In other news, rocket scientists offer a reality check on the SpaceX "land rockets on barges" project. If NASA can't do it, nobody can so it's a waste of time and money to even try it.
What's the budget of the Medical University of South Carolina? How much money does FaceBook have? Yep, thought so.
This is not the cosmological kind of gravity waves (the ones we are building complex detectors for that have been in the news during the last few years) but a much more down to earth, I mean Mars, weather phenomenon. Happens on earth all the time, not really that special. Probably only made the news because of confusion with the other kind of GW,
So you would prefer just one word for "parent" without even being able to specify father or mother?!
You don't have to memorize the gender of a cucumber. The female ending "ino" only exists to allow you to explicitly specify the gender.
The only thing I see wrong in this regard, is that words are male by default, and the female version is a variant. It would be better to have a neutral version for the default, and then both male and female variants if you specifically want to mention the gender.
No. I had Latin in school, it's nothing al all like Esperanto.
Latin has many different conjugations and declensions, loads of ambiguities, irregularities, etcetera. After 6 years in school I still couldn't read a Latin text without thoroughly eximining it first to figure out which parts of the multi-line sentences went with which other parts, and which of many different uses of the same word was intended.
In Esperanto, a teacher can give you your first half day course and then tell you a story in Esperanto that you undestand completely. It really is extremely simple. All verbs are regular, all rules are consistent with practically no exceptions. Vocabulary is very limited, with a fixed list of sounds that can be added together to build on existing words.
For example, the language has no different words for mother and father. The word "patrino" (mother) is simply the female version of "patro" (father). A boy is "knabo", a girl is "knabino". Always the same, never a different word to learn. To negate a word, just put "mal" in front of it. So "sana" (healthy) becomes "malsana" (sick). And a sick person is "malsanulo" because "ul" means "a person with that property". A hospital is "malsanulejo". And the head of the hospital would be "malsanulejestro". To learn: "lerni". A school: "lernejo". The headmaster of the school: "lernejestro". Headmistress: "lernejestrino".
Except for the detail that the price of the ETF goes up and down together with the price of bitcoin. Whenever there's a difference between the two, high frequency trading algorithms immediately start selling the more expensive one and buying the cheaper one. You'll have to get more creative than that. (Using derivatives, for example).
You can store bitcoins on your computer, then get malware and lose them all. Basically like storing money in a mattress.
Or you can open an account at a bitcoin exchange, with all the associated paperwork to do so (fill out forms, send copy of passport and utility bill, etc.), and then hope they don't get hacked like Mt.Gox, Bitfinex, etc.
Or you can just open your familiar stock trading interface and buy the ETF.
If all you want to do is invest in bitcoin without actually using it, the latter seems like a much easier solution. So it does make sense. Also, it will allow for official derivative products like futures, options, etc. (not the unregulated DIY-kind that exists today)
But alas, the SEC decided it was not a good idea. I can see their point, but on the other hand the ETF could actually have helped the currency mature by adding liquidity and credibility.
It may not be a legal excuse, but many people take it as a moral one.
I want to watch a movie that was released 3 years ago. I happened to see it was available for rental on iTunes last year, but for some obscure reason today it isn't. I can buy it for three times the price, but not rent it. Possibly because they have a deal with a TV station that will air it later this year, I don't know, I can only guess.
Anyway, I want to rent the film today, I'm fully willing to part with the fair price for it, but the content providers have decided they don't want the money, unless I pay a lot more to buy it outright.
Meanwhile, I have this app that can download any movie for free, illegally but with practically zero chance of getting caught. (In my country it's not even 100% clear whether downloading is illegal or not in this case, only uploading).
Guess what, content providers, you just lost the rental fee I was perfectly willing to pay but you refused to accept. And I don't even feel bad about it, quite the contrary, I feel entitled. Sure, it won't stand up in court, but it won't have to because nobody knows I did it.
Other example: if I buy a legal DVD with a movie for my children, they need to watch about a minute or so of copyright notices, "don't be a pirate", "you wouldn't steal a car", or similar bullshit before the movie can finally start. The illegally downloaded version starts right away. Guess which one we prefer. Isn't that ridiculous? They are degrading their legal customers' experience with a message that has zero effect on pirates! Clearly a lose-lose situation.
Completely agree. Apparently Tesla promoted her into engineering roles on her request even though she had absolutely no engineering background, and they hired a neutral third party, EMC2Law, to investigate her claims. They determined the claims were unsubstantiated.
This may be another one of those "Hi, AJ, nice outfit" – "OMG he's hitting on me, I'm going to call my lawyer" kind of situations. And guess what, you may get paid less if you don't have the associated degrees. EMC2Law must have looked into this as it's one of the easiest things to check, and they didn't find anything wrong.
There's no need to lock any ports, though: wiping an encrypted phone can be done in less than a millisecond. All you need to do is destroy the encryption key. That's what iPhones do when you enter the wrong pin multiple times, and the effect is instant and irreversible. It would be trivial for Apple to add a feature that wipes the phone for a specific pin chosen by the user.
Law enforcement can sometimes retrieve a password. But that password only serves to decode the actual decryption key, which is a random sequence of bits. If that key is gone, it would take billions of years to decode the device.
Significant chance of dying if you vomit in space? Wow, they must have been extremely lucky that nobody has died that way yet, given how pretty much every new arrival at the ISS suffers from space sickness for a few days. Or maybe you're just making things up.
I said they'll be able to sell that many, not make them;-)
Making them may be a challenge initially, I expect they'll probably start around 300,000-400,000 in the first year which, while being objectively impressive, will be judged a failure because they didn't reach the full 500,000. After a couple of years, though, they'll easily surpass that number.
They haven't fully revealed it yet. Pretty soon they'll have another event with the final version, and they'll be all over the media again. Expect enthusiasm to skyrocket. I don't think they'll have any problem selling 500,000 per year or more. Certainly not when the first test drive reports come in.
Support services is another matter, I don't know what they're doing on that front, but I'm pretty sure someone will have thought of it. They're pretty nimble, so I think you'll see Tesla service centers popping up or expanding everywhere at a very rapid rate once the first deliveries start. They shouldn't need quite as much support as regular cars, anyway. And it's a much simpler car than model S or X. No problems with retracting door handles, falcon wing doors, etc.
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You haven't met many assistant professors, have you?
In other news, rocket scientists offer a reality check on the SpaceX "land rockets on barges" project. If NASA can't do it, nobody can so it's a waste of time and money to even try it.
What's the budget of the Medical University of South Carolina? How much money does FaceBook have? Yep, thought so.
Yeah, why don't they understand that, when they force companies to upgrade their security to make their sites safer, it costs money!
I just gave my first ever movie rating on IMDB. I might even go and see the movie.
What exactly was it that those trolls were trying to achieve, again? The name of a famous female singer comes to mind...
I hope nobody is going to sue them for not making the photos accessible for the blind so they have to take the whole thing offline again.
Nah, that would never happen, right?
This is not the cosmological kind of gravity waves (the ones we are building complex detectors for that have been in the news during the last few years) but a much more down to earth, I mean Mars, weather phenomenon. Happens on earth all the time, not really that special. Probably only made the news because of confusion with the other kind of GW,
It would be nice if everybody would just get it as a second language. Would solve a lot of problems.
So you would prefer just one word for "parent" without even being able to specify father or mother?!
You don't have to memorize the gender of a cucumber. The female ending "ino" only exists to allow you to explicitly specify the gender.
The only thing I see wrong in this regard, is that words are male by default, and the female version is a variant. It would be better to have a neutral version for the default, and then both male and female variants if you specifically want to mention the gender.
No. I had Latin in school, it's nothing al all like Esperanto.
Latin has many different conjugations and declensions, loads of ambiguities, irregularities, etcetera. After 6 years in school I still couldn't read a Latin text without thoroughly eximining it first to figure out which parts of the multi-line sentences went with which other parts, and which of many different uses of the same word was intended.
In Esperanto, a teacher can give you your first half day course and then tell you a story in Esperanto that you undestand completely. It really is extremely simple. All verbs are regular, all rules are consistent with practically no exceptions. Vocabulary is very limited, with a fixed list of sounds that can be added together to build on existing words.
For example, the language has no different words for mother and father. The word "patrino" (mother) is simply the female version of "patro" (father). A boy is "knabo", a girl is "knabino". Always the same, never a different word to learn.
To negate a word, just put "mal" in front of it. So "sana" (healthy) becomes "malsana" (sick). And a sick person is "malsanulo" because "ul" means "a person with that property". A hospital is "malsanulejo". And the head of the hospital would be "malsanulejestro".
To learn: "lerni". A school: "lernejo". The headmaster of the school: "lernejestro". Headmistress: "lernejestrino".
It really is the easiest language in the world.
It's ridiculous, they should just develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.
And they can give them gentle female voices that say "Hello!" before they start to shoot!
Except for the detail that the price of the ETF goes up and down together with the price of bitcoin. Whenever there's a difference between the two, high frequency trading algorithms immediately start selling the more expensive one and buying the cheaper one. You'll have to get more creative than that. (Using derivatives, for example).
You can store bitcoins on your computer, then get malware and lose them all. Basically like storing money in a mattress.
Or you can open an account at a bitcoin exchange, with all the associated paperwork to do so (fill out forms, send copy of passport and utility bill, etc.), and then hope they don't get hacked like Mt.Gox, Bitfinex, etc.
Or you can just open your familiar stock trading interface and buy the ETF.
If all you want to do is invest in bitcoin without actually using it, the latter seems like a much easier solution. So it does make sense. Also, it will allow for official derivative products like futures, options, etc. (not the unregulated DIY-kind that exists today)
But alas, the SEC decided it was not a good idea. I can see their point, but on the other hand the ETF could actually have helped the currency mature by adding liquidity and credibility.
I wish they'd libel me, too.
It may not be a legal excuse, but many people take it as a moral one.
I want to watch a movie that was released 3 years ago. I happened to see it was available for rental on iTunes last year, but for some obscure reason today it isn't. I can buy it for three times the price, but not rent it. Possibly because they have a deal with a TV station that will air it later this year, I don't know, I can only guess.
Anyway, I want to rent the film today, I'm fully willing to part with the fair price for it, but the content providers have decided they don't want the money, unless I pay a lot more to buy it outright.
Meanwhile, I have this app that can download any movie for free, illegally but with practically zero chance of getting caught. (In my country it's not even 100% clear whether downloading is illegal or not in this case, only uploading).
Guess what, content providers, you just lost the rental fee I was perfectly willing to pay but you refused to accept. And I don't even feel bad about it, quite the contrary, I feel entitled. Sure, it won't stand up in court, but it won't have to because nobody knows I did it.
Other example: if I buy a legal DVD with a movie for my children, they need to watch about a minute or so of copyright notices, "don't be a pirate", "you wouldn't steal a car", or similar bullshit before the movie can finally start. The illegally downloaded version starts right away. Guess which one we prefer. Isn't that ridiculous? They are degrading their legal customers' experience with a message that has zero effect on pirates! Clearly a lose-lose situation.
If we just send Trump to Mars, those ice caps will melt pretty quickly!
Completely agree. Apparently Tesla promoted her into engineering roles on her request even though she had absolutely no engineering background, and they hired a neutral third party, EMC2Law, to investigate her claims. They determined the claims were unsubstantiated.
This may be another one of those "Hi, AJ, nice outfit" – "OMG he's hitting on me, I'm going to call my lawyer" kind of situations. And guess what, you may get paid less if you don't have the associated degrees. EMC2Law must have looked into this as it's one of the easiest things to check, and they didn't find anything wrong.
Not bricked, just erased. Not a huge problem if you also activate automatic backups.
There's no need to lock any ports, though: wiping an encrypted phone can be done in less than a millisecond. All you need to do is destroy the encryption key. That's what iPhones do when you enter the wrong pin multiple times, and the effect is instant and irreversible. It would be trivial for Apple to add a feature that wipes the phone for a specific pin chosen by the user.
Law enforcement can sometimes retrieve a password. But that password only serves to decode the actual decryption key, which is a random sequence of bits. If that key is gone, it would take billions of years to decode the device.
Significant chance of dying if you vomit in space? Wow, they must have been extremely lucky that nobody has died that way yet, given how pretty much every new arrival at the ISS suffers from space sickness for a few days. Or maybe you're just making things up.
Since when does Tesla have massive profits?
Who's talking about looking at looking at stars?
The only advantage of the Bolt is that it's already available, while new orders for Model 3 will have to wait at least a year.
Apart from that, Model 3 will blow the Bolt away. Bigger car, better performance, lower price.
So basically, the only limiting factor for Tesla to sell these puppies is how quickly they can produce them.
I said they'll be able to sell that many, not make them ;-)
Making them may be a challenge initially, I expect they'll probably start around 300,000-400,000 in the first year which, while being objectively impressive, will be judged a failure because they didn't reach the full 500,000. After a couple of years, though, they'll easily surpass that number.
They haven't fully revealed it yet. Pretty soon they'll have another event with the final version, and they'll be all over the media again. Expect enthusiasm to skyrocket. I don't think they'll have any problem selling 500,000 per year or more. Certainly not when the first test drive reports come in.
Support services is another matter, I don't know what they're doing on that front, but I'm pretty sure someone will have thought of it. They're pretty nimble, so I think you'll see Tesla service centers popping up or expanding everywhere at a very rapid rate once the first deliveries start. They shouldn't need quite as much support as regular cars, anyway. And it's a much simpler car than model S or X. No problems with retracting door handles, falcon wing doors, etc.