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Nope. There are other alternatives, and grid scale batteries are viable now. Just cheaper to burn gas/coal and fsck the future! The obvious alternative is pumped hydro, that is well established.…

Because France was desperate to have its own nuclear weapons. It was not economic for them either (tho back in the day it displaced coal - try having a coal plant next door)

Pie in the sky when you die....

Golly. I almost never log in to any of those services. Am I missing out? Yikes. Self doubt starts, gnawing at me....

Who is saying that being a smart engineer makes it OK? But at least they are a smart engineer, unlike <some one else I do not know about>

chur

How is it possible that the USA can be so rich, and so poor at the same time? How can any body sleep at night?

It really should be. Single people on the minimum wage would do very well. Maybe save? What is wrong with that?

Hence minimum wage workers are homeless

"calling out the people at the very bottom for their lavish lifestyles / demands" A room of one's own is a lavish demand? Yes.

No. It is a problem with the pay.

We have the opposite here (Otago, Aotearoa). I friend and neighbour of mine, on completing their nurses training, went to work at the local prison. The medical care they dispensed there was far above …

"HTTP and Rest-like API have been able to handle properly simple CRUD API since 20 years without problems, way before gRPC was even a thing." There is the problem. "Twenty years old? …

What could possibly go wrong with that?

There is no known way to store anything safely for ~100,000 years like what the most problematic nuclear waste (and some parts of reactors, IIRC) have to be stored. It is a small amount, but a insolu…

You can train uBlockOrigin to block them. A bit fiddly, and for every site, but that is my habit so I do not have to click 'accept'.

What nonsense! Copying something is reproducing it. If it cannot be copied then it cannot be reproduced. If it can be copied then it can be investigated. I ran into exactly this problem with: Wh…

Fair enough It missed (IIRC) Russ Roberts What ever Alan Greenspan is frightening enough on his own

Very powerful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_influenced_by_A... …

The intellectual pretzelism of this position is breath taking. I have been reading up on these people and the belief is that only those who oppose welfare and taxation are morally OK to take it. I wil…

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand#Later_years "after her initial objections, she allowed social worker Evva Pryor, an employee of her attorney, to enroll her in S…

“the government has no wealth of its own…. It can only redistribute the wealth of others.” Not only hypocrisy but also economic illiteracy. Money != Wealth. How terrifying that people like this get s…

This is why publishing code and data, together, is so important. Irreproducibile results in computing have no justification in this day and age.

" 'No, this is fine, but...' And I send out pseudocode, or — I'm so used to sending out patches that I sometimes edit patches and send out the patch without having ever compiled it…

Really this is stating the obvious. The social problem at step 6, 7, and 8 is a social and economic one. Having the time, resources, and skill to do a job properly is very important. But there are …

Lybia too the result of foreign interference. Europe and USA

"The internet has shown that most people are very very stupid." A extremely elitist and arrogant comment. Where is your evidence?