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qbxk
3y ago
the biggest difference between a hybrid and an EV being the size of the battery, you're probably taking into account the carbon footprint of mining all the minerals for the battery from the ore. that's a huge cost, but the battery
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3y ago
cat law sounds hard. cat lawyers must make a fortune litigating in cat court
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3y ago
more importantly, where does my computer let the time go?
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3y ago
astrology is not wrong, because it doesn't say anything provable. it just is. it's like saying poetry is wrong or paintings are wrong
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3y ago
yes, that's right, i should have added the conclusion: by increasing supply, price goes down, that's how consumers benefit.
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3y ago
honestly, i think that's a different matter than spelling. using case is not really something i do, by choice. my thoughts on spelling are that when someone is making an argument, their ability to use a word correctly is a necessary pa
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3y ago
by setting a floor on the price, and minimum for demand, they guarantee predictable revenues to those seeking to invest in or expand their power generating capabilities
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3y ago
I know you'll all call me crazy, but this is the system working at its finest Riot, by simply existing and pursuing their mission to mine bitcoin, provides a valuable service by discovering the real price a kWh should cost. Since Riot
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3y ago
if you're going to keep using the word oligopoly you should spell it correctly. from Greek oligos 'small', oligoi 'few'.
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3y ago
that wouldn't be so bad if the paywalls were itty-bitty, like fractions of a cent. and we had a more seamless way to pay them, like some kind of in-browser wallet that responded to "requires-payment" http headers in fact, i t
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3y ago
i'm just gonna go ahead and say that 20 years from now they're gonna call this guy the grandaddy of something. he's the stone age version of having chatgpt between your feet and the board.
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3y ago
oh i was hoping this was a cli tool :(
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3y ago
this is the right answer. you can only learn when you're not afraid
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3y ago
filtering them from your blood causes organ damage to your liver and kidneys. here's just two, but have fun exploring more. seems like a pretty obvious pathway when you think about it. probably can affect a lot of organs, especially th
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3y ago
we're not talking about disabling an RAAS pathway though, we're just talking about interfering with it and making it less effective. it's a gradient of many shades
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3y ago
my pet theory is that long covid is associated with an autoimmunity to the ACE hormone. If covid uses the ACE2 receptor to enter your cell, the spike protein must resemble a portion of the ACE hormone, and it's easy for your immune sys
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3y ago
the root cause is your immune system losing the war. there are always new cancers appearing in your body, most of them get caught and stopped by the system designed to do so.
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3y ago
what if the price is significantly increased rates of lymphoma amongst the human population?
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3y ago
genuinely, i ask, like what? i was told by a doctor once that the general rule is to never put anything on your skin you wouldn't also eat, inject or inhale. your skin is your body's largest organ, and allows many types of molecul
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as we all know by now, ChatGPT is just a language model. For most of human history we've used language capability as a way to assess intelligence. It feels like common sense that "If it speaks, it must be intelligent." We hav
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3y ago
even though the cars aren't very smart, i feel like this is a good demonstration for why humans will always have something of value that an AI does not: silliness, when properly applied it can defeat anything