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> Coinbase is well-capitalized, has diversified revenue streams, and is well-positioned to weather any storm. Crypto is also on the verge of the next wave of adoption Crypto is always about to take off. If the company is sitting so well,
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But then if you're not going to answer a question on technology, and you won't motivate any of the choices, including the one to not give an answer, what's the value in participating to the conversation? Your entire original
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If I read the study correctly the bar isn't to feed the entire population exclusively on fish, only to cover the expected ratio of fish in the diet.
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This makes no sense but I still see it mindlessly repeated to exhaustion. That mention is in no way Apple specific, it’s a quality of the battery itself. Any manufacturer is in the same position, not like Apple has a monopoly on batteries t
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I think this was discussed recently on HN. It’s not a bad idea. There’s nothing about this that “ruins” anything else. This is not specific for phones even if everyone focuses on them. The usual arguments are waterproofing and thinness but
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A lot of gambling is a scam executed form profit. I call it a scam because it's not always fraudulent, it's persuasion and a dash of misleading info. Often one party unduly influences the outcome or has information that the othe
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The real difference is that for Steam the bulk of the catalog is made up of DRM games and that sends a message. As far as I know Steam isn't actively doing anything to promote "DRM free" in general, they just don't say n
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> The US does something similar with the national defense manufacturers. You also see this with the European space industry especially in the rocket building. A lot of money is poured into the industry even if there are no massive return
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So you focused on this but still no details on the baseless and handwavey “makes it more expensive” statement? Fine so now that batteries are affordable have you seen any deployments next to active NPPs, which today are used practically exc
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This is true of many communities. The internet is full of complaints because people rarely take the time to say just “my car works just fine”. There’s no value in that info. People go out to talk about it when they have a problem, that’s a
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> increases costs “Increases costs” for who, the producer, the consumer, the distributor? If you have data on that I’d love to read about it. I think the article mentions that recently batteries are always together with renewables. The r
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If your NPP output is lower than the base load (I think this is almost always the case) then the NPP will always feed all its constant production to the grid to satisfy the constant base load. If you have a battery and what to put it somewh
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> Do you think you will know if someone has their phone in their pocket or in a holster, and is turned on and recording? You will never know. At least this says something about the intention. Someone who films with a hidden phone implici
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> And then putting a battery next to it would have been even better then that. An NPP doesn't benefit that much from a battery. They're generally used to provide base load which fits their constant supply profile. Peaks and qui
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> It seems there has been a complex balancing act which any owner of an old car will be familiar with: spend more money on keeping it operational, vs scrapping. This is a different choice because the car analogy usually has "buy new
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Obscurity is otherwise known as "trade secret". It's used when the company really doesn't want to give anyone even a hint of what and how it's doing things, maybe going as far as assuming nobody can figure out the
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> someone to buy a bunch of stethoscopes and objectively test them. I would bet that there is a 10 USD model that is 98% as good as 200 USD models from 3M Littmann. It's the same as every other field, cars, phones, or computer cases
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> Our 24 month can count to 20 and knows all the letters without watching TV. I have a very qualified pediatric occupational therapist friend and when I was sort of bragging about how many "cool things" my toddler can do I was
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In most countries it's illegal to leave any child unattended in a way that puts them at risk which is a vague definition. But if something were to happen to the child while unsupervised any vagueness collapses into negligence. A baby w
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> how can a child that can't even walk yet have the practice to know how to skip the ads At 2 kids can walk and have fine enough motor skills to press a small button, if that was the direction you were thinking. Kids are surprisingl
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> Europe sans Russia does not produce uranium Kazakhstan is by far the largest uranium producer in the world and has a leg in Europe, west of the Ural river. The important thing is that there are more stable partners worldwide for uraniu
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I'm sorry to say it but a lot of your assumptions are not accurate. Nothing is impossible but it's a lot harder than your assumptions make it look. > if the grid can support KFCs it can support flash charge A large KFC probab
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> The bigger deal is infra play, battery buffer mitigates grid hotspots That's exactly where I flagged the challenge earlier to which you replied that the math is easy. >> 1500 kWh battery storage + 600kW grid draw + 30kW sola
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> The 1-MW chargers have internal batteries, so they can pull a much lower average power from the electrical grid. We go back to what I was saying earlier [0], you'll need a lot of local storage to keep that charger running at full
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> I don't think it's that big a deal. Nothing ever is when you just have to type about it. > 1MW (4x 250KW stalls) Flash charging is 1MW per stall . You can lower the speed but then you're not flash charging. The chall
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>> convert many small lots, i.e. convenience stores into recharge stations like gas stations > 1500 kWh battery storage + 600kW grid draw + 30kW solar canopy The math doesn't work for converting "many small lots" unl
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Flash charging is 1MW - 1000V, 1000A. That peak power has to be provided by the grid or some energy storage that can be replenished in time for the next cars. We need cheap and smallish batteries (because burying is not always an option) to
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The missing background piece is that the European Commission awarded a 180m EUR sovereign cloud contract to 4 European providers [0]. This framework agreement made the choice of national banks a lot more straight forward. [0] https:/&
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> This simply reveals a staggering level of humanity. Wasn't AI supposed to solve all the drudgery? All those humans aided by cutting edge AI are still failing at these basic tasks? Then how good is that AI in the first place?
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> We are much much better off tolerating this level of corruption than we would be attempting a revolution. We , today, are better not attempting revolution because revolutions are painful. But we are also on a downward slope which will

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