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That time you are stuck in rain and you didn't buy the windscreen wiper DLC


When the windscreen wiper DLC is more expensive when it rains.


I find it always fascinating that water is often in the center of energy production and storage, like turning it to steam or in a dam, using gravity storage or in this instance a large thermos. I wonder if this same concept cold be used with something like molten salt if the heat source is hot enough, to store it in a large thermos to heat water, would it be more efficient or could it even work, the heat source would have to be really hot but it could potentially store more energy than water without increasing pressure. Energy storage is one of the trickiest things that we have to solve to have a good energy mixture in the future.


It easily could be - but it has to be cheaper and as well understood as water storage.

The expertise and knowledge of water reactivity, storage and pumping are built on centuries of engineering.


How about send them a message during the meeting that you want to talk about an idea after the meeting?


Sometimes you need to talk to someone during a meeting to determine if you need to interrupt the meeting.


You are not the only one, and I even have the Oculus DK1 in my closet, I have tried the various more mature hardware, but for some reason the experience is always lacking. I think VR would be absolutely awesome amusement park or gaming cafe experience where it's combined with other immersive hardware to create experiences that nobody can actually do at home. But just the headset for in home experience, it's pretty meh, like 3d cinema was.


This is fake news, almost nothing about this article is accurate or factual, homelessness is a problem in this country that usually is unearthed by investigative journalists because apparently we don't have homeless problem so we don't even keep an official record, but we get articles like this to pat ourselves in the back which makes this even more embarrassing. t. a 40yo finn


Are you sure? The graph in the article seems to match a graph on the ARA's website: https://www.ara.fi/en-US/Materials/Homelessness_reports/Repo... (the ARA seem to be the organisation in charge of housing in Finland).

Not that it's completely reliable, but Wikipedia also has information which matches the article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_Finland), no discussion on the talk page, and no signs of an edit war in the history.


Lived in Finland a decade now. There are drunks and drug addicts hanging around on the streets all night and in parks, but I have never once seen someone sleeping on cardboard, or in a sleeping bag on the street. Not once.


They are in the forest, not on the streets. Makeshift or real tent, sleeping bag. I've seen a bunch of this in Espoo and Helsinki, admittedly more in the 80s and 90s than later on. (Whether this development is due to my own situation or that of the homeless people, I don't know.)


Maybe. I mean there's a lot of forest here. But at that point isn't it more of a choice?

I tend to think of the homeless as sleeping in bags or on cardboard in cities, trying to get money for whatever it is they need. I really saw the true meaning of homelessness when I was in Austin.


Links of that investigative journalism would be nice to support your claims of this being fake news.

The Y-Foundation exists https://ysaatio.fi/en/home and they have reports too.

> apparently we don't have homeless problem so we don't even keep an official record

There is an official record by the Housing Finance and Development Center of Finland: https://www.ara.fi/en-US/Materials/Homelessness_reports

More information can also be found at https://housingfirsteurope.eu/countries/finland/


Saying something is fake with your only reference being your claim that "you're a Finn", is pretty much meaningless.


I used to be one of those homeless people that officially don't exist about a decade ago, we didn't exist then and I'm sure they didn't exist now either.


Could you point us to a resource where we can read more about this? Perhaps a source pointing to data being covered up?


what's the general sentiment about homeless in the population ? is it more like "chase them out, i dont care" or "we would like to do something but nothing ever happens" ?


Generally finns want and expect the government to offer everyone in need free housing. When this does not happen everyone is surprised.


ARM is unique that there aren't many companies that could own it and it being a raw deal, it would have to be a company that doesn't have rivals in semiconductor or hardware space, so that basically rules out even buyers like Google or Microsoft. What that leaves are investment companies like Softbank or Berkshire, everything else is hurting someone.


Or just let it go public. It doesn't have to be owned by anyone else.


It was public, it went private when Softbank bought it. No reason it can't go public again, though.


Facebook is used in Myanmar to incite actual violence against a minority, it's been years since I have read any positive news about this company, maybe it's time to just stop using it and shut it down.


To be clear, I wasn’t defending or promoting facebook. I agree they’re harmful. Just explaining the logic of not treating speech critical of white men the same as hate speech, because I didn’t find the prior explanation adequate.


Sure but you're allowing hate speech towards a racial group, which the same kind of racism shown by Facebook.


I’m... not allowing anything? I’m not facebook nor do I work for them, in case that wasn’t clear.


> not treating speech critical of white men the same as hate speech


Uh, yep? What's your point?


Great site, I'm a big fan of products that last long and are user serviceable, I recently bought a Dissim lighter because it's refillable and has a lifetime warranty.


Did Marty take the JVC camcorder back with him after traveling to 1955?


It's hard to see, but I think he could have cut the plastic in the charger to let the rf blaster to function while it was connected to the charger. But it's always nice to hack old hardware instead of looking for a shortcut.


They actually did[0], although admittedly it's quite a long way down the thread.

[0] - https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1251483589914423296?s=19


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