80 fill-ups per hour is (I believe) fairly high for a typical gas station.
It's very, very low for a major highway rest-stop though. The ones along the NJTP have 20+ pumps and often a line...since it's illegal to pump your own gas in NJ.
Home charging does alleviate a lot of that demand (but where will people buy overpriced chips and candy?) and I don't think most people have quite worked out that logic yet. Assuming you don't take long road trips, you may NEVER go to a 'gas' station to fill up your EV. The typical car usage is still ~33mi/day which you could replenish from a boring 120v 15a outlet in ~10 hours...and less than one hour with the standard home EV charger.
You can fast-charge to about 80% for one - and not in the theoretical 'we did it in the lab' but in the actual 'pull into a supercharger stall and it happens' kind of way. Battery life is something Tesla very, VERY carefully tracks and... guess what? The packs are quite durable.
Heat management is also built into the packs since the peak power *output* is greater (though not sustained) than the supercharger input...oh, and they have to do thermal management from below freezing to over 100 degrees anyway.
And to wrap it up, no one is saying EVs are charging at parity with ICE. We aren't there yet...hence the point of TFA about rest stops so people can make use of the 30-60 minutes of down time.
It's all relative to the particular test, grouping, and similar.
Brightest ever tested...until they test something else that's brighter that they hadn't tested yet. Kind of like how the remote is always found in the last place you look.
Most durable glass ever. For an iphone. Or for a 5+ inch phone. Or for a given thickness, on a phone, in the US, sold for $999 and waterproof from everything but Steve Jobs' tears.
Anyone who takes what review sites post at surface value is an idiot. They might as well buy the toothbrush that 4 of 5 dentists recommend.
Pretty sure this came up in a year when Nokia took a massive write-off or something.
Agreed, smaller players are not taking year-on-year losses and staying in the game. It's just more nonsense click-bait headlines that turned into "truth" once again.
What constitutes personal data? Any information related to a natural person or ‘Data Subject’, that can be used to directly or indirectly identify the person. It can be anything from a name, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer IP address. Source: http://www.eugdpr.org/gdpr-faq...
Internet Content Filtering is not, at all, the same thing as key logging/monitoring social media posts, etc.
As someone who ALSO works in a heavily regulated, international company with several offices in the EU, I can absolutely say that laws regarding data privacy apply and cannot be signed away in virtually any case. We have the typical american "we will watch/read/etc. anything, anytime, for any (or no) reason whatsoever" for our US staff but EU staff are exempted from the whole thing. Heck, I remember jumping through hoops for explicit per-use permission to access in boxes to help users clean up when they went over quota. Permission from the employee - not HR, not legal, not my boss, not the CTO but the individual employee and no one else could agree on their behalf.
If $1000 in electricity (and some depreciation of the hardware) makes a $7000 bitcoin ($6000 profit) plus heating your house, I'd argue that it's more efficient than spending $250 for the same heating with a heat pump.
If the expenditure of electricity is making me significant money I'd argue that it's most certainly not being wasted.
In theory sure. In reality Amtrak Accela is not that much faster than a 'normal' express train.
Poorly managed stops and all kinds of rail conditions that limit top speeds are the much greater issue.
Heck, I used to commute ~35-40 miles by train and took an express where i was the last stop before the final destination. Total time was 59 minutes barring any 'unforseen' problems which happened about weekly.
Air travel is a bad example, I'm more concerned that conventional high-speed rail would be a better investment.
People use airtravel as an 'example' because the side of the plane always explodes when someone a gun through it...in the movies.
Also, cars are unsafe because they spontaneously explode in a huge fireball after being shot once or immediately after coming to rest after falling off a cliff. (or never explode when shot if used for a car chase)
Nah...who you quoted doesn't understand that you design pressure vessels differently depending on which way the gradient goes.
There's some great videos (including mythbusters showing an 'imploding' liquid railway car) but they're all based on things NOT DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND OUTSIDE PRESSURE. That rail car implodes spectacularly (after being subject to a strong vacuum and having a huge concrete block dropped on it) but it was never designed for that in the first place.
Yes, if you can get some spectacular failure modes if you try, but in reality a properly designed pressure vessel will handle a crack (or bullet hole) just fine.
I've seen figures quoting something like 3/4" steel... which is plenty sufficient to withstand a measly 1ATM or 15PSI
To play devil's advocate, a class action lawsuit can turn an otherwise unintended and insignificant error into a company-breaking settlement.
I think binding arb clauses are horrible for consumers and, frankly, should be unconstitutional. I also think our tort system needs huge reform but that's a separate, if related, issue.
When will millennials have time to clean up the world when they're too busy building 'safe spaces' to go cry in over some imagined psychological condition that entitles them to be excepted for doing anything either inconvenient, hard, not to their immediate liking at the moment of engagement in said activity?
I'm pretty sure Trump got a large chunk of his votes because "not politician" is generally less evil than "career politician".
Right or wrong, much of the US is disaffected by the current political climate. TBH, the people who SHOULD be running the show and the ones who would never, ever run for office.
IIRC SpaceX is in fact planning 30 launches next year. I can't find a clear citation at the moment, but I think Gwynne Shotwell said as much in a recent speech somewhere.
And among those 30-odd missions there will be some significant milestones: 1. First Falcon Heavy flight; 2. First Dragon-2 flight; 3. First crewed flight; and (possibly) a tourist fly-by around the moon. They will probably also refly some "flight-proven" boosters for the third or fourth time next year, as well as demonstrating fast turnaround (say, within 48hrs) of a reflown booster.
It'll be a lot of fun to watch all that happening.
But don't forget...SpaceX is about to go bust. All these launches and hardware and tech and plans are centuries behind schedule and trillions over budget and can't possibly fly because physics. Also Musk will shortly give birth to the devil and take his place in hades where he will continue to manipulate the world via conspiring banks that no one has ever heard of./sarcasm
I'm sure next year will be quite amazing just as i'm sure there will be more hiccups to go with. End of the day...of the few companies/governments doing similar, no one is doing so with such flair.
Actually, having and enforcing rules instead of literally hiring babysitters for adults to 'remind' them not to do things they already know are wrong...is pretty stupid IMHO.
Most of the people reading this thread know that Apple is hugely secretive about unreleased products despite not (likely) ever having worked for Apple. Someone who DID work for them couldn't possibly have been unaware...and having babysitters is ridiculous. Sucks he got fired and all, but it's also not unexpected.
An at-will state allows for termination for no reason at all. You just can't terminate "BECAUSE UNION" specifically but you can surely terminate because, because. It's upon the individual to prove discrimination at that point.
Furthermore, it's pretty damn easy to give someone a poor performance review and terminate them on the spot unless you have specific policies in place for remediation. Since generally at least some aspects of reviews are subjective, there's little stopping an employer from marking those in the red and letting you go.
'Isn't agreeable with direction from management' is a nice one. Since you're going to disagree with management on your review, it's a handy circular argument that's nearly impossible to win.
Unions are the antipathy of companies like Tesla. While they were hugely beneficial before communication allowed large groups to discuss and share, they're much less useful these days and much more harmful. I know plenty of union workers and even they crack jokes about the ridiculous rules, benefits, and stupidity they deal with. Unions make workers focus on (often) inane rules and not on productivity or achievement.
TBH, I think this whole thing is a huge ploy by the UAW. They had their shills in the factories spending lots of time shilling for the union instead of doing their jobs. The UAW knew this, accepted it, and probably did/will compensate these folks "because helping abused auto workers it the right thing to do." They stir up lots of anger and debate over generally false pretenses, get the place unionized, and they back to (crappy) business as usual.
Tesla, if they're smart, will state from the beginning they will not prevent employees from unionizing, but will also not accept a single union demand...so they only thing joining will get is another nick in your paycheck.
The overall weed population develops resistance - which is what everyone already understands from TFA.
You're post is pedantic at best and probably qualifies as 'mansplaining' as much as I loathe the word. Particularly so since these are scientists talking about the topic. I'd suggest their language is considered the most appropriate and accurate since its...their freaking job. So unless you're also a weed scientist I suggest you stop trying to 'correct' those who DO know what's up.
Next up, why not tell us how this is a form of natural selection and introduce us to the works of Darwin, eh?
They are no great benefit to mankind. That's just bogus corporate propaganda.
Most GMO crops are fodder for junk food.
Yeah, like cotton and soybeans (from TFA)? Your post is bogus propaganda.
GMOs allow much higher productivity from farmers which is not inconsequential given the world population. Granted, the overuse of pesticides, herbicides, and similar is quickly showing it's impact in the form of resistant strains (and killing bees, etc.). The issue we face is Monsanto seems to have such utter control over virtually all aspects of it's industry including approvals in areas like environmental impact, safety, etc. that problems are quickly surfacing in those areas.
The idea of 'organic food' for everyone is nonsense. First, because much organic food differs very little from 'normal' food since there's no real standards to apply and second, because we'd face food shortages if we tried to go backwards to broad use of inefficient farming methods.
A fingerprint reader takes room for Apple because they planned on having it integrated with the screen. WHen they couldn't...the back was likely already formed and committed. Samsung had this strange idea of moving the fingerprint reader to the back (where, TBH, it is FAR more convenient) and it seems to work out just fine for them.
Apple may be obsessed with screen size but they have a ridiculous notch cut out of theirs...so you lose the full-screen experience anyhow.
...because apparently this is a stupid, targeted law to "do something" because a politician is bored or someone's idiot child got hit crossing the street because they weren't looking.
Hint: there's an unlimited number of distractions in life. This doesn't address the actual problem that people are easily... oh look, shiny....
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80 fill-ups per hour is (I believe) fairly high for a typical gas station.
It's very, very low for a major highway rest-stop though. The ones along the NJTP have 20+ pumps and often a line...since it's illegal to pump your own gas in NJ.
Home charging does alleviate a lot of that demand (but where will people buy overpriced chips and candy?) and I don't think most people have quite worked out that logic yet. Assuming you don't take long road trips, you may NEVER go to a 'gas' station to fill up your EV. The typical car usage is still ~33mi/day which you could replenish from a boring 120v 15a outlet in ~10 hours...and less than one hour with the standard home EV charger.
2007 called and they want their predictions back.
You can fast-charge to about 80% for one - and not in the theoretical 'we did it in the lab' but in the actual 'pull into a supercharger stall and it happens' kind of way. Battery life is something Tesla very, VERY carefully tracks and ... guess what? The packs are quite durable.
Heat management is also built into the packs since the peak power *output* is greater (though not sustained) than the supercharger input...oh, and they have to do thermal management from below freezing to over 100 degrees anyway.
And to wrap it up, no one is saying EVs are charging at parity with ICE. We aren't there yet...hence the point of TFA about rest stops so people can make use of the 30-60 minutes of down time.
But assuming the cost (in actual $) per credit towards buying these characters hasn't changed, then they've become 75% less expensive to buy outright.
It's all relative to the particular test, grouping, and similar.
Brightest ever tested...until they test something else that's brighter that they hadn't tested yet. Kind of like how the remote is always found in the last place you look.
Most durable glass ever. For an iphone. Or for a 5+ inch phone. Or for a given thickness, on a phone, in the US, sold for $999 and waterproof from everything but Steve Jobs' tears.
Anyone who takes what review sites post at surface value is an idiot. They might as well buy the toothbrush that 4 of 5 dentists recommend.
All pixels matter. Think of what your screen would look like if you removed even one color.
Pretty sure this came up in a year when Nokia took a massive write-off or something.
Agreed, smaller players are not taking year-on-year losses and staying in the game. It's just more nonsense click-bait headlines that turned into "truth" once again.
With GDPR, most things are off-limits:
What constitutes personal data?
Any information related to a natural person or ‘Data Subject’, that can be used to directly or indirectly identify the person. It can be anything from a name, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer IP address.
Source: http://www.eugdpr.org/gdpr-faq...
Internet Content Filtering is not, at all, the same thing as key logging/monitoring social media posts, etc.
As someone who ALSO works in a heavily regulated, international company with several offices in the EU, I can absolutely say that laws regarding data privacy apply and cannot be signed away in virtually any case. We have the typical american "we will watch/read/etc. anything, anytime, for any (or no) reason whatsoever" for our US staff but EU staff are exempted from the whole thing. Heck, I remember jumping through hoops for explicit per-use permission to access in boxes to help users clean up when they went over quota. Permission from the employee - not HR, not legal, not my boss, not the CTO but the individual employee and no one else could agree on their behalf.
If $1000 in electricity (and some depreciation of the hardware) makes a $7000 bitcoin ($6000 profit) plus heating your house, I'd argue that it's more efficient than spending $250 for the same heating with a heat pump.
If the expenditure of electricity is making me significant money I'd argue that it's most certainly not being wasted.
In theory sure. In reality Amtrak Accela is not that much faster than a 'normal' express train.
Poorly managed stops and all kinds of rail conditions that limit top speeds are the much greater issue.
Heck, I used to commute ~35-40 miles by train and took an express where i was the last stop before the final destination. Total time was 59 minutes barring any 'unforseen' problems which happened about weekly.
airplanes
Air travel is a bad example, I'm more concerned that conventional high-speed rail would be a better investment.
People use airtravel as an 'example' because the side of the plane always explodes when someone a gun through it...in the movies.
Also, cars are unsafe because they spontaneously explode in a huge fireball after being shot once or immediately after coming to rest after falling off a cliff. (or never explode when shot if used for a car chase)
Nah...who you quoted doesn't understand that you design pressure vessels differently depending on which way the gradient goes.
There's some great videos (including mythbusters showing an 'imploding' liquid railway car) but they're all based on things NOT DESIGNED TO WITHSTAND OUTSIDE PRESSURE. That rail car implodes spectacularly (after being subject to a strong vacuum and having a huge concrete block dropped on it) but it was never designed for that in the first place.
Yes, if you can get some spectacular failure modes if you try, but in reality a properly designed pressure vessel will handle a crack (or bullet hole) just fine.
I've seen figures quoting something like 3/4" steel ... which is plenty sufficient to withstand a measly 1ATM or 15PSI
To play devil's advocate, a class action lawsuit can turn an otherwise unintended and insignificant error into a company-breaking settlement.
I think binding arb clauses are horrible for consumers and, frankly, should be unconstitutional. I also think our tort system needs huge reform but that's a separate, if related, issue.
When will millennials have time to clean up the world when they're too busy building 'safe spaces' to go cry in over some imagined psychological condition that entitles them to be excepted for doing anything either inconvenient, hard, not to their immediate liking at the moment of engagement in said activity?
I'm pretty sure Trump got a large chunk of his votes because "not politician" is generally less evil than "career politician".
Right or wrong, much of the US is disaffected by the current political climate. TBH, the people who SHOULD be running the show and the ones who would never, ever run for office.
IIRC SpaceX is in fact planning 30 launches next year. I can't find a clear citation at the moment, but I think Gwynne Shotwell said as much in a recent speech somewhere.
And among those 30-odd missions there will be some significant milestones: 1. First Falcon Heavy flight; 2. First Dragon-2 flight; 3. First crewed flight; and (possibly) a tourist fly-by around the moon. They will probably also refly some "flight-proven" boosters for the third or fourth time next year, as well as demonstrating fast turnaround (say, within 48hrs) of a reflown booster.
It'll be a lot of fun to watch all that happening.
But don't forget...SpaceX is about to go bust. All these launches and hardware and tech and plans are centuries behind schedule and trillions over budget and can't possibly fly because physics. Also Musk will shortly give birth to the devil and take his place in hades where he will continue to manipulate the world via conspiring banks that no one has ever heard of. /sarcasm
I'm sure next year will be quite amazing just as i'm sure there will be more hiccups to go with. End of the day...of the few companies/governments doing similar, no one is doing so with such flair.
Actually, having and enforcing rules instead of literally hiring babysitters for adults to 'remind' them not to do things they already know are wrong...is pretty stupid IMHO.
Most of the people reading this thread know that Apple is hugely secretive about unreleased products despite not (likely) ever having worked for Apple. Someone who DID work for them couldn't possibly have been unaware...and having babysitters is ridiculous. Sucks he got fired and all, but it's also not unexpected.
Actually no.
An at-will state allows for termination for no reason at all. You just can't terminate "BECAUSE UNION" specifically but you can surely terminate because, because. It's upon the individual to prove discrimination at that point.
Furthermore, it's pretty damn easy to give someone a poor performance review and terminate them on the spot unless you have specific policies in place for remediation. Since generally at least some aspects of reviews are subjective, there's little stopping an employer from marking those in the red and letting you go.
'Isn't agreeable with direction from management' is a nice one. Since you're going to disagree with management on your review, it's a handy circular argument that's nearly impossible to win.
Unions are the antipathy of companies like Tesla. While they were hugely beneficial before communication allowed large groups to discuss and share, they're much less useful these days and much more harmful. I know plenty of union workers and even they crack jokes about the ridiculous rules, benefits, and stupidity they deal with. Unions make workers focus on (often) inane rules and not on productivity or achievement.
TBH, I think this whole thing is a huge ploy by the UAW. They had their shills in the factories spending lots of time shilling for the union instead of doing their jobs. The UAW knew this, accepted it, and probably did/will compensate these folks "because helping abused auto workers it the right thing to do." They stir up lots of anger and debate over generally false pretenses, get the place unionized, and they back to (crappy) business as usual.
Tesla, if they're smart, will state from the beginning they will not prevent employees from unionizing, but will also not accept a single union demand...so they only thing joining will get is another nick in your paycheck.
The overall weed population develops resistance - which is what everyone already understands from TFA.
You're post is pedantic at best and probably qualifies as 'mansplaining' as much as I loathe the word. Particularly so since these are scientists talking about the topic. I'd suggest their language is considered the most appropriate and accurate since its...their freaking job. So unless you're also a weed scientist I suggest you stop trying to 'correct' those who DO know what's up.
Next up, why not tell us how this is a form of natural selection and introduce us to the works of Darwin, eh?
Now can we make fun of all the vegans too?
Soy this and soy that...ugh, where's my steak? There's no weeds growing in there!
Generally, GMOs only make your Twinkies cheaper.
They are no great benefit to mankind. That's just bogus corporate propaganda.
Most GMO crops are fodder for junk food.
Yeah, like cotton and soybeans (from TFA)? Your post is bogus propaganda.
GMOs allow much higher productivity from farmers which is not inconsequential given the world population. Granted, the overuse of pesticides, herbicides, and similar is quickly showing it's impact in the form of resistant strains (and killing bees, etc.). The issue we face is Monsanto seems to have such utter control over virtually all aspects of it's industry including approvals in areas like environmental impact, safety, etc. that problems are quickly surfacing in those areas.
The idea of 'organic food' for everyone is nonsense. First, because much organic food differs very little from 'normal' food since there's no real standards to apply and second, because we'd face food shortages if we tried to go backwards to broad use of inefficient farming methods.
A fingerprint reader takes room for Apple because they planned on having it integrated with the screen. WHen they couldn't...the back was likely already formed and committed. Samsung had this strange idea of moving the fingerprint reader to the back (where, TBH, it is FAR more convenient) and it seems to work out just fine for them.
Apple may be obsessed with screen size but they have a ridiculous notch cut out of theirs...so you lose the full-screen experience anyhow.
Well those laws aren't working obviously...and what does a politician do when a law isn't working? Why you just make another one!!!
...because apparently this is a stupid, targeted law to "do something" because a politician is bored or someone's idiot child got hit crossing the street because they weren't looking.
Hint: there's an unlimited number of distractions in life. This doesn't address the actual problem that people are easily ... oh look, shiny....