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by lxgr 7mo ago
> doing the opposite of whatever Berlin is up to So you're suggesting to cut solar incentives and never discuss SMRs? I think you might be predicting future performance from past returns here.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
If a country were in your individual position, I'd definitely call that self-sovereign, but I don't think that's how "80% self-sufficient" would actually look like. (I don't think that 20% of most countries&#x2
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by lxgr 7mo ago
They have significantly less of a problem with regards to their balance of trade, but any meaningful dependency on imports means that electricity prices will still be entirely dependent on the price of whatever is imported, at any point i
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I'm still reading a lot about theoretical storage ideas, but much less than I'd like about massive deployments, so I think it doesn't quite go without saying.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> Going for the worst possible option, only because the better options are not 100% perfect, is to be considered irrational behaviour. I guess I'm collecting all the downvotes because I didn't make it sufficiently clear that I&
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by lxgr 7mo ago
That would be the situation in an integrated/"smart" grid. The grid could tell your washer/dryer to defer or worst case shed their load. In the grid we have, where most people don't have batteries, nor a way to reac
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by lxgr 7mo ago
This was supposed to be "dedicated", but I might also be coming around :)
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Move them to a deficated status. “Never triaged”, “lost”, “won’t do”, what have you. That way, you’re at least not deluding yourself about your own capacity to triage and fix problems, and can hopefully search for and reopen issues that are
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Losing 20% of your electricity supply is a calamity, not an annoyance. So unless you want the calamity, you're still dependent on imports. Personally, I don't see an issue with that, as long as the neighboring countries you'r
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by lxgr 7mo ago
If you're 80% self-sufficient, you're not self-sufficient.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> Wether it's wind, solar or hydro, a underappreciated property of renewable energy is the energy sovereignty they provide. If your sovereign territory happens to support them geographically. This is true for many, but not all count
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by lxgr 7mo ago
We've had this discussion back when high-level languages started becoming popular. Do the unwashed masses deserve to be programming a computer when they don't have a love and appreciation for assembly, or even the underlying ISA a
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by lxgr 7mo ago
You mean iced tea, right?
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Long Blockchain Corp. remembers [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp .
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by lxgr 7mo ago
They'll probably close your account and point to their right to choose who they do and don't do business with without having to explain themselves.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Banks can (and in fact are highly incentivized) to close your account if you're using it for criminal activity with or without you lying about it on some silly form.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I recently chuckled when doing my taxes and reporting miscellaneous income when I saw that one possible income category in my tax software was "bribes, received".
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Yes, and any functional legal system would then tell them that asking the subject directly and explicitly whether they're trying to use your bank for money laundering does not count as "taking measures". If you have actual
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by lxgr 7mo ago
If this actually works in court, the corresponding legal system has completely lost the plot, in my view.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Is it still accessible in any of their apps, though? I don’t see it in ChatGPT.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I recently had to confirm to a brokerage that I won’t be using the money I’m withdrawing for any illegal activities. A sure sign of a legal team or possibly an entire legal system having lost the plot. Hopefully only the former.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Chrome only syncs "typed URL" (i.e. everything you enter in the address bar/"omnibox") website visits when your profile is encrypted, as far as I remember. "True" history sync is somehow tied to Google&#x2
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by lxgr 7mo ago
No, these are all fine for me (my agent is sandboxed in a container, so it can install all the node modules or Debian packages it wants). I was thinking more of sending outgoing emails, publishing anything on the web, spending my money etc.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I'm not claiming to speak for anybody other than me, although I'd be surprised if using half a gigabyte of metered mobile data would generally be very popular with users on metered plans.
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by lxgr 7mo ago
I can theoretically really get behind the idea of avoiding the need for a dongle, and I'd love a TV that's usable without one. Personally I'm about 90% there, as the brand I've been using for the past few years is actual
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Thanks, that's pretty damning, in particular sending every visited domain to the browser vendor under the guise of "safe browsing". Really sad to see a former world-class browser stooping so low. And I really couldn't ca
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by lxgr 7mo ago
The frustrating thing about having so many "smart" TV OSes and streaming platforms is that it's basically guaranteed that I'll end up needing a dongle for at least one service anyway, because its app is not available for
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Voice communication can still be used for anything out of the ordinary despite automating the common case. Almost all voice transmissions are routine instructions/clearances from ground to air, with the pilots reading them back to redu
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by lxgr 7mo ago
Listening to some recent close call ATC tapes, yes, it seems absolutely insane to manage current traffic levels with the existing number of controllers over voice. I don't doubt that it's a very safe system with enough slack all
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by lxgr 7mo ago
> Who are you to decide which are the most important? The customer.

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