By that logic anything can be solved when you throw money at it.

The US elected him twice. With the second time being after pretty much an attempted coup. This is bad judgment on another level IMHO

And again a prime minister in the Netherlands: 1. does not have the same amount of power as NL is smaller and doesn't put as much power in one person 2. Is always the head of a coalition government in which the extreme ideas have been tabled

In Europe I can literally type someone's IBAN and hit send, if arrives in seconds. So not sure what I need a stablecoin for.

So 'having an apple or Google phone' is equivalent to you to 'have every individual payment processed by visa/mastercard'?

Processing a payment means knowing who sent what to whom. I'm sure you don't care if I know what phone you have. But can I see every bank transaction you make? Every single purchase? No biggie, right?

Aside from the fact that this is maybe the next dependency to drop.

Also, a US president is VASTLY more powerful than either a prime minister in NL or a kanseller in Germany. The US is also a bigger world power than any European country by itself. So the implications are different.

Solution looking for a problem?

Trust comes on foot but leaves on horseback....

You can only spend goodwill once... And boy, the US is burning goodwill at an insane rate right now.

Not in the least because to non US people this seems like exactly what one could/should expect when re-electing this guy.

Because big oil doesn't like that.

And as others said, diesel is just one product. If you want to keep producing the other products you'll have to sell or store that diesel. The capacity is too much for the US alone and storing all excess capacity isn't feasible. So if he does it, there will be a surplus which means big oil will lose a large amount of money.

That's some serious cherry picking you're doing there.

It also says: "The LCOE calculations also do not capture other systemic costs or externalities beyond plant-level CO2 emissions such as, for instance, methane leakage during the extraction and transport of natural gas."

So we can just gloss over the nuclear waste problem. Which is especially interesting since the fossil plants will get a heavy hit due to their CO2 footprint.

Because of how hazardous it is, every country treats that as a national issue thus offloading the cost to taxpayers. Besides, I'm only aware of a single country (Finland I believe) who is far along on an actual permanent storage location. The US for example still doesn't have one, until that exists the real cost simply isn't known.

> And the various nuclear startups have cost projections that range from 2-3 cents to below 1 cent / kWh.

Startups have cost projections, sure. That's marketing material until they've actually built something. I'm sure SMRs will soon be reality and we can see how much of it is actually true. Until then, take everything you read with a grain of salt.

They've been underfunded for a long time. Meanwhile they still have the legal requirement to deliver everywhere in the US. So the big guys like Amazon will happily deliver their own packages in densely populated areas where it's easily profitable. The areas where it's not can be done by USPS...

So basically the taxpayer is paying for Amazon to not have to deliver where it would be costly for them.

That's an A-12, not an SR-71

Saying the security council works is... A perspective.

During the general assembly there were plenty of comments as to how it's not representative at all. There are 5 members with veto power (us, Russia, uk, France, china), why these? Because they won the WW2? The whole southern hemisphere doesn't hold veto power.

The security council works very well, if you're one of the 5 permanent members.

> If not, you are asking for eventual outage in Prod when some slightly different AWS thing bites you.

Exactly...

Not sure if your serious.

You picked the simplest service that isn't expensive at all to run. Have you tried with an RDS cluster for example, how does that work?

Does your integration test create a new cluster to use? That's slow to set up.

Does it use an existing one? Now you might have failures due to noisy neighbors and your cost will not be small.

And that's just RDS, as soon as it's not serverless, costs aren't trivial anymore.

So if someone thinks this is illegal, it's only illegal until a court says so. It can be in clear violation of the law but until a judge says it is they can pretend they 'interpret' things differently

So you are missing the fuel for the return trajectory, which they plan to make there IIRC. So add in situ resource utilization to your list.