batsy71

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by batsy71 5y ago
I live right next to this tree. Interestingly, the city of Palo alto also has some electrical plumbing attached to this tree. Not sure if it's for the tree's health or just some connections for the nextdoor train tracks.
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by batsy71 6y ago
While the technological feat seems logical, I wonder how viable is a business model built around retrofitting human-controlled planes with human out of the loop software. Given the intricacies of IFR flight and the challenges faced by the s
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Reliable Robotics Makes Aviation History: First Flight of Autonomous Airplanes(businesswire.com)
2 points by batsy71 6y ago|1 comments
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by batsy71 6y ago
Misleading headline. No recent breakthrough has been mentioned in this article, except one made in 2016.
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by batsy71 7y ago
The video says 1000 km of hybrid range. Is that then only 4 refuels from NYC to LA?
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by batsy71 7y ago
From the model showing in the video, the aircraft has 2 vertical stabilizer mounted engines ala trijets ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trijet ). Barring some smaller jets, this design has ceased in most large airliners
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by batsy71 7y ago
Common risks are Aircraft skidding of the runway, fire in the wheel well. Mitigating factors: Rear wheel brakes should still work. Reverse thrust can further help slow down the aircraft. Given the response time of emergency evacuation + fir
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by batsy71 7y ago
The flyer has lot of anti-intuitive designs for example 6 massive fans whirring around the pilot. What if there is bird strike or the blades somehow dismantle from the fan and fly towards the pilot. Also this being made for non professional
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by batsy71 7y ago
Hassle-free international retail trade of equities. A middle class Joe sitting in Maldives being able to buy Beyond Meat stocks on the day of it's IPO. Also stock markets getting fully automated to remain open 24x7.
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by batsy71 7y ago
Lot of people ignore this, but NATO ally and a bigger Arctic stakeholder of the western world, Canada has a bigger and pretty capable Arctic Icebreaking fleet: http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/icebreaking/home While, most of u
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by batsy71 7y ago
The NIIP (Net International Investment Position) measures whether a country is net debtor vs net creditor. This wikipedia list from 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment_p... has some interes
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by batsy71 7y ago
Being able to detect which lane of the road you are on is still challenging enough for self-drive technology. A cheap phone sensor most likely doesn't have such spatial resolution.
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H.R. 4760: The National Biometric ID for ‘All Americans’ Just Won’t Die(technocracy.news)
2 points by batsy71 9y ago|0 comments