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tenuousemphasis··on The US Had a Big Battery Boom Last Year
Friendly reminder that battery chemistries differ greatly. Lithium iron phosphate, a safer but less dense chemistry than Lithium Ion, contains no cobalt.
tenuousemphasis··on Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse
There is one and only one solution: stop burning fossil fuels which dump CO₂ into the air.
tenuousemphasis··on Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse
Stupid people are easiest to manipulate m
tenuousemphasis··on Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009)
Only if you like free electricity...
tenuousemphasis··on Data centers in space makes no sense
Your exuberance for this topic is only matched by your lack of understanding about it.
tenuousemphasis··on xAI joins SpaceX
Now do waste heat.
tenuousemphasis··on 'Askers' vs. 'Guessers' (2010)
An asker who won't take no for an answer is just an asshole. As is a guesser who continuously hints when they want something and you don't offer.
tenuousemphasis··on Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping
I've never been to Scotland and I don't know any Scottish people.

But yes, I am dating myself with that phrase...

tenuousemphasis··on Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping
Allow for the purpose of indexing, not training models.

Like if you give a friend a key to your house so they can check on your plants when you're out of town but they throw a rager and trash the place.

tenuousemphasis··on The Gentle Seduction (1989)
Ok, what is it doing?
tenuousemphasis··on Sabotaging Bitcoin
You're reading the graph wrong, but I still have no idea how you are. Joules per terahash has declined from 8297 in 2014 to 33 in 2023 (the latest year they have data), a 99.996% reduction, or a 250x improvement in efficiency.
tenuousemphasis··on Sabotaging Bitcoin
I'm not sure what data you looking at but we went from 8300 J/TH in 2014 to 33.4 J/TH in 2023. So... what are you talking about?
tenuousemphasis··on Toxic Fumes on Planes Blamed for Deaths of Pilots and Crew
I'd love to know what percentage of flights experience fume events to determine if it's a real problem I should worry about.
tenuousemphasis··on Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
Are you trying to argue that Starlink isn't cut off Ukrainian access? Because they did and it was well documented.
tenuousemphasis··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
VAT is not regressive.

https://taxfoundation.org/blog/value-added-tax-vat-progressi...

tenuousemphasis··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
There's nothing wrong with murder because you could also murder people.
tenuousemphasis··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
Really? What taxes?
tenuousemphasis··on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150
Have you tried supplying power to your home yet?
tenuousemphasis··on Android developer verification: Early access starts
It's the JUDGE that came up with that reasoning.
tenuousemphasis··on Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (1999)
FYI this is one of the authors of The Limits to Growth.
tenuousemphasis··on We are building AI slaves. Alignment through control will fail
Do you really think consciousness lives in energetic meat?
tenuousemphasis··on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
I think the solution is something like this.

https://atx-led.com/

tenuousemphasis··on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea
I assume your friend never bothers to lock their door?
tenuousemphasis··on Indefinite Backpack Travel
Probably the single best thing you can do for the planet is become a green energy lobbyist.
tenuousemphasis··on Microsoft has urged its employees on H-1B and H-4 visas to return immediately
They are filling every power vacuum they create with direct executive power. Pure authoritarianism.
tenuousemphasis··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
The FCC head did threaten ABC's broadcast license.
tenuousemphasis··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
The FCC threatened to revoke ABC's broadcast license. That is government censorship, a direct attack on free speech.
tenuousemphasis··on How to make the Framework Desktop run even quieter
So don't buy it. Plenty of people aren't bothered and love it.
tenuousemphasis··on How big a solar battery do I need to store all my home's electricity?
Try 30-50% more.

It's so obviously better to reduce your need for heating and cooling than it is to increase your panel. battery, and HVAC size.

tenuousemphasis··on The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End
It's not ironic at all. The only reason the anti-paywall sites work is that the news companies in fact want some scrapers reading the full article.
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