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Comment Re:give a thank you (Score 5, Informative) 83

to joe biden and lina khan. trump admin must not have gotten a proper bribe to kill this.

Actually Trump is personally behind the right to repair. From Google:

In this case, OP was correct. The FTC action against John Deere was filed during the Biden administration when Lina Khan was FTC chair.
  https://apnews.com/article/dee...

Comment Radiators [Re: Bet against Elon if you like] (Score 1) 195

So you don't see generating massive amounts of heat, with nowhere to dump it besides passive radiation into a vacuum as a problem. Go on, what's the solution for that?

Radiators.

Since the heat out at most equals the solar power in, and the two-sided flat-plate equilibrium temperature of a panel receiving solar energy is 331K (58 C), if the solar panels are also the radiators, heat rejection is manageable.

(Completely accurate only far from the Earth. In Low Earth Orbit, you also have to account for albedo and infrared radiation from the Earth.)

Comment Re:Full Circle (Score 1) 108

And the fact that this was in response to a blackout that lasted days

Either you're confusing it with a different blackout or this needs clarification. The power was back to 99% of users after about 18 hours, and although I can't access the primary sources I see citations that it was fully restored within 24 hours. Your main point still stands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

12:33:24 CEST – grid collapsed completely, the HVDC between France and Spain tripped.
...
00:22 CEST – grid fully restored in Portugal.
04:00 CEST – grid fully restored in Spain.

Looks like 15 1/2 hours for full power back in Spain

Comment Re:Not a good idea (Score 1) 134

A social media platform should be forced to operate as follows:
1. On the main timeline, it must only show content from people or groups that the user explicitly follows.

This would strengthen the echo chamber effect, where people only hear things that reinforce what they already believe, and make it harder for voices correcting fake news to be heard.

Comment Truth decay [Re:Before someone says it] (Score 1) 134

"Misinformation" is just a codeword for "things I don't like."

That's what the people with an ideological agenda tell us. They are wrong. Misinformation is a real thing, and it is damaging our society.

Some people call it "truth decay: the fact that people pushing an ideological agenda realize that lies are as powerful, and even more powerful, than truth in energizing the outrage that fuels their agenda. And social media in particular is full of half-truths and outright lies.

However, the government anointing some news sources more "trusted" than others is not a solution. The government, or some people in the government, also has agendas to push, and wants to devalue trust in truths that may damage that agenda. "Telling the truth to power" means telling things that those in power don't want to be told, and these are voices that we need to hear.

Comment Re:It's called 'advertisement'. (Score 4, Informative) 34

Did people clutch their pearls also when "Doctor" Marcus Welby did ads?

What, the best you can do is bring up a show that went off the air fifty year ago?

And even then, when Robert Young did TV commercials for coffee, he was identified as "Robert Young," not as Doctor Marcus Welby, and they didn't pretend it was real. (In fact, the line from a series of advertisement of around that era, "I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV," is still a meme today.)

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