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The detonation produces higher pressure and temperature, causing higher exhaust gas velocities. More energy in the exhaust means more push from the same amount of propellant. About…

> Most companies decided to just pull diesel cars from the US market, and it turns out that all of the ones that stayed were tricking the tests in one way or another. That's just n…

>I'm actually surprised that there isn't more direct action against overly aggressive drivers. What direction action could a cyclist take on a car driver that intentionally buzzed …

> A future myth? Yes, a story about the future that he wants to generate a collective social belief in.

Seems pretty selfish to keep all that money when he could give it back to Meta.

I think it really boils down to, they need a near future myth for investors to speculate their stock price up. That myth is, ubiquitous, always-on AR is just around the corner, and…

Take the money from public education and fund vouchers. Those vouchers aren't going to get you into the good private school, you'll need money on top of the voucher for that. They …

What percentage of the population do you think would need be hospitalized for "brutal" to be accurate?

If giving his collaborators credit diminishes his stature, then his stature must have become overblown.

You don't have to look at other industries. Other auto-manufacturers do their testing on test tracks.

There has been some evidence that DNA can be preserved far longer than the half-life would suggest. https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/7/4/815/5762999

Is that simply your impression, or is there trip length data to support that?

> We know what happens to matter at those speeds, it becomes infinitely "heavy" and would experience time in relative light-years (I mean time-to-travel at light speeds) no? I don'…

Isn't getting where you're going in less time the whole point of going fast? Why would you want to use a device that made your journey take longer?

> It was never a stipulation of warp drives that they would cause something to move. The name was lifted from a very well known science fiction universe, where it has exactly that …

The field can't help being click bait with a name so loaded with implications that the work does not back up. e.g. that the warp fields studied would be capable of causing somethin…

You can still raise sentient animals for slaughter, it's pretty far from being a legal person. Other animals in the sentient legal category include all vertebrates.

And they rarely need to leave with the Costco and the night club on the roof.

MSNBC and techchrunch aren't 'other' to the category of corporate media

Would you believe that a text-to-speech program was suffering if it told you so?

The quote (referring to a presentation on surface disinfectant studies): > I asked Bill a question that probably some of you are thinking of, if you're totally into that world, whi…

> That conversion is done by a crankshaft and once a crankshaft is in the system ... you get diminished efficiency because you're only getting maximum shove force in the middle of …

I think the Tesla "Tiles" of 25 D1 chips are on a single wafer with integrated interconnects. But there is certainly a huge difference in the memory bandwidth claims. Cerebras clai…

> Sure, but ditching your 20-year old beater of a car for a new electric one is not viable for a large percentage of the population at the moment, even in the richest countries. Ma…