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Conservatives consume tons of porn. They just feel guilt about it afterwards.

Headline is terrible. The big red flags are that they don't do end-to-end encryption by default, the servers are in Dubai, and use a proprietary algorithm.

Last part should be clarified further. They didn't reinvent AES or anything. It's more like a protocol that puts together existing algorithms. It means they can use transport layers without TLS or anything else that wraps your messages in crypto otherwise.

https://core.telegram.org/mtproto

I'd still say this is a red flag. How you wrap encryption around your messages has several pits you can fall into. It's not as bad as reinventing AES, though.

Lithium batteries are often -30 to 80C, but that's just saying what's possible to squeeze some kind of voltage out of them. Basic principle is that the colder it is, the harder it is for chemical reactions to happen, and thus this will affect all chemical batteries to some degree.

I am absolutely certain that experts have looked at it, and come to different conclusions.

I’ll even go as far as to accept that there is no scientific consensus.

And what reference do you have for that? A recent one, because as I said, the economics have totally changed in the last 30 years.

Nuclear power doesn’t really produce co2

Concrete does. Reactors need a lot of concrete. A lot.

Renewables are still not ready to deal with base load in a power grid long term

Which doesn't matter. Base load exists because it's cheap to make power plants that stay at the same level all the time. The economics of that don't apply to renewables.

Nothing, nuclear power will buy us time

Utterly untrue. It'll take 10 years to deploy a single new GW of nuclear. That's not buying time.

You don't have to pay to "prove" I'm right. You just have to accept that experts have looked at this, and nuclear does not need to be part of the conversation. Not beyond keeping whatever we have already, at least.

Oh, fuck a book, aahhhhhh

The newer sodium batteries are comparable to LFP batteries from a few years ago.

Nuclear power should be expanded, a lot, it is the only realistic way to replace fossil plats for base demand.

This 90's talking point against Greenpeace is no longer valid. The economics have changed.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/no-miracles-needed/8D183E65462B8DC43397C19D7B6518E3

The other side of that is matching supply to demand is basically instant. You pull power from batteries and they give you more (provided they're not at their safe limit). There's always a lag in getting turbines to spin up and down, and so there's a non-trivial mismatch time.

While you're not wrong, sodium batteries coming on the market have 200 Wh/kg. This is comparable to where LFP batteries were a few years ago. That means the newer sodium batteries are about as good as what's in lots of EVs right now.

They are dirt cheap, don't have the fire safety issues as some lithium chemistries (not all lithium chemistries do that), and sodium is abundant.

You keep doing this thing where you presume I don’t know about some issue

Maybe because you way overestimate the reliability of old drives. Yes, 10 year old drives can work. Doesn't mean you should trust them with anything other than getting the data off of it.