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by shaqbert 9y ago
TL'DR: - this swedish government study analyses CO2 emissions from battery pack production - for a Tesla S3, the emissions at purchase are 17.5 tonnes of CO2 - That means 8.2 years of driving to just break even with an equivalent petro
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Life Cycle Energy Consumption and GH Gas Emissions from Li-ion Batteries [pdf](ivl.se)
30 points by shaqbert 9y ago|16 comments
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by shaqbert 9y ago
TL'DR - some Uranium deposits have unnaturally low concentrations of Uranium U-235. There is proof in the footprint of the occurrence of fission products that this must be due to natural fission having taken place way in the past.
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by shaqbert 9y ago
While your statement is indeed true, the German way of calculating unemployment is actually more conservative than the US way. There the ones who stop looking for work are dropped from the statistics...
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by shaqbert 9y ago
With the government owned oil co being the issuer, this looks like a pretty smart bet by Goldman. If oilco does not default, great, you get a ridiculous discount and a high coupon. If oilco does default, great, you have ample of collateral
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by shaqbert 9y ago
100k or even "permanent" storage is a flawed concept, because that timespan is just too long to account for all possibilities. Nuclear scientist have been advocating managed storage of 50 to 100 years instead for quite some time,
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by shaqbert 9y ago
Pricing mistake 101: You never ever change those old plans. Instead, you grandfather them. Especially so if you're still a young platform and have most growth ahead of you, the "loss" of not charging the new - and supposedly
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by shaqbert 9y ago
Good news is that the amount of health care spending is a choice. E.g. other western countries are running a health care cost to GDP ratio from 10%-13%, sometimes offering vastly superior and equitable outcomes than in the US. The bad news
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by shaqbert 9y ago
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” --Oscar Wilde
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by shaqbert 9y ago
Wendelstein 7-x is really not fusion research, but plasma physics research. At the energy/temperature levels and magnetic field strength this machine is operating, plasma is showing all kinds of undesirable behavior, such as turbulence
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by shaqbert 9y ago
E.g. the nuclear waste problem: With the right shielding you'll get to radioactive waste that is much easier to handle and usually decaying enough in a 60 year time span. As opposed to the millennia from fission products. So yeah it is
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by shaqbert 9y ago
Mmmh, some of the claims in that article are debunked in this neat video from MIT (though over 1h long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0KuAx1COEk
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Not surprising. In highly regulated markets such as Denmark, Uber has always had a hard time. In the early days they played the "ask for forgiveness card", but being a gigantic operation now, that does not fly anymore. In my home
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Vincent Vanhoucke deserves a lot of credit for his naming skills... Bloaty McBloatface[1] is the best name I've seen in ages. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
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by shaqbert 10y ago
The historic data for extended periods of super low interest rate is "sparse" to put it mildly. Pretty much never happened before, so the "consensus view" by economists is not that much of a "consensus" after a
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by shaqbert 10y ago
They are growing fast. They have decent margins. But where is the sustainable competitive advantage? Can somebody enlighten me?
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by shaqbert 10y ago
The building permit/ titles to land limit really only applies in countries with proper property rights. In a lot of emerging countries, this tech should have a bright future.
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Berliner here.... the sad truth is that most living rooms are dominated by Ikea furniture and are nowhere near like the stylish and classical ensembles presented in the article.
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by shaqbert 10y ago
The country I am coming from does not have this kind of distinction. It just feels that the US system is really unsatisfactory in actually resolving an incident. Is Amit a baddie or not? Who can tell. Here we're in a state of limbo.
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by shaqbert 10y ago
If credible illegal behaviour has happened, why did Google not forward the information to law enforcement? If Amit did do something bad, allowing him to resign makes Google complicit in letting him off the hook scot free. In that case how w
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Don't overanalyze it. It just happens to be excellent science fiction .
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Glancing at that first patent quoted in the article makes you think the patent office follows a "first at the goalpost" strategy of awarding patent protection, and ignoring ingenuity. To think that this patent gets the same kind o
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Prior to world war I, the economy was pretty globalized and numerous e.g. german companies had a big US presence, and vice versa. Trade did not prevent a war then...
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Why don't get is why there is so little discussion of systematic governance system shortcomings in the US. Gerrymandering, a primary system empowering extreme positions, the role of money in politics, the extreme level of noise and lac
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Anyone surprised that they'd eventually be profitable? Being the largest hospitality company in the world without holding any assets ... how could anybody ever have been doubting in the first place. The real question is rather if they
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by shaqbert 10y ago
What hypocrisy to even consider bypassing the parliament in the first place. Thank god the Surpeme Court still stands up for the Parliamentary supremacy [1]. Have a non-binding referendum and then the government bypassing the parliament alt
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Xiaomi turns out to not have a big moat. And run on extremely thin margins. Top line growth has been flat. And the writing on the wall is that we might be seeing revenue contraction ahead. I wonder what their private market valuation is doi
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Unbelievable that there is no way to access the global object cross-platform yet...
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by shaqbert 10y ago
So Hillary ran on WP... no wonder she lost :) Sorry, just trolling you.
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by shaqbert 10y ago
The "nudge" effect has had significant positive results [1] where it got introduced. It basically is the difference between a many year organ waiting list and getting a rapid transplant. [1] http://bmcmedicine.biomedcen

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