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by johnea 2y ago
I don't disagree, but I would point out that one upside to every LAN being behind NAT, is that those LANs are also inherently firewalled. This is dependent on the firewall features of the NAT router, but at least its something, and the
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by johnea 2y ago
This is a little self contradictory. Saying that it's "not that different", then going on to mention "the strategy of having two internets". Having two internets suggests that it's totally different, in the sen
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by johnea 2y ago
Duh?! The unasked question though: More costly to who? Modern capitalism (especially in the enrgy sector) is fundamentally based on externalities. Getting someone else to bear the cost, while concentrating income as greatly as possible, is
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by johnea 2y ago
Another argument for regenerative braking.
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by johnea 2y ago
Why choose? Farm both! Especially for grazing, raised photovoltaic allows the photons to be harvested along with allowing goats or cows to graze the landscape. Crops can also be grown in between rows of solar. This arrangement also mitigate
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Well of course, why would anyone even use electricity unless an absentee investor was reaping ROI from it? Duh...
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Its an amazing phenomenon in Texas. I've seen a bunch of these wind and solar installations as I've driven through the state. One technical issue with the article, and I see this a lot, is the unit of measure used to describe the
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Moral of the story: Don't use flatpack...
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by johnea 2y ago
The existing comments here already capture most of my thoughts on the subject: users reap benefit + shareholder loose revenue = disaster! Disaster for who? Not the users that's for sure. Another aspect of this in the US electric utilit
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by johnea 2y ago
I'm amazed this one isn't flagged yet... I'm also amazed that things like curling, which was invented by a bunch of drunk Canadians as a way to have an excuse to spend even more time at the bar, now requires an international
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by johnea 2y ago
Wow! and the author isn't even a boomer. Amazing. npm and pip have demonstrated the issues discussed here repeatedly...
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by johnea 2y ago
You can also see a lot of individually started businesses go broke. Most new businesses fail. Even if you want to start your own business, you almost certainly need to be employed in that field for an extended time first, otherwise, how wil
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by johnea 2y ago
Why is anything? I see no point in the feature. One is always free to not read any comments that one does not wish to see... Some people just enjoy the disruption of convesation. Apropos: Just give the man the fish (i.e. just answer the que
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by johnea 2y ago
Pretty good list on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_power_cable#Operatio...
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by johnea 2y ago
What if the cables were accompanied by an app? Is that too old school? Becasue, of course, the cables would have AI, duh...
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by johnea 2y ago
Plumber and electrician are still high on the list... p.s. Those do take intelligence though, so maybe that doesn't count?
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by johnea 2y ago
Maybe they're just shy? Or it's because they feel so much VC bot peer pressure! None of the other bots are admiting they don't know, so image how emabarasing it would be in the bot chat group! Humans just can't understan
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by johnea 2y ago
"Quasi"? The only argument for increasing the population, given the so-called "demographic crisis" is becuase the modern economic system is a ponzi scheme. The human population is massively over bloated, and straining ev
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+1
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> selling sunlight Sounds like an eco disaster to me. Some things only happen when it's dark... I'm amazed I almost never read about a much more viable alternative: inter-continental power transmission cables. There are a few p
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> I resubmitted here as it was [flagged][dead] and while it's a US political hot potato the actual content (patterns in numbers) is HN worthy. Thank you for expressing that perspective. I agree...
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by johnea 2y ago
I totally disagree. No one knows how consciousness works. This is my same basis for completely disagreeing with the article: "Rees: In my experience, this question is almost always grounded in a defensive impulse. A sometimes angry, so
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by johnea 2y ago
I wouldn't put this guy in the context of true genius, but he was clearly a visionary thinker and producer in tech, and also had a serious break with reality. The break is even more common in the rare cases of great genius. John Nash i
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by johnea 2y ago
Some examples of 2 today that I wanted to comment on: ----- Americans Are Trapped in an Algorithmic Cage https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-admi... Comments (flagged): https:/&
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by johnea 2y ago
Why is that? You just want to stop someone else from exploring a subject?
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by johnea 2y ago
This does bring to mind the Jack Nicholson quote (1972): "The censors say they're protecting the family unit in America when, in fact, the reality of the censorship is if you suck a tit, you're an X, but if you cut it off wit
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https://events.ycombinator.com/ai-sus Certainly sus...
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The french get yet another thing right. For use as communication in public, is the only thing I like about SMS...
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by johnea 2y ago
People do love their drama don't they 8-) Regarding the point of "community" being difficult to manage in "open source" projects, I would argue managing a large group of developers on any project is difficult and fu
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The article sort of jumps straight from Faraday's law to special relativity. I would think it's at least worth mentioning that Maxwell's equations did unify the electric and magnetic forces prior to relativity. They aren&#x27

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