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by ggreer 3y ago
I've owned a Tesla for three years and I often use the summon feature to fix a sub-optimal parking job, scoot the car forward so I can use the trunk, or drive the car out of a puddle that has accumulated during a rain storm. In that ti
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by ggreer 3y ago
It's not feasible to transport Starship or Super Heavy halfway across the Pacific. Even if you could, the launch site on Omelek Island is part of the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site[1] which is controlled by the US mi
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by ggreer 3y ago
I'm pretty sure ITAR prevents US companies from exporting orbital rocket technology, as it's dual-use. Any government with access to a SpaceX rocket could learn a lot about how to develop long range missiles.
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by ggreer 3y ago
High speed rail costs $20M-$250M/mile to construct. So laying 19,000 miles of track across the Americas would cost anywhere from $380 billion to $5 trillion. At 200mph, it would take 4 days to go from one end to the other. Maintenance
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by ggreer 3y ago
Yes, CCS is the worst of the charging standards and Americans are fortunate that the government didn’t mandate it. Thanks to EU legislation, Europeans are now stuck with a comically huge connector that can leave them stranded if they get an
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by ggreer 3y ago
I doubt there will be any noticeable difference. NACS's communication protocol is the same as CCS, and adapters exist in both directions. NACS's plug is smaller because the primary pins support both AC and DC. CCS uses separate pi
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by ggreer 3y ago
What EVs on the road today have hub motors? That unsprung mass would ruin handling. Also the motor could easily be damaged by hard bumps from potholes or curbs.
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by ggreer 3y ago
I doubt it would be economically feasible to convert existing cars to hydrogen. If you want to use a hydrogen fuel cell, you'd have to replace the gas engine with a hydrogen fuel cell and electric motor, then mate that to the existing
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by ggreer 3y ago
KDE Connect requires both devices to be connected to the same network, which means you have to connect your devices to the same VPN if you're on a wifi network with client isolation (most public wifi). If you're away from wifi, yo
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by ggreer 3y ago
A big reason why consoles aren't as general purpose is because their app stores are more restrictive than phone app stores. Also this reasoning leads to some odd policy outcomes. If console manufacturers increased their prices so tha
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by ggreer 3y ago
That's not true. The original HTC Vive has the same refresh rate (90Hz) and field of view (110° horizontal), but the Quest 3's resolution is 2064x2208 per eye while the Vive's is 1080x1200. The Vive XR Elite has the same refr
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by ggreer 3y ago
I'm pretty sure productivity refers mixed reality stuff such as projecting virtual screens and objects in the environment around you.[1] That requires more computation than rendering a fully virtual scene. 1. https://www.you
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by ggreer 3y ago
Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo restrict their game consoles in the same way. Are all three monopolies that are somehow competing with each other? Why is it good for the government to force Apple to open up their hardware, but bad to do the s
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by ggreer 3y ago
How is Apple a monopoly? iPhones are less than 20% of phones sold in the world. Samsung sells more phones than Apple.
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by ggreer 3y ago
Isn't that done because independent modular systems make it a lot easier to build stuff inside of such a large company? Bezos said as much in 2002 when he issued his API mandate.[1][2] 1. https://chrislaing.net/blog&#x2
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by ggreer 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the beer laws hurt small breweries and consumers. Back in the 1980s when these laws were at their most numerous and strictest, the market was dominated by a few macrobreweries. Even today, the states that restrict brewe
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by ggreer 3y ago
Because the story is fiction. There are so many variables that would change the amount of time the engine is stopped: where you parked, how long the line at the register is, whether you had exact change or not. Also the ambient temperature
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by ggreer 3y ago
Is there any situation in which drivers disregard what they see and rely on sound instead? Sound informs what we look at, but we rely entirely on sight to drive.
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by ggreer 3y ago
The problem with sensor fusion is what do you do when the sensors disagree? You have to decide which sensor to trust. But LiDAR is subject to interference, and it can’t see lane markings, traffic lights, speed limit signs, or emergency vehi
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by ggreer 3y ago
How is that argument different from banning Signal? eg: People don't use end-to-end encrypted messaging because there are better options that better meet their needs. Most people's needs don't include "the government can
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by ggreer 3y ago
I've owned seven vehicles in my lifetime. Five of them were paid for with cash transactions greater than $3,000. It's quite common for private sellers to prefer cash.
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by ggreer 3y ago
That's not true. The fog lights and premium audio both require hardware retrofits.
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by ggreer 3y ago
Before November of 2021, the cheapest Model 3 had heated front seats, and the rear heated seats could be unlocked for $300 (later reduced to $200).[1] In November of 2021, they made heated seats standard. I think the only software unlocks a
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by ggreer 3y ago
Of course not, but drones substitute for more than just delivery drivers, and delivery drivers do run over people regularly. Searching for terms like "fedex driver crash" gets you plenty of crashes and a decent number of deaths.[1
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by ggreer 3y ago
Drones are point to point delivery, which is why they're currently used for transporting high priority items like cooked food and blood transfusions. If drones were legalized in more places, they'd substitute for quick trips to th
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by ggreer 3y ago
Drone deliveries substitute for cars and trucks, which kill 20 pedestrians every day in the US.
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by ggreer 3y ago
If you read the original arguments in favor of freedom of speech, it's actually quite easy to determine who should prevail. Back in 1644, John Milton argued in favor of allowing bad ideas to be published for the following reason[1]: &g
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by ggreer 4y ago
The biggest cost of producing parts is making the tooling to mass produce them. Manufactures will retool to produce other stuff once they have enough of a given part, but if there's a shortage (or they think there will be one soon) the
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by ggreer 4y ago
> Except SpaceX’s failure rates are similar with every other successful launch system. Falcon 9 has the record for most consecutive successful orbital launches. Their last failure was AMOS-6 in September of 2016. Since then they've
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by ggreer 4y ago
The stats woefully underestimate actual crime rates because people have stopped reporting much of it. I only reported the vehicle thefts and one of the assaults. The police are so useless that it’s more of an inconvenience to wait around fo

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