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by johngalt 11y ago
OT: I've always wondered if powered mini-transportation tools like electric boards and scooters could fix the gaps in mass transit. Make it so that stops are less frequent/further apart, with the assumption that the last few miles
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by johngalt 11y ago
Separate process and identity. It's not "I/we succeeded, or failed." Rather it is "we've found what works and what doesn't work".
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by johngalt 11y ago
Background: http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-richard-glo...
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by johngalt 11y ago
I can certainly buy the narrative that the military is spending too much money or designing weapons for the 'last war'. Yet I have a nagging suspicion that this is like the business users complaining that IT won't just buy ev
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by johngalt 11y ago
They are referring to Europe as a political entity not as the geographical feature. GB has generally considered itself separate from 'Europe' as a polity. It would be like referring to someone from Cuba as 'American' bec
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by johngalt 11y ago
The Concorde is one of those early implementations that is just big enough to barely work, yet never really succeeds, while also sucking all the air out of the room for any other ideas. The aviation fan side of me would love to see the Conc
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by johngalt 11y ago
Passion causes burnout. Have you ever noticed that the people who just punch a clock and go home never experience burn out? Even if they end up working overtime? It's always the people who identify with their work that get burned.
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by johngalt 11y ago
I got a glimpse into this when I talked to someone who was following the nightscout program for their child. http://www.nightscout.info/ They were non-technical people. Yet they had an android phone connected to a medical d
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by johngalt 11y ago
Have you ever met someone who was a hobbyist or amateur engineer at best, but always has grand ideas about how things should work? But has no idea of the type of investment or execution it would take to pull off. That is what I think of w
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by johngalt 11y ago
Thinner air produces less drag. You can travel faster over air that is less dense. Meaning the total volume of air flowing over the wing still remains high enough to provide lift. A 400mph glider would get torn apart at normal pressures, bu
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by johngalt 11y ago
Not simply charging ahead scientifically, but actively hawkish. "If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o' clock, I say why not one o' clock?" - John von Neumann
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by johngalt 11y ago
I was mostly skeptical that AI weapons would be some sort of novel threat. We've had weapons that choose to kill on their own since the landmine. There are also weapons that could fight/end an entire war with the push of one butto
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by johngalt 11y ago
The mass and orbital velocity of jupiter are large enough that this is a non issue.
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by johngalt 11y ago
Get enough sleep and physical activity. In my experience the brain follows the body. An active mind is generated by an active body. Likewise a sleepy and listless mind can be created easily.
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by johngalt 11y ago
Miles are overrated as a unit of wear. I sincerely doubt a one year old car with 100k miles will require replacement. I would double or triple the authors expected vehicle lifespan.
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by johngalt 11y ago
I'm not sure how true this is anymore. An OBD scanner makes the computer work for you. Modifications are certainly more difficult, but repair is easier IMHO. It is vastly easier to go replace the one bad fuel injector on a 2005 than
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by johngalt 11y ago
> If a debt were a guarantee, then there would be no basis for charging interest. Time value of money?
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by johngalt 11y ago
You define someone who doesn't drink beer as a religious fanatic? How about someone who doesn't eat pork? How do you not see this as wrong? It is the attitude you claim to despise, that you are currently exhibiting.
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by johngalt 11y ago
Do you realize it is you being the bigot here?
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by johngalt 11y ago
Reminds me of DnD. I wonder if there is any correlation between DMs and game designers.
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by johngalt 11y ago
"If there is one thing economists know, it's how to produce a shortage." https://youtu.be/m_IulzK6b0E
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by johngalt 11y ago
'Techies' already know that technology is not god. I don't criticize computers for not dissolving class disparities for the same reason that I don't criticize an amortization table for not solving poverty. This doesn&#x2
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by johngalt 11y ago
Structuring is withdrawing cash in under 10k increments to avoid the automatic reports that occur over 10k. You wouldn't be in trouble for structuring for withdrawing 15k every week, because you would trigger a CTR every week. More acc
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by johngalt 11y ago
No from both perspectives. Engineering wise there isnt much cross over between electric motors and ICEs. Think of all the systems that would need replacement, removal or modifications. You would end up with an electric car with exceptionall
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by johngalt 11y ago
CA gets a ridiculously oversize portion of the river. The 'Colorado' river is mostly an Arizona watershed. Yet the rules are basically 'Arizona gets what's left after CA is done.' http://en.wikipedia.org&
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by johngalt 11y ago
I can pick up a rock and throw it at the water so it skips across the surface. It takes less than a second. How many calculations did I just do? We are 'slow' only when we formalize the problem.
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by johngalt 11y ago
I am in the middle of these two groups. Often "Stay current", "It's different with modern ideas/methods", etc... Expressions commonly used by people who want to ignore the lessons that other people had to learn
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by johngalt 12y ago
Former BBS sysop here. No idea where any of my old backups are. It has been almost 20 years. When BBS's died it was both quick and quiet. It is hard to describe. It wasnt like a retirement party where we all sat around toasting the yea
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by johngalt 12y ago
Rendezvous with Rama - A. C. Clarke SPOILERS A third option to alien contact. Not peace or war but simply indifference. Skewers the human hubris at the center of most sci-fi novels.
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by johngalt 12y ago
Let me put it another way. If it is comparatively cheap to get to any of the other planets. Couldn't we just go to Neptune and stop our orbital velocity from there where it's only 5kms? How about exiting planetary orbits retrograd

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