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Thank you for your valuable input.

No mystery. You can simply make the claim that Apple would detect anything that's anti-Apple. Why not? It isn't like that the company has anything approaching morality, aside from …

>I think your perception of what qualifies as motoring performance is sadly lacking. lol. I think you'd be surprised. Mostly I'm referring to the mass-produced engine itself here, …

I'll have to look into it. Given both the financial value of image compression (given the amount of video shoved down the net) and the asymmetry of codec (it's OK to use resources …

Ideally the whole car collapses simultaneously.

This seems like a pretty obvious thing to do for some small-run auto maker. Thinking out loud. At what point are legislative controls ever put on car performance, if ever? They've …

I was thinking along the lines of getting city council members to agree with insane concepts. The committee all nodding at the wisdom of the new town monorail would be funny as hel…

I'll improve that... ...detect people who might be unstable through paranoid ramblings about how Apple is out to _fill_in_the_blank_. The spice must flow to keep those stock option…

Imagine how small the file would be if it were a couple of for loops. Compression can take advantage of the colors of adjacent/near by pixels, adjacent pixels in time (for video), …

I can imagine the advertising value of watching for depression and cognitive decline. In the latter case, you could probably sell a dozen extended warranties for the same item. EZ …

You know, a person could have a lot of fun cutting in their own video and audio on a talking head in one of these youtube council meetings.

That's a good point, but do Catholics account for more than their share of births in Nigeria (5.5 children per woman, or, as we say in the brave new world, 'people who menstruate')…

>Have you forgotten the original Tesla Roadster? Not mass market, which is the main (only?) charm of the Miata I think. They're all filled with road-hugging weight in any case. A T…

One that isn't thrown into gmail's spam folder? I wish I were smart enough to self-host.

Cool, thanks. I'll check it out. I've mostly been keeping an eye out on the aircooled VW conversions (or that EV 1968 Mustang on youtube). It'll really get interesting when you see…

Fine. We'll design a control system for EVs where you can feel that a fake clutch actually does something. We can supply speakers and a simulated tach to give the full sports car e…

I'm speaking outside of my bailiwick here, but are browsers now the equivalent of Microsoft Windows? Great big, crufty, no-one-really-knows-how-they-work, security risk laden, feat…

That may be, but is it better to be 'fair' or to save the world's ecology? The coral reefs don't much care if some places are poorer than others. Perhaps one answer would be to all…

>someone driving a priceless exotic like a '69 Boss Mustang V8 could end up paying less tax and insurance than your Average Joe middle classer pays on his 10 year old 1.6L family e…

>It's not hard to find highly opinionated people making assumptions while confidently believing they're right. If you look closely, you'll notice this all the time on HN and Reddit…

That makes sense. I keep wondering why we haven't seen an EV Miata, but you'd probably end up with a small, 4000lb car. Lacking significant battery improvements, I'm thinking the e…

It doesn't seem to me that local populations or organizations have much say in the matter.

To be fair, US Catholics appear to have roughly the same birthrate as US Evangelical Protestants, although that might change as Catholic demographics shift to Latino. What we (the …

That's an argument that stems more from a concept of 'fairness' than one that might save the world.

You'd have to ask what the Navajo did to the Pueblo People who they displaced.