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Air entrainment is critical for freeze-thaw protection, so any exposed concrete in places that have below freezing should have 5-6% air entrained.

Not all road structures are equal (it's easy to design a road to last 20 years before resurfacing almost regardless of the loads put on it, and the cost variances aren't that major). Temperature variations are a bigger limiter of life of a road, especially freeze-thaw cycles

> Their revenue is north of £100M p.a., and they are owned by batelco.

Looking at the wiki page for Sure, they serve many island jurisdictions with a total pop of ~265k, and the falkland islands is only ~3500. That's a ratio of 1:75, 100/75=1.3 million lines up pretty well with OPs comment of the budget for the falkland islands.

60 is easier to factor, but that's kind of irrelevant when most AC formulas use frequency as a multiplicator. 0.02 is easier to multiply than 0.016667 (though at the end of the day, it doesnt really matter, because pi is used in most of the equations, so it ends up irrational anyway)

50 Hz is a lot easier to math (50 Hz = 0.02/s, 60 Hz = 0.0166666). Don't know if that's why, but it very easily could be.

The movie does as well.

https://youtu.be/2msCS8dvSok?t=43

> if you want to dumb it down to the public you might as well go in miles per hour,

The blue origin launch this week used mph and feet of elevation, and I can definitively say that using modified SI is way way better than US customary

Thanks for posting this comment. I went to the link, didn't see any images, and loaded up the full strength cbc page to see the images (https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-tiny-mobile-h...). I came back to post the link and learned something new from your comment instead!

> How is competition better?

Here's a CRTC article on how they're improving competition (regulation requiring the big companies to provide wholesale access to their networks) https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/phone/mobile/indus.htm

Here's a government press release from earlier in 2024 noting an 18% decrease over a one year period https://www.canada.ca/en/innovation-science-economic-develop...

And if you want an anecdote, for about a decade I used to have to pay $60 monthly minimum to get any useful amount of data. Over the last 2-3 years, that dropped to 55, 50, 45, and now I pay $34/month for 20gb of data with free roaming in the US. The government's statistics seem borne out by my experience.

> Claiming otherwise is just dishonest.

I didnt claim otherwise. I asked a poster what area they thought Rogers had a monopoly in. Telco sector has gotten quite a bit better in the last few years, but there are certainly still improvements needed.

What monopoly does Rogers have? They've been an option for various telecom offerings in places i've lived throughout canada, but I've never chosen them due to inferior product. Which monopoly do they have?

Sorry, it felt like some kind of a leading "gotcha" question. Why are you wondering about nuclear power in Spain, specifically? And why only from someone living there? Both seem entirely out of context with the discussion thread, which didn't mention Spain before your comment.

If you want details from someone who can do a quick Google search, instead, I offer: It seems like there was a politically led moratorium for several decades, then allowed but regulated into impracticality. Meanwhile the reactors they built have operated well for about 40 years and provide a large portion of the country's annual electrical generation.

From a quick Google, seems fine? Other than Public perception messing with the market

Houses in 1970 had poor vapour sealing, little to no air exchange, bad insulation, weak hurricane and earthquake resistance, bad utilities installation, bad foundation stability on expansive soil, weak rodent protection (edit: plywood unveneered cupboards, vinyl or carpet flooring)... I'm quite certain if we built a 1974 house in 2024, it would be done more efficiently, but no one would want to buy it (at 2024 pricing)

> It's not a government bill.

It's a private member's bill (from a member of the governing party, supported unanimously by votes from every party)

Once you get into those larger vehicles, vehicle weight doesn't matter so much (for regulations and for road wear). What matters is axle weight, which stays fairly consistent as you increase overall vehicle weight. eg for delivering bulk construction materials, dump trucks have either one, two, or three load axles (along with the steering axle, which is calculated separately), and the load it can carry scales pretty closely with that (gross around 10t per axle (22k lbs), net around 7t per load axle). Anything over the standard limit pays significant fees for a permit (at least where I am)

> Aren’t roads necessary from a “last mile” perspective for like, all sorts of things a functioning country needs?

Yup, absolutely! But at least where I've worked on road design, the number of lanes on a local road is governed pretty much solely by the number of cars (trucks just have a larger impact on asphalt structure choices and, balance with the impacts of freeze-thaw, resurfacing schedule).

But this is about longer distance travel - trains generally being used for intercity travel vs highways. Even still, I don't argue against road subsidization, but rather in favour of more train subsidization.

Funding road repairs, construction, and expansion from general tax revenues is similarly subsidizing a different mode of transit, and it's likely a much higher value than the 3b€ you mention (and likely more than overall railway sector subsidizing, tho I'm not familiar with Germany's budget). Also recognizing that other positive externalities exist, but pricing them at $0, seems silly.

> everything else of his I’ve heard just sounds to me like a drunk on a street corner with a Casio keyboard

Though I disagree with the characterization, there's a beauty in it, too

Yes, definitely a consideration - ol3 provides a significant fraction of Finland's power (~8% according to wiki). Having this large a fraction of any grid trip off would be disastrous. Grid managers have to consider similar things anywhere there is a single source providing a large fraction of the power.

Kind of beside the point of meta using the equivalent of 1-4 nuclear plants of capacity.

The use of title case in this headline makes it incomprehensible to me as a non-American (along with the fact that this happened a decade ago). A corrected title might read:

> "Feds killed plan to curb Medicare Advantage overbilling after Industry opposition (2014)"

If you said 1-4, I would not have replied - that is an appropriate bound for how many traditional nuclear plants it takes to provide 1.7GW

2 to 3 is accurate for Canada, where the last nuclear plant to connect to the grid was 31 years ago. For the US, the range is 1.25 to 3.5 (four reactors in the last 30 years). For China, the range is 1.05 to 8 (56 reactors built in the last 30 years, but the 200 and 300 MW reactors are kind of special, so 1.05 to 4 is a reasonable range). For France, 1.15 to 2.0 (five reactors in the last 30 years).

One might argue that, but unless the one arguing it has been involved with the construction of an EPR, I would not put a lot of stock in it.

My viewpoint (having involvement with many large (>$100M) construction projects, but not power plants): I don't believe the constructability issues with the EPR have anything to do with the size, specifically. I suspect the root issue is design and construction being too separated on the EPRs.

> It also corresponds to 2-3 nuclear reactors

One reactor, if you use a modern design! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)

(Or maybe 2 anyway, to deal with downtime)

> I can't imagine Canada adopting economic, military or cultural policies that favor US enemies without being strong-armed out of it by the US.

I'd say Cuba is the exception that proves this rule

That other definition doesn't really seem to fit either, but I acknowledge that if they had used a different word ("adopted a bigger breed" or "popularized a bigger breed" or something) then it would fit with the anecdote.

When you cite a source for something, the source should justify the thing you're claiming. The relevant part of your post to the thread was that "The 19th century solution was to develop a bigger breed of horse." It is entirely contrary to what the Wikipedia article says - "The breed was established in the mid-eighteenth century, although its origins are much older".

(relatives have owned Friesian's and Clydesdale's and Norwegian Fjording Horses, but it's neither here nor there)

The article you linked doesn't support your anecdote about the root of the Shire Horse. It describes their history dating back centuries before railways. Their biggest use seems to have been hauling material to and from ports, not trains.

Yep, all this. I've tried linux half a dozen times over the last couple decades, several times it even seems to work out of the box - then a day or week later, I realize my printer doesn't work, or I unplug the ethernet and realize the wifi doesnt work, or something that had worked great suddenly stops because of some update. All problems relying on searching through decade-out of date forum posts, hoping someone else's commandline solution fixes my issue. It's too much work, so I use windows 10.

Freeways are much, much less forgiving of abrupt speed changes and braking, which is something waymo (used to) have quite an issue with. Moving to freeways shows they are confident that won't be an ongoing issue.