These ”gaming” companies are even worse than Casinos, because they’re unregulated and are studying the psychology of addiction to exploits peoples weaknesses to maximise their profits.
They use techniques such as an “early win” to hook people and override their common sense. (It’s illegal for Casinos to do this in most places.) Examples of other techniques are using artificial in-game currencies to dissociate it from real money; and soft-gating, where something is technically free but it has a delay, so you pay a little bit to skip the delay. It’s super predatory.
Also, exposing kids and teenagers to this is wiring their brain to crave gambling as an adult. It’s the same reason we don’t let 13 years olds smoke - by the time their brain has finished maturing, the desire for nicotine is hard-wired for life.
If you don’t already have a private tracker, this is a good one to start with. Easy to maintain ratio even without a Seedbox. I often download common torrents on DCC because it’s so easy to maintain ratio (I was over 100:1 for a while.
The life-cycle emissions from nuclear are better than PV, but it’s still not as good as wind or hydro. But the issue is that it’s massively front loaded - you have huge emissions during construction that are slowly undone over the decades of operation. But we can’t afford to ramp up emissions for the next 14+ years (both the emissions of building a nuclear plant, and the fact that the existing coal/gas plants will have to run for another 14 years). If you switch to renewables, you can reduce emissions this year, not in the 2050s.
And there is absolutely no way you’re going to repurpose a fission plant into a fusion plant. They have basically nothing in common apart from the name.
An easement is listed when you buy a property. It’s detailed on the property title, and has drawings showing where it is, and who has access.
These new laws were the complete opposite - as long as the property was larger than 1100m^2, it was assumed to be of cultural significance until proven otherwise. The landowner needs to notify aboriginal people (whoever that is?), then they take their feedback to apply for a permit from the government, then the government will notify aboriginal people (again, who?) then based on their feedback will issue a permit (or not). And this same process would apply wether you’re fixing the retic in your suburban backyard, or digging a billion tonne open cut mining pit in the Pilbara.
The Westinghouse AP1000 was a modular design approved in 2004. The US started building one in 2010 and just finished this year (well, it’s not actually finished yet, but the first reactor is now online).
I think China was the only country to build one in less than a decade - and it’s much easier to perform public works when you’re a authoritarian government who doesn’t have to deal with public or environmental concerns.
It’s too late to start new nuclear projects. The quickest Gen 3 reactor build in the US was 14 years. So starting now, you’re looking to finish near 2040. And for those 14 years of construction, you’re pumping huge amounts of CO2. Over its lifetime it will emit less CO2 than many other forms of power, but that’s too slow. We need to be reducing emissions now, not reducing emissions in the 2050s and beyond.
The new laws were so broad, that any homeowner whose house sits on more than 1100m^2 could be covered. And if you’re near a body of water, assessment becomes mandatory for anything ground disturbing. So the owner of a 3x1 on 1/3rd of an acre in Cannington would need to pay thousands of dollars for an assessment if they want to plant a tree in their backyard - does that seem reasonable?
I’ll just add, I recently bought an Optiplex with a 7500t. It was just over $100, but the Gen 7 Intel means it has quicksync which is great for a media server that needs to transcode.
Millenials outnumber Boomers. But Boomers actually go to vote once every 4 years, which is basically all they need to do to have the outsized effect on politics.
The whole point of the scientific method is that it’s self-correcting. Corrupting one scientist doesn’t matter because the scientific consensus will show that they’re wrong.
But corrupt one (or a few) politicians and you can get laws changed for your benefit.
The 3 and Y have 3 trims currently, and had more in the past. They’re not software differences, they have different motors, different inverters, different chargers and different batteries.
The only thing that’s installed and not used is the heated rear seats, on the base model. Some people used to buy wiring mods online to enable them, and other people tweeted at Elon to make them available without a dodgy Chinese cable, so Tesla made it possible to enable them via software.
The trio claims their cars fell well short of their estimated ranges
Teslas are tested to the EPA test cycles, same as every other car in the US. They’ve been audited multiple times, and always passed.
The lawsuit follows a Reuters report that Tesla began modifying EV ranges about a decade ago.
Ah yes, an unverified report from a single unnamed source with 10-year-old knowledge.
Its cars would supposedly show inflated figures when fully charged, and would only start showing accurate numbers under a 50 percent charge. … It's not certain that Tesla still uses these purported exaggerations.
If the “investigative” reporter wanted to test this, they could literally just go and find a new Tesla and see what its fully-charged range says. Trivially simple. But it would show the EPA range which goes against their story, so they don’t mention it.
To head off complaints, the automaker is said to have created a "Diversion Team" that would persuade users to drop range-related support calls.
In tech (and Tesla is a tech company) it’s called L1 support. Try calling your ISP and getting them to send out a technician, and they’re going to make you do a bunch of other tests on your end first. It’s annoying, but it turns out most complaints can be solved over the phone (because most complaints come from people who are terrible with technology).
That’s just progress. People have been saying the same thing since the start of the Industrial Revolution. Every time we free up human capital by automating an old task, we find new things that only people can. Half of the children born today will be employed in jobs that don't yet exist.
They started high-school just after Columbine, they were trying to get through high-school when 9/11 happened, they were trying to start their careers when the GFC came along, and they were trying to get married when COVID hit. Late-80s babies can’t catch a break.
Reverse-cycle ACs have had >100% heating efficiency since the 1990s. America just seems to take forever to embrace anything environmentally friendly (reverse-cycle AC, solar hot water, rooftop solar, etc…).
48V DC is the standard voltage in a bunch of industrial applications. At work I’ve installed sites with over 300kWh of storage, all at 48VDC. Back in the day it was strings of 24x 2V lead-acid batteries. Recently the industry is moving towards cells with 14x - 16x lithium cells, depending on the exact lithium chemistry.
You need an inverter to go from DC to AC anyway, changing the voltage at the same time doesn’t add much to the complexity. Some systems use 400V, but the actually batteries those systems use are usually 8x 48V batteries connected in series.
These ”gaming” companies are even worse than Casinos, because they’re unregulated and are studying the psychology of addiction to exploits peoples weaknesses to maximise their profits.
They use techniques such as an “early win” to hook people and override their common sense. (It’s illegal for Casinos to do this in most places.) Examples of other techniques are using artificial in-game currencies to dissociate it from real money; and soft-gating, where something is technically free but it has a delay, so you pay a little bit to skip the delay. It’s super predatory.
Also, exposing kids and teenagers to this is wiring their brain to crave gambling as an adult. It’s the same reason we don’t let 13 years olds smoke - by the time their brain has finished maturing, the desire for nicotine is hard-wired for life.