By the way, "people who could not receive a vaccination for medical reasons" includes every single child under the age of 12 months. Anti-vaxxers hate babies.
It's probably reasonable for a 3rd party service shop to be able to reflash a component to a known good factory-provided image.
Your point stands, though. These right-to-repair laws need to be written sensibly. There are all sorts of dangerous scenarios if someone is allowed to freely poke around in firmware. And it is perfectly reasonable to insist on some level of training and certification for servicing certain sensitive parts.
The baseline standard should be that a sufficiently trained & certified 3rd party shop should be able to perform the same sorts of common repairs that your own internal service personnel are trained to perform.
The tricky thing to legislate around is security. What if a product has a good reason to implement lockouts for non-standard code or components? The motivation could at least plausibly be for security or safety reasons.
There are hundreds of millions of cars on the road with no sensors at all other than two human eyes. I’m not sure why a biological neural net can drive on two human eyes but a digital neural net needs 75 times of radar.
1. It doesn’t have to handle every situation, it just has to know when to give up and ask for help.
2. It doesn’t have to be perfectly safe, it just has to be demonstrably safer than humans.
3. Every time any Tesla encounters an exceptional situation, the SW gets altered to deal with that, and then *every* Tesla gets better. That’s exponential improvement.
Nobody is stopping you. Apple spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make their own. Obviously you can do much better given your extensive experience as an internet critic.
If A is correlated with B then it either means A causes B, or B causes A, or C causes both A & B.
So if a study shows that people who drink diet sodas are fatter it either means that diet soda makes people fat, or being fat makes people start drinking diet soda, or some third thing causes people to both be fat and drink diet soda.
The correlation your study is pointing out is that countries with higher energy costs have a higher proportion of renewables. This either means that renewables raise energy costs, or countries with high energy costs are more likely to invest in renewables, or some third thing causes both (i.e., in first world countries everything costs more, and they're more likely to be leading the way on renewables).
1. cars cost more than horses
2. you can't breed two cars to make another car
3. you can't refuel a car using grass and a stream
4. horses are more affectionate than cars
5. horses are far more fuel efficient than cars ... and so on...
New technology is frequently not uniformly superior to the thing it replaces, but it's enough better in enough ways to carve out some market share. This is how it has been with every wave of technology since the beginning of time.
I'm at an age where I've witnessed several technology revolutions and there's a very predictable set of naysaying talking points.
One of them is that the new technology has to be superior to the thing it replaces in every single way, including cost: Automobiles aren't better than horses in *every* way, but somehow they still caught on.
Another is that the standard for success is that it has to completely supplant the previous technology. This is also stupid. "We still have paper books, so ebooks are a failure".
Are you under the impression that NY was suspending income tax for all the Amazon employees in NYC? That's obviously not the case--so they wouldn't be living there tax-free.
20,000 new people is barely noticeable in a city of 8,000,000 people. Queens alone (which is where the site was going to be) has something like 2.4M people. NYC is *big*.
gotta watch the conditionals, folks (Score:3, Insightful)
by argStyopa ( 232550 ) Alter Relationship on Thursday April 07, 2016 @06:35PM (#51864323) Journal
"...If it sells every car that's been reserved..."
I'm going to call it here, that less than 100,000 - maybe even less than 50k - actually turn into real orders.
I'm not proud to say that one of the things I find most satisfying is watching anti-establishment types painfully discover why the establishment exists.
Labor participation rate is based mostly on the number of people that were born 65-70 years ago. Birth rates are bursty--so that's a noisy number.
So, sure, you can make decisions using that number, but you need to zoom out to century timescales and use large rolling averages--otherwise you just reach silly conclusions about policies today based on horny soldiers coming back from war 65-70 years ago.
Slashdot Mirror
We're trying to live in a society here. If you don't want to take part then please find a different planet to live on.
By the way, "people who could not receive a vaccination for medical reasons" includes every single child under the age of 12 months. Anti-vaxxers hate babies.
It's not really possible to have an intelligent conversation with someone who doesn't know what words mean.
It's probably reasonable for a 3rd party service shop to be able to reflash a component to a known good factory-provided image.
Your point stands, though. These right-to-repair laws need to be written sensibly. There are all sorts of dangerous scenarios if someone is allowed to freely poke around in firmware. And it is perfectly reasonable to insist on some level of training and certification for servicing certain sensitive parts.
The baseline standard should be that a sufficiently trained & certified 3rd party shop should be able to perform the same sorts of common repairs that your own internal service personnel are trained to perform.
The tricky thing to legislate around is security. What if a product has a good reason to implement lockouts for non-standard code or components? The motivation could at least plausibly be for security or safety reasons.
There are hundreds of millions of cars on the road with no sensors at all other than two human eyes. I’m not sure why a biological neural net can drive on two human eyes but a digital neural net needs 75 times of radar.
1. It doesn’t have to handle every situation, it just has to know when to give up and ask for help.
2. It doesn’t have to be perfectly safe, it just has to be demonstrably safer than humans.
3. Every time any Tesla encounters an exceptional situation, the SW gets altered to deal with that, and then *every* Tesla gets better. That’s exponential improvement.
All that matters is what team you're on.
Nobody is stopping you. Apple spent hundreds of millions of dollars to make their own. Obviously you can do much better given your extensive experience as an internet critic.
If A is correlated with B then it either means A causes B, or B causes A, or C causes both A & B.
So if a study shows that people who drink diet sodas are fatter it either means that diet soda makes people fat, or being fat makes people start drinking diet soda, or some third thing causes people to both be fat and drink diet soda.
The correlation your study is pointing out is that countries with higher energy costs have a higher proportion of renewables. This either means that renewables raise energy costs, or countries with high energy costs are more likely to invest in renewables, or some third thing causes both (i.e., in first world countries everything costs more, and they're more likely to be leading the way on renewables).
How's that for scientific?
when you: (a) pretend that Supercharging doesn't exist, (b) pretend that if EVs don't work for EVERYBODY then they can't work for ANYBODY.
Call someone.
1. cars cost more than horses
... and so on ...
2. you can't breed two cars to make another car
3. you can't refuel a car using grass and a stream
4. horses are more affectionate than cars
5. horses are far more fuel efficient than cars
New technology is frequently not uniformly superior to the thing it replaces, but it's enough better in enough ways to carve out some market share. This is how it has been with every wave of technology since the beginning of time.
I'm at an age where I've witnessed several technology revolutions and there's a very predictable set of naysaying talking points.
One of them is that the new technology has to be superior to the thing it replaces in every single way, including cost: Automobiles aren't better than horses in *every* way, but somehow they still caught on.
Another is that the standard for success is that it has to completely supplant the previous technology. This is also stupid. "We still have paper books, so ebooks are a failure".
Try again.
V2 vs. V3 charging
The charge time to 50% charge really is close to half that of the V2 charger. I suspect future SW updates will optimize this somewhat further.
So this is only an issue for Tesla.
Ummmm.
Are you under the impression that NY was suspending income tax for all the Amazon employees in NYC? That's obviously not the case--so they wouldn't be living there tax-free.
20,000 new people is barely noticeable in a city of 8,000,000 people. Queens alone (which is where the site was going to be) has something like 2.4M people. NYC is *big*.
If you wait until you're done before you start, then you'll never start.
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gotta watch the conditionals, folks (Score:3, Insightful)
by argStyopa ( 232550 ) Alter Relationship on Thursday April 07, 2016 @06:35PM (#51864323) Journal
"...If it sells every car that's been reserved..."
I'm going to call it here, that less than 100,000 - maybe even less than 50k - actually turn into real orders.
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-Styopa
Tesla Megacharger
I'm not proud to say that one of the things I find most satisfying is watching anti-establishment types painfully discover why the establishment exists.
Yep, this is why we have real banks, dummies.
Tesla battery swap demonstration
Let me guess, fake news?
Labor participation rate is based mostly on the number of people that were born 65-70 years ago. Birth rates are bursty--so that's a noisy number. So, sure, you can make decisions using that number, but you need to zoom out to century timescales and use large rolling averages--otherwise you just reach silly conclusions about policies today based on horny soldiers coming back from war 65-70 years ago.
Somebody is already doing that