sushibowl @ sushibowl @feddit.nl

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As someone working in IT, this sounds horrible for productivity. I can barely remain productive for a full eight hours, longer days would exacerbate the problem.

Probably better to have 5-6 for me. Almost the same as 4-8 but you cut only the least productive hours so it's more efficient.

You're like "did you consider factors a, b, c, d?" and then link to an article that explicitly ignores all of those factors and compares only the amortized cost of the construction of the plants, omitting all other operating costs.

We omit the higher operational costs for the nuclear power plant as they are an economic benefit as well. These costs are recycled back into the economy through wages and taxes.

On top of that, this argument is a classic economic fallacy. It's a little bit like saying "breaking windows is an economic benefit because people will pay glass makers to fix them and so money flows back into the economy." It completely ignores opportunity costs.

I haven't seen any levelized cost of electricity study that makes nuclear competitive with wind and solar power. Now I'm not against nuclear power in principle, and as the renewable share goes up grid operators might be willing to pay a premium to subsidize reliable nuclear base load generators.

However the economic proposition I just cannot see. The long lifetime is actually working against nuclear plants here as potential investors assume much greater risk, combined with enormous up-front construction costs. Who wants to invest billions of dollars to bet on electricity prices 60 years into the future? Lots of things can happen in that time.

Outsourcing generally means that you hire a (often foreign) consulting company to do your work for you, instead of having your own employees do it. That's much different from getting an immigrant a work visa and having them work for you.

Yeah, many countries do this. It's common in Europe but the US does it also.

Uhh that's not true? Firefox for Android is Gecko based and doesn't use chromium.

Maybe you're confused with iPhones? Firefox for IOS is WebKit based, because that's what apple mandates. That's why it doesn't support extensions. But on android there's no such restrictions.

I think he's saying it's harder to get a work visa taking a job in IT, as the EU company would have to first prove that they couldn't find a European citizen to take the job before they can start hiring foreigners.

It hasn't been my experience though, we hire lots of foreigners on work visas. Many from India and former Soviet countries especially.

Honestly, I hope Reddit stays popular so that most people stay there. As long as Lemmy doesn't turn into another escape for CP/Nazi's/random shit groups.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if various extremist groups end up setting up their own lemmy instances. The whole point of the decentralisation is you can't stop them from doing that. I doubt the big instance will connect with those instances though. We might end up with a sort of alternate mini-fediverse for various groups that don't get accepted into the main one.

This is also your solution if main instances start getting too popular and you don't like them anymore. Set up your own instance and disconnect from the rest. The main selling point of lemmy is you always keep some control over the platform.