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Denver Colorado has done it. For the most part Denver has been growing in a good way too, lots of new apartments zoned along light rail lines etc. https://coloradosun.com/2025/04/2…

Why can't they just put this money towards rejecting fewer claims?

It's such a shame. My wife has an early Model 3 from 2019 that's now over 100,000 miles. It's been a great car, no major issues and no maintenance for 6 years. 100,000 miles with n…

I've toured a couple of ATC towers recently and my impression was they were surprisingly low tech. A tech upgrade seems like the most viable solution at this point. There are proce…

I've been using a Garmin Forerunner GPS watch for years, and what I've found I like the most about it is actually the Garmin Connect app on my phone. I don't think Garmin gets enou…

This pretty much reflects what we get in the US as well. Obviously with the size of the US we have a ways to go before we get to ICE level of coverage but it has gotten much better…

Tesla actually had $1.74 billion in revenue from its charging network in 2023, Bloomberg estimates that they probably made about 10% profits from that or $174 million. They are pre…

One of these years the Colorado mountains are going to get a fraction of the snow they normally get and it's going to be a disaster for the entire southwest US. It almost happened …

Rocket Lab mentions “human spaceflight” on the Neutron page, that’s the only mention I’ve seen of it. I haven’t seen any plans for a spacecraft for carrying humans or how they migh…

It's crazy the US could soon have up to 5 different spacecraft/launch systems that can take humans to orbit with 2 more in development: Falcon 9 + Dragon, SLS + Orion, Atlas V (Vul…

It's not just that the weight is gained back but the rate that it's gained back. Imagine someone loosing 100 pounds on semaglutide and then gaining 70 pounds of it back in 1 year w…

The biggest problem with semaglutide is once you stop taking it things like blood sugar and body weight start to go back to where they were before. On average people gain back 70% …

One proposal I've seen involves putting asteroids into an orbit such that their gravity pulls the Earth outwards a tiny bit each time they pass. Over an extended period of time (mi…

By some accounts it takes a pretty sizable neural network to simulate a single neuron: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732... So we are going to need a lot…

In some ways this whole industry creates it's own problems because airlines don't want to get pay to get their pilots certified for new planes. So Boeing tried to engineer their wa…

I think it's worth noting that the 3 body series were originally written in Chinese and translated to other languages. Some of the issue with characters and dialog can be attribute…

Minimal orbital speed is somewhere around 25,000-28,000 kph. The fastest air breathing plane every built (SR-71) had a top speed of about 3,500 kph. So for the added weight and com…

I still use a dumb watch (the classic Timex Ironman Triathlon) when I workout sometimes or when I'm coaching and I just need a stopwatch, I have yet to see a smartwatch that makes …

In the US there has been significant cutbacks in USDA programs like the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) that paid farmers to keep certain pieces of land fallow and to plant nati…

I know this is a joke, but TSMC is already talking about 1.4nm processes by 2027-2028: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/manufacturing/tsm... It really looks like the curr…

Samsung/Qualcomm

Tesla is already using BYD’s blade batteries in the Model Y in Europe: https://insideevs.com/news/668659/tesla-model-y-batteries-by...

I'm not convinced this is an Africa thing as much as an Ethiopian thing. There are just simply not a lot of western interests in Ethiopia and thus not as much news coverage. Ethiop…

The funny thing is, it's not a single piece of metal anymore, they completely ditched the whole "exoskeleton". The Cybertruck is made just like the Model Y, with casted front and b…