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panax
·2 năm trước·discuss
Buy based on quality, but you have to be willing to pay for it.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
From what I understand only about 2 billion of the 70 billion tons are economically extractable.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
The worst aspect of this game is the tedious inventory management and awful UI. You only get 10 storage crates which each only hold 5 different items and they all look identical so you have to run around trying to find the right one to add it to the right stack. There's not enough space to be able to store most items especially if you need intermediate items for crafting, even if you limit yourself to storing only one stack of one type of item. You end up using all the exocraft just for storage and never use most of them besides only for storage. Progression is largely centered around buying extra storage slots for your exoskeleton which ends up allowing you to carry more stuff on your body than you can on a large vehicle or in one of these giant storage crates that barely hold anything. The item icons are also unnecessarily huge in them and there isn't an easy or efficient way of interacting with them. The big storage cubes allow you to access the inventory from anywhere so that somehow justifies the very limited space, but there is no option for building a container that you can only access locally from inside a base other than building portable refiners to abuse as storage, which hold hardly anything and sometimes despawn randomly. So you end up building like 50 refiners in a base for storage and you constantly run around trying to remember what each one holds so you can go store something in an existing stack to save space.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
For Berkshire in particular most of this cash is part of the float for their insurance business which they need to have on hand and available to pay out for potential claims and they will only ever keep that part of the float in cash equivalents. Still they have a large amount of cash beyond what they need for the float which they attribute to lack of opportunities to invest in given their immense size and investing style. They also want to be able to be in a strong position in a downturn or crisis situation. Hoarding all that excess cash still presents a major opportunity cost for them, although now not as much as before with higher interest rates.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
Because it has low solubility it will be less toxic compared to a more soluble form of lead, but it is still highly toxic and there is no safe dose. It has been implicated in numerous documented cases of lead poisoning from adulterated turmeric and you wouldn't want to be consuming it.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
We need to abolish the TSA already
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
What about these seat belts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ysvyXDebsM
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
Another system similar to this but with more information is STAR voting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAR_voting

They all have different strengths and weaknesses. We should be trying to move to more optimal systems.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
There's more than two parties. Nobody is forcing you to vote for one of them. Parties are also an anti-pattern. Again we need a better system than first past the post that naturally biases towards a two party system.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
Why does everyone keep reelecting them? Vote for someone else. We also need a better voting system than first past the post.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
I keep JS disabled by default and only enable it in certain situations. If your site doesn't work without JS and I try to view it I am probably just going to leave.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
Sub Saharan Africa is still mostly in this situation and much less productive in farming than most other parts of the world. They are slowly improving but they lack the capital to invest in more productive methods. If they could improve their efficiency it would probably lift a lot of people out of poverty.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
Also nonce misuse is a common failure mode among novices who might not understand what a nonce is supposed to be. People do all kinds of mistakes including using hardcoded static nonces. Its also fairly easy to come up with a bad protocol where someone can trick you into nonce reuse. Or there is a complicated error path that might involve a device going through reset where a nonce reuse might occur. Some of these are not so trivial to identify either.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
If only there was a way to do direct air carbon capture for the home and office with high CO2 concentrations to lower them economically

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/start-up-wants-to-do...

I wonder how this compares to the cost of properly ventilating in an non ideal climate for ventilation. My guess is that it is way more expensive
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
I got a 4A recently (2 yrs ago now?) since it is supported by grapheneOS. My previous phone lasted 13 years, I intend to use this almost as long, or until there is a major hardware failure(failure with mainboard - not battery or screen or fixable issue). Next one might be a pinephone or fairphone if it is any good by then.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
After a few decades of inflation from now that will be a much more common occurrence and the laws will probably never be updated to reflect that.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
The limiting factors for superconductors in fusion power generation efficiency is the strength of the magnetic field they can generate which is limited by how much force the superconductor can withstand since the strong magnetic field induces enormous forces on the material. It also requires very high currents. This material seems fragile and can carry very little current.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
It is open access though, and linked at the bottom of the article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02318-3
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
It is highly dependent on make/model but most of the time the data is transmitted through the telematic control unit (TCU) which often has a cellular modem that can connect to cellular networks and you might be able to remove or disable/cut power to the TCU.

There can also be other devices similar to a black box in the vehicle which record data and store it in case of a crash for forensic purposes. I would leave these alone as long as they don't have network connectivity.
panax
·3 năm trước·discuss
This is what I think about most when buying a car. This is why I plan on keeping my current car for as long as possible since it was one of the last Toyotas to not be connected to anything.