njarboe

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by njarboe 5y ago
Most people in fusion research consider ITER a huge waste of money and is slowing down progress toward a successful fusion powerplant. The fusion research budget of the US (and other countries?) is now mostly going to ITER with money spent
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by njarboe 5y ago
Anybody have more information about how many, if any, of these wrecks happened after Tesla moved to vision only Autopilot? Maybe this obvious problem has already been mostly fixed with the new system and possibly a main reason for going to
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by njarboe 5y ago
No argument there.
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I think that is on purpose. If you want society to have cars but use less resources than they currently do, then one should try and make them last as long as possible. Tesla has stated that it want to have cars last a million miles. The mot
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by njarboe 5y ago
The Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 was/is promoted as a great milestone in helping people to get protection from secret databases that companies were creating on the whole populous. That part was true and it did prevent this problem
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by njarboe 5y ago
Maybe a system where people work in the extreme system from 20-30, get paid highly, and save enough to not need to work again in their early 30's. Seems like a much better system than UBI.
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by njarboe 5y ago
I found the book "The Beginning of Infinity" shattered this objectively incorrect world view (and a few others). :)
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More like useless against counties that have nuclear weapons. There are probably only nine[1] of those. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_we... ]
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by njarboe 5y ago
Or just pass all of the revenues back to the people with a straight refund equal to (tax collected)/(number of people)
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by njarboe 5y ago
Plenty of water power.
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by njarboe 5y ago
I wonder how much of the decrease in native bees is due to the trend of people keeping honey bees. Flowers have only so much nectar and pollen. A honey bees could be consuming most of the available food for miles from the hive. I have never
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by njarboe 5y ago
Elon Musk has recently stated that they are going to make a big shift to LFP batteries[1]. On the Tesla's quarterly earnings call last week, he stated that iron based batteries will likely eventually be used for almost all battery appl
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by njarboe 5y ago
Even better solution. Charge $100 to go into the grocery store and that will greatly reduce people driving to stores, shopping and using single-use bags.
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by njarboe 5y ago
California decided to pay peoples' back rent recently. I'd guess the people that made sacrifices to keep paying rent instead of YOLOing it on call options are a bit miffed that they kept paying, but at least the California governm
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by njarboe 5y ago
I think one of the main reasons for Tesla to use only vision is that then the mistakes the system makes will be more understandable and thus acceptable to humans. The way radar and lidar systems fail and cause wrecks will seem strange to hu
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by njarboe 5y ago
Its going to be a tradeoff that current USA safety first culture is ill prepared to deal with appropriately. ~30,000 people die and massive injuries and property damage happen each year in the USA. How many people's deaths should we ac
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by njarboe 5y ago
I was figuring that if the metal value of nickels got high enough then coin dealers or metal recyclers would be set up to take them and possibly even advertise this service. Similar to what happened when silver coins became more valuable th
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by njarboe 5y ago
I would say most of them do. Look at a satellite map of the Bay Area. Most cities are built right up against forested areas that I would call fire zones. The Santa Rosa fire and the Oakland hills fire were quite large and burned thousands o
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by njarboe 5y ago
I bought $2k worth of nickels back 2006 as nickel metal prices were spiking[1], but the coin was not quite worth over five cents yet. I thought, "This is a great way to invest in the metal as the down side is limited and the upside is
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by njarboe 5y ago
Wolf packs work like a family because they are families. For some reason people used to believe that packs were groups of wolves from different families, but that is not the case. Maybe because feral dogs will form large packs that are not
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by njarboe 5y ago
Heating takes a lot more energy generally than air conditioning (citation needed) in the US. Which makes sense when you think of the difference in temperatures from the inside of the house and the outside in winter compared to summer. Many
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by njarboe 5y ago
Most places in the US have had property taxes for centuries, so these implementation problems have already been solved (not always very well, but money is collected). Disentangling the land value from any improvements is a bit tricky, but n
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by njarboe 5y ago
If they get automatic driving, you will be able to rent them out via a Uber like service (although I think Tesla's terms of service for their full self driving software package states you can only rent out your car using a system owned
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by njarboe 5y ago
Tesla's goal is to build cars that last for a million miles. Electric motor technology is already there and they are also working on making the other parts of the car last a similar length of time. Also notice how the new model S looks
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by njarboe 5y ago
I would say that most of the problems with wealthy people not paying their "fair" share (what ever that might be) is the fact that people are taxed on income and corporations are taxed on profit. Many wealthy people do what they w
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by njarboe 5y ago
What I am talking about is the approval to build the first version of the reactor. The demo reactor. Imagine if one had to wait four years and spend half a billion dollars to get approval of your design of a windmill (not windmill farm) bef
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by njarboe 5y ago
The US should set up a special zone for companies that wish to work with nuclear material and provide well designed containment labs to work in. I would nominate the nuclear test site in Nevada. That area was already used to test devices th
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The problem is that it is insanely costly and cumbersome to get regularly approval to build an experimental reactor in the US (and elsewhere I presume) so nuclear tech is stuck in the 1970's, just 20 years after the first commercial re
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SpaceX's Starship could be.
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Wikipedia is not a great source for truth of specific facts, but in the "Government investigation" section there is the line "President Bill Clinton issued a public apology to Lee over his treatment by the federal government

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