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by xorfish 9y ago
So what do Switzerland, Germany and Iceland better than the rest of the developed nations?
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by xorfish 9y ago
He was also subjected to, well lets say "ethical questionable" experiments at Harvard. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/impromptu-man/201205/ha...
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by xorfish 9y ago
Handling money responsibly is the easiest way to become a millionaire, not inheritance. Upbringing is important and I think children of millionaires are more likely to develop healthy spending habits.
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by xorfish 9y ago
Why do you think a believe in no free will is doing more harm than good? Revenge and feeling good when 'justice' is served are seen in a completly different light if we come to terms with our biology. I think a society that treats
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by xorfish 9y ago
Wouldn't that match this study? Low income Americans driink either a lot or not any coffee at all. High income Americans drink some coffee. So you would expect no coffee consumption and high coffee consumption to correlate with a highe
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by xorfish 9y ago
LastPass is not open source.
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by xorfish 9y ago
They went for around 100$ during summer 2016, now the cheapest DDR4 is around 240$: https://pcpartpicker.com/products/memory/#Z=32768002&sort=pr...
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by xorfish 9y ago
What is the lasting effect of nuclear weapons? Residual radiation and fallout will hardly affect the land if the warhead is detonated high in the air like in Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The fallout relative to the explosion radius is also small
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by xorfish 9y ago
* introduction of direct voting (e.g. reducing complex matters to yes/no decisions) As a Swiss I have to comment on this. First, is this really a right-wing point? Where I vehemently disagree is with the sentiment carried with the &quo
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by xorfish 9y ago
At current energy consumption, Thorium on earth is so able to power the whole planet for 100'000+ years. Solar panels do also need resources to produce...
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by xorfish 9y ago
Thorium is so common that it would be profitable to mine Thorium at nearly any place on earth.
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Solus 3 Released [Linux Distro](solus-project.com)
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by xorfish 9y ago
Freedom of Speech is a principle. It has a value on it's own. I wish more people would see that.
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by xorfish 9y ago
The two most played games on steam have a decent linux port. At this moment they make up nearly 1.3 million concurrent players. The rest of the top 10 games that do not have a linux port accumulate close to 0.7 million concurrent players. F
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by xorfish 9y ago
I have no idea how easy it is to pick up our "national" card game in Switzerland. It is called Jass and you can use a conventional card set and use 6 to Ass of each color. Most common play form is the Schieber where you play a 2 v
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by xorfish 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that conventional reactor split around as much fuel as the U-235 content. For conventional reactors it is around 3% and you are left with around 3% fission products. Natural uranium has around 0.7% U-235. But I0m pretty
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by xorfish 9y ago
The cost wouldn't be trivial for powering a mars colony. I'm sure the demand for a colony would scale pretty fast to 100kW or more. Now we are talking about Billions. So I think that your original point that cost for Pu-238 is not
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by xorfish 9y ago
Enriched uranium has a very high energy density. 20% enriched Uranium would contain 16TJ/kg. So a 4MW u-battery would use around 8kg fuel per year.
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by xorfish 9y ago
Pl-238 is very expensive to produce. We are talking millions/kg.
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by xorfish 9y ago
> They can't build nuclear reactors on Mars! That's why you build them on earth and transport them to mars. There are some small designs such as the 4MW(el) u-battery that are small enough for a transport.
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by xorfish 9y ago
I don't see the advantage of such a system over some form of direct democracy. A right to call for a referendum puts the final say always to the people. So policymakers will need to ask themselves "Can this law pass a popular vote
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by xorfish 9y ago
Correlation does not imply causality...
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by xorfish 9y ago
Ah, I was under the assumption that it is standard practice to have a different key for each machine that you log into.
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by xorfish 9y ago
Is the private key still worth something if the attacker has access to the server?
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by xorfish 10y ago
Another plus is that you can still go to university after a apprenticeship. So you can do something practical before you decide what you will study.
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by xorfish 10y ago
I had startpage as my default search engine for some time. It is pretty slow compared to google and duckduckgo, so I switched to duckduckgo.
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by xorfish 10y ago
So, why has the USA a lower general government spending than Luxemburg or Belgium? You can't predict the general governemnt spending based on the size, population and PPP/capita. The fact remains, Switzerland has an extended welfa
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by xorfish 10y ago
> A population less than 3% the size of the US How does that affect government spending/GDP? > a GDP per capita 50% higher than the US Purchasing power is similar. This means the higher GDP per capita is compensated by higher spe
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by xorfish 10y ago
How can it be that Switzerland has free education, a mandatory health care system and still have a much lower government spending/GDP than the USA?
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by xorfish 10y ago
Yea, I kinda assume a similar system like in Switzerland. I think I can't really explain that system well, so here is a short pdf that explains the options you have in the Swiss education system: http://www.edudoc.ch/st

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