benj111

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by benj111 2y ago
"more than offsetting losses due to the recycling process" if you recycle a 50kwh battery into a 100kwh battery, you aren't going to offset any of the energy used in actually recycling that battery (unless we're assuming
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by benj111 2y ago
I don't agree with the GP, but I also think youre going too far the opposite way. You've identified a number of things that 'need' a car, but im guessing you, as well as everyone else uses their multiple household cars f
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by benj111 2y ago
Agreed. I don't quite understand it, The 'individuality' of a car seems to be inversely proportional to its price. People (who are presumably into cars / want to make a statement) who buy BMWs/Audis seem to be the w
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by benj111 2y ago
But the thing is, the one that did 2m4s may also have done all the drugs, but still have the downsides. If everyone dopes, the best is still the 'best', its just their time is a little better, 4th place is still 4th place, but eve
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by benj111 2y ago
I know what youre /trying/ to say. But you seem to be conflating energy storage with energy usage.
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by benj111 2y ago
RVA23 seems an unfortunate name. I read it as RVA32
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by benj111 2y ago
You do realise that UK electricity demand has dropped ~20% over the past 10 years. Meanwhile the EV fleet has risen to 3.5% of the total car fleet. To thoroughly abuse statistics, theres an inverse correlation between EV ownership and elect
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by benj111 2y ago
But watts are defined as Joules/second so it should be (Giga)Joules/second/hour
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by benj111 2y ago
Well my experience is a solicitor pleading guilty on my behalf which isn't generally allowed in this jurisdiction. So no trial, no presumption of innocence, and absolutely no interest in anything other that processing 'criminals&#
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by benj111 2y ago
"It's 4,000 light years away, so the butterfly effect is irrelevant" Wouldn't time travel imply that you could go to the source 4000 years ago, so for this scheme you'd need to get the data at time of creation, not
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by benj111 2y ago
So how far do you want to take that. If the judges lived experience of suspects is that they're normally guilty.... Having interacted with the criminal justice system, that's the view they seem to take.
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by benj111 2y ago
But in this case the testing is given different amounts of time. The thing you think works gets less testing time than the thing you aren't so sure works. Thus the thing you think works is more likely to pass, just because you are subj
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by benj111 2y ago
Could this not also be evidence for bias? A judge scheduling longer hearings for cases with good outcomes suggests they've already made up their mind.
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by benj111 2y ago
That like saying that some software that a company throws over the wall every so often is free software. It may be in the literal sense but it misses the point. Transparency isn't simply knowing that a thing happened. Transparency is k
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by benj111 2y ago
What it's 'about' (according to one side) and the law involved are 2 separate things. When I buy something from the supermarket, they add charges and make it difficult for the manufacturer to contact me directly, so that isn&
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by benj111 3y ago
If I use a piece of software, I tend to learn the shortcuts, and set things up to make my life easier. I don't start reprogramming excel though. That, to me, is the point being made. Fwiw my microwave has about 20 buttons, I only know
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by benj111 3y ago
Well I'd like to know what radio station or cd track is playing.
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by benj111 3y ago
Is it about respect? I thought it was just about money. Respect could be shown through the production of fan fiction, that isn't compatible with IP.
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by benj111 3y ago
I think the profit motive is the dividing line for me. If they think it's important to release the work, they shouldn't be profiting from it.
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by benj111 3y ago
In a situation where a land owner has more land than solar, and the land is already hooked up to the grid, and permissions etc are relatively cheap, and the limiting factor is the cash to install new panels, then yes, it makes sense to buil
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by benj111 3y ago
Numberwang!
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by benj111 3y ago
Right... But how does one find it. Does one have to tilt their trolley at every pillar on every train platform. Or find a friendly worm type thing to show them hidden entrances?
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by benj111 3y ago
Well, to be fair the brick could be wrapped in a copy of the gpl and stallman would be fine. Presumably the requested source code could also be delivered by a second brick.
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by benj111 3y ago
It might be useful to say what it is. Especially when you're on a mobile when you're presented with 2 exactly the same breakdowns and what looks like the bottom of the page.
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by benj111 3y ago
Is neither an option. A thing has to be owned by some entity. That entity has a choice of being profit making or not. You may not be satisfied with either of those choices, but that's a separate issue. A non profit still needs funds. T
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by benj111 3y ago
So? I don't know the precise structure, but Wikipedia is 'owned' by the wikimedia foundation. It could be owned by Disney. So the question is, who is the better custodian? A not for profit entity or a for profit one? Raspber
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by benj111 3y ago
But at that point the price has already been paid. If you bring back rocks, or air. Same cost. If I take a first class flight, how much does it cost to take my phone? Yes I could apportion a fraction of the cost of the ticket to the phone,
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by benj111 3y ago
Is looking at current running costs the only metric? Computer co2 emissions are dominated by manufacture, not use. At some point the extra bloat means you have to upgrade your computer / buy another one.
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by benj111 3y ago
Depends. If the primary point was to put a man on the moon, the cost of bringing things back is basically free. If on the other hand the primary mission was bringing back as many rocks as possible, then yes, the return would be very expensi
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by benj111 3y ago
I really love my $niche_tech_doodad. That doesn't mean everyone is going to like it. It isn't enough to say that current customers love it, but how many potential customers will

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