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by tzs 10mo ago
> The officer suffered bruised ribs from the impact of the vehicle Even if there was contact no one gets bruised ribs from a car going as slow as that car was moving at that point.
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by tzs 10mo ago
...which is why when comparing countries per capita emissions is the correct measure for deciding which countries are doing a better or worse job of addressing the problem.
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by tzs 10mo ago
One thing that could help would be for Democrats who live in congressional districts where there is no way a Democrat will ever get elected because there are too many people there who just vote for the candidate with the 'R' by th
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by tzs 10mo ago
Two other Asimov stories that are similarly relevant to much of what is discussed on HN for similar reasons are “In a Good Cause—” and “The Dead Past”. I don’t know of a link for the first. Here’s one for the second. https://xpre
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by tzs 10mo ago
> Ford actually makes vehicles in Europe. Does BYD? Not yet. They are in the process of opening a factory in Hungary. The production line equipment arrived in December, with trial production scheduled for Q1 2026, and mass production in
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by tzs 10mo ago
It's the aerosol levels that "snap back" (although that takes months to a few years, not weeks). The effect that has on the climate depends on how much CO2 is in the atmosphere at the time. If during the time we were doing th
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Man accused of aiming laser at Trump helicopter acquitted in 35 minutes(theguardian.com)
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by tzs 10mo ago
I'd expect quite a few consumers would still want them. Canada has cheap electricity and expensive gasoline. For those who don't live in some part of Canada so cold that the efficiency of an EV drops massively due to heating an EV
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by tzs 10mo ago
No. You can see this on what happened to a recent bill for a drinking water project in Colorado. It was so uncontroversial that it passed the House by unanimous consent. That doesn't mean 100% were for it, but it means any who were not
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by tzs 10mo ago
Trump said, “Well, that's OK, that's what you should be doing. I mean, it's a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that, right?”, so he doesn't seem annoyed by it so wh
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by tzs 10mo ago
If you are OK with the heat maybe a dehumidifier would be able to address the humidity problem while still saving electricity compare to the AC.
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by tzs 10mo ago
Backup generator for power outages. NG usually still works during electric outages. A generator that you do not need to periodically go out to get more fuel for can be very convenient.
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by tzs 10mo ago
Both of those take you to ads for the product.
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by tzs 10mo ago
Kind of OT, but I heard an interesting thing on a radio program talking about childcare: the US almost got free universal child care in the early 1970s via the Comprehensive Child Development Act. At first Nixon was for it and there was e
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by tzs 10mo ago
Others have covered the problems with this. However if you live in certain US cities that are close to Canada there may be a work around. Actually move to somewhere across the border and live in Canada. As a US citizen living in Canada cros
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by tzs 10mo ago
> I'm sure these people exist, but it doesn't mean anything. One of those people is the current President of the United States.
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by tzs 10mo ago
That was all true long before 2008 so doesn't explain why the Republican platform changed nearly 180 degrees on this between 2008 and 2012.
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by tzs 10mo ago
Up to the 2008 election the Republican party platform called for reducing fossil fuel use, establishing a Climate Prize for scientists who solve the challenges of climate change, a long term tax credit for renewable energy (with specific me
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by tzs 10mo ago
If you just want to grab the data to put into a more useful format, as opposed to really needing to actually use them as drives on your modern Mac, you may be able to do it if you happen to have access to something that has a couple dozen G
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by tzs 10mo ago
> Renewables are good, but it gets cloudy, it becomes night, it might not be windy ...which is why China has 40 000 km of UHV transmission lines forming a vast network to move the energy from where it is abundant to where it is needed. T
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by tzs 10mo ago
> The other day I drove 700km in just about 5.5 hours (German Autobahn). Few stops to pee. With EV that would be few hours more (!) If you got an EV with fast charging (and there were fast chargers on your route) it would actually be und
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by tzs 10mo ago
First read your owner's manual to see if it says anything about this. My EV for example has a brake cleaning mode that turns off regeneration for approximately the next 10 times you use the brakes. Using that is probably going to be sa
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by tzs 10mo ago
What percent of people go to the car dealer for tires?
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by tzs 10mo ago
What I'd hope people would be doing is that when a country like Australia is working out some system of mandatory age verification is to point to the EU system or something similar and say that if you do go through with this, how abo
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by tzs 10mo ago
There are actual implementations that do not compromise privacy and anonymity. For example the EU is currently doing large scale field tests in several countries of such a system. It involves your government issuing you a signed digital cop
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by tzs 10mo ago
> i totally agree, but the solution to corporate manipulation of our feed is to regulate social media so that the first amendment applies to the algorithm so the companies themselves dont have the power to push their own propaganda. What
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by tzs 10mo ago
Below is how New York's new law requiring social media sites defined the covered sites. It's based on how the site works, specifically if they have an "addictive feed" which is defined in the law. I'd expect most la
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by tzs 10mo ago
> But setting that aside, the practical implications of age gate laws are terrible. The options are basically to have an LLM guess your age based on your face, or uploading sensitive identity documents to multiple sites and hope they are
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by tzs 10mo ago
From that article: > “Just about all the windmills are made in China,” Trump said. “They make them and sell them to suckers like Europe and suckers like the United States before." > “All you have to do is say to China: 'How
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by tzs 10mo ago
Considering that Google is releasing open source software they developed to facilitate such systems [1], apparently they are OK with the idea. It could simply be that they realize that online age verification becoming required for some onli

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