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by frankus 4y ago
And even when it's legal, it's often not "by right". So you end up with restrictions against e.g. renting out both the main house and the ADU.
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by frankus 4y ago
There’s a (YC?) company called Nimbus working on a similar class of vehicle: https://nimbusev.com/ . They’re still pre-series-production IIRC but if they pull it off it’s a similar price point for a much higher performance v
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by frankus 4y ago
It can also be hard to hear through e.g. a full-face helmet, or if you're (perhaps unwisely) wearing headphones.
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by frankus 4y ago
One caveat here is that it’s not clear if it’s “4 deaths downstream of the procurement of a OneWheel” or “4 deaths attributable to this particular failure mode”. There might be some number of “died riding a OneWheel after getting hit by a c
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by frankus 4y ago
It looks like most death rates for transportation products are measured in deaths per 100 million passenger miles. So 8 deaths seems like a reasonable estimate. By comparison, cars are about 1.5 deaths, and motorcycles are 25-30. For the ca
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by frankus 4y ago
It's a bit of a balance. It's great to be able to keep up with the 25 mph/40 kph traffic on city streets, but small bumps in the pavement are rough and of course there's quadratically more energy to manage in the event o
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by frankus 4y ago
It also seems like they could do haptics, i.e. superimpose an audio-frequency wave on the motor current. Similar to the steering feedback you get with a lane departure warning system. But then again it might be difficult/impossible to
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by frankus 4y ago
Hard agree. I'm not a huge fan of cross-platform dev tools in general[1], but in terms of code hygiene, documentation, and "it just works" factor, Flutter is way ahead of React Native. Admittedly it's more of a vibe than
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by frankus 4y ago
I feel like the next iteration of a React Native-like tool (if Flutter isn't your jam) could build on top of SwiftUI and JetPack compose.
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by frankus 4y ago
One thing that's always been a source of a tension for me is how to handle navigating around a "web of documents". There are limits to what you can do with "in-band" links in the text before they get to be contrived
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by frankus 4y ago
I've always thought that English is like the PHP* of natural languages: ubiquitous, borrows from every other language, and wildly inconsistent. *I cut my teeth on PHP3 and haven't used it in over a decade, and I hear it's got
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by frankus 4y ago
I have the opposite problem. My energy peaks in the mid-morning, which my workplace has set aside for meetings (partly because we have team members in an earlier time zone, and partly because the manager who set it up that way had a late ev
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by frankus 4y ago
Something like this could be interesting with active heat transfer, for example using it as the source side of a heat pump water heater. As long as the outgoing water remains above freezing, of course.
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by frankus 4y ago
A house with plenty of air exchange (either mechanical or because of a leaky air barrier) in a cold climate will tend to suffer from too low of humidity (cold air enters, and as it gets heated to room temperature the relative humidity drops
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by frankus 4y ago
Is there anything to the idea that saturated fats are less prone to blocking glucose metabolism? For example, this guy [1] argues that saturated fats can temporarily suppress insulin signaling to avoid overloading the cell with glucose whil
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by frankus 4y ago
Don't forget to subtract an hour if you're on daylight saving time.
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by frankus 4y ago
Historically the US has favored protectionism over subsidies, but my understanding is that subsidies are almost always a more economically optimal way of ensuring that strategically-important domestic industries are able to survive.
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by frankus 4y ago
If you’re making H2 from methane you’re obviously better off just burning the methane. Methane also has the advantage that it more or less will never compression ignite, so it can be mixed with the incoming air and then be ignited with a sm
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by frankus 4y ago
Swift has @autoclosure for this: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/Closures.htm...
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by frankus 4y ago
Slightly unrelated, but there’s a proposal to use a shared ownership/utility model for the borehole/trench component and install it in e.g. the street: https://heet.org/energy-shift/geomicrodistrict-feasibilit
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by frankus 4y ago
That's an interesting dilemma. I don't think Georgism fully solves the issue of returning community-created value to the community members who contributed to it. Of course the same is true under the current system for anyone who r
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by frankus 4y ago
This twitter thread ( https://twitter.com/_brohrer_/status/1232063619657093120 ) delivers.
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by frankus 4y ago
I wonder if it's related to the broader trend of lowered resting metabolic rate in humans. Not necessarily that the latter causes the former, but that some mechanism is driving both: an adaptation that tells the organism that it's
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by frankus 4y ago
I’ve often wondered if choosing Hertz as the name for “cycles per second” was some kind of scientific dad joke since 1 Hz ≈ human heart rate.
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by frankus 4y ago
I wonder what the memory model is, and if it's suitable for low-level and real-time code.
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by frankus 4y ago
I read somewhere that these had a mechanism that made all of the wheels follow in roughly the same track, but I haven't been able to find an explanation of how they made that work. Anyone happen to have a link/explanation? Edit: F
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by frankus 4y ago
I think most people would like if they could be productive 24/7 (or more realistically, consistently productive during their waking hours), but I think there is some amount of "waking rest" that humans need, or at least that
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by frankus 5y ago
The university where I did a post-bacc had a research project back in the late 1990s to build a TPV-powered hybrid electric car that used compressed natural gas to heat an emitter surrounded by water-cooled PV cells. With the technology at
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by frankus 5y ago
The engine was perfectly adequate with a 5-speed and front-wheel drive, but I can see how a 2000s automatic and the extra weight of AWD could make it sluggish.
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by frankus 5y ago
I bought one new in 2003 and this is spot on. I sold it in 2018 and still miss it (but wanted to tow more than 1500 lbs). The styling is definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but if it's ugly at least it's cute ugly rather th

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