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by njarboe 3y ago
The emission loophole is part of the reason but the main one, I believe, is that the US vehicle manufacturers have used a boat load of advertising and other methods to convince people, over the last 60 years, to buy trucks and then SUVs due
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by njarboe 3y ago
I sort of like reusable rockets.
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by njarboe 3y ago
It would just be for very long flights. 45 minutes from New York to New Zealand instead of 17hr. That is a big difference. Plus you get to go into orbit (or close to it) for an amazing view/ride. You would have a huge number of people
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by njarboe 3y ago
Doesn't Norway just not tax EVs unlike ICE cars which are highly taxed? A bit different that the US where domestically made EVs are subsidized.
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by njarboe 3y ago
Um... Just US healthcare spending is 17.3% of GDP. $4.5 Trillion per year. No way this works.
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by njarboe 3y ago
Thanks for this info. This is the sort of response I was hoping for as the media reports don't talk about the undying situation. And it's Musk not Musky. ;)
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by njarboe 3y ago
From what I understand Tesla employees in Sweden do not want to join a/the union. The IF Metall union I believe. So these actions are unions trying to force people to do something they don't want to do. If people are happy working
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by njarboe 3y ago
Before that. Walking.
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by njarboe 3y ago
So the ramp needs to be about 35,000 feet high?
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by njarboe 3y ago
I use electrical tape to tape over bright LEDs, especially ones in the bedroom. The light generally will still be visible and you can add layers to get the brightness you desire. The tape also comes in many colors so you can match the devic
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by njarboe 3y ago
For the preservation of life in this single case it would be a waste but there as so many other scenarios where it would work. Plus there are so many other reasons to have a human civilization and terrestrial life spread to Mars. Humanity c
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by njarboe 3y ago
Agreed. If you hate ads and are given a reasonably priced option of not seeing them, you should choose that option. To support that option and signal that people want that option.
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by njarboe 3y ago
California homeowners pay property tax on the "assessed value", i.e. of the home. This value generally starts at the purchase price and then goes up with the lower of either inflation or 2%. The tax rate is the same for everyone b
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by njarboe 3y ago
7 days for the moon to go in half a cycle. Full to half. New moon to half moon. A pretty good demarkation of a period of time between one day and a month (full lunar cycle).
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by njarboe 3y ago
Total market index funds don't go to zero. You would have a bond fund and stock fund and rebalance to more stocks as you get nearer retirement. Sure, but maybe not when there have been very low interest rates for a long time. Holding c
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by njarboe 3y ago
Somehow the "safety" of bonds were not adjusted as yields reached and sometimes went below zero. A multi-year zero interest bond is not a very safe investment. I did have that default setting on a retirement account and got out of
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by njarboe 3y ago
We really should be working on fusion powered rockets so we can just accelerate at .5g and get places quickly.
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by njarboe 3y ago
If you are just moving cargo and not passengers, hopefully our world is not so broken that emotional decisions will be of first importance.
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by njarboe 3y ago
Elon Musk has stated that launch pad/landing tower complex is just as important and difficult to build as the rocket. And that building the manufacturing factories and the processes to build one rocket a week is even much harder. Havin
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by njarboe 3y ago
You should be able to set the "aggressive" level. I believe Tesla has this option internally on their FSD Beta. Hopefully you will be able to set this level for robot taxis and personal vehicles like you can with (some) human driv
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by njarboe 3y ago
How long it takes who to walk a block?
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by njarboe 3y ago
Is this sponsored content in the NY Times by PimEyes? PimEyes even quotes a previous NY Times article on their landing page. "For $29.99 a month PimEyes offers a potentially dangerous superpower from the world of science fiction"
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by njarboe 3y ago
Many power users travel often and it's nice to take your computer with you. If the top of the line laptop is powerful enough for your use, then it's a great choice. Power users compute is often in the cloud anyway, so having a pow
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by njarboe 3y ago
A photo caption also says, "No need to measure – just drop a few pea-sized pieces of alum/two pinches of alum powder into the solution and let it dissolve.", so the exact ratio is unimportant.
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by njarboe 3y ago
Communication hub. Probably just a downlink for Starlink for most of the South Atlantic.
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by njarboe 3y ago
The semantic difference between "cruise control" and "auto pilot" seems minimal to me. Imagine you have never heard of the term "cruise control" and a car company used the term.
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by njarboe 3y ago
I believe the F-35 software is designed to allow it to be sort of a forward base for controlling a large number of drones.
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by njarboe 3y ago
I'd guess that by the time we are not extracting natural gas it will be economical to source Helium from Jupiter's atmosphere.
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by njarboe 3y ago
Alvarez et al., 1980 [1] was the paper that convinced most geologists that the extinction was caused by an asteroid impact [source, PhD in Earth Science]. They found a layer of clay with very high iridium concentration at the K-T boundary i
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by njarboe 3y ago
Imagine what it took to make the highly accurate topo maps they relied on.

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