The Gawker site itself is trash. However, Gawker Media owns two of my favorite sites: Jalopnik and Gizmodo. I've noticed their content quality has been going down recently, I hope they keep going.
I've actually suspected that Musk will sell his stake in Tesla around the year 2020. At that point, the Model 3 will be in high volume production and the share price should be very high. I suspect he will use those proceeds to finance the trip to Mars.
The fixed cost of buying a robot will always beat the continuous cost of hiring a human in the long term. The advantage of the human is they're easier to program. If McDonald's wants to offer a new triple meat Big Mac, they will have to pay someone to reprogram all of the robots and validate them. A human can look at a picture and figure it out.
Robot programming and validation is getting cheaper, and human wages are getting more expensive. Now might be the time when the robot takes over.
Manufacturing jobs will go where the labor is cheap. At some point, labor prices will increase globally and automation will be more cost effective for some tasks. We are finally seeing this in China. The huge labor pool is drying up and prices are increasing.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's 5th Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress estimated that 1.56 million people, or one in every 200 Americans, experienced homelessness
NASA doesn't have a spacecraft capable of launching a pencil to orbit. They are relying on private contractors. The X-37B in the article is a US Air Force project. If you want to see some government fundingsquandered, look at the military.
The report really knocks the value of GMOs as begin completely over blown and of little value. Further, the report points to many unresolved ares of substantial risk.
Do you have a link to a copy of the report? I'm not paying $74 dollars to read the report for my own curiosity. Without the actual report, we just have to believe what the media tells us.
Well if somebody has problems with Skype I suggest they look at the Skype for Business (old Lync Client). The user interface responsiveness is horrific.
Not just the responsiveness. The whole interface is terrible. Every meeting we play, "How many engineers does it take to share a presentation with Skype?"
Recently, my copy of Skype for Business has been terminating abruptly. This is on my PC at work, maintained by my company. I can understand Microsoft not maintaining the Linux or "home" version of Skype, but I would expect their business version to be robust and reliable.
I'm glad to hear this isn't only happening at my company.
Lets cut through all this BS and finally admit that intelligence is genetic and heritable.
Actually, this doesn't prove that at all. This study correlates education to genetics, not intelligence. Having worked with plenty of idiot PhDs and a few brilliant people out of trade schools, I can tell you the two aren't necessarily the same thing.
Obtaining certain levels of education require specific skills (e.g. manipulating p-values, and writing reports). Those skills are only one kind of intelligence.
Furthermore, obtaining education requires means and desire.
You may be right, and intelligence is genetic. However, this data doesn't prove that.
Contributing to open source always seemed intimidating as a novice. I'm too afraid I'd wreck the code or introduce bugs. Basically create more problems than solutions.
I stick to my own little scripts for my specific needs, knowing that the code is clumsy.
The chemical oxygen iodine laser aboard the YAL-1 was a 1MW laser, and destroyed its targets (ICBMs) by heating the target until its fuel tanks ruptured - it didn't destroy the target in the traditional sci-fi sense of directed energy weapons...
How long will these fighter pilots have to keep the target in the sights before they get it hot enough to be destroyed? Once a bullet hits the target, the target is destroyed.
To have a significant effect, it would have to be about as tall as the tallest building on Earth, if not taller. Plus, you'll probably create some unintended effects like lots of dust devils and sandstorms. It's a really awful idea.
Joseph Dalton Hooker conducted a similar experiment on Ascension Island in the 1800's. They key is to plant the summit with vegetation that will trap water from the winds. Hooker was successful in transforming the island by planting vegetation on Green Mountain. Now the island has changed dramatically from what it was 200 years ago.
As long as it's not treated like a vacation.
I would recommend a menial labor job. I know it helped me finish college. I knew what I'd be stuck doing if I didn't stay focused and graduate.
Agreed. A lot of people here are harping that this is only for the wealthy. If the child gets a job during that year, it's a net benefit for the family.
I actually would recommend a job in sales. The older I get, the more I realize being forced to deal with people every day builds character. Plus, nothing will prepare a future corporate leader like time in the trenches, talking to the customers.
It is far better to feed the grid during peak times, and pump water to use hydro generation later in the day.
People are pissed about Net metering laws, even though the money could be used to build hydro storage. They would rather build their own energy storage than trust the power company to do it for them.
Goldman Sachs!
Synonym with trustworthiness and financial stability. Just exactly where I want to put all my money in!
Their ToS is actually quite reasonable. It includes a clause allowing you to opt out of arbitration. Therefore you can sue the pants off of them if they try anything shady.
You cant make diesel cleaner. It's impossible. Everyone I know who worked with diesel engines from the fitter and mechanic level to the design and engineering level predicted this kind of revelation happening years ago. Being engineers, you can imagine the level of smug they generated after Dieselgate.
As a diesel emissions engineer I resent that statement. The trouble with diesel is exactly as the GP mentioned. Hotter burn is more fuel efficient, but makes more NOx. SCR is the option that can provide good fuel economy and lower emissions. However, SCR is expensive and has it's own consumable.
Diesel engines are heavier and more complex than petrols, they require turbochargers regardless (if you want to know what a truly gutless car feels like, drive a naturally aspirated diesel). The returns are less than non-turbo petrol engines of the same size, if you turbo a petrol engine, you could easily knock 25% of the capacity off and still have a faster car with the same fuel efficiency and is kinder to the baby foxes.
Diesels are not very volumetrically efficient. True.
The only time a diesel engine is better than a petrol is when you need pulling power. This is why almost all big rigs and tractors are turbo diesels. Even decent 4x4's like a Hilux or Triton tend to use diesels, not for fuel efficiency but to pull 3 tons of bricks about using a 2.4L 4 banger.
Not true. Diesels are fuel efficient because they run at higher compression ratios and don't use intake throttling to control power output. Gasoline engines can be built that rival diesels in torque. However, most consumers of such products demand the fuel efficiency of diesel.
There's a lot of FUD being spread around about diesel. Yes, it has issues. But those of us in the industry had been wondering how VW was making that system work without SCR. Now we know.
If the system is to improve, emissions regulatory agencies need to audit more engines themselves rather than trust the self reported results. They also need to implement Not to Exceed limits on all engines.
As the owner of a Samsung Smart TV, I don't want this option. Samsung's Smarthub OS is glitchy as hell. Maybe they have fixed it since I bought my TV...
There's a big difference between Mitsubishi and Volkswagen. Volkswagen spent an incredible amount of time and money developing software to defeat the test. Mitsubishi increased tire pressures.
If Tesla had some patents, Ford can get some people to just read them.
Most patents explain how a technology works, but not how to make the product. When car companies tear down their competitors' products, they are looking more at how it's made than how it works.
What's surprising is that Ford is trying to figure out how a very expensive car was manufactured. Most of the time the challenge is trying to figure out how to make economy cars cheaper, since the profit margin is much smaller on those products.
But speed reading reduces enjoyment and comprehension, so removes the pleasure from pleasure reading, and the comprehension from technical reading. So there ends up being no advantages.
I took a speed reading class and came to the same conclusion. It was strenuous to keep up the pace and made reading no longer enjoyable. I quickly found myself going back to my normal reading pace.
Immunotherapy has been applied to another type of cancer, and the results look promising.
For those that don't know, immunotherapy was a big breakthrough in cancer research in 2010. It's very expensive, as it has to be tailor made to the patient and the specific form of cancer. Many times it involves genetically modifying the patient's immune system to recognize the cancer cells as an infection.
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The Gawker site itself is trash. However, Gawker Media owns two of my favorite sites: Jalopnik and Gizmodo. I've noticed their content quality has been going down recently, I hope they keep going.
I've actually suspected that Musk will sell his stake in Tesla around the year 2020. At that point, the Model 3 will be in high volume production and the share price should be very high. I suspect he will use those proceeds to finance the trip to Mars.
They guy plays a long game. Both technically and financially. I suspect Tesla and Solar City are just means to get himself to Mars, where he will retire.
The fixed cost of buying a robot will always beat the continuous cost of hiring a human in the long term. The advantage of the human is they're easier to program. If McDonald's wants to offer a new triple meat Big Mac, they will have to pay someone to reprogram all of the robots and validate them. A human can look at a picture and figure it out.
Robot programming and validation is getting cheaper, and human wages are getting more expensive. Now might be the time when the robot takes over.
Manufacturing jobs will go where the labor is cheap. At some point, labor prices will increase globally and automation will be more cost effective for some tasks. We are finally seeing this in China. The huge labor pool is drying up and prices are increasing.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's 5th Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress estimated that 1.56 million people, or one in every 200 Americans, experienced homelessness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... They really gotta shut that NASA down .
NASA doesn't have a spacecraft capable of launching a pencil to orbit. They are relying on private contractors. The X-37B in the article is a US Air Force project. If you want to see some government funding squandered, look at the military.
Where do I buy one of these magic cards?
You can buy an entire pack of them at any gaming store.
The report really knocks the value of GMOs as begin completely over blown and of little value. Further, the report points to many unresolved ares of substantial risk.
Do you have a link to a copy of the report? I'm not paying $74 dollars to read the report for my own curiosity. Without the actual report, we just have to believe what the media tells us.
Well if somebody has problems with Skype I suggest they look at the Skype for Business (old Lync Client). The user interface responsiveness is horrific.
Not just the responsiveness. The whole interface is terrible. Every meeting we play, "How many engineers does it take to share a presentation with Skype?"
Right now the answer is about thirteen.
They need to rehire they guy that came up with the Start Menu.
Recently, my copy of Skype for Business has been terminating abruptly. This is on my PC at work, maintained by my company. I can understand Microsoft not maintaining the Linux or "home" version of Skype, but I would expect their business version to be robust and reliable.
I'm glad to hear this isn't only happening at my company.
Linus always takes an encouraging and tolerant attitude towards new users, especially ones who make mistakes.
Nothing like trial by fire to build up my chops.
Thanks!
Lets cut through all this BS and finally admit that intelligence is genetic and heritable.
Actually, this doesn't prove that at all. This study correlates education to genetics, not intelligence. Having worked with plenty of idiot PhDs and a few brilliant people out of trade schools, I can tell you the two aren't necessarily the same thing.
Obtaining certain levels of education require specific skills (e.g. manipulating p-values, and writing reports). Those skills are only one kind of intelligence.
Furthermore, obtaining education requires means and desire.
You may be right, and intelligence is genetic. However, this data doesn't prove that.
Contributing to open source always seemed intimidating as a novice. I'm too afraid I'd wreck the code or introduce bugs. Basically create more problems than solutions.
I stick to my own little scripts for my specific needs, knowing that the code is clumsy.
The chemical oxygen iodine laser aboard the YAL-1 was a 1MW laser, and destroyed its targets (ICBMs) by heating the target until its fuel tanks ruptured - it didn't destroy the target in the traditional sci-fi sense of directed energy weapons...
How long will these fighter pilots have to keep the target in the sights before they get it hot enough to be destroyed? Once a bullet hits the target, the target is destroyed.
To have a significant effect, it would have to be about as tall as the tallest building on Earth, if not taller. Plus, you'll probably create some unintended effects like lots of dust devils and sandstorms. It's a really awful idea.
Joseph Dalton Hooker conducted a similar experiment on Ascension Island in the 1800's. They key is to plant the summit with vegetation that will trap water from the winds. Hooker was successful in transforming the island by planting vegetation on Green Mountain. Now the island has changed dramatically from what it was 200 years ago.
As long as it's not treated like a vacation. I would recommend a menial labor job. I know it helped me finish college. I knew what I'd be stuck doing if I didn't stay focused and graduate.
Agreed. A lot of people here are harping that this is only for the wealthy. If the child gets a job during that year, it's a net benefit for the family.
I actually would recommend a job in sales. The older I get, the more I realize being forced to deal with people every day builds character. Plus, nothing will prepare a future corporate leader like time in the trenches, talking to the customers.
GrubHub already delivers Chipotle.
It is far better to feed the grid during peak times, and pump water to use hydro generation later in the day.
People are pissed about Net metering laws, even though the money could be used to build hydro storage. They would rather build their own energy storage than trust the power company to do it for them.
Goldman Sachs! Synonym with trustworthiness and financial stability. Just exactly where I want to put all my money in!
Their ToS is actually quite reasonable. It includes a clause allowing you to opt out of arbitration. Therefore you can sue the pants off of them if they try anything shady.
You cant make diesel cleaner. It's impossible. Everyone I know who worked with diesel engines from the fitter and mechanic level to the design and engineering level predicted this kind of revelation happening years ago. Being engineers, you can imagine the level of smug they generated after Dieselgate.
As a diesel emissions engineer I resent that statement. The trouble with diesel is exactly as the GP mentioned. Hotter burn is more fuel efficient, but makes more NOx. SCR is the option that can provide good fuel economy and lower emissions. However, SCR is expensive and has it's own consumable.
Diesel engines are heavier and more complex than petrols, they require turbochargers regardless (if you want to know what a truly gutless car feels like, drive a naturally aspirated diesel). The returns are less than non-turbo petrol engines of the same size, if you turbo a petrol engine, you could easily knock 25% of the capacity off and still have a faster car with the same fuel efficiency and is kinder to the baby foxes.
Diesels are not very volumetrically efficient. True.
The only time a diesel engine is better than a petrol is when you need pulling power. This is why almost all big rigs and tractors are turbo diesels. Even decent 4x4's like a Hilux or Triton tend to use diesels, not for fuel efficiency but to pull 3 tons of bricks about using a 2.4L 4 banger.
Not true. Diesels are fuel efficient because they run at higher compression ratios and don't use intake throttling to control power output. Gasoline engines can be built that rival diesels in torque. However, most consumers of such products demand the fuel efficiency of diesel.
There's a lot of FUD being spread around about diesel. Yes, it has issues. But those of us in the industry had been wondering how VW was making that system work without SCR. Now we know.
If the system is to improve, emissions regulatory agencies need to audit more engines themselves rather than trust the self reported results. They also need to implement Not to Exceed limits on all engines.
This isn't new. They've been doing this for other products for a while now.
As the owner of a Samsung Smart TV, I don't want this option. Samsung's Smarthub OS is glitchy as hell. Maybe they have fixed it since I bought my TV...
There's a big difference between Mitsubishi and Volkswagen. Volkswagen spent an incredible amount of time and money developing software to defeat the test. Mitsubishi increased tire pressures.
If Tesla had some patents, Ford can get some people to just read them.
Most patents explain how a technology works, but not how to make the product. When car companies tear down their competitors' products, they are looking more at how it's made than how it works.
What's surprising is that Ford is trying to figure out how a very expensive car was manufactured. Most of the time the challenge is trying to figure out how to make economy cars cheaper, since the profit margin is much smaller on those products.
But speed reading reduces enjoyment and comprehension, so removes the pleasure from pleasure reading, and the comprehension from technical reading. So there ends up being no advantages.
I took a speed reading class and came to the same conclusion. It was strenuous to keep up the pace and made reading no longer enjoyable. I quickly found myself going back to my normal reading pace.
Immunotherapy has been applied to another type of cancer, and the results look promising.
For those that don't know, immunotherapy was a big breakthrough in cancer research in 2010. It's very expensive, as it has to be tailor made to the patient and the specific form of cancer. Many times it involves genetically modifying the patient's immune system to recognize the cancer cells as an infection.