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by myrmidon 2y ago
You are 100% right about Switzerland (but its so far ahead that adjustments would not matter too much), for the others its probably barely double digit percentage adjustments. My personal experience is that German supermarkets are priced ex
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by myrmidon 2y ago
These can apparently run as RISC-V dualcore too; it's selected at boot-time (!!). I did not realize that this is a thing. Was hoping for big improvements for the ADC, but its still limited to 500k/s (they did give it 4 more chan
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by myrmidon 2y ago
A significantly better metric to compare would be median hourly wage (ideally, purchasing power adjusted, but that's hard). The US average is actually behind wealthier European nations there (Ireland, Scandinavia, Benelux, Switzerlan
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> If it's higher than the .1% natural concentration they're mining wouldn't they mine their waste piles? Your mental picture of the process is a bit off: Uranium mining happens mostly by pumping a leaching agent (typically
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> The floods are significantly worse because of the dams. No they are not. Dams mitigate damage during floods because you have buffer capacity and control over outflow. Without dams, you get uncontrolled flooding every single time that t
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by myrmidon 2y ago
You missed my point completely. That dam was built to prevent and mitigate damage during floods (besides producing electricity). Was it built to insufficient specifications? Absolutely! But building less dams does NOT lead to less victims
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Saying that a mine leaves behind 99.99% of the material is a misleading take. This might be slightly overstated, but uranium at ore concentrations of 0.1% and under is mined commercially right now. Safely disposing of toxic byproduct
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Those arguments are misguided or even deliberately misleading. People don't die from flooding because of dams, people die from flooding despite dams. Deaths from flooding would not vanish (or even decrease) if we stopped using hydr
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> 99.99% of the extracted material that was already there? Conservation of matter suggests the area was already rich in uranium ores. This is a misleading take on heavy metal mining in general. Mining is not primarily harmful to local en
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> The ash needs to go somewhere and the standard practice with a lot of coal plants has been to just dump it outside, try to contain it with some infrastructure, and not worry too much about it. More precisely: The standard EPA recommend
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by myrmidon 2y ago
How is linking wikipedia insulting? Those two are perfectly complementary. The article basically tells a story, while wikipedia (almost clinically) describes cause, effect and timeline.
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Strongly recommend murderbot diaries (starts with "All systems red"). Has a cyborg/AI as protagonist and paints a really interesting world with AIs and synthetic biology in it. Also does a good job at just shutting up about t
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Murderbot diaries is sooo good. It does such a good job building a convincing world, and its really good in just not going into details that it can't speak on (like how interplanetary travel works), while some of it's takes (e.g.
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Fascinating. Would have loved to see more pictures of the bigger factories-- or is the zig-zag belt into plastic production currently the best result? I think this very clearly illustrates a big weakness of current LLMs-- humans might strug
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> What's your argument, that it shouldn't count because it probably didn't affect the outcome very much? No. My argument is that "being in favor of prop 8" is a defendable PoV. Firing someone for political/r
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Why don't we consider trying to pass laws that hurt your coworkers to qualify as "being nasty with coworkers"? Because "advocating for laws that potentially negatively affect coworkers" and "actually being
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Why do we always have to blame the people who want to make things better? Because they are not necessarily making things better, they are making things worse (and "good intentions" are no excuse here). In my view, discriminat
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by myrmidon 2y ago
This is a very interesting energy storage concept. It promises large capacity (up to 10GWh), with very favorable scaling. It also allows scaling power and capacity independently (unlike most batteries). Main drawback is that it still needs
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Gravity storage: pumped hydropower for flatlanders(gravity-storage.com)
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> That's because the pricing model is arbitrary. If we need nuclear, we can make it economically viable through reforming the way we purchase electricity I don't really agree on this. The problem is that intermittent sources (w
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> What you forget is that is exactly these inefficiencies that inflate US salaries. You need to make more money just to survive in most US cities, which forces companies to increase salaries. I think you are reversing cause and effect he
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Yes, in a hypothetical world we can just scale up storage and decentralise production, but what are the timelines and costs on that? Why a hypothetical world? I think that current timelines, while not particularly awe-inspiring, are qu
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Solar and wind cannot replace base load power This is incorrect, and also completely misunderstanding how electricity pricing dynamics work. Power grids don't need base load providers at all. They need enough dispatchable source
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Renewables have currently offset less than half of year 2000 nuclear generation This is simply incorrect. You cite the iea as source, which is of course incentivized to creatively present the facts. In this case, by counting created
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> The reason the US is not competitive is exactly because it doesn't spend the money needed for that. You are making some kind of logical jump here that I can not follow. I just listed basically the absolute best that the US could h
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> Article is about health impact and explicitly not about carbon emissions. Yes. But air pollution is a negative externality that is not priced in for polluters/consumers, in exactly the same way as CO2. You could argue that the cas
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by myrmidon 2y ago
I'll concede that having a solid baseline of infrastructure, (political) stability and a motivated/educated workforce is necessary, and China did well in building this up. But I strongly disagree with your conclusion. Lets assume
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by myrmidon 2y ago
Absolutely. You do need a minimum baseline for infrastructure, government stability and workforce. Most of Africa is just starting to slowly get there, Bangladesh is already very relevant for textile production. I would expect the same ba
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> However you have a country (China) with an authoritarian government that makes favored industries subsidized. This is overlooking the forest for one tree. The thing is, mean chinese manufacturing wages are $25k/year (purchasing pa
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by myrmidon 2y ago
> So what do these degrowth people want exactly? Cant have resource extraction. Can’t have manufacturing, pollution. Can’t have tech, pollution. Just twiddling thumbs and money will come? Or keep all the benefits while offloading all the

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