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New comment by frickenhamster in "Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?"

frickenhamster — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 22:32:36 +0000

SUVs have no relevance to the question. In every EV, and modern cars, the location and layout of every component, especially the battery is a highly engineered process. The battery specifically is not only the most valuable component they need to store as much of as possible, it is the most heavy and most dangerous. Teslas blew up because the battery wasn't stored safely. Store it too high and you risk rollovers. This doesn't even take into account the danger of high amp battery packs being moved around and shared between vehicles. You're oversimplifying a very difficult problem

New comment by frickenhamster in "Does the world have enough lithium to move to electric vehicles?"

frickenhamster — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 18:25:38 +0000

This will never work. Components in cars are engineered to be organized as efficiently as possible. The overhead from having replaceable batteries will kill the amount of storage you can have. There is no way you can have generic attendants swap out batteries in 5 minutes. Working with EVs is a dangerous job that you can't just pay an uneducated minimum wage worker to change. The batteries are extremely heavy and are placed in locations that you need a car lift to get to. Plus theres all sort of liability and safety issues from potentially messing up a battery swap or getting a bad battery and blowing up your car.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

frickenhamster — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 02:31:55 +0000

I was referring the the stuff the people who want kf down were doying, ie selling homemade hormones to underaged children.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

frickenhamster — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 02:30:30 +0000

It has to be done in conjunction with protests by a politically protected group

New comment by frickenhamster in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

frickenhamster — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:59:49 +0000

After hearing about the drama and reading kf's pov, I can definitely understand why the people ddosing kf want it down. The stuff they do is illegal and absolutely vile but overlooked by the people in power because it suits their politics. It scares me as a prospective parent.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

frickenhamster — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:38:10 +0000

From what I heard there was a false flag bomb threat

New comment by frickenhamster in "The Hair Dryer Incident (2014)"

frickenhamster — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 19:06:50 +0000

Crabs in the bucket

New comment by frickenhamster in "The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins"

frickenhamster — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 03:18:31 +0000

China supported this in a psyop. Remember when they tried repeatedly to push the origin of the virus to Italy? I'm ethnically Chinese, so I'm in contact with a lot of mainlanders. The brainwashing is very effective. Even if most mainlanders know that their state media is bogus, and that Xi is a dictator, they'll take it deeply personally when you say anything that threatens the whole China # 1 narrative. All they had to do was hire a few shitposters, feed a few media narratives and the US fights with itself over stuff like anti-china, racists etc, while the CCP takes over Hong Kong.

New comment by frickenhamster in "U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says"

frickenhamster — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 02:52:21 +0000

LOL. A good portion of cyber security attacks are government military operations. You think China or Russia is sad that hackers closed down our gas pipelines?

New comment by frickenhamster in "Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime"

frickenhamster — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:43:11 +0000

There are. Pedestrians don't care and will literately walk into open traffic. I've seen the same thing in every major city.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime"

frickenhamster — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:30:47 +0000

So you don't normalize walking where you're not supposed to.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime"

frickenhamster — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:27:06 +0000

Fucking stupid. I used to live in a college town where no one obeyed traffic laws. I can't tell you how many car on car, car in bike, car on people accidents were caused by dumbasses walking into open traffic.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Jaywalking decriminalization, 100 years after the auto industry made it a crime"

frickenhamster — Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:23:59 +0000

There's different levels of jaywalking. There's walking across the streets when there's no car and everyone is doing it. And then there's the crazies who walk across open traffic on a green light where there are cars speeding along causing accidents. A large percent of the homeless and drug addicts in cities are minorities.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke"

frickenhamster — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 23:37:18 +0000

Thats not how networth works. No one has enough liquid capital to spend money like that. As soon as people found out Bezos was wasteful like that, his network would drop just based on stock price.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Reddit app got 50M downloads by making mobile web experience miserable"

frickenhamster — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 18:06:08 +0000

meta topics are what most people care about. "true dota" is a bunch of 3k players trying to give generic advice.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition"

frickenhamster — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:11:14 +0000

Resistance bands are not even close to real weights. The feel is completely different and the resistance scales in a way that is counter productive for a lot of exercises. You don't have a constant measure of strength and progressive overload is impossible. Resistance bands are already as a supplement to free weight training but you can't get the same experience.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition"

frickenhamster — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 07:07:35 +0000

Its true that old people have a higher deathrate, but we'll see deathrates in general drop in the years following 2020. Most of the people that are dying right now already have a foot in the grave. We won't know the impact of COVID specifically until many years after and a lot of data engineering. At that time, people won't care and the sensationalist numbers will win out.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition"

frickenhamster — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 05:50:54 +0000

You want to massively decrease the deathrate of COVID? (and death rates in general)

Deal with the 40% obesity rate in the US.

Death rates are extremely low if you're not geriatric or not fat. All the top killers are attributable to being fat and living unhealthy lifestyles. COVID is the scapegoat here.

New comment by frickenhamster in "Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS"

frickenhamster — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 19:03:19 +0000

My solution was SteerMouse. It allows me to individually set every scroll option and mouse speed and acceleration