natmaka

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by natmaka 2y ago
> 2203 is around of the average aviation deaths per year Planes have no equivalent, replacing them would be difficult. Nuclear can be replaced by industrial renewables. Moreover planes induce a very tiny risk for those who don't use
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by natmaka 2y ago
Does "television" here means "lies"? In such a case I already answered: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43328808 > government forcing it citizens to pay directly doesn't make it any less go
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by natmaka 2y ago
The officially recognized effects of the nuclear accident are major (2203 victims and a huge and expensive cleanup effort): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident_cle... This is not 'manipulation
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by natmaka 2y ago
It was not about caving in but about democracy, that is to say respecting what a vast majority of electors wanted. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29173164 Effects: https://x.com/HannoKlausm
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by natmaka 2y ago
> listen to anyone In late 2010 Germany decreed a 12-year delay for their nuclear phase-out plan. Then in March 2011 the Fukushima nuclear accident happened, and public opinion took notice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by natmaka 2y ago
>small state is internally democratic and its government has to serve the individual For many reasons (one being the risk induced by endogamy) it is way more difficult for masters of a small state to bar the individual from knowing what
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by natmaka 2y ago
L. Kohr (who was the inspiration of "small is beautiful"), shows how and why it is of paramount importance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr#The_Breakdown_of_...
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by natmaka 2y ago
Over-produced electricity can be stored by the private party in a local vehicle/wall battery. Through a grid it may be sent to a plant which will produce green hydrogen, or to a dam (pumped-storage hydroelectricity)... or sent to anoth
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by natmaka 2y ago
AFAIK DOGE's personnel is young, and therefore probably cannot tackle the pressure from the POTUS cabinet ("you have a few days to establish everything we asked for"), hence the "Move fast and break things" effect.
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by natmaka 2y ago
It seems to me that the decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico isn't the crux of the matter. Whether this decision is useful/justified is a totally different matter. Isn't renaming a place rather common? Even nations were re
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by natmaka 2y ago
IMHO part of the problem stems from teaching without carefully stating the nature of what is explained. A teacher should check that the audience reasonably knows what 'convention' means, how it differs from 'abstraction&#x27
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by natmaka 2y ago
Bitcoin's value: from mid-2022 to the end of 2023 it hovered between 20k and 30k USD, then 57k to 70k from February 2024 to October 2024, then from 90k to 110k since. Therefore during 2024 people having or obtaining it tend to keep it
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by natmaka 2y ago
It is not about cost but about availability: without any breeder a reactor needs way more (at least x30, up to x100) uranium. "identified uranium reserves recoverable at US$130/kg ((...)) At the rate of consumption in 2017, these
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by natmaka 2y ago
AFAIK it is a well-known estimation, and 'fringe' may be considered weird given its main author's pedigree: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Consequences_of_the...
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by natmaka 2y ago
> The highest estimate for Chernobyl is 60,000 Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl:_Consequences_of_the...
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by natmaka 2y ago
> illusion that the technology was cost-competitive with fossil fuel generators The hope, then, was to quickly obtain an industrial breeder reactor in order to considerably reduce (or even suppress any) dependency towards uranium provide
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by natmaka 2y ago
Breeding is a counter-example. Fermi envisioned it in the early 1940's. Lab breeder reactors emerged during the 1950's and were satisfying in the 1960's. Big projects aiming at obtaining an industrial reactor were aplenty, w
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by natmaka 2y ago
> Renewables are outpacing nuclear at such a pace that you could legitimately wonder why to bother with such projects at all. Indeed, especially as renewable will more and more eat into nuclear 'baseload', lowering its load fac
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by natmaka 2y ago
> PG's optimizer is designed to be very fast not very thorough Some parameters weight on this policy: geqo_threshold, geqo_effort, constraint_exclusion, from_collapse_limit, join_collapse_limit, jit_above_cost, enable_partition*...
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by natmaka 2y ago
Indeed, my point was about "faster" (in the title).
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by natmaka 2y ago
Numerous non UE members sell electricity to members (Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Ukraine...), including the United Kingdom.
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by natmaka 2y ago
Indeed, and it is better at continental scale: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-... France, albeit enjoying even better offshore wind potential than the UK, is even worse as it only star
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by natmaka 2y ago
RFC2119 to the rescue: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2119
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by natmaka 2y ago
It enhances the throughput (on average everyone waits less) at the price of a higher max latency (some, who posted a request mobilizing a very-recently-out-of-cache-index, will wait way, way more...), isn't it? In the real world those
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by natmaka 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_poisoning
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by natmaka 2y ago
Nuclear nowadays produces ~70% of France's electricity and renewables are booming: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-fossil-renewa... Two close calls (level 4) in 1969 and 1980 (at Saint-Laurent-des-E
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by natmaka 2y ago
It's not only about power but about unbalancing the opponent in order to obtain a knock-down. A weak hit making him fall is better than a massive blow (especially on hitting a strong body area).
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Some did, however there were no Soviet jets at the time of this story.
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by natmaka 2y ago
Indeed! The man who told me this did not know the reason but his hypothesis was indeed that they wanted to get drunk. Thank you for the details. I heard about Russian women hiding their perfumes for men not to find (and drink) them...
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by natmaka 2y ago
In France, around 1985, an old man said to me that just after WW2 he was, as a French soldier, working in Germany in some airfield or military site which was then used to host Allied soldiers of various nationalities. They had a problem wit

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