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by nyxtom 10y ago
Blue Origins seems pretty likely to tap into a much lower cost market for panoramic views of earth at high altitudes, similar to Virgin Galactic (had they not completely messed things up). Developing something that will get them into LEO is
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by nyxtom 10y ago
n has a bug where it doesn't symlink the new npm version in correctly when you change to a new version. If you manually symlink /usr/local/bin/npm -> /usr/local/n/versions/node/x.x.x
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Isn't the entire premise of building affordability/profit into the model 3, among other vehicles, is driving down the cost of li-ion batteries? All of these ventures rely on an economy of scale of difference. Correct me if I'
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Their argument is that dealerships have no actual incentive to sell EV vehicles over other ICE vehicles given that franchises make most of their profit from servicing; as such this exposes quite a bit of unnecessary risk for Tesla or any EV
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Hmm that is true. It's probably been said before, but the Model X definitely made things a lot more difficult to get to a rollout of the model 3. "I'm not sure anyone should have made this car," he said at a press confer
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by nyxtom 10y ago
It's important to note that the rollout of the Model 3, along with other Tesla vehicles, is done in spite of many laws that are explicitly aimed at preventing the sale of Tesla vehicles. Many states completely hamstring the ability t
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Indeed! ^^ It's important to be self aware of what your body is trying to tell you ultimately. Be able to monitor your mood, motivation, general tiredness, anxiety, and monitor what is causing that. I have regularly taken therapy to pr
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Read more books, take a few days off and go on an actual vacation away from the computer.
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by nyxtom 10y ago
I think part of it is the fact that Trump is an all around jerk that inherently garners more attention. Bush did plenty of egregious things that didn't get nearly the amount of attention they deserved either. That being said when the W
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by nyxtom 10y ago
The headline seems a bit sensational given that the actual ban applies to government and tourist establishments. Seems reasonable that any government should be able to setup standards that have only the jurisdiction to apply to their own en
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by nyxtom 10y ago
This part is deeply troubling: "ICE has various safeguards in place to protect electronic devices that are detained or seized, or information from a device that is detained during a border search. ICE stores all electronic devices, or
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Worth noting that the DHS has the authority to take your device, copy the contents, and share any information they found on a case-by-case basis. It seems likely that the standard practice will be to simply copy the content wholesale and us
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by nyxtom 10y ago
All internet should be done through omnidirectional lasers, in due time these companies will become obsolete.
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This appears to be a frequent theme
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Seems like we now have the worst of both worlds now. A ruthless drone program, botched operations, and unnecessarily misguided bans.
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Given the approach to the new administration, seems like the generic solution will be to just reduce the number of visas (ahem after revoking 100,000 of them).
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by nyxtom 10y ago
No, because at some point you will inevitable need care. We build care systems in place and pay into them to mitigate and distribute risk. You are effectively free-riding on everyone else's participation.
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by nyxtom 10y ago
That's not a sustainable choice for our economy, it leads to too many people living like nothing could possibly go wrong until they need a doctor. The point of insurance is to distribute risk, not participating in that effectively nega
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Choosing to not be insured is unsustainable for our economy the moment you have an issue and need a doctor.
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by nyxtom 10y ago
These jobs might actually come back, but the cost for upgrading coal plants to use modern techniques like chemical looping make it a bit unviable at the moment (or maybe not I'm not sure). If we ever got a carbon tax in place, then the
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by nyxtom 10y ago
There is some argument here that the coal jobs being proposed are related to "clean coal tech" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_coal_technology ). Given that most of our energy comes from coal in this coun
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That being said, there are a number of laws that are likely to get axed by the new administration - probably without congress approval given how much the executive branch likes to write laws these days. Clean Power Act, Endangered Species A
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Also, there are laws in place that the EPA is responsible for. So it is highly unlikely (illegal even) to simply disband the EPA for any reason. The only way to do that is through congress by repealing a host of laws that the EPA is effecti
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by nyxtom 10y ago
FBI and CIA are under the executive branch of government and as such conduct/policies are directed by the residing administration. I don't like the idea of having an independent branch of government not subject to the executive br
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by nyxtom 10y ago
These agencies exist as an extension of the executive branch of government. Having them run independently with their own policy agendas can be just as dangerous or economically limiting depending on the policy positions of the time. Lucky f
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by nyxtom 10y ago
It also might be useful, as noted https://www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/lcfs/workgroups/lcfssustain/han... to simply not grow certain low cash crops like alfalfa, wheat or grain in California given the amount wat
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Indeed, there are also alternative methods to feeding cattle that can even reduce methane emissions such as seaweed https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990831132210.h... )
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Agriculture takes up the majority of the use of water consumption. (Nearly 70% of all water use - http://www.worldometers.info/water/ ). Of that consumption, in terms of irrigation, nearly 50% of the water is lost to ev
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Didn't they buy out Gnip precisely for this reason?
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by nyxtom 10y ago
Still need to get better facetimehd support.

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