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Also used in electric motor controllers to monitor winding temperature.


Going fast in water takes incredible amounts of power.


I don't know why hydrofoils aren't more popular


Because they're expensive and unreliable for most applications. They need more power, they increase draft, they don't tolerate debris, and they really dislike rough seas.


They do fine for passenger traffic. Draft, debris and rough seas are not a problem. You need gas turbines or very unusual diesels for the power, that is the problem.


How horrible!


It must have been pretty bad. I should say that when I knew him, he walked with no obvious limp.


PID control your customers :)


Mandate that the home/landing page of social media sites is a chronological display of people/artists/whatevers you've legitimately chosen to follow rather than maximization algorithm force feeding. For all users. The have to click to get to the algorithm zone. Problem solved.


I don't think that's really solved. Facebook had lots of engagement pre-feed. Reddit has lots of engagement even without personalisation. It's still going to be problematic for lots of people.


Sales of stick on mustaches will skyrocket


Dingoes mate


More like the source code AND the complete design for a 200+ degree of freedom robot with batteries etc. pretty amazing.

It's like a 600mb demoscene demo for Conway's game of life!


That's underselling the product, a swarm of nanobots that are (literally, currently) beyond human understanding that are also the only way to construct certain materials and systems.

Inheritor of the Gray Goo apocalypse that covered the planet, this kind constructs an enormous mobile mega-fortress with a literal hive-mind, scouring the environment for raw materials and fending off hacking attempts by other nanobots. They even simulate other hive-minds to gain an advantage.


GDP should be medianized or the top 100 most income people removed from it or something. That top echelon money isn't going back into the economy.


There is probably a large non-vocal group of Democrats outside deep blue areas that doesn't agree, which is why they went that direction


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