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by myrmidon 1y ago
First: This whole reneable thing was done to reduce negative externalities from pollution and CO2 emissions that were simply not paid for previously. Arguing that "the economy would be better of without pollution/emission limits&q
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Nuclear power plants struggle with economics already at highest possible capacity factors (running 90% of the time). If they get undercut by renewables most of the time, there is simply no way they can stay competitive. Nuclear peaker plant
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> AFAIK in Russia there are many lost RTGs, somehow nothing really bad happened but there are many instances of people getting exposed to radiation when working with recycling. People did actually die because of abandoned RTGs, see e.g.
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by myrmidon 1y ago
"Disastrous" by what metric? What are you even talking about? Germany went from >50% fossil fuel (mostly coal, not even gas!) to >60% renewables for electricity within the last two decades. This is a huge success already.
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by myrmidon 1y ago
First, "providing baseload" is a privilege you enjoy if you are the unconditionally cheapest provider of electricity at all times, not something that anyone ever needs you to do. If you only need power for short periods of time
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Trump is "managed" by whom, then? Musk? The Koch brothers? George Soros? I don't see why you would ever want some mercurial populist in power if you are rich and established; risks to wealth/investments wastly outweight
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I don't think the bandwidth gap is that big-- single WD SN8100 drives (before any potential gain from RAID) already have sequential read speed of >10GB/s for under $200 and 1TB of storage. A GPU setup with a terabyte of video m
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by myrmidon 1y ago
What exactly are you referring to, reduced political correctness demands? On the other hand, you have the government meddling with the political alignment of educational institutions, which is both new and alarming (e.g. the Harvard thing).
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm not disputing that there is gonna be some degree of plutocracy when political funding is uncontrolled and media presence can be bought for cheap. But I think "managed opposition is the best you can get as voter" is incorr
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Because people in the West have been indoctrinated to trust their governments far too much to an unhealthy degree Can you give specific examples? I frequently find the US outlook to be exactly the reverse, where people pretend like &qu
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by myrmidon 1y ago
How does this font achieve the awful "shifting baseline" effect? I assume that it is using a ton of ligatures, because consecutive letters always look different, but is that the only thing going on or is there something even more
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> But I also think there are positive ways of celebrating your culture. I think you're right, I was being too prohibitive. When people start to reduce their own identity (and their judgement of others) to just one dimension is where
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Otherwise it's difficult to explain why a seemingly race-blind society keeps discussing race all the time, and dedicates so much effort into preserving information about who is what race. I think a core problem there is that peopl
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Ask HN: Why no inference directly from flash/SSD?
1 points by myrmidon 1y ago|2 comments
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by myrmidon 1y ago
You can also reduce housing demand by making it less attractive as an investment or store of value (basically decreasing demand). There are lots of approaches that go that route, like decreasing wealth inequality or suitable taxation.
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Completely agree. And anti-immigration policies are suprisingly popular even in non-blue collar circles, because you can sell it as "fighting foreign cultural influence", and a lot of people (globally) are quite convinced that
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm being a bit facetious here, but if the actual plan is to bring back comparatively low-wage, labor intensive industries to the US, then I think high unemployment at the start of the process is exactly what you want; otherwise, you
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by myrmidon 1y ago
This is "bad reporting", in my view, because it (intentionally) baits readers into drawing sweeping conclusions ("Trumps policies have been a complete disaster, I knew it!") from very little data and small effect sizes
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by myrmidon 1y ago
There is not a lot of computer games that I would classify as art instead of just entertainment, but Hollow knight is definitely one of those. It's success is well-deserved.
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I'm not a big believer in the current manga => anime pipeline, there is just so much badly animated slop around (Frieren was admittedly nice, though). My absolute favorite for japanese animation (and criminally underrated!) is Red
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Echolocation for humans 101: Close eyes, make short impulse-like noise (tapping of feet can be sufficient, or snip fingers), and move slowly. You will find that not running into walls is pretty easy. Feedback, to me, feels like light pressu
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Sure; but people are not typically getting paid to post Show HNs, and that content is not shown to victims unsolicitedly, so I don't have any problem with it either. If you are a "fellow techy, working on serving ads", it is
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I feel your own examples undermine your positions: Drinks specifically are one of the most clearcut negative examples to me, where there is zero product discovery/information/customer upside involved; the sole purpose of that
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by myrmidon 1y ago
I do not disagree with you entirely, but I feel this almost borders on self-delusion. The sole purpose of ads is to (probabilistically) shift the targets spending behavior in favor of the one buying the ads, nothing more, nothing less. Wh
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by myrmidon 1y ago
> Finland is still 25% oil for electric generation [1] (and almost 40% fossil fuel). That means a lot of the electricity to heat the sand still comes from oil. This is not a valid conclusion. Battery projects like this are gonna charge&#
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by myrmidon 1y ago
You misunderstood-- temperature is physically limited to -273°C, this is not an engineering problem. You have a smaller usable temperature range in a "cold storage" than with heat from fundamental physics alone.
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by myrmidon 1y ago
We did not start to push for renwable energy to get prices lower, this is mainly a mitigation against previously unaccounted-for externalities (CO2 emissions and air pollution). Complaining about transition costs, to me, is like complaining
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by myrmidon 1y ago
You do realize that this is coupled with a 450MW gas power plant? Gas is a really appealing backup option for both renewable and nuclear powered grids (at least in the absence of freely available hydropower). But as installed power/cap
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by myrmidon 1y ago
Found some older article on financing/timeline since there's not much info here: https://www.ess-news.com/2024/11/05/financial-close-for-uk-p... The battery storage was ~$200M. Pure prismatic lifepo
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by myrmidon 1y ago
To be fair, the costs are just less hidden in the swiss model. If you do internal subsidies (the EU/US approach) instead of tariffs on imports, then a fraction of your taxes gets diverted to farmers instead. Sadly this whole issue is d

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