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by njarboe 4y ago
Unless they were actually at "war" shooting guns and killing people, groups of people using non-violent means to achieve an end is politics. One of Carl von Clausewitz most famous quotes is "Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzu
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Bard's answer is the exact kind of sounds correct but could be wrong type of response that ChatGTP often gives.
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The last commercial plane wreck in the US was in 2009 and was a small commuter crash with only 49 fatalities[1]. This does not even make the Wikipedia list[2] of deadliest crashes which shows none since 2001. Bureaucratic over reaction to r
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So many events missing. This story itself is an example of why people have lost faith. No WMDs in Iraq for me was the one that turned me. A Republican administration seeding the New York Times that lie and they published it with basically n
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My 4 bedroom house in Oakland had a replacement cost/value of about $400k. That seemed high but not unreasonable. Then the Santa Rosa fire burned down 1000 homes and insurers realized that construction costs in California are insane (e
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I does sort of suck when what you like gets popular and then it gets expensive. But that is a constant of life. Hiking gets popular, the trails you used to hike now have crowds and permits. A decent bottle of scotch doubles in 10 years. Dec
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Was this a quantum mechanics class? Thinking about how it might be working leads to strange things like the Many-Worlds Theory[1] and other very weird ideas. "Shut up and calculate" is the usual method of dealing with these deeper
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If you start measuring something (wave height) and detect a high value in, say, the first year, you better have a very good reason the think the event happens every 1000 years. Especially if you are measuring a few points in a very large oc
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Margins on Tesla cars are the highest of any major manufacturer. Ferarri is about the same.
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I would love to see the numbers if you have them. EV and not EV/PHEV combined. That is definitely not the same and obscures the comparison. The Chinese are going to be the main Tesla competitors. There is a reason that the Chinese let
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Would like to see stainless steel as a more common option.
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They produced 20 times more fully electric vehicles than toyota, honda, and ford combined in 2022. Tesla produced about 1.4 million all electric vehicles in 2022 with a growth rate of about 40%.[1] Toyota:1220 (The BZ4X is the only full ele
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You used to be able to buy water heaters that would last forever. My house had one from the 1950's with a copper tank. Still going strong. Just don't be convinced b y the repair man to get a new one when you have to replace the th
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Pretty crazy that the IRA bill subsidized large vehicles up to a purchase price of $80k and small ones only up to $55k. Crazy until you realize that the main purpose was to bail out domestic union labor car manufactures (ie. the big three a
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With the energy crisis in Europe this winter, I'm sure most people will trade a shorter ski season for higher average temperatures. Maybe Switzerland does not import much gas and would be the exception to this?
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Part of what I liked about older scrabble dictionaries (you can use any dictionary you like) was the variance in difficulty in using various letters. Get an 'X'. That is a nice letter to have with high scoring potential with lots
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At least in the US, electricity rates and natural gas prices are highly regulated for retail customers. Thus the wholesale price of gas does not generally correlate to the retail price of electricity. In places like California electricity p
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For humans.
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From the Wikipedia page (read the original source for details): The controversy about human paternal leakage was summed up in the 1996 study Misconceptions about mitochondria and mammalian fertilization: Implications for theories on human e
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It would be very useful if it was required by law to inform people when they are interacting with or consuming content from a ML/AI system. Like how you get a warning when you are being recorded on a call to customer service. Have a kn
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"it's passed exclusively mother to offspring" As in most absolute statements, this may not be completely true. Sperm has some mitochondria that likely is incorporated into the zygote.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.or
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This is one reason for going to vision only automatic driving systems like Tesla is doing. The system is more likely to fail when a human would also of had a difficult time. Heavy snow, sun blind out, etc. Strange failures due to radar, lid
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For most of the thousands of years of warfare kings their armies into battle. Only in the last 500 years or so has that changed
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The DOD also probably likes having some nuclear weapons designers available on short notice
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I use them too. Great customer service with a real and competent person on the line right away. Decided to go with them after some searching. I was getting off Google and they had an actual office and pictures of the people who worked there
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Total annual US public research into fusion that is not ITER or this project (which does not come from the fusion pot. As others have said this project was built for weapons research) is about $300 million per year[1]. We, as a country, do
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These $5k cars already exist. The Hongguang Mini has about a 100 mile range and sells for about $5k in China. Let me buy one. The US has a high level of safety requirements on cars not just to protect people but also to protect domestic aut
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As far as I know burner phones are still available in the US.
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Traditionally Americans are quite suspicious of their government. The battles over 1st Amendment free speech and 2nd Amendment gun rights, among many, are a testament that the sentiment is still widely held.
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Talk to Uber drivers that own Tesla's. I have.

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