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by kodis 9y ago
Additionally, these trucks come with a one million mile warranty. I don't know how many millions of miles a conventional truck is expected to last, but with a Tesla truck, the maintenance costs should be fairly low, at least the first
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US government approves 'killer' mosquitoes to fight disease(nature.com)
2 points by kodis 9y ago|0 comments
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by kodis 9y ago
I don't think so. In fact, since they're comparing very similar pools of cars and drivers with the introduction of Autopilot being the major difference, I'd think that this is a more valid comparison than one which compares
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by kodis 9y ago
I wonder what would happen if some good Samaritan busted out the window of a cop car to save the life of the K9 dog inside. I suspect that this would be treated as less than the heroic gesture that it is when saving a civilian dog.
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by kodis 9y ago
I'll buy a bag or two, just to encourage research into what benefits these types of genetic modification techniques can bring to market. I hope their business results are as successful as their produce results seems to be.
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by kodis 9y ago
It's appalling how so many nutrition experts have gotten this so wrong for so long.
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Cummins Beats Tesla to the Punch, Unveiling Heavy Duty Electric Truck(forbes.com)
3 points by kodis 9y ago|1 comments
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by kodis 9y ago
This sounds a bit suspicious, but I can't imagine what motive Masden would have for killing a journalist.
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by kodis 9y ago
I had a (not particularly exceptional) coworker with an electrical engineering degree go to work for the patent office. One of the perks was that the patent office would pay his way to becoming a patent attorney in return for a few years o
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by kodis 9y ago
I feel the same way -- I enjoy seeing my friends having a good time. More pragmatically, I'll frequently (like, just yesterday) see someone's vacation photos and think, "hey, that looks like fun! Maybe I should plan a trip t
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by kodis 9y ago
I don't think that it's correct to say that NASA is getting less and less funding. At least according to the data on Wikipedia, NASA's budget has been between $15B and $20B per year in inflation adjusted dollars for the last
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by kodis 9y ago
Sadly, I believe that you're correct: the bill was also introduced in the previous two congressional sessions, where it presumably went nowhere.
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by kodis 9y ago
A bit less concise but still my favorite: An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar (which I already think is funny) and the first orders a pint of ale, the second orders a half pint, the third orders a quarter pint. After this
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by kodis 10y ago
Also, car manufacturers are currently required to make replacement parts available for some period of time -- something like ten years after each model year. So no, not a stretch at all.
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by kodis 10y ago
> we had issues with people stealing cups before the pot was done (don't do this). That's some amazingly annoying and inconsiderate behavior. We had the same problem at one place where I worked, so when the coffee pot was low
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by kodis 10y ago
I see the same problem here as with self winding watches -- the idea works well enough so long as a person has only one watch which they wear daily. Otherwise, the watch may lose enough energy that it stops keeping time and has to be reset
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by kodis 10y ago
I suspect that what will happen initially is that a human driver will be tasked with getting the truck to and from the nearest highway entrance, with the autopilot taking it from there. This is similar to how ships operate, with local pilo
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by kodis 10y ago
> The [CR] car reviews are awful. They like who they like. So do they like Tesla or dislike Tesla? Only a year ago or so they rated the Model S as the best car they had ever reviewed; then there were a few Autopilot failures and some tr
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by kodis 10y ago
I watched that Superbowl half-time show with my two young at the time children. What I remember was that although I barely noticed the one or two seconds of exposed nipple, I was really hoping that I wouldn't have to explain the need
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Market doesn’t justify reusable launchers, expendable rocket makers argue(arstechnica.com)
2 points by kodis 10y ago|1 comments
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by kodis 10y ago
Even stranger, I'll occasionally get a call on my home phone which the Caller ID identifies as coming from my home phone with me as the caller -- to myself! At least it makes it easy for me to spot as a spoofed caller.
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by kodis 10y ago
I think that the answer is in the article: paraphrasing, "when something (in this case, killing someone rather than waiting him out) becomes easier to do it tends to get done more often".
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by kodis 10y ago
I don't know about Detroit, but Buffalo is in the midst of an amazing if long overdue recovery from its status as a dying old blue collar rust belt town. It wasn't the nerds and hipsters that pulled this off though, it was a few
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by kodis 10y ago
I'd be tempted to add Brooks' law, that adding staff to a project that's already late just serves to make it even later.
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Broadcom Sues SpaceX for Allegedly Poaching Employees(parabolicarc.com)
21 points by kodis 11y ago|8 comments
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by kodis 11y ago
Nobel Prizes, at least in the science fields, follow the same pattern. I suspect that at least in part the Nobel committee wants to avoid awarding for something unproven such as cold fusion. The committees in the humanities seem much less
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by kodis 11y ago
Exactly right, but that wouldn't result in as controversial a headline.
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by kodis 11y ago
It really does serve to make lawyers look like extortionist thugs. Had the lawsuit gone forward, it would have been funny if Google had proposed compensating everyone -- lawyers and "victims" alike -- with free Gmail accounts.
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by kodis 11y ago
Yes, but it doesn't have to be a single purpose beyond perhaps having fun in a group. One of the more popular groups in the Baltimore / Washington / Annapolis is the Second Half Fun Rally group -- a group for people in the se
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by kodis 11y ago
Now that I'm in my 60's I've done some of these things, I routinely do some other of these of these things, and I think that a few of these things are ridiculous. I guess I'm doing alright for myself.

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