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There is no such thing as too many fans...
  • That makes sense to me... You really only want one path for the air flow. E g. In through the front, over the components, and out the back.

    Most of the fans in this setup are just fighting against each other.

  • Minimum wage hikes will take effect in 2024 for 25 U.S. states. Here's who is getting a raise.
  • I wish most/all laws worked this way. We should be aiming for incremental changes over time instead of big bang ones that get undone after the next election.

    Hell, for minimum wage though, it should always change based on cost of living as it continues to increase over time.

  • 9to5Google: iMessage for Android doesn't matter, just use good apps
  • I still really miss Google Hangouts. It was integrated with Gmail as a web interface. The web and mobile app synced perfectly. You could use SMS/MMS, or chat, seamlessly in the same interface. Contacts worked correctly. SMS and chat history saved to Gmail so all the text was searchable. It was AMAZING and Google killed it for no reason, only to later replace it with inferior options.

    Edit: oh yeah, you could also make phone calls, or group voice and video calls using the same app/web interface.

  • After Water System Privatization, Consumers Get Hosed
  • My sister is a civil engineer in PA and is familiar with this situation. She told me that basically these municipalities did not take care of their pipes, refused to raise any money for them, then, when they got old enough that the situation became critical, sold it off. Now this company comes along, has to make required fixes to the pipes, and has to raise the money to do so. The private company gets to be the bad guy, while the local governments, who neglected the pipes for a decade or more, don't get heat.

    All this said, if they weren't allowed to sell it to a private company, there would be no "get out of jail free" card and maybe they would have pushed harder to take care of them damn pipes.

    Point is, I don't think it's quite as simple as it looks on the surface.

  • Starfleet may have a security problem
  • I highly recommend the book Pandora's Star by Peter Hamilton. They explore using tiny wormholes. They move them, poke a powerful sensor suite though, scan, retract, and close, gradually moving in on prospective planets. They have powerful forcefield to protect against anything coming in the other way. Makes sense to me.

  • San Francisco homeless sweep was cheered on by the right. It was also illegal
  • Nah, it's based on the appraised value, which for taxes is always only a fraction of the market value and doesn't change unless the city does a new appraisal. For instance my house is worth over $200k and the appraised value is something like $70k I'm not an outlier, everyone's house is appraised like this.

  • I value this meme at eleventy billion and won't take a cent less
  • There are some fringe benefits for blockchain but massive issues with normal human issues like:

    • Scams/theft: person has the wallet lost through scam or left, how do you invalidate the lost credentials or tickets.

    • Wallet loss: loss through any number of means: fire, incompetence, computer being destroyed, loss of account to cloud backup etc

    • Issuer need to invalidate: if tickets/credentials were purchased by fraud or an issue occurs where they need to invalidate

    How does blockchain handle these common situations?

  • I can't help myself...
  • I really roll my eyes about the "dismantle the capitalist system because food costs money" memes. Like dude, dismantle it to what? Do you think no one starves when there's no capitalism?

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