Kimano

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[–] Kimano 18 points 3 days ago (20 children)

People also don't realize that too much power is just as bad as too little, worse in fact. There's always useful power sinks: pumped hydro, batteries, thermal storage, but these are not infinite.

[–] Kimano 38 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Cranberries don't grow on the water, the fields are just flooded at harvest time because the berries float, which makes it an easy method to gather them.

[–] Kimano 1 points 2 weeks ago

Lion batteries have flames without explosions because of design considerations with the batteries: vent holes that allow pressure and heat to escape a failing battery. It's possible that if those safeguards were compromised, you could trigger an actual explosion.

[–] Kimano 1 points 1 month ago

It's obviously different in different areas. The Asian was more referring to the west coast. In the south it would be primarily wealthier cities, and the only of those that exist in the south (like Atlanta) are shown here.

[–] Kimano 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah I would love to believe this is anything other than a map of high ratios of white/Asian to other races, which itself is a proxy for high socioeconomic status ratios.

[–] Kimano 1 points 1 month ago

The nft and the art are separate. Make whatever art you want. They're just regulating your ownership receipts.

[–] Kimano 24 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It keeps happening because people are human and make mistakes.

[–] Kimano 2 points 1 month ago

And the guy who invented it didn't ever have to use it for decades afterwards, it was purely theoretical to him.

[–] Kimano 4 points 1 month ago

JD Vance is the only guy who can join the mile high club without leaving his seat.

[–] Kimano 10 points 2 months ago

He has. He and his twin brother were actually part of a study into the effects of long term space habitation (his trips were shorter). They're the only two siblings to ever both go to space.

[–] Kimano 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Sure, no one is saying that. The point is that it doesn't send anything other than the stuff after the keywords back to company servers.

[–] Kimano 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

There's also the matter of there being literally hundreds of security and privacy researchers who would love nothing more than to catch Amazon doing this, and no one has in any major way.

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