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The Boring Company’s skeptics need to calm down about the LVCC Loop

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One thing that Boring Company critics typically forget is the fact that the LVCC Loop’s tunnels are incredibly cheap and quick to build. Machines such as Prufrock, and the incredibly low cost of its tunnels, are The Boring Company’s true disruption. . The Boring Company works on a tunnel boring machine.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

Cars That Think

The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips. Meanwhile, feeding information about the harbor into the database proved arduous.

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Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story

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The frequency of the carrier signal used to transmit color information in the National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) standard; 3.58 You waste a little bit of silicon, but silicon’s pretty cheap. When the design of the Commodore 64 began, the overriding goals were simplicity and low cost. Color clock. It’s only sand.”

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Electric Car Makers: Oregon Wants You - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Furthermore, changing the battery pack on say a Toyota Prius often costs a fortune, at least in most European countries, so such cars better be VERY cheap, but they’re not. But that cost in a built as an EV is much less than an ICE’s costs by about 1/2. For more information, please see our Comments FAQ.

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