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by sxates 9y ago
Without any sort of recording or script, how would one verify that the retelling was accurate to the original?
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by sxates 9y ago
I'm not opposed to limiting car space in favor of people space, but I also see EVs as a solution if the problem is emissions. No need to ban all cars, just gas-powered ones.
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by sxates 9y ago
This happened to me as well - Comcast tech A gets on our house to disconnect a "noisy line" and doesn't tell us or anyone else about it, requiring me to wait for Comcast tech B to come out and reconnect. And of course we hear
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by sxates 9y ago
Yes, me too.
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by sxates 9y ago
Aren't these devices being targeted at the education sector, where they may be assigned to students? Is there perhaps some design intent here to prevent tampering? One other potential benefit may be less worry about your laptop shipmen
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by sxates 9y ago
In theory a flywheel should be smaller and virtually maintenance free. Or maybe it's just cooler and more expensive.
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by sxates 9y ago
To be fair on #1, even considering the entire supply chain and lifecycle of an EV vs ICE, the EV comes out WAY ahead of the ICE in terms of carbon impact. Even better if you have solar panels on your roof, or live in a place like California
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by sxates 9y ago
Tesla has 20-30% gross margins on the Model S and X. They're profitable cars (though the company is not, due to heavy capital investments). Other EVs do seem to be sold at a loss though, because their main purpose isn't to be prof
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by sxates 9y ago
There's this new game in hot real estate markets where houses are listed intentionally well below market to attract traffic and encourage multiple offers. Here in the Bay Area it's standard operating procedure, and houses are expe
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by sxates 9y ago
The article says that the new home construction is mostly going to apartments because tight credit means more people are renting. But then laments the low inventory for sale that is driving up prices. So which is it? Too many buyers or too
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by sxates 9y ago
What occurred to me reading this is that one of the biggest costs to urban farming is the real estate. But with self-driving car-shares on the horizon and potentially much lower needs for parking structures, perhaps this might be a good way
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by sxates 9y ago
You are stuck with it for that whole term though. You'll be upside down on it immediately, and your loan principal won't catch up to the residual value of the car for 5-6 years with a loan that long. That means you can't easi
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by sxates 9y ago
Over 400,000 Tesla Model 3 reservation holders who are putting off their next car purchase until the car is out - and industry expecting a ~300k decline in sales this year. Coincidence? I have to imagine 400k people committed to a car comin
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by sxates 9y ago
I have a Nokia Icon in a drawer (relented and went back to iPhone last year) which I booted up the other day and had tons of updates waiting. It does seem the Win10 Mobile platform is still alive and well, though there are few signs of it i
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by sxates 9y ago
There have been rumors of a 'surface phone' that runs Win 10 (not mobile) for a couple years now. Most expected some kind of future Intel chip to enable that, but ARM support certainly opens up the possibility. Just what Windows p
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by sxates 9y ago
Yes - my Dash finally died last year, which I mourned. This looks like the next gen. https://www.amazon.com/Sony-HIDC10-Personal-Discontinued-Man...
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by sxates 9y ago
I met someone working for the city of Oakland who was researching similar things here. She pointed out that life expectancy in the 'flats' of Oakland was 7 years lower than in the 'hills' of Oakland. That geographical bo
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by sxates 9y ago
What is he using for energy storage?
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by sxates 9y ago
I just can't see anyone inside MS being able to make the case that they should put effort into making their laptops run anything other than Windows. But I agree with you. I tried to set up Linux on my Surface Book, but couldn't ge
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by sxates 9y ago
Sounds fun, so long as you're ok going all the way to the bottom, not just a lower floor :)
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by sxates 9y ago
It seems crazy, but there's also some appeal in the idea of opting out of all the legacy infrastructure. If we could rebuild our roads from scratch today to serve a vehicle for the 21st century, what would we build? Probably something
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by sxates 9y ago
I'm paying 30% more each month to use a local ISP that's dedicated to Net Neutrality and online privacy (sonic.net) instead of Comcast/xfinity, because Comcast, along with the other large telecom companies, are actively under
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by sxates 9y ago
Your arguments make no sense. 1. A Tesla with full self-driving hardware can be had today for ~$75k. And the model 3 will cut that in half. And the model after that will be even less. Millions of people can afford this. 2. Who said anything
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by sxates 9y ago
If your ladder could deliver itself to someone for $10/hr. (or a ladder could be delivered to you on demand) I suspect we'd have a lot less ladders.
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by sxates 9y ago
Lots of people are single. Lots of people's kids are grown. Lots of people could own one car for the kids stuff and car-share the second vehicle as needed. Even with private ownership for cases like children, the total number of cars o
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by sxates 9y ago
In 10 years electric cars will be the cheapest cars. We're at the beginning of this transition right now, still in the early-adopter stage.
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by sxates 9y ago
Personal Anecdote - I just had solar installed on my roof by SolarCity. I found them to be very professional to work with, they pushed the process forward very rapidly (days from call to initial survey, another week to actual install (then
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by sxates 9y ago
Yes. Those threats are real, but can be mitigated. Sea level rise, for now, can not.
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by sxates 9y ago
I had the same thoughts when buying a house last year. We really like Alameda island - great neighborhood, houses, and shops. But we eliminated it from consideration because it's just a few feet above a king tide, and that buffer is sh
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by sxates 9y ago
Accepting responsibility for trashing the planet implies that you must make lifestyle changes as a result. If you take responsibility, you can't justify driving a large SUV, or buying a large house, or buying lots of stuff, or paying l

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