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by ezzaf 6y ago
Being the flattest continent does not mean that the continent is flat. My point is that there is still plenty of hills and steep terrain around. It's not self evident that if you build a train line somewhere in Australia, that line wil
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by ezzaf 6y ago
There's a 1700km track network with both automated and non automated trains, so slightly larger than disneyworld. https://www.railjournal.com/freight/rio-tinto-completes-auto... "Australia is notoriously flat
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by ezzaf 6y ago
I understood "caveat imperator" to mean operator (commander) beware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperator
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by ezzaf 7y ago
It's currently very difficult to move equipment and expertise from where it is to where you need it for the project. So far the biggest problem for us has been getting panels and inverters from China to site, but it's now shifting
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by ezzaf 7y ago
The second source you link to states 60% of that energy is in manufacturing, and 40% in use. Wouldn't that imply using a hosted solution only when you need it would be more environmentally friendly than buying your own gaming PC?
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by ezzaf 7y ago
They weren't at 801mph airspeed. The article didn't make it clear exactly, but: "The Boeing 747-436 reached speeds of 825 mph (1,327 km/h) as it rode a jet stream accelerated by Storm Ciara." Ie max ground speed 132
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by ezzaf 7y ago
Seems like it's possible: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-05/apple-buy...
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by ezzaf 7y ago
Chain drive can be up to 98.6% efficient, you'd have a hard time beating that. http://pages.jh.edu/~news_info/news/home99/aug99/bike.html
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by ezzaf 7y ago
Yes, and Amazon started selling books in 1995. Ie when it was still a cushy market.
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by ezzaf 8y ago
And they're going to do it in three weeks. Amazing! "Spy agencies and police have said that the Christmas and New Year period poses a heightened risk of terrorist attacks." It'd be comical if there weren't serious r
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by ezzaf 8y ago
In effect it does. If you have read 20 pages and found no typos you estimate the chance of an unknown page having a typo is 1 in 20/3. But if there is 0 unread pages then there 0 cases to apply the probability to. Make it 100 pages, th
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by ezzaf 8y ago
Healthcare? You could plausibly have great quality of life for healthy people, but once you get sick you lose access to it. If you're dead, you probably don't notice the quality of life living people have.
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by ezzaf 8y ago
According to trip advisor they're not in the top 10. http://ir.tripadvisor.com/news-releases/news-release-details... So if BBQ is your criteria, consider Tennessee?
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It was a disaster on an almost inconceivable scale, then the world moved on(theguardian.com)
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by ezzaf 8y ago
From the article: "But quartz oscillators have some problems. They don’t keep time as well at high (and low) temperatures, and they’re a relatively large component—1×3 mm or so. In their quest for smaller and smaller hardware, Apple ha
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by ezzaf 8y ago
This snippet is amazing: "Theranos kept up the illusion that they were running a lot of the tests from finger-stick blood draws by hacking the Siemens machines to work with small samples" No wonder they had so many inaccurate test
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by ezzaf 9y ago
I disagree that short term returns make it an investment. Speculation is term that much better fits the action of buying a currency with intent to return a profit. "A speculator is a person who trades derivatives, commodities, bonds, e
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by ezzaf 9y ago
This was my thoughts too. The values appear to be fairly similar for all three, especially given the large variations. Not to mention that they're explicitly trialling this with people "for whom celiac disease had been excluded&qu
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by ezzaf 9y ago
The $2.5B is ~$60 per connection (40 million households). Only households of "poor citizens" don't have to pay a fee, so if the cost is more than $60 per connection you can charge the non poor households to cover the differ
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by ezzaf 9y ago
They actually mention the hanger collapse during the video, that was the only ex-operational Buran that got crushed. The hanger in the video is the one that houses partially completed Burans.
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by ezzaf 9y ago
A raspberry pi with external HDD running is about 5W. That's 130 kWh less than a FX160 over an always on year, or $27 at average Australian energy prices. Sure these servers might be handy for some things, but the Pi still has a lot of
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by ezzaf 9y ago
Your 'standard' bottled water bottle is more like 15 grams[1], so to use that metric we're talking 6 to 35 bottles per square kilometre. Personally I'm more concerned about these plastics getting into my food than I am a
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by ezzaf 10y ago
Perhaps the economics are buy really cheap bikes and hope on average they are ridden for enough hours to cover the cost before they end up broken / lost / stolen.
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by ezzaf 10y ago
They're also deliberately heavy to make them harder and less attractive to steal. Not an issue in a flat city, but much less fun on hills. Hopefully in the long run electric assist is practical to implement on these bikes which should
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by ezzaf 10y ago
I've had the same experience in Poland. Tried to tip a driver who'd gone above and beyond in helping me out, and the driver refused to accept the tip. The whole thing seems to illustrate just how far out of whack tipping expectati
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by ezzaf 10y ago
This is partially mitigated by double use of the island's connectors as interconnects. If energy production on the island dropped to zero, the entire cable capacity would be able to move power between connected nations. The 'flat&
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by ezzaf 10y ago
I was waiting for the "It's like mechanical turk, but for x" moment, but it didn't come. Perhaps a gamification twist given the name? Nope, apparently same same but more flexible for the workforce.
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by ezzaf 10y ago
I don't think you're accounting for interest in that calculation. If they have borrowed 60% of GDP at an interest rate of 3%, it would take a 1.8% annual increase in GDP just to match the interest on the loan. That is also ignorin
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by ezzaf 10y ago
Have you read the details of SpaceX's planned internet offering? Existing satellite based internet services have high latency. This is exactly the problem their solution aims to solve.
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by ezzaf 10y ago
If it's based on the one suicide and extrapolating to a death rate of 0.3%, I'd call it a bit of a stretch. Yes that would make it the leading cause of death if it did continue, but given the tiny sample size and single occurence

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