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by uvdiv 14y ago
You'd think efficiency is what most readers would want to hear about at this point because everything else sounds pretty great. It's necessarily less efficient than coal power without CO2 capture. From these slides [1] they estimate 35%
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NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample(nasa.gov)
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Antarctic infrasound microphones heard Russian meteor, 15,000 km away(newsroom.ctbto.org)
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Even when you factor in transmission losses, charging losses, etc. and assume you're using 100% coal power, EVs beat ICEs by a wide margin. I'm pretty sure it's the opposite. Do you have a particular study/calculation in mind? http://www
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Reminds me of a loophole Microsoft found in their utility contract: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/technology/data-centers-in... Threatened to waste $70,000 of electricity to circumvent a $210,000 contract penalty (for not buying enoug
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Something is wrong with employers who only hire university graduates, creating a market for receptionists with $100,000 art degrees.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Add to that 5) What were the cruise control setpoints? This data must certainly have been logged, and Musk hasn't released it. Musk accused Broder of lying about using cruise control. So why not back this up with direct evidence, why only r
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by uvdiv 14y ago
This is a severe abuse of statistics. They are succeeding at alarming rates; the suicides among people 65 or older ballooned to 4,378 in 2010, from 1,161 in 2000. The are absolute counts, not rates . The male 65+ population went up 70% i
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Your paper shows that some of them do. In all four tables (age/sex subgroups), the top quartile includes France, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland, as well as South Korea. Germany is in the top quartile for females.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I found they have another graph with the same units (written "Wh/mile", so that's unambigious). But it has a different shape, with a minimum at 20-25 mph... http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/model-s-efficiency-and-range
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The y-axis has units of [energy]/[distance], I think I'm interpreting it correctly? It seems to take everything into account in there.
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by uvdiv 14y ago
That backs up Broder completely! Look how inconspicious those chargers are. He said he couldn't find them because they were unlit at night, and this video lends that enormous credibility. Broder: While Mr. Musk has accused me of doing this
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Yes, efficiency is a monotonic function of speed here (Model S). No crossover point. http://www.teslamotors.com/goelectric/efficiency (the graph)
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Raw data! http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/2012/01/first-public-r...
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Russia Today also describes the Tungaska meteor as "one of the most mysterious events in history" and suggests it was caused by space aliens [1]. [1] http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/ (today's http://news.ycombi
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by uvdiv 14y ago
I thought that was his joke, given that he was talking about literal broken windows...
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Substantiation: http://www.dv.is/frettir/2013/1/22/vill-loka-klamid/ (Icelandic source, pre-dates Daily Mail tabloid by weeks) http://ogmundur.is/annad/nr/6578/ (Interior Minister's viewpoint) Porn is already banned in Iceland (punishab
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Japan has half the reported rape incidence of Singapore, and does not attempt to censor porn. Let's consider other factors before endorsing the methods of repressively religious police states. http://www.heuni.fi/Satellite?blobtable=MungoB
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by uvdiv 14y ago
How about the Interior Minister's own website? http://ogmundur.is/annad/nr/6578/ (In Google translation) he says porn is already illegal in Iceland (which it is [1], punishable by prison), and he's advocating more enforcement of this, wit
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by uvdiv 14y ago
This one was 7,000 tonnes (mass).
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by uvdiv 14y ago
This is actually completely useless since these explosions are far closer to the earth -- probably between 100 meters and 1 km altitude [1], vs. 10-30 km estimates for this meteor. Also, it only shows thermal radiation effects, which are in
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by uvdiv 14y ago
The infrasound detectors mentioned in the article can supposedly detect a 1-kiloton blast anywhere on earth [1] (page 15). This meteor was "hundreds of kilotons". http://www.ctbto.org/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/ISS_Publicati...
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by uvdiv 14y ago
It's obviously true, because Elon would be contradicting it if it weren't. Which he isn't. Instead he's muddying the issue like so: "As the State of Charge log shows, the Model S battery never ran out of energy at any time, including when
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by uvdiv 14y ago
To emphasize "deliberately misrepresented by Tesla", this is Musk's relevant statement: As the State of Charge log shows, the Model S battery never ran out of energy at any time, including when Broder called the flatbed truck. It obliquel
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by uvdiv 14y ago
And men. Let's not be sexist here.
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Iceland considers pornography ban(telegraph.co.uk)
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by uvdiv 14y ago
Previous discussion (less ideologic hyperbole): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4683804 Draft text: http://stjornlagarad.is/other_files/stjornlagarad/Frumvarp-e... Interesting excerpts: (14) "All are free to have their opinions and
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Patented, naturally.
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I'm sure you won't be sure what to make of this either! Can a person be scientifically literate without accepting the concepts of evolution and the big bang? To many scientists and educators, the answer to that question is an unqualified “
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by uvdiv 14y ago
it means that the public's understanding of astrology's pseudoscientific status is so limited that not knowing that status isn't a fair measure of scientific literacy. It's also evidence that the NSF questions aren't a fair measure of sci

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