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by natmaka 3y ago
Screening by mammography increases the incidence of breast cancer: https://twitter.com/daniel_corcos/status/1659854579993903106
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by natmaka 3y ago
On Linux isn't KSM able to compensate for this?
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by natmaka 3y ago
> For Smil, the history of human civilization is nothing more and nothing less than the history of attempts to balance a single equation: joules of energy input, in the form of food and fuel, versus joules of energy output, in the form o
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by natmaka 3y ago
Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything. In a gun fight... You need to take your time in a hurry. -- Wyatt Earp
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by natmaka 3y ago
See also: https://github.com/ebikt/progress.pl
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by natmaka 3y ago
> bulk data loads that make table stats more stale This is the usual culprit (cure: "ANALYZE ((tablename))"). Collecting more samples (ALTER TABLE SET STATISTICS...) may be useful. "Extended Statistics" covers most(?)
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by natmaka 3y ago
After bout 60 years and many heavily-financed large projects there isn't a single one industrial breeder reactor ready for deployment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Development_an...
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by natmaka 3y ago
The first EPR project in France (Flamanville-3) had problems documented in an official report (dubbed 'Folz', per the name of its main author), sadly AFAIK it wasn't translated into English: https://www.economie.go
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by natmaka 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalability#Horizontal_or_scal...
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by natmaka 3y ago
> the related to the nuclear power plant "As of year 2016" (obsolete), and "according to media analysis" (vague source). The official number of "Disaster-related deaths" is directly tied to a "disaster
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by natmaka 3y ago
Please read the article and its sources: those deaths are attributed to the sole part of the evacuation related to the nuclear accident. The tsunami caused ~20000 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_e
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by natmaka 3y ago
In 2010 Germany delayed its nuclear phase-out (by 12 years), then the Fukushima accident led the opinion to demand a much quicker phase-out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#Closu... Before 2013 a
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by natmaka 3y ago
2,202 deaths from evacuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
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by natmaka 4y ago
Pertinent: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This
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by natmaka 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrivoltaics
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by natmaka 4y ago
Yes, I do, albeit I fail to find why this is a prerequisite for renewables to provide most of consumed electricity. The referenced study analyzes continental-scale. However some existing links are encouraging: https://en.wikiped
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by natmaka 4y ago
Some don't like the idea of releasing it: https://www.naml.org/policy/documents/2022-12-12%20Position%... (US) National Association of Marine Laboratories: https://insidestory.org.au/water-wat
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by natmaka 4y ago
Electricity is only part of the challenge (about 25%). CO2 emissions per capita: France 5.82t Germany 10.14t https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/prod-cons-co2-per-capita?... https://ourworldindata.org/gr
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by natmaka 4y ago
> Comparing derivative doesn't make much sense if the starting point is wildly different. Indeed, however this is commonly done and I only state that upon this criteria things aren't exactly what they seem. Moreover this is hea
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by natmaka 4y ago
In 2010 ((...)) Angela Merkel ((...)) decreed a 12-year delay of the schedule ((of nuclear phase-out)) Then Fukushima happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_Germany#Closu...
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by natmaka 4y ago
Poland announced in 2014 that it will build a reactor and start it in 2022. Nothing ensued. What Poland really does now is quite different: https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/02/03/polands-second-larges...
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by natmaka 4y ago
China is way more active deploying renewables than nuclear. https://www.colorado.edu/cas/2022/04/12/even-china-cannot-re...
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by natmaka 4y ago
France does not further reduces its emissions related to electricity production since 2002, when its newest nuclear reactor, Civaux-2, started. Germany nowadays reduces its emissions faster than France, while losing its industry at a way sl
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by natmaka 4y ago
> 30% average load factor Offshore is way better, up to .6 > risible cost efficiency This is not true, see the LCOE: > huge surface required Offshore solves this and also offers quasi-sanctuaries to our over-exploited seas. > ne
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by natmaka 4y ago
Most of them were not hydro-electric dams, which are statistically more recent and in practice way more effectively monitored (people are permanently occupying most of the not-tiny-ones).
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by natmaka 4y ago
Hydro is apparently dangerous due to the Banqiao disaster, however at it "took place during the Chinese Cultural Revolution when most people were busy with the "revolution" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1
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by natmaka 4y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/world/asia/projections-du...
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by natmaka 4y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-renewables-electr...
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by natmaka 4y ago
"at a loss" is highly debatable: the 'Cour des comptes' (local Court of Accounts) officially published figures showing that the production cost was 22€ when this law was passed, and the fixed price is 42€... Not even co
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by natmaka 4y ago
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...

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