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by iaw 10y ago
I don't think the fundamental question is how these branes exist. The fundamental question is: what's the most basic truths that we can ever know? If there are hyperdimensional branes the likelihood is that we wont be able to lear
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by iaw 10y ago
I've downvoted your comment because your tone isn't constructive and you're making a rather illogical jump to the philosophical arguments of Spinoza in comparison to questions around modern measurable/observable phenomen
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by iaw 10y ago
The why of it goes back to Feynman's explanation of magnetism to me. At some point we should be able to reach a set of fundamental laws that may be themselves be a manifestation of an unmeasurable set of fundamental laws. The takeaway
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by iaw 10y ago
Thank you for highlighting this, you are completely correct. The "rule of thumb" was not a moral law to follow. I lack the eloquence at the moment to reformulate my statements other than to say that in financial interactions betw
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by iaw 10y ago
I was not aware of this fact. IANAL, but it does look as if the concept of a deed is being abused in this context. Kind of like where employers call employees "contractors" because they can get away with it. It looks like the pu
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by iaw 10y ago
In order for a contract to be considered enforceable both parties must receive consideration[1]. When you worked at the company your consideration was continued employment. Were I in your shoes I'd ask for an amount of consideration w
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by iaw 10y ago
What are an individuals demonstrated motivations for emigrating? If not residency, then what does the individual want from the country and what will they provide back to the country in return? A resident, theoretically, contributes to the
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by iaw 10y ago
> The fact that big money is being funneled into the idea makes it more plausible that ever. Big money has been funneled into a number of pipe dreams before, it didn't make them practical.
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by iaw 10y ago
That was my assessment as well. Even worse for commuter vehicles because of the various property laws and regional egress requirements.
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by iaw 10y ago
I'm trying to reduce the hostility of my posts. What parts of this do you feel was hostile? Edit: We've hit the end of the reply chain. I see your point about both the opening and closing sentences. Is there any way to say the
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by iaw 10y ago
That's an asinine statement if I've ever read one. I've been present for 2 highways collisions, avoiding them is super easy. Which is why full lane closures and multi-car pile-ups are as infrequent as they are relative to
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by iaw 10y ago
It'll make sense for us to travel to mars, colonize outer space, cure cancer, and a whole host of other things that are presently impossible. Computers and elevators aren't comparable analogies, perhaps the jetpack is?
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by iaw 10y ago
China specifically and any other area where the fixed costs of operation for Uber outpace any marginal cost they can get off the region due to exchange rate inequalities.
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by iaw 10y ago
> allows for a single car to fly from A to B safely "Safely" will never mean a 0% crash rate. So, when a failure occurs that causes the vehicle to crash uncontrollably the property damage and casualty level will be determined
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by iaw 10y ago
I'm glad you make this comparison because it leads directly to my point about why flight (in these forms) is infeasible as a broad consumer commute technology. In 1950 a car cost ~$1.5K in the US, GDP per capita was ~9.6K. So it was a
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by iaw 10y ago
My formal training is in mechanical engineering and economics. You are completely right about the gradual reduction in cost and increases in efficiency over time for all mechanical technology. There are two things I feel you neglect: a) Th
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by iaw 10y ago
The ownership cost of a small Cessna drastically exceeds that of a hummer (purchase price + certification + maintenance). I'll take your word that they have equivalent fuel efficiencies. Cost isn't a big deal when it's less
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by iaw 10y ago
> I'm biased because I used to work with many of the people Uber hired for self-driving cars, but they bought really great engineering talent I think that's a fair perspective and I don't discount the capabilities and tale
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by iaw 10y ago
> That only ensures that flying cars will always be more expensive than ground cars, not that per capita income will always be too low to have mass adoption of flying cars. True, but the economics of energy/housing/transit indi
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by iaw 10y ago
> The optimal altitude flown would be lower for shorter trips Where does the column of flying cars go? Do they expand vertically or horizontally as traffic increases? In the underpopulated area's of the US where 10% of the populat
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by iaw 10y ago
You are completely right. Shipping automation has a lot of potential. I don't think Uber has any strong competitive advantage in the self-driving space relative to all of the other players. I've been wrong about these things bef
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by iaw 10y ago
Just from a conservation of energy perspective it has to be net-negative. There is going to be something fed into entropy and that something had to come from somewhere. I think this isn't interesting for terrestrial usage but for spac
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by iaw 10y ago
They've raised a lot of money in the last 18 months (likely in anticipation of an evolving financial environment) so I suspect they actually have a couple years left if they're careful. It's like they're stumbling forw
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by iaw 10y ago
I share your theory. I think Uber was dominant and in a great position financially until it tried to aggressively continue it's expansion into immature markets using subsidies. Their fixed costs have exploded while revenue hasn'
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by iaw 10y ago
This strikes me as pretty pathetic effort by Uber to make itself appear forward looking Flying is not a valid commute solution and never will be because of physics. All things equal, the energy requirements to change elevation will be too
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by iaw 10y ago
At a previous job my manager complained incessantly about my arrival and leave times but could not find an instance where I wasn't responsive, available, and getting done everything that needed to be. The reason I wasn't more resp
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by iaw 10y ago
I don't think the tech talent is what drives Amazon's success as much as you imply. I already have a strong distaste for Amazon and have been using Newegg where possible.
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by iaw 10y ago
Consumer fiber-optic for $40/month just hit my area. The advertised speeds are 1000 Mbps down, 100 Mbps up. I've been able to sustain 760 Mbps down and 105 Mbps up, it's the most satisfying experience I've had on the in
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by iaw 10y ago
I honestly don't know enough to answer that question. The complexities of international politics plus the One China & Separate but Equal HK status makes it something one could spend a lifetime studying to begin to speak intelligen
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by iaw 10y ago
>that they're basically slower to market than the clones This raises an important question about economics, free markets, and what it is for a product to be a 'clone.' Is it only necessary to have an idea for a product and

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