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by xorfish 7y ago
You could use a molten salt nuclear reactor to heat the molten salt and use the heat when you need it. Terrestrial Energy will produce such plants commercially in the next 10 years.
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by xorfish 7y ago
Found it: https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-pu... It seems controlled for the same crimes.
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by xorfish 7y ago
Last time I looked it up, law enforcement would treat white women the most lenient, followed by black women. White men are treated a bit worse than black women and of course, black men were treated harsher than the other groups.
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by xorfish 7y ago
http://www.industryventures.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/P... If you add the averages of each category(75x for the last category) in this source, you'll end up with an annualized return of 9.4% ov
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by xorfish 7y ago
Any source for the 20-30% claim? I find that very hard to believe.
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by xorfish 7y ago
What does visible from space mean?
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by xorfish 7y ago
It doesn't become easier to beat the market when you have more than $100 million. Anyone with a couple $1000 can buy cheap etfs or index funds
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by xorfish 7y ago
> which sucks because you have to get a physical card reader (like an actual machine that scans your debit card) in order to use the online banking most of the time Isn't such a device required if you want 2FA and use your phone for
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by xorfish 7y ago
They could have replaced coal with all the new renewable energy sources and thus reduce the CO2 output. But instead they somehow decided it was a good idea to shut down nuclear power plants before they shut down the last coal plant. Per TWh
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by xorfish 7y ago
Performance of GPUs has increased quite well over the last 10 years. Number of Cores on CPUs have also increased. Even if performance didn't improve, that wouldn't make moore's law dead. You might say that Dennard scaling is
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by xorfish 7y ago
It just slowed down a bit. transistor density is still improving logarithmic. Moore's law is about the number of transistors on a chip, not about performance.
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by xorfish 7y ago
Recycle what you can and burn the rest. That is the most ecological solution if it is done by modern standards. It works and is done in most of Europe. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Austria a
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by xorfish 7y ago
You can always just evaporate the water, reducing the amount of water to around 0.5 m^3/s per GWe.
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by xorfish 7y ago
Loudest component will usually be the drives, otherwise something else is to loud.
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by xorfish 7y ago
Part 2 isn't out yet
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by xorfish 7y ago
Isn't the main weapon that China uses in the trade war to lower import duties for competitors of US-companies?
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by xorfish 7y ago
60% is pretty low for PET, Glass isn't recycled perfectly either, but is generally better than PET. In Switzerland 82% of PET is recycled. (Note that this number is the percentage that is really reused. Not the percentage that is colle
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by xorfish 7y ago
It all depends on the local waste management. In most of western Europe, plastic is either recycled or burned in a waste management facility to recycle energy. The impact of plastic bottles is probably lower than for alternatives like glass
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by xorfish 7y ago
> Children as a pension scheme is a very common thing still, but that is fortunately changing. It is still the case, just on a larger scale.
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by xorfish 7y ago
> though a small shareholding in a mature stock is not going to get you very far. Sp500 Average real return is 6.5% per year. So If you invest $1'000 per month, you will be a millionaire in today dollars in 30 years with just over 1
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by xorfish 7y ago
For bottles it is probably the majority. Followed by glas for beer and wine and aluminum cans. For the rest, plastic contains a good amount of energy. You can burn it and recover some energy from it. It also reduces the volume of the waste
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by xorfish 7y ago
> Recycling is a lie for plastics, plastics can not be economically recycled. That is simply not true, just go to most of Europe. In Switzerland 83% of PET bottles get recycled. 0% ends up directly in landfills. https://www.sw
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by xorfish 7y ago
Yes, but the danger is much closer to caffeine than alcohol or tobacco.
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by xorfish 7y ago
So your argument against determinism or non existing free will is that you don't like it if one of them were true? I find that very weak. How does chance add anything to free will? If something is random, how does that add free will?
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by xorfish 7y ago
How do you spend $25'000 on bottled water? Where I'm from it costs 16.5 cents per liter. That includes a 2 cent tax for recycling the PET Bottle. $25'000 is more than you need in several lifetimes. But then again, tab water h
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by xorfish 7y ago
Why would true anti aging medication be expensive? The market is huge, even with cheap medication you'd make a lot of money.
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by xorfish 8y ago
How dangerous are microplastics?
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by xorfish 8y ago
It seems it is legal in the US. Most of the developed world forbids them. In Switzerland there are some exceptions for people who may operate trains or buses, but even then, the test has to be performed by a doctor and the employer only get
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by xorfish 8y ago
Alcohol can be detected in hair for up to 90 days.
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by xorfish 8y ago
How is it possible to detect a dyson sphere? How easy are they to miss?

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