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ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Energy loss through an insulator is exactly linear to temperature.

The problem is that people who would have otherwise tolerated 50F temperatures without heating by putting on a sweater are pulling their old oil column heater out of the storage.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Multiple clever integral tricks...
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
My LDL dropped by three quarters once I switched to a keto(ish) diet a decade ago and stayed down. My HDL remained stable, almost like the body manufactures it for cell walls or something...
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Not an AI problem. This happens when small businesses outsource their adsense campaign to one of the many completely incompetent fly by night SEO shops, or to their grandson who's "good at computers".

Half of Google's income is derived from businesses pissing their marketing budget up a wall with incorrectly targeted ads. But it's still more effective than newspapers.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Tl;Dr.

"The lower strata of society are being forced into precarious employment and debt slavery. (What's new?) Here's how to use a global surveillance apparatus to enable more debt slavery."
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
The Sydney Opera House is like this too, it's a 12 story double helix excavated from sandstone.

I'm sure it was fascinating to design, but it's an absolute nightmare to park in.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Multilevel parking is about $10-15k per space. An asphalt lot is $1.5k.

You also don't pay land tax and stormwater drainage levies on an undeveloped parking lot.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
It was created by Landmark, then offloaded in 2008 to NBCUniversal who still own it under Comcast.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
I stopped buying much there around ~2010. The sheer amount of Chinese counterfeit garbage and lack of proper categorization makes it impossible to browse the site. The clothing category in particular is just 100,000 dumpsters full of unlabeled trash heaped into a pile.

If you didn't discover a product name somewhere else, you won't find it on Amazon. Amazon doesn't do merchandising for shit.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Registration for Cadabra was filed in July 1994. I suspect this was chosen because Bezos' attorney had discovered that his first preference "Abracadabra" was taken.

Amazon was a much better choice.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
No, they put you into a bubble and show you what you've already clicked just like youtube and google display ads.

I only get new music when I manually load a playlist.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
How about suggest songs based on what I've liked but haven't heard?

Brain dead filter bubble repeatedly playing what I've already played is why I don't subscribe to this garbage service.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Few tens of thousands of dollars.

You're looking at 4 hours insolation in winter in subsaharan regions. Also assume cloud cover drops panel output to 50% for consecutive days. You're gonna need 25kW of panels and 30kWh+ of battery storage.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Yeah, most people are recharging 20-30 miles of daily driving not the whole battery. As long as the car pulls its 10-15 kWh overnight before it leaves the garage in the morning EV owners aren't going to care when charging happens.

With managed charging / demand response and day ahead weather forecasting you'd rarely need to spin up a gas turbine. On the coasts wind is strongest at night, the distribution grid is at minimum load and cars are parked. Seems like a perfect match.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Not sure how anyone missed the $2.3B Lordstown, Ohio battery factory deal finalised with LG last March. But I guess there was a lot going on in the world...

GM is very very far behind, but they are now deadly serious about owning a majority of the EV market.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Like every other "fremium" product on the market that isn't taking Softbank money, RH will eventually increase fees once it takes market share. This is just the promo period.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Due to the much younger population, most of Africa, India, and Pakistan has had MMR, and it's been found that the mumps vaccine provides significant immunity. In the west most over 35 had measles only, or MR combination without mumps.

DOI: 10.1128/mBio.02628-20

For some reason this hasn't been well covered in the media. I got an MMR booster in June based on preliminary findings, my GP thought I was insane.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Australia has had real time transfers on our reserve bank's "New Payments Platform" since 2018. Transfers are finalized in a few hundred milliseconds.

And we're actually half a decade behind most of Asia and Europe.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
There is an actual wafer shortage and arrogant automotive suppliers thought they could order on short notice.

Turns out silicon valley customers like Apple and Nvidia order a year or more ahead and prepay for capacity instead of phoning at the last minute and demanding "standard" 120-day terms for the privilege of having their business. I know who I'd sell my capacity to.
ChrisIsTaken
·vor 5 Jahren·discuss
Shower charging.

The bolt fast charges at 50kW up to about 40%, then gradually drops to 35kW at 55% charge state. After that the charge rate drops off horrifically, to less than 10kW above 80%.

It's a compliance car designed for city driving only.