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Comment He is right (Score 2, Insightful) 388

For those that are upset that he said dont endorse a candidate⦠what would you think if they did endorse one. Trump. If the Washington Post is going to be a news organization, and they certainly are not today, then they have an obligation to surface the issues regardless of if its someone they like or not. Did you read what Bezoz said. People so mistrusted the news they would rather get info from podcasts. Journalistic excellence requires eliminating your own bias, not amplifying it.

Comment Devoid of Logic (Score 1) 347

Yet another thing to cause more harm then Good. This story misses a massive point. First when California roled out this bag ban it really did reduce the number of single use bags generated. Many people did not buy the loophole 10c bags so yes it reduced the bags sold. There is the problem. These bags were re-used in many ways, for instance in my house these bags became the bathroom trash bags. once those were not available we had to buy bags. Hefty Hefty Hefty for the win. The replacement bags people bought were thicker and bigger. The reason more plastic was used was because people accepted a thin cheap bag if it was free, but if they were going to pay for it then it better not get a hole or leak. The problem with this government intervention is quite a bit like others. Its based on a platitude without understanding cause and effect. Paper bags are not green, go ahead ask Amazon why it ships with plastic bubble wrap. They have worked really hard to have the greenest packing material they can. But then again - California is not at all green. Take for instance the Bay area - California is spending 2.4B to electrify the Caltrain. Meanwhile the area is the some of the worst traffic in the US. If we wanted to go green with that money we would focus on making it easier to commute to get cars off of the road. They didn't, its still an awful commuter system but hay now its electric. Think thats the only example. Look at all of the new apartments going in. Due to the permitting and approval process the new housing is generally limited to 3 stories and is wood timber. The units are not utilizing space density, they are not located on rail lines for commuters, they are not located in walking distance of standard conveniences. We could make them more palitable, better for the environment, higher density, and encourage non-automobile commuting. However, getting permits for taller structures, mixed use is soo prohibitive people won't bother even if it could return more money. Water - California is better on water right... Go ahead and read about the dams that had to be shut down due to disrepair during a drought. After your done with that you can read about all of the leaking pipes dripping our fresh water into the ground instead of into people's houses. No... This is not about the environment is about control and the illusion of action

Comment Re: Good for Brazil (Score 1) 161

NPR left X, But NPR most certainly shared false information here is one example. https://www.npr.org/2021/05/13... In this Kennedy is labeled as part of the disinformation dozen even though now congressional testimony has actually shown all of the items he shared on COVId were true. Note I dont like Kennedy but vilification of people is a common tactic of sharing misinformation.

Comment Re:Where'd you get that idea? (Score 1) 247

DNK power has a very nice set of curves showing a Lithium battery discharge curve as a function of temperature. the representative 2Ah Cell reduces discharge current and voltage as temperature decreases. At 0C, the current has not gone down much but the voltage for the entire discharge is about .3V less, or 10%. So a 10% loss in current and a 10% loss in voltage is about the 20% loss I saw in real world. Going down to -20C, current drops to 1/2 and average voltage is 3.1V or a 20% drop. -- The result is that range is dropped to 40% of rated. Or in other words the cost of each mile just went up by over double.

Comment Re:Where'd you get that idea? (Score 1) 247

I live in the bay area, In the Winter when it was 40-50F instead of 60-80F, my Volt range went from 50-55Miles down to 35-40 miles. Thats not even Cold, that is just cool and its already a 20% drop in range on the same charge. Yah, getting cold is going to do some massive damage to range.

Comment Fire the CTOs (Score 1) 107

Every CTO that was impacted by Crowdstrike problem should be fired... Crowdstrike rolled out an untested update, Had poor developer review, no QA, and had a coding error that even a 1st year Dev should not make. But companies using Crowdstrike accepted updates directly to Prod without testing, fencing, scaled deployment. They had no rollback plan, and no contingency plan. They are incompetent.

Comment Re: old news (Score 1, Informative) 155

Yes all those republicans in San Diego Ca and New York City Nyâ¦. And those republican authoritarianâ(TM)s in the White House who established the Ministry of truth, and told social media what to censorâ¦. Clearly only an issue in some statesâ¦. And here I thought our government was globally over reaching in very bad ways

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