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by morepork 4y ago
There is a lot more wind power than there used to be. Getting wind farms consented is hard because people always seem to come out of the woodwork and complain and ruining the scenery, or the noise, or whatever. But I think the bigger issue
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by morepork 4y ago
Assuming a competitive market, the outcome is essentially the same right? If the government builds more than would be economic for a private company they're paying the extra through construction costs/maintenance/financing th
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by morepork 4y ago
If we found mould on mars or anywhere without terrestrial origins it would be the subject on intense scientific curiosity
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by morepork 4y ago
Glass is incredible carbon intensive to make, and takes practically forever to break down. It's also fragile.
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by morepork 4y ago
The bars wouldn't be exposed to air, that's what edible wraps like what is described in the article are for. For backpacks and the like you will need something else to keep it clean, same as you would for an apple. May I present t
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by morepork 4y ago
I think the idea is that it becomes like fruit and vegetables. You purchase them unwrapped, wash them, and eat them. This would have implications on the supply chain of course to try and keep these items clean. It could also replace individ
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by morepork 4y ago
What is your definition of a wasted life? It's bound to be different from the next person. Food is made to be eaten, that is its purpose. So it's clear what wasted food is. What is the purpose of a human life? There is no universa
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by morepork 4y ago
I don't think it's fair to judge what is a "waste of life" or not. What one wants to do with their own life is a subjective thing. Each have their own interests, comfort zones, and personal struggles that they have to de
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by morepork 4y ago
Doesn't have my go to, the Eve apple, I guess it's a US centric list? https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/Eve_Apples_12823.php
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by morepork 4y ago
HFCS isn't particularly high in fructose. Sucrose is essentially 1:1 fructose to glucose. HFCS is typically either 42% or 55% fructose, the rest glucose, so basically the same. Honey and agave nectar are also similar. I can't say
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by morepork 4y ago
Fructose is about 50% sweeter than sugar (sucrose), so you can save calories by substituting 2/3 of the quantity of sucrose with fructose
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by morepork 4y ago
https://archive.ph/1oUTF
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by morepork 4y ago
You still need to pipe through base64, i.e. head -c 1024 /dev/urandom | base64
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by morepork 4y ago
I find head easier for these, replace the first part of your commands with head -c 1024 < /dev/urandom
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by morepork 4y ago
I mean maybe? But does that matter? It's by far the highest efficiency (in terms of bandwidth) open codec out there. It takes a lot of money to develop these sorts of things, especially given the patent risk, so I'm not sure how e
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by morepork 4y ago
I'm sorry, we lost millions of dollars due to an exploit. Don't you have bug bounties to find and fix these things? But this was in a public standard that we were using, we don't cover those. Do I look like I care?
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by morepork 4y ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1361/ There are 2 classes of product that I don't see them shutting down. 1. Those that make lots of money, e.g. search, youtube, maps. Unless that changes of course. 2. Those that are
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by morepork 4y ago
I think this would have been a lot harder for the non hacker news crowd: "Germans" to "Request for Comments" Time: 63.447 Seconds Number of links visited: 3 The path you took: [ "Germans", "United States&q
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by morepork 4y ago
How about putting the button on the case, like the good old turbo buttons on 386/486s
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by morepork 4y ago
Bizarre that a Tesla Model 3 is called a small vehicle
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by morepork 4y ago
Given it's a big lot, could they just build a granny flat somewhere on the edge, and it would become a "development" as it's 2 units? There's a cost obviously, but small units like that aren't _too_ expensive
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by morepork 4y ago
I wonder how much the peak could be reduced by intentionally cooling houses lower than normal (say to 18 C / 65 F) before the demand peak, e.g. from 3pm - 5:30pm so that you don't need to use as much AC right when you get home and
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by morepork 4y ago
Now don't take this near any hills
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by morepork 4y ago
Nit picking, but not quite the majority yet, last NZ census had irreligious at 48%
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by morepork 4y ago
Android runs toybox (or at least used to), which implements many of the GNU tools. But I think the complaint is that much of the userland to have a useful phone experience is proprietary. If you could install all the GNU tools into AOSP Lin
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by morepork 4y ago
I don't know if things have changed, but you definitely used to be able to install AOSP on some phones, the Nexus line were typically the easiest.
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by morepork 4y ago
You can still have a useful experience on a pure AOSP build. You'll miss features like push notifications, Google accounts outside of the browser, an app store and various other features. But there's no reason the open source comm
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by morepork 4y ago
No it's not, AOSP is developed in the open. Directed by Google sure, but not just a code drop every release. Check out the current PRs in gerrit: https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/status:open+-is:wi...
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by morepork 4y ago
You mean just like can happen in an ICE car? https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/08/business/hyundai-kia-fire...
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by morepork 4y ago
For a fair comparison, you'd have to know how big the engine and fuel tanks are in relation to the batteries and electric motors.

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