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> As usual, mostly western commentators sitting on their high horses pointing and pontificating with no idea of local context or understanding. Pray tell, what context justifies ar…

> So I just wanted to say it's an engineering issue at this point. It's far more than a mere engineering issue. It's primarily an economic issue. The engineering issues are mitigat…

> But hyperloop? Nothing new really needs to be discovered. This isn't true. The concept of a moving load travelling over the rayleigh wave speed on heterogeneous soils is somethin…

Capacity is a problem, but not a significant one. The problem is the cost to build, maintain and operate the infrastructure required to comply with the speed requirements, the fact…

> It seems like you are much smarter than the rest of us. I'm not smarter than the rest of us. I just happen to be a researcher in the field of railway engineering, specifically in…

> Does it matter? He's seriously stimulated a market that has been fairly stagnant for decades, What market exactly are you talking about?

> A successful tube transport system could be technologically ground breaking. Theoretically they'd be faster than airplanes and use a fraction of the fuel/energy (once they're con…

> The thing about hyperloop is that none of the technology is new...or even recent! ...or even works. It's quite clear that all this hyperloop hype is a publicity scam targeted at …

> (...) but the heart of the matter in the Dallas case is whether the suspect posed an imminent threat which could not be addressed any other way besides lethal force. At that time…

My guess is that Venezuela was a theme during the elections because Maduro's regime has been caught bankrolling Podemos, the anti-establishment socialist party that managed to beco…

> Oh, come on. Such activities happen the world and history over regardless of the ostensible public political veneer. Socialist/communist regimes are founded on a system devised t…

> Virtual inheritance means you have a diamond pattern and haven't separated your components properly. I've seen this argument pop out time and again as if it was a mantra of sorts…

This, and it appears it's between 2 to 5 times more expensive than other well-established boards.

> Then they got on Patreon for the wrong reason. You're supposed to back someone because you like what they're creating, and want them to continue doing so Sounds like you're admit…

> Sure. You could say precisely the same about a politician who accepts money from a mafia or large corporation. ...except that is illegal and an absurd example, and the "artist" e…

> Flow Batteries[1]! From the wikipedia article, it appears that typical flow batteries only reach 10% to 20% of lithium polymer's power density. That means that it would take a fl…

Bootable drives already let you do that, and they exist for decades now. Heck, just access the HD where you boot your OS from and reimage it.

> Does this means that you are ok with breaking the law if some ones offers you something convenient? The goal of business regulation is to protect the clients. If a regulation doe…

> Is Uber useful ? no doubt they are, but so are any other illegal taxi service. It is my understanding that Uber only has a problem with a single service of the many they provide:…

> If anything, it's a lack of rigour More specifically, some people do a poor job following basic best practices to reduce and manage complexity, such as encapsulation and the trie…

> why isn't the fact that the U.S.A has even more lethal weapons troubling? Business Insider is an US publication. In their POV, they aren't threatened by the US armed forces. Armi…

> to suck people in before you ratchet up It's an image hosting service. You upload cat pictures, you pass the link around. That's it. Once the hosting service stops being a hostin…

Precisely. A single tractor is the sole responsible for eliminating the need for hiding a small brigade of farmhands or construction workers. Efficiency shouldn't be taxed.

> Correct. It's also the problem with taxes. Corporations move to where taxes are cheaper. Not just corporations. All tax payers try to pay the least they can. There are profession…

> Yet somehow most countries are able to tax labor, income, land, and so on, without losing their entire populations. That's because most of the population aren't free to give ever…