That brine could be useful for salinity gradient power – reverse electrodialysis, though if you need to mix in regular water, kinda defeats the process I expect.

Science is evolution , maybe hype is a bit strong.

The focus of this tech feels like getting the salts passively , clean water is a nice by product. They solved the brine problem. Good!

How much do these panels cost to make?

Yes in the same way we banned cocaine and heroine because they are highly addictive and kill people.

Capitalism is often confused with Personal Freedom.

In Capitalism, you are the labour, an indentured worker , working more and more hours for less and less and you get into debt to buy toys, eat crap food, drink booze, jerk off to endless porn and play games all night to give you some happiness and escape from the fact that deep down you know you are a slave struggling to keep your head above water.

Don't believe me. Stop working and see how capitalism looks after you.

There's a place for capitalism, there's a place for socialism. Binary solutions are primitive and tribal.

We have exactly 1 office where the entire nation votes. Just one and they represent everyone.

We do not need the electoral college for some "urban/rural" balance, we already have the Senate.

Also there are literally way more people living in cities so why shouldn't they get a greater say, there is literally more of them.

Just saying this doesn't mean it's true, you have to make the case, it's not self actualizing.

What does that even mean, "myth popular results are meaningful". Those are literally elections! The person with the most votes wins.

Firstly, the Electoral College is actually *not* checks and balances. Secondly, again, you can't state that, you have to state *why*.

That's called the Senate and it's skewed heavily in favor of the "country". Shit, there shouldn't even be two Dakotas.

We have exactly 1 office where the entire nation votes. Just one and they represent everyone, city and country alike. So everyone gets to vote for it and have their vote count the same.

Then the candidates actually have to craft to appeal to both the city and the country.

I'm impressed that you figured out something is wrong but you don't know what to do about it do you?

Honestly I can practically smell the fear on you.

Anyway if you look at the elections and supposed red States there are still one by microscopic margins well within the margin of error. Meanwhile we all damn well know what voter suppression is because we all got taught about the civil Rights movement. Not so sure about kids these days but us old farts could not escape it and it's one of the reasons the racists are so upset. They know that at any moment the center and the left could just do something about voter suppression and they become irrelevant again.

And we're not talking about businesses owned by rich people we're talking about businesses owned by billionaires. I don't think you quite understand what it means to be a billionaire. They aren't Rich anymore they are powerful beyond belief. They are God Kings. That's what happens when you let people hoard that much wealth. It stops being wealth and becomes power. And if you were paying attention last election, and I can tell you right now that you weren't, you would have noticed that they fully exercise that power for the first time in a long time.

Remember it's a big club and you ain't in it.

That might be why a feature exists, or maybe even why a particular paid library was chosen instead of another. That doesn't explain why the code is written the way it was, which is the point of documentation. Why the feature exists is the realm of the PRD, not the design doc.

I told my partner straight, "if our oral tradition ever dies .. you're out!".

Now I'm trying my hand at a new tradition.

That's great and all but it's 250 years later. At the very least we can use a popular vote for the single election that everyone in the nation votes for. I have yet to hear any compelling argument against this. It's clean, it's fair, it's simple.

That alone is a great argument for popular vote.

Next you're going to tell me the sun doesn't shine at night.

Grogu is already 50 years old so that might explain his powers.

It usually goes to the lowest-ranking person on the team or the one everyone's trying to keep away from actual coding.

It remains worth the effort to write a novel around your code - not just what you did and why you did certain things a certain way, but the meta-reasons. The more those who come after you understand, the easier it is for them to figure out and maintain your code. It also tends to focus you more on writing good code, because you don't want to document, "Well, it looked good enough and didn't immediately produce errors and I'm tired of this and want to move on".

AI code? Well, AI should be very good at generating plain-language documentation of 'what', but it is absolutely going to fail at 'why'.

The additional cost over a normal horizontal ducted turbine is, of course, the new shell and the actuator it requires.

It's like you didn't bother actually reading my post and just responded in ignorance.

It happens here, but perhaps you'd be happier on Reddit?

Start with a ducted horizontal wind turbine. If you imagine a bunch of salad bowls stacked with spacers and you get the idea of what it would look like from the outside.

The ducts collect air from any direction and drive it down, through the turbine, and out the bottom. Water doesn't turn corners quiet as easily as air, so you can use the ducts to separate out the majority of liquid and drain it away from your turbine.

Then you and an armored shell of horizontal bands that can be moved up and down to reduce or enlarge the duct input slot area. Instead of having to worry about wind load and braking at the turbine, you control dangerous wind load at the intake.

There's your monsoon-resistant wind turbine.

It wasn't a big theatre-experience movie, it was more like a handful of really good television episodes strung together.

In that sense, it was both a good movie and deserved the bad reviews it got.