Watch Rich's videos. You can get some manuals and TSBs from Tesla, but you can't get the software that diagnoses error codes, which is pretty much critical if there are *any* problems with the motors, or steering system, or breaks, or batteries, or anything controlled by the cars computer which is, pretty much, everything.
It took companies a couple of decades to perfect the texture of ground beef which, all things considered, isn't too far off from ground up beans or mushrooms in emulsified plant-based fat, probably oil. The secret of the impossible burger is getting the emulsifier right.
Getting the texture of unprocessed meat, which is closely packed muscle fiber interspersed with fat, is probably impossible using plant-based structures.
started showing them in stores yet, so Tesla has yet to tap the "drive before they buy" potential pool of customers.)
I don't know about the veracity of everything else, but this seems untrue. The Tesla store a mile away from my house has had a Model 3 in it's showroom for several weeks. Maybe it isn't a derivable sample?
We use it all the time. I'd much rather get one box then several spread out over multiple days. I don't care if it delays things a few days. The only exception is when I need something immediately and I can't get it from a local store.
I would *really* like to see the original study. Roughly 75% of the time, when a news article talks about one of these studies, when you go read the original summary:
1. It doesn't make the same conclusion the article says it does 2. Says there may be a correlation but it is incredibly small, or 3. The study has some fundamental flaw, like not publishing p-values or confidence intervals
This was the case with the comprehensive European study on cell phone usage a few years ago. Out of the hundreds of groups studied, ONE showed a weird increase in a specific type of brain tumor that couldn't be explained (that no other group had.) The paper basically said it was probably experimental error. The news headlines were "European study shows cell phones could cause cancer!!!!!"
+1. Not everyone can figure out how to hook up a wifi network properly. They are getting easier, but still not there quite yet. That, along with every smart device under the sun and quirks setting them up, means there's a a great opportunity for a service like this.
The problem is language is fluid. It's been called coconut milk for centuries. Changing it to coconut juice would be more confusing than leaving it alone.
I think the important thing here is the modifier. As long as you are calling it "Almond Milk" or "Soy Milk" it would be pretty obvious to the average consumer that it isn't dairy milk, especially as the already common term "Coconut Milk" is in use.
Doing this is common in many languages. German is famous for mashing existing words together to make new ones.
What is so special about this specific type of power generating infrastructure?
Isn't a water or nuclear power plants just as expensive to retire?
Who sits on those billions?
The difference is that those plants eat up shoreline, which is usually expensive, and there's an economic reason to tear them down and re-purpose them for other uses that can generate revenue. Wind farms are in big fields that are often already used for other things, or on hills that can't be used for much else.
You're correct. I'm just a bit jaded after experience firsthand what absolute garbage doctoral candidates try to pass off as research. I in college at the leading edge of "look I played around with stuff in SPSS and found something!" getting through as doctoral dissertations. I wasn't in the doctoral program, but knew enough that most of what was getting through was junk.
But this is all well known, the design of cities and it's traceability to the varied possible influences used to be well taught
What this guy did, which is completely revolutionary, is look at how the layouts align to cardinal directions - north, south, east, west. I don't think anyone has done that before. I mean, he used Python!
This sounds like one of those situations where they install charging stations all over the place, then in ten years there is a new standard and all the old charging stations are now obsolete.
If demand shoots up and supply doesn't catch up and you complain about prices going up, then you need to decide which is preferable - having something expensive but available, or cheap but unobtainable.
The federal courts don't usually weigh in on federal regulations unless there is a direct constitutional question, and I mean *direct*
The idea being it's an area for experts to hash out minutiae, and judges aren't the people who should be deciding acceptable limits for trans fats, or what salmon fishing quotas should be, or how internet traffic should be managed.
The whole point of science fiction is you can do anything you want.
Not really, as was already explained in another reply. Also, Star Wars is not science fiction.
I think Science Fiction is a broad enough category that Star Wars fits in, even if it has elements of fantasy, and the main plot driver isn't society being effected by technology.
I read his comments a few days ago and thought that, while it sounded goofy, at least it would be different.
The whole point of science fiction is you can do anything you want. A main character can be a cloud of gas, or a planet. What they you do? Another fascistic bad guy who has magic powers and uses a giant gun to blow up planets. AGAIN. As awful as the prequels were, at least they tried to do some new things.
I didn't care that much for Rogue One as a whole, but at least it was different.
"In the Ford Motor Company's executive dining room, Henry Ford II rarely ate anything but hamburgers. According to Lee Iacocca, Ford complained that his own personal chef at home couldn't make a decent burger. In fact, no one made burgers as perfect as the ones at the executive dining room. Curious, Iacocca asked the establishment's chef to show him what he did to make Ford so happy with his burgers. The chef went to the fridge, grabbed an inch-thick slab of New York strip steak, ran it through a grinder, patted up a patty and tossed it on the grill. "Amazing what you can cook up when you start with a five-dollar hunk of meat," said the chef with a sly smile. (Though it would be more like a $25 hunk of meat today.)"
That may be true this time, however, the same thing has been said for every previous technological advance. THIS time there will be nothing else for the field hands to do. THIS time auto workers will have nowhere else to go. THIS time secretaries won't have any other job.
If you could predict what the next major employment sector will be, you would be a very rich person.
Key facts in this case - He had to work 5 days a week for a minimum of 40 hours - He had to wear the company uniform and drive a company-logo van - He couldn't send someone else to do the work (substitution) (although under limited circumstances a different pimlico employee could do work) - There were significant limitations on his ability to work for other people or competitors
That's interesting, and probably shields some gig-economy companies from similar rulings. For regular Uber, at least:
1. You work whenever you want, as much as you want 2. You don't have to wear a uniform (but I think you need to put an Uber sign in your window when you are driving) 3. You can do whatever else you like when you aren't working for Uber.
The "sending someone else" thing doens't apply in this case, I think, because you are accepting fares from requests, nobody is ordering you to take a fare.
1920's - Yay! Revolution of the proletariat! Peasants and farmers rule the land at last! Down with feudal industry! 1930's - Oh crap Japan is kicking our ass. Maybe some industry is needed after all... 1940's - Yay! Industrial revolution! Let's convert all the farms into foundries! 1950's - Oh crap I guess we do need to grow food. Cultural revolution! We must purge the impure elements to finish the revolution! 1960's - Oh I guess you can't eat culture. Hey Soviets, little help here? Yes? No? 1970's - Hey US, how do you do farming again? 1980's - Hey Japan, how do you do industry again?...
That's not going to fly in Chicago. If nobody is going to be in the train running it, there's going to have to be an employee sitting in a room monitoring a screen for every active train. The transit unions won't have any of this "autonomous" nonsense.
Having too many jobs in one place is a bigger problem right now in the US because that is what jacks up housing costs and increases commute times.
No, what jacks up housing costs is a lack of housing. This is usually due to regulation / zoning laws preventing higher density housing from being built. If you want cheaper housing you have to build more of it. Subsidizing it without fixing the supply just jacks up the price more.
The US isn't running out of room in it's landfills. You can put a modern landfill just about anywhere. The limiting factor is nobody wants a landfill in their county.
The other factor is we are throwing away less and less garbage per person, as packaging becomes more efficient. 30 years ago nearly everything you bought in a store came in it's own box, even if it was already in a tube or dispenser. Wal-mart forced companies to do away with the extra box to save money.
Slashdot Mirror
Watch Rich's videos. You can get some manuals and TSBs from Tesla, but you can't get the software that diagnoses error codes, which is pretty much critical if there are *any* problems with the motors, or steering system, or breaks, or batteries, or anything controlled by the cars computer which is, pretty much, everything.
It took companies a couple of decades to perfect the texture of ground beef which, all things considered, isn't too far off from ground up beans or mushrooms in emulsified plant-based fat, probably oil. The secret of the impossible burger is getting the emulsifier right.
Getting the texture of unprocessed meat, which is closely packed muscle fiber interspersed with fat, is probably impossible using plant-based structures.
started showing them in stores yet, so Tesla has yet to tap the "drive before they buy" potential pool of customers.)
I don't know about the veracity of everything else, but this seems untrue. The Tesla store a mile away from my house has had a Model 3 in it's showroom for several weeks. Maybe it isn't a derivable sample?
We use it all the time. I'd much rather get one box then several spread out over multiple days. I don't care if it delays things a few days. The only exception is when I need something immediately and I can't get it from a local store.
I would *really* like to see the original study. Roughly 75% of the time, when a news article talks about one of these studies, when you go read the original summary:
1. It doesn't make the same conclusion the article says it does
2. Says there may be a correlation but it is incredibly small, or
3. The study has some fundamental flaw, like not publishing p-values or confidence intervals
This was the case with the comprehensive European study on cell phone usage a few years ago. Out of the hundreds of groups studied, ONE showed a weird increase in a specific type of brain tumor that couldn't be explained (that no other group had.) The paper basically said it was probably experimental error. The news headlines were "European study shows cell phones could cause cancer!!!!!"
+1. Not everyone can figure out how to hook up a wifi network properly. They are getting easier, but still not there quite yet. That, along with every smart device under the sun and quirks setting them up, means there's a a great opportunity for a service like this.
Trump posted something on Twitter? Well that's worth an entire post.
The problem is language is fluid. It's been called coconut milk for centuries. Changing it to coconut juice would be more confusing than leaving it alone.
I think the important thing here is the modifier. As long as you are calling it "Almond Milk" or "Soy Milk" it would be pretty obvious to the average consumer that it isn't dairy milk, especially as the already common term "Coconut Milk" is in use.
Doing this is common in many languages. German is famous for mashing existing words together to make new ones.
What is so special about this specific type of power generating infrastructure?
Isn't a water or nuclear power plants just as expensive to retire?
Who sits on those billions?
The difference is that those plants eat up shoreline, which is usually expensive, and there's an economic reason to tear them down and re-purpose them for other uses that can generate revenue. Wind farms are in big fields that are often already used for other things, or on hills that can't be used for much else.
You're correct. I'm just a bit jaded after experience firsthand what absolute garbage doctoral candidates try to pass off as research. I in college at the leading edge of "look I played around with stuff in SPSS and found something!" getting through as doctoral dissertations. I wasn't in the doctoral program, but knew enough that most of what was getting through was junk.
But this is all well known, the design of cities and it's traceability to the varied possible influences used to be well taught
What this guy did, which is completely revolutionary, is look at how the layouts align to cardinal directions - north, south, east, west. I don't think anyone has done that before. I mean, he used Python!
They hooked up one of these to a laptop battery and some capacitors, with a switch as a trigger:
https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
This sounds like one of those situations where they install charging stations all over the place, then in ten years there is a new standard and all the old charging stations are now obsolete.
If demand shoots up and supply doesn't catch up and you complain about prices going up, then you need to decide which is preferable - having something expensive but available, or cheap but unobtainable.
The federal courts don't usually weigh in on federal regulations unless there is a direct constitutional question, and I mean *direct*
The idea being it's an area for experts to hash out minutiae, and judges aren't the people who should be deciding acceptable limits for trans fats, or what salmon fishing quotas should be, or how internet traffic should be managed.
We do have mites on our skin but, as the article states, there is only one kind that has any sort of effect that you could feel.
The whole point of science fiction is you can do anything you want.
Not really, as was already explained in another reply. Also, Star Wars is not science fiction.
I think Science Fiction is a broad enough category that Star Wars fits in, even if it has elements of fantasy, and the main plot driver isn't society being effected by technology.
I read his comments a few days ago and thought that, while it sounded goofy, at least it would be different.
The whole point of science fiction is you can do anything you want. A main character can be a cloud of gas, or a planet. What they you do? Another fascistic bad guy who has magic powers and uses a giant gun to blow up planets. AGAIN. As awful as the prequels were, at least they tried to do some new things.
I didn't care that much for Rogue One as a whole, but at least it was different.
"In the Ford Motor Company's executive dining room, Henry Ford II rarely ate anything but hamburgers. According to Lee Iacocca, Ford complained that his own personal chef at home couldn't make a decent burger. In fact, no one made burgers as perfect as the ones at the executive dining room. Curious, Iacocca asked the establishment's chef to show him what he did to make Ford so happy with his burgers. The chef went to the fridge, grabbed an inch-thick slab of New York strip steak, ran it through a grinder, patted up a patty and tossed it on the grill. "Amazing what you can cook up when you start with a five-dollar hunk of meat," said the chef with a sly smile. (Though it would be more like a $25 hunk of meat today.)"
That is OLD SCHOOL THINKING.
That may be true this time, however, the same thing has been said for every previous technological advance. THIS time there will be nothing else for the field hands to do. THIS time auto workers will have nowhere else to go. THIS time secretaries won't have any other job.
If you could predict what the next major employment sector will be, you would be a very rich person.
Key facts in this case
- He had to work 5 days a week for a minimum of 40 hours
- He had to wear the company uniform and drive a company-logo van
- He couldn't send someone else to do the work (substitution) (although under limited circumstances a different pimlico employee could do work)
- There were significant limitations on his ability to work for other people or competitors
That's interesting, and probably shields some gig-economy companies from similar rulings. For regular Uber, at least:
1. You work whenever you want, as much as you want
2. You don't have to wear a uniform (but I think you need to put an Uber sign in your window when you are driving)
3. You can do whatever else you like when you aren't working for Uber.
The "sending someone else" thing doens't apply in this case, I think, because you are accepting fares from requests, nobody is ordering you to take a fare.
1920's - Yay! Revolution of the proletariat! Peasants and farmers rule the land at last! Down with feudal industry! ...
1930's - Oh crap Japan is kicking our ass. Maybe some industry is needed after all...
1940's - Yay! Industrial revolution! Let's convert all the farms into foundries!
1950's - Oh crap I guess we do need to grow food. Cultural revolution! We must purge the impure elements to finish the revolution!
1960's - Oh I guess you can't eat culture. Hey Soviets, little help here? Yes? No?
1970's - Hey US, how do you do farming again?
1980's - Hey Japan, how do you do industry again?
Autonomous 16-passenger
That's not going to fly in Chicago. If nobody is going to be in the train running it, there's going to have to be an employee sitting in a room monitoring a screen for every active train. The transit unions won't have any of this "autonomous" nonsense.
Having too many jobs in one place is a bigger problem right now in the US because that is what jacks up housing costs and increases commute times.
No, what jacks up housing costs is a lack of housing. This is usually due to regulation / zoning laws preventing higher density housing from being built. If you want cheaper housing you have to build more of it. Subsidizing it without fixing the supply just jacks up the price more.
The US isn't running out of room in it's landfills. You can put a modern landfill just about anywhere. The limiting factor is nobody wants a landfill in their county.
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
The other factor is we are throwing away less and less garbage per person, as packaging becomes more efficient. 30 years ago nearly everything you bought in a store came in it's own box, even if it was already in a tube or dispenser. Wal-mart forced companies to do away with the extra box to save money.