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by crote 4mo ago
> Nuclear is cheap at scale Citation needed. We saw at-scale buildout during the 1970s and 1980, did it result in result in order-of-magnitude cost reductions back then?
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by crote 4mo ago
You should read up on the Asse II mine in Germany. They tried exactly this kind of naïve "just throw it in an old mine" approach, and it has turned into a giant headache as it is now slowly collapsing and trying to leak into the s
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by crote 4mo ago
This is already sorta-kinda the case, and it is leading to a lot of issues right now. The eCall functionality isn't exactly trivial, and due to its safety use there are probably some rather strict regulations around it. In practice thi
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by crote 4mo ago
Alternatively: don't add inherently-unsafe functionality which requires attestation in order to have a veneer of "safety". As media piracy and game cheating has shown: no matter how hard you try, there will always be ways a
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by crote 4mo ago
Easy: separate the systems into the safety-critical ones required for driving, and the nice-to-have ones used for things like entertainment. You can now give the car's owner full access to the latter via all sorts of weird 3rd-party ap
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by crote 4mo ago
Of course. It just means the estimation of "years of battery production" (and its implicit "we can't possibly produce that much so the transition is doomed to fail") isn't as big of a deal as it might seem at f
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by crote 4mo ago
Electricity consumption isn't linear (people use far less when they are sleeping), and production isn't zero at night (wind and hydro exist). Covering 12 hours is almost certainly overkill.
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by crote 4mo ago
I actually sent them a picture of my passport, and they still denied my account. Hetzner was widely recommended and I was more than happy to pay a premium for their supposedly-excellent service, but I guess they didn't want my money.
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by crote 4mo ago
Ah yes, the internet where we had polite conversations on the merits of Vim vs Emacs, and women wanting to participate were warmly welcomed with a friendly "tits or gtfo"... Shitposting, trolling, and harassment has been around si
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by crote 4mo ago
Isn't that just because a large portion of the early English colonialists moved to the USA precisely because they weren't Anglicans? See for example the Mayflower: they left England due to prosecution, moved to The Netherlands,
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by crote 4mo ago
The hacker crowd has always had a heavy socialist or even communist component - sharing and coöperative work is a big part of the FLOSS community, after all! I'd say HN is slowly catching up with traditional SV startup culture dying,
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by crote 4mo ago
That's simply not true. No CEO is going to accept zero salary, just because the value of his stocks will increase - especially not with small companies which aren't publicly traded. In fact, in some countries not paying yourself
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by crote 4mo ago
Let's start by Israel no longer committing a genocide on the Palestinians and go from there. Most "free Palestine" protestors probably don't care an awful lot about the final outcome of the conflict, they just want the m
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by crote 4mo ago
You don't become rich by having morals.
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by crote 4mo ago
2006 is 20(!) years ago, the elections had a 70% turnout, and Hamas received only 44% of the vote. Considering that about 60% of the Gaza population is age 20 or younger, that means about 18% of the current population voted for Hamas. And o
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by crote 4mo ago
Yeah, it's due to power renegotiation. It wants to supply the maximum power possible as you don't want a device which can charge faster stuck at a lower rate, so it wants to renegotiate with the sink, and the lazy way to do that
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by crote 4mo ago
This is already the case today. Those mini pcs often take 19V, so it can use cheap and abundant laptop PSUs, which use that voltage for battery chemistry reasons. Literally nothing inside it uses that voltage, so it'll just get downcon
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by crote 4mo ago
Heh, I would've argued the opposite. 5.1k is about the middle of the generic "some kind of pullup" range of 1k-10k, so it's a perfectly fine option for strapping resistors or for a non-critical I2C bus. 4.7k would of cou
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by crote 4mo ago
> I'm sure it's just a coincidence, though. Yes, actually. The Israeli state is not synonymous with Judaism, so let's not promote the classic "All Jewish bankers are greedy and evil" antisemitic trope. Blackrock
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by crote 4mo ago
That's just option 3.
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by crote 4mo ago
Most of that stuff was just torture for the sake of cruelty. It lacked the scientific rigor needed to classify it as even remotely close to research, so most of the "data" collected is completely worthless. Turns out you can'
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by crote 4mo ago
So it doesn't have a kill switch, it just stops being useful when it can no longer regularly phone home? That sounds awfully close to a killswitch to me...
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by crote 4mo ago
Safety has more than one definition. Being able to sue the company in small claims court when it threatens to delete your account is also part of that, and so is being able to pay for the service when Russian companies are once again put on
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by crote 4mo ago
I'm not sure I agree. China indeed has a general reputation for widespread espionage, so any Chinese company wanting to expand into the European market has to prove it isn't spying on its potential customers. US companies have t
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by crote 4mo ago
Today's Labour is even actively promoting anti-LGBT policies.
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by crote 4mo ago
More specifically: they chose Firebox because it doesn't have those kind of features. If the just wanted a (sorta-kinda) open-source browser filled with all the latest hype features they would've simply used Chromium. Using Fire
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by crote 4mo ago
In practice "better UI" would mean things like being able to trivially share files and images, or quote/link a specific message, or even making it easier to distinguish between users with similar nicks via their profile pictu
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by crote 4mo ago
It's gatekeeping. Don't be surprised when your pet project slowly dies because potential new contributors choose to join less hostile communities instead.
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by crote 4mo ago
The fact that this is needed at all is a serious problem. Making people who aren't aware of some obscure details accidentally doxx themselves is incredibly user-hostile.
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by crote 4mo ago
Switching PSUs have significantly more complicated chips, linear PSUs have significantly bulkier additional components. This means early switching PSUs were expensive while modern switching PSUs are dirt cheap.

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