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ragebol commented on UK's largest battery storage facility at Tilbury substation nationalgrid.com/national... · Posted by u/zeristor

rwmj · 3 days ago

Is it 300 or 600 MWh? Or is the storage 600, but it can deliver 300MW/h?

Edit: The company press release is much clearer: https://stateraenergy.co.uk/news/thurrock-energisation The storage is 300 MWh, but it can deliver a peak of 600 MW/h (presumably for half an hour).

ragebol · 3 days ago

> This landmark 300MW battery storage site is capable of powering up to 680,000 homes with instantaneous power over two hours

Power is 300MW (300000000 Joules/second), which it can deliver for 2 hours, so capacity (energy contained in the device) is 600 MWh (or 2160000000000 Joules)

ragebol commented on Rocketlab Mars Sample Return rocketlabcorp.com/mission... · Posted by u/ragebol

ragebol · a month ago

Seems to cut out the sample return helicopter (but requires more coordination with the Perseverance rover on where it is in it's mission), compared to JPL's MSR mission AFAIK. Oh, and no rockets thrown in the air before launch.

Wonder what this'll cost though

ragebol commented on Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship polygon.com/news/616835/v... · Posted by u/mrzool

ragebol · a month ago

But why should the payment processors be in court? They are just a 'road for money'. Normal roads nor toll road operators aren't going to be charged with a felony if a criminal uses their roads, why should that be different for payments processors?

ragebol · a month ago

Reply to self: One reason is of course they get paid per transaction, so if a criminal transaction takes place on their service, they make money off criminal activity.

ragebol commented on Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship polygon.com/news/616835/v... · Posted by u/mrzool

shagie · a month ago

> Payment processors as gatekeepers is absurd, even worse the entire system is completely opaque.

Yes... but if payment processors are going to be charged in criminal cases that involve the use of their systems for purchasing things that are illegal, then they have an interest in not being in that situation.

From earlier this year:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-whistleblower-says-maste...

> Jan 24 (Reuters) - Mastercard and Visa failed to stop their payment networks from laundering proceeds from child sexual abuse material and sex trafficking on the popular website OnlyFans, according to allegations in a previously undisclosed whistleblower complaint filed with the U.S. Treasury’s financial crimes unit.

> The whistleblower, a senior compliance expert in the credit card and banking industries, said the two giant card companies knew their networks were being used to pay for illegal content on the porn-driven site since at least 2021, and accused them of “turning a blind eye to flows of illicit revenue.”

And from 2022:

https://corporate.visa.com/en/sites/visa-perspectives/compan...

> On Friday, July 29, a federal court issued a decision in ongoing litigation involving MindGeek, the owner of Pornhub and other websites. In this pre-trial decision, the court denied Visa’s motion to be removed from the case on a theory that Visa was complicit in MindGeek’s actions because Visa payment cards were used to pay for advertising on MindGeek sites, among other claims. We strongly disagree with this decision and are confident in our position.

Given this, it is a completely reasonable position for payment processors to decide not to touch anything that they can be brought into legal liability.

They'd likely prefer not being gatekeepers of money, but if they're going to be brought into a court and sued each time someone uses them to purchase something that may be illegal, they're going to take steps to not be brought into court.

ragebol · a month ago

But why should the payment processors be in court? They are just a 'road for money'. Normal roads nor toll road operators aren't going to be charged with a felony if a criminal uses their roads, why should that be different for payments processors?

ragebol commented on What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like? abitmighty.com/posts/the-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ragebol · a month ago

Seems like solid advice indeed, I'm going to try and stick to these guidelines, too often meetings could have been an e-mail or bit of text and take too long.

ragebol commented on Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning research.google/blog/andr... · Posted by u/michaefe

tgv · a month ago

The first alert made the phones vibrate (or people touching them), which got falsely detected as an earthquake.

ragebol · a month ago

Yes, and they sent a notification apparently after the detection. That is not a warning system

ragebol commented on Ask HN: What software subscriptions are worth paying for? · Posted by u/helloworlddd

ragebol · a month ago

Obsidian Sync

ragebol commented on Show HN: Compass CNC – Open-source handheld CNC router compassrouter.com... · Posted by u/camchaney

itsdesmond · a month ago

A big difference between this and that is that this appears to determine relative positioning through multiple mouse-style optical sensors, rather than visually checking relative to patterned tape.

ragebol · a month ago

With a Raspi-cam and some Apriltags or some other fiducial markers, the visual reference could also be possible perhaps.

ragebol commented on What happens when housing prices go down? clmarohn.substack.com/p/w... · Posted by u/chmaynard

andrewstuart · a month ago

But not the rich, right?

The rich don’t need to cram more people in, everyone else does. True?

ragebol · a month ago

The rich sharing their homes with many other people would reduce demand as well I guess. But they don't because they can afford not to.

Some may argue that the rich help in the supply by building new houses, but that makes them even richer. If it doesn't, they don't bother (a point from this article).