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by zizee 6y ago
I think the grandparent was saying that the super visible solar panels allow the house owner to signal to their neighbors/visitors/friends/family that they are environmentally conscious, thus getting social credit for the sol
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by zizee 6y ago
Actually, Australia will mostly be using the AstraZeneca vaccine, as an Australian manufacturer is licensed to produce it. It's a good thing too that we have a domestic cabability, as other countries appear to be diverting previously p
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> I wonder how detached from reality people are. Is it other people detached from reality? It seems unrealistic to assume 100% of people will not want to use such a service. > There are many reasons this won't happen. The very fa
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Vaccines trigger an immune response, preparing the body to fight of the infection. This allows the body to "beat" the infection before it takes hold. Afaik vaccines are not useful after the fact. I.e. this HIV vaccine won't b
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by zizee 6y ago
In a post scarcity society, it doesn't make so much sense to talk of dollars. If these heady futures of AI do come to fruition, then the cost of "stuff" trends towards zero. We've sort of seen this already playing out si
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>> Also what is the cost of storing that energy? > Insanely high compared to the cost of producing it. Ok, how about you share your numbers on the cost of production for 1kwh. Your use of "insanely high" leads me to belie
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My guess is better weather, food, and cheaper.
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> For one common naive case: Storing the energy in Li-Ion batteries in e.g. a Tesla Powerwall: $437/kWh. How did you come up with that number? Total cost of the battery divided by its capacity? Since you do not dispose of the batter
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American houses tend to be bigger than those in other countries, and built with poor insulation than say those of europe.
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I agree entirely. I chose the 1 hour of storage as a number because I had to say something, and I didn't want to go to low as it would undoubtedly knee jerk responses of "that's not enough, you need X hours". The main po
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> Solar must be more cost-effective in, say, the Mojave desert, than it is in Alaska. I don't think this was your intention, but this reminded me of something I see in so many of these conversations. In discussions about solar (and
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I think the future will be robust national/international grids, with a mixture of storage options (batteries/pumped hydro) to smooth out the intermittent nature of wind and solar. Cynics always talk about the amount of energy stor
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> The average household consumes 28.9kwh in a day Maybe in the USA. > which is way more than rooftop solar can provide. Maybe in your part of the world this is true, but it is not unrealistic in many places. Also, why are you limiting
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A lot of applications are read heavy on their database. When this is the case, you can make reads to a read only slave closer to the edge. There are other options, but depending on your applications architecture this might be a relatively e
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> Not tilling the soil? What does that even mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-till_farming
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There are probably millions of feral cats roaming australia.
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Indeed. What would happen to FB if for some reason both Apple and Google simultaneously removed their apps from their respective apps stores? I'm not sure it would destroy FB, but it would be a huge blow.
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Or arrest people that are using easily detectable satellite dishes.
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Interestingly, the disease carrying mosquito is an introduced/invasive species, so eradication in many parts of the world would be repairing the damage that humans caused.
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> Whatever, do your own research. Is it not ok to ask people making bold statements to backup their claims? The wikipedia article (which I admittedly only quickly scanned) doesn't appear to mention corruption, murdoch, or newscorp.
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> Due to blatant corruption there’s zero competition for broadband here, just resellers of the same system. Can you tell us more about this blatent corruption? Are you saying corruption has stopped multiple players entering into the high
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That could absolutely happen. But this scenario is no more the fault of the original author than everyone else that had a choice in using that software, but also refusing to maintain it themselves.
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I see no problem with someone developing something for fame and glory and not really want to put lots of effort into maintainance. It if it gets popular, the community (aka users) can maintain it. If the community also does not want to put
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by zizee 6y ago
There is definitely good wine and not so good wine, if you define "good" as something you like. I could believe that there is a tenuous link between price and quality, but that's not the same as saying there is no good wine.
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Cheaper fuel. Refill at home. Cleaner air. Cheaper to maintain (no oil changes, air filters, sparkplugs, less wear on breakpads). Quieter.
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Clearly you don't think it will ever be practical for you, or people in your situation. However, I encourage you to open your mind that you might not be representative of the entire auto buying market. The first electric cars were ver
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by zizee 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification, that makes more sense. Personally, I would think microsoft would be easier to "motivate" to share given they probably have more investments in china which could be used as leverage.
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Honest question: what percentage of the worlds population live in areas with such conditions?
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Excellent points. Also people seem to be forgetting a large percentage of people will be charging at home overnight, and will largely never need to charge their cars at places other than home.
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Honest question: are you suggesting that microsoft buying github makes it harder for the Chinese government to access the servers?

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