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by rsynnott 3mo ago
The cars are primarily an efficiency thing; it's more efficient to just make a few colours. The requirement for those colours to be boring _may_ be coming to an end, though; see the Renault 5. It only comes in five colours, but two of
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
... Wait, are you suggesting that no-one will want to sell clothes in Europe? Like, this regulation pretty much entirely impacts companies who sell clothes to consumers.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> Chemical washing of chicken is a safe and effective way to reduce pathogens. This is actually somewhat controversial. It definitely messes with standard in vitro bacteria counts. However, there's some evidence that this is more a
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> rootless cosmopolitans ??? I hadn't realised _Stalin_ had a HN account.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> And if you improve public transit (I heard BART is some that's pretty good by American standards but not by European standards?) BART is ~fine; there's just not very much of it. Only two lines go through San Francisco (both o
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Nah, it's fairly common for only a relatively small part of a company to be tradeable.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
What, again? (British Steel's predecessor was itself a nationalisation effort in the 60s.)
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> Interesting timing considering the recent AUA study that 55% of people treated with testosterone are done so inappropriately. Where are you getting that from that article? As far as I can see it was that only 12% were appropriate. (Hon
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
These are bonds that were issued a few weeks ago.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Vactrains already existed as a concept when these were produced, though I don't see anything that looks _particularly_ like one? All the mass transit I can see in the pictures looks like suspension monorails (like https://en
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> I suppose I'm just a little worried about a 10 year sideways market. In that case possibly go with something global; in the one recent period where S&P500 was pretty much sideways for 10 years, MSCI World, say, did somewhat be
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
The odd thing is, it’s so… strategically incompetent. Trump’s handlers presumably know that pretty much everyone in Europe hates Trump, and _particularly_ dislikes his ambivalence on Russia. So _publicly supporting_ the candidates ideologic
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
... Right, so explain Singapore.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Or a claustrophobic nightmare. All depends on perspective.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Yeah, Ireland also primarily exports surplus wind power. Trouble is, when it’s windy in Ireland, it is also often windy in the UK, so no demand, so curtailment is necessary. The HVDC line to France will help with this; it will less frequent
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Note that doing that in Ireland for intercity will result in you being _severely_ overcharged. Dublin to Cork is like 20 euro if you book in advance; I think if you buy the ticket in the station it’s over 60! It’s fine for commuter stuff, o
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> France sends us about 2.5GW and we sent Ireland about 500 MW. It's also a two-way flow; while UK<>Ireland transmission tends to net out to UK->Ireland, it's fairly variable; to a large extent whichever side currently
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
We are about to start doing that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Interconnector But it is in itself fairly non-trivial; HVDC cables that long are difficult.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> Korea and China build them in 4 years for about $1B each. China seems to do 7 years _build time_ at ~$3bn/GW. So you're probably looking at at least a decade project start to end. Also, they're primarily using a reactor
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> Nobody hosts datacenters in Ireland because of capacity reasons. It's not a good location for power, people or connectivity. It is, ah, probably about the best location if you want connectivity to both the US and continental Europ
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Ireland doesn't use oil for generation these days; the last oil plant closed a while back. We use a lot of _gas_, which is under a lot of price pressure at the moment.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Er, don’t believe everything the magic robots tell you. Like, seriously, why on earth could you believe an LLM on this? Have we completely lost all power of critical thinking?
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Doesn’t really count; that was more or less just a weird _country_ cosplaying as a company. (There were a few of them. Fortunately it did not really survive as a concept)
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
… No, I mean, on the face of it it’s a surprising claim. Why do you think it is valuable? What is the market?
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I mean, it was a response to a claim, without evidence, that it was valuable. Is your position that _you_ can make assertions without evidence but that lesser mortals may not contradict you without writing a paper on the subject? I’m convin
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I don’t see why it would be different in 100 years. The fibre might be slightly better (hollow core fibre will increase speed from 2/3c to nearly c), but, absent new physics, it’s hard to imagine anything beating _that_. Maybe neutrino
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
It’s a pretty low margin business, tho, generally.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Fortunately, LinkedIn writing was always so awful that no-one notices.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I don’t think they’re likely to pay enough to justify a high valuation. And remember you’re basically talking just very rural areas in the long term; towns and villages can be hooked up increasingly cheaply. Like, Starlink is maybe a viable
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Thing about N1 and starship is they have _loads_ of small engines; lots of complex plumbing and vibrations. Falcon 9 has a more sensible number. On re-entry, Buran re-entered once. You can’t read much into that. The shuttle did about a hund

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