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931.
by beambot 7y ago
Gears provide mechanical advantage -- i.e. gear ratio.
932.
by beambot 7y ago
https://historycollection.co/the-fugate-family-of-kentucky-h...
933.
by beambot 7y ago
Uber has long term aspirations, but it is barely a tween on the scale of long-term companies. It's still unproven in the long term to serve as a good example.
934.
by beambot 7y ago
Seems purely extraneous to me. The comments could have stood on their own without a blatant declaration of (anti)fandom that so often surrounds this company. The strawman you pointed out exhibits similar declarations in the opposite directi
935.
by beambot 7y ago
> The "obvious" upgrade ... What's stopping the trains from operating autonomously?
936.
by beambot 7y ago
Why does GP feel need to note that they are a Tesla critic rather than simply praising Zimbabwe's elegant use case? Snarkiness abounds, apparently.
937.
by beambot 7y ago
Including sane defaults, like encryped home directories using encryptfs on ext4.
938.
by beambot 7y ago
Didn't they already drop most Linux support?
939.
by beambot 7y ago
Not great for lidar on autonomous cars. Wonder what it's radar properties are like too.
940.
by beambot 7y ago
Look in California SB-50: https://sf.curbed.com/2019/5/10/18563360/senate-bill-50-char...
941.
by beambot 7y ago
Obviously. However, Moore's Law held for 40+ years. We are at 16 qbits in quantum vs single silicon chips with 1.2Trillion transistors. Clearly some room for growth, especially given the $Billions in annual investment being poured into
942.
by beambot 7y ago
For historical precedence, see "Moore's Law" Talking to experts in the field, we're doubling the number of functional qbits (ie accounting for error correcting requirements) about every 12 months right now. Looks like cu
943.
by beambot 7y ago
Extracting carbon from ground isn't the only option: https://www.prometheusfuels.com/
944.
by beambot 7y ago
It's called collateral. Most illiquid assets are "funny money" until you go to sell -- including a home. Banks determine an intrinsic value (and risk) and lend accordingly.
945.
by beambot 7y ago
And it will get worse, as intelligence is negatively impacted by CO2 concentration too: https://thinkprogress.org/exclusive-elevated-co2-levels-dire...
946.
by beambot 7y ago
They still use that fuel in airports: avgas
947.
by beambot 7y ago
> The only solution is changing the zoning laws What about pulling a HongKong / Singapore: Create a special economic zone that is a stand-alone municipality with extremely lax zoning laws to spur housing & transportation growth?
948.
by beambot 7y ago
Care to elaborate on your studies? Not many cars have gone full touchscreen. I grant you that it took a bit of getting used to on my Tesla, but now I'd never want to go back. Curious how you controller for familiarity in your studies.
949.
by beambot 7y ago
Tech shop as a public resource could probably be better as a municipal, library-like entity. Any attempts at this model working?
950.
by beambot 7y ago
> When the government does something concrete [...] Maybe this was interpreted literally...?
951.
by beambot 7y ago
What percentage of fare price is fuel?
952.
by beambot 7y ago
Seems like limiting their payment processing was a pretty effective step.
953.
by beambot 7y ago
This is why many companies, like Apple, are moving (factories, equipment, supply chains, etc) out of China. Then what?
954.
by beambot 7y ago
You mean the airline that went through bankruptcy in an industry with lots of bankruptcies?
955.
by beambot 7y ago
What would you have done differently? Frankly, it seemed pretty principled to me -- enough to where I wouldn't be comfortable Monday quarterbacking.
956.
by beambot 8y ago
How are long-term leases different than property taxes + imminent domain?
957.
by beambot 8y ago
How do you propose to sustainably support 7.5 Billion people on this "tiny" planet without engineering?
958.
by beambot 8y ago
Cool project -- sort of like an electromagnetic radiometer.
959.
by beambot 8y ago
Great example, also from rotating systems, is the harmonic drive gearbox -- a very compact & high gear ratio device that (curiously) uses a deformable metal "cup" (flexspline) rather than a 100% rigid piece of metal like a tra
960.
by beambot 8y ago
From the article: > Compass states 5,644 properties were sold in the city last year, 2,208 of those were single family properties and software employees represented more than half of the buyers. 10,000 home buyers would take 2 years to c

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