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by xbmcuser 2y ago
I am assuming they deliberately wanted the voice to sound like Her (the movie) for marketing so copied the voice then tried to get Johansson's permission once the legal department raised some objections. They went through with it anywa
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Copyright was supposed to protect a small inventor or maker for a short period of time. But as those small makers became corporations and they lobbied for and were able to keep increasing the copyright periods from a few years to decades af
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
The more I find out about Altman the more I agree with the previous board about removing him. The guy just feels sleazy to me. Though he is doing what I want and that is not giving a fuck about artificial monopolies granted by government ie
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Unless the landlord has 100s or 1000s of tenants I don't think people can stay anonymous usually people rent for multiple years the churn is not high enough for deducing who wrote the review
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
I think a bigger problem than 38% of webpages being dead is a lot of it is entities/groups/businesses now use facebook pages almost exclusively and have no other web presence outside of Facebook. In other words a Facebook account
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Is the move to electric cars running out of power?(bbc.com)
3 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|2 comments
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Did I say I was not human I include myself in most humans.
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
I hope this works and gets cheap as the only way the world gets off plastic is we replace it with something else. Most humans are selfish and are not willing to make sacrifices for the greater good so the only way we move of plastic is we r
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Scientists have figured out way to make algae-based plastic that decomposes(abcnews.go.com)
44 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|34 comments
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Solid-state polymer heat pump gets rid of the heat itself(arstechnica.com)
11 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|0 comments
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
In south asia and south east asia the temps are reaching the point where like arab countries working hours will need to be changed and not be in the afternoon. Unlike the Arab countries South East Asian countries have a humid climate as hea
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Its not just family offices. Billions of dollars from proceeds of corruption and crime from developing world and poor countries is parked in the real estate of western cities. But western governments turn a blind eye as this allows their 3
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
A lot of real estate commercial or residential is left vacant in many cities around the world because of this. Add to the fact that property taxes are directly tied to the tax income of city governments there are few cities willing to do so
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
Large scale grid project are planned years in advance so unlikely to eat up all the production as factories will need a constant demand source to clear inventory and have regular cash flow so I think home batteries like Tesla powerwall are
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by xbmcuser 2y ago
2-3 years down the road the cars will be again 10-20% as as battery prices fall further.
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EU would need 50% tariffs to curb imports of Chinese electric cars(ft.com)
2 points by xbmcuser 2y ago|2 comments
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
It hit me just now that most of the people that designed programmed and launched this satellite are already dead
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
People have different reactions to different kinds of proteins. So just asking is a good idea to see what the general reaction or opinion is. You don't need to follow it just but information is information bad or good.
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
My question as someone that used to suffer from gout attacks till I started using medicine does anyone know is this protein good or bad for gout
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
Ah no here is where people get it wrong. Government should build infrastructure by getting bids from private companies and it should be the same for maintenance and management of said infrastructure. Then the government should set performan
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
That is false propaganda. He was allowed to get into power by the army but his government hobbled. He would have been in power in 2013 if clean elections had been held let alone 2018 he was not brought into power. He was not elected by the
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
China did not dump but it has been divesting out of its US Treasury holdings over the last 10+ years. It holdings were $1.3-1.4 trillion 10+ years ago now they are just less than $800 billion. Japan has taken over from China as the largest
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
Western democracies had no interest in supporting democracies in other places they have been complicit in bringing down fledging democracies all over the the world the latest example is Pakistan. Democracy and Justice is only for themselves
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
When you have an economic system where most of the economic growth goes to a small percentage each year the system will keep compressing the wealth to one side till the system breaks. With the advancement in AI I think the problem is likely
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
I know a lot of people are disparaging the 100% number but I think the article is more about indicating that this is the inflection point as renewables and batteries are still getting cheaper and more installations are happening.
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
With the way prices are dropping for solar and batteries I would recommend doing the calculation again 3-5 years from now as with the current cost trajectory specially if it is just 20-30% more expensive. I think even prices for electric ap
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
My question for you if you are a landlord at what price would a battery and solar system would make it profitable for you to install and then sell the electricity to the tenants. With the slowdown in ev cars as well as battery production in
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
I would love for something like this to be attached to LibGen where it reads the millions of scientific papers. As in my opinion human knowledge today is more than what a group of people can handle let alone individuals. Their is lot of dom
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by xbmcuser 3y ago
It's just the start prices for batteries and evs will keep coming down. So will the electricity prices as solar prices are also falling. The space is moving too fast to hold any concrete opinions economics says electric will price out
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CM3588 NAS Kit – FriendlyELEC WiKi(wiki.friendlyelec.com)
2 points by xbmcuser 3y ago|0 comments

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