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by maigret 16y ago
Right, + the US crowd majority here probably have a hard time that Japanese cannot move to the other side of the country in case of a major disaster. It's just too small, too full.
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by maigret 16y ago
"A few 10s of European"... I think you should correct Wikipedia. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chernobyl_dis... "Estimates of the total number of deaths attributable to the accident vary enormously, from possibly 4,000 to
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by maigret 16y ago
For my usage, I came to conclusion that HTML is the solution. When I need formulas, I may use TeX, for graphs I'll use Excel most of the time. For pictures Gimp etc. HTML is the glue I now use: - You can reuse it everywhere, publish it on t
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by maigret 16y ago
This is really a great list. I think the best of all is the "flirt with everybody" thing. So right. Nothing comes without training, and chances is it will influence people almost no matter how good you look like (except of course if you rea
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by maigret 16y ago
I like to have heated discussions... Helps getting to the deepness of the topic :) I think I provided more link that most of the people contradicting me here. You are one the few providing links. Yes you're right: note than electricity is a
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by maigret 16y ago
To your edit... No problem :) My karma is getting slammed on this discussion anyway :D To your precedent point about computers and home electricity consumption: most energy actually goes into heating/cooling, that's where passive improvemen
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by maigret 16y ago
Of cheap oil, yes. Dirty oil is still to be found, I don't know of a consensus yet on peak oil.
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by maigret 16y ago
Renewable energies are almost making the same output as nuclear power, so this should be possible to get off nuclear without flooding the world under CO2 https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Nuclear_power You may also look at th
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by maigret 16y ago
On the same site :D "The IAEA projections would give nuclear power a 13.5 to 14.6% share in electricity production in 2020, and 12.6 to 15.9% in 2030." http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf17.html BTW there is currently around as much ren
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by maigret 16y ago
So you think that graph is wrong? https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:EIA2007_...
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by maigret 16y ago
I may have reacted too emotionally, but one of the point am I questioning is whether keeping old nuclear reactors is safe (I should probably have given more background on the German discussion). We may come to the conclusion that replacing
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by maigret 16y ago
You can have a look at another (rough) estimate I did on my answer to geuis. I agree with you, and as I stated in my other answer, things like barrage breakings (due to an equivalent earthquake) can be also devastating for civilization. Wha
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by maigret 16y ago
Please note that I have not said that earthquakes are not something they took into account, I've said beside earthquakes, terrorist attacks and anything, there is also an additional risk that no one can calculate. Every engineer knows that
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by maigret 16y ago
German politicians voted runtime extensions for many nuclear plants. Many plants in the world are just old, because regularly rebuilding plants would make real green energies much more interesting. I think such a disaster on the environment
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by maigret 16y ago
This is actually a proof that nuclear energy is not green, not safe, and should not be used any more. Nuclear plants can't resist direct airliner impact or big earthquakes or anything that the engineer didn't think about.
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Ask PG: Why does HN uses full width while paulgraham.com has limited width?
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by maigret 16y ago
Right, and Ghostery detects and blocks FB connect, as well as Google Analytics, AdSense and many other services. Very useful extension. Could be more intuitive though, it took me a few minutes to get the blocking right.
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by maigret 16y ago
Is that a feature or a bug that texts from downvoted posts are greyed down to unreadable but not the hyperlinks?
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by maigret 16y ago
For me the news of the day was that Steve is still over here.
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by maigret 16y ago
You're thinking like the typical German it seems. What you should know: - Other "cheaper" countries are getting more expensive as well, at a staggering pace. - In Europe, Germany is actually much cheaper than 10 years ago. - Currently the e
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by maigret 16y ago
I think that Fred's assertion can be true for startups. In many industries, marketing still matters. Porsche and Mercedes are heavily investing in marketing even in established markets. Few people will tell they have lousy products. Marketi
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by maigret 16y ago
A well rounded software developer needs both. You need to know how to design, get that design to work, and after that submit your code to a test team and later clients, take their feedback and correct or enhance the code accordingly. You ca
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by maigret 16y ago
Scheme was taught at my first university by a "crazy" guy who included Star Wars citations in his lectures, and sometime stood up on his table while imitating samurais. Well he was actually sane, that was just his way to get student's atten
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by maigret 16y ago
That is the thesis of Jeremy Rifkin exposed in the "The End of Work"
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by maigret 16y ago
Then you should have readjusted your goals together with your manager (or new manager if you switched departments), or am I missing something?
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by maigret 16y ago
The first thing that comes to my mind... This will be a huge sell argument for Android: "Buy Amazon books 25% cheaper than on Apple phones".
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by maigret 16y ago
Put that in conjunction with that older article about the economics of apps http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-an... . If the numbers here are right, it would be cleverer for most people to make overtime at work, an
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by maigret 16y ago
My simple solution: Insert Ubuntu CD and format the drive. Still bloatware is a practice that should just stop. It's like you would buy a car and everything is packed with cheap toys and IKEA furnitures.
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by maigret 16y ago
Can't downvote you, but I don't see more facts in your response. Please elaborate.
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by maigret 16y ago
It is not. I did it a few weeks ago, the result is a zip file containing HTML pages, actually very handy for archiving and consulting. I was surprised how easy and useful it was. It allowed me to remember of old conversation and events. So

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