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by nbanks 9y ago
A few years ago I road the section from Magog to Montréal, QC which is part of Quebec's "Route Verte". This stretch was completed separate from highways and only occasionally crossed roads. What I noticed most was that it w
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by nbanks 9y ago
At least the aluminium body of the Model S and X won't rust the way most cars do in places that use road salt in the winter. Can't say the same for the Model 3.
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by nbanks 9y ago
Hmm... so 10^6L would be 0.1 hectare meters. Acre feet may be easy to visualize, but it's hard to convert.
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by nbanks 9y ago
Could "normal" wheeled train could go this fast reliably in a vacuum chamber? I suspect heat in the wheels and bearings would cause problems, especially without air cooling, but it would take much less energy to drive the train.
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by nbanks 9y ago
Yes. The Hyperloop concept Musk published in 2013 [1] was based on a partial vacuum with air cushions like a plane flying at 40,000 feet rather than a satellite zooming through space. [1] http://www.spacex.com/sites/sp
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by nbanks 9y ago
Remember that the reason a supercharger takes an hour to charge is due to the limits of battery chemistry. If you quadruple the size of a battery, it will still take only an hour to charge. Presumably Tesla has a super-duper charger in mi
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by nbanks 9y ago
They used to be remarkably good. Shortly after PG wrote his A Plan for Spam essay, I set up a customized system that used my own spam e-mails as training data. I can't remember the tool I used, but it involved a script on top of mail
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by nbanks 9y ago
I've been using my own kimsufi server for years, and live in Montréal so the latency to their Canadian location is superb. The low end servers are often sold out, but become available every couple months. I went for one with a spinni
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by nbanks 9y ago
In a perfect world, no one would ever get injured and this would take no time whatsoever. By personality investing his time after each injury Musk is encouraging everyone to avoid injuries, and showing this is really important. Theoretical
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by nbanks 9y ago
Women have a much higher level of attempted suicide, possibly 3x as often as men. [1] I once heard a theory that women don't die from suicide as often because they tend to use less violent means of suicide. For example, if you swallo
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by nbanks 9y ago
I was pleasantly surprised when the government of BC actually did remove a toll for the Coquihalla Highway after 22 years. Apparently it cost $848 million to build, and it took that long to collect $845 million in tolls.
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by nbanks 9y ago
This must be what it would be like to be a Bond girl in real life. Not very glamorous. As a dude, I've never really thought of what it's like to date someone who kills people for a living because the gender roles are usually rev
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by nbanks 9y ago
I suspect living in a war zone does this to people, which is how he explained it. Somehow he was able to see his girlfriend as a soldier instead of a murderer when the two were conflated.
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by nbanks 9y ago
This doesn't seem to account for rental income, either by renting out a building or by spending money on a mortgage which would otherwise be spent in rent. The real appreciation may be less, but are dividends from stocks greater than
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by nbanks 9y ago
The increase in GDP should make it profitable for government to fund all journals. The cost is relatively small as compared to the benefit to all citizens, allowing them to understand new technologies, business and social structures. Like
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by nbanks 9y ago
I thought she had a minority, meaning she can't do anything without the support of at least one of the other parties. At any time all of these parties would prefer a reelection, they can simply vote against the government and get it.
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by nbanks 9y ago
I suspect that goat milk would be a reasonable alternative but the sample size was too small to draw any conclusions.
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by nbanks 9y ago
I have more sympathy for Jacqui, the single mom. She wasn't planning to divorce her husband and a $1200 basement seems reasonably thrifty for three people. Perhaps the new vehicles were extravagant, but she purchased that before her
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by nbanks 9y ago
This is only true if the repair is cosmetic. The nice thing about 10-20 year old cars is that anything that doesn't wear out is cheap and easy to find from a wrecker. I recently hit a deer and bought a hood, headlight & grill for
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by nbanks 9y ago
They could always use a chase car like they do with the U-2 Dragon Lady because of its ridiculous wing span. This wouldn't help you avoid watching it, though. youtu.be/W2tnCDBkIoI
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by nbanks 9y ago
Reminds me of the first time I played Kings Quest from a RAM drive. I first played the game from a floppy disk, and it ways really nice to have everything load instantly!
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by nbanks 9y ago
This reminds me of an issue of Dabiq magazine I read (ISIS propaganda). It was surprising that most of the arguments for their actions are cogent presuming all the ahadith (ie. oral traditions) that were considered authentic a millennium a
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by nbanks 9y ago
Wilde is interesting because he was a socialist before anyone had tried communism. Years ago, I read an essay is his, "The Heart of Man After Socialism" where he argued that people are inherently benevolent, but the capitalist sys
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by nbanks 9y ago
You could get a used Model S for a little more than a new Model 3. The autopilot won't be as good, but it will have better performance and free supercharging. Plus it's already available.
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by nbanks 9y ago
Since autonomous airships still can still ignite as they're loading or unloading, it may be worth filling them with helium, but I do think using hydrogen may be more appropriate for Project Loon. Hydrogen could still be viable as long
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by nbanks 9y ago
Although I frequently use cal, the article mentioned cal -3 which will be useful near the end of each month. Previously I always displayed the calendar for the whole year or next month instead. Going through the core utils manual [1], I fo
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by nbanks 9y ago
This is an interesting product. I like the form factor, but it would be tough to get used to the keyboard. Reaching over the pointing stick/mouse buttons for the space bar could be doable--I managed to type on a Toshiba Libretto whic
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by nbanks 9y ago
I wonder how much Crossrail will help with the commute and make distant properties more appealing.
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by nbanks 9y ago
Sometimes being lazy is a lot of work. Usually I automate not to save time, but because manually repeating the same monotonous task is so annoying that I'd rather spend my time automating it even if I end up taking longer.
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by nbanks 9y ago
The "gumption trap", both the term and the definition, is a great insight. I tend to find gumption traps really annoying and it's good to know why I'm annoyed and how to push through. When a friend of mine recommended

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