borissk

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   by borissk 4y ago

   The Soviets didn't copy most of the design - actually Buran is a completely different design from the Space Shuttle. The Shuttle had a big tank attached to it at the start, but the main engines where part of the Shuttle. Buran was laun
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   by borissk 4y ago

   No, they are real cars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkOqIEUAlw4
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   by borissk 4y ago

   EVs generally are not more expensive than ICEVs. E.g. Citroen AMI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=977cZO0qXEs . A huge number of startups in China are making cheap city EVs. You can order one on AliExpress. In Europe and Am
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   by borissk 4y ago

   What you're describing is the situation in the West. In China there are hundreds or thousands of startups making cheap city EVs, most of them under $10K.
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   by borissk 4y ago

   I remember going to a Microsoft conference in 1996. Talked with quite a few C++ developers - everyone aged under 50 or so was super excited about Java. At the time a program that could do something over the Internet was 20 or 30 lines of Ja
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   by borissk 4y ago

   Remember using JetBrains first product - a refactoring plugin for JBuilder. Around that time Symantec also had a Java IDE.