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by danans 2y ago
From the related Ars article[1]: > Rather than relying on a built-in infotainment system, you'll use your phone plugged into a USB outlet or a dedicated tablet inside the cabin for your entertainment and navigation needs. How is a &
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by danans 2y ago
He was undoubtedly one of the most catholic [1] of the Catholic popes. RIP. 1. https://www.dictionary.com/browse/catholic (definition 1)
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by danans 2y ago
> The "up to 30%" figure is operative when you have a near-idle application that's busy polling, which is already dumb. That was my first thought, but it sounds like the OS kernel, not the application, has control over the
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by danans 2y ago
Nvidia Orin AGX if a desktop form factor works for you.
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Even more, the huge problems in the US like crime and poor healthcare outcomes are made worse by the increased inequality.
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by danans 2y ago
> > Our poorest states have higher GDPs per capita than many "rich" western EU countries. Not the OP, but poor as used here seems to refer to average quality of life , quality of infrastructure, etc. > Is the result of th
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by danans 2y ago
> 3. Launch moonshot investments into robotics and automation. Bringing back a big chunk of manufacturing is sustainable; bringing back jobs is not. Absent sufficient jobs, or some other arrangement for the masses that provides both mate
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by danans 2y ago
> Ok, the near 100K EV car market has stalled. Meh. The near 100k EV market was never going to make a serious impact on GHG emissions, nor save consumers much in fuel costs. Bring on the near 30K market.
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by danans 2y ago
> It was supposed to be a novel structural design with an affordable price tag Who buys a car for its "novel structural design"? Most buy a car for some combination of transportation/utility, comfort/performance, and
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by danans 2y ago
> why people pay around 100k for something so ugly. Maybe just to show off that you can have one Showing off has been a well understood reason for buying luxury cars from the very beginning of automobiles (when they were all luxury). The
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by danans 2y ago
> The EV market has stalled. The EV market grew 10% YoY in Q125. Tesla has declined. https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/q1-2025-ev-sales/
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by danans 2y ago
The mailman had a pretty wild costume
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by danans 2y ago
School buses are used in areas with no good public transit options (most of suburban and rural US). In cities with transit, kids take buses and trains to school.
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by danans 2y ago
Perhaps people want to only see this problem as having a single facet: housing supply. Maybe others don't see a problem with growing inequality (that's not an uncommon opinion among the well-off). Housing supply is a major part o
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by danans 2y ago
I am a YIMBY (in the form of an incremental upzoning advocate), but the problem with the Abundance campaign is that it will do little to affect housing affordability if wealth inequality is not addressed at the same time. The young and th
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by danans 2y ago
> Well, I mean, if we take what they themselves said (at the time) as truth, then that was their sincere mission In general, you should never take anything a corporation or an extremely wealthy person says as sincere. Like an LLM, what t
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by danans 2y ago
> But the reaction to Stargate was muted as Silicon Valley had turned its attention west. A new generative AI model called DeepSeek R1, released by the Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, sent a threatening tremor through the balance sheets a
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by danans 2y ago
The most obvious one being proposed is banning Chinese models from the US (like China bans Google, etc). At the extreme end, some members of the administration has already floated ideas like prosecuting users who download Chinese models.
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New fire maps put nearly 4M Californians in hazardous zones(calmatters.org)
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> It feels very ungrounded from tangible benefits to society Your definition of "society" implies that it means "everyone". If you circumscribe the definition more narrowly to the owners of wealth/capital, the be
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by danans 2y ago
Am I missing something, or wasn't it a foregone conclusion that they would call a snap election? I'm honestly wondering what the HN relevance is, not in a no-politics kind of way - but in a 'nothing novel/surprising her
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by danans 2y ago
> Awe Kaiser This is actually closer to the original Latin pronunciation than the modern English pronunciation of "Ave Caesar".
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It's the way investor-owned regulated utilities work. Municipal utilities are also regulated but don't have investors to pay.
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> Air seal and upgrading insulation: correct me if I'm wrong, but that implies either tearing open all of the exterior walls or ripping off all of the siding, no? If you do the exterior walls yes, but most heat loss is through the a
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by danans 2y ago
> Therefore, they believe, we should deemphasize solar in favor of “firm” sources of energy like gas turbines, next-generation nuclear or advanced geothermal. One cool thing about advanced geothermal is that it can load follow solar like
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by danans 2y ago
Assuming you would stay in Chicago for other reasons, the solution for a high heating bill is 1) air seal and upgrade insulation in your house, and then 2) replace your furnace with a low temperature heat pump. Chicago has electricity price
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by danans 2y ago
> Where free time is not used for research — for developing questions, and investigating the answers with an explorer’s spirit — cultural coherence crumbles. Perhaps, but the reality for a great many is that "free time" is occu
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by danans 2y ago
In that case, why don't we knock down our cities, throw away all our technology and abandon agriculture while we're at it, because none of those have been around for much of human existence either.
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That refers to the mother and the daughter
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> That and danans 'one thing' seems rather simplistic / reductive OK. Let's add some things. Free public schools, subsidized public universities, subsidized public vocational colleges, Medicare. All can be funded i

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