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At $4M per km, a 4,300 km HVDC cable would cost a staggering $17.2 billion to import 1.75 GW of energy. Interestingly, building a Shin-Kori equivalent nuclear plant [1],[2] on a nearby island [3] would be significantly cheaper. If they can afford such a cable, it raises the question of whether it's even the best solution in the first place. [4]

[1] Aerial view of the plant: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kori+Nuclear+Power+Plant/@...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kori_Nuclear_Power_Plant

[3] Possible location, suitable by size: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lazarus+Island/@1.2057214,...

[4] Singapore is not denying such possibility https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/nuclear-energy-fus...

It is very useful to me, even though I know some webdev. For projects where you need to expose majorly python functionality on the web, and don't want to add whole other dimension and toolkits to your python code, this is brilliant.

This is very dangerous point of view, which will lead to a lot of suffering.

Humanity managed to lift vast majority of itself from abject poverty, grow enough food for everyone, prevent children mortality - unimaginable 100 years ago.

And this is called modernity, which if reversed will bring back hunger and misery.

Depends on FAA involvement in each launch. In case of an airline FAA controls each flight for hours. In case of a rocket launch, most trouble comes from "don't go in that area" type of commitment, plus investigations of something went wrong.

Given that each airline can keep hundreds of machines in the air at any one time, and rocket launches happen weekly at best, paying 10% of the overall fee does not look fair.

Would be happy to know what aviation specialists think.

The point is general for all living things, though:

air pollution, climate change, deforestation, food, biodiversity loss, ocean plastics, and overfishing. On most of these fronts, things are worse today than they were in the distant past. But on all of them, progress has been made recently, and we’re on a better trajectory than most people assume—even though that rarely makes the end-of-the-world headlines dominating the news.

Suppose observer just woke up / heard plane that is passing overhead.

Very reasonable assumption, as the plane might have taken off thousands of miles away, and will land thousands of miles away in the other direction.

In this case, no point talking about takeoff sound, as it is not detectable already at these distances.

Humans can detect reasonably well which direction the sound comes from. This direction will not match the direction they observe the airplane at.

The article is describing the mismatch between plane real position and the plane position we would detect if we were just listening to it.

Russian nuclear capabilities now allow complete destruction of any attacking state, even _after_ taking nuclear hit. One just can't invade Russia without complete and utter loss.

This was not yet the case during Cuban missile crisis BTW.

In 1962 rockets were vulnerable and could be preemptively destroyed as they were above ground. Therefore MAD was affected by very close rocket location.

These days Russia has rockets in Siberia silos, in submarines all over the world, and in trains moving around ready to fire. No meaningful change to MAD doctrine can be brought from Europe.

BitWarden works really well for me, for example. It is FOSS and has hosted option; Has autofill plugin, android app, nothing required much in the way of configuration.

The way you keep your property price up is by not allowing others to build more property around you. When person days - i want to keep my property price up, what he really says is - i dont want more people to live near me.

It is very different from other kinds of values - for example car is getting more expensive if it is fancier/more unique, but its price does not change with production of way cheaper cars , which all can go same places.

This is why insisting on your house keeping same value is very harmful to other people - this can only be achieved by denying these people the place to stay in the same area.

It is more like fission externalities ended up way over-anticipated, almost killing the industry.

Fission is the technology that is statistically (even taking into account all the incidents) safer than most other viable generation options, yet people have very hard time accepting it

The cool idea is that you use language and environment of your choice without having to deal with any JS peculiarities. All the state is managed in whatever way is best inside your lisp code.