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by mwint 4y ago
Naively, I would have guessed flow rate to increase as radius^2 (cross sectional area). Guessing the reason for extra increased flow is some edge effect / turbulence mechanisms?
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by mwint 4y ago
> Texas is underwhelming Huh? They started construction less than two years ago; I don’t understand how it can be underwhelming. Par for the course would be “we found a company to dig the foundation” at this point.
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by mwint 4y ago
> Why should someone emit more than half a ton of CO2e for a new laptop unless they really need it? If this is a serious concern for anyone, it looks like carbon capture runs around $22/ton. So this is an $11 problem.
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by mwint 4y ago
As a non-crypto-nerd: How viable is it to make a “safe” OpenSSL, which just doesn’t support all the cipher modes (?) that the HN crowd would mock me for accidentally using?
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by mwint 4y ago
While we’re at it, it’s not clear what “1.9x” means. Does it mean I pay the employer?!?
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by mwint 4y ago
We all know that a real accident would be all over YouTube, and front page of HN for about a week straight. That we have so many “almost” videos, and a couple “it hit a cone”, but no real collisions seems telling.
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by mwint 4y ago
So FSD beta testing has been around for what, a couple years? To continue the tortured analogy: We’ve been playing this Russian roulette for millions of miles. How many times to people have to be “almost” shot, but not actually shot, before
488.
by mwint 4y ago
The same as the shirts you’d buy at a normal box chain, probably.
489.
by mwint 4y ago
How much time are we talking about? I’m maybe 9 months into my batch of Gildan shirts, and haven’t noticed anything yet.
490.
by mwint 4y ago
A tip: You can buy decent, unbranded t-shirts from places like [0] for low single digit dollars. I finally got tired of every shirt being subtly different, remembering which ones fit which way, and just bought 15 t-shirts. Same model number
491.
by mwint 4y ago
That really doesn’t sound like something Apple would do. My bet is they want to hit a specific price point, between the MBA and the 14” MBP. Possibly school/corporate volume purchase programs are involved.
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by mwint 4y ago
There must be two pipes, one insulated hot side, and one cold side, right? Otherwise the “used” water would cool the hot water going to the next house. Such a system would presumably be metered by volume, and it’d incentive the right behavi
493.
by mwint 4y ago
And, necessarily, will mean I pay more for imported goods as a US citizen. No thanks.
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by mwint 4y ago
Government welfare funding, whatever. I’m only trying to illustrate that a billionaire throwing vast amounts of money at a nominally evil thing they want, can easily be offset by society redirecting that money to something “good”. It’s bett
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by mwint 4y ago
Let’s test that… say Bezos really wanted the bridge gone. If Bezos were to pay $100B, half to the government and half to your favorite charity, would you say that’s a good deal? 10B? 1B? Money doesn’t buy everything, but being too principle
496.
by mwint 4y ago
It’s valid to focus on China, because China is where lobbying efforts are best spent. A single huge government making a small change will “do” more than a small government making a small change.
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by mwint 4y ago
It’d be cool if there was a kind of “feature escrow”. You might pay $20 today, but $5 of that is held and paid to the developer once a specific feature you want is implemented. There’s probably too much overhead to be useful, but it’d be an
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by mwint 4y ago
And yet Europe is more or less dependent on the US for defense. That’s probably the bigger lever.
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by mwint 4y ago
I’m having a hard time parsing this comment, can you expand on who’s doing what?
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by mwint 4y ago
Watch your units, MW vs. MWh (power vs energy)
501.
by mwint 4y ago
Something can be simultaneously effective, and also fail at least once.
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by mwint 4y ago
> 11” MacBook Air Here’s hoping for a revival of the 12” MacBook with an M series chip. That’d be so good.
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by mwint 4y ago
> public perception of which is quite crucial for human survival Might be good to find some new words there. Last time I heard those it was after government leaders were lying to me about masks.
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by mwint 4y ago
Why would the start point make a big difference? Is the assertion that if it started at 1820, you’d see a stair step and then flat from 1920 on? Either way, these graphs look flat from 1920 on. That’s the point of the article.
505.
by mwint 4y ago
Same problem exists with basically all research on the topic.
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by mwint 4y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by mwint 4y ago
Huh, this is interesting to me. My house has 400A service (or at least that's the main panel breaker size). 400A at 240V is somewhere in the ballpark of 80kW possible draw. Does something bad happen if I actually use my home's ful
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by mwint 4y ago
This is what I'm looking for, thanks! Any pointers on good places to read about these issues?
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by mwint 4y ago
They're a state-sponsored monopoly. If they're not competent to maintain enough capacity for the easily-projected demand, go find someone who can and make them the new state-sponsored monopoly. It'd be ugly, but if no one los
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by mwint 4y ago
This is the original claim I'm asking about: "a peer-to-peer setup where your house is powering your neighbor down the street doesn't work without some substantial investment." Wouldn't it be less current, in genera

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