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by throwaway4220 3y ago
This lies squarely with Google. I bought a fully functional 11 inch acer intel touchscreen Chromebook for 25 on eBay which got its last update last year. I converted it to Ubuntu which was a pain
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
When I was living in dc there was this service by Mercedes I think? I forget the name, that let you rent a car hourly and you didn’t have to pay for gas or insurance but you couldn’t leave the dc area. Worked great on the one or two occasio
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
I mean.. I also explained why I thought study was lacking https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-022-00862
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
I said to counter the “Harvard researcher” points this article got. If you want to go on merit don’t name drop
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Harvard study from a sophomore undergraduate. Doesn’t take into account energy mix, improvement in supply chain sourcing that will eventually reduce emissions for bev, not sure if carbon costs of refining gasoline is considered. Also… don’
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Both can be true. It may be a happy side effect that you can’t easily repair your device and it’s hard to give schematics
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
I can tell you for one thing - avoid graduate school for now. You will find yourself becoming a 40 yo postdoc with barely a living wage.
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
No that’s a bit unfair. ISRO, Israel, and Japan all had reasons for their failures that were mainly technical
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
That’s too many moving parts. Hell I would settle for covering up my windshield in the hot sun automatically with no ridiculous collapsible sun shades needing that janky visors
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Let me challenge you with this map. https://www.altestore.com/diy-solar-resources/solar-insolati... Take 4 kWh/m2 https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/ Take 3
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Hm if the weight is the same but range is different, can’t that be explained by using LFP batteries rather than standard li-ion?
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
“ Derrick van Gennep, a former condensed-matter researcher at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who now works in finance ” This is always sad to see but I get it
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
I visited Europe for the first time and absolutely loved being able to think my thoughts without getting rage honked at, being terrified of running over old ladies or students on a jog. If it takes me 35 more minutes to go to work versus 15
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Petroleum is also an amazing concept and hard to beat doesn’t mean we should not try to improve things
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Totally agree. My only ray of hope is brightline in Florida. To Texas credit there is a luxury bus service vonlane that’s not bad
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
And extremely highly paid lobbyists will keep pointing to this to let their bosses continue doing whatever they want. So.. when do you pull the lever for action?
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
No stretch. Europe has pedestrian safety ratings for all cars.
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Fair. I guess my counterpoint would be it may enable off world manufacturing which may be a net benefit for the planet?
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
You may be interested in skulon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
I share your sentiment but rocket launch is not that massive right now actually.
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
> brother in law’s MRI clinic This is a Stark law violation and there are clear rules against it
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Yes because I refuse to believe “stand and deliver” could not happen in real life! Seriously tho I think it will. I’m sure a foundation is important in many fields but one can get pretty far by jumping in. I remember my high school physics
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
I work in a private practice firm that’s been bought by private equity. There is truth to everyone’s comments here on both sides to some extent. Young child - I have trained in mostly adults with some pediatric experience. Can I do a simple
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
That’s brilliant!
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Seriously, knowing very little about such low level stuff, why is this taking so long? George Hotz is starting a company on this premise
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Actually my gi physician has ibd pts see a therapist on every yearly visit
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Yes ulcers are just erosions of the inner layers of stuff. You can have ulcers in your arteries too.
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Ulcers are not all the same just like cancer is not all the same. H pylori still causes gastric ulcers. Also the “medical-science” institution you are imagining with a collective self-esteem doesn’t exist in any cohesive way. You memorize,
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Speaking as a failed scientist (I was “dishonorably discharged” with an MS from a top US institution) I will tell you that the brilliant people around me knew that paper citations don’t correlate exactly with the impact of work within. Cert
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by throwaway4220 3y ago
Really well put. It costs the taxpayers trillions of dollars to support the United States.

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