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by patrickk 5y ago
There’s so many products that fall into this category. Stuff designed several decades ago was often more reliable and easier to fix with simple tools (I’m thinking of Japanese cars in the 90s up to the early 2000s but you can apply it to ma
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If the case of CD Projekt Red with the recent Cyberpunk 2077 game is anything to go by, the shareholders will get large bonuses while the cannon fodder get mandatory crunch time, stress, overwork, are forced to ship out shoddy work etc. Of
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They’re used in cheaper brands too like Seat, and probably others from VW.
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New Guide for German Agrivoltaics- 4% of Arable Land Can Meet Electricity Demand(powerengineeringint.com)
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Deserts have been growing though, particularly the Sahara due to human activities like farming and grazing animals. So perhaps there’s opportunities to reduce deserification by combining solar and agriculture, and also provide power to poo
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Hammer Esc before it fully loads.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210501080448/https://www.econo...
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Croatia too.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcSnwW5v3f8 There is a roadside vertical turbine concept which seems promising. It uses lampposts as a mounting point, reducing materials needed, reusing existing cables in the lamp, and scav
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It emerged that Bafin employees were allowed to invest their own pensions during the scenario with insider information. That's pretty shocking. It calls into question why they took legal action against the FT[1] instead of investigatin
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Even with declining birth rates, there is still the global urbanisation trend, and the best paid jobs in knowledge sectors tend to cluster together. So while rural areas, and even entire countries (like some of the former USSR states) are e
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The whole Anglosphere seems to have issues with housing, in addition to those places you mention. It seems to be a common cultural issue where people gamble on property like crazy. I'm from Ireland, and this is true there (in the desir
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South Korea expanded rapidly during a military dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s[1]. A large chunk of of their economy was (is??) tied to huge conglomerates with major ties to the government known as Chaebols[2]. > The only thing gover
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Not to mention VOCs off gassing from all kinds of things we commonly have in our homes. I wouldn’t be surprised if we look back on this era in horror at the chemicals we put in furniture etc
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I blame google more than anything. Unfortunately, stuffing the content to hit minimum word counts is what ranks in google, and google obviously has a monopoly on search. Without this annoying blah blah, these websites would never rank and i
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by patrickk 6y ago
Wow- very humbling and inspiring, especially at such a young age. Congrats on your success. I didn't mean the family money as a dig, just to feel better about achieving less ;) I've also hit the low six-figures from crypto, now lo
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This reminds me of the role of Ogham stones plays in Ireland and parts of Britain that were originally Celtic or partially Celtic[1] A primitive early alphabet survived an incredible amount of time, from the fifth and sixth centuries. For r
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Since you're on a throwaway, forgive my curiosity- how on earth did you get to that level of success at a young age? Family money?
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Sodium ion batteries[1] are another promising one for stationary batteries that pop up from time to time. Sodium is obviously abundant and cheap, and has similar properties to lithium. For grid storage, it’s heavier weight and less energy d
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by patrickk 6y ago
Building your own router with pfSense is one prosumer solution I've considered, by shied away from due to lack of time[1]. Not sure how a pfSense setup would work with wireless APs though. [1] https://www.pcgamer.com/i-
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> Could someone with insight into these matters please help me understand - why would TSMC or Samsung choose to build factories in the US? It's partially to mitigate supply risk. Recently, drought has worsened the supply of chip pro
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210329181322/https://www.nytim...
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> COVID merely accelerated this trend, as it did with a lot of pre-existing social and industrial changes. My perspective is quite different. Perhaps for more innovative companies this is true that it accelerated the trend, but there are
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Even bigger than the city by city ban is the huge, and ever more demanding EU commission fines on car makers, measured by grams of CO2 averaged across the fleet. So what's happening is VW is trying to get ahead of the enormous fines wh
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That is one option, another is baseload geothermal power from Iceland routed to the UK or Ireland[1] and perhaps onwards to mainland Europe (this option was explored in the past but seems to have fizzled out). Yet more options are the Danis
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Thanks for the tip. I would love the idea of getting a smart tv, cracking it open and dumbing it down but the risk of destroying it in the process is a bit scary. I think there’s a business opportunity for hardware hackers do de-crap modern
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Have a browse on /r/iPod. People love the iPod classics and the earlier generations in particular are becoming collectors items.
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It like be amazing to have a broad movement around hacking smart TVs to make them dumb. Either repurposing broken ones to reduce e-waste or to de-crap all the privacy abusing smart features.
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Swedish teen's startup brings us the most affordable VR full-body tracking ever(pcgamer.com)
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That’s what I often think. We have the technology. Sure it will take some time to iron out the kinks and there will be transmission losses but we can do this with current technology. Despite all the recent talk the real barriers are lack of

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