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by yholio 6y ago
Energy efficiency is a bad substitute for clean energy. We desperately need vast amounts of clean, emission free energy, to power electric vehicles, trains and tractors, the infrastructure used in their manufacture, the economy as a whole a
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Oh, I get it, the frame of reference "floats in the sea or flies". I was trying to picture a "sea of flies".
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by yholio 6y ago
> somebody who's frame of reference floats in the sea of flies through the air will probably not take much issue with it My lexical parser has encountered a problem.
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by yholio 6y ago
Many european airlines announced a no questions asked refund policy on 737 Max tickets. Even Ryanair who initially rejected the idea, latter made a U-turn under pressure from concerned passengers: https://www.independent.co.uk&#x
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Current state of self-driving algorithms – Raquel Urtasun, Uber chief scientist(youtube.com)
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by yholio 6y ago
Facebook has the impressions because in many countries they have a de-facto monopoly in social networking, which has become a large part of all web trafic. Google will cover the rest of the net almost unchallenged. So it's not even a d
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by yholio 6y ago
A big part of the solution that does not involve the government is the market reaction driven by sometimes irrational consumer behavior. Some passengers are now weary of all recent Boeing designs, and even of the excelent 737. The margins a
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by yholio 6y ago
Truth is, we will never accept robots on the roads that are as deadly as human drivers. Especially since they will fail in specific, surprising and hard to comprehend ways, see here. Robotic drivers will probably need to demonstrate at leas
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Maybe not a prerequisite, but certainly necessary to prevent certain type of long-tailed events. For example, I can anticipate by the look of a neighborhood that it's more likely that there would be jaywalking and poor infrastructure,
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by yholio 6y ago
The six levels of vehicle autonomy are marketing bullshit. They imply failure of automation is acceptable and the human can be left to pick up the slack. In reality, there is no spectrum of automated driving, with the human doing less and l
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by yholio 6y ago
The GP said that China/Asia produces 90%. You say China is at 60%, so if we add India and the rest of Southeast Asia, you are saying essentially the same thing. And while China might be starting to cleanup its act, India is fast urbani
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by yholio 6y ago
George Soros says: "I am proud of the enemies I have". While I understand why people hate Soros, since he makes no secret he wants to influence the politics for humanistic goals, it's harder to understand for Bill Gates. The
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by yholio 6y ago
If you want to have the most impact in your secret donations and change the lives of many people in good, then you should finance democratic and peaceful political underdogs in poor and represive countries. I know it sounds revolting that g
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by yholio 6y ago
That's interesting. Without any product, what exactly are those sources of cash earnings?
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There is only so much zero interest money you can burn through before people taking those loans realize that you have no product and they will be still liable for the principal. Nikola has no battery edge. Their hydrogen tech is vaporware -
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by yholio 6y ago
Damn straight. A short seller with compromising info has all the incentives to broadcast it, then sit back and look how he makes money. He injects valuable information into the market and puts his neck on the line - since the downside of a
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by yholio 6y ago
More specifically was slated to earn 700 million, if the Nikola ponzi had been able to slip under the radar and continue. I'm absolutely sure NKLA does not have 0.7 billion lying around in cash, those are new investment that they nee
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by yholio 6y ago
You are talking about the full chain of trust. I'm an talking about a single link of that chain, the ability of the operators to know their hardware is not under the control of some foreign state actor. This is the topic of the 5G wars
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The trust you have in the phone company is another target of attack than the one discussed here, the fact that operators need to trust closed source blobs in their networks, often times provided by other states with strategic interests in w
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by yholio 6y ago
This is not only true for software developed with public funds, but with any software that becomes critical for providing public services, communication in particular. Take for example the recent 5G spying debacle. US claims that the Chines
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by yholio 6y ago
Let's not speculate on how evacuation can be handled in a regulation-compliant way. I can certainly imagine a system where trafic is reliably halted when pedestrians are detected on the main lane. You might counter that such a system i
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by yholio 6y ago
Lemonis says "I don't recall" about 10000 times in the span of 3 hours. I understand it's excelent attorney advice, but should Gates have tried the same thing he would have looked even worse in the court of public opinio
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by yholio 6y ago
>> trains waiting their turn to enter the station > Yes, and this would be an even bigger problem for your proposal, that's the point. No. Trains must make every station. A low occupancy pod will only diverge from the high s
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by yholio 6y ago
The improvement lays in the flexibility of the system. In the financial district, you have a large station with similar costs and restraints as existing systems, and with multiple paralel lanes to handle the trafic, merging etc. When you fa
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by yholio 6y ago
Some pods will indeed travel empty in the system to rebalance the supply of vehicles into areas of rush hour exodus. But this is a highly predictable event; the pods will be supplied in advance and on less congested, roundabout routes. So i
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by yholio 6y ago
The recommended spacing for human drivers is 3s, and if you ever drive on a highway, you will see 2s is the norm most drivers actually use at much higher speeds. There is absolutely no issue to reach that spacing for computer divers at 45 K
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by yholio 6y ago
Well, you cannot pack trains of 2K people at 90 seconds, because you reach a limit with people getting in and off in the stations, the whole system slows down with trains waiting their turn to enter the station, so real throughput decrease
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by yholio 6y ago
I believe driver-less cities will eventually converge to networks of microvehicles like this, as opposed to large, inefficient vehicles designed to handle highway speeds and risks. You can fit two such pods side by side in one of the tunnel
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This should be understood as high frequency stock traders fighting for turf. One shop tries to access broadcasting bands to enable higher powers, thus, more reliable transmission, by multiplexing the payload with general purpose economic ne
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by yholio 6y ago
Combining existing off the shelf components into a novel design is a legitimate way to build an innovative product. The first Tesla Roadster was exactly that, all car companies had access to the technology but they dismissed it as a gimmick

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