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by zardo 3y ago
> The architect said to me that we'll never fully recoup our costs of putting the hat on the house. To which I replied that we don't always to things for economic reasons, and just do them because they are the right thing to do
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by zardo 3y ago
You don't mean the Duke? The Super Duke is 21k USD, surely the cheap electric motorbikes are coming in below that.
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by zardo 3y ago
You save maybe a few thousand dollars in solar panels by installing the flat plate, but you have to validate the additional structure.
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by zardo 3y ago
This isn't a response to the shooting, according to the article they had decided to implement it prior to the shooting.
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by zardo 3y ago
https://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/storage/first-commer... This is 8MWh (of heat), the 1000 gallon oil tank is about 40MWh. Something like a two story basement filled with sand at the maximum temperature of a home
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by zardo 3y ago
A clock that ticks in microseconds on Earth will tick in (local) microseconds on the Moon.
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by zardo 3y ago
It was really a math problem and not a physical one. There's so much more going on ( GR, radiation pressure ), that even if there were a solution it wouldn't be able to predict Mercury's orbit.
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by zardo 3y ago
Paccar builds and sells trucks, not a license to build them. Other companies buy those add their own equipment (cranes, concrete mixers, etc) and resell them. Light duty truck and van builders e.g. Ford and GM do the same thing but mostly f
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by zardo 3y ago
There is more genetic diversity within the "black" race than outside it. Skin color and hair type are I'm sure useful categories for dermatology, but probably not much else
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by zardo 3y ago
Maybe people manage to segment off what it means to be a defence contractor in their own heads. But I figure if you produce and sell the means of killing people, you would be fine with killing people.
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by zardo 3y ago
> Besides on non-serious forums, I haven't seen people seriously propose this (this being anything nefarious like Boeing actually trying to take him out) with any evidence. If he was murdered rather than having killed himself, you w
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by zardo 3y ago
> Or there is another reason? Maybe muscles are not completely functional? People using the device probably haven't been able to use the muscle in question for months or years.
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by zardo 3y ago
I think the DOD satellites are the data the article refers to do not release information on measurement accuracy. So every measurement is + or - [REDACTED]
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by zardo 3y ago
Just a few minutes. Bandwidth could make that delay months.
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by zardo 3y ago
> They do not need engine relight capability to reach orbit - plenty of orbital rockets exist that cannot relight their final stage. I don't think SpaceX is interested in having uncontrolled Starship re-entries. It's large enou
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by zardo 3y ago
> Almost any crash on a motorcycle is going to cause serious injuries/death. Protective gear will usually leave the rider uninjured if they don't hit something.
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by zardo 3y ago
> a guardrail will “deflect a vehicle back to the roadway [or] slow the vehicle down to a complete stop.” Your car will probably be damaged, but guardrails can prevent something much worse. Unless that vehicle is a motorcycle in which ca
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by zardo 3y ago
It is the worst possible approximation though.
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by zardo 3y ago
Oddly your mechanic is much more tightly regulated maintaining your plane than he would be if he got a job at an airplane factory.
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by zardo 3y ago
> In the minds of Boeing and the FAA - that is removal. In the minds of line workers, opened a door. If they really do allow line workers to interpret federal regulations themselves, that's quite a problem. But I doubt this was a de
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by zardo 3y ago
Like an aircraft carrier, good at projecting power below a certain threshold of conflict and capability where they turn into a liability.
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by zardo 3y ago
I get a kick out of the mismatch between delivery estimates and tracking information. They're telling both that my package will be delivered this afternoon, and that it's in a distribution center 3000 miles away.
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by zardo 3y ago
The organ trade is barely regulated in the US, as long as you say it's for science and not medical use.
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by zardo 3y ago
15 mph is more typical for a cargo ship than 30.
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by zardo 3y ago
Privacy from an NTSB accident investigation is absurd. Privacy from your boss snooping you is reasonable.
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by zardo 3y ago
Yeah, if you're building a product that's supposed to last 50 years stock value in year one is far from the whole story.
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by zardo 3y ago
I think in principle you should be able to generate thrust greater than drag orthogonal to the particle flow. That's what wings do.
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by zardo 3y ago
> Rather, it creates a time to reflect on the cost of taxes and their value proposition. Create time? It uses up my time, leaving less time for reflecting on public policy, or anything else.
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by zardo 3y ago
> I presume a planet with 1.5x the radius of Earth and 3x the gravity would have an atmosphere that is far more thick and any rocket would have to contend with a significant amount of drag. I'm sure that's true holding all else
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by zardo 3y ago
And I was able to switch to a different ISP.

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