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by ggreer 3y ago
What car do you have that does this?
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by ggreer 3y ago
Is someone forcing you to drive a Tesla? Yes, many people find these touch screens annoying, and they’ll tend to buy cars with physical controls. But just like people who prefer physical keyboards on their phones, these consumers are a voca
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by ggreer 3y ago
That's not "no reason". The insurance company incorrectly listed the car as totaled and the DMV issued a salvage title for it. Tesla doesn't want chargers or vehicles to be damaged or destroyed, so they have a policy of
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by ggreer 3y ago
Unlike a normal aircraft flight, rocket launches constantly broadcast telemetry data and are watched with tracking cameras. Large leaks would be visible in the video footage, and the type of leak (fuel or oxygen) can be determined by the ch
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by ggreer 3y ago
It's been broken into three times or it's been stolen three times? Because any car is easily broken into. Just smash a window. South Korea's car theft rate is 5.3 per 100,000 per year. In the US it's 282. Canada is 217.
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by ggreer 3y ago
I guess Tesla doesn't have dealerships, so technically it excludes the Model 3 (which does meet all other criteria). Edit: He stealth-edited "doesn't stream video of me to someone else's computer" into the list, so
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by ggreer 3y ago
What year is your friend's Model X and what was the original rated range? All Model Xs sold before 2020 have an 8 year unlimited mile warranty on the drivetrain. If capacity is below 70% original, Tesla will replace the battery for fre
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by ggreer 3y ago
I am skeptical of this paper. If you go to Wikipedia's list of most intense tropical cyclones[1] and sort by barometric pressure, there doesn't seem to be much correlation with time. The biggest and most intense tropical cyclone i
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by ggreer 3y ago
That's part of the reason for their success. They iterate rapidly and learn from their mistakes. SpaceX destroyed nine Falcon 9 boosters and one test booster (Grasshopper) before managing to land one. Now they have more successful cons
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by ggreer 3y ago
Optical fiber has an index of refraction of around 1.6, so signals travel at around 0.6c. For a perfectly straight cross-continental link (5,000km) with no delays from amplification/retransmission, that's about 26 milliseconds. A
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by ggreer 3y ago
It still surprises me that after 38 years of this obviously ineffective and wasteful proposition, no group has gotten around to putting a repeal on the ballot.
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by ggreer 3y ago
Since Q2 of 2022, the majority of Teslas produced have been LFP. As of right now, the standard range and long range Model 3 and Model Y are LFP. The Model S, X, and the Performance versions of the 3/Y are NCA.
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by ggreer 3y ago
This is unlikely to happen for several reasons. First, battery technology has changed to require only one rare ore: lithium. Older battery chemistries required nickel and cobalt, but the most popular chemistry in electric vehicles today is
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by ggreer 3y ago
I'm guessing the author's website is misconfigured. Every path except the root returns an HTTP 404, but the 404 page loads some JavaScript that fetches assets based on the URL. For example, the ThinkPad blog post loads https:&#x2
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by ggreer 3y ago
Glock magazine bodies are plastic with integrated metal parts, so materials costs are lower but manufacturing is harder. Some companies make Glock-compatible magazines out of metal, and those have higher capacity in the same volume (eg: Shi
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by ggreer 3y ago
Other platforms use Glock magazines because they are popular, not because they are particularly high quality. The most reliable magazines are double stack, double feed. Glock magazines (like many other pistols) are double stack, single feed
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by ggreer 3y ago
The Glock 17 comes with 17 round magazines standard, though many police departments use extended magazines. Some pistols of that era had similar capacities, though it wasn't common. The Browning Hi Power came out in 1935 and had a 13 r
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by ggreer 3y ago
A lot of departments switched away from DA/SA pistols like the P220 because they require more training to use safely. After the first shot, the trigger is much lighter. If the user doesn't decock before holstering, there's a
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by ggreer 3y ago
The original Glock 17 was named because it was the company's 17th patent. The models after seem to be sequential by release date. eg: The Glock 18 is the full auto version of the Glock 17. The Glock 19 is a compact version. The Glock 2
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by ggreer 3y ago
If that were the case, liability insurance rates for self-driving vehicles would be much much higher than their manually piloted counterparts.
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by ggreer 3y ago
Adapters cost a few hundred dollars. That's not much compared to the cost of shipping a car across an ocean.
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by ggreer 3y ago
CCS is a worse standard than NACS. The connector is huge. Also CCS locks the cable on both sides (charger and car), so a bad charger or cable can strand your car. NACS locks only on the car side.
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by ggreer 3y ago
It's hard to make direct analogies because unlike gas vehicles, EVs "refuel" at home. You wake up every day with a full tank of gas. Fast DC chargers are mostly for road trips. And while it's a good thing that everyone h
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by ggreer 3y ago
Well it's not a normal booster. It's a test booster. Also normal boosters don't do a flip while getting blasted with rocket exhaust. SpaceX clearly has a winning method, as they have a success rate of 99.3% and hold the recor
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by ggreer 3y ago
SMS messages on iOS have always been green. iMessage was released four years after the original iPhone.
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by ggreer 3y ago
In April I’m going on a 10 day cruise through the Caribbean, then spending some time in Puerto Rico. In August people will be traveling to me, as I’m getting married. We’re not yet sure where we’ll go honeymooning.
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by ggreer 3y ago
Average health insurance cost in the US is $5,250 per year, which would put disposable income just below Norway. The median American would need an extra $15,000 in expenses each year to have less spending money than the median German. To ge
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by ggreer 3y ago
The concept of Americans being overworked and underpaid is simply incorrect. US PPP-adjusted median disposable income is $46,600/year. Only Luxembourg has higher amounts of disposable income. The average American works 1,765 hours per
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by ggreer 3y ago
You use the card to put down a deposit. Then you get a loan, and/or pay by check or bank transfer (or even cash, I guess).
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by ggreer 3y ago
E-bikes have a speed cap so they don’t get classified as motorcycles, which would require insurance, registration, and extra licensing to use on public roads. The problem with dynamic speed caps is that they fail in very dangerous ways. If

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