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by wcoenen 3y ago
When you accept Paypal payments, you are accepting credit card payments. Credit card payments can easily be reversed. For the payer this is a feature, and for the payee this is a risk. So this doesn't sound like a Paypal-specific issue
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> eliminating sectors of emissions will make room in the ETS system for more essential uses I'm worried it might make room for less essential uses. Each buyer removed from the market, lowers the market price. So it will bring ba
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by wcoenen 3y ago
Flights within the European Economic Area are already subject to the EU ETS[1], so banning certain flights may not have the intended effect of lowering emissions. It will just free up emission rights for other emitters. [1] https:/&#x
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by wcoenen 3y ago
I'm not sure whether it does what you want, but Windows has "Windows Sandbox": https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> As far as I can tell the limit also disappears if you apply the necessary KYC procedures The proposed rules are not about limiting transaction size. They are about enforcing traceability for transactions above a certain size.
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> hard to imagine a faster way to make Earth uninhabitable Manufacturing lots of SF6 (sulphur hexafluoride) might do the trick. 22800x more greenhouse potential than CO2 per unit mass.
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by wcoenen 3y ago
I am not from the US and I didn't downvote, but my understanding is that your congress needs to approve spending twice: first they vote for laws that require a budget to implement, and then later when the money is actually needed (but
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by wcoenen 3y ago
Their alarm was playing a random song from a playlist. One of those songs happened to have the utterance "stop" near the beginning of the song. Seems a bit much to expect users to review their entire playlist for anything that cou
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by wcoenen 3y ago
I'm not seeing any such trend at trends.google.com: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US-UT&q=VPN&hl=...
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by wcoenen 3y ago
List of sunken nuclear submarines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sunken_nuclear_submari... Edit: none of these seem to be "missing". I think they meant that there are a number of unrecovered (in some
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by wcoenen 3y ago
> If it’s a high ionization and still on the planet that seems unlikely to be habitable as we know it "habitable as we know it" is already ruled out by the 430 degree Celsius surface temperature of the planet that was mention
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IBM to Pause Hiring for Jobs That AI Could Do(bloomberg.com)
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by wcoenen 4y ago
I feel that it is wrong to conflate "ground source heat pump" with "geothermal". Ground source heat pumps use the soil or ground water as a low temperature mass to draw heat from. Surface soil follows air temperature, wi
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Interesting. The EU already includes aviation emissions in the ETS (cap and trade scheme, current market price about €90/tonne). It's not clear to me why they're adding this other type of measure.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Which app is this? The ones I've tried either charge a card for actual usage, or do a monthly direct debit.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
That's just the "pre-authorization" on your card. It gets released again when you end the charging session, minus the charging cost for the kWh you used. Same thing as gas stations where you use your card before using the fue
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by wcoenen 4y ago
That's because chatgpt doesn't have the ability to retrieve PDFs from the internet. (Unless maybe if you have early access to the version with plugins?) Bing chat does have the ability to read opened PDFs when used from the Edge s
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> if we implanted (with a futuristic tech) cones that can see ultraviolet? The information also needs to make it from the retina to the brain. Surprisingly, there are no separate red/green/blue channels for the different cone
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by wcoenen 4y ago
The cheap EVs aren't here yet, but the technology has the potential to eventually become cheaper than ICE. 30% of EV cost is currently in the battery, and this will drop.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
The news is always going to look worse than personal experience because of the selection effect: the worst events make the news. If you look at the news from 15 years ago, it didn't look any better: https://www.theguardian.c
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by wcoenen 4y ago
I tested the most common frequency reported with a tone generator app, and 8000 Hz indeed seems to match my tinnitus. More surprisingly though, the tinnitus _also_ disappears (but only for about 10 to 20 seconds) when I stop the tone genera
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> Why don't they just measure it month-to-month Because there are seasonal variations, e.g. gasoline tends to be a bit more expensive in summer in the USA https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/gasoline/pric
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by wcoenen 4y ago
> I've seen zero reference to any technology that would abstract and wield concepts. ChatGPT (and I assume other LLMs as well) uses an embeddings layer. This is how it can translate concepts between domains. It is working with abs
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by wcoenen 4y ago
There is probably still a limit, because you need to breath fresh air. A human breathes at about 6 liter/minute. In terms of mass and converting to seconds, that's 0.1293 gram/second. Heat capacity of air is 0.7 Joules per gr
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by wcoenen 4y ago
It has been considered to sequester CO2 at Antarctica by just cooling the air a bit more (e.g. with a few gigawatt of wind farms), and keeping the solid CO2 in a "CO2 landfill". https://earthtechling.com/2015/
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by wcoenen 4y ago
I don't know the answer, but this is known as a "uniform-price auction", as opposed to "pay-as-bid auction". There is a lot of literature on the subject. For electricity markets, things are complicated by the finite
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by wcoenen 4y ago
With the information we had at the time, blackouts and rationing were definitely in the cards. The price action on the TTF gas futures says it all.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
Yes, that was unrelated to the FCC. It was just something that popped into my mind as an example of something that was orders of magnitudes more problematic than a starlink re-entry.
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by wcoenen 4y ago
The FCC is the relevant regulator. Starlinks are designed to burn up completely[1]. We've come a long way since the days of nuclear reactor re-entry[2] oopsies. [1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/spacex-claims-to-have-redesi
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by wcoenen 4y ago
We are the horses in this analogy...

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