I personally think Japanese whaling for “scientific purposes” is also wrong. At the same time, when I travelled to Japan, that’s not a particular subject I brought out the blue when chatting with local people from Japanese about how I thought my experiences were from visiting their country (which it what the subject…

Are you Chinese? What is the source of your knowledge?

It is not actually that common to eat dog in China. I’m ethnic Chinese, I’ve visited China over a dozen times and obviously know hundreds of Chinese people. I only know 1 person who has had dog and it was on bit of a dare of eating a sort of “gag dish” like an…

It’s because 99.9999% of Chinese don’t eat dogs like how 99.9999% of American’s don’t eat anime testicles (aka “rocky mountain oyster” or “lamb fries”) even though the dishes are associated with American cowboys and ranching.

How would you feel if Putin came to America saying “I just want you Americans to know that I…

I’ve seen some shit go down during pickup games, but this is on a whole different level. Whatever happened to a good ol’ fashion “hold me back” fight, or stomping off mad while threatening to come back with your boys?

Google made a game called “Chrome Racer” that works across multiple devices back in 2013. You can still play in now if you open up multiple devices to the Chrome Racer website online (you can search on Youtube for video of other people playing it)

I live in Mountain View and drive past that spot almost every day. Speed would be the difference between a swerve/close call and a crash. If speed wasn’t a direct factor in why the crash happened, it was still definitely part of the reason the crash was fatal (along with the gore rail now having a water barrier to…

I agree that Elon Musk has virtually no special knowledge of anything outside math and science. However, I would disagree that Neil deGrass Tyson is some like of “science-only nerd.” Dude grew up as in the Bronx in the 1970s. Far from being an Urkel he was captain of his wrestling team and ran a 4:25 mile as a high…

Chevy makes/sells fewer Bolts than Telsa is making Model 3s. So either they don’t know how to make a new model profitably, they don’t know how to sell a new model, or they don’t know how to design a new model that they can build and sell profitably.

Uber is particularly bad.

Can you think of another corporation that illegally obtained the post-attack medical record of a someone allege raped by one of its contractors to see if it should discredit her. This information given to all C-level executive and nothing was done to the person that did this until months later…

Man that’s a scary looking. I’ve been warned about this by old-timers on the ski lifts (who refuse to lower the chair bar)... but I never thought it would ever happen on a modern chair lift.

Still the chairlift wasn’t “possessed by Satan.” It’s called gravity. Initially when the motor fails, all the people on the left.…

The side effect of that I’d that he gets a bigger “kingdom”... and a lot more money. It’s hard to justify a high compensation when your company is struggling with only five employees versus one that is doing ok with twenty employees.

I mean really, the basic idea of a curling is not different from golf (I think both sports originate from Scotland). You take an object and try to get it closer to a target far away than your opponent. Both seem like pretty decent things to do a few hundred years ago while you are enjoying a pint of beer at the same…

I see... the gas powers a generator. I stand corrected. So the electric motor IS running all the time. So can the gasoline powered generator keep the car running if the battery depleted?

According to the article you linked to around 200,000 of those miles were using the gasoline engine instead of the electric motor (as the Chevy Volt is a hybrid). So it was a less obvious test of the durability of the battery and electric motor as both were used more intermittently (whereas on an EV the electric motor…

The problem is physics/reality versus armchair engineering

Solar energy is just not fast enough. 300 sq ft of solar panels gives you have 6kW of electric on a sunny day. For a 140 kWh battery, it would literally take you ~24 hours of perfect sunshine date to recharge the battery (or double the range). In reality, you…

Adding to my previous post.

I think they just ignored reality (as the game itself intentionally does for the sake of fun). If they wanted to make it more realistic, they should have made it more Ellen Ripley-esque. Mei was a lone researcher in Antarctica, setting up shop in secret on her own, she gets trapped in an…

There are plenty of plot holes. How can the antenna, helicopter, and truck be relatively uncovered and yet the truck is FILLED with snow? I mean we see a snowstorm, I’ve been in a storm in California where it was snowing a foot of snow per hour.

If a solar panel can recharge Snowball, why doesn’t she use that in the…

I blame Tesla for calling something “Autopilot” when it is in fact, just adaptive cruise control that keeps you centered in the selected lane.

I specifically looked this fact up (how to open the Falcon Wing doors when there is no power) before I bought it. I even had my kids practice popping open the emergency release on the front and back trunk of our Model X.

A couple of my friends have lived in Japan for 6-24 months and they’ve told me it is easy to visit, easy to stay, but unless you are working for a international corporation, freelancing/service industries, or teaching English... it is extremely hard to have a rising regular career in Japan at any Japanese company…