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691.
by sunstone 7y ago
"You are in a series of twisty passages that all look the same."
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by sunstone 7y ago
Smart TV's are only for stupid people. If you have one, unplug it from the internet, this removes the smartness. Add back your own smartness with a "NUC" kind of computer. Now you have a dumb TV and a smart owner.
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by sunstone 7y ago
"What's that mountain goat doing up here in this cloud bank?" :D
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by sunstone 7y ago
This is such a pathetic move it just has me belly laughing. NDA violation. No kidding? :D This is up there with Al Capone being taken down for tax evasion instead of racketeering. Snowden just so totally out manoeuvred the CIA they'l
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by sunstone 7y ago
The fact that the Vice reporter turned around and published an email that Musk clearly intended to be private is really pretty dirty. If anyone should be held accountable for damages it should be that guy.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Interesting that all three gigacities seem to be in low lying coastal areas. I would expect them to hedge their bets regarding global warming and sea level rise.
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by sunstone 7y ago
And while we're at it, why not have a nation wide $0.25/gal tax on auto gas that directly cross subsidizes buyers of electric cars? Kill two birds with one stone.
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by sunstone 7y ago
That's China paying Iran for oil.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Or, possibly Elon.
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by sunstone 7y ago
I've a similar result with gout and vitamin D (2000iu per day). Works for me might not work for you.
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by sunstone 7y ago
The shift to electric autos will reduce their cost a lot and also therefore the economic foot print of the auto industry. At the same time though, many other forms of transportation will become economic that were not economic in the past a
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by sunstone 7y ago
The "'weaker substitute' perception" aspect might happen in consumer goods but unlikely to happen when Google, Amazon and Microsoft consider provisioning a new data center.
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by sunstone 7y ago
A tablet, not connected to the net might be reasonable compromise.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Well if, as they say, this is leading to the extinction of the ultra-rich then, the environment will almost certainly benefit.
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by sunstone 7y ago
This article is a little confusing. It implies that most white and asian kids are going to gifted schools. Can that really be the case? Kids that are actually gifted probably benefit from more challenging material but they don't n
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by sunstone 7y ago
If you're not reading the Economist Magazine then it's not a bad place to start.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Not only that but my understanding is that when carbon fiber breaks it explodes into a mess of tiny strings. Which is very unlikely to kill you directly though it might get wound up in the other three props and bring the whole thing crashi
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by sunstone 7y ago
Yes but you still need a regular driver's licence and insurance.
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by sunstone 7y ago
If you carefully run the numbers a model 3 will pencil out quite a bit better than F-150 unless the truck is for work. A few years ago I did the same with a Prius and surprisingly, if you drive a lot, a Prius was the cheapest car you could
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by sunstone 7y ago
This has been going on for a few years. The Rockefellers sold theirs in 2014. They tried to make it seem like it was environmentally motivated but really, it was all about the money. [1] [1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/busi
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by sunstone 7y ago
A HVDC transmission line might be a more practical way to do this.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Brevity is the soul of wit.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Electric motors are remarkably good already. Even if it doubled the power for half the weight you still need lug along all those batteries.
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by sunstone 7y ago
The final chapter has yet to be written for that deal.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Canada runs all their elections with this technology and with very few controversies even in hotly contested ridings.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Nagasaki wasn't even the selected target for that day it was Kitakushu. However the cloud cover over Kitakushu was too heavy to determine the target so Nagasaki was very much a secondary target and they dropped it an area of low popul
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by sunstone 7y ago
I tried to read one of his books back in the 80's and really couldn't get started. Now I have no regrets at all so thanks for that!
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by sunstone 7y ago
This kind of thing has been happening since humans roamed the plains of Africa. A smallish group of humans can only take so much anti-social behaviour before a permanent solution is required. Now, with larger groupings of towns and cities
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by sunstone 7y ago
My understanding is that things are a little more complex than they appear. Take a look at the Tohatsu offerings [1] They offer both 4 stroke and "TLDI" versions of many of their outboards. The TLDI is a two stroke but with upda
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by sunstone 7y ago
Interesting that almost all the comments on this thread are related to politics whereas the primary value to me of HN are the technical topics and discussions. There are plenty of other places on the net to argue politics with bots and paid

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