Qwertious

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by Qwertious 7mo ago
>Also, domestic crude of mostly light, sweet crude whereas many US refineries are designed to deal with heavy, sour crude. Google is telling me 80% of the crude that goes through Hormuz is heavy, sour crude. The US has some of the best c
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by Qwertious 7mo ago
Putin mainly benefits from the increased price of oil - black-market oil prices are a discount relative to standard-market oil, so he'll have a much healthier budget, even if his sanctions stay "airtight". China benefits here
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by Qwertious 7mo ago
And because Europeans have the most Neanderthal genes, it's all "Neanderthals are smarter than we thought!" and not "are Europeans the missing link?"
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by Qwertious 7mo ago
Fixed for metric: >Class A: Bikes that can not go over 10mph (16km/h) via a throttle. And can’t go over 28mph (45km/h) with pedal assist. Or set the pedal assist limit at 20mph (32km/h) if you’re feeling especially conserv
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by Qwertious 7mo ago
Is $$$ not an advantage? Motorbikes are at least triple the price AIUI, not to mention more regulated. The main advantage of an ebike is that it's basically a pushbike (in terms of cost) but it lets you be lazy and unfit while still us
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by Qwertious 7mo ago
Are ebikes not legally restricted to 250W-ish in most countries?
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by Qwertious 7mo ago
"hinging the decision on whether your legs or your wrist is turning is illogical" No it's not, it's recognizing the psychology between "big push with foot makes go fast" and "pressing button makes go fast&
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by Qwertious 7mo ago
There's not much difference between a throttle and a sufficiently powerful pedal-assist. Switch to your top gear, and the torque-sensor will say "gee that's a steep hill, let me give you a boost" the moment you start ped
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by Qwertious 7mo ago
So's a turbine. Sometimes people don't want heating, but you still need to cool down the plant. And while I'm sure the nuclear plant will have a great emergency stop button (the type where paying $1k per press is absolute p
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by Qwertious 7mo ago
I think a nuclear plant in Manhattan would cost far more than just building the plant in outer NY, and then running a big power line in to Manhattan. Sure, the power line would take up space, but so would the nuclear plant's cooling sy
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
Their subcontractors do.
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
>Hydrogen is the minimum viable atom: one proton, one electron. Wait until you hear about H+
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
It's not that simple. Batteries are inherently more aerodynamic, because they don't need to suck in oxygen for combustion, and because they need less cooling than an engine that heats itself up by constantly burning fuel. You can
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
It's about maintaining exclusivity - if you sell your $100 T-shirt for $50 instead of $100, then it's a $50 T-shirt now. Even if they always cost less than $10 to make. It's degenerate bullshit so I'm all for the EU bann
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
Draining lithium reserves isn't that important - batteries don't use up the lithium, once the battery dies you can just suck out all the lithium and re-use it (and battery electrolytes are ~100% lithium, compared to lithium ore&
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
Car-centric transportation is not efficient. Not remotely. They have absolutely terrible bandwidth, and they balloon the size of cities apart the more you try to increase the speed to bring them closer together. If you think Simcity and Cit
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
No mention of DRM. Shame.
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
AI isn't the only bottleneck - even if the software problem was solved today, a robot arm competitive with human arms simply doesn't exist (and the only ones that have a hope of competing cost $16k each) - it turns out all those
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
Tesla shareholders who fully believe Musk is crazy will either 1) be quietly selling their stocks and don't want to draw attention, or 2) factored in the crazy and bought in anyway. If the craziness started today then that would be a g
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
The DeLorean was a stupidly-expensive car that had a lot of maintenance problems, decided to use an unpainted stainless steel exterior and had corrosion issues as a result, but is remembered despite all of this engineering mediocrity due
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
The article basically says Tesla lost it's lead due to inaction years ago, so what you're saying isn't much different - "it's already dead, they're just pulling the plug" VS "they're committing s
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by Qwertious 8mo ago
More examples, please! Reusable rockets is the load-bearing example, I don't think that argument works without it. You could maybe squeeze in "he kickstarted the EV market".
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by Qwertious 9mo ago
>Losing a Microsoft email is an inconvenience in comparison. Losing access to data is potentially worse than losing access to your bank account. I doubt Microsoft will let you grab a copy of all your emails after they block/ban yo
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by Qwertious 9mo ago
China is fine with dependence on other nations, it just can't rely on sea-based imports when the US could easily block them by blockading the strait of Malacca. That's why China has invested so heavily into their Belt And Road ini
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by Qwertious 9mo ago
Once fossil fuels run out, most exclusively-fossil-fuel-based activities will simply cease to be economically feasible. That doesn't contradict your statement, of course. But in the long term the fossil fuel niches will start looking m
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by Qwertious 9mo ago
Existing wind turbines turbines are not recyclable - new wind turbines are. Except, that's not even true. Some existing wind turbines are not recyclable. Except that's not entirely true either! The tower portion of the turbine
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by Qwertious 9mo ago
It's not "written too slow" if you e.g. only get 50 users a week, though. If bots add so much load that you need to go optimise your website for them, then that's a bot problem not a website problem.
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by Qwertious 9mo ago
>The Kurdish separatists and militants allied with the wrong country Which country is that? Last I checked, the Kurds were helping out the US a couple of years ago and got absolutely screwed.
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by Qwertious 9mo ago
The former is easier to remember. You can't forget the semicolon if there isn't a semicolon to forget.
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by Qwertious 9mo ago
Solid doesn't mean structural strength . Uncompacted snowflakes are solid, nobody builds things with them (igloos etc are compacted or ice).

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