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Probably the same number that used 3d-printed guns.
Probably the same number that used 3d-printed guns.
This is basically how today’s 3d printed guns work, but even still the gun isn’t good for more then a few magazines afaik. So it’s interesting as a way to create a gun that isn’t serialized and the ATF can’t trace, but it’s not durable, and it still requires a good deal of precision engineering/cost, so its not feasible to print a truck-load and sell them for cheap.
I love technological non-solutions to social problems. They are the only thing the work better then passing more laws that say you can’t murder people with guns.
A useful website to help contextualize how much power this is. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electric_overview/US48/US48
Current US demand as of 20:30CST is ~560,000 Megawatt Hours. This facility can provide 8500megawatt hours over 100hours, or 85Megawatts/hr or about .015% of US electricity demand in an hour. At a cost of around ~$150million, that means to have enough storage for 10% of US demand, you would need ~670 of these facilities, or about $100 Billion.
Not too bad tbh. But of course this facility has a storage capacity of zero until it actually get’s built (if it gets built).
High-school memories of extracting gunpower from bullets and making pipe-bombs. I also experimented with electronic detonators. Fun stuff and blossomed a life-long interest in chemistry. But yea really dangerous.
Then they better figure out how to block it, I’m not going to assist the nanny-state.
I believe each country should get to have a say in what is permissible, and content deemed unacceptable should be blockable by region.
Agreed. But if I’m running a website, I’m not going to block content based on what some other country that I don’t live in wants and why should I?
“America” doesn’t have plans. It’s just a bunch of senile dumbasses passing public money onto their biggest donors.
Iran has to worry about self-preservation since Israel absolutely will use nuclear weapons.
Yea I suppose the maintenance of those systems provides some employable benefit. So let’s say 1000 contractors, is that worth ~500million in tax breaks over 6 years? I’d say absolutely not. If that number were 100x or even 10x maybe, but ultimately it’s 500million stolen by the private entities based on exaggerated employment claims and dubious accounting.
Datacenters are absolutely not “job creators.” They are necessary for the life we enjoy, they are relatively clean as their major input is electricity and their output is heat. But huge fully functional DCs only need around 20people to run while providing zero local or even state revenue other then property taxes and whatever utility taxes are still applicable to them.
Obviously e-waste is a huge problem, but that is independent of the datacenter itself.
Uber was always more expensive then a taxi, at least in NYC/London. It was originally marketed as a “luxury” transportation option. The cloud was always ~2x more Operation Expenses with the value proposition that you didn’t have any Capital Expenses so if you were a startup it was easier to sell-out and get started with lower risk. Streaming is still cheaper then cable, but it is getting shittier.
Brilliant. Simply write software without bugs. You should certainly be in charge.
The hippies were the scapegoats, fossil fuel companies, the richest companies in the world from basically the 1880’s until the 1970’s, absolutely didn’t want nuclear power to succeed.
Pot calling the kettle black.
Yes it’s an Israeli line. (This was from like 20 years ago.)
Sure high-speed rails with HVDC lines powering them from coast-to-coast I’m here for it.
Energy density has been the number one most important factor since humans started using metal. Wood is good enough to smelt bronze, and with some refinement can get your iron, but not good enough for steel. Steel requires coal, and with some refinement steel is what our world is built on.
Fossil fuels allow cars, planes and more efficient trains and boats. Unless we somehow start utilizing uranium and transuranics electric airplanes are for grifters. Uranium and it’s derivatives are the only thing we have harnessed that even approaches the energy density of fossil fuels.
That’s the point. Obviously having an ever expanding underclass that can be exploited with no risk is preferable to paying workers more.
Point of order, Kamala didn’t “lead” anything, she was chosen by party insiders of the clinton wing to take over.
Also Aljazeera has always been highly critical of the US, I started reading them fairly regularly in the mid 2000’s as they were one of the only outlets criticizing Bush. (I don’t think the intercept existed yet.)