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Comment Re:Protectionism (Score 1) 497

In another example of US-made cars sucking, Detroit EVs tend to use NMC pouch cells without any sort of pack puncture protection. These long cells deflagrate much faster than prismatic and cylindrical cells. Better EVs would use CATL sodium or ProLogium solid state with ceramic separators safer cell tech that don't have puncture or thermal runaway deflagration risks as demonstrated by extensive destructive testing.

Comment The Zuck school of management (Score 4, Interesting) 43

Round-after-round of layoffs to pause raises (suppressing wages) and demoralize remaining workers with maximum stress in order to do another stock buyback. Stock buybacks used to be illegal because they're a form of stock manipulation from the Securities Exchange Act (SEA) of 1934 until repealed by SEC's Rule 10b-18 under Reagan in 1982.

Comment Re:Open source was supposed to fix all this (Score 0) 38

FOSS isn't the panacea evangelists claim it is. What's desperately missing in Linux and most projects is formal verification and comprehensive testing. It's half-assed, meatcloud-based, "works for me" as the default while brushing engineering professionalism aside with "it's a volunteer effort and a hobby" when it's become life-safety critical infrastructure.

Comment DC noise and pollution doesn't need China (Score 4, Insightful) 160

Neighbors already know DCs with unpermitted jet engine gas generators wreck their property values, pollute the air with CO2, CO, NOx, and formaldehyde, and bring light and noise pollution too. Who wouldn't want that in their literal backyard? Saying "It's China" is trying to trivialize and gaslight everyone that it's not happening by denying reality and scapegoating another group.

Comment Re:Just wait until the ice is gone. (Score 1) 153

The decline in Arctic Sea ice extent is already driving northern hemisphere weather instability patterns because the jet stream is fractured and disorganized unlike patterns in the past where an organized flow stabilized temperature swings and fronts (rain). We need to get back to 300 ppm or weather will continue to be risky and terrible. Less sea ice extent will make these temperature swings and rain patterns even more extreme and unpredictable.

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