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by floxy 1y ago
Anyone have a guess as to how much less material intensive a dedicated robotaxi might be? Right now ride share cars are the same as ever other automobile. But maybe a robotaxi could be smaller, like the 2 seat Cybercab. So you are saving
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by floxy 1y ago
Nissan is still selling 2,300 LEAFs in the U.S. per quarter, with a much worse charging story. https://usa.nissannews.com/en-US/releases/nissan-group-repor...
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by floxy 1y ago
My understanding is that the dealer has to have the tax liability. IANATL, YMMV.
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by floxy 1y ago
Let's make up an example. Let's say you earn $75,000/year and the tax rate is 10%. So you owe $7,500 in taxes. That is your tax liability. It doesn't matter if you have your employer deducting $144 from your weekly p
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by floxy 1y ago
Anyone have a guess as to how close Waymo is to break-even? What is the bottle neck for expanding operations? Is it just due to the high capital costs of the lidar, etc. hardware? Cost of the EV's? Mapping of new cities? Hiring &#
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by floxy 1y ago
>(Or "third car" for people with money to spare.) ...or have a spouse and many driving age children. I'm currently in the market for car for the fifth driver in the family.
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by floxy 1y ago
>at $20.000USD it's to much. Tell me you haven't purchased a vehicle in the current millennium, without telling me? >15.000USD for the extend range version Buy a used one in 2035 with 80k miles?
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by floxy 1y ago
What you have withheld is not part of the equation. It is your tax liability that matters.
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by floxy 1y ago
Even finer print: the $7,500 federal incentive is a tax rebate. If you don't have a $7,500 tax liability, you won't get the full amount. (this also applies if you transfer the credit to the dealer at point of sale). I mean, mon
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by floxy 1y ago
>I don't think they even have a prototype built yet https://insideevs.com/news/757237/slate-ev-spotted-los-angel... https://insideevs.com/news/757649/slate-auto-truck-suv-revea...
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by floxy 1y ago
OP was probably referring to electric pickup trucks.
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by floxy 1y ago
CrowdStrike
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by floxy 1y ago
OSH Park makes their circuit boards in the USA: https://oshpark.com/
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by floxy 1y ago
Apparently the hybrid hatchback Civic was made in Japan, but now Honda is moving production to the U.S. https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/honda-shift-product...
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by floxy 1y ago
I'd think a shotgun would be the only kinetic weapon a reasonable person would use to disable drones at distance. https://aaronhall.com/understanding-the-reasonable-person-st...
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by floxy 1y ago
Server farms in general? Up to 46% of Virginia's electric consumption projected to be data centers in 2030: https://www.epri.com/research/products/000000003002028905 ...see Table A1 on PDF page 29.
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by floxy 1y ago
https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/blue-states-dont-build-red-sta...
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by floxy 1y ago
Why do lithium battery prices keep going down? Because the Chinese are subsidizing everything for us? Or that battery production is getting more efficient over time? I guess my spidey sense gets a little tingly when sourcing data from pa
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by floxy 1y ago
Smells like a Tide-detergent-is-being-used-as-"drug currency" type of underground advertising. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=tide+detergent+%22drug+curr... The Suit is Back! https://paulgraham.co
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by floxy 1y ago
Whats up with "gifting" all of a sudden? Doesn't seem historically common. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=giving%2Cgifti...
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by floxy 1y ago
"Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser-Pushed Lightsails" https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...
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by floxy 1y ago
Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission (with 1 km resolution) https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.08421 ...and someone made an awesome video about it: https://www
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by floxy 1y ago
We'll have colonized the galaxy in 10 million years. In 200 million years, I'd expect that some future historical society could undertake a project to clean out the heavy elements in the Sun to keep it going.
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by floxy 1y ago
I was expecting "these owls in towels don't exist", but this is not that.
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by floxy 1y ago
>Electric propulsion using high power laser beaming makes way more sense outside the atmosphere for non-launch use cases "Roundtrip Interstellar Travel Using Laser-Pushed Lightsails" https://ia800108.us.archive.org&#
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by floxy 1y ago
Why would they just ban it for automobiles? That seems like one of the best case uses. What other applications are more important? Aerospace? Fishing rods?
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by floxy 1y ago
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by floxy 1y ago
If you haven't seen it, you'll probably like: https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
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by floxy 2y ago
I'm curious what factors might cause the job start time to drift? Isn't this a coordination problem? You want all of you employees to start at the same time, so the assembly line can keep operating. All the kids start school at
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by floxy 2y ago
Honey bees do the waggle dance though: https://animalwise.org/2011/08/25/the-honeybee-waggle-dance-...

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