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by njarboe 4y ago
Unfortunately with electric stovetops, pans only get heated under the electric source. I love my large cast iron frying pan but only getting heat in the center makes cooking with it a pain/doesn't work well. Gas stoves don't
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by njarboe 4y ago
In the US we are a bit more liberal with driving training. Any parent with a drivers license can train their children to drive. Schools have driving classes but you are not always required to take them.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Their warriors were admired by many but I don't think "masculine" was the word you were looking for here. :)
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by njarboe 4y ago
Tesla's FSD beta should be thought of like you are a driving instructor/parent for a beginning driver on a driving permit but you have a full duplicate set of controls, like an airplane. Let the car drive but at any moment you hav
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by njarboe 4y ago
Grew up driving pre-1980's cars and didn't know about this until this year. The light on the dash that lit up was the same indicator as the light that comes on when the hand-brake is engaged. When the light would not go off when t
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by njarboe 4y ago
An actual old-school handbrake can be engaged gradually. One reason I'm not fond of the new automatic parking brake systems.
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by njarboe 4y ago
The original, less clickbaity, title: "US agency probes Tesla crashes that killed 2 motorcyclists"
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by njarboe 4y ago
The next paragraph after the one quoted above gives some hope for reducing unneeded parts of the NRC review process: "While successful, the level of effort for reviewing the NuScale DCA may not be repeatable for future reviews. Signifi
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by njarboe 4y ago
France
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by njarboe 4y ago
Elsewhere in the thread, credit_guy quotes 20% to 100% in 96 minutes[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32370392
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by njarboe 4y ago
The design might not not be hard but getting it approved is a real pain. "NuScale completed the first NRC review of an advanced reactor application, and overall the NuScale DCA review was a success. Staff completed review of the first
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by njarboe 4y ago
I know at least conifer trees are never "fully grown". I imagine it is the same for deciduous trees. Trees continue to add wood to there structure every year. You count the tree rings to know its age. A 500 year old redwood, cedar
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by njarboe 4y ago
I've thought this would be a good solution for years. I would like if you could choose the amount to charge people to call you that aren't on your white list. You get 90% of that and the phone company gets 10%. A win-win-win for y
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by njarboe 4y ago
Many trees, if they are not cut down, grow for hundreds of years. And trees are just great to have around in general.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Many trees live for over 500 years (Redwoods, Cedars, Douglar Fir, Oaks, etc.). They can be part of the solution of keeping CO2 levels down while our energy system is de-carbonized. Go ahead and plant trees. They are great in many other way
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by njarboe 4y ago
I bet nukes, wind, and solar have very different material needs so ramping up all of them as fast as possible should be the course of action. Why exclude nuclear?
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by njarboe 4y ago
The key is Full Self Driving. Elon Musk has stated that without it, Tesla won't grow like they are planning. Who know if it is possible, but I think Tesla has the best chance with their access to top talent, no spending limits at this
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by njarboe 4y ago
They delivered ~925,000 cars in 2021 with just two factories. That is about 2% of global sales. Maybe a small player (wouldn't say tiny, tiny at this point) in 2021 but they are ramping up production at two factories completed this yea
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by njarboe 4y ago
If Tesla does make 20 million cars that sell for an average of $50k and have net margins of 20%, their annual revenue would be $200 billion. If at that point they have the same PE as Apple has now (~25), that would be a market cap of $5 tri
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by njarboe 4y ago
The top ten automakers have huge amounts of debt and pension liabilities. Tesla has neither. None of them are making profitable EVs at scale. Tesla has been hitting their goal of growing at 50% per year for a decade and plans to continue un
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by njarboe 4y ago
Almonds can be grown in Iowa, according to the document you cited, but in the next section (Which ones should I grow, or should I grow them all?) after your quote one finds: "Almonds—Unreliable in bearing due to susceptibility to late
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by njarboe 4y ago
Until rates are above inflation (now around 8%) I would say the Fed is still pumping up the economy, but it's hard to see the Fed push up rates to that level like Volker did the last time the US had high inflation. The Fed set the fede
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by njarboe 4y ago
I don’t think almond trees will grow in Iowa. I’m not an arborist though.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Not so much strapped for cash but they wanted to have a larger cash position due to the uncertainty of production at their China facility. It was shut down for weeks due to China's zero COVID policy.
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by njarboe 4y ago
Maybe subsidizing 30 year mortgages with low down payments is not such a great idea for the general populous. Imagine if house payments were similar but you paid off your mortgage in 10-15 years instead of 30. That would be a much better st
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by njarboe 4y ago
Deserts are great places to live and found a civilization if you have access to water. See Mesopotamia and Egypt for example
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by njarboe 4y ago
Having lived in California for 25 years that has a initiative system I would disagree. The amount of trivial and/or damaging constitutional amendments passed by that system that cannot be easily removed is quite disappointing. Special
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by njarboe 4y ago
There is also the 25% "Chicken Tax"[1] on imported light trucks started in 1964 and still in force today. Domestic auto manufactures were highly motivated to get the public to buy trucks/SUVs instead of cars for the last 60 y
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by njarboe 4y ago
When I went to an Oakland A's game about a decade ago you were allowed to bring in your own food (not alcohol, of course). Not sure if that is still the case or if other stadiums allow that also. Getting a hot dog is fun, but you could
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by njarboe 4y ago
That really annoyed me to so I refused, complained, and they allowed me to login again with just my Twitter Id and password. A bit of a pain, but I was pleasantly surprised.

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