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- Comment on A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70% 6 hours ago:
The problem with freezing water is the material expansion.
- Comment on A Finnish town is heating itself with 2,000 tonnes of crushed rock: its giant “sand battery” can cover almost a month of heating demand and has cut district heating emissions by 70% 7 hours ago:
That’s a really great application. I wonder if a thermal battery could be used for both heating and cooling.
- Comment on What's your MarioKart character and why? 9 hours ago:
Yoshi.
I like Yoshi.
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 1 day ago:
If you start to bring up parallel universes, there may be a parallel universe where Petra Parker goes to shitty school.
The animated Spider-Man movies has Miles go through an internal crisis where he tries to flunk out of one of these schools. Maybe Petra does the same or maybe chooses/doesn’t take the test to get in.
You can also have an alternate world where Petra gets excluded for some reason. Maybe the NYC bankruptcy goes worse and these schools vanish or a mayor puts a fee to them which Petra can’t pay for.
- Comment on Was Pedro Pascal objectively "in everything"? 1 day ago:
I don’t think people have done the numbers, in part because he isn’t in “everything”, just overexposed.
The problem is that the schedule for release usually isn’t under the actor’s control and you can have several major projects with large marketing efforts one after another.
If you don’t like the actor and frequently watch media that includes movie or television promotion, that actor will be on constantly since they are promoting several major projects in a row.
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 1 day ago:
The magnet schools in New York City were founded well before school rankings were published, with most of them founded before 1950.
I’ve met several students from these schools and they’ve mostly spoke about these high schools with praise. They got to go to a school with intellectual peers instead of being an outlier.
- Comment on Does the USA have gifted schools or was Spider-Man Homecoming lying? 1 day ago:
The USA doesn’t have a system of magnet schools. Some parts of the country, including New York City, do.
New York City’s school district has several high schools that you have to a test to get into that high school or have an artistic portfolio. These tests are very competitive and the high schools are geared to help funnel the brightest of New York City’s youth into college. There is no tuition to get in and these high schools are seen as a gateway to the best colleges in the world.
Most school districts in the USA don’t have these public magnet schools.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 2 days ago:
I’ve seen a lot of cases where people are using the toilet as a urinal. That seems to be where most of the piss is coming from.
That said, if someone can’t use a urinal and needs to use a toilet, I don’t know why they aren’t sitting down on the toilet. I can’t think of a condition which in which you can’t use a urinal but you can stand and pee onto a toilet seat.
- Comment on YouTube won't let me search for music by musician unless I remove the word "naked" from her name 3 days ago:
Music companies have a revenue sharing deal with YouTube. Does it have one with lbry?
- Comment on How come president try for goals into the future, when its a big if? Like carbon emissions and such. Why not do comprehensive plans that can be done in 4 years instead the far off future? 4 days ago:
Some try for things in their lifetime. A major issue is generally Congress.
- Comment on You must have an internet connected smartphone to eat 4 days ago:
The problem is that a lot of large places don’t want to accept cash. It is easy for small places to use cash because the owner is likely running the register. When you get to mega corporations, it is easier and cheaper for them to pay the credit card fees.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 4 days ago:
Maybe, but I’m also seeing more men going straight to the toilet stall to pee even though there are several urinals open. And even then, they should lift the seat.
- Comment on how to watch less youtube on my tv? 4 days ago:
Disable auto next video. If you can’t, just don’t turn it on.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 4 days ago:
People who hover hover because of people who hover.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 4 days ago:
And new seats even have a bump out so you can use your feet.
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- Comment on How do people easily find out that I'm an easy to pick up on? 5 days ago:
Friendly rubbing and trying to establish dominance are two different things. I usually take someone “friendly ribbing” me as an opportunity to do the same right back. You can usually tell rather quickly if they’re just doing it for fun or there is an ulterior motive.
- Comment on Would you eat 'honey' if humans spat phlegm on pollen and then dehydrated it? 5 days ago:
I’ll be honest, it likely depends on the social connotations of doing so. It feels on the same level of would I drink human milk and could I tell which milk was made from a set of three friends.
- Comment on Why do celebs commit crimes and such like Tony Romo and his DWI? He had a 180 million dollar deal. Why not hire a driver or stay at home and buy ridiculous shit? 6 days ago:
Why not stay at home? He’s a celebrity that likely gets brought into a lot of different corporate events as a draw. So, he’s probably going to a lot of different evening events and most of those events are fueled with alcohol. That’s why he’s out.
Why not hire a driver? He’s definitely making enough money for an Uber, but the easiest explanation is that he’s probably driven drink for years before getting caught.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
You didn’t like the smooth draw of a candy cigarette as a kid?
- Comment on Why are expressions like "women artists" or "women writers" used? 1 week ago:
Yeah. Regarding gendered nouns, it can be hard to deal with referring to a professional of an unknown gender since the default is generally male.
- Comment on Ford's affordable EV pickup is named Fathom, and it will start at $28,350 1 week ago:
How is this more expensive than the Slate?
- Comment on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate 1 week ago:
Yeah, but when Brian McManus made a video which somewhat defends Kurzgesagt in their issue with YouTube, it shows that the filter issue isn’t just a problem with Kurzgesagt.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 1 week ago:
For a physical only document, the mark is something relatively difficult for others to perform. Even then, signatures by themselves usually only carry a certain amount of weight by themselves; either the risk of borne by the other party or additional measures are taken like requiring witnesses including notaries.
To answer the next question you’ll probably ask, it is considered to be far more trivial for someone to apply someone else’s mark digitally than it is in person. Anyone with a pdf editor can apply someone else’s signature to a document without their knowledge.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 1 week ago:
The point of the signature isn’t the mark, but that the affirmation on the document can reasonably be tied to you. For most of history, it has been tied to a certain mark, whether it be a signed name, a stamp or embossed seal, or even a drawing. That system generally breaks down in the digital age.
A low hanging fruit that is seen to work is having the mark of approval get tied to an account under the control of the signee. It isn’t so much that you made the mark but that it is tied to an email address you control. So even if you don’t sign it with an actual signature, it still gets tied to you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’ve come to accept that a lot of things in life aren’t how they should have been when you look at them today. Swapped names are just the tip of the iceberg.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
The technology for scan while you shop is already a decade old. The problem is that you’re still going to have to deal with publicly seen pricing signs which will make personalized pricing outside of coupons impossible.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Part of it was illegal, part of it was that their way of doing business pushed people away. Suppliers didn’t want to negotiate with Walmart and workers generally weren’t desperate to work there.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
It will be impressive if they can surge price in a store. You could do it right now for delivery apps, but I don’t know how you can do it in the store.
- Comment on Netflix is garbage 2 weeks ago:
Part of it is greed. Part of it is that television and physical media subsidized a lot of streaming’s content and now that money is gone. There has already been a collapse of some types of movies and TV shows because the economics that led to their golden age are no longer there.
Netflix used to get streaming rights for pennies because production companies made their money through other sources. Now those income streams are dead.