If only somebody would invent or release a phone with a fingerprint sensor! maybe in 2020 or something like that... but who has the knowhow and innovative spirit to do such a thing?
where the eff are you going to put all the CO2 at powerplant scale? tests to date have been a mix of labbench and pilot project. Also consider that powerplants need to be located regionally. so you can't power the entire US from carlsbad caverns.
Cities are regions of high density, where many people live.
You're apparently convinced that you are Normal, and that no one
(who matters?) lives in cities. If you're interested in
minimizing average trip times between SF and LA, putting the
terminals near the center of SF and LA makes quite a bit of
sense.
. god, you're a fuckhead. if you're flying to LA, would you rather go from palo alto to SFO or palo alto to downtown SF? what if you lived in san jose, or oakland? the hyperloop wouldn't just serve hipsters in the mission. if you tried to minimize travel time across all the bay area population, I assure you the station would not be in downtown san francisco. exact same argument for downtown LA. Of course this points out another benefit of air travel - there are three big bay area airports to serve the population, but this hyperloop would just have one terminus.
From the 'burbs ye have come, to the 'burbs ye shall go, and at
the pearly gates you will whine that there's not enough parking.
gotcha. you're a hipster urban dweller who thinks anybody who lives differently is stupid. well, i got a big can of fuck off for you to drink.
You need to think a little more about what a "city core" is.
what does this even mean? I live in LA and have lived in SF. I know what the "city cores" are like in both of those cities. I know how inaccessible they are. i don't get your point here.
There is a high-speed rail project already in the works
coverning the same territory that Musk is looking at. This
is actually an idea that's very popular with voters.
are you suggesting that the govt SHOULD pay for hyperloop, and its ok because the govt is paying for HSR, and everyone apparently likes HSR? All is bollocks. HSR was approved at the ballot box when it was a $6b project. If we could vote again i'm sure it would be canceled. actually that's kind of a cool idea, we should get this on the ballot box. also, if musk is a billionare, he can build his pet project boondoggle if he wants to.
Come to think of it, reducing pollution is a popular idea also.
maybe a little bit, but to what degree, and at what cost? 95% of the pollution from HSR won't affect anybody because nobody lives near it. so spend $6b to cut the HSR pollution by 5%? retarded.
"but what about evil ghgs?" At $40 / ton (internaltional peg price), the money for the hyper loop could offset 150 million tons of CO2, which is 2OM greater than the HSR would produce over its entire lifespan.
So, I hate to tell you this, but you're essentially a hick from
the sticks, with barely a clue about what's going on.
Actually I live in LA, so I have quite a good idea of what's going on both in terms of the cities and the HSR project. Unlike you, who is some sort of armchair know-it-all from god knows where.
$6b to save 30 mins and some pollution? depends who's paying - the govt? no thank you, kma. you're right to look at door-to-door travel time, which turns an hour flight or half hour tube ride into 3-4 hours. so the time savings of the tube is even more minimal! for the city cores thing, most people don't live at a city core and they are surprisingly inaccessible. making it real - you can't park at transbay terminal in SF or union station in LA, and the traffic is a nightmare just to get there! also, why would you think the hyperloop could go to the existing rail stations? if it's all new infrastructure, they'll need a touch down point where they have clear access. you know, kinda like an airport.
the fandango app is really nice for ticket buying. there are also some good weather apps that provide functionality beyond what you can get from a web app. hey, i guess that's a win for apps - they can be more interactive and complex.
for apps, you need to work hard to find a way to get them on the device, let alone the dock. for web apps, it's already accessible on the dock with one link or click. Destroys that barrier to entry.
that's the point - airport expansions and new planes pay for themselves because it's a mature profitable (near break even) industry. hyperloop requres 6b of new cash from some unnamed source, implied that it's the govt. also, there's several airports. in bay area, SF, OAK, SJC. In LA region, LAX, SNA, Burbank (what's the code?).
(400mi / 25 mpg) * $4/gal =...$64? Maybe I was wrong. But the IRS rate for total vehicle costs is 54 cents per mile, so if I shift my metric then my number is still correct. Ahh, engineering!:)
fuel usage is already included into the pricing. You could say, the hyperloop has the potential to be cheaper, but I would say back that ass up? $100 is already pretty cheap. It costs $200 to drive on fuel alone.
ok, what's the cost of avoiding rain delays? 6b+? and cutting a line through the state? and likely boondoggle? that seems like an overkill solution. also, what's easier, expanding capacity at the endpoints or building a second tube 400 mi to add capacity?
the pass into the LA basin is 4000 ft, and LA itself is like 100 or less. How's that for the third dimension? Speed: pop quiz hot shot: what do you do?
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Flag on the play - I thought snowden was all about us NSA and civil liberties. This is Chelsea manning style spray and pray - indiscriminate release
yeah but at least they can't access your selfies.
If only somebody would invent or release a phone with a fingerprint sensor! maybe in 2020 or something like that... but who has the knowhow and innovative spirit to do such a thing?
where the eff are you going to put all the CO2 at powerplant scale? tests to date have been a mix of labbench and pilot project. Also consider that powerplants need to be located regionally. so you can't power the entire US from carlsbad caverns.
Fucker
natural gas. hydro in PNW. nothing new technology here, all is well established.
That's because clean coal doesnt exist.
rephrase - the nuclear site is leaking so much radioactive wastewater into the sea that it would fill an olympic swimming pool each week!
Officials described the leak as a level-one incident — the lowest level — on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES)
first, i'd like to point out that the lowest level for nuclear leaks is LEVEL 0 - NO FREAKING LEAK.
Second, to the parent post - heroes in a half shell. turtle power!
95m is a lot of cars... The us market is about 15m cyrrently. Not sure who will be buying these additional cars. No, I didn't rtfa.
It's "OS X" not "OS-X". It's also not a "variant". It is Unix.
a highly-modified closed-source BSD kernel is only reminiscent of unix.
Cities are regions of high density, where many people live. You're apparently convinced that you are Normal, and that no one (who matters?) lives in cities. If you're interested in minimizing average trip times between SF and LA, putting the terminals near the center of SF and LA makes quite a bit of sense.
. god, you're a fuckhead. if you're flying to LA, would you rather go from palo alto to SFO or palo alto to downtown SF? what if you lived in san jose, or oakland? the hyperloop wouldn't just serve hipsters in the mission. if you tried to minimize travel time across all the bay area population, I assure you the station would not be in downtown san francisco. exact same argument for downtown LA. Of course this points out another benefit of air travel - there are three big bay area airports to serve the population, but this hyperloop would just have one terminus.
From the 'burbs ye have come, to the 'burbs ye shall go, and at the pearly gates you will whine that there's not enough parking.
gotcha. you're a hipster urban dweller who thinks anybody who lives differently is stupid. well, i got a big can of fuck off for you to drink.
and pets too! people love their pets. guilty!
You need to think a little more about what a "city core" is.
what does this even mean? I live in LA and have lived in SF. I know what the "city cores" are like in both of those cities. I know how inaccessible they are. i don't get your point here.
There is a high-speed rail project already in the works coverning the same territory that Musk is looking at. This is actually an idea that's very popular with voters.
are you suggesting that the govt SHOULD pay for hyperloop, and its ok because the govt is paying for HSR, and everyone apparently likes HSR? All is bollocks. HSR was approved at the ballot box when it was a $6b project. If we could vote again i'm sure it would be canceled. actually that's kind of a cool idea, we should get this on the ballot box. also, if musk is a billionare, he can build his pet project boondoggle if he wants to.
Come to think of it, reducing pollution is a popular idea also.
maybe a little bit, but to what degree, and at what cost? 95% of the pollution from HSR won't affect anybody because nobody lives near it. so spend $6b to cut the HSR pollution by 5%? retarded.
"but what about evil ghgs?" At $40 / ton (internaltional peg price), the money for the hyper loop could offset 150 million tons of CO2, which is 2OM greater than the HSR would produce over its entire lifespan.
So, I hate to tell you this, but you're essentially a hick from the sticks, with barely a clue about what's going on.
Actually I live in LA, so I have quite a good idea of what's going on both in terms of the cities and the HSR project. Unlike you, who is some sort of armchair know-it-all from god knows where.
$6b to save 30 mins and some pollution? depends who's paying - the govt? no thank you, kma. you're right to look at door-to-door travel time, which turns an hour flight or half hour tube ride into 3-4 hours. so the time savings of the tube is even more minimal! for the city cores thing, most people don't live at a city core and they are surprisingly inaccessible. making it real - you can't park at transbay terminal in SF or union station in LA, and the traffic is a nightmare just to get there! also, why would you think the hyperloop could go to the existing rail stations? if it's all new infrastructure, they'll need a touch down point where they have clear access. you know, kinda like an airport.
the fandango app is really nice for ticket buying. there are also some good weather apps that provide functionality beyond what you can get from a web app. hey, i guess that's a win for apps - they can be more interactive and complex.
for apps, you need to work hard to find a way to get them on the device, let alone the dock. for web apps, it's already accessible on the dock with one link or click. Destroys that barrier to entry.
I think they respec you more if you say no, I need to give two weeks notice because to do otherwise wouldn't be appropriate
that's the point - airport expansions and new planes pay for themselves because it's a mature profitable (near break even) industry. hyperloop requres 6b of new cash from some unnamed source, implied that it's the govt. also, there's several airports. in bay area, SF, OAK, SJC. In LA region, LAX, SNA, Burbank (what's the code?).
sure, whatever. the point is, it costs ~$200.
iOS/android app: installed base on day one: 0
web app: installed base on day one: a hundred million +
(400mi / 25 mpg) * $4/gal = ...$64? Maybe I was wrong. But the IRS rate for total vehicle costs is 54 cents per mile, so if I shift my metric then my number is still correct. Ahh, engineering! :)
fuel usage is already included into the pricing. You could say, the hyperloop has the potential to be cheaper, but I would say back that ass up? $100 is already pretty cheap. It costs $200 to drive on fuel alone.
ok, what's the cost of avoiding rain delays? 6b+? and cutting a line through the state? and likely boondoggle? that seems like an overkill solution. also, what's easier, expanding capacity at the endpoints or building a second tube 400 mi to add capacity?
the pass into the LA basin is 4000 ft, and LA itself is like 100 or less. How's that for the third dimension? Speed: pop quiz hot shot: what do you do?