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by fiftyfifty 1y ago
Denver Colorado has done it. For the most part Denver has been growing in a good way too, lots of new apartments zoned along light rail lines etc. https://coloradosun.com/2025/04/26/apartment-rents-denver-fa.
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
Why can't they just put this money towards rejecting fewer claims?
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
It's such a shame. My wife has an early Model 3 from 2019 that's now over 100,000 miles. It's been a great car, no major issues and no maintenance for 6 years. 100,000 miles with nothing but new tires and windshield washer
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
I've toured a couple of ATC towers recently and my impression was they were surprisingly low tech. A tech upgrade seems like the most viable solution at this point. There are processes for writing and testing software and hardware fo
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
I've been using a Garmin Forerunner GPS watch for years, and what I've found I like the most about it is actually the Garmin Connect app on my phone. I don't think Garmin gets enough credit as a software shop. Connect is a
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
This pretty much reflects what we get in the US as well. Obviously with the size of the US we have a ways to go before we get to ICE level of coverage but it has gotten much better the last 2-3 years. The only thing Google maps lacks over
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
Tesla actually had $1.74 billion in revenue from its charging network in 2023, Bloomberg estimates that they probably made about 10% profits from that or $174 million. They are predicting that to grow to $7.4 billion in revenue by 2030. I
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
One of these years the Colorado mountains are going to get a fraction of the snow they normally get and it's going to be a disaster for the entire southwest US. It almost happened in the winter of 2020-21, the snowpack statewide was j
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
Rocket Lab mentions “human spaceflight” on the Neutron page, that’s the only mention I’ve seen of it. I haven’t seen any plans for a spacecraft for carrying humans or how they might handle re-entry. https://www.rocketlabusa.com&
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
It's crazy the US could soon have up to 5 different spacecraft/launch systems that can take humans to orbit with 2 more in development: Falcon 9 + Dragon, SLS + Orion, Atlas V (Vulcan Centaur) + Starliner Close to orbital payload
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
It's not just that the weight is gained back but the rate that it's gained back. Imagine someone loosing 100 pounds on semaglutide and then gaining 70 pounds of it back in 1 year when they stop taking it. That's over 1 poun
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
The biggest problem with semaglutide is once you stop taking it things like blood sugar and body weight start to go back to where they were before. On average people gain back 70% of the weight they lost on the drug within the first year w
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
One proposal I've seen involves putting asteroids into an orbit such that their gravity pulls the Earth outwards a tiny bit each time they pass. Over an extended period of time (millions of years?) we could move the Earth outwards fro
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
By some accounts it takes a pretty sizable neural network to simulate a single neuron: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732... So we are going to need a lot of computational power to a
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by fiftyfifty 2y ago
In some ways this whole industry creates it's own problems because airlines don't want to get pay to get their pilots certified for new planes. So Boeing tried to engineer their way out of the problem and hack in some changes to
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
I think it's worth noting that the 3 body series were originally written in Chinese and translated to other languages. Some of the issue with characters and dialog can be attributed to Chinese culture where people cannot or will not s
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
Minimal orbital speed is somewhere around 25,000-28,000 kph. The fastest air breathing plane every built (SR-71) had a top speed of about 3,500 kph. So for the added weight and complexity of adding an air breathing first stage (wings, air
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
I still use a dumb watch (the classic Timex Ironman Triathlon) when I workout sometimes or when I'm coaching and I just need a stopwatch, I have yet to see a smartwatch that makes a very good stopwatch. Even some of the exercise speci
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
In the US there has been significant cutbacks in USDA programs like the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) that paid farmers to keep certain pieces of land fallow and to plant native plants and grasses to provide food and habitat for wildli
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
I know this is a joke, but TSMC is already talking about 1.4nm processes by 2027-2028: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/tsm... It really looks like the current tech could take us to sub 1nm
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
Samsung/Qualcomm
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
Tesla is already using BYD’s blade batteries in the Model Y in Europe: https://insideevs.com/news/668659/tesla-model-y-batteries-by...
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
I'm not convinced this is an Africa thing as much as an Ethiopian thing. There are just simply not a lot of western interests in Ethiopia and thus not as much news coverage. Ethiopia flirted with communism for almost 20 years and was
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
The funny thing is, it's not a single piece of metal anymore, they completely ditched the whole "exoskeleton". The Cybertruck is made just like the Model Y, with casted front and back ends attached to an upper frame with bod
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
Most other attempts at redesigning the truck bed have failed. The Chevy Avalanche and Cadillac Escalade EXT never sold well and were eventually cancelled. The Honda Ridgeline sold poorly and eventually was redesigned with a regular truck
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
Tesla has committed to making 100,000 Cybertrucks a year at this point. It's like they know the vast majority of that 2m+ people that pre-ordered it are not going to be buying it once they find out the actual details. When that pre-o
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
Our local Tesla dealer just got a Cybertruck on display last week and I went and took a look at it last weekend. My impression is the front end is actually pretty good looking, they rounded it off quite a bit from the original prototype an
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
The front of the Cybertruck is actually fairly rounded and has a fairly normal bumper (and I would assume crumple zone) just like any other Tesla. I don't think the front of the Cybertruck is any worse than any other truck or SUV as f
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
Well for one thing they’ll be able to launch 240 Starlink satellites at a time instead of just 60 on the Falcon 9. If they get to the point of reusing the booster and the second stage the cost savings with Starship will be significant over
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by fiftyfifty 3y ago
Unfortunately the tried-and-true multiple choice exam complete with Scantron answer sheets remains fairly resistant to cheating with AI and is fully scalable to classes of any size. The only hope for these poor students is that AI can help

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