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   by floxy 1y ago

   >the bird's intentions are difficult to establish I thought it was fun that she did it twice.
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   by floxy 1y ago

   Looks like ~1% of U.S. car sales have manual transmissions. https://www.theautopian.com/manual-transmissions-now-make-up...
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   by floxy 1y ago

   I mean, in 10 million years we will have colonized the Milky Way. Seems likely that a historical society in 200 million years will be vacuuming out heavy elements from the sun to keep it chugging along. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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   by floxy 1y ago

   I'd put it closer to the invention of the printing press.
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   by floxy 1y ago

   >no longer This feels like some sort of cognitive bias. Seems likely that "news" has almost always been carefully crafted narratives designed to enrich someone or some organization. We are now living in an age where commoners
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   by floxy 1y ago

   I mean, maybe it should continue, but aren't we forgetting that this isn't the first time the EV tax credit went away? At one time, it only applied to the first 200,000 EVs that a company produced. https://www.theverge
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   by floxy 1y ago

   Whoops!
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   by floxy 1y ago

   Seems like you always start somewhere. First you have 25E-18, then bump it up to 1e-15, and maybe someday you are at 1e-9 and are doing inertial confinement fusion.
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   by floxy 1y ago

   >It's always been a thing? Is there a way to quantify this? My experience as well is that the tire particulate pollution has mostly been an anti-EV talking point.
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    by floxy 1y ago

    40% of electricity consumption in Virgina will be data centers in 2030? Table A1 , PDF page 29: https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002028905
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    by floxy 1y ago

    >This doesn't seem true. Seems like we are way too early in the adoption curve to tell. Currently the average number of passengers per trip is >1.0 across the whole fleet. Some day, I'd expect that to dip below 1.0, as peo
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    by floxy 1y ago

    >We’ve also incrementally grown our commercial fleet as we’ve welcomed more riders, with over 1,500 vehicles across San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Austin. https://waymo.com/blog/2025/05/scaling-ou
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    by floxy 1y ago

    Recent HN discussion about the original paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961226 ...and another one debunking the original paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44015872
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    by floxy 1y ago

    https://www.eeoc.gov/statutes/genetic-information-nondiscrim...
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    by floxy 1y ago

    I hope he recovers from the stock market not crashing
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    by floxy 1y ago

    So when will we be able to just run general relativity numerical simulations on our desktop machines? So that you could set up Observer A at some point, and Observer B at some other point and and mass distribution, etc, then just crunch th
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    by floxy 1y ago

    Someone need to get the author a copy of GEB.
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    by floxy 1y ago

    I always thought someone should make a second Matrix movie.
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    by floxy 1y ago

    At least in the U.S., EV batteries have to be warrantied for 8 years or 100,000 miles.
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    by floxy 1y ago

    >Maybe in four years. Meta-irony(?)
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    by floxy 1y ago

    I think once self-driving cars reach a pretty low popularity threshold, that there will be a lot of pressure to get the worst offenders out of driving. Maybe due to insurance costs if nothing else. Like, you get a DUI conviction, and your
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    by floxy 1y ago

    I can't wait until all the alcoholics and elderly can get a self-driving vehicle.
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    by floxy 1y ago

    NASA also has plans for nuclear reactors on the moon: https://www.nasa.gov/space-technology-mission-directorate/td...
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    by floxy 1y ago

    >The Soviet Union landed a rover on Mars almost 30 years before NASA. The Mars 3 landed on Mars in 1971: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_3 The NASA Viking program landed on Mars in 1976: https://en.wik
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    by floxy 1y ago

    Presumably civilization will be using iron stars by then? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_star#Compact_iron_star_fo... ...although I'm not sure I've ever seen the expected temperature of iron stars. 1 mil
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    by floxy 1y ago

    Are you just looking at the photo to determine volcanoes and craters? Wouldn't we expect that with so much atmosphere on Venus, that meteors would have a much harder time reaching the surface? That is, much larger ones would burn up
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    by floxy 1y ago

    I suppose like anything there are multiple reasons, but what are the top 3 why California electric rates are so high (compared to the rest of the U.S.)? https://www.chooseenergy.com/electricity-rates-by-state/ Why does
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    by floxy 1y ago

    >getting the reverse solution (sum(?, 10)) Doing an "all modes" predicate: sum_list(List,Sum) ...where... sum_list([1,2,3], 6) ...is "True" as expected would probably be a pretty interesting exercise if
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    by floxy 1y ago

    >I could see ABS braking being fine for the back tire, but the idea of automatic braking on the front tire would scare me. Just to be clear, Anti-Lock Braking (ABS) is different than Automated Emergency Braking (AEB). https://
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    by floxy 1y ago

    >~24 rides / vehicle day I guess I don't know what to expect, but does 24 rides/day seem on the low side? Anyone know what the down time per car is for charging and/or cleanout? Looks like the Jaguar I-PACE has a 90