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by Factorium 5y ago
Requiring payment for access would also work. Maybe $10 for a lifetime membership, otherwise its read-only. Children can only participate with these companies because the product is 'free'. Same with p*rn and free2play games: elim
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by Factorium 5y ago
If you get vaccinated now, you're effectively consenting to 6-monthly booster shots for life: https://www.axios.com/cdc-fully-covid-vaccinated-definition-... https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/ne
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CDC: U.S. may change definition of “fully vaccinated” as boosters roll out(axios.com)
5 points by Factorium 5y ago|0 comments
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by Factorium 5y ago
An induction cooktop and electric pressure cooker certainly makes a gas connection for the kitchen unnecessary. There's an interesting video from Adam Rageusa on how bad gas cooktops are: https://youtu.be/CcAJ3_-Hou8 I
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by Factorium 5y ago
Huawei paid Democrats $500,000 to release their CFO: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/huawei-paid-tony-podesta-500... I am Ukrainian. It is clear to me that parts of the US Government (and a specific political
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Epic Games Ends Alternate-Friday Vacation Policy, Angering Staff(tech.slashdot.org)
12 points by Factorium 5y ago|2 comments
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by Factorium 5y ago
If you're cooking bachelor chow, an electric pressure cooker is the superior method of cooking to anything else. I used to eat out about 80% of the time, at huge expense, but since buying a pressure cooker its 5%... There are plenty of
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by Factorium 5y ago
It will increase the pool of individuals competing for the job, and even encourage new political parties. In fact, that might be the reason that politicians are paid so poorly now: they can just be drawn from the pool of political insiders
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by Factorium 5y ago
We don't have the global resources or time to support mass industrialisation of Africa (1 billion people projected to go to 4 billion by 2100). Its unclear if that's even possible given that some of these societies face serious is
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by Factorium 5y ago
Modular nukes can mean lower need for electrical infrastructure, because they can power mines/military bases/towns directly without huge reliance on a national grid. We can start by mandating EVs-only for vehicles priced $100,00
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by Factorium 5y ago
Areas of high density can be heated with nuclear power, tapping directly into existing district heating systems. Insulation and design standards need to be stepped up, with passivhaus the standard if it isn't already.
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by Factorium 5y ago
This is the case all over the Western world. Federal Government politician salaries need to be 10x higher.
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by Factorium 5y ago
About 2 years at the factory, 2 years onsite: https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactor... We need to be ramping up these immediately... and targeting production of at least dozens per year. Its the
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by Factorium 5y ago
We need to rapidly: Adopt modular nuclear reactors, and produce hundreds/thousands of them yearly. Electrify transport. Figure out how to get to a global population of 4 billion: ie massive family planning drive in Africa/West Asi
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by Factorium 5y ago
Tesla just seems to have simpler and better designed vehicles. There are fewer bottlenecks because there is just less stuff in the car. Check out the teardown of the Mach-E Thermal System by Sandy Munro for example: https://www
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by Factorium 5y ago
Just to be clear, this is just 30% --> 15% for subscriptions . One-off purchases for large companies ($1m+) still attracts 30%.
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by Factorium 5y ago
I hope we'll eventually get autonomous minibusses in US cities, operated privately. Tesla FSD is already suitable, maybe with remote human operator takeover for the 0.1% of exceptional conditions. One of the problems of public transpor
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by Factorium 5y ago
Its only a matter of time before booster shots are mandated for everyone, every 6 months, forever. This is why we need to oppose vaccine mandates, now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window We fought a second
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by Factorium 5y ago
Why don't they accept antibodies as proof of vaccination, like Intel? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28842717
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by Factorium 5y ago
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2&selY... 51% of Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter is committed by about 7% of the US population. This is directly from Government data. There are real
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by Factorium 5y ago
Reusing glass uses a similar amount of water and about 30-40% of the energy as recycling: https://pdf.sciencedirectassets.com/282173/1-s2.0-S221282711... So my point stands, we could see significant environmental impro
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by Factorium 5y ago
If you're a healthy 35 year old White woman in the UK, your risk of COVID death is 1 in 166,000: https://qcovid.org/Calculation And hospitalisation 1 in 4484. By contrast your risk of death from anything at that age
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by Factorium 5y ago
Microsoft should just release a $149 Software upgrade for Xbox S/X that allows/requires full mouse+keyboard UI and access to Windows store apps (Windows store would probably need to be cleaned up and properly curated), Edge browse
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by Factorium 5y ago
Shouldn't this kind of research have been carried out before billions of people were vaccinated? Is it ethical to enforce vaccinations (via mandate) with these matters unresolved?
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by Factorium 5y ago
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm COVID deaths ages 0-17: 542, out of a total of 723,880 total COVID deaths. 0.075% of COVID deaths.
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by Factorium 5y ago
https://investinganswers.com/articles/10-most-popular-stocks... Top stock owned by members of congress - Pfizer #6 Johnson and Johnson #7 Moderna stock up 387% YoY: https://investinganswers.com/articles
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by Factorium 5y ago
I live in Ukraine and Bulgaria and throughout the entire pandemic, everything has been... available, and cheap. Including imported goods. In many cases, electronics are cheaper here than in the USA, despite 20% VAT. There seems to be someth
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by Factorium 5y ago
https://www.eenews.net/articles/automakers-blast-ev-tax-cred... "the measure also offers union-made EVs assembled in the United States an additional $4,500 tax incentive."
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by Factorium 5y ago
The chief political risks are from the USA, not China: https://cleantechnica.com/2021/10/19/president-bidens-pick-f... https://electrek.co/2021/09/29/elon-musk-calls-out-biden-c
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by Factorium 5y ago
Windows should just become a Linux Distro already.

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