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by wazoox 5y ago
Exactly. See the damning presentation from Steve Keen for OECD in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtKW3OK2_lk From this cycle : https://www.oecd.org/naec/averting-systemic-collapse/
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by wazoox 5y ago
Amusingly, there's one real PSR-60 that someone abandoned in the trash shed in my residence. It's been there for a week, I think I'll grab it and see if something still works in there.
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by wazoox 5y ago
I don't think so. Most vehicles have virtually no braking power with the engine off. It's definitely completely forbidden in France to tow with a rope, and I'm pretty sure this applies to all or at least most of UE too. In Ge
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by wazoox 5y ago
Plus in Europe it's forbidden to tow with a rope like he does. You must use a rigid link, like a bar or a tube.
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by wazoox 5y ago
Well the SID has a powerful resonating filter, this one has no filter at all. It's a bit like using a banjo instead of a Les Paul...
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by wazoox 5y ago
It can happen at smaller scale in small companies, too. In my first serious job, when the CEO left after a merge his assistant/secretary was left behind but with nothing to do, and was forgotten. At some point someone realised that she
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by wazoox 5y ago
More on the Energiewende fiasco: https://www.bundesrechnungshof.de/en/audit-reports/products/...
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by wazoox 5y ago
You know the Chinese successfully built and run 2 EPRs already, right?
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by wazoox 5y ago
Yeah, and they didn't do much to reduce their CO2 emissions. They even brought a new pipeline online (NordStream2) to get more gas (because sometimes there's no sun or no wind). What counts for climate is absolute emissions, you k
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by wazoox 5y ago
Renewable can't provide energy on demand. They work only as long as you have an equivalent alternate source for times with no wind or no sun. A grid running 100% on renewables isn't physically feasible, or at a prohibitively expen
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by wazoox 5y ago
The reasons are political, and German meddling isn't exactly innocent in this matter. Wind turbines are MASSIVELY subsidized and are actually an elaborate form of scam against taxpayer money; plus EDF has been coerced into selling its
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by wazoox 5y ago
Nuclear is vastly more efficient than wind and solar, requiring much less copper, concrete, and ground space for the same amount of available energy. Plus this is entirely controllable production, requiring only minimal hydro power for prod
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by wazoox 5y ago
A couple of tools that may be useful: Macs use a different UTF8 encoding for file names, that causes all sort of weirdness when sharing files with Linux / Windows machines, so I've made a tool to convert these: https://
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by wazoox 5y ago
But Dropbox, Github, Google photos etc rely on massive piles of hard drives.
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by wazoox 5y ago
The 1TB Barracuda ES.2 was hardly better. Around 2009-2010, I've set up 3000 of them. 1800 had to be replaced under warranty. After that we switched to HGST and never looked back. For the thousands of Helium HGST/WD drives I'
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by wazoox 5y ago
Stay alert, then. Software patents went close to become real in 2002, and come back regularly since then, pushed by a variety of lobbies and particularly large US software houses (Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, IBM and friends). So far they&#x27
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by wazoox 5y ago
Ow shame on me, my calculator was in hexadecimal :)
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by wazoox 5y ago
I run 5 km every day though.
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by wazoox 5y ago
I've just made the calculation. I eat about 60g of chocolate a day. That's 83kg per year. Mostly Villars 72% and Lindt 78% but I may do with lesser 70% cocoa ones if necessary...
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by wazoox 5y ago
They were patching the Voyager probes in-flight more than 40 years ago :)
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by wazoox 5y ago
Cape Bojador prevented travelling north to south for centuries, but south to north maybe not so much.
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by wazoox 5y ago
Want to be a psychic? Learn simple magician tricks. For instance, by looking at someone's belt, you can immediately tell if they're right-handed or left-handed.
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by wazoox 5y ago
Can syncthing scale up to a couple petabytes? So far I'm using rsync, that scales, but is sloooow.
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by wazoox 5y ago
It still works on relatively modern drives. If the spindle or actuator arm is stuck, hitting the drive on its side (for instance by hitting a table with it) can free stuck movable parts. Worked well well into the 500GB era.
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by wazoox 5y ago
That may be the one. I've read about this years ago in a book about forsaken people and shipwrecks, I'll have to dig out the book :)
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by wazoox 5y ago
"Elite"? You mean kleptocratic oligarchy, right? Or robber plutocracy, maybe?
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by wazoox 5y ago
The worst story of a forsaken man I've read is a guy who found himself all alone for several years during the 18th century, completely naked, on a sand bank in the Pacific (with not a single plant). He survived by eating turtles and se
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by wazoox 6y ago
TL,DR: What are the problems to solve for efficient CC? Answer that's missing in the article: CO2 is one of the stablest elements in the atmosphere. Removing it will require humongous amounts of energy (as a rule of the thumb, more ene
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by wazoox 6y ago
Who knows. They plan to shut them off so quickly it may not even be possible to build the necessary gas plants (of course they promised to replace them "mostly" with solar and wind, which is a complete joke and would require at le
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by wazoox 6y ago
Case in point, countless relatives calling "I have a virus on my computer!" because they have a Windows-XP popup on a website "you have a virus" (they are on Windows 10, or Mac OS).

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