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BombOmOm

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  • Then they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cards

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  • A dollar in fees is a dollar more than with fiat for the person paying.

    Average credit card transaction fee is ~2%. So a dollar of Bitcoin fees makes Bitcoin cheaper for any purchase over $50.

  • Then they will ask why nobody wants to use their payment cards

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  • The current Bitcoin transaction fee is $0.67. Which means for a purchase larger than $34, Bitcoin is cheaper than the average credit card transaction fee.

  • MIT researchers have unveiled a portable, window‑sized device dubbed the atmospheric water harvesting window (AWHW) that can extract clean drinking water directly from air, even in death valley

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  • No electricity required.

    Means this dehumidifier produces even less water than the standard powered dehumidifier.

    Uses outside air.

    Will breed even nastier shit in the water than one inside a building.

  • MIT researchers have unveiled a portable, window‑sized device dubbed the atmospheric water harvesting window (AWHW) that can extract clean drinking water directly from air, even in death valley

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  • Absolutely. And that is the problem you actually need to solve in the places lacking potable water. They generally have some water, it just isn't potable. Filters need regular replacing, additives like chlorine need constant resupply, and reverse osmosis is extremely energy intensive. It's fundamentally a logistics problem.

  • MIT researchers have unveiled a portable, window‑sized device dubbed the atmospheric water harvesting window (AWHW) that can extract clean drinking water directly from air, even in death valley

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  • These are called dehumidifiers and you should not drink the water that comes out of them.

    The condensed water is pure, yes. But dehumidifiers almost instantly become a breeding ground for all kinds of nasty shit. Nasty shit that is now in your ‘pure’ water.

    Edit: It's the same problem as the WaterSeer which is also a passive dehumidifier. This same idea comes up several times a year, yet you don't see them deployed in quantity anywhere. They simply don't work well. (The WaterSeer actually seems like a better design than what is in OP's article.)

  • Bad vibes: How an AI agent coded its way to disaster

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  • I'll likely be spending $8,000 a month

    You can hire an actual programmer for that kind of money. Someone with years of experience who knows what they are doing.

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    Hughes.net?

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  • If you are within visual sight of the mainland, you can use a pair of point-to-point communication dishes to get internet from the mainland and beam it to yourself. These dishes, only having to communicate over a few miles and with direct line-of-sight, are pretty reliable and not terribly expensive.

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    Hughes.net?

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  • Any sat internet that does not use low earth satellites is a giant pain. Pings measured in seconds, very low bandwidth, and very low data caps.

    Pick basically anything else if you have the option.

  • Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app

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  • Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt

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  • It seems to be tax deductible, yeah.

  • Trump Is Really Asking People to Venmo to Pay Off the National Debt

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  • The Treasury has run this program for years, and people have donated $67.3 million since 1996

  • Muscle memory

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  • If someone is going the wrong way down a one-way, you really want to know about them.

  • China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla

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  • China's birthrate is 1.15 children per woman. Replacement birthrate is 2.1 children per woman.

    If each woman is having less than 2.1 children, the population falls.

  • China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla

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  • Heavily underutilized for now.

    China has a birthrate of 1.15 children per woman. When is this later time you allude to when there will be more people to utilize the heavily underutilized network?

  • China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla

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  • China has quite a number of trains already. Arguably they overbuilt their train network as much of it is heavily underutilized.

  • Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition'

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  • A lighthouse uses the same lens, just with the light coming from the inside. Since this is old knowledge, what is the drawback? Why isn't this widespread?

    My completely uninformed guess:

    • The lens and assembly costs too much compared to just more solar panels
    • The lens/panel combo is so bulky/prone to failure it becomes unreasonable to actually install/use.

  • Another Longtime Intel Linux Engineer Leaves The Company

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  • Intel has always been a two cookie company

    Intel sat on 4 cores with exceptionally high power usage for a decade while everyone was screaming for more. This resulted in Apple starting up their own damn chip business, and AMD smashing through the wall with 6, 8, 12, and 16-core chips available to the masses; and core counts requiring a third damn digit if you go server. Furthermore, Intel's process node is woefully behind TSMC's.

    Intel sat on their laurels and are getting shat on from all angles now.

  • Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!

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  • I think Fabled is using 'Moisturefox' as a stand-in for all Firefox forks, with Waterfox being the primary basis for the stand-in.

  • Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!

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  • AdGuard blocks ads on iOS.