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  1. Re:Privately owned cars should be banned on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They regulated the amount of CO2 but not other emissions, the end result has been lots of diesel vehicles which emit little CO2 and plenty of other more harmful chemicals.

    This is not true. For one, catalytic convertors were mandated. Secondly, diesels were also regulated, but particulates have been determined to be more damaging than realised, and a number of new regulations are being introduced across Europe.

  2. Re:Privately owned cars should be banned on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Most European cars exceed the minimum safety standards, which suggests that it is consumer demand, not government.

  3. Re: Privately owned cars should be banned on UK Car Industry On Alert Over Reports Some Hybrids Face a Ban (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Ultimately people commit the murders, though. It doesn't take many psychopaths for it to be a problem, but we've also all heard of Milikan.

  4. As a hint, read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik.... Hyperinflation is not defined in absolute percentages, but is typically understood to mean over 50%. Low teens is no where near hyperinflation, even if it is less than ideal.

  5. I've looked. Nothing contradicts my first link. If you look at manufacturing statistics in real terms (http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-626-x/11-626-x2017074-eng.pdf) it flattened off in 1996 (although overall industrial production is up, including extractive). Yes, there was a dip during the Great Recession, like everywhere else, but then manufacturing output rose, despite the policy you allege.

  6. It was 12% in 1980. That is not hyperinflation.

  7. When was the hyperinflation in Canada? There are no recent instances.

  8. Unfortunately, outside relatively limited circumstances, or Nordic nations, the anti-boom measures rarely get applied, as people like booms, but it doesn't mean the principle doesn't work. There have been instances in USA and Canadian history when counter-boom measures have been applied. With some irony, though, those arguing for stability have often argued against clipping the wings of booms.

  9. The objection to more plants in Sarnia was pollution from the plants, not the power sources.

    On your second point, you said that if I looked up the policy, I would find, in black-and-white, statements from the party showing it to be hostile to manufacturing, but I found the opposite. What relevance does an opinion in a journal have in this context? Your statement was incorrect.

  10. Re: Given the choice on Tesla Stock Plunged After Elon Musk's 'Bizarre' Conference Call (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If you add more cells power density will remain the same, not increase, surely?

  11. Re:What the Left/Right wing wants.. on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The Democratic Party is, by world standards, centre right, and not at all left.

  12. Note my qualification "properly applied", which also means counter-cyclical measures to tame bubbles. Not that Greenspan was a Keynesian, nor is setting interest rates intended to be the primary tool, but lowering it does tend to create bubbles.

  13. Sarnia. It seems the objection to the plant was due to pollution concerns, and does not match your characterisation. As to overall policy: http://cambridge.liberal.ca/bl... also does not match your characterisation (yes, I looked it up).

  14. where did the GP mention children?

  15. Keyensian economics, properly applied across the business cycle, has been very successful.

  16. 10% seems the typical Western nation figure.

  17. i seriously doubt that there is an intention to push out manufacturing jobs, but rather a realisation that they will no longer provide large scale employment.

  18. Re:What the Left/Right wing wants.. on Gig Economy Business Model Dealt a Blow in California Ruling (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    I'm a liberal. I'd much rather more people were successful so that they didn't need to be on state support.

  19. We only have limited examples of animals with sentience, so the 1:1 correlation may be coincidental. Until we have more data I wouldn't rush to suggest causality.

  20. "Stasi files row as Britain refuses to return documents to Germany" (29 Dec 2011) ".. already encompass 69 miles (111km) of files .." https://www.theguardian.com/wo... Miles of files is often used.

    It's not a truly international measure until compared to the size of Belgium.

  21. Once all of it's read, will that spell the end of the world?

    It at least means a new Dan Brown book.

  22. When we were working on visual perception we considered it pattern recognition rather than AI.

  23. Natural intelligence is correlated with sentience. But then carbon monoxide is correlated with ICE cars, but it is a byproduct, and cars can use other motive mechanisms. It's not clear if strong AI requires sentience, and intelligence is not well defined. I'd agree that pattern recognition is often a better term, which it used to be called when I started working in it. The AI research group was a distinct group, more concerned with symbolic processing.

  24. Sentience is not a requirement for intelligence.

  25. Re:maybe it will at least help sales of electric c on Trump Administration Plans To Freeze Obama-Era Fuel Standards (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The new Nissans and Renaults are nominal 230 miles range,so 100 is a red herring