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by pietjepuk88 1y ago
> The 300MW Thurrock Storage project, developed by Statera Energy, is now energised and delivering electricity flexibly to the network across London and the south east. > With a total capacity of 600MWh, Thurrock Storage is capable of
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by pietjepuk88 3y ago
I thought the ECMWF models were (and always have been) global?
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by pietjepuk88 3y ago
I thought that idea finally died a few years ago, but never say never I guess (I assume you're talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_Canal )
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by pietjepuk88 3y ago
Locks are fun! (Can you tell I'm Dutch? ;) )
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by pietjepuk88 3y ago
I think the main reason is that the (big!) ships just don't have room to pass each other anywhere other than on Gatun lake. They can't pass in the Gaillard cut, and not really in the approach harbors either. So it's one way t
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by pietjepuk88 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255225 for a back-of-the-envelope calculation of why it's intractable to pump the water back. And see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38256185 for why th
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by pietjepuk88 3y ago
The thing that complicates the use of the water saving basins, is that they tend to make the salt intrusion into the lake a lot worse [0]. So to limit the salt intrusion (through the new locks), they have to _not_ use the water saving basin
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by pietjepuk88 4y ago
> > The ability to redeem LUSD for ETH at face value (i.e. 1 LUSD for $1 of ETH) [...] create a price floor That is not entirely true though; it costs money to redeem LUSD for ETH. Earlier today it was 2%, so not particularly cheap.
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by pietjepuk88 4y ago
> You can take an interest free loan out against your Ethereum Well, you do have to pay to take out a loan. Closing a loan is free, and redeeming LUSD for ETH (if it's not your loan) costs _at least_ 0.5%. And being liquidated costs
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by pietjepuk88 4y ago
> I shall refer you to my first post up there! No, that's what _you_ think the reason is or should be. I'm asking what the reason (or answer) is that the _SEC_ gives in the application process. > The SEC is saying that thes
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by pietjepuk88 4y ago
But what _is_ the reason they can't get through the pipeline (and that you think is a "very good" one)? Isn't just the SEC saying "We don't feel like answering your request. Continue as you see fit, but we can&
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by pietjepuk88 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "until when?". > do you think they wont start forcing the needle? The article is about _fining_ people, i.e. negative monetary incentives. Your reply outlined a bunch of positive monetary ince
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by pietjepuk88 5y ago
> they shouldn't be forced I was under the impression that you'd just get fined if you don't get your shot. It's not like they are going to take you prisoner and stick a needle in you.
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by pietjepuk88 5y ago
> I think that the most fascinating fact about this upcoming IPO is that, to the best of my knowledge, GitLab is the first remote-only (i.e., no-headquarters) company in the world filing for an IPO. "Akshually" that was Coinbas
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by pietjepuk88 5y ago
I'd say the most effective way for me to scrub a lot of CO2 out of the air is to burn a lot of fossil fuels, and then scrub 80-90% of it (or however efficient scrubbers are). Seems like the wrong incentive? I feel this is somewhat simi
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by pietjepuk88 6y ago
In a sense it sounds a bit like immunotherapy for allergies. That is typically about injecting pathogens into your body (e.g. under your tongue, under your skin, or in your lymph nodes), and then over time teaching your body that these path
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by pietjepuk88 6y ago
> In his article, Vitalik claims Electrum’s cosigner model isn’t good enough, without mentioning it by name. He says multisig has been very successful for organizations like the Ethereum Foundation, but suggests that it's possible t
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by pietjepuk88 6y ago
(I have no clue how to reply when the depth is reached) > Because as a user I am now sitting in front of 24 websites which look equally "meh" in terms of trustworthiness (fancy design and huge claims), each of them trying to ge
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by pietjepuk88 6y ago
I guess I shouldn't have put the "human" in parentheses. I did give an example of how the EF is spending their money on development of the ecosystem though, hoping that'd make it clear what I meant. I even chose a grant
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by pietjepuk88 6y ago
With the advent of hardware wallets, and so many competing wallets/interfaces out there (tailored to different user bases), I feel it makes little sense for the Ethereum Foundation to pour their own (human) resources into this. They wi
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by pietjepuk88 6y ago
I have to say that I'm happy that Ethereum does not do on-chain governance for this very reason. It more or less follows the IETF principle of "rough consensus". [0] As far as smart contracts are concerned; they're hardl
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by pietjepuk88 6y ago
If I remember correctly, the Ebola vaccine is the first approved vaccine to use another virus as a vector. The first one to be approved (by Merck) does not use an adenovirus, but the second approved one (by J&J) does. Note that approval
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by pietjepuk88 7y ago
Monero is unfortunately not really anonymous either in many common scenario's, like repeatedly sending payments to or from the same address. [0] It's definitely better than Bitcoin though, but far from anonymous. Overall I think t
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by pietjepuk88 7y ago
What defines the volume to get to that number? From what I can tell from the ARC specs the plasma volume is 141 m3, and the expected power output is 200-300 MWe, which makes it 1.5-2 MWe/m3. Do you have some numbers on a PWR reactor ve
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by pietjepuk88 7y ago
I always thought it made sense that the improved efficiency comes at a cost. Our (human) kidneys are not as efficient, and we require a lot more water intake. Then again, we don't have as many kidney problems. This kind of argument cer
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by pietjepuk88 7y ago
I have posted this before, but please do not think this will ever work. The thing will fall apart (again) as soon as it is exposed to anything but a calm sea. It definitely brought attention to the issue, but that's about all the good
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by pietjepuk88 7y ago
I would say it only helps because it prevents (or reduces) the amount of additional green house gasses released in the atmosphere. I doubt converting wind energy to electricity and then "storing" that electricity/energy someh
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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
> Lascar stands for Ledger’s Advanced Side Channel Analysis Repository. Its goal is to gather and provide common tools and techniques used in the field of Side Channel Analysis, within an open, customizable library. It's not an at
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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
Have you seen the grasshopper[0], which had roughly the same purpose for the early Falcons? That hardly looked like a space vehicle, but did its job quite well. I do very much agree it all feels a bit rushed (working during weekends as well
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by pietjepuk88 8y ago
Coinbase mentions a few reorgs without double spends, and a quite a few more with: https://blog.coinbase.com/ethereum-classic-etc-is-currently-...

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