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by fwungy 4y ago
Blacks had their families destroyed by slavery and now again by social programs that reward women for being single mothers.
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by fwungy 4y ago
Right here in the USA. Our crime statistics show the greatest threat to a young black male is another young black male. Look at the Chicago shooting stats every weekend. Dig deep into gun deaths and you will see that is young men if color s
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by fwungy 4y ago
Show me the detailed climate data for the past 20 million years. Oh, you can't. Why? Because there is no data. It's all modeled. To be clear I'm not denying anthropogenic climate change, I'm questioning the strategies em
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by fwungy 4y ago
A bunch of claims that cannot be easily verified and may never pay off even if they are true and viable. Why can't we do something about the genocide of young black men that is being committed by young black men, for example?
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by fwungy 4y ago
Read Bowling Alone. It was written by a Harvard sociologist in the 80's. The American community is steadily breaking down and he quantifies it over the decades. I considered myself a liberal most of my life, and still do to an extent,
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by fwungy 4y ago
1) Climate modeling is hard. There have been substantial shifts in the climate over time, including five ice ages. 2) Climate change predictions have been repeatedly wrong. In the 80's they said the Maldives would be submerged by 2000
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by fwungy 4y ago
I can often find much better prices than Amazon elsewhere. I don't care that it takes a few extra days sometimes.
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by fwungy 4y ago
They assume extra mileage to seek out charging stations and also opportunity costs for added driving and charging time. YMMV lol.
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by fwungy 4y ago
Norway is the pilot country for EVs. Their adoption rates have always led the world. Again, this is due to their peculiar wealth ( they have so much money that they can destroy their economy if they spend it domestically), and public policy
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by fwungy 4y ago
My oven and refrigerator pump out RF beyond the range of my RF meter. I found the wifi chips in both and pulled them out. There was no way to turn them off through the interface for either.
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by fwungy 4y ago
1) Norway is ridiculously wealthy due to its petroleum resources. 2) Norway is only 5 million in population. 3) Norwegian policy encourages EV purchases with various fees and subsidies to encourage EV and discourage ICE.
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by fwungy 4y ago
Me too. Memory holed. It covered a study by a group called something like "The Anderson Group." Maybe it's available directly.
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by fwungy 4y ago
I did a simulation of the vehicle market in grad school for my PhD. My results showed EVs were only going to be attractive to high income consumers, however I did not take subsidies into account.
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Driving 100 miles in an EV is now more expensive than an ICE(jalopnik.com)
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by fwungy 4y ago
1) Do the calculation for a mid level ICE 2) BEVs must drive unintended miles to reach charging stations 3) waiting for charging has an opportunity cost
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by fwungy 4y ago
Subsidies are a terrible way to run energy policy because they can change quickly with politics. Big players stay away from big commitments to subsidy based markets.
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by fwungy 4y ago
The problem is that the battery is not the only expense on the car. You have to depreciate the vehicle's value too, because there is a good chance a BEV will be disposed of rather than have a battery replacement. Say the lifespan of a
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by fwungy 4y ago
All of this scramble for weapons is an indicator of Ukraine's military status. Armies don't run on ragtag collections of armaments. They are very careful about this because logistics is the hard part of war. Ukraine is about to ge
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by fwungy 4y ago
First thing I did when I moved into my rental was disconnect the Wifi from the stove and refrigerator. 1) I don't want wifi on these things. I don't care what they can do for me. 2) I discovered they pump RF that was literally off
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by fwungy 4y ago
Filthy useless war.
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by fwungy 4y ago
Learn how to use the cost control tools on aws. I don't know what you're doing, but I don't see how a single user storing documents and media can end up with a massive bill.
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by fwungy 4y ago
They are not competitors, they are complementary. Hydrogen is cheaper and easier to store than electricity is. Hydrogen provides resiliency because of this and is better for long range vehicles because it can be produced and stored relative
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by fwungy 4y ago
The developing world, where Toyota sells a lot of cars, isnt going to EVs anytime in the foreseeable future. It's only the G7 countries that are really pushing it. Both EVs and hydrogen fuel cells really need modern nuclear power to ma
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by fwungy 4y ago
Company I recently consulted for dropped 90% of their project management team to save money. Didn't hurt anything, except leads had to do more Jira. Pretty painless way to save money from their pov.
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by fwungy 4y ago
I only saw five turds last time I walked on Market Street. It's not like it's everywhere. No proof that they weren't from animals either.
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by fwungy 4y ago
The particulars don't matter. That was just an example. If a company sees an opportunity that it thinks it can profit on above its costs it will do so, if it has the resources.
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by fwungy 4y ago
If you can make a 5% return on investment and borrow money at 0% interest than you're going to invest a lot. As the interest rate approaches 5% your willingness to invest falls. Tech runs wild on low interest rates because the return p
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by fwungy 4y ago
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
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by fwungy 4y ago
A lot of what NGOs, foundations, and other philanthropic organizations do is seek to mold things in some way that is beneficial to the founders with tax advantaged money. Rich people don't get rich by giving their money away randomly.
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by fwungy 4y ago
Soon enough fonts will be an anachronism. We won't read things serially, we will download information into our brains via cyberneural uploads. Then we can get rid of the dead trees and petrochemicals. Musk says it's only 5-10 year

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