If I go seek out better employment, and the potential new employer can't hire me because it would be 'poaching', then it hurts me. Oh, you thought that it meant that they could not seek me out? No, you are wrong. They can't hire me at all. It's a way of companies locking up employees by keeping them from working for other potential companies in their field. It is company-enforced non-compete.
For chassis, motor, batteries, etc. I agree with you. For the autonomous part, I think that is incorrect. The field is moving so fast right now, with new features being added (with their own hardware requirements), that next year's autonomous feature will not work with this year's model. Tesla's self-driving (whatever they are calling it) on the highway, self-parking, etc. are not backwards compatible. that will happen repeatedly over the next decade or so.
I don't know why this is only relevant to electric vehicles though.
The point of the article that the number of incidents went up 20%. So, it could be statistical noise (2000 vs 2400 may not be statistically significant), or it could mean that people don't care enough to check, or more non-flyers are flying, or more non-gun owners are now owning guns, or, as you say, there are more people with concealed weapons. As usual, we don't know enough to know why.
(** Hell, if I really wanted to nitpick, I could point out that the definition requires planets orbit the sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun-Jupiter barycentre, which is not inside the sun. You can say "close enough", but where do you draw the cutoff line?)
Wait...what? I had no idea. My intuition has always been that the Sun is so massive compared to the planets that of course the barycenter was inside the sun. But, the sun being "only" 1000 times as massive as Jupiter means that the barycenter is about 1/1000 of the way between their center of masses, which puts it just outside the sun.
No, the US economy is, by most measures, doing fairly well. GDP growth is positive, but low; inflation is almost non-existent; unemployment is low, but not so low to cause a lot of inflation; consumer confidence is pretty good. On the negative side, labor participation rates are low, median wages are flat, and our current account deficit is high. On total, decent, not great.
I think a very good case could be made for the wall...and for Mexico paying for it.
Ugh...your post supported the idea of a wall. What it completely failed to do was: 1) solve the physical impossibility of actually building it; 2) solve the political impossibility of having Mexico pay for it. You might as well say that a very good case could be made for transforming the entire economy to run on ethanol and make the oil companies pay for it. Well, sure, except that the math doesn't work and you can't force someone to pay for something that you have no control over.
One of the problems with political discourse is that the expectations are so low that Trump can literally say anything and there will people who say 'Politician X says stuff too' or 'They all do it'. However, Trump is different. He is isn't even bothering to try to couch his words in standard dog-whistle terms or not directly insulting massive parts of the electorate. The things he has said about specific women, about physically handicapped people, about particular racial and religious groups are far beyond anything we have seen for a national politician. It has significantly lowered the bar in terms of acceptable behaviour; and you're not helping by being an apologist for him by calling him typical.
I don't think that this is just a P.S. This highlights the crux of the (legal) issue. SO is saying that code posted on their web site is under a particular license, which implies that they have the right to do so.
If I get code off SO and it later turns out to be GPL or proprietary, and I get sued, it means that I get to point to SO and say 'sue them, they gave me a license'.
Actually, even more noisy and higher pitched. The Makani turbines are quite small but the kite is going very fast, so plenty of power, but the result being that the turbine are spinning like crazy.
The Sahara has some benefits (right weather, low cost land), but probably has more costs than make it worthwhile. As the article says, there are significant political issues. They will require huge bribes, either directly to the politicians involved or to organizations that 'represent the people' (that don't really). When someone says that Africa must have a large share of the benefits, you know that means that lots of people need to be paid off.
Sadly, it makes more sense to do it someplace with a better political system, better technical infrastructure, and closer to where the power will be used. The overall cost will turn out to be lower.
Google doesn't do military applications. They bought Boston Dynamics and have told the military that they are not going to do any more military research. So, the military said, 'Well, we don't want it anyway, because it's too loud'. That gets Boston Dynamics out of the business and lets the Marines save face.
And yet, it works. A single car with wonky GPS is one thing. Having hundreds of cars with GPS, and gathering data repeatedly over the same location, allows high accuracy. You combine that with systems that use the sensor inputs and you can be very accurate. Consider the following article that discussed the data that they have already gathered. Now, do that for the next 2 years, while compute power, algorithms, and sensors improve. This is doable, though still hard.
... That's likely what you would need to outperform a human with similar sensory input.
And that's where we disagree. Humans are impatient, short-sighted, inattentive, and panicky. A computer isn't. It's patient, and always pays attention. Yes, humans are extraordinary at sensory input processing (well, for the parts they are looking at), but that's only part of the pipeline. There have been great advances in image processing in the past couple of years. Further, the computer gets input from more directions at once. Combine that with flexible decision making (and complete attention to the problem) and the overall system performance is already higher in some situations. In a couple of years, it will be better across the board.
Well of course. he dares to challenge the left wing narrative around here. Of course, I don't agree with everything he says, but with the left, it's all or nothing. Violate one position, and the media burns you alive for it. Like the media, the editors having a left wing slant on the stories they choose to let through the filter.
Bwaaahhaaa. To quote the well-known 'left-wing narrative' media person known as Lindsay Graham: “Donald Trump is a complete idiot.". (here). And “Donald Trump has done the one single thing you cannot do — declare war on Islam itself To all of our Muslim friends throughout the world, like the King of Jordan and the President of Egypt, I am sorry. He does not represent us.” here
I'm not a fan of most politicians, but at least they are not helping the enemy like Trump is
But I know that 58.169564, -153.170992 is very close to 58.16957, -153.170988.
How close are pound.banana.hamster and dome.words.zone ? Are they right next to each other, or across the planet? Other numbering schemes are better. MGRS will let you specify general area to exact location. And you can figure out very easily how far points are from each other. I also like zip codes. I know that 22207 is close to 22206. I can get fine grained by going to 22207-2345. Having an 'address' that provides an exact point, but gives a human absolutely no idea where they are is terrible.
Poorly written story too, just quoting numbers left, right, and centre.
And would it fucking kill them to put a graph there? this line is the price per gig for HDD and this line is for SSD. See, they are getting closer. That's the article.
Making a robotic dragonfly is very hard, they had a good idea, and a plan, and were able to sell it. They spent the money trying to do it, did some research, and now they are trying to make sure what they did ends up available to everybody.
Yeah, it's a failure in that they weren't able to do what they wanted to; but it wasn't a scam, or dishonest, just normal everyday good-effort failure.
One of two things is going to come out of this: they will determine that it's real, in which case we'll have some new physics to work with; they will determine it is experimental error, in which case we'll have a better understanding of how to measure small forces when the device is relatively large, in both air and a vacuum.
Either of these is a good thing; I'd bet on the second but would be happier with the first. In any case, the best course is to remain sceptically hopeful and continue testing.
If you packed them all into little boxes, you could make them all fit in a single city, but that would suck. So would living just in TX, CA, MO. Yes, there is enough 'arable land' if you make unreasonable assumptions regarding diet (like strictly vegetarian) and free transport with no spoilage. It's not a question of 'room', so you are right to criticize the parent for using that term.
In real life, where people actually are, there is insufficient clean water to irrigate, there is not enough transportation to get food to people, there is not enough wood to create reasonable housing by, and this is the important part, Western (meaning US / Western Europe) standards. We have 7B people now, they are surviving (mostly), so clearly Earth can support in the short term that many people, but there are also clearly issues. There are important questions about how many people can be supported in which lifestyles over the long term. And for that, you need to look at what people need to achieve various standards of living and the effect that the standard of living has on the environment.
Consider water in the US: we have serious issues right now in CA, and these affect standards of living. The US standard of living is partly dependent on non-renewable water tables which continue to drop (google Ogallala Aquifer). We're doing OK right now, but it doesn't look too good for the future as we are 'eating our seed corn'.
Seriously, the summary is basically a link to an article, and you still get the name wrong?
Mims is an odd guy, since he is (historically) important in his promotion of electronics education, but is also a creationist / IDer, which is odd for anyone with a brain.
I'm no expert, but it appears that the cost drivers are the battery and economies of scale / experience. Yes, an electric car is fundamentally simpler, with fewer moving parts and (in theory) a simpler drive train. But, the battery dominates the cost. If you increase volume by an order of magnitude or two, prices would drop significantly. That's one of the main reasons for the giant battery factory and powerwall.
Congratulations for finding some edge cases for which this electric vehicle won't work. Different vehicles for different people and lifestyles; I have absolutely no need for a full sized pickup, but I know people that do. A 1000km electric will work for the vast majority of the people.
No. First, as your parenthesis note, batteries are a big part of the cost of the vehicle, so make that $25k. Second, just as the cost of making a bottle of pill is only a dollar but still costs hundreds, the 'cost' of a vehicle has only partly to do with the cost of the parts that make it up. There is the cost of the factory (all those robots), insurance, salaries (though the robots reduce those), R&D, design, advertising, safety testing, QA, transportation, show rooms, and profit.
Finally, the (current) Telsa isn't a $15k car. Fit and finish, inside and outside materials, suspension quality and design, electronics mean that even without the cost of the powertrain, it's going to be an expensive car. When you get in a cheap econobox car, it is different from getting into a (for example) BMW 7-series, but they are made from the same fundamental components. You _could_ make an electric car that costs $15k without the batteries; in fact, you can buy one! Go look at the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. Is that what you want? Of course not; you want a Tesla!!
Well, no. I'm a fanboy of Musk too, but honestly, the Model X is years behind schedule (see this. Costs have not been what they were originally expected to be. The cars themselves are awesome, and he gets it done, but he's been late.
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If I go seek out better employment, and the potential new employer can't hire me because it would be 'poaching', then it hurts me. Oh, you thought that it meant that they could not seek me out? No, you are wrong. They can't hire me at all. It's a way of companies locking up employees by keeping them from working for other potential companies in their field. It is company-enforced non-compete.
For chassis, motor, batteries, etc. I agree with you. For the autonomous part, I think that is incorrect. The field is moving so fast right now, with new features being added (with their own hardware requirements), that next year's autonomous feature will not work with this year's model. Tesla's self-driving (whatever they are calling it) on the highway, self-parking, etc. are not backwards compatible. that will happen repeatedly over the next decade or so.
I don't know why this is only relevant to electric vehicles though.
The point of the article that the number of incidents went up 20%. So, it could be statistical noise (2000 vs 2400 may not be statistically significant), or it could mean that people don't care enough to check, or more non-flyers are flying, or more non-gun owners are now owning guns, or, as you say, there are more people with concealed weapons. As usual, we don't know enough to know why.
(** Hell, if I really wanted to nitpick, I could point out that the definition requires planets orbit the sun. Jupiter orbits the Sun-Jupiter barycentre, which is not inside the sun. You can say "close enough", but where do you draw the cutoff line?)
Wait...what? I had no idea. My intuition has always been that the Sun is so massive compared to the planets that of course the barycenter was inside the sun. But, the sun being "only" 1000 times as massive as Jupiter means that the barycenter is about 1/1000 of the way between their center of masses, which puts it just outside the sun.
No, the US economy is, by most measures, doing fairly well. GDP growth is positive, but low; inflation is almost non-existent; unemployment is low, but not so low to cause a lot of inflation; consumer confidence is pretty good. On the negative side, labor participation rates are low, median wages are flat, and our current account deficit is high. On total, decent, not great.
I think a very good case could be made for the wall...and for Mexico paying for it.
Ugh...your post supported the idea of a wall. What it completely failed to do was: 1) solve the physical impossibility of actually building it; 2) solve the political impossibility of having Mexico pay for it. You might as well say that a very good case could be made for transforming the entire economy to run on ethanol and make the oil companies pay for it. Well, sure, except that the math doesn't work and you can't force someone to pay for something that you have no control over.
No, not typical.
One of the problems with political discourse is that the expectations are so low that Trump can literally say anything and there will people who say 'Politician X says stuff too' or 'They all do it'. However, Trump is different. He is isn't even bothering to try to couch his words in standard dog-whistle terms or not directly insulting massive parts of the electorate. The things he has said about specific women, about physically handicapped people, about particular racial and religious groups are far beyond anything we have seen for a national politician. It has significantly lowered the bar in terms of acceptable behaviour; and you're not helping by being an apologist for him by calling him typical.
P.s.what happens if I post GPL code?
I don't think that this is just a P.S. This highlights the crux of the (legal) issue. SO is saying that code posted on their web site is under a particular license, which implies that they have the right to do so.
If I get code off SO and it later turns out to be GPL or proprietary, and I get sued, it means that I get to point to SO and say 'sue them, they gave me a license'.
Actually, even more noisy and higher pitched. The Makani turbines are quite small but the kite is going very fast, so plenty of power, but the result being that the turbine are spinning like crazy.
The Sahara has some benefits (right weather, low cost land), but probably has more costs than make it worthwhile. As the article says, there are significant political issues. They will require huge bribes, either directly to the politicians involved or to organizations that 'represent the people' (that don't really). When someone says that Africa must have a large share of the benefits, you know that means that lots of people need to be paid off.
Sadly, it makes more sense to do it someplace with a better political system, better technical infrastructure, and closer to where the power will be used. The overall cost will turn out to be lower.
Yes, and I'm guessing this is all sour grapes.
Google doesn't do military applications. They bought Boston Dynamics and have told the military that they are not going to do any more military research. So, the military said, 'Well, we don't want it anyway, because it's too loud'. That gets Boston Dynamics out of the business and lets the Marines save face.
And yet, it works. A single car with wonky GPS is one thing. Having hundreds of cars with GPS, and gathering data repeatedly over the same location, allows high accuracy. You combine that with systems that use the sensor inputs and you can be very accurate. Consider the following article that discussed the data that they have already gathered. Now, do that for the next 2 years, while compute power, algorithms, and sensors improve. This is doable, though still hard.
... That's likely what you would need to outperform a human with similar sensory input.
And that's where we disagree. Humans are impatient, short-sighted, inattentive, and panicky. A computer isn't. It's patient, and always pays attention. Yes, humans are extraordinary at sensory input processing (well, for the parts they are looking at), but that's only part of the pipeline. There have been great advances in image processing in the past couple of years. Further, the computer gets input from more directions at once. Combine that with flexible decision making (and complete attention to the problem) and the overall system performance is already higher in some situations. In a couple of years, it will be better across the board.
Well of course. he dares to challenge the left wing narrative around here. Of course, I don't agree with everything he says, but with the left, it's all or nothing. Violate one position, and the media burns you alive for it. Like the media, the editors having a left wing slant on the stories they choose to let through the filter.
Bwaaahhaaa. To quote the well-known 'left-wing narrative' media person known as Lindsay Graham: “Donald Trump is a complete idiot.". (here). And “Donald Trump has done the one single thing you cannot do — declare war on Islam itself To all of our Muslim friends throughout the world, like the King of Jordan and the President of Egypt, I am sorry. He does not represent us.” here
I'm not a fan of most politicians, but at least they are not helping the enemy like Trump is
But I know that 58.169564, -153.170992 is very close to 58.16957, -153.170988.
How close are pound.banana.hamster and dome.words.zone ? Are they right next to each other, or across the planet? Other numbering schemes are better. MGRS will let you specify general area to exact location. And you can figure out very easily how far points are from each other. I also like zip codes. I know that 22207 is close to 22206. I can get fine grained by going to 22207-2345. Having an 'address' that provides an exact point, but gives a human absolutely no idea where they are is terrible.
Poorly written story too, just quoting numbers left, right, and centre.
And would it fucking kill them to put a graph there? this line is the price per gig for HDD and this line is for SSD. See, they are getting closer. That's the article.
[snip] Compromise was tried. [snip]
When? I don't remember that. What did the NRA compromise on?
I completely agree with this sentiment.
Making a robotic dragonfly is very hard, they had a good idea, and a plan, and were able to sell it. They spent the money trying to do it, did some research, and now they are trying to make sure what they did ends up available to everybody.
Yeah, it's a failure in that they weren't able to do what they wanted to; but it wasn't a scam, or dishonest, just normal everyday good-effort failure.
One of two things is going to come out of this: they will determine that it's real, in which case we'll have some new physics to work with; they will determine it is experimental error, in which case we'll have a better understanding of how to measure small forces when the device is relatively large, in both air and a vacuum.
Either of these is a good thing; I'd bet on the second but would be happier with the first. In any case, the best course is to remain sceptically hopeful and continue testing.
If you packed them all into little boxes, you could make them all fit in a single city, but that would suck. So would living just in TX, CA, MO. Yes, there is enough 'arable land' if you make unreasonable assumptions regarding diet (like strictly vegetarian) and free transport with no spoilage. It's not a question of 'room', so you are right to criticize the parent for using that term.
In real life, where people actually are, there is insufficient clean water to irrigate, there is not enough transportation to get food to people, there is not enough wood to create reasonable housing by, and this is the important part, Western (meaning US / Western Europe) standards. We have 7B people now, they are surviving (mostly), so clearly Earth can support in the short term that many people, but there are also clearly issues. There are important questions about how many people can be supported in which lifestyles over the long term. And for that, you need to look at what people need to achieve various standards of living and the effect that the standard of living has on the environment.
Consider water in the US: we have serious issues right now in CA, and these affect standards of living. The US standard of living is partly dependent on non-renewable water tables which continue to drop (google Ogallala Aquifer). We're doing OK right now, but it doesn't look too good for the future as we are 'eating our seed corn'.
Seriously, the summary is basically a link to an article, and you still get the name wrong?
Mims is an odd guy, since he is (historically) important in his promotion of electronics education, but is also a creationist / IDer, which is odd for anyone with a brain.
I'm no expert, but it appears that the cost drivers are the battery and economies of scale / experience. Yes, an electric car is fundamentally simpler, with fewer moving parts and (in theory) a simpler drive train. But, the battery dominates the cost. If you increase volume by an order of magnitude or two, prices would drop significantly. That's one of the main reasons for the giant battery factory and powerwall.
Congratulations for finding some edge cases for which this electric vehicle won't work. Different vehicles for different people and lifestyles; I have absolutely no need for a full sized pickup, but I know people that do. A 1000km electric will work for the vast majority of the people.
No. First, as your parenthesis note, batteries are a big part of the cost of the vehicle, so make that $25k. Second, just as the cost of making a bottle of pill is only a dollar but still costs hundreds, the 'cost' of a vehicle has only partly to do with the cost of the parts that make it up. There is the cost of the factory (all those robots), insurance, salaries (though the robots reduce those), R&D, design, advertising, safety testing, QA, transportation, show rooms, and profit.
Finally, the (current) Telsa isn't a $15k car. Fit and finish, inside and outside materials, suspension quality and design, electronics mean that even without the cost of the powertrain, it's going to be an expensive car. When you get in a cheap econobox car, it is different from getting into a (for example) BMW 7-series, but they are made from the same fundamental components. You _could_ make an electric car that costs $15k without the batteries; in fact, you can buy one! Go look at the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. Is that what you want? Of course not; you want a Tesla!!
Well, no. I'm a fanboy of Musk too, but honestly, the Model X is years behind schedule (see this. Costs have not been what they were originally expected to be. The cars themselves are awesome, and he gets it done, but he's been late.