The excerpt speaks for the "quality" of this kind of journalism: headline says
> "Britain faces green energy disaster as lack of wind triggers new blackout warning"
Actual quote says:
> National Grid said the margin notice “highlights that we would like a greater safety cushion between power demand and available supply” but “does not signal that blackouts are imminent”.
In short: yes, regenerative or "green" energy requires a different approach, including overprovisioning, short term storage, and stand-by power stations (e.g. natural gas-powered ones) in order to work reliably.
That's not news, however, that's a well known fact. Plus both wind and solar can be predicted fairly well over the short term and a more intelligent grid could be used to adjust demand accordingly to also help with this.
Posting a link from a 240-year-old Western medium that was downvoted to -3 from the default 1 was the last time I wasted my time on commenting a HN post.
Afaik green energy has never meant to provide standalone, at least until the surplus energy generated at daily peaks can be reasonably stored for days.
> Anyone who bought the S&P and held it for 10 years made about 14% YoY (more like 10% if you take the last 30 years)
Anyone knows a study with other than US markets where they compare local index stock performance with housing cost? E.g. Switzerland, Eastern Europe, etc.
Indeed. In my hometown - Gyula, Hungary - there was a precision mechanics factory, for phones, faxes, communication relays called Integra. It wasn't huge, employed a couple of hundreds people. In '89, Olivetti bought it for peanuts to close it down.
This was quite a classic move during the "privatisation" in '89-90.
> I think this is one of the reasons Python took off.
Python took off for data because the frameworks and libraries around it. Without IPython/Jupyter, dataframes, Scipy, it would have way less marketshare.
Yes, but the point of memorisation is you can much quicker re-learn the subject and you know there is a solution to a problem when you face it. If you have never learnt it, you don't know that there is a solution, or you start to optimise things in a way that is proven to be wrong. You might not able to recall them, but the knowledge is likely there in your subconscious.
> There are many times that I need to rewrite my code because of non-adequate design.
Formal education won't give you the knowledge to get it right every single time. Your design will be always non-adequate because the circumstances always change.
The knowledge body of a CS and engineering can be obtained without enrolling these days. Engineering is about problem solving within the resource constrains and to a specification. Getting the specification right and fitting in the resource constrains are the biggest challenges that only experience will prepare for, because these are domain-specific.
CS and engineering studies can give you a toolkit to solve some problems and helps to give you to develop a "gut instinct" to pick a solution.
> No ability for British firms to operate in other European countries with equivalent rights as a local company, will have to form subsidiaries instead in many cases.
This has never been the case.
To enjoy full rights, you have to have a local office. Tax forms e.g. Hungarian employment tax forms doesn't even accept the UK postcodes as administrative address, let alone grant application forms.
I wouldn't say healthcare in the UK is free, but rather it has a good balance.
If you have an accident or chronic illness, the system won't leave you alone. But they cover zero cost of prevention. E.g. regular check-ups, blood tests, therapies, unless you have noticeable symptoms are not covered, which is often too late to catch cancer, diabetes or cardiological illness at an early stage. My wife and I spend between £2000-3000 a year on these in various countries (to make it affordable). This number is not terrible, but far from free.
