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by Fins 9y ago
Funny, I know at least one Mantas in Vilnius. While I prefer speaking English when I am there (which happens pretty regularly), it seems that people are actually more willing to speak Russian. Probably because they are trying to sell you so
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by Fins 9y ago
There is a phonetic Russian keyboard, but i don't know of anyone other than foreigners who can't be bothered to actually learn anything using it. Everybody else uses typewriter layout. I would be very surprised if it were any diff
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by Fins 9y ago
Given that I've tried both, and Central is slower and longer every time, unless there's an actual accident on 101, I am not sure where do you see dragons.
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by Fins 9y ago
Exactly. Same with Waze telling me to get off of 101 at Trimble, just to take Central, stoplights and all, to Lawrence instead of just driving all the way to Lawrence... I don't have big problem with tolls, as long s they are not on ta
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by Fins 9y ago
It seems that GMaps uses different routing engine, but GMaps often says that some traffic accident data is from Waze. With Waze, it almost always tells me to get off the highway at a certain point and then take a parallel (smaller) road to
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by Fins 9y ago
But did you have somebody leaving with you, and NOT using Waze to prove that Waze does cut commute down compared to something else? Disclaimer: I usually do use Waze commuting, but find its suggestions in certain places downright bizarre.
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by Fins 9y ago
If you know how to type Russian, using Latin keyboard is no problem. I'm not really good at touch-typing, but I have no issue typing in Russian using a standard US keyboard without Cyrillic stickers (although I do put them on my home m
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by Fins 9y ago
Yes. Russian did borrow quite a few words from French. Just goes to show that even between English and French, same alphabet or not, just because a word looks familiar it does not mean that one can guess the meaning correctly.
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by Fins 9y ago
To a point of pedantry, it's диноЗавр. Also, холодильник would be transliterated something like kholodeelnik. But you always have to be aware of "false friends". Russian магазин (magazin) does not mean what one might think it
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The War on Waze(reason.com)
134 points by Fins 9y ago|289 comments
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by Fins 9y ago
So, you're the one talking about "typical". I am pointing out that there is a rather significant market where current EVs are not workable (FCV would be, if they were reasonably priced, though). And that market really is larg
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by Fins 9y ago
It's... over 2 million people/vehicles. That's more than population of some countries.
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by Fins 9y ago
2.2 million people is typical enough, I'd say... And it is fine, as long as you actually have somewhere to charge. Where I live (and that's SV, not exactly boondocks) nearest charging station would be 15-20 minutes walking, each w
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by Fins 9y ago
Oh, no argument that hydrogen cars are ridiculously priced and practically useless (I guess that's why they only sell them in California). As battery capacity improves, charging from a regular outlet will only take longer and longer. A
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by Fins 9y ago
That's already 2.2 million people, not an insignificant market.
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Defeat of California Senate Bill 827 and Future of the Struggle to Curb Zoning(reason.com)
2 points by Fins 9y ago|0 comments
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by Fins 9y ago
There goes the whole "too big to block" BS... Although Durov and Telegram do have rather dubious reputation.
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by Fins 9y ago
You'd be surprised how far people who do not live in the tech bubble might commute.
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by Fins 9y ago
Eventually, and we don't know what might happen with fuel cell technology before that. It is likely to always be faster to refill.
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by Fins 9y ago
Sometimes 1 mile, sometimes 20. Or I might want to visit friends, who don't have a charger and live 50 miles away.
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by Fins 9y ago
True. Which is why ICE isn't going anywhere anytime soon. But if prices could be brought down (i.e. by mass production), fuel-cell/hydrogen vehicles would work, but electrics still would not. Although at this time I do wonder what
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by Fins 9y ago
No-haggle pricing -- Saturn. Battery vehicles -- EV-1 (granted, there were many even before that). Enabling autopilot -- better not go there... If you look closely, there is very little that's actually innovative about Tesla (and what
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by Fins 9y ago
There's a certain difference between acting upon rational and irrational beliefs. And all those decades, while Western broadcasts were being furiously jammed by the USSR, Soviets were broadcasting just as much on their own propaganda c
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by Fins 9y ago
Stockton to Sunnyvale is 80-100 mils one way. And I imagine working people who have to live in Stockton or Tracy because they can't afford living near work in SV probably aren't buying extended range Teslas. Most likely don't
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by Fins 9y ago
Somebody living in Stockton and coming to clean SV's offices, or serve that nice catered food might be driving about that far. In saner areas of the US regular work commute is probably less, but there's a significant proportion of
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by Fins 9y ago
Most any manufacturer has "autopilot" as good or better than Tesla's, they just prefer not killing their customers. What Tesla has is mindshare and marketing.
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by Fins 9y ago
Only if you can charge at home, have a nice predictable commute, and don't drive too much. That's a sizeable market by itself, but far from what works for everybody.
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by Fins 9y ago
That's true if you never need to run errands after coming home, visit friends who live an hour away and don't have a charger, etc. etc. Let alone people who actually make a living by driving around. If you don't have your own
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Why Silicon Valley literature sucks in 2018(theoutline.com)
2 points by Fins 9y ago|0 comments
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by Fins 9y ago
Russia might believe that it was the evil Western psy-ops, but it doesn't make it so. After all, they believe in the Dulles' Plan, too.

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