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by zizee 7y ago
A good friend of mine is a geologist working in lithium exploration, and has found measuring samples from termite mounds to be a good indicator of what will be found by doing a much more expensive drill.
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by zizee 7y ago
Fair enough. Apologies for reading too much into your words, and ascribing a meaning beyond what you had intended.
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Oh I agree that we can do better, and should do better. I am more taking issue at people who make it sound like Australia is terrible compared to just about any other country, no matter what the discussion is about. Whether the discussion b
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by zizee 7y ago
You make it sound like Australia has a huge problem with plastic/trash in waterways that "Australia" is actively ignoring. In general, Australian's culture is to use rubbish bins and keep things tidy. Sidepoint: I am not
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by zizee 7y ago
Yes, that sounds like a nice/simple/clever solution. Parking meters could also a good option for this sort of fit out. The other obvious option is paying an extra fee at multi level car parks. The thing I really want governments t
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by zizee 7y ago
I'm of the opinion that once a certain number of cars are EVs, a lot of pertrol stations will find themselves unprofitable. These will then close. People will see this happening and desire EVs even more. This will cause uptake of EVs t
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by zizee 7y ago
> Cars cost much more than cameras (one or two zeroes more) so old cars are going to stay around for a longer time. I feel that in both my comments I have been quite clear that I have been talking about new car sales only. At the risk of
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by zizee 7y ago
> How abundant are the resources required? Lithium is very abundant, and I have read that it is easily recycled. Not sure about the other inputs to the mix.
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by zizee 7y ago
Yep, agreed that it will take a while for all the petrol cars to come off the road, but the reports prediction is specifically talking about new car sales, and only the majority (which I read as > 50 %) by 2038. I just feel that the pred
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by zizee 7y ago
> Bloomberg NEF forecasts sales of electric passenger vehicles ... to overtake sales of those running solely on internal combustion engines in 2038. Perhaps I am naive, but I would be surprised if it takes that long. There are so many ob
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by zizee 7y ago
Sorry to nitpick, but I think you might have confused 10k feet vs 10k meters (10kms). The grandparent was using feet. 10k feet is about 3kms, the height of a medium sized mountain. 10kms is about the height of Everest, whose peak does not h
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by zizee 7y ago
> Spielberg and colleagues clearly didn't know it I don't think this is true at all. Micheal Creighton's book on which the movie was based made it really clear how birds and dinosaurs are connected. I am positive that Spei
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by zizee 7y ago
It will be difficult to hide the dish that sits on your roof, blasting signals into space.
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by zizee 8y ago
Google used to have this feature (the ability to specify sites not to show in their search results), but removed it for some reason. I cannot remember if they gave a reason why. They did provide a replacement as a browser plugin (mentioned
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by zizee 8y ago
I disagree that you need a machine to understand ethics for FSD to come to fruition. Most humans would not be making ethical decisions in split second emergency situations. If humans are driving around somewhat successfully without being ab
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by zizee 8y ago
> My concern isn't really with what the car sees but ... Many Tesla automated driving sceptics say without lidar, Tesla has a major issue with FSD. > How do you tell a machine what to do when there is no correct answer? Why would
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by zizee 8y ago
This is not a new thing in American history, and probably predates America's existence: https://prospect.org/article/when-fear-threatens-freedom > The pattern of responding to threats by curtailing rights began
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by zizee 8y ago
Most Australian domestic flights/airports are still like this. Sidenote: entering/exiting both Aus and NZ recently, immigration checkpoints in both countries did appear to make extensive use of facial recognition.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk's gamble on China could be thwarted by local rivals(abc.net.au)
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by zizee 8y ago
The US has federal taxes and mechanisms to redistribute money from richer states to the poorer states to address this sort of imbalance.
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by zizee 8y ago
Are there super capacitors with expected lifetimes measured in centuries / millennia? Making a device that could keep running long enough for civilization to fall into the dark ages, and then grow again from scratch does something fun
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by zizee 8y ago
That sounds like a fun project, but economically impractical. When we installed panels on our roof it was cheaper to just lay them flat and buy extra panels to make up the difference, than to install them on static frames to angle them for
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by zizee 8y ago
I wonder if they produced human lab-grown-meat, how many people would eat it out of curiosity.
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Same car? Could improved aerodynamics play a part?
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by zizee 8y ago
Not the commentor that you are replying to, but they are possibly a referring to the EU's GDPR laws that went into effect recently.
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by zizee 8y ago
Considering SpaceX's Raptor engine currently in development is going to use methane as a fuel source (produced by cow farts and rotting garbage among other things), I don't think this particular issue is something to place at the
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by zizee 8y ago
Why are you saying grandparent's comment isn't relevant and is spam? The product recommendation seems like an alternative to Segments offering (albiet simpler), and the commenter claims no affiliation.
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by zizee 8y ago
> So we chose to focus on a simple measure of tax burden: national-level income taxes plus mandatory social-insurance contributions as a percentage of gross income I am not an American, nor that knowledgeable about their tax system, but
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by zizee 8y ago
Interesting, but there are typically recurring costs involved in keeping a company open. Mind you, I guess accounting/filing costs also can get pretty cheap at scale, especially if each company is identical in nature.
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by zizee 8y ago
Very cool engineering! (reading back over this comment, I might appear overly negative, but I would think all the issues I raise are solvable) What's the throughput like on those systems? I could imagine at peak times it might take a w

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