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Even if it is verified it's not groundbreaking. X-Ray litho has been done in labs since at least the 90s.

The opposite is also true - you can use options to increase risk. I don't think insurance is a particularly good analogy in general.

Your original post says 70% loss, i.e. 30% efficiency. In the context of an e-bike, to me, 70% efficiency is fine. It's a large bike and the majority of the power for the majority …

Electric generator->battery->electric motor drive train should be fairly efficient. I'd be surprised if it was lower than 80%. Traditional dynamos are fairly small parasitic loads …

Mine goes somewhat unused because of this (although definitely less than 10 swipes per try). If I was to buy another ereader I'd want at a minimum physical buttons for forward/back…

Claude max is $200 a month. Consider a fully loaded cost of 200k for an engineer or $16,666 per month. They only have to be >1.012x engineer for the "AI" to be worth it. Of course …

That is a tenancy in common 2 bedroom apartment not a house. Shared ownership of a 100+ year old building with "leased" parking 2 blocks away. Not exactly the home ownership dream.…

There's a bajillion of them around if you search "neck cooler" or similar. Very simple product sticking a few commodity items together. Some do only have fans though. When I looked…

Depends on the manufacturer how many unique bittings would be made. I believe ~1000 was common. So pretty low chance but high enough a few people have stories here or there.

This isn't really surprising. Fiber isn't better because of signal propagation speed, it's all about signal integrity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_factor

I assume it is drawers.

What caused people to stop using the free service that is MySpace? What caused people stop using the free service that is Digg? Being free isn't particularly novel. Facebook isn't …

Countries can and have under the name of "digital services tax". Generally the rates are low and often only cover a subset of things. The US and tech giants have historically pushe…

Almost all the trade deficit numbers being thrown around by the US administration don't include trade in services which the US generally has a large surplus. A lot of that is very …

FWIW you can get thermostatic mixing valves that limits the maximum temperature of the water by mixing in cold water. Lets you run the tank hotter but have the same outlet temp. Fa…

If your concern is storage you want as hot as possible, less boiling. Thermostatic mixing valves can bring the temp down to a safe temperature for use. Losses are higher but you st…

Well there are another 7.6 billion people on this planet many of whom are already feeling the consequences of the "trolling actions of a few politicians". I'm not American or a "le…

Instead lets have them made in a place that has threatened to take over ~4 sovereign nations in the past three weeks? Yeah I'll take the 1/2 price cars thanks.

I love this. I fly a decent amount in Canada/USA on economy and almost every single time there is a massive line of gate humpers who haven't been called to board and are trying to …

If the Amish could read this they would be dabbing so hard right now.

I'm not suggesting adding anything. Homes have lots of stuff in them. Everything in your house becomes a thermal battery - tables, chairs, beds, walls, counters, clothes and so on.…

Air conditioners have a COP of about 3 though. So really its more like 3.5kwh of storage. If you want to go lower temperature to store more then your COP drops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Landing_Solar_Community There was an experimental community in Alberta, Canada doing this. Seems to be relatively successful as pilot project.

Been curious if you can't do this with houses generally. Set a temperature range of say 21-25c. Drive the temperature up when there is excess wind/solar (was primarily thinking of …

Long time since I looked at this but you might be interested in: https://mathr.co.uk/blog/2021-05-14_deep_zoom_theory_and_pra... IIRC it is calculating a few points at high precisi…