practicemaths

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by practicemaths 2y ago
If you build more housing, especially more affordable, then housing prices start to go down and that makes banks and landowners unhappy.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
What about second-life use though for lithium batteries in grid storage? We're building a lot of EVs right now. Pretty much any battery has hard to process material in it. Packs for vehicles last between 5-15 years, but there's st
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Yeah but then Russia could not have sold them as much oil & gas.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Yes, you're a vanguard for moral authority while actively also making what-about-x excuses for Russia. Which has openly broken any established rules of war along with raping & genital mutilation being an actively encouraged tactic.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Actually, why would it be low? Dispatch? Accounting? Automatically handling invoices? There's plenty of reasons why a tow-truck company may want a server. Regardless, clearly I was talking about a tow-truck company buying a tow-truck a
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by practicemaths 2y ago
I think the EU can & may be doing both. AFIK, at least a few countries & research entities over there are using FOSS, at least in part, as well as promoting it. Hypothetically just because a Government is using FOSS to operate does
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by practicemaths 2y ago
A price conscious consumer will not purchase this then. I am confused at what the issue here is then. The business presumably set their price for their target audience. If that price is too high then you are not the target audience.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
"Pricing starts at a reasonable $25 per server/instance per year, with a minimum $2,500 investment required." So is it 100 server minimum or is it $2,500 upfront plus $25 per year after that for a single server/instance?
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Are you saying that $2500 is an unreasonable amount for a small business to invest in itself or let alone within startup costs? If I started a tow-truck company, that would be a small business. I would also expect to invest more than $2500
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Is this a one time expense or continuously yearly? The pricing description in the article wasn't making that clear to me. Regardless, $2500 is more than reasonable write off expense for startup costs in almost any sector a "small-
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by practicemaths 2y ago
How is $2,500 not a reasonable expense for a small business?
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Battery technology starts at the cell. It's far easier to build a small cell and test it's chemistry than it is to build a large (in comparison) battery.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Price of branding I imagine. People are willing to pay the price so you may as well charge as much until sale revenue goes down.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Also it just looks like fun Engineering. You get to tear apart a whole machine down to every last nut screw and bolt. Then itemize it and approximate the cost to produce. It's very neat I got to see some of this process during a tour o
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by practicemaths 2y ago
It might happen! There's a fair bit of active research into repurposing batteries from cars into such a purpose or similar. This both extends the usefulness of the manufactured good (the battery) while also hopefully lowering the upfro
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by practicemaths 2y ago
If a car does that then it's not safe to merge until after they've gotten ahead of you.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
"brake so i can merge behind them" This is how you're supposed to merge. When you get on the freeway you don't expect the current flow of traffic to accommodate for you, instead you accommodate for them. "it really
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Technically yes. Humans are biological creatures.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Oh, so you end up with space to merge easily then if they're speeding up.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
If there isn't a gap then don't force a merge. Otherwise you're the one driving unsafely and causing further traffic congestion. Your comment makes less sense when the merging lane has no one else it as well. That means the c
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by practicemaths 2y ago
You design systems for the way nature works not how you wish nature worked ideally.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
If there is an appropriate gap it is fine. However in my experience many people in the zipper lane merge without regard to what the traffic in the lane they're merging into is doing. Thus forcing people to slam on breaks and slows down
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by practicemaths 2y ago
So that sounds like a massive flaw in traffic management design. It's more efficient to develop traffic rules that work in how people are not how they should ideally be.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
Well if you're forcing them to break when you merge then that kind of requires a finger imo. Regardless Columbus has a great lack of turn signals and understanding of basic intersection rules.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
That it lead to the pickling of his liver?
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by practicemaths 2y ago
I wonder how much alcoholism contributed to it here though.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
That's for maximizing energy efficiency. Tankless I think might be a tad bit more easier and cheaper to implement than this. Regardless the point is eliminating the use of natural gas in heating water is itself a benefit.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
What about tankless water heaters? You can eliminate greenhouse gas emissions for heating and be more efficient with energy usage overall.
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by practicemaths 2y ago
I'm going to assume when you say not very impactful to humanity that you mean in a physical sense that it doesn't significantly change our environment directly because of it. Certainly has had an impact on humanity in a cultural s
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by practicemaths 3y ago
So if this type of technology results in less civilian casualties this is a good thing right?

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