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by bathat 13y ago
And there are tons of used 172's in excellent condition for a third that price. Or, you could compare the Terrafugia to a two-seat LSA. That would be a fairer comparison, since the Transition is an LSA while the 172 is a real certif
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by bathat 13y ago
The problem is that the limitation is physics, not engineering. There is little overlap between what characteristics make a good airplane and what make a good car. Additionally, many of the characteristics that make a good [airplane|car] d
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by bathat 13y ago
What's wrong wrong with it is simple: The question "Is PCM transparent?" is not subject to taste. It either is or it isn't. If listeners can't tell the difference between a source that is being reproduced from PCM
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by bathat 13y ago
France probably doesn't tie both its rail agency's hands behind its back with pointless environmental impact reports (the sole purpose of which seems to be to generate extra revenue for civil engineering contractors) and then let
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by bathat 13y ago
What John Dakota said, plus one more thing: I've noticed that papers written in the past ten years tend to be written by people who have poorer writing skills (to the point of sometimes writing nearly incomprehensible paragraphs) than
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by bathat 13y ago
Why would you base your assumption on experience with laptops when you have access (through the magic of the Internet) to perfectly good data about the Tesla Roadster? They've been on the road for over four years now. Here's the
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by bathat 13y ago
Meta: go! Interesting... I've noticed your username above several rather anti-social comments in several different threads over the last day or so. I wonder why. /Meta To be honest, I don't think alxndr was being snarky. I
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by bathat 13y ago
Drivers opening their doors into the bike lane without looking doesn't help cyclists avoid weaving in and out of it. And before you say anything: In California (and I believe this is true in many other states), opening your door into
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by bathat 13y ago
I have seen such notes, but you have to take them with a grain of salt. When a department posts a note like that it's sort of the corporate equivalent of "Don't talk to our managers: submit your resume on this web form right
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by bathat 13y ago
> As I understand it TSA only do the finding of the guns and it's local law enforcement who does the rest. So TSA have no idea about who's allowed to carry the weapon or not. I have no idea if this is true, but let's assum
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by bathat 13y ago
Sure, but then how do you tell the police that you just saw a black SUV with Massachusetts plates ending is 907 blow through a red light and almost run down an old lady with a cane at 7th and main? How would they ever find the driver or ow
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by bathat 13y ago
You are correct that, slightly re-stated, there's nothing hypothetical about the amount of money you have to give SpaceX to put your payload on a Falcon that you reserve today. But you missed his point. We don't know what the fai
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by bathat 14y ago
It's not quite as bad as Maxima ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29 ), though, where it almost feels like the project was intentionally named in a way to make googling difficult.
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by bathat 14y ago
ntpdate won't complain because it's entire purpose is to set the time on a system that isn't synchronized with the rest of the world. So it is expected that the clock may have drifted by a substantial amount, and it is only meant to be use
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by bathat 14y ago
Part of the problem (as I understand it) is that when patent examiners reject a patent application, they are required to give a reason from an approved list of rejection reasons. The "this already exists" reason requires the examiner to ci
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by bathat 14y ago
> They're saying it's possible to make more money on less education by targeting some specific 2-year-degree jobs, especially as compared to some lesser-paying 4-year-degree jobs. Right, they are comparing very highest AS/AA holders to
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by bathat 14y ago
Alright, but you've carefully evaded the question. So let me ask you again: Would you acknowledge that Broder acted in bad faith if someone were to drive a Model S round trip between Milford and Groton at a reasonable speed, with the car
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by bathat 14y ago
> Why have zero (or negative) income to get post baccalaureate education if you can go work somewhere (for money) and learn on the job? Well, ok, so here's the thing: If you apply to grad school in one of the physical or life sciences a
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by bathat 14y ago
Sure, but, unless you're a rockstar graduate student, you do R in service of your advisor's grant needs. Unless you're a rockstar post-doc, you do R in service of your PI's grant needs. Unless you're a rockstar PI, you do R in service of
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by bathat 14y ago
Can we discuss this civilly, without resorting to ad-hominem attacks? I'm not drinking Musk-Aid, though that is certainly your implication. I don't fully trust Musk, but there are strange inconsistencies in Broder's account, and his rebut
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by bathat 14y ago
>At a gas station, the time difference between putting in half a gallon and filling the tank is about 5 minutes. At the charging station he'd stopped off at, the difference between the charge he did and a full charge is about 9-12 hours
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by bathat 14y ago
I'm curious why you think the calls were logged. Certainly, we've all come to expect that recorded, "For quality assurance purposes...," when calling tech support. Still, the Tesla employees named by Broder are not technical support staff
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by bathat 14y ago
Part of the problem is that in his latest rebuttal, Broder turned off the map layer of the Google image he used. If he had left it on, you would see that many of the "streets" in that rest area are one-way. The only place he could have dr
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by bathat 14y ago
>The story is simply, "The Tesla lost a ton of range overnight, unexpectedly. Tesla said it would come back after an hour of low-power charging." But why is that the story? The story could just as easily be, "The NYT reporter stopped c
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by bathat 14y ago
However regen is not 100% efficient at recapturing the car's kinetic energy. The guy who drove his Model S for 400 miles on one charge in Florida was careful to drive slowly and not use regen when he could avoid it. http://www.teslamo
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by bathat 14y ago
Yes, yes, but isn't it awfully interesting how with all of Mr. Broder's complaints about the car, he completely forgot to mention just how hard it was to find the Supercharger station? Doesn't that seem like a relevant detail in an art
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by bathat 14y ago
>Musk doesn't address the big drop in estimated range overnight, which actually seems confirmed (at mile 400) in his charge/range graphs. That's true. It looks like the car lost about 5% of capacity overnight, and that could have been
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by bathat 14y ago
Driving in circles doesn't prove anything. But, he didn't mention it in his original article or the follow-up blog post. In fact, he took great pains to write about all the hardships he endured to maximize the car's range, and how he still
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by bathat 14y ago
There was an inset graphic in the original story, which lists miles driven and estimated range remaining at various way-points. I believe this is the url: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2013/02/10/automobiles/10t...
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by bathat 14y ago
> I'm always amazed at the quantity of people that show up on these to piss all over what is a pretty amazing project. Well, I'm not here to piss all over the project (which is amazing). However. There are about four or five things I

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