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by logifail 3y ago
> Can the companies & countries addicted to massive oil profits cut production quickly enough to stabilize prices? If you look at the Brent Crude (oil) price chart and zoom out so you can see the last 10 years it's definitely no
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by logifail 3y ago
> Instant SEPA Faster payments in the UK don't attract an additional charge. Is this the case for instant SEPA?
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by logifail 3y ago
> The distance between "sort of works" and "works" for AI is considerable. Not infinite. > Today you can take a driverless cab in San Francisco [...] From the outside, it sure does look like driverless is still fir
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by logifail 3y ago
> Drop a few hundred dollars on storage (blu rays?) I'm saving up for a new tape drive (will probably be LTO 8) ... I have some fairly serious data hoarding issues.
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by logifail 3y ago
> there is no reason for any country to be granting Albanian citizens asylum ...and most European countries don't. Q: Why does the UK?
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by logifail 3y ago
> Did you mean Germany, Austria or Italy? Talking about irregular migration, it's significantly harder to enter the UK directly from either Germany, Austria or Italy. Air carriers check passports and visas (indeed BA pulled a rela
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by logifail 3y ago
> fleeing war or persecution Q: Is there much war or persecution in France at present?
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by logifail 3y ago
> It gives exactly as much information as I need and has zero fluff, plus it loads super fast All new sites I load by default in Firefox with NoScript active. If it's blank or useless, I move on. The side effect is that an awful
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by logifail 3y ago
> banks no longer get to do 10-1 fractional reserve banking Fractional reserve banking is pretty much an urban myth. Banks create money when they make commercial loans. The Bank of England explains it quite nicely here: https:/
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by logifail 3y ago
> But our bankers are too busy playing with [..] It's not clear that our politicians are actually particularly serious about change, either. The only big change I've noticed this side of the pond in the last year is that our
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by logifail 3y ago
> renewable energy is cheaper Again: cheaper for whom ? Are we talking producers or consumers? > Very odd Renewables being cheaper unfortunately doesn't mean the electricity consumers purchase will necessarily be cheaper, at le
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by logifail 3y ago
Umm. "If two records had a similar name and the same date of birth, or a similar name and exactly the same postcode, then they were considered a match. Important: Companies House data only publicly provides the month of birth - not the
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by logifail 3y ago
Well the OP claimed "Maintaining a fossil fuel based energy system will be more expensive and costly than switching to a carbon free economy. Every single delay in the transition is wasted money." The key question would be: expen
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by logifail 3y ago
Although household power prices have risen steadily over the last 20 years (and increased not so steadily in the last two!), PV feed-in tarifs have been falling relentlessly (see slide 41 from https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/c
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by logifail 3y ago
> The cheapest energy systems are the carbon free ones I would really like to believe this claim to be true. Unfortunately my recent real-world data points gathered as a consumer while doing such mundane stuff as heating and powering my
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by logifail 3y ago
We know we've lost if we were to reach the point where anyone would ask a bot how we should vote (and then follow the bot's recommendation) :/
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by logifail 3y ago
> how would you characterize "the sentiment of the headline"? Imagine it rewritten as "3% of scientists contacted by us said they were cutting back on Twitter".
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by logifail 3y ago
> people sharing knowledge on the internet without expecting anything in return Imagine: creative person shares their output with friendly-apparently-non-profit website X, then behind the scenes company Y scrapes and uses it, then sells
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by logifail 3y ago
> many are happy to contribute without caring about the end use of the information Would we really call this "informed consent"? ... or it more likely that contributors either haven't read the licence agreement or have r
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by logifail 3y ago
I'm not minded to give away my time and effort creating then watch others - especially corporations - enrich themselves from my work. "Sharing" is something else.
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by logifail 3y ago
"By posting Content to the Service, you grant us the right and license to use, modify, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce, and distribute such Content on and through the Service under a CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication. You
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by logifail 3y ago
> In the case of 447, they were warned about a stall, repeatedly It's not that simple. When the aircraft's computer considered the inputs invalid, the stall warning was muted . When they decreased the pitch (would be essenti
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by logifail 3y ago
> this crash caused airlines and regulators to demand much more adverse event training, including high-altitude stall recovery Q: How many pilots would attempt a stall recovery if the aircraft's instruments were not indicating they
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by logifail 3y ago
> The other answer to "people do stupid things under stress" is the common maxim that every emergency procedure in every aircraft starts the same way A good friend of mine [UK-based] used to fly fast jets for the RAF a long tim
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by logifail 3y ago
> The focus on electronics there [..] Can you expand on this claim? (I'm deliberately resisting quoting sources listing German regions top exports!)
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by logifail 3y ago
> Must be something about the region [snip] Following Occam's razor, perhaps it's that it's just cheaper? "The monthly pay ranking of German states is headed by Hamburg with 3,619 euros, followed by Baden-Württemberg
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by logifail 3y ago
> "One-Half the Money I Spend for Advertising Is Wasted..." I once worked with a small company where essentially 100% of their PPC spend was wasted. Not half wasted, not mostly wasted, but completely wasted. The marketing man
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by logifail 3y ago
Q: Are Hive smart device customers paying some kind of monthly or annual fee?
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by logifail 3y ago
So if you buy a Tesla and the T&Cs prohibit you from hacking it/modding it, then you decide to hack away at it anyway, what happens if Tesla were to brick the online features of your vehicle and/or completely cancel you as a c
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by logifail 3y ago
> Fascinating article, didn't know skip lagging was a thing or that it is illegal It's not illegal, but it is against the airline's T&Cs ... which you have to agree to when you purchase a ticket.

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