no it's correct for what Balaji is postulating
Nuclear at least doesn't pump out CO2, so a lotta people who aren't like you describe consider it worth considering. 850MW of nuclear is better than 850MW of gas on this scale.
But the economics just completely fuck it. TMI unit 1 shut down cos it couldn't compete economically and only an IRA tax break makes it even plausible.
There's a big thing in Australia at the moment where the LNP, beholden to some donor or other, is pushing economically nonviable nuclear hard. And even a lotta the green side is saying "nice idea, now make the numbers work in this universe."
it's a Roko plan, what could go wrong
we'll just build an atlantic garbage patch out of ice, and
i saw it in my email and thought "did he fucking read it" and looking through his history, he absolutely didn't
so according to @liveuamap, the backstory here is that this is to get his name out of news about the WildBerries shooting in Moscow - where a battle for corporate control came down to gunshots - because he was backing one of the sides
Nostr also has the excellent cost-control mechanism of first requiring users to set up a cryptographic key pair - you can smell the freedom from here! - and second of being full of coiner spam. This keeps server usage to a minimum in practice,
nobody in the community is actually interested in the Basilisk
except the ones still getting upset over it, but if we deny their existence as hard as possible they won't be there
This was actually posted in June, but it became hot news yesterday for some reason
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