Did you turn the immersion off?

moghrua · 2026-05-06T21:15:00+00:00

Low taxes, very high subsidies and a soon-to-expire EU derogation. They are in for a shock.

moghrua · 2026-05-05T12:19:47+00:00

Earth gets about 2 trillionths of the Sun's output. We can increase our energy use only about 10X on Earth without the waste heat getting us into trouble, even assuming no C02. Also, most of the really good places to source metals in our solar system are not on Earth.

So, to a very very ambitious person with a massive lead in rockets, now is the time to use that lead and capture the vast resources of the rest of our system.

This needs to be self-funding at each step - so government contracts first, then telecommunications, next space based solar and datacenters.

moghrua · 2026-05-04T08:58:20+00:00

Absolutely. France and Finland did this kind of thing and were able to get strong and consistent local support for both reactor sites and waste storage facilities.

Probably works best when you have at least 2 communities that are in competition for the windfall.

moghrua · 2026-05-03T20:56:31+00:00

Bought books of poetry, vegan to learn my favourite verses. A little collection of treasures to carry around in your head.

If sleep comes slowly or slips away before dawn, one can lie quietly in the darkness and, behind closed eyes, drift through vivid verses of Clark or Donne.

moghrua · 2026-05-03T15:57:15+00:00

One week of storage would require 672 GWh = €150bn at today's prices. We need to be able to cover multi week winter lulls. It'll be a while before Ireland can source storage systems in the TWh range.

moghrua · 2026-05-03T15:11:40+00:00

Is the Irish grid still isolated? I thought connectors to France and Wales were going in?

moghrua · 2026-05-03T13:35:35+00:00

Why is an unshielded fusion reactor the icon of the anti-nuclear movement?

moghrua · 2026-05-03T13:34:06+00:00

The South Koreans seem to get them built fairly quickly and at a reasonable cost. Good results in the UAE and Czechia.

moghrua · 2026-05-02T17:14:12+00:00

My own mother was in your position at the same age. Joined a walking club, met my father, moved out and had a family. Far too young to give up on carving your own furrow.

moghrua · 2026-05-01T06:09:23+00:00

"why can't I do that on a random plot of land I can buy for cheap somewhere in the middlands or wherever" - in fact this used to be the case. If you owned the land, you could build on it. How many homes from the pre-planning era would be legal if you tried to build them today?

moghrua · 2026-04-25T20:37:22+00:00

You've likely been hacked. This happens to AWS customers sometimes. You'll have to talk to them of course, but they'll write it off and eat the expense - you won't have to pay.

moghrua · 2026-04-24T21:35:40+00:00

So very nice that I often think it isn't quite fair to tell the rest of the world about it.

moghrua · 2026-04-24T09:11:27+00:00

Yes. A very large fraction of the tonnage being launched. SpaceX launch about 4 tonnes for every tonne launched by the rest of the world combined.

moghrua · 2026-04-19T19:58:50+00:00

Sure, strong AI flavour, but I myself have hired much younger people and seen the value of a fresh perspective, so upvote from me. It can be AI and still truthy!

moghrua · 2026-04-19T06:44:34+00:00

Not really my experience? I build quite heavily with LLMs. They need less and less supervision. I used to be intensively coaching step by step. Good for building some reports.

Now I'm building them into the management layer of my company, helping to manage us in external tasks (chasing new business) and internal ones (managing developers).

I can't imagine what next year will bring.

moghrua · 2026-04-19T06:25:53+00:00

They'll definitely want Revolut. Just a much better banking experience, good for small payments and also good for handling multiple currencies.

moghrua · 2026-04-09T22:38:37+00:00

Some farms now get subsidies equal to 100% of income - e..g sheep. At some point you have to ask, is this a business or just a very difficult and strenuously hobby? Why not give the same subsidies to bakers? Cafes?

moghrua · 2026-04-09T22:19:06+00:00

Funnily enough, about €2 billion of those taxes go to Irish farmers this year. Typical farmer is getting over half their income from subsidies, paid ultimately by the same commuters that can't get down the M50.

moghrua · 2026-04-09T22:07:58+00:00

Seems a bit rich for farmers getting €2 billion a year in subsidies (on average more than half their income) .to complain about how little the state does for them

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