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by padjo 1y ago
Brexit was a vote by Britain to lose all influence in its largest export market and instead hamper its industries with dual regulation and increased barriers to trade. Nobody thinking rationally would think it was a good idea. The referendu
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by padjo 1y ago
You forgot his other goal m, which is to make him and his family wealthier. The back and forth on tariffs was certainly insider traded to hell.
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by padjo 1y ago
Coulda shoulda woulda…
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by padjo 1y ago
Same all over, apparently we had the biggest in the world a few years back, I’d imagine it’s been overtaken by now https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/home/stories/irelan...
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by padjo 1y ago
The inertia provided by synchronous generators was in essence a natural benefit to the grid that we never appreciated previously. But now with more renewables it’s now something we have to consider and design for. Running a grid on 100% non
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by padjo 1y ago
“induced atmospheric vibration” on 400KV lines is the current theory
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by padjo 1y ago
I was recently told by an electrical engineering lecturer that the black start plan here in Ireland is to use the DC interconnectors with the UK to provide startup power to a synchronous generator.
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by padjo 1y ago
Nor do I dismiss it, in fact I was just using it to help me research something. I just don’t need people on the internet telling me what it said.
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by padjo 1y ago
Aside from whether it is correct in this particular case or not, it’s just bizarre to me that you would post what AI told you. It’s like you’re a booster for dead internet theory. So in addition to half the internet consisting of AIs arguin
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by padjo 1y ago
AI is not a reliable source for legal matters. There are so many examples of it making up precedent it’s basically a meme at this point. Posting its response is not helpful. I’d have thought hacker news contributors would understand that.
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by padjo 1y ago
Kinda mind boggling to me that you would ask chatgpt and then post the answer as if that adds something to the discussion.
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by padjo 2y ago
Truth has a left wing bias.
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by padjo 2y ago
That law now officially includes an individual who is immune from the law and who can issue pardons to anyone for anything. So you live in a nation with optional laws.
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by padjo 2y ago
Yeah I only worked professionally with python for about 6 months and I knew about most of them.
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by padjo 2y ago
Emoji being associated with infancy is a thing that only exists in your brain and only because young people were early adopters of emoji about 15 years ago. Emoji are just as valid a means of communication as any other.
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by padjo 2y ago
By any means?
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by padjo 2y ago
The click bait title worked on me but come on, it’s like saying screwdrivers are evil or something. A framework is a tool that’s appropriate in some circumstances and not others.
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by padjo 2y ago
Ah yes the old “well can’t concerned citizens band together, form a committee, collect revenue and fund things that are in the common interest” answer you hear from small government types that makes me think you lot don’t really understand
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by padjo 2y ago
This is quite a close minded position that leaves you vulnerable in changing circumstances. Very little is known with absolute certainty outside of mathematics. I think a better default is to revisit topics every now and then, listen to the
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by padjo 2y ago
Pigs are smart sentient beings capable of feeling emotions. There’s very little ethically defensible in how we currently “grow” them.
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by padjo 2y ago
In the early days at least part of the problem was marketing. The fact that it’s got Java in the name when it’s actually a very different language to Java confused a lot of people. They tried to use the language like Java, had a bad time an
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by padjo 2y ago
On a local level they absolutely do, in a wind farm one turbine can shadow another and reduce its output significantly. It makes wind farm layout a tricky optimisation problem. On larger scales the impact is pretty minimal though, there’s s
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by padjo 2y ago
History is also littered with people confidently stating that since something has not happened it therefore can never happen. Often immediately before the thing then happens.
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by padjo 2y ago
If we’re going to start accounting for the ignorance of the average American in everything we do we’re not going to get much done.
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by padjo 2y ago
We get touchy if you call it a tax dodge but yes it’s generally not considered an accurate measure of wealth in Ireland. Modified GNI is the term used for the adjusted number.
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by padjo 2y ago
Years ago I saw that most browser extensions ask for the permission “can access all data on all websites” and thought yeah let’s not do that…
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by padjo 2y ago
This is great example of how people struggle to see possibilities beyond the environment they’re raised in. The credit score system is not necessary to have loans and mortgages, as evidenced by all the countries that don’t have such a syste
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by padjo 2y ago
Exactly the answer I gave in my head after reading the title
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by padjo 2y ago
Placebo only works on self perception though. If there are objective markers of disease they don’t tend to respond to placebo effects at all.
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by padjo 2y ago
Very little if anything is ever proven to be absolutely true in all circumstances. The author did a decent job of controlling variables and blinding so their evidence for a lack of effect is substantially more robust than any number of pers

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