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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The point is that 'digging holes in the ground' isn't inherently more secure than making sure that you can import fuel from other countries. Both involve a certain amount of risk and uncertainty. Both require preparation and
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
EDF is certainly run by state apparatchiks, but it's hard to argue that they haven't done a pretty good job making electricity available cheaply and plentifully to French consumers.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Do you think that Qatar, UAE, Saudi and Iran are going to stop exporting natural gas imminently?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I've been to Macedonia, Poland and Hungary and I agree with everything said and implied about those countries in the GP. It is not necessary to travel to Poland or Hungary to be aware that the populist governments of these countries ha
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
It's not about corruption, it's about illiberalism.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Sterling is an anomalously strong and major currency given the UK's size and wealth.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Many republics have a president who is formally appointed, does not have any direct political power, and who often no one has heard of. France and the United States are the notable exceptions where the president is more important than the p
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I think this way of thinking is trapped in the past. The reality of atmospheric carbon is that we have to get rid of it or face mass extinction. Trying to build some nostalgic idea of a untouched ecosystem in tune with 'nature' is
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Having huge forests full of trees and barren of much else is great if it allows us to protect other more interesting ecosystems. And perhaps the best way to create a sustainable ecosystem around the trees is to plant them and see what else
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
In a forest full of large trees, the carbon in the non-tree biomass is a rounding error. If you can pack the trees slightly closer and almost everything else now finds the environment too hostile to survive, it's probably a net win fro
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Why can't you just create oil or coal or similar products?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Why do you care about the forest supporting other life? Isn't the goal just to take carbon out of the atmosphere?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
To provide a concrete example, TFA said that 'product' was a 'concept'. Another concept could be 'part'. Another concept could be 'package'. (You buy a product such as a bookcase. You then go and pick
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
How is Google not a monopoly? Their nearest competitor is probably 10 times smaller.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Statistically a large proportion of those people have spent a decade or more avoiding any work at all while making the most of the free salad. Unlike the Xoogler waves of people who wanted a new challenge and spread Google techniques and ph
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I do not find it hard to sympathize with them; I have a lot of sympathy for them.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I agree with this. The example of 1000s of packages having a transitive dep on a package which left-pads strings looks bad, however the two obvious alternatives to this are: 1. everyone writes their own function to left-pad. As well as bein
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The complete graph on 1400 nodes only has a million edges.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
They are saying that quantum computing is at the stage that classical computing was at when it still relied on vacuum tubes. Not that quantum computing is at the same stage as the vacuum tube industry was at at some unspecified time.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
> In the case of the Internet Bubble stocks were down 78%, but it was not hard to do well in the end given diversification and a long enough horizon. This is untrue. If you were invested in what became the stars of that era: Amazon, Red
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
If someone asks for the median, you supply the median if possible. The assumption underlying the question is that it is difficult to calculate the median. In fact, in this case, it is not difficult. Going back to a professional who has requ
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
The right answer.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Locals have a much lower income than Italy or Switzerland. Thus they are still getting priced out of cities where they have lived a long time. In Warsaw the locals are often priced out by the returning diaspora. See Lebanon, parts of Italy,
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
I'm generally a YIMBY and in favor of housing, but are we really so sure that new housing will solve the problems in cities like Barcelona or Lisbon (where tourists and people coming in attracted by the good quality of life generally h
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This does not solve the problem of filling city centers with huge company logos, adverts, signs for casinos or night clubs.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
There is a whole trolling campaign which has been extremely effective. Lots of small towns in rural US say prayers before their town council meetings. The courts have ruled that this is ok, as long as there is no discrimination between reli
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
How did you know the person was addicted to crack?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines.
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
Are motorcycles somehow cooler than bicycles?
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by wikfwikf 4y ago
This is literally state sponsored bicycle use. What would you suggest that 'state sponsored bicycle sharing' should consist of?

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