My cat likes to play with string. Or rather, he likes to watch me dangling string in front of him. He used to chase it, but then realized that if he just sits still it will eventually come to him. All of the entertainment, none of the effort.
They don't understand cause and effect, and don't have object permanence (if they see a toy they don't understand it is the same toy they had yesterday, they just know it's/a/ toy and smells like them so it must be theirs). To make up for this, they are curious and patient. They will try things over and over again to see what happens, and learn through positive and negative re-enforcement.
This can lead to some surprisingly clever behaviour. We have all see videos of cats opening doors and the like, they the most common one is to learn how to manipulate their staff. For example, adult cats don't meow in the wild, but quickly learn that it's the most efficient way to summon their servants and signal that it's time for a massage. Same with food, lot of people swear that their cats are fussy and will only take hand-fed choice cuts of chicken, but actually they just learned to keep ignoring food that is offered until the good stuff comes out.
That's peak. 80% charge is 30 minutes for a Leaf, 100% in about 50 minutes. Not sure about the new 40kWh ones.
So yeah, not bad I guess. I'm looking at getting a Tesla and have been planning some routes in various apps. Most suggest 10-15 minutes charge sessions where as with the Leaf I'd be doing 30 minutes every time.
Saving money is the point. Solar PV will pay for itself in 5-10 years, depending on location. They only add a fraction of a percent to the cost of the building, but will generate a guaranteed return for at least 20 years, probably longer.
I think they don't want to make adaptors because cars using them would charge slowly, and thus tie up the charger for longer. A Leaf can only charge at 42kW, some other cars only at 23kW.
I wonder what Tesla could do performance wise if they made a plug-in hybrid, and where the price would fall. My understanding is the batteries are in the realm of 5 figures ($190/kwh, 100kwh battery)
You are way off. Based on the pricing of the new semi truck, it looks like they have got the battery down to about $75/kWh.
Adding a fossil fuel engine would decrease performance massively. Look at cars like the La Ferrari or the Chiron, a Tesla Model S can match their 0-60 times and they can't get close to the new Roaster's 1.9 seconds. They poured so much effort into refining the petrol engine and adding hybrid tech to it, and can't compete with a car costing 1/5th as much that is all electric.
EVs are better than fossil cars for cold weather anyway. That's one reason why they are so popular in Nordic countries.
Pre-heating while plugged in, including the battery pack, no issues with not starting for fluids freezing, low centre of gravity to improve handling on ice/snow.
Care of the elderly is becoming a problem for most developed nations, as populations stabilize or even begin to fall. Pensions and elderly care provision all relied on a growing population to work, so that one old person's care was paid for by several younger people. Now it's getting to 1:1 or worse, the young don't want to pay any more.
The basic contract on which most modern societies were built, that you pay for taxes and contributions now and are looked after in old age, is breaking down. Robots may help by reducing care costs and improving quality of life for older people. I don't think it will do enough though, not by a long way.
The first industrial revolution was when socialism really solidified into a movement that fought for worker's rights. It's what is needed to cope with this coming change, but a large amount of effort has been made to discredit and demonize it.
The ancient Greeks thought that democracy was a poor system because people voted for their own self-interest instead of the greater good. Turns out that these days it's a poor system because people vote against their own self interest because of propaganda and fake news.
I sure as hell haven't seen you ever do anything of the sort.
So basically if you have not personally witnessed it you won't make any effort to check or ask for examples, you will just assume it's a lie. No wonder you think everyone who contradicts you is dishonest.
If you are not going to argue in good faith, you have already lost.
That dishonesty is why you got downvoted
No, it's because snowflakes like you get triggered when people point out that they are wrong, and react by trying to silence their critics.
Is a 500 mile range really that useful though? The >300 mile range of the Model 3 requires 5 hours of driving to deplete, and then 45-60 minutes of charging to recover. Practically most people would say stop every couple of hours to charge for 15 minutes, taking a bathroom and refreshment break at the same time.
So unless you plan to drive for 8 hours non-stop, which is not safe and illegal for commercial drivers in the EU, it seems like there is little practical advantage to an EV with a >300 mile range. 300 miles gives you some margin and extra for cold weather etc.
My Nissan Leaf is cheaper due to fuel savings than an equivalent petrol car. Of course I could buy a cheaper Hyundai, but it wouldn't offer the same level of comfort or performance as the Leaf. It would automatically de-frost itself in the morning, which I'm really appreciating at the moment.
Maybe he really didn't, since it often gets modded down. I mean, he didn't bother to check out ask for examples, just went straight to justifying a troll mod. He's clearly not interested in facts or realty.
I've never seen self-titled feminists react to male issues being discussed with anything except an attempt to shut down the discussion
I've discussed such things right here on Slashdot many times. I'm a feminist, and I prove you wrong. Look, here I am, ready to talk about it, no interesting in shutting you down.
Sometimes non-feminists try to shut it down with troll and flamebait mods, but it's not something I've ever attempted to do.
It is taken as an axiom of feminist thinking that if women ever lie about such things, it is so rare as to be unworthy of altering public policy.
It's impossible to have a debate with you when you think that feminists are inherently dishonest. Your mind is closed and I don't think there is anything I can possibly say to pry it open.
People frequently have their names trashed, even when exonerated, because some bitch or asshole will keep saying "yeah, I bet they did it." I've seen it happen
So maybe instead of demanding that there are no investigations, try to fix that bit. Change attitudes, and get malicious accusations prosecuted. Do something productive instead of just ranting about feminism.
What kind of person finds the respect of people whose destiny they control flattering? It's just arse-kissing. Real respect comes from peers and from those who do not benefit from giving it.
All software used in criminal convictions should be open source as a requirement of using it.
Speed traps, DNA processing, fingerprint matching, gait detection, photo enhancement software, even the firmware in the cameras used at the crime scene.
No, actually you don't see a lot of that. You've seen a few instances of that. What you don't see in the news is the even greater number of white men shot by police.
Are you really do thick you don't understand that there are more white men than black men in the US, and that therefore a direct numerical comparison of police shootings is largely meaningless? What matters is the probability of a black man being shot by police vs. the probability of a white man being shot by police. And the stats are pretty clear on that: You don't want to be black.
No, his argument is that when your boss tries to start a relationship with you it puts you in a very difficult position. If you say no, there could be retribution. Some people, especially younger ones, don't handle it very well. We have seen that with Kevin Spacey debacle and the young men working under him.
In the end she went to HR. We don't know more than that at this point, but it's not hard to imagine that it was because she refused him or broke off the relationship and suffered retribution. I'm not say that's what happened, merely that your statement is obtuse in the extreme.
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My cat likes to play with string. Or rather, he likes to watch me dangling string in front of him. He used to chase it, but then realized that if he just sits still it will eventually come to him. All of the entertainment, none of the effort.
Cat's use a brute force approach to intelligence.
They don't understand cause and effect, and don't have object permanence (if they see a toy they don't understand it is the same toy they had yesterday, they just know it's /a/ toy and smells like them so it must be theirs). To make up for this, they are curious and patient. They will try things over and over again to see what happens, and learn through positive and negative re-enforcement.
This can lead to some surprisingly clever behaviour. We have all see videos of cats opening doors and the like, they the most common one is to learn how to manipulate their staff. For example, adult cats don't meow in the wild, but quickly learn that it's the most efficient way to summon their servants and signal that it's time for a massage. Same with food, lot of people swear that their cats are fussy and will only take hand-fed choice cuts of chicken, but actually they just learned to keep ignoring food that is offered until the good stuff comes out.
That's peak. 80% charge is 30 minutes for a Leaf, 100% in about 50 minutes. Not sure about the new 40kWh ones.
So yeah, not bad I guess. I'm looking at getting a Tesla and have been planning some routes in various apps. Most suggest 10-15 minutes charge sessions where as with the Leaf I'd be doing 30 minutes every time.
Saving money is the point. Solar PV will pay for itself in 5-10 years, depending on location. They only add a fraction of a percent to the cost of the building, but will generate a guaranteed return for at least 20 years, probably longer.
These days you have to justify NOT fitting them.
I think they don't want to make adaptors because cars using them would charge slowly, and thus tie up the charger for longer. A Leaf can only charge at 42kW, some other cars only at 23kW.
I wonder what Tesla could do performance wise if they made a plug-in hybrid, and where the price would fall. My understanding is the batteries are in the realm of 5 figures ($190/kwh, 100kwh battery)
You are way off. Based on the pricing of the new semi truck, it looks like they have got the battery down to about $75/kWh.
Adding a fossil fuel engine would decrease performance massively. Look at cars like the La Ferrari or the Chiron, a Tesla Model S can match their 0-60 times and they can't get close to the new Roaster's 1.9 seconds. They poured so much effort into refining the petrol engine and adding hybrid tech to it, and can't compete with a car costing 1/5th as much that is all electric.
EVs are better than fossil cars for cold weather anyway. That's one reason why they are so popular in Nordic countries.
Pre-heating while plugged in, including the battery pack, no issues with not starting for fluids freezing, low centre of gravity to improve handling on ice/snow.
So what you are saying is that in 100 years common surnames will include Webdev, Phonemonkey and Uberman?
Actually that last one sounds kinda cool.
Care of the elderly is becoming a problem for most developed nations, as populations stabilize or even begin to fall. Pensions and elderly care provision all relied on a growing population to work, so that one old person's care was paid for by several younger people. Now it's getting to 1:1 or worse, the young don't want to pay any more.
The basic contract on which most modern societies were built, that you pay for taxes and contributions now and are looked after in old age, is breaking down. Robots may help by reducing care costs and improving quality of life for older people. I don't think it will do enough though, not by a long way.
The first industrial revolution was when socialism really solidified into a movement that fought for worker's rights. It's what is needed to cope with this coming change, but a large amount of effort has been made to discredit and demonize it.
The ancient Greeks thought that democracy was a poor system because people voted for their own self-interest instead of the greater good. Turns out that these days it's a poor system because people vote against their own self interest because of propaganda and fake news.
Which of the following seems smarter to you:
- Pack animals that sniff each other's butts
- Slave race of willing servants to
- Living god-emperors who occasionally allow the slaves to dote over them, between meals and naps
Male feminist is the ultimate trigger for right wing snowflakes. It hits all their trigger points:
- Beta
- Cuck
- Feminist
- Progressive
I sure as hell haven't seen you ever do anything of the sort.
So basically if you have not personally witnessed it you won't make any effort to check or ask for examples, you will just assume it's a lie. No wonder you think everyone who contradicts you is dishonest.
If you are not going to argue in good faith, you have already lost.
That dishonesty is why you got downvoted
No, it's because snowflakes like you get triggered when people point out that they are wrong, and react by trying to silence their critics.
Is a 500 mile range really that useful though? The >300 mile range of the Model 3 requires 5 hours of driving to deplete, and then 45-60 minutes of charging to recover. Practically most people would say stop every couple of hours to charge for 15 minutes, taking a bathroom and refreshment break at the same time.
So unless you plan to drive for 8 hours non-stop, which is not safe and illegal for commercial drivers in the EU, it seems like there is little practical advantage to an EV with a >300 mile range. 300 miles gives you some margin and extra for cold weather etc.
My Nissan Leaf is cheaper due to fuel savings than an equivalent petrol car. Of course I could buy a cheaper Hyundai, but it wouldn't offer the same level of comfort or performance as the Leaf. It would automatically de-frost itself in the morning, which I'm really appreciating at the moment.
Maybe he really didn't, since it often gets modded down. I mean, he didn't bother to check out ask for examples, just went straight to justifying a troll mod. He's clearly not interested in facts or realty.
Hypothetical paranoid anti-feminist fears verses the actual laws against gender based discrimination.
I've never seen self-titled feminists react to male issues being discussed with anything except an attempt to shut down the discussion
I've discussed such things right here on Slashdot many times. I'm a feminist, and I prove you wrong. Look, here I am, ready to talk about it, no interesting in shutting you down.
Sometimes non-feminists try to shut it down with troll and flamebait mods, but it's not something I've ever attempted to do.
It is taken as an axiom of feminist thinking that if women ever lie about such things, it is so rare as to be unworthy of altering public policy.
It's impossible to have a debate with you when you think that feminists are inherently dishonest. Your mind is closed and I don't think there is anything I can possibly say to pry it open.
People frequently have their names trashed, even when exonerated, because some bitch or asshole will keep saying "yeah, I bet they did it." I've seen it happen
So maybe instead of demanding that there are no investigations, try to fix that bit. Change attitudes, and get malicious accusations prosecuted. Do something productive instead of just ranting about feminism.
What kind of person finds the respect of people whose destiny they control flattering? It's just arse-kissing. Real respect comes from peers and from those who do not benefit from giving it.
Why don't you post the actual statistic, then we could see if there is a particular problem for black guys or not.
What matters is your poor grasp of statistics. Perhaps you would like to clarify your claim before I rip it apart.
All software used in criminal convictions should be open source as a requirement of using it.
Speed traps, DNA processing, fingerprint matching, gait detection, photo enhancement software, even the firmware in the cameras used at the crime scene.
No, actually you don't see a lot of that. You've seen a few instances of that. What you don't see in the news is the even greater number of white men shot by police.
Are you really do thick you don't understand that there are more white men than black men in the US, and that therefore a direct numerical comparison of police shootings is largely meaningless? What matters is the probability of a black man being shot by police vs. the probability of a white man being shot by police. And the stats are pretty clear on that: You don't want to be black.
No, his argument is that when your boss tries to start a relationship with you it puts you in a very difficult position. If you say no, there could be retribution. Some people, especially younger ones, don't handle it very well. We have seen that with Kevin Spacey debacle and the young men working under him.
In the end she went to HR. We don't know more than that at this point, but it's not hard to imagine that it was because she refused him or broke off the relationship and suffered retribution. I'm not say that's what happened, merely that your statement is obtuse in the extreme.