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541.
by bdamm 6y ago
Denying others sleep is kind of a big deal.
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by bdamm 6y ago
This is a naïve free market view. Unless you have a government under your thumb, you'll never compel a population to install this app and all use it. Even if you did manage to convince people to use it, participants will game it into s
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by bdamm 6y ago
Allowing a city to define what it means to live within it is generally accepted as not the same as a centrally planned society. Certainly that is the case within the United States, where there are very many options for what kind of city one
544.
by bdamm 6y ago
IIRC most people had cells by 1999, just not smartphones. One used their phone to call people. Certainly that was the case by 2003 but I think that was also true of 1999.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Perhaps we are descended from such travelers? Is our DNA an interstellar mix from 70k years ago? How would we know?
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by bdamm 6y ago
The mutations are far more likely if you give Regeneron to cancer patients and other immuno-compromised people. What an ethical problem... give a therapy knowing that the therapy will kill off the virus identified by the therapy but with a
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by bdamm 6y ago
It's not just the mechanical weight at the destination and the work required to escape earth's gravity (which is enormous). Mass of the rover also means more fuel to speed up and slow down if there is any delta-V changes en-route,
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by bdamm 6y ago
After a quick search on YouTube I was somewhat unsatisfied; the few videos I looked at showed the effect only partially. People do sometimes like to bias the burn towards the yellow flame, either for entertainment or to keep the temperature
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by bdamm 6y ago
The perpetrator of the graffiti will be documented extensively, so while this might happen at first, when people realize it's a risky path to legal problems it'll probably die down.
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by bdamm 6y ago
I always heard it attributed to Mark Twain
551.
by bdamm 6y ago
Right. It would be a small jump for Google to start using profile data on people to figure out who they should hire and who they should not.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Certainly the opening weeks of the pandemic, way back in late March of 2020, traffic was virtually nonexistent in my part of the USA; just outside of Portland in Oregon. And then traffic picked up just a tiny bit, but for months it was a cy
553.
by bdamm 6y ago
The trick is to start it up hot and then reduce down the airflow to near zero. The knowledge was passed down in the tribe, so I don't know where one learns the art.
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by bdamm 6y ago
Isn't it reasonable to expect people reliant on powered medical devices to include a plan B in case the grid goes down? It's not like the grid is perfect. Even in high-reliability countries like the USA there are unforseen events.
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by bdamm 6y ago
A tight wood stove in the hands of an experienced user is a remarkable thing. The amount of heat that can be extracted from a large oak log is nothing short of remarkable. Sadly, most wood stoves are not tight, nor are most users experience
556.
by bdamm 6y ago
Their hangars seem to be filling up and I am sure they want to make room for SH1 and SN11.
557.
by bdamm 6y ago
Indeed, there were two. Two objects broke off from the ship before impact, one just before the first swing of the pendulum and one just after.
558.
by bdamm 6y ago
And at 55kW charging rate, the Bolt charging experience won't be like what you're used to with the Tesla (170kW on the SR+). It is a nice car, but they are close in price once you add some must-have options on to the Bolt (DC fast
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by bdamm 6y ago
Farming rhinos sounds great but this is one of those ideas with a maybe an unobtanium answer. I'd like to see a "farm" strong enough to contain a single rhino let alone an entire herd, and one that is profitable. The answer i
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by bdamm 6y ago
While it is quite satisfying to see Ted Cruz and AOC sometimes agree on issues, it hasn't so far been an indicator of legislative victory.
561.
by bdamm 6y ago
Chevy Bolt with optional fast charging : 55kW Tesla Model 3 base model : 170kW So not really the same league at all .
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by bdamm 6y ago
The worst part of this is taking the time to get the app all settled (hope they don't need to mail you a membership card!) and then find out that the charger is broken or slower than advertised. The state of things for non-Tesla chargi
563.
by bdamm 6y ago
Yeah. The Bolt is a nice driving car, but the charging rate is a joke compared to any Tesla.
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by bdamm 6y ago
You're right, I know at least one pilot that's crashed due to torque steer. Electrics should have less torque steer due to a great deal less rotating mass, so there's that.
565.
by bdamm 6y ago
Tesla has already built a handful of entire mall complexes around a core of rapid chargers. I guess the model is you plug in and then go choose from one of the immediate destinations to spend your 20 minutes.
566.
by bdamm 6y ago
Perhaps either way should require an endorsement. Gasoline is hard to fly... tank switching, carb heat, warm-up requirements, power output limitations, mixture at takeoff, mixture at altitude, thermal management in power reduction, weight o
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by bdamm 6y ago
It makes sense to me that moving from electric to piston would require an endorsement. Asking for a rating seems like overkill.
568.
by bdamm 6y ago
Yes, although there may be gains there too. Electric motors can provide high torque more quickly than piston engines, and of course much more quickly than turbines. Maybe this will result in faster stall recoveries, and with new uses of mot
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by bdamm 6y ago
High torque at lower RPMs is still an untapped potential of electrification for aviation. Having more options for placement of propeller (behind the rudder, for example, where a larger and slower propeller could be placed) is huge. NASA is
570.
by bdamm 6y ago
Aero engines are exceptionally reliable and don't "stall". However, electric does have advantages; less costly to maintain (theoretically; this still needs to be actually proven) and the pilots will like the high torque avail

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