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by hx87 10y ago
If there is little need for work, extrinsic incentives to work don't matter much. Intrinsic incentives (i.e. work is fulfilling) will be enough.
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by hx87 10y ago
Not if you go all-electric. Motors are light, batteries are heavy, but battery packs give you much more packaging flexibility than an ICE engine.
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by hx87 10y ago
> We can't enforce that humans drive that way after they're licensed Wait, isn't that what traffic police are for? Sometimes I wish speed limits were universally removed so that police will be forced to enforce the other 9
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by hx87 10y ago
Now, if the various state DMVs could ensure that only the good human drivers get on the roads...
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by hx87 10y ago
> So I am asking how is that benefitting those who loos their jobs. They get cheaper and better self-driving cars. I know that's not nearly enough to compensate for lost income and self-worth. The rest of society has easily enough g
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by hx87 10y ago
How difficult would it be to swamp the monitoring system with noise?
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by hx87 10y ago
The metacops, obviously. Sort of like a super-internal affairs services who have jurisdiction only over other cops.
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by hx87 10y ago
Sounds like ICANN needs to replace the fee + tax scheme with Dutch auctions.
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by hx87 10y ago
It really depends on how you one-hand: arms locked at 12 o'clock, leaning toward the center is a terrible position, but left hand at 9/right hand at 3 (for RHD cars) is perfectly fine for steering response.
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by hx87 10y ago
It's not hard if the car has plenty of low end torque (e.g. turbodiesel) but yeah, learning in a peaky naturally aspirated sports car can be a handful.
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by hx87 10y ago
> It seems that the fatalities per billion vehicle kilometres will be skewed simply by the average trip length being longer in the US. Trip length figures into the denominator (deaths/billion kilometers ), so everything else being
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by hx87 10y ago
Don't most traction control equipped cars have a button to turn it off? Mine (Lexus LS600h L) does. > Try to do that in an automatic. I did that in my car with TC disabled with no problems.
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by hx87 10y ago
Manuals would probably shift driving away from the ignorant/nice/slow style of bad driving found in the southern US towards the attentive/aggressive style of bad driving found on the east coast. Definitely not more courteous,
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by hx87 10y ago
> but harder to maintain I'd have to dispute that--ATF change intervals are about the same as clutch change intervals (disregarding the "lifetime ATF" crap that manufacturers peddle) but cost far less, and otherwise automa
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by hx87 10y ago
> You can disengage a manual if you're quick with an intact clutch cable, but you're a bit lost in an automatic, especially if it's too powerful to hold on the brake. The typical car has brakes that can dissipate 4x the en
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by hx87 10y ago
It's much safer if that how you learned to drive from day one. Unfortunately most existing drivers don't have the skills to safely left-foot brake so that's how we teach new drivers.
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by hx87 10y ago
Your engine is designed to withstand fuel-air explosions. When engine braking, all it does is compress and expand air, at much lower pressures, so revolutions during engine braking are easier on your car than those during regular driving.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Who gets to be a scientist, and who gets to become a person with a lot of useless knowledge and an incurable sense of failure. And who goes into finance, software engineering, or some other tangentially related field where the skillset
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by hx87 10y ago
How is that due to high school physics rather than naive intuition?
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by hx87 10y ago
GM initially promised that the first generation Volt would be fully series-hybrid--the engine would drive the electrical generator and have no mechanical connection to the rest of the powertrain. This means that the engine can spin at its m
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by hx87 10y ago
> the bigger picture is what those clowns in NATO are doing and how that the world situation is pretty bad re: aggression towards Russia If the Russian government feels threatened by an ABM system that can shoot down maybe 10-20 missile
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by hx87 10y ago
> Google could provide easy ways to control Internet traffic and to gain root access. For example, they could grant access to builtin linux iptables which doesn't cost anything to implement. And Google is easier to influence than no
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by hx87 10y ago
The first gen Volt had a parallel-hybrid mode, which increases wear compared to a pure series-hybrid, so maintenance isn't as low as it could be.
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by hx87 10y ago
The problem isn't faith, it's narrow-mindedness about how the divine interacts with the world. God is bigger than you and doesn't hew to your preconceptions of them.
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by hx87 10y ago
Your point is right, but your example is terribly flawed, because as whateveracct notes, > and therefore, human rights are an outdated concept is a value judgement that cannot be derived from scientific principles.
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by hx87 10y ago
You can certainly have a rational debate on values without much understanding of science, but rational debate on policies to reach those goals would be impossible.
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by hx87 10y ago
> So, you could very easily end up with a single-issue candidate being "approved" by the vast majority and winning, even though absolutely nobody would choose them over any of the other candidates. If voters disagree about who
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by hx87 10y ago
You're reading a lot into Kevlar1818's posts that isn't necessarily there. It's possible to blame a phenomenon (the Spoiler Effect) without blaming its players (Democrats & third party candidates).
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by hx87 10y ago
> Why bother with remote power generation and such, when I can hang stuff on my roof and get free energy? Because the sun is down for about half a day each day. However, halfway across the world, the sun is shining. Wouldn't it be n
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by hx87 10y ago
If Walmart needs parking spaces in order to make revenue, then Walmart will put up parking spaces, government-mandated minimums or not.

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