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by brc 11y ago
And the financial toll of 500+ hours/year in a car that costs real money every operating hour. On the plus side, you'll never pick up fast food to eat on the way when you're on a bike.
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by brc 11y ago
I don't find it strange at all, and looking at a proper classical economist - they would have no trouble explaining it. Most people, when understanding economics tend to make the jump directly to money/cash when explaining prices
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by brc 11y ago
And that's before you compare death/injury per Mw produced. On that measure Solar power is more dangerous than nuclear given how many people die falling off roofs while installing or maintaining solar panels.
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by brc 11y ago
I have sympathy for your views - those states which by default declare anything illegal until regulated are slow to innovate. However, roads and traffic is one area where even the most limited government fan will typically agree that regula
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by brc 11y ago
Would anyone buy any vehicle ever again, given the possibility of a 20k liability for something out of their control? This position has not been thought through.
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by brc 11y ago
I think he means to have the car collect it's own data on emissions, which can then be collected. It's a far better idea than to just sample a few cars in a limited test.
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by brc 11y ago
To me the tests have to be real measurements rather than a proxy. Having a special test makes the test easy to pass. If the test was instead to have sampled data from x,000 cars, gathered at service intervals fit within certain bands, then
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by brc 11y ago
A lot of jurisdictions in Europe are rethinking their diesel prioritisation a precisely because of particulate and Nox emissions. In the case of Volkswagen, the TSi engines are a much better buy than the TDi engines. Better power delivery,
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by brc 11y ago
Naturally aspirated means the engine breathes air at regular atmospheric pressure - ie is not turbo or supercharged. The type of fuel delivery has nothing to do with whether it is naturally aspirated or not. A NA engine can have fuel injec
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by brc 11y ago
Well, that's just wrong, motorbikes are an important part of any transportation mix. When the answer is 'ban it' there is something wrong.
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by brc 11y ago
Exactly - in my car with people talking and radio on, you won't hear a bike until it is so close it doesn't make any difference.
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by brc 11y ago
Loud Harleys frustrate and annoy me. Most owners seem to remove the factory pipes and fit the loudest ones possible. It's not true this helps on the highway. In my car, which has double glazed glass, you can't hear a bit until i
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by brc 11y ago
One of my friends does oil exploration work in remote places. Just sent me an email from north of the Arctic Circle off the coast of Norway. Anyway, he frequently has to do emergency helicopter evac training, and has shown me the pictures.
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by brc 11y ago
So you could fit a Concorde fuselage inside a 737? wow.
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by brc 11y ago
LA-NY is a key route for SST but was blocked because it was overland. This was one of the main reasons it took forever to become profitable and also why only two airlines ever flew them, and were virtually given the planes.
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by brc 11y ago
The fuel costs are just a function of ticket prices. The passenger pays the fuel prices. Once BA worked out that most Concorde passengers didn't buy their own tickets, they increased pricing dramatically. The passengers didn't d
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by brc 11y ago
It's always been seen to me as a supreme irony that a country that sells two-stroke leaf blowers and line trimmers by the chinese-container load was worried about a 4-times-day distant thunder-like rumble. Much more is understood about
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by brc 11y ago
Why deny rich people their spending? Do you wish that exclusive art be denied from rich people? Exclusive property? What's wrong with some tax breaks for old classic cars to keep them on the road? They're part of the modern desi
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by brc 11y ago
That's like saying a Rolls Royce with chauffer is essentially the same as a town car. They both do the same job in the same amount of time, arguably both are as comfortable as each other (or near enough as makes no difference). The con
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by brc 11y ago
But the roundabout saved them. If they were not paying attention, as clearly they weren't, then they could have had a collision in the centre of an intersection. Better to end up in the he Center than t-boning a car.
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by brc 11y ago
Light traffic residential areas are a perfect place for them. There's nothing more annoying than observing a stop sign in an empty road. I have roundabout near me and when there is no traffic on the roundabout you just drive through
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by brc 11y ago
Simple educations campaigns would solve the driver education issue. Get all networks to run ads with celebrities showing how to drive in a roundabout. You could throw in some non-texting message while at it. The ignorance argument is diff
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by brc 11y ago
You're wrong about pedestrians. The crossings are upstream of the roundabout and you only have to deal with two directions of traffic.
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by brc 11y ago
Quite frankly I don't care if people agree with me or not, it's an opinion site not a popularity contest. Toning down opinions for the sake of not ruffling feathers is the work of politicians, and I'm not one of those. You&#
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by brc 11y ago
I think looking at the supply elasticity would help to determine at what rate prices have to be escalated in order to generate supply. I would also imagine that the elasticity of demand is dependent upon time of day, day of week and even w
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by brc 11y ago
Why are you even on this site? If you think rich people are out to get the poor, why spend time on a site whose themes are technology and wealth creation through technology? Why not go down the park and shout slogans and wave placards at
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by brc 11y ago
People sometimes fails to realise that sometimes little things stand in the way of big things. A small startup has no momentum and little power. The smallest obstacle can block progress. Having to file endless forms and being unable to take
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by brc 11y ago
+1 for mentioning the cold war spending which is what put the 'silicon' in silicon valley. In many peoples minds, Silicon Valley sprung fully formed to it's current state sometime in the 70s, when that is far from the truth.
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by brc 11y ago
HN is far from a firehose. The topics are not volatile, and junk-information full of rumour and innuendo rarely makes it to the top. It also mixes some current affairs and talking points with industry specific information. If I could liken
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by brc 11y ago
While I don't argue with the veracity of the information here, I do despair at what it says. For a start, I doubt the Twitter news feature will inject much-needed editorial quality into the unfiltered blast of rumours, half truths and

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