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The problem is that your fingerprint is really just a set of information attached your body, similar to a long static password. Not very secure and you can't change it if it was compromised.

The fingerprint on the yubikey is really just a possession check for the yubikey in case it was stolen. The main protection comes from the asymmetric cryptography inside the yubikey.

The key in the video was flexing from being pressed for the fingerprint. Hopefully that does not cause longevity issues.

My USB-A yubikey has proven durable so far, but it only requires a very light touch to activate.

The construction labor rate difference between the US and Europe is surprising, especially given the stronger unionization rules in Europe.

"Although the material and equipment costs are similar (within 10%) for projects in the United States and in Europe, labor costs are substantially higher in the United States as outlined above. For example, in California the average billing labor rates for qualified tunnel workers is about $70/hr and the average New York labor rate of qualified tunnel workers is at over $100/hr, whereas in Germany (one of the high labor rates countries in Europe) the comparable labor rate is about $30/hr."

In addition to a pointer replacement, there is an idea of using eye tracking on a virtual keyboard with a swype type entry.

"unless you reuse the reusable bags thousands of times."

That is not what the report in that article says[1]. In Table IV, for a conventional cotton bag, it has to be re-used 52 times in order to equal the LDPE plastic bag in the climate change metric.

For a woven PP bag (which is the most common plastic re-usable bag in my experience), the numbers it has to be re-used is only 5.

[1] https://www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publications/2018/02/978-87-93614-...

Or you could just use reusable bags...

That said I fully agree with the larger point. We have to be willing to weigh and accept tradeoffs.

From my experience, if the frame of the vehicle is functionally damaged then the car often totaled anyway. Maybe that is not true for expensive cars like the Model Y.

(not sure if you are still reading this thread but I would love to convince you)

So if the poor get back more than they put in, how can they be disproportionately be funding it?

A carbon tax+UBi is not regressive, if the rich pay in more than they get out and the poor get back more than they put in. That is the red herring.

The break even point should occur somewhere in the upper middle class. If it was just a tax by it self you would be right. But the effective tax discount through the UBI makes it progressive.

Again with this red herring, "Jeff Bezoses of the world remain largely unaffected".

Jeff Bezos consumes and releases way more carbon than the average person. Private jets, multiple mansions, a fleet or cars, a private rocket company. He would pay way more into a VAT and carbon tax than a median American. If the UBI is large enough to notice, Jeff Bezos would definitely be affected by the means to fund it.

Meanwhile a person living near the poverty line would get more back than they had to pay in increased prices. On top of the net transfer, they now have a guaranteed safety net without means testing, application procedures, and waiting times that they would still get even if they have to quit a job due to a crappy boss. They can also move cities/states without the fear of loosing their benefits.

This is a red herring that keeps being brought up with respect to UBI way too often.

"Carbon taxes unquestionably fall hardest on the poor, as do consumption taxes generally."

Yes, but rich people consume and release carbon at a much higher rate than poor people. As a result, rich people would pay into consumption taxes/carbon taxes much more than they would get back in a flat cash payment funded by such means.

I hate that most people just respond to the title and don't respond to the contents of the article.

The lithium and other metals in that battery though can be recycled at its end of life. Subsequent batteries will have lower life cycle carbon footprint.

I wish more businesses would do similar promotion type things during this pandemic to either help people out or give people something to do.

The only other one I've seen is a MMORPG doing free DLC: https://www.polygon.com/2020/3/20/21188141/lord-of-the-rings...

Silver is down because it is largely an industrial metal used heavily in many electronic components. Gold is also used in industry (e.g. Gold plated connectors) but less so compared to its use as a value store by governments[1] and private parties. Since the economy is expected to drop, industrial metals are dropping as well.

[1] https://www.fiscal.treasury.gov/reports-statements/gold-repo...

At NASA the standard seem to be SI units for anything in space and Freedom (English) units for anything inside the atmosphere. It is bizarre.

The funny thing is looking back at Apollo documents from the 60s is that many of those were in SI, but for Shuttle they appeared to have switched the launch and land portion fully to English.

Citation please?

Your number assumes the car is driven 100,000 miles a year, which would get it to 400,000 miles in 48 months (4 years).

The original comment assumed 10,000 miles a year, which is on the light end.

There are a fair bit of tech aware services which use it. I wish Paypal/banks would support it though.

- Twitter

- Bitwarden (password manager)

- Dropbox

- Google

- Gitlab

- Github

- Nextcloud

I read that post and wished that there was a Firefox extension but could not find out. Glad someone made one.

GroupMe is another alternative which works similarly. Have two sets of social groups which use that instead of Facebook.

They really should have done both Windows and Linux for these type of non-gaming processors. Expect more from Anandtech.

The point would be to reduce the carbon footprint, for which currently there is no practical technology for aviation (which can make more than a small incremental reduction).

If you are just considering a companies bottom line, obviously they are just going to do what would make them the most money.

I like Yang and it is kind of insulting to be dismissed as a bot for posting a comment supporting him. It feels dismissive and similar I would imagine to being a Bernie supporter and being called a "bernie bros". I know lots of Bernie supporters who are not dumb college males and lots of Yang supports who are not automated scripts (aka bots).

edit: spelling

The difference though is that financial debt is very easy to measure and quantify but technical debt is not.

I like the Tetris analogy because that game has a type of debt that anyone who has played it can understand, yet is not as easily quantifiable as financial debt.

I hate how well off people assume poor people are getting large benefits.

Most people under the poverty line do not receive over $1k in means tested benefits.

Also, millions of Americans living in poverty receive no benefits at all.[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/13-million-p...

There are PC power supplies with Ga-N transistors these days, but seems they are so far used only for the very top end.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12645/the-corsair-ax1600i-psu...

Good discussion of SiC vs GaN for EV applications:

https://chargedevs.com/features/opinion-sic-vs-gan-semicondu...

I would love to see the numbers for this.

A significant part of the volume in a ballistic rocket is oxidizer which a jet does not need to carry. Liquid methane is much less dense than jet fuel, so it makes sense it would take up much more volume. Also, methane has less carbon in it than jet fuel on a per energy basis.

Still suspect you are right.

Yet Europe still does a way better job than the US in affordable education, universal healthcare, and environmental policy.

A few differences:

- VAT is applied to business to business transactions. Sales taxes are just applied to consumer transactions.

- Sales taxes are applied to total amount of sales. The amount of VAT that the user pays is on the cost of the product, less any of the costs of materials used in the product that have already been taxed.

- Since value is not generally created in a second hand sale. (Unless the item is restored) VATs are usually not applied to used/second hand items. Sales taxes are.