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by wcoenen 3y ago
I keep an eye on the day-ahead market prices (which determine the hourly prices for time of day contracts) here in Belgium. It turns out that the energy price charged by a traditional contract matches the peak price of a typical day, plus a
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Going to space still cannot outrun an exponential function. Extrapolating exponential growth always leads to catastrophe. Imagine the sphere of a civilization expanding in space at some speed, in all directions. The volume of this sphere wo
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I'm not sure the author realized this, but they're actually making a statement about how crazy exponential growth is. Not about the sustainability of tidal power. This becomes obvious once you look closer at what that 2% growth ra
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> this has never happened before; the event takes place in an extremely arid desert This doesn't seem to be true. Just Google something like "burning man mud" and filter to see results from before this year. Example from
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See section "A combination of contributing factors" at https://climate.copernicus.eu/record-breaking-north-atlantic...
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palm-2-l-instruct scores 0.909 on Winogrande few-shot. Where are the symbolic rule systems that get such results? https://github.com/LudwigStumpp/llm-leaderboard/blob/main/RE...
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It was already known that training on code improves performance on all reasoning tasks[1], so this is not really surprising. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.07128
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Parent is talking about China. Note that the number is not pure battery electric vehicles, it includes hybrids. https://cleantechnica.com/2023/08/02/38-plugin-vehicle-marke...
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It's because to avoid damage, the frameless windows need to drop a few millimeter when the door is opened. This doesn't happen when the car has lost all power and the emergency manual door release is used.
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Flemish Dutch is actually full of loan words from French. E.g. a holiday is "congé", a truck is "camion", a trailer is "remorque", a jackhammer is "piqueur", a total loss is "perte totale",
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The EU has a cap and trade system ("EU ETS") for large industrial installations. So as far as I understand, the Poland coal plants are not invisible to the EU. They pay a market price for each ton of CO2 emitted. https:/&#x2
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Fish evolved to swim effectively in water, but the viscosity of water still slows them down. Adapting to deal with a problem isn't the same as completely eliminating the problem.
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It's called "opportunity cost". Companies don't have infinite budgets, so they have to make such decisions.
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You can optimize this with the right electricity contract. Time of day pricing ("dynamisch tarief" in the Netherlands) combined with charging during the cheapest times can make a big difference. And as a bonus to society, you help
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The poverty rate (i.e. proportion people who lack sufficient income for basic needs) of the UK is 18.6%. Still lower than Spain and Italy where it is over 20%. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/poverty-
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> It needs to work with everbody who already have a google account and they need to commit to it for 10 year minimum This already exists. 10 years ago, Google Hangouts was separated from Google+. It is currently accessible through the
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Economics is fundamentally about the allocation of scarce resources. So if we are talking about how human civilization allocates scarce resources (and not about some virtual economy e.g. inside a computer game), then economic growth is very
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From reading the abstract, the study was a randomized controlled trial. As far as I know, that's the best way to show causation. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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> Okay what about buyback programs Already in place. https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/scr...
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Context: expansion of London "ultra low emission zone". https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/ule...
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The article states that Monday was the hottest day in at least 125,000 years.
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I think we are still a long way from "delivered". This is a proposal by the Commission. Next this needs to be approved by the European Parliament and Council. Then the ECB needs to decide on all the details (technical and otherwis
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Also, India. List of anti-satellite tests: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368223169/figure/tb...
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> the distance from the ground to the surface is around 5 millionths The water from aquifers is not just lifted a short distance up to the surface. It is used, ends up in rivers, and spreads around the world's oceans. And the plac
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Price inflation via shrinking packages is not hidden. It is measured and represented in inflation indices like the CPI. https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-12/measuring-shrinkflati...
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Starlink is not available in Algeria: https://www.starlink.com/map Even if it was available, it would have to operate with permission of the ARPCE. So it could be shut down along with all the other internet providers. http
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It's not clear to me what happened after the meter started to smoke. Perhaps it started turning on and off by itself after that point?
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Did you catch the "Belgium" in my comment? Here in the EU, the grid voltage is targeting 230 volt (± 10%). (Either between the two phases in a two phase system, or between phase and neutral in 3 phase systems.) This is specified b
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I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss timerol's point as nonsense. I live in Belgium. I was doing some electrical work in my home recently. On the 29th of May, I noticed two out of three phases were close to 250V instead of the inten
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Note that AH4oFVbPT4f8 said that the claim was that the card was stolen. Evidence from the seller that the item was really shipped is not going to matter in such cases. So I don't think this is specific to Paypal or Ebay.

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