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  1. Airlines un/loading of cargo in bottom on Boston Dynamics Is Gearing Up To Produce Thousands of Robot Dogs (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I could see these would be good for unloading/loading of aircraft. Hopefully, BD will be smart enough to approach the airlines about that.

  2. Re:amazing what tesla has taught the industry. on Waymo's Autonomous Vehicles Are Driving 25,000 Miles Every Day (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    both.
    That is the only way that these AP systems are going to learn about edge cases. Right now, MB, Volvo, GM, etc have been pretenders because they have no real mileage on their systems. Until a sytem is putting on 100K miles EVERY day AND jump all over the accidents quickly, they are not going to really develop what is needed.

    The weird thing is, that so many ppl believe that getting ahead can be done without loss of lives, on things like Space or automated car driving. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yet, that does not mean that these are NOT safer than other forms of space access or manual car driving.

  3. Re:amazing what tesla has taught the industry. on Waymo's Autonomous Vehicles Are Driving 25,000 Miles Every Day (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    What? You think that getting to 100% self-drving cars is not going to involve any accidents?
    The fact is, that Tesla has far fewer accidents / mile driven, than the other APs. BUT, to get to this level, the other APs will have to allow lots of AP based driving. Waymo is finally adding some mileage on their network which is what it will take to teach theirs.

  4. amazing what tesla has taught the industry. on Waymo's Autonomous Vehicles Are Driving 25,000 Miles Every Day (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Hopefully, Waymo will catch up to Tesla and start giving them some competition.

  5. Re:Serves China right on Some Scientists Work With China, But NASA Won't (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    Why should China stay out of HK? That was truly China's land. UK simply rented it for 100 years.
    As to taiwan, that is a very different matter. Like Nepal, China has raided them off and on over the centuries, but other ppl actually owned it. In fact, with Taiwan, the Dutch have a stronger claim to it than does China. But taiwanese really are the indigenous ppl.

  6. Re:It's a trick. Get an axe. on Two US Hyperloop Startups Line Up Financing From China (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    First off, you obviously have NO clue about US investors. They are the OPPOSITE of risk-happy. Right now, nearly all are targeting software and bio. Why? Lease amount of risk for high growth. If you are not in one of these 2 fields in America, it is hard to get money here.

    Secondly, I have no doubt that both of these companies are required to use Chinese manufacturers. IOW, yeah, it is 100% about stealing the tech similar to what China did to the foolish Germans who took transrapid there. Those folks had great tech and the Germans put it there, trusting Chinese word, and even had guards on the tech, while the CHinese gov sent in armed soldiers to gain access to the tech.

    Hopefully, elon musk will use only old tech in China.

  7. what fools these are on Two US Hyperloop Startups Line Up Financing From China (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Got to give Chinese gov credit. They are basically buying companies technology for nothing. That 1B credit for Arrivo will require that all the work be done in China. As such, they will have fully access to the tech and will be spread around the nation.
    Hopefully, the boring company will not be so stupid.

    The other ones that are foolish are the airplane companies that are NOT getting into this. Boeing and Airbus should be all over this. But any builder of pressurized aircraft should be working with Musk on this.

  8. It doubled. Big deal. Sadly, all the nut jobs will be screaming about it and claiming that nuke power is bad, while pushing coal. Of course coal has put far more radiation into the air and water than has nuke power.

  9. Re:Finally, no clothes for emperor. on Chinese Space Official Seems Unimpressed With NASA's Lunar Gateway (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    i am not a fan of the CHinese gov either.
    However, I think that China has this right and that LOP-G is another boondoggle and is a huge waste of our money.

  10. Finally, no clothes for emperor. on Chinese Space Official Seems Unimpressed With NASA's Lunar Gateway (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    Lop-g is a waste of money and time. China calling it what it is, is appreciated. It is no different than the SLS.With the GOP in office and pushing the LOP-G and SLS, NASA has been forced to waste 10s of billions, which would have increased. And I love the touch China put on it, speaking of their plans. Though it is either arrogance on their part, or they are pushing us into a space race. Regardless, this should get the GOP to stop killing our space program and put it back on track.

  11. Again, nope. It is far too easy for places like China to simply dump on a market. As such, a patents are needed and actually need to be reinforced against the retailers that bring in criminal knock-offs. Note that BOTH Walmart and Target actually use the laws against inventors. They will both tell you that unless you sell it to them at pretty much costs, they will simply use 1 or more of 7 different Chinese manufacturers to destroy you.

  12. Nope. Killing all patents is a HORRIBLE idea. We need patents for things that take a long time to bring to market. Software patents and business methods do NOT. Those are 2 types of BS patents that need to disappear.
    Another that SHOULD be modified are the drug patents. In particular, if the drug does not TREAT a disease, but instead treats a symptom (i.e. a single treatment vs. on-going yearly use ), we should limit it to 5-10 years. OTOH, if it treats a disease, it will be used a whole lot less, and may require a long period of time for payback. As such, leave these at 20 years.

  13. In general, software patents SHOULD be invalidated. BUT, IBM has algorithmic and other utility type patents that I suspect Groupon is stepping all over.

  14. Re: 950 homes? on Lights Slowly Come On for Puerto Ricans in Rural Areas (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    5900 is what you and i pay, not what Tesla was charging Puerto ricans. and an expensive 12v system with a more pollution is not a useful system.

  15. Re: 950 homes? on Lights Slowly Come On for Puerto Ricans in Rural Areas (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla is much cheaper and better than the crap from China.

  16. Re: Statehood would help against cruelty. on Lights Slowly Come On for Puerto Ricans in Rural Areas (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1
  17. Re:You will never be normal again on Lights Slowly Come On for Puerto Ricans in Rural Areas (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 0

    So far, not a single new coal plant under trump. However, China continues to build out massive numbers of new coal plants each year.

  18. Re:Statehood would help against cruelty. on Lights Slowly Come On for Puerto Ricans in Rural Areas (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    PR already pays most federal taxes. They do not get the benefits.

  19. Re:Utilities on Lights Slowly Come On for Puerto Ricans in Rural Areas (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 2

    what amazes me, is that ppl down there have not pushed solar/batteries. Instead, they continue to push generators which are stolen after hurricanes.
    My dad lived in Stewart (now Jupiter), and I pushed for him to install solar. But, it turns out that the entire state of Florida makes it difficult to do that.

  20. Re:950 homes? on Lights Slowly Come On for Puerto Ricans in Rural Areas (csmonitor.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla is working with them to build up minigrids with solar and batteries.

  21. Re: Pull your head out of your arse Windy on Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    If China builds new coal plants in both China and other nations, then they are pushing it.

  22. Re: Pull your head out of your arse Windy on Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    34 gw is 34 gw. You constantly lie because your nation cut back a bit, but still is building massive numbers of coal plants in both China and other nations. Nothing I said was a lie, while you constantly lie.

  23. Re:No mention of your favourite country India as u on Russian Influence Campaign Sought To Exploit Americans' Trust In Local News (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Look, red tide/porky, India is adding 38 GW of new coal for 2 undeveloped nations. Personally, I am opposed to that. BUT, India is saying that they will replace these with Nuclear power plants. And that is the ONLY company in India that adds coal.
    OTOH, China has LOADS of companies that are adding over 300+ new coal plants in china alone, along with another 350+ coal plants in other nations, most of which does not have a lick of coal. IOW, China is setting it up so as to export their coal to these nations when ppl REALLY take this seriously and force China to shut down their coal plants. It would be far far better for CHina to quit installing these coal plants ANYWHERE, and instead, use that funding for putting in wind/solar/hydro/etc.

    The world’s largest coal plant developer, India’s National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), is planning to build over 38,000 MW of new coal capacity in India and Bangladesh.
    Next in line are the Chinese companies SPIC (31,587 MW), China Datang (28,945 MW), Shenhua (26,014 MW), China Huadian (25,810 MW), China Huaneng (20,750 MW) and China Guodian (17,250 MW). All in all, Chinese companies account for 45% of the projects in Urgewald’s database, but around 1/7 of these projects are located outside of China. “If the Chinese government truly wants to position itself as a global climate leader, it needs to rein in its state-owned companies that are flooding the world with new coal power plants,” says Trusha Reddy, Coordinator of the International Coal Network.

  24. skip banks; go credit unions on Wells Fargo's Scandals Finally Hurt Its Bottom Line (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Seriously, many of the American banks, esp. BOA, are controlled by Chinese banks, which are then funneling the money back to China.
    With credit unions, they invest into local businesses.

    And CUs are not only not raping people over profits, but are fully separate from FDIC, so they can NOT afford to lose money the way that banks do.

  25. Re:Invading privacy? on Malls In California Are Sending License Plate Information To ICE (theweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Uh do you realize the stats of how illegals come here?
    30-40% come over the Mexican border.
    40-50% come here legally on visas and then just stay.
    10-30% come over the rest of the borders.

    If you stop the Mexican border, they will simply jump in boats and come around on many many more miles of coast line. Heck, we have Mexicans that are being dumped off in ALASKA, and they cut through Canada to get here. Do you intend to guard 100% of our border?
    Here you go. Mexico is ~2000 miles.
    Canada/lower 48 border is ~4000 miles.
    Canada/Alaska is ~1500 miles.
    Coastal is ~ 12,500 miles.
    Great Lakes is ~ 5000 miles

    IOW, there is a grand total of 25,000 miles of perimeter that would have to be protected. Think that we can afford that?
    I don't.

    Far far cheapest, non-obtrusive, and easiest way is to simply phase-in e-verify on all business and their employees, along with stop states from giving illegals money.
    We do that, and they go home, and few will come here.