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by extropy 6y ago
To add to all the other responses, multirotors are the least power efficient setup by far. And fixed wing the most, and regular helicopter somewhere in the middle. Several hours of flight time is trivial with a battery powered fixed wing mo
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by extropy 6y ago
It was the only choice that met the performance constraints at the time. And the common sense at the time did not put too much focus on memory safety.
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by extropy 6y ago
To be fair 2g is being turned down already with 3g to follow around 2022. They are wasteful in terms of needed frequency/power vs bandwidth.
154.
by extropy 6y ago
How about adding clearly visible QR codes next to their name plates?
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by extropy 6y ago
I would assume Google just shows more ads on other sites to compensate for the fraudent clicks. Why should they give you money back when they can just fulfill their side of the contract by showing ads to non fraudent users.
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by extropy 6y ago
Almost. Just that it's the OEMs that choose to implement AOSP default privilege scheme to please Google so it gives them access to Play Store and all the other Google apps. IMHO the leverage is all on the OEM side, they just choose to
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by extropy 6y ago
I think this is classic case of things need to get worse to get better. Things have been good enough for long enough that the incentives for running smoothly and efficiently have eroded away. We are closing in to the bottom where the a rath
158.
by extropy 6y ago
Welcome to the new world.
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by extropy 6y ago
0. Event with high reputation impact potential, just before the election. Seriously we should have a 4 week quiet period. So people can sort out though all the dirt and make sense of what is real. This just pushses everyone into sensory ove
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by extropy 6y ago
Things are changing. If last 4 years has shown us anything, it's that we cannot control the "news" anymore. There needs to be a new solution. And this is a step towards that. Might be the wrong step...
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by extropy 6y ago
Yes it will not stay in the orbit. And overall the orbital velocity will be significantly lower. However debris ejected sideways will have significant velocity, orbital or sometimes even higher and that's the real risk here.
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by extropy 6y ago
And with no government backdoors please!
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by extropy 6y ago
And also ~real time compilers for any user code (shaders, etc) that will be running on the GPU.
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by extropy 6y ago
That is a way more difficult target to hit. People can follow a 3 step instruction easily enough. That's kinda the point that having a single controlling entity makes the ecosystem vulnerable to this kind of pressure.
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by extropy 6y ago
Good point. Today's world is a grand experiment to find out what is the right balance between stability and privacy. Stability comes with slowing down the progress and the top taking ever so more and getting more corrupt. So there alwa
166.
by extropy 6y ago
Should it be Apple's business to police terrorists? Governments have found it convenient to offload policing to communication companies, via putting liability on them unless they do. I don't think this is the way to go.
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by extropy 6y ago
Maybe the guys should have thought about that before they started attacking peaceful protesters. This is just one tool, and there will be killing with or without it.
168.
by extropy 6y ago
The trick is that Apple is essentially a utility company and replacing it is a significant expense to the user. And it needs to be aware of it's power and act accordingly. Maybe a "device neutrality" law should be in order. T
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by extropy 6y ago
Wine allows running windows applications without windows lincense, directly taking revenue from Microsoft who arguably invested a ton in making documentation and developer tools to make those applications. It seems you are arguing mainly be
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by extropy 6y ago
The idea is that a client generally contains a copy of the API (it's calling it so it should). So you get a copy of the API with Apache license and are free to build your own implementation of it.
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by extropy 6y ago
That's 7 years old by a Norwegian university, unlikely to be the thing.
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by extropy 6y ago
Yeah, just burn it all, collect the volatiles. Actually no idea how battery recycling works.
173.
by extropy 6y ago
They did the dry electrode thing. That makes manufacturing cheaper but nothing more.
174.
by extropy 6y ago
At 5ghz, the signals travel only 4 cm each cycle (signal speed in copper is around 60% lightspeed). Moving stuff further away means waiting multiple cycles for a reply.
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by extropy 6y ago
Its <3 percent per 1000km if using high voltage DC and multiplicative not additive. So 0.97^(20000/1000)= 0.54. Just under half lost, not infeasible. Also building enough battery capacity to offset the night is doable. UK annual c
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by extropy 6y ago
Why not? Its just a function of availability/price. Assuming some conservative numbers of 1kwh of batteries costs 100usd and can do 2k cycles, that results in extra 5cents per kwh. With the day/night cycle the utilization could be
177.
by extropy 6y ago
Fairly simple to produce, except getting the fuel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_...
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by extropy 6y ago
I understand the deal was structured quite a bit in GMs favor. IMHO it's very possible Nikola could become GMs EV brand, similar to Polestar for Volvo. And now with GM representative being the new chairman, it's looking more like
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by extropy 6y ago
Probably the SEO teams took notice and starting to optimize for DDG (Bing) algorithm too.
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by extropy 6y ago
Actually yes, since they have a huge incentive to Run to Failure. Chaos monkeys would provide a consistent source of failures to make them do their maintenance. Similar to red teams in security.

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