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by rnk 4y ago
https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/recyclewithus . We can already recycle 95% of the metals in batteries, using 5% of the energy it would take to go from raw materials to battery ready components. It's a non problem. Tesl
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by rnk 4y ago
Cuba does treat their people in horrible ways, oppressing anyone who resists. But yes, we support plenty of countries that do that - like Turkey! Cuba comes into the 'legacy countries we hated in the past', communism division.
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by rnk 4y ago
The automatic trading program didn't account for this tricky trade, is that illegal (what if he caused a float overflow or div by 0 and benefited, is that illegal)?. Another reason why I wouldn't put serious money into eth contrac
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by rnk 4y ago
Yes, Falcon 9 and Starlink are each separately enough to keep space x in business. One easy observation is that company are trying to support themselves with only sat internet. Also companies are trying to support themselves by "only&q
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by rnk 4y ago
Yes, because the next big attack of a major country invading a weaker democratic country will be China invading Taiwan. Unless Russia gives up on that meany Ukraine and attacks the belligerent Moldavia (expands the separatist region) becaus
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by rnk 4y ago
Now those kids look like my nightmare vision of the American Taliban.
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by rnk 4y ago
Vernor Vinge's work is amazing. In the story "A fire upon the deep" he introduces the most amazing concepts, and there's a realistic way that an AI reboots itself after being in cold storage, there's a Usenet commu
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by rnk 4y ago
This experience fits mine at Google too. If I had only pushed to start at level 6 my life would have been different. Instead I was level 5. My group was full of people at level 5 who wanted to be level 6. No one ever got promoted. I eventua
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by rnk 4y ago
Those planes also have to be designed to survive EMP, they have special communication equipment to be used talk to the military, I think they might have the ability to have a really long and antenna they have a special low frequency communi
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by rnk 5y ago
Corporations and black money from rich people giving to american political parties does provide an endless pressure on both parties to cater to the needs of rich people and companies, of course. But it's not that simple. The republican
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by rnk 5y ago
The same thing can be said for the unnecessary apple lightning plug - it serves no purpose other than apple selling adapters and blocking usb-c use. Yet it keeps being used. Lots of companies have things with only usb-c but the real problem
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by rnk 5y ago
I think the bbc is still pretty good, their ukraine coverage seems excellent (the brexit cast and ukraine-cast podcasts are my favs).
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by rnk 5y ago
Boulder is in the top 10 which doesn't fit headline.
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by rnk 5y ago
That was a fun video, easy intro to analyzing wireless remote control signals with simple, almost free software.
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by rnk 5y ago
Woke is an undefined term, it's just the latest way to identify someone or some idea you don't agree with without really saying what it means. It's a strategy to avoid having to wrestle with complicated and difficult problems
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by rnk 5y ago
There is such a thing as hateful speech. The people who yelled the n word at football games at the opposing team when I was in college, that's just ok with you? No issue? Abhorrent maybe? My semi-integrated high school had a semi-racis
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by rnk 5y ago
I disagree with your idea, that basically conservatives think only they get banned from twitter. I'd describe it as people making repeated hate speech, threatening, and/or misleading information that leads to death. A liberal exam
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by rnk 5y ago
Anyone who pays attention knows free speech doesn't apply to criticism of him. I'm sure it's terrible being constantly criticized everywhere, half of it is probably completely crazy bs. But there's a reason we try to avo
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by rnk 5y ago
That feels like a very misleading point. The world population is almost 8 billion, it was almost 1 billion in 1800 (per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population ), so we decreased slavery as a precentage of the wo
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by rnk 5y ago
It does not serve any good for facebook that she threatened their business connections to the daily mail unless they bury the story. That is the absolute worst behavior. Wealthy people owning the news media is terrible, wealthy people manip
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by rnk 5y ago
I'm skeptical about your statement - diabetics who take metformin '.. live longer than non-diabetics in general'. I don't believe that is true. There is lots of research about metformin helping people, but making diabeti
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by rnk 5y ago
You are attacking unicorns. My largish city also has similar requirements, I'm also not in California. We have a problem like a lot of large cities, there's not enough apartments or lower cost housing, thus we are losing our workf
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by rnk 5y ago
There are fireproof structures, people in eastern Washington are starting to build them in small numbers. Concrete building material, don't build it surrounded by trees and bushes. Fireproof window stuff.
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by rnk 5y ago
I'm surprised by your problem with leftists here? What is the leftist agenda with regards to AI?
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by rnk 5y ago
The thing I was getting at is in other states, maybe all states, they calculate the estimated value and you pay property taxes for land based on that. But with california's special prop 13 system, you don't have to pay more as a p
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by rnk 5y ago
People are absolutely moving because of weather. The PNW has had terrible summers for about the past 5 years. Before there were decades of great mild summer weather, often July, Aug, Sept. These past few years there were smoke concentration
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by rnk 5y ago
Forget your scare quotes around science. Just go on facts. Do you not accept the idea that we have terrible wild fires in the western us, that we had sudden and unexpected very hot weather in the west? Do you argue that there isn't a b
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by rnk 5y ago
I don't want you to have to leave your land or be forced to sell it. But you should be paying taxes based on the actual value of it. Not on what it was 30 years ago when someone built it. California's proposition 13 is hiding act
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by rnk 5y ago
Proposition 13 needs to end. An obvious reason is that property can be owned by a corporation or LLC somehow and you can sell that to someone, effectively selling the house and avoid the proposition 13 tax reset. Proposition 13 has become
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by rnk 5y ago
I guess it's not universal that they don't reduce tax rates for people that are unable to pay, retired elderly? In the Seattle area that's a thing. I want people to be able to pass on their businesses to their kids. But in th

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