Qwertious

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by Qwertious 10mo ago
Chinese EVs are more technicly advanced than Western EVs.
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
"The devs of x11" is a wide category, considering how many X11 devs weren't even born when X11 was first written. Plenty of X11 devs objected to Wayland and tried to patch X11, but when half the devs decide they want to write
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
Wayland made writing WMs needlessly hard, and the benefits of Wayland were frankly not real - most of the reasons given in 2011 were patched in to X11 later. All the Wayland rewrite got us was a situation where Wayland is both bleeding-ed
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
Gardening/lawncare wouldn't work as well as you'd think - ride-on lawnmowers need fuel to run for extended periods, so they face the same charging problem (even though the client usually has a power outlet in their house, mer
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
They're not worse, China has (arguably) the best batteries in the world. NMC and LFP (of the same cost) are about even, but pricier NMC packs can add maybe 10% more range for the same weight. Which is why most EV companies offer a &quo
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
Didn't string theory create the concept of supersymmetry, which had testable theories? They were proven wrong, but that's a good thing.
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
It doesn't need to be extinguished, it just needs to be removed from the ship. Even a second of airtime (and a healthy lateral velocity) might be enough that the ship is out of the explosive radius of the battery.
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
The route length isn't important, only the longest distance between ports that you can recharge at. Cargo ships regularly slow steam (I.e. run the engine slow to improve fuel-efficiency) and stopping to recharge batteries at multiple p
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
It's so weird how people in the UK blame their economic woes on renewables and not the fact that they sanctioned themselves against their main trading partners with Brexit. Like, what were you expecting? Breaking out of the EU (a prima
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
AC is fine, with sufficient PV and insulation - most of the time, hot days are sunny days and thus easily renewable. Most people shouldn't own personal automobiles, because most people live in cities and cities shouldn't be built
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
The poors had refrigeration, in the form of ice boxes. Not refridgerators, just basically eskies that the ice man came and shoved a big block of ice into once a week. So basically you could only make ice cream (etc) on the day the ice man c
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
Most cowboys didn't own a gun - a gun was a month's pay, and nobody with that sort of money worked as a cowboy.
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
Hey buddy, I'll sell you the Brooklyn bridge for $5 - just post a screenshot of you donating $5 to FSFE and I'll PM you the title deed.
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
>how do you judge reliability of a compressor before buying it? Reviews, specs, teardowns, brand name.
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
Hunter-gatherers didn't have birth control; if you have 5 kids and half of them die, you've still maintained your population.
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
>Hard to catch a disease when it’s always the same 15 people around you, with no communication to the outside world Traded neolithic goods regularly crossed continents. If an axe head can cross the continent then so can a microscopic dis
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
Stone age hunter-gatherers had better lives than stone-age farmers, assuming that they had enough land to hunt/gather on. Modern farming is usually far easier than modern hunting/gathering, although if you go far enough north you&
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
That doesn't mean they should be reliable speculation vehicles. AFAIK Valve hasn't interfered with the gifting of digital items, only sales.
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
They're the #1 most profitable per employee . There are plenty of companies more profitable than Valve, but they have more employees. Valve could hire more employees.
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
Costco is public, according to wikipedia.
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
>The US military isn't that scary; the evidence to date is that it's ability to destroy counties ends somewhere around Iran's strength. The US military's "ability" is very contextual - for instance, the US c
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by Qwertious 10mo ago
That could describe a special "gaming-optimized" router.
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
Those billions of dollars spent on data centres could instead have hypothetically been spent on researchers with relatively modest computing resources. A few hundred billion dollars will buy you a lot of researchers.
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
>And the driver does nothing because they don't want to get in a fight. Historically, it wasn't even the driver's job - the bus would have 2 employees: the driver and the conductor. The driver would drive, and the conducto
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
The homeless person will just get back on?
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
The number of people who can afford a home is very strongly correlated with how affordable homes are. I therefore propose that if we can make homes more affordable, homelessness will decrease.
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
The moment the military pillages an area, its ability to fight insurgency in that area vanishes. And since most of the US's wars have been of the anti-insurgency variety (barring the first few days, or possibly hours, that it takes for
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
A sufficiently large stockpile of uranium gives China time to simply pivot away from depending on imported Uranium (either by building new mines locally or building out solar or such). An equivalent stockpile of oil simply isn't feasib
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
The problem is that our current ideology basically assumes they will be - either by consumer pressure, or by competition. The fact that they don't police themselves is then held as proof that what they did is either wanted by consumers
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
>In my experience, that isn't true. That's because you removed my qualifying statement from the quote. "IN A FUNCTIONING MARKET"

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