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They absolutely are, anybody relying on the Colorado River and its compact are at risk, ie the southwestern US and Denver but particularly the southern division states like California and Arizona.
Was slightly worried to hear people thinking Ohio is at any risk of desertification is all :)
That’s about the Western US, some of which are flyover states, but most flyover states exist east of the 100th meridian and are generally more at risk to flooding than desertification!
By maxing out supply amid unending demand, they have a terrific product/market fit.
https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pnp_unc_dcu_nus_m.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
Here’s a map of the places that create diesel from crude oil. Note the north & south east where these shortages are occurring, and limited to.
https://atlas.eia.gov/datasets/6547eda91ef84cc386e23397cf834...
It has been 45 years since a >200,000 barrel per day refinery was built in the US.
1998-2015 saw 0 upgrades to existing capacity or new builds. Since 2015, a handful of <50,000 barrel per day refineries have been built, but every single one is in Texas.
Meanwhile, on a cloud gaming service that has already taken off:
A native Xbox Series X test running at 60Hz gets an 85ms average - from a trigger pull to the first flash of gunfire. Xbox is far off a native PC result, which comes in at just 49ms. And the big surprise is that GeForce Now using the PC app beats a local Xbox Series X in latency, coming in at 81.7ms - while a Shield test is comparable to Xbox at 86ms.
https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2022-geforce-now-rt...
It will never cease to amaze me how consistently far behind HN’s user base is on this topic, the average 20 something service worker will watch a movie like Dune on an illegal streaming site through their cracked phone screen in 720p, but we’re actually entertaining the idea non-PC native latency is a requirement for playing video games without spending >$500-$3k.
The market for these services is slightly larger and more diverse than the folks currently running 4K@144hz setups.
If an independent geopolitical position had been charted at quite literally any point over the past however many decades, that may have been an option, yes.
Mexico alone provides more crude oil to the US than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined, it is 2022, not 2001.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...
Neither of those countries pose an existential threat to the North American equivalent of Northern & Eastern Europe (who may take issue with a lack of enthusiasm in weakening Russia) either.
It was okay, but solidly last gen. Stadia was always limited to 1080p@60hz, upscaling to 4K at max bitrate of ~45Mbps.
Getting the new MBP actually pushed me to GeForce Now at the time which can hit true 4k@120hz and stream at native Mac resolutions with eg ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077 now up to 70Mbps, I highly recommend trying it out if you’re still interested in cloud gaming, the difference is quite drastic.
You cannot get a 16” 1600p @ 120hz laptop for anything less than double the cost of that $700 model.
The specs are very specific to gaming, and anything similar (1440p@120hz) will include the cost of the hardware required for local gaming.
It’s an entirely adequate substitute if you don’t base your export dependent economy on cheap Russian gas, and heat your homes with it during winter at the same time, see: East Asia.
Never commit two crimes at the same time.
EU imports of US LNG eclipsed monthly Russian pipeline output as recently as June.
These figures will be updated to reflect an entirely different new world. They’re from 2021, the year before Russia invaded Ukraine and Europe’s energy supply was dramatically changed at both ends.
Natural gas in the EU is generally used to heat homes and power industry, it and other sources of energy aren’t immediately fungible.
I don’t subscribe to realism and don’t personally blame anyone but Russia and the EU member energy policies responsible for this situation unlike the Russian sympathetic commenter you originally responded to, but using pre war figures on top of pre export ban statistics does border closely on disingenuity given how loudly and rapidly changes have been occurring in 2022.
That graphic needs to be updated to reflect an entirely different new world, it’s from 2016, the same year the US lifted a 40 year old ban on oil & gas exports.
It’s now the largest LNG exporter in the world in 2022, though that hardly benefits the country directly in terms of making a pretty penny.
Yes. Its post 1492* relevance through its legacy now established, we revolve back to the point:
- The last thousand some years (in Europe)
- Widespread (in Europe)
- Half of recorded (European) history
You may have misread my original comment, the “limited effect” was to describe Europe’s influence at that particular point in time, not feudalism/Europe’s influence since then.
The bulk of feudalism took place between the 5th and 12th centuries, ~400 years before 1491.
- The last thousand some years (in Europe)
- Widespread (in Europe)
- Half of recorded (European) history
An exclusively European phenomenon, the bulk of which came and went while it was a backwater region with limited effect on the rest of the world.
Always avoid using the main nitter.net instance, it’s slow even in DE.
If you’re in the US, try https://nttr.stream/ulturaltutor/status/1553472360434515973
Its performance is unparalleled among cloud gaming services at the moment with the updates over the past year or so, Stadia is now a blurry, poorly upscaled mess in comparison, often locked at 30-45fps for certain titles while GFN is pushing real 4K at 120FPS with full ray tracing etc without breaking a sweat.
It will routinely outperform a local series x (nevermind a PS5) given the right conditions, but that’s subject to your ISP, location, and probably not running CP2077 at maxed out ultra RTX graphics settings just yet.
From the creator:
All good, it's just a ton of numbers without explanations. Here's a couple very basic insights tho:
Grid frequency below 59.8 is always bad, 60 is perfect
Capacity should be at least 1 GW above demand
Demand equaling capacity is bad
https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/lktl07/comment/gnn0...
Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
You’re capable of more, we’re capable of more, this entire thread of yours is beneath us all.
You can also list/lookup businesses on Facebook and eg Bebo, but factors that run contrary to user desire and performative obtuseness remove utility from one over time.
Sadly not, GFN is incredible but Microsoft/Bethesda removed it from that service 2 years ago or so.
Today, if you can stand 1080p, a ridiculously small bitrate, and using a gamepad: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-game-pass/cloud-gaming
Later this year, or whenever Microsoft upgrades xcloud if you’d like to actually enjoy playing it!
The Wild West preferred cattle, and cattlemen, plus inertia.
I doubt you’ve missed HN having a slightly higher standard of commentary than other social media sites, and non moderators’ parts in keeping it that way.
Being irrationally Americentric while simultaneously condescending to Europeans in characterizing the Libyan intervention as “US” gets both basic recent history wrong, and promulgates US > EU sentiment worryingly present on HN.
I’m doing my part, would you like to know more?
American and British naval forces fired over 110 Tomahawk cruise missiles, while the French Air Force, British Royal Air Force, and Royal Canadian Air Force undertook sorties across Libya and a naval blockade by Coalition forces. French jets launched air strikes against Libyan Army tanks and vehicles. The intervention did not employ foreign ground troops.
The effort was initially largely led by France and the United Kingdom, with command shared with the United States.
Both Libyan officials and international states and organizations called for a no-fly zone over Libya in light of allegations that Muammar Gaddafi's military had conducted airstrikes against Libyan rebels in the Libyan Civil War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_military_intervention_in_...
Basically any land grant university has thousands of our brightest minds doing exactly that, every single day.
The fields and labs of Ames, Iowa are less visible and sexy than an SV startup or NYC / London / Dubai NGO, but I can assure you what you want exists en masse.
~90% of the average site’s mobile traffic, as a rule, comes from in-app browsers.
Mobile users, as a rule, rarely open an internet browser, they are redirected there.
It’s become a glorified zen-mode type feature for articles or indie web stores at this point for a substantial part of the population, especially young people, at least on iOS.
This is a huge reason why “Open this in our app!1!” is a thing as well. The alternative isn’t browsing a mobile site through Safari, it’s using whatever social media app led you there in the first place.
I actually tried editing it specifically not to suggest that while still reflecting the underlying reality, sorry. Suffice to say, meat packing plants and undocumented labor are not HSI’s priority, ERO is consumed by them.
It’s a big issue, ERO can’t even perform their own workplace raids/political stunts so they co-opt the serious agency for it whenever the winds in DC blow the right direction.
Blown in part by the infamous “ICE union” of course, while hilariously, the HSI agents performing the stunts aren’t even unionized.
But because DHS is, has, and will probably continue to be in disarray merely confronted with its daily agenda, it’s always going to be a “bad time” to look at finally separating the two.
HSI's mission is to investigate, disrupt and dismantle terrorist, transnational and other criminal organizations that threaten or seek to exploit the customs and immigration laws of the United States.
This isn’t the deportation agency, it’s the investigative arm of the DHS (and that they hate the deportation agency & confusion between the two is putting it lightly).
ICE HSI (Homeland Security Investigations) = transnational crime
ICE ERO (Enforcement Removal Operations) = brownshirts, entirely immigration
Two separate agencies with two separate missions, and this is about HSI.