From Wikipedia... The entire nation is ~100k people. 70% live on the main island. 32 fiber strands connected Tonga to Fiji. I'll wager the 70k on the mainland had better internet than most in the US before this cable cut.
"Single engine electric car"... do you mean single motor? Electric cars do not have engines. And yes, Tesla makes single motor EVs as well as dual motor.
He is trying to reduce the cost of tunnel building. Subway tunnels cost $150m+ per mile. He is trying to get it down by improving drilling speed and other facets of tunnel creation. So the tunnel itself may end up being not so much to look at besides different techniques used to build it.
Technically the board would have to consist of a correct proportion based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, and citizenship.
So on a board of 10, you'll need a 24-year-old white christian female hetero non-disabled citizen, a 33-year-old black male bi non-disabled citizen, a 19-year-old white female hetero disabled immigrant, an 18-year-old agnostic male hetero non-disabled citizen, a 20-year-old hispanic female jewish hetero citizen, a 58-year-old white... and so on.
Basic income means you get the money regardless of whether you work. i.e. if you work, you still get the basic income.
So in your example, you're working 40 hours a week for $2k/yr? Sure, you should quit. But if you make $32k/yr at your job, you'd have $62k/yr to work with then ($32k from the job, $30k from BI).
Hobby grade racing drones, even under $400, can have 10:1 thrust to weight ratios. That means they can reach 400' in seconds and have 3-6 minutes of flight time.
They run on Lipos (but you're not wrong since Lipos are really Lithium-Ion Polymer and chemically nearly identical but come in "pouches" instead of rigid containers. Also you can run quads well over 500mm size off of Li-Ion. Almost all quads are electric because electric motors can control their speed very accurately. Gas motors are not so good at that, and so most gas-powered quads run their props at constant speed and instead vary the pitch of their props, complicating the system significantly.
About 9 controls... you can actually map more than that if you use a custom mix to make switches only take up part of a signal. Your throttle, aileron, rudder, elevator each take up one full channel because they are not on-off but can vary in strength. Most people just set up switches to take up an entire channel but you can make switches take up half a channel, or even a quarter of a channel, because the data they are sending is so simple (on/off, or hi/mid/low). So with an 8 channel receiver/transmitter, you could control throttle, aileron, rudder, elevator, a knob, and 6+ switches.
And yes, this is already partially the case. All quadcopters have flight controllers which run algorithms to determine how much each motor should be spun based on the inputs from the human. There are many different firmwares for these flight controllers, and pretty much all implement a PID system (or offer you the ability to choose from multiple different PID algorithms). PID essentially just means how the controller calculates values to send to the ESCs and how much it tries to self-level in various regards.
What is your rationale for a 20+ year average lifespan? Failure rate is not linear. It could be very possible that 2% fail before year 10 and 90% fail between year 10 and 12.
Just because it will eventually become obsolete doesn't mean there isn't a benefit in offering it and using it for some time.
Over the years, cars have come with many different ways of getting music. How many of them are obsolete now? This would be a great way of getting a larger variety of music to your car (in addition to the many other uses). Pandora, Songza, the 100 other music services. Potentially access to your own media server to play music.
I bought a bunch of 8.5W (50W) equivalent bulbs online for $5 each. Not exactly breaking the bank there. They also have a nice color tone (3000K). The only down side it they take about half a second to come on when you flip the light switch, which took a bit to get used to. The price is really coming down. A lifetime of 30,000 hours too. They are also still available at that price. I just checked.
And take an extra 15 minutes minimum, each way. If you're lucky. Not everyone lives in a city and has amazing access to public transit. This isn't about avoiding contact with other humans, its about improving the efficiency of transport.
My guess is that, at least initially, a driver will be required to be in the drivers seat at all times ready to override any actions taken by the car
At which point, WTF is the point of the self driving car?
If I need to be paying attention every second in case the computer does something stupid (and need to be able to anticipate every point at which it could do something stupid), it will require as much or more attention as if I was driving anyway.
I have no interest in a self driving car, and I certainly wouldn't pay for the privilege. If I wanted that, I could take the bus or the train.
I just don't see people actually wanting this technology, and since we'll never convert all of the cars on the road to this system, it means at best a fraction of your cars are self driving and playing by one set of rules -- while the rest of your drivers are doing the same random shit they do now.
This has always struck me as a technology which nobody actually wants.
It's like so many of these 'futurist' things which are impractical, will be too expensive, and which will never happen. This is a research project which might have some applications... but which will never be practical for widespread use.
As Joshua Shaffer said... there are many, many people who have 45+ minute commutes. Those commutes could be spent doing leisure activities, chatting with friends/family, doing work, or even sleeping. It would also open up more people to taking longer commutes because that time is no longer wasted driving a car.
Finally, you wouldn't even have to OWN the car. A pool of cars could be shared by people with dissimilar schedules.
Encrypt the files and then print out the raw data in hex. To reverse it, you use OCR, convert the hex values to data files and then unencrypt. Down side is that it's not human readable, but it might be more data-dense than barcodes. You'd just have pages and pages of:
41 35 55 c1 8e 8a 1e 0d 88 69 0e 9d 48 5c 30 ba
0d 86 9c ca 6e 32 12 b3 e2 87 fc 51 1d d0 62 76
5e dc f6 8c c5 a0 40 fa 49 78 a9 3a c2 bc 19 d5
ef 79 c9 07 6b 94 85 2b 8b 1b a6 3f 4c 2d 05 f7
06 48 e4 6f d0 b6 05 00 e0 40 3e a0 4a 1c 12 05
9b ed 7c b4 e0 0f ee 29 d1 64 75 5c d6 21 f7 34
Every week we'd have several people who managed to forget their secret answer. The lesson: secret questions suck. In the future we are not going to use it.
I have the same setup -- 64gb SSD. When I first used it I was astonished at just how fast it is with cache. Boot faster, load games faster. I don't know why anyone who has alot of apps would want to spend their time/worry about managing files on each disk.
I spent $80 on a 64gb SSD and I use it with SRT as a cache for my 2TB HDD. I have a lot of programs and games. It's easy to fill up a 200GB SSD with games, applications, and windows, and you shouldn't fill it past 80% anyway.
For less than half the cost, I get to have the SSD feel for *everything*. I also don't have to spend any time to manage it. Do I care what data is where? No. Just put it on my large drive and it works. Tests have shown that SSD caching provides very similar performance to a dedicated SSD, and I notice it. I would definitely recommend anyone to give it a try.
I could find it either. After scanning the page for the link I gave pause... determined to find it, I slowly moused over every element on the page til I found it in the text.
It's #002F2F nested in #000000 text. Seriously? If you're going to have such a subtle color difference, keep it underlined.
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From Wikipedia... The entire nation is ~100k people. 70% live on the main island. 32 fiber strands connected Tonga to Fiji. I'll wager the 70k on the mainland had better internet than most in the US before this cable cut.
"Single engine electric car"... do you mean single motor? Electric cars do not have engines. And yes, Tesla makes single motor EVs as well as dual motor.
He is trying to reduce the cost of tunnel building. Subway tunnels cost $150m+ per mile. He is trying to get it down by improving drilling speed and other facets of tunnel creation. So the tunnel itself may end up being not so much to look at besides different techniques used to build it.
Vegans are not a protected class.
... and so on.
Technically the board would have to consist of a correct proportion based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, and citizenship.
So on a board of 10, you'll need a 24-year-old white christian female hetero non-disabled citizen, a 33-year-old black male bi non-disabled citizen, a 19-year-old white female hetero disabled immigrant, an 18-year-old agnostic male hetero non-disabled citizen, a 20-year-old hispanic female jewish hetero citizen, a 58-year-old white
It was not "one of the worst data breaches". It was THE worst.
With a US population of 325.7 million...
146m names, DOBs, and SSNs were stolen.
99m addresses.
27m genders
20m phone numbers
18m drivers license numbers.
It really doesn't get much worse than that.
Basic income means you get the money regardless of whether you work. i.e. if you work, you still get the basic income.
So in your example, you're working 40 hours a week for $2k/yr? Sure, you should quit. But if you make $32k/yr at your job, you'd have $62k/yr to work with then ($32k from the job, $30k from BI).
Hobby grade racing drones, even under $400, can have 10:1 thrust to weight ratios. That means they can reach 400' in seconds and have 3-6 minutes of flight time.
They run on Lipos (but you're not wrong since Lipos are really Lithium-Ion Polymer and chemically nearly identical but come in "pouches" instead of rigid containers. Also you can run quads well over 500mm size off of Li-Ion. Almost all quads are electric because electric motors can control their speed very accurately. Gas motors are not so good at that, and so most gas-powered quads run their props at constant speed and instead vary the pitch of their props, complicating the system significantly.
About 9 controls... you can actually map more than that if you use a custom mix to make switches only take up part of a signal. Your throttle, aileron, rudder, elevator each take up one full channel because they are not on-off but can vary in strength. Most people just set up switches to take up an entire channel but you can make switches take up half a channel, or even a quarter of a channel, because the data they are sending is so simple (on/off, or hi/mid/low). So with an 8 channel receiver/transmitter, you could control throttle, aileron, rudder, elevator, a knob, and 6+ switches.
And yes, this is already partially the case. All quadcopters have flight controllers which run algorithms to determine how much each motor should be spun based on the inputs from the human. There are many different firmwares for these flight controllers, and pretty much all implement a PID system (or offer you the ability to choose from multiple different PID algorithms). PID essentially just means how the controller calculates values to send to the ESCs and how much it tries to self-level in various regards.
Exactly. Wireless ac wave 2, coming this year, is promising up to 7 Gbps of throughput.
What is your rationale for a 20+ year average lifespan? Failure rate is not linear. It could be very possible that 2% fail before year 10 and 90% fail between year 10 and 12.
All I want is a 35"+ 4k display with a 60hz refresh rate for under $300. Is that so much to ask?
I bought a bunch of 8.5W (50W) equivalent bulbs online for $5 each. Not exactly breaking the bank there. They also have a nice color tone (3000K). The only down side it they take about half a second to come on when you flip the light switch, which took a bit to get used to. The price is really coming down. A lifetime of 30,000 hours too. They are also still available at that price. I just checked.
And take an extra 15 minutes minimum, each way. If you're lucky. Not everyone lives in a city and has amazing access to public transit. This isn't about avoiding contact with other humans, its about improving the efficiency of transport.
At which point, WTF is the point of the self driving car?
If I need to be paying attention every second in case the computer does something stupid (and need to be able to anticipate every point at which it could do something stupid), it will require as much or more attention as if I was driving anyway.
I have no interest in a self driving car, and I certainly wouldn't pay for the privilege. If I wanted that, I could take the bus or the train.
I just don't see people actually wanting this technology, and since we'll never convert all of the cars on the road to this system, it means at best a fraction of your cars are self driving and playing by one set of rules -- while the rest of your drivers are doing the same random shit they do now.
This has always struck me as a technology which nobody actually wants.
It's like so many of these 'futurist' things which are impractical, will be too expensive, and which will never happen. This is a research project which might have some applications ... but which will never be practical for widespread use.
As Joshua Shaffer said... there are many, many people who have 45+ minute commutes. Those commutes could be spent doing leisure activities, chatting with friends/family, doing work, or even sleeping. It would also open up more people to taking longer commutes because that time is no longer wasted driving a car. Finally, you wouldn't even have to OWN the car. A pool of cars could be shared by people with dissimilar schedules.
Encrypt the files and then print out the raw data in hex. To reverse it, you use OCR, convert the hex values to data files and then unencrypt. Down side is that it's not human readable, but it might be more data-dense than barcodes. You'd just have pages and pages of: 41 35 55 c1 8e 8a 1e 0d 88 69 0e 9d 48 5c 30 ba 0d 86 9c ca 6e 32 12 b3 e2 87 fc 51 1d d0 62 76 5e dc f6 8c c5 a0 40 fa 49 78 a9 3a c2 bc 19 d5 ef 79 c9 07 6b 94 85 2b 8b 1b a6 3f 4c 2d 05 f7 06 48 e4 6f d0 b6 05 00 e0 40 3e a0 4a 1c 12 05 9b ed 7c b4 e0 0f ee 29 d1 64 75 5c d6 21 f7 34
Every week we'd have several people who managed to forget their secret answer. The lesson: secret questions suck. In the future we are not going to use it.
I have the same setup -- 64gb SSD. When I first used it I was astonished at just how fast it is with cache. Boot faster, load games faster. I don't know why anyone who has alot of apps would want to spend their time/worry about managing files on each disk.
Depends on how much you want to spend on storage.
I spent $80 on a 64gb SSD and I use it with SRT as a cache for my 2TB HDD. I have a lot of programs and games. It's easy to fill up a 200GB SSD with games, applications, and windows, and you shouldn't fill it past 80% anyway.
For less than half the cost, I get to have the SSD feel for *everything*. I also don't have to spend any time to manage it. Do I care what data is where? No. Just put it on my large drive and it works. Tests have shown that SSD caching provides very similar performance to a dedicated SSD, and I notice it. I would definitely recommend anyone to give it a try.
I could find it either. After scanning the page for the link I gave pause... determined to find it, I slowly moused over every element on the page til I found it in the text. It's #002F2F nested in #000000 text. Seriously? If you're going to have such a subtle color difference, keep it underlined.