Vindicis · HackerTrans

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Your comment makes it seem like you're commenting on the article, but you're not. I'll admit to being rather confused as to why a top level comment has nothing to do with the article at all.

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To make the costs more comparable, in the report he mentions, they estimate 2.5% per year of the installed battery capacity cost as the ongoing maintenance costs. And, the batteries have an 85% efficiency rating meaning they'd need 92 gwh of installed battery capacity to meet the 75 gwh demand, so tack on an additional $4.25 billion so the battery cost which is now $23 billion.

Based on the lifetimes of these South Korean plants(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_South_Korea), I'm just going to use 40 years as the lifetime for these calculations as I couldn't find any numbers for how long the UAE expects that plant to be operating regarding that operational costs of $20 billion which gives us:

Maintenance costs for solar of: 40 years x $23 billion x 2.5% = $23 billion

So now we're at a total current cost of $46 +7.5 = $53.5 billion for Solar vs. $45 billion for Nuclear.

Edit: Forgot the actual cost of the solar array that G80z said was $7.5 billion

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4 yıl öncediscuss

Why not just make a simple script to do that? I wrote one in Python ages ago to add up's to the firewall that tried various names, failed # of logins etc... Nothing a few hours of scripting can't solve!

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4 yıl öncediscuss

Just because you think it's worth 45, doesn't mean everyone else agrees. You'd ideally want to stop out somewhat close to your open and reassess your trade, and maybe even reverse on a break under. I'd rather get out at 38 and look at buying in again at 30 than holding and hoping.

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On the homepage of the OED it says "More than 600,000 words, over a thousand years". Who's right? Who knows anymore.

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looks good. I made something similar just for my own use that includes short summaries of the articles using a text analyzer. How come you don't have Reuters and the AP?

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I know how that feels. I wrote a little c++ program to fetch data in Unicode from a dB and then normalize it to ascii to be used for analytic purposes. A lot faster to do it on ascii than trying to handle all the fun cases of how many ways can an e etc... be input. ICU to the rescue! Took a couple weeks of getting up to speed as ICU itself wasn't too bad to figure out. But, you find out very quickly that to use it, you need to have a good understanding of a number of the Unicode technical reports to actually understand how to make use of it. Fun times indeed.

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5 yıl öncediscuss

I'll just toss into the fray the OED entry for Facile:

facile, a.

(ˈfæsaɪl, -ɪl)

Forms: 5–6 facyl(l)e, 6–8 facil(l, 5– facile.

[a. Fr. facile, ad. L. facil-is easy to do; also of persons, easy of access, courteous, easy to deal with, pliant, f. facĕre to do.]

1.1 That can be accomplished with little effort; = easy 11. Now with somewhat disparaging sense. †Formerly used as predicate with inf. phrase as subject, and in phrase facile and easy.

   1483 Caxton Æsop 97 It is facyle to scape out of the handes of the blynd.    1538 Starkey England i. iv. 133 As the one ys ful of hardnes and dyffyculty‥so the other ys facyle and esy.    1577 Holinshed Scot. Chron. I. 449/1 They‥thought it easie and facile to be concluded.    1641 Prynne Antip. Epist. 4, I gathered with no facil labour, the most of those Materials.    1676 Worlidge Cyder (1691) 236 The more facile making of the linnen manufacture.    a 1703 Beveridge Serm. xci. Wks. 1729 II. 126 All other acts of piety will be facile and easy to him.    1856 Froude Hist. Eng. I. 357 Having won, as he supposed, his facile victory.    1876 C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 250 The work appears facile.

2.2 Of a course of action, a method: Presenting few difficulties.

   1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 109 The waye is very facile, and without great laboure.    1607 Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 152 Yet have they found out this facile and ready course.    1639 Fuller Holy War iii. ii. (1647) 112 His Holinesse hath a facile and cheap way both to gratifie and engage ambitious spirits.    a 1718 Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 703 It will render the Magistrates Province more facil.    1807 Vancouver Agric. Devon (1813) 463 Baiting‥in the manner performed on the continent, is an infinitely more economical and facile mode of administering refreshment to a jaded animal.    1860 Tyndall Glac. ii. ix. 271 The facile modes of measurement which we now employ.

†b.2.b Easy to understand or to make use of. Obs.

   1531 Elyot Gov. i. v, As touchynge grammere there is at this day better introductions and more facile, than euer before were made.    1579 Digges Stratiot. ii. vii. 47 We have by the former Rules produced this playne and facile Aequation.    1633 Sc. Acts Chas. I, c. 34 The short and facile grammer.    1644 Milton Educ. 100 Those poets which are now counted most hard, will be both facil and pleasant.    1676 Worlidge Cyder (1691) 103 To make this curious Machine more useful and facile.    1786 T. Woolston Let. in Fenning Yng. Algebraists' Comp. (1787) p. v, It having been long considered as a most facile Introduction to Algebra.    1797 A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) II. 24 The harp and the piano-forte were equally facile to Rosa.

3.3 Moving without effort, unconstrained; flowing, running, or working freely; fluent, ready.

   1605 B. Jonson Volpone iii. ii, This author‥has so modern and facile a vein Fitting the time and catching the court⁓ear.    1657 Austen Fruit Trees ii. 204 One man excells‥in a facile and ready expression.    1796 Ld. Sheffield in Ld. Auckland's Corr. (1862) III. 371 Your‥happy facile expression in writing.    1820 L. Hunt Indicator No. 31 (1822) I. 246 On the facile wings of our sympathy.    1865 Swinburne Atalanta 1641 Deaths‥with facile feet avenged.    1873 Symonds Grk. Poets v. 144 Stesichorus was one of those facile and abundant natures who excel in many branches of art.    1886 Stubbs Med. & Mod. Hist. iii. 57 To the facile pen of an Oxford man we owe the production of the most popular manual of our history.

4.4 Of persons, dispositions, speech, etc.: †a.4.a Easy of access or converse, affable, courteous (obs.). b.4.b Characterized by ease of behaviour.

   c 1590 Greene Fr. Bacon i. iii, Facile and debonair in all his deeds.    1638 Featly Transubt. 219 A young Gentleman of a facile and affable disposition.    1782 F. Burney Diary 12 Aug., My father is all himself—gay, facile, and sweet.    1844 Disraeli Coningsby iii. v, Manners, though facile, sufficiently finished.    1876 Holland Sev. Oaks x. 134 He was positive, facile, amiable.

c.4.c Not harsh or severe, gentle, lenient, mild. Const. to; also to with inf.

   1541 Elyot Image Gov. 88 Your proper nature is mylde, facile, gentyll, and wytty.    1631 Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 116 She was of a more facile and better inclined disposition.    1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. v. v. §7 Q. Elizabeth‥A Princesse most facil to forgive injuries.    1670 Milton Hist. Eng. Wks. 1738 II. 80 However he were facil to his Son, and seditious Nobles‥yet his Queen he treated not the less honourably.    1851 Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 297 The guilty sons were too happy to avail themselves of his facile tenderness.

5.5 Easily led or wrought upon; flexible, pliant; compliant, yielding.

   1511 Colet Serm. Conf. & Ref. in Phenix (1708) II. 8 Those canons‥that do learn you‥not to be too facile in admitting into holy orders.    1556 Lauder Tractate 251 Be nocht ouir facill for to trow Quhill that ȝe try the mater throw.    c 1610 Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1683) 103 Facil Princes‥promote them [Flatterers] above faithful Friends.    1648 J. Beaumont Psyche xvii. cxcvii, Alas, That facil Hearts should to themselves be foes.    1671 Milton P.R. i. 51 Adam and his facil consort Eve Lost Paradise.    1805 Foster Ess. ii. vi. 192 The tame security of facile friendly coincidence.

b.5.b in Scots Law. ‘Possessing that softness of disposition that he is liable to be easily wrought upon by others’ (Jam.).

   1887 Grierson Dickson's Tract. Evidence §35 Proof that the granter of a deed was naturally weak and facile‥has been held to reflect the burden of proving that [etc.].

c.5.c transf. Of things: Easily moved, yielding, ‘easily surmountable; easily conquerable’ (J.).

   1667 Milton P.L. iv. 967 Henceforth not to scorne The facil gates of hell too slightly barrd.

†6.6 quasi-adv. Easily; without difficulty. Obs.

   c 1523 Wolsey in Fiddes Life ii. (1726) 114 His countries, whose parts non of the Lords or Commons would soe facile inclyne unto.    1548 Hall Chron. (1809) 316 Whatsoever were purposed to hym they‥might easely se and facile heare the same.    1560 Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 80 The Muses‥mair facill ȝour mater will consaif, Fra time that thay heir ȝour enarratiue.

Vindicis

5 yıl öncediscuss

You don't. You can still run local accounts.

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I've ran into weird issues like that before. After so many updates, I'm guessing something gets broken somewhere, somehow.

Back up your extension settings and bookmarks, and do a fresh install of it. Bit of a nuisance but usually fixes any weird behaviour in my experience.

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5 yıl öncediscuss

Inhabitable actually means "Capable of being inhabited, occupied, or tenanted." and "Not habitable, not adapted to human habitation, uninhabitable."

The joys of english.

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6 yıl öncediscuss

If you just need a simple script to download youtube videos, here's a very basic one I made as a wrapper to youtube-dl.

You'll need to edit the option string to the path you want it to save videos to. I have it set to not download playlists, but you can do whatever you please with the option string.

Just copy the youtube url, mouseover the input field(it will grab the url from the clipboard, and press the get file button. No frills but it works fine for my needs.

Pastebin of the code: https://pastebin.com/z3kdHcL8

Pic of it: https://imgur.com/a/7QVwou9

Vindicis

6 yıl öncediscuss

Couldn't you just make your own off the tick data you're streaming?

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Not to mention that it's always just a hairsbreadth away from being obliterated by Governments if they ever choose to.

Vindicis

7 yıl öncediscuss

What purpose is that? To project power and bully people, sure. If everyone has a gun, no one has a gun. If no one has a gun, everyone has a gun. If one person has a gun, he calls the shots.

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7 yıl öncediscuss

Haha true enough. I'm sure the truth in this case in somewhere in the middle. Reading any marketing material should always be done with a healthy dose of skepticism.

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7 yıl öncediscuss

Unless that company is well-noted for their malice.

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I don't think converting is slow by itself depending on what you need done. I have a function in my code I wrote to convert strings of floats/doubles to a rounded string of however many digits you want(for storing financial data that was muxed with multiple streams), and converting 1.59688139452f to a string, and then rounding that string to the 5th decimal place took 8.759 seconds for 10 million iterations (87.5 nanoseconds/iteration). Granted, it was written for my specific use case, so I don't need to handle the various edge cases/formats. But, little is inherently slow if you take the time to write a solution for your own need.

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Agreed.

I deal with financial data which is in well-defined formats for the various asset classes. You can save a lot of time by just writing some parsing functions to deal with your exact needs and avoid needless work. And, hopefully avoid using the built-in functions for conversions as those will almost always be A LOT slower due to what they're required to handle.

I prefer to store that type of data in csv files because there are times when you need to read through the data to find errors, adhoc analysis, etc....If you're loading those types of files very frequently, there are better formats of course. But, when the parsing time is peanuts compared to the runtime of your program, it's nice to be able to load the file into other programs when you need without having to convert it first.

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That's extremely difficult to explain for many, many reasons.

Ignoring a great deal, basically that debt either needs to be paid off when it matures or rolled over into bonds e.g. issuing debt to receive cash that can be used in paying off those bonds.

Now, how that will affect the USD is where things get complicated. Will a higher interest rate be needed on new financing to attract investors? Will the Treasury have cash on hand to cover paying off all of those?

Assume they goto the market to refinance all of those bonds and have to pay a higher interest rate: this means tax payers have to pay more taxes, and get less services because more of their money is going to interest payments on this debt. Or perhaps they can only find investors willing to buy 8 trillion in new bonds, then that means the budget needs to cut out 1 trillion for that year in services, just to give a couple ways how this could play out.

Everyone has their own idea of what will happen and will speculate accordingly. Some might think interest rates will explode, of the Fed might cut. Maybe Foreign flows will not be reinvested and affect the USD accordingly. Etc, etc, etc...

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