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by stu432 4y ago
Pretty sure the pricing mechanism was cooked up by economists to encourage investment into renewables who will be making stonking profits right now. Unlike gas plants...
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by stu432 4y ago
This is a good read that explains a lot of how the market works https://www.politico.eu/article/why-europes-electricity-is-s... . Basically to enable recouping investments in primarily wind/solar since they have no
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by stu432 4y ago
Wholesale rates aren't fixed. I think you may be referring to where the government has invested a significant amount into a power station and so agrees a strike price/contract for difference setup for an agreed number of years, wh
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by stu432 4y ago
Clearly he wants to return to pre-industrial times, with no plastics, no medicines and no fertilizer. Taking role-playing to the next level.
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by stu432 4y ago
I'm pretty sure the end state here is that you just have a car-as-a-service. Now you can use the same car for someone who wants premium as someone who wants basic. After all, you will own nothing and be happy.
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by stu432 5y ago
Alcohol abuse is rampant in the well to do classes as well, they just buy better stuff that won't kill you as quickly. See Boris Johnson.
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by stu432 5y ago
If it couldn't it's a terribly run company. Bus factor can strike at any time.
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by stu432 5y ago
The UK, like the US has pronounced wage differences between regions, but unlike the US we're all in the same timezone. As a result you now get significantly better London wages being offered to northern workers, combined with the clust
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by stu432 6y ago
In the UK, furloughed workers can take other jobs without affecting their payments. The Land Army drive to fill in for normal seasonal workers failed heavily to get 80k signed up despite millions literally sitting at home twiddling thumbs.
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by stu432 7y ago
Unless all the scientists do is theorectical work, you're going to need a lot more than that to pay for equipment, materials and other resources required to actually do some experiments, develop poc's etc.
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by stu432 7y ago
If you think the raise of pension age is a one-time event, I think you'll be sorely disappointed.
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by stu432 7y ago
A ten person startup, turning over 50 million, with a few million of profit??? Where do I sign up?
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by stu432 8y ago
These aren't consumer refrigerators, these are industrial refrigerators, most likely exposed to the internet intentionally for remote monitoring purposes by sysadmins who should know better.
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by stu432 8y ago
No credence is given to climate change deniers, credence is given to the economy, jobs and bribes (in reverse order).
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by stu432 8y ago
Don't get hung up on the investors, aside from the f&f's class (who should know better to never lend money you can't afford to lose). Most investors know the risks, spread it appropriately and get tax advantages so that a
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by stu432 8y ago
Well yeah, they only got the license to get their hands on the bailout money [1]. They must think they're going to make some serious money off this, as they had no real appetite to get into retail any other way. [1] https://
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by stu432 8y ago
Good idea, but I think a boutique store claiming lots of cash based transactions would send alarm bells ringing. Buying an $8k chanel handbag in cash would be very unusual.
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by stu432 8y ago
Easter Island mk2!
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by stu432 9y ago
Not even close.
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by stu432 9y ago
So do literally millions of other companies. Your face (and mine) are stored for weeks/months, maybe even years, on CCTV systems globally without consent, documenting where you've been, what you've done, who you're with
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by stu432 9y ago
Yes, I would, and then I'd pay for an army to go shut down my competitors because there's no government to stop me and then 10x my profits.
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by stu432 9y ago
I mean, not really, theres no magic in Postgres' implementation of the pattern. They even spell it out for you: "can be useful in various scenarios, such as rows with many attributes that are rarely examined" They are query
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by stu432 9y ago
Ha, the United States who forces globalisation for everyone else but can't handle it themselves!
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by stu432 9y ago
For the majority of use cases, involving relatively static workloads, the cloud doesn't offer many financial benefits, as you say, particularly if you have access to a competent infrastructure engineer (which are harder to find than yo
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by stu432 9y ago
Because to benefit from an electric car you don't need to care if the stock is overvalued or volatile. To benefit from crypto as a currency, you kind of need to not lose your life savings in the space of an afternoon due to volatility.
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by stu432 9y ago
I'll just leave this here... https://primitivetechnology.wordpress.com