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Nano Banana 2 Lite 21 days ago

This type of comment is generally frowned upon on hn.

That's what the upvote/downvote feature is for.

You're mixing up two different things. Moving electricity with HVDC is easy and cheap... building the grid infrastructure is, well, not so easy or cheap.

The system cost depends on connection queues, transmission buildout, substations, transformers, planning permission, curtailment, etc.

Production of transformers, cables, and labour capacity are bottlenecks. Planning is a bottleneck.

Side note, UK police harass people for 'non-crime hate incidents' and put people on terror lists for being critical of protected ideologies.

Judges give longer sentences for mean tweets than hoarding child pornography or months long torture and rape of children.

More euros die of heat stroke than Americans die from gun violence.

Edit: NHS waitlists are double digit months to years. You have one of the worst birthing outcomes in the OECD. You have relatively poor cancer treatment outcomes

I won't take any lecturing on societal ills from such a perverted system.

if you look at the right parts of the US

No, I’m saying almost the opposite.

Crime in the US is highly concentrated. A large share is committed by relatively small groups, in specific places, and follows a power-law pattern rather than being evenly spread across the country.

There are large, fully developed, highly populated parts of the US where you are very safe. Often moreso than places people assume are “safer” because they are outside America.

Maybe reaching for an analogy would be helpful here.

Thot_experiment is saying that his 2016 Toyota Prius is a great and reliable car for his daily commute and running errands.

Whereas everyone is screeching about its capability gap with a Lockheed Martin F35 lightning.