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India also manufactures ICs and chips for electronics like TVs etc.

Not according to these guys or wikipedia (ISRO is more research than production, and at 180nm is like 20 year old Pentium 3 technology).

Armed with new google terms to put it, I found this, which is reasonably illuminating.
https://www.quora.com/In-a-bin...

This is probably a good place to start. I was 30 years old when I found this lecture. I went to a top-20 uni, and I NEVER had a lecture this good about significant figures and orders of magnitude. Just a fantastic lecture. Sadly, cucked MIT took down these lectures.

However, the term "White Nationalist" is semantically and massively wrong (but then, so would "Black Nationalist" or "Asian Nationalist"...) After all, what nation is titled as "White"?

I get that stamping out racism is a good thing, but seriously, folks - at least don't mangle the language while you do it.

I've been musing on this lately, as accusations of being a "White Nationalist" have become extremely bizarre. For example, claiming "White Nationalists" love anime or that multi-racial groups like the Proud Boys are "White Nationalists".

I think there are two main points with this:

• Racist has become so watered down that it has lost all of its emotional punch. It's not enough that someone is Racist; now they're a White Nationalist despite not being white nor advocating for a white-only nation.
• Polarization and echo chambers have created a situation where no one bothers to even listen to those who disagree. Instead, everyone who you oppose is all one big nebulous group. This is where you get people claiming there are black "White Nationalists" or "Neo-Nazi" Ayn Randian Objectivists (Ayn Rand was of Jewish ancestry, as were many early influential objectivists).

I don't know why you have an issue with this.

I have an issues with this because, by all my research, you are wrong on this. You have failed to provide a citation proving this, I have failed to find a citation proving this. The math is NOT "right above". You have posted no math that I can see. Indeed, I keep encountering statements in documents that air core transformers can sometimes be preferred in order to prevent Hysteresis and Eddy loses, otherwise known as "iron losses". Air core works better at higher frequencies, Hmm.. I wonder what EV inductive chargers use... Ah yes, high frequencies. 85 kHz seems common, though some are much higher.

2. Coupling factor, as shown by my and your sources, is somewhat independent from the core material used. An iron core transformer CAN be less efficient than an air core transformer. YOUR citations show this.

You will never be as efficient when you terminate your charging system with a transformer (air core or iron core, although iron is more efficient) as compared to a hard-wired connector. Just not going to happen.

What do you meant terminate? The transformer is necessary regardless of connector -whether inductive or hard wired. You're going to need to match wall voltage to what the battery needs, and the best way to do that is with a transformer. It's also hardly the "end" of the circuit. You're still going to need to transform the power from AC to DC, for example, and likely are going to want to smooth it out.

Combined with your insistence that iron-core transformers are always more efficient than Air Core and other issues like seemingly being totally ignorant of the effects of frequency on transformer design, the general necessity to match wall voltage to battery voltage through the use of a transformer, etc... I don't believe that you are actually an EE. You're making too many basic mistakes about physics. If you are an EE, you're probably a very specialized one that doesn't deal with the same issues that will come up in designing an inductive charger for EVs.

I've also told you a couple times what you need to do to convince me.
1. Citations, Sources. I'm not taking your word on this stuff. Note that most of my posts are littered with citations. The one time you tried, you linked to sources that agreed with me!
2. Reasoning that goes beyond the transformer/inductive loop. As I've said, I'm looking at the complete system, not just the loop.

For example, what is your response to this?
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, Transportation Efficiency Group
Average efficiency, level 2(240V) charge: 86.4%, level 1(120V): 83.7%.
Interestingly, temperature can change the charge efficiency by more than 2%!
Then the DOE chimes in, with a wireless charging system that is 90% efficient.
Plugless power, is getting 84-90%

The quoted official, Momentum Dynamics, it might be important to note that they've been targeting bus charging - 200kW. So, if the technology scales well, that could be part of their claiming high efficiency.

What's up with wireless EV charging - has an interesting writeup of what's going on under the hood. Though it mostly focuses on the cost, which can be cheaper for wireless? Interesting.

One reason f

Read these replies on Quora for your own education.

Uhh, plenty of people fall asleep in MRI machines all the time. It's loud, but you wear headphones (that optionally play music) and the loud noises are periodic. And, because you're laying down and stuck immovable for sometimes over an hour, it's natural to start falling asleep.

I've had at least 5 MRIs and lab techs from two different buildings have told me they have people fall asleep all the time.

https://www.quora.com/Have-you...

https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/...

http://1goodfoot.blogspot.com/...

https://multiplesclerosis.net/...

[thousands of etc examples]

What I have read is that the only indication is that the trim wheel (not in the pilot's/copilot's line of sight, it's at the base of the throttle controls, and apparently only on the copilot side) starts moving. The problem is that MCAS makes it move too far. And while it is supposedly somewhat audible, it isn't so audible if alarms are blaring and crew is trying to communicate over the alarms. You can deactivate it by either setting the stabilizer trim to manual, or disengaging the autopilot. Since the Lion Air incident, many pilots who fly the 737 MAX know this. But it's not a training item, so many of them don't know about it.

Here is a picture of a 737 trim wheel.

And the fact is that nuclear is a boondoggle.

http://feedthedatamonster.com/...

http://www.pollutionissues.com...

https://www.quora.com/Is-dilut...

These are interesting links - thank you.

And the fact is that nuclear is a boondoggle.

http://feedthedatamonster.com/...

http://www.pollutionissues.com...

https://www.quora.com/Is-dilut...

the fact the Chinese can sue in American courts with a decent chance to win still says a lot about the differences between the two juggernaut nations.

The differences only exist in your brain, washed over by American propaganda.

While China's legal system is not independent, it does not mean ordinary people are not protected most of the time. See the various positive and negative answers to this Quora question. In particular. the biggest problem was that local government, which typically has conflict of interests or even corruption, controlled the local court; since Xi got in power, the legal system has been reorganized to be managed by the upper judicial layers instead of the government at the same locality.

It is like that one can in principle have a much higher chance become a victim of gun violence in the US but in practice you are not about to be gunned randomly next week.

And finally, it is unclear why this discussion of foreign country spy or surveillance (by China) accusations have much to do with the human rights or democracy situations in China. But the US, which is supposedly/on paper a democracy respecting human rights, is still spying around the world. So whether China respects human rights or is a democracy has nothing to do with whether China will spy or not. Apparently, the actual accusations don't hold any water and American nationalists have to divert the focus.

Get a clue. Is 2GB enough? Answer: no. Why does everybody know that except you?

AMD redefined the new high end bar as 16GB. The dirt cheap will be 4GB and 2GB only good enough for your grandma's email or adding video to a Ryzen box not used for graphics. As of today 8GB cards already outnumber 4GB two to one on Amazon's bestseller list.

"But there were few places she had wasted so much money as the design and monthly cost of the company's main headquarters, which employees simply referred to as "1701," for its street address along Page Mill Road in Palo Alto."

HOLMS: Computer. This is founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes, requesting security access. Computer. Destruct Sequence One, code one, one-A.
Would that be NCC

PRES: Computer. This is Pres. and COO, . Destruct sequence two, code one one-A, two-B.

BOARD: Computer. This is the Board Of Directors. Destruct sequence three, code one-B, two-B, three.

COMPUTER VOICE: Destruct sequence completed and engaged. Awaiting final code for one-minute countdown.

HOLMS: Code zero, zero, zero, ...destruct zero.

COMPUTER VOICE: Destruct Sequence is activated.

(-NOT Start Trek The search for Spock)

https://www.quora.com/How-many-times-has-the-Enterprise-been-destroyed-in-Star-Trek

...they pull the plug on the computers during the weekend and holidays.

Good point. A Saturday transaction still pends electronically in seconds, but there is no posting until human oversight returns Monday, even though that posting typically happens at Midnight when human bankers are in short supply.

Why banks don't post transactions on weekends.

Bank credit is another instrument of profit for Banks. You either have the money at the time of the transaction or you don’t. The practice of “floating” a check is when the person writing a check knows they don’t have the money, but writes it anyway, hoping it’ll show up by the time the recipient cashes it. That worked back when The Good, The Bad and The Ugly first came out, but not today. Bank systems don’t work on paper, it’s all digital where things take seconds, not days, to “process”. In practice, checks “bounce” frequently. The consumer pays about $40 each time. It’s all avoidable. Banks should not be permitted to profit to this extent. What is the $40 for anyway? To fund their Cobol programmers’ pensions?

So if you have a company, you should have to pay Dun & Bradstreet

Maybe you should have looked into that a little more carefully? Since a DUNS is free and all?

The purpose of the DUNS number is to have an entity that keeps track of legally registered businesses. So yes in fact, I do think Apple should make sure there is some understanding of who is requesting the open-ended ability to distribute applications on the platform. It's just that they also should verify who they are talking to really belongs with that DUNS number.

Let be just close by saying I think we can all agree, you should shut your pie hole if you don't understand the subject at hand.

So I was wondering about the time slowing effect of the speed of the satellites vs. our on the surface of the Earth closeness time slowing effect. So the effects partly cancel each other out. General relativity is the norm/aka the general rule (with gravity comes acceleration) and special relativity is the special case one I learned in high school where speed with no acceleration slows down time. I really love this stuff.

This guys explains it well I believe:

https://www.quora.com/If-an-at...

Quote:
"Keith Norfolk
Keith Norfolk, former Educational Specialist at European Space Agency
Answered Aug 22, 2017 Author has 250 answers and 87.4k answer views

There are actually two effect that (partly) cancel each other. Yes, the satellite is moving at a particular speed and than means that from Earth its clock will run slower (according to special relativity). However it is also higher in the Earth’s gravitational field and this is the domain of general relativity is needed (special relativity is only valid in inertial reference frames (i.e. no acceleration and no gravitational differences). According to general relativity, time deep in a gravitational well will run slower and so, reversing the reasoning, time for the satellite (that is higher in the gravitational well) will run faster.

From the point of view of an observer on Earth the two effects partly cancel each other but not fully and so there is a time rate difference for the satellite and the observer on Earth. This is why GPS satellite clocks have to be set to the ‘wrong’ rate in the factory so that they will run at the right rate when operating on orbit.

Curiously, the higher the satellite is, the greater the rate differential is for the gravitational effect. However the higher the satellite is the slower its orbital velocity will be and so the smaller the special relativistic effect will be. So, there should be an orbit at which the two effects exactly cancel each other out. Now that would make an interesting question!

By the way, it is not that there is Special Relativity on the one hand and General Relativity on the other. Special Relativity, as I said earlier, is only valid if there is no acceleration. General Relativity allows for situations where acceleration (e.g. gravitational fields) are present. Special relativity is a special case not the general case. That’s where the two names come from!"

I see your link and counter with another:

https://www.quora.com/Is-Norwa...

It takes around 10k USD in patent attorney fees to file the simplest of patents, 30-100k is more typical.

Your numbers are off. When I did patent work, it was around $7000-$8000 to draft the application and $1500 to $2000 for an office action (usually 2-4 of those, sometimes more). Throw in filing & issuance fees and misc attorney time, you're looking at around $15k to $20k per patent total cost. $30k is definitely on the high end. $50k would be a massive outlier. Any more than that would probably get you fired. $100k was an unimaginable godly sum.

This was in networking, software, and electronics for household name companies in Silicon Valley. That was about 10 years ago. And there was constant pressure to reduce prices from lower-cost patent attorneys in the midwest. Looks like prices have gone down significantly since then. Glad I got out when I did.

I could see some areas being more expensive. Particularly pharma patents - you couldn't pay me enough to deal with those headaches. So $100k might seem reasonable in some fields. I doubt many though.

A good patent challenge starts at around 500k and can easily climb past tens of millions USD in fees you keep needing to pay up front.

Your starting range is accurate. A $10 million dollar litigation is exceedingly rare though. Typically they top out around $8 million. Multiple tens of millions is just ungodly. That would be like the OJ trial of patent litigation. Care to point to any examples?

According to 2015 data from an AIPLA survey, the median cost of "high stakes" patent litigation is $5 million.

You continue to attempt to use anecdotes and assertions as counterpoints to actual data. We can't and shouldn't try to count every time a conservative feels that their ideas are too terrible to share. They have free speech, not freedom from the social consequences of speech.

Also you don't read your own links. That NRA flag had to be removed not because it was an NRA flag but because it was an object outside of a window. If it were a Pride flag or a Care Bears banner it would've been treated the same way.

If Ben Shapiro's background-level of racism isn't strong enough for your senses, check out his statements on the Israeli-Palenstinian conflict.

Milo's over-the-top sexism and transphobia are legendary.

Have you ever heard of the concept of allowing a racist to speak so as to show the world his foolishness?

Oh yes, that was a terrible mistake. Debating terrible ideas doesn't help immunize people to it, people don't seem to need "immunizing," instead it spreads it to vulnerable populations who are almost impossible to "cure," and over the last few decades the world has tried it, with terrible consequences. If the "marketplace of ideas" school of thought had any merit, we would not have a renaissance of racism and an epidemic of fake news.

The same numbers we've been discussing show that many leftist professors have been shouted down - more than those on the right. Again I don't care about anecdotes, just real, hard data. Anecdotes are worthless. Imagine at least three anecdotes of a leftist professor being shouted down for each anecdote of a right-wing professor being shouted down that you can find, if you like anecdotes so much. That would be in line with the data.

No, but two 8GB 580s are $360.

Crossfire is shit! you end up paying double the price for 20% gain and in some cases its so shit it performs worse than the single card. The performance of crossfire is inconsistent as all hell, it's all over hte place.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-2-RX-580s-in-crossfire-compare-with-a-GTX-1080

If youre on a budget just get a single AMD card, if you want high performance that is consistent then spring for a single 1070ti or 1080.

At the risk of escalating this "debate":

Could wind turbines withstand Category 5 hurricanes"
This is one of many articles about wind turbines handling high winds. They actually have a "hurricane mode" into which they can be placed.

Article in NewScientist" on failure of wind turbine in the North Sea. And I quote:.

Much of the evidence was burned, and Infinis and Vestas disagree on which was the key initial cause of the destructive fire: Infinis believes it was the loss of yaw control, while Vestas thinks brake drag more the root cause. While Vestas has produced its own report, an expert was not available to discuss its findings with New Scientist. Vestas has since fixed the brake problem. In future, the feathered rotor will not have the brake applied in high winds; it will be free to turn if it needs to. “Vestas no longer do this and have modified all turbines at Ardrossan to prevent application of the parking brake, which is now only applied during maintenance,” says Infinis spokesman Andrew Dowler."

Guess what? The article also says: When wind speeds reach 88 km/h turbine blades of wind turbines are usually twisted, or “feathered” ...

I stand by my assertion. I will agree that airframes are susceptible to failure at airspeeds that are only modestly higher than normal operating airspeeds, however propellers (l.e. turbine blades) are much more robust - again, like propellers on aircraft.

For grins, I tried calculating tangential velocity of propeller tips on a Cessna 172, given a prop diameter of 76" and an RPM of 2800. My math may not be correct, but I've checked it in Excel and I think it works out to 622 MPH. By your reasoning, you wouldn't even make it off the runway before the propeller self-destructed.

Airframes and propellers have totally different strength characteristics, no?

Found this:

The flyby of 2014 MU69 is just part of New Horizons’ extended mission that runs through 2021. The spacecraft will perform more distant observations of dozens of other Kuiper Belt objects and also heliophysical studies.

Stern is optimistic that this extended mission will not be the last for New Horizons. The lack of features in the lightcurve of MU69, he said, means that the spacecraft won’t need to maneuver as much to optimize the flyby trajectory. “It doesn’t matter where in the rotation phase we show up,” he said. “We’re going to see about the same amount of terrain.

That frees up fuel reserves on the spacecraft, he said, that could be used to target another Kuiper Belt object flyby in a second extended mission that would run out to 2024 or beyond. “We are currently searching for new close flyby targets, and we have some very promising techniques” for doing so, he said. With the fuel reserves not needed for the MU69 flyby, “we have a fighting chance of having a second KBO flyby.”

There are also opportunities, he said, for additional remote observations of Kuiper Belt and other objects, distant observations of the giant planets, and heliospheric and even astrophysics studies using the spacecraft. “I think New Horizons has a bright future, continuing to do planetary science and other applications,” he said. “There’s fuel and power onboard the spacecraft to operate it for another 20 years. That’s not going to be a concern even for a third or fourth extended mission.” [1]

https://www.quora.com/Could-Ne...

The upshot seems to be there is no next target right now but they are looking for one and the vehicle is in good shape.

Ouch. At least there are no "smart"phone zombies so bad anywhere near me, neither among low-tech nor high-tech friends.

I am highly doubtful the people around you are as pure as you claim.

And that'll speed up that 14 words message... how?

Read again about actual message sizes instead of fixating on content size alone. You want to get that traffic up t the server ASAP and send only a rigger signal. Even if it WERE just 14 words it would still be... rather nice to have a few billion 14 word messages already transmitted to the server and ready for destination ahead of time.

I'm talking about the problem to solve not their implementation.

Article is literally about Facebook. That is the problem to solve for, given how it is built.

Of course Facebook runs a PHP script that runs a bunch of NPM modules to produce a 1.5MB response

Not really.

Git has its own meaning in UK English

Yes it does. But it's not "offensive". It would be like naming a package "foolish".

And also the software is intentionally named that way by Linus, referencing himself.

At this rate, you may as well prevent the use of language that is inappropriate in EVERY language.
How many languages share words where only one considers it swearing, inappropriate or other such vulgarities?
Here are some.
Get to it, try to trigger as many of these legit retards as you can. Maybe they'll literally have a heart attack and we won't need to deal with their PC bullshit any longer.

Debian, you're put in the shitlist. I'll review your status in a year.
If you washed your hands of these fucktards, I may consider your services again.
Censoring WebOOB. Christ is rolling on his cross.

It didn't though, it landed fairly softly in the water and so is reusable.

That's news to me. As far as I understand once they land in saltwater, they are no longer usable. Electronics don't hold up well once exposed to saltwater and the effort to recondition would not be worth the risk or the potentially reduced usability. Corrosion is also a structural issue.

With the Falcon9 water landing, there was not much risk to the craft. It's just harder to collect.

From this link:A Falcon 9 first stage is too fragile to just let fall into the water. Unlike the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters, which are massive steel tubes, a Falcon 9 is a thin-walled aluminum tube which can't survive falling over into water, and probably wouldn't survive extended wave action even if you gently lowered it in to the water on its side.

It turns out that the only way to recover a Falcon 9 first stage intact is to gently land it right-side-up on landing legs, either on land with a boostback burn, or out in the ocean on a barge.

The first amendment is the one that protects your right to hijack white house press conferences or disrupt and sabotage international nuclear deproliferation and peace talks, but not your right to express unapproved political opinions.

they company doesn't have to keep growing or maximise profits.

That's absolutely not true for a public company.

Not so. Companies have missions. The mission generates profit, but profit is not the mission. This allows them to plan long term instead of doing what makes the most money this quarter. P&G explains this right in their mission statement:

We will provide branded products and services of superior quality and value that improve the lives of the world’s consumers, now and for generations to come. As a result, consumers will reward us with leadership sales, profit and value creation, allowing our people, our shareholders and the communities in which we live and work to prosper.

This quote, and further explanation from here:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-a...

On the other hand, some companies appear to be full of shit in their mission statements. Here's what Nestle has to say:

Our mission of "Good Food, Good Life" is to provide consumers with the best tasting, most nutritious choices in a wide range of food and beverage categories and eating occasions, from morning to night.

In my region, Nestle switched their powdered milk product from being straight dehydrated milk to a roughly 50/50 split of milk and carbohydrate. The packaging appeared identical, except the ingredient list and nutrition facts. Adulterating a dairy product with a simple carbohydrate gives the lie to their claim about "most nutritious" choices. Here, we find a mission that is not followed.

First, even if I accept your claims as true, what you are saying is that everyone should discount the science expertise of a person who has a PhD in astrophysics because he did not know about one thing on the fringe of his field.

Second, your claim has not been proven to be accurate.

So what? Since when do you have a right to broadband? Show us the amendment.

Who said anything about rights? We're talking about monopolies.

Decades ago, AT&T had a monopoly on phone service, but that didn't mean you have some kind of a "right" to a telephone.

Maybe you need to take a minute and learn a little bit about what a monopoly means:

https://www.quora.com/What-are...

The U.S. was not the first to impose tariffs. Even if you don't like Trump he is 100% correct right when he complains about tariffs from the EU and China being in place for years that are heavily weighted against the U.S.

What you are probably thinking about is reading recently about China raising new tariffs - but that does not mean they did not already have plenty to begin with.

What you and others not familiar with the by now ancient world of tariffs do not realize is, just how weak a hand China has... they will eventually capitulate. Just as Canada did.

Libertarianism is about liberty, which is the complete opposite of the state creating laws to control individuals' behavior (that doesn't _directly_ harm others). That's why Google is creating these policies - because the state says they're responsible for sexual harassment by their employees. Here's a quote about this:

https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

> Consider the sexual harassment which continually occurs between a secretary and a boss . . . while objectionable to many women, [it] is not a coercive action. It is rather part of a package deal in which the secretary agrees to all aspects of the job when she agrees to accept the job, and especially when she agrees to keep the job. The office is, after all, private property. The secretary does not have to remain if the ‘coercion’ is objectionable.

basically, desktop/workstation is the single niche that Microsoft is still holding)

Not true in north america at least.

They are still a major player for email servers through exchange server. https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

They still have one of the best on premise server OS with over 70% of the market cornered: https://www.computerprofile.co...

They are remaining strong in the virtualization server area with about 35% of the market. Note their market share of this was 0% until 2008 so 35% is not bad.

They still have the best office suite available for corporate use. Home use is a different story but that could be debated either way.

some of the logic going in the heads of microsoft is that wsl can be a bit of anti-gateway drug

Opinion more than fact. They actually believe in providing the tools required to do the job. As a multi platform developer I appreciate the ability to create Linux environments in my environment of choice.

the problem (for them, but advantage for us) is that it might end up the other way around:

You make it an "us versus them" argument. I don't understand why any tech professional would think that way. Maybe you're just a kid that hasn't been in the real world yet. If so, you've already closing your mind to a number of possibilities.

A battery is a collection of cells.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

You are wrong. The person you corrected is right.

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/...

Another source for information on his cell phones and usage:

https://www.quora.com/What-typ...

"I’ll Have Those N*****s Voting Democratic for 200 Years" --LBJ, Democrat
A good discussion on the finer points and definitive quotes in the same character can be found here.

The welfare state has replaced black fathers in the home. Democrats before the switch caused that to happen. Since the switch Democrats have doubled-down several times over, leading to the single-parent household rate increasing from 12% to 70%.

Forcing black Americans to vote straight-ticket blue or see their family home fall apart is bad enough, but it worked so well they are doing it again to Hispanic peoples. They are told that if they don't vote Dem maybe some of their family members will be deported, damn those evil Republicans following the laws which we also voted for. Know what minority this trend didn't work on? Asian Americans, the most well-off and well-educated major ethnic group in the US. Why? They start and own small businesses, value independence and making their own way with education and family values. Guess which party those small business owners vote for.

It's the Democrats complaining about systematic racism. They should know, they built that system and are trying to expand it.

Good question. I found this helpful: https://www.quora.com/How-does-refraction-work-If-a-photon-interacts-with-matter-it-is-absorbed-but-it-passes-through-a-transparent-material-Therefore-it-is-not-absorbed-therefore-it-does-not-interact-So-what-happens-to-slow-the-speed-of/

Depending on the chemistry, it takes 250-500 kwh just to take processed li-salt to a cell level
For Tesla, that means 21-42 mwh worth of electricity to produce the 85 kwh battery in most MSs. Even at that low-end, it is STILL a lot of energy.

yes, "toxic" stuff like silicon and aluminium for the frame

https://www.quora.com/Which-ty...

Partly due to hydrogen:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

Sorry for the quora link.

I wonder if it's worth farming these bacterial to generate hydrogen commercially?

It has been long known that breeding (having kids) with those distantly related to you is likely to produce healthier offspring. So: if you want healthy kids: choose a partner who has a different ancestry to you -- domeone of a different race is an easy way of doing it. Having said that what I have said is simplistic, not everyone has equally ''good'' genes, so choosing someone who is: healthy, strong, intelligent, ... is also good -- these are the characteristics that many find attractive anyway. The mating game is largely about producing healthy kids - even if we do not realise it.

Some people blamed Amazon but that wasn't the cause.

Part of the problem was that it tied up stock with toys that no one wanted -- such as The Last Jedi.

THE biggest problem was that it was saddled with *Billions* of dollars in debt. Namely $5.2 Billion and negative equity of $1.3 Billion. While Microsoft can dump $2 Billion into the XBox or BING program until it is profitable Toys R Us didn't have the capital to do that.

TL:DR;

* Huge debt
* Couldn't pay interest
* Declining sales
* Bad management
* Got bought by Private Equity firms - stripped the company of cash
* Arrogance of thinking it didn't need an internet presence

References:

* https://www.quora.com/What-are...
* https://www.usatoday.com/story...

Because it has better performance.

Is it a common belief in Euro-wherever that US middle-class equates to McMansions?

Typically only amongst those who do poorly, economically. What they fail to realize is that about 42% of Europe lives in apartments, and in the US almost 80% live in free-standing homes. To a large segment (nearly half) of Europeans, owning your own freestanding home just isn't realistic, it's what "the rich" have, and thus ANY freestanding home must be a "McMansion". Of course, when we have over twice the land area, and only 60% of the population, so it should be no surprise that we have much lower density living...

It costs about $225 to replace a Tesla battery. I assume you mean the 12v battery that powers things such as the electronics in the cabin and other 12v devices.

If you mean the main battery, that’s a lot harder to say because it’s not something that people need to do. The batteries come with an eight year warranty, mostly with unlimited miles, and Tesla will repair a defective battery pack for free. Virtually all of them are still under warranty.

Tesla’s batteries lose range very slowly, and even on a car that’s a decade or two old, it’s not likely that a person would replace a battery to increase range. The average US driver travels under 40 miles per day, and most Tesla owners plug in at night to charge at home. For day to day use, owners would never see a difference.

Even for trips of hundreds of miles, there’s a good chance that somebody with a 15 year old Tesla will be able to make the trip with the same number of charging stops as were required when the car was new. But if it turns out that it takes an extra stop each way, then it’s still unlikely that people would replace the battery. People who take an annual road trip or two who might save a couple of hours on each one at the most aren’t going to want to spend thousands of dollars on a new battery. The book value on a car that old might be only a few thousand dollars. If $2000 is out of the question to save two hours a year, then a more realistic price would be even more out of the question. If you buy a Tesla, it’s fair to assume that the main battery will never need to be changed.

Lets just pretend labor is free, and you purchased a Model S P100D in 2016. In 2016 the cost per kWh was 227. The 100kWh battery would have cost $27,700. That same battery if Elon is the believed will cost Tesla $100 per kWh by the end of 2018, for a total battery replacement cost of $10,000. Of course that car is still under under warranty until 2024 so a replacement would not be of concern the current owner.

Paul Marston, former Software Engineer (2001-2003)

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Batteries in a hybrid vehicle can cost multiple thousands - so much in fact, that they are in effect non replaceable - the car costs less!

I’m not sure if there is a separate 12v battery for the car (as ALL the batteries have the same nominal voltage.) https://www.quora.com/What-is-...

it costs the theater the same to show the movie to 10 people or 100

If this were the case, StubHub would be all over movie theater ticket sales. Empty seats? Discount the tickets until they're all full. Theaters would be tickled at more patrons buying concessions.

This is the big confusion suffered by anyone who invested in MoviePass (post-expansion). There are no margins available on the tickets. Theaters split the ticket sales revenue with the studios, full-stop. The premise that movie theaters can afford to cut MoviePass a discount on tickets in order to get more butts in seats is pure fantasy. Go google "Movie ticket profit margins" and you'll find internet content like this:

New, hot films, like Black Panther (March 2018), they make very little off the film, like 10â"15% of ticket prices go to the theatre, while 85â"90% goes to the distributor/studio.

https://www.quora.com/Did-Chin...

Got one of the details wrong, it wasn't Alibaba it was the subsidiary Alipay which today is a huge profit generating machine. Ma's attempted to steal the whole division early in it's existence and got caught.

To us, US culture is rather strange. You really go out to eat each day, every day?

And to us, German culture is rather strange. Doesn't mean it's bad but it's definitely quite different. Understand that eating out in this context might mean getting lunch at the local fast food joint for lunch which is fairly common. Germany has an average of around 135 restaurant visits per person per year which is less than the US but still about one every three days.

And if you "cook" at home, it’s ready-made convenience food? How do you even survive? Isn't that extremely expensive? Don't you miss real food?

You talk about the ready made food like it's made of arsenic or something. It's fine. Not optimal but certainly will keep you going. And no it isn't really terribly expensive and for many people it's what they actually prefer.

And "hard working" is a BAD thing. Only stupid people and slaves work hard.

Really? You think Germans don't work hard? That's not exactly their reputation. Elon Musk seems like a pretty hard working guy and he is neither stupid nor a slave. Go ahead and find me a lazy CEO of a successful major corporation. Hard work is only a bad thing to people who are disinclined to work hard. (that means lazy) Working hard does not mean you cannot also work efficiently.

The best company is one, that is so good at that, that everyone can sit back and relax, while the money comes in.

And precisely zero of those exist in the real world.

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