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by ggreer 6y ago
You'll also need a time machine because Tesla patched this vulnerability.
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by ggreer 6y ago
Almost all of that (3.8 million) is indoor air pollution caused by cooking: https://www.who.int/data/gho/data/themes/topics/topic-detail...
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by ggreer 6y ago
Hydrogen vehicles will never become popular. There are several reasons for this: - To be carbon-neutral, the hydrogen must come from splitting water.[1] Currently hydrogen comes from steam reforming of methane (which releases lots of carbon
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by ggreer 6y ago
I’ve read his blog since 2008 (back when he was posting on LiveJournal). That doesn’t describe him at all. Anyone with more than a passing familiarity with Scott knows your accusations to be false.
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by ggreer 6y ago
Current Teslas can charge at up to 250kW using 480V DC at 520 amps. Efficiency is somewhere between 90-95%, so that's around 10kW of heat that the car has to dump. The car's cooling system runs through the battery pack, allowing i
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by ggreer 6y ago
> This implies that Tesla can view the vicinity and location of your car at any time. Is that true? I don't think the cars have the bandwidth to stream it in realtime, but they do upload bits of camera and telemetry data to help tra
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by ggreer 6y ago
Sure those are possibilities, but how likely are they in the cases I described? If they were true, we'd expect the opposite trends before regulation: increasing freight prices, fewer railroad companies, less competition on routes. But
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by ggreer 6y ago
I seriously doubt the story that government stepped in to stop railroads from colluding on prices. In Railroads and Regulation: 1877-1916 , Gabriel Kolko shows that before government regulation, more railroad companies were being founded o
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by ggreer 6y ago
They target different markets. The Yoga line are laptops that can convert to tablets, and this particular model is their flagship. Also this Yoga is both thinner and lighter than the MacBook Air.
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by ggreer 6y ago
This only seems to be for a special version of the X1 Yoga, not for all models in the X1 line. The new X1 Carbon is the same thickness as the previous generation: 14.9mm[1], though it looks like they reduced the bezels and redesigned the hi
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by ggreer 6y ago
> The moment I watch a gun video, I immediately get shown Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and The Blaze instead of all the cooking videos etc. I know recommendations are based on many factors that differ between us (such as location), but
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by ggreer 6y ago
The third sentence in the article: > The December combined plugin share of 19.2% was dominated by battery electric vehicles (BEVs) at 11.1% of the total auto market, with plugin hybrid vehicles (PHEVs) taking 8.1%. The article also has a
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by ggreer 6y ago
Can you provide more info about people being terrified of automatic elevators? I searched around and everything I found seems to cite one NPR article from 2015.[1] The interviewee's book is out of print and costs $100[2], so that'
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by ggreer 6y ago
I own a Tesla and I ride a motorcycle. I would much prefer to deal with 100% autopiloted Teslas than current human drivers. Teslas don't have blind spots. They have eight cameras that give 360 degree views around the car. They also h
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by ggreer 6y ago
Drones are used only for hobby/novelty purposes because the FAA effectively bans everything else. Amazon, UPS, FedEx, and others would love to do drone delivery, but they can’t get regulatory approval. Instead, they have to send trucks
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by ggreer 6y ago
If rocket damage is a concern, why don’t such rockets destroy themselves right after leaving the launchpad? At that point the water suppression is no longer relevant but the sound waves are just as powerful. It can’t just be that the ground
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by ggreer 6y ago
Then no companies would IPO.
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by ggreer 6y ago
> Well, this is why. Because, as a rule, if you are a researcher in academia you won't be asked to retract your research because it makes someone look bad. If your results go against current dogma, or if they reveal an uncomfortable
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by ggreer 6y ago
Wouldn't the quality of lab grown meat be better? You can clone the cells of the tastiest cow, grow them in perfect conditions, and guarantee that the meat has zero pathogens (allowing it to be eaten raw).
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by ggreer 6y ago
I'm not the one who brought up Greenwald's lies about Sam Harris. That was two other people. I'm simply trying to set the record straight. Regarding Greenwald's claim that he never supported the Iraq war: He redefines &q
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by ggreer 6y ago
Only put something in quotes if the person actually said it. Sam Harris never claimed the Iraq war was noble or well-intended. He never supported the Iraq war, though Greenwald initially did. From Greenwald's preface in How Would a Pa
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by ggreer 6y ago
In California, you cannot carry concealed except on your own property or on the property of a business you own.[1] Employees cannot carry concealed even if they have permission from the employer. 1. https://leginfo.legislature.ca
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by ggreer 6y ago
California forbids carrying a concealed firearm even if it is unloaded.[1] Also California's legal definition of a loaded gun is not what everyone thinks it means. For example, PC 25400 has extra penalties if the firearm is loaded or i
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by ggreer 6y ago
Is there any car on the road today that doesn't use hydraulic brakes? Sure the braking force is boosted by a pump, but even in the event of total electrical failure, pressing the brake pedal will push fluid through hydraulic lines and
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by ggreer 6y ago
Teslas drive fine without Internet access, but many features of the car need data: Maps, Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, smart summon, locking/unlocking from outside of Bluetooth range, etc. I don't think there's any Tesla feature
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by ggreer 6y ago
The point is to tax externalities so that incentives are aligned. In this case you'd get much less road wear for the same cargo delivered.
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by ggreer 6y ago
Shipping is important but current trucks aren’t the only way to transport goods. Taxing vehicles based on their road wear would incentivize the industry to move to smaller trucks that don’t cause as much damage to roads.
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Antivirus software corrupts universal macOS Nightly builds(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
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by ggreer 6y ago
Wages are the price of labor, and like all prices they are dictated by supply and demand. If there were fewer people both capable & willing to do the job, wages would rise. People choose these jobs because they are the best options avai
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by ggreer 6y ago
It’s not anti-EV sentiment. It’s anti-blanket-ban sentiment. Even a decade from now there will be some use cases where gas vehicles are a better fit than EVs. Instead of a blanket ban on new gas cars, it’s less coercive and more economicall

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