Next up: Ban all electric cars. Then ban all electricity. Standard Oil became the biggest company selling kerosene for lamps. We need to restore status quo!
What is being banned
Readit Newswagwang commented on The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables insideclimatenews.org/new... · Posted by u/mooreds
wagwang commented on The US Department of Agriculture Bans Support for Renewables insideclimatenews.org/new... · Posted by u/mooreds
> Put another way: Read the room, reconsider and don’t be that guy.
Thank you washington post, this was very insightful
wagwang commented on Tiny microbe challenges the definition of cellular life nautil.us/a-rogue-new-lif... · Posted by u/jnord
I've always felt like the biological definition of life isn't useful or meaningful when it comes to borderline replicators like viruses.
wagwang commented on The new geography of stolen goods economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/tlb
> that solving crime is not easy
True. In a healthy society, policing is hard.
> and it is also true that being able to operate a fully encrypted communication system makes it harder as you rely on mistakes.
Yes. You are describing actual police work; it is how things have always been.
Because this was true before robust encryption, we know encryption doesn't change the equation and can be safely omitted from your assertion.
> As we saw with Encro, criminal groups with Signal and modern iPhones can communicate with gay abandon if they maintain decent opsec.
Governments have never had realtime access to our communications. Humans' communications have been private for as long as there has been language. Privacy is good for us and is better than all other alternatives.
Robust encryption is how we maintain that natural, neutral, healthy default.
Otherwise, we're talking about gifting new, unprecedented surveillance powers to officials, politicians and their powerful allies.
Massive power. Over us. At which point we are less safe.
OK but given that only a tiny fraction of crime is solved, then why does the UK have huge prohibitions from carrying things to defend yourself, like even pepper spray?
wagwang commented on The new geography of stolen goods economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/tlb
wagwang commented on The new geography of stolen goods economist.com/interactive... · Posted by u/tlb
> There is also almost no deterrent: Britain’s police solve only 5% of crimes (and 2% of vehicle thefts)
Idk how this is acceptable at all. Is the UK literally the state of nature?
Yet another article that could can be losslessly translated to a single sentence.
wagwang commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx
Wow, I did not expect anyone to be offering a SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND mile warranty on their batteries. That's some serious confidence. I didn't see anything about it transferring, though. That would be smart on their end - the resale value for electric sports cars at least, is about 50% in the first year, then it levels off hard after that. This would encourage buying new, but not aftermarket. I'll have to look into this.
Still, while this removes a primary concern of mine, there's still one major hurdle that cannot be bypassed as far as I can tell (yet): If you have shared parking, there's essentially no way to charge your car. Maybe if it's an outdoor parking lot you can rely on solar power somewhat, assuming you're in a good situation for that?
Still, my point is that my parking space isn't actually mine, so I can't modify anything in the garage. Assuming superconductors aren't figured out any time soon, this appears to be an impossible solve, which cuts their consumer market significantly.
Also, not exactly the same thing, but they could remove those warranties and instead get some nice replaceable battery cells in there. Let me turn a thing to unlock it, pull out that one cell, and replace it. But maybe I'm a little more wrench-y than their customers want to be?
Certain ev sports cars are bought so that you get the privilege of buying nicer cars e.g. the taycan
wagwang commented on Why tail-recursive functions are loops kmicinski.com/functional-... · Posted by u/speckx
Normal recursion is just a loop and a stack, turns out, if you can optimize recursion without a stack, it just becomes a loop.