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  • California is pushing the limits of crowdsourced energy

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  • So you're going to complain that the people who are actually doing something useful aren't doing enough rather than doing something useful yourself. Seems a little hypocritical.

  • California is pushing the limits of crowdsourced energy

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  • I was sure you were wrong ant that $150 was just an incentive to be in the program. That battery owners would be paid for their power.

    You were right, though. It really is a flat $150 per year. The company who manages the energy from the batteries gets paid for the energy, not the battery owner.

  • California is pushing the limits of crowdsourced energy

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  • Why do we always need to complain that something good isn't good enough? Yes, they didn't solve the world's problems. They did make a nice step in the right direction.

  • She ate a poppy seed salad. Child services took her baby.

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  • If a opiate addict went clean for 72 hours for a drug test they would be in very bad shape by the time they get tested again. It would be completely obvious that they are in withdrawal. They would be very anxious, shivering, vomiting, and shitting.

    Retesting after 72 hours is a pretty good indicator that someone isn't using so long as you also observe physical symptoms.

  • White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite that Collects Climate Data

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  • Being that they're in low earth orbit, they do require some human intervention for station keeping. They also need to monitor the orbits and move the satellite at times to avoid collisions with debris. Lastly, they need to monitor for anomalies so that, if something does go wrong, they can safely dispose of the satellite before the satellite itself becomes another piece of debris.

    That, plus data collection and dissipation are the reason the satellites cost $15M/year to operate. The administration wants OCO2 deorbited. I'm not sure what they want done with OCO3 since it is attached to the ISS.

  • White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite that Collects Climate Data

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  • We spent around $1B to develop and launch OCO 1 (failed launch), 2, and 3 combined. Continued operations of OCO 2 and 3 cost about $15M per year in total. Destroying them would be like destroying a skyscraper that is a few years old and costs $15M in annual maintenance. That would be a very cheap building to maintain I'm guessing.

    Once on orbit, satellite are extremely cheap and it is our best interests to keep them alive as long as possible.

  • Texas Republicans vote to arrest Democrats stalling redistricting vote

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  • The law there allows the redistricting to happen if there is a majority vote for redistricting. The law also requires at least 2/3 of members to be present to actually hold a vote. So, this is a tactic that can be used by the minority party to avoid a vote happening at all.

    Its a weird law. The democrats have only taken advantage of it a few times and, so far, only for votes relating to redistricting or vote suppression. They did this twice in 2003, once in 2021, and again now. All to stop redistricting or voter suppression votes.

  • Texas Republicans vote to arrest Democrats stalling redistricting vote

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  • Also in 2003. In fact, that time was due to the GOP doing the same redistricting shit they're doing now!

  • Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster

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  • I get why they'd use something like this to save money and time but, is suspect that correct use would include a human check before charging people.

    We need to start pushing for laws on this kind of thing. Automated checks are fine if you, as the company, trust they won't have too many false negatives. If you aren't checking for false positives, though, you should be heavily fined for each false report. $25,000 per false report sounds like a good place to start. Hopefully that would be large enough to not just be the cost of doing business.

  • Poll: Which abandoned Android phone features do you miss the most?

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  • I don't remember which phone, but one of mine had an rgb led that could be set to blink different colors for different apps. I really miss that!

  • Donald Trump says his name may have been planted in Jeffrey Epstein files

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  • I don't like Trump and I'm positive there weren't millions bussed from Mexico to vote. I also don't like disinformation.

    Just looking at school busses, there are approximately 480,000 school busses in the US. Enough to carry 10-30 million people at once, depending on average bus size

    I don't have time to dig deeper, but im sure there are enough city busses in the US to carry a few million more.

  • An immigration lawyer asked ICE for help. She said they gave her the number for Taco Bell

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  • Man, fuck these people. They obviously don't want justice and don't believe in liberty, certainly not for all. They are so anti American that they break the Pledge of Allegiance on a daily basis.

  • NASA says 20% of workforce to depart space agency

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  • This is what we need! Less science, more militarized law enforcement!

  • First of all

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  • But I'm aware that the US legal system has a looong way to go before it can accomodate for such distinctions.

    And we're moving farther from that goal with every decision handed down by our Supreme Court.

  • 5 million above-ground pools recalled after deaths of 9 children due to pool straps being used as a ladder

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  • Overreach? They are sending repair kits to the owners of the pools if they request them. The pool owners aren't required to do anything and the company whose product played a role in the deaths of nine kids are just sending kits to improve the pool's safety. This doesn't sound super onerous for anyone involved.

    Also, I'm guessing you don't have kids if you think that even the most diligent parents can keep tabs on their kids all of the time. I keep a close eye on my toddler, but he certainly is able to get into mischief when I look away for a minute.

    I doubt this would happen to me because I do watch extremely closely, but I can't guarantee that a situation couldn't come up in which my kid could escape my notice long enough to get into a pool. The numbers of incidents are low because most parents are diligent, but even diligent parents can have lapses.

  • Trump’s Stunning Response When Asked if He Has Sexual ‘Age Limit’ Resurfaces as Epstein-Mania Boils

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  • Ignoring the actual content of what he's saying here for a minute, it's amazing to hear how different his speech patterns were at this point. He's actually capable of composing a single sentence. Now it sounds like he's just creating a mashup of a bunch of unrelated sentences.

  • Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

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  • Ad a fairly senior developer, I'm not at all surprised. AI speeds me up in some circumstances like writing boilerplate; things like kubernetes manifests. It does not speed up my coding, but it does help me explore options, expand my knowledge, and point me down the right track on new methods and packages. It also lets me do things I wouldn't normally bother with, but which are good practice like finding edge cases for unit tests, packaging for multiple architectures, writing scripts to profile my code, etc.

    Essentially, I'm likely slower writing code with AI assistance but I think the code is higher quality because it let's me quickly assess many options and implement best practices that are normally tedious to implement manually.

    I almost never accept code AI has written without modification, but I think I gain a lot from its use.

  • True

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  • The POS gives 20%, 25%, and 30% tip options, too.

  • Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI

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  • I don't think so. I think they'll either use it for very benign tasks or they'll get a LOT of people killed.