Factorium

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by Factorium 5y ago
We should be mandating these requirements now for EVs: 1. Allow smart charging and discharging to the grid, to lower the overall peaks of energy demand (these peak periods are what drive power prices/shortags). 2. Direct user road char
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by Factorium 5y ago
Fortnite will come and go but Unreal Engine will be generating revenues forever. Epic are more motivated by transferring the excess profits of Apple into modest profits for developers, who then redistribute 5% of their revenues (as part of
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by Factorium 5y ago
It most certainly does! All payments must be within the Steam ecosystem when you are distributing a Steam app. Valve even prevents developers from linking to their own website, if said website includes ways to buy content independent of Ste
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by Factorium 5y ago
Can this legal precedent also be applied to Steam?
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by Factorium 5y ago
Hence why we've seen the popularisation of fake-meats in the USA.
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by Factorium 5y ago
We spend almost twice as much on Baby Boomer pensions as we do on the Military: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2018_Total_US_Government_... And a huge sum again on healthcare, overwhelmingly used by the aged (50% o
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by Factorium 5y ago
Why vaccinate people who already have much more robust immunity from prior exposure? Will endless booster shots also be mandatory, given that antibody titers decline by about 40% monthly?
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by Factorium 5y ago
Its impossible to 'put back in' what we are digging out of the ground. Burning 1 unit of coal generates 2.5 units of C02. We would have to replicate the Azolla event or Carboniferous period to meaningfully reduce CO2 concentration
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by Factorium 5y ago
None of those things sell vaccines or justify totalitarian state control.