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by lutorm 10y ago
I can see tire and road wear, but I'd expect electric cars to use brakes less than normal cars due to regen.
842.
by lutorm 10y ago
It's been a couple of years now, but I still load up A Bridge Too Far every now and then! It's the only 20-year old game I know that's still fun. It's getting hard to run on current machines, though, with its hard-coded
843.
by lutorm 10y ago
The Close Combat series is entirely based on this idea. You give commands to squads, but the individual soldiers respond to the conditions on the battlefield, the orders they have being but one part of that.
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by lutorm 10y ago
Still, you can get rid of most of the velocity for a Mars landing using aerobraking alone. To land on the Moon you'll be bringing all of that delta-V with you as fuel. Landing a Dragon on Mars already takes a lot of propellant: https:
845.
by lutorm 10y ago
RP-1/LOX also exhausts basically water vapor, plus CO2. There should be little NOx emission since it's not burning air, but there's probably some organic emissions from unburned fuel.
846.
by lutorm 10y ago
And yes, if there is no "fix" then they should not sell this technology at all. I suspect when you see the impact on battery life or weight you might change your mind. Cars do catch fire during normal use. It's not common
847.
by lutorm 10y ago
There is only an English proficiency test for naturalization, not for a green card.
848.
by lutorm 10y ago
It's not even that I don't have time, I just have so many other things I want to do, explore and learn that it just doesn't seem attractive any more.
849.
by lutorm 10y ago
I agree, I enjoy playing Civ, but realizing the absolutely astronomical amount of time I've sunk into it and all the things I could have done instead has really turned me off from it. Maybe it's an age thing; once you realize half
850.
by lutorm 10y ago
Uh what? You're going to need to provide some evidence for that kind of statement.
851.
by lutorm 10y ago
I'm not that familiar with Tesla, but what "federal and state government subsidies and low-interest loans" have SpaceX gotten? Unless you count NASA contracts as "subsidies and loans", of course, which is absurd.
852.
by lutorm 10y ago
It's not like there aren't people working on figuring out how gravity works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity
853.
by lutorm 10y ago
It's not just that one. The vast majority of stars, by number (but not by light), are stars like these. The universe might dim, but it won't be dark for a long, long time.
854.
by lutorm 10y ago
Uh, "1-2 trillion" IS "trillions". I'm not sure how you can make that out to be misleading. Stating "trillions" in lieu of "tens of trillions" or "hundreds of billions" might be misle
855.
by lutorm 10y ago
That's "at least"; the age is a lower limit. These stars basically live forever, even in astronomical terms, and evolve extremely slowly, so all you know is that it's not "young".
856.
by lutorm 10y ago
efficient is the key. It's about outcomes. There's nothing saying we need greater quantities of energy, because very little of the things we as a civilization do are fundamentally energy-limited. Over the long term, there is no
857.
by lutorm 10y ago
I assume you're referring to nuclear power, which a) has its own environmental problems and b) is really expensive, to the point of not being cost-competitive. In general, it seems the people who are complaining about government subsid
858.
by lutorm 10y ago
If you look back at old launch videos, you can often see big chunks of ice form by the second stage engine vents during coast, only to be blown off by the vibration as the engine is restarted. I assume this is something similar.
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by lutorm 10y ago
Rendezvous isn't scheduled until the 22nd, so there will likely still be quite a distance between the ISS and Dragon tomorrow. They will be in trail, while the Earth rotates, so depending on where the ISS passes relative to you there&#
860.
by lutorm 10y ago
It seemed to me that the OP did not argue they brought more value than an American programmer but that the US is better off with them than without them. The question is what the "proper process" is for them becoming citizens, isn&
861.
by lutorm 10y ago
So why is this a better outcome than letting them hire one on an H1B? No American loses their job, and a community college program remains, giving people access to education. I don't see what "market failure" has to do with t
862.
by lutorm 10y ago
Without commenting on the relative merits of Apollo vs the Space Shuttle programs, it bears remembering that there were 11 Apollo flights and 135 Space Shuttle flights. There simply aren't enough statistics to know whether the Apollo f
863.
by lutorm 10y ago
Exactly. But, as I understand it, you can't port your Fi number back to Voice if you decide you don't want Fi.
864.
by lutorm 10y ago
As a current Voice user and would-like-to-be Fi user, the fact that I have to give up my Voice number to use Fi is a dealbreaker. The whole point of Voice was to not tie your number to a specific provider.
865.
by lutorm 10y ago
"One number for life" ... unless of course you want to use our other service, Google Fi, in which case you will be forced to relinquish it. No improvements on that small problem, it seems.
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by lutorm 10y ago
I have a classic "Stokke" kneeling chair (now apparently called "Variable balans", http://www.varierfurniture.com/en_us/Movement-Chairs ) and I like it, but only for temporary use, not as a full-time
867.
by lutorm 10y ago
After trying both, I went with the Aeron. But before that, I used a Leap for many years and I was quite happy with that one, too. You just have to try them and see what works for you.
868.
by lutorm 10y ago
Do what I did: Find a store that carries Herman Miller (and others) and go in and spend an hour sitting in various chairs. Everyone's body is different and there's no substitute for personal experience. Note that I said an hour. A
869.
by lutorm 10y ago
The mean advance warning time would be ~3 days, it says.
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by lutorm 10y ago
Absolutely, but transformers can already be disconnected from the grid, you just have to have the guts to do it in advance.

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