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athms··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
Great, now all I need to do is run an extension cord out the window, down the stairs, across the parking lot to my space in the carport.
athms··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
You are right, but I have cans of gasoline as part of my emergency kit in case of an earthquake or fire.
athms··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
Do you thinks everybody lives in a single family home with lots of disposable income?
athms··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
>Simple: most people charge at night.

Except the people that don't have a charging station in their garage or folks that have a power outage. Just this week, we had a heat wave (70-80F) and winds up to 90MPH across California that resulted in power outages throughout the state as well as several fires.

athms··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
Maybe for people that live in the suburbs and have disposable income to put in a charging station.
athms··on Electric vehicles close to ‘tipping point’ of mass adoption
There will be gas stations for generations to come. If California can meet its sales ban for new ICE cars in 2035, which is a tall order, ICE cars will still be on the road. Contributing to this trend will be people keeping their cars for years; used cars which represent two thirds of car sales; and cars driven into California from other states. As an example, I have a 2007 Honda and it will be on the road until it falls apart or I die.
athms··on Twitter sued for allegedly refusing to remove child porn
It is a right leaning tabloid owned by News Corp. This is the paper that printed the Hunter Biden laptop story that was sourced from Rudy Giuliani. After the US Capitol riot, the editor told staff to stop writing articles whose source material is from CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, and The New York Times because Trump considered those outlets to be fake news.
athms··on Twitter sued for allegedly refusing to remove child porn
>Antifa isn't real, that is right wing media fear mongering

You better tell that to the lefties that label themselves antifa. What isn't real is a group called Antifa, but the anti-fascist (and anti-capitalist) movement, otherwise known as antifa, is real.

athms··on Instacart to cut 1,900 jobs, including its only union roles
You can find this in non-union companies too. I worked at SAP (SuccessFactors) for seven years and had to interface with many people that were incompetent and lazy, yet protected from termination because of company politics.
athms··on GitHub has received a DMCA from MPA about torrent tracker nyaa.si
Recording Industry Association of America. It doesn't represent artists, it represents organizations that publish and distribute music.
athms··on Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)
In San Francisco, those types of property crimes were going up before Prop 47. That is not to say 47 didn't exasperate the problem. The city also had diversion programs for non-violent crimes, both misdemeanor and felony, before the proposition was enacted. SF has had an epidemic of car break-ins for the last decade and the organized shoplifting rings have been a thing for generations.

I never experienced drug or grocery stores locking up merchandise until I was visiting a friend in SF in 2007. Then again that was also the first time I saw used condoms and needles in the gutter, a person taking a dump between two parked cars, and two men humping in the bushes of Golden Gate Park.

athms··on Why do they still make car alarms? (2015)
One of the many benefits of living in Beverly Hills, the police actually show up, even for petty crimes.
athms··on Can you treat loneliness by creating an imaginary friend?
Maybe if the dog is perfectly healthy, but that is never the case. Unless the owner has significant disposable income, they will end up ignoring problems that need to be corrected.
athms··on We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college
Criminalization doesn't work. We have known this for decades. Destroying people's lives perpetuates the problem. Treat drug addiction as a public health issue and it needs to go hand-in-hand with poverty reduction.
athms··on Foxconn gets green light for $270M factory in Vietnam
There is also an empty lot in Pennsylvania which predates the Wisconsin site by several years.

In 2013, Foxconn promised to spend $30 million over two years building a robotics manufacturing facility in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that would have employed five hundred people. They also planned to invest $10 million into R&D at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) as part of the arrangement. In return, the state, county, and city offered Foxconn tax incentives and property improvements. Seven years after the ribbon cutting ceremony, the property is still an empty lot and CMU never received the investment.

On the plus side, nobody's home was seized as they were in Wisconsin.

athms··on Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition
The code in question was re-licensed under GPL without the author's permission. And according to the BSD license, the copyright must remain intact. A person can use BSD licensed code in a larger work under GPL or they can put the modifications under GPL, but they have no authority to change the original BSD license.

The belief of being able to re-license BSD code is quite prevalent in the Linux community and is often espoused here on Hacker News.

athms··on Jwz: I told you so, 2021 edition
Lots of GPL advocates think they can re-license BSD as GPL because BSD is permissive. Of course, there is nothing in the BSD license allowing this, only the copyright holder can re-license.
athms··on Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill
The Constitution would need to amended.
athms··on Poland Justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill
Clothed pictures of minors should be illegal?
athms··on Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
One can be moderately conservative and still conservative. If you look at the court's decisions, the only time in the last one hundred years SCOTUS has had a sustained liberal streak was in the 1960s.
athms··on UUCP must stay; Fetchmail sucks (2001)
Under ESR, fetchmail was garbage. However, a new team took over development in the early 2000s after ESR abandoned the program. Many parts have been re-written to address design criticisms.
athms··on Reddit bans subreddit group “r/DonaldTrump”
Why are you confusing fraud with disinformation?
athms··on The Sperm Kings Have a Problem: Too Much Demand
If you are in Michigan and a mother names you as the father for welfare benefits, you most likely will be forced to pay it. There have been many instances of men being declared fathers by default.

One man had won a court settlement when he was young and the woman applying for benefits remembered reading about him in the paper, so she put his name and address on the application to get the money. The court ordered him to start paying child support. He tried to fight it in court with a DNA test, but you need to serve the mother and neither the court nor the social welfare agency would release her address.

athms··on Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
>He has been attacked mercilessly for years.

Maybe because he is a lying blowhard grifter. This is not new, he has been this way for fifty years. You can go back to his interviews in the 70s and 80s, and see the same behavior.

athms··on Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store
Also, SCOTUS has had a conservative majority (except during a vacancy) since 1989.
athms··on Epic Games just bought a North Carolina mall for its new headquarters
HP did the initial renovation of Mayfield Mall into office space in the late 1980s. They moved out in the early 2000s, deciding to consolidate operations after acquiring Compaq.
athms··on Organic meats found to have the same greenhouse impact as regular meats
I originally put gullible, but changed my mind.

Anybody that has taken chemistry and biology in high school should be able to grasp why organics are not better. This is basic science education. The arguments of folks that embrace organics are nothing more than pleas to emotion and sometimes pleas to tradition. It is not ignorance, it is stupidity.

It is the same thing with petroleum. The majority of folks on this site want to see the end to oil exploration and refining, because they only consider its use as a fossil fuel. An electric car could not be made without oil. As an example, a single tire uses seven gallons of oil, five gallons are used as feed stock and two are used in the manufacturing process.

There are plenty of highly educated people here that simply ignore reality because it makes them feel better.

athms··on Organic meats found to have the same greenhouse impact as regular meats
>The purpose of buying organic is signalling your preferences for eating healthier food.

A tomato grown with organic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers has the same nutrition value as a tomato grown with synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers.

A genetically modified tomato can more nutritious.

athms··on What Drives Writers to Drink?
The same things that drive them to smoke cannabis, drop acid, snort cocaine, and shoot heroin. Writers are not unique in their use of drugs to deal with life.
athms··on Organic meats found to have the same greenhouse impact as regular meats
>Organic isn’t about greenhouse gases, it’s about keeping toxins out of food.

Organic is about selling expensive food to stupid people.

There is nothing inherently better about organic. It isn't healthier. It isn't better for the environment. At best, the yields are equal, but normally they are lower. With lower yields come higher prices. There are plenty of organic pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers that are just as dangerous as synthetic varieties. There are more cases of food recalls for organic contamination than synthetic.

The issue with GMO is not food safety, it is patents. The use of GMO crops have reduced chemical usage while increasing yields. They have also introduced critical vitamins and minerals to groups of people that have deficient levels. This has been a boon in Africa.

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