I mean, Solar City was saved because he propped it up with Tesla stock. And the Power Wall business isn't a success yet. Tesla hasn't shown it can really scale faster than Ford et. al can catch up.
SpaceX is interesting... Musk founded it because he wanted to buy space on rockets and couldn't. It's one of those "I'm rich enough to build a company to get the product I want made" situations. If the rich person is lucky, it takes off and they get richer. If not, they get all the overstock.
Tesla's success had far more to do with launching at the perfect time for li-ion batteries finally becoming affordable to pack a sports car with than any other reason. And I'm not sure if that is causal, or not. I'm not sure of how predictable the cost of batteries was, nor how long it took to establish Tesla.
Innovation is very little about having completely new ideas. It's about execution. Many people might have fantasised about vacuum tube transport, but Musk is the one to actually get people started on doing it for real. That's the real achievement.
No, it's a real achievement if and only if it works. Right now, its still an idea. And, certainly, in 2013, it was very much just an idea. Maybe one day it will work, and maybe it will have been one of the projects encouraged by Musk that did so. But let's not lose sight of the fact that the team that got it to work will almost certainly not include Musk, and the ones who overcome the details to make it work should be the ones we praise on a nerdy site.
The Feds have tested medicines for longevity beyond "expiration date". Specifically, the military, which (a) has warehouses of various drugs, and (b) is used to overcoming a lot of realworld issues. I forgot what the report said, but they examined several drugs. Some were fine, model had decreased potency that they could model (100mg -> 97mg or whatever), but there were a couple that turned toxic. I think you can find their report if you look for it. I did when first heard of that study... on slashdot a couple of years ago.
If you live somewhere where you "go into town" to go to the post office, boy will you be in for a rude awaking when the USPS stops subsidizing your route. See, people in the cities (high pickup/delivery density) subsidize rural mail deliver because the fees are uniform.
Although I would support legislation that all interesting things require my personal approval on Slashdot. I would totally understand literally everyone else on the planet not liking such a law, as I would not like it if it had anyone else's name there.
I'm happy to eliminate "Nature's many forms of population control" with regard to humans. There are better ways to both control and put pressure on the human population than via controlling for immune system strength.
On the one hand, I think that mosquitos should be intentionally driven to extinction. At least the disease baring ones. My understanding is that they don't occupy a vital niche in the food-chain or otherwise in the ecosystem.
On the other hand, I find unregulated ecological engineering by a private company to be quite creepy.
You are making a lot of assumptions, for example that the highest costs for building are the costs of materials and equipment.
I never assumed that was the highest cost. I assume that it's cheaper to build two rails than a tube that includes maglev and must be pressurized. But the biggest cost is actually a push -- land and rights of way. I assume that Musk's Boring company is designed to try to make that come out in the hyperloop's favor, but that seems like it's always a push as a train can go anywhere a hyperloop can. Not only that, because of g forces from turning, a train can go places a hyperloop cannot.
And the GP was referring to the cost of a ticket,
He talks about the cost of a ticket, and then later that it will soak up billions. Those are obvious R&D / construction costs. I have no idea which he thinks is too expensive, but my guess was both.
In the movie version of Dr. Strange, it's played for a joke that "the warnings come after the spells." I think you should put warnings before the link (or at least a warning that people should read the long warning), in the way people read text.
Not that I impulsively clicked on it without reading, but safety rules are designed to protect the most people. (See also, flammable vs. inflammable)
Dinosaurs went extinct in a mass extinction that had 70% of species dies off that almost ended all life on earth. ELEs are scary. And that happened, what, once in the history of earth. The dodo was massacred by humans.
But, yeah, say how non-plused you are. It definitely makes you sound mature/intelligent, and not like a idiot.
Because it's going to be more expensive than standard high-speed trains (rails are cheaper than tubes, existing tech is cheaper than new tech, no pressurization is cheaper than pressure systems that keep people alive.) And high-speed trains are already cost prohibitive.
Xamarin always had a free tier (and as you pointed out, may have, but almost certainly didn't, infringe on Microsoft's IP.) I recall something about the free tier was so off-putting that I went partway through learning it, but didn't finish. Microsoft has fixed both those issues.
Ah, gotcha. You're not actually talking about anything currently happening, nor responding to my claim that it's Google/Facebook who are rent seeking. You've just constructed a slippery slope future you want to condemn.
It's why Microsoft bought Xamarin, a cross-platform mobile environment, and made free. It's also why they have been helping Unity3D so much. They are trying to make developing for Windows on Mobile super cheap, to the point of one additional checkbox in the "Export to all platforms" dialogs.
Well, they are asking to be able to negotiate as a cartel. That is a change to regulations. But they claim it's appropriate because they are negotiating with a different cartel (FB/Google).
I'm not sure why that would be considered controversial. Certainly, without anti-trust laws it would have happened already. And they make the point that anti-trust laws aren't relevant to the current situation.
Consider it akin to buggy-whip operators asking for changes in regulations on buggy-whip safety as their industry moves from one necessary for safe travel (regulated for quality) to one that makes mostly movie props (far less regulation required.)
None of that is a citation for "Pushing to re-establish the Constitution is what the majority of people (read Not Politicians) want". What you just said is "here's a good case for why that would be good." But your claim was "people want X".
You then tried to blame the media for determining what people want, which is irrelevant to the question.
In fact, as those are profit-seeking entities, they may have pulled those points-of-view because they were unpopular. That's the whole problem with correlation - if there even is causation, which way does it go.
But I will say most people seem quite happy to sacrifice rights for protection from terrorists and drug dealers.
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I mean, Solar City was saved because he propped it up with Tesla stock. And the Power Wall business isn't a success yet. Tesla hasn't shown it can really scale faster than Ford et. al can catch up.
SpaceX is interesting... Musk founded it because he wanted to buy space on rockets and couldn't. It's one of those "I'm rich enough to build a company to get the product I want made" situations. If the rich person is lucky, it takes off and they get richer. If not, they get all the overstock.
Tesla's success had far more to do with launching at the perfect time for li-ion batteries finally becoming affordable to pack a sports car with than any other reason. And I'm not sure if that is causal, or not. I'm not sure of how predictable the cost of batteries was, nor how long it took to establish Tesla.
No, it's a real achievement if and only if it works. Right now, its still an idea. And, certainly, in 2013, it was very much just an idea. Maybe one day it will work, and maybe it will have been one of the projects encouraged by Musk that did so. But let's not lose sight of the fact that the team that got it to work will almost certainly not include Musk, and the ones who overcome the details to make it work should be the ones we praise on a nerdy site.
The Feds have tested medicines for longevity beyond "expiration date". Specifically, the military, which (a) has warehouses of various drugs, and (b) is used to overcoming a lot of realworld issues. I forgot what the report said, but they examined several drugs. Some were fine, model had decreased potency that they could model (100mg -> 97mg or whatever), but there were a couple that turned toxic. I think you can find their report if you look for it. I did when first heard of that study... on slashdot a couple of years ago.
Well, good Christians know that Pi is 3, not 3.14...
If you live somewhere where you "go into town" to go to the post office, boy will you be in for a rude awaking when the USPS stops subsidizing your route. See, people in the cities (high pickup/delivery density) subsidize rural mail deliver because the fees are uniform.
Evil is worse, because prisons are more expensive than colleges (preyear).
I missed the EPA permit. Thanks!
Although I would support legislation that all interesting things require my personal approval on Slashdot. I would totally understand literally everyone else on the planet not liking such a law, as I would not like it if it had anyone else's name there.
I'm happy to eliminate "Nature's many forms of population control" with regard to humans. There are better ways to both control and put pressure on the human population than via controlling for immune system strength.
On the one hand, I think that mosquitos should be intentionally driven to extinction. At least the disease baring ones. My understanding is that they don't occupy a vital niche in the food-chain or otherwise in the ecosystem.
On the other hand, I find unregulated ecological engineering by a private company to be quite creepy.
Why decentralized? Why not provided like regular cash is, by a government monopoly.
And how do those spread? Over facebook.
I never assumed that was the highest cost. I assume that it's cheaper to build two rails than a tube that includes maglev and must be pressurized. But the biggest cost is actually a push -- land and rights of way. I assume that Musk's Boring company is designed to try to make that come out in the hyperloop's favor, but that seems like it's always a push as a train can go anywhere a hyperloop can. Not only that, because of g forces from turning, a train can go places a hyperloop cannot.
He talks about the cost of a ticket, and then later that it will soak up billions. Those are obvious R&D / construction costs. I have no idea which he thinks is too expensive, but my guess was both.
In the movie version of Dr. Strange, it's played for a joke that "the warnings come after the spells." I think you should put warnings before the link (or at least a warning that people should read the long warning), in the way people read text.
Not that I impulsively clicked on it without reading, but safety rules are designed to protect the most people. (See also, flammable vs. inflammable)
Dinosaurs went extinct in a mass extinction that had 70% of species dies off that almost ended all life on earth. ELEs are scary. And that happened, what, once in the history of earth. The dodo was massacred by humans.
But, yeah, say how non-plused you are. It definitely makes you sound mature/intelligent, and not like a idiot.
Because it's going to be more expensive than standard high-speed trains (rails are cheaper than tubes, existing tech is cheaper than new tech, no pressurization is cheaper than pressure systems that keep people alive.) And high-speed trains are already cost prohibitive.
I had ASR that worked perfectly on a desktop a decade ago. The new Pis have that much power, so they should be able to handle it locally.
Umm... what?
Xamarin always had a free tier (and as you pointed out, may have, but almost certainly didn't, infringe on Microsoft's IP.) I recall something about the free tier was so off-putting that I went partway through learning it, but didn't finish. Microsoft has fixed both those issues.
Ah, gotcha. You're not actually talking about anything currently happening, nor responding to my claim that it's Google/Facebook who are rent seeking. You've just constructed a slippery slope future you want to condemn.
If it had no ports at all, including wireless charging, I could give up the earphone jack for the waterproof nature of the device.
It's why Microsoft bought Xamarin, a cross-platform mobile environment, and made free. It's also why they have been helping Unity3D so much. They are trying to make developing for Windows on Mobile super cheap, to the point of one additional checkbox in the "Export to all platforms" dialogs.
Well, they are asking to be able to negotiate as a cartel. That is a change to regulations. But they claim it's appropriate because they are negotiating with a different cartel (FB/Google).
I'm not sure why that would be considered controversial. Certainly, without anti-trust laws it would have happened already. And they make the point that anti-trust laws aren't relevant to the current situation.
Consider it akin to buggy-whip operators asking for changes in regulations on buggy-whip safety as their industry moves from one necessary for safe travel (regulated for quality) to one that makes mostly movie props (far less regulation required.)
None of that is a citation for "Pushing to re-establish the Constitution is what the majority of people (read Not Politicians) want". What you just said is "here's a good case for why that would be good." But your claim was "people want X".
You then tried to blame the media for determining what people want, which is irrelevant to the question.
In fact, as those are profit-seeking entities, they may have pulled those points-of-view because they were unpopular. That's the whole problem with correlation - if there even is causation, which way does it go.
But I will say most people seem quite happy to sacrifice rights for protection from terrorists and drug dealers.
They also need to figure out how to prevent the summaries of their articles from being so detailed that people don't click on them.