kbal

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 20 points 4 months ago (2 children)

One thing that can be said for Carney is that over the course of his long career as a banker he must have had considerable experience dealing with people like Trump. By which of course I mean people who are rich and powerful, very great and successful.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 26 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I think that most people would indeed "automatically pass out and sleep" long before 11 days went past, unless they used some strong drugs or stimuli designed to keep them awake. Source: I tried to see how long I could go without sleeping, no tricks just sheer force of will, when I was young and healthy. Slightly more than 90 hours.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, the video game industry is dead. Good thing we still have about thirty million video games to choose from.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 30 points 4 months ago

I know these things take time but it seems overdue by about ten years.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if there's a browser extension that would block every page containing "Trump" from loading, and redirect to a random picture of a cute animal.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 5 points 4 months ago

Computers? Fun!? Whatever, nerds.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 4 months ago

It's a con. A def one.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Being so cruelly deprived of oil pipelines, maybe they can claim refugee status in the USA.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

(Or perhaps if things need to connect to some kind of grid management services, a firewall with appropriate rules — i.e. ones that do not allow connections to or from random addresses in China. Or some combination of both. Depends on the requirements but it's not that complicated. Consult your local IT security expert.)

[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 5 months ago

That is not always true.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This can be solved by not connecting your solar panels to the Internet, or putting them behind a secure VPN if you really need remote access for some reason.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thermodynamics does not prohibit a reaction in which carbon is liberated from complex hydrocarbons and incorporated into some other compound which can be conveniently stored as an inert powder, with a net gain of energy.

Carbon capture: Not completely ruled out by the laws of physics, in theory.

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