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by manicdee 7y ago
How many do you need to lose for the ecosystem to collapse? Not all, and probably as little as one or two species.
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by manicdee 7y ago
Good luck living in a world without pollinators or insectivores.
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by manicdee 7y ago
The thing with Iridium watchers is that there were a small number of them. Seeing one was exciting. If all the Starlink satellites are this bright, the night sky will have more Starlink satellites than visible stars.
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by manicdee 7y ago
Resistive heaters and heat pumps.
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by manicdee 7y ago
It’s auto pilot where pilot means the person steering ng a ship. There is still executive oversight required as in a captain or at least a navigator. It’s not “autodrive”.
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by manicdee 7y ago
Autopilot is not self driving. The human is still driving the vehicle and the human is still responsible for stopping the car from hitting things.
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by manicdee 7y ago
I 100% agree with that sentiment. The only business that will survive is the one that reduces its operating costs to zero.
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by manicdee 7y ago
Yes, monitored remotely through the app on your phone, which may or may not reflect the actual environment in the car at that moment. FWIW is typical failure mode for an air conditioner is for the condenser to fail, so the conditioner ends
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by manicdee 7y ago
Cabin Overheat Protection is separate to Dog Mode. If you want to express outrage about abdication of responsibility at least be talking about the relevant feature. Cabin overheat protection is there to protect things left in the car like e
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by manicdee 7y ago
Because they can build a war chest and drop the fares below sustainable levels longer than any new entrant can bleed money. It’s a game played to death in every other market.
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by manicdee 7y ago
There’s a scarcity of oxygen, real estate, food, and fresh water. We can’t just keep expanding the population, and we have already started a mass extinction event with the few billion we have now. What’s the world going to be like when we h
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by manicdee 7y ago
There has been significant noise in the space, with a SoftBank project set up to install 200GW of solar projects. That project was cancelled relatively quickly though. I am not up to date with current projects.
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by manicdee 7y ago
You have seen wind disappear from an entire continent during a very cloudy day?
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by manicdee 7y ago
No, it’s to drive public money to the charlatans selling the tests, without any regard for perceived or actual threat to public safety. This is going to cause harm, it will not accomplish its purpose, and the charlatans will be laughing all
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by manicdee 7y ago
He wants a way out of Tesla being a publicly listed company. If you had listened to him as much as you want to think you have you’d know his stress is due to obligations to shareholders and effectively working with one hand tied behind his
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by manicdee 7y ago
Do you believe lidar is so necessary that it must be mandated by law?
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by manicdee 7y ago
The car also stops at signals and stop signs, and yields for traffic before turning. Did you watch the autonomy day presentations and demonstration drives?
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by manicdee 7y ago
Another lesson the poet learned from these studies is that these tests are about having the means to pass them, by which I mean having the money to buy the correct answers (whether that be in the form of written answers or a tutor who has s
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by manicdee 7y ago
Yes it can be done, that doesn’t mean it actually is done. Even in Europe where they are actually trying, 26% of the glass is not recycled.
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by manicdee 7y ago
Plot twist: the glass is just crushed and dumped, very little actually gets recycled. Everyone uses different glass for their bottles and you can’t easily separate it once it’s mixed (either as whole bottles, shards of broken bottles, or mo
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by manicdee 7y ago
If you have the machine, and the cup is in pristine condition (ie: hasn’t been used). Outside those conditions, “disposable” coffee cups of all types lead to long-term pollution.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Markdown is designed around the assumption that you are writing text for humans to read. Thus for a paragraph break, leave a blank line.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Other way around. By installing the shoplifter-detecting cameras, the shopkeepers will lower their guard because they have just spent a lot of money and are happy to abdicate the surveillance responsibility to the computer.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Apples to oranges comparison. Of course nVidia are going to claim their GPU processes stuff faster, and ignore the part where you have to get the results of the calculations off the GPU.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Because we have been conditioned to accept that journalists use the wrong facts or incorrect values when reporting about something and we automatically correct the context and semantics.
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by manicdee 8y ago
Each Starlink satellite is likely to be in the range of 200–300 kg. Roughly the size of ~220L fridge when panels are folded. The plan for active decommissioning is to drop perigee into “atmosphere” but there are also plans for passively deo
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by manicdee 8y ago
Vapour in the upper atmosphere, though some materials with low ballistic coefficient might break free and drift down intact. There has been at least two cases of people being “hit” by insulation from reentered satellites and spacecraft. The
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by manicdee 8y ago
Then the broader rules apply: watch for cues that your chosen form of interpersonal interaction is not welcomed. The key is to look for cues, rather than blindly assuming everyone likes drunk men bear hugging them because you as a drunk man
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by manicdee 8y ago
If you are not comfortable with strangers touching you but you wouldn’t feel uncomfortable with the little old lady in the grocer touching you, what’s actually happening there? Is it something to do with power dynamics, and perceived threat
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by manicdee 8y ago
What’s ridiculous?

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