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by jbm 3y ago
Is there a practical reason why it would be difficult to do this with solar power? Is this a process that does not adapt well to intermittent power sources?
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by jbm 3y ago
I definitely was wrong; they are "comparable", but the phone is much more energy efficient. I looked it up online, and apparently the "average amount" used by a phone is 15Wh or 0.015kWh per day. A chest freezer apparent
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by jbm 3y ago
Thank you for your efforts. Sadly, despite the image of rationality, the delusional thinking you infer to is widespread in industry. I've had a manager telling me that aliens were going to offer us the secrets of immortality and &quot
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by jbm 3y ago
I should bring up that top opening chest fridges are actually pretty great for energy efficiency! https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI The amount of electricity needed is so small that it might even be comparable (mobile so i haven
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by jbm 3y ago
The irony is that, in Japan, the NHL offered a service with no advertising for a fair price. I assume making a decent return off a large number of people is of less importance than fleecing true fans. I used to think the Japanese baseball l
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by jbm 3y ago
Actually I cancelled it after a month. I had moved from Tokyo back to Canada and didn't realize how far things had gone. Your point stands in general.
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by jbm 3y ago
Let's not forget that so many advertisements are for things that are objectively damaging to you. "It's good for the economy and OK for you" school of advertising. High interest loans, fast foods, cable channels (with m
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by jbm 3y ago
The very end of that was cringey but the majority of Sisko and the Bajoran religion was solid and entertaining. The whole of DS9 season 7 was subpar, including the war plots and the musical stuff. The Pah Wraith stuff was, if anything, the
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by jbm 3y ago
Because it's a basic biological urge. Alternative why do you feel the poor should be deprived of literally the definition of biological success (IE: Progeny)?
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by jbm 3y ago
Sorry to see you are being downvoted for making an observation. I have been looking across various Lemmy instances and I recall seeing one or two that was cyberpunk-based or technology-focused in their local streams, but far too many have t
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by jbm 3y ago
> via taxes This has been trotted out for many different problems, and I have yet to see taxes resolve any issue they are supposed to fix. Carbon taxes don't reduce carbon use, fuel taxes don't reduce fuel use, sin taxes don&#x
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by jbm 3y ago
> eliminating the need to turn it into compost, which is often not put to use I am skeptical about this part of the explanation. We have strict limits on the amount of compost we can take from our city composting plant. Is this a real p
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by jbm 3y ago
This was my thought exactly. The front page politics of even my local subreddit are completely divorced from the concerns of my neighbors and other millenials I know.
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by jbm 3y ago
This is definitely accurate in Canada, where people are being quoted 8 year waits for the RAV prime. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/car-market-analysis-1.68737... Toyota can't even produce gas minivans for
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by jbm 3y ago
Parent had the evil bit enabled, maybe this tirade should have been directed to the routers and low-level apis that hid this important context.
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by jbm 3y ago
Apologies for the pedantry but reducing bus factor is a bad thing. 3 -> 2 means you now only need two people to be hit by buses to ruin your project.
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by jbm 3y ago
There are a few weird stock cults; there is the one for Bed Bath and Beyond and the crazy one for Sears. Gamestop is nuts but slightly less so than those two. I look forward to the documentary that clarifies why these seem so much more num
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by jbm 3y ago
On a semi-related note, his short story, "Ship of Fools" is still depressingly accurate.
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by jbm 3y ago
> It's worth remembering that there are more people in slavery than there have ever been Much like drugs. What is it about prohibition that makes a crime more popular?
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by jbm 3y ago
If you look at my post history, you will see a lot of angry posts about Teams and other Microsoft products, but after reading this I'm probably going to take it easier on them. Legitimately turned me around on them, thanks for sharing.
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by jbm 3y ago
The wait time for a Sienna in Canada reached 5 years at one point this year. I've never been so flabbergasted in my life. I am driving a 2016 minivan and no one I trust is offering an electric model yet. I hope Toyota wakes up, they
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by jbm 3y ago
First, I make no claim that the 4x or 20x numbers are true. Sans an investigation, any such claim should be viewed with suspicion. However, the claim that financial irregularities are almost certainly there can't possibly be controve
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by jbm 3y ago
If the parent is to be believed, there are intermediaries who may be robbing Ukraine of 3 bullets for every one they get. On the contrary, what benefit would accrue to you for stopping an investigation of these blood suckers?
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by jbm 3y ago
I remember offering to make a PR w/ examples for something when I was a junior dev and was politely told that they didn't want examples. I assumed - and still assume - that this was a generational difference in what people expect
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by jbm 3y ago
Why a depression and not simply a recession?
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by jbm 3y ago
This is extremely informative. I never lived in the US and was unaware of this possibility. Thank you!
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by jbm 3y ago
Um, wasn't that 100 for 80 dollars? That's how I read the imgur link.
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by jbm 3y ago
I do not understand how Obamacare would resolve this issue. This seems to be related to the lack of income; how would Obamacare or Medicaid fix this?
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by jbm 3y ago
I believe this but the ship has sailed. Taxation was the compromise, and it was not taken up in a serious way. Regulation is the next step. Now the onus is on other parts of the economy to realize that they need to handle externalities or
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by jbm 3y ago
I mean, this was the case for Japanese CEOs too and you can see how Toshiba and Fujitsu are doing as a result. Shadow emperors don't make for good governments.

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