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www.macrumors.com 3y ago

120Hz ProMotion Rumored to Expand to Non-Pro iPhones in Two Years

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news.sky.com 3y ago

Britain's economic trajectory will soon see it overtaken by Poland

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www.businesswire.com 3y ago

The All-New Amprius 500 Wh/Kg Battery Platform Is Here

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www.reuters.com 3y ago

DocuSign to lay off 10% of workers in second round of cuts

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www.afr.com 3y ago

Australian Government pushes for digital identity system after Optus hack

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www.cnbc.com 3y ago

DocuSign to cut workforce by 9% as part of restructuring plan

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old.reddit.com 3y ago

The End of /R/GPUMining

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www.ftc.gov 3y ago

FTC proposes rule to ban junk fees, bait-and-switch tactics plaguing car buyers

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www.forbes.com 3y ago

Pelosi Unloads Millions in Nvidia Stock (July 2022)

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extension.sdstate.edu 3y ago

Swath Grazing

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andrewwhitby.com 3y ago

Who said: if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together?

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www.bloomberg.com 3y ago

20 million US Homes Are Behind on Energy Bills

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www.pewtrusts.org 3y ago

Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year

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www.visualcapitalist.com 3y ago

The Raw Materials in a Tesla

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esr.ibiblio.org 4y ago

Last Phase of the Desktop Wars?

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www.youtube.com 4y ago

Munro Live: Tesla Model Y 4680 Structural Pack

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www.cnbc.com 4y ago

People are having their job offers rescinded days before they start

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bowtiedbull.substack.com 4y ago

Total Incompetence or Extreme Evil 2020-2022

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www.consumerreports.org 4y ago

FDA Denies Petition to Ban All Phthalates in Food Packaging

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www.upi.com 4y ago

EU considers banning use of up to 12,000 toxic chemicals

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

Russia halts gas supplies to Poland

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www.cnn.com 4y ago

CDC mask mandate for travelers struck down by federal judge

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AAA gaming - as we have known it - is dead as long as major platforms continue with 30% commissions. All of the profits accrue to the platform owners, with studios either failing or being acquired by them.

The end result is a weak industry mostly dominated by skinner box free2play games or gambling apps.

I fear this will be a stalking horse for full digital identity, and eventually squashing all anonymous speech.

The best solution here would be to force all adult sites to require a minimum monthly payment from a credit card. Blocks underage users and helps tackle addiction.

Apple has an entire ecosystem it can charge commissions for: Apps, Wallet, Arcade, iTunes, Music, iCloud, etc.

Samsung has none of that - AND doesn't control the operating system.

Apple has a long-term incentive to support devices through software updates and hardware upgrades. This is reflected in used prices: an iPhone 12 still sells at about 50% of original launch price, whereas a Samsung Galaxy S20 (both released in 2020) sells for 25%.

We need to strip CO2 out of the atmosphere too. CO2 is a known cognitive retardant [1], ocean acidifier[2], and plant nutrition degrader[2].

Iron fertilization seems like a good option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200421090556.h....

[2] https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-co...

[3] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5....

How effectively does the ground maintain this heat, and how much of it dissipates up and out?

As a side effect: using a heat pump to heat the ground during summer also cools the building on top! (When its at the other side of the heat pump loop)

Hopefully we can eliminate lawns as a mainstream American concept. Landscaped pollinator gardens are so much easier to maintain, require less fertilizer and pesticides (and runoff), require less water, and are better to look at!

Each car is typically driven 35 miles daily in the USA. Against a capacity of ~250 miles, this represents many days of non-charging, and thus a lot of flexibility in when charging occurs.

EVs can potentially strengthen the grid: if they are charged smartly, to balance demand.

We need manufacturers, regulators, grid operators to align on how to figure this out.

At the least, grid conditions/pricing should be sent to the car for smart charging.

Mandating 240volt connections in all garages and a large portion of apartment parking lots would also enable the solar excesses of the day to be quickly utilized.

Given the demographic challenges of Europe (sub-replacement fertility of the most productive and the vast influx of net-negative aliens), it is wise to crash the system: Abandon welfare, pensions and subsidized healthcare.

With those shackles thrown off, countries have a chance of regrowth. The nation state can maintain national (and border) security, run natural monopolies, regulate pollutants, and that's it. Fund those services with Land Value Taxes.

The alternative is endlessly raising taxes and throwing the country into a deaths-spiral.

The USA is emptying the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at a rate of 1 million barrels per day. Crude is typically extracted from the ground at about 15 million per day by that country.

When the SPR draining is finished (for midterms), upward pressure on energy prices globally will resume.