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10y ago
its nitpicking. everyone knows the japanese have a very high suicide rate. i could have pointed out that the japanese are not the healthiest people in the world. the healthiest people in the world are singapore, italy and australia. but i d
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10y ago
the only countries that are higher than it are developing countries and south korea, which has the same cultural problem. you cant just throw a wikipedia page at me with no context and expect me to revise my views. especially when you punct
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10y ago
then why do they kill themselves more than anyone else on the planet?
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10y ago
this is why the culture we have in the us, uk and other countries like it is so important. in countries like japan and korea nobody feels as though they can say or do anything on their own. they have to do what is expected of them. is it an
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10y ago
my original comment and your response are about how EVs and ICEs stack up, not whether or not ICEs are sufficient. anyway, using the brakes less can only be good. they arent used seldom enough for rust to be a problem. ive never heard of an
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10y ago
im sorry to break this to you but electric motors are more reliable than combustion engines. they require less maintenance and last longer because of their inherent advantages. and the number of moving parts and lack of explosions/chem
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10y ago
brakelines dont exist on a tesla. the brakes are electromechanical. the pads and disks last much, much longer because most braking is done with regen. software errors are handled over the air. batteries now last a long time and they will la
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10y ago
It wont temper the claim that EVs are maintenance free because it has nothing to do with how much maintenance EVs require. The premise is that the best implementation of an EV will require much less maintenance than the best implementation
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10y ago
yeah, they say that the stem cells actually disappear after about a month but improvement continues well afterward. and they say its because of growth factors released by these cells.
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10y ago
when are they going to perform a launch with a recycled booster?
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10y ago
wow. that is so fantastic. i wonder how they came to the 40% figure.
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10y ago
i mean, there is indeed a trend in the news industry today to exploit tragedies for ad money. im not ok with that either. but obviously gawker took exploitation to an entirely other level which is the source of my outrage.
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10y ago
i never defined journalism as something i agree with. not here or anywhere else.
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10y ago
its always refreshing to see incremental improvements in technology unfolding before me.
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10y ago
[removed response to a dumb comment that added nothing to the conversation]
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10y ago
gawker put tesla on a death watch. they exploited their struggle and heartbreak, their endeavour to make the world a better place, for clicks. they hosted a video of hulk hogan having sex on their website despite him not wanting them to. ma
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10y ago
it might be awkward if gawker or valleywag staffed journalists.
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10y ago
dont get me wrong, i will never go against any kind of improvement or expansion of basic education. However, seeing how i have invested quite a lot of time and money into my computer science degree (finishing up in about a year), i am a lit
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10y ago
fuck this. services like this one are not some inevitable result of having high technology. if they are, then governments tracking the movements of every citizen with face recognizing security cameras is inevitable as well. its ok because i
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10y ago
what is the current status with driver support for vulkan? are they being rolled out steadily at this point? and does anyone have an opinion on how quickly we will see vulkan drivers become reliable and ubiquitous? also, check out this awes
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10y ago
gamasutra provides a link to the blog post where this actually came from. i just want to say that his blog is one of the best i have ever seen and that you should check it out. it has tons of posts that are just as interesting as this one e
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10y ago
Would you mind explaining what he meant when he said "[...] there is now no denying that lawyers can no longer be permitted to regulate one another." I don't know anything about the law so I don't understand how lawyers
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10y ago
i dont understand why ceos get paid so much. companies are always trying to cut costs -- we see outsourcing to mexico and massive layoffs fairly frequently -- but ceos never seem to get cut as a cost. when one is fired another is hired and
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10y ago
I am fascinated by TruCrypt and Bitcoin -- they had a very big impact on the world but their authors are completely unknown. Are there any other instances of things like that?
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This is really profound. I made a rough estimate of when I will die and ticked the box that corresponds to it. Being able to see each individual week that I have left really gave me pause. Wow. And this graph is generous. Your perception of
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10y ago
No. It can be assumed that people here enjoy working on projects. Projects that interest them. The deeper meaning of this statement, in my opinion, is that every day you spend doing something that you dont like is a very big deal because, a
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11y ago
Wow. The interior is absolutely jaw dropping. It looks so fucking good.
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11y ago
Thank you for simply correcting it instead of just deleting it. I didn't mean to do that.
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11y ago
Or they could just be collecting marketing data.
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11y ago
This is actually a very good point because these events have started late more than once.
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