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H8crilA commented on Fight Chat Control fightchatcontrol.eu/... · Posted by u/tokai
It sounds like it's "the maximum penalty must be at least 1 year", as in "your member state can't enact a law where the maximum penalty is less than 1 year".
At least that's how I read it, but it's confusing.
This is correct. But the larger point is that even 1 minute of jail time for such "crimes" is unacceptable.
H8crilA commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
> I bet there are quite a few people in the United States alone who would love to have this life, who would love to have a guaranteed job, a guaranteed roof over their heads, and the heads of their children.
I'd almost venture to say the majority of people, and definitely those who suffer from a disability of some sort; especially mental health, where one may not mentally function well enough from one day to the next to be able to reliably hold a job.
The problem is you'll probably live on something like $300/month, and the $ won't even be exchangeable internationally - think like food stamps but for everything. Or less. Unless you have connections in the nomenklatura, i.e. those who decide who gets which positions. University admission is handled by a similar circle.
Let me quote the text:
> An anecdote on this very topic became popular in the later Soviet Union. A young communist proclaimed victoriously: “We have founded a society where there are no rich people!” To which an old social democrat shook his head and muttered, “Actually our intention was to found a society were there were no poor people.”
H8crilA commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
The 170MM figure is referring to all losses of life like the purges, man-made famines (Holodomor), inept ww ii strategies, as well as “unborn” children. This last one has no reference so it’s impossible to know what that means or how many people they attribute to that.
That said, the problem is a cultural one. The communists poured gas on the tendencies of the Tsars and modern Russia suffers from that legacy still. The legacy is a peasant (serf) : master way of thinking.
Culture is hard to cure and the change has to come from within. Japan had a similar problem but most of the sharp edges were dulled when they made a deal (surrender) with the Americans.
You also see this tendency to cling to bad cultural habits by some enclaves of immigrants. It can take decades of new generations to wipe some of those bad tendencies away. Some people see that as erasure of culture as a bad thing but it can also bring good.
I don't know who is downvoting this comment, but the comment is correct. Russia is a state, not a nation. The Kremlin, in all incarnations - the Tsars, Stalin, the Communist Party, Putin, even the Mongols that used to run it before Moscow, have always been perceived more like an alien force that has landed onto this land, and now one has to submit to it, without questions. This is a lesson that parents pass onto their children, implicitly or explicitly. It could become a nation-state in a relatively short order, though that's certainly going to be bloody. And nukes could be on the table as well - this is why the US was actually opposed to the USSR collapse, a fact that's not widely known today.
H8crilA commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
H8crilA commented on Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear... · Posted by u/rbanffy
That is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. ChatGPT is an innumerate as contemporary nuclear advocates.
I regularly run the numbers for the US, and using old NREL numbers it's $120/MWh.
The US has great solar resources. Germany has some of the worst.
But in any case most of the cost is in the battery, not the panels, which are cheap. So bump that up and it doesn't change the cost much.
I'm any case, unless you are Finland or similar, nuclear is not on the table.
I see. Which part of the US? And the cost of the battery is included the price I gave. Battery is the main reason why it is so high.
H8crilA commented on Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear... · Posted by u/rbanffy
> I want it to happen even if it slightly increases my power bill or my taxes. And as far as I understand the increase would be slight, if any at all.
Vogtle is showing that to be wrong. It costs something like $180-$200/MWh, when market value is around $50/MWh on average. Solar with enough storage to operate as baseload is far cheaper than nuclear today, and will only get cheaper over the next decade. See for example:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/uaes-masdar-launches...
Okay, but now run the numbers not for a middle eastern desert but for say Germany, or similar latitudes/weather patterns in the US. ChatGPT roughly estimated the cost to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $500/MWh.
H8crilA commented on Nuclear Waste Reprocessing Gains Momentum in the U.S. spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear... · Posted by u/rbanffy
The thing that surprises me about nuclear power is the huge amount of enthusiasm right now, without technological wins that might inspire such enthusiasm.
If somebody is excited about deploying solar plus storage, that makes a ton of sense because prices are tumbling, enabling all sorts of new applications.
Nuclear is the opposite. It's always overpromised and under delivered. It's a mature tech, there's not big breakthroughs, we understand the design space somewhat well. Or at least well enough that nobody thinks that there's a design which will cause a 5x cost improvement, like is regularly obtained with solar and storage.
The US seems committed to taking the high-cost, low-economic growth path for the next few years, at least according to federal policies, and this would fit in with that. But I don't understand the enthusiasm at all.
I am a nuclear fanboy not because it promises technological breakthroughs (like you wrote, there probably won't be many or even any), but because there just isn't any other option that can deliver continuous power without messing up the climate. I want it to happen even if it slightly increases my power bill or my taxes. And as far as I understand the increase would be slight, if any at all. I am an even bigger fan of solar power, but are we really going to have enough battery capacity to reliably run entire countries?
H8crilA commented on Math.Pow(-1, 2) == -1 in Windows 11 Insider build github.com/dotnet/runtime... · Posted by u/jai_