shiroiuma

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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
>but I'm extremely skeptical of the notion that people don't realize they're buying something illegal when they're paying a small percentage of what the services themselves would cost. Why? There's lots of cases
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
There is no world where bullet trains between NYC and LA would make any financial sense at all. The trains can't possibly go fast enough for passengers to be satisfied with the speed (even maglev isn't fast enough), and the cost
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
Aren't compressors these days usually variable-speed?
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
These make absolutely no sense and are extremely wasteful if you're only making 1 or 2 cups of tea per day. They make a lot of sense if you're in an office full of tea-drinkers though. Home users are more likely to be in the fir
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
How does getting tons of money from Disney into a government's tax coffers not benefit society? That's money that the government wouldn't need to directly collect from citizens other ways.
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
Yep, I've been proposing a similar system literally for decades now in online discussions like this. If you dig through Slashdot posts from 20 years ago, you might find something from me saying something similar. It makes sense too: s
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
They had the ability to record video at home LONG before 1981. People had handheld "Super 8" film cameras ages before this, which they used to film their own home movies. Of course, this is a little different from videocassettes
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
Yep, on the evil scale, Sony Music definitely ranks well ahead of Cox Cable. Now, if this were Comcast vs. Sony Music, it would be a closer call, but I still think Sony would have the edge.
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
>Why hasn’t it ever become standard for luxury kitchens to have a European-style outlet for use with a European kettle? I know the US already has a different 240V plug shape, so it might have to be an unlicensed installation, but surely
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
>Things like washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, air conditioners, or fridges spend a lot of energy by running powerful electrical motors, which should benefit from AC. No, they don't, not at all. Most modern appliances have vari
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
Luckily, phone batteries and phone power consumption seem to have improved a lot in the last half-decade.
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
Large home appliances probably mostly need DC power these days too. Look at clothes washers: they all have variable-speed reversing motors, so they're probably using brushless DC motors (which use motor drives that are fed with DC, an
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
These days, you should not be using transformers to power small loads at all, you should be using switching power supplies. They have negligible power draw when there's no load attached.
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
The pedophile billionaires are your leaders, because you voted for them. You have no one to blame but yourselves.
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
It wasn't intentional; the building was used by the military years before. The US had really badly out-of-date intelligence and was negligent in updating it. There's absolutely no military benefit to bombing a girl's school
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
>- no significant skin effect at 400Hz -> use speaker wire, lol. What are you talking about? There's a very significant skin effect at 400Hz. Skin effect goes up with frequency. These datacenters use copper busbars, not cable,
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
There's a British TV series called "The Night Manager" that seems to show how MI6 really works and what its priorities are.
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
Air travel and shipping are more than a "rounding error". https://personal.ems.psu.edu/~pisupati/ACSOutreach/Petroleum... Admittedly this data is a little old (20 years), but today's numbers probabl
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
A few I think you left out: - Frankenstein - Dune and Dune Part Two - Star Trek: Section 31 (just kidding)
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
>I feel similarly about old advertising. Anything from, say, the 1970s and before just doesn't hit me the same way, particularly in print. Audio/visual ads somewhat, but even they seem different and more innocent. No, the reaso
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
I live in Tokyo, and the air is not that clean close to highways: large diesel trucks pollute a lot, and also small motorbikes/scooters pollute horribly because they don't seem to require any emissions controls at all. The main th
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
For now, but they're catching up quickly I'm sure, esp. since American university quality is surely degrading quickly.
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
>If you want to drink your own wine in a restaurant, you have to pay for that, too. Depends on the place. Tons of restaurants in New Jersey encourage you to bring your own wine bottle and don't charge a "corking fee".
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
Most people decided that convenience was better than freedom and self-determination. If people want the freedom to use their own fonts in their own presentation, and don't want to pay handsomely for the privilege, LibreOffice is freely
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
>But that future will not arrive everywhere at the same point in time and Norway is very far ahead of the rest of the world due to a fairly unique set of circumstances: exporting your own oil and gas to be able to have a 'clean&#x27
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
Well, I guess one nice thing about that last part is that we'd be able to just enjoy AI "actors" as they are, instead of being conflicted because in real life, they're not cult promoters, rapists/groomers, etc. Mov
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
People no longer look up to America like they did 40-50 years ago. It's been a slow decline, really starting I think in the early 2000s with GWB's "war on terror" and stupid invasion of Iraq, and the election of Trump a
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
No, they're not the same, but the amount of time people have for entertainment is generally fixed. In the old days, they spent it reading books or socializing or doing a hobby like playing music or painting. Then radios were invented
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
Yep, there's lot of great movies and series coming out of other places, like UK, Europe, Japan, Korea, and many more. And a lot of stuff people think is "Hollywood" is actually being made in Canada.
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by shiroiuma 7mo ago
I completely disagree. This advice made sense 20 years ago, but today an 85" (or smaller even) OLED screen will easily outperform any projector. The problem with projectors is that they can't display black: they're shining l

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