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by sib 3y ago
If the comment meant "tall" vs "significant," then granted. I think that, as a term of architectural art, "significant" means more than tall...
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by sib 3y ago
>> It's well-understood that Europe doesn't build significant buildings anymore, and there's confusion about why a US city would want to build something large and noteworthy. That seems a little unfair. For example, Phi
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by sib 3y ago
Sadly, not even close to the biggest... https://www.apollo-magazine.com/red-army-trophy-art-germany/
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by sib 3y ago
That I don't know! I imagine they have a lot of freedom contractually but are constrained by the realities of how much people would actually pay.
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by sib 3y ago
Over 90% of McDonalds locations are owned by franchisees - less than 10% corporate-owned. The franchisees have pricing decision-making authority.
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by sib 3y ago
>> I prefer their Quarter Pounder with Cheese Do you mean the "Royale with Cheese"? :)
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by sib 3y ago
Somehow I missed the acquisition. I think the downhill slide has begun - they recently changed the terms / capabilities on their free version to make it even more limited and, presumably, to get more people to upgrade. It's good t
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by sib 3y ago
Not true as a general statement. May be true in certain cases. And certainly, in the case of a layoff (such as this one), with a severance package, a non-compete could be part of the severance agreement. (Or not, depending on locale. For su
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by sib 3y ago
The article very clearly makes the point that this battery deployment does not replace energy generation.
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by sib 3y ago
Plus things like site suitability, setback requirements, etc.
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by sib 3y ago
Surprisingly enough, Los Angeles is actually ahead of this timeline and rolled out a program more than a year ago to develop pre-approved ADU plans with private architecture firms. As of now, there are about 65 standardized plans that have
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by sib 3y ago
When I learned to play (late, in my early 30's) I eventually gave up on the driver and used a 3-wood instead, for exactly this reason. I got more effective distance because I could hit the ball quite straight with the 3-wood. Probably
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by sib 3y ago
But it definitely didn't strengthen civilian resolve.
344.
by sib 3y ago
No drama, just history! Ben Shneiderman's been doing "UX" research since before it was a defined term (previously called "Human-Computer Interaction" or even "Man-Machine Interfaces"). He was my thesis adv
345.
by sib 3y ago
I was so excited to find a new tool for creating planning diagrams of model railroad layouts... <sadface>
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by sib 3y ago
When I studied computer science (which, at my university in the United States was still a part of the mathematics faculty), we were required to study one of German, French, or Russian, as those were historical languages of math. Seems a bit
347.
by sib 3y ago
Or because of asshole manufacturers of illegal and dangerous drugs? Porque no los dos?
348.
by sib 3y ago
I recently took a Waymo test ride through a bunch of neighborhood streets in LA. Not straight lines, lots of traffic, cars parked on both sides of roads, plenty of human drivers seemingly unable to cope. (Admittedly, mostly sunny weather.)
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by sib 3y ago
My favorite thing about Seattle drivers & traffic (lived there for 15 years). [rains] Radio traffic announcer: "It's slow out there because it's raining." [cloudy] Radio traffic announcer: "It's slow out t
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by sib 3y ago
>> But what’s the point? Why do individuals need level 5 cars? Because there are places that public transit will never cover? I've been places in the American West that are 50+ miles from the nearest paved road, stop sign, or res
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by sib 3y ago
The one exception is if a car pulls into a lane in front of you when you are traveling faster. His actual statement was, "if you rear-end someone that you are following, it is your fault..." If someone abruptly pulls in front of y
352.
by sib 3y ago
I recently took a Waymo test ride (round trip, two separate segments) in Los Angeles. It was extremely uneventful - in a good way - while navigating urban traffic, road construction, unprotected left turns, etc., and felt (subjectivity aler
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by sib 3y ago
Using California as an example, they are charging $0.12 / kWh more for non-Teslas than for Teslas. I don't see any reason to assume that delta would be different in other locations. Since the Tesla-Supercharging business is runnin
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by sib 3y ago
Using California as an example, they are charging $0.12 / kWh more for non-Teslas than for Teslas. I don't see any reason to assume that delta would be different in other locations. Since the Tesla-Supercharging business is runnin
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by sib 3y ago
I remember taking Driver's Ed class many years ago. When we got to the section about fault in relation to rear-end collisions, the instructor said, "if you rear-end someone, it is your fault, full stop." The class then spent
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by sib 3y ago
In Tesla's most recent quarter, their revenue for "Services & Other," which is where Supercharging lives, was $2,166M, while the cost of revenue for Services & Other was $2,037M. So, a gross profit of $129M on reven
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by sib 3y ago
No, this feature has been in beta builds for quite a while.
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by sib 3y ago
Not sure how much margin that Tesla will be making on the charging. I don't think the financial details of these deals have been disclosed. Adding lots of revenue but with no margin doesn't really add value to Tesla. (Of course, t
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by sib 3y ago
Actually one 60A and one 40A. We have a 100A subpanel in our garage. Having them asymmetric (vs 2 x 50A) means that if we need one specific car to be charged as fast as possible, we can.
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by sib 3y ago
My point is exactly what I said. There are lots of parts of the world where mobile service is not good (or available at all) because it's not economically sensible to build out coverage where populations are very low. You wrote "t

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