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Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:29PM (#20717401)
Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:27PM (#20717385)
Won't electric trucks use regenerative braking?
Re:The electric car as a talisman of false hope on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:23PM (#20717330)
1. How do we make existing cities denser?

2. Good where possible. Where cars are better suited, the cars should be electric.

4. Those will be EVs even better.

6. What does this entail?

Re:Twitter locked my account for a nine year old tweet on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:30PM (#20716825)
Is calling some one stupid or telling them to fuck themselves all that horrible to you? There wasn't even a threat of violence or attacking based upon "protected characteristics."
Re:A Walk in Hong Kong on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:21PM (#20716730)
They want autonomy which is functionally equivalent to independence.
Re:A Walk in Hong Kong on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:16AM (#20715363)
Specific demands which amount to independence rather than integration.
Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:00AM (#20715203)
> It's a high-protein, flour-like ingredient that contains 50 percent protein content, 5–10 percent fat, and 20–25 percent carbs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning

> Protein poisoning was first noted as a consequence of eating rabbit meat exclusively, hence the term, "rabbit starvation". Rabbit meat is very lean; commercial rabbit meat has 50–100 g dissectable fat per 2 kg (live weight). Based on a carcass yield of 60%, rabbit meat is around 8.3% fat

Re:Cloudflare S-1 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @03:29PM (#20708794)
That is NASDAQ not NYSE.
Re:Cloudflare S-1 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @01:14PM (#20707286)
I don't think NYSE has 5 letter tickers.
Re:Cloudflare S-1 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @12:54PM (#20707034)
Activities of our paying and free customers or the content of their websites or other Internet properties, as well as our response to those activities, could cause us to experience significant adverse political, business, and reputational consequences with customers, employees, suppliers, government entities, and others.

... We also received negative publicity in connection with the use of our network by 8chan, a forum website that served as inspiration for the recent attacks in El Paso, Texas and Christchurch, New Zealand. We are aware of some potential customers that have indicated their decision to not subscribe to our products was impacted, at least in part, by the actions of certain of our paying and free customers. We may also experience other adverse political, business and reputational consequences with prospective and current customers, employees, suppliers, and others related to the activities of our paying and free customers, especially if such hostile, offensive, or inappropriate use is high profile.

Re:Texas Power Prices Briefly Surpass $9k Amid Scorching Heat on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @12:52PM (#20697384)
I believe this was discussed in the documentary "Pandora's Promise."
It is actually unlimited? Several companies in the United States offer "unlimited data" but throttle speeds after you use 50 GB~ so much that it is basically unusable.
I remember someone writing a proxy that ran over Facebook, maybe it was specifically chat, in response to that. However, I am not able to find it right now.

edit: I found it here[0].

> The idea of this project is to tunnel Internet traffic through Facebook chat (packets are sent as base64), the main component is tuntap and also the Google's Gumbo parser which does the interaction with Facebook (login, send/receive messages, etc.).

[0] https://github.com/matiasinsaurralde/facebook-tunnel

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:54AM (#20694994)
Thanks, I missed that. I was just looking at the number of decimal places. Is that method accurate?

(1000 * incorrectly_rounded) / 1000 == incorrectly_rounded

Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:36PM (#20688889)
The websites that the results aren't curated either. Clicking through to the site could provide the same incorrect information.
Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:34PM (#20688874)
Both cases showed 2 decimal places for me.
Re:Fewer Than Half of Google Searches Now Result in a Click on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @02:33PM (#20688855)
I don't know about Google but DuckDuckGo pulls conversions from Xe. It is much quicker to duck the conversion than to find it after hitting Xe's homepage.
> you can choose whatever storage provider you want when you sign up

How do you do this? I just went through the sign up and I did not see any such option.

The United States doesn't harvest the organs of prisoners.
Re:Decentralized DNS with the Handshake Naming System on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @02:42PM (#20628160)
> Nothing stops you or anyone from running your own DNS root

That is what this is doing.

> Handshake is a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol compatible with DNS where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities. Its purpose is not to replace the DNS protocol, but to replace the root zone file and the root servers with a public commons.

- https://handshake.org/

I know there are ways to store renewable energy. I am asking about specific energy storage sites being built. Generally speaking, linking to search results is condescending and not an answer.
I have seen many stories about large solar panel installations but I have not seen very many stories about energy storage systems. Solar energy is dependent on weather, season, and time of day so energy needs to be stored for when there is less to no sunlight. I know Tesla has done several large battery installations but has anyone seen any other stories?
> This is not the reason we ignore multiplicative constants in complexity analysis.

What is the reason?

Re:The Clean Farming Revolution on Friday July 26, 2019 @01:24PM (#20536453)
And replaced it with...?
Re:SFTPGo: A Full Featured SFTP Server in Go on Friday July 26, 2019 @01:13PM (#20536364)
If you don't mind, I have a question about graft.

> graft will prompt for a password, run an sftp server and promote it via zeroconf.

Is that a one time password that will be used by the "receiver" to download the file?

Re:The Trust Crisis on Friday July 26, 2019 @12:36PM (#20536059)
Trust is about degrees. How much time and money do you spend the verify the statements/actions/products of companies?
Are you equating retweets to using heroin?
Re:Case of the Missing Women on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @09:40AM (#20515131)
foeticide (ˈfiːtɪˌsaɪd) n (Gynaecology & Obstetrics) a variant spelling of feticide

fe·ti·cide (fē′tĭ-sīd′) n. Intentional destruction of a human fetus.

Isn't the intentional destruction of a human fetus what an abortion is?

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