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by timerol 3y ago
There's a footnote below on ecstasy
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> Why is this important? Because the potential impact of net-metered solar on electricity prices doesn’t even become relevant until you reach higher levels of penetration, or roughly 10% and beyond. I think what I said was in line with t
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You're misreading my comment a bit. It's only "free" on a sunny day at noon, because of the massive oversupply. The panels will make money, but at times when supply is lower, like after 2pm range. This depends on time-of
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by timerol 3y ago
I wouldn't characterize that as a bait-and-switch, but as adjusting to economic reality. When solar is <1% of penetration, a solar kWh is basically just as valuable as any other kWh. When solar gets over 10% of penetration, a solar
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by timerol 3y ago
"Edge computing" is a pretty vague term, and can encompass anything from a 8MHz ARM core that can barely talk compliant BLE, all the way to a multi-thousand dollar setup on something like a self-checkout machine, which may have mo
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It's a long-simmering annoyance at the decline of the cryptocurrency ecosystem: from the really cool technology underlying Bitcoin, to exciting whitepapers with different solutions to hard problems on other coins, to intractable whitep
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Do you pay cash at Starbucks?
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by timerol 3y ago
18650 and 21700 (aka 2170) are standard cylindrical shapes for EV battery cells, so the comparison to AAs falls flat. Tesla has launched the 4680 cell, and the industry may move in that direction. Batteries are custom on a per car basis, in
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by timerol 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36127623 claims that they did contribute back most of the data they gathered
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Yes, every serious survivalist puts a heavy emphasis on water and food. I was not talking about the serious survivalists - I was calling out the silly minority
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This is the exact mindset that I was imagining: How are you going to find people in the latter group? Are you planning to drive around, refueling at abundant and well-serviced post-apocalypse gas stations in between your murderous rampages?
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by timerol 3y ago
Later in that thread someone mentions that the SR-71 has 4 radios (like the story mentioned) 2 UHF, 1 VHF, and 1 HF. So despite not being on the same frequency for most communications, they were definitely capable of monitoring and transmit
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My first thought was people whose disaster preparedness strategy is guns and ammo before water and food. Imagining violently defending your compound between weekly trips to the grocery store feels very Aboveground to me
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The builder in this case is a good example of what the article mentions. One way to deal with it in this case is to lower the barrier to entry for construction - every landowner should be able to build more a small apartment building on the
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by timerol 3y ago
Does this exist? The product page mentions that the planned price is "below € 20", but the news page doesn't have anything newer than 2007
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That's a reasonable way to think about it - you take energy from the supply voltage to charge the gate capacitor when the logic line goes high, then dump it when the logic line goes low. If you had a lossless bidirectional voltage conv
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> Leakage should happen all the same Modern processors are very careful about this, and actively turn off the supply voltage to large parts of the die to prevent extra leakage current. The funny-but-appropriate name for this is "dar
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> Isn't it fair to characterize the cmos/fet switching losses as resistance to moving the charges around? Not really. It makes more sense to think about it as filling and emptying capacitors. You are charging the gate capacitan
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by timerol 3y ago
Note that if you use Verizon for your cell phone and have a 5G plan, the price halves. Setting up AutoPay lowers it further, down to $25 best case. (I'm currently paying $35 for 5G Home Plus.)
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tl;dr New materials can help, but "resistive losses" aren't really the driving factor. The energy is a mix of leakage current and active current. Leakage current can be thought of as resistance - it's how much current fl
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by timerol 3y ago
Please don't summon a strawman or 3 in your comments here
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The batteries are removable and can be carried inside and charged separately. They likely weigh around 30 lbs each (up to 4 can be installed), based on comparable batteries, but I see the weight is listed
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If you're willing to pay 50% more, require a driver's license, be 75% longer, and not include solar charging, you should get a different vehicle.
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These are pretty big SMRs - 300 MWe, compared to 77MWe from NuScale. Definitely an iteration of reduced size from their 1 GWe model, as opposed to a "as small as reasonable" design. It's cool that they call out 15 MWe /
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by timerol 3y ago
I'm curious - would you be willing to check that box if it meant a $15 fee each month? Banking services are currently largely paid for out of the interest rate differential on your account, and need to be paid for somehow. I personally
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There are many random options available on Amazon for compostable or plant-based bags, like [1]. Is there a reason to trust or distrust these small companies? Is there a way to determine whether they are using biopolymers in their plant-bas
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What critical natural resource is the plant currently on? Are you suggesting that "the shoreline of Lake Michigan" is a bad place for a nuclear plant - an industrial facility that uses water, and where continuous supply of water i
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That's not how US debt works. It pays back on a schedule. China could stop buying new US debt, and will continue to receive payments on US debt it owns, but China can't call up the US and demand full repayment immediately.
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https://without.boats/blog/the-registers-of-rust/ is pretty transparent about Rust not having or aiming for "only one obvious way to do it". Rust has more of a mindset that if you're willing to mess
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Is the consumption measured in studies like this a long-term average? I am not a heavy drinker, but there are plenty of days where I am over 2, or even 4, drinks in a day. Recently I have been averaging less than 1 a day, since I only drink

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