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> But chemical batteries cost a lot more and don't have lifespans of hundreds or thousands of years in seasonal storage scenarios. Practically speaking, you're probably not going t…

> The correct way to write as a left handed person is to turn the page ninety degrees. That is such a genius solution!

> What suggests that people are becoming less capable? From the root level comment in this thread: > Student test scores have worsened more than in other Scandinavian countries, an…

> What's the problem? Only poor people care about test scores as they imagine high test scores is how one can pull themselves out of being poor. When you are rich you can also do p…

> It is not so much that used diamonds are worth less (although they might decline in value without provenance to prove they are natural or if they are chipped) but the huge markup…

> Perhaps other EV drivers can chime in but, if anything, I think I use my friction brakes less at highway speeds where, in general, you're not really supposed to do a lot of braki…

From what I've heard there's a countervailing effect for EVs, though - they end up generating more particulate pollution from tire wear because of greater vehicle weight and greate…

> The interesting thing is when this breaks down. Obviously if you eat a weeks worth of food every day for a sustained period of time, you will start to gain weight. Or if you run …

> How many frivilous assault allegations against male drivers are there? I've never heard of this happening personally. It comes up from time to time if you watch Uber driver video…

> Hopefully hotels don't yet have an industry-wide "do not host" list without any appeal process...? There are lots of small operators, so I doubt that there's some industry wide l…

For a while, I was optimistic that Apple would at least continue to release the SE every 3-ish years. I'm guessing they wanted to finally kill the fingerprint reader and other SE-s…

> I don't understand the purpose of consumers owning individual solar panels in a large array. How is that better than a single entity owning the whole array, and what function doe…

> I remember reading about this Swedish dude who added 2 solar panels totaling about 1 kW to his hybrid station wagon. I want to see a picture of that. Apparently 1 kw fits on an e…

> Don't want to deal with the logistics of lots of SKUs? Don't sell them. Trying to upsell people is a money move. Selling a SKU where the 80+gb OS is like 40% of the disk is a goo…

If you're interested in some hard data, Backblaze publishes their HD failure numbers[1]. These disks are storage optimized, not performance optimized like the parent comment, but t…

> It's pure robbery on Apple's part. Completely beyond the pale now. Their ridiculous RAM and storage prices were never that big of a deal back in the PowerBook/early Macbook Pro d…

> So if someone gains access to your email, they also get FB access…? I mean, that's how it works for most websites. I think I have 2FA turned on for FB, but honestly the phone sys…

> States only believe in their own interests and the narrative always go towards the powerful and the one which won. And depressingly, even that isn't true - states are plagued wit…

> You can usually get the rights but it costs more. Like in software if you want an exclusive license… Nah - the correct comparison is to an employee/contractor software developer.…

> If a actor works for a day on a TV show he may get cheques forever. Most actors get paid either a fixed fee or hourly. It's only the top talent that can negotiate points. And hon…

> There aren't many things like .NET, MSSQL and Visual Studio out there. The debugger experience in VS is the holy grail if you have super nasty real world technology situations. T…

> I think the challenge is certainly the costs of enforcement. IMO, this is fundamentally a mismatch between how software is developed in practice and how copyright works. If softw…

> GPL definitely does. Clearly it doesn't because companies get caught doing it with GPL software all the time. ... and the only recourse is to sue them into compliance.

> One major reason why EU capabilities are lagging is because they hitched their geopolitical wagon to the US and assumed that the US launch providers would be sufficient for comme…