I would be surprised if even half of the Democrats I know will vote for Hillary ever.
Wait until October, with the nightmarish prospect of four years under Trump just a few weeks away. They may not want to vote for Hillary, but I'd bet good money they'll do it anyway just to keep Trump out of power.
They paid for either a service or an obfuscated, single purpose binary. For all Coomey knows it was leprechaun magic.
I like to imagine that this third-party company received the iPhone from the FBI, wiped it clean, renamed it to "Sayed's iPhone", installed Angry Birds, then handed it back to the FBI, saying "here, it's unlocked now!" and collected their million-dollar fee.
Whatever your anonymous trash talk might be Your doubt and hate fuels the very fire of people of Musk's ilk. They love to prove you wrong. So thank you for degrading yourselves for the public good.
See? We're helping already! We're the reverse-psychology cheerleaders of the clean-energy market!;^)
So they're going to take the same flawed control system and drop it into a bus that weighs in at 28-33,000 lbs?
Yes, they are. And they are going to test the hell out of it, and not put it on public streets until they are pretty damned sure it won't kill someone and get them sued into bankruptcy.
It's not difficult to understand, as long as you realize you're not the only smart person in the world. It's not like they haven't considered the risks -- they aren't just going to throw a self-driving bus onto the streets tomorrow and hope for the best.
That's not a failure, that's a triumph of Capitalism. Not requiring people to fulfil current jobs but automating all of that away would be an enormous testament to the virtue of Capitalism, its ability to produce everything that people need without requiring those people to do the tasks themselves. It's basically paradise.
It's paradise if you have some sort of income, sure. But capitalism does not (AFAICT) provide any remedy for those who have no income because they have been rendered unemployable. Either there will have to be some sort of non-capitalist way to provide them with money (e.g. UBI or some other form of welfare), or they will have to resort to stealing to support themselves.
Half the fun of Facebook is presenting yourself to your friends as a much cooler person than you actually are. How am I going to manage that when there's a live video feed showing them all my dorky self doing the talking?
Less than a decade ago,/. went into meltdown because a Swedish car company proposed that future cars would have welded hoods (bonnets) and not be user serviceable.
Looks like the prediction was wrong, though. Future cars will instead let you store your luggage under the hood, since there's no need to put an engine there anymore.
If UBI feels anything like being on disability, nobody wants it. I am constantly on the brink of insolvency because, although the money will always be there, allowing me to use it on some frivolous bullshit, it stops if I do something sensible
UBI is a modest amount of money that every person receives each month, no matter what they do or don't do. Therefore it avoids the various perverse incentives that come with needs-based benefits.
If an able bodied/able minded person continually makes bad decisions that put their livlihood in jeopardy or worse yet, plain out refuse to work, then they NEED a little hunger incentive. Hunger to better yourself YOURSELF or go hungry.
The problem with that logic is, in order to better yourself you need to take risks -- but if the potential consequence taking a risk is starvation, you can't afford to take any risks. That means you end up working your entire life in an unskilled job because you can't afford the risk of starting your own business, or going to school to learn new skills.
The problem will only get worse in the future, when there will be a sizable (and continually growing) subset of the population who are literally unemployable because they don't have any skills that a robot can't do better and/or cheaper. For them, no amount of motivation will improve their financial condition; education might, but even that only goes so far. If your only solution is to let them starve, then their solution will be to kill you and take your money.
There's only one thing to do... pack one of these things onto Elon's next rocket launch and see whether it can move itself around or not. The proof is in the pudding...
We'll eventually find out we really live in a simulation...
If you ever find yourself experiencing an uncontrollable urge to do something you wouldn't normally do, it's probably because you're being clicked-and-dragged.
There were Muslims dancing in the street during and after 9/11. Maybe not in New Jersey, or even on US soil, but they were certainly dancing in the streets of several of the Islamic countries.
Granted, but here's the exact quote from Trump:
"Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering. [...] There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down."
The problem with Trump is, the above quote isn't even a lie. When he said it, he genuinely believed it to be the truth, because it fit the narrative of his worldview and therefore didn't need to be verified -- and when it was pointed out to him that his 'memory' is of something that never actually happened, he said, essentially: no thanks, I prefer my fabrication over reality.
That's just the sort of emotion-based magical thinking we don't need anywhere near the levers of power, lest it marches us back into another fiasco like the Iraq War, or worse.
800 miles above the surface of the planet, living in a fucking TENT! "No space debris could possibly puncture the fabric walls of this baby"
The 'fabric' in that 'tent' is more puncture-resistant than the existing walls of the space station. Bigelow over-engineered the hell out of it to minimize its likelihood of failure.
No, you won't be selling it for any appreciable amount. What will actually happen is they'll give you a small fraction of what the battery is worth - maybe 5-10% to recycle it if they give you anything at all.
If the battery is completely non-functional, that's true, but in many (most?) cases, the battery still works fine, it's just no longer storing enough charge to be worth carrying around in a car. In that case, the battery still has value as a fixed-installation energy storage device and can be sold at a higher price (dunno how much higher yet) to those who are setting up battery backup/energy storage systems for solar arrays, utility-scale energy storage, etc.
I expect that by the time your model 3's battery is worn out, there will be a significant non-automotive market for "used" car batteries.
Damn it Google, just pick a fucking language already and make it an option as an alternate to Javascript on the browser.
I thought the trick for web browsers was to pick your own favorite fucking language, and compile it to JavaScript for deployment? Then every programmer can use whatever language he/she prefers, rather than everybody having to use the same language.
Of course, this article isn't about web browsers, it's about application development.
I mean, 8 years and your battery is almost a brick right?
No. It will have reduced capacity, but it will still be functional. The quoted estimate is around a 30% reduction in capacity after 8 years.
If the reduced capacity is great enough to be covered by the warranty, then Tesla will replace the battery for you. If not, you will have the option of either using the battery as-is, or purchasing a better replacement yourself (which will probably be expensive, but less expensive in 8 years than it is now since battery prices keep decreasing).
A gas car you can keep going for 15 to 20 years.
Modulo maintenance, gas, and the various parts you will have to repair or replace, or course.
This must cost a lot. What is being gained, does it make economic sense ? If the actual results don't financially justify it - then they should not do it.
At what point do you measure the "actual results"? Any time you take that measurement, you're implicitly assuming that no further benefits will ever be obtained, and therefore the value of all potential future benefits is zero.
By that logic, nobody would ever go to school, since you can't bring in any income by studying. After the first semester, everybody would drop out because it doesn't make economic sense when you could be making money working full time at McDonald's instead.
(Note that I'm not saying that this surveillance system is actually a good thing, I'm just bothered by the short-sightedness of the previous poster's methodology)
Logically a data drive should have data and only data from the computer's perspective, and not run any executables or scripts on it without first explicitly asking. It should be designed that way from the start. That's how Vulcans would design it.
The problem isn't data drives, so much as devices that look like data drives but also do other more "interesting" things when plugged in.;)
USB was designed to do many things, data drives was just one use case. USB's flexibility is what allows hackers to hack.
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I would be surprised if even half of the Democrats I know will vote for Hillary ever.
Wait until October, with the nightmarish prospect of four years under Trump just a few weeks away. They may not want to vote for Hillary, but I'd bet good money they'll do it anyway just to keep Trump out of power.
They paid for either a service or an obfuscated, single purpose binary. For all Coomey knows it was leprechaun magic.
I like to imagine that this third-party company received the iPhone from the FBI, wiped it clean, renamed it to "Sayed's iPhone", installed Angry Birds, then handed it back to the FBI, saying "here, it's unlocked now!" and collected their million-dollar fee.
So where does Mad Max: Fury Road, which is actually on the ballot, go?
Hmm, the movie seemed a bit libertarian to me...
Whatever your anonymous trash talk might be Your doubt and hate fuels the very fire of people of Musk's ilk. They love to prove you wrong. So thank you for degrading yourselves for the public good.
See? We're helping already! We're the reverse-psychology cheerleaders of the clean-energy market! ;^)
So they're going to take the same flawed control system and drop it into a bus that weighs in at 28-33,000 lbs?
Yes, they are. And they are going to test the hell out of it, and not put it on public streets until they are pretty damned sure it won't kill someone and get them sued into bankruptcy.
It's not difficult to understand, as long as you realize you're not the only smart person in the world. It's not like they haven't considered the risks -- they aren't just going to throw a self-driving bus onto the streets tomorrow and hope for the best.
That's not a failure, that's a triumph of Capitalism. Not requiring people to fulfil current jobs but automating all of that away would be an enormous testament to the virtue of Capitalism, its ability to produce everything that people need without requiring those people to do the tasks themselves. It's basically paradise.
It's paradise if you have some sort of income, sure. But capitalism does not (AFAICT) provide any remedy for those who have no income because they have been rendered unemployable. Either there will have to be some sort of non-capitalist way to provide them with money (e.g. UBI or some other form of welfare), or they will have to resort to stealing to support themselves.
Half the fun of Facebook is presenting yourself to your friends as a much cooler person than you actually are. How am I going to manage that when there's a live video feed showing them all my dorky self doing the talking?
Less than a decade ago, /. went into meltdown because a Swedish car company proposed that future cars would have welded hoods (bonnets) and not be user serviceable.
Looks like the prediction was wrong, though. Future cars will instead let you store your luggage under the hood, since there's no need to put an engine there anymore.
Whereas Capitalism fails only when human beings are no longer required to produce goods and services. i.e. real soon now.
You're right, nobody should ever think of a new idea or try to solve a problem. Something bad might happen!
If UBI feels anything like being on disability, nobody wants it. I am constantly on the brink of insolvency because, although the money will always be there, allowing me to use it on some frivolous bullshit, it stops if I do something sensible
UBI is a modest amount of money that every person receives each month, no matter what they do or don't do. Therefore it avoids the various perverse incentives that come with needs-based benefits.
If an able bodied/able minded person continually makes bad decisions that put their livlihood in jeopardy or worse yet, plain out refuse to work, then they NEED a little hunger incentive. Hunger to better yourself YOURSELF or go hungry.
The problem with that logic is, in order to better yourself you need to take risks -- but if the potential consequence taking a risk is starvation, you can't afford to take any risks. That means you end up working your entire life in an unskilled job because you can't afford the risk of starting your own business, or going to school to learn new skills.
The problem will only get worse in the future, when there will be a sizable (and continually growing) subset of the population who are literally unemployable because they don't have any skills that a robot can't do better and/or cheaper. For them, no amount of motivation will improve their financial condition; education might, but even that only goes so far. If your only solution is to let them starve, then their solution will be to kill you and take your money.
There's only one thing to do... pack one of these things onto Elon's next rocket launch and see whether it can move itself around or not. The proof is in the pudding...
We'll eventually find out we really live in a simulation...
If you ever find yourself experiencing an uncontrollable urge to do something you wouldn't normally do, it's probably because you're being clicked-and-dragged.
Having your center of mass above the lifting part makes for very interesting failure modes... just ask anyone who has tried to ride a unicycle. ;)
There were Muslims dancing in the street during and after 9/11. Maybe not in New Jersey, or even on US soil, but they were certainly dancing in the streets of several of the Islamic countries.
Granted, but here's the exact quote from Trump:
"Hey, I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down. Thousands of people were cheering. [...] There were people that were cheering on the other side of New Jersey, where you have large Arab populations. They were cheering as the World Trade Center came down."
The problem with Trump is, the above quote isn't even a lie. When he said it, he genuinely believed it to be the truth, because it fit the narrative of his worldview and therefore didn't need to be verified -- and when it was pointed out to him that his 'memory' is of something that never actually happened, he said, essentially: no thanks, I prefer my fabrication over reality.
That's just the sort of emotion-based magical thinking we don't need anywhere near the levers of power, lest it marches us back into another fiasco like the Iraq War, or worse.
Cash is by far the preferred choice of payment by criminals worldwide should we ban that too?
At some point, that will probably happen.
Circular argument. If we didn't have to maintain the space station, we didn't need to know how to design for space and fire.
It might be more accurate to say, "if we didn't want to ever send people in to space, we wouldn't need to know how to design for space and fire".
But assuming that we do want people in space at some point, then we'll need to know how to handle fires in space; space station or no space station.
800 miles above the surface of the planet, living in a fucking TENT! "No space debris could possibly puncture the fabric walls of this baby"
The 'fabric' in that 'tent' is more puncture-resistant than the existing walls of the space station. Bigelow over-engineered the hell out of it to minimize its likelihood of failure.
And since capital equipment /always/ has a depreciation, you can write off the depreciation instead of watching it burn up in the atmosphere.
Surely the burning-up-in-the-atmosphere approach qualifies as accelerated depreciation?
No, you won't be selling it for any appreciable amount. What will actually happen is they'll give you a small fraction of what the battery is worth - maybe 5-10% to recycle it if they give you anything at all.
If the battery is completely non-functional, that's true, but in many (most?) cases, the battery still works fine, it's just no longer storing enough charge to be worth carrying around in a car. In that case, the battery still has value as a fixed-installation energy storage device and can be sold at a higher price (dunno how much higher yet) to those who are setting up battery backup /energy storage systems for solar arrays, utility-scale energy storage, etc.
I expect that by the time your model 3's battery is worn out, there will be a significant non-automotive market for "used" car batteries.
Damn it Google, just pick a fucking language already and make it an option as an alternate to Javascript on the browser.
I thought the trick for web browsers was to pick your own favorite fucking language, and compile it to JavaScript for deployment? Then every programmer can use whatever language he/she prefers, rather than everybody having to use the same language.
Of course, this article isn't about web browsers, it's about application development.
I mean, 8 years and your battery is almost a brick right?
No. It will have reduced capacity, but it will still be functional. The quoted estimate is around a 30% reduction in capacity after 8 years.
If the reduced capacity is great enough to be covered by the warranty, then Tesla will replace the battery for you. If not, you will have the option of either using the battery as-is, or purchasing a better replacement yourself (which will probably be expensive, but less expensive in 8 years than it is now since battery prices keep decreasing).
A gas car you can keep going for 15 to 20 years.
Modulo maintenance, gas, and the various parts you will have to repair or replace, or course.
This must cost a lot. What is being gained, does it make economic sense ? If the actual results don't financially justify it - then they should not do it.
At what point do you measure the "actual results"? Any time you take that measurement, you're implicitly assuming that no further benefits will ever be obtained, and therefore the value of all potential future benefits is zero.
By that logic, nobody would ever go to school, since you can't bring in any income by studying. After the first semester, everybody would drop out because it doesn't make economic sense when you could be making money working full time at McDonald's instead.
(Note that I'm not saying that this surveillance system is actually a good thing, I'm just bothered by the short-sightedness of the previous poster's methodology)
Logically a data drive should have data and only data from the computer's perspective, and not run any executables or scripts on it without first explicitly asking. It should be designed that way from the start. That's how Vulcans would design it.
The problem isn't data drives, so much as devices that look like data drives but also do other more "interesting" things when plugged in. ;)
USB was designed to do many things, data drives was just one use case. USB's flexibility is what allows hackers to hack.