Uh.....gas cars have ranges of 200-300 miles. Jacking up the requirements to make a point about EVs isn't exactly unbiased.
200-300? What kind of gas cars are you driving? I'll admit to limited experience (I'm currently in an early Leaf, and before that I drove Priuses and Geo Prisms), but every car I've ever owned could go at least 350 miles on a tank of gas, and most could make it to 400+ if you weren't spending all your time stuck in stop-and-go traffic. I assume 400-500 is what the industry as a whole is aiming for; the tank sizes seem to shrink as the mileage goes up, and vice versa, so a 45-50 MPG car like the Prius gets an 11 gallon tank, a 28-34 MPG car like the Camry gets a 14.5-16 gallon tank (smaller for higher MPG models), and a 21-22 MPG pickup like the Ford F150 gets a 23 gallon tank (standard; they have extended range versions with larger tanks). 400 mile range is not an unreasonable point of comparison; it's what almost every gas car can do.
Yeah, but almost everyone I've ever met who claims to be agnostic is really only agnostic about the god(s) they were brought up to believe in, typically the God of the Torah or the Christian Bible around my area. They reject out of hand all the gods from other religions, living and dead. That was my whole point; I (and most people) are fairly comfortable rejecting the existence of Thor (at least as an actual deity, rather than a euhemerized hero) out of hand, making us atheists at least with regard to Thor, yet Solandri is claiming this is somehow a form of "faith", rather than the natural reaction to absurd claims with no connection to observable reality.
Yes atheism is a faith. You cannot prove a negative, at least not without investigating every single possibility, so you cannot realistically prove there is no god. You can be agnostic without needing faith - uncertain or doubtful if there is a god. But to be atheist - convinced that there is no god - requires a leap of faith.
So you're sticking with agnosticism on Thor I assume? And Shiva? And Quetzalcoatl? Because you wouldn't want to make unjustified leaps of faith, right?
Except the actively managed fund "experts" aren't actually any better at predicting the market. After fees, actively managed funds underperform low fee index funds with similar investment goals two-thirds of the time. And no, that doesn't mean one-third of actively managed funds are better than index funds; the overperforming funds change each year, and over 10 year periods, and the index funds win over 90% of the time.
So your premise is that index funds are free riders benefiting from the research of more informed investors, yet if that were the case, they should, by definition, underperform the actively managed funds since the index funds should in theory be buying lower and selling higher (since the index funds are always riding coattails, as it were, buying after others buy, and selling after they sell). And all that money in index funds should, by your theory, be making informed investment choices even more lucrative. Yet that's not how it goes in practice. In practice, even as the fees on actively managed funds have gone down, they've continued to underperform the index funds. The only way your theory jives with reality is if the majority of the so-called "informed" investors, including professional fund managers, have no real idea what they're doing (Note: Not going to dispute that possibility).
Exactly how was he responsible for that? He offered a simpler product, at lower cost, to people that were losing other investment and retirement options for reasons he had no control over (the death of pensions). Nobody was forced to use his products. I agree the state of the American retirement system has gone downhill, but you can hardly blame him for making the slower shallower.
South Dakota wants everyone else to obey their sales tax laws, whether or not they're located in South Dakota, while at the same time benefiting from usury laws not being enforceable across state lines. There's a reason most credit cards in the U.S. are issued from child corporations in South Dakota: South Dakota allows effectively unlimited interest rates on credit cards. They're perfectly fine with state-by-state enforcement when it benefits them.
Claiming electric cars don't really solve anything while nuclear does is ridiculous. Over a quarter of current emissions come from the transportation sector, second only to electrical generation. Electric cars bridge the gap; sure, if they're fueled primarily by coal they're not an orders of magnitude improvement, but as coal is replaced, they get cleaner without upgrades as their source of power gets cleaner. In the Pacific NW, they're way lower emission (because half the power is hydro), and across the U.S. they've been getting cleaner for years (as coal plants are replaced with natural gas, plus the incremental moves to wind and solar).
Despite your optimism, all commercially viable, scalable forms of biofuels to date have been at best marginal improvements (and often required engine replacements anyway; E85 ethanol destroys engines not designed to handle it); in practice, a gas engine doesn't get cleaner without replacing it, and that's tons of upgrades applied to every car. An electric engine becomes instantly cleaner the moment a coal plant is turned off, and anything else is turned on.
There is nothing terribly wrong with nuclear, but it works best in tandem with electric cars, and electric cars work well with any improvement on electrical generation, not just nuclear.
In practice, I've yet to see meaningful CPU on more than one of the processes. The "main" process appears to be threaded and can actually occupy most of two cores for some time if you're on high resource web pages, but the other processes never spike very high or for very long; I suspect they're not processing page related stuff, so page triggered CPU meltdowns can't touch them.
Not a problem here (Windows, 64 bit browser). Windows counts out of 100%, and on a quad core 2.4 GHz Skylake laptop, it peaked at around 25% of CPU when the video was first loading (~100% by your standards), then dropped to ~5% (~25% by your measurements). I do have GPU acceleration enabled, which might be reducing the overhead a bit, but we're talking laptop grade GPU here, so it likely doesn't help much.
They moved to 64 bit support even on Windows several releases ago. It would be pretty hard to bloat enough to occupy the 8 TB of user mode virtual address space currently available on 64 bit Windows without putting in some serious effort.
Firefox does seem to automatically clean places.sqlite. Not sure what the interval (or trigger) is, but I've got an about:config value, storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite, which seems to store an epoch time for the last time it was done. In my case, it corresponds to 24 Dec. 2016, or a little under a month ago. So they're not leaving it wholly uncleaned it appears.
Industrial scale solar power plants usually aren't photovoltaic, no silicon involved. Concentrating solar power is typically more efficient that photovoltaics at scale, and boils down to nothing more than mirrors that focus sunlight on a heat transfer medium; it's replacing burning coal with parabolic mirrors as a heat source. The environmental consequences are near zero. That said, you're still overstating the negative consequences of photovoltaics, but you know how to find the real info on that, and you know as well as I do that over a 20 year period, coal is dirtier than just about any other option.
That's what the canvas tag and WebGL are for; yes, you use DOM APIs to gain access, but the APIs for using them are essentially bypassing the complexity of the full DOM; canvas is a raster image, that's all, no internal interactions with CSS or the rest of the DOM, the DOM just positions the square and you draw into it directly.
As for "nobody is really going to develop new games inside a web browser", what do you think all the free to play stuff on Facebook is? Or every old Flash game? WebAssembly just means that you can write the same games in whatever Emscripten supported language you like, then cross-compile, instead of using Flash, hand-coding JS, etc. And that's before we get into playing abandonware games; cross-compile an emulator like DOSBox to WebAssembly, and you can serve the original game files directly, only the emulator needs to be cross-compiled. Archive.org has already done that for hundreds of games using asm.js
Did you even read the grandparent's examples? The U.S. has returned equipment like that to hostile countries before. Yeah, I assume any spy plane would be taken apart, recordings deleted or destroyed, etc., but it still gets returned, assuming the owners admit to it being theirs.
Funny how the KKK, an explicitly Christian organization, seems to find religious justification in terror and murder. Plus the attacks on abortion clinics and their staff and patients over the last few decades, perpetrated almost entirely by Christian terrorists. While not explicitly religiously motivated, the Oklahoma City bombings were definitely not the product of radical Islam. Nor the Charleston Church shootings. Nor hundreds of other attacks with explicitly terror oriented goals committed by Christians. While the 9/11 attacks were by far the most deadly, in terms of sheer numbers, attacks motivated by radical interpretations of Islam are still a tiny fraction of the total number of terrorist attacks in the United States. But we're not as frightened of our neighbors for some reason.
Hate to break it you, but the formation of the Moon probably didn't seed the solar system (or anywhere else) with life from Earth. The earliest single cell life forms likely date to around 3.6 billion years ago; the Theia impact hypothesis puts the collision around 4.4 to 4.5 billion years ago (and only 30-50 million years after the Solar System even began forming). Even if both estimates are off by a couple hundred million years, there is still no overlap. Earth was an uninhabitable ball of molten rock at the time, not remotely suitable for the initial development of life remotely like ours.
Funny, for all those "crazy Government mileage requirements", I find that the cost of new cars has generally risen at slower than the rate of inflation, even as they offer more features, better reliability, and (thanks to said mileage requirements) lower fuel costs.
Case example: My parents bought a Geo Prizm LSi (also marketed as the Toyota Corolla) back in 1990. At the time, it cost ~$12.3K. It was much smaller than the current Toyota Corolla, the electrical system sucked (adjusting the power windows dimmed the headlights and radio), etc. The LSi add-on features (power windows) are all standard now, the MPG has gone from 21-22/26-28 MPG city/highway under the old system (that rated all cars better than what you'd actually get), to 27-29/36-38 MPG under the new, more realistic rating system (and remember, the car is actually bigger now than it was), which reduces your fuel costs by a third or so. Yes, the cost is up, between $19.5K and $22K for most models (remember, the 2015 low end model is still better on features than the top end model of 1990). But that $12.3K from 1990 is ~$22.4K in 2015 dollars (according to U.S. Inflation Calculator). So the price actually dropped in inflation adjusted dollars, while the car got bigger, more efficient, and got more "luxury" features.
Remind me how big bad government mileage requirements are making cars so expensive?
I was responding to the point about the time and difficulty associated with the rebates (namely, there isn't any issue). You can dislike the Leaf (I think it's an awful car if it's your only car, but perfectly fine if it's a second car in a household where both people have short-medium length commutes), but it's silly to criticize a post that answers questions as asked.
Well, in MD, the check for the rebate ($3K IIRC; it was only $1K when I bought) comes in a month or two, and the dealership does the paperwork. You claim the federal $7500 credit on next year's income taxes (no additional paperwork beyond checking the box and providing a VIN IIRC). And if you have decent credit (I do), Nissan was giving $0 down, 0% interest six year loans. So I haven't paid a penny for my Leaf yet really; I'll hit "paid more than the credits gave me" in December of this year (having bought early last year).
The town already bans most transmitting devices. That's the whole point. The problem is that the wackos want stores to replace and/or disable lighting fixtures because of their "sensitivity", and they want staff in cafeterias to wait on them directly because they'd have to pass through lit areas to reach the food and don't want to. Read the article. I'm fine with self-treating psychosomatics, up until the point where they start imposing unreasonably on others.
The U.S. Constitution says no such thing. Quit making shit up. Article III, Section 3 (omitting the second half which is all about punishment, not conviction):
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
If you levy war against the U.S., it doesn't matter if the U.S. has declared war against you. And you don't actually have to be making war, that's just one way of being labelled a traitor.
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have a range of 400+ miles
Uh.....gas cars have ranges of 200-300 miles. Jacking up the requirements to make a point about EVs isn't exactly unbiased.
200-300? What kind of gas cars are you driving? I'll admit to limited experience (I'm currently in an early Leaf, and before that I drove Priuses and Geo Prisms), but every car I've ever owned could go at least 350 miles on a tank of gas, and most could make it to 400+ if you weren't spending all your time stuck in stop-and-go traffic. I assume 400-500 is what the industry as a whole is aiming for; the tank sizes seem to shrink as the mileage goes up, and vice versa, so a 45-50 MPG car like the Prius gets an 11 gallon tank, a 28-34 MPG car like the Camry gets a 14.5-16 gallon tank (smaller for higher MPG models), and a 21-22 MPG pickup like the Ford F150 gets a 23 gallon tank (standard; they have extended range versions with larger tanks). 400 mile range is not an unreasonable point of comparison; it's what almost every gas car can do.
Yeah, but almost everyone I've ever met who claims to be agnostic is really only agnostic about the god(s) they were brought up to believe in, typically the God of the Torah or the Christian Bible around my area. They reject out of hand all the gods from other religions, living and dead. That was my whole point; I (and most people) are fairly comfortable rejecting the existence of Thor (at least as an actual deity, rather than a euhemerized hero) out of hand, making us atheists at least with regard to Thor, yet Solandri is claiming this is somehow a form of "faith", rather than the natural reaction to absurd claims with no connection to observable reality.
Yes atheism is a faith. You cannot prove a negative, at least not without investigating every single possibility, so you cannot realistically prove there is no god. You can be agnostic without needing faith - uncertain or doubtful if there is a god. But to be atheist - convinced that there is no god - requires a leap of faith.
So you're sticking with agnosticism on Thor I assume? And Shiva? And Quetzalcoatl? Because you wouldn't want to make unjustified leaps of faith, right?
Except the actively managed fund "experts" aren't actually any better at predicting the market. After fees, actively managed funds underperform low fee index funds with similar investment goals two-thirds of the time. And no, that doesn't mean one-third of actively managed funds are better than index funds; the overperforming funds change each year, and over 10 year periods, and the index funds win over 90% of the time.
So your premise is that index funds are free riders benefiting from the research of more informed investors, yet if that were the case, they should, by definition, underperform the actively managed funds since the index funds should in theory be buying lower and selling higher (since the index funds are always riding coattails, as it were, buying after others buy, and selling after they sell). And all that money in index funds should, by your theory, be making informed investment choices even more lucrative. Yet that's not how it goes in practice. In practice, even as the fees on actively managed funds have gone down, they've continued to underperform the index funds. The only way your theory jives with reality is if the majority of the so-called "informed" investors, including professional fund managers, have no real idea what they're doing (Note: Not going to dispute that possibility).
Exactly how was he responsible for that? He offered a simpler product, at lower cost, to people that were losing other investment and retirement options for reasons he had no control over (the death of pensions). Nobody was forced to use his products. I agree the state of the American retirement system has gone downhill, but you can hardly blame him for making the slower shallower.
South Dakota wants everyone else to obey their sales tax laws, whether or not they're located in South Dakota, while at the same time benefiting from usury laws not being enforceable across state lines. There's a reason most credit cards in the U.S. are issued from child corporations in South Dakota: South Dakota allows effectively unlimited interest rates on credit cards. They're perfectly fine with state-by-state enforcement when it benefits them.
Claiming electric cars don't really solve anything while nuclear does is ridiculous. Over a quarter of current emissions come from the transportation sector, second only to electrical generation. Electric cars bridge the gap; sure, if they're fueled primarily by coal they're not an orders of magnitude improvement, but as coal is replaced, they get cleaner without upgrades as their source of power gets cleaner. In the Pacific NW, they're way lower emission (because half the power is hydro), and across the U.S. they've been getting cleaner for years (as coal plants are replaced with natural gas, plus the incremental moves to wind and solar).
Despite your optimism, all commercially viable, scalable forms of biofuels to date have been at best marginal improvements (and often required engine replacements anyway; E85 ethanol destroys engines not designed to handle it); in practice, a gas engine doesn't get cleaner without replacing it, and that's tons of upgrades applied to every car. An electric engine becomes instantly cleaner the moment a coal plant is turned off, and anything else is turned on.
There is nothing terribly wrong with nuclear, but it works best in tandem with electric cars, and electric cars work well with any improvement on electrical generation, not just nuclear.
In practice, I've yet to see meaningful CPU on more than one of the processes. The "main" process appears to be threaded and can actually occupy most of two cores for some time if you're on high resource web pages, but the other processes never spike very high or for very long; I suspect they're not processing page related stuff, so page triggered CPU meltdowns can't touch them.
Not a problem here (Windows, 64 bit browser). Windows counts out of 100%, and on a quad core 2.4 GHz Skylake laptop, it peaked at around 25% of CPU when the video was first loading (~100% by your standards), then dropped to ~5% (~25% by your measurements). I do have GPU acceleration enabled, which might be reducing the overhead a bit, but we're talking laptop grade GPU here, so it likely doesn't help much.
They moved to 64 bit support even on Windows several releases ago. It would be pretty hard to bloat enough to occupy the 8 TB of user mode virtual address space currently available on 64 bit Windows without putting in some serious effort.
Firefox does seem to automatically clean places.sqlite. Not sure what the interval (or trigger) is, but I've got an about:config value, storage.vacuum.last.places.sqlite, which seems to store an epoch time for the last time it was done. In my case, it corresponds to 24 Dec. 2016, or a little under a month ago. So they're not leaving it wholly uncleaned it appears.
Industrial scale solar power plants usually aren't photovoltaic, no silicon involved. Concentrating solar power is typically more efficient that photovoltaics at scale, and boils down to nothing more than mirrors that focus sunlight on a heat transfer medium; it's replacing burning coal with parabolic mirrors as a heat source. The environmental consequences are near zero. That said, you're still overstating the negative consequences of photovoltaics, but you know how to find the real info on that, and you know as well as I do that over a 20 year period, coal is dirtier than just about any other option.
Inability to completely solve the problem means we should not even attempt to reduce the scale of the problem? That's your argument? Really?
That's what the canvas tag and WebGL are for; yes, you use DOM APIs to gain access, but the APIs for using them are essentially bypassing the complexity of the full DOM; canvas is a raster image, that's all, no internal interactions with CSS or the rest of the DOM, the DOM just positions the square and you draw into it directly.
As for "nobody is really going to develop new games inside a web browser", what do you think all the free to play stuff on Facebook is? Or every old Flash game? WebAssembly just means that you can write the same games in whatever Emscripten supported language you like, then cross-compile, instead of using Flash, hand-coding JS, etc. And that's before we get into playing abandonware games; cross-compile an emulator like DOSBox to WebAssembly, and you can serve the original game files directly, only the emulator needs to be cross-compiled. Archive.org has already done that for hundreds of games using asm.js
Did you even read the grandparent's examples? The U.S. has returned equipment like that to hostile countries before. Yeah, I assume any spy plane would be taken apart, recordings deleted or destroyed, etc., but it still gets returned, assuming the owners admit to it being theirs.
the best public education system in the South.
Setting the bar real high there, ain'tcha?
Funny how the KKK, an explicitly Christian organization, seems to find religious justification in terror and murder. Plus the attacks on abortion clinics and their staff and patients over the last few decades, perpetrated almost entirely by Christian terrorists. While not explicitly religiously motivated, the Oklahoma City bombings were definitely not the product of radical Islam. Nor the Charleston Church shootings. Nor hundreds of other attacks with explicitly terror oriented goals committed by Christians. While the 9/11 attacks were by far the most deadly, in terms of sheer numbers, attacks motivated by radical interpretations of Islam are still a tiny fraction of the total number of terrorist attacks in the United States. But we're not as frightened of our neighbors for some reason.
Hate to break it you, but the formation of the Moon probably didn't seed the solar system (or anywhere else) with life from Earth. The earliest single cell life forms likely date to around 3.6 billion years ago; the Theia impact hypothesis puts the collision around 4.4 to 4.5 billion years ago (and only 30-50 million years after the Solar System even began forming). Even if both estimates are off by a couple hundred million years, there is still no overlap. Earth was an uninhabitable ball of molten rock at the time, not remotely suitable for the initial development of life remotely like ours.
No points, but I laughed out loud when I saw this, so a virtual +1 Funny from me.
Funny, for all those "crazy Government mileage requirements", I find that the cost of new cars has generally risen at slower than the rate of inflation, even as they offer more features, better reliability, and (thanks to said mileage requirements) lower fuel costs.
Case example: My parents bought a Geo Prizm LSi (also marketed as the Toyota Corolla) back in 1990. At the time, it cost ~$12.3K. It was much smaller than the current Toyota Corolla, the electrical system sucked (adjusting the power windows dimmed the headlights and radio), etc. The LSi add-on features (power windows) are all standard now, the MPG has gone from 21-22/26-28 MPG city/highway under the old system (that rated all cars better than what you'd actually get), to 27-29/36-38 MPG under the new, more realistic rating system (and remember, the car is actually bigger now than it was), which reduces your fuel costs by a third or so. Yes, the cost is up, between $19.5K and $22K for most models (remember, the 2015 low end model is still better on features than the top end model of 1990). But that $12.3K from 1990 is ~$22.4K in 2015 dollars (according to U.S. Inflation Calculator). So the price actually dropped in inflation adjusted dollars, while the car got bigger, more efficient, and got more "luxury" features.
Remind me how big bad government mileage requirements are making cars so expensive?
I was responding to the point about the time and difficulty associated with the rebates (namely, there isn't any issue). You can dislike the Leaf (I think it's an awful car if it's your only car, but perfectly fine if it's a second car in a household where both people have short-medium length commutes), but it's silly to criticize a post that answers questions as asked.
Well, in MD, the check for the rebate ($3K IIRC; it was only $1K when I bought) comes in a month or two, and the dealership does the paperwork. You claim the federal $7500 credit on next year's income taxes (no additional paperwork beyond checking the box and providing a VIN IIRC). And if you have decent credit (I do), Nissan was giving $0 down, 0% interest six year loans. So I haven't paid a penny for my Leaf yet really; I'll hit "paid more than the credits gave me" in December of this year (having bought early last year).
The town already bans most transmitting devices. That's the whole point. The problem is that the wackos want stores to replace and/or disable lighting fixtures because of their "sensitivity", and they want staff in cafeterias to wait on them directly because they'd have to pass through lit areas to reach the food and don't want to. Read the article. I'm fine with self-treating psychosomatics, up until the point where they start imposing unreasonably on others.
Did what? What on Earth does Britain have to do with OPM hacks?
If you levy war against the U.S., it doesn't matter if the U.S. has declared war against you. And you don't actually have to be making war, that's just one way of being labelled a traitor.