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Toronto uses the [Deep Lake Water Cooling System]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Lake_Water_Cooling_System ) to extract "cold" from lake water before it is treated and used fo…

he just wants free-er speech for his OWN political views

The median spend might be zero $ per year.

> If their property taxes had risen with the rate of the area that they bought a house in as we grew up, we would have been unable to continue living there and forced to leave. The…

The object is not a point mass at the end of the arm, it's a line. Different parts of the line are moving at different relative velocities & accelerations relative to the centre of…

If you have higher capacity batteries, you're carrying around extra weight you're not using. The long range model 3 has a 480kg battery. Unless there's a massive revolutionary disc…

When a central authority is in charge of adding transactions to the blockchain, ie: DMV issuing licences, what's the advantage of blockchain over a standard database?

A EV is a much simpler device than a ICE - it's a battery and an electric motor, it's much simpler than mechanical power. Gone are oil pumps, transmissions, etc. On top of all this…

Walmart and Amazon raising wages allows them to exercise their huge scale to further crush their competitors. With their huge efficiencies of scale and deep cash reserves, they are…

In order to send representatives to the European parliment, the EU requires that representatives be elected in fair elections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_European_Parliamen…

Matterport does this and uses it for real estate listings all the time. https://matterport.com/gallery/bclm-tollhouse The "dollhouse" view is really handy for being able to get a s…

> moral but are actively ineffective at their stated purpose; they just lead to the hypothetical price-gouge transaction never occurring. If you drive across state lines to bring H…

I think you're underestimating the value of "you can breathe the air" and "water is easily available via melting snow" when comparing it to Antartica.

How big is this tank? Water is heavy, and we're talking about an insanely massive tank to generate any reasonable amount of energy... that can also move and be used as a gravity ba…

The discovery of the alternate route by "everyone else" means that the roads are now in more usage. Unless the bridge collapse resulted in increased traffic levels afterwards, the …

Not all battery storage needs to be electrochemical - hydroelectric dams work amazingly as pumped storage batteries (although site specific).

I'd actually argue that Android users have more options, thus the market price for apps is reduced by the amount of supply. When you're looking for a "Todo" app, there's 1000's on …

Cinder block construction can also be difficult to insulate and hide services such as electricity and plumbing behind. In addition, brick buildings are a bad idea in areas subject …

Even then, a lot of the "I was talking about something with a friend and never even Googled it then got an ad for it" can be explained by Facebook leveraging their social graph to …

The tax deduction on mortgage interest is one of the most regressive pieces of tax policy. Those with more expensive housing benefit more from the credit. Non-homeowners do not ben…

Toronto's deep water cooling system is the largest in the world, and air conditions a good chunk of the downtown core. http://buildipedia.com/aec-pros/engineering-news/torontos-de.…

Does something like this exist for USB-C devices? I have to plug and unplug a certain device to change it between machines. Not full emulation and remaining "connected" - just the …

Most of the electricity usage is due to the drying cycle of the dishwasher. If you want to be super efficient, set your dishwasher to skip the drying cycle and either prop the door…

Why would they though? If their customer retention is already super high, the only reason to make an onboarding curve more shallow would be to acquire new users. Given there's alre…

Removing the splash screen for Unity is a feature - Unity has a pretty bad rep (perhaps undeservedly) because so much shovelware uses the engine.