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by gibolt 6y ago
Doesn't have to be mods. Could be experts above a threshold via voting. After a year, the owner should perhaps no longer own the question. They've already gotten the answer, and now it only matters to new viewers. If the answer ch
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by gibolt 6y ago
I'm in the top 0.2% for the year, only started in earnest less than 2 years ago. I got tired of always seeing outdated answers as the top, so I actively started searching them out (JS first, then Android) and answering with the newest
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by gibolt 6y ago
Totally agree, but I'm not sure which government would fund it. I know the US heavily funds quite a few dev tools, but would be reluctant to fund large consumer facing tools without multiple country cooperation.
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by gibolt 6y ago
In the future, AI overlords will determine that it is inefficient to drive airplanes, and will instead put humans in what they'll call a cockpit. This room is where they'll be raised, before ready for service.
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by gibolt 6y ago
AI can run the show locally, with a remote operator making the actionable decisions. Military drones already operate this way, without much onboard smarts. Not something I'm excited about, but likely inevitable.
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by gibolt 6y ago
Would it matter? When presented options, they aren't required to choose the best on a given metric. They can choose any, as long as the votes align. Perhaps the founders believed their product would go further (not die) under Amazon or
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by gibolt 6y ago
Codebases and products aren't that simple. Changes and maintenance cost money and time. In this case, they deemed it to not be worth the expense to resolve the potential security issues (which can never be truly resolved).
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by gibolt 6y ago
There are tons of people who could have replaced their car with rideshare and maybe some public transit, and still come out cheaper. Insurance, parking, fuel, depreciation, maintenance, and random events add up. If you don't need it fo
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by gibolt 6y ago
If these are passenger aircraft, that probably wouldn't fly
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by gibolt 6y ago
Yes, gentle :D
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by gibolt 6y ago
I'd love to see a future where part of a plane's battery pack is a detachable drone that could fly back right after takeoff (most taxing on energy use) and thus decrease the weight of the plane. You could also have battery swaps d
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by gibolt 6y ago
Getting a satellite into the planned orbit is often takes quite a while, because every bit of onboard fuel either adds cost or reduces available instrument weight. That is is becoming more commercially viable to begin operation immediately
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by gibolt 6y ago
The vast majority of those users likely also have a Facebook, Instagram, and/or Whatsapp account. Without Facebook's funding, none of the recent advancements are likely to exist in the first place. Valve hasn't done it, HTC h
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by gibolt 6y ago
For the headline!
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by gibolt 6y ago
Everything has costs. Nothing is free. Public education funding has to come from somewhere so that educators can eat and classrooms can be built and maintained. Financial transactions are not inherently bad. They are one half of value trans
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by gibolt 6y ago
You probably should add a 5-20% take of atttendees first 6 month or year pay. You could argue that is 'expensive', but the value add for the students is probably more than they made otherwise with no upfront cost. Your incentives
557.
by gibolt 6y ago
How are you planning to keep this sustainable for the long term? Burning out one's personal finances doesn't sound like it furthers your mission/passion.
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by gibolt 6y ago
The real problem is we don't know how much methane is leaking or from where. It isn't required to be tracked.
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by gibolt 6y ago
It is to their advantage. They get all the search ad revenue
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by gibolt 6y ago
I'm talking about every optimization that reduces repairability. While I'd prefer to be able to fix things, just producing and shipping a whole new unit to a small subset may be less wasteful overall (at that scale) than designi
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by gibolt 6y ago
The reduction in size/complexity at Tesla/Apple scale may actually be an overall benefit. Thought experiment: Imagine that the overall material required is cut by 10-20% by tons of optimizations and reductions. That means the supp
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by gibolt 6y ago
It is a business + an insurance business. They are highly incentivized to drive down costs and have proven that constantly.
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by gibolt 6y ago
Why not? However, anything related to the battery/charging swapped out on the recipient Tesla may disable Supercharging.
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by gibolt 6y ago
Technological leaps happen when something new or uncommon becomes widely available. How many cost prohibitive applications become possible when the cost of any available raw mineral drops by at least one order of magnitude?
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by gibolt 6y ago
Don't forget that Google stores probably at least 3 copies of each for redundancy and multiple sizes. Wouldn't want your only ice cube to melt
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by gibolt 6y ago
*useful and financially competitive
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by gibolt 6y ago
VTOL and several other major capability differences really should change the certification process. Current certifications a designed around certain engineering constraints. Nearly all existing planes operate with the same basic parts, than
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by gibolt 6y ago
Being the one to say 'I don't drink' is generally awkward, as few people expect that response. What I've found is usually at least one other person per ~10 people will follow up and say they don't either. From there
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by gibolt 6y ago
I wonder if the same crowd that refuses to wear a mask has a high overlap with that increase. They tend to stick to old habits (going out unrestricted) and being more self-focused. A higher percentage of that personality on the road would i
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by gibolt 6y ago
Do you use any transit other than legs? Bike, E-bike, public transit, train, skateboard, scooter...?

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