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by vondur 4y ago
Can we really build batteries at the scale needed for this? I’m a bit skeptical.
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by vondur 4y ago
They should all be locked up. Look what they did to Martha Stewart for insider trading.
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by vondur 4y ago
Not easy here. You see the results of the California high speed rail project. Billions spent with basically nothing to show for it. Buying the land up near the cities they would service is super expensive. I was hoping they could at least
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by vondur 4y ago
I'd have to look, but it was during some contstruction they were doing in the pizza restaurant I believe. I don't want to post the link here as he has a redirect which ridicules HN users.... (edited for spelling)
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by vondur 4y ago
I'm pretty sure if you are white and laid off, you will have a pretty strong case for a lawsuit. I can't believe someone in legal wouldn't warn the leadership that putting out a press release stating this was a good idea.
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by vondur 4y ago
San Francisco makes it hard to do any type of construction. Check JWZ's adventures in getting work done on the DNA lounge, it's crazy to read.
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by vondur 4y ago
How long did the CDC push the droplets germ spreading theory, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that the virus was spread as an aerosol? How many billions of dollars was spent on disenfecting surfaces, installing plexiglass barriers
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by vondur 4y ago
From the NASA image it looks like the whole area is a flood plain. Similar to a large area of the Los Angeles basin. We have a paved riverbed system to get rid of water from heavy rains which periodically occur. I assume Pakistan doesn&#x27
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by vondur 4y ago
Honestly, There probably needs to be a Federal type government for Europe, much as the US is setup. The EU kind of reminds me of the US when the US was run under the Articles of Confederation before the current Federal system was adopted. I
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by vondur 4y ago
Most of the newer trucks have front facing cameras because of that. I have a "Mid Size" truck which sits fairly high. Since it doesn't have front cameras, I often back into parking spots so I can make use of my rear view came
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by vondur 4y ago
So far, until the big layoffs start hitting everywhere, this doesn't feel like a recession. I'm guessing once the tech companies start laying off, it will have an effect throughout the economy due to their higher salaries. If this
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by vondur 4y ago
They are more practical for most use cases compared to fully electric. I wish the Ford F-150 hybrid was a plug-in model.
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by vondur 4y ago
If the company is shut down, then they lose any investment that they've made in the company. Most investors have little knowledge of the day to day operations of a company.
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by vondur 4y ago
I assumed most of it stayed in Greek in the Byzantine empire, and then came to Europe after the Fall of Byzantium to the Turks.
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by vondur 4y ago
As someone from California, I've always assumed that Manhattan was sort of comparable to something live Beverly Hills/Century City here in Los Angeles. Basically, you had to be fairly wealthy to live there.
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by vondur 4y ago
I don't think it's that negative. They clearly should have brought in people with relevant experience in the field before implementing the system. How much money and time did they waste fixing their system to account for Corn Cobs
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by vondur 4y ago
It seems refineries here in SoCal tend to catch fire fairly often too.
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by vondur 4y ago
I still have a bunch of older 24" 1920x1200 displays which are 16:10 and give you more vertical space than a 1920x1080 monitor.
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by vondur 4y ago
Here in SoCal, we are dealing with declining enrollment. Since many schools here are funded on the amount of students they service, we may soon need less teachers.
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by vondur 4y ago
They make a huge amount of guitars there now. Go to a music store and check where a sub $1000 guitar is made. Probably 80% of them are now made in Indonesia. This has all happened in the last 10 years.
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by vondur 4y ago
He lived pretty long as a chemist of that era. People in the older days tended to work with stuff like Benzene as if it were water in labs. The fact that he lived so long despite this, maybe he was onto something? I remember reading that ch
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by vondur 4y ago
From the NBC news: Stanford University cancelled summer session classes Wednesday following ongoing power outages in the area. According to the university, the power outages were a consequence of the Edgewood Fire burning in San Mateo Count
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by vondur 4y ago
Some houses that haven't changed hands since Prop 13 was enacted pay really low taxes. New houses and those that have changed hands since then are not under the really low tax rate. Yes, property taxes in California are lower in rates,
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by vondur 4y ago
Britain did reform the Government to give more people the right to vote and fix the "rotten Burroughs". This most likely prevented it from being caught up in the Revolutions of 1848 which engulfed most of Europe. https:/&#x2
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by vondur 4y ago
We pay a ton of taxes in California already to deal with the homeless, yet nothing seems to get done. We need better government. There is no accountability for any of these programs that are enacted.
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by vondur 4y ago
I wonder how much residential property is still under Prop 13? My guess is that it's declined quite a bit in the last 20 years or so.
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by vondur 4y ago
There is a ton of e-bike hate in the mountain bike world. And e-mountain bikes are pedal assist, no throttles.
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by vondur 4y ago
We are now able to do this here in suburban Los Angeles. You can now put your food waste in the bin meant for green waste (lawn clippings)
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by vondur 4y ago
I was recently at the Getty Villa where they have many of these in display. Really fascinating to see such realistic paintings of people from ancient times. Egypt at this time period was such a diverse mixture of people.
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by vondur 4y ago
Ha. I was poor in my 20s. Couldn’t save money even if I had wanted too.

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