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by throwaway189262 5y ago
You can turn off "location services" for local-only GPS fix but it's difficult and hounds you constantly. After warranty ends I flash Lineage and run location spoofing.
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Maybe we can finally lay self driving prophecies to rest. Self driven cars will never share the road with human drivers. There's no legal framework for liability. And AI is far from understanding human intentions and speech. One day we
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
The harder they push a feature, the more valuable the data they're stealing from you. Google as an example. They push their "sensor fusion" location service EXTREMELY hard on Android. It will ask you to turn it on every time
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I loved Roku but they lost me when their latest model would only show regular 1080p on a 2K HDR-10 screen. And yes it supports HDCP and all that crap. Roku just never tested downscaling apparently.
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
EV's are great for big cities, but about half of US pop lives in rural areas. Outside major highways EV chargers don't exist in the sticks. In rural places 50 mile trips are normal. It's not unusual to drive 90 miles each way
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Random ocean dumping is not cool, but oceanic subduction zones are perhaps the best way to deal with long lived nuclear waste.
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Ruby is a dead language and even people attending the conferences know that. That's why people there are playing silly games instead. Most of them probably show up just to see their friends. There's a huge contingent of Rubyists i
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Are you actually complaining that wind is bad because it ruins the view? Windows, cars, and pet cats kill multitudes more birds than windmills Hydro plants do use wind to bank energy. Either by shutting down and banking water when the wind
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
This is actual supporting data from a reliable source and should be up top. So it appears fossil fuels take ten times more energy to run over a lifetime. Less than I expected but still bad
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
But coal plants use an absurd amount of coal and everything they don't burn ends up as ash. And have you been close to a big coal plant? They're massive. A coal plant probably used more land than 200 turbines and unlike turbines t
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Even 400 stories would be 600 kwh. Thats like 2 tesla battery packs. Way better than 6 but still not anything that can be realistically applied at scale. There's not many deep mineshafts that aren't filled with water. And dewateri
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I heard conjecture about it. Possibly more realistic is high pressure gas storage in salt domes. Or hydro power based on filling and draining deep mines. There's realistic gravity based projects, but dropping ACME style anvils down min
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Lol yeah
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
The turbines are all in fields, useless scrubland, cattle ranches, and the ocean. Humans don't hang out in these places anyways
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
It does far less damage than any other source of power. Unlike solar, it uses no space. Unlike fossil fuel and nuclear, it uses no continuous inputs. Coal and gas plants use many times their weight in materials for a lifetime of operation.
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
So? How much resources does it take to mine thousands of tons of coal a day, or billions of BTU of natural gas? With solar and wind, you put it up and you're done. No more inputs. It chills in the field. With coal and gas you're f
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Big cities in places like India and China are an exception. In these places average salary can be 10X higher than rural areas of the same province. Because the big cities are much father along towards being developed country than outskirts.
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
It's housing costs entertwined with mental problems and drug use. In many countries you can afford a shack with US equivalent of $100 a month. In rich countries such shacks are illegal and all the regulation and land cost raises minimu
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Construction material is a meaningless metric. If you compare coal or gas plants you need to consider the materials they consume and infrastructure needed for fuel transport. This is a big number, many times the material used for the plant
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
This is an obvious scam if you do the math. Assuming the full scale version delivers peak power for 11 seconds like the prototype, 2MW peak power would be 6 kilowatt hours of energy. That's terrible. We're taking about dropping hu
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
> as a single wind turbine, which is already one of the worst ratio of power output per quantity of resource and land use. This is just false. Every wind turbine I've ever seen uses 50 square feet on a farm or cattle ranch. Not once
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Not sure why downvoted. For nearly a century large multi family wood structures were banned in most countries due to fire risk. These huge apartment buildings are all 2X4's, not timber framing. They're incredibly flammable. The on
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
What??? Germany had already surrendered, Japan was the only major Axis power left. They used the bomb immediately after it was built. There was a single test, Trinity, then the next bomb went to Japan. How could they choose Japan years in a
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Please. I work in tech too and get the same crazy salary everyone else does. You really wondering if someone on HN is a secret poor person because they're willing to admit they're overpaid? I grew up broke and understand how fortu
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
In US at least, the population skews substantially left. Younger folks in the US lean quite left but don't vote. While Republicans and Democrats are represented fairly evenly in elections, in population surveys that include non-voters
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
> They had the animals passively listen to sequences of four chords over and over again, in what Buschman dubbed “the worst concert ever.” Hahahaha!
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
I don't understand how they released it like that. When my mom told me about kids getting stuck I immediately said "yeah under the back right?" And I've only seen Peloton in ads. What a stupid design. They deserve to get
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
What is the other thing they're doing? Nothing I've seen in their tax bills affects average americans
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
400k a year is still an obscene amount of money. Likely top 1% in the US and top 0.01% on the planet. Billionaires don't pay income tax, that's why Dems are raising the corporate tax rate too. They're also looking at increasi
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by throwaway189262 5y ago
Actually, they didn't. Democrats have only had majority control of congress and the presidency for 5 of the last 40 years. The rest of the time, Republicans can block any bills they don't like. And they really don't like huge

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