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llukas
9y ago
So you can take Googles content, intellectual property, or patents and do what you like? France, Germany, Italy or Spain law enforcement wont do anything? This is one of the key infrastructure that government provides and Google depends.
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llukas
9y ago
We already did play God by increasing CO2 in atmosphere. There is nothing wrong in efforts to mitigate its effect.
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llukas
9y ago
> OTOH, lack that connection and are more open to change provided they agree with the rationale. Nice way of saying that young people need to redo errors of the old. As for systemd - I'd wouldn't mind if it was executed properl
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llukas
9y ago
Did you try to park in San Francisco? Besides you can park smart perpendicular to the curb and it still fits!
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llukas
9y ago
> Lithium batteries still can't approach 10% of gasoline's energy density, so gasoline is mandatory for trucks, and will be until yet another new battery technology is not only discovered and brought to market, but mass-produce
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llukas
9y ago
That is the point of sci-hub? "to remove all barriers in the way of science..." Elsevier is an artificial barrier.
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llukas
9y ago
Elsevier doesn't pay for review nor to the authors.
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llukas
9y ago
What counts is LCOE not just build cost. But you're right that somehow we lost ability to build nuclear power stations without going over budget several times.
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llukas
9y ago
In dystopian future they wont get $2 off but restaurant they go to increases price just for them.
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llukas
9y ago
At least in Poland there was "official" truth (taught at shools/media) and one that was a bit closer to reality that was taught at (most) homes. I think this may be related to slightly different history - Poland was invaded i
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llukas
9y ago
C'mon - at least propaganda was easily discernible and you could avoid it easily if you wanted. Today's propaganda is hidden as organic voices of different organizations and you need to do some digging to see if org is genuine or
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llukas
9y ago
I trusted Volkswagen emissions tests!
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llukas
9y ago
Visibility, REALLY? Was openssl problem also visibility?
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llukas
9y ago
Not sure about UK but in Poland direct debit is something you need to manually enable and pay small fee for it. And even if you enable it someone needs to forge your signature under direct debit order to allow someone to charge you. So stil
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llukas
9y ago
Why they keep that system? In most of Europe you got "normal" banking system where you can give everyone your account number and worse thing they can do is to put some money there. In US it seems #freemarket is putting externaliti
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llukas
9y ago
No, not really. Poles we're theoretically allowed to get a passport but in practice if one didn't have a good reason to go west and get back one didn't receive passport. In '68 some Jewish-origin Poles were handed passpo
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llukas
9y ago
Decades of market failures (and economists claiming that this time they got it right) should also be taken into account.
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llukas
9y ago
I am European and I don't have a clue how much energy US home uses. Is it one in Alaska, Hawaii or maybe New Jersey?
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llukas
9y ago
You conveniently ignored part "without ambiguity". I don't think it is much to expect that one would be able to connect a electricity bill where one pays for monthly energy usage stated in kwh to article where energy is also
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llukas
9y ago
If only we could have arbitrary units that everybody would understand without ambiguity? Like kWh/MWh or Joules... no?
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llukas
9y ago
Yes you can.
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llukas
9y ago
Pitchfork mode on: Outgoing bandwidth should be even more expensive! Then maybe, just maybe my mobile data cap wouldn't be drained that quickly by bloated webpages and stuff. ;)
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llukas
9y ago
If you're bit older than a graduate then you have much more to lose and nothing to gain. Mortgages, kids and ageism when looking for new job are not your allies. So support - OK - support as in how? "like" on facebook? That i
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llukas
9y ago
Please don't move the goalposts. Grandparent claim was: > The size and weight of the full battery pack may make it infeasible to change quickly. Tesla did it - in 90 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XdiGMIUx
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llukas
9y ago
So you and grandparent missed somehow Tesla and other companies that demonstrated battery change?
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llukas
9y ago
At least not something that registered broker can do more than once. FTFY
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llukas
9y ago
Hmm. According to this https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-09/documents... Most particulates are from exhaust but amount of this is falling and soon most contributing factor would be brake&#x
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llukas
9y ago
PM2.5 particles are thing that give you cancer and higher concentrations are related to car traffic. PM10 are not healthy either.
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llukas
9y ago
Sitting in a car is still worse as you're exposed to same air but got no benefit. (unless you sit in HEPA filtered tesla or something...)
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llukas
9y ago
Yes there is world out there outside of gcc sphere ;)
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