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by dougmany 10y ago
That looks nice. CAN, SATA 3.1, GigE, Usb 3.0 on top of what you mentioned. I wonder what the power draw is on this.
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by dougmany 10y ago
I imagine it would be like radio tag toll lanes now. If you go through and do not have a tag, they mail the vehicle owner the ticket. Most violations would not need stops. I don't think private vehicle ownership will survive self dr
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by dougmany 10y ago
Putting together this story and the story about the self-driving car engineer nano degree from Udacity, I am envisioning a future where every self driving car has an accompanying engineer. Much as Steam engines needed an engineer to operat
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by dougmany 10y ago
I think putting carbon in the ground is the wrong approach. We need to take it out the the air, yes. But then we should build things out of it. Replace steel and concrete with carbon. Imagine a rocket made out of 90% air harvested mater
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by dougmany 10y ago
>this serial philanthropist spent around £3 million to get the vehicle designed, prototyped and much of the way to production. Another similar amount, its creators reckon, would finish developing the OX, and build the factory. Sounds lik
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by dougmany 10y ago
I am a big fan of the pop-up campers that go in the bed of the truck. I loved mine. I took three months off and traveled around the west coast in it. Had some great adventures. But calculating it all out, a Miata and motel would have bee
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by dougmany 10y ago
What convinced that it would not work was reading about the temperature pressure differences the on car motor was supposed to handle. It sounds like there needs to be a giant air compressor strapped to the car. Having been in a garage whe
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by dougmany 10y ago
>The camera is for public relations only This statement made my day. I guess if a phone must have a camera on it then a spacecraft has to have one too.
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by dougmany 10y ago
Maybe when self driving cars are common, traffic officers will no longer be need.
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by dougmany 10y ago
Thank you for the recommendation. I will check it out.
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by dougmany 10y ago
I remember listening to a Ted talk where the speaker basically said, Get income inequality in check by whatever means and most of your problems go away.
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by dougmany 10y ago
Well with Over 675,049 California ballots remain uncounted. Bernie could still win the state. http://vote.sos.ca.gov/unprocessed-ballots-status/
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It is decided by a slow and deliberate process with many voices.
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>These services are so useful and well-liked around the world that they should be considered a threat? Just because something is well liked, does not mean it is beneficial to society overall. Junk food and facebook come too mind. I lov
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by dougmany 10y ago
7 hours is a good night sleep. Combine self driving cars and coffin hotels and SF to LA would be enjoyable.
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by dougmany 10y ago
>Core provides real-time stats via audio cues while exercising So you might be able to get pace through audio.
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by dougmany 10y ago
I like the idea of making carbon fibers from CO2. http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/201...
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by dougmany 10y ago
Search for "lifepo4 14500" It does need a specific charger. I bought my charger from batteryspace.com. I found the following linked from their site. Charging Non-cobalt-blended Li-ion While the traditional lithium-ion has a nom
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by dougmany 10y ago
This is great. I have used one LiFePO4 batteries (3.2 V) and a copper rod to replace two 1.5v batteries in a few electronic. This would be even better then a copper rod.
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by dougmany 11y ago
Yes. The economy you see now is wholly new and remarkably created by Al Gore.
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by dougmany 11y ago
>> They send out your VPS panel login/password in plain text emails >To be fair this is pretty standard. This practice has always bothered me. An expiring link to reset is much better.
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by dougmany 11y ago
This announcement reminds me of the part of Outliers that spelled out how Bill Gates and others became who they are because they had access to very expensive equipment before anyone else did (and spent 10K hours on it).
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by dougmany 11y ago
They only protect you if the seller has money in his account. My Friend bought a video card that was never sent. Ebay said that the seller did not have money in his account so there was nothing they could do. He was out $500 with no reco
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by dougmany 11y ago
I agree the real issue is the push to grow. there is an optimum size for everything and the irrational drive to make everything as big as possible has caused us to loose a lot of great things.
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by dougmany 11y ago
I used to live on Channing and loved going to Berkley bowl. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert Within cities, there are more than three times as many supermarkets in wealthier neighborhoods compared with po
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by dougmany 11y ago
Have you found a maps replacement that you like?
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by dougmany 11y ago
It is also misleading in that burning trees and burning fossil fuels is very different in terms of global warming. The carbon trees are made of was extracted from the air as the tree grew so the net added to at atmosphere is zero. The car
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by dougmany 11y ago
I think the role of fortune 100 companies is more to keep the lights on then disrupt. Disruption and new direction rely on a foundation of the current state. Yes that foundation will be replace, but only by the best of ten disruption that
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by dougmany 11y ago
It is also possible that the data is not understood and therefor thought to be flawed. The article talks about how the black box approach removes human bias from the initial findings.
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by dougmany 11y ago
>Planned for a population of 35,000 Does that mean it is possible to build a city for $28,571 per person including housing and business sectors? Sounds good to me. I wonder if it really is livable or just mock-ups.

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