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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
What about the (proposed) ending of the federal EV incentives? Also, not to be nit picky, but how much rural broadband was actually implemented with the infrastructure funding during the Biden years? My understanding is, they didn't ac
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
A few years ago I read of a pioneer woman in the Dakota region in the late 19th Century who had fifteen children, of whom 9 survived to adulthood. I can't begin to imagine the pain, and the fortitude needed to survive so much tragedy.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
I judge every politician by their actions, not their words. In Trump's case, his words are more "salad-like" than most, but his actions generally speak pretty clearly.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
This was clarified on Snopes; he was referring to groups such as fundamentalist Christians who rarely vote, urging them to come out this one time and vote. Not very eloquently worded, perhaps, but certainly his intent, as explained by spoke
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Wouldn't that eliminate 90% of social media in your country?
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
You raise an important point. Why should a Chinese company be allowed to operate freely in the U.S. when U.S. companies offering similar services are totally banned in China? Doesn’t this violate the principles of free trade and frameworks
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
I found a couple of small projects on upwork, and also got scammed on upwork, so be careful. I left a job after 12 years, and a couple of years later got re-hired on a part time retainer basis to help fix mistakes that have crept into the p
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
He stated that he did not have a mortgage.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
It’s a good question. I guess the same sort of constraints that prevent A.I. customer service chatbots from cursing or otherwise saying inappropriate stuff.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Tangential to the main topic is this quote from the article: > I barely getting by, I’m eating at the food bank now, I had grossed $250,000 last year It’s too bad he’s in such difficulty that he has to eat at a food bank, but where did
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
I’d much rather have meetings go full Discord. A chat room is easier to deal with when you’re busy and trying to multitask. Having to drop everything and interact in a rigidly structured audiovisual format feels very constraining and counte
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Seems like it nonetheless provides redundancy. Also, one site can only handle so many launches per day. If SpaceX gets really busy, it will need multiple launch pads to handle the traffic, both launches and landings. But then, there may be
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
It is a state commission composed of political appointees. It's unlikely it has the jurisdiction over Vandenberg to ban any activities, except when such activities violate state environmental laws. Even then, the federal government mig
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Unless they are planning a 2-bench version of the cyber taxi, same basic chassis and internals but a conventional passenger car, then yes, probably their next move has to be discounts to Model 3. Would require some significant cost savings
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
I think a sub-$30K sedan will be quite successful, if it can carry 4+ people, 350+ range etc.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
I had a nightmare the other day of robots grabbing people and harvesting their organs.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
The huge used ICE car market provides sub-$15K vehicles (aside from the inflated prices during the Covid19 supply chain situation). Today, in the U.S., there's a pretty healthy supply of used EV's as well. I recently got my kid a
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
I have (my kid has actually) a 2022 Nissan Leaf with AM receiver. Perhaps newer EV designs are different in some way, such as the placement of the electric motors. Stellantis has stated they moved the radio receiver components away from the
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Very fun blog to read, especially since I've been through a somewhat related though far less rigorous experience; a China major, spent 2 years in Taiwan while undergrad, then 2 years grad school, 7 years total studying modern Mandarin,
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Bob Dennard enjoyed Scottish country dancing, which is how I knew him. He was a kind and humble man. R.I.P.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
I’ll say it, since no one else is: Congratulations to Boeing! This is a much needed victory at a time when their reputation has taken a beating (most of it deserved). Over on Slashdot, it was reported that the likely cause was: a “Teflon se
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
American culture has changed, and academic excellence is less treasured today.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Can’t a VPN bypass the filters, as is done in China?
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Toxic cane toads are an invasive species in Australia, brought to the country in the 1930s to control agricultural pests. Native species like freshwater crocodiles eat them and die. Now a team has found a way to train the crocodiles and oth
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Crocodiles were taught to stop eating deadly toxic cane toads in Australia(newscientist.com)
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
Aren't those basically separate systems? I would have thought the Spaces feature runs on its own set of servers, thus might experience outage for whatever reason totally separate from the other Twitter/X functionality.
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by blisterpeanuts 2y ago
We in the U.S. don’t quite appreciate how much larger the average vehicle is versus 30 years ago. Low riding sedans are outnumbered by crossovers and full sized SUVs these days. In the 1990s, I had a sweet little Honda Civic hatchback that
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by blisterpeanuts 3y ago
After Gemini's embarrassing "woke images" debacle last month, probably a lot of people wouldn't want it on their phones, nor on their desktops/laptops. Until Gemini is cleaned up and all the political biases removed
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by blisterpeanuts 3y ago
Thanks for this. Very clever and handy. I've been wanting to make a simple web app with persistent notes, a homegrown Google Keep clone, to run on my shared host, just for privacy purposes. But this is a neat little non-persistent solu
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by blisterpeanuts 3y ago
How are BYD's hybrids (all PHEV now, I believe) more advanced than Toyota's? I'm also curious as to BYD's build quality and longevity of components. Toyota is a known quantity; their vehicles typically run for years with

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