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by throwawaycanada 7y ago
>You’re free to buy appliances like the stuff that used to exist. They are found in the commercial realm, and you’ll still be spending about $3000 for a no-frills entry level fridge. You can certainly pay that. And they are better than r
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by throwawaycanada 7y ago
Equality of opportunity means that if a homeless person and a rich kid work exactly as hard and get the same grades on the same tests and both perform the same at work they end up in the same place. That means if they both do great they cou
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by throwawaycanada 7y ago
>Severe redistribution of wealth can have second-order effects : people stop working and producing if too much of their labor is taken from them. I guess the key is to only take from people who do absolutely nothing.
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by throwawaycanada 7y ago
They are surmountable if one of the cultures changes. There are cultures that think things we find deplorable are okay.
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by throwawaycanada 7y ago
Electric motors are already well over 90% efficient. I don't see what they could do to improve this. Maybe weight/power ratio? Even then, Tesla pretty much nailed it with his three phase "squirrel cage" motor. That'
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by throwawaycanada 7y ago
Now imagine what happens when they can look at a city, or the whole country, or world, and select one individual and backtrack their entire lives. With audio, recorded from all the devices that surround us.
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by throwawaycanada 7y ago
This is a documentary clip from 2013 that shows what the cameras and systems in these blimps can do. Apparently the biggest breakthrough is their high bandwidth laser data communication system. The government should not have this much infor
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by throwawaycanada 7y ago
If it is in the ocean that would be a disaster.
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by throwawaycanada 7y ago
The fact we managed to invent, create, and detonate nuclear weapons without anyone finding out is why I believe secrets can be kept.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
That is too inefficient and the problem of hydrogen embrittlement has not been solved.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
What an unusual arrangement. Are you allowed to connect other things to that power source?
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
I don't think frequency stabilization would require that. Unless there is some complex approach I simply can't imagine.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
They are the only ones that can know when it's best to turn it off an on.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
I did the math on this once. For residential it is not realistic due to the amount of water you would need to store. For commercial I think you would need a small lake.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
Fear.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
You use the words "choosing to live far away" but all that generally means is they are poor. Clearly they should just buy a house and move to downtown San Fransisco like everyone who cares about the environment does.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
I'm sure that electric car manufacturers will have the same things to say when people point to previous claims of extreme longevity.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
Unless we are examples of such a system.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
This is exactly what it is. Same for hotels.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
Too bad I'm over 30.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
Where I live you need a four day $650 course that you need to book months in advance to ride any scooter at all. You also need to pay for annual registration and get insurance. A few provinces over, they are talking about asking for a bicyc
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
>if I had a offer to move to any open seat for a $20 fee. I’d take it in heart beat. That's free. Just move once the plane is in the air. You are free to do so on any plane I've ever been on.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
I'm sure it can be taught. I'm not sure everyone can be taught it successfully, and that includes a few working teachers.
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
If you have a reasonable electrical background I would suggest this textbook: Electrical Machines, Drives and Power Systems by Theordore Wildi
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by throwawaycanada 8y ago
Especially if they target people by race.
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by throwawaycanada 9y ago
God I wish Geocities never went down. What a lost trove of websites.
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by throwawaycanada 9y ago
Long term it's the most stable.
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by throwawaycanada 9y ago
When will people learn that industrial control systems can't ever be safely connected to the internet.
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by throwawaycanada 9y ago
It is very, very easy to get people to do terrible things. I'm sure you are familiar with the Milgram experiments.
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by throwawaycanada 9y ago
So much said in so few words.

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