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by api 7y ago
It costs so much less to drive an EV per mile largely because we get electricity from sources with a much higher EROEI than present day oil. Gas, coal, solar, wind, nuclear, and hydro are all much better. The low energy return of current oi
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by api 7y ago
If oil demand falls a lot of tar sands and offshore and fracking and other hard to get oil will become uneconomical to extract, causing (paradoxically) supply to appear to contract too. The oil age could ratchet down via a series of price s
9303.
by api 7y ago
This is particularly the case when taxis are so painfully awful. Every time I ride one I vow "never again." Its always a horrible experience and costs 2X as much as anything else.
9304.
by api 7y ago
The wheel of reincarnation is so called because it turns, and it will probably turn again. The new buzzword "edge computing" refers to the use of computers close to the user to do what was once done in "the cloud." Peer
9305.
by api 7y ago
No clue why this is downvoted. I would assume that at least for G7 and orher "first world" nation states.
9306.
by api 7y ago
Assume all Internet connections are party lines and just encrypt all the things.
9307.
by api 7y ago
Seems to me that the superpowers have already figured out how to neutralize the Internet: flood it with bullshit. Disinformation works on the same principle as radar chaff. When something is trying to see you you blow out a bunch of shiny t
9308.
by api 7y ago
This happened to Intel with Athlon and Opteron back in the early 2000s. Intel came back swinging pretty fast. They might this time too. In any case the consumer wins. Intel needed a swift kick in the butt.
9309.
by api 7y ago
> Hence it's pointless because it doesn't make things any simpler. That is exactly my opinion too. Systemd managed to replace the nasty cruft pile that was SysV init with something even less transparent, more confusing, clunkie
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by api 7y ago
> And if it wont work, it is so complicated and non-transparent that you need a specialist. Maybe that fits RedHat's business model.
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by api 7y ago
What Trump leaked about billion dollar spy satellites...
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by api 7y ago
This is semi off topic, but why (from a mainstream Chinese perspective) is China targeting Uyghur Muslims? Is there just a general ideology of enforced conformity or is this a special case?
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by api 7y ago
I must second George. His whole idea of taxing things humans do not produce instead of labor, etc. is remarkably rational. Both Marxism and fascism have made a comeback in a big way. Neither offer any solutions that will lead anywhere other
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by api 7y ago
What if it's discrete but effectively matches what we know in that current mathematical methods correctly approximate it in their respective contexts and resolutions? I mean in the same sense that Newtonian physics approximates Einstei
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by api 7y ago
There are companies working on aftermarket battery upgrades. There's one that has a module that lets you put a newer 40kWh battery in an old Leaf. Such batteries can be purchased from junked/totaled Leafs. There's another out
9316.
by api 7y ago
We have an economy that reliably produces a crisis on average about every eight years. We are quite overdue.
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by api 7y ago
I recently got a used Leaf with about 70mi range for around $7000 (total cost including fees, tax, etc.). It's extremely low maintenance (no ICE at all) and while I haven't done math in this detail yet the "fuel" price e
9318.
by api 7y ago
> This is wrong. You would have to additionally prove that the other thing is the only alternative. A CA theory of physics would just be math, right? Wouldn't it end up being isomorphic with some mathematical representation, albeit
9319.
by api 7y ago
Wouldn't a truly non-quantized field or dimension falsify this idea? AFAIK there are none known yet, though there are some (like time) where we don't know.
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by api 7y ago
I agree. It's a tough one because his ego is so huge he's often accused of taking credit for other peoples' work. My impression from reading through A New Kind of Science is that it wasn't some plot by him to take credit
9321.
by api 7y ago
Why do people do weird stuff like this when there is gobs of good ECC code for things like ed25519 and ECDSA with standard curves that is easy to use and just sitting on GitHub? Implementating complex crypto correctly is hard but its really
9322.
by api 7y ago
I used to work around MIT. Epstein isn't the only character like that. I won't name names but he's not that anomalous.
9323.
by api 7y ago
That story in the opening is such cringe. Are there really teams like that? The worst I've seen of Agile schlock is the actual use of "pigs" and "chickens." I forget what that actually even means.
9324.
by api 7y ago
It's a shame that so much activism is spent on nonsense and even outright destructive nonsense. All that energy could be going toward improving things that matter. Of course I think maybe what we are seeing is the activist arm of what
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by api 7y ago
It's an excuse to over-engineer. OOP encourages developers to over-think object hierarchies and build baroque code that is prematurely generalized. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with OOP and it maps well to certain problem domai
9326.
by api 7y ago
Agreed there too. A few tens or hundreds of B's in the right places could have a huge effect. I'd put the money on extending EV tax credits and subsidizing solar, wind, and grid-scale storage, and fund it with a big tax on carbon
9327.
by api 7y ago
I think Sanders is pretty honest in this department. The problem is that if he becomes President (or influences the next one) and puts a gigantic trillion dollar money pot out there, lots of politicians and bureaucrats are going to be inv
9328.
by api 7y ago
In those cases politicians set the goals. They did not pick how it was to be done. If NASA came back and said "we think we can put humans on the moon with a big catapult" and they were right , we would have built a big catapult.
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by api 7y ago
I don't like this. I like the sentiment but repeat after me: politicians should never ever insert themselves into engineering! The only exception would be politicians who are engineers, and there are not many of these in the US. Bern
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by api 7y ago
Because otherwise our abandonment of fossil fuels would make their price fall on the global market, causing them to just be burned in poor countries instead. This is one place in the proposal where he's right. CO2 is a global problem s

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