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Electric vehicle battery prices are falling faster than expected(goldmansachs.com)
565 points by dakna 3y ago|437 comments
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by dakna 3y ago
It is a concept truck, unveiled at the Japan Mobility Show. If you attend the show, you can check it out in person. Or watch the many videos about it on YouTube.
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by dakna 3y ago
Still waiting for the year of the Linux desktop. We did get Duke Nukem Forever eventually, so I'm optimistic. Next year for sure... It would be more in reach if we would just accept that Android is that desktop for billions of people w
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by dakna 3y ago
Thank you for the response and taking the time to list recommendations, much appreciated.
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by dakna 3y ago
> Don't waste time. Get results. Alright. Let's imagine I'm already in the boat 5km from shore, and I have one day left before I'm dropped into the ocean. What should I read, watch or listen to in order to catch up on
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by dakna 3y ago
It's one of those things where you have to take a look in person before you buy it. 600 miles round trip is relatively easy to drive in a day without staying overnight.
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by dakna 3y ago
I wonder if you could use it to call some existing C libraries. Maybe just add some wrapper functions to execute the compiled binaries, and return the result. As long as you keep the same order of arguments for the function call, this could
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by dakna 4y ago
To be fair,in those days MyISAM was pretty much the only DB engine that could keep up with the traffic growth rates of the early web, because it didn't enforce constraints. It was optimized for reads, not writes, and was fast enough to
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by dakna 4y ago
> It’s usually worse, less document and less tested than the popular alternative. That's often true, but the situation is not much different to framework stagnation. "Popular" frontend frameworks I have worked with through
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From a model of urban development to a ghettoized estate and back again(goethe.de)
1 points by dakna 4y ago|0 comments
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by dakna 4y ago
>It does not 'cause problems'. Like with most policies, the details are much more nuanced. Check out the history of the Gropiusstadt in Berlin: https://www.goethe.de/ins/jp/en/m/kul/sup&
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by dakna 5y ago
> If you had to feed 100M people with a nutritionally complete diet forever, how small of an area could you manage to generate the food? I don't know the answer for centralized food production, but for local food production based on
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by dakna 5y ago
While I certainly dream of building a true passive house, it is much more reasonable to follow the Pretty Good House approach, in it's current 2.0 version described here: https://www.prettygoodhouse.org/pgh-20 As with
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by dakna 5y ago
The local food bank. This serves an immediate local need, especially for kids not having lunch at school. Quote from their website: > For every $1 donated we can provide 2.5 meals. In our household we strive to have one dollar meals pret
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by dakna 5y ago
And yet, there is overwhelming demand for what the government calls "cyber security". As a developer it is easy to get good at your craft by practicing and learning, how in the world is a security specialist able to practice witho
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by dakna 5y ago
There was always the option to send links to the Hampsterdance site to people that just started using Winamp to play music on their stereo. "Di ba didi dou Didi didldildidldidl houdihoudi dey douDibidi ba didi dou dou" on high vol
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by dakna 5y ago
This looks great, congrats! Since academic researchers are your customers, would you mind sharing a few tips on how to get your product in front of academic staff? I'd assume the university department has to approve this expense, or do
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by dakna 5y ago
As a fellow immigrant working in the US and as someone working with non native speakers from other regions in the world, I can assure you this is not about racism. It is about team cohesion, clarity, getting things done in an international
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by dakna 5y ago
> people really believed that > we would find a way to In this case "people" and "we" just doesn't refer to the same cohort.
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by dakna 5y ago
> Good green building design isn't entirely rocket science. Agreed, I think the Pretty Good House concept sums it up quite well without going too deep into building science: https://www.prettygoodhouse.org/the-whole
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by dakna 5y ago
> being a water shortage that makes the west unlivable Unlivable? Probably not. But more expensive? Absolutely. And once the agricultural economy needs to shut down due to free water not being free anymore, I'll expect ghost cities
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by dakna 5y ago
> Dirt is a very good insulator of both heat and sound Sound yes, heat not so much. While it can store heat due to it's thermal mass, it will release it quickly due to a low R-value, depending on moisture content the R-value could b
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by dakna 5y ago
> the Dutch figured out how to live with cities below sea level 300 years ago, we'll manage They also paid for this infrastructure over the course of 300 years on a national level. How this will work for a single city in a huge stat
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by dakna 6y ago
r22 has a much lower ozone depletion potential than r11/r12, which were used as refrigerants before. AC use in developing countries is more a global warming issue than an ozone shield issue. A lot of replacements are highly potent gree
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by dakna 6y ago
> the rest of the world industrialized and are using ozone damaging chemicals on a massive scale I would like to know more about the rest of the world you mentioned, since the Montreal Protocol ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by dakna 6y ago
There is a strong sentiment in the US against paying more taxes in general to level the playing field a bit and help people in need, it's usually labeled as socialism. And now it's not even ok to use the incentives put in place fo
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by dakna 6y ago
> what are the underlying causes I don't want to reduce this complex issues to just one cause, but https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_work_ethic might help to understand at least parts of what we are se
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by dakna 6y ago
At least people stopped using applets for web site navigation fairly quick. The transparent 1px spacer GIF lived for much longer.
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by dakna 6y ago
I recommend 3 movies to every family member willing to deal with financial topics as a form of edutainment. The Big Short and Margin Call are two of them. The 3rd one is 99 Homes. The key line is: "Don't get emotional about real e
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by dakna 6y ago
I'm in a fairly similar situation, albeit on a smaller scale (6 acres) and I do this for reasons you already mentioned (nutrition, inflation hedge) plus climate change. I have years of experience growing veggies in my backyard and I ag

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