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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I mean, say what you want about Facebook, but no-one could accuse it of being bad at spending money on stupid stuff. It is kind of its thing.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
… I mean, again, that all pretty much exists (except maybe the thermal solar stuff, but PV ate thermal solar’s lunch about 20 years ago). Any new home built here at this point will generally have a heat pump with MHRV, which heats the hot w
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Though in practice if you live there you probably have a Deutschland-Ticket; the 4 euro fee would be primarily for visitors. Even as a visitor you should just buy an X-day pass in the terrible app if you're going to be using it a lot,
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Well, first of all, there is no such thing. However, even if such a thing did exist, you still have to contend with traffic and total road capacity. So, for instance, taking local systems (details will vary by city, but not much), a double-
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> For years, Elon Musk teased the idea of a Tesla-made home heat pump and smart HVAC systems that would completely change how we heat and cool our houses ... In what way would this be different from any other heat pump? The article is ra
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Nah, I think most/all of their new lines are single broad (9m diameter) bored tunnels.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
This makes LLM summaries totally useless, then, surely? Without reading the thing, you cannot know which important bits to tell the LLM to retain; if it can't manage that itself, it's useless.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
So, not willing to put much time into researching this, but from a quick Google it looks like sales absolutely _exploded_ in the early 10s. This could be AI... or it could just be reversion to the mean as a fad died.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
They've previously wasted a lot of money on stupid stuff (Facebook phone, metaverse etc etc), but my impression is that they messed with their core business less in the course of doing that. Whereas now, as the article mentioned, it se
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
They also used to also be big in RAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal Not so much anymore, but you'd wonder if it might be something they'd want to get back into, given the current mar
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I look forward to Trump demanding that his new 'battleship' be made out of the floating/anti-gravity iron from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_Around_You (another somewhat later parody, this one from
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Another FIFA prize at the very least.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
This the trouble with randomly starting wars; the other side isn't necessarily willing to just go back to the status quo without compensation.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I mean, it’d be very hard to spin it as a win.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
That's actually done a lot in ruin-heavy cities. For instance, here's a Lidl with bonus underfloor Viking village in Dublin: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/aungier-street-lidl-arch...
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
This feels kind of tautological. We know who built Teotihuacan, it was the Teotihuacanos! What do we know about them? Well, they built Teotihuacan... (Seriously, though, _is_ anything much known about them beyond that?)
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> and an entry on the 30 under 30 list. Ah, yes, the Nobel Prize for Fraud. (I'm seriously kind of amazed they're still publishing those.)
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
OOC, are you in the UK? They definitely haven't done it for any of my recent flights, but it's possible that they're more scared of the EU regulators than the UK one.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> but authoritarians plan across decades, democracies across electoral terms at best. Eh. China is really the exception there, not the norm, and it's a particularly _weird_ authoritarian state. Your average authoritarian regime is p
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> For example, more people buying EVs can meaningfully reduce CO2 consumption, but you can easily find millions of people ideologically opposed to that. If you're talking rich democratic countries, largely only in the US (this would
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> Never actually heard of rivers catching fire? This is the most famous example, though there have been a few of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga_River > Has acid rain been solved globally? Not entire
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
I mean, sure, but, well, not like it's the first example.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> Particularly since it is not a vote for Chexit, but a democratic vote to confront the EU To confront the EU on an absolute red line, yes. The EC is already not thrilled with the Switzerland situation and was fairly clear that it would
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
The train thing is particularly weird. The trains and trams and buses in Dublin are overloaded. I have never heard _anyone_, not even the fringe racist parties who'd happily blame bad weather on immigration, blame immigrants for this.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
See the documentary Logan's Run.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
No, that's not how it works, not unless they naturalise.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
> No status-signaling or having to appeal to the taste of King Louis the 14th I think you'd have trouble selling people on what Louis XIV ate today. Pretty sure that was still the period that sugar with meat was considered the heigh
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
The reference carbonara, for instance, appears to have existed in ~its current form for _under a century_.
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by rsynnott 4mo ago
Bond villains are rarely (almost never these days, I think) state actors; crazy billionaire is a more popular choice.
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by rsynnott 5mo ago
Yeah, they went price-competitive with Ryanair a while back.

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