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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…

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, ma…

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 …

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 revenu…

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 some…

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…

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…

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 …

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 manager…

> 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 hav…

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…

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…

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 goog…

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 drif…

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. T…

> 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. …

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 betwe…

> 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 …

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 n…

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 …

>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…

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…

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 t…

>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 sto…