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by cantaloupe 4y ago
BEVs remain mostly a luxury purchase right now in the west, but the price of the average EV in China has been dropping precipitously (almost 50% in the last 10 years) [1]. Several big US auto manufacturers are also gearing up to break into
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
The latter. The article briefly points out that cheating on only a few moves can give one grandmaster a significant advantage, which makes cheating difficult to detect. In discussion of a previous article, some HN commenters suggested that
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
Are you implying that a plant based diet is un healthy? If so, please provide some sources to back up the implication. No diet is perfect, but B12 is relatively easy to address in plant based diets, especially non-vegan diets, but also wit
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
Do you have a source for that estimate? Seems truly absurd. I found a source that you are perhaps misquoting: 400,000 gallons of water are used produce 1 ton of lithium from brine [1]. It also apparently takes 8 kilograms for an EV battery
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
Would be interesting to compare the two to Cloudflare’s new proxy [1] which they say will be open sourced soon. Their blog post suggests a significant boost in performance for connection reuse (not measured in this article) and resource uti
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32702211
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
I agree, and NASA is increasingly using private launch providers. But it’s worth noting that many of the high level engineers and management in the private space industry come from NASA. Same goes for testing standards and valuable space ha
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
I think NASA missions are ideated, planned, and executed on the scale of 10-20 years. The first re-launch of a booster by SpaceX happened just over 5 years ago, in March of 2017.
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
NASA gets so few opportunities. It always weighs on me when they run into issues, because I fear their charter and funding will be further reduced as a result of a big failure. Hoping for the best for the mission!
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
This technique needs to be adopted everywhere immediately. With infinite gains over jpeg, how could we delay? The commentary gave me a good chuckle, but I was actually pretty impressed with some of the results. I wonder if using stock image
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
Looks intriguing—I certainly hold onto fasteners too long—but “a box idea” isn’t selling it.
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
I think members of congress should only be allowed to invest in index funds or sufficiently broad mutual funds. Let that be an incentive to improve the business environment broadly. Barring that, I wonder if it is possible to institute trad
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
I was curious what size dice… > one-in-six chance of a magnitude seven explosion in the next one hundred years That’s surprisingly high indeed. As a general rule, humans are not great at dealing with low probability, high impact events
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
There are now geoguessr competitions, and the high level players learn to identify locations in seconds based on tiny details like utility pole designs. It’s incredible. Here’s an example: https://youtu.be/Uvqc1_xl2h4
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
And it’s a Tesla gift card… so probably only ~$20 out of Tesla’s pocket depending the margin of what is bought from their online store. (Or if one buys a $40 T-shirt, then $5 out of pocket)
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
I’m most surprised by the last fact > Sixty-seven percent of Americans in the most recent poll said they are drinkers, compared to 63% in 1939 I know alcohol consumption rose during the pandemic, but it also seems to be increasingly co
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
Although the (very short) article doesn’t delve into increasing legalization of marijuana, the second sentence and majority of the text is indeed dedicated to the fact that cigarettes are vanishing.
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by cantaloupe 4y ago
An article is not a puff piece simply because it casts something in a good light. This article is largely a transcription of the images from the linked report, and also addresses a common counter argument, “the power plants are dirty”. Batt