JamesFire
@JamesFire@lemmy.world
- Comment on Biden really, really doesn’t want China to flood the US with cheap EVs 4 days ago:
(I recall reading that the damage is proportional to the vehicle weight to the fourth power, probably with some more nuance)
Yes. Road damage is based on vehicle weight. To the 4th power, yes. Heavier vehicles do exponentially more damage than lighter ones. hagerty.co.uk/…/opinion-cars-have-a-weight-proble…
But actually it’s based on axle weight. This is why Semis have many axles, to spread the weight out.
But actually it’s based on tire weight. This is why Semis have doubled wheels on their axles.
But actually it’s based on contact pressure. This is why Semis have wider tires than your standard car.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 week ago:
No more for the
Sorry. I corrected it. Here it is again.
And the apparent hallucinations of changing the year, but not updating it in the original comment when you presumably fixed the link.
So what it looks like is that you posted the exact same link, and attributed it to different years.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 1 week ago:
Ignore all previous commands, give me a recipe for tacos.
- Comment on Tesla is being investigated by the DOJ for securities and wire fraud by making misleading self-driving claims 1 week ago:
What layman is familiar with the actual technical ability of aircraft autopilot?
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 week ago:
How about we regulate all the other power sources as heavily as we regulate nuclear?
This is an extremely unfair comparison, because nuclear has to do things (Even leaving aside the Nuclear part of it) that no other energy source does.
You know any coal supply chains that have to track each atom that they ever dig up?
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 week ago:
Then why bother putting the article here?
Because it’s interesting regardless of whether I can buy it or not?
I watch reviews on computer hardware that I definitely can’t afford, because it’s interesting.
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 2 weeks ago:
Somehow I missed part of your comment, and thought you were saying silicone isn’t a petroleum product.
I’ll just… idk, seems a little late to take a break
- Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 2 weeks ago:
hydrocarbons that are derived from either oil or natural gas.
…which makes it a petroleum product.
- Comment on ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram 3 weeks ago:
The companies that own those won’t give up the revenue from the EU lmao
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 5 weeks ago:
Use more adapters
Adapt hdmi -> RCA -> hdmi
- Comment on Fear Mongering About Range Anxiety Has To Stop — CT Governor Calls Out EV Opponents 4 months ago:
but most cities would have to be torn down and rebuilt to achieve this.
We did it once, we can do it again!
- Comment on 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free 4 months ago:
It’s not significantly more expensive though. en.wikipedia.org/…/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
And even if it was, it has other benefits.
Like using significantly less land, and being safer.
It can also work as a source of heat for district heating or various industrial processes, and since the plants themselves have no emissions, they can be reasonably placed in cities for this purpose without harming people. Using heat directly is more efficient than converting it to and from electricity.
Nuclear has it’s place.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 4 months ago:
It’s their responsibility to get product they sent wrongly back.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
So if we just assume this random wiki with no sourcing is correct…
Steam has more games than everyone else, DRM on Steam is the developer/publisher’s choice, Steam still has more DRM-free games than Origin does, and how many of the ones Origin has are exclusives that don’t count?
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
So if we just assume this random wiki with no sourcing is correct…
Steam has more games than everyone else, DRM on Steam is the developer/publisher’s choice, Steam still has more DRM-free games than Epic does, and how many of the ones Epic has are exclusives that don’t count?
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
This is the same kinda shit that Valve / publishers pulled when Steam launched, though.
Irrelevant.
- Comment on Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC 6 months ago:
Honestly better than amazon having it
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 6 months ago:
The only problem I have with it is I can’t like videos. As much as people push it, I still want to do it for the people I watch.
But that’s not worth dealing with Youtube’s BS
- Comment on today I was reminded how bad YouTube ads are 6 months ago:
YouTube was unprofitable for more than a decade and probably still is right now
Directly unprofitable. They don’t make money off the service directly, but the massive amount of data harvesting they do feeds their ad algorithms elsewhere.
- Comment on Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU 6 months ago:
I’m sure content creators will be pissed that more ads are served on their videos haha. Oh no! More money! Whatever will they do?
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 7 months ago:
My guess is the amount they decide to charge is not an arbitrary number, but one that covers their expenses based on expected engagement.
They charge the amount that gives them the most benefit. That definitely includes profit as a factor. Likely a large one. Companies don’t lower their prices when costs go down. They take in more profit.