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Yes. Solar thermal heaters on the roof are common in Florida and other parts of the south. Some people also use heat recovery devices attached to the AC condenser. Further north I'…

That may require retrofitting the plants to use open loop cooling instead of closed loop. That would increase water consumption.

What's the benefit of using sha256 for a repository?

I’m in a similar boat. The USB to SATA adapter has kept my 5.25” drive going for quite a few years. Some of my discs are hitting a decade and I am about to create a new set of back…

I recall being surprised that 2.4 GHz was completely unusable in an upper west side apartment. 1000 ms latency.

You can't discount Baumol's cost disease. While it's true that government regulation is some part of it, like real declines in home building productivity in the previous decade or …

This completely ignores Friedman's concept of the velocity of money (MV = PY). If that $15k is being saved by someone versus immediately spent, that has a different effect. A trans…

I posted about this above [1]. But the gist is that the most significant subsidies for private car ownership are indirect like parking minimums. --- [1] -- https://news.ycombinator…

It's likely correct that mass transit is directly subsidized at a greater percentage than any specific aspect of private car ownership. However, there are significant indirect subs…

Transit agencies are also capable of demand response. For example, you'll see more articulated busses at peak times in Austin. Also, large transit stops are used as queues to maint…

I'm not sure if that applies to Fiber connections. I had my own fun with a firmware update causing latency issues with ATT Fiber's gateways that was fixed several months later [1].…

This is a perfectly reasonable response during normal presidential administrations. However, this administration is credibly[1] accused of avoiding due process via the current depo…

I’m pretty sure the conventional wisdom suggests inflation happens when countries don’t pay down their debt. Increased money supply isn’t the only cause of inflation (e.g., stagfla…

I believe that's what this project aims to do: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis

I was able to run Age of Empires 2 on Windows 11. It didn't like running on an ultrawide, but it worked well enough at smaller resolutions.

This feels true for other Microsoft products, but not VSCode. Besides, they embedded Python into Excel (for 365 users) over Typescript or C#.

It's not that the US will respond to every crisis, but that it's much easier to do so when you have resources nearby. Flashy rescue missions help justify the infrastructure and log…

Thank you for collecting these.

I think the better framing is that ByteDance refused to comply with US regulations and spin off TikTok. If the EU decided WhatsApp should be spun off from Meta (for any number of l…

I disagree with the hypocrisy argument. The US government tried to clamp down on Covid misinformation during a pandemic, with a declared emergency and there was pushback that was a…

The US government forcing spinoffs is a core tenant of antitrust enforcement. We’ve seen similar enforcement applied to other applications like Grindr [1]. The fundamental issue is…

In the US we allow significantly more spying on foreigners than US citizens. That’s not as controversial as domestic spying. Look at the backlash against the US government trying t…

Just to add on: I don’t imagine discussion of what’s happening to the Uyghurs is getting much traction in TikTok either. Movement against TikTok started started with the Trump admi…

Note that you can still downgrade an existing gateway, extract certs[0], then bypass the device [1]. I had to do this with OPNsense to avoid the latency buildup issue, which has be…

I think a miles traveled tax that accounts for vehicle weight would probably less regressive than the current gas tax. EVs save substantially in running costs. I’d imagine it would…