thelastgallon

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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
It is not all wasted. Walk/bike environment would have been better, but EVs solve another problem, they add energy storage to the grid. Norway has excess production from wind, they can store it and sell it to rest of Europe at higher p
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
You have no idea what you are talking about. Significant number of people take public transit (Moscow, NYC, Chicago -- lots of other cities) when its available. When you build an environment for cars and cars only, force everyone to buy car
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
People buy new cars (~10m/year in US) and when they are at that decision point, follow this algorithm. 1) Is there any way you can walk instead? 2) Can you bike? 3) Can you use an e-bike? 4) Can you use public transportation? 5) Can yo
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Samsung releases new all-in-one heat pump for residential use(pv-magazine.com)
19 points by thelastgallon 9mo ago|15 comments
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
Coming up next: Tesla to end production of all cars and sell only NFT/Crypto with pictures of Cybertruck going to the moon/mars. This is the only company which provides Speculation as a Service. With a complete monopoly on SPaaS,
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
Can't Musk 'encourage' Germany and EU democracies to vote for the right people and take over a wrecking ball to all these agencies causing mischief to his many and varied businesses? I'm sure there are politicians who ne
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
I used IBM CoScripter[1] for many many years to supercharge productivity at work. It records macros and you can rerun it. Perfect for most Corporate applications which require you to fill many pages of garbage to close tickets/etc. I u
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Japan's Debt Bomb Is About to Explode and Hit the US [video](youtube.com)
3 points by thelastgallon 9mo ago|1 comments
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Infrared Heating(nomoregas.org)
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China's megawatt-class airborne wind power system, completed its first flight [video](youtube.com)
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Xiaomi SU7 outsells Tesla Model 3 in China for the first time(electrek.co)
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Dutch students unveil an electric car you can diagnose and repair yourself [video](youtube.com)
3 points by thelastgallon 9mo ago|0 comments
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Texas Deep Freeze Shutters Some Energy-Consuming Industry Sites(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by thelastgallon 9mo ago|1 comments
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
You are spot on about segregation. Yes, walking and biking are for undesirables. The suburbs are built for cars and cars only. Poor people (African, etc) can't afford the large lots, the minimum size of residence, the HOA and lawn main
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
Thank you for doing the calculations. This is interesting and useful. Yes, people should switch to EVs, but mostly because it helps build resilient independent grids (eventually), EVs add a layer of energy storage, we can dump excess energy
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
The best solution is to build walking or biking environments. This was discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43672779 (saving a click) We need to start taxing vehicles based on the damage they are responsib
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
A better way to do this to remove the transportation subsidy for big businesses. Trucks do most of the damage to roads (4th power of weight) but consumers bear the brunt of road maintenance. If big vehicles paid their fair share of oil taxe
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
Doesn't Estonia already offer something similar?
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
> s one viral post on X recently put it, “Got a buddy who is praying for world war 3 so he can win $390 on Polymarket.” This is how most people are these days! Or probably thats how human nature is!
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
We don't know the business model in Norway. In US, gas stations barely make any profit on gas, its all from the convenience store, beer, water, lottery tickets, trinkets, souvenirs, etc. Costco, HEB, Walmart, etc also have gas and can
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
Its not an unsurmountable problem as Americans think. Just works like how you plug in your phone. Most of the world has electricity at home.
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by thelastgallon 9mo ago
To close the loop, the debt is treasury bonds held by other countries?
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Intel's 18A claims 50% lower power than Apple's 3nm [video](youtube.com)
4 points by thelastgallon 9mo ago|0 comments
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by thelastgallon 10mo ago
This is the more important statistic!
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The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52T (2025)(cnbc.com)
38 points by thelastgallon 10mo ago|51 comments
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by thelastgallon 10mo ago
Thank you for the context. > some are transmitted, typically by eating some part of an animal that contains prions, which then end up in your own body, inducing proteins in your body to take on prion configurations. I wonder about this p
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by thelastgallon 10mo ago
I have. You are spot on: "Lots of weird interface bugs or quirks."
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Can Walking Be My Whole Workout?(nytimes.com)
15 points by thelastgallon 10mo ago|6 comments
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by thelastgallon 10mo ago
This reminds me of Adam Bosworth's talk on HTML ( https://adambosworth.net/2004/11/18/iscoc04-talk/ ): It is an ironic truth that those who seek to create systems which most assume the perfectibility
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by thelastgallon 10mo ago
The French seem to be very thoughtful people who solved multiple pesky problems permanently: 1) Guillotine for the super rich 2) Nuclear to power >70% 3) C15 for people, cows, craftsmen, mini house 4) TGV 5) french fries for the fastest

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