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by SECProto 5y ago
I have fond childhood memories of my dad on weekday evenings: card games; scrabble; quick swims in the ocean; sneaking out of bed if he made nachos late at night. Of course I have weekend memories too (more of the above, plus also trips&#x2
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by SECProto 5y ago
> By keeping my cash in bitcoin I can now buy (well, not with this shortage) 5 times more hard drives than last black Friday. Probably only 4 after you pay the appropriate capital gains taxes, I'd hope. :)
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by SECProto 5y ago
My only experience was a friend who owned an RX7 - incredibly fuel inefficient, burned a pint of oil every second tank, had to spend a few thousand on repairs when it had around 60k km on it. Has Mazda improved their design or manufacturing
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by SECProto 5y ago
Or a prius prime, if you want something reliable. Wankel engines are pretty notorious for burning oil
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by SECProto 5y ago
From very brief observation a year ago, it seemed like Lombard Street [1] was 90% self-driving-car training. Definitely a very special case that just disproves the quote from Lyft's president. [1] https://goo.gl/maps&#x
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by SECProto 5y ago
You'd be suffering from the last mile [1] problem. Tumbler Ridge likely got the fibre connection due to some industrial/govt user (the museum? the former mine? the archaelogists?), and delivering fibre to other households would be
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by SECProto 5y ago
> Aviation accounts for 2.5% of global CO2 emissions. It's not low-hanging fruit. Aviation accounts for 9% [1] of US transportation co2 emissions (and as they're emitted at high altitude, impact is likely more like 13-14%) [1]
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by SECProto 5y ago
The ethical issues with colonizing/developing Mars were already explored pretty deeply in Red/Blue Mars almost 30 years ago, so readers could mark Kim Stanley Robinson's words instead
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by SECProto 6y ago
I have a monitor with 1xDP and 2xHDMI and it's perfect. I use the DP for my desktop, one HDMI for my laptop dock, and the other HDMI for anything I might choose to use instead (console being the only thing I've used so far)
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by SECProto 6y ago
In addition to the (very valid!) tech demo aspects of this, there's also the huge public interest/public relations aspect. I've seen more articles and comments on Ingenuity than on any other part of this Mars mission. (Person
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by SECProto 6y ago
? 0 percent of education is municipally funded (it's all provincially funded). Healthcare too is all provincially funded (though actually mostly funded by transfers from the federal government). Obviously I'm only speaking for all
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by SECProto 6y ago
Municipalities pay for their infrastructure {1} from land taxes. The per-unit costs of suburban maintenance {2} vastly outweigh the per-unit taxes colleected. The inverse is true for dense urban units: per-unit costs for urban units are far
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by SECProto 6y ago
> It does not necessarily speak well of Intel's current situation, though, with respect to CPU and memory chips, that they consider this a good move. They also announced [1] that they were building two new fabs in Arizona a couple
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by SECProto 6y ago
> It’s treated like an accepted fact though, not an opinion Hope you've never read the "opinions" section in a newspaper! Or the comments in the thread above mine. This one actually cites a lot more references/sources
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by SECProto 6y ago
Thanks, I had originally seen it on twitter or else I would've sent the blog post directly. Iirc it's something like 60 tweets so the post is definitely better!
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by SECProto 6y ago
Here's [1] Cory Doctorow's take on why this wasn't actually some capricious treatment by the CCP over some minor infraction [1] https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1324391639628959745
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by SECProto 6y ago
I guess it's not that I expect the "play" button size to be adjustable, rather I think it should be prioritized (larger) than other buttons. The play button is the same size as each of the three shuffle option buttons. After
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by SECProto 6y ago
> The interface is really clean, the app has many useful features and honestly, the whole UX is smooth and intuitive. It is smooth, but I disagree with clean/intuitive. I just installed it for the first time and the comments I have:
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by SECProto 6y ago
Energy is only one driving factor. In the case of citrus, water availability is likely the dominant one. They grow their fruit in the wetter season. I find cherries quite interesting - how they'll have their blossoms out before most tr
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by SECProto 6y ago
Electric kettles are much less powerful on a 120v circuit (US household) than a 240v circuit (ie uk). A quick look at an online retail shop confirms british kettles are rated at 3000W, while american ones are 1500W. I actually have a bit of
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by SECProto 6y ago
Brake dust and road surface oils might not be so fun to pump on your lawn though.
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by SECProto 6y ago
You'd be surprised how much load runs through a chain of streetlights. 3phase/400V and they pull heavy duty conductors through the conduit. Could definitely handle multiple 120v/15A equivalents (but it'd be way cheaper a
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by SECProto 6y ago
> We are talking about approximately 2% of a small screen and about 0.5% to 1% of typical screens My (corporate-issued) laptop has a 1366x768 screen. The proposed changes will result in Firefox wasting 12% of my screen. It's an addi
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by SECProto 6y ago
Comparing Tesla's "full self driving" features to adaptive cruise control or lanekeeping is a very dishonest representation of the capabilities. edit: I'm pretty anti-Tesla (strongly dislike the focus on the central scre
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by SECProto 6y ago
You say "even worse", I say "much better". Reaching carbon parity means any car driven more than that creates less carbon emissions. People I know run their cars until 300,000km and our power is >90% nuclear and hydro
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by SECProto 6y ago
Canadian here, very happy with the milk quota system. Despite all the media hoopla, I don't actually know anyone who cares about it. And I live in a city.
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by SECProto 6y ago
My house has still has some knob and tube wiring. Sure, let's see what 50 years brings.
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by SECProto 6y ago
> If you can't envision how "phoning home" and turning the heat or AC, or whatever else you may have, on (or off) is handy then you aren't even trying. I don't have AC. If I turn off the heat, my pipes will burst
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by SECProto 6y ago
I flick lights on and off as I enter a room, which I agree, might use 1/8th of a second each time, say 2 seconds a day. And the light switches are well over two decades old. I have given them 0 thought over those years, and don't
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by SECProto 6y ago
There's something funny going on with the title of the other post - the chart in the link shows it jumping from 4000 to 16000 in April/May of 2020. So there hasn't been a sudden increase in the last month. But I don't kn

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