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by briffle 4y ago
If only people were buying hundreds of thousands of batteries a year. Ideally mobile, on wheels or something. that they could plug in while working, and suck up all this extra grid power...
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by briffle 4y ago
The Oregon Legislators did very little for this. This was a state Ballot Measure spearheded by several groups gathering signatures. One of the more prominent groups was a bunch of veterans who had used it to treat their PTSD.
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by briffle 4y ago
nothing better than seeing expensive ad-buys for very expensive drugs, and they say "XXXXX is thought to work by".. you have spent millions on development, billions on marketing, and you think???
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by briffle 4y ago
Aspen2 is not green. its Aspen 4, which is part of the gasoline distilation process, but the oil they mix in for the 2 stroke engines is a syntetic bio oil. https://www.aspenfuels.us/knowledge/what-is-alkylate-fuel&#x2F
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by briffle 4y ago
plus there are other significant changes that can change in that time. HVDC power transmission lines lose something like 3% of their power over 600 miles, where AC ones lose closer to 7%. And use much less precious metals, since they requi
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by briffle 4y ago
that still doesn't help a ton. Solar City/Tesla has backed out of a huge number of deals for solar installs unless the client pays more than the signed contracts. the 'solar roof' was YEARS late and way overpriced. For T
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by briffle 4y ago
I thought this was the whole point of STIR/SHAKEN protocol the FCC requires, but maybe there are still some providers that are exempted? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STIR/SHAKEN
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by briffle 4y ago
My gas fireplace will run without power, but the fans will not, so it will run much, much less efficiently and take hours to warm a room from the ceiling down. However, my gas furnace will not run because it needs the large electric fans t
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by briffle 4y ago
Ask them to sign a document accepting all liability in those situations. I think the conversation will quickly change..
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by briffle 4y ago
In the previous case, the company was fined $185Million. The CEO was personally fined $20M in a later lawsuits. The former CEO's total compensation was > $130M. That sounds much more like a cost of doing business, and a great risk
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by briffle 4y ago
Of course, there is also the fact she entered as a group (girl scouts) and most likely was not the purchaser. To get group rates, many venues make you purchase all the tickets by one person.
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by briffle 4y ago
I can't help but wonder how they got the pictures of all the employees from this law firm? Perhaps headshots on the 'about us' section of the web site? I can't wait to see yet more legal disclaimers added to everything
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by briffle 4y ago
South of Portland is the evergreen air and space museum. They have the spruce goose in there, it's huge. The water park next door has an old 747 mounted on the roof, and I'd the start of 6 water slides. https://www.wi
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by briffle 4y ago
ASML is the very high end, but there are many other manufacturers as well. Canon and Nikon both make lithography systems used in many wafer fabs.
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by briffle 4y ago
The anti-stalking feature is actually pretty annoying. We ordered a few, and then quickly learned you can't share their location with family members, etc. So all of them got registered to my spouse's phone, and I started getting
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by briffle 4y ago
Ahh yes, the "I really want the fourth of july, but I can only book X months in advance. So I'll book a week early, and book the 27th of June through the 4th of july weekend. Then i'll wait months, and then pay the $7 fee t
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by briffle 4y ago
> What worries me is that the US itself will go in the same direction. Like how a year ago, Apple was going to enable 'client side' CSAM scanning of your devices photos, etc, until enough people got really mad that they put it
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by briffle 4y ago
My fridge is not ‘smart’ but the water filter has a chip in it that does not allow third party filters. Funny how that fact was not advertised when I bought it.
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by briffle 4y ago
thats just another way of "price anchoring". When you go to the department store, and that $40 shirt is 'on-sale' for $15, they never expect to get $40 for it. (in fact, many never actually sell that at that price) but
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by briffle 4y ago
right, pair your $400 CPU with a $1400 video card, and man, look how fast it is for graphics applications!
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by briffle 4y ago
Pumped Hydro is great, but there are only a few places where its cost effective to implement. They are trying to put two in Southern Oregon [0] [1]. They have been looking at it for decades, and still need many more years to look at environ
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by briffle 4y ago
I've noticed how many fluff-filled articles I see lately about 'needing to get back to the office' in many publications that seem to have a large number of advertisers selling office space. I don't have any numbers, but
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by briffle 4y ago
yet Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Company, soon Twitter, and some other companies he has. Its different when its us little people. Then it doesn't even matter if we get our work done or not, its the principle that matt
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by briffle 4y ago
Honestly, I would be okay with allowing them to continue to own stocks, but all trading activity is published in real time. I honestly think that would be more telling than just making them not own them.
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by briffle 4y ago
that is not political censorship, it is illegal for US businesses to do business with Russia because of sanctions. The sanctions themselves are political, but not following them is not a choice for US businesses.
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by briffle 4y ago
They host the zipped files of content for haveIbeenPwned for Troy Hunt...
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by briffle 4y ago
My kids school pays a bit under $200 each for their chromebooks...
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by briffle 4y ago
Their are lots of sheets properly licensed that show the notes to play ‘stairway to heaven’. Many intro to guitar books, etc. If I publish myself playing that song without the copyright owners permission (and typically attribution) I am lo
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by briffle 4y ago
Keep in mind this was the first AP1000 gen III+ reactor built in the US, and one of a handful in the world. The process should get smoother and faster as more are completed, and the process gets optimized.
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by briffle 4y ago
It takes us a few months to upgrade, with planning, testing, co-ordinating downtime, etc. We upgrade every other year, to keep us from falling too far back. Very excited for this year, as we'll be using logical replication to migrate,

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