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by thmsths 4y ago
I should have been more specific. I am aware of some automatic metro systems but in my opinion the challenges they overcame are very different from the challenges freight or even long distance passenger trains would have to overcome.
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by thmsths 4y ago
I doubt it. From what I understand, on top of squeezing the workers, railroad companies have been underinvesting in the infrastructure. I don't see how they would accept to spend billions in R&D (to my knowledge there is no fully a
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by thmsths 9y ago
And safe. Imagine the disaster if that mercury tower started leaking.
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by thmsths 9y ago
I would be interested to know how the Pentagon deals with those 15% of counterfeit ICs, the implications are quite scary.
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by thmsths 9y ago
I suspect it's because of weight savings. Look at your average car seat, it is way thicker than the average aircraft seat.
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by thmsths 9y ago
Unfortunately the vast majority of the people will probably disagree with you. Mostly because people don't understand statistics well. They will always be more frightened by a few hundred people burnt alive when a plane catches fire ev
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by thmsths 9y ago
I am mostly in favor of the current status quo for drones but I would be interested in hearing your arguments in favor of more regulation.
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by thmsths 9y ago
This is only true for the red and blue lines though. And since they only have one track for each direction they must interrupt the service to do maintenance.
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by thmsths 9y ago
Location: Chicago Remote: No Willing to relocate: Yes (preferably to Seattle) Technologies: C/C++, Java, Python Résumé/CV: Available upon request Email: thms.ths@gmail.com --------------------------- Foreign student about to gradu
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by thmsths 9y ago
Isn't the price offered by Arianespace subsidized though? I could imagine that the EU is ok to subsidize to get market share in the private market but wouldn't be too happy to subsidize the US department of defense.
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by thmsths 9y ago
My first guess would be that since they would probably be cheating too they wouldn't want to attract attention on this issue.
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by thmsths 10y ago
Fortunately there are still a few hassle free international high speed trains in Europe. Travel between France and Germany isn't subject to any special security measures. You just get on the train. Sometimes the train stops at the bord
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by thmsths 10y ago
And the fastest if you take into consideration the fact that you can come to the train station less than 30 minutes in advance just hop in the train and travel downtown to downtown.
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by thmsths 10y ago
And company A may lay off 5 people because now they are redundant.
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by thmsths 10y ago
Sounds like a good job for AI.
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by thmsths 10y ago
But since education is a market this would lower the reputation of the college thus attracting less candidates and if they lower the requirements too much they may even loose their accreditations.
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by thmsths 10y ago
This is basically the french system, the bank does not even look at your credit history/revenue stream if your parents makes a decent amount of money and cosign, however getting a loan without a cosigner is almost impossible.
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by thmsths 10y ago
And trying to rinse it with water (which is probably the first thing that anyone would do) will only make things worse.
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by thmsths 10y ago
I just want to make a slight correction, in case of a catastrophic Nuclear accident the environment is not decimated, it just becomes unsuitable for humans but life finds a way. Chernobyl has become a wildlife refuge [0]. And some fungus ha
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by thmsths 10y ago
As terrible as it sounds you are probably right.
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by thmsths 10y ago
It might be some kind of bias but I have always felt like when it comes to cars average Joe is at least capable of changing a tire, but when it comes to computers the very same person does not even seem to try.
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by thmsths 10y ago
I would say extreme cost cutting.
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by thmsths 10y ago
I might be missing something but I think that the situation on Earth would have to be beyond cataclysmic for Mars (a dead planet without atmosphere or a magnetic field) to be a better place.