Of course, the problem with that is that power abhors a vacuum. Might Makes Right is the fundamental law of nature, so if you reduce the power of government, you end up with warlords (or their economic equivalent). And distributing governmental power doesn't do squat to curb corruption - it just localizes the corruption, and makes it cheaper to achieve.
There's no way around the fact that dealing with corruption is difficult. It requires one to be a better version of oneself, and to demand others to be better versions of themselves. It requires transparency, and it requires vigilance. And it requires people to make it a priority. There is no easy mode.
The problem with the situation is that most investors *want* Tesla to fail so that they can make money from the short sales.
Most investors want to make money, long or short. If they thought they could make the most money by going long on Tesla, there's no reason they wouldn't. But the fundamentals point to going short being the better move, so they're selling it short - not out of spite, but out of analysis.
I think he's suggesting that it is funded by a combination of employee contributions and USPS revenues, with no additional contribution from the US government general fund.
Almost all vinyl recording start life with digital audio. So what is the point of converting to analog and then reading the analog?
It's going to be converted to analog at some point. The question is really, is it better to have that done at the manufacturer, who presumably will have the highest quality available DAC for the purpose, given that quality is their selling point, or to leave it to the consumer's device.
Take the output of your record player, pump it into a moderately okay sound card, write the files to a standard CD and then tell us if you can still tell the sound apart. I bet you can't.
You're saying that if he takes the analog and converts it to digital, he won't be able to tell the difference. That misses the point that the conversion to digital is where you lose the qualities that make analog desirable. It's equivalent to saying that if you convert the digital files to vinyl that you won't be able to tell the difference in the convenience between the two. Well, of course not - you're changed the format so it no longer has the advantage in question - in both cases.
Because once the master is cut, the compression is baked in. Any attempt to expand it upon playing will result in a significant increase in noise. That's just the nature of the beast - compression is lossy.
The upper and lower pitches on vinyl records just do not exist because it moves the needle too much.
Source?
The only thing that has improved in the last 40 years in sound systems analog pathways are the moves from tubes to transistors, and thus the elimination of a lot of noise.
Many people who care about sound (and who aren't stupid audiophiles) don't consider that to be an improvement at all.
The Democratic party is *not* the same thing as the American left. There's some overlap, and the left tends to vote Democratic because the other option is the bastshit insane right wing, but the Democratic party is very much a centrist party these days, and has been since Bill Clinton was president.
... an economy where people are desperate they need an Uber job to stay afloat.
In 2015, Uber drivers averaged $19 per hour. That is more than twice the minimum wage.
Minimum wage applies to employees, not contractors. This matters because employees don't have to pay for business expenses or the employer portion of FICA. Once you account for those things, that $19/hour gross income is a lot less net.
Maybe in the UK, but not in the US. Two lane rural highways are the deadliest here by far. They lack controlled access and medians between opposite directions of travel, have narrower lanes, and are typically less well maintained. Our freeways are our safest roads.
For what? To improve crash stats? I guess. But to be a viable product in a competitive marketplace? Safer than the average human is not going to cut it. No one is going to buy one unless their perception is that the car is a better driver than themselves. And most people think they are better than the average driver, so these cars have to be perceived to be much better than average if they're going to be anything more than a niche product.
Neither the sensors that Tesla cars are equipped with, nor the way that they process what they sense, are particularly like the way that humans process vision, nor will they be able to achieve that in the near future
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Fixing this is potentially a really hard problem because it's really a problem for strong AI, which doesn't exist and we don't know how to make it.
This seems like a really good argument that this feature should not be allowed on public roads until the problem is solved.
Cruise control will kill you, sure, but it will do so by doing exactly what it claims to do: by keeping your speed steady. Forgetting the debate about what "autopilot" means to the public and what it means for real, once thing it is definitely supposed to do is keep you in your lane, and stop the car before you run into something. In this case, it failed spectacularly on both counts.
Many of these effects may be attributable to a misalignment between a person's internal clock, or circadian rhythm, and the socially imposed timing of work and other activities, the researchers said. "'Night owls' trying to live in a 'morning lark' world may have health consequences for their bodies...
It's foolish to think that racist language on an internet website equals racism. It's about shock value, and getting attention.
But it should be noted that if you are on the receiving end, the difference between racism and someone just trying to get a reaction can be indistinguishable.
The First Amendment protects it in the real world, and Reddit has the right to allow it on their privately owned servers.
Reddit has the right to disallow it, as well, or to selectively allow it.
A restaurant owner - just like Google, Facebook, or Twitter - is well within their rights to ask you to stop screaming derogatory things at or about the other patrons of their business, and to kick you off their property if you don't abide by that request.
Be careful with whom you make common cause. Those same peoples also overwhelmingly reject freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom to be secure from government searches, and many of the other things that are part and parcel of modern liberalism.
This is only true of public accommodations, whose licenses are granted with the understanding that they will not discriminate. You are perfectly free to not allow homosexuals or black people into your home while allowing all the straight white people you wish.
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Of course, the problem with that is that power abhors a vacuum. Might Makes Right is the fundamental law of nature, so if you reduce the power of government, you end up with warlords (or their economic equivalent). And distributing governmental power doesn't do squat to curb corruption - it just localizes the corruption, and makes it cheaper to achieve.
There's no way around the fact that dealing with corruption is difficult. It requires one to be a better version of oneself, and to demand others to be better versions of themselves. It requires transparency, and it requires vigilance. And it requires people to make it a priority. There is no easy mode.
The problem with the situation is that most investors *want* Tesla to fail so that they can make money from the short sales.
Most investors want to make money, long or short. If they thought they could make the most money by going long on Tesla, there's no reason they wouldn't. But the fundamentals point to going short being the better move, so they're selling it short - not out of spite, but out of analysis.
I think he's suggesting that it is funded by a combination of employee contributions and USPS revenues, with no additional contribution from the US government general fund.
By this rubric, money laundering, obstruction of justice, and identity theft all have useful purposes.
Almost all vinyl recording start life with digital audio. So what is the point of converting to analog and then reading the analog?
It's going to be converted to analog at some point. The question is really, is it better to have that done at the manufacturer, who presumably will have the highest quality available DAC for the purpose, given that quality is their selling point, or to leave it to the consumer's device.
Take the output of your record player, pump it into a moderately okay sound card, write the files to a standard CD and then tell us if you can still tell the sound apart. I bet you can't.
You're saying that if he takes the analog and converts it to digital, he won't be able to tell the difference. That misses the point that the conversion to digital is where you lose the qualities that make analog desirable. It's equivalent to saying that if you convert the digital files to vinyl that you won't be able to tell the difference in the convenience between the two. Well, of course not - you're changed the format so it no longer has the advantage in question - in both cases.
Because once the master is cut, the compression is baked in. Any attempt to expand it upon playing will result in a significant increase in noise. That's just the nature of the beast - compression is lossy.
The upper and lower pitches on vinyl records just do not exist because it moves the needle too much.
Source?
The only thing that has improved in the last 40 years in sound systems analog pathways are the moves from tubes to transistors, and thus the elimination of a lot of noise.
Many people who care about sound (and who aren't stupid audiophiles) don't consider that to be an improvement at all.
The Democratic party is *not* the same thing as the American left. There's some overlap, and the left tends to vote Democratic because the other option is the bastshit insane right wing, but the Democratic party is very much a centrist party these days, and has been since Bill Clinton was president.
... an economy where people are desperate they need an Uber job to stay afloat.
In 2015, Uber drivers averaged $19 per hour. That is more than twice the minimum wage.
Minimum wage applies to employees, not contractors. This matters because employees don't have to pay for business expenses or the employer portion of FICA. Once you account for those things, that $19/hour gross income is a lot less net.
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Maybe in the UK, but not in the US. Two lane rural highways are the deadliest here by far. They lack controlled access and medians between opposite directions of travel, have narrower lanes, and are typically less well maintained. Our freeways are our safest roads.
SDCs just need to be safer than HDCs.
For what? To improve crash stats? I guess. But to be a viable product in a competitive marketplace? Safer than the average human is not going to cut it. No one is going to buy one unless their perception is that the car is a better driver than themselves. And most people think they are better than the average driver, so these cars have to be perceived to be much better than average if they're going to be anything more than a niche product.
I'd be interested to see those stats normalized for ownership levels and time of use.
In the movies the pilot flips a switch, a red light comes on, and he goes to the back of the plane to fight hijackers or have a smoke.
It's not that simple - you have to be prepared to reinflate the autopilot from time to time.
an automated co-pilot with a safety track record better than humans or an uncontrolled car in motion?
Tesla's autopilot feature is neither an automated co-pilot nor does it have a track record better than humans.
That sounds really expensive.
Neither the sensors that Tesla cars are equipped with, nor the way that they process what they sense, are particularly like the way that humans process vision, nor will they be able to achieve that in the near future
...
Fixing this is potentially a really hard problem because it's really a problem for strong AI, which doesn't exist and we don't know how to make it.
This seems like a really good argument that this feature should not be allowed on public roads until the problem is solved.
Cruise control will kill you, sure, but it will do so by doing exactly what it claims to do: by keeping your speed steady. Forgetting the debate about what "autopilot" means to the public and what it means for real, once thing it is definitely supposed to do is keep you in your lane, and stop the car before you run into something. In this case, it failed spectacularly on both counts.
Many of these effects may be attributable to a misalignment between a person's internal clock, or circadian rhythm, and the socially imposed timing of work and other activities, the researchers said. "'Night owls' trying to live in a 'morning lark' world may have health consequences for their bodies ...
It's foolish to think that racist language on an internet website equals racism. It's about shock value, and getting attention.
But it should be noted that if you are on the receiving end, the difference between racism and someone just trying to get a reaction can be indistinguishable.
The First Amendment protects it in the real world, and Reddit has the right to allow it on their privately owned servers.
Reddit has the right to disallow it, as well, or to selectively allow it.
A restaurant owner - just like Google, Facebook, or Twitter - is well within their rights to ask you to stop screaming derogatory things at or about the other patrons of their business, and to kick you off their property if you don't abide by that request.
Be careful with whom you make common cause. Those same peoples also overwhelmingly reject freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of association, freedom to be secure from government searches, and many of the other things that are part and parcel of modern liberalism.
This is only true of public accommodations, whose licenses are granted with the understanding that they will not discriminate. You are perfectly free to not allow homosexuals or black people into your home while allowing all the straight white people you wish.
Who you support politically reveals things about your values, priorities, and intellect. Race reveals nothing of the sort.