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by zajio1am 5y ago
That is an interesting note, but an effect is small: Heating 1 l of water by 20 degC requires 84 kJ, while suggested daily daily energy intake is ~8 MJ, so ~1 %.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Is this really that unusual? Bank i use offers international payments for fixed fee (~8 EUR) for many years.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Even the page with Mozilla VPN is an ad, although first-party and not third party.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
... if you don't charge generation and transmission inefficiencies against it. Well yes. Statement 'efficiency of X' generally means 'useful work of X / relevant energy input into X on X boundary', not includin
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Also Europeans have not only reacted because they relate to Ukrainians, Russia has become a direct military threat to Europe Not only a direct threat, but also a recent history (Poland 1939, Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968 and others
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by zajio1am 5y ago
AFAIK it was not international treaty, just political agreement not ratified by signing countries.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Resistive heat (like a light bulb or space heater) is terribly inefficient. Resistive heat has efficiency ~1. That is better that almost any other heating source with exception of heat pumps and cogeneration. If we consider visible lig
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> A nation should be ruled from their own land and by their own people Leftists sometimes consider nationalism 'good' when it is nationalism of a small nation against an imperium (or minority ethnicity against a nation state),
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> That policy is particular to your bank. Anyone who knows my account number and has access to ACH can drain my account. That is unimaginable to me. Here (Czechia), banks require explicit confirmation of direct debit transfers (limit for
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by zajio1am 5y ago
One thing i really do not like on GNU Taler is separate customer and merchant accounts with restriction of receiving money for merchant account only. In contrast to banking, where one has an account that works pretty much the same regardles
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Well, the general argument for patents is that before patent law, people just keep developed techniques secret, which slowed scientific progress even more, while patent process at least requires public disclosure.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> criticism of storage solutions are not about endangered desert lizard species, but about radiation spikes in elementary school Note that storage solution for radioactive waste is necessary even without nuclear reactors, as there are pl
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> and that was also when the Atomausstieg was sealed by the new Schröder government which had the Greens in the coalition And after that, Schröder got his deserved chair on Nordstream AG and later Rosneft and Gazprom.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
That is problematic. Small, independent, high human-capital companies are best antidote to authoritarian leaders supported by oligarchs and natural resource extraction. If western sanctions selectively restrict the first ones, while keep bu
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> The problem is not having specific (major) versions of old libraries in the new OS. If you manage to install them, they will work - this is difficult in most distributions. My experience was that often it is the opposite problem. Games
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Well, significant part of Europe was on the eastern side of the iron curtain, getting gas from Russia. And note that in the past, home heating with coal (which is available locally) was common. We gradually moved from coal to gas for heati
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Why? It seems like simple, reliable and trivial. It is not hacky, it is essentially how stateful outgoing-only firewall is supposed to work for UDP.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> billionaires backing him I think that you misunderstood their relationship. It is less 'billionaires backing him' and more 'billionares who are obedient to him, so they do not end with poisoned briefs'.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Firewall traversal for mediated PtP through basic stateful firewalls is simple - both sides start sending UDP packets to each other and outgoing packets open hole in firewall for incoming packets. The same approach does not work reliably wi
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Small non-profit wireless ISP. In early 2000s, when only affordable alternative was 2.4 GHz wifi, which was already heavily congested and have low throughtput and 100ms latencies under load due to collisions and retransmissions, the 10 Mbps
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by zajio1am 5y ago
We built and used several ones. Much better than 802.11b wifi links in 2.4 GHz, but finicky, pain to align, horrible mechanical design, requires super-stable mast, prone to bad weather, and also stopped to work during dawn/sunset, if t
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Note that there is already another networking project called Liberouter: https://www.liberouter.org/
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Yes, but it is not that Tolkied did not think about origin of orcs, he thought about it but dit not settled on definite answer or changed its ideas during time.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I do not think that it is unreasonable question. I generally assume that authors have more ideas about their fictional worlds and characters than are revelaed in their books. But there is clearly difference between authors about level of th
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by zajio1am 5y ago
UTM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_... with UPS for poles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_polar_stereographic_...
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Well, scrolling by fingers on screen is inconvenient, but e.g. FBReader app allows switching pages using volume up/down buttons.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Depends on whether the /48 is PI (provider-independent) or PA (provider-aggregable). In the case above (LIR gets /29 and splits it to /48s) it is PA, so the /48 is just a part of the provider's address range, you ca
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Generally not in administrative law. Executive authorities (e.g. tax office) make some decision and you can appeal to administrative court, but you have to prove why the decision was bad.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Yes can confirm, in the USSR we had no political polarization. Well, yes. People in concord hated the regime.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I do not know about USSR, but AFAIK at least in Czechoslovakia the communist leaders do not really have big personal property. They have enormous political power and also access to property through their functions (assigned appartments and

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