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901.
by lutorm 10y ago
There is a perfect, old-school expression: "ladies and gentlemen".
902.
by lutorm 10y ago
I don't know... maybe I'm weird, but if I looked at a house and saw it had PV, I would immediately be more interested.
903.
by lutorm 10y ago
That's pretty hilarious.
904.
by lutorm 10y ago
nah I don't want that rubbish on my roof I literally haven't seen my panels since the last time I went up on the roof. Granted, this depends a lot on how steep your roof is, but the appearance of the panels did really not go i
905.
by lutorm 10y ago
Home PV and EV doesn't go hand in hand for everyone that uses their EV to commute to work, though. I guess that represents a significant fraction of the vehicle park.
906.
by lutorm 10y ago
I could imagine taking a week to do it, and he has 11 days. I've been involved in writing similar descriptions to provide to NASA, and when you get down to exactly how each module works and need to enumerate every branch, it ends up be
907.
by lutorm 10y ago
Well, the information requested, if you read the actual definitions, uses a lot of "any" and "all", so if you take that literally it's not exactly an elevator pitch style description they are asking for. "Descr
908.
by lutorm 10y ago
Well, humans have absurdly stupid corner cases during actual use, too. It depends on how small the corner is, I think.
909.
by lutorm 10y ago
This could be a stepping stone to a fully redrawable keyboard. There was one (not redrawable, but who looks at the keys anyway), but Apple bought it and killed it: http://ergocanada.com/products/keyboards/fingerw
910.
by lutorm 10y ago
mpg isn't really relevant, though. If you fly a few international flights a year, or even coast to coast, you can easily rack up many more miles than you would drive. Flying easily dwarfs the carbon footprint of driving.
911.
by lutorm 10y ago
I always do self-checkout at Home Depot. It usually works perfectly, and when the attendants have to scan something large or a by-foot cut of something, it's usually quick. At grocery stores, it's a different story entirely. Buyin
912.
by lutorm 10y ago
The police, ie the R.U.C, rode around in precisely that kind of vehicles in the part of the UK called "Northern Ireland", didn't they?
913.
by lutorm 10y ago
It's not like it's just fine and dandy to discriminate against poor people unless it's being done with the underhanded intent that most of those poor people will also be minorities, is it? I totally agree that minorities sh
914.
by lutorm 10y ago
Just because minorities on average have a different experience than white people doesn't mean there are not white individuals who have exactly the same experience as some minorities. Telling those white people that their experience
915.
by lutorm 10y ago
Interesting arrangement. If your tax rate goes up, does your pay go up too?
916.
by lutorm 10y ago
Here in Hawaii, USPS has been at least as good as any of the other companies, while charging a fraction of the cost. We're talking 1/4 the cost or less, and delivery from most places on the mainland in usually 3 days, maybe 4.
917.
by lutorm 10y ago
I think it depends on the discriminatory value of the "profile". If the profile is "male", I don't think it's OK to stop and search every male found, because it's just not enough of an indicator by itself.
918.
by lutorm 10y ago
There's Hoerner's "Fluid Dynamic Drag" which is interesting if you care about drag. It's pretty old, but is focused on practical applications: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx0MqOfev7dnTn
919.
by lutorm 10y ago
You also need to be able to afford a down payment and still have a reasonable cash reserve. That there pretty much puts the majority of the population out of play.
920.
by lutorm 10y ago
This sounds interesting, but does managing and keeping up 26 rental units really count as "passive income"? It sounds kind of like a nightmare to me, unless you've completely outsourced that part to a property maintenance com
921.
by lutorm 10y ago
Data by definition can't be from the future, so unless you by data mean "extrapolations", then that can't be the case.
922.
by lutorm 10y ago
Speaking from my own experience, I've known quite a few people working in factories that didn't want "desk jobs" or to be "paper pushers", even if those jobs paid more. And some even had the turned down promoti
923.
by lutorm 10y ago
another one: https://lwn.net/Articles/540368/
924.
by lutorm 10y ago
I'm dying to hear how Blue Origin is more sustainable than SpaceX.
925.
by lutorm 10y ago
I actually don't think that most people make decisions about their careers based on maximizing profit at all. In fact, I think very few people would choose a soul-sucking job running against their values just because it pays more.
926.
by lutorm 10y ago
I'm a member of plenty of discussion groups that run on a VBulletin board or something where you can register and start posting. Why doesn't the local university feminist organization do that, why do I have to give give up my priv
927.
by lutorm 10y ago
No, I learned lots like that too. But the mere fact that "I've learned a lot from doing X" doesn't mean you wouldn't have learned more from doing Y.
928.
by lutorm 10y ago
I literally have no idea what they're talking about. SpaceX is providing the US government with cargo supply services at a fraction of the cost of previous alternatives and that's "free money from the government"? Read a
929.
by lutorm 10y ago
Here are a few of those engineers: http://aviationweek.com/blog/dragons-radiation-tolerant-desi... http://events.technologyreview.com/video/watch/innovators-un... http://www.popula
930.
by lutorm 10y ago
He didn't "do" those things, but he did put practically all his money where his mouth was to make them happen, with extremely uncertain payoff. He could have invested his money, maybe funded some low-cost web startups, but in

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