Rob Landley
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Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
The Motorola Razr was introduced in 2004. The Motorola StarTAC flip phone introduced in 1996 was a runaway bestseller a decade earlier. THAT was the star trek communicator, with as close a name as they could get without Paramount suing...
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Commented on Decision Fatigue
Pumped hydro doesn't scale but iron flow batteries are very interesting. ESS has the best technology I've seen so far. (I dug through them a bit in my own blog recently: https://landley.net/notes-2022.html#16-07-2022 ). They're big and heavy and their round-trip...
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Commented on Strong and Stable!
An interesting tangent to that explanation: human ancestors had an enzyme to break down urea, but it went the way of our vitamin C synthesis enzyme (still there but broken). The kidneys get rid of high enough concentrations of it...
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Commented on Strong and Stable!
And that's before the Chick-Fil-A effect attaches itself to Tesla or Solar City. Doesn't matter how much you like the product if paying for it makes you a bad person....