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by vel0city 9mo ago
Corn, that stuff our cars eat? Nearly half of all corn fields in the US go to feed our cars.
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by vel0city 9mo ago
> that's the 5c version Is that 5¢ copper or zinc?
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by vel0city 9mo ago
Project Farm has had a number of good reviews on alkaline, lithium primary, and NiMH AA batteries. He's tested so many with some pretty through tests. Best AA Rechageable Battery? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jXQNY6
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by vel0city 9mo ago
I have many times in my less than 40 years of life. Often things that had batteries left in then and forgotten about for a few years, and often with the cheap batteries something came with. Often with kids toys, TV remotes and rarely used f
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by vel0city 9mo ago
Lowering by $200? Full coverage on two recent model cars here and that's nearly three quarters of my monthly insurance bill. Insane what people are paying for insurance these days.
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by vel0city 9mo ago
If they don't do anything, why does Tesla feel the need to pay them to be there?
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by vel0city 9mo ago
Puffery is like saying this is the best canned chili ever made. Selling a can of chili but never actually giving the chili just an empty can is fraud.
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by vel0city 9mo ago
In both of those cases, the platforms actually did those things at some point in time and for one later pivoted a few times. When did SpaceX do Earth-to-Earth commercial travel service? How many people have ridden on a BFR?
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by vel0city 9mo ago
But that's the thing, in many ways it is a pretty low number. Its less than the number of miles a single average US commuter will have driven in their working years. So in some ways its like trying to draw lifetime crash statistics but
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by vel0city 9mo ago
500,000 / 30 years is ~16,667mi/yr. While its a bit above the US average, its not incredibly so. Tons of normal commuters will have driven more than that many miles in 30 years.
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by vel0city 9mo ago
Model X wasn't a 4-person car. It was designed to be a 6-7 seater, far bigger than the Model Y. The Model Y's optional third row is practically useless. Its like arguing the Honda CR-V is the same kind of vehicle as the Honda Odys
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by vel0city 9mo ago
> so I can fly out to watch a successful Starship launch Not just watch a launch, but go to O'Hare to launch and go to Sydney in ~30min. In September 2017 they said we'd be flying Earth-to-Earth on a BFR last year .
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by vel0city 9mo ago
Yeah but with a teleoperated worker you can have them work remote from a place with poor labor regulations and extremely low pay. The future with this as a reality is a really dark place, where the uber wealthy live entirely disconnected
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by vel0city 9mo ago
Chrome and Windows definitely do have payment systems baked in. Google Pay, the Microsoft Store, etc.
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by vel0city 9mo ago
Ah yes, back in the Isis days. What terrible luck in the naming department on that one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcard
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by vel0city 9mo ago
> the basic lane keep + adaptive speed cruise control they helped pioneer in cars sold going forward LKA existed well before Tesla HW1 released. Honda had cars on the road in 2003 with LKA systems. That's 11 years before Tesla HW1
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by vel0city 9mo ago
They give potentially worse pricing on a lot of the basic things (egress bandwidth, basic VM hosting, storage pricing) because their real value-add are all the extra managed services they offer on top of those things, the scale they're
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by vel0city 9mo ago
Tesla doesn't even trust their own full self driving system. They still have safety monitors for their self-driving taxi service. The Las Vegas Loop continues to have actual drivers and that's an enclosed space entirely controlled
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by vel0city 9mo ago
If the $10k robot only lasted 5 years that's a budget of $2k/yr. They have an expectation of someone cleaning most nights of the week. Cleaning services around me will typically charge ~$50/hr. Having someone come for ~2 hour
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by vel0city 9mo ago
Tons of people hire people to do their shopping. Curbside pickup and grocery delivery has existed for a while. A large amount of the people I see in grocery store around me are working as pickers filling online orders.
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by vel0city 9mo ago
> Both that monument and the Declaration have zero authority in our government or system of laws. And yet we enshrine them and make monuments out of them. Why would that be if they have zero relevance to our way of life and our nation&#x
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by vel0city 9mo ago
> None of the argument has to do with "harassment" The guy I replied to literally said: > Harassment (and that's the most generous interpretation) is not free speech. > Better communication between officers might, fo
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by vel0city 9mo ago
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-
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by vel0city 9mo ago
The text of the 14th Amendment in regards to birthright citizenship: > All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside
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by vel0city 9mo ago
I shared a link with a list already. You should bother reading it.
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by vel0city 9mo ago
People are arguing the actions of ICE officers is warranted because they're being obstructed and harassed, blowing whistles is obstruction and harassment, their actions include shooting murdering people in the streets. QED. I don'
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by vel0city 9mo ago
> This has nothing to do with racism, and the implication is offensive. The history of the 14th amendment, Jus Soli, and birthright citizenship have loads of racism in their debates and history. I'm not necessarily calling you a rac
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by vel0city 9mo ago
I do think it's moral and makes sense to make people born here citizens. It prevents the formation of an underclass of stateless residents who do not have rights. The idea of Jus Soli goes back a long time, rooted in English common law
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by vel0city 9mo ago
Incredible people are taking the position it's ok for law enforcement to execute you in the streets because you're blowing a whistle.
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by vel0city 9mo ago
> Saudi Arabia recently engaged in a bombing campaign in Yemen that looked very similar to Israel's campaign in Gaza. And yet there were no protests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpiW-r-zfW8 I've seen a bunc

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