njarboe

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by njarboe 7y ago
Or maybe Elon Musk wanted to be able to fit his whole family in the S and when the X came out that was no longer needed.
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by njarboe 7y ago
I know of a 4.5 mile stretch of small rural road in the California foothills was recently repaved for about $400k. It would be great if the variance on these numbers were also given.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Plus childcare and eldercare. Take those and the ones you mention into account, and GDP/person has probably dropped since the 1950s.
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by njarboe 7y ago
So they could have a dramatic scene where Laurence Fishburne can explain the situation by holding up a Duracell looking battery.
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by njarboe 7y ago
And until very recently the US imported more than half its daily oil usage. Now it is a net exporter. The Saudis controlled the oil market. American oil from fracking has recently changed that, however, and gives the US a better chance of c
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by njarboe 7y ago
You are correct. I had 1000000000 as a trillion. Scientific notation is a much better way to calculate things. At 30mm that is a big enough layer that a geologist could see it in the rock record, if it looked different enough.
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by njarboe 7y ago
The Model-X is really like a mini-van. High price, but similar functionality. Seats five adults + two kids. Maybe Tesla will drop the price over time. I think Elon Musk built it as the car he would want to take his family around in. He late
818.
by njarboe 7y ago
This is impressive, but just one meter of dirt covering the surface of the earth is about 1.2 million trillion tons. 30 trillion tons would create a layer about 0.03mm thick. Invisible in a geologic sense.
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by njarboe 7y ago
I agree. For people who really like trains, think of a bunch of automatic buses traveling right next to each other as a train.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Tesla is hoping for their cars to last a million miles. The electric motors should already be able to do that. If they can continue with not changing the complete car every 5 years, like most other car manufacturers do (to make older versio
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by njarboe 7y ago
Your brokerage software could make this easy. E-Trade could have a feature where you can buy/sell the S&P500, Russel2000, or total US index. You put in the total amount to invest and it does the rest.
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by njarboe 7y ago
With free trades (now in everywhere) and fractional share purchases(robinhood), I think buying your own S&P500 fund would be possible with little capital ($1000?), and easy if your broker set up the software on their system to do that.
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by njarboe 7y ago
I would say this does solve the problem. If you have enough money for your vote to matter, then you can just own all the stocks in an index yourself and get to vote. This is now even more practical as trade costs have recently been cut to z
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by njarboe 7y ago
Hopefully, if this comes to fruition, the resultant GMO plants can be looked at on its own merits instead of just being labeled "GMO bad" and not used.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Check out Boom for a new company working on supersonic airplanes [1]. [1] https://boomsupersonic.com/ Health care is worse? More expensive, yes, but anybody getting cancer and wanting to live is much better off now than in t
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by njarboe 7y ago
Because a jury will hand out a huge multi-million dollar award against a self-driving car company when its car crashes causing a death, while when a human causes a death it is usually just an "accident" or a much smaller settlemen
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by njarboe 7y ago
Are parking laws different for Taxis than for Ubers? Say in New York City? Lots of Taxis there so if Ubers are working under the same law, seems like an already solved problem. UPS have millions? of parking violations per year, yet it is st
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by njarboe 7y ago
The problem is that under the current tax scheme in the US people are taxed on their total income and companies are taxed on their profits. This is a huge difference. So rich people, who can have companies do what they want, get taxed very
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by njarboe 7y ago
Yes, nuclear duck and cover drills is what I was referring to.
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by njarboe 7y ago
How would you possibly be able to estimate the probability of nuclear annihilation? There are 13,000 nuclear warheads ready to launch on a minutes notice.
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by njarboe 7y ago
I love cities, think they are great, and live in the Bay Area myself. I don't know how old you are, but much of the flight to suburbs was due to the building of freeways and the fear of nuclear attack on cities. Younger people did not
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by njarboe 7y ago
It is worse than that. With the passage of the "Top Two Candidates Open Primary Act" California has open primaries (anyone can vote for anyone on the ballot in the primaries) and only the top two get to be on the main ballot. So m
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by njarboe 7y ago
If you believe that car travel must be innately evil, then induced demand is a problem with building more roads. More roads mean more people using them to do something they want to do. These tunnels will be toll roads, so if you just up the
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by njarboe 7y ago
Toilet paper as a veblen good? I have not seen that yet, but I bet it already exists.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Aren't the newest and biggest ground based telescopes made up of many mirrors that have millions of actuators on them to correct for atmospheric distortion? I don't see why you couldn't make similar multi-mirror telescopes in
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by njarboe 7y ago
Not really any different than having assigned seats for people.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Correct. Moving your foot from the accelerator to the brake is a much practiced motion and your body can do it very quickly without much thought. I rarely use cruse control, so when I do and think I might want to brake soon, I get nervous.
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by njarboe 7y ago
While I like the idea of Hold mode, not regularly using the brake will cause the breaking reflex action to fade with time. You really want to have a good "slam the breaks" reflex if you drive a car On the other hand, maybe Tesla f
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by njarboe 7y ago
If parents did not have to work or could take their children to work, they could be both caregivers and teachers.
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by njarboe 7y ago
Do you really want the government to have a system set up to know when your property is vacant? I don't.

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