coryrc

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by coryrc 9mo ago
You don't think history has an effect on the present? I didn't even bring up SAVAK or Basij.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Unfortunately that history includes nearly perfecting the use of torture thousands of years ago. https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/torture-achaemenid-pe...
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Because they won? Have you seen Tesla's sales numbers and market share?
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by coryrc 9mo ago
> Where are all the new organic No Kings protests? I see them regularly just driving around.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
If the grid gets heavily overloaded, the frequency and voltage drop. And home-based grid-tie solar will shut itself off when it's most needed. This is fragile and DEcreases reliability.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Which is why the money should go toward getting 10x utility solar than roof solar.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Nope, the requirement comes from government standards intended to reduce road damage and specifies maximum ground pressure.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
There is one, it starts about 11pm my time at https://news.ycombinator.com :)
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by coryrc 9mo ago
"User pay" is typically associated with regressive per-use taxes. It's perfectly compatible with socialism to ensure the cost of the road system is applied to only automobile users in a progressive manner. Relatedly, Finland
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by coryrc 9mo ago
That's the first I've heard of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax (and, less directly, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism ) being libertarian! fuck cars
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by coryrc 9mo ago
1. As soon as the roads are all paying best-possible-use property tax for the space they take up and it's completely paid by automobiles, in addition to all maintenance, we should try to proportionally assign dedicated bicycle infrastr
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Grid-tied solar is fragile. If the grid is not nearly-perfect, it won't generate. It will not help society as a whole. If you personally have battery backup, that helps you personally and you should pay for it, just like you might pay
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Enough people will falsify the replication and pocket the money, taking you back to where you were in the first place and poorer for it. The loss of trust is an existential problem for the USA.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
That person should stop. I give a lot of leeway to anyway who ends with "(English is not my first language, sorry for mistakes)" or if they also post it in their original language (if I'm confused I can machine translate part
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by coryrc 9mo ago
It's convenient the Islamic countries don't seem to mind their coreligonists being persecuted here, especially as these people haven't launched military invasions of neighboring regions.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Trucks are responsible for 99% of road damage and only pay 38% of the costs. https://truecostblog.com/2009/06/02/the-hidden-trucking-indu... Yes, the costs should be apportioned to those who are making them.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Because you get far higher ROI for the large-scale installations. In case you weren't familiar, Canada has a lot of other things which need the money than paying 5x per watt to subsidize panels on your roof instead of on the ground.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Are you sure you haven't moved the goalposts? The context here is "agentic coding" i.e. it does it all, while in the past the context was, to me anyway, "you describe the code you want and it writes it and you check it&#
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by coryrc 9mo ago
That's why I said they're not necessarily out of the running, like Mazda or Subaru. But that technology isn't quite right; it's two motors, connected to a planetary gearset and in a conventional location to a gasoline en
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Are you posting from Ukraine?
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Far more fossil fuel is burned in Northern climates (needlessly!) for winter heating than is done for just living in the Southern climates, including A/C.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
In California the problem is irrigating water-hungry cattle feed (alfalfa) in the desert. That just grows in the Midwest from rain. But "water rights" means they don't have to pay market price for water, so they waste it on a
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Perhaps the housing market is manipulated exactly for the purpose of reducing USA population size.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Washington State (and California?) gets its summer water from snowpack, not rainfall. If there's no snowpack, then we'd need massively larger reservoirs to hold water. I think it's more nuanced than "mis-management or un
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Because you aren't familiar with UK policies pre-Thatcher.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Depends on the price, of course. I'm wary of paying 50% of new for something run hard 3 years. Seems an NVIDIA H100 is going for $20k+ on EBay. I'm not taking that risk.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Specifically, we expect a halving of lifetime per 10K increase in temperature.
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Not that locked out: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/31/160-million-export-controlle...
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by coryrc 9mo ago
Especially as Toyota seems structurally unable to create a good EV. They produced one completely bare-bones model 30 years ago and never expanded past that. At least they're keeping some knowledge of the parts by having PHEVs, but I do
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by coryrc 9mo ago
> if they’re so good at code why aren’t these people with all the attention, branding, and connections in the world unable to capitalize them? Exactly, this is what I'm wanting to see.

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