nickik

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by nickik 5y ago
Are chickens not birds?
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You vastly underestimate 'modern libertarians' probably because your exposure to them is based on angry twitter or whatever. In reality during the last 200 years classical liberal tradition has thought more about markets and how t
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I said FYI because it was not my main point. And carbon fiber also a had huge amount of development from commercial companies to drive it into 100s of applications. The total amount of investment in carbon fiber is dwarfed 100-1000x compare
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Yeah that's why the constitution gives your rights 'except when some burocrates think you are a terrorist or related to a terrorist.
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SpaceX doesn't really use carbon fiber much just FYI. And of course literally any company is based on the whole history of technology. You might say that SpaceX only exists because rich people in China wanted to see fireworks (and ther
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The whole point of his book is that if there are proper functioning markets is that these conversations are not actually effective. Compared to a system of mercantilism that he was opposing.
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Yes and that is far easier to do then containing a fusion reaction. There are known well understood engineering solution that have been known since the 70s and that work fine. The real danger is the high pressure that PWR are under and the
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> Regulation is the scapegoat for nuclear's failure No it isn't. If you have a regulatory structure that makes progress so expensive and counter to the government plan then progress is very hard to make. Even the regulatory age
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by nickik 5y ago
While I agree with your point about ITER. Space based power generation to me is incredibly dumb. It would be far easier to build solar on earth and transport it around with high efficiency DC lines. And if you are really looking into the ch
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While this is true, its a fact that the regulatory and governmental outlook on fission has prevented these changes from happening. The western world has made development of new fission plants practically impossible. Requiring 100s of millio
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Fusion also produces radiation. So not sure why changing one word to the other should magically change public opinion. We can just rename fission to #goodenergy or something, that would be cheaper then developing fusion. People don't e
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Very questionable if a fusion reactor is safer then a common molten salt fission reactor. I would argue that is far less likely to 'explode'. And you can burn up the waste majority of that waste, the leftover waste after that woul
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As a society we have failed to really use fission. Fission does basically everything fusion promises to do. Fission has a absurdly high energy density, the step from oil to fission is far more relevant then the step from fission to fusion.
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Nobody is perfectly rational, and even if they were, because incomplete information would still not result in rational action. This applies for cooperation as well. As soon as you have such an organization the people inside that have the sa
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by nickik 5y ago
Because they want to recruit people for a robot they want to build, you feel like you are treated like an idiot?
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It was quite clear, they are trying to recruit people. The 'announced' it because they want people to show up who help them build it.
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The glass was not supposed to be built prove, maybe work on your listing comprehension. Also, if you throw a ball like that against a normal glass on a truck it might go threw and kill you. The Cybertruck class stopped it and would have sav
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I disagree. > Musk is not serious about this. Just like the boring company Quite the claim. As usual we have the 'look at the very first prototype' its not actually perfect therefore its fake and nothing but marketing. The Bori
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They tried to do something quite crazy with manufacturing and it didn't work. Musk has often ignored industry standard and often it works. In this case it didn't and people will now use this forever to show how stupid he is. Howev
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There is a fundamental problem that these are highly complex highly integrated system. The cell is totally structural and glued together in a sandwich that is literally as hard as a brick. You simply can not replace individual cells or indi
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So you are basically saying they should make every car significantly worse in terms of weight and driving performance. Despite 95% or more will never swap out the battery. A fully integrated cell-to-pack architecture where the pack is fully
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by nickik 5y ago
There are other battery types such as sodium, liquid air, liquid metal, air-metal and so on. Doing everything with lithium is not a great idea as we need that for cars mostly. But I also always preferred nuclear.
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SpaceX sued NASA (or at least complained) and won. NASA wanted to award a contract to Space plane Kistler and this was prevented and the contract competed. This however was the GAO and they already rejected Blue complaint. SpaceX also sued
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That is literally not what this is about.
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The only person who died fell asleep in the car and would have died in any car as far as I remember.
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The vision-only system has passed all required tests for certification and Tesla themselves consider it to be a much safer system now.
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There were 17 accidents with Autopilot and non with FSD. One of those was a death where somebody fell asleep on the highway. There are literally 100s of videos of the Autopilot doing an avoiding maneuver that prevented potentially accidents
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Once Bezos got into space because he wanted to improve space travel for humanity, now he is just holding it back because of his pride. His company simply can't do what he claims it can do. They have proven nothing. They have achieved n
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> Lithium might just become worth more than gold in the near future. No it will not. If it became anywhere even remotely close 100s of lithium projects would be announced. Lithium is all over the world and it is very common. > and I c
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When you buy it its not just the name and a price. First of all it informs you that it is not jet complete. There is a complete list of what features it has and what features it doesn't have. You very clearly buying the right to have a

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