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craig1f commented on 'Supercharger on wheels' brings fast charging to you   electrek.co/2024/05/22/th... · Posted by u/rmason
bilsbie · 2 years ago
I wonder why no one just has a pickup with a generator in the back and drives around to help EV’s that ran out of batteries.

Actually you could hang around overcrowded charging stations and make some good money. People in a hurry would pay a premium.

craig1f · 2 years ago
I doesn’t happen nearly enough to be worth the effort. Electricity is cheap, and these mobile services are only worth it if they can charge a premium. And they can only charge a premium when a car is literally stranded. And that happens infrequently enough that you may as well just use a tow, which is readily available.
craig1f commented on Study: Men Almost Never Sing Songwritten by Women   pudding.cool/2023/07/song... · Posted by u/noisymortimer
fwungy · 3 years ago
As a male singer/songwriter I can tell you that women songwriters tend to, for unknown reasons, write their songs around female vocal capabilities, which are objectively higher than men's in terms of range and fluidity.

Women cover male songwriters frequently, but who are the great female songwriters? Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Kate Bush, and so on. They all tend to be excellent vocalists who write stuff that the average man simply can't match. While the great male songwriters are often weak to average singers: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lennon/McCartney. Women kill on those songs, with barely an effort sometimes.

As for modern Top40. It sucks. Who cares?

craig1f · 3 years ago
Although, Maxwell’s cover of This Woman’s Work is outstanding.
craig1f commented on Food companies ‘sweetened the world’ and increased the risk of disease   theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne
CrampusDestrus · 3 years ago
The psychological aspect is the biggest one. Even using artificial sweeteners that might have no effect on the body, you are still accustoming people to a completely skewed level of sweetness in foods. Someone who drinks Coke Zero every day might not get diabetes, but will sure crave more sweets outside the beverage itself and will probably get its sugar from somewhere else.
craig1f · 3 years ago
When my wife and I went to Italy on our honeymoon, and subsequently decided to use carbonated water as a way of dropping our coke addictions, the next few months felt like I was a drug fiend breaking an addiction.

Vegetables tasted so good. Vanilla added to our Starbucks coffee started to taste awful. It felt like a world of taste opening up. Food started to satisfy so much more. It was easier to identify when I was full and avoid overeating.

The sugar industry has so evil and has done so much damage to this country and to the world.

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craig1f commented on Toyota claims battery breakthrough in potential boost for electric cars   theguardian.com/business/... · Posted by u/AliCollins
jqpabc123 · 3 years ago
Japanese firm believes it *could* make a solid-state battery...

The key word here is obviously *could*.

Add one more to the pile of claims and beliefs floating around that have yet to transform into viable products.

I have been a Toyota fan from way back. I have owned a number of their vehicles. But in my mind, they lost a lot of technical credibility when they tried to apply political influence in a short sighted attempt to steer the marketplace toward hydrogen.

This was really just a thinly veiled effort to prolong the marketplace viability of the internal combustion engine --- to the detriment of the global environment.

craig1f · 3 years ago
Exactly this. Hydrogen is like crypto. It has just enough interesting tech to attract (using D&D terminology here) high INT, low WIS people.

Hydrogen will probably never work unless someone comes up with a stable molecule that includes hydrogen, is large enough to not move through solid objects, and still retains enough chemical energy to be useful. Ammonium is one option, but it is highly toxic. Only really practical in cargo ships.

Hydrogen also can be useful for inherently expensive things like rockets and jet planes. But never cars.

It was never going to compete with electric. EVs have been slandered for so long that people just assumed we would come up with something better. But EVs are great. Driving an ICE car after being in a Tesla feels like playing a first-person shooter over dial-up.

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craig1f commented on Cheap, green hydrogen would be a breakthrough in clean energy   gatesnotes.com/Energy/Cle... · Posted by u/mhb
craig1f · 4 years ago
It would. Yet there is no promising tech in this field. Hydrogen is supported only to draw support away from EVs.

If hydrogen becomes inexpensive to produce, it will by by way of solar power used to generate it.

It will never be easy to store. Hydrogen is the smallest element, and can move through solid objects over time. It is violently explosive. You think these EV fires you see all the time are bad? They're nothing compared to gasoline fires. And gasoline fires are nothing compared to a hydrogen explosion.

craig1f commented on Birds Aren’t Real took on the conspiracy theorists   theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/Tomte
cpfohl · 4 years ago
Conspiracies and conspiracy theories are different. People actually conspire to do all sorts of things, all over the world.

Conspiracy theories are different, though because they start with a “what if” and move to belief instead of starting from evidence and moving to belief.

At least, this is the way I define the terms.

craig1f · 4 years ago
I think you have the right definition here.

People aren't rational. They are rationalizers.

Rational thinking is when you use facts and draw a conclusion.

Rationalizing is when you have a conclusion, and you work backwards to justify it with rational-sounding arguments.

Conspiracy theories start with some ridiculous conclusion, and work backwards to make it sound intelligent. It's not intelligent, but it SOUNDS intelligent.

craig1f commented on Ask HN: Why do people get angry when other people disagree with them?    · Posted by u/guerrilla
craig1f · 4 years ago
Anger is the emotion we feel when we've run out of rational options. People only get angry when others disagree with them if they don't feel like they can argue their side. They might feel like they can't argue their side for several reasons:

- They don't have an argument - They don't believe the other person will listen to their argument - They don't have time to argue - They're tired and don't want to feel like it - They don't know why they believe what they believe - They know their idea is wrong

Some of the reasons above are rational, some are not. But you don't usually feel anger if you feel like you have a rational path forward. (i.e., you have an argument that you enjoy explaining to people that you believe will listen to).

craig1f commented on     · Posted by u/oriettaxx
craig1f · 4 years ago
Question ... were they Reserved instances, or On Demand? IIRC, you still pay for Reserved instances, whether or not they're on.

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