The problematic certificate is missing exactly those third party timestamps that you apparently have in your older runtime so Windows stops executing the code once the certificate expires. I guess a problem during the build process, maybe the third party server was not reachable.
Not sure. I think there is a lot of low quality stuff at low prices. And for good quality, you need to pay more than the minimum (depending on the type of product of course).
A big contributor to that is re-branding. Once the "name" brands became just the shoddy generic with a nice name plate and some veneer on it, it became impossible to tell if the $25 item was really better than the $5 item. The only criterion left to the consumer was the price.
Exactly! It is very hard to buy quality goods in some areas (tools for example, or power strips). I'm not cheap at all, and would rather buy quality and pay significantly more than for cheaper product in most cases. But how do I tell?
OK, that's interesting. I was surprised to see Japan on this list with such a low age given my experiences with Japanese culture (but I have no experience with that aspect, so did not review more carefully).
I think proper sex education at a sufficiently early age is better at preventing diseases or pregnancy than threatening imprisonment.
Statistics on teen pregnancies support this: the US with its strict policies has 41 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 women between 15 and 19, whereas Germany and Italy with their more liberal attitudes and laws have only 9 and 7 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 women, respectively.
However, the age of consent is not what drives this - Argentina with its early age of consent has a rate of 67 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 women.
In Italy, it is from 14 generally, with just a restrictions on teachers, etc. For Germany, it is pretty much also from 14. There are restrictions on older sex partners that are considered "guardians" (e.g. sports coaches). Furthermore, if you are over 21 and your sex partner is 14 or 15, their parents can file charges against you. However, you would only be convicted if the 14/15-year old was deemed not to be capable of sexual self-determination. Austria and Portugal have very similar rules to Germany.
I'm not from the US and have travelled multiple times to various South American countries, so please drop the insults. Just because I mention various countries under one geographic term does not mean they are not different countries. None of the other continents are as homogenous regarding the age of consent, though.
By the way, I am pretty sure you are mistaken about the 16 years in Brazil. It seems to be clearly 14 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
According to Wikipedia, most of South America has an age of consent of 14 (Brazil, Chile, Peri, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia). As mentioned in my post, Argentina has 13. Uruguay and French Guyana have 15, and Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname 16.
I'd still call this "much of South America", and used it so that the list was kept brief.
- Japan, South Korea, Argentina: 13 - Germany, Italy, Austria, Portugal, much of South America, China: 14 - France, Sweden, Denmark, Greece: 15
Quite often, there are some qualifications to this (e.g. if you are much older, you may still get into trouble), but generally, this at least allows youths to have consensual sex without fear of criminal retribution (e.g. from parents that don't approve of the relationship complaining to the police). What use is it to society to punish a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old that are in a relationship for having consensual sex?
Note that virtually all manufacturer cheated the tests. Most did so using loopholes they can just about defend legally; VW cheated using illegal methods (which is why they need to pay for it now). The end result is the same though: under many circumstances, the exhaust gas treatment is turned off and nitric oxide/dioxide levels go through the roof. This is especially the case when it is "cold" (often defined as less than 15C...).
Well, I for one did not know Sci-Hub. I don't read a lot of paywalled scientific articles (when I do, the costs can be expensed to a client usually) but knowing that this is available could be tempting in the future occasionally... Not because of the money of course, but the convenience of access...
You can still get longitude/latitude for any point on the map. Just click anywhere, and a box with the co-ordinates will pop up at the bottom of the window.
Why does Tesla not simply charge for usage of superchargers so that costs are covered? When there is congestion regularly at specific sites, they could simply expand the site or build a new site nearby.
No, at least in Europe, there are only three standards for fast charging. One of which is a proprietary solution by Tesla (which is unlikely to support charging currents much higher than the current 250 A as the pins are relatively small), the other is CCS2, the standard most companies are/will be using with available designs up to 1000 V and 500 A, and then there is CHAdeMO, which is used by Japanese makes. I am pretty sure that CHAdeMO will disappear in a few years (as you need a second charging port for AC whereas with a CCS inlet, you have a combined AC/DC port), and it would also make sense for Tesla to switch to CCS2 as it would be physically compatible with their current plug, and just require two additional pins.
So I think in 5 years, most or all cars sold in Europe will have the CCS2 port.
These are super fast charging station located on motorway stops primarily to be used on long-distance drives by cars that can charge with 350 kW (i.e. only cars with a very large battery of at least 150 kWh).
Europe has around 80,000 km of motorways. 400 stations would mean one station every 200 km. The company claims that it would put one station every 120 km. Given that many motorways are short and only used for local traffic, I think their claim is probably correct when only considering motorways used for long-distance driving.
Clearly, this is not enough when a large proportion of cars are electric. But the aim is to remove a hold-up problem for electric cars - many people currently do not buy electric cars because there are not enough fast charging stations, but because there are not many electric cars, there is no incentive for (unrelated) companies to build fast chargers.
Tesla has shown how to do it, and the concept tries to emulate the super charger network in a way, albeit at higher speeds.
Not the right match. Your video is from the standard platform league, where off-the-shelf robots are used with custom software. Here is a video with the highlights of the correct match mentioned in the article lead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Still not close to human abilities but much better than 10 years ago or so.
The more impressive league for the layman is the middle sized league, which uses robots with wheels. Last year's final here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That is not correct. Tacit collusion (keeping prices above the competitive level without explicitly communicating with your competitors) is illegal as well, but it is of course much harder to prove.
I distinctly remember Gartner forecasting that Windows Phone would become the second most used smartphone OS, just slightly behind Android. Usually, their forecasts are super accurate even going 20 years into the future. And it was obvious at the time: Windows Phone had doubled its market share from 0.4% in 2011 to 0.8% in 2012. From this rich dataset, Gartner did they only sensible thing to produce a forecast: They assumed the same growth rate for the coming years and predicted 1.6%, 3.2%, 6.4%, 12.8% to 25.6% in 2017. Forecast for 2018 was 51.2% and for 2019 102.4%. Despite all the headlines, I think Microsoft are on track to achieve Gartner's 2019 forecast.
Just wanted to say: Yay to SkyTran! Always liked that concept. What is the current status? I thought they were building a test track but I am not sure they have done this yet.
Is there a list of the problematic apps that they found? Their paper - which can be found here: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~jac... - lists a few example, but it would be useful to know the full list.
In principle I agree with you, and I agree that you should not spend too much and make sure you save at least 30%; don't go into debt except for student loans and a house (and maybe for a cheap, used car at the very beginning of your work life). However, web sites like Mr Money Mustache often have a very optimistic view of the average return on investment (4-5% real). Yes, it is based on historical returns, but stocks are very high now, because interest rates are low and expected to stay low. This means that they might advocate retiring on significantly less than a million dollars. I think this is a risky proposition. Personally, I would expect real returns (i.e. after accounting for inflation) of at most 2% after tax. Assuming you have a house paid off, you can maybe get by with living expenses of $35,000 if you live in an average part of the country, and have a family of four. The math is then easy: You need $1.75 million in the bank to live off the return on capital. Say you work for 20 years, this means you need a net household income of $110,000, and a savings rate of 68%. If you can achieve that, fine. But make the calculation with a low rate of return as well, and ask yourself if you will be ok in this case as well.
The article is incorrect. It is definitely 70 kW for both the Hyundai Ioniq and the Kia Soul EV. Hyundai states a 30 minute charging time (to 80%) on a 50 kW charging station, and a 23 minute charging time (to 80%) on a 100 kW charging station. However, only a maximum of 70 kW is ever used. Which is a lot already given that the battery is 28 kWh net only and probably around 32 kWh gross - which means that 70 kW charging implies a charging rate of 2.2 C - higher than any other electric cars, and much higher than most Tesla models.
No, they did not buy Pebble. They bought certain assets of Pebble. Pebble itself was closed. At the moment Fitbit still seems to be running some of Pebble's servers out of goodwill but that's about it.
Once you earn around EUR 40,000 per year, you are in the highest tax bracket. Assume you earn that much. Now assume that your employer pays you a EUR 1,000 bonus for good performance. First, the employer needs to pay his share of social security (health, pension, unemployment) - around 35% of gross - so the cost of the bonus to the employer is actually EUR 1,350. Then you pay your share of social security (around 13% of gross), so your before income taxes is EUR 870. You then pay 50% income tax, which leaves you with EUR 435 initially, but actually city taxes are around 8% of the income tax paid, so you pay another EUR 35 for that. This means that your net income is EUR 400. You then go to the shop and buy a new TV for EUR 400. The shop pays 21% VAT, so they only get EUR 316. To sum up: in order for buy a TV worth EUR 316, your employer needs to pay EUR 1,350. So based on income tax, social security and VAT only (there are of course more types of taxes), 77% of the money paid by an employer goes to the state. Of course, the state provides valuable services, but I find the magnitude of this number shockingly high!
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The problematic certificate is missing exactly those third party timestamps that you apparently have in your older runtime so Windows stops executing the code once the certificate expires. I guess a problem during the build process, maybe the third party server was not reachable.
Not sure. I think there is a lot of low quality stuff at low prices. And for good quality, you need to pay more than the minimum (depending on the type of product of course).
A big contributor to that is re-branding. Once the "name" brands became just the shoddy generic with a nice name plate and some veneer on it, it became impossible to tell if the $25 item was really better than the $5 item. The only criterion left to the consumer was the price.
Exactly! It is very hard to buy quality goods in some areas (tools for example, or power strips). I'm not cheap at all, and would rather buy quality and pay significantly more than for cheaper product in most cases. But how do I tell?
OK, that's interesting. I was surprised to see Japan on this list with such a low age given my experiences with Japanese culture (but I have no experience with that aspect, so did not review more carefully).
I think proper sex education at a sufficiently early age is better at preventing diseases or pregnancy than threatening imprisonment.
Statistics on teen pregnancies support this: the US with its strict policies has 41 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 women between 15 and 19, whereas Germany and Italy with their more liberal attitudes and laws have only 9 and 7 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 women, respectively.
However, the age of consent is not what drives this - Argentina with its early age of consent has a rate of 67 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 women.
In Italy, it is from 14 generally, with just a restrictions on teachers, etc. For Germany, it is pretty much also from 14. There are restrictions on older sex partners that are considered "guardians" (e.g. sports coaches). Furthermore, if you are over 21 and your sex partner is 14 or 15, their parents can file charges against you. However, you would only be convicted if the 14/15-year old was deemed not to be capable of sexual self-determination. Austria and Portugal have very similar rules to Germany.
I'm not from the US and have travelled multiple times to various South American countries, so please drop the insults. Just because I mention various countries under one geographic term does not mean they are not different countries. None of the other continents are as homogenous regarding the age of consent, though.
By the way, I am pretty sure you are mistaken about the 16 years in Brazil. It seems to be clearly 14 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
According to Wikipedia, most of South America has an age of consent of 14 (Brazil, Chile, Peri, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Bolivia). As mentioned in my post, Argentina has 13. Uruguay and French Guyana have 15, and Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname 16.
I'd still call this "much of South America", and used it so that the list was kept brief.
Of course. A few examples:
- Japan, South Korea, Argentina: 13
- Germany, Italy, Austria, Portugal, much of South America, China: 14
- France, Sweden, Denmark, Greece: 15
Quite often, there are some qualifications to this (e.g. if you are much older, you may still get into trouble), but generally, this at least allows youths to have consensual sex without fear of criminal retribution (e.g. from parents that don't approve of the relationship complaining to the police). What use is it to society to punish a 15-year-old and a 16-year-old that are in a relationship for having consensual sex?
Note that virtually all manufacturer cheated the tests. Most did so using loopholes they can just about defend legally; VW cheated using illegal methods (which is why they need to pay for it now). The end result is the same though: under many circumstances, the exhaust gas treatment is turned off and nitric oxide/dioxide levels go through the roof. This is especially the case when it is "cold" (often defined as less than 15C...).
Well, I for one did not know Sci-Hub. I don't read a lot of paywalled scientific articles (when I do, the costs can be expensed to a client usually) but knowing that this is available could be tempting in the future occasionally... Not because of the money of course, but the convenience of access...
You can still get longitude/latitude for any point on the map. Just click anywhere, and a box with the co-ordinates will pop up at the bottom of the window.
Why does Tesla not simply charge for usage of superchargers so that costs are covered? When there is congestion regularly at specific sites, they could simply expand the site or build a new site nearby.
Is this a story or an advertisement?
No, at least in Europe, there are only three standards for fast charging. One of which is a proprietary solution by Tesla (which is unlikely to support charging currents much higher than the current 250 A as the pins are relatively small), the other is CCS2, the standard most companies are/will be using with available designs up to 1000 V and 500 A, and then there is CHAdeMO, which is used by Japanese makes. I am pretty sure that CHAdeMO will disappear in a few years (as you need a second charging port for AC whereas with a CCS inlet, you have a combined AC/DC port), and it would also make sense for Tesla to switch to CCS2 as it would be physically compatible with their current plug, and just require two additional pins.
So I think in 5 years, most or all cars sold in Europe will have the CCS2 port.
These are super fast charging station located on motorway stops primarily to be used on long-distance drives by cars that can charge with 350 kW (i.e. only cars with a very large battery of at least 150 kWh).
Europe has around 80,000 km of motorways. 400 stations would mean one station every 200 km. The company claims that it would put one station every 120 km. Given that many motorways are short and only used for local traffic, I think their claim is probably correct when only considering motorways used for long-distance driving.
Clearly, this is not enough when a large proportion of cars are electric. But the aim is to remove a hold-up problem for electric cars - many people currently do not buy electric cars because there are not enough fast charging stations, but because there are not many electric cars, there is no incentive for (unrelated) companies to build fast chargers.
Tesla has shown how to do it, and the concept tries to emulate the super charger network in a way, albeit at higher speeds.
Not the right match. Your video is from the standard platform league, where off-the-shelf robots are used with custom software. Here is a video with the highlights of the correct match mentioned in the article lead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Still not close to human abilities but much better than 10 years ago or so. The more impressive league for the layman is the middle sized league, which uses robots with wheels. Last year's final here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That is not correct. Tacit collusion (keeping prices above the competitive level without explicitly communicating with your competitors) is illegal as well, but it is of course much harder to prove.
I distinctly remember Gartner forecasting that Windows Phone would become the second most used smartphone OS, just slightly behind Android. Usually, their forecasts are super accurate even going 20 years into the future. And it was obvious at the time: Windows Phone had doubled its market share from 0.4% in 2011 to 0.8% in 2012. From this rich dataset, Gartner did they only sensible thing to produce a forecast: They assumed the same growth rate for the coming years and predicted 1.6%, 3.2%, 6.4%, 12.8% to 25.6% in 2017. Forecast for 2018 was 51.2% and for 2019 102.4%. Despite all the headlines, I think Microsoft are on track to achieve Gartner's 2019 forecast.
Not really fair to compare "America" with "Tokyo". What about LA and Tokyo?
Just wanted to say: Yay to SkyTran! Always liked that concept. What is the current status? I thought they were building a test track but I am not sure they have done this yet.
Is there a list of the problematic apps that they found? Their paper - which can be found here: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~jac... - lists a few example, but it would be useful to know the full list.
In principle I agree with you, and I agree that you should not spend too much and make sure you save at least 30%; don't go into debt except for student loans and a house (and maybe for a cheap, used car at the very beginning of your work life). However, web sites like Mr Money Mustache often have a very optimistic view of the average return on investment (4-5% real). Yes, it is based on historical returns, but stocks are very high now, because interest rates are low and expected to stay low. This means that they might advocate retiring on significantly less than a million dollars. I think this is a risky proposition. Personally, I would expect real returns (i.e. after accounting for inflation) of at most 2% after tax. Assuming you have a house paid off, you can maybe get by with living expenses of $35,000 if you live in an average part of the country, and have a family of four. The math is then easy: You need $1.75 million in the bank to live off the return on capital. Say you work for 20 years, this means you need a net household income of $110,000, and a savings rate of 68%. If you can achieve that, fine. But make the calculation with a low rate of return as well, and ask yourself if you will be ok in this case as well.
The article is incorrect. It is definitely 70 kW for both the Hyundai Ioniq and the Kia Soul EV. Hyundai states a 30 minute charging time (to 80%) on a 50 kW charging station, and a 23 minute charging time (to 80%) on a 100 kW charging station. However, only a maximum of 70 kW is ever used. Which is a lot already given that the battery is 28 kWh net only and probably around 32 kWh gross - which means that 70 kW charging implies a charging rate of 2.2 C - higher than any other electric cars, and much higher than most Tesla models.
No, they did not buy Pebble. They bought certain assets of Pebble. Pebble itself was closed. At the moment Fitbit still seems to be running some of Pebble's servers out of goodwill but that's about it.
Once you earn around EUR 40,000 per year, you are in the highest tax bracket. Assume you earn that much. Now assume that your employer pays you a EUR 1,000 bonus for good performance. First, the employer needs to pay his share of social security (health, pension, unemployment) - around 35% of gross - so the cost of the bonus to the employer is actually EUR 1,350. Then you pay your share of social security (around 13% of gross), so your before income taxes is EUR 870. You then pay 50% income tax, which leaves you with EUR 435 initially, but actually city taxes are around 8% of the income tax paid, so you pay another EUR 35 for that. This means that your net income is EUR 400. You then go to the shop and buy a new TV for EUR 400. The shop pays 21% VAT, so they only get EUR 316. To sum up: in order for buy a TV worth EUR 316, your employer needs to pay EUR 1,350. So based on income tax, social security and VAT only (there are of course more types of taxes), 77% of the money paid by an employer goes to the state. Of course, the state provides valuable services, but I find the magnitude of this number shockingly high!