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by njarboe 9mo ago
I imagine you had good reason not to, but this is a situation for a lawsuit. Did you sue Amazon to get your money?
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by njarboe 9mo ago
Few people just want to burn fossil fuels, they want to do things with energy. Focus should be on making non-CO2 emitting energy cheap and abundant. Most people against burning fossil fuel are also not promoting more and cheaper energy use.
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by njarboe 9mo ago
The world would much more easily transition to post fossil fuel if all of society was pushing for cleaner and cheaper electricity and a philosophy of using more to make life better. The attitude that we must reduce is just anti-progress and
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by njarboe 9mo ago
Why are you against increasing energy consumption? Increasing energy consumption is what pulled the world out of the feudal, warlord misery of the past. Maybe switch the focus of this feeling towards being against pollution or something tha
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by njarboe 9mo ago
When I interned at Chevron someone said they (or some other oil company) were using Fourier transforms in the 1950's for seismic analysis but kept it a secret for obvious reasons. I think you couldn't (can't?) patent math equ
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by njarboe 9mo ago
The majority of the US population (65% https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N ) are home owners. I agree that high home prices are not in the interest of the majority of the population, but I bet the majority th
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by njarboe 9mo ago
BYD does not make most of its revenue on BEVs. It is mostly batteries and more plugin hybrids than BEVs and they lose money selling BEVs (less than almost all other electric car makers though). Tesla make only BEVs and make a profit doing s
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by njarboe 10mo ago
Well, you as a human train and live as a human on the output of all human civilization and if you are very efficient put people out of work. 99% of human jobs were physical labor and now machines do the work of thousands with one human supe
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by njarboe 10mo ago
'taxed fairly' This could be almost any tax system depending on the what one views as "fair".
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by njarboe 10mo ago
Many problems with the tax code and all of its complications is due to the fact that people are taxed on revenue and businesses are taxed on profit (revenue -costs). It would be good to remove this mismatch. I would prefer eliminating the i
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by njarboe 10mo ago
For fat people, getting over heated when doing things is generally the limiting factor on how strenuous one can push the body. In the cold you can exercise a lot harder before you get too hot, so the person can stress the body more than the
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by njarboe 10mo ago
"Many of the reps I’ve spoken to have suggested strange things, one of the strangest was telling me that I could physically go to Apple’s Australian HQ at Level 3, 20 Martin Place, Sydney, and plead my case." This does not seem st
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by njarboe 10mo ago
Fun to see the Jerboa. I recently read a family history written by my uncle and he believes this is the source of our family name.
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by njarboe 10mo ago
And put people in jail they catch making and using fake ones.
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by njarboe 11mo ago
I hope so. Similarly I only disengage when I want to go faster or forget to set the destination. Too bad the owners of FSD can't decide that they want unsupervised. In an earlier or different world that would be possible.
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by njarboe 11mo ago
Competition does encourage action. Glad Tesla started rolling out their robotaxies.
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by njarboe 11mo ago
Many people use AI as the source for knowledge. Even though it is often wrong or misleading, it's advice is better on average than their own judgement or the judgement of people they know. When an AI is "smarter" than 95%? of
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by njarboe 11mo ago
The low green glow in the 65 mustang I drove in high school was divine.
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by njarboe 11mo ago
My Tesla does a good job with its screen and since it is a model 3, no bright gages in front of the wheel. Most other modern cars have this problem though.
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by njarboe 11mo ago
One thing that helps is to make sure you don't look at the headlights directly. It really helps to look at the white line on the side of the road when the other car is close to preserve your night vision.
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by njarboe 11mo ago
One of the main reasons people want/need brighter headlights is that there is much more light inside the car from screens. These don't let your eyes adjust to the dark properly. Older cars had dim green lighting for the gauges and
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by njarboe 11mo ago
It was also a great move because they could take more risks launching their own Starlink satellites and prove out the reliability of the Falcon 9 to others. They also are very had to compete with when they build, launch, and deploy the syst
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by njarboe 11mo ago
Radio and especially TV also had large social effects. People used to play cards, instruments, and other social things before TV. Then household TV watching maxxed at 9 hours/day in 2010 (5hr/d in 1950). (Would like to know the pe
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by njarboe 1y ago
If your parents did not have you at 40 you would not exist. Hope you are enjoying life.
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by njarboe 1y ago
Not a pilot myself but it seems that a large part of the danger with flying is that when something goes wrong you are much more likely to have a high speed crash. Cars don't even usually travel at speeds that planes crash at.
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by njarboe 1y ago
Well, I at least know that teenagers were considered adults, not children, in the past and were expected to be responsible. Maybe that change is a big part of the problem.
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by njarboe 1y ago
And then there is the timescales of mountains, rivers, and oceans.
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by njarboe 1y ago
So are the NSF employees going to share the building? The article doesn't say.
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by njarboe 1y ago
On the other hand keeping all of the federal workforce in D.C, instead of the states, reduces the political desire to prop up federal projects just for the local jobs. Much easier to reduce wasteful spending when you don't layoff peopl
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by njarboe 1y ago
America is a common law jurisdiction. Juries determine the true law and you never know what that is until a jury decides. You can make so good guesses though. Custom is the rule so an autocar doing what people normally do is the best way to

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