There is another option. New trade deal with China, push for them to open up. Maybe get the EU on board with it, present it as a multilateral offering.
It's not as immediate or visceral but it might actually work.
Impeachment is very unlikely though, as is Trump stepping down voluntarily. Everyone remembers how it worked out with Clinton, i.e. not very well for those trying to dislodge him.
So more likely Trump would just be bogged down by the barrage of legal problems and revelations, and his own party would start to distance itself from him with an eye on the next round of elections. That would limit what Trump can do, which is a realistic and useful goal.
"The mainstream media" is too broad here. It tends to be just a small number of outlets who are already known to support the government of the day, e.g. the Telegraph or the Mirror in the UK.
By saying "the mainstream media" it sounds like you think a broad spectrum of them are doing it on command or something. Is that what you are suggesting?
It's an interesting philosophical question - is it somehow worse to be speaking to a machine than to a human being who has been assigned exactly the same task? If the machine is good enough it might not make a difference, and you might not even know.
I tend to agree with AC, it's not worth getting upset about. It also reminds me of arguments about not wanting to talk to other humans for various reasons, which lead to them being treated badly.
I'd use this for recruiters. They all ask the same stupid questions that were answered in my CV or on my profile page, so a robot could easily deal with them. It could also filter out the ones who don't understand the difference between C and C#, or Javascript and embedded.
It would be best if Mueller could do something quickly, before the Democrats start up their "subpoena cannon". It will have more legitimacy if he does it, and will be easier than trying to impeach him from within.
EVs are a big upheaval for traditional car manufacturing.
They don't make most of the parts of the car at the factory, they assemble them. The parts are made by other companies. Many of them are trying desperately to pivot because they can see that most of the drivetrain is going away, there won't be variable gearboxes any more, engine management is a thing of the past and it's all BMS now.
Japanese manufacturing has formed an industry body to cope with it. They bet on hybrid technology, thinking that battery only vehicles were much further off than they turned out to be. Now Chinese companies have a lot of patents on EV tech and manufacturing already in place. The guys making gearboxes need to create entirely new products to survive, and those products have to be good enough to compete with established ones, and they don't have the expertise or experience to do it.
Batteries are an opportunity. Europe is building some big factories... But it will be hard to compete with Korea and China. Battery packs are made up of many individual cells, so can tolerate the odd faulty one meaning that slightly lower quality but significantly lower price is desirable.
Tesla really needs to focus on getting their prices down for the medium to long term. Once all the fans who are willing to pay over the odds for one have their Model 3s they will be competing against much cheaper, higher spec cars from Kia, Hyundai, Nissan and probably BMW and VW. Honda is releasing their first EV next year too, and I expect other Japanese manufacturers will eventually get there.
It's amazing how fast battery prices have fallen. When Musk announced the $35k Model 3 with 200 mile range it seemed ambitious, now it looks over-priced for the spec and it's not even got a release date yet. Tesla could make it more competitive by throwing in stuff like autopilot and some comfort features but they need to get their costs way down first.
That article illustrates why they brought in the reduced charge speed for heavy users. Something to watch for when buying second hand, because once it's active it can't be deactivated, and is a sign that the previous owner was pushing the vehicle hard.
You must be doing a hell of a lot of kilometres to need a new battery after only 8-10 years... In which case an i3 might not be your best option, because the range means you will spend more time charging.
- By default the router must only offer DNS, ping response and a web interface to devices on the LAN. Seems like even UPnP is disabled. - Default SSID must not give anything away, such as the manufacturer of the router. Not sure what exactly the point is, considering that things like the MAC address reveal that. - Half decent default passwords. - Manufacturer must state how long they supply updates for and what severity level merits a patch. - IPv6 is optional.
That would make it worse. People would leave 1 seat gaps between them and the next person, and then when families and couples come along later they would have to ask them to move or be split up.
Particularly for families with children being together is quite important, and benefits the other passengers as well.
To be fair to Tesla their cars don't seem to be any more dangerous than other brands. What pisses people off is that they, or more specifically Musk, promise features that then don't materialize. The whole "your car will get continual software updates" thing turned out to be just like every other kind of software - release beta quality crap and patch it later.
Take your pick. Works and properly tested but never updated, or half baked but might be amazing one day, maybe.
Their batteries are not the cheapest. South Korean manufacturers like LG are ahead on that front.
Not only are LG packs cheaper per kWh, the have longer warranties too. Hyundai and Kia are offering an unlimited warranty in the US, unlimited time and miles. In the rest of the world the warranty is longer than Tesla's too. LG packs also have more than adequate thermal management (including heating).
Tesla packs are competitive, no doubt, but they are not exceptional or magical. Where they are doing very well is on production numbers, ramping up as fast as anyone.
The whole point of this design is that the transaction processor can't determine who is paying for what, only how much money they need to give to the merchant.
Tesla deserves a lot of credit, but they were not the only ones driving this revolution.
Nissan produced an affordable, practical EV that figured out a lot of the basic issues with an electric drivetrain, from the instrumentation to the integration with existing car tech to how to sell it to the public. They also built large rapid charging networks in several countries.
There are many more too, especially in the commercial vehicle space. People said busses were too large to go electric, so BYD and others build 450kWh batteries and proved they worked just fine. LG have made a huge breakthrough in getting the battery cost down by using flat "pouch" cells (like in phones) rather than cylindrical ones. Hyundai and Kia have developed the most efficient EV drivetrains and figured out how to subtly adjust the bodywork to make their vehicles look "normal" but also get excellent range.
So credit where credit is due. Tesla gets a lot of press but they are only the performance end of the market, they don't even make an affordable model and are only a bit player in many important markets like Europe, Japan and China.
I do wonder if the guy might now be in legal trouble when he gets back to the US. Taking sealed documents to another country where you might be forced to disclose them is so unwise it could be seen as reckless.
His lawsuit is because his company made a Facebook app called "Pinkini", which scanned your friends' photos for pictures of them in bikinis. Facebook banned it for a TOS violation so he moved on to phase 2 of his business plan.
1. Create creepy app, get banned 2. Sue 3. ??? 4. Hand confidential Facebook documents to Parliament
Claiming you don't want a CoC and then putting up one (not as bad as Linus but still) which demands gender neutral pronouns
undermines your argument because he didn't. You can read the GNU Kind Communications guidelines at the link in my signature, and you will find that it doesn't demand anything, much less that.
"Maybe try not to be a complete prick" isn't a demand, it's a suggestion. A suggestion you might want to follow.
Crypto is a hipster tech trend
Yeah, it's not a cryptocurrency, even says so in the summary, in fact it's not even a currency. Did you even read past the headline?
This isn't a new currency. Your balance is kept in a traditional currency like Euros or USD. Taler is a digital wallet that you can keep your cash in, and spend it semi-anonymously also just like cash.
The only trust required is not in the value of Euros or USD or whatever stored in the wallet, it's that the wallet itself is secure and you no-one can alter the balance without making a legitimate transaction.
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There is another option. New trade deal with China, push for them to open up. Maybe get the EU on board with it, present it as a multilateral offering.
It's not as immediate or visceral but it might actually work.
Impeachment is very unlikely though, as is Trump stepping down voluntarily. Everyone remembers how it worked out with Clinton, i.e. not very well for those trying to dislodge him.
So more likely Trump would just be bogged down by the barrage of legal problems and revelations, and his own party would start to distance itself from him with an eye on the next round of elections. That would limit what Trump can do, which is a realistic and useful goal.
"The mainstream media" is too broad here. It tends to be just a small number of outlets who are already known to support the government of the day, e.g. the Telegraph or the Mirror in the UK.
By saying "the mainstream media" it sounds like you think a broad spectrum of them are doing it on command or something. Is that what you are suggesting?
It's an interesting philosophical question - is it somehow worse to be speaking to a machine than to a human being who has been assigned exactly the same task? If the machine is good enough it might not make a difference, and you might not even know.
I tend to agree with AC, it's not worth getting upset about. It also reminds me of arguments about not wanting to talk to other humans for various reasons, which lead to them being treated badly.
I'd use this for recruiters. They all ask the same stupid questions that were answered in my CV or on my profile page, so a robot could easily deal with them. It could also filter out the ones who don't understand the difference between C and C#, or Javascript and embedded.
It would be best if Mueller could do something quickly, before the Democrats start up their "subpoena cannon". It will have more legitimacy if he does it, and will be easier than trying to impeach him from within.
EVs are a big upheaval for traditional car manufacturing.
They don't make most of the parts of the car at the factory, they assemble them. The parts are made by other companies. Many of them are trying desperately to pivot because they can see that most of the drivetrain is going away, there won't be variable gearboxes any more, engine management is a thing of the past and it's all BMS now.
Japanese manufacturing has formed an industry body to cope with it. They bet on hybrid technology, thinking that battery only vehicles were much further off than they turned out to be. Now Chinese companies have a lot of patents on EV tech and manufacturing already in place. The guys making gearboxes need to create entirely new products to survive, and those products have to be good enough to compete with established ones, and they don't have the expertise or experience to do it.
Batteries are an opportunity. Europe is building some big factories... But it will be hard to compete with Korea and China. Battery packs are made up of many individual cells, so can tolerate the odd faulty one meaning that slightly lower quality but significantly lower price is desirable.
Tesla really needs to focus on getting their prices down for the medium to long term. Once all the fans who are willing to pay over the odds for one have their Model 3s they will be competing against much cheaper, higher spec cars from Kia, Hyundai, Nissan and probably BMW and VW. Honda is releasing their first EV next year too, and I expect other Japanese manufacturers will eventually get there.
It's amazing how fast battery prices have fallen. When Musk announced the $35k Model 3 with 200 mile range it seemed ambitious, now it looks over-priced for the spec and it's not even got a release date yet. Tesla could make it more competitive by throwing in stuff like autopilot and some comfort features but they need to get their costs way down first.
That article illustrates why they brought in the reduced charge speed for heavy users. Something to watch for when buying second hand, because once it's active it can't be deactivated, and is a sign that the previous owner was pushing the vehicle hard.
You must be doing a hell of a lot of kilometres to need a new battery after only 8-10 years... In which case an i3 might not be your best option, because the range means you will spend more time charging.
It's not just iPhones that the tax is going on. Pretty much all phones will be affected.
Trump's policy is attrition. He's hoping you can stand the pain longer than China.
He is hoping that China will capitulate, but because China is not a democracy it can simply wait a couple of years to see what happens.
Slightly warmer, but only slightly.
It's a relatively new thing with budget airlines, and Ryanair is named specifically.
Some interesting stuff in that document.
- By default the router must only offer DNS, ping response and a web interface to devices on the LAN. Seems like even UPnP is disabled.
- Default SSID must not give anything away, such as the manufacturer of the router. Not sure what exactly the point is, considering that things like the MAC address reveal that.
- Half decent default passwords.
- Manufacturer must state how long they supply updates for and what severity level merits a patch.
- IPv6 is optional.
Seems rather basic to be honest.
That would make it worse. People would leave 1 seat gaps between them and the next person, and then when families and couples come along later they would have to ask them to move or be split up.
Particularly for families with children being together is quite important, and benefits the other passengers as well.
To be fair to Tesla their cars don't seem to be any more dangerous than other brands. What pisses people off is that they, or more specifically Musk, promise features that then don't materialize. The whole "your car will get continual software updates" thing turned out to be just like every other kind of software - release beta quality crap and patch it later.
Take your pick. Works and properly tested but never updated, or half baked but might be amazing one day, maybe.
Their batteries are not the cheapest. South Korean manufacturers like LG are ahead on that front.
Not only are LG packs cheaper per kWh, the have longer warranties too. Hyundai and Kia are offering an unlimited warranty in the US, unlimited time and miles. In the rest of the world the warranty is longer than Tesla's too. LG packs also have more than adequate thermal management (including heating).
Tesla packs are competitive, no doubt, but they are not exceptional or magical. Where they are doing very well is on production numbers, ramping up as fast as anyone.
It's a kind of virtue signalling, except that most of the people who read it think you are an idiot.
The whole point of this design is that the transaction processor can't determine who is paying for what, only how much money they need to give to the merchant.
Have you even read the summary?
How will it end up in the hands of a payment processor? It's specifically designed to prevent that.
Tesla deserves a lot of credit, but they were not the only ones driving this revolution.
Nissan produced an affordable, practical EV that figured out a lot of the basic issues with an electric drivetrain, from the instrumentation to the integration with existing car tech to how to sell it to the public. They also built large rapid charging networks in several countries.
There are many more too, especially in the commercial vehicle space. People said busses were too large to go electric, so BYD and others build 450kWh batteries and proved they worked just fine. LG have made a huge breakthrough in getting the battery cost down by using flat "pouch" cells (like in phones) rather than cylindrical ones. Hyundai and Kia have developed the most efficient EV drivetrains and figured out how to subtly adjust the bodywork to make their vehicles look "normal" but also get excellent range.
So credit where credit is due. Tesla gets a lot of press but they are only the performance end of the market, they don't even make an affordable model and are only a bit player in many important markets like Europe, Japan and China.
I do wonder if the guy might now be in legal trouble when he gets back to the US. Taking sealed documents to another country where you might be forced to disclose them is so unwise it could be seen as reckless.
His lawsuit is because his company made a Facebook app called "Pinkini", which scanned your friends' photos for pictures of them in bikinis. Facebook banned it for a TOS violation so he moved on to phase 2 of his business plan.
1. Create creepy app, get banned
2. Sue
3. ???
4. Hand confidential Facebook documents to Parliament
Claiming you don't want a CoC and then putting up one (not as bad as Linus but still) which demands gender neutral pronouns
undermines your argument because he didn't. You can read the GNU Kind Communications guidelines at the link in my signature, and you will find that it doesn't demand anything, much less that.
"Maybe try not to be a complete prick" isn't a demand, it's a suggestion. A suggestion you might want to follow.
Crypto is a hipster tech trend
Yeah, it's not a cryptocurrency, even says so in the summary, in fact it's not even a currency. Did you even read past the headline?
This isn't a new currency. Your balance is kept in a traditional currency like Euros or USD. Taler is a digital wallet that you can keep your cash in, and spend it semi-anonymously also just like cash.
The only trust required is not in the value of Euros or USD or whatever stored in the wallet, it's that the wallet itself is secure and you no-one can alter the balance without making a legitimate transaction.