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"so what if it’s racist?" - I'm not sure what sort of answer are you looking for here?

A list of examples from history of things going pear-shaped when large numbers of people embraced a form of ethno-nationalism where lineage and genetics is the primary factor in determining a persons worth as a human?

> Because it is part of a pact that seeks to deny the existence of Israel

The veracity of the claim that Zionism is racist is independent of any implication you’ve arbitrarily attached to it. I both believe that Zionism is fundamentally racist - like many of the other ethno-nationalist 19th century movements - and that Israel has a right to exist. There’s no reason that both can’t be true.

For me the root of the problem is politics rather than money. Or to be clear, the reasons for procrastinating are not economic. We have the technology to de-carbonize energy and in most cases it's cheaper and better than fossil-based energy production. On the consumption side, the move to electrification is also compelling and in most cases economical - EVs, induction cooking, heat pumps, etc.

But in terms of politics we have Trump paying companies to abandon half-built offshore wind farms and various European countries offering subsidies for fossil-fuel consumption 'to help with affordability' to shield consumers from their dependence on a volatile source of energy.

And that is ignoring the huge and persistent subsidies dished out by governments (estimated at about $800 billion globally - which ignores the externalities like pollution and global warming).

“Back on”? When did it stop?

As a foreigner, “Pouletschenkel und Pommes” makes me smile. A German word sandwiched between two French words - one pronounced the French way (“poolay”) and the other nativized (“pommez”).

This is subjective of course but for me Kotlin is certainly not minimal - I'd put it closer to C# than Java in terms of features. Typescript and Java feel like far smaller languages. Of course, C++ is in a class of its own in terms of anti-minimalism.

Wolves generally don't attack people, though, do they?

There are no recent (last half century) documented cases of wolves killing people in Europe as far as I know. The few times people have been bitten by wolves they've been feeding them or doing other stupid stuff.

How about some detail like the time, place or name of the conference, the name of the speaker or the title of the talk?

It’s the API that gave me the push to leave Pandas. 10 or more years of occasional Pandas use and I still had to google for any non-trivial queries.

In that regard, I’m still waiting for a credible jq replacement…

Because I was responding directly (I even quoted the line) to the claim that Russian’s actions could be understood as being part of a “clear objective of draining Ukraine's budget”.

Your attempt to deflect is very odd. We’re discussing an aspect of Russia’s behavior and strategy with respect to the invasion of Ukraine. If you want me to comment on the behavior of a different belligerent in a different conflict then feel free to start such a discussion concerning that conflict - then I may (or may not) respond to claims about the behavior of some country that isn’t Russia.

> Russia is not doing some ephemeral "inflict pain", it's pursuing a clear objective of draining Ukraine's budget.

This is not true - they’ve regularly targeted and hit kindergartens, supermarkets, gas stations, town squares/markets, residential buildings, etc. None of these targets are “budget draining” but instead are intended to terrify and hurt civilians. Russia isn’t calculating or being strategic at the level you suggest - instead its actions are often simply cruel, inhumane and vindictive even at the cost of its own strategic interests.

Capacity factor of orbital solar PV panel: 97%

Capacity factor of terrestrial solar panel: 23%

Retail cost per watt for terrestrial panel: under 45c

Manufacturing cost per watt of space grade solar panel: up to $450

Annual performance degradation of terrestrial solar panel: under 0.5%

That of space-grade solar panel: up to 2%

Life span of terrestrial panel: about 2x that of space panel.

Total difference in cost per watt feeding a DC load in space vs on land: about x400

And that's ignoring launch costs. It makes absolutely zero sense. And given the scale of production and investment in manufacturing, terrestrial is likely to stretch even further ahead in the cost stakes.

> It was nationalized to force it build new reactors despite demand not growing enough

It was nationalized because it had suffered record losses in the previous year and was struggling with a ballooning debt mountain of 65B euro. The French government didn’t need to nationalize it to control its strategic direction - it already owned 84% of it. That was the press release claim in order to present the bailout as “strategic”.

And the point was to address the gp’s claim that nuclear was profitable. Profitable enterprises don’t lose 18B a year or suffer financial instability due to a debt mountain on their balance sheets.

> You didn't understand the electric cap in France.

I don’t see how you drew that conclusion - the reactor needs to earn €138 per MWh (that’s the middle estimate not the worst case which is €180 per MWh). But the most it can earn is €70/MWh due to The cap? You’re just restating what I said. This reactor will be deeply unprofitable for its entire life.