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by mlindner 4y ago
This isn't really about the topic though?
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by mlindner 4y ago
To add on to what foobarbecue said, this I believe is because the earth is spinning, so just like the Earth is not a sphere (it's an oblate spheroid), the atmosphere is also "dragged" toward the equator than the poles. Sea le
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by mlindner 4y ago
Humans have lived "comfortably" long before air conditioning was available in many of the areas it now is. Either through creating dwellings that keep away heat and the simple act of not wearing clothing. And fire is the oldest te
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by mlindner 4y ago
> there are no Chinese soldiers in the region. So China is bribing all the tribes in the area to not "salvage" their stuff for parts? The problem with not having troops in such places is that they're in constant states of
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by mlindner 4y ago
I suggest not engaging in hyperbole.
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by mlindner 4y ago
There's no such thing as too cold, only incorrect clothing. If you have sufficient clothing you can be quite warm at any temperature.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Fun fact, I saw the temperatures they're getting and I just looked this up to be sure. The freezing point of Carbon Dioxide at atmospheric pressures is -78.5C, which it reaches sometimes at the south pole. So apparently carbon dixodie
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by mlindner 4y ago
Trains go best in those few densely populated areas though. That's kind of the catch 22 with trains, they're best in dense areas, but dense areas tend to obviate the ability to build trains.
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by mlindner 4y ago
> the losses are bigger this way than if everyone kept a uniform temperature. Pretty sure this is incorrect. Conductive heat flow goes with the temperature difference. The higher the temperature difference, the more heat flow. If you kep
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by mlindner 4y ago
I'm not sure why you changed the topic suddenly. Did you mean to reply to someone else?
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by mlindner 4y ago
I suppose it makes sense in that case, but that hardly makes a business case if your customer base is small and limited.
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by mlindner 4y ago
The amount of space needed is indeed tiny, but you still need to cut a fresh line through areas where buildings exist, and it can't follow the road network generally and has to take gradual curves, which increases the amount of buildin
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by mlindner 4y ago
The people who vote for a candidate generally don't think they're evil either.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Well first off, that's Elon time dates, and secondly even if you take it at face value, 5 years does seem reasonable to me for when substantial carbon neutral methane may start getting made.
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by mlindner 4y ago
The world has benefited far more than the US ever did. The "rules based order" was never created to benefit the US, if anywhere, it was created by the US to benefit Europe and East Asia to highly encourage a World War 2 to never o
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by mlindner 4y ago
FYI, using "fan-boy" is kind of frowned upon on hacker news. However as someone who commonly agrees with Elon on many things, I do think trains are a good idea, but you can't look at them in a vacuum. The train network of the
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by mlindner 4y ago
Small modular reactors don't actually seem to solve nuclear power issues to me. It just punts the regulatory regime away from the manufacturer/builder to the installer. I don't really understand the hype behind modular reacto
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by mlindner 4y ago
There's already several cash flow positive companies doing lithium ion battery recycling. You need to keep in mind though, that recycling, at this point, recycles mainly batteries from smaller products, hybrids or very very early EVs (
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by mlindner 4y ago
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. A hardcore Republican votes for Republican candidates, of which there was reasonably popular versions of for each election. I wasn’t claiming he was a Democrat, just that he wasn’t a “hardcore Republi
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by mlindner 4y ago
Fuel is one of the cheapest portions of launching a rocket. There’s much bigger problems to solve on that front until they start launching commonly. Once they do then moving to sustainable methane won’t be an issue. Also what’s the alternat
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by mlindner 4y ago
Other than a few very high profile lawsuits I don’t get where the idea comes from that Tesla is “abusive” to its employees. I have friends who work there and they never mention any issue or are trying to leave. I think it’s a combination of
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by mlindner 4y ago
He voted for Obama, Clinton and Biden, so no, not really.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I suggest taking a look at the hacker news guidelines as you don't seem to be interested in following them.
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by mlindner 4y ago
Do you have a source that's not the Verge? I've learned to not trust them for anything Musk related as they have a history of incorrect and biased reporting. > it also mentions he didn't provide anything like the amount of
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Many because they stole company secrets, or actually hacked the company's servers and walked out with company documents.
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by mlindner 4y ago
> I'm not going to take Tesla at their word when they have an extensive history of using bogus lawsuits to intimidate people. The lawsuit wasn't bogus, and Tesla went on to win that lawsuit, with a large payout from that former
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by mlindner 4y ago
> This is especially true when talking about public figures - Sam Altman in his recent interviews has been incredibly diplomatic about Elon, despite the fact that it's pretty public knowledge Elon tried to take over OpenAI and now l
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by mlindner 4y ago
People need to make sure to maintain their expectations. This launch is not a failure if the rocket blows up soon after take off. They have an assembly facility built to build these vehicles quicker and quicker and every new vehicle is modi
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by mlindner 4y ago
I think you're slightly confused as nothing about this is "fake space". This is proper orbital space, the same as any common astronaut does currently.
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by mlindner 4y ago
I think some people are having wrong expectations heading in to this. If it explodes 30 seconds after leaving the launch pad it's still a huge success. Anything beyond exploding on the launch site is a success. They have a bunch more v

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