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by njarboe 6y ago
They are right to be afraid, but can balance risk and reward and not paralyzed by the fact someone will get killed.
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by njarboe 6y ago
Are humans AGI? They kill 35k on US roads alone each year. If Level 5 means 0 deaths per year, then it will never happen until the singularity. It is quite possible America's safety first attidue will let 35k people die a year because
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by njarboe 6y ago
100 trucks running right up next to each other is a train. I could imagine train operators converting their right of ways to a system where each train car can be autonomous and can leave the train and track without disruption. As the train
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by njarboe 6y ago
After you buy them with the logos removed, it is just a box van/truck.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Single day round trip flights New York to London for business meetings would be a big seller. Leave NYC at 6am, get in at 3pm London time, have meetings till 7pm, get home at 8pm New York time. No jet lag and sleep in your own home. Huge va
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by njarboe 7y ago
This is bad advice. You will need it in almost any country when getting stopped by the police. That can happen any time. This will be more of a problem in some countries than others. If you really can't find a way to carry it without g
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by njarboe 7y ago
Recently the US has been far in the lead for even crude production. Here is a source where you can see the break downs by type for every country from from 1973 to 2018[1]. Data from the US Energy Information Administration. Download the .cs
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by njarboe 7y ago
The Raptor engine for SpaceX's next rocket that would do these orbital/sub-orbital flights is fueled by liquid methane and LOX. A better fuel in many ways and much easier to make on Mars.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Or trucks.
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by njarboe 7y ago
As the article says at the end, since this data is anonymized, it is only useful to see how people moved in general before shelter-in-place was implemented. You have to go full tracking on an individualized level to be really useful after t
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by njarboe 7y ago
The revolution in the US from England started with a tax revolt. The founders hoped to create a new nation where the government didn't try and maximize its tax on citizens and just tax enough to maintain the functions of government. Th
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by njarboe 7y ago
Link to journal article this article is based on[1]. [1] https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/03/17/2001045117
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by njarboe 7y ago
When an egg and sperm fuse, the resulting cell contains more than just the genotype for the new organism. It has all of its inter-cellular contents and organization. I think a more reasonalbe usage would be that nature is this cell and nurt
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by njarboe 7y ago
I don't think people working in fields are being told to not go to work. Food production is critical work and is still allowed. It is the service industry (bars, restaurants, hotels, travel, sports, concerts, etc.) that is taking the h
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by njarboe 7y ago
I don't think touching your face is a problem. It is touching your eyes, nose, and mouth. When you are wearing a mask you can't touch your mouth and nose. The "don't touch your face" is a simplification of what peop
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by njarboe 7y ago
When the robo call problem spiked on my landline, I was getting 5-10 per day. Then I stated answering the phone with the phrase "Please leave a message at the tone." and made a beep noise. This got the calls down to 0-2 per day af
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by njarboe 7y ago
I don't think they make very much money at all from selling your info. The banks that issue credit cards make most of their money from interest and interchange charges (what the bank charges the merchant for a person using the card - v
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by njarboe 7y ago
A landline costs just as much as a smart phone plan, so very few people can justify the cost of both. I find that having just one end of a conversation on a landline improves the quality greatly and pay the ~$40 a month to have one (also, t
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by njarboe 7y ago
This article[1] states that our best natural experiment for COVID-19 is the Diamond Princess cruise ship and its quarantine passengers. From that he estimates the the mortality rate is between 0.05% and 1%. That is, we don't really kno
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by njarboe 7y ago
Yes. Biking and walking are also great transit modes depending on the distance, speed, and cargo needs of the trip. Although crowded sidewalks is something to avoid at this moment.
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by njarboe 7y ago
They will stop pumping when the price to extract gets too low. To stop pumping does not reduce the amount of oil you will get out of a reservoir to any significant degree and you can start up again with little cost. The big issue is that if
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by njarboe 7y ago
I would think this current crisis would make people even more leery of public transport and cutting car use is not impossible but that it will take a governmental forced lock down and martial law. Maybe we should think about ways of reducin
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by njarboe 7y ago
Which, if he meets all the goals of Musk's incentive schedule at Tesla, will be about $55 billion[1]. [1] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-compensation...
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by njarboe 7y ago
Here is the actual shutdown order for Alameda county where the Tesla factory is located[1]. [1] http://acphd.org/media/559658/health-officer-order-shelter-i...
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by njarboe 7y ago
With cash on hand of around $140 billion, I'm not sure Microsoft really needs to worry about outside capital. I would think the board could help with how to keep those big companies paying for everyone to have the full Microsoft Office
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by njarboe 7y ago
Yes we did. This is a press-release (It's right in the URL). Unfortunately AGU has gone down hill recently in its attempt to engage a wider audience and now you are getting the click bait "Ancient shell shows days were half-hour s
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by njarboe 7y ago
There is evidence from the Moon that is was heavily cratered from about 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago. What caused this is debated, but one leading theory is the Jupiter and Saturn got into a 2:1 resonance at that time and highly disturbed e
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by njarboe 7y ago
Nope. It because of angular momentum transfer between the Earth and the Moon due to tides. The Moon moves farther away and the Earth slows rotation.
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by njarboe 7y ago
If we did not already know what the phrase "cruise control" meant, would that phrase also be just as deceptive as autopilot?
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All UCSD courses will be delivered remotely for the Spring Quarter(ucsdnews.ucsd.edu)
34 points by njarboe 7y ago|1 comments

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