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by ncmncm 4y ago
$20M revenue is not the same as $20M profit.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
And get out fast.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
This alternative is not to be neglected. You don't have to save the whole world. Save what you can that is worth saving. If you are competent to build good new things, do that.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
One of the authors, Doyne Farmer, was among those who invented chaos theory, noted in "Chaos: Making a New Science" by James Gleick, back when (1987, if you can believe it, 35 years ago).
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Yes, panels at 80% have good resale value. If you have room, you just add 20% more. If not, you sell them and buy more.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Correct insofar as we are not completely sure that the ongoing precipitous rise won't tip us over an edge into an ice age.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Desalination might be the best use for excess generating capacity, after the local storage is all charged up. (Desalination costs >140x less energy than extraction by current dehumidification methods, although a recent advance in the lat
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Right, all the existing nukes will be mothballed as unable to pay for their own operations, except where tax- or ratepayers are forced to subsidize it. Then, the actual cost of every kWh they ever delivered will jump up as the enormous capi
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Right, "just asking a simple question" where the answer is easily found is called trolling.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
People who insist things cannot be done get in the way of the people out there working very hard doing them. If you cannot help, at least stay out of the way. All of the stuff you say you will replace in 10 years will be much cheaper by the
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Please do not post falsehoods seeking to mislead readers. You have been corrected on this point several times before.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Obviously he only grants money where he wants things to happen. Peter Thiel and his posse grant money to try to delay those things to get more money into their pockets.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Right: it has to be carefully regulated to work well. The word "free" here is carrying more than it is rated for.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The stronger statement is true: as green energy becomes increasingly cheaper than dirty, industries will transition to clean wherever they can. New industry will start out using cheaper green, and green generation capacity is almost all new
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Every way to secure green energy requires some use of dirty energy. So the only choice is between dirty forever, and dirty decreasing. If the latter, the faster it decreases, the less dirty energy you use on the transition.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You seem not to understand what "reserves" actually means. It does not exclude easily accessible material. It only excludes material not assessed yet because there has been no need to, as existing reserves will last more than lo
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by ncmncm 4y ago
The energy delivered by a solar panel is overwhelmingly more than needed to make it. The gain is enormous. There is simply no contest. Consider that makers of solar panels, and of the materials that go into them, get no break on their power
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You would be very pleasantly surprised at how programming in C+ is, today, vs. pre-C++11. With C++20, the language has got even nicer to use.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
There is no voice of the committee. A breakaway group, including Google and Microsoft, has sought to break backward link-compatibilty, and has failed. So they are pursuing other avenues. Probably the single most valuable improvement possibl
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Generally Cppreference.com has the most authoritative information on what C++ is now. It is somewhat opinionated about modernity, but not enough so to be intrusive. Usage examples have often been updated to current best practice.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Please do not post falsehoods seeking to mislead readers. You have been corrected on this point several times before. In fact, C++ Concepts can be used for early enforcement of compile-time duck typing, just for better error messages. I
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Clever. Wrap it in a concept, and it might have legs.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Maybe, but things seem much more hierarchically organized as you go farther back, with a progression of autocratic control over a growing area until a collapse or invasion. So, we know about Imhotep, official Architect to (IIRC) two or more
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Agreed, people are sheep, and will pay through the nose for crap they are taught carries some sort of cultural cachet. See also Apple products, and various handbags.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
Apparently the way this kind of research is pursued today, one starts with one or more respectable worldwide databases of oral traditions, and identifies a collection of apparently similar myths by noting various sometimes-shared features,
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by ncmncm 4y ago
A private organization should be able to do what they like, provided they have not acquired enough market power to be acting in the role of a public utility. As a public utility, they should be obliged to follow procedures that offer due pr
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by ncmncm 4y ago
I get that you have made that up. In fact, despite aggressive propaganda efforts, the borrow checker is not the only way to get static correctness. Making shit up does not lead to any valid conclusion. That I never have use-after-free or ot
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by ncmncm 4y ago
It is probably a mistake to discount d'Huy. He is not certain to be right, but if wrong he is certain to be interestingly wrong. Association of dogs with Sirius far enough back to precede populating the Americas is pretty astounding. A
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by ncmncm 4y ago
They generally refuse permission for anything they fear might upset the official chronology.
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by ncmncm 4y ago
You seem to miss that Discord is excluding people who are not abusing their platform.

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