It's not investing to get more money, but investing in better technologies. If electric cars become a reality because of it, then its well invested.
Like much of the government investment in private industry that was done during the Apollo program. Sure it was expensive, but the progress paid us all back several times over.
Had I gotten to the station and it was on the fritz?
AC apparently thinks that Tesla superchargers are single-stall locations.
I can't speak for Tesla's supercharger stations, but the first long trip I took in my Nissan Leaf, all the chargers at a station I stopped at were inoperative, because the station's power feed was inoperative. There were no good chargers out in the boonies other than that one, so I was stranded until I found a 120V AC outlet and recharged at a whole 5 miles range / hour -- after three hours I had just enough range to backtrack to another station.
That was my first, painful lesson about EV charging -- you can't treat it like an ICE vehicle, stopping somewhere to charge when you start getting low. You want to still have a lot of range left when you charge, because you can't guarantee that the station you actually want to charge at is operational.. or even has open charging stations, and running out of power is a hell of a lot harder to recover from than running out of gas is.
well, they can if they allow you to build more of the stuff you're selling faster... allows more money to flow in it's a balancing act between buying production stuff or materials, and selling the product
Yeah, and anyone who has even just watched Shark Tank knows that it's not an uncommon problem to require outside investment (or in this case to burn through already-accumulated cash) just to be able to ramp up inventory creation to meet the demand for the product that already exists.
Well the cashflow is negative, for sure, but it's a long term investment strategy. Headlines are getting more clickbait-reinforced by the day.
The difference is that cash flow is real, and long-term investment is hope. There are lots of companies that spend cash to "invest in the future" and that cash is gone when the hoped-for sales don't occur. Tesla has a leg-up on them, given it has deposits for future sales, but not all of those future sales will happen.
Typical liberal. Marginalized and discredit because they can't deal with facts and logic.
I'm not a liberal. I trend towards economically conservative more than liberal, though I'm certainly more centrist than you. I just recognize that statements like "police and firemen don't need taxes" and "taxation is theft" is super-hard-right cuckooland, really off in the weeds. There are a limited number of services that ought to be provided by the government, and taxes are the only stable revenue source we've found for that.
Why would I ever pay such a ludicrous sum for rent? My mortgage is a fifth of that.
We're talking about locations where salaries are high, but basic costs of living, like rent are also high. With a quick search the low end for a 2BR studio apartment in SF was around $3k/month. That's really the cost of living in the city, and that's why the salaries are higher.
Actually yes you do. Libertarians and hard-right Republicans and Randroids love to believe they are a man alone, solely responsible for the things that have happened in his life, completely disregarding the infrastructure of the rest of society that makes peaceful pursuit of wealth possible in the first place. It leads to idiot statements like "taxation is theft." If you don't want to interact with society, then sell all your possessions and move to some abandoned island all alone, if you can find one. Until then, you're part of society, and no you don't get to benefit from it without paying out to it.
And a fun fact, we had fire and police before taxation. Learn2history
The horror that is Sweden is why millions of Swedes are flooding into the MidEast and Africa, seeking asylum and a better life, Almost as many Swedes, per capita, are fleeing hell holes like America, seeing a better life for themselves and their families under the paradise in earth that is Saudi and Iranian rule.
People fleeing from the MidEast to Sweden has very little to do with social services in each area or vice versa.
Nope, I live in a solid left state where property taxes on a house valued at $175k can be close to 12,000/year.
Holy smokes, those are some crazy property taxes. Mine are about $20k/year, but that's on a house valued at about $700k, in the heart of blue-state hippie country.
Yet those red states have Democrats running their cities (into ruin).
Funny, when your party is vocally, publicly about shifting wealth from the poor and middle class to the upper class, strangely those who are destitute tend to vote for the other guy instead. How strange.
Steve Jobs taking credit for Toy Story even though he had nothing to do with project than own the company. The animators should have presented at SIGGRAPH.
The only awards shows that animators present at are The Annies. Steve's job (heh) at the time was to talk up Pixar, especially to a trade show audience, and back then no one was better. It was a speech not just about the achievement of Toy Story, but a prediction of the future of animation. This wasn't just a regular speech, it was the keynote presentation at the show -- naturally the executive producer and owner is going to speak.
How old were you when you realized that Java and JavaScript are bad languages?
Java and Javascript are nothing alike. Java actually had a good name when it was released, so Netscape gave their scripting language the name Javascript for purely marketing reasons.
This is technology for which every "hey, if only I could do this" there will be dozens of examples of it being abused.
Got it, so software should only be written in a language that can't be be abused. What language is that?
Well, I know that maybe it didn't -really- end up fulfilling this promise for a variety of reasons, but this was one of the primary original selling points for Java.
If some shady web app requires every possible permission and you grant them all, then you deserve what you get
Well, most people will "deserve what they get" and thus computers and web apps will be failures for not meeting the needs of most people, because that is what most people will do. They'll click the 'yes' because they just want to run their programs, not argue with some computer sec guy about the wisdom of what they might do.
If you flit from job to job, you can only do that so many times before hiring managers and employees at the companies you're interviewing at catch on. It's a big red flag, and a good reason to trash a resume without ever inviting that person to an interview. We have no interest in putting a lot of training time and ramp-up time for someone uninterested in staying, so that's an easy way to separate the wheat from the chaff.
These days you also can't call former employers to figure out if someone was fired. Unless they committed a felony, most employers are too afraid of getting sued to badmouth someone, so they give either lukewarm endorsements, "this guy was brilliant!" endorsements, or refuse to say.
Would be certainly stronger than Clinton because "haven't done anything illegal or corrupt".
I think I would need standards higher than that.:-(
Give it a second thought and keep your fap folder private.
Unfortunately I was young, naive, and stupid in my college days, and when you post to Internet Usenet newsgroups, it's forever. A decent investigative journalist could fairly easily link my RL name with online aliases and then find fun dirt. I've left a lot of that behind and covered my tracks well enough to deter co-workers doing casual Internet searches, but that lets me have a normal life, not one in a very high profile spotlight, which is how I somewhat prefer it anyway.
Mmmm, I'm not on solid ground either. I haven't done anything illegal or corrupt, but most people wouldn't like my porn history, and sadly for a vast majority, that sort of thing really matters.
I understand the excuses for it. It was in reality passed for political purposes, not for any higher philosophy
Many of them hated rulings coming down from England. Their political philosophy was crafted from their lifetime experience of not wanting to be a colony any longer. After that, folks not in the northeast weren't too thrilled in the idea of the same thing happening with Philidephia or DC.
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It's not investing to get more money, but investing in better technologies. If electric cars become a reality because of it, then its well invested.
Like much of the government investment in private industry that was done during the Apollo program. Sure it was expensive, but the progress paid us all back several times over.
AC apparently thinks that Tesla superchargers are single-stall locations.
I can't speak for Tesla's supercharger stations, but the first long trip I took in my Nissan Leaf, all the chargers at a station I stopped at were inoperative, because the station's power feed was inoperative. There were no good chargers out in the boonies other than that one, so I was stranded until I found a 120V AC outlet and recharged at a whole 5 miles range / hour -- after three hours I had just enough range to backtrack to another station.
That was my first, painful lesson about EV charging -- you can't treat it like an ICE vehicle, stopping somewhere to charge when you start getting low. You want to still have a lot of range left when you charge, because you can't guarantee that the station you actually want to charge at is operational.. or even has open charging stations, and running out of power is a hell of a lot harder to recover from than running out of gas is.
well, they can if they allow you to build more of the stuff you're selling faster... allows more money to flow in
it's a balancing act between buying production stuff or materials, and selling the product
Yeah, and anyone who has even just watched Shark Tank knows that it's not an uncommon problem to require outside investment (or in this case to burn through already-accumulated cash) just to be able to ramp up inventory creation to meet the demand for the product that already exists.
Well the cashflow is negative, for sure, but it's a long term investment strategy. Headlines are getting more clickbait-reinforced by the day.
The difference is that cash flow is real, and long-term investment is hope. There are lots of companies that spend cash to "invest in the future" and that cash is gone when the hoped-for sales don't occur. Tesla has a leg-up on them, given it has deposits for future sales, but not all of those future sales will happen.
But now who will SNL use as part of their skits with Trump? Just Bannon gets boring.
I was sad that Sean Spicer left the administration, but mostly because I loved Melissa McCarthy's Spicer character.
Typical liberal. Marginalized and discredit because they can't deal with facts and logic.
I'm not a liberal. I trend towards economically conservative more than liberal, though I'm certainly more centrist than you.
I just recognize that statements like "police and firemen don't need taxes" and "taxation is theft" is super-hard-right cuckooland, really off in the weeds. There are a limited number of services that ought to be provided by the government, and taxes are the only stable revenue source we've found for that.
"Then consider 5-6k a month rent."
Why would I ever pay such a ludicrous sum for rent? My mortgage is a fifth of that.
We're talking about locations where salaries are high, but basic costs of living, like rent are also high. With a quick search the low end for a 2BR studio apartment in SF was around $3k/month. That's really the cost of living in the city, and that's why the salaries are higher.
Actually no I don't.
Actually yes you do. Libertarians and hard-right Republicans and Randroids love to believe they are a man alone, solely responsible for the things that have happened in his life, completely disregarding the infrastructure of the rest of society that makes peaceful pursuit of wealth possible in the first place. It leads to idiot statements like "taxation is theft." If you don't want to interact with society, then sell all your possessions and move to some abandoned island all alone, if you can find one. Until then, you're part of society, and no you don't get to benefit from it without paying out to it.
And a fun fact, we had fire and police before taxation. Learn2history
I'm not sure you really want to play that game.
The horror that is Sweden is why millions of Swedes are flooding into the MidEast and Africa, seeking asylum and a better life, Almost as many Swedes, per capita, are fleeing hell holes like America, seeing a better life for themselves and their families under the paradise in earth that is Saudi and Iranian rule.
People fleeing from the MidEast to Sweden has very little to do with social services in each area or vice versa.
Nope, I live in a solid left state where property taxes on a house valued at $175k can be close to 12,000/year.
Holy smokes, those are some crazy property taxes. Mine are about $20k/year, but that's on a house valued at about $700k, in the heart of blue-state hippie country.
Yet those red states have Democrats running their cities (into ruin).
Funny, when your party is vocally, publicly about shifting wealth from the poor and middle class to the upper class, strangely those who are destitute tend to vote for the other guy instead. How strange.
Up until Toy Story, Pixar made its money from licensing Renderman
Renderman sales weren't quite that big. What kept Pixar afloat were TV commercials for companies like Listerine and Life Savers candy.
Steve Jobs taking credit for Toy Story even though he had nothing to do with project than own the company. The animators should have presented at SIGGRAPH.
The only awards shows that animators present at are The Annies. Steve's job (heh) at the time was to talk up Pixar, especially to a trade show audience, and back then no one was better. It was a speech not just about the achievement of Toy Story, but a prediction of the future of animation. This wasn't just a regular speech, it was the keynote presentation at the show -- naturally the executive producer and owner is going to speak.
How old were you when you realized that Java and JavaScript are bad languages?
Java and Javascript are nothing alike. Java actually had a good name when it was released, so Netscape gave their scripting language the name Javascript for purely marketing reasons.
So much of the web IS broken if you run something like, say, NoScript, that having something that doesn't break is a novelty now.
This is technology for which every "hey, if only I could do this" there will be dozens of examples of it being abused.
Got it, so software should only be written in a language that can't be be abused. What language is that?
Well, I know that maybe it didn't -really- end up fulfilling this promise for a variety of reasons, but this was one of the primary original selling points for Java.
I'm very sorry, truly I am, but there are usually five other people ready, willing, and "able"* to take your place. Such is the nature of IT.
* "Able" having multiple meanings -- if the other person isn't crazy expensive and can do at least a half-assed job, that usually suffices.
Currently, users understand web sites as ephemeral, as any services they provide can disappear at any time...
Bless your dear sweet little heart.
Users who doing understand that are sweet summer children, but they're shortly disproven of their naivete.
If some shady web app requires every possible permission and you grant them all, then you deserve what you get
Well, most people will "deserve what they get" and thus computers and web apps will be failures for not meeting the needs of most people, because that is what most people will do. They'll click the 'yes' because they just want to run their programs, not argue with some computer sec guy about the wisdom of what they might do.
We ought to be following best-practices, saying "No" more often to marketing, vendors, pr, sales
They're the ones who get to say 'no' and show you the door, because they're the ones who pony up the money that it takes to do anything.
Referring to your employees or potential employees as "wheat and chaff"
I'm not referring to the people as wheat and chaff, just the resumes. Which ones should be saved for a more careful look.
If you flit from job to job, you can only do that so many times before hiring managers and employees at the companies you're interviewing at catch on. It's a big red flag, and a good reason to trash a resume without ever inviting that person to an interview. We have no interest in putting a lot of training time and ramp-up time for someone uninterested in staying, so that's an easy way to separate the wheat from the chaff.
These days you also can't call former employers to figure out if someone was fired. Unless they committed a felony, most employers are too afraid of getting sued to badmouth someone, so they give either lukewarm endorsements, "this guy was brilliant!" endorsements, or refuse to say.
Would be certainly stronger than Clinton because "haven't done anything illegal or corrupt".
I think I would need standards higher than that. :-(
Give it a second thought and keep your fap folder private.
Unfortunately I was young, naive, and stupid in my college days, and when you post to Internet Usenet newsgroups, it's forever. A decent investigative journalist could fairly easily link my RL name with online aliases and then find fun dirt. I've left a lot of that behind and covered my tracks well enough to deter co-workers doing casual Internet searches, but that lets me have a normal life, not one in a very high profile spotlight, which is how I somewhat prefer it anyway.
Then run for office if you are any better.
Mmmm, I'm not on solid ground either.
I haven't done anything illegal or corrupt, but most people wouldn't like my porn history, and sadly for a vast majority, that sort of thing really matters.
I understand the excuses for it. It was in reality passed for political purposes, not for any higher philosophy
Many of them hated rulings coming down from England. Their political philosophy was crafted from their lifetime experience of not wanting to be a colony any longer. After that, folks not in the northeast weren't too thrilled in the idea of the same thing happening with Philidephia or DC.