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901.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Good point. Short term parking gets leveraged, car moving to a new spot every few hours while occupants sleep.
902.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Old aphorism: "there's a certain freedom in being completely screwed - it just can't get any worse." Likewise death: when you've faced the prospect of death, of coming to grips with it, and survived it & now kno
903.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Assuming "hard" self-driving... Education: more kids "driving" themselves to school. There's an age where a kid could be trusted to walk alone, but not ready to "drive" there. Get in car, car takes kid to
904.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Different launch. This wasn't the Falcon Heavy core, this was a previous rocket that was intended to crash (for testing purposes). There wasn't a barge out there to catch it (unlike the Heavy).
905.
by ctdonath 9y ago
The filter: budding scientist invariably reaches a point of "what if I try this " and the planet evaporates.
906.
by ctdonath 9y ago
ADVERTISING. The amount of coverage both Tesla & SpaceX got from launching the Roadster equates to advertising costing considerably more than the cost of the car.
907.
by ctdonath 9y ago
So long as people are willing to do that work for that pay, he will. Nobody has to.
908.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Yes. There's actually a financial incentive, and pays out only if very aggressive goals are reached. Jobs wanted to make the very best computers. Musk is trying to open Mars to humanity.
909.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Yes, I've chatted with several hardcore socialists who decry Venezuela failing because it is (they allege) a capitalist state.
910.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Rebranding is a thing.
911.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Interesting how Venezuela is being touted by both capitalists and socialists as a prime example what's wrong with the other.
912.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Bolshevism (Russia/USSR) was "democratic" officially, with The Party deciding what options were available for voting on. It's not "democracy" when the people can't opt for what those in power don't wa
913.
by ctdonath 9y ago
in those days lots of kitchen shelves were not a necessity: a grocery order was a phone call away, and the milkman and the Cushman’s Bakery man came to the back door. For all our enthralled praising of ordering online, remember it's
914.
by ctdonath 9y ago
"A thing is worth what another will give for it."
915.
by ctdonath 9y ago
we still don't have the computational power to do things atom-by-atom That's what puzzles me about this discussion. Of course we don't. The goal here is to model more atoms than we have atoms to model with. Until we get to
916.
by ctdonath 9y ago
You're taking an upper-end Lyft case vs a remarkably low-end ownership case ... and ending up with actually fairly close numbers. Replace some of the chauffeured trips with cheaper paths (bike, hoverboard, bus, telecommute), and use mo
917.
by ctdonath 9y ago
The issue being rather close to my heart, I'd rather have a single-use 7-year battery + full modern replacement of unit, than have to fiddle with periodic recharging just to prolong use of aging technology. Nobody much wants their life
918.
by ctdonath 9y ago
I have one. 100% dependent, dynamic rate, wireless interface, logging, runs about 7 years. "Battery low" state is addressed with progressively more annoying behavior (fixed 60 bpm, beat skipping, etc) that both saves power and urg
919.
by ctdonath 9y ago
There's a substantive difference between being given money vs keeping your own money: one is theft, the other isn't. If we can't get tax cuts across the board, then I'm all for reducing taxes on whoever we can, however w
920.
by ctdonath 9y ago
I soon realized you'd have to be looking through something for this. You wouldn't be looking at something a la VR (pair of 2D displays with shortened focal length), it would add something to existing light but do so close to y
921.
by ctdonath 9y ago
They're not light field displays. Current VR is fixed 2D monitors with focal-length adjusters (so a 5cm display 3cm from your eye looks like it's a 5m display 3m away). Light field presents photons in a way your eye can dynamicall
922.
by ctdonath 9y ago
This resolves major complaints about 3D movies: forced focus, forced POV, and required normal eye-pair function. It's not so much "interactivity" as resolving chronic subtle annoyances: allow natural eye focus around the scen
923.
by ctdonath 9y ago
The biggest aid to subsidies is "chicken-and-egg" issues: nobody wants to buy an EV if there's nowhere (other than home) to charge it, and nobody wants to install public chargers if there's nobody driving EVs. Atlanta ha
924.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Georgia (USA) had a very lucrative EV tax incentive: US$5000 on a purchase or lease . The city of Atlanta is perfect for such vehicles: commute under 50 miles, desire to mitigate smog, temperature conducive to good battery performance. Res
925.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Problem with Facebook is the difficulty of keeping circles separated, resulting in a frequent unwillingness to post. I often am unclear whether a potentially triggering post intended for a limited group will end up being broadly distributed
926.
by ctdonath 9y ago
I've watched many major social media sites come & go. Most go because the signal-to-noise ratio drops to unacceptable, overrun with people whom people didn't come to hear from. Increase of "censorship" also drives pe
927.
by ctdonath 9y ago
"Brute Force" by The Algorithm: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/brute-force/1083396755 reply
928.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Bingo! "Brute Force" by The Algorithm: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/brute-force/1083396755
929.
by ctdonath 9y ago
...making the transition to iOS that much easier.
930.
by ctdonath 9y ago
Apple's core competency: sell flat computers. Anything that brings you deeper into that ecosystem, feeding the likelihood of buying another flat computer, is fair & likely game for Apple to buy or compete with. Shazam: you hear a s

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