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by stellar678 8y ago
They neglected a huge part of the coming electric vehicle picture: lightweight, slow-speed electric vehicles. Almost 60% of US car trips are 5 miles or shorter. (2017 ref: https://nhts.ornl.gov/tables09/ae/work&#x2
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by stellar678 8y ago
I mean, I know that's the case in a lot of places. But it's also not the case in a lot of places so I figured I'd see if OP had considered the possibility.
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by stellar678 8y ago
At 4km, why not ride a bike?
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by stellar678 8y ago
Cars parked on the street are a huge inconvenience. They've just managed to formalize that inconvenience, and we forget about the fact that cars stole 85% of the street while people using their own feet are stuck sharing the other 15%
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by stellar678 8y ago
Sounds like a vicious circle. Too much carbon in the atmosphere warming the climate? Of course the solution is to build more air conditioners and blast out more carbon. /s Why would we opt for air conditioning instead of improving our
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by stellar678 8y ago
I'm curious to know - how did you manage to buy and sell a house by age 24 in the midst of a major housing bubble? Seems the down payment and credit-worthiness in any major metro would have been a pretty huge hurdle for someone only a
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by stellar678 8y ago
It's very far off. You would either need seriously over-performing investments or some kind of exit. I ran the numbers for a simple scenario, assuming a current $150k income: - With a 5% yearly raise and a 7% investment return, you end
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by stellar678 9y ago
Everywhere in the Bay Area has a severe housing shortage. Even with $150k+ salaries, there are very limited housing options available on the peninsula. The Bay Area's land-use policies are directly responsible for the absurdly high hou
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Keep Betting on JavaScript(speakerdeck.com)
2 points by stellar678 9y ago|0 comments
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by stellar678 9y ago
I lived in Brisbane for a year. It was beautiful and calm and peaceful and pastoral. I had 3 apple trees, a peach tree and a pear tree. It's totally unsustainable for cities like Brisbane to have such a huge jobs/housing imbalance
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by stellar678 9y ago
I didn't say that. 45k is just the midpoint in density between Nob Hill and Telegraph Hill. Seems like a good target for the baylands neighborhood. Brisbane's city report from 2013 states there were ~6,500 jobs in the city. Add in
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by stellar678 9y ago
And it's even harder in California where so much of the property tax roll is frozen at tiny values from the past. Prop 13 can take almost exclusive blame for cities in California giving preference to jobs and retail over housing. It&#x
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by stellar678 9y ago
The Brisbane baylands area is a full square mile, which is contiguous with parts of San Francisco and is separated by a 5-lane highway from the current residential part of Brisbane. I live in a mixed SFH/midrise apartment neighborhood
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by stellar678 9y ago
A well-designed permaculture system should exceed industrial farming if you are talking about productivity per square meter. The problem is that the amount of labor required is totally unsustainable to feed billions of people. That's w
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by stellar678 9y ago
Actually it takes a temperature of 120 celsius to inactivate C. botulinum spores, which means you have to pressure cook any non-acidic foods that will be canned.
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by stellar678 9y ago
This always struck me as weird because of how many people I know who cook a giant pot of rice in a rice cooker and just leave it on the counter as they eat the rice over a couple days. Never knew it to cause vomiting.
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by stellar678 9y ago
There really isn't a conflict between the fact that ruminants can provide an important ecological service to grasslands, and the fact that CAFOS/meat factories cause ecosystem devastation. The problem is that our economic system d
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by stellar678 9y ago
I think staffing costs would make this difficult if it's even possible. How many staff run a modern airline on a cross-Atlantic trip, maybe 10? With an 8 hour trip time, that's 80 hours of staff time for about 300 passengers. Or a
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Apple-Picking Robot Prepares to Compete for Farm Jobs(technologyreview.com)
1 points by stellar678 9y ago|1 comments
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by stellar678 9y ago
In this case, it seems to mean "deputize somebody else who can put their name on the letters instead of me".
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by stellar678 9y ago
I had no idea what GFE stands for and had to track down [ https://medium.com/@jerub/the-production-environment-at-goog... ] in order to get a good answer. Envoy bills itself primarily as a service mesh (seeming closest t
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by stellar678 9y ago
The real way to make people drive a certain speed - is to design a road that makes people drive that speed. It's been a really slow process, but bit by bit we are beginning to recover from the mistake of treating the design of transpor
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by stellar678 9y ago
Is there some structural factor that prevents the assembly from being taken by Erdogan's opposition?
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by stellar678 10y ago
<< Ford sells that many F-Series trucks in the U.S. about every three weeks. >> This is why Ford is unlikely to succeed at pivoting into the electric car market. The power and pull inside their company doesn't want them to.
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by stellar678 10y ago
It doesn't target churches specifically. But churches like to operate under 501c3 nonprofit charity status so they can avoid paying taxes, and part of the 501c3 tax regulation forbids supporting candidates. I was curious though and app
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by stellar678 10y ago
Also known as tax fraud.
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by stellar678 10y ago
We're actually all over that, and it will only continue to get better. The US energy productivity (GDP per unit of energy) has gone up 58% in the last 25 years, and most other regions of the world have seen large gains as well: http:&
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by stellar678 10y ago
I thought the same thing at first, but I noticed the caption for the second image called them "stones" and it looks more like a stone than a mud brick. I guess they probably switched to a more durable material like stone when they
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by stellar678 10y ago
Facebook is already not a dumb pipe. The show you an automatically curated news feed. Since they have taken up the role of curation, they better take responsibility to ensure it's not doing accidental harm.
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by stellar678 10y ago
Of course the person who chose to not flip their coin at all...didn't end up being the person to flip the most heads in a row. So the truth lies somewhere between "it's entirely chance" and "it's entirely hard

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