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by ggreer 4y ago
I lost a couple percent per day when leaving my car parked in 10°F weather. It’s about the same as enabling sentry mode. If the car is plugged in– even to a typical 120V wall plug– it’ll charge and warm the battery even in single digit temp
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by ggreer 4y ago
If the FBI requests something, and you ignore or refuse them, they will find a way to make your life unpleasant. Remember, this organization has a long history of human rights abuses and illegal actions. They even tried to blackmail MLK.[1]
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by ggreer 4y ago
There are many more crimes than murders, and the chances of getting caught are much lower. For example: in San Francisco, the clearance rate for reported larcenies is 2.9%.[1] So a thief can expect to steal another 23 times before having
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by ggreer 4y ago
It's not easy to work out the statistics because the vast majority of crimes go unsolved. The sensational headlines are the ones where criminals managed to get caught. The ones who were out on bail (or released on their own recognizanc
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by ggreer 4y ago
Doesn't that argument prove too much? In the past, people's lives were shorter and more full of misery. Every improvement we've gotten has been due to people rejecting your philosophy. Assuming one can live longer (without be
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by ggreer 4y ago
It seems to be luck more than anything. After I got vaccinated in April of 2021, I've just lived life normally: Going bowling with friends, going to bars, etc. I only wore a mask if someone ordered me to. I still haven't gotten co
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by ggreer 4y ago
GiveWell explains their reasoning here[1]. For each of their top charities, they give a measure of cost-effectiveness and explain why they believe the charity has such a high impact.[2] For a decade, one of GiveWell's top charities was
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by ggreer 4y ago
The effective altruism movement has been around for over a decade. SBF's financing has been very beneficial, but EA isn't dependent on one financier or organization. At this point it's like moneyball: a concept that can be us
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by ggreer 4y ago
I'm pretty sure it's Hobbes who is acting in bad faith. Most of his links are to things that don't support his claims. For example, he'll claim that puberty blockers are completely reversible, but link to an NHS site tha
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by ggreer 4y ago
Wayback Machine will remove archived tweets. For example, Taylor Lorenz’s tweets were erased after she requested it.[1] Other archives get removed if the people running the Internet Archive dislike the content. Similar to how Paypal isn’t a
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by ggreer 4y ago
The author of this article is a public defender in the pacific northwest. He sometimes writes for Jesse Singal, but he also has his own substack.[1] Many of his posts provide a unique window into the criminal justice system. If that sounds
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by ggreer 4y ago
Your spam info link is to Truecaller, which measures how much their users in each country get spam calls. That's definitely not a random sample of each country's users, so it's hard to say whether their conclusions are corr
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by ggreer 4y ago
Only the Model Ys that come out of the Texas factory have 4680 cells, and their production volume is still ramping up.[1] 1. https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1571037989282906112
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by ggreer 4y ago
Right out of the gate it makes this claim: > That investors are extractive parasites who weaponize capital to passively extract wealth from the contributor class. I’m reminded of David Friedman’s explanation as to why this isn’t the case
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by ggreer 4y ago
People have run this experiment. A 1,000 mile road trip in a Tesla is about 8% slower than a gas car.[1] That's 90 minutes over 19 hours of driving, and the difference would have been smaller had they charged the car overnight. Battery
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by ggreer 4y ago
It's the straw + lid combo that is most advantageous. It lets you drink in a vehicle without worrying about spilling. Reusable options like sippy cups are a non-starter for any sort of takeout or fast food. I recently spent a week in T
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by ggreer 4y ago
To transfer gas into a tank, it has to go from higher pressure to lower pressure. If the pressure is equal, you won't transfer any gas. Also an empty tank is pretty much at atmospheric pressure. Gas has to expand to pressurize it. The
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by ggreer 4y ago
Hydrogen looks good on paper but has a lot of practical issues. - Currently, the most economically efficient method to obtain hydrogen is by methane steam reforming. This releases a lot of CO2. - If you want to get hydrogen without making C
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by ggreer 4y ago
Autopilot is terrible in europe because of EU laws. Driver assist systems in the EU cannot impart more than 3 m/sec^2 of lateral acceleration[1], which means they're useless for many turns. Another restriction is that lane changes
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by ggreer 4y ago
By default you have to continuously press a button to move the car. Also the car has cameras and ultrasonic sensors. You can set thresholds for how close you want the car to get to obstacles. I think the default is 2 feet. The car will refu
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by ggreer 4y ago
Tesla only lets people with a safety score[1] of 98 or higher into the FSD beta. They've been slowly lowering the threshold since the initial 2020 rollout. I think around 60,000 Teslas have FSD beta right now, or about 3% of the fleet.
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by ggreer 4y ago
Radar has poor resolution, which means it can't always differentiate between an object near the car's path and an object in the car's path. The radar can give false positives when there's a truck on the side of the road
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by ggreer 4y ago
That's the impression I got as well. That made me discount Agner's arguments since they apply to Apple's M1, and the M1 is great in both raw performance and power efficiency.
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by ggreer 4y ago
Florida & New York “agree” because they’re both governed by the FDA. Even if a state wanted to import German baby formula, the federal government would not allow it.
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by ggreer 5y ago
Self-driving cars substitute for human-driven cars, which currently kill over a million people a year. If the first mass-adopted self-driving cars have half the fatality rate per mile of human-driven cars, then slowing their rollout by a da
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by ggreer 5y ago
Note that the only vulnerable version was @vue/cli v5.0.2, which was intended to pin the version of node-ipc to v9.2.1 but accidentally allowed versions greater than that: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli/comm
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by ggreer 5y ago
You can't use autopilot or FSD while on your phone. I've tested this myself. Within a second or two you're alerted to grab the wheel and look ahead. If you don't, you'll get locked out of autopilot for the rest of y
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by ggreer 5y ago
A lot of people in this thread are mixing up the FSD option (that you buy for your car) with the invite-only FSD beta. Currently the non-beta FSD will drive itself on limited access roads (basically taking you from onramp to offramp, changi
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by ggreer 5y ago
Price controls are almost always a terrible idea. Economists agree on this as much as dentists agree that sugared gum is bad for your teeth. If the price of a good increases, several things happen: - People reduce their consumption of that
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by ggreer 5y ago
USPS already has different vehicles for different routes. It seems like the best solution would be EVs in urban areas and gasoline for long routes (at least until EVs improve). That said, I'm not sure why the postal service needs uniqu

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