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by sunstone 7y ago
That's part of it but mostly it's due to rent seeking on the part of degree granting institutions.
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by sunstone 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if humans haven't changed too since dogs befriended them. I imagine it's really a symbiotic relationship in the wild. Both are social animals. Dogs have the speed and the teeth. Humans have the brain
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by sunstone 7y ago
And then there's the cost of the fuel. Electric car fuel is currently about 1/5 of the cost of gasoline and dropping. In addition, the cost of maintaining and electric is also much less than an ICE car so in terms of dollars p
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by sunstone 7y ago
Howard Hughes was quite similar to Elon Musk but he wasn't a automotive executive. He was an aviation-space guy as Elon is.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Some parts of antarctica get very close the freezing point of CO2 in the winter. It might not take too much energy (wind?) to encourage the atmospheric CO2 to freeze and then bury that deep in the ice sheet where the pressure would keep it
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by sunstone 7y ago
If I'm not mistaken the large sockeye run of 2010 was preceded by a large volcanic explosion in the Aleutians that similarly showered the north pacific with thousands of tons of minerals.
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by sunstone 7y ago
People get by with sign language pretty well and they typically don't use much of their vocal equipment. In fact, it's quite possible that vocal language and sign language co-evolved in earlier hominids as the vocal tract slowly
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by sunstone 7y ago
MBA's gone wild.
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by sunstone 7y ago
It's because politicians can be more easily influenced with cash in the USA than in Europe. The US supreme court hasn't done any favors in this regard either.
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by sunstone 7y ago
You know you're in for a head banging when the Table of Contents is 25 pages long! :o
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by sunstone 7y ago
Clearly different tunnel implementations are appropriate for different situations. If you're going from LA to Las Vegas you'll do it differently than if you need to go a dozen city blocks. The practicality of the hyperloop has by
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by sunstone 7y ago
If you plan on driving a lot of miles the model 3 is close to the lowest total cost of ownership that you can get. Especially if you can get a bit of government subsidy. The Prius might be close as well but if it's a near toss up why
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by sunstone 7y ago
Fundamentally Enron became the market maker for energy products. They didn't seem to understand that a market maker's role depends entirely on having the confidence of the market participants. Enron then started to do more and m
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by sunstone 7y ago
Yes this seems like the right answer, both results are undefined so they are the same but not equal.
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by sunstone 7y ago
I used lions here just as an example. It could be hyenas or wild dogs and others.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Some very good points here :)
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by sunstone 7y ago
While throwing for hunting purposes would have been useful, throwing for defensive purposes likely would have been the initial impetus for throwing evolving to a fine art. Imagine yourself alone on the plains of Africa and facing a lion or
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by sunstone 7y ago
Hey China has worked to exclude or minimize US tech companies from China so turn about is fair play. In fact the US would be well within their (tit for tat) rights to exclude a few more Chinese tech companies.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Japan has a group oriented culture so the family (group) name takes precedent over the individual's name. However a little more individualism might be a small step in the right direction. Certainly the Japan I know has much more in c
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by sunstone 7y ago
I would like to see a scattergram of the universe's estimated age over the past one hundred years just to see if we're starting to converge yet or not.
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by sunstone 7y ago
The people who designed it have now passed on so it has met its designed lifetime.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Hey I don't remember all of this being in Telsa's original secret master plan.
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by sunstone 7y ago
A year or two ago a new technology of producing sound at a distance with two laser beams slightly detuned from each other. The beat frequency generated became a baseband sound at the intersection of the two beams. I can imagine something l
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by sunstone 7y ago
So finally Canada is getting the support that they sought and deserve.
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by sunstone 7y ago
And then there are those whose ex-girlfriends list might require an additional hard drive.
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by sunstone 7y ago
If self taught mathematics was impossible mathematics itself could not exist. Any new mathematics is by definition self taught.
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by sunstone 7y ago
One hundred years from religions will be started over this bugger.
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by sunstone 7y ago
Pretty sure Musk's self driving system would have no problem with this. :)
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by sunstone 7y ago
This article is a little disingenuous. The margins on model3's have been reported at 20% and they've been hugely successful in the market. So now it makes sense to ramp up in China, in Europe and Japan etc. This obviously takes
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by sunstone 7y ago
I mean some people should not work under others. It's not that they are bad people it's just that they are not talented subordinates.

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