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Where can I get cheap recycled lead acid batteries? I like them more the li-ion because they’re more forgiving to temperature changes and have a much lower chance of catching on fire

The recycling process isn’t direct battery-to-battery. The lead from old batteries is removed, purified, dried into ingots, then sold back to battery manufacturers to make new batteries. In other words, it’s likely that every lead acid battery you buy is made from recycled batteries.

Good rundown of the process here: https://batterycouncil.org/battery-facts-and-applications/ho...


The same place you buy recycled steel and aluminum: anywhere that sells NEW products.

That’s the most abstract and esoteric argument I’ve ever heard I think

The argument is not esoteric. An Apple employee working on a reverse engineered GPU driver might (intentionally or not) incorporate internal knowledge that they are contractually obligated to keep secret or write an implementation that is too close to proprietary code they had access to, to the point that it could be argued that it is a derived work.

This sort of thing has always been a concern for projects that re-implement some existing piece of software, e.g. there were concerns early on during development of the GNU project about people contributing after having been exposed to Unix source code. Similarly, it is an ongoing concern for the Wine project[1], as well as ReactOS. The later even had a code freeze and internal audit in 2006, after allegations came forward that code had been derived from disassembled Windows binaries[2].

[1] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/wikis/Clean-Room-Guide...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit


Exactly! That’s why companies create a clone every time they hire someone, put a clone into vat, and upon person quitting, the person is disposed of and the clone is sent to his family to take upon his role, without leaking company’s internal knowledge.

They still have to prove you did it. In accidental or small leaks they can't prove it. But there have been enough cases of provable IP theft.

Damn, I might have accidentally clean room reimplemented Severance without ever seeing as much as trailer, expecting Ternus’ kill squad any minute.

Wasn’t that exactly the legal standard Compaq had to prove when they did a clean room implementation of the IBM BIOS?

Not illegal, and like all the other comments here, isn’t this exactly what Flock does? But they do it indiscriminately to all vehicles at all times?

It's not the same because it is indiscriminate.

I learned about this concept in college macroeconomics. I asked this exact question and the TA said “yeah I guess repaying debt is like destroying money” as if they had never thought of that before. The idea of lending money increasing the money supply is definitionally true.

> the TA said “yeah I guess repaying debt is like destroying money” as if they had never thought of that before

They shouldn't have been a TA. Modern money is destroyed in three ways: through taxation, defaults and the extinguishing of debts.


Taxation destroys money?

Yes, the government doesn’t have a checking account. When it spends money, that money is created and its balance sheet grows. When it receives taxes the balance sheet shrinks as the money is destroyed. If there’s a gap it gets filled by issuing bonds. Thats the national debt. These are conventions, not absolute rules, so governments can go rogue but it doesn’t end well

And when debt is wiped out through bankruptcy that inflation remains.

> when debt is wiped out through bankruptcy that inflation remains

Bankruptcy is deflationary. The same way credit creation makes money bankruptcy (and any other reduction of debt, including through repayment) destroys it. It's why financial crises were often followed by deflation in gold-based economies.


What about a team of human coders is more deterministic than an AI coder?

Your legs broke? Go do that


What does it have to do with legs? This site has turned a mental hospital with AI patients.


It's an expression. "You're legs broke?" here means "What's stopping you from going to the library and reading a book?"


It's a grovel-for-investor-dollars site that we've long pretended is for serious technical discussion. Comments should always be filtered through that lens.


Idk man I just took a trip to Forks, WA and the amount of lumber they had and were processing up there was insane


Not sure if you're joking, but I remember noticing the same thing last time I spent time there (2017). Lumber yards tend to have a lot of lumber. It's kind of like when you drive by a feed lot and they have an implausible number of cows (the ones over in imperial valley amazed me). Also there's always tankers by my house in Manhattan Beach. These anecdotes are not economic indicators.


The gas truck just came to the gas station on the corner and it's just crazy how big those things are, there's such a surplus of gas right now.


Yes, everyone know a modern economy statistics work by what you can see with your naked eyes out there on the streets.


Idk about Washington but Oregon has increased logging a large amount over the last few years.


Idk, I’ve had bad handwriting my entire childhood and I still have bad handwriting now as an adult. I’ve (somewhat jokingly) announced that I am “illegible”. It isn’t a detriment to my day to day activities at all, because I can type sufficiently well


How would more efficient compliance help the constant annoying pop ups?


You are not required to present an annoying banner to the user. You could simply honor user-agents' DO NOT TRACK header and silently avoid setting tracking cookies and that would comply with the law.


According to the rules, accepting or refusing cookies should be equally difficult. Making them both difficult makes people not use your site, so the incentive should be to make both options easy if you follow the rules.

Malicious compliance is to make cookie acceptance much easier than refusal. Lack of oversight doesn’t punish this. Now, the incentive is to make life hard for people who decline cookies. That results in more annoying pop-ups.


> Malicious compliance is to make cookie acceptance much easier than refusal.

That isn't malicious compliance, it is just non-compliance. If the equally difficult rule wasn't there then it would be malicious compliance.


also, session cookies for eg login and error tracing etc dont actually need a banner. you only need to use it if youre participating in the internet stalking behaviour by integrating eg google analytics and similar integrations


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