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by pg_bot 4y ago
I don't think it's a timing or execution thing. You can have the best engineers and operations on the planet and it still wouldn't work. The benefits of the solar car are just not big enough when compared to a standard electr
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by pg_bot 4y ago
If you do the math, solar powered cars are not going to work. You just don't have the available surface area on a car to provide enough power to charge it in a reasonable timeframe. Plus solar panels add weight and manufacturing comple
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by pg_bot 4y ago
Epipens are made by Mylan, Eli Lilly makes Mounjaro.
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by pg_bot 4y ago
While it is my personal belief that sodium cyclamate is safe for human consumption, (The US ban was due to a research study that linked consumption to an increase in bladder cancer of mice) you missed the point that I was making. It is like
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by pg_bot 4y ago
This article falls flat when it comes to providing actual evidence of harm being done. Both the EU and the US have products on store shelves which would not be deemed acceptable for human consumption in either respective region. I could wri
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by pg_bot 4y ago
If your pension fund can't handle an investment potentially becoming worthless you deserve to lose all your money. If you decide to take the risk on any investment, you get the rewards when things go right but face the consequences if
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by pg_bot 4y ago
If anyone is interested in buying/importing modern pachinko machines or parts, my brother runs the largest pachinko importation business in the US. https://clovercollectables.com/collections/all
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by pg_bot 4y ago
Hmm this guy's focus on planetary movements and lunar geometry light up the parts of my brain reserved for detecting quackery. I would bet that he got extremely lucky with his timing.
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by pg_bot 4y ago
Tires are more complicated than a single variable. A large diameter tire with a small sidewall does not necessarily perform better than a smaller diameter tire with a large sidewall. The problem with the word "big" is where the ti
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by pg_bot 4y ago
Larger diameter tires won't necessarily help with potholes or badly maintained roads. All things else being similar, a tire that has bigger sidewalls will absorb the impact of driving over a pothole better than one with a smaller profi
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by pg_bot 4y ago
Better aerodynamics and lower rolling resistance which leads to a higher range for the vehicle. Bigger wheels are generally a stupid idea from a performance standpoint. Smaller tires have better ride quality, cause less pothole damage, and
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by pg_bot 4y ago
Faster charging with a shorter range seems to be a viable alternative. No one would care if their car could go 200 miles if you could recharge it in a minute and there were chargers everywhere. Engineers should be focused on making their ca
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by pg_bot 4y ago
Big Pharma also pays billions in taxes to fund agencies like the NIH. While there are certainly a lot of shenanigans with intellectual property rights and market exclusivity at the end of the day we do get extreme value from pharmaceutical
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by pg_bot 4y ago
It provides a bigger target for your fingers to hit on mobile. So if your design calls for people using small screens it generally is an improvement.
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by pg_bot 4y ago
I've been taking a look at materials for creating a flywheel energy storage system and for the life of me I can't understand why people don't use basalt fibers as the material for the flywheel. It has similar properties to ca
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by pg_bot 4y ago
I've been doing some research on flywheel storage systems like this one. Most use magnetic bearings to reduce friction. They should last more than 20 years with permanent magnets.
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by pg_bot 4y ago
Why can't we just poke a few holes in the existing box to let the steam escape?
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by pg_bot 4y ago
- The mRNA vaccine for HIV will be successful. - Cryptocurrency will continue fading into irrelevance. - Russia continues to throw the kitchen sink at Ukraine, but will lose ground in the Zaporizhzhia oblast. The war will be effectively ove
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by pg_bot 4y ago
- Cryptocurrencies will decline to pre pandemic prices and will begin to fade into irrelevance for the general public. - Putin dies, Russia is destabilized. - A new covid variant emerges from China, no one in the Western world will care. -
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by pg_bot 4y ago
It's more efficient to cool and liquify air than to generate hydrogen. Store it in a container and let it expand later and you can turn a turbine. There's no issue from an environmental standpoint since you are converting air to a
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by pg_bot 4y ago
Malinvestment
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by pg_bot 4y ago
You would need several scientific breakthroughs to make hydrogen economically viable for transportation. It's expensive to generate, it embrittles storage containers, is highly flammable, and there's no existing infrastructure tha
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by pg_bot 4y ago
You might want to seek out a direct primary care clinic.
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Apple Says iPhones Will Comply with EU Law Requiring USB-C Charging(wsj.com)
7 points by pg_bot 4y ago|5 comments
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by pg_bot 4y ago
I would guess that there's too much work being done at runtime. I would expect all of the data to be cached in such a way that it is a read operation without any transformation. It's doing multiple lookups and unnecessary maps whe
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by pg_bot 4y ago
The elixir implementation seems super slow. The first thing that jumps out to me is that we should be using streams instead of just reading the file. The second would be the `schedule_for_route` which should just be a GenServer lookup inste
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by pg_bot 4y ago
It's highly unlikely that we will enter a sustained period of low growth. It is too advantageous for all parties to continue interconnecting economies. Any country that chooses to isolate themselves from the rest of the world will find
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by pg_bot 4y ago
I'm no fan of the Jones Act, I think it should be repealed in its entirety. However, there is a political reality that several special interests are united in keeping the law on the books. I think a better solution would be to amend th
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by pg_bot 4y ago
There's been a tendency in the art world in the last 50 years or so to defend every work and dismiss any criticism as someone not knowing what they are talking about or being a philistine. Yet it is also widely accepted that the entire
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by pg_bot 4y ago
After looking at the linked images, I am terribly underwhelmed by the project. The only significant thing about the work is its size and honestly who cares? What a colossal waste of time and money.

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