DdCno1 @ DdCno1 @kbin.social

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I bought masks from a toy company (Playmobil) for my family, because there was literally nothing else available anywhere. They were marketed as alternatives to basic paper masks though, not N95 masks:

https://i.imgur.com/Sbq4oBq.jpeg

The innovation was that you could use tissue paper as filters and reuse the silicone mask after cleaning it. They were uncomfortable and stinky, but functional. We used these for about a month or two, long before any vaccines were available. I suspect that social distancing protected us far more than the masks, but either way, none of us got infected.

Stereoscopic camera systems exist and they can work very well (like on my ten year old car).

Seems like you're unlucky. Subaru's system is generally considered one of the best in the industry, routinely outperforming the competition.

Better pick an early electric car, because the days of ICE cars being allowed into cities are numbered.

Meanwhile my ten year old Smart produces just one or two false alerts per year. It's a simple camera-based system, yet it works incredibly well. The lane departure warning works equally well. Both are so effective that I never want to drive a car without these systems again.

She was by far the most qualified presidential candidate in history. You've fallen victim to a smear campaign, but are blissfully unaware of it.

It was Russia that tipped the scale, including by convincing traditionally democratic voters in key states to vote third party or not at all.

It's an inherent issue with deep learning. Awareness of this among people who are regularly using these tools is very low, which is troubling.

https://umdearborn.edu/news/ais-mysterious-black-box-problem-explained

Reminder that DNA evidence is nowhere near as flawless of an instrument as portrayed by crime shows and the news media. Like all other forensics, it's a matter of interpretation and likelihoods, far less reliable than you might think. Here's a good overview of the many issues with it:

https://daily.jstor.org/forensic-dna-evidence-can-lead-wrongful-convictions/

There is nothing clean about nuclear power:

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-is-nuclear-energy-good-for-the-climate/a-59853315

He didn't have the resources and determination of the Chinese state behind him.

Just sitting outside, exposed to the elements, changing temperatures and humidity? What a brilliant idea.

There's a reason we aren't doing this.

You need suitable locations. That's the main limitation.

The point is that this type of energy storage is very cheap relative to the amount of power it can store.

If it's so simple, why did a highly developed nation find no solution for it over the course of decades? There are no perfect containers that don't leak, there is no perfect storage location that doesn't have a chance of contaminating groundwater. The real world doesn't work like that.

The high cost also means that it'll take away funds that could have otherwise been used on much cheaper renewables. Nuclear energy is a terrible deal.

Yup. A significant amount of the fissile material in Europe used to come out of Russia. France, who is commonly held up as the arch-defender of nuclear power, is now fighting basically colonial wars in Africa for this stuff. There's a finite amount of it, it's costly to extract, costly to refine, costly to transport. Even before you've generated a single kilowatt of power, you've already done a lot of damage to the environment just for the fuel.

You don't need batteries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storagehydroelectricity

Two people who have never heard of things like these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storagehydroelectricity

This is a solved issue. Absolutely nobody who knows what they are talking about would claim that you can't run a country on renewables alone.

Hamas is less poplar in Gaza than in the West Bank, so the opposite seems to be the case.