I was actually considering a VPN service that terminates in Singapore - they're generally very good about economic freedom.
Now, no. Will other privacy-concerned people follow suit? Will we make enough of an impact that the VPN provider will need less space in the Singapore data center? Will those effects accumulate and hurt their local economy?
Anybody know what the current reputation of The Netherlands is?
I don't know about this one, but I used to work at a place that used a proprietary object database, and then when XML became all buzzy, they re-branded themselves as an XML database. It was still an object database, but they put an XML front end on it and became buzzword-compliant.
I'm guessing this one doesn't store its data in XML either. FWIW, my favorite database is an object database that has a very popular SQL interface to it. The backend data storage isn't SQL-formatted at all either.
and in fact he didn't since he wasn't planning on his destination being Russia
Prove it. It's likely he had a number of eventual destinations in mind, unless he's a complete idiot, which he doesn't appear to be.
You can't ask the GP to prove the negative, but unless Snowden is controlled opposition, which I very much doubt, then the coincidence of his passport being revoked by the State Department as he happened to be in the Moscow airport, is just that, a coincidence.
That's not to say that he did not realize that his passport could have been revoked at any time and that he wasn't thinking about contingency plans. But if his destination were Moscow, then he would have already left the airport when his passport was revoked.
Also: how blindly statist of all the other countries to hold so steadfastly to the passport protocol in this case.
There are a bunch of things we think we know how we could do them, if only we had the [material, machines, power] to build them. We can describe what we need, but not how to make them.
Of course, often times it seems that once we get those things, we get to move on to the next part of the problem we didn't see before.
Except that companies like SemaCharge and ChargePoint will actually install and maintain the equipment for almost nothing. They make their money by charging for use (you get an account and they mail you a card which you have to tap to charge).
Exactly this. With an electric car you won't go to the gas station, you'll go to the grocery store that has a charging system installed instead of the one that doesn't. That incentivizes the store to install the units, and they probably get a better deal than you do on home electricity, so they can make money on the power service as well and you can pay at the checkout.
Oh, come on. You can't get away with shit like that on/. The measurement is 7.9. How it feels is just you sniffing your own farts.
Not so. 0-60 time is just a common measurement for low-end torque and its impact on acceleration, which feels good to many people (pretty much anybody who enjoys a good roller coaster).
The electrics have all of their low-end torque at 0 mph and a strong electric will plaster you against your seat. 0-60 time isn't just about merging onto the highway.
Replacement cost is likely to be similar to a petrol engine as well, in the $10-15k range for new but of course much less for a reconditioned one.
Who charges $10-15K for a new engine?
That aside, the #1 thing electric car manufacturers could do to boot buyership would be to offer a battery warranty replacement plan, with the cost knowable at the time of purchase.
"Starting at year 8 you may elect to pay $500 a year through year 20, to cover the cost of battery replacement" or whatever.
At least that way people could properly calculate their total cost of ownership.
Agreeing in principle, but just on a personal note, be on the lookout for unused-inventory special (Priceline, etc.). I needed to go on a trip to see family (alone, they left earlier for a long vacation while I had to work) and found the local Enterprise would give me a little sports car they had on their lot for $35 for the weekend, with unlimited mileage. That vehicle did 7MPG better than mine, so it was almost a wash on only the fuel cost. I left my car out behind their building for the weekend.
Enterprise does not value me as a profitable customer, but for some reason they'd rather have their fleet rented and accumulating mileage than sitting idle. I assume it has something to do with their leasing terms with the manufacturers.
An EV truck owner would need a personal nuclear power station in the basement
Keep talking, I'm interested....
then he can hope to cover about 12mpg * 30 = 360 miles per day
Just FYI, I was dream-looking at a 3500 4x diesel the other day and the newest model-year engines are almost up to 19MPG. That's not too much worse than my ailing 4-cylinder car nor my wife's newer one, especially given the disparity in GVW.
It makes the competition that much tougher for electric vehicles. Personally, I'd love to see a diesel/electric engine like on a locomotive - that's the better separation of concerns in this vehicle class in my book, and how I'd attack the problem if I were Tesla (and also maybe a vehicle to replace the 4-cylinder Toyota trucks that every trademan drove in the '80s, before the Feds screwed up that market with CAFE redefinitions).
The most effective marketing they could do would be a total cost of ownership comparison between themselves and a corolla, or civic
Yep, the thing that got me interested was when a friend with a Tesla showed me that there's only one place to put in a fluid - for the windshield washer.
"Oh, so that means...."
If I could _assume_ that the thing would last 20 years, then it's a done deal. That assumption is currently the risk.
So the punishment for not securing taxpayer data is... nothing? So why bother fixing anything?
Did you expect something otherwise? This is government, not... anything else.
Incentives matter. In a monopoly government system, if you deem one to be necessary, due to the incentive problem that government should only be doing things that absolutely cannot be done by a non-monopoly actor, if for no other reason than the incentive issue.
A 'lean' government would find providers for each of the functions it wants done that it could fire if they did a bad job and have the very minimal number of employees immune to consequences. There's always the corruption problem, but at least public opinion is more strongly against corruption than incompetence.
Yeah, plus individual politicians are already accepting Bitcoin donations and have been since at least the 2012 elections. The FEC probably recognizes that getting cows back into the barn is a tricky job so they didn't touch it.
Yeah, it's the Democrats who ought to be anti-solar in its current form. Solar power is almost always installed by the rich and the ultra-rich, who then get subsidies paid for largely by people much less well-to-do than themselves.
Trouble is the Democratic "reps" tend to be wealthy themselves and all have the solar panels on their roofs. "Let them eat polycrystalline wafers!"
Yeah? It has many of the language features of a first class dynamic language. There are better languages, but what is it about JavaScript as a language (I don't care what you think about how it's used on specific websites) that you find objectional.
The attitude in the GP post of feeling superior for sarcastically pointing out someone minor mistake is not going to make people think you are smart. Don't mod up people for just being an asshole.
but it's being poorly served by the products currently in the market,
Not just existing products on the market - look at the Mac vs. PARC Alto. Apple did a tremendous amount of inventing to get from one to the other. Andy Herchfeld's overlapping windows in QuickDraw, the WIMP interface work. And then Apple did the productizing, advertising, distribution, service, documentation, etc..
If you're trying to get me to say that Apple should pull a new invention out of the air based on nothing that anybody has ever done before - that's not the way invention ever works.
I will say that if Apple hadn't done the iPod, those same ASICS and controllers might have been put together by another company in a few years' time as the application became more obvious. But that doesn't mean that Apple didn't effectively create a new business by being in the right place at the right time.
My only argument is that there are more opportunities available like that that Apple isn't exploiting - there's not a natural limitation to technological advances of one product every three years or whatever - and as a larger company they should be creating more of those businesses than they used to. The ones that Apple doesn't do will be done by other companies a few years later, to the missed-opportunity detriment of Apple's shareholders.
I'm not an overall fan of Steve Jobs, but he did seem to know how to take some risks and that seems to be currently lacking at Apple. Confucius say, "fortune favors the bold".
it was said about 60% of that website was yet to be completed
And IT projects follow the 80/20 rule. They're not even 20% of the way to actual completion of the defined project. Yeah, that sucks and it's terrifying for advocates of ObamaCare/PPACA, but refusing to face reality will never yield an actual solution.
The legislators don't know enough to ask the right questions nor do they have the training and experience needed to understand large system development.
It's not fair to expect Congress to be an expert on all these things - that's impossible. Literally.
Which is why the framers limited the Congress's authority to thirty narrowly defined powers. That's a reasonable number for one organization to handle.
Healthcare advocates should recognize that if they want healthcare to work well, having Congress wield the power to control it is a bad solution.
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Thank you for the information. The other two choices from this vendor are the US and the UK. On to the next honeypot, errr, vendor, then.
I was actually considering a VPN service that terminates in Singapore - they're generally very good about economic freedom.
Now, no. Will other privacy-concerned people follow suit? Will we make enough of an impact that the VPN provider will need less space in the Singapore data center? Will those effects accumulate and hurt their local economy?
Anybody know what the current reputation of The Netherlands is?
Satoshi effectively anticipated all kinds of attacks on bitcoin. Ulbricht co-lo'ed Silk Road in San Franscisco (USA).
'nuff said.
Paul is dead, man. Miss him, miss him.
I don't know about this one, but I used to work at a place that used a proprietary object database, and then when XML became all buzzy, they re-branded themselves as an XML database. It was still an object database, but they put an XML front end on it and became buzzword-compliant.
I'm guessing this one doesn't store its data in XML either. FWIW, my favorite database is an object database that has a very popular SQL interface to it. The backend data storage isn't SQL-formatted at all either.
Prove it. It's likely he had a number of eventual destinations in mind, unless he's a complete idiot, which he doesn't appear to be.
You can't ask the GP to prove the negative, but unless Snowden is controlled opposition, which I very much doubt, then the coincidence of his passport being revoked by the State Department as he happened to be in the Moscow airport, is just that, a coincidence.
That's not to say that he did not realize that his passport could have been revoked at any time and that he wasn't thinking about contingency plans. But if his destination were Moscow, then he would have already left the airport when his passport was revoked.
Also: how blindly statist of all the other countries to hold so steadfastly to the passport protocol in this case.
I understand your argument, but do you think the BART employees really think that BART will get closed down if they don't do a great job?
There are a bunch of things we think we know how we could do them, if only we had the [material, machines, power] to build them. We can describe what we need, but not how to make them.
Of course, often times it seems that once we get those things, we get to move on to the next part of the problem we didn't see before.
Except that companies like SemaCharge and ChargePoint will actually install and maintain the equipment for almost nothing. They make their money by charging for use (you get an account and they mail you a card which you have to tap to charge).
Exactly this. With an electric car you won't go to the gas station, you'll go to the grocery store that has a charging system installed instead of the one that doesn't. That incentivizes the store to install the units, and they probably get a better deal than you do on home electricity, so they can make money on the power service as well and you can pay at the checkout.
Oh, come on. You can't get away with shit like that on /. The measurement is 7.9. How it feels is just you sniffing your own farts.
Not so. 0-60 time is just a common measurement for low-end torque and its impact on acceleration, which feels good to many people (pretty much anybody who enjoys a good roller coaster).
The electrics have all of their low-end torque at 0 mph and a strong electric will plaster you against your seat. 0-60 time isn't just about merging onto the highway.
Replacement cost is likely to be similar to a petrol engine as well, in the $10-15k range for new but of course much less for a reconditioned one.
Who charges $10-15K for a new engine?
That aside, the #1 thing electric car manufacturers could do to boot buyership would be to offer a battery warranty replacement plan, with the cost knowable at the time of purchase.
"Starting at year 8 you may elect to pay $500 a year through year 20, to cover the cost of battery replacement" or whatever.
At least that way people could properly calculate their total cost of ownership.
Agreeing in principle, but just on a personal note, be on the lookout for unused-inventory special (Priceline, etc.). I needed to go on a trip to see family (alone, they left earlier for a long vacation while I had to work) and found the local Enterprise would give me a little sports car they had on their lot for $35 for the weekend, with unlimited mileage. That vehicle did 7MPG better than mine, so it was almost a wash on only the fuel cost. I left my car out behind their building for the weekend.
Enterprise does not value me as a profitable customer, but for some reason they'd rather have their fleet rented and accumulating mileage than sitting idle. I assume it has something to do with their leasing terms with the manufacturers.
An EV truck owner would need a personal nuclear power station in the basement
Keep talking, I'm interested....
then he can hope to cover about 12mpg * 30 = 360 miles per day
Just FYI, I was dream-looking at a 3500 4x diesel the other day and the newest model-year engines are almost up to 19MPG. That's not too much worse than my ailing 4-cylinder car nor my wife's newer one, especially given the disparity in GVW.
It makes the competition that much tougher for electric vehicles. Personally, I'd love to see a diesel/electric engine like on a locomotive - that's the better separation of concerns in this vehicle class in my book, and how I'd attack the problem if I were Tesla (and also maybe a vehicle to replace the 4-cylinder Toyota trucks that every trademan drove in the '80s, before the Feds screwed up that market with CAFE redefinitions).
The most effective marketing they could do would be a total cost of ownership comparison between themselves and a corolla, or civic
Yep, the thing that got me interested was when a friend with a Tesla showed me that there's only one place to put in a fluid - for the windshield washer.
"Oh, so that means...."
If I could _assume_ that the thing would last 20 years, then it's a done deal. That assumption is currently the risk.
and cost the local economy tens of millions of dollars by screwing up.
So what? What's BART's incentive to avoid this? The customers will go to a competitor? They'll lose their jobs?
Unionized monopolies are a wonderful thing.
So the punishment for not securing taxpayer data is... nothing? So why bother fixing anything?
Did you expect something otherwise? This is government, not ... anything else.
Incentives matter. In a monopoly government system, if you deem one to be necessary, due to the incentive problem that government should only be doing things that absolutely cannot be done by a non-monopoly actor, if for no other reason than the incentive issue.
A 'lean' government would find providers for each of the functions it wants done that it could fire if they did a bad job and have the very minimal number of employees immune to consequences. There's always the corruption problem, but at least public opinion is more strongly against corruption than incompetence.
Yeah, plus individual politicians are already accepting Bitcoin donations and have been since at least the 2012 elections. The FEC probably recognizes that getting cows back into the barn is a tricky job so they didn't touch it.
While this may be true, the fact of the matter is that killing all subsidies [ncpa.org] in the field of energy would kill solar.
Does that include the hydrocarbon extractors paying fair market value for what they extract from the ground and ending middle east wars for oil?
Yeah, it's the Democrats who ought to be anti-solar in its current form. Solar power is almost always installed by the rich and the ultra-rich, who then get subsidies paid for largely by people much less well-to-do than themselves.
Trouble is the Democratic "reps" tend to be wealthy themselves and all have the solar panels on their roofs. "Let them eat polycrystalline wafers!"
A box that you plug into and forget about is going to provide nothing but a false sense of security. Bad idea.
C'mon, half of the users are going to plug it into their router, then just go on using their WiFi connection, believing that they're now secure.
it's a terrible language
Yeah? It has many of the language features of a first class dynamic language. There are better languages, but what is it about JavaScript as a language (I don't care what you think about how it's used on specific websites) that you find objectional.
The attitude in the GP post of feeling superior for sarcastically pointing out someone minor mistake is not going to make people think you are smart. Don't mod up people for just being an asshole.
QFT.
but it's being poorly served by the products currently in the market,
Not just existing products on the market - look at the Mac vs. PARC Alto. Apple did a tremendous amount of inventing to get from one to the other. Andy Herchfeld's overlapping windows in QuickDraw, the WIMP interface work. And then Apple did the productizing, advertising, distribution, service, documentation, etc..
If you're trying to get me to say that Apple should pull a new invention out of the air based on nothing that anybody has ever done before - that's not the way invention ever works.
I will say that if Apple hadn't done the iPod, those same ASICS and controllers might have been put together by another company in a few years' time as the application became more obvious. But that doesn't mean that Apple didn't effectively create a new business by being in the right place at the right time.
My only argument is that there are more opportunities available like that that Apple isn't exploiting - there's not a natural limitation to technological advances of one product every three years or whatever - and as a larger company they should be creating more of those businesses than they used to. The ones that Apple doesn't do will be done by other companies a few years later, to the missed-opportunity detriment of Apple's shareholders.
I'm not an overall fan of Steve Jobs, but he did seem to know how to take some risks and that seems to be currently lacking at Apple. Confucius say, "fortune favors the bold".
it was said about 60% of that website was yet to be completed
And IT projects follow the 80/20 rule. They're not even 20% of the way to actual completion of the defined project. Yeah, that sucks and it's terrifying for advocates of ObamaCare/PPACA, but refusing to face reality will never yield an actual solution.
The legislators don't know enough to ask the right questions nor do they have the training and experience needed to understand large system development.
It's not fair to expect Congress to be an expert on all these things - that's impossible. Literally.
Which is why the framers limited the Congress's authority to thirty narrowly defined powers. That's a reasonable number for one organization to handle.
Healthcare advocates should recognize that if they want healthcare to work well, having Congress wield the power to control it is a bad solution.