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by yholio 6y ago
Dear EU leaders, There is no "reasonable middle ground" in this issue. Either the encryption works, and it protects the conversation, or it doesn't and it can be broken by both state and private actors, foreign or domestic. I
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It's as if the last 30 years of technical evolution never happened and we are back at faxing signed forms and for extra security and applying triple rot-13 to guarantee no unauthorized access.
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The most important take away from this is that electrical energy can be easily "multiplied" into thermal energy by using it to move around the almost unlimited thermal energy contained in the environment around us. For example, a
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Precisely, even with that significant slack, it still happens. How frequent will be the overloads in a system with no energy storage capacity, which is sized to handle the existing load peaks and already has infrequent overloads? The averag
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A vehicle without battery that is just standing there on the swap platform waiting to get a fresh pack does not need a structurally sound frame. So while the battery is structurally important, it does not follow that non-swappable batteries
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That seems more like a practical engineering decision since battery swap is not yet widespread. There doesn't seem to be anything fundamental that prevents it and in fact Tesla retrofitted the idea for vehicles that were not initially
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by yholio 6y ago
The issue is not power electronics, but power supply. You might have a 60 Amps grid supply, or even a 100Amps split phase 120/240V as is typical for newer US homes, which allows drawing 24KW from the grid at full power. Your neighbor m
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I think battery swap can be made to work and solve all these problems with the right economic structure that does not yet exist. You have a battery pack that you own and maintain carefully, and you absolutely do not want to rent it out to a
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The Android ecosystem is great for low cost devices. I have a 5 year old Samsung that still serves me great for what I need it: quick web searches, mapping and Waze, communication etc. The screen is cracked in 200 pieces, I literally steppe
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Nor does it mean that antisemitism, white supremacism, apartheid or nazism are anything but dialects of the same age-old social pattern.
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Still, it's coherent with GP's point: LPG and NG have the same finality, they get burned for energy in the same boilers with minimal changes. In dense areas, the capital expenses of dedicated infrastructure are recouped with cheap
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by yholio 6y ago
The average garbage production per capita in the US is 5 pounds per day. Moving that quantity a few miles to a collection center is completely trivial to other transportation tasks that an average citizen needs every day (personal travel fo
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I'm in the opposition and mostly react to proposals from the executive, the mayors' team, drafts of bills and projects. I can have legislative initiative but to impact meaningful change in a modern city you need to have a very wel
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Large investments will be made if they have large impacts on the short run. A city lacking sewage will devolve into chaos and be quickly deserted. In the case of garbage, you already have a working system, so you are looking at an efficienc
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I highly doubt this is the future of garbage collection, because it involves massive infrastructure investment that only pays itself in decades. This is not how local politics and budgeting operates. (source: I'm a district councilor i
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No, it wouldn't, see the terminal unlock code for contract phones discussed below. If your opinion is that the free market is all correcting and magical and that laws and regulations should never intervene in private consumer choices,
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Ah, the ole "idiot user" rhetoric, imprisoned for their own sake. Say I call the Apple support center, ask for the code, and they warn me in no uncertain terms that I'm voiding my warranty and would not be eligibile for conti
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Monopoly power is not a market force, it's an abuse of the market to the detriment of the consumers. If " the market forces that result in there being a large market for Apple’s devices " is Apple using its platform to, say,
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by yholio 6y ago
This might be a confusion started from the answer of "amelius", the logic of which I don't fully support. I believe consumer freedom is hampered first and foremost by monopolies (or, in the mobile OS case, oligopolies) and my
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The condescendence is really unwarranted, it is a simple idea that purchasing options are affected by political choices of others. To give a symmetrical example, you are not allowed to purchase completely safe recreational drugs, because of
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Clearly the majority has won thus far and Apple is not restrained in any way. But I have the right to a differing political opinion, and when the majority shifts, your freedoms are not encroached, just like when the majority of people decid
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Oh come on. It is a similar issue with network locked terminals - networks fought tooth and nail to keep the unlock codes away from the people who finished their contracts. In the end, it costs them nothing to provide the codes, but real mo
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It has the same security as the scenario of buying vs non buying a product for its alleged security: you either use it or you don't. If you do, you are greeted with copious warnings and voiding of warranty, so it would definitely be a
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Such people would have no issue if they were to be provided with a 20 character secret code that allows rooting and fine grained security control. They would simply not enter it and rely on Apple's decisions for them. This pretty much
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Hypocrisy is rampant with some Coinbase figures that cry out for "acknowledging the injustice and inequality that affects many current and future Coinbase users." Good God, your firm exists to facilitate trading in speculative ass
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Sorry, but the only rational consumer response to a device that actively works against you is not to purchase it, not hack it. Once millions of people pay to be imprisoned on their own devices, the long game is lost no matter how good the h
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There are no fission waste products but the reactor deals with massive neutron fluxes that activate all internal components, coolants and the internal fuel fluxes that need to be processed in order to keep the reaction going. The Deutherium
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About time to consider alternative paths to fusion. ITER and similar projects are abject failures from non-scientific perspectives, they fail to improve on the economic weaknesses of fusion (radiological waste, massive capital costs, scarc
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Who is providing true 4K streaming? And by that, I mean a stream quality that can improve upon a 1080p stream of the same bitrate, we are talking about 50Mbps at least, Blu ray bitrates, something like 75-100Mbps. Netflix caps at around 16M

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