stolen at least once.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
I'm not talking about NYT in Russia, it's not their job to investigate there. Just reporting is enough. NYT doesn't do much investigative journalism even in the US. I don't recall any significant piece from NYT recently.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
The whole article sounds like an excuse why NYT doesn’t do investigative journalism: we’d love to, but our principles do not allow us to pay for stolen info, so we can’t. The article focuses on “probiv”, but in Russian investigative journal
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by lightgreen 6y ago
You can always sell your property while you have it replayed mortgage yet and get a lot of money. The government has nothing to sell. Better analogy is that you have 600% GDP in student debts, and you don’t have a realistic plan to repay it
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by lightgreen 6y ago
The worst thing can happen is rich people get even more rich, poor people become more poor, then the recession starts, then poor people overthrow the government and set up some destructive authoritarian regime, and then China will conquer t
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Nuclear waste is nonexistent issue. Earth has plenty of inhabitable space where that “waste” can be stored cheaply until it is ready to be processed by the next generation reactors. Take any dry deserts, stockpile it in the middle of it, pr
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> because they lack prefabrication-level standardization It is not the only reason. Another reason is too many regulations and unpredictable government. As a private investor, you get lower ROI because you'd need spend several years
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Expensive taxes don't help either. California had blackouts in 2020.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Electricity is unlimited and cheap when people do not fear to build nuclear power plants. > Maybe electricity should be sold in blocks that have to be refilled, set daily/monthly quotas or limit current draw Or maybe there should be
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by lightgreen 6y ago
You can find extremely overpriced and extremely cheap food in every major city. Median salad price makes a city cheap or expensive. I suspect SF is more expensive than average by this metric, but I'm not sure, I didn't dine in SF
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Random link from Google: https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2021/01/21/sf-... I don't consider it conclusive, so I did not post it initially.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> There are still places in Manhattan, Chicago, Atlanta, etc where you can do it, SF is no different. The question is what's the median price of a salad. If median is 17, it is relatively expensive, even if it is possible to compile
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> The chances of randomly walking into any SF restaurant and paying $17 for a salad is very slim. If that's true, and SF prices are moderate, that's good. But that's very different from the original statement "Nobody
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Could be explained by pandemic and remote work: no need to pay people living in SF, while people could be hired cheaper from other places.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> Imagine reading a NY Times article about someone moving to New York, complaining, and leaving. Who cares? I care. Sometimes I consider moving to other places, and these personal experiences of people living in different places are much
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by lightgreen 6y ago
If you don't generate power and hydro power plant, you just overflow it, there is no damage in consuming this electricity. If sun is shining, and you don't generate solar electricity, if you heat it, and that's it, there&#x27
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Yeah, and the point is that in theory 1V of voltage can be enough to power a city (if some voltage multiplier circuit is used). (Consider a thought experiment: short-circuit that 1V electricity source: the amperage will be very high for a s
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> The devices generate about 1 volt of energy Volts of energy. I’m disappointed by the quality of journalism these days.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
No, electricity cannot be efficiently transferred over large distances or where there are no power lines with enough capacity. In certain places unused electricity is just lost.
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> CO2 In many places Bitcoin is mined electricity is co2 free. Generally, there are no reasons why electricity needs to emit co2: nuclear power plants can produce enough electricity to power all bitcoins in the world. > electronic was
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by lightgreen 6y ago
Do you have any evidence of Torba being racist except your own words?
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by lightgreen 6y ago
> people who are complaining about cancel culture are complaining about people not liking their spicy takes This is oversimplification. There’s quite a difference between “not liking” and ruining career, denial of access to services etc.

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