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by starbase 4y ago
Definitely impact scars at 10 o'clock on the .44 and 7 o'clock on the .38. Hickok45 on Youtube has some great videos of 200+ yard pistol shots, if you're into watching retired schoolteachers with superhuman accuracy.
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by starbase 4y ago
With you on #2, there's no easy solution. Love to read a comment that disagrees like this. Re: #1, I have to defend half of those blends as normal. E10 is the standard in US, and E15 was given the green light around the time oil prices
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by starbase 4y ago
My issue with mpge is twofold. 1. The amount of energy in a gallon of fuel is not constant. Where I live you can buy E85 (24kWh/gal) E15 (31kWh) E10 (32kWh) E0 (34kWh) biodiesel (37kWh) or petroleum diesel (38kWh). These numbers shift
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by starbase 4y ago
Hard to get 0.23cd with a bunch of protrusions catching wind
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by starbase 4y ago
We should use Wh/mi (or km) instead of mpge
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by starbase 4y ago
From a business standpoint, Tesla sells an order of magnitude more EVs than the closest competitor and makes a ton of profit on each one, whereas most other automakers sell their EVs at a loss. If you happen to be an engineer or just love t
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by starbase 4y ago
> Hopefully they'll walk back that decision Wouldn't count on it, considering GM just announced Google will be designing their infotainment systems.
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by starbase 4y ago
Your specs are wrong all around. Model 3 Long Range is AWD not RWD, range is 358 not 353, priced at $47,990 not $57,990. Most US buyers will get $7500 cash back from the Feds, bringing the price to $40,490. There is no Ioniq 6 available fo
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by starbase 4y ago
Great shooting--especially with the snubnose--but neither bullet impacted the balloon directly. The .44 hit the plate to the left of the balloon, and the .38 hit low. In both cases, the balloon was popped by fragments of the bullet after it
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by starbase 4y ago
Doesn't look like right wing madness to me, though I don't tend to view the world through a political lens. "Suggested" tweets seem to be those with unusually high like counts (compared to the poster's usual numbers
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by starbase 4y ago
Not to be pedantic, but the $10/kg number came from a graphic published by the journal Science, not from Musk. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1571540353978859526 See also this tweet clarifying that fixed
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by starbase 4y ago
No one at SpaceX has projected $10 per ton. Cost of fuel is about $10,000 per ton to LEO, assuming Starship can lob 100 tons at a time. In a speech to USAF in 2019, Musk said SpaceX's out of pocket cost per launch could be "maybe
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by starbase 4y ago
840 watts seems high. As a point of reference, the input power connector on Tesla's new HW4 computer is rated for 10A @ 16v, or 160 watts. In fairness to the authors, HW4 was not yet released when this paper was published.
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by starbase 4y ago
In what sense is fossil hydrogen renewable?
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by starbase 4y ago
What does "zero waste" even mean? No wasted time or energy? No wasted packaging?
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by starbase 4y ago
Colonization is not tourism.
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by starbase 4y ago
I believe the stop sign adjustment is to increase dwell time at empty intersections. i.e. stop and count to two before proceeding.
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by starbase 4y ago
It is a dumb question, but that's the best kind. "could kill you if gone wrong" is nearly every choice in life. The relevant metric is risk of death or other bad outcomes. Flying in a commercial airliner could kill you if t
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by starbase 4y ago
There are plenty of people who would give their lives to advance civilization for the sake of future generations. The brief pleasure of seeing some amazing wonders is, in comparison, irrelevant. Death is guaranteed either way.
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by starbase 5y ago
First impression. I like it. But some sources have 3 or 4 headlines and others have dozens. Perhaps the sources with few headlines could be on a row together (or the next source in a column moved up) to eliminate huge chunks of whitespace.
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by starbase 5y ago
Perfectly black and doesn't get hot in the sun. I love it.
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by starbase 5y ago
The nights are quite long.
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by starbase 5y ago
What a good name!
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by starbase 5y ago
Probably depends on the facility. Tesla recycles 100% of used batteries it receives, presumably by redeploying good cells as stationary storage and recycling the ones that are too far gone. At the Nevada plant in 2020, every 1000kWh of unus
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by starbase 5y ago
I don't know about fear, though it's certainly a concern. I have had police and social workers come to my home, and to my child's school, because I let her walk to the park alone. The park was less than 100 meters from my hom
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by starbase 5y ago
I agree with the author, and would add/modify a few things. If you're successful as a consultant, you'll soon discover economic incentives steering you towards an established business model, which can take some of the thrill