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xkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
  • Battery cost pushing up vehicle cost, battery replacement cost, battery weight, low battery energy density, batteries that only last half of a car lifespan of 20 years.

    We need much better batteries.

    For now, plug in Hybrids are a good way to avoid many of these problems.

  • An exclusive report from CNN covers Muslim internment camps US regime set up across occupied Syria
  • Agree, but how do you address the current problem, now that these people exist. Clearly the current strategy and these camps are just making it worse and if you release them, you are planting seeds of terrorism for a generation to come.

    We should do all we can in society to prevent people from going to prison, but you can't just release prisoners without rehabilitation.

  • The truth...
  • In movies the resistance is usually of neutral good alignment, fighting against the lawful evil empire.

    In real life the resistance is usually neutral evil, or true neutral at best.

  • Linux Mint Will Hide Unverified Flatpaks in Software Manager
  • I think this strategy makes sense, if you do an overall push to have all software sources verified. Knowing users, a simple warning that an app is unverified rarely affects their behaviour. You need to hide the app, to encourage app developers to get verified for it to work. Users ideally should be able to trust by default, because we can't trust them to know any better.

  • Check your email for the verification code we just sent you.
  • It's mainly in the USA it seems. In South Africa, we have had internet banking since 1995. So businesses stopped using checks around that time. Phone banking with DTMF was popular around that time as well. Bank transfers we used more than checks for businesses before then.

    For individuals, debit cards became the default around the same time. Same functionality as a credit card, without the credit.

    Then Internet banking became mainstream for individuals around the 2000s when everyone got access to the internet on their phones.

    Cash remained popular throughout since ATM infrastructure was very good in South Africa.

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