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by D_Alex 10y ago
Eq. Guinea at #18 looks wrong...the rectangle seems too large. It is pretty rectangular, about as much as Egypt to my eye...
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by D_Alex 10y ago
> the function of education in the job market is largely just as a certification arms race, right? Largely, no. You just cannot do certain jobs without a high level education. Engineering, science, medicine for example. >an awful lot
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by D_Alex 10y ago
Wikipedia has a list of unsolved problems in physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_p... Most of them might arguably not be "Physics of Everyday Life", but - number one on the lis
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>Since all these cars passed the laboratory test, that means there must be something very wrong with the test and the way the standards are enforced. It depends how the law is written. Case a) - the cars must never emit more pollutants
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by D_Alex 11y ago
So it is possible!
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by D_Alex 11y ago
I understand your cynicism, but suppose that you were seriously determined about setting up an organisation to explore and develop space. This is a very long-term endeavor. How would you go about it, and who would you hire first? Unless you
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by D_Alex 11y ago
What you are describing is "lift-off oversteer", which is a function of vehicle's weight distribution, and not the rear vs front wheel drive. A desirable mild understeer is easy enough to engineer into a RWD car. There is als
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by D_Alex 11y ago
>I really hope they do not make the mistake of making this a front wheel drive car.... etc. I agree. Furthermore, using an electric motor negates the "packaging" and efficiency advantages of front wheel drive, so it is kind of
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by D_Alex 11y ago
I doubt any money has changed hands (if it has, Boom would trumpet the figure). This is a pure publicity move for both Boom and Virgin. I doubt, tbh, that Virgin rates highly the chances for this to succeed, but they lose nothing by saying
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by D_Alex 11y ago
>If ... something ... was viable, it seems like somebody would already be doing it This kind of thinking is useful as a first pass check, but one should not carry it too far. I would hope that by now the company has considered why no one
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by D_Alex 11y ago
>can you please give us a rational reason except zero tailpipe emissions for buying a Model S over, say, a Mercedes S-class or a BMW 7-series? Well, here in Australia, MB and BMW are ripping their customers off with prices nearly TRIPLE
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The Bettor's Oath(econlog.econlib.org)
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by D_Alex 11y ago
I kinda like your response, and agree with many of the sentiments you express - a lot of the low hanging fruit has been picked, and the rest may be beyond the reach of most people. But the strange thing is that there is plenty of stuff &quo
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First it was chess then Jeopardy Go now – Golf(i.imgur.com)
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Tesla S vs. supercharged V-8s at Australia's top drag meet(drive.com.au)
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by D_Alex 11y ago
But... from the same site, we have an article entitled "HOLOCAUST GOOD FOR YOU, RESEARCH FINDS, BUT FREQUENT TAUNTING CAUSES CANCER IN RATS", which includes this quote, that attempts to explain why holocaust survivors have on aver
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by D_Alex 11y ago
What's worse - the oilco usually operates under a Production Sharing Contract or some kind of resource rent tax/royalty regime. Often, the oilco share of the oil is less than 50% of production. So, unfortunately for BP etc, the re
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by D_Alex 11y ago
I think the problem is that in this case the "market system" is not a free market system, since the ILWU has a monopoly protected by regulations, which they somehow managed to get implemented. Is that a good thing? Consider that t
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by D_Alex 11y ago
Great, but - is there much, you know, traffic?
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by D_Alex 11y ago
So... for some people, the work day now starts as soon as they leave the house. Now those with a "fixed office" can feel they are being hard done by... I have a feeling we started sliding down a slippery slope here.
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by D_Alex 11y ago
> If you could pay $10 to get $100, wouldn't you do it? Certainly not, if the $10 is a bribe. Would you? > A bribe is an investment... No, it is a criminal offence, in most places. And for good reason. Corruption does horrible th
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by D_Alex 11y ago
> The engineer in me says that it's overwhelmingly likely that there's nothing alive there. Our planet has life in all kinds of niches. Why would an Earth-like planet not be overwhelmingly likely to have life on it? (I am an en
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by D_Alex 11y ago
I wonder... "the banks" might not like the idea of the Euro, because a common currency eliminates the currency exchange business... how much does this affect their propaganda??
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by D_Alex 11y ago
Sometimes I wish there was a downvote button for the submissions... in this case, not because the linked article is bad (though I am surprised Torvalds apparently dismisses the idea of a self-improving AI), but because the title is nasty an
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by D_Alex 11y ago
Sooo... can we breed octopi for intelligence? How far could that rise in say a hundred years? and I just found this...: http://danielkeating.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/could-we-breed-...
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by D_Alex 11y ago
Also, the on-land lithium deposits considered commercial already have enough lithium to make every car in the world electric, plus provide battery storage (like tesla power wall) for every home in the world. See: http://lesswrong
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by D_Alex 11y ago
But the electric car can be the tool to enable wider use of intermittent-supply renewable energy, like wind or solar! With some smarts, the cars can be charged at high supply/low demand times, and even feed energy back to the grid when
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by D_Alex 11y ago
You could get approximately 7.78 GW of solar installed for US$ 10.8 to 12.6 billion... the trouble is that this would be 7.78 peak GW. The corresponding average GW would depend on the location of the installation... in Perth, Australia,
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by D_Alex 11y ago
Prelude is not near East Timor, you may be thinking of Sunrise. See eg. : http://www.smh.com.au/business/woodside-petroleum-calls-for-...
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by D_Alex 11y ago
And then there is this...: Male Holocaust survivors have a longer life expectancy compared to those who didn't experience the Holocaust, according to a recent study conducted at the University of Haifa jointly with Leiden University. T

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