I'm not disputing that it'd be easy to do - as a matter of fact I believe that most chargers/cars already have more complex logic installed to control charging in order to save money via drawing when electricity is at it's lowest rates.
Of course, if 'everybody' starts getting EVs said lowest rates might go away, but it'd still be cheaper than gasoline.
being a home improvement, he'll get that back in house value, so i wouldnt chalk that up against fuel cost equivalence.
Only if he can find a buyer specifically interested in the charging capability. That's getting easier and easier, but if we lose too many rebates and incentives it could bottom out, at least before Musk gets the gigafactory up and an 'affordable' model out.
Same deal really with my interest in having a vault in my house. Nice for most people to have some secure storage, but they generally don't value it at what it cost to put it in.
As he mentioned, it was an electrical upgrade he was looking to do anyways due to his house not meeting his standards for electrical work. I'd have done more of the work myself, but I'm lucky that way.
As for 'saving money after 4 years', it'd actually be a bit longer - $4.5k costs like $225-450 a year in opportunity costs alone. Then I was figuring that there was at least some extra expense with the vehicle. With the revelation that his electrical wasn't to code(or even all that safe) otherwise and that he was deliberately building in room for expansion it all became a lot more reasonable.
I know you are probably referring to the paradox of teaching Chemistry without using Math being a bit difficult.
Exactly what I was referring to.
However the cynic in me thinks that the morons at least understand that basic chemistry is required in the manufacture of things like bombs and bullets.
My cynicism is that they'd have their bomb & bullet makers run an apprenticeship where they teach the stuff to 'properly vetted', IE fanatic enough to their cause/group, individuals.
As for the 'Ted Talks' I kind of ignored them for a number of reasons: 1. No reason to believe that they're peer reviewed. 2. Audio would be incredibly rude where I was at the time. 3. I'm a visual learner - listening to youtube lectures is painful for me. 4. My conclusion from the earlier 3 was that the latter 3 would be more the same. On reaching home, I confirmed this.
$4500 is an awful lot to pay to save $100/month(estimated) in fuel costs. That's 4 years to simply pay for the electrical work before you even start touching any increase in car costs.
How easy is it to get a separate time-of-day rate meter in California?
I'd rate it as 'very easy' - there are companies that will do the install and I found an article on Los Angeles EV rebates. It pays you $250 for a separate meter, which they say will cover 'months' of charging. From what I remember electric meters are cheaper than water meters.
The Tesla can indeed be configured to charge only during a preset time, or hooked up to a system that allows the power company to turn it off when needed for even more discounts.
According to the official figures, the US gov't spends more money per capita on health insurance than countries that provide universal coverage. It is a sickening example of cronyism and thinly veiled bribery.
According to the official figures I've seen, the Federal government alone pays enough to not quite as much per person as the cheaper European states spend to cover 100% of their population. Add in the individual State funding and you could pay median European* healthcare costs on an individual basis without a single private dime.
As a (moderate) libertarian, I actually find this a good argument for national single-payer if it's implemented somewhat correctly. Because if done right it would actually REDUCE government spending, meaning by my 'yardstick' we actually have less government while people are better off. I, of course, have to point out that I think there are better options, but it's more a measure of just how big a cluster of screw-ups our healthcare system is.
*not to mention Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, etc...
For the cost of Telsa's batteries to drop, Tesla's battery factory needs to run at full capacity.
Not entirely true. It's my understanding that the initial facility will be 'mostly' empty, giving it plenty of room to expand to both increase production and implement new technology. There are size limits when you get into truly massive automated production where you end up switching to parallel production lines. At that point there are sweet spots where every production line is maxed out, but the net effect is that each fully maxed out production line helps cover the 1 non-maxed, so the overall difference is minimized as the number of lines increase.
Another point would be to ask whether the projection for 2020 covers a ~$35k EV with 200 miles range. It could cause demand to explode.
Let's see: All three studies you listed are irrelevant to what I was pointing out, which would be increased growth rates in farm animals with low dosage antibiotics. Posting studies about gut bacteria in healthy and fat people isn't close enough, sorry.
It's basically a redux of Afghanistan with the Taliban, where a militant group takes over a failed state. Except my understanding is that they're being even more brutal.
The end result of de-emphasis on core education will result in their regressing even more, eventually leading to 'the caliphate' being seen as another North Korea type situation if they're 'lucky', and being invaded like Afghanistan if they're not extremely lucky.
Basically, AQ has been around for decades. ISIS might be mostly gone in a couple years.
Okay, I'm not a Muslim, nor am I an expert. I've been over in majority Islamic countries a few times though and had a few 'cultural appreciation' lessons.
Isis is violating a good amount of Islamic teachings with this ban.
Though I can't see how they're still allowed to teach chemistry(even if they have to say it's due to Allah's rules and law) if they're not allowed to teach math, so it might be an error in the article. Math may have been de-emphasized against teaching their propaganda.
Sorry for the delay, but I find angel to have a compelling argument - in order to grow cows need nutrients. It's not just 'grow fat' or 'heavier', if they simply weighed more because they had 100 pounds of feed stopped up in them, the meat packing industry would be pissed and start buying on the basis of gutted carcass weight or something. In order to get said nutrients they need their gut bacteria to break down their food, otherwise it'd inedible to them. In a sense Cows digest the bacteria, not the plant matter they consume.
If there are 'bucket loads' of scientific studies, it shouldn't be hard to give a reputable source. I'll admit that I haven't studied the issue. I know there's weight gain when growing animals are given antibiotics. I know they'll maintain weight/growth if given less food along with antibiotics. Why? That's trickier.
For example, this report shouldn't be taken to heart because it's by a student, not curated or peer reviewed, but it's at least simple and lists more references. It says that the growth isn't because food processing is being disrupted, but because the animal isn't spending resources developing immune responses it otherwise would and that most of the bacteria effected are in the large intestine, which provides minimal nutrition extraction as opposed to the bacteria in the stomach and small intestine.
Also, 16% more growth on 7% less feed is significant, which is why a lot of pig farmers today are perfectly willing to give up on routine antibiotic regimes for pigs in other stages where it's much less effective, but want to keep it during the starter/weanling stage.
You seem to be under the same misapprehnsion as much of the farming community -- that high doses of antibiotics are dangerous, whereas the reverse is true.
'Seem' would be right, because your belief in my belief is false.;)
When using antibiotics allows animals to grow faster or eat less food and you'd end up using them anyways when animals get REALLY sick, on the first order the low doses make sense.
Its cheaper to toss antibiotics in the food for all the cattle, pigs, etc than it is to deal with problems caused by infections. These are the fertile breading grounds for resistance.
It not only prevents infections, it also increases growth. However it's far from the only source of antibiotic resistant bacteria because there's plenty of bacterias out there that are resistant to antibiotics that have NEVER been fed to animals.
We're willing to give expensive antibiotics to humans, if I remember right, there's only 3 major antibiotics given to cattle. If you're infected with a disease resistant to something not on that list, it probably didn't get that resistance from cattle.
They used to issue sugar pills instead, which might actually be tastier than the Pez, and more effective the way antibiotics are going.
As for the farmers - it's because giving animals antibiotics during specific periods of their growth cycle increases their growth significantly. I remember reading an article that they don't even use more antibiotics - the courses prevent enough sickness that farmers that ONLY give antibiotics to sick animals, at much higher doses, actually use just as many antibiotics.
Well a 'command set' implies a set of functions, 1 command per function. So if you increase the command set, you've increased the number of functions, which means they added something new to the TRIM command.
What that might be, I don't know. Going by his description, it sounds like they managed to implement some detection of non-allocated cells, which would allow them to re-allocate said cells without actually copying junk data to the new location.
IE the system decides that block 105 is under-used and 657 is over-used. Normally this would involve copying what's in 657 to 105 and vice versa, but rather than blindly copy 105 to 657, it detects that block 105 isn't actually allocated(the file that was there has been deleted or something), so it just assigns the mapping from 105 to 657, saving a write.
If people are getting VPN subscriptions, it's probably for porn, business, and/or free video streaming services like hulu.com or thedarewall.com
Don't forget that they have to get a non-australian credit card as well, in most cases. It's one of Netflix's checks. I agree, I wouldn't be getting a VPN 'merely' for netflix unless 'quickflix' just sucks that horribly(and to be fair, it probably does). It's one of those things where VPN use might be very common in Australia because their internet laws are pretty screwed up.
Oh, and there's another reason for getting a VPN and US credit card - Steam. Australia is one of the more strict nanny-states when it comes to game violence regulations, so there's quite a few popular games that it's citizens either can't get at all, or have to pay 50% more for a 'toned down' version that's missing content and has had the blood turned green or something.
So since once you have a VPN, the marginal expense for more bandwidth is typically quite low, it provides an incentive to use it even more. You get it for Steam where it can pay for itself with a 'one A list game a month' habit and because you already have it you might as well use it for porn, Netflix, etc...
Of course, I'm even tougher than most to detect - I have a VPN set up on my own VPS. Sure, it's a few bucks more but I can run a server doing whatever I want.
Which is part of the 'problem' Australians experience - their local companies have enough influence to pass standards at least somewhat unique to Australia, as well as have some of the tougher media controls, yet they're not big enough for most companies to put forth the effort to comply with them, which leaves them lagging.
They can normally license with the holder of the exclusive rights, but in many cases said holder sees netflix as competition and thus wants to charge huge rates for said licenses. That's where time to conduct negotiations comes in. It doesn't make sense for netflix to sign a licensing agreement where the cost is $12/month per netflix customer, after all. Even $1 a customer per year gets quite dear.
Just remember, your own experience is anecdotal. When I was in school 'Xeroxing' was used more often than 'copying' by the government worker types I was exposed to.
Darn near everything today is 'copied' using a form of laser printer technology, but back when I was a kid 'photocopies' were xerox machines, but you also had 'ditto' machines that the schools would use when they needed 60+ copies of something - it'd produce slightly funny looking blue ink copies that were normally not quite centered/straight on the paper. From what I remember, it used photographic technology to make a sort of screen, which would then be mounted on a drum that rotated the paper through. More expensive by far than a Xerox for a single copy, but it gave you a negative good for hundreds of prints, after which the only cost was the paper and ink that was probably a couple bucks per gallon. It was called a 'ditto machine', which wiki also calls a 'spirit duplicator'.
In short, back then a 'copy machine' back then could refer to any of a number of devices depending on your needs - a photocopier/Xerox for a copy or two. A ditto machine for a moderate number of low quality copies(like giving kids a test), a mimeograph for larger numbers of copies, all the way up to full up printing presses for stuff like government forms.
In trying to make sense of it, I wonder if the author meant to say that when a virus infected cell dies it tends to release it's virus load, mashed together with the idea that with some bacterial diseases the bacteria don't release their toxins until death. As a result, you can have the problem that when you administer antibiotics you have a massive die-off of toxin harboring bacteria, which can even kill a weak enough patient from the sudden release. Or make people think that the antibiotics are making things worse(to be fair, it actually IS in the short run).
The magnet part actually makes a little sense - introduce the magnetic nano-particles with the appropriate protein to adhere to the target(viral, bacterial toxin, etc...), then collect with magnet before returning the blood to the body.
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How are you powering the timer/microcontroller?
I'm not disputing that it'd be easy to do - as a matter of fact I believe that most chargers/cars already have more complex logic installed to control charging in order to save money via drawing when electricity is at it's lowest rates.
Of course, if 'everybody' starts getting EVs said lowest rates might go away, but it'd still be cheaper than gasoline.
being a home improvement, he'll get that back in house value, so i wouldnt chalk that up against fuel cost equivalence.
Only if he can find a buyer specifically interested in the charging capability. That's getting easier and easier, but if we lose too many rebates and incentives it could bottom out, at least before Musk gets the gigafactory up and an 'affordable' model out.
Same deal really with my interest in having a vault in my house. Nice for most people to have some secure storage, but they generally don't value it at what it cost to put it in.
As he mentioned, it was an electrical upgrade he was looking to do anyways due to his house not meeting his standards for electrical work. I'd have done more of the work myself, but I'm lucky that way.
As for 'saving money after 4 years', it'd actually be a bit longer - $4.5k costs like $225-450 a year in opportunity costs alone. Then I was figuring that there was at least some extra expense with the vehicle. With the revelation that his electrical wasn't to code(or even all that safe) otherwise and that he was deliberately building in room for expansion it all became a lot more reasonable.
I know you are probably referring to the paradox of teaching Chemistry without using Math being a bit difficult.
Exactly what I was referring to.
However the cynic in me thinks that the morons at least understand that basic chemistry is required in the manufacture of things like bombs and bullets.
My cynicism is that they'd have their bomb & bullet makers run an apprenticeship where they teach the stuff to 'properly vetted', IE fanatic enough to their cause/group, individuals.
I kinda already did?
As for the 'Ted Talks' I kind of ignored them for a number of reasons:
1. No reason to believe that they're peer reviewed.
2. Audio would be incredibly rude where I was at the time.
3. I'm a visual learner - listening to youtube lectures is painful for me.
4. My conclusion from the earlier 3 was that the latter 3 would be more the same. On reaching home, I confirmed this.
Anyways, some more articles on antibiotic growth promotion:
It improves growth, but not enough to justify the cost in chickens grown in clean & sanitary environments
The Mode of Growth Promotion by Antibiotics
The European ban on growth-promoting antibiotics and emerging consequences for human and animal health. link
Alternatives to Antibiotic Use for Growth Promotion in Animal Husbandry link
Effect of Abolishment of the Use of Antimicrobial Agents for Growth Promotion on Occurrence of Antimicrobial Resistance in Fecal Enterococci from Food Animals in Denmark link
Antibiotic Usage in Animals link
Conclusion: The cattle industry isn't feeding billions of dollars of antibiotics to their animals for fun.
$4500 is an awful lot to pay to save $100/month(estimated) in fuel costs. That's 4 years to simply pay for the electrical work before you even start touching any increase in car costs.
Software on the car or not, a fish-tank timer is rated high enough and can turn your plug on at midnight when your cheaper rate kicks in.
I'm going to call bull on this one. You need a serious relay to switch that much voltage.
How easy is it to get a separate time-of-day rate meter in California?
I'd rate it as 'very easy' - there are companies that will do the install and I found an article on Los Angeles EV rebates. It pays you $250 for a separate meter, which they say will cover 'months' of charging. From what I remember electric meters are cheaper than water meters.
The Tesla can indeed be configured to charge only during a preset time, or hooked up to a system that allows the power company to turn it off when needed for even more discounts.
According to the official figures, the US gov't spends more money per capita on health insurance than countries that provide universal coverage. It is a sickening example of cronyism and thinly veiled bribery.
According to the official figures I've seen, the Federal government alone pays enough to not quite as much per person as the cheaper European states spend to cover 100% of their population. Add in the individual State funding and you could pay median European* healthcare costs on an individual basis without a single private dime.
As a (moderate) libertarian, I actually find this a good argument for national single-payer if it's implemented somewhat correctly. Because if done right it would actually REDUCE government spending, meaning by my 'yardstick' we actually have less government while people are better off. I, of course, have to point out that I think there are better options, but it's more a measure of just how big a cluster of screw-ups our healthcare system is.
*not to mention Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, etc...
$500 lease payment + $150 in gasoline (15k miles, 30mpg, $4/gallon gasoline, rounded down). You might want to round up to account
Once you factor that in, you're looking at $350/month cars, which are still nice ones if not BMW 3 series.
My Tacoma was $300/month while the payments lasted, and it's not exactly long on features, and bought in '08.
For the cost of Telsa's batteries to drop, Tesla's battery factory needs to run at full capacity.
Not entirely true. It's my understanding that the initial facility will be 'mostly' empty, giving it plenty of room to expand to both increase production and implement new technology. There are size limits when you get into truly massive automated production where you end up switching to parallel production lines. At that point there are sweet spots where every production line is maxed out, but the net effect is that each fully maxed out production line helps cover the 1 non-maxed, so the overall difference is minimized as the number of lines increase.
Another point would be to ask whether the projection for 2020 covers a ~$35k EV with 200 miles range. It could cause demand to explode.
Let's see: All three studies you listed are irrelevant to what I was pointing out, which would be increased growth rates in farm animals with low dosage antibiotics. Posting studies about gut bacteria in healthy and fat people isn't close enough, sorry.
It's basically a redux of Afghanistan with the Taliban, where a militant group takes over a failed state. Except my understanding is that they're being even more brutal.
The end result of de-emphasis on core education will result in their regressing even more, eventually leading to 'the caliphate' being seen as another North Korea type situation if they're 'lucky', and being invaded like Afghanistan if they're not extremely lucky.
Basically, AQ has been around for decades. ISIS might be mostly gone in a couple years.
Okay, I'm not a Muslim, nor am I an expert. I've been over in majority Islamic countries a few times though and had a few 'cultural appreciation' lessons.
Isis is violating a good amount of Islamic teachings with this ban.
Though I can't see how they're still allowed to teach chemistry(even if they have to say it's due to Allah's rules and law) if they're not allowed to teach math, so it might be an error in the article. Math may have been de-emphasized against teaching their propaganda.
Sorry for the delay, but I find angel to have a compelling argument - in order to grow cows need nutrients. It's not just 'grow fat' or 'heavier', if they simply weighed more because they had 100 pounds of feed stopped up in them, the meat packing industry would be pissed and start buying on the basis of gutted carcass weight or something. In order to get said nutrients they need their gut bacteria to break down their food, otherwise it'd inedible to them. In a sense Cows digest the bacteria, not the plant matter they consume.
If there are 'bucket loads' of scientific studies, it shouldn't be hard to give a reputable source. I'll admit that I haven't studied the issue. I know there's weight gain when growing animals are given antibiotics. I know they'll maintain weight/growth if given less food along with antibiotics. Why? That's trickier.
For example, this report shouldn't be taken to heart because it's by a student, not curated or peer reviewed, but it's at least simple and lists more references. It says that the growth isn't because food processing is being disrupted, but because the animal isn't spending resources developing immune responses it otherwise would and that most of the bacteria effected are in the large intestine, which provides minimal nutrition extraction as opposed to the bacteria in the stomach and small intestine.
Also, 16% more growth on 7% less feed is significant, which is why a lot of pig farmers today are perfectly willing to give up on routine antibiotic regimes for pigs in other stages where it's much less effective, but want to keep it during the starter/weanling stage.
You seem to be under the same misapprehnsion as much of the farming community -- that high doses of antibiotics are dangerous, whereas the reverse is true.
'Seem' would be right, because your belief in my belief is false. ;)
When using antibiotics allows animals to grow faster or eat less food and you'd end up using them anyways when animals get REALLY sick, on the first order the low doses make sense.
Resistance is more problematic.
Its cheaper to toss antibiotics in the food for all the cattle, pigs, etc than it is to deal with problems caused by infections. These are the fertile breading grounds for resistance.
It not only prevents infections, it also increases growth. However it's far from the only source of antibiotic resistant bacteria because there's plenty of bacterias out there that are resistant to antibiotics that have NEVER been fed to animals.
We're willing to give expensive antibiotics to humans, if I remember right, there's only 3 major antibiotics given to cattle. If you're infected with a disease resistant to something not on that list, it probably didn't get that resistance from cattle.
They used to issue sugar pills instead, which might actually be tastier than the Pez, and more effective the way antibiotics are going.
As for the farmers - it's because giving animals antibiotics during specific periods of their growth cycle increases their growth significantly. I remember reading an article that they don't even use more antibiotics - the courses prevent enough sickness that farmers that ONLY give antibiotics to sick animals, at much higher doses, actually use just as many antibiotics.
Antibiotic use remaining stable
Increasing growth
The massive die-off you're talking about is called a Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction.
I try to avoid getting too technical, and I'll admit that I'm not a biology major.
Well a 'command set' implies a set of functions, 1 command per function. So if you increase the command set, you've increased the number of functions, which means they added something new to the TRIM command.
What that might be, I don't know. Going by his description, it sounds like they managed to implement some detection of non-allocated cells, which would allow them to re-allocate said cells without actually copying junk data to the new location.
IE the system decides that block 105 is under-used and 657 is over-used. Normally this would involve copying what's in 657 to 105 and vice versa, but rather than blindly copy 105 to 657, it detects that block 105 isn't actually allocated(the file that was there has been deleted or something), so it just assigns the mapping from 105 to 657, saving a write.
If people are getting VPN subscriptions, it's probably for porn, business, and/or free video streaming services like hulu.com or thedarewall.com
Don't forget that they have to get a non-australian credit card as well, in most cases. It's one of Netflix's checks. I agree, I wouldn't be getting a VPN 'merely' for netflix unless 'quickflix' just sucks that horribly(and to be fair, it probably does). It's one of those things where VPN use might be very common in Australia because their internet laws are pretty screwed up.
Oh, and there's another reason for getting a VPN and US credit card - Steam. Australia is one of the more strict nanny-states when it comes to game violence regulations, so there's quite a few popular games that it's citizens either can't get at all, or have to pay 50% more for a 'toned down' version that's missing content and has had the blood turned green or something.
So since once you have a VPN, the marginal expense for more bandwidth is typically quite low, it provides an incentive to use it even more. You get it for Steam where it can pay for itself with a 'one A list game a month' habit and because you already have it you might as well use it for porn, Netflix, etc...
Of course, I'm even tougher than most to detect - I have a VPN set up on my own VPS. Sure, it's a few bucks more but I can run a server doing whatever I want.
Which is part of the 'problem' Australians experience - their local companies have enough influence to pass standards at least somewhat unique to Australia, as well as have some of the tougher media controls, yet they're not big enough for most companies to put forth the effort to comply with them, which leaves them lagging.
They can normally license with the holder of the exclusive rights, but in many cases said holder sees netflix as competition and thus wants to charge huge rates for said licenses. That's where time to conduct negotiations comes in. It doesn't make sense for netflix to sign a licensing agreement where the cost is $12/month per netflix customer, after all. Even $1 a customer per year gets quite dear.
Just remember, your own experience is anecdotal. When I was in school 'Xeroxing' was used more often than 'copying' by the government worker types I was exposed to.
Darn near everything today is 'copied' using a form of laser printer technology, but back when I was a kid 'photocopies' were xerox machines, but you also had 'ditto' machines that the schools would use when they needed 60+ copies of something - it'd produce slightly funny looking blue ink copies that were normally not quite centered/straight on the paper. From what I remember, it used photographic technology to make a sort of screen, which would then be mounted on a drum that rotated the paper through. More expensive by far than a Xerox for a single copy, but it gave you a negative good for hundreds of prints, after which the only cost was the paper and ink that was probably a couple bucks per gallon. It was called a 'ditto machine', which wiki also calls a 'spirit duplicator'.
In short, back then a 'copy machine' back then could refer to any of a number of devices depending on your needs - a photocopier/Xerox for a copy or two. A ditto machine for a moderate number of low quality copies(like giving kids a test), a mimeograph for larger numbers of copies, all the way up to full up printing presses for stuff like government forms.
In trying to make sense of it, I wonder if the author meant to say that when a virus infected cell dies it tends to release it's virus load, mashed together with the idea that with some bacterial diseases the bacteria don't release their toxins until death. As a result, you can have the problem that when you administer antibiotics you have a massive die-off of toxin harboring bacteria, which can even kill a weak enough patient from the sudden release. Or make people think that the antibiotics are making things worse(to be fair, it actually IS in the short run).
The magnet part actually makes a little sense - introduce the magnetic nano-particles with the appropriate protein to adhere to the target(viral, bacterial toxin, etc...), then collect with magnet before returning the blood to the body.