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Re: What's that touchscreen in my room?

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Post by 0x457 »

thworp wrote: post #534
masklinn wrote: post #338

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> I always wondered why we cannot find hot filled appliances in the old continent. You can find them but they'll be in the semi-professional space and above (relatively expensive high-duty). They're very rare in the consumer space because - it requires running more hot water lines / extensions, historically houses are built with lots of cold water lines but hot water lines only where required - for their heating requ…

> 50-53C is common to avoid risks of scalding but some are set as low as 45 Wait what, isn't the minimum temperature where Legionella will die around 60°C? Are you talking of a country where they (noticeably) chlorinate the water? I thought that was very uncommon, except for Southern Spain and Italy. If you set your boiler to 45°C in a country with (nearly) unchlorinated water you'll have a nice Legionella culture af…

My water tank and hot tub had "self-cleaning" cycle that would heat up and circulate water to prevent bacteria buildup regardless of what temperature it was set to.

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Post by 0x457 »

b112 wrote: post #452
amluto wrote: post #359

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My dishwasher is European and is hot-fill. It doesn’t even have a cold water connection. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a cold fill dishwasher in the US. I wonder what’s up in Europe.

Most dishwashers only have one inlet. And most also heat the water(more), even if fed hot water. I believe the premise is, with 240V, they can heat faster. So people plumb them with cold when in 240V land, and hot when in 120V land.

I personally hate dishwashers that don't heat up their water. I've been to multiple places where "hot water" stats being hot only after 5-10 minutes. It greatly reduced dishwasher efficiency.

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Post by 0x457 »

israrkhan wrote: post #375
jimmaswell wrote: post #371

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> With the power supplies of this era, this pair of devices probably pumps 16w idle. Running 24/24 7/7, they probably consume as much as a small fridge as a whole. The LCA of the solution must be consterning as well, especially compared with few one dollard microcontrollers. At the average cost of electric in the USA this amounts to under $2/month. Seems negligible to me? https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=16+watts…

$2 is median daily wage for several countries. Negligible in US but not everywhere source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income

Yes, but those countries also have different energy cost.

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Post by CaptainMarvel »

beebeepka wrote: post #396
CaptainMarvel wrote: post #312

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It’s up to individuals to decide if they are wasting their own resources. Everyone has a different perspective. Personally, I think SUVs are a waste and should be banned, but wouldn’t that be overreaching? Individuals don’t pay for their waste when they aren’t paying for negative externalities. That’s why a carbon tax is a better solution - it ensures people are paying the true price for a resource. Let people decide…

It's a slippery slope for sure but you have to draw the line somewhere. For example, if there's a water shortage and someone decides they can afford (financially) to use as much as they please, that's not going to end well. I don't quite understand the obsession with carbon. Not everything can be mapped to carbon without some mental gymnastics.

During a water shortage, if most of the water is being taken up by few wealthy individuals, then there are negative externalities being created: people dying, falling sick, being hospitalised, protests and violence that takes policing resources, etc.

The market has failed to fully price the external effects generated by some economic activities, thus the government must step in and impose a tax on all water use so that they can correct the negative externality.

At the simplest level, the government can use the proceeds to buy the water themselves and distribute it to those in need. For example, to reduce bureaucracy during a crisis, they could pay for the first 5 litres of daily residential water use for each individual directly on their bills.

The problem is again: the resource is not being priced correctly.

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Post by CaptainMarvel »

hgomersall wrote: post #283
concordDance wrote: post #248

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"Waster" isn't really a coherent concept when taken outside of an individual's value system. What might be waste for one person might simply be a sensible use of resources for another. Doing for a drive to the countryside for a walk? Having a long and relaxing bath? Go-karting? Using a heated pool? Keeping the heater on a single house-level timer so they don't have to think about it rather than planning ahead what ro…

Taxes just push the problem into poor people. If you want a fair solution we should have carbon/resource rationing. In fact, I'd prefer a solution in which the governments work hard (much harder than they are) to bootstrap the brave new world so everyone can benefit from a sustainable world.

Taxes don't have to push the problem onto poor people at all. For example, the proceeds can be directly given to everyone equally which will usually disproportionately benefit poor people.

So why would you say that taxes would harm poor people? I think I know why.

In practice, the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government, and the media have been almost completely captured by the wealthy to disproportionately benefit themselves.

Wealth is essentially zero sum game despite what many would say. Power is certainly a zero-sum game. When you have power over another, they have less power over you. I believe wealth is another form of power, a little indirect and not perfect, but the correlation is strong enough.

This means that there is no practical solution that won't harm poor people. This includes your proposal where you would like the government to "benefit everyone".

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Post by puhitaku »

The Freescale (NXP) i.MX28 series is the only possible SoC that has ARM9. It doesn't have any Android BSP IIRC. The screenshot looks like a modified AOSP of Android 4.x. How on earth can Android 4.x run on only 128MB-ish DRAM? So many questions are left here.
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