These companies forget that internet service is not the first thing is Maslow's Hierarchy of Need. The big three being: Food, Shelter and Sleep. Further up the chain you get Safety/Security, Friendships, Intimacy, Self Accomplishment, Self Actualization. The internet comes into play for Friendships, Accomplishments, Actualization.
If the country you are in is still working on Food, Shelter, Sleep and Security, maybe free internet service can wait for a while.
Musk decided to ignore the comments and advice of experienced automotive engineers and industrial designers. There are easily twenty other car manufacturers out there that learned the lessons that Tesla is relearning now.
The lessons that Tesla is learning now are the ones all the other car makers have as their daily mantra:
1. Have an assembly line with the lowest downtime and most consistent production rate available.
2. Research improvements to the line. Develop a replacement station/process for particular portions of the assembly. Test and debug the new process so it is as reliable and as fast as the previous process. Once the new process is refined and complete - Then change the assembly line.
3. Retrain the workers once in the new process. Go forward in the new manufacturing process.
4. Understand the "Pull method" of manufacturing. Toyota implemented it in the 70's and 80's and forced everyone else to get on the band wagon.
Yes, this sounds boring. But the big boys out there all know that the things that kill profitability is: downtime, reliability, rework, supply chain foul ups, and warranty work. So unless the new process improves all of these things, it won't be changed.
What you have just described is non-trivial and would involve designing each assembly station twice: Once for automation and once for manual. And then you have to be able to have both of those stations fit in the same space. And then you have to decide how much extra man power you need on standby in case an automated station breaks and you want to get the manual station running. And then you have to figure when to repair the automated section of the line without endangering someone.
So you have an hour to get the phone to the lab and have the warrant in hand before cracking it. That means taking a cop away from a crime scene to transport a single phone, get a warrant and have the tech standing by the moment the phone gets to the tech. All while maintaining chain of evidence and custody. That is assuming that the cops find the phone at minute zero. The cops don't know how much time is left on the count down when they find the phone. The police are going to get into Keystone cops/Benny Hill adventures where every time they find a phone someone has to go tearing off to get a warrant and rush the phone to the technician. And if another phone is found five minutes after the cop leaves another warrant request and cop will be needed to transport the new phone to the technician. You are going to end up with angry judges and technicians answering "Really, I just signed a warrant to search the previous phone, stop bothering me until you can itemize all the phones you want to search" and technicians complaining all the other work they have to get done is being punted by people running in "You have to unlock this phone before the time limit"
The article is loosely making the "galt's gulch" argument: Oh Noes, the rich people are going to go away and deprive us of their blessings, what shall we ever do?
What we will do is hire a qualified replacement and move on with our lives and the business at hand. In a year those rich people won't even be missed anymore. In five they will be forgotten completely.
I hadn't considered that angle and it is a good point.
But being cynical: There would be a pristine "rich people's retreat" that could house five or ten thousand super rich long lived people where they lived and would only step down off of Mt Olympus when they needed to. Imagine these super rich people using their wealth to buy Ireland and turn it into a rich people only land. Ireland is beautiful country so not much work is needed to be done. And your HOA dues go toward keeping the poor people from invading the island.
Their proxies, proteges and inheritors will immediately fill in the vacancy and the corporation, foundation, country that put them out there will keep on operating. Its not like the US folded up shop after putting men on the moon.
The super rich can't go that far away from their logistical support. It takes the entire planet to have the logistical supply chain to make an attempt to reach for Mars In addition for Thiel to go to Mars, someone would have to be his proxy while Thiel is out there for the next 5 years or so. While Thiel is in the tin can spaceship he is beholden to the rules of the spaceship, oxygen and productivity requirements. There is no way escape hatch to go back to the mansion if there is a long term personality conflict with any of the other crew.
Most of those other "super solutions" have similar pitfalls at this time.
But the general concept is something that is worth watching. The one most worth watching is life extension that provides more years that are productive. Right now we can tack on years that involve being hooked up to machines. If someone came along and said: "For one million dollars I could give you five more years as if you were forty years old and after that you would age normally. There wouldn't be any rapid catch up aging" you would find every real rich person would buy that up in a snap. It provides a practical benefit at an affordable price (for the wealthy). Once this technology comes along (or major organ cloning/replacement) the life expectancy of the rich will leap forward many years. And they will fight tooth and claw to keep those treatments off of insurance and only for the rich. At that point you will have the people rich enough to live an extra fifty years and everyone else. And those super rich people will work to mold the society to suit them because their horizon is longer than ours.
Then people are going to start calling them on journalistic integrity issues. Then lawsuits on journalistic integrity. Facebook, by claiming it is a publisher may back itself into journalistic integrity and the other publisher rules.
A big issue is this: Coal has been steadily automating its mining systems. In 1950 underground mining was at the rate of 0.68 tons per man hour and surface mining was at the rate of 1.9 tons/manhour. By 2011 underground mining was at the rate of 2.76 tons/man hour and surface mining was at 8.8 tons/man hour. There were productivity peaks in 2003 of 4.04 and 10.75 tons/man hour.
So assuming coal had maintained the same level of production between 1950 and 2011, the coal industry would have shed 75% of its manpower due to automation and has proven it can get to 80% reduction if it needs to. Then add in the reduction in coal consumption and it is a no-brainer as to why no one is being hired to work in the mines.
So it Trump tries to boost coal consumption (which is the goal of his actions here); more coal may get produced and purchased, but very few additional workers will be hired. If anything, the mine owners will buy more automated equipment.
Its not like any local town is going to build a coal power plant. Those take years of planning, approvals, oversight, and construction. Power plant planning and construction can easily take five to ten years, beginning to end. So any of this "make people buy more coal" rhetoric is not going to produce more jobs in any of the coal towns that are out there.
Do they plan on putting this on Youtube and attempting to monetize it? I don't even want to think about the issues involved if their cameras pick up a copyrighted video is shown at one of their events. The copyright nightmare would keep the lawyers in boat payments for years.
What is the end game for this? Or is some lawyer just getting over reaching and assuming someone isn't going to read the fine print?
While those Bitcoins are worth "something", the trick is all in cashing out and actually getting the money that people claim it is worth. If you can cash out, all's great. Otherwise it is just worthless numbers.
This strikes me as the time in the tulip futures to cash out.
Until actual housing is mixed in, and the first floor of the each of the buildings is rented out as a public facing rental space (IE retail, restaurants, etc), the campus is still a private campus that the public cannot access and has no interest in going into.
I expect the first owners of the Tesla trucks will be fleet owners (Walmart for example). I will bet Tesla will have a mega-charger for the trucks. Then you mount the mega-charger on a boom arm so the truck is charged while the trailer is filled. If it takes an hour to charge the truck, it is no time lost against the loading time.
So those security cameras will start getting a work out. I'm sure the mischief charges, destruction of property and vandalism will make you much more employable.
Slashdot had this story a couple days ago with the new robots that can reliably sew T-shirts and have started selling the production lines for that. I expect this will kick off a wave of production consolidation in the garment industry. I expect some of it will result in factories being built in the US. Those factories will employ a handful of people to produce what had previously taken hundreds or thousands of people.
I'm not attacking the carrier. I'm attacking the contents of the carrier. A Thermite grenade dropped on a fighter aricraft in the carrier hold will be enough of a mess. I am quite aware if the ship is beyond 3 miles at sea a drone attack is not going to fly. And if you are attempting to blow up an aircraft carrier with a drone, felony charges are low on your priorities.
Actually the drone can be very useful - The RPG is only going to get anything on the flight deck. And when at port, the flight deck is gong to be very clean. The real target is the guts of the ship.
The drone can be flown inside the repair/rearm/refuel portions of the interior of the ship. Your entry point is the elevators are to move aircraft. It is a big hole on the side of the ship. The intent is to fly a drone through that hole and blow up the first target of opportunity (aircraft, fuel truck, arming truck, weapons stores, personnel, anything flammable). If you do badly, you only destroy one aircraft and the fire suppression system stops the fire there. If you hit the jack pot you blow up something important: air craft elevator, fuel stores, weapon stores, partially dismantled flammable equipment. Trained Personnel and possibly limit the capability or temporarily disable the air craft carrier.
For the cost of $1,000 (drone, flight goggles, weapons, control mods and crash/deadman switch) you have diabled a 3 billion dollar aircraft carrier and caused millions of dollars of damage. From a cost/benefit ratio that is a success. If it fails the attacker is out $1,000 and can walk away without a problem. If the attacker succeeds, the attacker is still out $1,000, but the other side out millions of dollars.
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These companies forget that internet service is not the first thing is Maslow's Hierarchy of Need. The big three being: Food, Shelter and Sleep. Further up the chain you get Safety/Security, Friendships, Intimacy, Self Accomplishment, Self Actualization. The internet comes into play for Friendships, Accomplishments, Actualization.
If the country you are in is still working on Food, Shelter, Sleep and Security, maybe free internet service can wait for a while.
Musk decided to ignore the comments and advice of experienced automotive engineers and industrial designers. There are easily twenty other car manufacturers out there that learned the lessons that Tesla is relearning now. The lessons that Tesla is learning now are the ones all the other car makers have as their daily mantra:
1. Have an assembly line with the lowest downtime and most consistent production rate available.
2. Research improvements to the line. Develop a replacement station/process for particular portions of the assembly. Test and debug the new process so it is as reliable and as fast as the previous process. Once the new process is refined and complete - Then change the assembly line.
3. Retrain the workers once in the new process. Go forward in the new manufacturing process.
4. Understand the "Pull method" of manufacturing. Toyota implemented it in the 70's and 80's and forced everyone else to get on the band wagon.
Yes, this sounds boring. But the big boys out there all know that the things that kill profitability is: downtime, reliability, rework, supply chain foul ups, and warranty work. So unless the new process improves all of these things, it won't be changed.
What you have just described is non-trivial and would involve designing each assembly station twice: Once for automation and once for manual. And then you have to be able to have both of those stations fit in the same space. And then you have to decide how much extra man power you need on standby in case an automated station breaks and you want to get the manual station running. And then you have to figure when to repair the automated section of the line without endangering someone.
So you have an hour to get the phone to the lab and have the warrant in hand before cracking it. That means taking a cop away from a crime scene to transport a single phone, get a warrant and have the tech standing by the moment the phone gets to the tech. All while maintaining chain of evidence and custody. That is assuming that the cops find the phone at minute zero. The cops don't know how much time is left on the count down when they find the phone. The police are going to get into Keystone cops/Benny Hill adventures where every time they find a phone someone has to go tearing off to get a warrant and rush the phone to the technician. And if another phone is found five minutes after the cop leaves another warrant request and cop will be needed to transport the new phone to the technician. You are going to end up with angry judges and technicians answering "Really, I just signed a warrant to search the previous phone, stop bothering me until you can itemize all the phones you want to search" and technicians complaining all the other work they have to get done is being punted by people running in "You have to unlock this phone before the time limit"
https://www.vox.com/conversati... https://www.wired.com/story/pe...
Thiel wants to use your stem cells to extend his own life. If you're into vampirism, that's all good. Otherwise it gets real creepy real fast.
The article is loosely making the "galt's gulch" argument: Oh Noes, the rich people are going to go away and deprive us of their blessings, what shall we ever do?
What we will do is hire a qualified replacement and move on with our lives and the business at hand. In a year those rich people won't even be missed anymore. In five they will be forgotten completely.
I hadn't considered that angle and it is a good point.
But being cynical: There would be a pristine "rich people's retreat" that could house five or ten thousand super rich long lived people where they lived and would only step down off of Mt Olympus when they needed to. Imagine these super rich people using their wealth to buy Ireland and turn it into a rich people only land. Ireland is beautiful country so not much work is needed to be done. And your HOA dues go toward keeping the poor people from invading the island.
Their proxies, proteges and inheritors will immediately fill in the vacancy and the corporation, foundation, country that put them out there will keep on operating. Its not like the US folded up shop after putting men on the moon.
The super rich can't go that far away from their logistical support. It takes the entire planet to have the logistical supply chain to make an attempt to reach for Mars In addition for Thiel to go to Mars, someone would have to be his proxy while Thiel is out there for the next 5 years or so. While Thiel is in the tin can spaceship he is beholden to the rules of the spaceship, oxygen and productivity requirements. There is no way escape hatch to go back to the mansion if there is a long term personality conflict with any of the other crew.
Most of those other "super solutions" have similar pitfalls at this time.
But the general concept is something that is worth watching. The one most worth watching is life extension that provides more years that are productive. Right now we can tack on years that involve being hooked up to machines. If someone came along and said: "For one million dollars I could give you five more years as if you were forty years old and after that you would age normally. There wouldn't be any rapid catch up aging" you would find every real rich person would buy that up in a snap. It provides a practical benefit at an affordable price (for the wealthy). Once this technology comes along (or major organ cloning/replacement) the life expectancy of the rich will leap forward many years. And they will fight tooth and claw to keep those treatments off of insurance and only for the rich. At that point you will have the people rich enough to live an extra fifty years and everyone else. And those super rich people will work to mold the society to suit them because their horizon is longer than ours.
Then people are going to start calling them on journalistic integrity issues. Then lawsuits on journalistic integrity. Facebook, by claiming it is a publisher may back itself into journalistic integrity and the other publisher rules.
Recalls normally have some sort of government intervention that forces the recall.
Well MIT is moving from batch production to a continuous production method of graphene produciton https://science.slashdot.org/s...
A big issue is this: Coal has been steadily automating its mining systems. In 1950 underground mining was at the rate of 0.68 tons per man hour and surface mining was at the rate of 1.9 tons/manhour. By 2011 underground mining was at the rate of 2.76 tons/man hour and surface mining was at 8.8 tons/man hour. There were productivity peaks in 2003 of 4.04 and 10.75 tons/man hour.
So assuming coal had maintained the same level of production between 1950 and 2011, the coal industry would have shed 75% of its manpower due to automation and has proven it can get to 80% reduction if it needs to. Then add in the reduction in coal consumption and it is a no-brainer as to why no one is being hired to work in the mines.
So it Trump tries to boost coal consumption (which is the goal of his actions here); more coal may get produced and purchased, but very few additional workers will be hired. If anything, the mine owners will buy more automated equipment.
Its not like any local town is going to build a coal power plant. Those take years of planning, approvals, oversight, and construction. Power plant planning and construction can easily take five to ten years, beginning to end. So any of this "make people buy more coal" rhetoric is not going to produce more jobs in any of the coal towns that are out there.
Cited Reference:
https://www.eia.gov/totalenerg...
Do they plan on putting this on Youtube and attempting to monetize it? I don't even want to think about the issues involved if their cameras pick up a copyrighted video is shown at one of their events. The copyright nightmare would keep the lawyers in boat payments for years.
What is the end game for this? Or is some lawyer just getting over reaching and assuming someone isn't going to read the fine print?
While those Bitcoins are worth "something", the trick is all in cashing out and actually getting the money that people claim it is worth. If you can cash out, all's great. Otherwise it is just worthless numbers.
This strikes me as the time in the tulip futures to cash out.
Until actual housing is mixed in, and the first floor of the each of the buildings is rented out as a public facing rental space (IE retail, restaurants, etc), the campus is still a private campus that the public cannot access and has no interest in going into.
Tesla claims their mega charger will give 400. Lies range in 30 minutes.
I expect the first owners of the Tesla trucks will be fleet owners (Walmart for example). I will bet Tesla will have a mega-charger for the trucks. Then you mount the mega-charger on a boom arm so the truck is charged while the trailer is filled. If it takes an hour to charge the truck, it is no time lost against the loading time.
So those security cameras will start getting a work out. I'm sure the mischief charges, destruction of property and vandalism will make you much more employable.
Slashdot had this story a couple days ago with the new robots that can reliably sew T-shirts and have started selling the production lines for that. I expect this will kick off a wave of production consolidation in the garment industry. I expect some of it will result in factories being built in the US. Those factories will employ a handful of people to produce what had previously taken hundreds or thousands of people.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
I'm not attacking the carrier. I'm attacking the contents of the carrier. A Thermite grenade dropped on a fighter aricraft in the carrier hold will be enough of a mess. I am quite aware if the ship is beyond 3 miles at sea a drone attack is not going to fly. And if you are attempting to blow up an aircraft carrier with a drone, felony charges are low on your priorities.
Look at the side shot of an air craft carrier. Look for the big hole in the side of the carrier where aircraft elevator is.
Fly in through the flight deck elevator.
Actually the drone can be very useful - The RPG is only going to get anything on the flight deck. And when at port, the flight deck is gong to be very clean. The real target is the guts of the ship.
The drone can be flown inside the repair/rearm/refuel portions of the interior of the ship. Your entry point is the elevators are to move aircraft. It is a big hole on the side of the ship. The intent is to fly a drone through that hole and blow up the first target of opportunity (aircraft, fuel truck, arming truck, weapons stores, personnel, anything flammable). If you do badly, you only destroy one aircraft and the fire suppression system stops the fire there. If you hit the jack pot you blow up something important: air craft elevator, fuel stores, weapon stores, partially dismantled flammable equipment. Trained Personnel and possibly limit the capability or temporarily disable the air craft carrier.
For the cost of $1,000 (drone, flight goggles, weapons, control mods and crash/deadman switch) you have diabled a 3 billion dollar aircraft carrier and caused millions of dollars of damage. From a cost/benefit ratio that is a success. If it fails the attacker is out $1,000 and can walk away without a problem. If the attacker succeeds, the attacker is still out $1,000, but the other side out millions of dollars.