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Comment It's a Shame (Score 4, Informative) 87

I've seen so much progress in the education field. It's being truly treated a science, and a lot of important research is being done to understand how we learn, and how to teach. Unfortunately, education in the US is highly politicized and most of that research is ignored in order to score political points.

Comment Re:Regulation (Score 1) 105

Regulations mean nothing. Regulations are just a set of rules. The question is how meaningful the regulations are in relation to the topic under discussion, and the answer is not very. US cities, especially near industrial regions are fucking feral when it comes to particulate emissions. Just ask all the people who roll coal what rules are failing to prevent them from doing so.

It's a question of enforcement. Most large cities actually do a good job of it. I only see people "rolling coal" in rural areas with minimal law enforcement.

Comment One Sided Contracts (Score 1) 24

They sell these price lock contracts as being in the customer's favor, however the ISP continues to raise prices whenever they want. Comcast/Xfinity is by far the worst at this. I've found Verizon to be much more honest by comparison.

Comment Re:Long, long way to go (Score 1) 76

Yes, and when they get to a power gain of two orders of magnitude they will have generated (but not extracted) as much energy as it took to fire the lasers that created the implosion since these use 300MJ/shot only delivering ~2MJ to the pellet.

...or they could use more efficient lasers.

Whereas NIF’s 1990s-era technology is only 0.5% efficient, Campbell says that modern lasers can get as high as 20%.

-Physicsworld

Comment Only Level 3 Matters (Score 0) 275

First of all, nobody gives a shit about level 2 chargers, and we should just ignore level 1 completely since they are so slow. They're destination chargers and you should have at least one for every EV on the road. Touting these as viable public charging only causes confusion and distrust among the general public regarding EVs.

Level 3 is what everyone cares about, and that's what needs some level of parity with fuel pumps. Lack of level 3 charging is what leaves people with EVs stranded, and stranded EV owners is bad news for EV adoption.

Furthermore, it's not enough to have level 3 chargers installed. They have to be maintained, and that's the biggest issue with charging right now, broken chargers!

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