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by happosai 4y ago
HTTP is kinda dead already, with browsers insisting on HTTPS.
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by happosai 4y ago
Can't speak of anyone else, but personally I decided to close my twitter account because the amount of "twitter drama" has just gone through the roof. Twitter has always been a bit too much of a egg-throwing contest. Which I
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by happosai 5y ago
Do you want a workplace culture where people hide their mistakes? Because this is how you create such a culture.
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by happosai 5y ago
Extinguishing EV fire is not hard, you just just need a lot of water. The problem is that it will re-ignite after a while. So you can't just leave it after that, you need to move the wreck to a safe location and have some firefighters
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by happosai 5y ago
If the problem is co2 emissions, banning is not really the solution. The solution is co2 cap-and-trade, with a yearly dropping cap. We have it in EU, and it's very effective at dropping the co2 emissions of electricity production and i
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by happosai 5y ago
Proof of stake has been promised for years, so I quite sceptical of the "ethereum will switch soon" argument.
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by happosai 6y ago
What are the co2 emissions of mobilecoin usage?
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by happosai 6y ago
I bet absolutely nobody in texas asked "how efficent is the heatpump at -20c" when buying them. Same reason why all the windmills froze: "would like this wind mill model that produces eletricity at -20, or this cheaper one th
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by happosai 6y ago
Most european countries don't have as insanely expensive electricity as Germany. I have 0.12€/kWh here in Finland.
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by happosai 6y ago
If you are developing on Apple silicon, the path of least resistance is to deploy to AWS Graviton2 instances, even if the instance cpu/memory/io combination isn't perfect fit for your usecase.
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by happosai 7y ago
Nah building is fine, just follow the steps from Debian/Ubuntu/whateverdistro . But trying to contribute is fun. By the time you've danced all the hoops to allow you to contribute, some Google employee has already refactored
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by happosai 7y ago
Downturn in low-quality lithium price. We don't know what the real price of high quality battery quality lithium is, as all battery quality supply is locked in long term confidential offtake agreements. What we know, is lithium compani
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by happosai 7y ago
Large-scale Negative, zero or below-cost renewables only happen if someone else foots the bill. And that usually means tax-payer funded subsidies. I mean sure, there will be some hours during exceptionally sunny/windy days when price i
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by happosai 7y ago
> Using CO2 from an industrial point source is more efficient; however, it has potential legislative issues when it comes to certification of sustainable fuels, emission certificate trading... it's a fairly complicated topic. I can
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by happosai 7y ago
A lot of the household energy load is either heating (water, cooking, surviving winter) or cooling (fridge, feeezer, surviving summer). You don't have to be dead against batteries to see a lot of potential in using thermal energy stora
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by happosai 7y ago
In a few decades the people unwilling to move will be pensioners. Like gold mining towns, these will become abandoned eventually.
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by happosai 7y ago
Which none make any sense since capturing and converting co2 consumes more energy than burning the coal generated.
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by happosai 8y ago
Before fukushima, I estimated any natural disaster big enough to destroy a nuclear plant would kill so many people itself, that the nuclear accident would be a mere side note. Well Tōhoku tsunami and earthquake killed 15,000+ people and yet
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by happosai 8y ago
Aerodynamics? EVs need to be super efficient due to limited energy density of the batteries. Same reason for the continuous sloping back. I guess what you want is a stretched VW I.D Neo. Maybe in 2022...
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by happosai 8y ago
The main reason to buy a new phone these days surely is "the old one broke". Being with us all the time. The planned obsolence - unreplaceable battery, glued screen, glassback etc mean phones break all the time. PCs stand still, e
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by happosai 8y ago
Android was really hated by middlemanagers at nokia. Android was eating Nokia's lunch in mid-end phones, and managers lost their sales bonuses. When Nokia went to talk to Google and Microsoft, Google gave the "here's the de
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by happosai 9y ago
Buffet buys companies with pricing power while Son does massive bets with debt. His major skill seems ability to convince banks to borrow him billions for increasingly larger leveraged buyouts.
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by happosai 9y ago
I think this is an urban legend, or at least a major hyperbole. The Chinese businesses (at least the ones I know in Kenya) all employ lots of locals. What is Chinese is management and most of the highly skilled workers. It's more about
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by happosai 9y ago
If only the brain would be smart enough to focus on driving instead of distractions...
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by happosai 10y ago
Not really happy paying high taxes, but I think the alternatives are worse. The definition of "first world country" should include "takes care of the less fortunate ones". Which, when I look at countries with less taxes
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by happosai 10y ago
Finland to Russia on train, the Russian Border security checks you while the train is still in Finland, speeding 200km/h towards Russia. And vice versa when going in the other direction. Saves a lot of time and hassle.
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by happosai 10y ago
Try visiting A nordic city for vacation. You will realize dense city and forests can literally be within walking distance - not one hour drive away.
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by happosai 10y ago
Like the plan9 people working at google pivoted plan9 into golang, this is the BeOS people working at google re-inventing BeOS into something new. But golang could be started in internal use with incredimental steps. fuchsia/andromeda
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by happosai 10y ago
The variability needs to be very high to be an effective incentive for small power uses. If price of electricity goes from 10c/kWh to $1/kWh, it won't stop you using 1kW kettle for 5min if you want tea. And if push the price
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by happosai 10y ago
The autopilot, carefully designed to handle all situations the engineers have imagined, suddenly throws hands up "you human handle this!". You, having let the car drive itself all the time have 0 hours hands-on driving time. You a

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