fuoqi

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by fuoqi 14d ago
The existing "big" nuclear reactors are already more or less in the "happy" range. The problem is irregular building schedule (you can have 10 reactors in works today and 0 for the next 50 years) and extreme regulatory o
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by fuoqi 1mo ago
>I hope we see a different CA for each ccTLD in the future. Completely agree with this and IMO it's how the system should've operated from the very start. Unfortunately, I highly doubt that the CA cartel will let go of the powe
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by fuoqi 1mo ago
>I recognize that Russia is making this change for MitM spying Nope, they do it primarily out of necessity, because of the mounting pressure on the previously used CAs. The MitM capability is just a nice side bonus. >So I empathize wi
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by fuoqi 1mo ago
Nope, MitMing will be done by the SORM system [0] using certificates signed by the Ministry of Digital "Development" which will be trusted the Yandex Browser, which will be widely installed out of necessity by ordinary Russians to
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by fuoqi 2mo ago
Nuclear submarines often operate without any escort. Russian nuclear icebreakers and floating SMRs also do not have heavy military escorts.
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by fuoqi 3mo ago
I wonder how much would it cost to build a tunnel as an alternative to the Panama canal to fundamentally resolve the drought issues. 1.8 km is comparable to ~80 km (probably a shorter tunnel will suffice) and dimensions are also similar (
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by fuoqi 4mo ago
Because it is a "public broadcast", so it obviously "Cannot Give In To Government Pressure": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9tzoGFszog
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by fuoqi 4mo ago
>the USD doesn't have strength and power because oil sales are denominated in dollars. You have it backwards. Not quite. The "petrodollar" deal has helped to bootstrap and anchor the USD strength at a somewhat critical mom
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by fuoqi 6mo ago
For tracking of military ships it's much better to use radar imaging satellites (e.g. see [0]). They can cover a larger area, see ships really well, and almost not affected by weather. I will not be surprised if China has a constellati
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by fuoqi 6mo ago
>it's literally modeled on the density of cone cells in the human retina It's related to it, but not "literally modeled" on it. This number is from experiments where people are asked to equalize perceived brightness o
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by fuoqi 6mo ago
>The middle for the day, on our time keeping devices, being light outside goes all the way back to the first sundials over 3,000 years ago. Most of the world is perfectly fine with 12:00 not being synchronized with high noon [0]. And som
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by fuoqi 6mo ago
You clearly do not know how much havoc and complexity leap seconds introduce into various systems. This is why leap seconds are likely to be phased-out [0]. It's effectively an admission that use of leap seconds in the "base"
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by fuoqi 6mo ago
Computer systems (most importantly, UNIX) should've been using TAI [0] from the beginning. Human-readable time in turn should be computed from it using periodically updated time zones database which would include offset between TAI and
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by fuoqi 7mo ago
>Contrast that with China and Russia The linked map is outdated regarding Russia. Here is an up to date map: https://64.media.tumblr.com/4a9a4613f057d3b5f17ec548e6ac06d1...
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by fuoqi 7mo ago
>The article is adamant that "this is not printing money," and then gives very technical explanations that are honestly difficult to untangle. Because it's BS. In the modern fiat system the most basic form of money printin
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by fuoqi 7mo ago
You assume that the executive branch would willingly follow the court decision. I think it's naive (doubly so for the current administration) and it's more likely that the tariffs will be re-introduced under a different sauce and
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by fuoqi 7mo ago
This is why I mentioned "litigation" in my comment, i.e. you probably would need to separately sue the government if you want to refund the tariffs.
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by fuoqi 7mo ago
Sure, if you are ready to sue the US government for that. /s I dunno if a class-action lawsuit is realistic or not in this case or how likely a court decision stating that all tariff revenue must be refunded.
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by fuoqi 7mo ago
Let the fun of returning hundreds of billions of the illegal tariff revenue back to importers through litigation begin!
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by fuoqi 7mo ago
Hopefully, it will result in finally dropping use of SSNs as "secret" identifying person's identity and instead it will become an opaque ID which is safe to share.
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by fuoqi 8mo ago
This does not work at scale . Sure, there is plenty of anecdotes how you can successfully play this game as a consumer living in a rural house with electric car, power wall, and rooftop solar, but try to telling about it to someone living
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by fuoqi 8mo ago
1) Introduce a lot of intermittent generation into energy grid without sufficient amount of storage capacity. 2) Use marginal pricing model which effectively guarantees windfall profits for those sources. 3) Utilization of peaking power pla
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by fuoqi 10mo ago
I wonder if China has a constellation of similar satellites with the primary function to track the US CVBGs and provide aiming info for their "carrier killer" systems.
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by fuoqi 10mo ago
There are several factors which contribute to the "rosy" official picture: - A lot of people participate in the gig economy instead of getting registered as unemployed. - AI has eroded a lot of employment opportunities for graduat
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by fuoqi 10mo ago
Because unless you sit on top of a volcano, amount of renewable geothermal energy is minuscule. In most places on Earth it's somewhere around 40 mW/m2 (i.e. accounting for conversion losses you need to capture heat from ~500 m2 to
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by fuoqi 10mo ago
>THAT's the competition for an FPV drone. Russia uses plenty of artillery shells daily even today. Its own production easily outpaces NATO countries and they buy a lot from NK in addition to that. Though they try to increase amount
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by fuoqi 10mo ago
See this video on the economics of shipbuilding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gk61ginOqo Assembly of civilian merchant ships is a notoriously low-margin industry (as opposed to manufacturing of engines/propellers&#
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by fuoqi 11mo ago
I think the whole sentence is a bad take. The described behavior can be perfectly rational (and thus commonly considered not "stupid") in the case when cost function of the acting person has a negative weight assigned to the count
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by fuoqi 1y ago
If it's an everything bubble, than it may not be a bubble, but a currency depreciation instead (not just $, but of all fiat currencies). Market participants openly expect a new round of bigger than ever money printing on the first se
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by fuoqi 1y ago
Add to that cost of electricity routinely rising in EU. The practice shows that with the current technology intermittent renewable generation above a certain threshold in the total generation mix results in a sharply higher cost of electric

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