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embro··on What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World
This has been proven false back in like 2008. Even if electric cars were to run off coal plants, they would still be more efficient because the plants can capture and reuse heat with boilers.

That being said, coal has to go anyway. I run my electric car from 98% hydro power and 2% wind power and I pay 6,9 cents per kWh, and that's Canadian money, pretty cheap.

embro··on Paperclips
I took too much processor and not enough memory, it would take age to get to 70k...

How do I reset and start over?

embro··on Solar Roof
If you are really serious, your goal should be to be net positive, downgrading won't get you there, never.
embro··on Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016
Wow, this is impressive.
embro··on Tesla's Musk Paid at Least $593M in Income Taxes in 2016
Most big companies do get some form of subsidies. Tesla is nearly 30,000 jobs in the US alone. 5 Billions is not much for such a big company.
embro··on Uber users with low phone batteries more likely to accept surge pricing
Right now, even with surge, they seem to be a bit cheaper than the normal city taxi but I would bet that as soon as there will be no more competition they will raise the price AND still do price surge. In the end, we will pay more than we used to.

Uber seem to be always on the edge between aggressive profit and shady business.

EDIT: Don't think by my comment that I meant the taxis are better. I was just saying that right now, this is a great deal in most cities where Uber does offer their services but seeing how hungry they are for max profit, I doubt this will last and eventually we will realize that a broken system was replaced by another broken one.

embro··on Why People Are Already Getting in Line for the Tesla Model 3
Pre-Ordering mine tonight!
embro··on Honda's $20k Civic LX now offers self-driving capability for highway use
Sadly there is no such thing as an electric Civic. I wish my 30K Nissan Leaf had it.
embro··on Why I think Tesla is building throwaway cars
Yes, they better have it, Jeeps are worthless peices of junk. I've owned a CJ, a YJ and two TJ and would never recommend it to anyone.
embro··on Ecological Redemption: Ocean Farming in the Era of Climate Change
This really was an interesting and eye opening read.
embro··on E-Cigarettes, as Used, Aren’t Helping Smokers Quit, Study Shows
Every two or three months we see this same headline based on the same studies or have new numbers. We all know that other methods had very low success rate yet we never see a healine about Nicorette or patches.

A large number of "vapers" have reduce or even stopped smoking, including myself.

My goal was to stop smoking, goal achieved.

embro··on Oristand – A New Kind of Stand Up Desk
I wish this could hold a 27 inch monitor.
embro··on Automakers Go Electric, Even If Gas Is Cheap
insideevs is a decent place to get the news for anything electric.
embro··on Rtop – agentless sever monitoring tool built with Go
I really like the fact that you can monitor remote servers!

Not sure if you consider feature requests but I would love to be able to monitor ZFS as well with it.

embro··on PepsiCo to Drop Aspartame from Diet Pepsi
Agreed but there is no such thing in this case that surpass pure sugar.
embro··on PepsiCo to Drop Aspartame from Diet Pepsi
As the article state clearly, this is to address consumers concerns and not facts based on science. Aspartame has been accused of so many things yet so few credible scientific paper has really blamed it for anything major.
embro··on Ask HN: Linux Distro of choice?
IMHO, RHEL is by far the most popular within large business in production environment.

Despite the huge popularity of Ubuntu, I see very few of them compared to RHEL / CentOS.

embro··on Why fuel cell cars don't work
Tesla chargers are only for Tesla, sadly. As much as I love them, I cannot use them either with my Nissan Leaf.

And yes, central and the lower states of US are behind in term of sales AND charging options available.

Hopefully this will change!

embro··on Why fuel cell cars don't work
At least he can back up his claims with science.
embro··on Why fuel cell cars don't work
Currently technology is OK.

Your reference to 300 miles is probably based on your most extreme situation when you go on a long trip. If the charging network (DC fast charging, in under 30 mins) is there, 300 miles isn't a problem.

I have a Nissan Leaf with 160 km range and it has never been a problem yet. Home charging is perfectly fine, every morning my car is full. I will never need a faster charger at home. Fast chargers are useful on the roads near highway exits for when you do long trips, much like with gas stations.

95% of the time, my travel distance is under 120 km per day so for only 5% of the time I need to plan a recharge or swap car with my parents, sisters or friends or rent a car for very long trips.

For people with a Chevrolet Volt, they don't even have this issue, when they go on long trips, they simply charge when they can and run on gas for most of the trip.

Personally, I am fine with current technology.

embro··on Ask HN: What is your linux IDS and AVS?
Qualys seem to be getting popular but I've never worked with it.
embro··on [dead]
Money talks, cancel your account.
embro··on The rise of fake engine noise
I have a Nissan Leaf so yes, there is no fake engine sound, only a sound in front at low speed to warn pedestrians.

Not only I would not want a fake engine sound but I would be willing to pay more to have my car sound proof, with insulation or something, it would be quieter, colder in the summer and warmer in the winter.

embro··on Sky to block pornography by default
Porn is not sex education. But right now, everyone have access to porn but not sex education, well, very few does.
embro··on Sky to block pornography by default
Problem isn't with kids but more with teens. Instead of trying to ban it, just talk about it.

Banning it would only make it slightly harder to find and would make parents believe their child/teen is "safe" and will never see porn... WRONG. Kids have plenty of time to find what they want.

Sex education is the only solution.

embro··on Why Ferrari engineers don't like turbos
Sound is one criteria. If I had the money for a super car, I would shop for Look and performance.
embro··on Why Ferrari engineers don't like turbos
If I had the money to buy a Ferrari I would want it 100% electric.
embro··on Ask HN: Yum repository hosting options?
If I had to do it i would probably look at getting a VPS with Linode.com or something.

Price is low but has to be maintained by you.

i am not aware of commercial or paid service for yum repositories.

embro··on Become Estonia’s e-resident
Estonia is such a nice country for people who own electric cars. They have many level 3 chargers.

Source : http://www.plugshare.com

embro··on Poll: Did you “drop Dropbox”?
Dropped it for Wuala
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