California has nearly 100MW of grid scale storage with more on the way, from Tesla and another grid scale storage vendor, Hawaii has ~40MW grid scale storage, Australia has ~20MW of grid scale storage and is adding another 100MW of grid scale storage. That's just battery tech. Japan has a mothballed 80MW seawater hydroelectric gridscale storage, there's an active rail gravity storage system already built in California and Nevada wants to build a 20MW version. California is looking at adding at least another 100MW of gridscale storage over the next 20 years, and that's just what's already approved. As solar ramps up in California they'll have to start adding gridscale storage 2:1 for solar added.
It's a major piece of public policy, yes it doesn't cost anything (today) but it puts China firmly on the pro side of the Paris climate agreement. China is either #1 or #2 in nearly any statistic that matters, people are going to pay attention to this, and companies are going to have to take this in to account when designing tooling for cars, maybe not today, but certainly in 10 years. A lot of tooling that gets built is run for 20+ years.
There's going to be a big shift in designing cars as 100% gas or hybrid electric to "must be designed to be electric only" here in the next 10 years, and nobody wants to get stuck with hundreds of millions of dollars in tooling that can only make a banned product. As soon as you start producing cars capable of running electric-only, you might as well offer them in electric-only because... why not? Initiating a ban, no matter how far out, is going to push businesses to start making the necessary investments now, which is only going to accelerate electric vehicle adoption.
Except that drones are far easier to assemble than a calculator these days.
People are already building drones that can lift a human in their back yard, hopefully this is only for dones with a lift capacity of > 10 kilos or something.
I've been experiencing a similar issue in the last week since i applied a security patch with my Pixel using Project Fi (I'm still on Android N), when on wifi at home it will switch to mobile data and stay that way, I've been turning off mobile data at home and it's fixed it for me. Seems to cost me about 20-100mb/day of data otherwise. I got the option to upgrade to O, but... yeah fuck that, I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. Going to wait another two weeks probably and let them sort this shit out, someone else can be their guinea pig.
I deal with these things daily, ride my bike in traffic with them daily, they're just cautiously driven cars. Maybe when you finally see and interact with one you will understand.
In the case you state,that was me, I was facing with the direction of traffic, about 2' from the road at the crosswalk, then turned 180 degrees to face traffic. The car sensed that I was changing direction (lidar is amazing, can track rotation of objects) and towards the lane. By the time my right foot hit the ground (about 8" closer to the curb) the car came to a stop, it had decided there was a good chance I was going to enter the crosswalk.
Now, granted, I did NOT step in to the crosswalk, but the important thing here is that it saw my change in direction and picked up my foot and started moving closer to the street, near a crosswalk. It predicted that I was going to enter the crosswalk and so it stopped, rather than risk running me over. How cool is that?
These cars aren't just stopping and starting in a herky-jerky motion, they're keeping track of everything on the street and their relative motion to the street. I'm sure after that event the engineers tweaked the predictive levels for stopping the car, but overall I feel extremely safe around them and trust them quite a bit more than humans at this point. The drivers are generally pretty chilled out, attentive, but not having a bad time being driven about.
Well until competent drivers are able to drive 100% of the time distraction free, we're going to have to look for alternatives.
Driving on 8 hours good sleep with a cup of coffee in you, and no passengers driving below the speed limit, sure humans are great, but the number of times that happens is a lot lower than most people would like to admit. Maybe you follow the rules, but do you trust everyone else to as well?
I think what we're going to find is that when cars don't have to deal with fussy/loud children, not getting enough sleep, being too drunk/high, thinking about their ex breaking up with them last week, getting/not getting that raise/promotion etc etc and it can just concentrate on driving.... that self driving cars are already way, way more safe than slow meat-based human drivers. And they'll only continue to improve. Yes, there will be the inevitable fatality where the automated car kills a human, but working in Mountain View (where google does their self driving car testing) I'm nearly run over by inattentive human drivers all the time. The automated cars are so wary of me as a pedestrian that they stop a full 20-30 feet away even before I leave the curb.
Our whole company was using VPN back in 2012 and it was considered standard practice at that point. Every company I've dealt with since then has also had VPN.
I've worked a variety of jobs since I was 16, from smoothie shop cashier, chocolate shop cashier, movie theater projectionist, office temping, SEO marketer, and for the last decade variety of software development roles, only one of the SEO marketer (did this at two companies) jobs asked me to do a piss test. I worked in a "at will" state meaning either employer or employee could cancel the work agreement at any time for any reason. Might be more difficult in a union-heavy state like in the rust belt.
They release Tango a while back, but only two phones support it due to needing two cameras and a specific distance sensor; this version is mostly the same but only needs a single camera (which most phones, including their flagship Pixel and the S8 have but one) and a more basic laser rangefinder. This opens up the same technology they already paid to have developed, to a much wider set of phones; no doubt they'll want to introduce this in to the daydream ecosystem at some point which they're also heavily invested in.
I don't think they copied apple, they just poured a thick coat of marketing gloss paint over top of some technology they already had and removed the hard requirement of a second camera and precise distance sensor and re-released it under a name that matches modern naming conventions for this technology.
I watch youtube videos at 2x with subtitles on, 1.5x if no subtitles and the guy has a thick accent. It takes maybe a full day to adjust, but once you do, you can never go back to 1x video. People spend about half their time thinking about what they're going to say next it's awful once you realize it. Also works wonders for online training courses.
This is amazing if it's true. I hate visiting a news site to read a particular article, and some live news feed, or the video version of the article starts playing. I think that within a month I'll have blacklisted 99% of the offending sites and won't have to browse with my computer's audio muted anymore. What a time to be alive!
Unless you're in the Northeast, $600 will buy you a ticket to anywhere in central america, anywhere in the northern half of south america, and most of southeast asia. If you're on the east coast, you can sometimes fly to Spain for that.
If there's a 2% noticeable difference between the $150 phone, and the $650 phone, is that $500 difference going to be worth the opportunity cost of traveling somewhere new and interesting for a weekend? Or getting that cavity filled? Sending your kids to summer camp for two weeks? Maybe you're 23 with a college degree, no responsibilities and unlimited disposable income, but that's a boat payment for me. I have hobbies and uses for $500. A phone is a phone, and the quality difference is almost impossible to tell the difference; my pixel next to my moto G4 requires knowledge of which one has a textured power button. Don't let marketing delude you.
Halo phones were good enough in 2013 with the advent of the Nexus 4, I don't see a whole lot of improvements over this compared to the Nexus 5. The Nexus 5 was so good that the Nexus 5x was a bit of a downgrade, and now my Pixel... well i still don't like it as much as the Nexus 5.
Maybe I'm getting too old, but the only reason I buy a new halo phone is because my old halo phone died a horrible death or was stolen.
Who are they marketing to? Is it the 20-something group? There's no brand on this, and the brand, if it were branded is so small nobody will have heard of it to be impressed. Or you can buy an existing Halo Phone like a samsung or an apple and get a great phone.... I have yet to see a phone released in a couple of years that won't do everything from snapchat to games to netflix. The Moto G4 I had while I was waiting for my Pixel to arrive (after the 5X did the bootloop thing over Christmas) feels just as fast as the Pixel, and it's less slippery to hold.
Other than the quality of the camera, I just don't see the point of buying a halo phone anymore. It's just not worth it. It's like, what brand socks do you wear? Do you care? Are your feet warm and dry, or not? It's hard to tell from minute to minute exactly how warm your feet are under normal circumstances. Will it text, call, facebook and netflix? Ok, great. I don't care who makes it or what it's made out of as long as the battery will last until morning for my alarm to go off.
I don't like the idea of enforcing freedom of speech upon private companies, but as far as I'm aware, there does not yet exist a branch of the government that provides domain registrar services and web server hosting. To speak out against my government all I need to do is put on some shoes, steal a milk crate, and walk down to the town square and let everyone know what I think. For access to the global internet, there's no way to share your message with others without going through some private company acting as a gatekeeper of speech first.
This is sort of what I was thinking of. If you're trapped in your house, and have a phone that can only receive calls, and suddenly your phone is removed from every phonebook, every phone index, even if everyone disagreed with you, how would they be able to find you to hear your opinion?
Sure freedom of speech is specifically limited to government, but DNS is managed by private companies, and effectively all access to the internet and DNS is provided through private companies, not the government. If you can't register your domain on the internet, you don't have a voice here anymore.
The internet has always been an open discussion forum of all ideas.
I dislike the idea of posting hate speech online just as much as the next, and in principle I agree with what GoDaddy and Google did here, however if you can cancel someone's domain over unapproved speech, what protections do others have with holding their domains when they speak ill of the government of otherwise? Restricting speech is a slippery slope, if you remove it for one nutjob (like GoDaddy and Google did here), however awful it might be, you're opening the door for the government to shut down other domains that are critical of them.
Is Hate Speech very specifically called out as an exception to freedom of speech? I'm curious what their rationale is here, and how easily others can link this case to shutting down other people's view points on the internet as well.
Would love to hear how this is or is not a slippery slope towards censorship. Thanks.
Living in Dallas, I bought myself a bike, then started using Uber to get to work. Since parking downtown is $5 a day, once you factor in insurance, gas and maintenance, it was actually cheaper for me. Parked my car in the garage, let the insurance lapse... Finally sold the car. With all the money I saved, went to Europe for two weeks.
Sure, but the street grid will never change (at least not significantly), residential density won't change (much) and cities on major waterways/ports typically thrive for centuries if not millennia (See Istanbul, Alexandria, London, Paris, Rome). Even if their contracts are for 50 years, they're saving time and labor measured over hundreds of years.
And Showtime, and HBO, and AMC. That doesn't even cover specialty stuff like Spanish telenovelas, Spanish football/Soccer, and I'd imagine Japanese xyz stuff. Plus NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, Formula 1, etc etc ad nauseum
I don't have time or budget to deal with more than two paid streaming services. Billing, passwords, setting up and maintaining devices, etc is a real hassle.If it's not on either service, I am not going to watch it. Period.
I have Netflix, and I have Amazon Prime*
This is plenty, I can watch 99% of what I want, and if it's critically important (movie night with friends), we'll do a 24 hour streaming rental. Maybe when we have kids we'll dump netflix for disney, but until that day, we'll just stop watching disney movies. It's just not worth it as an adult with limited free time, a commute and other priorities.
*We do have HBO now, through Prime, but we're huge Game of Thrones nerds, and it bills/streams through the Amazon Prime app so it's pretty low hassle
Very insightful, thanks for pointing that out. I wonder if Facebook has considered using your business plan? It seems like a sound business idea, rather than just giving away expensive services for free at a cost to your business. Great idea!
Yep, I interviewed at another company, it came out about halfway through that the reason why they're profitable is that they provide a free VPN service, then monitor mobile app traffic over the VPN to get aggregate use stats on various top 1000 apps and then sell that usage info. The world's largest investment banks are buying up this data to determine if they want to buy or sell stocks like Snapchat, etc.
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California has nearly 100MW of grid scale storage with more on the way, from Tesla and another grid scale storage vendor, Hawaii has ~40MW grid scale storage, Australia has ~20MW of grid scale storage and is adding another 100MW of grid scale storage. That's just battery tech. Japan has a mothballed 80MW seawater hydroelectric gridscale storage, there's an active rail gravity storage system already built in California and Nevada wants to build a 20MW version. California is looking at adding at least another 100MW of gridscale storage over the next 20 years, and that's just what's already approved. As solar ramps up in California they'll have to start adding gridscale storage 2:1 for solar added.
It's a major piece of public policy, yes it doesn't cost anything (today) but it puts China firmly on the pro side of the Paris climate agreement. China is either #1 or #2 in nearly any statistic that matters, people are going to pay attention to this, and companies are going to have to take this in to account when designing tooling for cars, maybe not today, but certainly in 10 years. A lot of tooling that gets built is run for 20+ years.
There's going to be a big shift in designing cars as 100% gas or hybrid electric to "must be designed to be electric only" here in the next 10 years, and nobody wants to get stuck with hundreds of millions of dollars in tooling that can only make a banned product. As soon as you start producing cars capable of running electric-only, you might as well offer them in electric-only because... why not? Initiating a ban, no matter how far out, is going to push businesses to start making the necessary investments now, which is only going to accelerate electric vehicle adoption.
Except that drones are far easier to assemble than a calculator these days.
People are already building drones that can lift a human in their back yard, hopefully this is only for dones with a lift capacity of > 10 kilos or something.
I've been experiencing a similar issue in the last week since i applied a security patch with my Pixel using Project Fi (I'm still on Android N), when on wifi at home it will switch to mobile data and stay that way, I've been turning off mobile data at home and it's fixed it for me. Seems to cost me about 20-100mb/day of data otherwise. I got the option to upgrade to O, but... yeah fuck that, I was waiting for the other shoe to drop. Going to wait another two weeks probably and let them sort this shit out, someone else can be their guinea pig.
I deal with these things daily, ride my bike in traffic with them daily, they're just cautiously driven cars. Maybe when you finally see and interact with one you will understand.
,that was me, I was facing with the direction of traffic, about 2' from the road at the crosswalk, then turned 180 degrees to face traffic. The car sensed that I was changing direction (lidar is amazing, can track rotation of objects) and towards the lane. By the time my right foot hit the ground (about 8" closer to the curb) the car came to a stop, it had decided there was a good chance I was going to enter the crosswalk.
In the case you state
Now, granted, I did NOT step in to the crosswalk, but the important thing here is that it saw my change in direction and picked up my foot and started moving closer to the street, near a crosswalk. It predicted that I was going to enter the crosswalk and so it stopped, rather than risk running me over. How cool is that?
These cars aren't just stopping and starting in a herky-jerky motion, they're keeping track of everything on the street and their relative motion to the street. I'm sure after that event the engineers tweaked the predictive levels for stopping the car, but overall I feel extremely safe around them and trust them quite a bit more than humans at this point. The drivers are generally pretty chilled out, attentive, but not having a bad time being driven about.
Well until competent drivers are able to drive 100% of the time distraction free, we're going to have to look for alternatives.
Driving on 8 hours good sleep with a cup of coffee in you, and no passengers driving below the speed limit, sure humans are great, but the number of times that happens is a lot lower than most people would like to admit. Maybe you follow the rules, but do you trust everyone else to as well?
I think what we're going to find is that when cars don't have to deal with fussy/loud children, not getting enough sleep, being too drunk/high, thinking about their ex breaking up with them last week, getting/not getting that raise/promotion etc etc and it can just concentrate on driving.... that self driving cars are already way, way more safe than slow meat-based human drivers. And they'll only continue to improve. Yes, there will be the inevitable fatality where the automated car kills a human, but working in Mountain View (where google does their self driving car testing) I'm nearly run over by inattentive human drivers all the time. The automated cars are so wary of me as a pedestrian that they stop a full 20-30 feet away even before I leave the curb.
Our whole company was using VPN back in 2012 and it was considered standard practice at that point. Every company I've dealt with since then has also had VPN.
I've worked a variety of jobs since I was 16, from smoothie shop cashier, chocolate shop cashier, movie theater projectionist, office temping, SEO marketer, and for the last decade variety of software development roles, only one of the SEO marketer (did this at two companies) jobs asked me to do a piss test. I worked in a "at will" state meaning either employer or employee could cancel the work agreement at any time for any reason. Might be more difficult in a union-heavy state like in the rust belt.
They release Tango a while back, but only two phones support it due to needing two cameras and a specific distance sensor; this version is mostly the same but only needs a single camera (which most phones, including their flagship Pixel and the S8 have but one) and a more basic laser rangefinder. This opens up the same technology they already paid to have developed, to a much wider set of phones; no doubt they'll want to introduce this in to the daydream ecosystem at some point which they're also heavily invested in.
I don't think they copied apple, they just poured a thick coat of marketing gloss paint over top of some technology they already had and removed the hard requirement of a second camera and precise distance sensor and re-released it under a name that matches modern naming conventions for this technology.
I watch youtube videos at 2x with subtitles on, 1.5x if no subtitles and the guy has a thick accent. It takes maybe a full day to adjust, but once you do, you can never go back to 1x video. People spend about half their time thinking about what they're going to say next it's awful once you realize it. Also works wonders for online training courses.
This is amazing if it's true. I hate visiting a news site to read a particular article, and some live news feed, or the video version of the article starts playing. I think that within a month I'll have blacklisted 99% of the offending sites and won't have to browse with my computer's audio muted anymore. What a time to be alive!
No wireless charging. My Nexus 4 had it way back in 2012, Nexus 5 had it too. If you've used it, you know it's the greatest thing ever.
Unless you're in the Northeast, $600 will buy you a ticket to anywhere in central america, anywhere in the northern half of south america, and most of southeast asia. If you're on the east coast, you can sometimes fly to Spain for that.
If there's a 2% noticeable difference between the $150 phone, and the $650 phone, is that $500 difference going to be worth the opportunity cost of traveling somewhere new and interesting for a weekend? Or getting that cavity filled? Sending your kids to summer camp for two weeks? Maybe you're 23 with a college degree, no responsibilities and unlimited disposable income, but that's a boat payment for me. I have hobbies and uses for $500. A phone is a phone, and the quality difference is almost impossible to tell the difference; my pixel next to my moto G4 requires knowledge of which one has a textured power button. Don't let marketing delude you.
Halo phones were good enough in 2013 with the advent of the Nexus 4, I don't see a whole lot of improvements over this compared to the Nexus 5. The Nexus 5 was so good that the Nexus 5x was a bit of a downgrade, and now my Pixel... well i still don't like it as much as the Nexus 5.
Maybe I'm getting too old, but the only reason I buy a new halo phone is because my old halo phone died a horrible death or was stolen.
Who are they marketing to? Is it the 20-something group? There's no brand on this, and the brand, if it were branded is so small nobody will have heard of it to be impressed. Or you can buy an existing Halo Phone like a samsung or an apple and get a great phone.... I have yet to see a phone released in a couple of years that won't do everything from snapchat to games to netflix. The Moto G4 I had while I was waiting for my Pixel to arrive (after the 5X did the bootloop thing over Christmas) feels just as fast as the Pixel, and it's less slippery to hold.
Other than the quality of the camera, I just don't see the point of buying a halo phone anymore. It's just not worth it. It's like, what brand socks do you wear? Do you care? Are your feet warm and dry, or not? It's hard to tell from minute to minute exactly how warm your feet are under normal circumstances. Will it text, call, facebook and netflix? Ok, great. I don't care who makes it or what it's made out of as long as the battery will last until morning for my alarm to go off.
I don't like the idea of enforcing freedom of speech upon private companies, but as far as I'm aware, there does not yet exist a branch of the government that provides domain registrar services and web server hosting. To speak out against my government all I need to do is put on some shoes, steal a milk crate, and walk down to the town square and let everyone know what I think. For access to the global internet, there's no way to share your message with others without going through some private company acting as a gatekeeper of speech first.
This is sort of what I was thinking of. If you're trapped in your house, and have a phone that can only receive calls, and suddenly your phone is removed from every phonebook, every phone index, even if everyone disagreed with you, how would they be able to find you to hear your opinion?
Sure freedom of speech is specifically limited to government, but DNS is managed by private companies, and effectively all access to the internet and DNS is provided through private companies, not the government. If you can't register your domain on the internet, you don't have a voice here anymore.
The internet has always been an open discussion forum of all ideas.
I dislike the idea of posting hate speech online just as much as the next, and in principle I agree with what GoDaddy and Google did here, however if you can cancel someone's domain over unapproved speech, what protections do others have with holding their domains when they speak ill of the government of otherwise? Restricting speech is a slippery slope, if you remove it for one nutjob (like GoDaddy and Google did here), however awful it might be, you're opening the door for the government to shut down other domains that are critical of them.
Is Hate Speech very specifically called out as an exception to freedom of speech? I'm curious what their rationale is here, and how easily others can link this case to shutting down other people's view points on the internet as well.
Would love to hear how this is or is not a slippery slope towards censorship. Thanks.
Living in Dallas, I bought myself a bike, then started using Uber to get to work. Since parking downtown is $5 a day, once you factor in insurance, gas and maintenance, it was actually cheaper for me. Parked my car in the garage, let the insurance lapse... Finally sold the car. With all the money I saved, went to Europe for two weeks.
Sure, but the street grid will never change (at least not significantly), residential density won't change (much) and cities on major waterways/ports typically thrive for centuries if not millennia (See Istanbul, Alexandria, London, Paris, Rome). Even if their contracts are for 50 years, they're saving time and labor measured over hundreds of years.
And Showtime, and HBO, and AMC. That doesn't even cover specialty stuff like Spanish telenovelas, Spanish football/Soccer, and I'd imagine Japanese xyz stuff. Plus NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NASCAR, Formula 1, etc etc ad nauseum
I don't have time or budget to deal with more than two paid streaming services. Billing, passwords, setting up and maintaining devices, etc is a real hassle.If it's not on either service, I am not going to watch it. Period.
I have Netflix, and I have Amazon Prime*
This is plenty, I can watch 99% of what I want, and if it's critically important (movie night with friends), we'll do a 24 hour streaming rental. Maybe when we have kids we'll dump netflix for disney, but until that day, we'll just stop watching disney movies. It's just not worth it as an adult with limited free time, a commute and other priorities.
*We do have HBO now, through Prime, but we're huge Game of Thrones nerds, and it bills/streams through the Amazon Prime app so it's pretty low hassle
Very insightful, thanks for pointing that out. I wonder if Facebook has considered using your business plan? It seems like a sound business idea, rather than just giving away expensive services for free at a cost to your business. Great idea!
Yep, I interviewed at another company, it came out about halfway through that the reason why they're profitable is that they provide a free VPN service, then monitor mobile app traffic over the VPN to get aggregate use stats on various top 1000 apps and then sell that usage info. The world's largest investment banks are buying up this data to determine if they want to buy or sell stocks like Snapchat, etc.
WeChat is about 90% the size of WhatsApp.