balaga01

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by balaga01 3y ago
Well, what is your goal? Sure, healthy and happy chickens are nice, but if you are into industrial farming and your goal is to make money, you will make their life as miserable as necessary to extract profit. You don't care if they are
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by balaga01 3y ago
And this is why I do not fear unemployment or AI. There will always be work for someone who can be asked to build over complicated software and debug it.
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by balaga01 3y ago
> Or is there some inherent ugliness that comes with affordable and popular things? I would question both of these adjectives, where I live, "affordable" is sub-400'000 USD and "popular" is a 3-bedroom terraced h
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by balaga01 3y ago
Well, if you can burn it to produce energy + spent fuel and then put back energy in the spent fuel to make new fuel again then you have really a battery. That's how li-ion batteries work. The issue is the efficiency: how much of the en
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by balaga01 3y ago
Well, it ties into the storage issue that we see with renewable. We still need energy when there is no wind at night. Burning iron at night and regenerating during the day could be a solution. It needs to prove that it can be competitive wi
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by balaga01 4y ago
> it'll make the others think hard about enforcing the law against you. We are not talking about some high-security military stuff here, it's only a chat app. It might be a big part of your world, but I can guarantee you that i
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by balaga01 4y ago
It's kinda sad, I remember when every windows release was an event in itself, I would try to get a hold of early releases and marvel at all the changes (except the tiles of windows 8... that was a step too far). But it's not even
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by balaga01 4y ago
Don't forget that it's not _just_ the pint that will be more expensive. The consumers, after paying double or triple the usual electricity/gas price this winter, and suffering from a inflation of more than 10%, will have to h