It's possible, but if you're talking traditional methods of wireless charging similar to a QI pad which uses electro-magnetic fields, it's extremely inefficient and would probably waste more electricity than it consumed.
Because it increases the expense of the car while being the most inefficient method of charging the battery. A solar panel that size would generate a near negligible amount of power. It would probably take weeks or longer to charge the battery.
People begin to use the charging stations as their personal parking spaces. Instead of charging their vehicle and moving to a regular parking space, they park there all day long. Around here I know a few people who live very close by to a charge station, and do exactly this when they go to work. Nobody else can use the spots because they're always occupied.
I think the oxygen analogy is bad because it's a renewable resource that we literally will never run out of unless we manage to destroy all the natural mechanisms in place for producing it. The fact that there is a finite amount at any given point in time is irrelevant. As long as it is perpetually produced faster than we consume it, it's infinite.
"Post scarcity means that you have the basic needs of life met with no work requirement. We are quickly approaching the ability in the western world to provide that."
No, we really aren't. If anything, basic necessities in the western world are getting more expensive. Just because we have a lot of things doesn't mean people will start giving them away for free.
Exactly this. As long as value is placed on anything, it can be bartered. Even if you eliminate the problem of resources, the knowledge of the individual is finite and it becomes the new scarce resource. I may know how to make unique sculptures, but you know how to fix my broken replicator. Services will continue to have value unless we hit a point where resources are infinite, and automation is so good that we don't have to even get out of bed in the morning because our robot slaves did everything for us already.
The star trek fantasy is exactly that - a fantasy. For as long as communities have existed, there has been evidence of bartering. Unless you have infinite resources, which we don't, there will always be something that someone has which someone else wants, but can't get on their own.
So you went from something that was terrible to something else that was only slightly less terrible? I'm having a hard time feeling inspired by your story.
This is broken logic. Giving away Windows 10 doesn't impact PC sales at all. What IS impacting PC sales is the fact that the need for a more powerful machine is slowing way down. Instead of computers becoming obsolete in a year or two, computers can often go for much longer before they need to be replaced. It's not uncommon to find people who have had the same PC for 5 years now because there's simply no benefit to them to move to more powerful hardware.
"Diversity remains an issue in tech firms across the nation"
It's a bullshit issue, and its importance is artificially inflated by SJW groups. Frankly, these companies that think there has to be a 50/50 split in everything need to get their heads out of the collective asses.
If any employer required you to have a facebook account and wouldn't hire you without one it's discrimination. Such a case would almost certainly become high profile.
If you can't be bothered to fight it, just create an account and never log in.
Not really, since you can still use a pseudonym. The comments on youtube will still forcefully cause you to lose several IQ points if you're accidentally exposed.
...if you don't like their policies, don't use their service. It doesn't matter how many of these groups gather around a campfire to shake an angry fist - Facebook is not obligated to bend to them. Right now Zuckerberg is probably sitting atop one of his scrooge-mcduckian vaults laughing at the very idea that anything that is making him even richer than he is now is something that needs changing.
The same article also explains that it was a test update that they released by accident. Human error isn't exactly unbelievable when it comes to computer software. The tinfoil hat jobs are just doing what they always do around here - spreading FUD.
It it was their goal since inception, they're failing horribly. They could have built this vehicle a long time ago if they weren't so focused on building the coolest possible car on 4 wheels. All they really need to do is stop trying to cram more toys and acceleration performance in and start focusing on the parts that are actually important.
So when exactly is Musk going to start making cars for people other than the rich? It's great he's improving batteries and such, but the only life he's actually enriched with technology so far is his own.
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Yeah, please, can I have a payment system that sucks all my money out of the bank because someone got a picture of my face.
It's possible, but if you're talking traditional methods of wireless charging similar to a QI pad which uses electro-magnetic fields, it's extremely inefficient and would probably waste more electricity than it consumed.
Because it increases the expense of the car while being the most inefficient method of charging the battery. A solar panel that size would generate a near negligible amount of power. It would probably take weeks or longer to charge the battery.
People begin to use the charging stations as their personal parking spaces. Instead of charging their vehicle and moving to a regular parking space, they park there all day long. Around here I know a few people who live very close by to a charge station, and do exactly this when they go to work. Nobody else can use the spots because they're always occupied.
I think the oxygen analogy is bad because it's a renewable resource that we literally will never run out of unless we manage to destroy all the natural mechanisms in place for producing it. The fact that there is a finite amount at any given point in time is irrelevant. As long as it is perpetually produced faster than we consume it, it's infinite.
"Post scarcity means that you have the basic needs of life met with no work requirement. We are quickly approaching the ability in the western world to provide that."
No, we really aren't. If anything, basic necessities in the western world are getting more expensive. Just because we have a lot of things doesn't mean people will start giving them away for free.
Exactly this. As long as value is placed on anything, it can be bartered. Even if you eliminate the problem of resources, the knowledge of the individual is finite and it becomes the new scarce resource. I may know how to make unique sculptures, but you know how to fix my broken replicator. Services will continue to have value unless we hit a point where resources are infinite, and automation is so good that we don't have to even get out of bed in the morning because our robot slaves did everything for us already.
The star trek fantasy is exactly that - a fantasy. For as long as communities have existed, there has been evidence of bartering. Unless you have infinite resources, which we don't, there will always be something that someone has which someone else wants, but can't get on their own.
Were you dating a plant? The triceratops was a herbivore.
Case dismissed. Why does this trash keep getting posted here.
So you went from something that was terrible to something else that was only slightly less terrible? I'm having a hard time feeling inspired by your story.
It'll be the year of the same grand claims that do not produce any real results.
That's not true. When a state law and a federal law conflict, federal law wins.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
As long as federal law trumps state law, you aren't protected.
This is broken logic. Giving away Windows 10 doesn't impact PC sales at all. What IS impacting PC sales is the fact that the need for a more powerful machine is slowing way down. Instead of computers becoming obsolete in a year or two, computers can often go for much longer before they need to be replaced. It's not uncommon to find people who have had the same PC for 5 years now because there's simply no benefit to them to move to more powerful hardware.
"Diversity remains an issue in tech firms across the nation"
It's a bullshit issue, and its importance is artificially inflated by SJW groups. Frankly, these companies that think there has to be a 50/50 split in everything need to get their heads out of the collective asses.
If any employer required you to have a facebook account and wouldn't hire you without one it's discrimination. Such a case would almost certainly become high profile.
If you can't be bothered to fight it, just create an account and never log in.
Not really, since you can still use a pseudonym. The comments on youtube will still forcefully cause you to lose several IQ points if you're accidentally exposed.
...if you don't like their policies, don't use their service. It doesn't matter how many of these groups gather around a campfire to shake an angry fist - Facebook is not obligated to bend to them. Right now Zuckerberg is probably sitting atop one of his scrooge-mcduckian vaults laughing at the very idea that anything that is making him even richer than he is now is something that needs changing.
"Everyone knows that CPU registers are much faster than level1, level2, and level3 caches."
I'd argue that most people don't even know what a CPU register is, never mind what it's faster than.
The same article also explains that it was a test update that they released by accident. Human error isn't exactly unbelievable when it comes to computer software. The tinfoil hat jobs are just doing what they always do around here - spreading FUD.
It it was their goal since inception, they're failing horribly. They could have built this vehicle a long time ago if they weren't so focused on building the coolest possible car on 4 wheels. All they really need to do is stop trying to cram more toys and acceleration performance in and start focusing on the parts that are actually important.
The price will be wrong. It'll get jammed full of toys and sold for $80k+ like every other luxury thing they sell.
So when exactly is Musk going to start making cars for people other than the rich? It's great he's improving batteries and such, but the only life he's actually enriched with technology so far is his own.
Someone should probably tell Servetus, Copernicus, Galileo, and Bruno that.