billytetrud

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by billytetrud 1y ago
You're very wrong about that.
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by billytetrud 1y ago
Eliminating "the need" for overhead wires seems like a terrible trade off when you're adding "the need" for expensive batteries and charging infrastructure.
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by billytetrud 2y ago
You might be interesting in looking at the Lima programming language: http://btetrud.com/Lima/Lima-Documentation.html . It has ideas that cover some of these things. For example, it's intended to operate with full
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Have you ever had Nixta? It's a corn spirit with a very unique and pleasant flavor
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by billytetrud 3y ago
I still don't see you making any constructive comment. If you're going to, make it your next one please. If you want an answer to your original rhetorical-looking question. The answer is no.
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by billytetrud 3y ago
I'd be very surprised if you could convince me that solar or wind could eliminate the need for the majority of our electricity to be generated by base-load systems like hydro, coal, oil, or nuclear. Do you know what the cost of solar
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Your question was full of self righteous snark and your response to my question was as well. Trying to tell me you were just "curious" and "asking for clarity" is 100% bullshit and you know it. If you want to actually
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by billytetrud 3y ago
> enough of them How much is enough? A von neumann machine shouldn't need to be that big. You can send a single one to a solar system and let it replicate itself indefinitely. A single seed can sprout an entire civilization. > If
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by billytetrud 3y ago
I'm sorry but if you think the US had a "free market" for nuclear power, you're an idiot.
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Thanks for the info. I did some more research and found out that Nuclear Power was indeed not subsidized from 1985 to 2000, but after 2000 some nuclear subsidies seem to have been created. However, while over 20% of the electricity in the
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by billytetrud 3y ago
You're an idiot, goodbye.
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Was the basic research funded by governments? Yes. Is subsidization necessary or even done for nuclear powerplants to be built and profitably run given that basic research as an already-existing stepping stone? No.
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by billytetrud 3y ago
No it doesn't "turn out" that way. It is a self fullfilling prophesy where a government either grants a monopoly to a private company or to itself. There is almost nothing that would actually be a monopoly without government
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Sounds like you're ignoring my whole post. I guess this conversation is over then.
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by billytetrud 3y ago
> turns out when you grant a for profit company a monoply they take advantage. every time without fail. Yes. Granting anyone a monopoly (a corporation or a government) is always a terrible idea. Let's stop doing that.
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by billytetrud 3y ago
No one was talking about France. angiosperm snarkily implied that Nuclear only works if its subsidized. He's clearly wrong. The fact that France does subsidize it isn't relevant. Nuclear in the US is not subsidized and yet is mass
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Solar doesn't. Wind doesn't. Hydro does (usually). You know he was talking about solar and wind. Why are you being a turd? Hydro is tapped, we can't build significantly more hydro in this world.
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by billytetrud 3y ago
I'm not sure why you think that Exelon didn't consider regulatory risk as one of the things that made it not make sense for them. It was certainly a large factor. The idea that existing nuclear power plants are losing money becaus
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Pointing to the best run government power company says nothing about the average government run power company. And I don't know why you think cheap rates for a government power company are particularly special. The rates are subsidized
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by billytetrud 3y ago
I'd like you to concede that your snarky comment about subsidies implies things that are incorrect. Nuclear is not subsidized and has never been widely subsidized. https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/econ
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by billytetrud 3y ago
> Perhaps space travel isn't easy or fast at all Except we have excellent knowledge about lower bounds on how easy and fast space travel can be. And its plenty fast enough to explore the entire galaxy on geological timescales. Voyag
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by billytetrud 3y ago
> it does not seem inevitable The belief that intelligent life isn't inevitable is not inconsistent with the belief that intelligent life usually will happen from any life given enough time. Why are you positioning those things
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by billytetrud 3y ago
I got so tired of dealing with Google's AMP so I switched to Firefox just on mobile. It's fine, tho the url bar doesn't work as well as on chrome. Other than that I've gotten used to it well enough. I'm starting to
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by billytetrud 3y ago
?? How does that show a failure of the free market??
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Are you blind? The only reason we have so much solar and wind is because of massive subsidies.
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Nationalized industries are great for like 5-10 years, after which it becomes clear they have no ability to make effective plans or react to a changing market.
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Nuclear projects don't get funded because of regulatory risk, not because they're "too expensive".
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by billytetrud 3y ago
I see you've been massively down voted, even tho none of them can manage to even disagree with your facts. Regardless, I don't think greening offsets the millions that die from air pollution every year, not including any climate c
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Nuclear only costs more because of outdated and intentionally obstructive regulations lobbied for by the oil industry (who also funded environmental groups willing to hate nuclear btw). Even with the massive over regulation of nuclear power
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by billytetrud 3y ago
Saying there is "no evidence" is factually absurd. There are a whole host of possibilities for practical long distance space travel. At very least for small light-weight robots. And it even seems possible that we can viably transp

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