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Note that cardboard for liquid packaging often has a plastic lining, aluminum cans have plastic/epoxy lining, glass containers have plastic seals in the lids, etc.

They do throw away one lane on each side already, FYI (in addition to positioning competitors to minimize influence on results, as others discussed)

It's funny, I found the three body problem to be challenging and unrewarding to read, which is similar to some of those old Hugo winners. Might have worked better as a novella than a 3 part series.

If I were asked to pick winners from the last 15 years that will still be recommended reads in 2050, I'd pick Ancillary Justice and The Fifth Season. From nominees not winners, perhaps Seveneves or Too Like The Lighting would qualify. The most recent book I can say will definitely be on the to-read list is 2000's winner, Vernor Vince's A Deepness In the Sky

They claimed there was bloc voting based on non-literary critera and responded by definitely bloc voting for non-literary criteria.

I've read ~half the winners from 1960-1980, and a slightly larger proportion from 2000-2020. I found the more recent novels had more interesting concepts and vastly improved writing. The quality overall has increased significantly. Pretty painful to try to read eg Asimov nowadays

> No doubt at great cost, none of which is being factored into current nuclear projects or energy pricing

The cost to develop these railcars was 33 million, per the article. A rounding error in the cost of any energy source.

Long term storage costs should be much lower than they are, but the DGR has been stymied since I was a child. Not to mention how most of this waste is actually a resource

How much of current carbon emissions are being factored into the cost of electricity (for any of the various sources)?

Yes, for which they gave specific examples, which I repeated in my comment (only have text or a single wallpaper"

> Now you need to be a professional developer with all the relevant infrastructure

That does not appear to be what this article is about - this is about apps that don't do anything/crash/only have text or a single wallpaper

There are other android alternatives that have a headphone jack - though getting fewer each year unfortunately. I want a phone that takes good pictures, has long feature updates, and has an aux jack - I haven't been able to find one in years, so I've been compromising with ones that only get one new android version (plus security updates for 2-3 years)

Options 3 and 4 are options - not requirements (hence the "or" between 3 and 4). Manufacturers choose which of the 4 options to implement. If you don't want them, dont buy the cars from manufacturers that do.

What you suggest would impose manufacturers who want to do 3 and 4 must also do option 1 or 2, which would make them unreasonable.

How many years ago? Yamanote was above 200% average peak capacity as recently as the mid '00s

> You can't get better than 60-90s frequency per direction on a classic fully automated dual track line.

Note that this is 40-60 trains per hour, and each Yamanote train holds 1724 people, giving a capacity of 69,000-100,000 passengers per hour per direction

A highway lane operating at peak capacity can carry fewer than 2000 vehicles per hour. If each vehicle held typical passenger loading of 2 passengers (average occupancy is actually lower in most cities), the yamanote line would need 17-25 highway lanes in each direction to replace one track in each direction (plus way more space for entering and exiting the highway than a subway station requires).

So while your fundamental point (train tracks have limits) is true, by that point a comparison with automobile infrastructure is truly absurd!

> Good regulation would only mandate a driver warning

Then you must be in favour of this regulation. From the article:

> The EU regulations permit a system that can use a cascaded acoustic warning, a cascaded vibrating warning, an accelerator pedal with haptic feedback, or a speed control function in which the speed of the vehicle will be gradually reduced [...] the first two options may not quite compel any actual changes in speed on the part of the vehicle, and that's by design. They will also have to be short in duration not to annoy the driver.

> but we've hit a point where even high-end chips from that generation aren't really wide enough for a lot of users; four cores isn't really enough for midrange consumer workloads.

I dispute this - I had an i5-2500K (which is a 4 core, Sandy Bridge processor) that I upgraded about two years. But I didn't upgrade for performance reasons (I was still gaming on it!), but rather because one of my ram sticks had gotten crashy and I wanted to try building a mITX computer instead. It would definitely still be plenty for a lot of use cases. I still have the 2500k and motherboard sitting in a box, just in case someone desperately needs a computer.

If you type those into cells in excel, they all display the same. Excel doesn't store them as dates, it just displays them as such. If you format it as a generic number, the first three lines all show 45306, while the latter three lines show 45294 as the cell value.

The parent comment specifically talked about prepayment of cleanup costs - i.e. taking their money before it's drilled, so that when companies go bankrupt, there is already money set aside to do the cleanup. The Alberta system does not do this.

> pressure on mars is a few millibars, so not even a percent of earths atmospheric pressure

Not strictly accurate - varies significantly with elevation, and the bottom of Hellas Planitia (which is 2300km across) is over 1% of earth's.

But your overall point stands, nowhere on the surface of mars is above the armstrong limit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_limit

Note that the two examples you give are generally by provincial authorities as well, not the federal government.

I strongly support section 1, and think both of those examples make our society function better, and agree that they are reasonable in our free and democratic society.

Note that this comment once again diverges from the truth. The war measures act has only been used once in the last 60 years (1970 October Crisis), and was repealed in 1988. You might have (intentionally or unintentionally) confused it with the Emergencies Act, which was used in 2022. It's much more limited, specifically requires governmental action to be in line with the charter, and requires review by parliamentary committee and a public inquiry following any usage.

Note that the notwithstanding clause has never been used by the federal government (the "parliament" you referenced).

It's a shitty clause, and should be removed but it was put in at the behest of certain province(s) as the only way to get the Charter of Rights and Freedoms at all, and has only been used by provincial governments (aka legislatures, though a few provinces do call them "provincial Parliament").

I've experienced (not on GitHub) things that happened 729 days ago being "one year ago", which is similarly incorrect

Their comment suggests 50 to 75%, which is hilariously high.

The article is largely about the 4k77/4k80/4k83 editions - which are indeed the original theatrical editions.

I would suggest that the edge of a typical busy boulevard features 10-30 thousand vehicles per day, whose brake and tire particles in particular end up in the soil around the road. Typical farm fields might see 30,000 trips over the span of what, 100 or 1000 years? It's not in any way comparable to an urban roadway.

> I noticed there was bits of broken bottle cemented into the top Of the wall as a kind of razor wire.

That has nothing to do with drug policy, and is common in many places around the world.

https://www.reddit.com/r/asklatinamerica/comments/ifbvbh/is_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/HostileArchitecture/comments/eh9fz4...

> Luckily there's a registry key to turn this crap off. I don't have it to hand right now but it's easy to find.

That's useful to know - if I ever have to update my personal computer to 11. For my work computer, I've gotten used to using shift+right click to bypass the new (buggy, slow loading) right click menu and go straight to the old one

"In a little more than two years, Amazon has installed more than 17,000 chargers at about 120 warehouses around the US, making the retail giant the largest operator of private electrical vehicle charging infrastructure in the country."

So presumably unrivalled compared with other charging systems that aren't open to the public. It's not really a charging "network" either, so I agree the title is clickbait-y. Article is decently informative though!

> there’s not much you can do with a residential AQI sensor without adding a bunch of other automation controls.

You don't need automation. I have a portable CO2 monitor (aranet4) and it gives me an indication of how effectively the air is being exchanged. I've learned that my desk location at home is ok during summer and winter, but when temperatures are moderate the furnace isn't running as much, and the CO2 will get quite high. I keep a window cracked when I work there and it's enough to bring it down to reasonable levels. I didnt know this information before getting it. Similar when I was visiting relatives over easter - the CO2 in the bedroom got up to 2500ppm wile I slept (old house, sealed tight but no forced air circulation). I opened the window for the rest of my stay.

A relative recently upgraded their 120yr old house with heat pumps, and the warmth is so much better than where I currently live (a 40 year old home with a new gas furnace). In my experience you can't generalize about heat source.

Yes, the DOE does research on various energy related topics to prepare for the future. First you suggest they should be investing in supply side research (thorium reactors), then you say they shouldn't invest in demand side research (desalination)?

This is about creating potable water, not cooling water for nuclear plants. Huge portions of the US population live in areas with lots of access to saline water, but minimal access to fresh water - desalination would help reduce demand on a supply that is already collapsing.

The DOE is doing the work because desalination takes huge amounts of energy, and they're looking at ways to reduce this.