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by pyrale 5mo ago
You could do that, too, if you want. The relevant questions would be how much of the electricity cost is buying solar panels, how are they stored, and how they age when not used. Stockpiling uranium addresses a specific risk related to sour
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by pyrale 6mo ago
> Also where exactly are you getting that Uranium from? Uranium can be stockpiled relatively easily (france had 4-5 years of uranium stockpiled). Since it is about 1% of the energy cost, that’s pretty inexpensive. Also, uranium comes fro
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by pyrale 6mo ago
> Name a Gen II plant that was upgraded to a Gen III, III+ or Gen IV plant. That's a bit of an impossible ask. To give you a comparison with airplanes, F16 aren't "upgraded" to F35s. But there is an upgrade process, a
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by pyrale 6mo ago
Maybe you don't know it. The rest of us who can read scientific work have a pretty good idea.
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by pyrale 6mo ago
> What have we done to mitigate that risk Climate change isn't a risk that needs mitigation, it is not a contingency of hypothetical events. It is happening right now, and lives are already being claimed. Maybe you are shielded fr
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by pyrale 6mo ago
> I can't find anything to support your world view Just look at US laws pertaining to data that goes through US companies.
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by pyrale 6mo ago
All they have to do to survive is have enough cash flow to pay for their operating costs. By providing specialized long-term services to corporate clients, they are securing exactly that.
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by pyrale 6mo ago
While chargeback laws are a bit more restrictive in some EU countries, you should always have the option to ask your bank to block future charges, without changing your card.
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by pyrale 6mo ago
> tremendous amounts of inference capacity become open for pennies on the dollar. They can't be operated for pennies on the dollar, though. The likely current status is that these products are subsidized to disregard model cost, and
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by pyrale 6mo ago
Let me rephrase this: companies want to avoid breaking the law unknowingly, because their US providers are going to break the law without notice, willingly or unwillingly. Plenty of corporations are willing to break the rules, but never for
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by pyrale 6mo ago
> additional derivative markets will exist up to the divine wrath of god We already know that Jesus will come back in an election year
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by pyrale 6mo ago
> (x-1) * 10 + (y-1) + 1 Is that not equivalent to: > (x-1) * 10 + y or: > x * 10 + y - 10
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by pyrale 6mo ago
You say "the market wants" like consumers are given much choice. Using that hypothesis, the market also loves cookie banners and prefers subscriptions over one-time payments.
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by pyrale 6mo ago
Haskell has liquid haskell to do that.
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by pyrale 6mo ago
> From my personal experience, it was hard to completely avoid them > I was definitely in touch with the communist/socialist underbelly of dissenters there [...] I read the on-campus commie newsletter that was distributed free. B
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by pyrale 6mo ago
Political events are usually part of student university life in western-tradition universities. From my personal experience, it was hard to completely avoid them if you had any involvement in the student extracurricular life.
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by pyrale 6mo ago
The EFF letter tends to line up with this guy’s story, though. Also, since google complied without giving him the ability to challenge the request, we will never have another version. In that context, it feels fair to accept the only versio
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by pyrale 6mo ago
> Therefore, it's generally not going to be in Google's interest to break its own terms. It is also not in Google’s interest to resist this administration. I would not be surprised if they decided to kiss the ring and be by int
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by pyrale 6mo ago
To condone what happens to him, you must first condone that your government lists and identifies people attending opponent meetings. Whether the government waits for him to leave the country to violate his rights feels like a small detail i
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by pyrale 6mo ago
To me, the year's in the past. I haven't touched Windows since 2017, and nothing bad happened to me. But you're right, I guess for some people, there will already be a good reason not to use Linux.
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by pyrale 6mo ago
On the other hand, Dore is an actual toponym. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monts_Dore
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by pyrale 7mo ago
> On the other hand, it is possible to run out of a metal when all of it is either somewhere in some device or scattered among landfills The metal isn't going to disappear, but it won't be concentrated enough to be as easily re
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by pyrale 7mo ago
My point is that the US did alter homemade products for export, and that the only people litigated against were the whistleblower and/or companies providing service to him. > If US manufacturers (or manufacturers in allied countries
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by pyrale 7mo ago
The Snowden leak showed that Cisco routers had been altered to enable surveillance [1]. Whether or not the manufacturer is complicit, or how the alteration is performed is ultimately irrelevant to the end user. Ultimately, the only people t
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by pyrale 7mo ago
UBI is based on the idea that some people will still want/need to work. It is not related to freeing people from work, but to ensure that people's basic needs (housing, food, health) are met even if, for some reason, they are unab
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by pyrale 7mo ago
> Thus, yes, in rich countries we have collectively decided that "caring for everyone" is not the best way forward, because we see that it becomes unsustainable when you go too far. What rich country are you talking about? Most
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by pyrale 7mo ago
> (people previously suppressed in their undeveloped countries) Ah yes, the undevelopped and oppressive countries able to provide them good enough education and not make them debt-ridden for it. I don’t blame people for moving for better
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by pyrale 7mo ago
I think you need to distinguish between complex systems, and byzantine systems. You can have complex systems where every piece shares a common goal, but feedback loops are hard. You can also have systems which, if a common goal was shared,
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by pyrale 7mo ago
> and more generally economic stability Who doesn't enjoy interesting times ™
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by pyrale 8mo ago
It is also completely unacceptable to capture the public space without oversight and consent from third parties. If glass users are fine with that, why wouldn’t they accept it for themselves?

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