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My gas stove has 4 D-sized Batteries underneath, haven't replaced them in nearly a decade.

For the less fortunate, if you don't own a single spark source to light a gas fire in your house it's highly likely you have far greater immediate survival issues to face.


I can light the gas stove without power, but I can't heat my house with my gas heater without power.


Sure, but that has nothing to do with ignition - the blower won’t run even if you get it lit.

This doesn’t apply to gas fireplaces or smaller room sized radiant gas heater though.


That was exactly my point. That I can't run the gas house heater without electricity.


Please put in minimal effort yourself before demanding it of others in one sentence? This took 30 seconds:

#1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superprotect

> "Superprotect" was the name for a superuser tool granted to Wikimedia Foundation staff but denied to all Wikimedia community members starting in August 2014.[92][circular reference] Wikimedia Foundation staff used the tool to force the installation of the Wikimedia Foundation's software against the wishes of the Wikimedia community. This conflict was unprecedented. Erik Möller, then director of the Wikimedia Foundation, managed the Superprotect tool. The software in dispute was MediaViewer, which was a software feature that guided Wikipedia readers into viewing images in a certain way. Wikimedia commentator Andrew Lih described the superprotect feature as "Orwellian-sounding".

#2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow

> Flow, also known as Structured Discussions, is a project of the Global Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation to build a different discussion and collaboration system for Wikimedia projects.

#3 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comments_on_the_Rebranding_S...


> solutions other then HEPA filter

A basic indoor water fountain captures quite a lot of indoor pollution, to the point that it's likely far more energy and cost efficient than pumping air through a disposable filter. There's plenty of research on this.


Could you share a source for this?


An air purifier with hepa filter will filter the entire air supply in a room within X hours, how is a small water fountain going to pull out particles from elsewhere in the room into the water?


> Have I missed something?

The first chapter of the whitepaper? [1] There's two sides entering a contractual agreement around energy consumption.

[1] Section 1.2 - https://efforce.io/WP_ENG_V1.pdf


Right, but that's the "traditional" E.S.Co system. It doesn't explain how the Benefitting company gives value to token holders, it just says they pay the E.S.Co.


Nextcloud Hub does all of this:

https://nextcloud.com/hub/


Simultaneous AP/Managed mode is available on RPI3 and RPI Zero W boards, I'm not sure about the others models.


The server is a python script, why couldn't it run on OpenWRT?


Maybe it could! That was just the impression I got skimming the readme, specifically the talk of two wifi interfaces.

It seems to assume it is in-between your phone and your wireless router, so putting it on the wireless router would require some changes. My question was really what are those changes?


The comments you have attracted are hilarious. It's not worth even attempting to initiate dialogue with such type of people.

Here is the Chinese high speed rail built in the last decade, it is not propaganda, it's literally something you can buy a ticket for and travel on at 350 km/h right now. I truly worry for Americans incapable of seeing what is happening in the rest of the world.

https://image5.sixthtone.com/image/5/4/861.gif


> Here is the Chinese high speed rail built in the last decade, it is not propaganda, it's literally something you can buy a ticket for and travel on at 350 km/h right now.

Yeah, its nice. Authoritarian regimes usually have some nice prestige projects to show, which is really nice if you are a foreigner they are trying to impress, or a local that is in favor with the regime. Not so much if you are out-of-favor, whether because you opposed the particular approach they took for the prestige project or for some unrelated reason.

But, as much as I like HSR and wish the US would do it, emulating China -- whose ability to do it isn't a mystery needing study, but well-understood -- isn't a cost worth paying for it.



I don't see anyone claiming China didn't build high speed rail. I do see a number of people questioning the parent poster's metric for evaluating the future of China and the west, when many countries in the west also have high speed rail systems and that focus on one measurement of success is probably at least a little myopic.


(op here) Thanks. The idea of not being number one is a difficult notion for people to reconcile.


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Well, there is a McDonalds at Guantanamo , so everything is possible


Pretty smug-sounding for someone living in the nation with 5% of the world’s population but 25% of the world’s prisoners.


Yes, I feel fortunate that I can say such things without being cloth-sacked away.

I'm not exactly pro-prison, but so far I haven't heard any alternatives that I believe would work as a solution to violent crime. I'm open to suggestions. It is certainly the case that the U.S. has too many laws.


You could totally say that in China as a Chinese citizen and nothing would happen to you.


Not on weibo.


I didn’t say nothing would happen to his post... but then Zuck and Jack do the same thing in this here land of freedom...


The gulag trains happen to pass through the residential and commercial districts.


Is that after clicking the download button on the linked page in the OP?


> the numbers all are dodgy

> There’s a three day lag in the data

Do you truly need deaths as they happen by the minute?


The three day lag can be a buffer to have some time to think and decide what to actually report to the public.


Sure, and it can also be because the death certificates and medical records need to be compiled and aggregated, and many parts of that process can be subject to manual inspection.

Many people have cautioned against using mortality figures in the US as a measure of Covid spread, because these figures have a lag measured in weeks before they're considered accurate. Imagine the doctoring being done on those numbers!


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