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by stetrain 3y ago
I think the standards applied a normal citizen and a government official tasked with enforcing the law can reasonably be different. Most employers have standards and this person's employer was the government. Those standards are even m
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by stetrain 3y ago
Probably worth noting that the first was while serving as a police officer in a chat with colleagues. > James Watts was serving with West Mercia police in 2020 when he shared the “grossly offensive” material in a group chat, which includ
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by stetrain 3y ago
Rocket Lab's Electron rocket actually does this with the batteries that power its electric turbo pumps. > The electric pumps are powered by lithium-polymer batteries. The second stage uses three batteries which are "hot swapped
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by stetrain 3y ago
> Nonetheless, it is shown that conventional gasoline and diesel vehicles emit the highest amount of total life-cycle GHGs in comparison to vehicles powered by other available energy resources. When using green electricity, plug-in hybri
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by stetrain 3y ago
Currently used? Probably quite a bit. But usually still a net emissions win for using an EV vs a fossil fuel vehicle even with current grids. Required? None. There's nothing in EV battery production or charging or usage that requires
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by stetrain 3y ago
The tech world is full of standards that didn't catch on universally for one reason or another. If a new attempt can try the same idea, learn some lessons, and get more traction then I think that's a good thing.
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by stetrain 3y ago
So they have incentive to keep the chargers and site in good shape because it impacts their charging business as well as the food sales. A lot of chargers in the US are just dropped in the back of a parking lot somewhere. Once the provider
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by stetrain 3y ago
Sounds like they are doing things right. Do they also provide any other amenities that might drive revenue like vending, coffee, etc?
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by stetrain 3y ago
Yep, it's a seemingly silly thing but the physical external latch is one of the biggest downsides of the J-1772 / CCS Combo 1 cables compared to NACS. Europe's version of the AC charging connector (Type 2 Mennekes) and DC con
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by stetrain 3y ago
Plugshare is a great site/app for checking on weird chargers that you don't know exactly where they are and if they are working. The only chargers I actually trust to be there and working are Tesla Superchargers or actual public C
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by stetrain 3y ago
On road trips my charging stops are usually 10-20 minutes, so not enough time to go in and sit down at a restaurant or watch a movie. At longer stay locations then high powered AC chargers (12kW+) or slow DC chargers (25-50kw) could make a
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by stetrain 3y ago
When they need to be officially recorded with the NHTSA as a safety fix attached to the specific VINs affected, and with proper notice given to owners. That said using that recall count as an indicator of quality isn't really useful ei
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by stetrain 3y ago
Personally I'd rather the EV chargers be put in the back of the parking lot away from the prime spots, as long as they're still easily walkable to businesses and amenities. That provides less incentive for non-EVs or EVs that aren
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by stetrain 3y ago
If you mean push software updates to them then yeah, they probably do.
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by stetrain 3y ago
The plug-in hybrids on the market are currently not really cheaper than EV equivalents. I don't think being cheaper is actually a given as EV batteries continue to scale up in mass production. PHEV will always mean having two drivetrai
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by stetrain 3y ago
Right now fast chargers are very expensive to build and install, and the return on investment just from selling electricity isn't great unless it's actually used many times per day. I think a lot of these charging providers make m
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by stetrain 3y ago
The answer is both. Public transit to reduce the number of car miles needed, and EVs to replace the car miles that remain since the basic structure, zoning, and layout of a lot of homes and businesses in the US is not conducive to public tr
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by stetrain 3y ago
And a basic black and white laser printer will handle that task just fine. Mine is 5 years old and I'm still on the original toner cartridge.
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by stetrain 3y ago
And long term the supply a new lithium needed per year will be less than that needed to meet that year's global car production. Most of the metals used in EV batteries are recyclable, they aren't consumed permanently by putting th
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by stetrain 3y ago
That article lists one example which "likely still turns a small profit", and contains allegations from other groups that Amazon is selling some books below cost. That small margin above wholesale in the article's example is
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by stetrain 3y ago
They tried: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/...
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by stetrain 3y ago
Unless you count selling books at a loss to hurt their competition. It's a less direct form of market manipulation and one that doesn't usually meet the US's legal standards for antitrust, but it's a strategy Amazon love
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And power stays up while all of those are actively happening?
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by stetrain 3y ago
Rural Australia has its own extremes, but does it get much severe weather? I think blizzards, ice storms, tornados, and hurricanes are more common in North America and it's pretty tough to secure infrastructure against those with 100%
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by stetrain 3y ago
That is not true for the Mac, which is what my comment was about.
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by stetrain 3y ago
The original comment, and my reply, are both about the Mac explicitly. I also specifically said that for iPhone and iPad that they were correct, that Apple's app store is the only way to get apps.
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For unsigned apps you have to go into Settings > Security and click a button to allow the app to run. For signed apps there's no extra step needed by default.
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You can use any App Store or downloaded app on your MacBook. For instance I have Steam on mine which is basically the definition of third party App Store. For iPhones and iPads you're correct though.
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And they're claiming the 4070 Super provides more performance than an 3090 at lower TDP (220W vs 350W).
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by stetrain 3y ago
This comment follows multiple others in this thread calling Threads a "dead app" and a waste of money and development resources. Which seem equally irrelevant to the topic and incite this kind of discussion.

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