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Re:Saskatchewan, Ontario to roll out mini-nuclear reactors on Thursday July 14, 2022 @04:59AM (#32093668)
Considering those produce 20-25% (at random) of time, are you adding he cost of storage to this?
"It's now actually cheaper to build wind/solar + some sort of storage"

[citation required]

looking at last EIA report renewables + storage is still multiples of nuclear

Re:Back-end languages are coming to the front-end on Thursday February 10, 2022 @08:37AM (#30285768)
Would love to see Kotlin (more) on the frontend

Its a nice language all around on backend (and i suppose mobile, but i wouldnt know) thats a pleasure to code in

I think the recent attack against the Irish health services agency shows the need for something like this

Once you have an EU wide digital identiy+authentication (with multifactor and biometrics and all that) You can then move onto implementing fine grained authorization for people to manage what data various government agencies get and can share

They will probably create a system very similar to what Okta does which is great as it would save 27 countries reinventing the wheel, and one thing about security that is important is not to reinvent the wheel.

Re:The Expanse UI Design on Wednesday May 26, 2021 @05:03AM (#27288047)
You will love the book series then, goes into much more details and is hard to put down, i binge read the lot
Re:Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told on Sunday January 24, 2021 @07:37AM (#25891545)
You are missing the point, Brexit was sold as a "Britania would rule the waves, Singapore on Thames selling into Europe, rah rah" to the public.

However that's not what happened as it was never realistic or possible, and now the 46% of UK goods exports that go to EU27 are in a very tough spot, thousands of businesses and jobs at risk, direct and indirect. Not to say anything of services which are of course not included in tarrif free trade deal UK now has.

anyways purpose of Brexit was not "sovereignity" or whatever other lies were told, the purpose was to distract from decades of mismanagement by political elites in what is a fundamentally undemoratic system (Monarchy with hereditary head of state, vs presidential republic, upper house made of lords vs elected senators, lower house composed of Etonian elites, no constitution, centralisation of power at expense of Scotland, Wales, N. England, well basically everywhere outside the M25)

Re:Intriguing maps that reveal alternate histories on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:42AM (#25057534)
Yep great book quite an interesting read it was.

The article in OP has a link to such a map too.

Re:A half-hour to learn Rust on Saturday February 29, 2020 @06:48AM (#22450133)
Very nice! first impressions is that it is very similar to Kotlin which i love working in, seems modern languages are converging on common set of niceties
Re:New York on track to ban cashless stores and restaurants on Friday January 24, 2020 @06:51AM (#22137290)
Why the sarcasm? Here in Ireland a major bank was down for several days because contractor of bank located in India screwed up a production deployment or something, resulting in hundreds of thousands of transactions having to be manually reconciled.

In that time people had no access to their money, no tap and pay, chip and pin etc, nothing.

That was quite a lesson in importance of cash, another lesson was about a dozen years ago when all the banks here went to the wall and had to be nationalised in order prevent bank runs.

Re:The SpaceX Starship is a big deal on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:43PM (#21400388)
It will not

* that good black chernozem soul which makes up the Russian breadbasket would turn into desert in south of this region, while in the north the soil is too poor

* mass forest fires would choke the air

* melting permafrost would destroy existing badly maintained infrastructure and cities

If Russia is hoping for positives out of climate change they are in for a surprise

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/oct/08/we-good...

"'We good now China?' South Park creators issue mock apology after show reportedly censored"

Well all publicity is good publicity, fair play to them for standing up to their principles

Literally fake news, the state of Science and engineering in Russia is dire, the generation that was brought up under excellent Soviet schooling is dying off or retiring (keep in mind male life expectancy in Russia is on par with Africa).

The people who designed, built and maintained their advanced technology are dying off and there is only a trickle to replace them, anyone with an advanced degree and experience tries to get the hell out of that country for a better life.

I be very worried about nuclear meltdowns in coming years as there are still Chernobyl class plants running and are crumbling.

Re:Dyson to build electric cars in Singapore on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:00AM (#18283412)
And few days after this: "Singapore, EU ink landmark free trade agreement"

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/singapore-eu-i...

There seems to be a push lately in UK media of running newstories about "making Britain Great again", just last week we had a story about a new spaceport, this week there is stories without source about EU caving in to all brexiteer demands and so on

All while the country is teetering on edge and could drag down its neighbours into another recession (selfmade this time), the NHS and local authorities remain in crisis, pound is weakening and inflation keeps going up.

It sucks being stuck sort of speak between 2 of your good neighbours undergoing a mental breakdown and self harming

Re:Zuckerberg Takes Steps to Calm Facebook Employees on Monday March 26, 2018 @10:22AM (#16679092)
Whatabout a semi-private German entity?
Re:Britain expels Russian diplomats over poisoning of ex-spy on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @11:51AM (#16585628)
This is what is going to happen

Russia will blame everyone and use the usual whataboutism arguments, we already had Russian ambassador on CNN yesterday trying to float conspiracy theory that US done it because Russia destroyed all their chemical weapons and US has not (i kid you not)

Sanctions will be announced by western countries, but not implemented (whatever dirt they have on Trump must be good)

Everyone will forget and move on

Few years later proof will be found, but by that stage no one will care, case in hand Russian antiaircraft technology "falling" into rebel hands and shooting down a passenger plane a few years ago.

Re:Britain expels Russian diplomats over poisoning of ex-spy on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @11:28AM (#16585415)
You know what makes zero sense? shooting passenger airplanes out of the sky, but here we are...
Re:Is democracy dying? on Sunday March 04, 2018 @05:20AM (#16514094)
The point I am trying to make is that the US is not oscillating happily between left and right as the OP claims, but is veering further and further into authoritarian right territory.

I doubt many people in US would like their country to become a "shithole country" to quote their current president, but yet here we are watching history unfold

Re:Is democracy dying? on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:52AM (#16514002)
Sorry to break it to you buy Democrats are not left, if anything they are center right by western European standards, the Republicans on the other hand are going right off the cliff https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/03/politics/trump-maralago-remar...

aside: Last time Europe had politics like above it ended badly for millions of people worldwide, except this time nuclear weapons abound

Re:Russia's Putin reveals 'invincible' nuclear weapons on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:59AM (#16492980)
Just 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16470788

Is that a good enough response for you? Does it make you happy that Putin decided to tear up treaties banning intermediate range missiles and start a new arms race?

Re:Russia's Putin reveals 'invincible' nuclear weapons on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:33AM (#16492267)
You are welcome to move yourself and your family to Russia or NK and tell us all about how you get on..
Re:Russia's Putin reveals 'invincible' nuclear weapons on Thursday March 01, 2018 @09:32AM (#16492261)
We were not, these weapons (and medium range missiles) were banned under treaties, but Russia tore this up.
Wikileaks sort of lost all credibility the moment they decided to become a tool for Putin and Co
Re:The Bitcoin bubble – Greater fool theory on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:14AM (#15663037)
> The problem is that it has potential to change world for the worse, not the better.

Points at Facebook/Twitter and Trump+Russia abuse of this tech

Re:Early Facebook Employees Regret the Monster They Created on Sunday October 15, 2017 @10:44AM (#15477302)
> Facebook released numbers

There is a problem right there, if there was state funded/directed interference in US elections then Facebook have every incentive to downplay and hide this.