Don't we have Kickstarter for that? In any case, take what Google is doing in a tiny, easy, dry and sunny geofenced 3D-mapped corner of Phoenix and extrapolate how long it is until your average Tesla customer can have a self-driving car they can practically use in their neighborhood in most normal weather, for a fraction of the cost of Waymo's sensor package. I feel like they're selling where Waymo hopes to be in ten years, so they're not only have to leapfrog past Waymo they'd have to leapfrog again way ahead if any of those Tesla customers are going to get it delivered before their cars turn to rust. But as long as people don't care about being stuck on the infinite back burner waiting for that $35k Model 3 that they'll maybe eventually sell some day...
Telsa has the advantage of have sensor data from hundreds of thousands of cars under a variety of road & weather conditions and through several generations of hardware. The issue is whether they have the software & skillset to turn all that data into useful reliable autonomy. At this point I'd say they're still a long way from the end goal. However the new Autopilot firmware v9 is a big step forward even if the most desired features were held back - and no one knows how long it'll be before those features are ready.
That's speculation, with little evidence other than - ironically - her confession.
Who witnessed her confession? There was no trial, no record of her being questioned. The killings weren't done by an official executioner nor in the town square. Family members took the princess & her alleged lover to a car park, emptied a clip into her while the man watched and then needed 5 blows with a sword to cut off his head
"They think there is a huge market for $65,000+ cars, and $1,000+ phones. Eventually you run out of people to sell shiny things to. And it ain't doing nothing for the environment. Just high-end consumerism to fulfill their pathetic lives."
The trickle-down from expensive phones brought instant telecommunications to billions who mostly still don't have electricity and the demand for solar panels from those high-end consumerists brought the price down enough that many of those same people living outside the bubble can afford small panels to power necessities, from disconnected villages in India to nomadic herders in Mongolia.
"You guys are so out of touch with reality. The fact is only 0.001% of the people on this planet can even afford at Tesla."
At many times throughout the past century the same could have been said of cars in general yet there are ~2 billion today - and STILL plenty of people "out of you affluent areas" who can't afford ANY car.
If you like half the total energy efficiency and a fraction of the energy storage capacity compared to diesel/lithium ion combo then, yeah...way better!
Betting that TSLA would make its production numbers for Q3 and Q4. Or if it goes too high, realtive to the past couple years, any time I'll get out. Q3 numbers turned out well.
For Q3 and Q4, profit / loss numbers will matter a lot more than production. Q1 / Q2 2019 will be very interesting as the waiting list for people who'll buy the long range / performance versions should have been exhausted and most will be hoping for the promised $35k model. If that isn't ready for the domestic market and Tesla isn't ready to ship overseas or to right-hand drive markets, deliveries may tumble in H1 2019
"Which is exactly what we predicted when congress passed ObamaCare, requiring full time employees be covered. Well, now we have a bunch of professions that no longer work full time"
If by "we", you mean the people who said implement Medicare-for-all instead of that convoluted gladhanding to the insurance industry, then yes, this is exactly what "we" predicted.
"There's a huge problem, the people in the Middle East are a bunch of groups that don't get along very well. Politics prevent this from being feasible" At the risk of oversimplifying a complex region, a lot of that is driven by scarcity. The only thing they have plenty of is oil, sand and sun. And, of course, religion. But Europe used to be full of division & strife not so long ago. They (mostly) changed. So can the Middle East.
Given the solar potential of that area of the world, they could use solar thermal to power the desal plants, mine the brine for lithium and magnesium and use the sodium & potassium salts for thermal energy storage
I'm well aware that scientist and physicist were neologisms created by polymath & historian William Whewell. But while such seekers after knowledge were long known as natural philosphers, other terms such as men of science or cultivators of science had also been used to describe them. The word science itself as pertaining to the body of human knowledge and then also knowledge acquired by study and systematic observation came into use around the 14th century. So it can be argued that all such practitioners were "scientists" even if the word itself had to wait several more centuries to be coined.
The Royal Society was founded 28 November 1660 - "in Newton's day" as a previous poster stated. The previous poster was talking specifically about the Royal Society, and not the foundations of the scientific method.
" And the term "scientist" wasn't around for a couple centuries after that?"
Which part of the above sentence from the original post is confusing you?
You do know that the Royal Society was created in Newton's day, right? And the term "scientist" wasn't around for a couple centuries after that?.
The foundations of the scientific method were laid by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) influenced by Copernicus (1473-1543) and Galileo.(1564-642). Newton was born in 1642
It was money they earned, so why wouldn't they keep it?
The intent of giving them a break was for investing in job creation but in the majority of cases the money was used for stock buybacks and executive bonuses
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I think peppering near space with thousands of small satellites is just nutty, whether it's Elon or someone else.
Is it not too much... I mean 7000+ satellites over the US?
Unless they're all geosynchronous, I suspect that they'll be orbiting the entire planet. ;)
Most of them will be flying around 350 km so not geosync (36000 km)
Isn't that saying the same thing 3 times?
What's done with all the skinny lipids?
Don't we have Kickstarter for that? In any case, take what Google is doing in a tiny, easy, dry and sunny geofenced 3D-mapped corner of Phoenix and extrapolate how long it is until your average Tesla customer can have a self-driving car they can practically use in their neighborhood in most normal weather, for a fraction of the cost of Waymo's sensor package. I feel like they're selling where Waymo hopes to be in ten years, so they're not only have to leapfrog past Waymo they'd have to leapfrog again way ahead if any of those Tesla customers are going to get it delivered before their cars turn to rust. But as long as people don't care about being stuck on the infinite back burner waiting for that $35k Model 3 that they'll maybe eventually sell some day...
Telsa has the advantage of have sensor data from hundreds of thousands of cars under a variety of road & weather conditions and through several generations of hardware.
The issue is whether they have the software & skillset to turn all that data into useful reliable autonomy. At this point I'd say they're still a long way from the end goal.
However the new Autopilot firmware v9 is a big step forward even if the most desired features were held back - and no one knows how long it'll be before those features are ready.
That's speculation, with little evidence other than - ironically - her confession.
Who witnessed her confession? There was no trial, no record of her being questioned.
The killings weren't done by an official executioner nor in the town square.
Family members took the princess & her alleged lover to a car park, emptied a clip into her while the man watched and then needed 5 blows with a sword to cut off his head
Bezos is wrong. We'll never get to 1 trillion humans nor any significant number living off Earth.
There is no Planet B.
the beheaded had a trial too
Wasn't the case for Princess Mishaal bint Fahd
In Q1 2018, Tesla was only able to make 750 per week, 2200/wk by end of Q2 and now have cracked 4k/week for a total of 91k Model 3s to date in 2018.
If they produce a steady 5k/wk to the end of the year, that'll be 157000 total which should land them about 25th place.
"They think there is a huge market for $65,000+ cars, and $1,000+ phones. Eventually you run out of people to sell shiny things to. And it ain't doing nothing for the environment. Just high-end consumerism to fulfill their pathetic lives."
The trickle-down from expensive phones brought instant telecommunications to billions who mostly still don't have electricity and the demand for solar panels from those high-end consumerists brought the price down enough that many of those same people living outside the bubble can afford small panels to power necessities, from disconnected villages in India to nomadic herders in Mongolia.
"You guys are so out of touch with reality. The fact is only 0.001% of the people on this planet can even afford at Tesla."
At many times throughout the past century the same could have been said of cars in general yet there are ~2 billion today - and STILL plenty of people "out of you affluent areas" who can't afford ANY car.
If you like half the total energy efficiency and a fraction of the energy storage capacity compared to diesel/lithium ion combo then, yeah...way better!
Nuclear for the win
Betting that TSLA would make its production numbers for Q3 and Q4. Or if it goes too high, realtive to the past couple years, any time I'll get out. Q3 numbers turned out well.
For Q3 and Q4, profit / loss numbers will matter a lot more than production.
Q1 / Q2 2019 will be very interesting as the waiting list for people who'll buy the long range / performance versions should have been exhausted and most will be hoping for the promised $35k model.
If that isn't ready for the domestic market and Tesla isn't ready to ship overseas or to right-hand drive markets, deliveries may tumble in H1 2019
"Which is exactly what we predicted when congress passed ObamaCare, requiring full time employees be covered. Well, now we have a bunch of professions that no longer work full time"
If by "we", you mean the people who said implement Medicare-for-all instead of that convoluted gladhanding to the insurance industry, then yes, this is exactly what "we" predicted.
"There's a huge problem, the people in the Middle East are a bunch of groups that don't get along very well. Politics prevent this from being feasible"
At the risk of oversimplifying a complex region, a lot of that is driven by scarcity. The only thing they have plenty of is oil, sand and sun.
And, of course, religion.
But Europe used to be full of division & strife not so long ago. They (mostly) changed. So can the Middle East.
A huge white iceberg is also a big easy target.
Given the solar potential of that area of the world, they could use solar thermal to power the desal plants, mine the brine for lithium and magnesium and use the sodium & potassium salts for thermal energy storage
CompCert provides a formally verified subset of C and has existed since 2008
AT&T's Cyclone is a bit older than CompCert but appears to have fizzled out 12 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
clang/LLVM had been developed in tandem with, practically for a project for making C code safer in the first place: SAFECode.
AT&T had a safe C variant called Cyclone but haven't heard anything about it in over a decade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm well aware that scientist and physicist were neologisms created by polymath & historian William Whewell.
But while such seekers after knowledge were long known as natural philosphers, other terms such as men of science or cultivators of science had also been used to describe them.
The word science itself as pertaining to the body of human knowledge and then also knowledge acquired by study and systematic observation came into use around the 14th century.
So it can be argued that all such practitioners were "scientists" even if the word itself had to wait several more centuries to be coined.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Royal Society was founded 28 November 1660 - "in Newton's day" as a previous poster stated. The previous poster was talking specifically about the Royal Society, and not the foundations of the scientific method.
" And the term "scientist" wasn't around for a couple centuries after that?"
Which part of the above sentence from the original post is confusing you?
You do know that the Royal Society was created in Newton's day, right? And the term "scientist" wasn't around for a couple centuries after that?.
The foundations of the scientific method were laid by Francis Bacon (1561-1626) influenced by Copernicus (1473-1543) and Galileo.(1564-642).
Newton was born in 1642
... and sink into a swamp. Just like the castle I built. And the two castles before it. But the fourth one stood up!
You must have huge...tracts of land
It was money they earned, so why wouldn't they keep it?
The intent of giving them a break was for investing in job creation but in the majority of cases the money was used for stock buybacks and executive bonuses