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Comment #47845529
I'd argue that the decreased usage of oil has -to some degree- already started, e.g. Chinas crude imports have dropped the last two years in a row and yet they're still adding ever…
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Comment #47832998
With PV being the absolutely cheapest form to get energy in most regions of the world already or soon-ish (and even highly useful electric energy at that), I fully expect our capit…
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Comment #47084976
There‘s also the Awa Maru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Awa_Maru
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Comment #46096480
I, too, started parsing this as RL=real life and that’s why I found the headline interesting
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Comment #36554400
One weekend Russia attacks Russia, next weekend Twitter attacks Twitter.
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Comment #35761262
I’d assume that hedging buy prices or long term buy contracts are not the same as gambling.
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Comment #35761200
But wouldn’t it be better if the volume at least is shown on open exchanges?
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Comment #35761193
Isn’t that argument somewhat strange or dishonest? To paraphrase you: I‘d rather have naked shorting and the associated manipulation and problems with it than better price discover…
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Comment #30813659
And here I was, reading the headline and thinking this would be an article about the EU, sanctions and Russian gas.
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Comment #21115172
So let's pick this apart: - "The authoritarian infrastructure will be built" I'd argue it already has been built, by Google, NSA et al. Also, I fail to see why these "high levels o…
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Comment #21115066
If talking about costs, wouldn't LCOE be a better indicator? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
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Comment #20693868
Oops, my calculation was way off (missed a kilo-prefix somewhere), we'd need to cut and store about the entire rainforest per year. So, this is obviously not possible as an all-aro…
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Comment #20658894
Because other wavelengths were probably already taken. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Earth_hypothesis (Black is not a wavelength but rather the absence of visible light, e…
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Comment #20643708
Optimistic perhaps, but maybe not impossible ;) I've done some further googling and found some studies on the topic, though on-land: https://cbmjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/1…
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Comment #20616197
Hi, do you have some source or paper on this approach? I don’t mean to dispute this but have never heard of it before and a quick query didn’t turn up any results, rather the oppos…
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Comment #12980613
They recently received 65M funding. You can supposedly buy that stuff.
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Comment #8757410
Have you read the article? "Aluminum, discovered in minute quantities in a lab in the eighteen-twenties, was hailed as a wonder substance, with qualities never before seen in a met…
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Comment #8757377
There are plenty already, by all sorts of players. However the issue is search - which is probably one major aspect of the "friction" mentioned in the parent post: 1. Patents are o…
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Comment #7845472
Also http://www.bluepatent.com/en
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Comment #5944909
Highscore 188.23, that wall at the end just proves too high..
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Comment #4914975
One of you talks about absolute numbers, the other about % change. I don't have any numbers easily at hand but you might both be correct.
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Comment #4820128
Have you considered buying stock?
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Comment #4804689
So what I'm always wondering is: are there actually many (or at least some) succesful businesses that started out as a business model canvas? How about the YC companies, do they co…
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Comment #4322127
I can't believe this shit flies here.
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Comment #4293072
I guess we'll have to see how this holds up: Usually the problems arise not from one's own folder structure (most people know their way around what they've created) but when workin…