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- Comment on CISA: Most critical open source projects not using memory safe code 4 months ago:
What do you mean? We have our summer intern rewriting the entire Linux kernel in Rust with the help of ChatGPT. They are set to submit the PR by Friday night.
/s
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 6 months ago:
That’s fair.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 6 months ago:
Is it not tax evasion/fraud? In the US, either can bring criminal charges. For a smaller municipality, is there no assistance available from higher government?
- Comment on Three people killed and 12 wounded in shooting at Alabama May Day party 6 months ago:
…And the article is from yesterday.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 6 months ago:
It’s both.
An example of bad urban planning is low density urban sprawl, which requires lots of resources for few housing units.
Less housing, price go up. High build cost, price go up.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 6 months ago:
Blaming AirBnB for high housing prices is like setting up a chain of dominos, and criticizing a guy who comes by and knocks it over.
Yeah, and that’s exactly what they chose to do. They contributed to the reasons John Public can’t afford housing, and were rewarded massively for it.
If it wasn’t him, it would have been someone else, or the wind.
Yeah, anyone can rob a bank with poor security, but we should still punish the guy who actually robs the bank.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 6 months ago:
Cops would rather beat up college students and the unhoused than go after landlords.
that’s an expense that’s hard to justify to taxpayers
Ah, yes. We don’t have money because collecting taxes would be too expensive. Classic.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 6 months ago:
Of course this could all be addressed by designing robust systems that implement strong redundancy, safety checks, and sufficient regulation, but that increases complexity and costs money.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 6 months ago:
I think we still need more time/data to get the whole picture. EVs are still in their early stages.
It would be interesting to look at fire rates for vehicles at rest. These types of fires have the potential to become quite serious, as they are often not immediately noticed, especially if the vehicle is parked in a garage or remote area. This additional time allows the fire to spread and intensify.
Since EV fires are typically more intense than ICE vehicles, we should expect EV fires to cause more damage to the surroundings and to spread faster. Though, this danger could be offset if EVs have a lower probability of self ignition.
We should also look at fires while refueling/charging. Lithium cells are most dangerous when charging and discharging. While an overfilled gas tank is easy to spot and may catch fire, a continually overcharged battery is invisible and will catch fire. Also, because of the long charge time of batteries, many EV owners leave the vehicle unattended while charging and would not immediately notice a fire if one were to occur. In addition, EVs are often charged at home, in close proximity to residences and other vehicles, and often within garages. These residential locations do not have the same fire safety requirements and suppression systems as gas stations, so a vehicle fire at home is already much more dangerous and has the potential to severely damage your home.
We have had a century to figure out ICE, but it’s still very early days for EVs, so only time will tell.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 6 months ago:
LiPo batteries of the same capacity actually have the potential to be much more dangerous than the sodium cell shown here.
LiPo packs typically use flat, soft walled cells which are far more susceptible to being punctured. In the event of a puncture or overcharge event, high temperature enduring flames are produced, with the severity and duration largely depending on the amount of energy within the cell. LiPo batteries also degrade at a much faster rate (both over time and with charge cycles) and have been known to spontaneously combust in storage while at rest.
With the sodium battery, the thrust produced by the puncture could have been easily been overcome by properly securing the cell.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 6 months ago:
Yep, less/no fire is very important when creating battery banks with many cells. The probability of single cell failure spreading to adjacent cells is reduced, making a catastrophic failure of the entire bank less likely.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 6 months ago:
Yep, cylindrical Li-ion cells like the 18650 already do this.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
Don’t worry, It’s OK when the US does it.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
Does anyone even use FB anymore besides boomers?
Ok, so boomers are not actually people, facebook’s 3 billion active users don’t exist, and 250 million of those fake people are certainly not from the fake US.
But TikTok…
Amazing how we are talking of Chinese surveillance while the US just renewed another one of its surveillance bills.
So much “I am immune to, and can spot all propaganda” in this thread.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 6 months ago:
Bro, Facebook facilitated a genocide, and this is who we want to buy TikTok? What action was taken against fb?
amnesty.org/…/myanmar-facebooks-systems-promoted-…
“US coRpOrAtiOn goOd!”
- Comment on Can we create a new Internet ? 1 year ago:
You just build a network on top of the existing infrastructure. See tor, i2p, usenet