craig1f · HackerTrans

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I doesn’t happen nearly enough to be worth the effort. Electricity is cheap, and these mobile services are only worth it if they can charge a premium. And they can only charge a premium when a car is literally stranded. And that happens infrequently enough that you may as well just use a tow, which is readily available.

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Although, Maxwell’s cover of This Woman’s Work is outstanding.

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When my wife and I went to Italy on our honeymoon, and subsequently decided to use carbonated water as a way of dropping our coke addictions, the next few months felt like I was a drug fiend breaking an addiction.

Vegetables tasted so good. Vanilla added to our Starbucks coffee started to taste awful. It felt like a world of taste opening up. Food started to satisfy so much more. It was easier to identify when I was full and avoid overeating.

The sugar industry has so evil and has done so much damage to this country and to the world.

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Exactly this. Hydrogen is like crypto. It has just enough interesting tech to attract (using D&D terminology here) high INT, low WIS people.

Hydrogen will probably never work unless someone comes up with a stable molecule that includes hydrogen, is large enough to not move through solid objects, and still retains enough chemical energy to be useful. Ammonium is one option, but it is highly toxic. Only really practical in cargo ships.

Hydrogen also can be useful for inherently expensive things like rockets and jet planes. But never cars.

It was never going to compete with electric. EVs have been slandered for so long that people just assumed we would come up with something better. But EVs are great. Driving an ICE car after being in a Tesla feels like playing a first-person shooter over dial-up.

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It would. Yet there is no promising tech in this field. Hydrogen is supported only to draw support away from EVs.

If hydrogen becomes inexpensive to produce, it will by by way of solar power used to generate it.

It will never be easy to store. Hydrogen is the smallest element, and can move through solid objects over time. It is violently explosive. You think these EV fires you see all the time are bad? They're nothing compared to gasoline fires. And gasoline fires are nothing compared to a hydrogen explosion.

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I think you have the right definition here.

People aren't rational. They are rationalizers.

Rational thinking is when you use facts and draw a conclusion.

Rationalizing is when you have a conclusion, and you work backwards to justify it with rational-sounding arguments.

Conspiracy theories start with some ridiculous conclusion, and work backwards to make it sound intelligent. It's not intelligent, but it SOUNDS intelligent.

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Anger is the emotion we feel when we've run out of rational options. People only get angry when others disagree with them if they don't feel like they can argue their side. They might feel like they can't argue their side for several reasons:

- They don't have an argument - They don't believe the other person will listen to their argument - They don't have time to argue - They're tired and don't want to feel like it - They don't know why they believe what they believe - They know their idea is wrong

Some of the reasons above are rational, some are not. But you don't usually feel anger if you feel like you have a rational path forward. (i.e., you have an argument that you enjoy explaining to people that you believe will listen to).

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Question ... were they Reserved instances, or On Demand? IIRC, you still pay for Reserved instances, whether or not they're on.

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Most things like this are organized by bad-faith actors that know that his skit wasn't hateful. The powers-that-be have learned how to create viral movements. They know how to get would-be-activists spun up until their brains turn off. These are the left-wing equivalent of Trump-supporters.

People got up in arms about his last stand up. It was not offensive at all. But you couldn't say that, because the people had already made up their minds.

Corporations know how to get people spun up, and they're doing it with Chapelle again. They want to cancel him, because he is dangerous to the right wing, because he is charismatic and articulate. He can get points across clearly. If he became the new Jon Stewart, he could siphon a lot of control away from the right. They need to neutralize him before he decides to go political.

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Django is the absolute worst. I just finished two projects with it. It's OO hell full of side effects.

We are using feathersjs now, which solves most of the same problems Django did, but is easier to understand.

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