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Your friendly reminder that so many plastics aren't recyclable - so glad California is finally pushing back on greenwashing

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago

Little bit of A, little bit of B.

In China there's a lot of big coastal cities with very little open land for development. Putting small amounts of solar onto 1000 skyscrapers vs one big ocean plant, and the additional costs of ocean maintenance start to be less significant.

Similarly, in some places there may be opportunities to align the deployment of the panels with other systems, e.g., a kelp farm or ocean fish farm where you can collocate ocean structures.

There's likely to be lots of new challenges faced by these structures, but it's still good to work the kinks out now with some pilot projects

[–] [email protected] 11 points 23 hours ago

This is an ego fluffer app, not a scientific study. The accuracy is "good enough" to give you a rough idea of your performance, and if youre really into optimizing WPM, give you a way to track progress or the impacts of using different keyboards.

Getting a high score doesn't actually mean anything except you probably use your phone too much.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I'm sure AG Gaetz will get right on that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Idk why I'm going to bat for the dude, because he's clearly a tool, but my phone probably has a photo of my SO's ID if you dig hard enough

Woulda been something like a "I'm buying plane tickets for our vacation, what's your passport no." kind of situation. Or her: "left my wallet, what's my DL# so I can pay this parking ticket".

Not certain anything is there, but weve been together long enough, I'm not certain it's not there either.

ETA: Maybe also "were going on vacation, state department recommends keeping a separate copy of our passports in case something happens"

I recognize long term relationship is different from mistress, but still

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Look I want to hate on overwatch because they definitely destroyed that one in pursuit of money, but that Torb at the end sitting with his turret and getting potg hit home hard.

Probably still won't play, but right in the feels man.

Maybe they can bring it back to fun.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

The core focus of early crypto was decentralization, not anonymity. Bitcoin is totally decentralized, but the entire premise is the blockchain contains a permanent irrefutable ledger of transactions. Basically everyone knows if Wallet A paid Wallet B. If you refill your wallet with anything remotely traceable, that means everyone knows YOU paid Wallet B, and similarly if wallet B has any ties to the real world, the lines are easy to connect.

That's not to say you can't use it anonymously, but that was not the intent and thus it does anonymity poorly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

"Crypto" is such a vague term it's almost comical to imply it's private. Sure there are ways to use crypto privately, but it takes a lot of steps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some people really don't grasp the concept of the trolley problem.

A train is headed towards 5 people, you can pull a lever and switch tracks to kill 1 person. What do you do?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Naïve/entitled people fail to grasp the concept of compromise.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not trying to be a "nuclear shill", but it is worth mentioning from the article you linked:

The 1.8 million solar panels are expected to generate up to 690 MW and they’re co-located with 380 MW of 4-hour battery energy storage (1,400 MWh).

The capacity factor of solar is something around 25%, so that 690 MW solar array (even with batteries) produces about as much energy as ~160 MW nuclear... So 7x faster, but the costs are closer than you suggest. Solar is still cheaper because the O&M costs are minimal, but pretending 690 MW solar + 380 MW battery is equivalent to 1 GW nuclear is a bit disingenuous.

 

Interesting application of machine learning to actually reduce computational intensity for once...

 
  1. Deliver strong and equitable National Biodiversity Plans [at COP16]

  2. Mainstream nature in policies on food and water

  3. Provide more finance and incentives to support nature and biodiversity goals

  4. Recognize the land rights and the authority of Indigenous Peoples and other frontline communities

  5. Effectively measure and track progress toward global targets

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