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Nobel Prize winner: "Cell biology is a hallucination." – Eric Betzig [video](youtube.com)
2 points by thelastgallon 5d ago|1 comments
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by thelastgallon 5d ago
Transcript: Almost everything you learn in biology textbooks is a hallucination. You guys have probably seen on the web: here’s a cargo on kinesin walking along a microtubule like this. And it’s all like in this vast empty space. I don’t kn
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by thelastgallon 5d ago
Coal in China has many applications beyond simply burning it to produce electricity. leonidasrup https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290234
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by thelastgallon 5d ago
PE has bought most of hvac, electrical, plumbing, daycare, dentist. They keep the same local well established name, but is run centrally by the PE firm. They employ smooth talking salesmen to convince homeowners to pay tens of thousands of
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by thelastgallon 5d ago
1) The Roof Explanation US homes are stick built. The roofs are not concrete, they are shingles. This is the single biggest bottleneck. On concrete, its super easy to add a simple steel frame, add panels and done. Shingles have a shelf life
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by thelastgallon 5d ago
Most big businesses don't run on competition or profits. They run on free money supply by the Govt.
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by thelastgallon 5d ago
Soon we'll see a Manhattan Project for a coal powered car. Followed by coal powered Fridge and AC.
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by thelastgallon 5d ago
They have 25 year warranty with performance guarantee of 92%. After 25 years, it will continue to work fine, 8% lower output is perfectly acceptable. Most likely will last 50 years or more. There is no product on the planet that has a a mul
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BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video](youtube.com)
61 points by thelastgallon 6d ago|103 comments
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Replacing gas stoves with electric stoves greatly reduces asthma symptoms(theconversation.com)
3 points by thelastgallon 7d ago|5 comments
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Bill Gurley: Searching for Feynman [video](youtube.com)
3 points by thelastgallon 7d ago|1 comments
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by thelastgallon 7d ago
There is an "Unsloppify site" button which makes it a bit better.
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by thelastgallon 8d ago
Divorce is expensive because it is big bucks for the lawyers and family court cartel. They have a vested interest in not changing the laws. When laws are made fair, and the perverse incentives to divorce are lessened, divorce rates plunge.
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by thelastgallon 8d ago
Can AI replace divorce lawyers? Marriage has no friction, but divorce is high friction. Made impossibly expensive and time consuming because of the cartel of divorce industry.
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How Electric Cars Took Hold in Australia(nytimes.com)
1 points by thelastgallon 10d ago|0 comments
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by thelastgallon 10d ago
People are buying EVERYTHING indiscriminately, accelerating enshittification. Just make anything, advertise with influencers, meta ads, etc and sell stuff is the mantra. If people learn to value their money, only pay for the best and let th
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by thelastgallon 10d ago
Govts should incentivize buying EVs. EVs add flexible demand to the grid and a ton of storage capacity. Large scale solar deployments growth will slow down because everyone is producing at the same time. New solar should all be vertical. Th
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Carnot the most efficient, multi-fuel engine(carnotengines.com)
2 points by thelastgallon 11d ago|0 comments
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Unitree launches upgraded G1 humanoid robot with six major upgrades(technode.com)
4 points by thelastgallon 11d ago|0 comments
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by thelastgallon 11d ago
Discussed Volkswagen Just Built An EV That Can Go Nearly 500 Miles On A Charge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49696313
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Volvo Trucks launches new 80-tonne electric truck with longer range(volvotrucks.com)
2 points by thelastgallon 12d ago|0 comments
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The Worlds Most Complicated Video Game Has a Wealth Inequality Problem(youtube.com)
2 points by thelastgallon 12d ago|0 comments
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Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge(motor1.com)
50 points by thelastgallon 12d ago|116 comments
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Chinese cargo ship makes inaugural journey, reshaping global trade
8 points by thelastgallon 12d ago|3 comments
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by thelastgallon 12d ago
Perverse incentives: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46254013
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by thelastgallon 12d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
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by thelastgallon 13d ago
It will be game over for Tesla if Chinese cars are allowed. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-would-be-ok-w...
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The Coxon psyop was a decade and more than a billion dollars in the making(xcancel.com)
3 points by thelastgallon 13d ago|5 comments
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by thelastgallon 13d ago
David Sacks, stop pretending: https://xcancel.com/DavidSacks/status/2098973625252708460
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by thelastgallon 13d ago
> The housing is of poor quality compared to what you get in the west—it’d never pass inspection there. Everything is made with cheap materials. All the houses are built with concrete. They are pretty much indestructible. You could say I

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