A LOT of homes don't have proper ventilation. They either have a recirculating hood (useless, especially if you never change the filter), or they have a vented hood that's too far from the cook surface and poorly sized for the room.
In Canada, we don't have enough gas stations in a lot of places. Who can afford a second car or rental to take you everywhere you need to go when you have already sunk $30K+ on an EV??
But we do have a stable power grid pretty much everywhere. And it's rapidly getting to the point where you don't need a rental or second car as a backup to your EV. The 2020 EV models have enough range that I would probably need a rental only once a year. I'd say my Volvo has about 4 years of life left in it. You can bet I'll be getting a electric when it gives up the ghost.
Or maybe he has a sense of proportion and understands that his private jet is a drop in the bucket compared to the fact that he's been a huge factor in changing the automotive world for the better.
Individual actions are nice and all, but they are dwarfed by changes to standards and to industry practices.
No, it is perfectly normal for a CFO to re-retire. I mean after all, he is 56, and these guys aren't in it for the money. Why would a CFO want to stick around a company that is going to make billions? They aren't interested in stuff like that.
I imagine that "Senior Advisor" role comes with a hefty paycheque and less stress.
But if we want robots to become independent, to adapt quickly to scenarios unforeseen by their creators....
When you put it in exactly those terms, I'm forced to wonder, WHY THE FUCK DO WE WANT THAT?!?!
Potentially scary. But also potentially useful. If we send a robot to Mars and it gets hit by a dust storm and one of its arms breaks off, we want the robot to be able to map its current physical configuration and adjust how it functions, rather than becoming a disabled, useless, multi-million dollar, pile of metal.
1. Reliability. For one that is priced where I can afford it, they all seem to have issues with reliability, things getting clogged, and failed tries.
Yes, the hobby printers do take a lot of tinkering. That's half the fun though.
2. Resolution. I still kinda wish I could have 3d printed something without all the "scan lines"
Resin printers solve this. The Anycubic Photon is sub-$500. Downsides are smaller build area, consumables cost about twice as much, and there's more of a process in terms of curing and cleanup.
3. Color and Material. I would love to be able to have 2 or 3 different colors in a print, also perhaps having a mixture of some material. Such as a solder or some sort of medal for electrical conductivity, or more rubbery filaments for things that need to be gripped, or more stable.
You can print with dual heads for two colours, or there are now hobby printers that will print multiple colours by retracting one filament and feeding another. Downside is that you can end up with a lot of wastage because the head needs to be purged with each colour change.
There is also some variety in materials. Flexible, rubbery materials are definitely doable. There are also filaments that are plastic but have wood or metallic fill. True metal printing is way beyond hobby printers and may always be beyond them. For that you should order from Shapeways or another such service.
4. Price. They are affordable models, but I just can't see using them except for some toys. and perhaps a replacement part or two, but still not worth the price.
Some hobby filament printers are sub-$300 and they produce very good prints (though need some tinkering as previously mentioned). They're great for toys and household fixes. As a hobbiest you won't do much more than that though.
People who own their own home, don't have to drive 300kms every day, and are in the market for new cars? EVs have a ton of advantages over ICE cars. To date they've been held back by their disadvantages--range, price, and charging infrastructure availability.
The public charging network is basically at a point where you can find a charger wherever you go and daily charging can be done by people who own their own homes. It'll still be a little while before apartment dwellers have the infrastructure for daily charging at home.
With the most recent model years range has basically been solved for a good chunk of the population's driving habits (yes, yes, you're an edge case for whom an electric vehicle could nevvvvvvvvvver work; spare me the anecdotal data).
And now it's just down to cost. Which is looking like it's on the way down.
Literally all my friends have an EV on their radar as a possible next car. And no, we're not a bunch of marxist lefties. EVs are just starting to seem like a really nice option.
I think that is because of a lack of planned development; not because developers design them that way. Suburban sprawl is not planned by cities... it just happens when cities and counties don't regulate growth.
Actually, it was planned... by the feds. The interstate system was specifically designed to enable communities to sprawl so that it would be harder to nuke the US into oblivion.
Now, 60 years later, we just think this form of development is normal.
First, that number is meaningless without knowing what it was in past years. Actually I guess that could apply to all numbers. But second, it is the only number not represented as a percent.
It was 17,584 the same period the year before. So to represent it as a percent: measles cases increased 369% from the period (Nov 16 - Oct 17) to (Nov 11 to Oct 18).
Also, apologies to Stella McCartney. I meant to curse Jenny McCarthy but got them mixed up.
The measles one is the one that really gets my goat. That number should be 0. F*** you Andrew Wakefield and Stella McCartney and all the Karens of the world.
The tech is far from perfected and it's only Just becoming usable in 2018
Because there's a risk that you spend billions of dollars retooling for the next-generation ICE platform only to have that asset stranded when the market demands EVs. VW has obviously done their research and is of the opinion that there's more risk of ICE-manufacturing infrastructure getting stranded than EV-manufacturing infrastructure not getting used.
Instead of pumping it out of the ground, MAKE IT from the CO2 in the air using renewable (wind, solar, etc) power. This way we don't have to scrap the enormous fleet of ICE cars we already have in place. It would be a way to give us time to get to "near carbon neutral" using the infrastructure we already have in place!
Maybe if we had an abundance of wind and solar power, but we don't. Any wind or solar capacity you used to convert CO2 to fuel would be energy diverted away from reducing coal use in electricity generation. And that's assuming you could find a way to do it at a cost that was even anywhere close to just pumping fuel out of the ground.
And we don't have to scrap the enormous fleet of ICE cars; they scrap themselves over a period of 20 years. The key thing is to make sure their replacements are EVs as soon as possible, so we don't keep pushing out that scrap period indefinitely.
I imagine it's one of those things where we're hitting the "no waffling" decision point; aka "s*** or get off the pot". Up until now, automakers have been cramming EVs into their existing automobile platforms. The result is a kludge, because ICE platforms have a lot of different needs than EVs. You can build a much-better performing, more cost-effective, safer EV, if it's built on a platform that is built to accommodate batteries and doesn't need a front that accommodates a huge ICE. Tesla, of course, has been so successful partly because they're not invested in old ICE platforms, so could do it correctly from the start.
Now manufacturers are looking at their next generations of platforms. This means complete retooling of factories and is a huge investment. Do you go conservative and lock yourself into a kludge for the next 10-20 years? Yes, you get to hold onto ICE production, but you very much risk becoming absolutely obsolete when makers of proper EVs steal the market.
Up until now, automakers could afford to hand over the EV market to Tesla, but the writing is on the wall: EVs are the future. It'll certainly be interesting to see how it all plays out and who wins and loses.
This actually looks like some smart politic-ing by Trump. The federal subsidy is basically coming to an end on its own, as planned. The credit phases out after a manufacturer reaches 200,000 sales. According to Wikipedia, Tesla has hit that number, GM is about 4,000 away from hitting it, and all the other manufacturers are around half way there. With sales increasing I'm sure they'll hit it pretty quickly too.
End result is that for al intents and purposes, the subsidy is going to phase itself out over the next year or so. So basically Trump says, "we'll end the subsidy", and then the subsidy ends on its own for all the major manufacturers, and Trump claims victory. His constituents see action, while the businesses get what was initially promised to them.
I wasn't rich either, I just knew better than to allow interest to accrue. And really, there's no excuse not to know better.
There's knowing better, and there's being able to do something about it. There are millions of people who are one delayed paycheque away from having their tenuous financial position crumbling down like a house of cards. And their budgets are so tight, that the interest costs due to that missed payment quickly spirals out of control into further missed payments, then more interest, then more missed payments. It's pretty easy for things to go down the crapper pretty quickly.
There's a saying that, "it takes money to make money." The corollary of that is "being poor is expensive."
A *nice* bathroom might well be a valuable perk though.
Funny enough, one of the things I REALLY appreciate my office is that they buy real toilet paper, and not that 1-ply sandpaper that is so commonly used in commercial washrooms. It's such a small thing but makes a big difference in how I view my workplace.
Why not just count paper ballots like Canada does? Each precinct tallies up their counts and reports them upstream where they are aggregated. The manual counts are supervised by representatives from each party. Publish all of the counts and subtotals so they can be verified. Even if there are a 100 million ballots to count, by distributing the work, it can still be done in a timely manner.
Why do we not use paper you ask?
I have two words for you on that topic.
Hanging chads.
Huh? We don't use punch vote systems so there are no chads. We get a printed paper with the candidates and literally just 'x' off a box for our preferred candidate. Then each individual polling box is counted by a poll observer, and each candidate is allowed to have an observer for each box. The observers get to see (but never touch!) each ballot, and can challenge any one that looks like it was improperly marked. These are noted, and if the final vote is close and gets appealed, the first thing they'll look at is the challenged ballots to see if they swing the vote at all.
The main downsides of this system are that if a candidate drops out, you can't remove them from the ballot (not a huge deal; they just inform voters as they go into the booth); election results aren't instant (is it so bad to wait 12 hours for results?); and it takes a lot of volunteers to observe (seems like a good price to pay for democracy).
I think the likes of Microsoft, FaceBook, Amazon, Shell Oil, Koch Brothers, Apple, Google, et.al. are beyond help from mere city, local, county, state, and even federal subsidies. Then, again there is General Electric.
Did you not just see the North America-wide pandemonium as Amazon pitted cities and states/provinces against each other to host their second HQ?
I'm really beginning to seriously think that this whole culture of 'everything delivered to your door' just isn't sustainable -- and perhaps not healthy, either. People are lazy and fat enough as-is without there being more conveniences to give them more excuses to not get off the couch and move around
From a environmental perspective it's probably more sustainable having highly-optimized delivery routes than having people each drive their own vehicle out to Walmart. Also, if our idea of exercise is walking around Walmart, we're already f**ked.
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Oh fuck off with your conspiracy theory bullshit.
A LOT of homes don't have proper ventilation. They either have a recirculating hood (useless, especially if you never change the filter), or they have a vented hood that's too far from the cook surface and poorly sized for the room.
In Canada, we don't have enough gas stations in a lot of places. Who can afford a second car or rental to take you everywhere you need to go when you have already sunk $30K+ on an EV??
But we do have a stable power grid pretty much everywhere. And it's rapidly getting to the point where you don't need a rental or second car as a backup to your EV. The 2020 EV models have enough range that I would probably need a rental only once a year. I'd say my Volvo has about 4 years of life left in it. You can bet I'll be getting a electric when it gives up the ghost.
3. Musk doesn’t get a flying fuck about climate change. If he did, he wouldn’t be making frivolous 20 mile flights in his private jet.
Or maybe he has a sense of proportion and understands that his private jet is a drop in the bucket compared to the fact that he's been a huge factor in changing the automotive world for the better.
Individual actions are nice and all, but they are dwarfed by changes to standards and to industry practices.
No, it is perfectly normal for a CFO to re-retire. I mean after all, he is 56, and these guys aren't in it for the money. Why would a CFO want to stick around a company that is going to make billions? They aren't interested in stuff like that.
I imagine that "Senior Advisor" role comes with a hefty paycheque and less stress.
When you put it in exactly those terms, I'm forced to wonder, WHY THE FUCK DO WE WANT THAT?!?!
Potentially scary. But also potentially useful. If we send a robot to Mars and it gets hit by a dust storm and one of its arms breaks off, we want the robot to be able to map its current physical configuration and adjust how it functions, rather than becoming a disabled, useless, multi-million dollar, pile of metal.
A big market for resin printers is dental laboratories. They use them to make casts of clients' teeth for fitting dental devices.
1. Reliability. For one that is priced where I can afford it, they all seem to have issues with reliability, things getting clogged, and failed tries.
Yes, the hobby printers do take a lot of tinkering. That's half the fun though.
2. Resolution. I still kinda wish I could have 3d printed something without all the "scan lines"
Resin printers solve this. The Anycubic Photon is sub-$500. Downsides are smaller build area, consumables cost about twice as much, and there's more of a process in terms of curing and cleanup.
3. Color and Material. I would love to be able to have 2 or 3 different colors in a print, also perhaps having a mixture of some material. Such as a solder or some sort of medal for electrical conductivity, or more rubbery filaments for things that need to be gripped, or more stable.
You can print with dual heads for two colours, or there are now hobby printers that will print multiple colours by retracting one filament and feeding another. Downside is that you can end up with a lot of wastage because the head needs to be purged with each colour change.
There is also some variety in materials. Flexible, rubbery materials are definitely doable. There are also filaments that are plastic but have wood or metallic fill. True metal printing is way beyond hobby printers and may always be beyond them. For that you should order from Shapeways or another such service.
4. Price. They are affordable models, but I just can't see using them except for some toys. and perhaps a replacement part or two, but still not worth the price.
Some hobby filament printers are sub-$300 and they produce very good prints (though need some tinkering as previously mentioned). They're great for toys and household fixes. As a hobbiest you won't do much more than that though.
The Volt isn't really an EV though. It's an EV AND an ICE. No wonder it's complex.
Last time we checked the Greeks were broke.
Well "Greeks" aren't one homogenous blob. I imagine some Greeks and some Greek governments are broke and some are not/
Also, if the ROI is high enough and the risk low, it shouldn't be hard to get financing.
Who is going to buy all those EVs?
People who own their own home, don't have to drive 300kms every day, and are in the market for new cars? EVs have a ton of advantages over ICE cars. To date they've been held back by their disadvantages--range, price, and charging infrastructure availability.
The public charging network is basically at a point where you can find a charger wherever you go and daily charging can be done by people who own their own homes. It'll still be a little while before apartment dwellers have the infrastructure for daily charging at home.
With the most recent model years range has basically been solved for a good chunk of the population's driving habits (yes, yes, you're an edge case for whom an electric vehicle could nevvvvvvvvvver work; spare me the anecdotal data).
And now it's just down to cost. Which is looking like it's on the way down.
Literally all my friends have an EV on their radar as a possible next car. And no, we're not a bunch of marxist lefties. EVs are just starting to seem like a really nice option.
I think that is because of a lack of planned development; not because developers design them that way. Suburban sprawl is not planned by cities... it just happens when cities and counties don't regulate growth.
Actually, it was planned... by the feds. The interstate system was specifically designed to enable communities to sprawl so that it would be harder to nuke the US into oblivion.
Now, 60 years later, we just think this form of development is normal.
First, that number is meaningless without knowing what it was in past years. Actually I guess that could apply to all numbers. But second, it is the only number not represented as a percent.
It was 17,584 the same period the year before. So to represent it as a percent: measles cases increased 369% from the period (Nov 16 - Oct 17) to (Nov 11 to Oct 18).
Also, apologies to Stella McCartney. I meant to curse Jenny McCarthy but got them mixed up.
The measles one is the one that really gets my goat. That number should be 0. F*** you Andrew Wakefield and Stella McCartney and all the Karens of the world.
Then why not hedge their bets and go half EV.
The tech is far from perfected and it's only Just becoming usable in 2018
Because there's a risk that you spend billions of dollars retooling for the next-generation ICE platform only to have that asset stranded when the market demands EVs. VW has obviously done their research and is of the opinion that there's more risk of ICE-manufacturing infrastructure getting stranded than EV-manufacturing infrastructure not getting used.
Instead of pumping it out of the ground, MAKE IT from the CO2 in the air using renewable (wind, solar, etc) power. This way we don't have to scrap the enormous fleet of ICE cars we already have in place. It would be a way to give us time to get to "near carbon neutral" using the infrastructure we already have in place!
Maybe if we had an abundance of wind and solar power, but we don't. Any wind or solar capacity you used to convert CO2 to fuel would be energy diverted away from reducing coal use in electricity generation. And that's assuming you could find a way to do it at a cost that was even anywhere close to just pumping fuel out of the ground.
And we don't have to scrap the enormous fleet of ICE cars; they scrap themselves over a period of 20 years. The key thing is to make sure their replacements are EVs as soon as possible, so we don't keep pushing out that scrap period indefinitely.
I imagine it's one of those things where we're hitting the "no waffling" decision point; aka "s*** or get off the pot". Up until now, automakers have been cramming EVs into their existing automobile platforms. The result is a kludge, because ICE platforms have a lot of different needs than EVs. You can build a much-better performing, more cost-effective, safer EV, if it's built on a platform that is built to accommodate batteries and doesn't need a front that accommodates a huge ICE. Tesla, of course, has been so successful partly because they're not invested in old ICE platforms, so could do it correctly from the start.
Now manufacturers are looking at their next generations of platforms. This means complete retooling of factories and is a huge investment. Do you go conservative and lock yourself into a kludge for the next 10-20 years? Yes, you get to hold onto ICE production, but you very much risk becoming absolutely obsolete when makers of proper EVs steal the market.
Up until now, automakers could afford to hand over the EV market to Tesla, but the writing is on the wall: EVs are the future. It'll certainly be interesting to see how it all plays out and who wins and loses.
This actually looks like some smart politic-ing by Trump. The federal subsidy is basically coming to an end on its own, as planned. The credit phases out after a manufacturer reaches 200,000 sales. According to Wikipedia, Tesla has hit that number, GM is about 4,000 away from hitting it, and all the other manufacturers are around half way there. With sales increasing I'm sure they'll hit it pretty quickly too.
End result is that for al intents and purposes, the subsidy is going to phase itself out over the next year or so. So basically Trump says, "we'll end the subsidy", and then the subsidy ends on its own for all the major manufacturers, and Trump claims victory. His constituents see action, while the businesses get what was initially promised to them.
I wasn't rich either, I just knew better than to allow interest to accrue. And really, there's no excuse not to know better.
There's knowing better, and there's being able to do something about it. There are millions of people who are one delayed paycheque away from having their tenuous financial position crumbling down like a house of cards. And their budgets are so tight, that the interest costs due to that missed payment quickly spirals out of control into further missed payments, then more interest, then more missed payments. It's pretty easy for things to go down the crapper pretty quickly.
There's a saying that, "it takes money to make money." The corollary of that is "being poor is expensive."
JAnd, if he was only 14 when he started, I don't know if you could really call him a pedofile if the pictures were of girls his own age.
Might not make him a pedo (at the time; but he would be now), but it IS still child porn.
Then stop working.
As per TFS, that's exactly what is happening... And as a result prices are surging. Uber gets their dollar either way.
A *nice* bathroom might well be a valuable perk though.
Funny enough, one of the things I REALLY appreciate my office is that they buy real toilet paper, and not that 1-ply sandpaper that is so commonly used in commercial washrooms. It's such a small thing but makes a big difference in how I view my workplace.
Why not just count paper ballots like Canada does? Each precinct tallies up their counts and reports them upstream where they are aggregated. The manual counts are supervised by representatives from each party. Publish all of the counts and subtotals so they can be verified. Even if there are a 100 million ballots to count, by distributing the work, it can still be done in a timely manner.
Why do we not use paper you ask?
I have two words for you on that topic.
Hanging chads.
Huh? We don't use punch vote systems so there are no chads. We get a printed paper with the candidates and literally just 'x' off a box for our preferred candidate. Then each individual polling box is counted by a poll observer, and each candidate is allowed to have an observer for each box. The observers get to see (but never touch!) each ballot, and can challenge any one that looks like it was improperly marked. These are noted, and if the final vote is close and gets appealed, the first thing they'll look at is the challenged ballots to see if they swing the vote at all.
The main downsides of this system are that if a candidate drops out, you can't remove them from the ballot (not a huge deal; they just inform voters as they go into the booth); election results aren't instant (is it so bad to wait 12 hours for results?); and it takes a lot of volunteers to observe (seems like a good price to pay for democracy).
I think the likes of Microsoft, FaceBook, Amazon, Shell Oil, Koch Brothers, Apple, Google, et.al. are beyond help from mere city, local, county, state, and even federal subsidies. Then, again there is General Electric.
Did you not just see the North America-wide pandemonium as Amazon pitted cities and states/provinces against each other to host their second HQ?
I'm really beginning to seriously think that this whole culture of 'everything delivered to your door' just isn't sustainable -- and perhaps not healthy, either. People are lazy and fat enough as-is without there being more conveniences to give them more excuses to not get off the couch and move around
From a environmental perspective it's probably more sustainable having highly-optimized delivery routes than having people each drive their own vehicle out to Walmart. Also, if our idea of exercise is walking around Walmart, we're already f**ked.