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by sfifs 5y ago
The challenge basically is no one seems to adequately explain how this below consumption variability over time will be handled in a largely solar/wind grid without invoking scaled application of energy storage technology that has not y
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by sfifs 5y ago
I really couldn't figure out what on earth the article is talking about? Where is flocking patterns of bitds even in the scope of Newton's third law? The article reads like pseudo-science.
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This is because there's not just a monetary policy union, there's also a fiscal policy union in thr US and a shared underlying nation state identity that enables it. Essentially the federal taxes of the richer states support the p
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I believe yet refers to https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-think-earth-s-next-s...
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I was referring to the Oroville dam in the GP comment. The 180k people displaced started returning literally 2 days later with zero casualties. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville_Dam_crisis Yes two generations ag
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> a major accidents with their Oroville Dam and evacuated of 188,000 people living downstream. This can be compared to the 154,000 evacuated from Fukushima You're being disingenuous here. The waters would have flowed to the sea and
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Yes in retrospect this was definitely a missed opportunity to not put Rickover's org in charge of civillian reactors. But then the problwm outside US would persist. However trust is now lost, will be very difficult ro regain
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by sfifs 5y ago
Nuclear is socially and therefore politically non-viable because (1) When nuclear accidents happen, they suddenly overturn the lives of a LOT of commoners all at once as opposed to slow and creeping and often "statistically determined&
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by sfifs 5y ago
I have always wondered about the approach in the US of locally managed law enforcement departments. It's almost a given that such local oversight of a group with a societally granted monopoly on violence will breed corruption, nepotism
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by sfifs 5y ago
Sure but cash in hand always trumps hidden costs for a majority of the people (if you're on HN, you're likely not working class majority - people who make below median income). If the European governments were actually serious abo
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by sfifs 5y ago
> Foreign ownership of houses comprises only small % of the housing mark So a key part of the picture this kind of argument misses out is that price appreciation is primarily an effect of *marginal* demand and supply, not inventory. To p
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by sfifs 5y ago
They can insist that if they are in the phone rental business and the ownership of the phone on their balance sheet, not if they're in the phone sales business. If you sell a product, it's pretty much illegal to control what peopl
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> But 6-12 months I think is probably too long in a crisis situation. Yes and therefore it stands to reason that they probably already have weapons ready (but maybe in a disassembled state) and simply don't disclose it.
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by sfifs 5y ago
The point of this ruling and the Korea law is you'll have to be given the option. Pay a given price in Apple OR pay a lower price outside.
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by sfifs 5y ago
Why would/should they? The short to medium term economic interests of most of the ruling/capital owning class (higher margins on production, real estate prices going up) and the plebs (cheaper products) are both tied to close coop
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by sfifs 5y ago
> The developers are still not allowed to communicate about alternate purchase options in the app, they would need to have some other form of communication with the user. I'm pretty sure this "anti-steering" restriction in
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by sfifs 5y ago
And of course it's absolutely unprecedented for two governments to ever collaborate /s "Five Eyes" ring a bell?
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by sfifs 5y ago
And yet while the US debated endlessly, China built this. It's transformed how people travel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail_in_China
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My wife is a startup co-founder and she started up when our daughter was three. They were bootstrapped initially and now have raised a couple of rounds in 5 years. Our daughter has grown up into a little person with a very kind character an
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by sfifs 5y ago
that in the US i believe is mostly regulatory capture (guilds & licensing, unions, in some cases inappropriate regulations) https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/ne...
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by sfifs 5y ago
At the end, this is all about business and reputational risk arising from the research data being misused ala Cambridge Analytica. Risks are quantifiable based on past litigation history. So why can't FB require the researchers to prov
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by sfifs 5y ago
On the side facing the earth probably never as it will become trivial to threaten earth with a giant laser on the moon. Same objection with kinetic launchers (aka flinger, mass drivers) on the moon. On the side facing away, maybe but you lo
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by sfifs 5y ago
> Where it gets complicated is that nobody expects to earn orders of magnitude less from a product they created than others relying on it. And this is where the problem basically is. The core philosophy of open source licensing is that t
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by sfifs 5y ago
The Space shuttle program was run by people who were in the taxpayer wealth extraction business. As we've seen already, no one really imagined how we could progress on costs when companies actually get into space transportation busines
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Personally, I think the most viable long term option would be to build solar farms with 120 degrees separation on the moon's circumference so you'd always have a fairly constant amount of solar power generation & run a HVDC gr
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The societal benefits of maintaining fairness in opportunities to move up the economic ladder (speaking about India here) far outweighs other criteria. While one could argue that access to coaching institutes creates an unfair barrier on it
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have you tried Singtel Dash? seems to work.
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> You know your phone service provider has that location information in resolution that’s almost as good, right? Not really. Tower triangulation is nowhere close to as accurate. It places you in the general agea with a pretty large error
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> So can Google More interestingly so can anyone who can get a subpoena or some equivalent judicial order issued to have Google release your location to them.
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CPG industry margins are quite public as almost big brands are owned by listed companies. They're not high. The highest margin categories for big retailers i believe tend to be clothing.

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