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by dougmany 7y ago
There is a link to another article that states: >“Bike facilities end up slowing cars down, even when a driver hits another driver, it’s less likely to be a fatality because it’s happening at a slower speed,” Marshall said. https:/
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by dougmany 7y ago
Government is all about stability. Being over worked and under paid is a recipe for burn out. Burnout leads to turn over which leads to instability. A reliable system needs to have knowledgeable, available, long time workers.
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by dougmany 7y ago
I've read about battery cost improvements around 18% per year. If you consider that the battery is somewhere between 30% and 50% of the cost of the car, they should be able to reduce the price of the car by thousands of dollar a year.
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by dougmany 7y ago
If you make the claim that Self driving cannot be done without LIDAR, then you are implying that if the LIDAR cannot provide accurate data due to weather, the car cannot drive autonomously.
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by dougmany 8y ago
>Richard Florida is a co-founder and editor at large of CityLab and a senior editor at The Atlantic. He is a university professor in the University of Toronto’s School of Cities and Rotman School of Management, and a distinguished fellow
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by dougmany 8y ago
There is the Carbon XPrize but I think they are a year out from announcing winners. There is a team using Molten Carbonate Electrolysis to create Carbon Nano-tubes in the competition. It sounds like the are not related based on the 2012 st
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by dougmany 8y ago
My 2014 with 41,000 miles is about 87% capacity according to leafspy. This puts it at around 73 miles which handles about 80% of our driving.
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by dougmany 8y ago
> perhaps the same benefit -- or more benefit -- could be achieved through periodic health inspections rather then licensing individual hairdressers Inspections with out a license would be unenforceable. If they fail an inspection, you
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by dougmany 8y ago
>pedestrian jaywalks in front as they're stopped at a stop sign; >A pedestrian on the corner next to a stop sign causes them to pause I am struggling to reconcile how the pedestrian does not have the right of way in both these ca
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by dougmany 8y ago
We bought a 2014 leaf last October for less than $10,000 after tax and registration. FWIW Quality was much higher than the 2006 Civic I had previously. It is a great car and cheaper to operate.
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by dougmany 8y ago
We use 120 to charge our leaf. It charges at 4 miles per hour. Plug it in after a typical 40 mile day and it is ready in the morning.
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by dougmany 8y ago
Salt: Save $.01 by making salt from scratch in 2 weeks, 10 hours
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by dougmany 8y ago
There is also the detectablility aspect. Closer planets mean shorter years which means we can detect them in a short time of observation. It's not that we don't want to find earth like planets, it is that it takes longer, so why
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by dougmany 8y ago
I was in this space for a while, working on Airport sensors and then Elevator controllers. Every job I found was short term or contract. I really enjoyed the work but I did not enjoy the ever-present need to be looking for a job. Was I just
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by dougmany 8y ago
There was a link here recently with a video of a consultant talking about a Model 3 tear-down. He basically said the "Skateboard" was amazing, the rest of the car was sub par. The were most impressed with the battery pack, sayi
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by dougmany 8y ago
I like to substitute "petroleum distillates" when people say "chemicals".
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by dougmany 9y ago
My summary of the article would be: If supply and demand were working, a minimum wage increase would cause a loss of jobs. We studies minimum wage increases and jobs were not loss. The conclusion was therefore that Supply and demand were b
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by dougmany 9y ago
Is it really much more though? Whenever I see a number for how much an advertiser pays per viewer, it is typically small.
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by dougmany 9y ago
you are describing the sailrocket. The designer intended to outfit larger ships with the technology. http://sailrocket.com/
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by dougmany 9y ago
from a separate article: http://corvusenergy.com/marine-project/mf-ampere-ferry/ >Rather than installing additional electrical capacity to the ports, an onshore Corvus Energy 410kWh ESS comprised of 63 AT6500 L
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by dougmany 9y ago
No, they will benefit financial from this breech.
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by dougmany 9y ago
Our whole block had delivery confirmations and no packages. Next day, the package showed up. Amazon Logistics is terrible. Last week I had an LCD monitor thrown over our 6' fence behind our house.
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by dougmany 9y ago
The conclusion left me feeling like I missed something. Like I missed the words mouthed by a hostage right before they said how wonderful their captors are.
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by dougmany 9y ago
Blazor is an experimental web UI framework using C#/Razor and HTML, running client-side via WebAssembly. Blazor : https://github.com/SteveSanderson/Blazor
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by dougmany 9y ago
> With a top menu at $130 That $130 is most likely for an entire several course meal, not an entree. I think most middle class people go out to nice dinners a few times a year for anniversaries and birthdays.
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by dougmany 9y ago
>for 20k or less it's by far the best deal in EV's right now I just bought a 2014 leaf with 36,000 miles for $9,000. But yes used battery electric cars are a great deal right now.
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by dougmany 9y ago
>One of the things that people forget is that if the robots really do come, yes, they will eliminate or change a lot of jobs, but the cost of goods and services will just go down and down and down. So maybe $7000 can get you everything y
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by dougmany 9y ago
I was just reading an article about how Justin Trudeau connected with North Korea through Cuba. Maybe North Korea is involved.
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by dougmany 9y ago
Didn't the moon form from such a mass driver?
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by dougmany 9y ago
> ? What about billions invested by the whole of US in the industries there? I would say they got what they paid for. Satellites and computers have been delivered. Investment paid off.

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