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by sk2020 5y ago
That “privacy” is a concern for a “papers, please” surveillance system is a bit surprising.
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by sk2020 5y ago
According to a company that makes substantial profit off of a controversial product, said product is safe and effective. Science has spoken, folks, there is nothing harmful with young women trying to compete in an online beauty pageant for
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by sk2020 5y ago
Mandatory, universal indoctrination of the youth by the state long into adulthood wasn’t even normal until about a century ago. I suppose the Ottoman Janissary Corps is the only older example I can think of. Outside of knowledge-based field
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by sk2020 5y ago
There may be places where you would want access to starches, agriculture is not feasible, transportation costs are prohibitive, but you also have abundant power. I’m struggling to think of a place that meets all those criteria.
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by sk2020 5y ago
I don’t get this article. There is a “CO2 is bad mm’kay” problem statement, then a recommendation of fly ash, which is already a common additive to mixes, then a recommendation for mill slag, which is already a common additive where it’s av
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by sk2020 5y ago
I don’t think regular voters like the policy; they just don’t have any input. Plus there is only so much bandwidth for legislative process, and that’s pretty log-jammed by some hot topic issues lately.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Discovering 2.5M tons in 20 years does not come close to the demand. You would need at least 3X the rate of discovery forever assuming we only ever serve the need of passenger vehicles and never increase world vehicle production. That’s a
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by sk2020 5y ago
That’s fascinating! Can you please share the name of one of those operations or the companies operating them? I can only find academic papers referencing pilot projects.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Toyota, committing to an all-hybrid/EV fleet, also cut it’s production targets in half. The internet of today was possible to build in 2000. Replacing billions of vehicles and industrial equipment with batteries and solar panels or som
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by sk2020 5y ago
You seem to be expecting to get a waterfall out of a pond. That we will just push the ocean through a fantasy machine that gives you the minerals you want is Lysenkoism.
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by sk2020 5y ago
> You don't fix batteries, you replace them Yes. That’s my point.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Ideal? Huh. You’d think CAT would just do that sort of thing on their own for equipment with price tags in the millions. That Diesel engines are required to produce the electricity underscores that battery energy density is not comparable t
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by sk2020 5y ago
There are 7M tons of cobalt reserves in the world. That is a “we don’t have enough of it” problem.
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by sk2020 5y ago
I’m still waiting to see a Cat D11 with an electric motor or a mechanic who can fix a used EV battery or what planet we’re going to get the lithium and cobalt from to make billions of EV cars. I don’t think we share a common definition for
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by sk2020 5y ago
EVs are less than <5% of the global market. They are the Linux desktop of automobiles. Interesting and a passion for some, but always just a few years away.
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by sk2020 5y ago
I assume it’s AI assisted content. Glib is an understatement. The two questions I came away with are 1- who is funding this useless NGO? 2- how on earth do you pronounce the author’s name. Is it B-AH-rbara? B-AY-rbara? That accent mark is k
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by sk2020 5y ago
Sellers aren’t going to list the product as drugs. It may be a suspiciously priced curio or garment that the buyer knows is something else.
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by sk2020 5y ago
I think you could end up in a quagmire of trying to calculate all the secondary effects of different production strategies. Maybe another GUI framework uses less power, but maybe it takes more developer hours. How much power do those workst
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by sk2020 5y ago
Amazon is probably already distributing large quantities of cannabis. I don’t think Amazon is actually concerned with their hired help, but I think they are very concerned with legal risk of shipping drugs which may be disguised as other pr
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by sk2020 5y ago
Probably not Victor Dominello.
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by sk2020 5y ago
USGS states there are 7M tons of Cobalt reserves in the world. An EV battery needs about 15lbs of Cobalt. That means, in a fantasy scenario of perfect recovery of all known Cobalt, we have 930M batteries which last, maybe 100K miles. That m
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by sk2020 5y ago
I think the more likely outcome is that personal and commercial travel will just be illegal for people outside of political leadership. The mineral resources to replace all vehicles with EVs don’t exist. Sort of Holodomor repeated as farce.
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by sk2020 5y ago
If Politifact says so, then, brother, you can take that to the bank (but not the safe deposit box).
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by sk2020 5y ago
I’m not seeing the novelty. Constructed wetlands, rain gardens and bioswales are all pretty common surface water quality management techniques used today. Wakodahatchee is a great example of a large scale constructed wetland used for urban
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by sk2020 5y ago
I would like to think putting everyone’s eggs in one basket to be used for unstated purposes would bother most people, but it really doesn’t. I think they’re right though. I’m inclined to think that chat in general facilitates a staccato of
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by sk2020 5y ago
I think there was all of one BCT in Afghanistan with the ANA doing most of the high risk work. I think it’s more likely that the politburo surrendered to allow China to expand into Central Asia. I’m sure there will be some book deals and pa
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by sk2020 5y ago
I think this is the real reason Toyota cut production targets 40%. Their insiders probably know that the politburo intends to make personal vehicles illegal for kulaks like me.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Well, I hope that New York will pass a law that will make enough cobalt to satisfy battery demand exist. I suppose they may not need that law if they only want enough cars to chauffeur celebrities in clown costumes to the Met Gala.
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by sk2020 5y ago
Myocarditis is not a side effect?
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by sk2020 5y ago
This is normal now. There is no pharmaceutical product which provides sterile immunity. There is no population where transmission has been eliminated. Vaccine As A Service is the new business model. Or if you like gallows humor: Two weeks?

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