jsprogrammer

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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
That is what the poster is doing. Not long ago, someone from a code camp negotiated 250k total annual compensation from an SF short-term rental company.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
I doubt the average engineer at one of those companies got compensation of $10M. Most of the money/shares/options/compensation likely went to management and investors. It would not be surprising if sama made more on a deal th
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Do the drivers go away? Perhaps one will give an investor a lift one day.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
> their money ends up subsidising a 10 minute taxi ride and being lost forever. What? Uber is just a black hole? What about the driver? Who received most of that money for their services? That driver can now use that money to invest in t
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
`queySelector` only returns the first matching element (according to Mozilla docs).
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Read the court notices some time. A few years ago, BofA sent me a notice saying they were settling all kinds of accusations of fraud for some billions of dollars, but noted that the voluntary settlement was in no way an admission of having
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
I don't think those are planned to ship until 2018.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
How would sea creatures get in and out?
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Alternatively, you could pump the water to land for desalination and agriculture.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Are Tesla's energy storage solutions available anywhere outside their vehicles?
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
What type of data are you wanting to move? Would you just want a huge movable block of space that you could mount somewhere?
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Laser propulsion could work. I'll need to learn more about the physics of it.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Bouyant structures could be used, as well as wings, to suspend the track. You can't run along the ground because you don't want to go too fast through atmosphere.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
The track would not run along the ground. You'd want to get height as quickly as possible to minimize atmosphere and track length. Originating somewhere around Mojave and launching towards Las Vegas could work. Alternatively, you may w
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
I agree the data should be open, I just don't think Uber, or anyone else, should attempt to piggyback on top of it. Pushing other peoples' cars around does sound kind of fun, but I hope we'll have something better to do than
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Different sensors may have different responses. A separate collection would likely avoid any particular biases that Google picked up, as well.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Most of the load could likely be mitigated by wings and buoyant structures.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
I believe the barreled design to be fatally flawed. An earthquake or other disruption during launch could be catastrophic to the vehicle. Much better for the vehicle to ride next to the track; in failure scenarios, the vehicle can simply de
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Please see my response to kragen, where I derive the cost.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
$ is a unit of pennies $=100p The calculation above was for a 10Mg payload. Payloads up to 3.2kg would cost under 100p under the same assumptions.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
I haven't estimated building costs yet. Several billion could be in the ballpark though.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Not all vehicles are safe. The shuttle was >100,000kg incoming. Passenger vehicles to orbit could be on the order of 1,000kg, which would be much easier to make safe for gliding. Emergency parachutes could even be feasible.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
m=10,000kg a=90m/s^2 vf=7500m/s vi=0 F=ma W=Fd P=W(t^-1) t=(vf-vi)/a d=(vf-vi)^2/(2a) t=7500/90 ~83.33s d=7500^2/180 =312,500m F=10000(90)
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Acceleration over 200km will get you to orbit. The electricity required for a single launch is measured in US pennies. An aerodynamic vehicle could be extremely safe; in the event of a failure, you could just glide back to the ground. The p
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Easier solutions aren't necessarily good. Rockets are extremely dangerous and expensive. The ~200km required is daunting, but imminently possible.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
An electromagnetic launcher seems to be the way to go. Why is everyone spending time on rockets?
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Buzzfeed-style click bait. We are better than psychological tricks.
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
JS is safe C with types and pointers stripped from the syntax. I don't get why people don't understand its popularity. HTML lets you put boxes on the screen and CSS lets you paint-by-number(id/name/selector). If you aren
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by jsprogrammer 10y ago
Looks like many others aren't interested in easier solutions.

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