It is both. The amount per block changes becoming less over time. The block rate is adjusted to be more or less constant even if there is a big increase in mining capacity.
Lots of contracts have "the right to alter the deal". Everyone from google to blizzard does it. Just because you don't real the EULA doesn't mean it is not there.
You wouldn't get a refund on that at normal shop either. It is not even bait and switch, unless the game stops working for you. ie your forced to use said micro transactions just to play. You can't claim that it is not fair anymore otherwise you just claim your allowed a refund just because you suck at the game (probably closer to the truth). Your beef isn't even with steam it is with the devs of the game, and well you should have read that EULA there as well. Finally how many hours did you play the game? One? Ten, 20 hours? for $25 that is a good price for entertainment time.
What the fuck are you talking about. Much of the rest of the world has minimum wages far above California's wage. Yet we are not awash in slums. Child labor laws, liability problems and PR killed the teen jobs years ago and has little to do with minimum wage. Legally getting someone younger than 18 to sign a contract is problematic. But it is really not such a big deal. Adults that would get a job at MaDonalds are hardly engineers or anything.
Interesting. How much did it cost. Also how many examples do we have and how applicable is this to other plants? Not so many unfortunately, and probably not as much as we would like.
Clearly ultra processed foods don't just suck nutrients out of you, they give you cancer, heart attacks and strokes. At the same time! Watch out for the most evil of ultra processed ingredients used in the food industry. Ultra processed water. That shit will kill you.
OJ has more sugar in it that coke. At least if you believe the label. Is is "bad" for you. Well everything is so fuck it. I will enjoy my life and not be stuck with boring food for a life time. There isn't even any evidence that you live longer with these "healthy organic(WTF does that even mean) natural diet"...Probably feels like it however.
IT is not just processed, it is ultra processed. Ultra processed sucrose, otherwise chemically identical to unprocessed, is 10x worse that natural sucrose!
No we won't. If you think your hiding because of NAT your don't understand the internet. Internet has not and never was anonymous on its own. And IPv6 offers something better than NAT (isp or your local lan). But it is not anonymous either. Much of my internet life has been on static IP, a simple reverses name lookup and you could get the phone number of my desk phone. No big deal.
The internet is *not* anonymous, and NAT does not make you anonymous. For reference see how many of anonymous keep getting arrested!
It is already common in the EU. Also ubiquitous free wifi. Just use the sim-less phone, or a tablet. Laws don't typically don't make sense. It is a reason i like the idea of a sunset clause on *all* laws. Otherwise the number of laws tends to infinity, the cost of a lawyer tends to infinity and the outcome of any court proceedings tends to a uniform random variable (with possible short term correlations).
The lesson you must learn is that most security is very very poor, adhoc and sloppy. Even locks on a house hardly slow you down. It just that most people are honest or stupid. Mostly honest in my experience.
I call BS. It costs very little per kg of gasoline to produce, refine and ship. Even with hydro-cracking your still only going to be a few Wh behind an electric car. A few miles at best. It is why we used it and why it so cheap.
However a power station running on crude or heavy fuel oil (we don't do this much any more) would be a net saving and power stations with bottoming cycles and duel use of waste heat are 50% or better. While the best cars are about 35% to 40% if you drive like grandma. Electric distribution will losses you about 1-3% would be in the same ballpark as refining and transporting gasoline. But batteries kill you a bit. PolyLi is about 80% IIRC but varies on the specific battery. A good electric motor is about 90+%. All up however it is heavy.
Running all the numbers doesn't really make it clear what is a net win. BUT we are leaving out the best part of electric cars. We don't need or even need to burn carbon fuels for it. Hydro wind solar and even low carbon fuels (aka natural gas) are used. Once you include that, then it is a no brainier and puts you pretty far ahead even with poor batteries.
It is a joke. What we lose per unit make up for in volume. Was a thing of the 90s "long tail" stuff. Of course if you are losing money per unit no amount of volume puts you in the black.
The really cool thing about fusion is that we have improved confinement times faster than moores law!
We have also learnt that international collaborations are hugely expensive due mostly to politics. People think ITER is really expensive. It is true it is not cheap, but a new gas plant with ZERO R&D is still a cool billion dollars and takes a few years to build. A billion dollars a year for a few decades is really not much money in the scheme of things.
The really nice thing about lead cooled or lead+Bismuth, is that the coolant easily handles decay heat, that is the lead gets hotter but never boils for a very long time before decay heat is a problem.
Consider a failure mode that means all cooling fails: In a LFTR the frost plugs melt and you dump your primary coolant/fuel into lower chambers, effectively a full SCRAM where it will take months to put back online, even if cooling is restored later in the day! In a lead cool reactor the lead just gets a bit warmer. No rush, stay calm.
This may seem as a small thing. But it isn't. One problem human operators have with pushing the SCRAM button, is that they know they are taking the reactor offline for a long time, and well it can't be happening on my shift. You need scrams and other emergency procedures to be routine. Lead cools gets us a long way to that.
Another huge advantage is the fuel and waste is not in the primary coolant. Having your primary heat exchanges being totally radioactive makes maintenance hugely expensive since its needs to be more or less 100% remote. the Machines are coming, but not quite yet. Keeping all your waste and fuel in a central core has many advantages.
As you say commissioning a design for a LTFR is also a long way off. 10MW demo plant was *not* a full demonstration, did zero breading and zero in suti reprocessing. None of that is easy. Furthermore none of the advantages of LTFR is limited to Thorium, and a 100% U fuel cycle also works really well.
I really like the lead cooled Traveling wave reactor idea. But that may need even more work than a liquid salt reactor.
Don't really like commenting on a mdsolar topic, but it is even worse than that. If we are really honest we just don't know what nuclear really costs, even the old generation stuff. Since even the older plants haven't been decommissioned and there is still waste that is waiting for long term solutions.
Can we do nuclear? Yes. Can it be safe? Yes. Is it cost effective? Right now, probably no, hard to say, but it won't be cheap. And by not cheap, it may well end up costing more per kWh than even wind/solar/tidal.
As for investing into nuclear, there is also the extra risk of construction delays and permit delays. These things cost real money and a lot of it. You don't need many people in a local area to stuff things up for years. This puts the utility companies right off.You can't even plan when it would be online!
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It is both. The amount per block changes becoming less over time. The block rate is adjusted to be more or less constant even if there is a big increase in mining capacity.
Lots of contracts have "the right to alter the deal". Everyone from google to blizzard does it. Just because you don't real the EULA doesn't mean it is not there.
You wouldn't get a refund on that at normal shop either. It is not even bait and switch, unless the game stops working for you. ie your forced to use said micro transactions just to play. You can't claim that it is not fair anymore otherwise you just claim your allowed a refund just because you suck at the game (probably closer to the truth). Your beef isn't even with steam it is with the devs of the game, and well you should have read that EULA there as well. Finally how many hours did you play the game? One? Ten, 20 hours? for $25 that is a good price for entertainment time.
Gamers: Self entitled dicks.
and you can do just that.
And what is wrong with that?
Then fuck off. Go out into the forest an live without all the "bad" technology. No one is stopping you.
In the EU minimum wages are tied to inflation rates. I don't think you understand economics or even what fiat currency is.
What the fuck are you talking about. Much of the rest of the world has minimum wages far above California's wage. Yet we are not awash in slums. Child labor laws, liability problems and PR killed the teen jobs years ago and has little to do with minimum wage. Legally getting someone younger than 18 to sign a contract is problematic. But it is really not such a big deal. Adults that would get a job at MaDonalds are hardly engineers or anything.
It really doesn't.
Interesting. How much did it cost. Also how many examples do we have and how applicable is this to other plants? Not so many unfortunately, and probably not as much as we would like.
Clearly ultra processed foods don't just suck nutrients out of you, they give you cancer, heart attacks and strokes. At the same time! Watch out for the most evil of ultra processed ingredients used in the food industry. Ultra processed water. That shit will kill you.
OJ has more sugar in it that coke. At least if you believe the label. Is is "bad" for you. Well everything is so fuck it. I will enjoy my life and not be stuck with boring food for a life time. There isn't even any evidence that you live longer with these "healthy organic(WTF does that even mean) natural diet" ...Probably feels like it however.
IT is not just processed, it is ultra processed. Ultra processed sucrose, otherwise chemically identical to unprocessed, is 10x worse that natural sucrose!
Err the raw material for solar panels is sand. 99.99% Sand. Compared to mining Uranium or Thorium it is a cake walk.
Rare earths are not that rare. They are however hard to refine since they all share very similar chemical properties.
No we won't. If you think your hiding because of NAT your don't understand the internet. Internet has not and never was anonymous on its own. And IPv6 offers something better than NAT (isp or your local lan). But it is not anonymous either. Much of my internet life has been on static IP, a simple reverses name lookup and you could get the phone number of my desk phone. No big deal.
The internet is *not* anonymous, and NAT does not make you anonymous. For reference see how many of anonymous keep getting arrested!
It is already common in the EU. Also ubiquitous free wifi. Just use the sim-less phone, or a tablet. Laws don't typically don't make sense. It is a reason i like the idea of a sunset clause on *all* laws. Otherwise the number of laws tends to infinity, the cost of a lawyer tends to infinity and the outcome of any court proceedings tends to a uniform random variable (with possible short term correlations).
Well we already have this in many EU countries. Including France. Seemed to have worked really well.....
I know right. How can i take a conference call in the toilet now?
The lesson you must learn is that most security is very very poor, adhoc and sloppy. Even locks on a house hardly slow you down. It just that most people are honest or stupid. Mostly honest in my experience.
I call BS. It costs very little per kg of gasoline to produce, refine and ship. Even with hydro-cracking your still only going to be a few Wh behind an electric car. A few miles at best. It is why we used it and why it so cheap.
However a power station running on crude or heavy fuel oil (we don't do this much any more) would be a net saving and power stations with bottoming cycles and duel use of waste heat are 50% or better. While the best cars are about 35% to 40% if you drive like grandma. Electric distribution will losses you about 1-3% would be in the same ballpark as refining and transporting gasoline. But batteries kill you a bit. PolyLi is about 80% IIRC but varies on the specific battery. A good electric motor is about 90+%. All up however it is heavy.
Running all the numbers doesn't really make it clear what is a net win. BUT we are leaving out the best part of electric cars. We don't need or even need to burn carbon fuels for it. Hydro wind solar and even low carbon fuels (aka natural gas) are used. Once you include that, then it is a no brainier and puts you pretty far ahead even with poor batteries.
It is a joke. What we lose per unit make up for in volume. Was a thing of the 90s "long tail" stuff. Of course if you are losing money per unit no amount of volume puts you in the black.
The really cool thing about fusion is that we have improved confinement times faster than moores law!
We have also learnt that international collaborations are hugely expensive due mostly to politics. People think ITER is really expensive. It is true it is not cheap, but a new gas plant with ZERO R&D is still a cool billion dollars and takes a few years to build. A billion dollars a year for a few decades is really not much money in the scheme of things.
The really nice thing about lead cooled or lead+Bismuth, is that the coolant easily handles decay heat, that is the lead gets hotter but never boils for a very long time before decay heat is a problem.
Consider a failure mode that means all cooling fails: In a LFTR the frost plugs melt and you dump your primary coolant/fuel into lower chambers, effectively a full SCRAM where it will take months to put back online, even if cooling is restored later in the day! In a lead cool reactor the lead just gets a bit warmer. No rush, stay calm.
This may seem as a small thing. But it isn't. One problem human operators have with pushing the SCRAM button, is that they know they are taking the reactor offline for a long time, and well it can't be happening on my shift. You need scrams and other emergency procedures to be routine. Lead cools gets us a long way to that.
Another huge advantage is the fuel and waste is not in the primary coolant. Having your primary heat exchanges being totally radioactive makes maintenance hugely expensive since its needs to be more or less 100% remote. the Machines are coming, but not quite yet. Keeping all your waste and fuel in a central core has many advantages.
As you say commissioning a design for a LTFR is also a long way off. 10MW demo plant was *not* a full demonstration, did zero breading and zero in suti reprocessing. None of that is easy. Furthermore none of the advantages of LTFR is limited to Thorium, and a 100% U fuel cycle also works really well.
I really like the lead cooled Traveling wave reactor idea. But that may need even more work than a liquid salt reactor.
Don't really like commenting on a mdsolar topic, but it is even worse than that. If we are really honest we just don't know what nuclear really costs, even the old generation stuff. Since even the older plants haven't been decommissioned and there is still waste that is waiting for long term solutions.
Can we do nuclear? Yes. Can it be safe? Yes. Is it cost effective? Right now, probably no, hard to say, but it won't be cheap. And by not cheap, it may well end up costing more per kWh than even wind/solar/tidal.
As for investing into nuclear, there is also the extra risk of construction delays and permit delays. These things cost real money and a lot of it. You don't need many people in a local area to stuff things up for years. This puts the utility companies right off.You can't even plan when it would be online!