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Comment Re:Yes (Score 3, Insightful) 211

Sigh. Can you cut out the "prescribed drugs are bad because they must be bad" bullshit?

ADHD stimulants absolutely do not work as _enhancers_, as your article explains. But they are not used as enhancers, they are used as medicine to fix problems. As another example: vitamin C does pretty much nothing normally, but if you have scurvy, it's life-saving. Here's an important quote from your article:

ADHD undergraduates are capable of performing just as well in college as their non-ADHD peers, if they acquire well-established effective study habits

Which basically says: "ADHD drugs are not needed if you can fix all the symptoms of ADHD without drugs". Well, duh.

Comment Re:how are they managing the heat? (Score 2) 122

At 1500kW it won't be spending _extended_ periods of time charging. If you want to charge a battery for 75kWh, then 5% of that is just around 4kWh.

Assuming the thermal mass of the battery 300kg, and specific heat capacity of 2000J per 1 kg per 1 C, that's a delta of 24C. So just simply using the battery's thermal mass completely passively without any cooling is probably going to work.

Comment No motivation, bad government (Score 1) 321

There is no motivation to do anything in Russia. The war is most definitely not perceived as "defending the motherland" internally, so the only remaining real motivation is monetary.

And Putin managed to build a system where regular engineers are treated as scum, while the real money gets siphoned off into the right people's wallets. This was recently demonstrated by the leak of the internal emails and source code of the system designed to send mobilization notices. It's supposed to be a part of the "digital GULAG" so that the government can send mobilization notices to the people whose disappearance is not going to be highly visible. With centralized tracking and all the related good stuff.

Its leading developer was paid around $700 a month. And was battling to get reimbursement for an extra $100 spent on a hotel in Moscow during a business trip to present their system to the chief of staff of the Ministry of Defense.

And of course, a lot of good engineers left the country in 2022 or soon thereafter.

Comment Re:just build housing (Score 0) 199

No, we don't actually need housing. It's a stinking lie that is perpetuated by Democrats.

We have 1.1 units of housing per family right now. And we're near the absolute record on per-capita housing. Don't believe me?

What we need are _jobs_ that are not concentrated in the Misery Centrals (aka downtowns of select large cities).

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