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by wbrinkley 1y ago
Reminds me of a story a contractor told me: he was building a multi-million dollar house in Hawaii as a second home for a very wealthy California couple. He said they made the kitchen exactly the same as their other house. Same appliances,
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by wbrinkley 2y ago
Xenses Park near Cancun, Mexico, also has a great illusion with water appearing to flow uphill - it's very disorienting: https://youtu.be/c8v_CJtYjCI (Water mentioned around 2:10) Nothing to do with the Leidenfrost eff
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by wbrinkley 7y ago
Tesla frequently talks about platooning when touting their Semi. "Self-driving" by almost blindly following a human-driven lead vehicle doesn't seem that far off. But I'm not looking forward to the day when I see a &quot
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by wbrinkley 7y ago
This. An unoccupied car should be able to find a parking spot at the mall or in a parking garage, or go from the airport terminal to the "economy" or "cell phone" lot by itself. And come back and pick me up. If it gets s
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by wbrinkley 8y ago
The plane didn't leave the ground - the engine blew up as we were accelerating for takeoff. That's now something I now find reassuring: takeoff seems to be a time of maximum stress on the engines - if they're going to break (
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by wbrinkley 8y ago
There's better advice here than thinking about the odds of a crash, but if that helps, you could also factor in the odds of actually dying in a crash - not just being in one - because that's even rarer. I was on a plane that exper
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by wbrinkley 10y ago
Flew it once myself, must have 1986 or 1987. Some of the same memories: - Not just tiny, but claustrophobic: seemed like it had about 30 or 35 rows, so if you were in the back it was like looking down a long too-narrow tunnel. - The force,
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by wbrinkley 13y ago
They do: see http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/creating-world%E2%80%99s-bes... "Tesla is building a fleet of top of the line Model S loaners. These will not be our basic model – they will be state of the art with al
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by wbrinkley 14y ago
Perhaps the future lies more with the "something you have" form of authentication than the "something you know", like passwords, that this article complains about. For example, Google's two-factor authentication seems very secure, even with