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by shaqbert 10y ago
Any mechanism to capture CO2 emissions is a huge win for the environment. What is missing is an assessment of cost. If this is economically feasible at some point in time in the future, then goodbye oil and coal. Open question is how to ens
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by shaqbert 10y ago
I remember my first install. It was glorious, started posting like a madman. At some time - when gaming Google was the thing, say 2008 - had thousands of sites based on WP. Then I had my first major vuln and spend my week-end fighting fires
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Interesting that they are "selling" base revenues. After all total revenues in 2015 were $167m, and base revenues only $137m. The definition of the $30m "missing" revenues seems to indicate that this piece of the busines
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Net loss: Don't think that is a biggie. They expanded their cost base both in R&D, sales & marketing, and general and admin. With a little bit of cost discipline for one year, they are going to be profitable. Voting rights: tha
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Amount of radioactive waste: A couple of tons every year per power plant is realistic. Space dumping is a terrible idea. Expensive and risky. Best storage solution so far found is what we've mostly been doing so far. Just having a seal
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by shaqbert 10y ago
No, its not a subset of fusion problems. Very different problems: Molten salt fission problem = dealing with vast quantities of a highly chemically active salt touching our plumbing directly over 40 to 60 years. Fusion problem = containment
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by shaqbert 10y ago
Nobody designs new boiling water reactors these days. Reactors efficiency increase with temperature, that is why pressurized water is the name of the game - as it can have a much higher boiling point. The higher temperature = better reasoni
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by shaqbert 10y ago
This is not really about micro reactors, but about making the monolith power plant more like a microservice modular thing. So that you can potentially prevent decomissioning after 40 to 60 years and keep it operating much longer. The downsi
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by shaqbert 10y ago
What is wrong with wordpress.com? Is that the best use of funds? Why not put at least 1/10th of that money into just providing a sliver of love to their big breadwinner Wordress VIP?
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by shaqbert 10y ago
So uberuseful. When is something similar coming out in Spanish, German, and French?
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Earth largest solar power plant in Dubai shatters kWh cost record(apricum-group.com)
1 points by shaqbert 10y ago|0 comments
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by shaqbert 11y ago
@johns: who is gonna take care of your awesome community projects? If you need help, let us know. We are using them all the time...
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Setting up a static blog in 9 minutes with Roots and Contentful(contentful.com)
12 points by shaqbert 11y ago|0 comments
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Contentful releases sample apps for iOS/Android(contentful.com)
3 points by shaqbert 12y ago|0 comments