Qwertious

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by Qwertious 11mo ago
> maybe a less dystopian form of mental institute. More like a dorm with mental services and security. That already exists. It's underfunded.
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
Eating out in the US being crazy expensive is somewhat of a self-causing problem. When you have a big kitchen and eating out is expensive, you cook at home unless you have money to splash. When only money-splashers go to the restaurant, res
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
And other countries have salaries lower than $100k/year for software devs.
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
The law wasn't poorly written, most websites just don't follow the law. Yes, they're doing illegal things, but it turns out enforcement is weak so the lawbreaking is so ubiquitous that people think it's the fault of the
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
Cowards.
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
A lot of people prefer living in financially affordable environments, and in a functioning market, dense towns/cities will always be more affordable unless you literally work on a farm. Everyone prefers to live in a giant sprawling m
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
If a war broke out and the UK couldn't call in NATO, then the UK is already fucked. And if they can call NATO in, then they can tap into the inputs in all NATO countries.
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
They might, but so far they don't. Manufacturers are largely switching to LFP (although to be fair they tend to offer a long-range option which ships NMC instead) and the main benefit of LFP is cost. The range of electric cars on the m
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by Qwertious 11mo ago
Suppose you go from a 95% efficient electric motor to a 99% efficient motor. How much more efficient is it? You might say 1.04x (or actually 99/95 efficient). Except, that's not the whole story - electric motors need cooling, and
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by Qwertious 1y ago
Yes, but how far apart will the fracture be? For instance, Mac and Windows are further apart than Ubuntu and Fedora, despite both being fractures in the OS 'ecosystem' - it's far easier to be cross-platform between Ubuntu&#
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by Qwertious 1y ago
It's not a thing; people are just stuck in the 2000s and think that China can't beat the West technologically and therefore must be cheating.
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by Qwertious 1y ago
Long-form storage is inherently unprofitable - a battery that's used daily will make 365x the sales of a battery that's used only once a year. So inevitably, the first batteries will always prioritize daily arbitrage, and only onc
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by Qwertious 1y ago
Just solar without wind is a terrible idea. Which is why no one's doing it.
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by Qwertious 1y ago
>A comment that I heard recently is that in some places using solar panels is literally cheaper than using wood panels for fences. ...that might have been my comment. Or someone else repeating it. I was wrong, I misremembered "in X
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by Qwertious 1y ago
Because car-based roads are so fucking noisy, we throw a ton of green space and front yards to mitigate it. Not to mention "sidewalks" are unnecessary when you can just walk in the centre of the street. The size of a traditional r
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by Qwertious 1y ago
Gas is the worst example of a subsidy - a better example would be the mandatory parking built everywhere, which is usually free.
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by Qwertious 1y ago
A lot of those roads could be train tracks instead, FWIW. "Most of the larger roads are necessary to deliver food to cities?" Not at all. The smaller roads leading to a hub? Absolutely. But roads have terrible throughput. And as o
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by Qwertious 1y ago
The term "jaywalking" was invented by car companies in a political campaign to reframe the car deaths problem as the fault of pedestrians. You're conflating "the cause is unpopular" with "the cause organically
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by Qwertious 1y ago
Just because a device can do something, doesn't mean it should. The RM team, for all their faults, were intentionally minimalist, and did not set out to make their device an e-reader. Complaining that the non-e-reader reads e-books p
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by Qwertious 1y ago
Surface streets aren't inherently 2D, though - you can build overpasses and underpasses and above-grade highways. We just don't, because it's hideously expensive.
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by Qwertious 1y ago
If you have streets as narrow as in e.g. Florence, the rain can only hit you from above, whereas in car-centric suburbia rain can hit you from the sides in basically all directions - so an umbrella blocking the top isn't enough, you ne
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by Qwertious 1y ago
>and they refuse to simply USE THE SIDEWALK How do you get to a sidewalk on a different block without going on the road?
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by Qwertious 1y ago
The rM2 basically isn't an e-reader. It's a PDF viewer with a focus on annotation, and it's a notebook. Any ability to read ebooks is just circumstantial.
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by Qwertious 1y ago
>Industrial capitalists make mass produced LED lights and cheap solar panels. Wow, those cheap solar panels were done entirely by the private sector? Without decades of government-backed research on how to make solar panels viable to m
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by Qwertious 1y ago
The problem was "compromise" - essentially as part of forming government the Greens and the CDU (Angela Merkel's party) agreed to an energy policy where they would phase out nuclear and replace it with a fuckton of renewables
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by Qwertious 1y ago
FWIW it was about hydrogen - the Hindenburg was designed around Helium (and thus didn't have various safeties around hydrogen) but due to embargoes against Nazi Germany they couldn't get the necessarily helium, so they filled it u
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by Qwertious 1y ago
> If you know many, youll likely note most do not deny climate change but instead deny that it is man made, which is an easier delusion to maintain. This is relatively recent progress. Go back a decade and people were straight-up denying
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by Qwertious 1y ago
Grain can be turned into porridge (so basically just soaked) and eaten, bread and beer is optional. In fact, IIRC classical-era armies would eat their grain as porridge instead of spending hours in camp baking it into bread. For obvious rea
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by Qwertious 1y ago
1. Someone dips a rope in flammable oil before lighting it, and sees that it's quite flammable. 2. Some other time, someone tries to use a rope dipped in flammable oil as a fuse to trigger the lighting of the oil once it burns back to
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by Qwertious 1y ago
(Not an expert but) Chinese writing is hieroglyphic, wheres 'western writing' is phonetic. Western writing has a very small character set and is thus well-suited to a printing press, whereas hieroglyphics have thousands of charact

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