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morsma commented on Analysis: Texas power outage leaves officials working political angles   texastribune.org/2021/02/... · Posted by u/BigBalli
kasey_junk · 5 years ago
The question this leaves me with is does Texas rely more heavily on natural gas power due to their usage of wind/solar power sources?
morsma · 5 years ago
Yes typically Gas generation are used in combination with wind power as their up and down cycle are fast compared to other sources. Secondly, Texas is overflowing with natural gas due to fracking.
morsma commented on What went wrong with the Texas power grid?   houstonchronicle.com/busi... · Posted by u/daenney
MSM · 5 years ago
There are a number of countries with very high renewable usage that are in cold climates. Denmark comes to mind, where, on average, it's right around freezing for months at a time. Hell, they have turbines in the extremely corrosive oceans, getting blasted by freezing rain and they make it work.

Last I saw they got something like 50% of their power from wind.

Anyone who is using this event to say that renewables are a bad idea is selling a completely false narrative.

morsma · 5 years ago
We also have some of the most expensive power in the world. Kinda goes hand in hand it seems.
morsma commented on Summary of the Amazon Kinesis Event in the Northern Virginia (US-East-1) Region   aws.amazon.com/message/11... · Posted by u/codesparkle
joneholland · 5 years ago
Are they still using Coral and Codigo as the RPC stack?
morsma · 5 years ago
Not Codigo, but Coral, yes.
morsma commented on How Go helped save HealthCare.gov   changelog.com/gotime/154... · Posted by u/ra7
nojito · 5 years ago
How is that even a lot of money?

Do people not understand how many failed projects there are in the US budget?

morsma · 5 years ago
Were you trying to put forth an argument? Because I don't think you did.
morsma commented on Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability   stratechery.com/2020/twit... · Posted by u/blopeur
pembrook · 5 years ago
Bingo, disinformation doesn’t travel as far in other developed countries (ie the nordics for example) because they have better, more accessible education for their citizens. College is free for all and media literacy courses are required.

It’s hard to be stupid when being smart is so economically valuable and freely attainable by all.

morsma · 5 years ago
Fake news right here!

> media literary courses are required

Please provide evidence of this, I've never had such course.

Also, the media landscape in Denmark are more or less the same from a political point of view, and you're forced to pay for "DR" a public news broadcaster. It goes by "DDR" in right wing circles.

The Nordic isn't the paradise you dems believe.

I've lived in the states for several years.

morsma commented on Computer Architecture – ETH Zürich – Fall 2019   safari.ethz.ch/architectu... · Posted by u/skovorodkin
pjmlp · 6 years ago
Here is a good example, if you are in Germany, thanks to our GEMA friends you may be unable to watch a talk if it is on YouTube.

While this might occur also with self hosted, YouTube is their main target and what they mostly care about.

morsma · 6 years ago
Please explain...
morsma commented on US Workers Are Highly Taxed If You Count Premiums   peoplespolicyproject.org/... · Posted by u/viburnum
mschuetz · 7 years ago
Yeah, and cost of health insurance in Austria is just 7,65% of your income, and it covers your children. When I've worked in the US, I've paid just as much for health insurance and still had high out-of-pockets and deductibles on top of that.
morsma · 7 years ago
For me it's the opposite. I moved from Denmark to the US, and I pay around $400 in health insurance premiums (health, eye, and dental) for a whole family. In Denmark, only health is covered, so for eye and dental many go out-of-country to get it cheap.

The US is much cheaper for all health insurances, except if your poor. Obama tried to fix that, but made it worse and more expensive for everyone (socialism).

morsma commented on EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition   eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01... · Posted by u/manigandham
arama471 · 7 years ago
It seems like the EU explicitly made it so the cinnamon rolls wouldn't be affected:

> The EU's regulations on a common type of cinnamon called cassia limit how much bakers can use: 50 milligrams per kilogram of dough, if it's a traditional or seasonal pastry, or 15 milligrams per kilogram if it's just a regular old everyday pastry.

But the Denmark decided their traditional seasonal pastry was an everyday one

> This particular kerfuffle comes because the Danish food authority recently classified kanelsnegler, or cinnamon rolls, as an everyday pastry

So really this is the "fault" of the Danish government, isn't it?

Source for quotes: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/eu-worrie...

morsma · 7 years ago
But a "kanelsnegl" is an everyday pastry in Denmark.
morsma commented on EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition   eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01... · Posted by u/manigandham
lbj · 7 years ago
I wonder whyI always get downvoted into oblivion for stating that which to me is an obvious fact: The EU is too far removed from reality to legislate. It now has a long and sordid history of over-doing things to the extreme.

In Denmark, we've had 'cinnamon patrols' go from bakery to bakery to verify that only the allowed amount of cinnamon was sprinkled on buns.

We had what felt like a complete shutdown of IT departments in the months leading up to the GDPR because, again, it was overreaching and too vague. (the idea was good though)

I could write a list much longer, but in general I think the Unix approach works: Many small things that each do one thing well. The EU is the opposite: One giant thing which does nothing well - If for no other reason, than the distance from the Parliament to a wooden cabin on the mountains of norway is just too great for them to regulate that cabin in great detail, but still this is what they attempt to do. And now, down to each word on each and every webpage accesible from the EU.

morsma · 7 years ago
As a Dane, I completely agree with this post.
morsma commented on EU Copyright Directive is a catastrophe for free expression and competition   eff.org/deeplinks/2019/01... · Posted by u/manigandham
emptyfile · 7 years ago
>I wonder whyI always get downvoted into oblivion for stating that which to me is an obvious fact

Well when you write obviously non factual nonsense like

>The EU is the opposite: One giant thing which does nothing well

You tend to get downvoted. When you write hilarious nonsense like this

>In Denmark, we've had 'cinnamon patrols' go from bakery to bakery to verify that only the allowed amount of cinnamon was sprinkled on buns.

And imply its the EU's fault, you get downvoted.

morsma · 7 years ago
>You tend to get downvoted. When you write hilarious nonsense like this

Can you name anything the EU has done well?

u/morsma

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