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by grecy 2y ago
Exactly right. It's mathematically impossible to get more than 116 miles from a McDonalds in the lower 48 - and that's if you take a helicopter! https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mcfarthest-spot-skb
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by grecy 2y ago
Think about who stands to lose the most if Tesla and spacex dominate (answer: old money) Think about who controls the media (answer: old money and friends of old money) It is very easy to see why they want everyone to think spacex and Tesla
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by grecy 2y ago
Also with healthcare, a social safety net, people that care about each other and friendly , warm people. I was in the US for 5 months, then visited Canada for the first time after one hour I felt more at home there And the convoy protests w
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by grecy 2y ago
> Not a single gas pump existed at one time, yet they are now everywhere Absolutely, and it took many decades to build them out. Are you willing to wait many decades to drive your H2 car to the stunning, remote or beautiful parts of Af
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by grecy 2y ago
> No, H2 is. I have driven around a good deal of the world (Alaska to Argentina, around Africa, around Australia and Europe now) EVERY town or village I have ever seen has some kind of electricity, even if just a solar panel or two for
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by grecy 2y ago
I used to get called all the time because our in house infrastructure would fall over, and my apps would crash. It didn’t matter how many times I explained my apps couldn’t run without good infra, and that I wasn’t on that team, and that I
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by grecy 2y ago
Increasing employee pay would also boost morale, but it would be detrimental to retention - move money in their pocket means people have more options to quit outright or find a different job. The same applies to good healthcare - employers
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by grecy 2y ago
I would genuinely love to offer free use of my wifi to anyone that needs it. 1. My billing is usage based, the bills could be astronomical 2. Laws around who is at fault are the person paying the bill. My IP address doing who knows what cou
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by grecy 2y ago
More importantly, Australia is to New Zealand what the US is to Canada. (Note: I'm Australian, been living in Canada for almost 20 years and only recently had someone explain that to me and suddenly it all made sense!)
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by grecy 2y ago
Here's my process http://theroadchoseme.com/how-i-self-published-a-professiona...
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by grecy 2y ago
FWIW I’ve published a few of my own books. I write them in latex to get perfect print ready pdfs, then pan doc gives me flawless epub files, all from the same source. It works really well
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by grecy 2y ago
As a journalist myself, I’m going to defend the article writers here. I’ve had heated discussions with editors about not changing my titles or words, and how I’d rather they didn’t run it and simply not pay me (I’m freelance) And then it pr
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by grecy 2y ago
That is a very complicated way to say "The government is in bed with the guys that own all the energy companies, and they have guaranteed them profits for a long time to come."
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by grecy 2y ago
All while Australian's themselves pay astronomical prices for power
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by grecy 2y ago
> * Shirt off for a run? Great. Swimming for an hour? Great.* Tell me you don't live in Australia without telling me. Doing that in Australia is basically the fast-track path to skin cancer thanks to the hole in the ozone layer. Goi
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by grecy 2y ago
I just installed a Fronius inverter (made in Austria) and 6.8kW of panels. The inverter itself functions perfectly fine without an internet connection, and will display instantaneous power output on the screen. I could just be content with
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by grecy 2y ago
What inverter do you have? Many like the Fronius have a removable networking card.
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by grecy 2y ago
They are also worried that it can't actually return autonomously, that it might fail to un-dock properly or that it might crash into the ISS. They have a lot to weigh up.
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by grecy 2y ago
The one where people distrust the authorities because they are handling a situation extremely poorly ?
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by grecy 2y ago
My god, what a horrible life. My wife currently has 18 months fully paid maternity leave, and we’re having tons of family adventure with our little one who is already 9 months old. I couldn’t imagine not having that family time.
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by grecy 2y ago
> turns into a coach/mentorship role at that point. Sure, if the managers have any experience at all doing the actual work. These days that is rare, middle management are all just MBAs who don’t have a clue how to do the work.
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by grecy 2y ago
I’m a creator and have many supporters on patreon. I didn’t know there is an app and I don’t care.
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by grecy 2y ago
> I've always felt most such rewards program portals and apps were more hack-jobs than serious applications It’s easy to figure out which way any system goes. Does it generate revenue or cost money? The former will be a serious ap
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by grecy 2y ago
With no universal healthcare, no free higher education, very little social safety net and a raft of other holes in society to fall through, America is the poster child of “F$$k everyone else, I got mine” People have to behave this way just
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by grecy 2y ago
Interesting that is exactly what investment specialists do…
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by grecy 2y ago
As well as 48v they also went to Ethernet for device comma, drastically reducing the amount of wiring
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by grecy 2y ago
Tesla have taken it to a whole new level on cyber truck. It is assumed this will continue in their next gen vehicles
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by grecy 2y ago
Team America policing the world again?
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by grecy 2y ago
Because middle management convinced them it was a good idea to do so!
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by grecy 2y ago
> Normal glasses are recyclable That may be, but rem ember of the three things you should be doing - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Recycling is the worst and should be avoided anytime the other two are doable.

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