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Re:Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? on Saturday June 29, 2024 @04:43AM (#40828765)
Find the graph of GW of solar installed over time
Re:Michael Bluejay's Saving Electricity on Saturday February 10, 2024 @04:22PM (#39330346)
Ya agreed about that cost for a backup install - there are some interesting new options that should be less labor from an electrician.

https://us.ecoflow.com/products/delta-pro-transfer-switch

Re:The proto-fascism of Elon Musk on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:54AM (#35998997)
We don’t need to be “influenced by media” the tweets are there for everyone to see.
Re:Using LLaMA with M1 Mac and Python 3.11 on Sunday March 12, 2023 @08:52PM (#35129025)
It’s downloaded over a Torrent seems fine
Re:DuckDB – in-process SQL OLAP database management system on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:36AM (#34741978)
Yes using it in production - Stateless and ephemeral. For sure there’s a learning curve.
Re:Boeing’s last 747 is rolling out of the factory on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:58PM (#33890769)
Good thing they will be flying for the next 25 years!
Re:On Second Thought, Just Throw Plastic Away on Saturday November 05, 2022 @12:11PM (#33482816)
Plastic and glass is ground up
Re:Lyft laying off 13% of staff on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:34PM (#33460605)
Someone coming from a 350k fang job is not going to work for “35-70k” would you?
Re:Filthy Plane Videos Ignite Debate About Airline Cleanliness on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:55PM (#32786944)
A monthly disinfect helps you feel better how?
Re:UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B on Thursday January 27, 2022 @03:01AM (#30097590)
You can create a 2nd investment account and start contributing to that while making minimum payments against your loan.
Re:By 2500 earth could be alien to humans on Thursday October 14, 2021 @10:13PM (#28873291)
Trivial compared to their value.
They are free to quit and find other jobs aren’t they?
The founder organized capital more productively than it sitting earning 3% is thus able to command a large ownership level.
Green aside, this was an interesting video explaining that for short flights electric planes are extremely lucrative https://youtu.be/aH4b3sAs-l8 [wendover]
ad-tech runs on a fractional of data centers right? So it's already eclipsed by crypto.
How does the island residency of the person matter so much either.
Re:Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account on Saturday August 29, 2020 @01:38AM (#24313888)
Not necessarily - ideally if you don’t want to live in that kind of a house then someone will want your business and cater to you.
Re:The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @09:48PM (#24289382)
You can fly right now if you want to - flights are very cheap! What point are you trying to make?
The occasional failure scenario is well captured by private companies.
It’s the spring in the northern hemisphere, it’s not cold anywhere in the US or Europe. I don’t see how your conclusion is relevant
That was an influenza virus, this is a coronavirus they are completely different. But to your point, there have been numerous flu pandemics since 1918
That’s correct - one of the proposed treatments for coronavirus is synthetically generated antibodies for seriously ill patients; it won’t teach the immune system as you said but reduces viral load.
Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:28PM (#22695237)
It’s not DNA, it’s an RNA virus. More changes happen with them.
Re:Chloroquine, past and present on Saturday March 21, 2020 @03:32AM (#22645178)
you're not really an md, are you?
Re:State projections for Covid-19 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @03:24AM (#22645155)
more data is needed; the way that article is written is very casual and this is not a peer reviewed paper.
Re:State projections for Covid-19 on Saturday March 21, 2020 @02:59AM (#22645069)
the PCR test (throat swap) only test for active infections; we need antibody tests to determine if someone had the decision in the past
Re:FDA just cleared a $20 Covid-19 antibody test on Friday March 20, 2020 @10:02PM (#22643603)
Link already removed :-(
Dude take a breath, millions die in the US every year
The case fatality rate of being 80 years old is 5.77%. Each year this many people age 80 die of various ailments. I don’t remember staying home for months praying this number goes down.

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