olivermarks

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by olivermarks 1y ago
@harmmonica I do. we prefer to use Waymos in SF but Uber has been a lot cheaper in the last six months or so regardless of time of day... Also saw some Zoox self driving boxes on the las vegas strip last week but no one seemed to be using t
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by olivermarks 1y ago
Waymo ride costs are getting really expensive in SF.
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by olivermarks 1y ago
LI batteries would burn regardless
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Revolut urges Meta to share cost of reimbursing fraud victims(ft.com)
2 points by olivermarks 2y ago|1 comments
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by olivermarks 3y ago
Would be good to have a formal notification on glass stating 'this window/screen/etc contains a camera that may broadcast your image'
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by olivermarks 3y ago
I think anyone with an ounce of common sense is aware that EVs are analogous to the steam era with similar dangers. Coal power is used to create and force tremendous amounts of trapped energy into batteries, which like a steam boiler is hig
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by olivermarks 3y ago
Automakers blast US plan to hike fuel efficiency rules The US is on track to completely destroy the western world's automotive industries, with a huge knock on effect in Europe. Millions of jobs will be gone forever and in the near fut
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by olivermarks 3y ago
I gave up my subscription to the New Yorker years ago due in large part to this 'sophisticates' problem
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Chinese Battery Powered Ship Container Sized Replaceable Batteries [video](youtube.com)
1 points by olivermarks 3y ago|0 comments
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by olivermarks 3y ago
There is actually no way to 'put out' thermal runaway Li-ion batteries chemical fires. They have to be left to burn out which can take days and produces immense heat and toxic chemicals. There is speculation that batteries undersi
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Q&A: Fire on board the Fremantle Highway ship(dw.com)
6 points by olivermarks 3y ago|2 comments
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by olivermarks 3y ago
Reminds me of the Theranos scam crash - discredit the figure heads when it all goes wrong with increasingly bizarre 'they were nuts' stories. Meanwhile the board members and backers are subjected to zero scrutiny.
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by olivermarks 3y ago
https://mishtalk.com/economics/ford-to-layoff-at-least-1000-...
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by olivermarks 3y ago
Ford is bleeding to death on purpose so they can get more tax payer EV subsidies https://youtu.be/5MZeTeqdsTw
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Billions are being spent to turn the tide on the US West's wildfires(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by olivermarks 3y ago|0 comments
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by olivermarks 3y ago
>Catastrophe as in many possible earthquakes, if the hypothesis is correct? No, wiping out the entire electrical grid and all electronics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event
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by olivermarks 3y ago
Why is 'sunspot activity driving changes in the Earth's dynamo that then kick off earthquakes' a loopy idea? We are hours away from coronal mass ejection catastrophe right now as solar cycle 20 builds in intensity. It seems r
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by olivermarks 3y ago
@hef19898 Not 'better' just different culturally. The US installs ivy league types at well funded startups just as the french install their ENA/Ecole Polytechnique elites in their state funded 'startups' but somehow
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by olivermarks 3y ago
I think my point is that ENA / Ecole Polytechnique people are arguably harming French innovative abilities. Many US entrepreneurs are grass roots college dropout types...
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by olivermarks 3y ago
French innovation is quirky but brilliant IMO - minitel was years ahead pre internet. For some reason French innovation doesn't spread much beyond France. Concorde (I love that plane so much) was an Anglo French project. A lot of my f
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by olivermarks 3y ago
I read this by Dana Blankenhorn this morning which I think a few people in France need to read. This AI Boom Will Bust | The Slope of Enlightenment is Coming https://danafblankenhorn.substack.com/p/this-ai-boom-will-bu.
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by olivermarks 3y ago
I know quite a bit about Anchor, who used to be an SF institution. After the new Giants baseball park was built in 2000 Anchor as an independent local company were going to build an additional brewery there in 2013. https://www.
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Smoke Causes U.S. Solar Power Generation to Plunge by 50%(oilprice.com)
18 points by olivermarks 3y ago|3 comments
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by olivermarks 3y ago
'Phytoplankton are responsible for most of the transfer of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to the ocean. Carbon dioxide is consumed during photosynthesis, and the carbon is incorporated in the phytoplankton, just as carbon is stored
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by olivermarks 3y ago
I know people in the Sierra foothills who used to work in the logging industry until the bureaucrats made it impossible. I also know people in the same area who are fire fighters. When loggers used to find diseased trees they would isolate
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by olivermarks 3y ago
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/save-the-plankto...
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by olivermarks 3y ago
THE IMPACT OF CALIFORNIA’S CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS ON TIMBER HARVEST PLANNING COSTS (2005) https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... Sierra is processing imported lumber mos
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by olivermarks 3y ago
@ixgr Exactly. Thank you.
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by olivermarks 3y ago
Environmental fashion became obsessed with trees as 'the lungs of the planet' despite ocean phytoplankton processing most of the air we breath. We have been conditioned to believe humans are destroying the fragile planet but ironi
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by olivermarks 3y ago
We really have to get back on track with controlled burns after the environmentalist 'save all trees' experiment that started in the 1960's has put us in the position we are in now. Canada used to have many controlled burns t

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