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by bdamm 7y ago
The discovery and confirmation of relativistic physics has resulted in more efficient materials research and led to space technology (communications) and microprocessor improvements here on earth.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Also they won't do this because business flyers usually don't check bags. That way they won't be lost (by the airline) and so control over their destiny is retained by the flyer. I've done quite a few international trips
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by bdamm 7y ago
I'm guessing they didn't want to enlarge the serial port to one almost large enough to stick a deck of cards into.
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by bdamm 7y ago
The why isn't the board voting for an easement for overhead distribution and a single junction off the service connect to power the charger network?
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by bdamm 7y ago
Condo associations that want to solve this can. It isn't a technical problem and it won't slow down EV adoption very much. It is kind of like adding satellite TV and plenty of HOAs have figured that one out despite not having it w
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by bdamm 7y ago
$100/mo is pretty compelling to lots of people. Why throw money away? My locale is even better because I pay $0.08/kwH (Portland, Oregon). We like to ski; every time we drive up the mountain was $50 in gas for our Ford Escape. Now
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by bdamm 7y ago
Ah, it doesn't work out in your case because you've already made the transition to electric. We went from two gas guzzlers (one of them was a 40mpg diesel, the other a fairly typical 25mpg) to one model 3 and the financing equati
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by bdamm 7y ago
Higher costs for electricity would be a great problem to have because solar is already competitive at current prices. Costs would have to go up 5x at least to make even a bad EV in an expensive kW/h locale cost as much as a gasoline ca
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by bdamm 7y ago
Why not just put the meter at the charging station?
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by bdamm 7y ago
Then the car is a trade-in downpayment. Sure, if you can't afford a $20,000 car then there are very few Tesla options for you.
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by bdamm 7y ago
We just got a model 3 a few weeks ago. ALL gasoline cars now feel like dinosaurs. Even hybrids.
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by bdamm 7y ago
SV companies have made showing losses an art form.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Then you need to look closer. A long range model 3 can go 310 miles and charge quickly at superchargers. Condo dwellers can basically treat this car just like a gas car with fewer fillup options. A lot of people should do the math on the mo
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by bdamm 7y ago
When you get dozens of photographers shooting the same subject and all with their own flash, yes you can get interference that wrecks certain images. And the more photographers gather together the more of them will interfere. So indeed your
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by bdamm 7y ago
Nobody intelligent is claiming that droughts didn't happen in the past.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Likely to be a lot more ground operators than spacemen, and astronauts is reserved for those who have actually flown in space.
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by bdamm 7y ago
That's not hard, there are many ways to get your name and address ranging from data breaches to public tax records. So what do you want to do about it? Make reselling an address illegal? Half the economy would collapse out of inability
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by bdamm 7y ago
My physical mailbox is the only *mail I have that isn't overrun. I ignore spims, spams, scams 50% based on just the fact that if the Social Security Administration, IRS, or Sheriff wanted to contact me, I know they would send a letter.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Ok, I like your message and tone but I have to point out a couple of things where are not quite communicating. You are absolutely right that people can do worse than THC, e.g. alcohol and tobacco. (Although it is unclear if nicotine itself
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by bdamm 7y ago
A friend gave this book to me during my high school years - in 1995. Cliff's book fundamentally changed my perspective on computers, and at just the right time, is partially responsible for my career to this very day. It's been a
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by bdamm 7y ago
Indeed, we seem to have ample evidence that Tylenol seems to be strongly associated with autism[1] and weakly with ADHD[2], yet its use is not only widespread but unquestioned. The problem, of course, is that it's complicated; correlat
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by bdamm 7y ago
HTTP is stateless so, no.
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by bdamm 7y ago
PBS is available on all kinds of mediums. They have apps on Apple's App store, they have apps on Apple TV, and you can stream content from their web site(s). And not only new programs, but amazing archives of old content as well. Want
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by bdamm 7y ago
In fact there is something like a dozen groups working on prototypes to do fusion cheaper than ITER. Obviously, the people running ITER don't think that it can be done cheaper. The race is on! What I don't understand is why the WX
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by bdamm 7y ago
Specific farms may be able to take advantage of their position or specialization and use hand-tools to gain more value per-acre, but that kind of specialization cannot scale up to commercial scale where a farmer with a set of machines can p
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by bdamm 7y ago
That is patently absurd. There is a reason why nearly every corn and wheat farm has a combine.
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by bdamm 7y ago
It seems to me that it must be, since we're going to have self driving cars depending on all the components in the car working within a tight specification. How can manufacturers assure that the customer's car is still safe and wo
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by bdamm 7y ago
In addition to safety I wonder about interference. Wouldn't lidar become ineffective if there's so much lidar around that all the lidar sources start interfering with each other and effectively blinding all receivers with noise? I
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by bdamm 7y ago
You'd probably need to start with a lone crow. As a group they can be quite nefarious and clever about it. I once slowed down a group of crows from killing and eating an injured bird; once they boldly got past my interference, they for
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by bdamm 7y ago
Yes, sadly phones with removable batteries seem to be antiques now.

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