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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> It ALMOST worked, but the peace talks in march ended being cancelled by the Ukrainian side. This is a Russian talking point that has been getting spread around the internet lately. Those talks failed because Putin refused to negotiate
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Russia has a history of throwing out leaders after failed wars. On one hand Putin appears to have a fairly tight grip on power right now, but it doesn't take much to actually execute a coup. A small group of of participants to capture
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
The entire invasion of Ukraine looks childish from where I sit. That hasn't stopped them. > Maybe you think the symbolism is important It is important in that verbal threats do not carry much weight when so many other threats have a
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
The threat is more valuable than the the actual action. Russia's nuclear threats can only accomplish so much. They have so far kept NATO from getting directly involved but clearly have not worked to keep NATO weapons out of Ukraine or
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Just to add to your list for completeness sake: * China -- Ensures they continue to be the beneficiary of cheap RU gas, which considering their current economic woes, I imagine it is a pretty big deal for them. Broadly, they dislike the Ukr
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Turn off fox news for a bit and try getting your information from reliable, nonpartisan sources. Currently, over 60% of Californias electricity comes from clean sources (hydro, renewables, and nuclear). And we are well on target to hit 100%
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Batteries are a bit too expensive to make sense as stationary storage outside of some specialty cases right now. But EVs have been economical for a while. So while we wait for battery prices to drop, two way EV charging absolutely make sens
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
They are making politically expedient decisions that move the state towards its clean energy commitments. Yes, there may be some hiccups down the road, but that is the price to pay for putting off the transition for so long. And as one of t
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
I will one up your anecdata with another anecdata. I was at a work retreat in the bay area about two months ago. Employees flew in from all across the country for the event. No one checked the vaccine cards and masks were optional. Single d
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> But here we are 2.5 years later and a ton of people still believe Covid is the modern Black Plague I live in the Bay Area which was the epicenter for "covid caution". I have not worn a mask in months. We have not had anything
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Well, if you and your spouse had put in 10k at the end of 2021, and again in 2022, and then put another 10k at the start of 2023 you will have built up your I-Bond allocation to $60k in about a 13-14 month timeframe. What is nice about a po
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
It is subtle, but you will know it when you feel it. Aluminium frames can be engineered to have more flex, and some steel frames can be overbuilt to a point where the "steel feel" is diminished. So comparing any two random frames
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Fair enough. I am an IC, but also an early-ish employee. And the startup I currently work at might be anomalous in how much they share about the company. With that said, if you are joining a startup to get founder level experiences, you alm
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Engineer. Employee #7. Maybe as an addendum to my above comments, my startup is fairly open about all of our operations. Other than peoples salaries, pretty much everything about the company is discussed at our all hands. Additionally I jus
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
> Is more more useful than having a longer runway from big co savings? Doubtful. Having worked at a startup before, I now know to never risk a substantial amount of my own money on the venture. The risk of failure is too high. I would ei
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Almost certainly, in the near term, these tools are going to make folks a little more productive and will not be replacing anyones job. Every digital product, whether it be SAAS software, games, or whatever, is heavily constrained by labor
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
There is way more than one lesson to learn from each startup. You will hopefully learn how to hire (and possibly fire) people. You will get insight into the nitty gritty of keeping the lights on at a company (taxes, payroll, office leases,
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
As expected, the pro-nuclear comment is cherry-picking the details of the argument to make a poor attempt at a rebuttal. Did you miss the part where the proposed system was almost half the cost of the nuclear plant? That leaves quite a bit
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
This isn't about nuclear vs coal. It is about nuclear vs renewables. And what it really comes down to is that nuclear is really expensive and takes way too long to build. For every nuclear plant you build, we can build the exact same g
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
That is an opinion piece from a conservative talking head. Maybe try linking to primary sources next time.
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
From the article: So many orders came in that “[w]ith only two companies building plants, a rapid increase in orders escalated costs for major components and strained the limited supply of qualified labor.”
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
I understand where your frustrations are coming from, but I think you need to put this in perspective. $10k isn't that much money. For example, we give an order of magnitude more in tax breaks to middle class homeowners. And let's
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Well the only lasting legislative achievement of the Trump administration was to pass a tax cut for the rich, which was almost assuredly counter to the populist platform that he ran on. Politics are about promising everything to everybody a
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
This feels like a non-issue. The boomer generation is probably one of the wealthiest generations in history. And the younger generations have for the most part been fairly underemployed. Feels like there is more than enough slack in the lab
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
What percentage of the population lives in climates like yours? If I had to guess, maybe something like 10-20% of the worlds population? My gut tells me the vast majority of the worlds population lives in locations that are more similar to
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
Energy prices everywhere are up. That is what happens when the global economy is bouncing back from a pandemic and one of the biggest energy suppliers in the world decides to embark on the first major land war in Europe in over 70 years.
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The parent is pointing out, that if you are trying to find a solution to generate 5kw of constant power using nuclear, for the same cost you can get an absurd amount of renewable generation and storage plus a backup generator. The batteries
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In an event like this, you are effectively helping to power the other houses in your neighborhood. So it is likely to be fairly efficient.
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
My e-bike weighs a lot less then the car it replaced.
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by qqqwerty 4y ago
A charitable interpretation of the OPs suggestion is that this regulation would make the most sense in high to mid density areas, where land is at a premium. And any practical implementation of this measure would almost assuredly come with

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