Traction motors in Tesla cars still have reliability issues - designing a compact motor capable of dynamic loads is NOT trivial. And even then Tesla motors tend to overheat if you use them hard enough for 10-15 minutes - you get a "Thermal throttling" message and lose a significant amount of power as a result. This is not a problem for regular Teslas unless you drive them on a racetrack, but it will become a problem for larger vehicles.
Then there is a question of cooling. Tesla uses a rather simplistic propylene glycol coolant loop that is cooled by the air conditioner or heated by a specialized heater. Direct evaporative cooling and in-battery heaters would allow to save quite a bit of complexity.
Really, Tesla is the first serious EV maker and there are STILL tons of areas for major improvements. It's not comparable to classic internal combustion engines that we've been fine-tuning for the last 100 years by hundreds of different companies.
Incorrect. The VA budget is 5%, without it the army budget will be around 20%.
That alone is about half of the entire military budget. It's also not like you have a choice to buy foreign military gear, it all has to be designed and made right here, at great expense.
Why? Germany buys foreign arms, Israel buys foreign arms, Finland buys foreign arms and even China buys foreign arms. What's so different about the US?
And then you have a false dilemma - the choice is not between paying 25% of the budget for the army and getting children blown to pieces but between paying 25% of the budget or paying a lesser amount.
There probably should still be military and National Guard. Perhaps with total compulsory military education, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers who gave us the Second Amendment.
But anyway, spending more than the next 8 or 10 militaries _combined_ makes no sense whatsoever. And anybody who really wants to invade the US already has the capability to turn it into radioactive wasteland anyway. The converse is true, the US has the capability to turn any other country into radioactive ash.
So what if the UBI reaches 100% of the federal tax? It will replace Social Security (25% of the budget), safety net programs like unemployment insurance (10%) and partially Medicare/Medicaid (25%). That's 60% of the budget that will be replaced by the UBI.
The rest is military (24%) and "everything else". Military should be curtailed, but we probably want to keep the "everything else" stuff since it includes funding for NASA, NIH and education and other stuff.
So yeah, UBI is definitely doable but it will require significant adjustments in multiple programs.
Several Millennia of the 'binary' gender/sex of Male / Female physiology is not whimsy to the deliberate cognitive dissonance of a microscopic representation of humanities edge cases as measured along the same time frame.
Several millennia are also whimsy to democracy, rule of law, vaccination, MRI, X-Rays, internal surgery and computers. And I've noticed that you're not even defending your position that there are only two "genders" anymore.
Now you've moved goalpoasts now.
Just as a hint, there's no surgery that will enable you to produce sperm if you're a woman, and no surgery to enable you to bear a child to term is you're a man. *NONE* And even you know why.
The key word here is "yet". There are attempts at uterus transplants already and there are *NO* reasons why sufficiently advanced surgery won't be able to get trans-females to bear children. It'll take some time, though.
Oh, and not every woman can bear children and not every man can produce sperm. So do we have four genders now?
No, it's not. Male and female skeletons form partially overlapping continua, so there are plenty of ambiguous cases. Especially when chromosomic gender (i.e. XY vs XX) is different from hormonal gender (i.e. what the body actually LOOKS like). That caused quite a few problems in sport, when it turned out that some "females" actually expressed male hormones ( http://www.bbc.com/sport/athle... ) and as a result had significantly different body structure.
And never mind that there are people with hermaphroditism, XX-males, women with male genitalia and so on.
So yeah, let me repeat for you: "You are mentally ill if you think that you can pigeonhole everybody into a nice two-valued selection box".
Thousands of years from now, when archaeologists are digging up our remains and examining the bone-structure, they are going to identify the remains as male or female by the subtle differences unique to each and identify the person as 'male' or 'female' based on their physiology.
And sometimes they misattribute the gender, since it's not always possible to tell the difference.
Gender is not a social construct. Mental illness on the other hand is.
Java bytecode confinement is fairly safe. But the security model for the sandbox was a disaster, basically full of "become root" classes because it relied on poorly thought-out "code access security". Rust's security model is much simpler - it was not designed to contain untrusted code, but to make sure that trusted code is not going to blow up.
Yes, they would. Car makers first put technology into expensive cars and then after a couple of years they are forced to put it into cheap/midrange cars by their competition. Just look at adaptive cruise control - it used to be an option for high-end cars but it's now available as an option from pretty much all car brands.
Tesla uses Mobil Eye camera and the regular ultrasonic sensors. Their total cost is within a couple hundreds of dollars, with a couple more for effectors (steering wheel motor, electric brakes). I'm pretty sure other car vendors will introduce comparable systems within the next couple of years.
Taking hands off the wheel with AP is safe, just keep them close to the steering wheel. AP also disengages if you unbuckle the seatbelt or remove the weight from the driver seat. Nobody is jumping into the backseat except for (not very clever) stunts.
In general, Tesla drivers treat the AP as an aid to help with the driving. And it's really good at that, actually. Yes, I do own a Tesla.
The snake design for Tesla's video is intentional, it's clearly designed for superchargers. And supercharger cables are very heavy and not really flexible, so if you attach them at only couple of points then you'll quickly get issues with wear and stress. A metal jointed snake can much easier redistribute the stress and also it can tolerate fault of a several joints.
This is not even a violation of CPT! Or even an indication of a preferred direction. A nucleus is a complex compound object, there can even be meta-stable "nuclear molecules" that are held together by strong force. And nobody is surprised that a water molecule is asymmetric.
What is surprising, is that these nuclei are relatively stable. It appears something strongly suppresses the most energetically favorable decay. Getting the answer to this is going to be tricky - we can't really model the nuclei interactions with any reasonable precision.
Go is used widely in Google, including for its cluster management system (Kubernetes). Rust is being used to write the next version of Mozilla's rendering engine.
So you're moving the factory closer to home, there is a reason Domino's, Pizza Hut etc doesn't do that, mainly cost and scale.
Yes, and that's why it'll be tastier, and it won't cost that much extra. Cost of ingredients is really a red herring, unless you want pizza with exotic stuff. The main components of pizza are very cheap, even for high quality stuff.
Domino has to do serious penny-pinching, to make sure their pizzas are 10 cents cheaper than the pizzas next door. But there's a huge market of people (especially in affluent places like Mountain View) that are willing to pay extra couple of bucks for better quality pies, but who are unwilling to shell out full restaurant price.
There is a difference. You can make a pizza in the factory, freeze it and then deliver it to outlets. But it won't be tasty, just ask Dominoes. These robots allow you to start with freshly-prepared dough and make pies at the point of sale - this is really new.
My friend owns a small pizza restaurant in Russia, and he keeps telling me that the great problem with pizzas is consistency. It's not hard to make dough and spread some sauce on it, but it's quite sensitive to small variations in the temperature and time it takes for pizza to cook. These robots easily solve this.
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Kinda like the US court that has actually _jailed_ Scooter Libby? And then Bush just pardoned him, in violation of his own clemency requirements.
Traction motors in Tesla cars still have reliability issues - designing a compact motor capable of dynamic loads is NOT trivial. And even then Tesla motors tend to overheat if you use them hard enough for 10-15 minutes - you get a "Thermal throttling" message and lose a significant amount of power as a result. This is not a problem for regular Teslas unless you drive them on a racetrack, but it will become a problem for larger vehicles.
Then there is a question of cooling. Tesla uses a rather simplistic propylene glycol coolant loop that is cooled by the air conditioner or heated by a specialized heater. Direct evaporative cooling and in-battery heaters would allow to save quite a bit of complexity.
Really, Tesla is the first serious EV maker and there are STILL tons of areas for major improvements. It's not comparable to classic internal combustion engines that we've been fine-tuning for the last 100 years by hundreds of different companies.
That alone is about half of the entire military budget. It's also not like you have a choice to buy foreign military gear, it all has to be designed and made right here, at great expense.
Why? Germany buys foreign arms, Israel buys foreign arms, Finland buys foreign arms and even China buys foreign arms. What's so different about the US?
And then you have a false dilemma - the choice is not between paying 25% of the budget for the army and getting children blown to pieces but between paying 25% of the budget or paying a lesser amount.
Sure. And $300 a month is cheap.
Because I have one?
Russia spends roughly $50 billions a year and China spends $150 billions. The US spends $600 billion.
US military budget makes no sense whatsoever.
Insurance is not expensive anymore, after Obamacare. And I might note, that Obamacare subsidies are not included in the "Medicare/Medicaid" bucket.
There probably should still be military and National Guard. Perhaps with total compulsory military education, as envisioned by the Founding Fathers who gave us the Second Amendment.
But anyway, spending more than the next 8 or 10 militaries _combined_ makes no sense whatsoever. And anybody who really wants to invade the US already has the capability to turn it into radioactive wasteland anyway. The converse is true, the US has the capability to turn any other country into radioactive ash.
So what if the UBI reaches 100% of the federal tax? It will replace Social Security (25% of the budget), safety net programs like unemployment insurance (10%) and partially Medicare/Medicaid (25%). That's 60% of the budget that will be replaced by the UBI.
The rest is military (24%) and "everything else". Military should be curtailed, but we probably want to keep the "everything else" stuff since it includes funding for NASA, NIH and education and other stuff.
So yeah, UBI is definitely doable but it will require significant adjustments in multiple programs.
Several Millennia of the 'binary' gender/sex of Male / Female physiology is not whimsy to the deliberate cognitive dissonance of a microscopic representation of humanities edge cases as measured along the same time frame.
Several millennia are also whimsy to democracy, rule of law, vaccination, MRI, X-Rays, internal surgery and computers. And I've noticed that you're not even defending your position that there are only two "genders" anymore.
Now you've moved goalpoasts now.
Just as a hint, there's no surgery that will enable you to produce sperm if you're a woman, and no surgery to enable you to bear a child to term is you're a man. *NONE* And even you know why.
The key word here is "yet". There are attempts at uterus transplants already and there are *NO* reasons why sufficiently advanced surgery won't be able to get trans-females to bear children. It'll take some time, though.
Oh, and not every woman can bear children and not every man can produce sperm. So do we have four genders now?
No, it's not. Male and female skeletons form partially overlapping continua, so there are plenty of ambiguous cases. Especially when chromosomic gender (i.e. XY vs XX) is different from hormonal gender (i.e. what the body actually LOOKS like). That caused quite a few problems in sport, when it turned out that some "females" actually expressed male hormones ( http://www.bbc.com/sport/athle... ) and as a result had significantly different body structure.
And never mind that there are people with hermaphroditism, XX-males, women with male genitalia and so on.
So yeah, let me repeat for you: "You are mentally ill if you think that you can pigeonhole everybody into a nice two-valued selection box".
I knew that you'd have no objections to the fact that bone-based gender determination is often faulty.
Thousands of years from now, when archaeologists are digging up our remains and examining the bone-structure, they are going to identify the remains as male or female by the subtle differences unique to each and identify the person as 'male' or 'female' based on their physiology.
And sometimes they misattribute the gender, since it's not always possible to tell the difference.
Gender is not a social construct. Mental illness on the other hand is.
As exemplified by you.
Java bytecode confinement is fairly safe. But the security model for the sandbox was a disaster, basically full of "become root" classes because it relied on poorly thought-out "code access security". Rust's security model is much simpler - it was not designed to contain untrusted code, but to make sure that trusted code is not going to blow up.
You can choose to be a police officer. You can't choose your skin color.
Yes, they would. Car makers first put technology into expensive cars and then after a couple of years they are forced to put it into cheap/midrange cars by their competition. Just look at adaptive cruise control - it used to be an option for high-end cars but it's now available as an option from pretty much all car brands.
Tesla uses Mobil Eye camera and the regular ultrasonic sensors. Their total cost is within a couple hundreds of dollars, with a couple more for effectors (steering wheel motor, electric brakes). I'm pretty sure other car vendors will introduce comparable systems within the next couple of years.
Autopilot works on regular roads and it actually automatically limits you to the posted speed limit +5mph (in AP mode).
Taking hands off the wheel with AP is safe, just keep them close to the steering wheel. AP also disengages if you unbuckle the seatbelt or remove the weight from the driver seat. Nobody is jumping into the backseat except for (not very clever) stunts.
In general, Tesla drivers treat the AP as an aid to help with the driving. And it's really good at that, actually. Yes, I do own a Tesla.
The snake design for Tesla's video is intentional, it's clearly designed for superchargers. And supercharger cables are very heavy and not really flexible, so if you attach them at only couple of points then you'll quickly get issues with wear and stress. A metal jointed snake can much easier redistribute the stress and also it can tolerate fault of a several joints.
During the first 30 minutes of the movie they'll be showing JRE installation to run the second part of the movie.
This is not even a violation of CPT! Or even an indication of a preferred direction. A nucleus is a complex compound object, there can even be meta-stable "nuclear molecules" that are held together by strong force. And nobody is surprised that a water molecule is asymmetric.
What is surprising, is that these nuclei are relatively stable. It appears something strongly suppresses the most energetically favorable decay. Getting the answer to this is going to be tricky - we can't really model the nuclei interactions with any reasonable precision.
Go is used widely in Google, including for its cluster management system (Kubernetes). Rust is being used to write the next version of Mozilla's rendering engine.
So you're moving the factory closer to home, there is a reason Domino's, Pizza Hut etc doesn't do that, mainly cost and scale.
Yes, and that's why it'll be tastier, and it won't cost that much extra. Cost of ingredients is really a red herring, unless you want pizza with exotic stuff. The main components of pizza are very cheap, even for high quality stuff.
Domino has to do serious penny-pinching, to make sure their pizzas are 10 cents cheaper than the pizzas next door. But there's a huge market of people (especially in affluent places like Mountain View) that are willing to pay extra couple of bucks for better quality pies, but who are unwilling to shell out full restaurant price.
There is a difference. You can make a pizza in the factory, freeze it and then deliver it to outlets. But it won't be tasty, just ask Dominoes. These robots allow you to start with freshly-prepared dough and make pies at the point of sale - this is really new.
My friend owns a small pizza restaurant in Russia, and he keeps telling me that the great problem with pizzas is consistency. It's not hard to make dough and spread some sauce on it, but it's quite sensitive to small variations in the temperature and time it takes for pizza to cook. These robots easily solve this.