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by stellar678 7y ago
California literally has the National Guard supporting food banks across the state right now: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/21/coronavirus-governor-... I agree with your overall sentiment that we would
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by stellar678 7y ago
My understanding is it's about application state - cookies, mutations, etc... If the request is "give me the profile photo of the logged-in user" - the response depends on the stateful question of who is the logged-in user. I
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by stellar678 7y ago
Can you try to dig that up and share it with us? It sounds a lot like some versions of meditation, but I'd be really interested to read it.
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by stellar678 7y ago
I agree that Tesla is unlikely to be interested in playing directly in a tightly regulated market as a utility. But they are happy to sell solar and storage to utilities, to the extent that power grids still provide useful services. (And I
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by stellar678 7y ago
I was actually expecting a pretty big drop today given the huge recent runup, so it's fair to say that my breath is not held. But it's the long term I care about, and I'm fairly confident that Tesla is well-positioned for the
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by stellar678 7y ago
I dunno. My bullish view has more to do with Tesla using the vehicle market as an entry point to the broader energy market. If the Tesla cars start throwing off profit and make the company self-sustaining, their vertically-integrated energy
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A new method for boosting the learning of mathematics(sciencedaily.com)
16 points by stellar678 7y ago|0 comments
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by stellar678 7y ago
*Addendum: Nobody should be forced to have a garage on their house and the government has no business requiring that.
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by stellar678 7y ago
That's interesting...that's my theory about recorded music in the early 20th century when folks figured out how to commoditize music and stamp it out as a product to be consumed instead of a culture to be shared. How do you see Sp
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by stellar678 7y ago
Twenty's plenty! Popular in the UK, but in the US we seem to think it's more appropriate to mark residential streets at 25 but design them to encourage driving at 45+.
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by stellar678 7y ago
Off peak travel time, and my destination was waaaay past Sacramento. For journeys like that, a two lane highway would be totally adequate. But the massive crush of traffic at commute time is another story... The observation was really about
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by stellar678 7y ago
Yeah, Capitol Corridor is great! I wonder what it would take to convert a bunch of those folks who jam up 80 and 680 every day into riders ... I suppose it’s more complicated than just moving the right-of-way and stations into the more popu
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by stellar678 7y ago
Right on! Was just driving Oakland to Sacramento last week and lamenting the fact there isn’t a semi-high speed train tracking the freeways all the way out there. So much of our exurban sprawl puts people on 2 hour commutes along that route
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by stellar678 7y ago
As a homeowner with what seems to be an ever-growing list of projects, I noticed that I would unceremoniously delete them when complete. The projects themselves quickly become part of the background of life, so I realized this deletion was
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by stellar678 7y ago
The University of Texas approach was fishing line OR sewing thread. (Just a twisted single-material polymer line.) At the start of this MIT article, I was wondering if it was just a re-hash of the fishing-line 'muscle' discovery a
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by stellar678 7y ago
Thing about car crashes is...they are the #1 most common cause of death for young people from age 5-25. If you look at the population-wide stats, things are dominated by diseases of aging because more old folks are dying overall. Every deat
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by stellar678 7y ago
I also live in a city of about 400,000 - and I have thousands of neighbors. Of course I don't know them all personally - I am familiar with different groups, communities, leaders, families. I know about what's important to them, w
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by stellar678 7y ago
If you live in a small town of 100,000 people, that means 11 of your neighbors will be killed by drivers crashing their cars every year. And that doesn’t account for the deaths and health costs caused by road pollution, by inactive lifestyl
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by stellar678 7y ago
The current crop of local politicians are not to blame - it’s squarely the fault of generations of politicians and voters who severely overbuilt road systems without a plan to fund maintenance. We should tear out 50% of our asphalt and repl
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by stellar678 7y ago
I’ll bite: Why is it bad to put a click handler on a div? Because we’re losing the semantic content of the markup?
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by stellar678 7y ago
I feel like the create/delete queue semantics hint that a queue should be a long-lived thing that consumers are configured to connect to. When I saw suggestions to have one queue per consumer and have that consumer create/delete t
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by stellar678 7y ago
It’s funny you mention 99.99% - because 40,000 people are killed by car crashes in a year in the United States, which is actually .012% of the population. So cars actually do a bit worse than your stat...
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Rocking Improves Sleep, Boosts Memory (In Adults)(the-scientist.com)
1 points by stellar678 8y ago|0 comments
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by stellar678 8y ago
Studies have actually shown that electric cars produce more than 90% as much particulate-matter air pollution as fossil fuel cars. The reason for this is two-fold: 1. Modern gasoline cars produce very clean exhaust. 2. Most of the particula
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by stellar678 8y ago
Yeah - given all the data we have showing that SUV design is basically set up to kill pedestrians, I have to wonder when Ralph Nader is going to come out with “Unsafe at Any Speed 2”.
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by stellar678 8y ago
Did not downvote - but your arguments about geographic size ring really hollow given the NHTS stats I shared originally which show that 60% of car trips are 5 miles or less. Then you’ll add that you can’t cycle in the winter in New York bec
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by stellar678 8y ago
Excellent point! California just passed a bill that won't allow high school or middle school to start earlier than 8:30am because there is reams of research showing that early starts cause worse learning and development outcomes. Lots
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by stellar678 8y ago
It's a good point that design and manufacturing quality are an important component here. I know the e-scooters used by Lime and Bird have seen a pretty quick iteration, and the models they have on the streets now are a lot better than
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by stellar678 8y ago
Well, if you say so. Clearly your opinion about people's travel has a lot more validity than the research conducted by the American (err, United States) Federal Highway Administration.
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by stellar678 8y ago
I remember back in 2007 when I would try to talk to people about this badass upcoming Tesla Roadster that could smoke supercars. A very common thing I heard was: "Yea that's interesting, but I mean, a silent car is just not cool l

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