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by logifail 3y ago
> Game theory at play. Tesla and its customers are adversaries, vying for the same dollars Umm, I think this is more like "airlines vs passengers" when passengers read about "hidden city ticketing" in a travel blog, t
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> When you pass a bill requiring the president to do something there is no requirement to justify how anything the bill will be paid for. It could well be that pretty much everyone outside the USA is reading that description - and indeed
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> Congress only makes just-in-time decisions Do they have to do it like that, or is that just how it's done? How about in parallel with the budget they also discuss the debt ceiling? Get the finance in place, then agree how to s
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> Congress authorizes say 10T to spend. Over the next years the president spends 7T and then the coffers run empty I'm not sure what to understand by politicians "agreeing 10T of spending" if everyone involved knows the fi
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> Congress has literally already authorized the money to be spent If you were a business or a family, you'd talk about how you plan to agree to finance any serious purchase before (or at the very least in parallel ) with agreein
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> it’s not “every couple of years” "Since 1960, Congress has raised, extended, or revised the debt limit 78 separate times, of which 49 were under Republican presidents and 29 were under Democratic presidents, according to the Depar
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> They have 30GW of renewables in the AEMO connection pipeline at the moment, ~7GW greater than entire continent coal generation (which will add to current renewables capacity) [1] [2]. Batteries are scaling up to consume grid services r
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"You glide silently out of the Tesla (TSLA.O) showroom in your sleek new electric Model 3, satisfied you're looking great and doing your bit for the planet. But keep going - you'll have to drive another 13,500 miles (21,725
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> An electric car powered by coal is still cleaner overall than one powered by gasoline I'm sceptical that we know enough about the energy and resource mix in use across our global supply chains to be anywhere near that confident. L
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Q: Where is the electricity coming from to recharge the batteries? "Powered by electricity" doesn't necessarily mean "clean", years ago I visited friends in Germany who were within cycling distance of an open-cast l
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> I assume your kids are somewhat young, and probably not going to be an ideal audience, but are you able to watch it with them? I know Feynman is known for his traceability, so maybe your kids will be entranced I'm so glad that som
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> If it’s as simple as you say to earn $160K-$180K why isn’t everyone doing it? It might be 'simple' in the sense of 'straightforward', but not in the sense of 'easy'. Hard work plus long hours won't ap
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> The EFF endorses piracy? Q: Do content creators (the scientists and researchers) approve or disapprove of Sci Hub?
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> It's an invasion of privacy, and it is worth fighting against that VdL should have a private phone and a work phone, just like everyone else. If these work messages are from her work phone, she should hand them over. If they are
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> I think the sky walks double a structural braces between the two sides From one of the image captions: "The skybridges located at floors 13, 24, 35, and 45 are steel trusses that are integral components in the tower's struct
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> There once was a miracle material "Was"? Here on HN we do sometimes forget about "the rest of the world" don't we? Asbestos is still mined in Russia, Kazakhstan, Brazil and China[0] and is still widely used i
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> No it won't without buyers Q: Why would the rest of the world stop making/selling/buying these products just because the US/Canada/EU/UK were to ban them? We only need to look at the regions that are expan
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> The cookware usage is unnecessary and hard to purchase without Q: If the first part of that statement is true then why is the second part of that statement true? I would suggest that nonstick cookware is popular because consumers like
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> Ban those chemicals. If they want to move manufacturing to china to use illegal pollutants, let them. Apart from the minor issue that they won't be illegal in China, so production will continue. As an aside, "Net Zero" i
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> We could go back to pre plastics, enjoy less sterile things along with more disease Hint: it's actually about money, not sterility. A foodstuff packed in a glass jar with a metal screw-top isn't going to spoil any faster than
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> You can ban the sale of products containing PFAS [...] "Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large, complex group of synthetic chemicals that have been used in consumer products around the world since about the 1950s.
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How would one approach calculating the "average temperature" of something as large as a planet? If you were to ask a child in a maths class, they might suggest taking temperature measurements across all of the planet, then calcula
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If we're assuming a well-funded and motivated attacker, surely any device is fair game for being modified to record you even when it's apparently off? Of course this applies whether it appears to have a removable "battery&quo
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> It also is ineffective at blocking audio If you turn your phone off and immediately put it in a Faraday bag, how would it receive a remote command to turn on and start recording audio?
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> if given a chance to do it all again, would you? Yes, definitely, but maybe(?) in a different research group.
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In the sim, at "Year 3 Month 9" I apparently "lost all hope and quitted your PhD". In my real one (20+ years ago), I submitted my thesis after 3 years and 6 months, by which point I was no longer on speaking terms with m
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> I’ve never been to one that wouldn’t dig up a physical menu on request. Well, we have been to one (in Switzerland, as it happens) despite having been seated we got up and walked out once it was clear they expected us to get on the Inte
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> when Reddit got “smart” and drove me away, I’ve noticed my mental health improve We had a "showdown" moment with our kids some time ago due to inability to manage device usage. Ended up with me changing the wifi password and
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> I can't think of anything essential I cannot do without a smartphone or computer [..] it's still doable Q: Have you never been to a restaurant which has done away with physical menus ("because Covid") and has a QR c
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> That sounds like a huge speculation/hypothetical — is there evidence that was or is happening? I've signed up for websites before, manually, and switched to using automated tools to download all the content. Certainly more

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