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You can have forced induction with two-strokes if you use direct injection. It ends up being pretty efficient because you can blow all the exhaust out of the cylinders and have clean air for the next cycle. You also don't need to add oil to the fuel because you don't use the crankcase to pressurize the air/fuel charge. This type of engine is really common in construction equipment and (older) big trucks, semis, buses, etc. Some were even supercharged and turbocharged.

10hp from a 50c two-stroke is easy. Road racers were getting 17+ with 70's technology. Those engines also had about a 100 rpm powerband, though. So you'd see 50cc bikes with as many as 14 gears.

They aren't switching from lithium. In the tweet he even says there's plenty of lithium. They are switching from a nickel cathode to an iron cathode due to the scarcity/cost of nickel.

The title should definitely be changed. It makes it sound like they are going to a completely different battery technology.

GDD=Game Design Document

The story referenced in this article, "The Machine Stops", by E.M. Forester is a pretty short read (25 pages). For people who like going into books/movies with no knowledge of plot summary, you can read it online before reading the article. (Or read it afterwards if it sounds interesting.)

https://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~koehl/Teaching/ECS188/PDF_files/...

I like that Bill Murray quote. But here's a Jim Carrey semi-rebuttal (I read it as mostly talking about the rich part): “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”

Pretty cool. I don't ever remember seeing this occur anywhere. More examples of this occurring in nature on his main page: http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/ice/diurnal/

So did I. But it's because I confused it with the "Come into my World" video, directed by Michel Gondry. One of the best music videos, in my opinion. It still would have been a little odd to see it here, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63vqob-MljQ

But the last piece of content to load for me.

" if you have to state multiple times in your plan that what you're planning isn't illegal/manipulation, it's very grey at best."

I don't think this is logical. One could also say, "If people are accusing you of doing something illegal/manipulative and you don't respond by stating that it's not illegal, it's very grey at best."

"when Robinhood users hit sell and then use the funds to re-buy another stock or back into the same stock, they're buying on margin. Technically the first sell doesn't clear for several days, so the subsequent purchase is made on margin."

This seems like a key piece missing from lots of explanations I've read. Thanks.

I was confused too. But I'm pretty sure they mean condos cost $1500/sf to buy, and not apartments cost $1500/sq/month

MLM=Multi-Level Marketing (also known as pyramid selling).

"Turn on" here, meaning begin to oppose (I initially read it as "to begin using").

If retail still exists, just not in inner cities, then it wasn't the Internet.

"rainbow color maps are bad"

I disagree with blanket statements like this. Rainbow color maps aren't ideal for showing relative difference in values. But they are great if you want to be able to tell what the value (range) in a given location is. This is almost impossible with a 10-shade grey-scale legend or a height map.

Disclaimer: I use rainbow color maps all the time because I'm often interested in critical value areas of my plots.

I think the goal should not be to lower the standards for everyone, it should be to help bring people up to the basic standards.

The more often people write informally, the more difficult it is for non-native speakers to learn correct grammar. I almost always use full sentences and correct punctuation in all forms of communication. But I make sure to always write correctly when I'm communicating with non-native speakers. I am doing them a disservice, otherwise. And it's also frustrating to me when I'm learning a language and what I'm reading from native speakers is below even my capability.

Also, I think there's a difference between making mistakes in a foreign language, and being lazy or not caring. For example, capitalizing the first letter of a sentence or the word "I" is something that 99% of people know they should do. So that mistake is not usually due to lack of fluency in a language.

Could you explain this more because it's completely foreign to me. For me a period is the end of a sentence. It has nothing to do with ending the message I'm trying to get across. Is this a cultural or generational or professional field difference? I'd never heard of the idea that a period would be too formal in any context.

Do you have a source for that? It looks like there are plant patents in the EU.

https://www.mewburn.com/law-practice-library/plant-variety-r...

https://www.no-patents-on-seeds.org/en/node/285

I see $200 for the 50".

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-50-Class-4K-UHD-LED-TV-U5...

The Scepter 50" 4k TVs recommended in the article are $200 at Walmart. The quality probably isn't as good, but at 1/8th the cost that's a hard up-sell.

The Tesla Model S is 77" (196 cm), and the Mercedes S-Class is 75" (190 cm).

Why would that be stupid? I actually think it's kind of stupid for only one country to have the bridges shown on EU currency.

I was just thinking it would be cool if a bunch of the EU countries each started building these bridges. You could see it as a symbol of unity. Maybe they could do something interesting with it like each country adding their own personal touches to the design. Or using the bridges to bring attention to lesser-known, interesting cities in the country.

Most likely for safety reasons. They are less likely for children to play with them or people to bump into them.

But ovens with controls in the front are definitely available in the US. So you can have whatever style you want.

What does "privacy reasons" mean? It sounds like you're implying they did it for other reasons.

By home, do you mean house? Sub-million dollar homes show up all the time in Mountain View, even before Covid. Thinking anything less than a house is unlivable for a family is not the norm in most other parts of the world.

Most of the time all you need to replace is the cylinder and piston. For two-strokes, this is often a very simple task. It might be as easy as removing four bolts and a circlip.

That's a good point. But you also have to take into account how many dogfights have been avoided because the enemy knew there was no point in starting one.

It appears to be a chapter from a book titled, " Handbook of Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination". I haven't read the whole chapter, but it looks like this is what is being discussed:

"It took social psychology nearly a century to recognize that not only had it been declaring stereotypes to be inaccurate on the basis of little data, but once the data started to come in, to accept that this data often (though not always) demonstrated moderate to high stereotype accuracy. This resistance to the data has constituted a significant impediment to understanding the existence, causes, and consequences of both stereotype accuracy and inaccuracy."

Or, if you bought it with a credit card, you can request a charge back. Depending on the card, doing that even 12 months after purchase is possible.

"housing policy that enables massive amounts of new houses to be built"

I think you mean "new homes". I don't think there's anywhere in the US with a housing crisis is due to new houses not being allowed. It's usually due to the difficulty in tearing down houses (and low-density apartments) and building higher density apartments. This may seem pedantic, but in these discussions the distinction is important. In almost every housing-related thread on HN, I see people using them interchangeably, in ways that are confusing.