GissaMittJobb
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- Comment on AT&T's CTO tells his US team there won't be 'one-for-one seating' upon the return to 5 days in office — read the memo 1 day ago:
The quiet part out loud is that this is nothing but a severance-free layoff.
- Comment on If landlords didn’t exist anymore, how would shared flats work? 1 week ago:
To draw a parallel to the problem of health care - in systems of socialized medicine, a health insurer does de-facto exist, so health insurance does not get entirely abolished when switching to socialized medicine. It’s just that the health insurer is now the government, and the system is no longer ran to optimize for extracting money out of the system, but instead to optimize for population-level health.
Similarly, when trying to reform the housing market, landlords don’t fully go away - you can for example imagine a system where the government becomes a very large landlord and optimizes the system for maximum level of ‘people housed’ (or whatever you want to optimize this system for).
There are also various forms of housing cooperatives, where the landlord is a body consisting of all the tenants collectively.
The landlord most people want to be rid of is the rent-seeking kind, which optimizes the system for extracting money.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
Feel free to put money into it if you believe in it. Given nuclear’s track record with regards to actually making money is not particularly strong though, so I wouldn’t advise doing this if you actually want to make a return on your investment.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
It’s also cheaper than solar in many cases. While the upfront investment in reactors is large, the cost per energy produced and ongoing costs are quite low. Lower in many cases than fossil fuels like gas. Plus reactors last longer than solar panels and wind turbines.
Solar + storage is currently at less than half the cost of nuclear, while wind + storage is at a third of the cost: statista.com/…/global-levelized-cost-of-energy-co…
I’m going to work on the assumption that you’re working off old data, because the claims you made are very far from where we’re actually at.
What happened to the idea that renewables didn’t need public funding anymore? If it’s really so cheap as you say that wouldn’t be necessary.
In many cases, public funding is no longer necessary for renewables. That’s why Texas of all places is becoming a wind powerhouse. Energy storage technologies are less mature and still warrant public investment.
Both renewables and storage technologies have something very important in common - they are absolutely plummeting in costs year-over-year, meaning that while nuclear is not competitive on price today, it’s just going to get worse from here on out.
I like to look at Sweden as an example, where the current government is pushing investment in nuclear. Their proposed plan is to:
- Have the public guarantee loans for nuclear construction
- Have the public guarantee a minimum kWh-price for these facilities
Aside from being incredibly expensive for the public, displacing other potential investment whether they be in energy production, other climate initiatives or just investment into the welfare of the population, it also makes private investment into renewables less lucrative and as such less likely to happen. On top of that, it’s being used as an excuse to not grant permits for construction of renewables by aforementioned government.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
That’s a lie.
Not really, no.
Renewables produce more CO2 than Nuclear reactors per unit energy produces.
From what I gather, wind is on par with nuclear. Other renewables have slightly more than either wind or nuclear, but compared to the other nonrenewable alternatives either option is far better.
They can also be significantly more dangerous (higher number of deaths per unit energy) in the case of hydro power or biomass.
You left out that solar and wind are largely on par or safer than nuclear per unit of energy. All of these options are again far safer than other nonrenewables.
Solar and batteries require various rare materials and produce significant pollution when manufactured and must be replaced every 20 or 30 years.
As opposed to the ever so clean extraction and storage of nuclear fuel? Come on.
And all of this leaves out the most important aspect - nuclear is incredibly expensive compared to renewables, and is trending more expensive each year, while renewables are trending in the opposite direction. This means that for the same amount of resources, we will be able to displace more nonrenewables, leading to a net reduction in deaths/emissions pursuing this route as opposed to nuclear.
Of course, I have nothing against fully privately funded nuclear. If private actors can make the economics work under safe conditions, then nuclear construction is an obvious net positive. When they displace public investment in renewables, however, then they are a net negative.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
It’s getting more expensive year over year, while renewables are plummeting in price.
- Comment on Reactor goes brrr 2 weeks ago:
It was a bad call to stop, but now it’s an equally or worse call to start again.
Renewables win on essentially every measure and get better every day while nuclear gets worse every day.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 weeks ago:
Damn, you beat me to it.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 weeks ago:
In Sweden, it’s forbidden by law to be a criminal. Image
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 weeks ago:
Nah, they happen. Just at way, way lower rates than in the U.S.
- Comment on what a moment to live 2 weeks ago:
Drive-by e-scooter shootings have been a thing here in Sweden, which I firmly place in the same cyberpunk bucket.
- Comment on Anon is unimpressed 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Anon is unimpressed 2 weeks ago:
Hide Danish threads, ignore Danish posts, do not reply to Danish posters
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
Don’t do it, friend.
The better investment generally is to invest in index funds anyways, which makes your hands at least a little bit cleaner.
- Comment on Muscle Chart 2 weeks ago:
Muscles hurt when they don’t get used. Strength exercise fixes this, although you will replace it with some level of soreness instead.
Still, it’s worth it
- Comment on It has nothing to do with your right to work 3 weeks ago:
That’s “at-will” though, isn’t it?
- Comment on The Witcher 4 has entered full-scale production, CD Projekt has confirmed 3 weeks ago:
It’s hard work to maintain and develop your own engine.
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
It hit -8 C last week where I am, still a pleasant 20 C inside without having turned the heat on.
I probably get a lot of free heat from my neighbours apartments though, I would guess.
As long as it’s bearable with additional layers on, I’m going to lean towards doing that, as cool bedrooms make for amazing sleep quality.
- Comment on Wait, my body's own heat is enough? Always has been. 3 weeks ago:
Nothing wrong with wood as a construction material. The key factor is the insulation.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
So this was definitely not my experience in the pre-matchmaking era of online multiplayer. Possible case of rose-tinted glasses?
I agree that matchmaking has problems, but going back to what was there before are unlikely to be a net positive I think
- Comment on Quick, break its legs! 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 5 weeks ago:
Imagine the cost of changing the entire road network over to use metric.
Here’s a zero-cost plan to migrate the road network over to metric: have a transition period where signs may be shown in either unit, then require all replacement signs to be shown as metric. Since all signs must eventually be replaced, over a long enough period of time the whole network will become metric without any marginal cost increase.
The only downside is that for a time, people have to understand both units and how they relate to each other.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 5 weeks ago:
Layers - get a good base layer, merino wool is the gold standard for these. You also want to get a neck gaiter, plus some merino wool socks, and some kind of cap. These will keep you warm and dry throughout most cold weather. Add more layers on top when outside, and remember to remove layers proactively if you feel yourself starting to sweat - it’s never a good idea to be wet in cold weather. The base layer will make physical exertion a pretty hot affair quite fast, so you’d be surprised how fast the sweat starts pouring.
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- Comment on END OF NYT TECH GUILD STRIKE 5 weeks ago:
Return without a deal? I’m not sure that’s going to be good for the union long-term.
- Comment on Is it expected to tip for furniture deliveries? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Withdrawal is going to make people go mad 5 weeks ago:
Get yourself a few bottles of caffeine pills. They’re really cheap and might get you through some tough times
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 month ago:
I think global warming as a term is not great, because it fails at communicating the end result of the overall average temperature increase, which is more chaotic weather on account of the increased energy present in the system. Sometimes this will mean temporary local reductions in temperature, and sometimes it will mean unusually cold years in places. Don’t give people the option to use ‘bUt iT’s cOlDeR tHiS yEAr sO hOw cAn gLoBaL wArMiNg bE rEaL’ as an easy argument.
Climate change is the more accurate term, but I do prefer terms that more accurately communicate the severity of the situation, such as the climate crisis, for example.
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 month ago:
So we’ve been going on for a pretty long time about how Florida is basically largely going to get completely lmaoed by climate change, and trying to warn people moving there and so on.
But as time goes on, I’m thinking maybe it’s best if they suffer the consequences of their actions, and let the ocean have this one.
Refugees will of course not be accepted in accordance with the new regime policy either, and FEMA has been fully dissolved.
- Comment on a murder investigation 1 month ago:
Surely it must mean “for those who don’t know”, right?
