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A ball? When I was a kid we rolled a bunch of socks together and played with it in the middle of the street and we defined the goal area with a pair of flip flops.

No need of a ball and infrastructure when you really want to play


Rolling a bunch of socks together is.. a ball? Right?

That was a surprisingly good read. Brief enough that I can finish while in-between tickets, but long and deep enough that it can beautifully explain the whole crisis without oversimplifying it, and at the same time carefully presenting the two conflicting narratives.

edit: although I probably wouldn't trust the source when reading about Middle East conflicts...


By the way, where I live you can still buy furniture from crafts people. I bought by bed from a local shop, it was not expensive at all and I was pretty happy about it.

Perhaps check in your country if that isn’t true as well, people automatically assume IKEA killed all local shops, but there are many out there if you search for them.


Just don’t forget science fiction is still, well, fiction


Can I block a user to avoid seeing his posts? I noticed front page would be much nicer without guys like OP


There's a userscript that'll hide users, 'sources' (domains), and titles. The GH repo was deleted, so use the GF link instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43282379


Honestly I cannot tell if this is satire or not


We are having this dilemma right now. I’m not involved in devops, but it’s quite annoying on how slow everything related to our backend is.

I think we spend around 5k in aws, and I’m pretty sure we could be much more performant for a fraction of that price.

The problem is, who is going to setup everything? Hiring someone would for sure cost more than 5k


If you can get that 5k/month down to let's say 1k, that's a saving of 48k over the course of a year. You can get a consultant/freelancer for half that sum that'll happily do it for you.


That’s a nice development. But the article fails to mention which kind of battery the vessel will use, which I thought was the main reason we didn’t have these kinds of ships yet.


The main reason we don't use batteries for ships is energy density of batteries and as a consequence the range of the ship.

"The vessel is equipped with 10 container-shaped power units with a total power supply capacity of about 19,600 kilowatt-hours."

https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202604/16/WS69e0ee90a310d...

19600 kWh of stored energy is about equivalent to 7 ton of diesel when burnt in diesel engine with 25% thermal efficiency

"Fuel consumption by a containership is mostly a function of ship size and cruising speed, which follows an exponential function above 14 knots. For instance, while a containership of around 8,000 TEU would consume about 225 tons of bunker fuel per day at 24 knots. At 21 knots, this consumption drops to about 150 tons per day, a 33% decline."

https://transportgeography.org/contents/chapter4/transportat...


Standard LFP cells - with higher QA and optimized for safety over performance

The pack/container is (over?) designed for fire suppression and humidity control

CATL and also CALB have specific marine-grade product lines

At sea - even at full power - the packs discharge relatively slow


Congratulations on six zeros.


It is especially profitable for China. Promoting batteries for shipping is their strategic direction. They hold control over the global supply chain.


This is dumb. Brazil was able to extremely reduce tobacco consumption “just” with education and banning advertising.

It blows my mind how no other country in the world wants to follow their example on this. Are they too proud to copy a third world country? Even when it’s doing some things better?


A quick Google search suggests that Brazil and the UK have similar levels of smoking in the adult population. So the UK's already succeeded in reducing smoking consumption. The aim of this legislation is to eventually eliminate it.


They get away with it by having on the payroll the son of the president of the most powerful (and dangerous) country in the world


And one of the most corrupt presidents, I might add. He has increased his wealth by at least $3 BILLION during this last term.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2025/09/09/preside...


Good link. I think it’s clear that he is the most corrupt president: while other presidents have been guilty of corruption, seeking money from foreign governments and firms via cryptocoins is a level of corruption no other president has met, and he’s quite open about it.


More like they get away with it because hundreds of thousands of people around the world demand the service.


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