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Comment Re:wow (Score 3, Informative) 77

I like this analogy, but if you ever do want a Cobra for some reason, there are kits for like $25K

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Comment Re:Are recommendation algorithms integral to the w (Score 1) 241

I mean, I see your argument, but the government would have to compensate all the social media companies for a pretty substantial part of their market cap if they took away their technologies/platforms. That is at least hundreds of billions of dollars if not trillions. Even this highly partisan Supreme Court would probably balk at anything involving overriding property rights (although there is precedent for same when it comes to public health).

Also, just because a process is transparent doesn't make it understandable, and to the extent that it is understandable you'll have people constantly gaming the system even more in the future than they do now.

Not sure what upside there is that's worth the hassle.

Comment Re:Why in the literal fuck (Score 1) 129

I'm not very experienced with Macs, but when support ends for an OS and there's no supported upgrade path it often makes sense to choose another option. I had cyanogen mod on some old android phones for a variety of tasks after security updates stopped being released for that hardware.

The only other reason I can think of is to test VMs or for security analysis.

Comment Re:Standards not software (Score 1) 24

Unless there's federal regulations with teeth forcing insurance companies to both adhere to those standards and make claim decisions in a single pass with the information provided under those standards the standards will not be used. Healthcare is an adversarial process where insurance is trying to increase complexity to force providers and patients to abandon claims. ACA fixed a little of that, but not much.

Comment Re:News? at 11 from NPR (Score 4, Insightful) 113

Not sure about pumping to Vegas, but the difference in water consumption between a drought and non-drought year in California is enough to require 38 billion gallons a day. The largest oil pipeline in the world pumps 77 million gallons a day. Not sure what Vegas's requirements are, but it'd probably require a very expensive pipeline that would only be for drought years. We may get to that point, but the current model seems to be to just force conservation to deal with drought.

Comment Re:It's a cooling problem. (Score 1) 326

The largest submarine reactors are paired 190MW on the Russian Typhoon class sub. The largest Aircraft Carrier reactors are ~700MW. Land based nuclear power plants exceed that and usually have multiple reactors on one site. in addition, they have a big constraint on cost per kilowatt to stay competitive. It's not that they couldn't solve technical problems it's that they can't do it cheaply enough.

Comment Re:By the time the models are accurate (Score 1) 219

We can't even summon up the political will to do point source carbon sequestration much less atmospheric sequestration which costs something like an order of magnitude more. This is like a prisoner's dilemma game where everyone has been snitching for two generations. No one wants to assume the financial burden unless everyone assumes the financial burden and that cannot happen while industry is continually lobbying hard to keep major players from doing it.

We've had the tech for a long time to deal with this problem. It's not going to happen unless carbon sequestration or geoengineering solutions become a revenue generator or we have a literal bloody revolution to make it happen.

Comment Re:We have go to be realistic about green transiti (Score 1) 184

A short haul cargo vehicle with extremely frequent stops and starts is kind of the textbook use case for EV vehicles, and with almost the entire postal fleet aging out and needing replacement it seems kind of ludicrous to only convert 10% and commit to gasoline for the other 90% of a fleet the majority of which has been on the road for over 27 years. Do we need to commit to another 120,000+ idling gasoline engines for the next 27 years or so?

How about instead, we funnel air quality grants that groups like baaqmd et al have into the charging infrastructure in urban environments and keep some of the gasoline fleet (and a few thousand replacements) for rural areas?

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