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Comment · 2 years ago
You are missing the point, it's obvious that a cockpit needs to account for stress or a crisis. Extending this to CAD software for example is nonsense.
Comment · 2 years ago
I do not care about your opinion of acceptable language.

Attempting to insert your off topic opinion is a character flaw.

Keep it to yourself.

Comment · 2 years ago
Horrible advice for expert tools. If you can make the assumption that the end user is going to learn the tool you can design it for peak effectiveness after a learning curve. If you have to consider retards and hostage situation level panic you can't do that, and create a worse product overall.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's the implication of virtue signalling that it's a facade?

If Steve the megarapist is writing articles about the latest popular injustice, does that make Steve virtuous?

Comment · 2 years ago
Not inherently true, there is not really a path from manual sheet metal work to CNC for example.
Comment · 2 years ago
Mostly the viability studies in the French reactor program.

It heaviy depends on how you set up the comparison. If you look at most current energy markets and say "how can I make money with these rules" the answer is almost always build a small amount of renewables. If you say, how should a government invest to retire coal power and achieve a low and stable energy cost, then nuclear can be viable (in some places).

Comment · 2 years ago
The part I hate about the math used in this argument, is that really we should be working with a goal of much cheaper energy production, to enable other green technology.

Yeah, if you use standard new construction capacity planning in some cases solar + wind wins. If you target a much lower average/maximum cost per GW (and higher consumption) nuclear wins.

Things like EVs, electric furnaces for recycling, greener chemical plants and carbon capture mechanisms all become more viable with consistently cheap electricity.

Comment · 2 years ago
Generally you get less than 1/3 of ideal conditions during rain. Overcast less than 2/3 of ideal.
Comment · 2 years ago
I suspect that you will have to get add in cards or drive caddies that also do power conversion, but these already exist (although expensive). More than 2-4 drives is starting to hit a point where you should start thinking about a different platform anyway.
Comment · 2 years ago
Is the overlap between terrace and apartment renters and new car buyers all that high anyway?
Comment · 2 years ago
They are trialing a radar again in the S, but from their marketing it doesn't look like it's a clear benifit yet
Comment · 2 years ago
No, there was controversy over mistreated patients in a number of asylums.

There were campaigns to close the asylums based on this, but no real plan for what to replace them with.

Comment · 2 years ago
I feel like a focus on minimum wages is misplaced, it's hiding the real problem that is the value of labour has been diluted.

The minimum wage should be set based on determining the rate a sound minded well informed advocate could negotiate for the work. That is preventing exploitation. It should not be used to try to set a living wage, because as we have seen, this just leads to the COL increasing for everyone... Leading to a greater concentration of wealth as the average person now has less ability to save.

Comment · 2 years ago
Its a problem of metrics, if you look at the conditions of the middle third of the population, then historically less migration is better as a rule. If you look at GDP then it's more muddy.

As an example the Australian immigration restriction act created some of the best conditions for workers, due to a high value of labour leading to high wages, increased negotiation power, and investment in labour saving innovation.

It was good for the nation and individual workers, but to use terminology familiar here, a single generation decided to enshitify the country and cash in, extracting all the present and future value of existing institutions.

Part of this is a massive propaganda campaign to try and convince you that every measure to restrict migration is racist or misguided... However migration is the most important and significant policy for a long term outcomes in a nation, we have millenia of history to show this.

Comment · 2 years ago
The way a country gets crowded has less to do with the actual land, and more to do with the rate of growth and investment in infrastructure.

The Netherlands had a similar population to Canada in 1950, but today's population is dramatically smaller. Combine that with a historical higher tax rate and investment in infrastructure, this is not something that can be replicated...

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