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by zionic 4y ago
Hydrogen vehicles are essentially an oil company scam. They are fraud, at a physics level, vs EVs. They fall apart the second you take a serious, first-principles look at how they work. HN rate limits my replies you can read my sibling comm
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by zionic 4y ago
Hydrogen is an extremely inefficient (200-300% the energy waste of an EV) battery that’s notoriously difficult to handle, contain, and transport safely. Unless we’re mining gas giants hydrogen is not a fuel source, so you have to immediatel
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by zionic 4y ago
Is that applicable when the rocket scientists themselves mostly despise this thing? SLS as a platform was forced on the scientists by the politicians. Also from a science perspective: the funding of this boondoggle has sucked the air out of
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by zionic 4y ago
Exactly. This event just makes all the hydrogen car people even more entertaining. At this point I’m fairly convinced hydrogen cars were a coordinated plan by oil companies to delay EVs. It probably would have worked if Tesla hadn’t come ou
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by zionic 4y ago
So would you argue then anyone against mass surveillance supports terrorism? That if you don’t support NSA hardware back doors you might as well fly the planes into the towers yourself?
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by zionic 4y ago
“Anyone who isn’t performatively anti things-I-disagree with is thing-I-disagree-with” I remember my liberal friends sneering Bush for his “you’re with us or against us” take on the war on terror/patriot act. Funny how it’s come full c
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by zionic 4y ago
Exactly. You can go on Reddit right now and find calls for violence, extermination of various groups, etc etc etc, but you’ll never see cloudfare take action then. Censorship always starts with the undesirables. It never ends there.
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by zionic 4y ago
What other reasonable conclusion exists besides the CEO of cloudfare being a coward?
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by zionic 4y ago
Cloudfare really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory here. Their Wednesday post was fantastic, and for once I had an ounce of hope they’d do the right thing. Of course they took less than a week to completely cave, falling back on thei
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by zionic 4y ago
Go watch the original, it’s weapons grade cheese.
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by zionic 4y ago
That’s just lazy writing, akin to those cheesy horror movies where everyone has to be a complete idiot to die to the monster. A much better story is where smart, cunning characters vie against one another. There’s eb and flow, give and take
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by zionic 4y ago
It’s wokewashing. The more diverse you make your cast, the more immune you are to criticism when your product flops. If the show was less diverse and flopped they couldn’t play the racism card to wipe reviews and churn up sympathetic media.
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by zionic 4y ago
Really? Not a single example? Ok VICE time to one up them.
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by zionic 4y ago
Ok so the solution is obvious. We form the Federation Advocating Reasonable Cables and abduct USB-IF members. Then, we guarantee their safe release given one condition: Anyone whose grandma mails us a fully compliant USB cable gets to go fr
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by zionic 4y ago
How about “hey Siri, play LOTR replacing every character with Nicolas Cage”
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by zionic 4y ago
>but building a system for 330,000,000 people across 50 states that works flawlessly (and is responsible for trillions of dollars) isn't easy. You seem to be assuming they’ll succeed. I don’t think the government could do that for $
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by zionic 4y ago
>Slow. Fails randomly with unknown error messages. I mean, that’s Xcode on your machine. Why would Xcode on someone else’s machine be any better?
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by zionic 4y ago
This is true and does not deserve to be downvoted
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by zionic 4y ago
$15 Million to “study”… “how they would implement it” How should I say it, “come on man”?
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by zionic 4y ago
Why would I ever pay hetzner money when they dare to dictate what software I can/can not run.
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by zionic 4y ago
This is why I prefer “protocols over platforms”. This entire thing isn’t twitters fault any more than it is WiFi’s, DNS, or TCP’s.
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by zionic 4y ago
That gasoline wouldn’t be an energy source, it’d be an extremely crappy battery. Far better to just send the power via grid to an EV @95% then toss 60% or more of it to make a gallon of gas
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by zionic 4y ago
I’m just exhausted from arguing with the electrically illiterate. HVDC makes transmission from state to state trivial at almost no loss. We should have a national HVDC grid so that a breeze in Texas might power a toaster in Connecticut. In
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by zionic 4y ago
The EU gets all the perks of being a vassal state with absolutely none of the taxes. The entire post-WWII world order has been to their benefit at our expense. I’d rather my tax dollars go towards state run health insurance than protecting
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by zionic 4y ago
But HN comments assured me it was never going to happen/will stay "6 months away". I sure hope those people bought mining GPUs/put their money where their mouth is.
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by zionic 4y ago
ETH PoS includes offline penalties proportional to the % of the network that goes down. If your home RasPi validator drops you don't lose much. If 25% of users stake on coinbase and _they_ go down the penalties are much higher. So ther
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by zionic 4y ago
I suspect this will be the norm going forward. Big tech was taken over by bean counters long ago, the fact that it’s all running on duct tape and popsicle sticks under the hood will come back to bite us when we have a digital Pearl Harbor e
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by zionic 4y ago
It’s hard to read your comment, and the zeitgeist, and then conclude a nonviolent end is the most likely outcome. These aren’t ideas that can be peacefully mediated.
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by zionic 4y ago
I remember the first time I hooked it up, finally found a connection, and connected my OG xbox to someone in the UK (!!!) to play halo CE with. I was promptly called the N word and exploded on spawn again and again because it was a modded&#
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by zionic 4y ago
FWIW The most pessimistic person I know is a ruby developer. Great guy, just very skeptical and pessimistic about just about anything.

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