Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 3d ago
>China still produced only 11% of electricity from solar, Germany 18%, so in this metric Germany is better I think it's more interesting to compare actual production in this case. Here is a truly mindblowing statistic: China's
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by Kon5ole 4d ago
>Cheap solar, yes you can now buy PV quite cheap. This is what matters. >How much of this costs (research, developmemt, building large factories in China) was payed by German EEG money and different subsidies? This doesn't matter
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by Kon5ole 4d ago
You're absolutely correct that oil and gas extraction activities need to be properly decommissioned, and that is expensive. But that's a separate activity from shutting down electric power plants. Oil rigs will continue to operate
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by Kon5ole 4d ago
We have developed cheap glass that can be mass produced and sucks electricity from sunshine, can be placed on already occupied surfaces to produce 100x more electricity than we are currently consuming. It requires basically no maintenance o
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by Kon5ole 4d ago
>Nuclear power plant after removal of nuclear fuel and decontamination is inert as abandoned fossil plant. The site itself sure, but the "removal" just moves the remaining cost somewhere else, it doesn't /re/move
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by Kon5ole 5d ago
True enough but there's an order of magnitude difference in those costs. For nuclear the costs extend beyond out ability to predict the future, and they simply can't be ignored whatever they amount to. A fossil plant can simply be
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by Kon5ole 5d ago
That chart needs a companion chart showing “amount of effort needed to prevent deaths”. Since that is missing lots of people think nuclear is safe when it’s actually by far the most dangerous.
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by Kon5ole 5d ago
> Solar and wind are fine but they’re not usable as a replacement for nuclear without huge battery installations which make the cost worse than nuclear. I don’t think that’s been true for some time now, batteries have fallen in price ver
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by Kon5ole 5d ago
Remarkably they are planning even higher electricity use from centers in Sweden, up to 3.5GW. They also have significant centers in Norway. They are going to consume a significant fraction of Scandinavia's total electricity production
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by Kon5ole 9d ago
>Fifty, maybe a hundred violinists in the entire world do earn a pure living. This has to be off by at least two orders of magnitude. The Reykjavik symphonic orchestra in Iceland alone employs some 30 full time violinists. The nation&#x2
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by Kon5ole 10d ago
If you think the buffalo hat guy was a coup attempt, fine - I have no interest in defending Trump. I just wanted to highlight a common bubble-truth that turned out to not be as true as many think. You may be convinced he tried a coup, but d
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by Kon5ole 10d ago
>For the actual reality, Harris was a public prosecutor - essentially a police officer's best friend. That's not helpful though, as she also made multiple public expressions of support for the defund movement, the protests-turn
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by Kon5ole 11d ago
>nothing was "faked", the footage shown was of things Trump actually said Of course he said the words, but not together as the sentence the BBC reported. The meaning was faked. What the BBC did here was literally equivalent to
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by Kon5ole 11d ago
>despite literally attempting a putsch To me it never made any sense. The buffalo hat guys clearly had no greater plan, and the BBC actually had to apologize for faking a clip to make it seem Trump ordered it. https://www.tele
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by Kon5ole 11d ago
>The votes in 2024 demonstrate that the average American is either proudly ignorant of the actual policies they're choosing That's a simplistic take. Trump had less than 50% of the popular vote even though his opponent was clea
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by Kon5ole 12d ago
>We will not trust the US again any time soon That's a high horse you're sitting on there! When your nation voted poorly last time you picked a homicidal maniac who killed people in death factories. Americans helped you then, a
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by Kon5ole 13d ago
The flip side to ai doing your stuff in 1/10 the time is that you can now do 10x more. Even things you couldn’t do at all, in fact. I find that very motivating. I can do things alone that would have required a team only one year ago.
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by Kon5ole 14d ago
All the things you mention also apply if the company is Norwegian, and then you can also tax the profit. So there is no benefit here, only downsides. By having this policy, the country not only loses all the money they could get from taxes
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by Kon5ole 16d ago
>why is Omarchy getting funding that's more in line with a distro that already has its own infrastructure? A few reasons spring to mind but I'll focus on the one I care about: It's damn good. I've used Linux for over
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by Kon5ole 17d ago
It's unethical to make a million by controlling a drug someone needs to survive or bribing politicians. But it's not unethical to make a billion by writing a popular app, website, book, movie or performing songs. So the amount is
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by Kon5ole 17d ago
>Now no one has to worry about those people using their money to command Norway's significant resources to implement their stupid ideas It doesn't though. It only prevents people who actually live in Norway from implementing &q
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by Kon5ole 17d ago
That again forces someone to get rid of their creation when it gets successful, which I can't get behind. I like the idea of taxing personal loans where shares are used as security. That seems to be the main loophole for getting tax-fr
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by Kon5ole 17d ago
This is what can happen: You start a co and have a million shares. Some guy buys a share for a thousand bucks, which means you get classified as a billionaire. Then the state says "Hey pay us ten million of that billion". When you
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by Kon5ole 17d ago
>Perhaps by realizing a portion of the gains and handing over the resulting wealth? That means the state forces you to sell your company if people start to believe in it. Why can't they instead tax you once you do realize the gains
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by Kon5ole 17d ago
Magazines all over the world talk about the wealth of business owners as if it is equivalent to the wealth of say sports stars or musicians, who get paid millions to their bank accounts. Forbes and other finance magazines create top lists a
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by Kon5ole 22d ago
I couldn't believe it either because it seemed so expensive! EU based colleague got a high-ish end japanese unit (purhased and professionally installed with over 20% VAT on parts and labour) for less than that. The devices can be had f
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by Kon5ole 24d ago
You are correct but there must surely be good modern books too. Problem is finding them. Could also be an unavoidable effect from reading many books I guess, the more you read the harder the competition is for the next book.
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by Kon5ole 25d ago
This used to be true because most published books were well written. I don't think that's true anymore. Too much noise and too little signal so to speak. I feel a growing trend where books read like the author's main inspirat
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by Kon5ole 26d ago
I also like them so I can mention some things that spring to mind: - Some are very good tools that have no clear GUI superiors. Vim, Emacs, Mc for example. GUI wrappers over these don't make them better. - Efficient, meaning fast and l
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by Kon5ole 26d ago
The aggressive headline is a hook which is what bloggers have to do I guess, but it doesn't need to be polarizing. The argument boils down to "If you made a TUI only because making a native app is hard, then LLM's fix that fo

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