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  • Woman loses £650,000 injury claim after being seen tossing Christmas tree

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  • A local insurance company tried to deny a claim because the person was "caught" horseback riding. As if sitting on a horse on a flat trail is some kind of extreme physical activity.

  • Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b...

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  • In business, I think it's less that power corrupts. CEO positions aren't being randomly handed to good people. The preexisting psychopathy, i.e. the ability to value money and profit over their fellow humans' livelihoods, is exactly what makes them suited for that position.

  • Remember when Spez said it was "It's time we grow up and behave like an adult company"? Apparently, that means paying himself $193 million and single-handedly tanking Reddit's profitability right b...

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  • Plenty of CEOs are psychopaths, it's practically a requirement to rise to the top. The business world would see him as one of their own.

  • Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.

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  • No, they get shorter range at a higher price than batteries.

    People push for it because they are either middlemen who want to sell the hydrogen and get a cut of ongoing profits, or Luddites who believe EVERYTHING must operate exactly the same way gasoline cars do or else they'll never switch.

  • Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.

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  • It still kinda makes sense for long haul trucking, where the inefficiency of hydrogen is still better than the weight (and thus cargo capacity) of just batteries.

    It has absolutely lost the war for passenger vehicles and even short-distance trucking.

  • Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes on 737 in Latest Setback

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  • But then the executives will make less money

  • How Quora Died

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  • I think the greatest thing that Quora provided was the "Pregananant???" video. Or was that Yahoo?

  • Vision Pro Teardown—Why Those Fake Eyes Look So Weird

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  • I think it's just straight up uncanny valley. Don't think it's especially "dystopian" per se.

    Honestly cartoon eyes might have actually worked better here.

  • America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it.

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  • it basically falls under the vehicle classification of tricycles and golf carts, so the safety standards are, shall we say, more lenient

  • America Is Missing Out on the Best Electric Cars: Whatever kind of EV you might want, chances are China has it.

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  • I would prefer better crashworthiness though

  • Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?

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  • "X can kill gems! Why don't we use X everywhere?"

    X: Thing that can kill humans too. And/or cause cancer.

    See also:

    • Fire
    • chlorine gas
    • dehydration
    • Boiling water
    • Radiation

  • Vulcan rocket's debut brings long-awaited challenge to SpaceX dominance

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  • the point is that it isn't higher cost for those missions. Falcon Heavy will have to run at 100% expended mode which is nearly the same cost as Vulcan.

    And some missions and payloads outright exclude falcon Heavy, period. High orbit and/or large satellites.

  • Vulcan rocket's debut brings long-awaited challenge to SpaceX dominance

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  • they can compete in very specific cases - like heavy load to GTO. Falcon Heavy would require full expenditure of all 3 cores to match, which wouldn't be much cheaper. Plus the larger fairing size helps with certain kinds of satellites.

  • A huge battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant

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  • in terms of usage though, they are quite similar. Coal serves on-demand power, whereas renewables generate power at times that don't always align with demand. Batteries can take the role of a coal plant if the renewables already generate sufficient energy, just at the wrong times.

  • VW solid-state battery retains 95% capacity over 1,000 charge cycles in lab testing

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  • Maybe a real honest American company, like Boeing

  • Tesla Cybertruck gets less than 80% of advertised range in YouTuber’s test

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  • also, the EPA test cycle for highway has a maximum speed of 60mph, with the average below 50

  • HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly

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  • HP actually has a brilliant business strategy.

    1. First get a huge customer base via cheap ass product
    2. Remove the customers who care about quality
    3. Remove the customers who care about reliability
    4. Remove the customers who care about price
    5. Remove the customers who pay attention to their monthly bills

    voila, you have like 3 people left who you can charge infinite money for a lump of shit. Infinite profit margins

  • @MrWhosetheboss video reveals Google's Pixel 8 Pro Tensor G3 off-loads all generative AI tasks to the cloud

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  • So much for the brilliant AI-specialized Tensor processor

    It's basically just a mediocre processor that offloads interesting things to the mothership.

  • What's something that you were surprised to find out a lot of people hate?

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  • I read reviews before buying on day 2, basically. Sure, I expected some bugs, as the reviewers warned. I barely got any, just some visual glitches during cutscenes. Still, I would give the game a solid 8/10.

    Came out of my playthrough to everyone raging about everything about the game. Couldn't even give an honest opinion about the game without being downvoted to oblivion because people who never even played the game refused to believe the game was playable at all.