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Energy loss through an insulator is exactly linear to temperature. The problem is that people who would have otherwise tolerated 50F temperatures without heating by putting on a sw…

Multiple clever integral tricks...

My LDL dropped by three quarters once I switched to a keto(ish) diet a decade ago and stayed down. My HDL remained stable, almost like the body manufactures it for cell walls or so…

Not an AI problem. This happens when small businesses outsource their adsense campaign to one of the many completely incompetent fly by night SEO shops, or to their grandson who's …

Tl;Dr. "The lower strata of society are being forced into precarious employment and debt slavery. (What's new?) Here's how to use a global surveillance apparatus to enable more deb…

The Sydney Opera House is like this too, it's a 12 story double helix excavated from sandstone. I'm sure it was fascinating to design, but it's an absolute nightmare to park in.

Multilevel parking is about $10-15k per space. An asphalt lot is $1.5k. You also don't pay land tax and stormwater drainage levies on an undeveloped parking lot.

It was created by Landmark, then offloaded in 2008 to NBCUniversal who still own it under Comcast.

I stopped buying much there around ~2010. The sheer amount of Chinese counterfeit garbage and lack of proper categorization makes it impossible to browse the site. The clothing cat…

Registration for Cadabra was filed in July 1994. I suspect this was chosen because Bezos' attorney had discovered that his first preference "Abracadabra" was taken. Amazon was a mu…

No, they put you into a bubble and show you what you've already clicked just like youtube and google display ads. I only get new music when I manually load a playlist.

How about suggest songs based on what I've liked but haven't heard? Brain dead filter bubble repeatedly playing what I've already played is why I don't subscribe to this garbage se…

Few tens of thousands of dollars. You're looking at 4 hours insolation in winter in subsaharan regions. Also assume cloud cover drops panel output to 50% for consecutive days. You'…

Yeah, most people are recharging 20-30 miles of daily driving not the whole battery. As long as the car pulls its 10-15 kWh overnight before it leaves the garage in the morning EV …

Not sure how anyone missed the $2.3B Lordstown, Ohio battery factory deal finalised with LG last March. But I guess there was a lot going on in the world... GM is very very far beh…

Like every other "fremium" product on the market that isn't taking Softbank money, RH will eventually increase fees once it takes market share. This is just the promo period.

Due to the much younger population, most of Africa, India, and Pakistan has had MMR, and it's been found that the mumps vaccine provides significant immunity. In the west most over…

Australia has had real time transfers on our reserve bank's "New Payments Platform" since 2018. Transfers are finalized in a few hundred milliseconds. And we're actually half a dec…

There is an actual wafer shortage and arrogant automotive suppliers thought they could order on short notice. Turns out silicon valley customers like Apple and Nvidia order a year …

Shower charging. The bolt fast charges at 50kW up to about 40%, then gradually drops to 35kW at 55% charge state. After that the charge rate drops off horrifically, to less than 10…

Unsolicited life advice: People in middle age that choose to travel solo are open minded, a bit lonely, and are completely dissatisfied with all of the "normal" social bullshit.