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by sunstone 6y ago
It's possible that 'years in the future' Elon Musk will have a public profile similar to Howard Hughes today.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Did you see two rockets return to earth and land side-by-side?
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by sunstone 6y ago
When I dropped into street view of an Icelandic suburb I was surprised how many trees I saw. Maybe it's an issue of topsoil rather than climate?
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by sunstone 6y ago
In defense of the writer of this article notice that almost all pictures of the sun released by NASA are false colored in shades of yellow/orange. There is almost no sense in which this is close to correct.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Deer Hunter
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by sunstone 6y ago
Interesting they are going for this approach rather than the parabolic near space technique of spaceX. Could these just be different market segments?
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by sunstone 6y ago
It's pretty clear that globally China has taken a "divide and conquer" approach to countries generally. After China reneged on it's Hong Kong agreement it became starkly clear that China is not interested in the "r
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by sunstone 6y ago
And other people make the conscious choice to be happy. More or less in the epicurean style.
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by sunstone 6y ago
And the Current Affairs site is free so...what is that telling us?
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by sunstone 6y ago
If you didn't at least buy an S&P 500 index fund when it was tanking in March then investing might not be your strength. Otherwise, as a rule of thumb, everyone who starts out poor and ends up rich does it in real estate. (That&#x
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by sunstone 6y ago
If it's crying it's not happy. Your job is to figure out what that is and fix it. My four month old wanted me to hold her up at the door to the kitchen so she could watch mom cook dinner. She cried and cried and cried until I fi
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by sunstone 6y ago
Kijiji might be popular "in canada" but in vancouver CL is dominant.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Evolution doesn't waste resources unnecessarily. The human brain requires substantial energy to operate, why would brains have evolved they way they have unless there was a purpose for very close to all the power of the brain?
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by sunstone 6y ago
I think the issue here is more about the operating temperature of the semi-conductors. It's only recently that chips running at 400 C (?) using silicon carbide or Gallium Nitride semi-conductors has been practical and cheap enough. So
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by sunstone 6y ago
From the statistics I've been seeing, of the people who get it , the mortality rate is closer to 10%. And the virus is so damned contagious that with no counter measures taken everyone would get it with say 18 months. And that would
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by sunstone 6y ago
When you look at Consumer's Reports owner satisfaction scores for Tesla vehicles they are surprisingly high. In which case there can't be vary many getting the goodwill lemon treatment, possibly none.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Interesting that his understanding of calculus doesn't include non-standard analysis. But then mathematics has a lot of abstractions.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Actually renewables can scale very well by covering much more area and thereby averaging out the wind and solar fluctuations across the country. The technology for achieving this is High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) a technology that has
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by sunstone 6y ago
Basic therapeutic massage is a skill that will last a life time. Most people (but not all) can pick this up easily and use it to ease sore shoulders, arms, backs and lower back pain (stay away from the neck). It mostly involves prodding a
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by sunstone 6y ago
Just because R&D is inefficient (it is almost by definition). It does not follow therefore that R&D is uneconomic. Though sometimes the government has to carry the cost.
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by sunstone 6y ago
What if masks give better protection against aerosol than droplets. So far it seems mask wearing has been unreasonably effective, eg Tokyo and Taiwan.
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by sunstone 6y ago
So it was git then the mic drop.
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by sunstone 6y ago
> The cars themselves have difficulty lasting 2 or 3 years without requiring serious maintenance Do you have a reference for this? Most of what I've seen from owners comments and CR, not to mention the 400k mile Tesla X, suggests t
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by sunstone 6y ago
Not only this but Tesla is making the future of legacy auto makers look even worse. Consider that, even now, Tesla cars are engineered for 1m miles of operation and batteries with 2m km and 16 years of life are about to come on stream. Th
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by sunstone 6y ago
Well that's disappointing. I was expecting it to be a Trump Casino in Atlantic City.
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by sunstone 6y ago
It seems like, with covid-19, the mask protects the wearer more than expected. Just another anomaly of this virus.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Isn't Uber going to be hammered by Tesla eventually? Not sure why it's still a company.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Scrum is a process for large companies to force some group consistency across their 1000's of developers. Think of it as the minimum viable group behaviour. Naturally talented and effective team oriented developers know what to do n
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by sunstone 6y ago
Cobol should probably be up there on your list.
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by sunstone 6y ago
Not only that but most of the brands that I would be interested in are almost all below the average, in fact the only brands two in top group I would consider are Lexus and Genesis. And it's not like Tesla is way out of the ball park

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