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601.
by sunstone 7y ago
The Pacific is cute but South America would be compelling.
602.
by sunstone 7y ago
Raining down hellfire from orbit might be an effective alternative to aircraft carriers. With Musk's rockets it might even be cheaper. I wonder if there's anyone pencilling their way through this scenario at the Pentagon?
603.
by sunstone 7y ago
If I had to choose, I would choose specifics over platitudes.
604.
by sunstone 7y ago
Google put $1bn in to the early stage of Musk's satellite ISP plan as I recall. Did they get 50% for that investment? I'm not sure.
605.
by sunstone 7y ago
Yup, this is a classic example of cherry picking your data.
606.
by sunstone 7y ago
For anyone else who gets to the end of this, I believe there is a typo in the second to last paragraph. In "and the most radiant beauty which out dull faculties can comprehend" the word 'out' should be 'our'.
607.
by sunstone 7y ago
The window of economic viability for nuclear energy has very likely closed for good at this point except for niche applications. This is because the costs of solar, wind and HVDC have been dropping so quickly. This technologies have the ki
608.
by sunstone 7y ago
Don't forget paramiko, fabulous for automating interserver work.
609.
by sunstone 7y ago
It's not clear to me why you're getting the down votes here zhdc1, what you say is common knowledge at this point.
610.
by sunstone 7y ago
Yes, it's really in the battery pack, rather than the individual cells, where Tesla has a commanding lead in the technology and the cost.
611.
by sunstone 7y ago
I'm inclined to believe he has a valid point. You can't redefine legal language just because it allowed a loop hole you hadn't considered. Indeed this very thing is bread and butter to the lawyer community.
612.
by sunstone 7y ago
It may be that federated electric vehicle batteries become all the storage we need as long as power grids are integrated more broadly.
613.
by sunstone 7y ago
To a certain extent you're not wrong. There's a critical technology with quickly dropping costs that this future assumes and that's HVDC transmission lines. The larger the geographical span of the area that has all its sola
614.
by sunstone 7y ago
All of the externalities of nuclear power are subsidized.
615.
by sunstone 7y ago
Sure they have. And meanwhile they are making contingency plans to leave China in the least expensive manner. The culture wars are coming.
616.
by sunstone 7y ago
I believe there's some hope they may be able to see past this point using the new gravitational astronomy.
617.
by sunstone 7y ago
Ah, so he had it backwards :)
618.
by sunstone 7y ago
I don't hate ads. What I hate is when ads track everything I do and everywhere I go and then keep a running dossier of all that and sell that information to third parties. It's a complete breakdown of trust between a seller and
619.
by sunstone 7y ago
True enough. Youtube can show you how to do a thing but it won't do it for you.
620.
by sunstone 7y ago
For all the things youth don't know one thing they do know is that youtube will fill in the gaps.
621.
by sunstone 7y ago
So, the battery age is about where the iron age was 200 years ago.
622.
by sunstone 7y ago
Apparently the largest electric mining trucks on earth never have to charge. They go up the hill empty, load up with tons of rock, and regen all the way back down which is more than enough to recharge. This makes my engineer's heart s
623.
by sunstone 7y ago
Yes that's right. To me an e-bike behaves much more like a small motorcycle than it is like a much lighter pedal bicycle.
624.
by sunstone 7y ago
The Dutch are finding that e-bikes are more of a substitute for a car than they are for a pedal bike. That should play even better in lower income countries. Time will tell.
625.
by sunstone 7y ago
At different times I've been in all these roles, motorcyclist, cyclist, car driver and e-biker. As a driver I find e-bikes much less frustrating than pedal bikes because they keep up with traffic when the light turns green. As an e-b
626.
by sunstone 7y ago
Sure, we'll still need bike lanes for pedal bikes.
627.
by sunstone 7y ago
To me there's a big difference, in terms of urban transport, between a pedal bike and an e-bike, mostly because of the acceleration capability of the e-bike, which is even better than fossil fuel engines. My feeling is that initially t
628.
by sunstone 7y ago
While it sounds preposterous right now this problem will soon solve itself with already built "bike lanes". And bicycles are not the solution. The solution, as this article touches on, is light weight electric transport using the
629.
by sunstone 7y ago
So that would be pretty expensive on a per character basis. At least so far.
630.
by sunstone 7y ago
Smart TV's cost a lot less than they would if Sony/Phillips/Samsung didn't resell your personal data they gather when the TV is plugged into the net. So buy one of these good deals but don't plug it into the the net

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