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by nkoren 7y ago
The need to do all of the above. The old trains are in appalling condition, and desperately need to be replaced, no doubt about it!
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by nkoren 7y ago
We're obviously moving from the "then they laugh at you" stage to the "then they fight you" stage.
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by nkoren 7y ago
Needs https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be...
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by nkoren 7y ago
Yup, clickbait.
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by nkoren 7y ago
Anonymous anecdotes aside, the scandalous news they report is that Consumer Reports puts Tesla's reliability in the bottom half -- yes, shock and consernation, the BOTTOM HALF!!! -- of all automobile manufactures. Of course, 50% all au
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by nkoren 7y ago
I don't think land area is the metric to use here. Quaries need to be located close to the coast, in order to minimise shipping costs. There's a lot of land in the interior of continents which would not be suitable for this kind o
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by nkoren 7y ago
Innovation takes an unreasonably twisty path. An even more stark example: suitcases with wheels. If you have the technology to build a siege engine or a crossbow, then surely you can build a suitcase with wheels. And yet they post-date the
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by nkoren 7y ago
That's a really interesting and well-done mine -- thanks for introducing it to me! This project proposes mining at a scale that is cumulatively about 8,000 times greater than Glensanda. But if they could all be done so sensitively, the
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by nkoren 7y ago
The trick is that while you can't actually decrease the total amount of energy in your fall, you can get some of that energy to work in your favour. Think about when you flare a parachute, shortly before landing. What you're doing
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by nkoren 7y ago
That's true, but typically, quad-based models are not decomposed directly into triangles, but, rather, subdivision surfaces that do have a predictable resolution. In other words, a direct triangulation of a non-planar quad can be res
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by nkoren 7y ago
Thanks for responding to my criticism and taking it seriously! The energy costs for this are indeed a lot less than I had imagined. I've seen plenty of appealing sequestration concepts where the numbers definitely don't work out,
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by nkoren 7y ago
In 3D characters animation, everything needs to be decomposed into "quads". Polygonal faces with more than 4 sides start behaving really weirdly under deformation -- there's more than one solution for how the resulting surfac
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by nkoren 7y ago
I would be significantly less skeptical about this if it were significantly less ambitious. I'm sure there are low-hanging opportunities where this makes a good amount of sense. Places where there are olivine-rich mine tailings -- some
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by nkoren 7y ago
> Paolo Soleri is a really interesting character 'Tis true. I worked with him fairly closely for five years (1992-1997), so knew him well. Happy to do an AMA for anyone who's interested in the subject.
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by nkoren 7y ago
For a start, in many American suburbs, just walking to get food can be a four hour round trip. And a four hour round trip to do absolutely anything else. Without a car, that's totally untenable. You may or may not have anything better
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by nkoren 7y ago
False flag op was my instant reaction as well. The original protestors were fastidious in their civic-mindedness. These are not them. These protestors are producing made-to-order photos for the Chinese press. When China steps in to "re
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Humans are the sex organs of the planet(everything2.com)
1 points by nkoren 7y ago|0 comments
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by nkoren 7y ago
Amiga forever!!!!!!
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by nkoren 7y ago
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYfkOtYYlg
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by nkoren 7y ago
Many reasons, but for a start, the roads are much more subsidized than the rails are.
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by nkoren 7y ago
Also just skimming, and furthermore not a physicist, but I'm not sure your critique works: > Two different metrics would have to describe two different, disjoint surfaces, which would have no connection to each other, which would me
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by nkoren 8y ago
76% of UK households have a vehicle, as opposed to 91% of US households. More than vehicle-ownership, however, significantly higher petrol prices in the UK inhibit usage by a fair amount (2018 averages: $2.50/gal in the US, $7.00/
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by nkoren 8y ago
Public transport in the US is, as a rule, wildly inferior to public transport in the rest of the OECD. But still, all things are relative, and the quality of public transport in the US is more or less on a gradient, with bigger cities gener
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by nkoren 8y ago
I think I've spotted a paradox. I'm generally pro-markets, but I don't think they're a panacea. They mostly seem to concentrate rather than decentralise wealth. If you're poor, you can't enter the market at all
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A Short Intro to Constraints(zalo.github.io)
185 points by nkoren 8y ago|18 comments
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by nkoren 8y ago
That's FUD BS. You don't produce nearly a quarter of a million cars if your production line "barely works". The truth is that they're now routinely exceeding a thousand Model 3 cars per day. https://www.b
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by nkoren 8y ago
No, that's how certain types of engineering optimisations work, but as a process is susceptible to getting stuck in local minima. This is clearly a different type of optimisation, requiring the simultaneous adoption of a number of diff
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by nkoren 8y ago
Tracing the Amazon from its headwaters... Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-15.2762023,-71.6326301,334m/da... Here's a bridge: https://www.google.com/maps/@-15.1768982,-
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by nkoren 8y ago
It's definitely something you should be trained for.
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by nkoren 8y ago
For anybody who is confused about why this is an issue: There's a right way and a wrong way to talk to someone about their death. The right way involves making eye contact, making sure that they can hear you, and if they are comfortabl

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