The great thing about EVs is that those inefficient SUVs like the Model X, iPace and eTron all help to push down battery prices for the more efficient models. Unlike the cost of a larger fuel tank which is pretty minimal, battery costs scale fairly linearly with capacity.
According to Wikipedia Monsanto took over manufacturing of PCBs in 1935. Also during the 1930s the toxicity of PCBs became well known. The first well documented medical cases were in the late 30s and warnings continued to be issued through the 1940s.
Are they worried about AMD? Or trying to build up their GPUs to compete with Nvidia?
They already had a pretty solid reputation in the enthusiast/gaming communities due to their CPUs being the only real option for so many years, and even now being pretty competitive.
There's nothing wrong with marketing in principal, it's just that most of the people doing it are evil and I'm going to do everything in my power to block them.
No-one is stopping you forking Chromium... But the reality is that a modern browser needs a huge amount of work to keep it competitive, and all the ones that are not supported by corporations or well-funded non-profits are dead or dying.
In other words if you want it to happen then the challenge is to build a non-profit with enough resources to hire devs to work on the problem.
How practical is it to just block all calls except for a specific whitelist?
You could whitelist your friends and institutions like your bank who handily spoof their called ID number to the main switchboard one. Everything else just silently drop the call.
How often does an unknown number make an important call to your phone? Do you want to talk to anyone who doesn't also have your email address to arrange to be whitelisted first?
Question about e-cigs: are they treated just the same as tobacco? For example, most places and I presume SF you can't light up tobacco anywhere you like due to second hand smoke, and there are special smoking areas.
Does the same rule apply to e-cigs? Many e-cig users don't want to mix with tobacco users for the same reasons that non-smokers don't.
What I'm getting at is how equivalent the two are. Is second hand e-cig smoke an issue because they can be used in any public space, unlike tobacco?
Actually the left has been quite supportive of e-cigs and other mild drugs such as cannabis and alcohol. Obviously housing is a major issue for the left too, with solutions like rent controls and social house building being popular. Healthcare is another major issue that the left wants to socialize, you just happen to have a different supply/demand based solution.
We can work together to find solutions to these problems if you are willing to understand the other side's position. There is a lot of misinformation about there I'm afraid.
When I read the headline I assumed they just meant banning their use in public spaces, like cigarettes, but no... They actually want to ban them completely.
It's all been scrubbed, except from the dark corners of the net that you can't simply link to. These are videos of people being sexually assaulted, obviously any normal site is going to remove them as soon as they are alerted.
I view being forced to stop for 30 minutes every 3 hours as a good thing. Don't want to be hit by someone near the end of their nine hour driving shift and half asleep.
Not just CO2, it's the soot and other particulate matter. In the UK you can be walking down the steer and a diesel bus pulls up and sprays you with soot, makes your clothes stink and your skin feel grimy. It's disgusting.
That doesn't happen in many Chinese cities any more.
They didn't muck about either. None of this "I need to drive it for 12 hours straight without stopping" or "oh but my cabin in the wilderness with no electricity is range+1 km away, so EVs are totally useless and I need the fossil" rubbish, they just got on and built the vehicles and the massive batteries. The biggest anyone else does is 100kWh, BYD has had busses with 450kWh in mass production for years now.
Small leaks don't damage the road, in fact big ones often are not noticeable from the surface. Contamination isn't an issue because water pressure prevents anything getting in.
Problem is about 20% of leaks aren't worth fixing. Water is too cheap.
Say you have a small leak costing 5 or 10 quid a month. £120/year lost, or you can spend a thousands locating it, arranging to close the road, closing the road, digging up the road, fixing the pipe, filling in the hole and resurfacing the road.
So it gets left alone until it gets big enough to be worth fixing.
So we can either pay more for water and require some of that to be spend fixing such leaks, or we can nationalize the water companies and spend the shareholder dividends and board member remuneration packages on small leaks, or we can switch to low flow showers and leaving the yellow mellow.
Europe doesn't see Google as a foreign company - that's the whole point.
Google has substantial business and multiple subsidiaries in the EU. It operates under EU. It pays EU taxes. It employs people in the EU. And therefore, it is subject to EU antitrust laws.
Ars is reporting that they will need to introduce a browser choice screen for Android, similar to the one Microsoft had for Windows.
Sounds like they were recycling paper wrong. You don't need so many chemicals if you recycle it into low quality paper, used to wipe your arse or as filler or basic packaging.
One interesting thing I've noticed is that Japan seems much more willing to accept products in brown cardboard boxes. They used to over-package everything, and still do with some products, but now at least some stuff comes in a brown box with blue logo and text printed on it. Some brands actively make it a feature, like Muji. Maybe we should follow suit.
How about this. Take a class of object that can easily be separated, like say bottles or plastic bags. Require all of one type of plastic to be a particular colour. We can sort objects by colour using robots. For things like bottles they can still have a separate wrapper that must either be the same plastic or easily mechanically separable.
Or even easier just require that all plastic bottles are made of PET and in a standard shape with a standard label that we can build a simple machine to remove.
China won't start buying rubbish again unless it invents some clever way to recycle it. It's an environmental issue and China decided that air quality and the like is important for its citizens and international reputation.
Plus China has plenty of its own rubbish and the amount is increasing, so there won't be spare capacity for long anyway.
Using household waste as a building material has been considered but it's generally not viable.
Building materials have to meet a lot of requirements. Strength, durability, behaviour in fire and high temperature conditions, toxicity etc. There isn't any really viable way to turn most household waste into anything like that.
Having said that some plastics and paper products can be used as insulation. Has to be in places where it's not a fire hazard.
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Australia has mandatory voting and their politicians don't seem to be any worse than anywhere else. As in they suck but not by more than the average.
There are other reasons to oppose mandatory voting but the quality of the resulting government doesn't seem to be one of them.
The great thing about EVs is that those inefficient SUVs like the Model X, iPace and eTron all help to push down battery prices for the more efficient models. Unlike the cost of a larger fuel tank which is pretty minimal, battery costs scale fairly linearly with capacity.
According to Wikipedia Monsanto took over manufacturing of PCBs in 1935. Also during the 1930s the toxicity of PCBs became well known. The first well documented medical cases were in the late 30s and warnings continued to be issued through the 1940s.
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It also mentions that Monsanto knew about the problems in the 1960s, despite their efforts to remain ignorant, yet carried on making PCBs anyway.
They are not much better these days. Just listen to this bullshit: https://youtu.be/ovKw6YjqSfM
Are they worried about AMD? Or trying to build up their GPUs to compete with Nvidia?
They already had a pretty solid reputation in the enthusiast/gaming communities due to their CPUs being the only real option for so many years, and even now being pretty competitive.
What is behind this?
There's nothing wrong with marketing in principal, it's just that most of the people doing it are evil and I'm going to do everything in my power to block them.
No-one is stopping you forking Chromium... But the reality is that a modern browser needs a huge amount of work to keep it competitive, and all the ones that are not supported by corporations or well-funded non-profits are dead or dying.
In other words if you want it to happen then the challenge is to build a non-profit with enough resources to hire devs to work on the problem.
How practical is it to just block all calls except for a specific whitelist?
You could whitelist your friends and institutions like your bank who handily spoof their called ID number to the main switchboard one. Everything else just silently drop the call.
How often does an unknown number make an important call to your phone? Do you want to talk to anyone who doesn't also have your email address to arrange to be whitelisted first?
Did it actually play the ringtone?
If you set the phone to silent the incoming call is usually still displayed on the screen and on your smartwatch, maybe with vibration.
Question about e-cigs: are they treated just the same as tobacco? For example, most places and I presume SF you can't light up tobacco anywhere you like due to second hand smoke, and there are special smoking areas.
Does the same rule apply to e-cigs? Many e-cig users don't want to mix with tobacco users for the same reasons that non-smokers don't.
What I'm getting at is how equivalent the two are. Is second hand e-cig smoke an issue because they can be used in any public space, unlike tobacco?
Actually the left has been quite supportive of e-cigs and other mild drugs such as cannabis and alcohol. Obviously housing is a major issue for the left too, with solutions like rent controls and social house building being popular. Healthcare is another major issue that the left wants to socialize, you just happen to have a different supply/demand based solution.
We can work together to find solutions to these problems if you are willing to understand the other side's position. There is a lot of misinformation about there I'm afraid.
When I read the headline I assumed they just meant banning their use in public spaces, like cigarettes, but no... They actually want to ban them completely.
It's all been scrubbed, except from the dark corners of the net that you can't simply link to. These are videos of people being sexually assaulted, obviously any normal site is going to remove them as soon as they are alerted.
Apple always rip you off, I'm talking about normally priced hardware.
I view being forced to stop for 30 minutes every 3 hours as a good thing. Don't want to be hit by someone near the end of their nine hour driving shift and half asleep.
Not just CO2, it's the soot and other particulate matter. In the UK you can be walking down the steer and a diesel bus pulls up and sprays you with soot, makes your clothes stink and your skin feel grimy. It's disgusting.
That doesn't happen in many Chinese cities any more.
Maybe he could get them to release models with the Management Engine ripped out, or at least lobotomised.
They didn't muck about either. None of this "I need to drive it for 12 hours straight without stopping" or "oh but my cabin in the wilderness with no electricity is range+1 km away, so EVs are totally useless and I need the fossil" rubbish, they just got on and built the vehicles and the massive batteries. The biggest anyone else does is 100kWh, BYD has had busses with 450kWh in mass production for years now.
Small leaks don't damage the road, in fact big ones often are not noticeable from the surface. Contamination isn't an issue because water pressure prevents anything getting in.
Problem is about 20% of leaks aren't worth fixing. Water is too cheap.
Say you have a small leak costing 5 or 10 quid a month. £120/year lost, or you can spend a thousands locating it, arranging to close the road, closing the road, digging up the road, fixing the pipe, filling in the hole and resurfacing the road.
So it gets left alone until it gets big enough to be worth fixing.
So we can either pay more for water and require some of that to be spend fixing such leaks, or we can nationalize the water companies and spend the shareholder dividends and board member remuneration packages on small leaks, or we can switch to low flow showers and leaving the yellow mellow.
Europe doesn't see Google as a foreign company - that's the whole point.
Google has substantial business and multiple subsidiaries in the EU. It operates under EU. It pays EU taxes. It employs people in the EU. And therefore, it is subject to EU antitrust laws.
Ars is reporting that they will need to introduce a browser choice screen for Android, similar to the one Microsoft had for Windows.
Sounds like they were recycling paper wrong. You don't need so many chemicals if you recycle it into low quality paper, used to wipe your arse or as filler or basic packaging.
One interesting thing I've noticed is that Japan seems much more willing to accept products in brown cardboard boxes. They used to over-package everything, and still do with some products, but now at least some stuff comes in a brown box with blue logo and text printed on it. Some brands actively make it a feature, like Muji. Maybe we should follow suit.
We could do something about that.
How about this. Take a class of object that can easily be separated, like say bottles or plastic bags. Require all of one type of plastic to be a particular colour. We can sort objects by colour using robots. For things like bottles they can still have a separate wrapper that must either be the same plastic or easily mechanically separable.
Or even easier just require that all plastic bottles are made of PET and in a standard shape with a standard label that we can build a simple machine to remove.
China won't start buying rubbish again unless it invents some clever way to recycle it. It's an environmental issue and China decided that air quality and the like is important for its citizens and international reputation.
Plus China has plenty of its own rubbish and the amount is increasing, so there won't be spare capacity for long anyway.
Using household waste as a building material has been considered but it's generally not viable.
Building materials have to meet a lot of requirements. Strength, durability, behaviour in fire and high temperature conditions, toxicity etc. There isn't any really viable way to turn most household waste into anything like that.
Having said that some plastics and paper products can be used as insulation. Has to be in places where it's not a fire hazard.
Manufacturing fear has always been profitable.