Why don't you share how horrible a 0.04% launch failure rate is.
Let me help, that's 1 failure every 2500 launches. If there were 5 people on board and they launched 100 rockets per year that would mean an average of 1/5th of a death per year.
And that statistic doesn't take into account the crew capsule escape mechanism.
About 2 million people a year die in the US.
Go see how many astronauts have died in car accidents. None in a Tesla, so far.
The report says you might need to drive autonomous vehicles 100's of millions of miles to have statistically valid conclusions. You sat "it is statistically impossible". At last report Tesla's were approaching 140 million miles.
You confuse whether you can show conclusive results due to sample size with whether something is or is not safer.
Tesla will likely have over 1 million vehicles on the road in the next 5 years and will be generating billions of miles per year. The sample size will be large enough to come to statistically valid conclusions.
But before I had the UPS I had regular power outages at my OCONUS location and it has rebooted fine every time. Current uptime 110 days with about 4TB of I/O through it. All on a cheap 10W box that cost $120 + a SODIMM and mSATA card. Pairs with another identical box in the US for a full house always on VPN so I can bypass all the geo restrictions.
Americans farm out a lot of stuff, ranging from making our clothes to picking our tomatoes.
It has nothing to do with Americans not knowing how to do something but rather Americans aren't really interesting in sewing shirts in a sweatshop or picking tomatoes in the hot sun. So we hire people who are willing to do those things.
Not really any different than my hiring my maid to clean my house for $3/hr so I can do something more enjoyable.
Not sure if this will affect Trump's resorts flying in seasonal workers from Romania because not enough American's apply to their 3-day ads in small local papers.
If this is the "standard operating procedure for everyone" why in my 50+ trips across the borders of Canada, Australia and the United States have I never had my texts, emails or social media examined? In fact I've never had that experience at the border of any country.
Strawman. Haven't seen anyone, much less some imaginary group you refer to as "the left", who has suggested bringing "anyone and everyone" into the United States.
Would you mind quantifying the risk we face from terrorism in the United States so we can see how serious the "concerns of the people" should be taken?
I think the CDC publishes a list of causes of death. Give me an idea what sort of risk we face, is it like the risk of being eaten by an alligator or the risk of getting pancreatic cancer?
I have had a few dozen PayPal accounts over the years, a few that were placed in forever limbo-land by PayPal and I'm sure are still counted though they can never be used.
I can't remember the last time I bothered using PayPal, they make life more difficult and provide zero advantages for the risk they'll put my money in 180 day purgatory for reasons they won't discuss. I prefer dealing with banks, at least until the current Congress succeeds in rolling back consumer protections.
Free as in "Here's $3B in free money Elon, have a party or buy a yacht or do whatever you want with it" or was it free like "Here is $3B Elon, please build the following rockets so we can use them instead of expensive Russian rockets"?
You and I likey disagree as to what constitutes "free money".
Many graphics cards can drive 3 4k monitors, including those using the NVIDIA 1080 GPU
If you were really asking how many can do it for gaming to your personal satisfaction, that's an entirely different question.
To explain how you can fit one inside a laptop, buy one of the several laptops on the market that have teh NVIDIA 1080 GPU inside, tear them apart and you'll see how they fit them inside.
The only limitation to getting autonomous vehicles on the road by 2021 are legal/regulatory issues.
Those "parlour tricks" do a pretty good job of driving already, another 4 years of machine learning and I think they'll do a stupendous job.
On the other hand, my Aunt Mildred will be an even worse driver in 4 years and my nephew Luke will probably still think he's a great driver but all the tickets he's gotten tell me a different story. I look forward to both of them not being behind a wheel in 4 years.
The expected lifetime of a battery is not 10 years, the battery has a warranty for 10 years but just like a car with a warranty of 3 years that doesn't mean the car is expected to only last 3 years.
The worst thing my TV can do if hacked is stop working completely and forever.
If you don't want to use your WiFi features in your TV or your fridge then simply don't enable the WiFi. Problem solved.
The mass attacks on IoT devices has been against devices that can be directly addressed from the Internet, not devices that are sitting behind a firewall.
I can also freeze to death if my dumb furnace stops working. I don't fear that either, not because it couldn't happen but because I understand that if a furnace stops working I need to call someone to repair it and find a warm place to stay if my house gets too cold.
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Why don't you share how horrible a 0.04% launch failure rate is.
Let me help, that's 1 failure every 2500 launches. If there were 5 people on board and they launched 100 rockets per year that would mean an average of 1/5th of a death per year.
And that statistic doesn't take into account the crew capsule escape mechanism.
About 2 million people a year die in the US.
Go see how many astronauts have died in car accidents. None in a Tesla, so far.
It's always a delight to see ULA shills here.
Let us know how reliable ULA's new rocket will be, once they actually have one they can launch.
The report says you might need to drive autonomous vehicles 100's of millions of miles to have statistically valid conclusions. You sat "it is statistically impossible". At last report Tesla's were approaching 140 million miles.
You confuse whether you can show conclusive results due to sample size with whether something is or is not safer.
Tesla will likely have over 1 million vehicles on the road in the next 5 years and will be generating billions of miles per year. The sample size will be large enough to come to statistically valid conclusions.
I solve loss of power issues with a UPS.
But before I had the UPS I had regular power outages at my OCONUS location and it has rebooted fine every time. Current uptime 110 days with about 4TB of I/O through it. All on a cheap 10W box that cost $120 + a SODIMM and mSATA card. Pairs with another identical box in the US for a full house always on VPN so I can bypass all the geo restrictions.
Stick my AP and everything else behind it.
Easy to use, easy to manage.
Wow, comparing a short lived lithium ion battery fire to Chernobyl, a nuclear wasteland for the next 100+ years.
Where do you get your alternate facts from?
Size and weight do matter. As well as the cost to maintain the batteries, self-discharge rate, charge rate, discharge rate and efficiency.
There really is a reason Nickel-Iron batteries are niche products and it isn't because smart people in the field don't know about them.
You are mistaken, Tesla and SpaceX both employee people here in the US who are not American citizens.
The fun part is Trump and the Democrat will likely support this measure and the Republicans in Congress will oppose it.
Should make for an interesting show.
Americans farm out a lot of stuff, ranging from making our clothes to picking our tomatoes.
It has nothing to do with Americans not knowing how to do something but rather Americans aren't really interesting in sewing shirts in a sweatshop or picking tomatoes in the hot sun. So we hire people who are willing to do those things.
Not really any different than my hiring my maid to clean my house for $3/hr so I can do something more enjoyable.
This has nothing to do with Permanent Residents, they aren't here on H-1B visas
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Not sure if this will affect Trump's resorts flying in seasonal workers from Romania because not enough American's apply to their 3-day ads in small local papers.
Is stop buying consumer grade WiFi routers that are poorly supported and get a plain access point and stick it behind a real router.
If this is the "standard operating procedure for everyone" why in my 50+ trips across the borders of Canada, Australia and the United States have I never had my texts, emails or social media examined? In fact I've never had that experience at the border of any country.
Strawman. Haven't seen anyone, much less some imaginary group you refer to as "the left", who has suggested bringing "anyone and everyone" into the United States.
Would you mind quantifying the risk we face from terrorism in the United States so we can see how serious the "concerns of the people" should be taken?
I think the CDC publishes a list of causes of death. Give me an idea what sort of risk we face, is it like the risk of being eaten by an alligator or the risk of getting pancreatic cancer?
I stopped using their service many years ago.
Why have I had many accounts? I must be a criminal, that's the only possibility. Or I must be doing something bad at the very least.
Or maybe not, think what you want.
I've also had many email accounts, bank accounts, phone numbers, addresses and automobiles. Sorry I'm not like you.
I have had a few dozen PayPal accounts over the years, a few that were placed in forever limbo-land by PayPal and I'm sure are still counted though they can never be used.
I can't remember the last time I bothered using PayPal, they make life more difficult and provide zero advantages for the risk they'll put my money in 180 day purgatory for reasons they won't discuss. I prefer dealing with banks, at least until the current Congress succeeds in rolling back consumer protections.
Free as in "Here's $3B in free money Elon, have a party or buy a yacht or do whatever you want with it" or was it free like "Here is $3B Elon, please build the following rockets so we can use them instead of expensive Russian rockets"?
You and I likey disagree as to what constitutes "free money".
Awesome, hating on Elon for having a private company pay to launch private satellites on a private launch vehicle.
Successfully
At a lower price than the competition
Every iPhone at an Apple store relies on a store employee being nearby when someone snips the cable.
Two Kensington slots means it takes someone 20 seconds to cut two cables instead of 10 seconds to cut 1.
Many graphics cards can drive 3 4k monitors, including those using the NVIDIA 1080 GPU
If you were really asking how many can do it for gaming to your personal satisfaction, that's an entirely different question.
To explain how you can fit one inside a laptop, buy one of the several laptops on the market that have teh NVIDIA 1080 GPU inside, tear them apart and you'll see how they fit them inside.
The only limitation to getting autonomous vehicles on the road by 2021 are legal/regulatory issues.
Those "parlour tricks" do a pretty good job of driving already, another 4 years of machine learning and I think they'll do a stupendous job.
On the other hand, my Aunt Mildred will be an even worse driver in 4 years and my nephew Luke will probably still think he's a great driver but all the tickets he's gotten tell me a different story. I look forward to both of them not being behind a wheel in 4 years.
The expected lifetime of a battery is not 10 years, the battery has a warranty for 10 years but just like a car with a warranty of 3 years that doesn't mean the car is expected to only last 3 years.
As if it cost $50k to buy an EV
The worst thing my TV can do if hacked is stop working completely and forever.
If you don't want to use your WiFi features in your TV or your fridge then simply don't enable the WiFi. Problem solved.
The mass attacks on IoT devices has been against devices that can be directly addressed from the Internet, not devices that are sitting behind a firewall.
I can also freeze to death if my dumb furnace stops working. I don't fear that either, not because it couldn't happen but because I understand that if a furnace stops working I need to call someone to repair it and find a warm place to stay if my house gets too cold.
If you don't want your fridge connecting to your WiFi then simply don't give it the password.
Same with every other home appliance you own, you control their access.