Is every parking spot in the area going to be reporting whether it is empty or not?
That's certainly an option, yes. I've already seen parking garages where an overhead device checks for presence of the car in each spot. It would be easy to wire them together and allow 3rd parties to access the database. Also, the new NarrowBand IoT standard would allow simple standalone devices to be developed that could be installed in the floor of each parking spot and report every time a car enters or leaves.
I expect self driving cars to be hitting the road well before such technology is adopted. It also takes time to set it up and program it with the proper information, in case a road is blocked suddenly.
Expecting even a trained human to take over with only a few seconds (or less) leeway is crazy and cannot work,
True, but there are plenty of circumstances where there is more time for the human to intervene. Suppose the road is blocked somewhere, and there's somebody directing traffic and letting people drive over the sidewalk, or on the wrong lane, or explaining how to make a detour, or tell the driver to wait for the pilot car. Plenty of situations are too difficult for an autonomous car to handle, but not imminently dangerous, assuming that the self driving car is smart enough to stop when it notices the road is blocked.
Unfortunately, value is not set by you, but by the person accepting your shit for payment. I bet that was disappointing. Now try selling a bitcoin for $500... I bet that's a lot easier.
And sure, valuation is variable. In the '30s the Reichsmark became worthless, and if a major crisis hits the US, the same may happen to the dollar.
100 million$$ would be a tiny fraction of the Bitcoin market's daily trading volume... So how do you propose that would be possible to do, anyways? Maybe a 100 million $$-costing smear campain would do it
Aquire over 50% of the hashing power. You spend 50 million on the actual hardware, and the other 50 million to sabotage existing mines.
But we could have a long-term lunar scientific colony operating right now, if we really wanted to, and it's almost an embarrassment to mankind that we don't, nearly 50 years after Apollo 11.
Not really. It would have cost a great deal of money for comparably little scientific value.
The advantage of the pump system becomes even greater when you scale up the storage capacity, as that only requires adding more empty storage spheres, and not more pumps.
Sure, but not everybody lives around Lake Constance. They have tested the system there, but the may want to use it near the coast, or at the bottom of the sea where the offshore wind farms are.
Just taking a good look at the Prisoner's Dilemma and Tragedy of the Commons should be enough to understand that you need government programs to enforce cooperation for the benefit of all.
In the restaurants I've seen, the kiosk spits out a receipt that you can use to pick up your meal at the counter. If there's a problem, it can be resolved there.
You don't need an FCC license if the Maximum Effective Radiated Power (ERP) is less than 0.01 microwatts. Since you need to stand very close to the object, it may well fall into that range.
The "singing poster" only works because there's a large copper foil antenna stuck behind it. So, instead of saying that random objects can be turned into FM stations, it would be more accurate to say that you can use suitably big objects to hide a huge ass antenna.
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Is every parking spot in the area going to be reporting whether it is empty or not?
That's certainly an option, yes. I've already seen parking garages where an overhead device checks for presence of the car in each spot. It would be easy to wire them together and allow 3rd parties to access the database. Also, the new NarrowBand IoT standard would allow simple standalone devices to be developed that could be installed in the floor of each parking spot and report every time a car enters or leaves.
Other fools think insurance companies will be happy to pay for human drivers that aren't absolutely perfect and infallible. It's a ridiculous idea.
Where I live, foundation starts by driving concrete piles into the ground.
I expect self driving cars to be hitting the road well before such technology is adopted. It also takes time to set it up and program it with the proper information, in case a road is blocked suddenly.
Expecting even a trained human to take over with only a few seconds (or less) leeway is crazy and cannot work,
True, but there are plenty of circumstances where there is more time for the human to intervene. Suppose the road is blocked somewhere, and there's somebody directing traffic and letting people drive over the sidewalk, or on the wrong lane, or explaining how to make a detour, or tell the driver to wait for the pilot car. Plenty of situations are too difficult for an autonomous car to handle, but not imminently dangerous, assuming that the self driving car is smart enough to stop when it notices the road is blocked.
Unfortunately, value is not set by you, but by the person accepting your shit for payment. I bet that was disappointing. Now try selling a bitcoin for $500... I bet that's a lot easier.
And sure, valuation is variable. In the '30s the Reichsmark became worthless, and if a major crisis hits the US, the same may happen to the dollar.
The game Farmville was created out of thin air, and was once worth $10 billion.
100 million$$ would be a tiny fraction of the Bitcoin market's daily trading volume... So how do you propose that would be possible to do, anyways? Maybe a 100 million $$-costing smear campain would do it
Aquire over 50% of the hashing power. You spend 50 million on the actual hardware, and the other 50 million to sabotage existing mines.
It's a pain in the neck to buy and sell actual gold in quantity because it's frikkin' heavy.
If you can afford more gold than you can carry, you can afford someone to carry it for you.
But we could have a long-term lunar scientific colony operating right now, if we really wanted to, and it's almost an embarrassment to mankind that we don't, nearly 50 years after Apollo 11.
Not really. It would have cost a great deal of money for comparably little scientific value.
Has always worked for me...
And the average American man isn't doing much better.
The advantage of the pump system becomes even greater when you scale up the storage capacity, as that only requires adding more empty storage spheres, and not more pumps.
Not that many agencies around the world have good satellite technology.
Sure, but not everybody lives around Lake Constance. They have tested the system there, but the may want to use it near the coast, or at the bottom of the sea where the offshore wind farms are.
Sounds like that would create more moving parts in an environment that's not kind to them.
In what ways is this better than simply pumping water uphill
It's better if you don't have hills.
I get great fulfillment helping those people out.
You can help out an armed robber by giving him all your possessions. Feels great, I bet.
What Libertarians do not get is statistics.
Just taking a good look at the Prisoner's Dilemma and Tragedy of the Commons should be enough to understand that you need government programs to enforce cooperation for the benefit of all.
What they need is an app so you can prepare your order on your phone with a quick pick menu that consists of things you've ordered before.
They could start selling second breakfast.
In the restaurants I've seen, the kiosk spits out a receipt that you can use to pick up your meal at the counter. If there's a problem, it can be resolved there.
You don't need an FCC license if the Maximum Effective Radiated Power (ERP) is less than 0.01 microwatts. Since you need to stand very close to the object, it may well fall into that range.
The "singing poster" only works because there's a large copper foil antenna stuck behind it. So, instead of saying that random objects can be turned into FM stations, it would be more accurate to say that you can use suitably big objects to hide a huge ass antenna.