Category: Technology
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Green Energy seems to be an “Exercise in magical thinking”
The entire thing is a long read but read it you must. Here’s some of what you’ll learn and this is just from the executive summary. $1 million invested in green energy only produces 50 million kWh over 30 years while $1 million invested in fossil fuel produces 300 million kWh over 30 years. Solar…
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Switching to the Brave Browser
There’s a new web browser in town and it’s name is Brave. I discovered this relatively new web browser listening to some podcasts and decided to try it out. It’s fantastic. It’s light, it’s fast, and it blocks ads and tracking natively. The picture shows how many trackers and ads that were blocked just from…
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Hyperloop technology should be for freight not people
Hyperloop technology should be for freight not people and the reason is that a hyperloop is really nothing more than an oversized enormous pneumatic tube kind of like the one you use at a bank to make your deposits at the drive through. It’s a point to point technology and once constructed not flexible. Think…
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I miss the old Microsoft and the old days of computing
Everybody DOS now! https://youtu.be/WxC6PytZMqc
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A regular person’s Pixel 2 Review
I purchased a Pixel 2 and not the Pixel 2 XL because the Pixel 2 is cheaper and has the same internals, with the exception of the screen. Same power and capabilities for less money. Win win. Note: all the pictures of the Pixel 2 were shot using my original Pixel. I’ve been using the…
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Amazon may have the world’s biggest backup hard drive.
Amazon may have the world’s biggest backup hard drive and they’ll drive it to your front door for all your backup needs. Amazon announced the new service, confusingly named Snowmobile, at its Re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week. It’s designed to shuttle as many as 100 petabytes–around 100,000 terabytes–per truck. That’s enough storage to hold…