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  1. Let me give you a tool analog.

    You are asking: "how can I insert this screw using a hammer?" It's possible, but the best way to insert a wood screw is using a screwdriver.

    Perl is the screwdriver and sed is the hammer.

  2. Re:sell dollars buy nickels on We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    You have that back to front:
    Nickel value: $0.0151665
    Copper value: $0.0256498

    So the melt value of a nickel coin today is dominated by the value of the copper. Of course this could change.

  3. Re:sell dollars buy nickels on We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 2

    A quick search for "nickel melt value" would have told you that $0.041 is based on the 25% nickel content.

    Err, No!

    1. Calculate 75% copper value :
            (3.1026 Ã-- .00220462262 Ã-- 5.00 Ã-- .75) = $0.0256498
    2. Calculate 25% nickel value :
            (5.5036 Ã-- .00220462262 Ã-- 5.00 Ã-- .25) = $0.0151665
    3. Add the two together :
            $0.0256498 + $0.0151665 = $0.0408163

    Apparently, you either can't use Google or cannot read. Which is it?

  4. Re:sell dollars buy nickels on We May Not Have Enough Minerals To Even Meet Electric Car Demand (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    You seem to have forgotten that nickels (the coins) are 75% copper.

  5. Except that everyone with the right to vote is in elebenty-one government databases

    Exactly what has that got to do with having a photo-id?

    So there's more than enough ways you can point to existing government lists

    So, according to you, in a state that requires photo-id to register or vote, instead of actually having a photo-id, I can just open up a government database, there and then, point to the entry that describes me and say: "see, I don't need no stinkin photo-id, I'm in your database, bitches!"
    Somehow, I don't think it works that way.

    Oh, and there is no US government file or database that holds my birth record.

  6. Re:Wait just one damned minute! on While Equifax Victims Sue, Congress Limits Financial Class Actions (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that?

    If I recall correctly, the removal of the arbitration clause only applied to checking to see if your details had been leaked.

    I just looked at Equifax's site and the arbitration clause is still there in the Terms.

  7. Contact law is mostly at the state level an the Supreme Court already gave a giant FU to the states right to regulate contracts in Southland Corp. v. Keating.

  8. Re:Because fuck you, that's why. on While Equifax Victims Sue, Congress Limits Financial Class Actions (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's also obvious that, without meaningful punishment, companies will continue to defraud and otherwise screw over their customers.

    Class actions can provide that punishment. Forced arbitration allows companies to escape any punishment whatsoever for their illegal actions.

  9. Real value: $0. on Hewlett-Packard Historical Archive Destroyed In California Fires (pressdemocrat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While these were locked up so that only a very small number of people could see them, their value was effectively zero.

    Archives only have value when they can be studied. Lock them away and they are useless.

  10. Re:Wait just one damned minute! on While Equifax Victims Sue, Congress Limits Financial Class Actions (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    It appears that freezing your credit includes giving up your right to sue.

    So do I freeze, or not?

  11. Re:So everyone can access the San Fran shit map? on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Eastern.

    The person in Oakland needs to be on the western side of Oakland, while the person in SF needs to be on the eastern side of SF. Western SF looks out over the ocean.

  12. Re: So everyone can access the San Fran shit map? on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    The State of California outlawed such monopoly agreements.

  13. I think you miss GP's point.

    Almost all hybrids drive the wheels from the engine under some conditions. This means that the engine must run over a range of loads and speeds.

    An ICE engine can be much simpler and more efficient if it is only ever run at one operating point (typically low revs, with wide open throttle, to eliminate pumping losses).

    If the engine is only used to charge the battery, it can be operated only at its most efficient load/speed point. As far as I can tell, the only car that does this is the BMW i3, with its range extender engine, but I don't think that its engine is really optimized for this single operating point.

    But, yeah, it looks like a series hybrid isn't anywhere as efficient as a pure EV.

  14. Relative efficiency is a useless metric when considering carbon emissions.

  15. Re:Let me save the anti-solar crowd some trouble.. on Electric Cars Emit 50 Percent Less Greenhouse Gas Than Diesel, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    My net electricity use (including charging my Leaf) is essentially zero. You were saying?

  16. Re:And they drive pretty nice on Electric Cars Emit 50 Percent Less Greenhouse Gas Than Diesel, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 2

    Renault hasn't sold anything in the USA for decades.

    What I don't understand is why Nissan doesn't sell a re-badged version of the Zoe?

  17. And you seem to have the facts around NOx and Methane back to front:
    http://www.ghgonline.org/metha...
    "However, our emissions of other atmopsheric pollutants, such as nitrogen oxide (NOx) gases (see NOx page) may reduce the levels of OH radicals in our atmopshere, so prolonging the lifetime of methane in our atmosphere.,"

  18. Re:Actual figures... on Electric Cars Emit 50 Percent Less Greenhouse Gas Than Diesel, Study Finds (theguardian.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Where are you getting your figures? Because the last time I looked at this, Lithium batteries are around 99% efficient.
    http://batteryuniversity.com/l...

    and no, an electric drivetrain has only a small advantage over an IC drivetrain

    BEV vehicles are far more energy efficient than ICE vehicles because the ICEs are at best 30% efficient. And then there is regeneration.

    Sorry, facts are so inconvenient, aint they..

    Yes, but it would be nice if you included some actual facts in your post.

  19. Precisely, a bunch of drives, or a RAID, starts at two drives.

    Being pedantic here, but you are wrong, and there are circumstances where this matters.

    You cam make a RAID1 array with one drive plus a failed (non-existent) drive. Hence the minimum is actually 1 drive, not two.

  20. Re:Sorry you are just wrong on Wolf of Wall Street: Cryptocurrency ICOs Are 'the Biggest Scam Ever' (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Gold does have innate value. It is a rare metal with many desirable qualities.

    But society has a surplus of gold. Industrial uses are a fraction of the total supply. Most gold is either used for jewellery or locked up as an investment.
    https://static.seekingalpha.co...

  21. Re:Ah, that question on A 14-Year-Old Asks: When Should I Get a VPN? · · Score: 1

    Which opens an interesting question.

    In the USA, we know that the NSA and/or other agencies have installed equipment to track and monitor users in the networks of ISPs.

    What about datacenters? If I have a where the endpoint is a rented virtual private server in a datacenter, is the NSA also dumping that traffic? What about commercial VPNs? If the NSA can track the IP addresses used by commercial VPNs, it would not be difficult to dump all the traffic from a commercial VPN.

  22. Re:That title (of original article) is not accurat on The US Government Keeps Spectacularly Underestimating Solar Energy Installation (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    "Bearish" is not predicting 1/40 of the actual. A prediction of 1/40 of actual means "we didn't have a clue".

    What makes this a possible conspiracy is that the forecasts closely match those produced by fossil fuel industry analysts.

    Now, of course, this administration is moving towards undercutting solar by applying tariffs to imported solar panels.

    In decade or two, the rest of the world will have cheap renewable energy and the USA will be left paying the Koch brothers and their like. This will be devastating for the competitiveness of the US economy.

  23. You have a credit card in the USA with a PIN? Or is it really a debit card?

  24. Re: All together? on Dodging Russian Spies, Customers Are Ripping Out Kaspersky (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    Note that for fedgov and affiliated companies, US-owned proprietary software source code may be available for review, custom compilation, etc.

    Reviewing source is almost pointless. How do you know that you are looking at the real source code? Or all the source code? Or that you can really find hidden (obscured) untrustworthy code? Even if you build it yourself, you may not be totally safe.

  25. Re:Scotland's homes don't use much electricity on First Floating Wind Farm Delivers Electricity (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Your larger electricity use (compared to the UK) is probably largely due to living in a house that is much larger than the average house in Europe.

    Electricity per household use in Italy is considerably lower than in the UK. Italy is a much hotter country than the UK.