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by SECProto 5d ago
I'd note that south or southeast would work, even southwest might. But East would clearly lead to the Netherlands. (they may also eat better bread there too, I wouldn't know)
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by SECProto 17d ago
I would note that the population increase 2008-present in the EU (340M to 350M) is much lower than the US (305M to 345M), which could account for a rather significant difference too. I don't think either of these is a "smoking gun
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by SECProto 17d ago
> Here's a graph of total freight volume (a proxy for the real physical economy) In 2008, people and businesses were still buying new computers every year or two, printing everything on paper, buying physical media. I don't kno
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by SECProto 19d ago
> And most of them are under 1GW No, almost every one is above 1GW - divide the net capacity by the number under construction to see the power [1]. They appear to be almost all CAP1400 (1.4GW), Hualong One (1.0GW), or CAP1000 (1.0GW). I
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by SECProto 29d ago
> Can anyone defend this? Why would anyone purchase anything from this company ever again? I mean, if you want my personal reason - I assume any company warranty is barely worth the paper it's printed on - I'm very hesitant to
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by SECProto 1mo ago
> US median household wealth is ~$193k Emphasis mine. US median household is 2.53 persons [1]. 193/2.53 = 76k, which is within spitting distance of the 69k per person listed. The wikipedia is median wealth per capita [1] htt
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by SECProto 1mo ago
> Planes still need like half throttle to maintain altitude, Yes, bit less than half, but anyway that is exactly why I said takeoff would be the peak power output. > that’s why airplane engines are rebuilt every few thousand hours vs
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by SECProto 1mo ago
> Those are still mostly dependent on fossil fuels, although they use less. I don't think the word "mostly" belongs in that sentence - "partially" might work. It depends significantly on how far you drive - I kno
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by SECProto 1mo ago
> I'd guess the actual flight time was only 10 of the 27 minutes, 30 kWh used over 10 minutes is 300kW of peak power I would note this line from the press release: > its all-electric propulsion system delivered more than one mega
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by SECProto 1mo ago
Yup, exactly - which is what makes the regulated descriptors (eg "juice") so important!
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by SECProto 1mo ago
> it is impossible in canada to sell swedish meatballs - cant have the onion or breadcrumbs I don't know if that's just an attempt at humour, but it doesn't feel like it, so I'll correct you: that's factually inc
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by SECProto 1mo ago
> it’s unreasonable to spend tax dollars on saving people from that ambiguity I quite appreciate the taxpayer funded regulation of technical terms - I like being able to buy ice cream at the store and know if it's "ice cream&qu
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by SECProto 4mo ago
> The truth is that Canadians simply don't seem all that interested in purchasing American dairy products Yup, taking this a bit off topic: I've always bought dairy products with the blue cow on it (signifies Canadian dairy). T
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by SECProto 5mo ago
> Call it 5kw/h in 1/60 hours, thats 3000kw, at 700v thats still roughly 4000 amps. (Please correct my head math.) 5 kWh * 60 = 300 kW at 800V (typical charging voltage) that is 375A (still huge, but an order of magnitude less)
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by SECProto 6mo ago
I'm saying that data (not anecdotes) on those would've been better justification for your ranking. That said, for most people, going abroad for surgery or to buy a home is not an option.
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by SECProto 6mo ago
Also Canada, and I disagree pretty strongly with your post. Those two statistics have little bearing on happiness. Housing costs and healthcare access are much bigger concerns.
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by SECProto 7mo ago
If it brings you moral discomfort, why do you shop at whole foods? Shopping at Walmart (or whole foods!) would also bring me moral discomfort, so I just ...don't do it.
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by SECProto 7mo ago
> NASA's 25 billion dollar budget for 2025 was a paltry ~.04% of the total government budget. I'm sorry, I think you have a math or data error here. The US government budget for 2025 was not $62.5 trillion dollars.
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by SECProto 8mo ago
That's because Nova launcher sold to new owners (whose presumed only goal is to serve ads)
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by SECProto 8mo ago
> Yeah in his case it's his editor he really misses which is probably why he hasn't released anything since she died. You're referring to Sally Menke? Tarantino has released 3 movies since then.
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by SECProto 8mo ago
> Something like 50% of marine fuel usage is shipping fossil fuels around the world Note that marine shipping is extraordinarily fuel efficient (from a gCO2/(t*km) basis), so I doubt that it adds a lot on a per ton of fuel basis. We
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by SECProto 8mo ago
Yes, doubling then subtracting 10% of the resultant works because that is the same as multiplying by 1.8 :) When going the other way and dividing, I similarly find it mentally easier to multiply by 10/18 (rather than just divide by 1.8
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by SECProto 8mo ago
No need to simplify this. (F - 32) / 1.8 = C C * 1.8 + 32 = F I personally find the math just as easy to do accurately. For example, 87F -32/1.8 = 55/1.8 =~30.5C. Compare that to your approximate method, which would give 28.5
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by SECProto 8mo ago
> I can run faster than the TTC streetcar Yeah, so can I - doesn't mean much. The streetcar is not where TTC excels in ridership, the subway and buses are.
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by SECProto 8mo ago
> It's for just 50k vehicles, which means that the first 50k that get sent will be all Luxury high margin electric vehicles. [...] Why would anyone use there quota for cheap stuff? If you find a better primary source, you'll se
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by SECProto 8mo ago
> Massive trucks are useful for construction. No, trucks are useful, but a massive modern pickup truck is much less useful in the urban context than a standard pickup truck from 30 years ago. The bed size has remained the same, the out
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by SECProto 9mo ago
Correct - where I am it is cheaper most of the year, a bit more expensive in the winter.
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by SECProto 9mo ago
Fuel is sold by volume, which is why volumetric fuel efficiency is desirable to the consumer
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by SECProto 10mo ago
> but was struggling (am still) to see how it relates to a wooden trough that merely holds cables. Overhead Catenary [1] is a standard term, for a system that has two wires overhead - one suspended from the posts (forming a series of cat
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by SECProto 10mo ago
You have an inbuilt assumption about the purpose of a street name. Compare it with addresses in Japan [1], where some streets don't even have names. I don't know anything about Pakistan, but i wouldn't be surprised if the str

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