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frickenhamster··on Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?
SUVs have no relevance to the question. In every EV, and modern cars, the location and layout of every component, especially the battery is a highly engineered process. The battery specifically is not only the most valuable component they need to store as much of as possible, it is the most heavy and most dangerous. Teslas blew up because the battery wasn't stored safely. Store it too high and you risk rollovers. This doesn't even take into account the danger of high amp battery packs being moved around and shared between vehicles. You're oversimplifying a very difficult problem
frickenhamster··on Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?
This will never work. Components in cars are engineered to be organized as efficiently as possible. The overhead from having replaceable batteries will kill the amount of storage you can have. There is no way you can have generic attendants swap out batteries in 5 minutes. Working with EVs is a dangerous job that you can't just pay an uneducated minimum wage worker to change. The batteries are extremely heavy and are placed in locations that you need a car lift to get to. Plus theres all sort of liability and safety issues from potentially messing up a battery swap or getting a bad battery and blowing up your car.
frickenhamster··on Blocking Kiwifarms
I was referring the the stuff the people who want kf down were doying, ie selling homemade hormones to underaged children.
frickenhamster··on Blocking Kiwifarms
It has to be done in conjunction with protests by a politically protected group
frickenhamster··on Blocking Kiwifarms
After hearing about the drama and reading kf's pov, I can definitely understand why the people ddosing kf want it down. The stuff they do is illegal and absolutely vile but overlooked by the people in power because it suits their politics. It scares me as a prospective parent.
frickenhamster··on Blocking Kiwifarms
From what I heard there was a false flag bomb threat
frickenhamster··on The Hair Dryer Incident (2014)
Crabs in the bucket
frickenhamster··on The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins
China supported this in a psyop. Remember when they tried repeatedly to push the origin of the virus to Italy? I'm ethnically Chinese, so I'm in contact with a lot of mainlanders. The brainwashing is very effective. Even if most mainlanders know that their state media is bogus, and that Xi is a dictator, they'll take it deeply personally when you say anything that threatens the whole China # 1 narrative. All they had to do was hire a few shitposters, feed a few media narratives and the US fights with itself over stuff like anti-china, racists etc, while the CCP takes over Hong Kong.
frickenhamster··on U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says
LOL. A good portion of cyber security attacks are government military operations. You think China or Russia is sad that hackers closed down our gas pipelines?
frickenhamster··on Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
There are. Pedestrians don't care and will literately walk into open traffic. I've seen the same thing in every major city.
frickenhamster··on Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
So you don't normalize walking where you're not supposed to.
frickenhamster··on Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
Fucking stupid. I used to live in a college town where no one obeyed traffic laws. I can't tell you how many car on car, car in bike, car on people accidents were caused by dumbasses walking into open traffic.
frickenhamster··on Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime
There's different levels of jaywalking. There's walking across the streets when there's no car and everyone is doing it. And then there's the crazies who walk across open traffic on a green light where there are cars speeding along causing accidents. A large percent of the homeless and drug addicts in cities are minorities.
frickenhamster··on Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke
Thats not how networth works. No one has enough liquid capital to spend money like that. As soon as people found out Bezos was wasteful like that, his network would drop just based on stock price.
frickenhamster··on Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable
meta topics are what most people care about. "true dota" is a bunch of 3k players trying to give generic advice.
frickenhamster··on Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
Resistance bands are not even close to real weights. The feel is completely different and the resistance scales in a way that is counter productive for a lot of exercises. You don't have a constant measure of strength and progressive overload is impossible. Resistance bands are already as a supplement to free weight training but you can't get the same experience.
frickenhamster··on Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
Its true that old people have a higher deathrate, but we'll see deathrates in general drop in the years following 2020. Most of the people that are dying right now already have a foot in the grave. We won't know the impact of COVID specifically until many years after and a lot of data engineering. At that time, people won't care and the sensationalist numbers will win out.
frickenhamster··on Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition
You want to massively decrease the deathrate of COVID? (and death rates in general)

Deal with the 40% obesity rate in the US.

Death rates are extremely low if you're not geriatric or not fat. All the top killers are attributable to being fat and living unhealthy lifestyles. COVID is the scapegoat here.

frickenhamster··on Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS
My solution was SteerMouse. It allows me to individually set every scroll option and mouse speed and acceleration