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Woah, I am blown away by these numbers. I did some research using ChatGPT. A coal power plant called Guoneng Qingyuan Power Station is 4GW in total size. (It added 2GW of capacity last year.) Normally, 1GW is considered a large coal power plant by itself. This is a massive plant!

Geolocated here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/24%C2%B024'57.0%22N+113%C2...

I asked ChatGPT how many coal train cars are required per year to fuel this 4GW plant: About 200 coal train cars per day. That is staggering! It is about 5.25 million tons of coal per year. Multiple that by twenty and that only covers new capacity added last year. It is depressing to see these numbers.

First, hat tip for this gorgeous website. Very well made. The UX is lovely.

Looking at Tokyo, Japan, I see that Hama-rikyū Gardens is included. Wiki says:

    > The main palace at Hama was destroyed by fire in 1724, and has not been rebuilt since.

As I understand, it is a beautiful garden, not a castle.

    > yet almost nothing seems to be done to prevent CSA

    > On the CSA side, ... [t]here doesn't seem to be any real push for educating and protecting kids before it happens.

    > I personally know of 1 who took a leak across from a playground at 2am walking home from the bars and was put on the sex offender registry because it was within 500'.

Wherever I have lived and shopped at IKEA, there is an option to pay ~20% extra to have your item assembled by professionals at your home. It is a steal! Unless you are genuinely interested to assemble a piece of furniture, save yourself the headache and pay for professional assembly.

I fully expected the GP reply! I am stunned how much music is on Spotify. I'm not here to say that Spotify is perfect, but I can almost never find something that isn't available on Spotify.

I would assume that China is your biggest trade partner for both of those categories. Is the US a major trade partner for either of those categories? I find it hard to believe. The US (and most rich countries) have way too much domestic dairy farm capacity. As a result, there is lots of govt subsidies paid to dairy farmers.

I feel exactly the same. I think I saw a blog post on HN with a deep analysis of their financial state of affairs. They don't need my money. They can run for a long time by (1) reducing unnecessary headcount (the org is way too big) and (2) carefully managing their endowment.

    > The same thing is happening to Wikipedia

I will pick an odd example. I was shocked to learn that SpaceX manufactures its ground satellite dishes (that customers need to buy) in Texas. They make more than five million units per year, and are looking to double that number. I am surprised that they did not outsource it to China. Maybe they are concerned about intellectual property theft. Still, that must be a hefty "tax" to pay to manuf in US instead of China.

I would argue the real answer is world class supply chain for high tech manufacturing. And that supply chain is heavily subsidised.

I wonder if this pattern is true for all militaries in rich countries. I think it sounds like good economic policy. If you want to grow your military, then you need to make sure it is spent domestically. Also, the "finish good" may include lots of parts that were built overseas. Think about a Tomohawk missile: I am sure the microchips are all made overseas. That said, the intellectual property is developed domestically (or with very close allies) and final assembly is done domestically.

I'll take a stab. How about something like not more than 50% greater than OECD average per industry? My point: It seems reasonable that some countries was to specialise in certain areas. For example: Taiwan and (East!) Germany chose to build-out their semiconductor industry starting in the 1980s. It has paid pretty good dividends with a healthy amount of industrial subsidies. I also think the OECD should be raising tariff rates to protect against ridiculous levels of Chinese subsidies.

    > As a country that’s suffered from the US subsidising its own industries

    > GoPros are used all over in aerospace

I assume the submitter is also the author. If so, can you share about your motivation to write this library? For example, do you use it professionally or in hobby projects? Did you look at other libraries and think that you could do better? These are honest questions -- no trolling from me. I browsed the code and it looks very clean.

The API documention is so nice! It looks like index.html from https://mojibake.zaerl.com/ uses JavaScript to generate the page. Very cool, indeed.

    > Bad default #3: SQLITE_BUSY errors with concurrent writers

    > Even albums mentioned in the Norwegian business magazine D2 can be impossible to find in legit channels.

Yeah, I was thinking the same. If you look on Google Maps, California has some epic large parking lots next to office complexes. If you had 100+ "free" EV chargers that could add up pretty fast with California's expensive daytime electricity prices.

Fair point: I work in an industry that checks social media before job offers, so it is not possible to have a public Internal persona. If you look at my profile, you will see that I have been here many here with a modest amount of "Internet points".

    > without any usage cap

At the risk of Reddit-style mass downvoting, I strongly encourage you to borrow Oracle-level of debt (billions of USD) and build a Tesla Megapack battery "farm" and immediately begin mining Bitcoin. Of course, the battery "farm" will conveniently only be activated during these special hours. The only forseeable risk to ROI for this project would be AT&T- or Comcast-style of "double top secret" limitations over the "without any usage cap" clause.

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Ok, this post has to be a Top 10 HN of all time for me. Massively informative. Thank you. +9000

Plus, extra Internet points for using this Unicode char that I didn't know about: ↝

    > I don't even get the NBN despite having fibre to the premises!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Broadband_Network

    > I am able to charge cars at work

Related to this article, I recently saw this video on YouTube: "I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes" [1]

It is wild how cheap are solar panels now. Really, bonkers cheap. A huge rooftop solar panel costs less than 100 USD. From everything that I read/see/watch, most of the cost associated with solar panel arrays is the labour required for installation. (No hate on those folks -- they are skilled labour!)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy-wFixuRVU

    > If batteries have a solid 9% return on investment, but solar panels have an even better 12% return on investment, panels will outpace batteries even though the batteries are a decent investment.

EDIT

I forgot to say: I like your idea of intraday arbitrage using batteries! It is a very cool idea. Surely, this could be well modeled to know your expected ROI before investment/build-out.

    > often had negative quarterly invoices (i.e. got paid by our retailer) ... esp. in winter months

For the record, annual flu vaccines also have this risk, but it doesn't stop 450 million people from getting them.

If you have any developing countries nearby (holiday, etc.), you can usually get it cheaper at a clinic. I get my vaccines (when on holiday) in Thailand here: https://www.thaitravelclinic.com/vaccine-price-list/

I would say that the EU is edging towards this idea. I don't say that to be negative. I support it. One idea: Create per-product, per-country tarrifs based upon their average carbon footprint. If foreign manufs reduce their carbon footprint for the product, then the tarrif is reduced. This creates a good incentive to progressively reduce carbon footprint.

    > scrap unpopular things like ulez

    > remove tariffs on chinese car makers if they create jobs in europe

    > fund train networks to get tickets cheaper than flying