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by plantain 5y ago
It's not your average BMS that can support 500A cranking currents and horrifically noisy, unstable currents and voltages during charging. I wonder if crashworthiness is a factor as well.
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by plantain 5y ago
I don't think that's fair - the energy density has been improving largely how everything else in the world does, incrementally, step by step. It's unfair to expect a magic overnight revolution. https://cleantechnic
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by plantain 5y ago
Is that meant to be a good thing?
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by plantain 5y ago
I did not own a fridge or any cooking appliances for my first year at Google. 3 meals a day at work + takeout on weekends.
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by plantain 5y ago
You pay for it when you buy electricity (usually as a fixed component of the price per kWh). Electric cars will consume large amounts of electricity, and that will fund the upgrade of the grid proportionally. That said, if bi-directional ch
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by plantain 5y ago
Most of the world has a carbon price in some form now - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax#Implementation Given the soaring cost of carbon in the EU, I think it won't be long before the EU heavily tariff&#x2
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by plantain 5y ago
The situation in the US with budget airlines is not comparable to Europe. Europe has very strong consumer protections. From just a small percentage of cancelled Ryanair/WizzAir flights I am actually not far from all-together free flyin
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by plantain 5y ago
Because you'll often be faced with a 500 euro+ fare for a short flight on the national airlines, with either one of WizzAir/RyanAir offering the same flight for 20-80 euro. 9/10 times the service is near-identical to a flagsh
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by plantain 5y ago
It earns about $6-10US/day, off surplus solar during the day and about 50c of grid electricity through the night.
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by plantain 5y ago
The core clock is undervolted while mining - but the memory clock is absolutely cranked to the maximum it will support. I've been idly mining on an RTX3080 for 6 months now, and the hashrate has slowly gone down about 20% since new. I
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by plantain 5y ago
Some light reading: https://www.businessinsider.com.au/new-zealand-police-kim-do... https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/07/18/gcsb-j18.html
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by plantain 5y ago
Usually vesting.
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by plantain 5y ago
a) jurisdiction dependent, it's a bigger company than the US. b) if they issue RSU's at $Y, then buyback stock to drive the price up to $Z, the employee's take $Y as ordinary income, and $Z-$Y as cap gains, which is usually t
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by plantain 5y ago
Nonsense - they give it away, just like AWS/IBM/Oracle do, no strings attached. Source: received it. Not in a VC/incubator.
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by plantain 5y ago
It doesn't have to be like that to fly. Political decisions have made it like that.
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by plantain 6y ago
The missing consideration here is the wasted capital of a miner sitting there idle.
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by plantain 6y ago
Microsoft was the most baffling - happy to give me 25k+ credits for free in their startup program, unable to let me pay them for the same setup going forwards. My quota requests weren't outrageous - never more than 20 VM's, albeit
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by plantain 6y ago
I don't know why all the cloud companies make you jump through so many hoops to get more quota - but Google has consistently been the fastest for me. Fill out some random Google Docs form (why does it have to be so dodgy?), receive quo
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by plantain 6y ago
Flights don't pay VAT, for some unfathomably baffling reason. Train tickets do. It's not just a market failure, it's been engineered this way.
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by plantain 6y ago
My favourite is the Afghanistan and China border - 3.5 hour time difference! Imagine trying to do business between towns either side of the border.
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by plantain 6y ago
>Well empirically, most restaurants (at least where i live) did not deliver at all or beyond the immediate vicinity or required an insane minimum order size to deliver before these apps came. Now i can get what i want affordably from the
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by plantain 6y ago
Gearing adds weight and complexity, and complexity brings unreliability. Best avoided where possible. Putting car engines into recreational aircraft has been popular over the years, but never really 'took off', with high failure r
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by plantain 6y ago
Simulations are believed by no one except those who conducted them. Experimental results are believed by everyone except those who conducted them. Anonymous
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by plantain 6y ago
How have they reverse engineered these?
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by plantain 6y ago
It's not a global constant. Across Central and Eastern Europe it's quite common to work 7am-3pm. You have half the afternoon in the sun at any time of year to enjoy. In winter it's a bleak commute to work though.
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by plantain 6y ago
DOCSIS 3 (from 2006) can do 100/100 over cable - it's the decision of the provider not the technology.
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by plantain 6y ago
>the Apple account re-activation team can only be contacted by email and the process takes at least 3-5 business days. He emailed them. This trope of one team being unable to contact another team except via email seems to be popping up m
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by plantain 6y ago
>I got into this situation because I had a few terabytes of free storage that I accumulated while working at Google; there was some deal like "fill out this survey and we'll give your personal account unlimited free storage for
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by plantain 6y ago
What about those who's wealth he denied with those anti-competitive practices - in the end don't they deserve the credit for the good deeds done with that money, not Bill? It's similarly irritating when known tax-avoiders bec
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by plantain 6y ago
>Wind farms can't operate in icing conditions. Some wind farms can't operate in icing conditions ( https://www.windpowerengineering.com/the-cold-hard-truth-abo... )

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